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Page 6 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY. JULY 27, 1977 Army crew inspects site of bomb explosion LAKEVIEW CLUB United Press International DUGWAY, Utah—A special Army inspection team from Mary land yesterday began investigating the explosion of a tank full of deadly nerve gas bombs at the Dugway Proving Ground. No one was injured when a tank containing 31 grapefruit-size bombs blew up Monday while workmen were trying to disarm the weapons. The explosion sent a deadly chemi cal mist over about a 200 square foot area. Col. Adalbert E. Toepel Jr., base commander, said the bombs, left over from nerve gas experiments conducted in the 1960s, were being “demilitarized” in a remote area of the sprawling desert test base 20 miles from Dugway. Workmen were pumping sodium hydroxided solution by remote con trol into the tanks. The solution was supposed to dissolve the aluminium bomb casings and then neutralize the chemical agent GB and ex plosives. But the four-foot cubical tank ex ploded and seven halves of the two- section bomblets leaked GB, a chemical agent that kills humans on contact. Dick Whitaker, base public affairs office for Dugway, said 20 to 25 people were evacuated from the area, but no one was close enough to be contaminated. Youth agencies training program opens this fall A program to train students for careers in such youth agencies as the Scouts, Red Cross, 4-H, the “Y” and others will begin this fall at Texas A&M University under a cooperative arrangement with American Humanics Inc., a non profit organization. The program, utilizing courses al ready offered at Texas A&M, is sup ported by a three-year grant totaling $116,135 and will make Texas A&M the only university in the Southwest to have such a training network. AH Inc. has affiliations on nine other campuses nationwide. The group’s new campus adminis trator, Edward L. Rogers of Fort Worth, said the W.K. Kellogg Foundation is providing $56,725 for the project and AH Inc. has awarded $59,410. Students will be able to train for professions in Big Brothers/Big Sis ters, Boys/Girls Clubs and Junior Achievement as well as YM- CA/YWCA, the Scouts, 4-H and Red Cross. Rogers, 28, is a 1970 graduate of Texas A&M and was formerly a dis trict executive for the Longhorn Council (Fort Worth) of the Boy Sc outs. He will maintain an office in Har rington Education Center. AH Inc. helps train professionals by coordinating administration, in ternships, placement, student loans, field trips and workshops while the universities provide needed course work. A&M associate education dean Donald L. Clark said the coopera tive arrangement evolved from a conference held here two years ago to investigate projected needs and competencies for youth agencies and their professionals in the follow ing five-year period. Knowledge is your best protection. 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