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more than a telephone book
The Texas A&M University Lib
raries’ heavily-used current tele
phone directories have been con
verted to microfiche.
Found at the reference desk in
the newly combined humanities-
social sciences area on the first floor
of Evans Library, the service in-
Euthanasia
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Battalion photo by Joan White
A Wednesday seminar on medical
aspects of euthanasia will be pres
ented by Great Issues at Texas
A&M University.
The Memorial Student Center
committee program is booked for 12
noon in Room 601 of the Rudder
Tower. Admission is free.
Great Issues chairman Larry
Briggs said the seminar will feature
Dr. Michael Jamail, Dr. Phil Davis
and Dr. Larry McCullough.
Tower controllers busy
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s l u ,p| ll A CONTROLLER must prove
jj m \\ij imself when assigned to a tower.
saved* 6 enters with a GS-5, GS-7 or
The■’S-9 rating, depending on past ex-
wners Jerience.
I He must spend one year at his in-
(j na Jiul rating and one year at each sub-
ce Hulil*' ( l uent rating until he completes a
gh dej ear at GS-9, when he becomes a
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wmeyman controller. For exam-
ile, a controller who begins at a
S-5 rating must work three years
efore he has attained enough ex-
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nved R( terience to be considered a jour-
eyman.
Holcomb, Smith and Rexer are all
gear,win Junieymen controllers.
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Since Easterwood Airport is a
ieneral aviation (unscheduled
Bights) airport except for Davis Air-
nnil'l nes ’ Holcomb says he never knows
MtUa,|h ( . M ai,. tra |fi c vvi] l heavy.
We are usually busiest between
ry twice j) a.m. and noon, and again from
othert |:30p.m. to5p.ni.,’ Holcomb said.
In the summer when it doesn’t get
lark until later, we usually have
Hither busy period from 6:30 p. m.
i dark.
However, since the air traffic is
rregular, sometimes those peak
hues mean nothing, Holcomb em-
/ *)hasized. He said he has often seen
fll leayy air traffic between 7 and 8
but on other days he* has not
vorked a single plane in that same
ime period.
TRAFFIC ranges from zero to
iver 100 planes per hour,” he said.
It has peaked at 125 planes per
lour before.”
Because of the irregular traffic,
he tower must he adequately staf-
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departure procedures at Easter
wood, Holcomb said.
If pilots can clearly see other
planes, they fly under VFR (visual
flight rules),” Holcomb said. In this
case the controller must sight each
plane and sequence it.
If a pilot can not see other aircraft
because of bad weather, he must fly
under IFR (instrument flight rules),
he added. Planes are sequenced by
radio using each pilot’s position re
port. Since these positions may be
slightly inaccurate, the controller is
required to space the planes farther
apart than if he was operating under
VFR.
“There is a funnel-like approach
to each airport,” Holcomb said.
“Planes get closer to each other as
they approach the airport. The
white haze we have today blends
with aircraft and hinder visual sight
ing.”
Reduced visibility along with the
variety of planes (and approach
speeds) makes a radar desirable,
Holcomb said, but that is not pres
ently an FAA consideration.
EASTER WOOD’S tower is a
level-two non-radar approach con
trol facility, Holcomb said. The FAA
rates towers on a scale of one to five,
one being the lowest and five the
highest-activity tower.
“When we begin to run enough
traffic to he a level two facility we
begin to need a radar,” Holcomb
said. In a radar facility, he said, con
trollers can begin to separate aircraft
20 to 30 miles away. A pilot can ad
just his airspeed and altitude to fol
low the traffic flow.
At Easterwood, however, the
controller must sight an aircraft or
obtain a fairly accurate position re
port (in bad weather) before placing
it in sequence. Although the radar
method is not necessarily safer than
the visual method, Holcomb ex
plained, planes can be sequenced
farther from the airport and thus
airport efficiency can be increased.
Easterwood Airport has handled
over 104,000 arrivals, departures
and practice approaches in the last
.year, of which over 18,000 were in
strument operations. On the aver
age, the tower provides about 3(X)
services every day. About 55 of
these are instrument operations.
Herman s Hermits
still performing
6 d at all times in case traffic gets
heavy. At 2 p.m. there was almost
ioactivity, but in less than 30 ruin
ates both controllers were chatter-
ng almost constantly into their
headsets.
We have to have the people here
when the traffic comes,” Holcomb
said We never know when traffic
be heavy; it s whenever people
decide to go flying, 1 guess.”
At this point Rexer began to se-
(Ucnce three planes for landing. He
OTered a plane approaching from
e west to circle counterclockwise
oallow two planes coining from the
S( >uth to land.
Circling is a standard procedure
'sequencing,’ Holcomb said.
1 °w he must space them far
n .p^b apart to land them safely. ”
ie first plane, a single-engined
^ r within a minute, and
was followed less than a minute later
a two-engined plane. The circl-
late ^ ane ^ an< ^ e( 1 a few minutes
United Press International
BALTIMORE—Herman’s Her
mits became the idols of millions of
teen-age girls in the 1960s with sim
ple, sticky-sweet love songs like
“Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat”
and, most famous of all, the non
sense tune, “I’m Henry VIII, I am.”
After selling more than 40 million
records during their heyday, the
short drippy songs of the British
group disappeared from radio for
the most part in the early 1970s.
But the Hermits have kept on
performing.
The Hermits have moved from
packed auditoriums to smaller clubs
or engagements such as a city-
sponsored free outdoor concert in
Baltimore’s Hopkins Plaza. A 10-
week summer tour included stops in
Canada, New York, Vermont, Ohio,
Indiana, Nevada, Colorado, and
Maryland.
The fall from pop music stardom
does not appear to bother the Her
mits. Lead singer Carl Green, who
started the band in the early ’60s
when the Hermits were aged about
16 to 18, said the group enjoys tour
ing.
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eludes 360 telephone directories
covering 245 metropolitan areas
plus selected federal directories.
Conversion carries several bene
fits to users. Considerable handling
of hardcopy directories and catalogs
caused them to fall apart, dog-ear
and often he unreadable at well-
thumbed corners. Additionally, di
rectories and catalogs will be more
up-to-date and cost less.
Most hardcopy directories were
discarded with phonefiehe installa
tion. Retained, however, were all
Texas directories and large met
ropolitan directories that are heavily
used, plus foreign directories not
included in the service.
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