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Page 10 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY. MARCH 22, 1978 'K (:) of the University of Houston Presents The Texas Jackrabbit Rally "A DRIVING COMPETITION” FROM HOUSTON TO EL PASO AND BACK TO HOUSTON April 15 & 16 $1000 First Prize for more information and entry blanks please Write: Texas Jackrabbit Rally 4450 S. MacGregor Houston, Tx. 77021 or call 713-748-0530 leave ph # HAVE LUNCH ON US! Everyone who leases an apt. through A&M Apt. Place ment Service will be given a FREE Lunch at T.J.’s. Our way of saying, 'Thanks Ags." LEASING NOW FOR FALL 78 Call for appointment A&M APT. 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Talented people are needed in all areas, so don’t be afraid to drop this application by Room 216, Student Programs Office, MSC. Applications close Tuesday, March 28, 1978, at 5:00 p.m. TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER COUNCIL & DIRECTORATE Application for MSC Council Assistant (Please Print) Name .Classification Major .GPR Last Semester Telephone Are you on (Conduct, Scholastic) Probation? Mailing Address Yes No Activities and Honors in High School (use back if needed) Experience with MSC Activities Other Campus Activities Other Time-Consuming Activities Next Year Magazines and Newspapers Read Regularly Books Read in Last Year Why are You Interested in Becoming Involved in Campus Activities (especially as a Council Assistant) Your Concept of a College Education 1 t j f (Nlli I BUY, SELL, RENT . . . Battalion Classified Pulls Fires in rural areas By FRANK VASOVSKI Any resident of Bryan or College Station who yields the right-or-way to a group of fire trucks may be doing himself a favor: the house they try to reach could very well be his own. While this assumption is reason ably correct for an urban resident of Brazos County, the chances of a rural home being saved are less fa vorable because, quite often, the distance between the urban fire sta tion and a rural fire location is more than 25 miles. The Bryan Fire Department and the College Station Fire Depart ment are the only two organized units of this type in Brazos County. Each is directed by a fire chief re sponsible to the city manager. In the absence of similar organiza tions in Brazos County, both de partments are responsible for providing fire protection to the entire county. Efforts are being made to organize local fire depart ments in Brazos County Precincts 2 and 3 to deal with minor fires. A line parallel to the boundary line between Bryan and College Station divides the county . The northern area is assigned to BFD, under the command of Fire Chief Don VanHuss. The southern area, consisting mainly of Precinct 1, is assigned to CSFD and is directed by Fire Chief Douglas Landua. The number of assists to the county is evenly distributed be tween Precincts 2, 3 and 4, all lo cated in the BFD area, while the corresponding data for CSFD show a strong concentration of assists in Precinct 1. Neither the precinct commission ers nor the fire chiefs nor the rural population is happy with the pres ent arrangement. VanHuss said his department provides emergency assistance to the county regardless of the distance and time of the notification. Occa sionally, his men arrive at the scene of a fire too late to be of any help, especially in the case of old struc tures, built without compliance with a building code, and containing an excessive amount of lumber. VanHuss said that my fires are caused by the negligence and indif ference of rural residents in seeking the aid of his department during controlled grass and brush burning and the operating of homemade in cinerators. “A person burning trash fre quently will overlook the aerosol cans among the refuse,” VanHuss said. Even if the area of the burning is watered down to prevent ignition, the exploding cans are propelled beyond the safety belt, i grass. Most of the homemade ii cinerator drums are not equippf with grill covers and often are Ii, unattended. The burning partidti carried by the thermal draft, spread the fire heyond the eo the residents. “BFD has the capability to«(. duct fire safety lectures for m community of the county, if sm service is requested,” VanHii said. However, under the prea constitutional restrictions, BFD, municipal agency, cannot requi such instruction for county rev; dents. Fire Chief Landua and his as# tant, Charles Yeager, agree VanHuss regarding the fire consciousness of rural residea addition, Landua identifiedtr other fire safety problems: the on abundance of railroad tracksinh cinct 1, and the “transitory"^: comrr residents in that precinct, majority of them being associili with the Texas A&M University! succe: VOTE APRIL 1st f the :o insi Wa munit Homer Adams Ward 2 College Station City Council •Three terms on city council in College Station •Thirty years business experience in College Station •Graduate, T A M U tern, making them subject den reassignment. He feels thali m ' ss ' ( movement of residents in theft ihtude cinct adversely affects the esl lishment of a local fire unitbea in addition to the considerablej ce an of the equipment, no perm# i} 16 C! residents are available to manil ^ lre “The fires caused by ’hot It (overheated axle boxes) and by nal flares being used by train ci along the grassy areas of the is can be eliminated with the a ) ave tance of railroad officials,’’ Lai ' n S ^ said. A more serious probleih ii cinct 1 is the possibility of adt: “ eas ment of a train carrying a Hand r ^) 1 or toxic cargo. Even though train carries two copies of and j 1 index indicating the cargo in ear, fire officials could not mediately secure such a listfrait crew of the train involved in cent (Jan. 19) derailment in Neither Landua nor Yeagei VanHuss could offer any estimi damage resulting from a po: explosion or spill of toxic matter, all of them consider such a possi ’ razo « assign “W from < native would view being But trains areas to pr< mptu dange takes the tr occur: hey f requir railed cargo could recen resen Feb. that t Cor fire dc precir EACH HARDBACKS • PAPERBACKS NOVELS • TEACHING AIDS '45" RECORDS • MUCH MORE TEXAS A&M BOOKSTORE In the Memorial Student Center