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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1978)
Page 6 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1978 You can count FedMart for savings : Beef Chuck 7~Bone Roast USDA Good mm pib. Beef Chuck Boneless Beef Roast ^ USDA Good lb. simjCh m ] V Owens RollSausaqe Fresh Fryer Parts Legs thighs & drumsticks HJl Beaf Clmclc Boast Blade Out, USDA Good - Hot or mild 1 lb. ^lb. Roegelein Fully C55fea~ Boneless Ham Family Pack Assorted Pork Chops . Your favorite cuts of beef are also available at FedMart In the USDA Choice grade. Fill your basket with grocery and produce savings .v«os Oscar Mayer Sliced Bacon 1 lb. 1.69 for salads 12 oz. basket Red Delicious Compare price. Compare quality Franks Apples Extra fancy, Washington State 3 lb. bag Grapefruit Texas, U.S. #1, Totino's Classic Pizza YffU Combination, 22% oz. 1.69 each i All meat or all beef Brand Compare price. Compare quality. Shoe String Potatoes the spot for smart shoppers Compare price. 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Prices subject to change Monday, April 17, 1978 Ambulanlooi companu serve are B] By BETH DZIKOWSkpisco ir Residents of Bryan-CollegtJjd main tion may one day have to dei^led on which sister city they want to ver-haire order to receive adequate tdiioned, lance service. fhe nun College Station and South[jeh as I c County areas are served pubt teers hat the city’s fire department on not fittin hour basis. Salaries and equip; rhe re are financed by the city. M etlth Ci Ambulance Service, pri me loc: owned and financed by BillThoBol, se serves the Bryan as well as iuth. Th« County areas on a 24-hour )C> gan also. luTrain The fire department re nugh the employees to be train lirs or I Emergency Medical Tedit ey wait Each EMT is required to L u«lly the hours first-aid classroom, 401 Mattie f heiurs and 5 ambulance hours:* view li a certificate is awarded.’ ing," sh The fire department’s pe: *. To lis are trained as firefighters ar The trai as an EMT, said firefightr pod socia Shcaer. Applicants for the of Debbie ment are required to meet Jl thougl qualifications. Ances Mid-Tex is slightly more(lelth until said Thurnal. An employee unter arc Red Cross cardholder, EVBut wli Emergency Care Attendent nch? Pol ever, Thurnal said he prefers rving an only EMTs because ECAsha fal- 30-40 hours of first-aid class*? experience. Each company answers iCO emergency calls. However,*^ Tex will take contracts forfi emergency calls such as aut Jkonnm rodeos and transfers (bring: d s, ill a tients to and from the hospital SWented largest percentage of calls Mifi of T receives are sick calls iPcy °f coronary-respiratory calls anolwersity accident calls following clo::^,,^ ( hind. ^ f or Ninety percent of the [i: jervajj, partment’s calls are emerpjneJOO with 51 percent being auto :.Deatons Mid-Tex and the fire depar:iJe rs j,ij charge their local users $^0 bBspons hulance service. The fire d(» ment is a public service bii “Senate charge is made to offset e * cours such as bandages, said Sc Penas I Without this charge it woul4 0 ‘ Un 's i the city more, and could ea* > Gri increase in taxes, he added. tgislatui The rate does increase with® 1 the tance from city to county lines Jhlate a When oxygen or extra equipm^ is used, the client is charged ti|r e w Each company carries basicP r< aid-materials including coronar^ en “‘ n respiratory equipment. How Mid-Tex has four arnWW* their service while the fire ment uses only two, with one ambulance on order. Since the start oftheprogr; March of 1977, both Schaer Thurnal said they have been cess-ful. Th 1 y* !: fi'^leir: seems to arise is in collecfliino- Schaer said the department^ | tions are taken care of by® 1 and there is a 60 percent rdU Thurnal said collection ^as his major problem. He said' College Station absorbs the-roJ has to absorb it from his owfflp I It seems the clients simply* Thurnal said. ■OteA have Severe cold ruins roads, study need(' United Press IntemaHoijal j NEW YORK — A second se'g winter in succession has'flonf|: much damage to the 0|4 ul!l j| streets, highways and bridges® engineers are worrying aboulf art of roadbuilding. i ti Heavy reinforced ijJadH break down under cold fcr tures and both concretejjapjjj phalt surfaces crack so b| huge and dangerous potifplei velop by the millions. | B By most estimates, thre|-fo^| of the country’s roads <| e ■ %! only to withstand the traffic I' ^ of 40 years ago. Truckpeifl have increased enormously in | time. But even roads bunt a* | cently as 15 years ago are stai* f to crumble. This raises the question l ; whether present highway engir-1 ing technology is adequate;^ 1 new roads that will last, j In a study of damage tb bn’lj surfaces by wear and tear,as* as weather, Engineer Cat!|: Angeloff of the Pennsylvania partment of Transportation || much research is going ott, at in the bridge surfacing sectifi the highway building incfcstp find ways to make reinforled crete that will withstand penetration of de-icing salt in weather. Angeloff mentions polymer pregnated concrete, waterjpr» membranes for road surfaces epoxy coating of the reihforc jE All of th t stee K- All of fh ese methods ww be rapeh more costly for gei j : highway surfaces than for brief wjhich; irepresent only a tiny t; t|bn of total mileage. r The bridge problem is*asil)I expensively, solved by resbrtin!|', concrete filled steel grid rtjadlxB Angeloff says that for reasons !) fully understood, the Concrl filled steel grid bridge h§ad sf'T. ■ hnpervious to