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r Page4 THE BATTALION MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1981 Local Spends summer as volunteer Co-ed doubles as firefighter By JUDY ALLS Battalion Reporter When Sue Gary, a petroleum engineering major at Texas A&M University, went home after the spring semester she wasn’t plan ning to do anything more than attend summer school and work. But when she got home to the Houston suburb of Spring, she re ceived a letter that added some thing special to what would have been an ordinary summer. The Klein volunteer fire de partment had sent a newsletter to recruit volunteer firemen, or women, as the case may be. Gary, 19, immediately responded. “I really don’t know why,” Gary said, “but it’s something that has always interested me.” Fire departments in areas out side Houston city limits do not have professional fire fighters; they’re made up of volunteers. “They needed people and I just wanted to help,” Gary said. After completing 18 hours of training, including three hours of fire drills a week, Gary became a volunteer fire fighter. The drills included learning how to work hoses and take them up ladders, salvage drills — saving as much as possible from a house or building — and rescue drills. Gary was given an emergency beeper so a dispatcher could reach her at any time. “I carried it every where and my boss knew that if I ever tore out of the office, I had been called to a fire,” Gary said. ^fcVCOME B Ac SAN ANTONIANS SAN ANTONIO HOME TOWN CLUB MEETING TIME: 7:30 p.m. PLACE: HELD 105 DATE: Tues. Sept. 15 TOPIC: Membership & 1st Party for info: 260-5477 or 260-6102 In addition to her job as a volun teer, Gary worked as a supervisor and manager at a swimming pool supply store. Not knowing how they would react, she didn’t tell her parents about her volunteer job for about three weeks. But they were sup portive when they finally found out, Gary said. Now her mother wants to get involved, she said. Shortly after Gary became a volunteer, her older sister, who attends graduate school at Stephen F. Austin State Universi ty, also began training as a volun teer. Since it rained heavily in the Houston area this summer, the volunteers weren’t called to duty often, Gary said. “We didn’t have a call for the entire station for almost a month, but during the drier times and on the Fourth of July we got busy,” Gary said. Gary responded to about 15 calls during the summer, but didn’t have to enter a burning building. “There are more experienced persons who go first, but I would if they need me to,” she said. The volunteers not only put out fires, but also helped clean after wards. They set up fans to get rid of smoke, pumped out water and removed debris and fuel from roads after car wrecks. Gary keeps her gear in the trunk of her car and will continue to be on call when she goes home for weekends and holidays. She also plans to attend the annual fire training field at Texas A&M this spring. “I don’t think I will become a professional but probably will continue to be a volunteer for a long time,” she said. Pre-Med/Dent Society Tuesday, Sept. 15 321 Physics Bldg. 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Ward Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Texas A&M College of Medicine BUY. 3C1L.TRADC OH RENT THROUGH THE I sl L=l rMz I ■: aas,,, ' *—■„ ■ ione“e n botto S m. Tf \ THF I Searching for uranium A V/ 1 A II « I bottom ° f 016 ^ Ctic - Dril,in § f or oil at the ? f ^ oc 5 an ’ Peking coal and natural R . . eams so deep and slanted, conventional techniques can’t extract the energy. Because today, the bottom line in energy exploration means we have to work in difficult places, all over the world. Not only to find gas and oil, but to discover and develop energy alternatives such as coal. Oil shale. WORK YOUR WAY Tar sands. Uranium. UR WAY rVT'TY'VW SoGuIfneeds I I 1|T| People with talent, skill, *• and imagination to join in the search. Especially graduates from the scientific/technical disciplines. If you’d like to get to the bottom with us, see our campus recruiter. Or write to: William E. Johnston, Jr., Human Resources Department, Gulf Oil Corporation, P.O. Box 1166, Pittsburgh, PA 15230. Because with Gulf, working your way to the bottom can mean working your way to the top. fZWKlhk GULF PEOPLE: ENERGY FOR TOMORROW. Uranium mining, Rabbit Lake, Canada An Lquai opportunity Lmpioyer uuir ou Lsorporanon GULF RECRUITER ON CAMPUS: September 22, 23 October 8, 9, 13, 14, 15 November 4, 5, 9, 1981 •jdfcticm are In. Jests. ; f > -X' Mbaii 4 pec: Sue Gary, a sophomore from petroleum Spring, is engineering a volunteer Staff photo by Beck' Ee iimbling * all bui But Ste: firefighter on weekends for the ilpjoy Volunteer Fire Department. psenio at Tc irie has Fines increased for parking ■ in the ibis i He joke illegally in spaces for disabk 9mp, l-ix)U] riplei use Sare r By JOYCE HALLBAUER Battalion Reporter Handicapped drivers at Texas A&M University often have a hard time finding parking spaces on campus because of non- haudicapped people parking in the spaces for the handicapped, says a Texas A&M official. “I was only going to be in for a minute, ” is the typical excuse peo ple give for illegally parking in the spaces, but they arert’t thinking of how difficult it is for handicapped people to move even a short dis tance, said Charles Powell, coor- capp rle, 5 area LOOK AT THIS AGS! A new year Is upon us where spirits are high, and friendships are renewed. TAMU has put the old GIG ’EM on t.u. two years in a row. Be part of the cause in making the win three by being a good Twelvth Man. Let everyone know you are an Aggie! ACTUAL SIZE Mark your books, stationery, notes, checks, Christmas cards, and anything else you can think of. Make great gifts! AFTER MARKET PRODUCTS P.O. Box 2425 Nacogdoches, TX 75961 Send just: $ 7.95 /stamp $ 9.95/stamp set Set includes: stamp, ink, and ink pad. NAME. ADDRESS- CITY .STATE. -ZIP- Stamp only: Qty— Stamp Set: Qty— at $ 7.95 each — at $ 9.95 each — Add 50* postage and handling. Total- dinator of the handicapped dents and veterans servial Texas A&M. Students, faculty, General Telephone vehicles been found in the spaces, higher fine should cut dm number of offenders, Illegal parking fines are \ He starl campus. However, a state! hois l became effective Sept. 1. flBded u the fine for illegally parbipAntor spaces for the handicapped: Ps A&I minimum and $200 malSouthe Bryan City Attorney fcPpfor' Bruchez said. PA&M The law applies to allstatt:lWere sc tutions, but the University: 101 ' so I of Regents has to approveitluPeleva it takes effect on campus, fpe me Thomas R. Parsons, diredJwhool security and traffic at Texas ^ repa The only authorized use Ws the spaces for the handicapped fen 600 drivers that have the wheeeP>tSter symbol on their parking A&,> and those with disabled veirftore a license plates, he said, jj stude There are about 200 handJjfc in w ped people on campus, 1 to c said. About 50 of these peopll temporarily handicapped M things as broken bones, but! 100 others are people s eases, such as canca diabetes, that hinder or pt' j them from walking longdiili'| he said. The University Police jL been cooperative, but tM ■ number of people on camp®! vents full enforcement of the 5 ing regulations, Powell said, 1 F most tickets are issued I offenders who don’t have p* 5 permits. Handicapped people in/ chairs don’t usually need pi 1 spaces, but the ramps mad their use on campus are* times blocked by vehicles,f l< said. Those people in wheeb ' then have to search for an nate route, he said. So MSG TRAVEL APPLICATIONS ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED SEPT. 15. All interested persons should pick up an application in the cubicle in Rm. 216 MSC, Interviews will be conducted Sept. 15. Deadline for turning in applications is Sept. 15. For more information call 845-1515 *o P ■g 6
