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THE BATTALION MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1981 Page 3 usical Halloween treat for Ags ■M———I IPfSS mm By MARY JO RUMMEL Battalion Staff On a night of tricks and treats Friday, country music fans were treated when Charley Pride per formed a selection of old and new favorites in G. Rollie White Col iseum. Pride and his six-member band, the Pridesmen, concen trated on providing a lot of good music — artfully manipulating the mood of the crowd without using elaborate light shows or other gimmicks. Review Staff photo by Rose Delano Charley Pride performs old and new hits Friday night in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The audience mellowed out on the romantic love songs such as “Kiss an Angel Good Morning” and “Crystal Chandelier.” But Pride managed to keep everyone on their toes by changing the pace and livening up the performance with “Kaw Liga” and “Honky-tonk Blues.” He even added a touch of gospel music to the show from his latest gospel album. Pride also presented some new music along with the old favorites. He sang his new hit single “I’ve Never Been so Loved in All My Life, ” which has been No. 1 on the Billboard Country Charts for two weeks. After several songs. Pride pul led up a chair and told jokes about his recent visit to the White House and his hometown of Sledge, Miss. The Pridesmen were talented and knew their music. They play ed a special rendition of “The Orange Blossom Special” that had the audience clapping and just ab out dancing in their seats. Earl Thomas Conley, Nashville song writer, sang a collection of his songs such as “Fire and Smoke.” Conley and the Pride back-up sin gers, Bittersweet, set the mood for an enjoyable night of country. Bittersweet, a one-man and two- woman trio, added their own har monized touch to popular songs such as “Two Doors Down.” Out of 38 albums released by Pride, 14 have become gold re cords by selling over 500,000 copies. He has received two Grammy awards and 18 Country Music Association awards in his career. Known as “Country’s Pride,” he is popular in several other coun tries. Though never released in the United States as a single, “Crystal Chandelier” was recently voted the most popular song in England. Pride is popular especially in Canada, Australia and New Zea land, Preston Buchanan, Prides men bass guitarist, said. Bucha nan has been playing in the band since 1969. The Dallas group came back to Texas Tuesday after giving a con cert in Madison Square Garden in New York and recently ending a tour in Canada. “We spend about 130 days out on the road — mainly in the Un ited States and Canada,” Bucha nan said in an interview during intermission. “We get off all of June and December.” Sometimes the traveling makes it hard on family lives. The wives get to go along on some of the trips. The families of the members of the groups accompanied the band to College Station, he said. Off-Campus Aggies plan to dance the night away The Off-Campus Aggies will meet at 6:30 tonight in Rudder Tower to finalize plans for their upcoming street dance. The Nov. 14 street dance will be held at 8 p.m. at Culpepper Plaza follwing the Texas A&M- University of Arkansas game, Paul Bettencourt, OCA presi dent, said. “We’ve never had a street dance like this in our area, and we’re expecting about 1,000 or more people to attend, ” he said. Two local radio stations, KTAM and KORA will have on- the-spot music and will inter view OCA officers and mem bers, as well as students attend ing the street dance. Area merchants will provide concessions for students and will exhibit individual booths promoting their business. Bettencourt said OCA, which will also discuss Aggie Bonfire tonight, hopes to double its cut ting crew since this weekend is the final cutting weekend. Ai T7’C -w » ^ ” mVX I mm Monday, End " ,r,i i ■ A SCHMALTZ ICE TEA CHIPS " SPFdAI I 052 R«s <3 68 Culpepper Plaza 693-8276 SANOWCM SHOP OPEN: Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Sun. 12-9 p.m. Firefighters’ skills glow after class 1ST ANNUAL lue debate Fires in nuclear power plants an range from simple trashbasket lazes to electical infernos that , ireaten vital radiation safety sys- ;nado"c ;mS) s0 fj re brigades at such faci- t those! ties need special training. The concern about such a major nted. 11 re is underscored by two of the iot as ei wst extreme cases — a 1975 laze at the Brown’s Ferry, Ala., eactor that destroyed seven of the 2 safety systems and led to new ire prevention standards for the idustry, and the 1957 Windscale ;y woul i light d iqual i y i' ers andi eactor fire in England that forced itation atte® feel ro itingaof n rgestiw 845-151 lit this fm 1 ferrin^ time, . Myi -getitf mafelj girls rouse laulel tuft earby dairies to dump milk into ie sea after radiation was re- ased in the smoke. The Texas Engineering Exten- ion Service offers the kind of clas- room and hands-on experience ceded in one of the few program s ationwide, says the instruction ■oordinator. Firefighters from nuclear pow- rplantsare taught the same basic sontrol and prevention skills as nesbf heir counterparts who attend the innual industrial fire school, ate. Wei ^ av 'd Cox of the TEEX Fire Pro- thosef) action Training Division, said. In addition, nuclear plant mergency teams receive special emphasis on radiation detection, jynelii ire-fighting in the presence of ical Wf radioactive contamination and set- up control areas for firemen leaving the scene, Cox said. He said the special training is possible because personnel from Texas A&M’s one-megawatt re search reactor are available to help rainees draw up simulated con- j* tingency plans in the classroom. " As a highlight of the school, the tudents are asked to battle a blaze mowing that low-level radioactive material is present, Cox said. “Of course, we don’t use any thing that could hurt them, even if they happen to get it on them, ” he explained. “But it is enough to set >, Nolls off their geiger counters so they eceive the kind of experience , e n 1# ihey could expect in a nuclear ■serve s P° wer plant fire involving radioae- ™tive material and radiation. ” Classes are held at Brayton Firemen Training Field, a 60-acre tcility valued at $7 million, south west of the University campus. The field annually hosts the H ap®; world’s largest fire school and is (nsiblfl kept busy much of the rest of the time conducting special courses. The fire training division of TEEX, in conjunction with Texas A&M’s Nuclear Science Center, offers the nuclear fire course twice a year, with the next one sche duled for March. 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