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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1983)
Tuesday, July 26, 1983/The Battalion/Page 3 Firemen burning to learn Firefighting school begins riAIS! ARS! Double dive photo by Kelly Krauskopf Indy Dutton ivan dive -Glutton is 15, shows off his at the Wofford Cain pool, visiting College Station from State College, Pa. With July’s high temperatures, the pool is one of the popular places on campus. by Rusty Roberts Battalion Reporter More than 2,500 Texas muni cipal firefighters, instructors and sales representatives are on the Texas A&M campus this week to sharpen their firefight ing knowledge, a training school specialist said Monday. Lewis Williams, associate training specialist for the Texas A&M Fire Protection School, said the school is designed to en courage training and better fire protection techniques for Texas firefighters. The firemen will attend clas sroom and field training this week. The students attend six hours of instruction a day and a night class Monday. They then must take a final examination Friday. Williams said the exami nation covers theory from the classroom and practical applica tion from field training. He said basic field training includes how to properly hold a fire hose, prevent smoke inhala tion and forcibly enter a struc ture without causing damages. The more advanced classes, he said, deal with electrical and structural fires and the chemic als used to prevent them. The program is one of the best in the nation with visitors coming from all over the United States and abroad to observe the teaching methods and the effi ciency with which the program is run, Williams said. Volunteer instructors are coming from all over the nation to teach the newest firefighting techniques. “We charge each firefighter a registration fee of $175,” Wil liams said. “That covers the school’s expenses for things like hoses, chemicals and fuel as well as renting classrooms on cam pus. But it probably would be triple that amount if we didn’t have sales representatives donating some of the more ex pensive demonstration equip ment.” More than 1,500 of the stu dents, instructors and sales rep resentatives are being housed for the week in Hobby, Neeley, McFadden, Haas and Clements halls while the remaining 1,000 are staying in local hotels. Food and lodging are not inlcuded in the registration fee. The Fire Protection Training Division at Texas A&M con ducts the firefighting school. It is one of 16 separate training di visions of the Texas Engineer ing Extension Service. The fire protection division is sponsoring three firefighting programs: municipal firefight ing this week, industrial fire fighting next week and a special program for Spanish-speaking firefighters the week beginning Aug. 5. MSC Cafeteria Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. Each Daily Special Only $2.39 Plus Tax. “Open Daily” Dining: 11 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. — 4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.NI 3 rofs double as policemen by Eric Evan Lee Battalion Reporter A group of Texas A&M pro- | Hrs. who also serve as Col- refetation reserve policemen, II soon put their academic ex- _ to work in the police de- 5 to hrs irtjuent. ', first-senBim Coppinger, the officer e Ohio jcljarge of the College Station tne 5,000 |lia' reserve unit, said the pro- ;y (raisecf S0IS are helping with driver l a secondf et f’ physical fitness programs (n Derail. department, and the k K prevention unit. 1 ' K b kson Wagner, a professor r reportt:|th e College of Medicine, is S 2,00' orking on a physical Fitness qualify (of Brani to help police officers ■ the Sffl prove their physical condi- mg to cap ink for if:® Wagner said the program would be introduced gradually over a one-year period. Coppinger said he joined the reserves to learn more about law enforcement and municipal law and to get a different perspec tive on the community. He said most officers of the reserve joined to be involved in the com munity. The cost of joining the re serves is about $500. The weapon is the most expensive item, David Bergen of the Stu dent Activities Office said. The city pays about $1,000 to train each officer and put him on the street, he said. The reserves learn a lot of the basics in a 70-hour training course, Bergen said, but most of their education will come from work in all phases of the police on-the-job training. department, including jailing, The officers, he said, will patrolling, and writing reports. Hilton, Sheraton lan local hotels isociated pet solum tout, s to taken reation o!| s,” to alb inch. Mwjby Robert McGlohon or rej nd loan if! H Battalion Staff ■in, ■ Sunbelt Hotels of Houston ^ anned to announce the details 3 / BCollege Station Hilton hotel ‘ lk ' M onday, but the Sheraton hotel i. rot i«i n beat them to the punch on e a fixed|iursday by announcing their ingatleiin plans for a hotel — the iheraton Conference Center.” necessa: jbe Hilton press conference enipl ow has been postponed until it pie, in m be given on the site of the • young otel with a bulldozer ready to investor!| f Diane Olson, public relations ent theifl ctor Sunbelt, said Mon- wnersh ^ recent publicity about Droblejttd 5 in the Bryan-College Sta- ^ , on area caused the postpone- tax Den Sem, Olson said, it moref ■Sunbelt, a hotel ownership ricans o nd management company, first ely addrtlifposed building a Hilton on the fund i 16 Texas A&M campus last ship th#- That proposal was killed lit prof * i n Texas attorney gener- / JjjHiled that the long-term lease u<l ' Ii|on wanted was tantamount “ven ^‘bselling University land, which Texas law forbids. ||Hilton has not said where its Bel will be built, but it is ex ited to be within a few hun- Ired yards of the Sheraton Con ference Center, which is to be Bted at 925 East University children »rive. ||Construction on the Sher- t to. She Jton hotel will begin in Septem- |r, Monica O’Conner of Japce-Matthew Inc., a leaumont public relations firm, ' Monday. The hotel will be a [story building with 300 guest jins and six meeting rooms, nsaddition, the hotel will be [onnected to a one-story confer- ihce center with convention ilities and a ballroom that will B 600. he hotel lobby and bar will pcated in a clear-span atrium nnecting the hotel with the nference center. Also in- uded in plans for the hotel are i 'arking for 453 cars, a re- L ,-^taprant and a swimming pool. "V HIP Conner said the hotel will p\_JHbuilt primarily to serve the Je conference market gener- ited by Texas A&M. John Richards, scheduling |i^ services manager for the University Center, said the Un- ’ersity Center alone handles 150 bnferences each year, bringing 10,000 to 45,000 people to Col- ege Station annually for an av- Bge stay of 2.76 days. Those Inferences — which don’t in clude conferences held in other Idings, such as the Academic id Agency Building or Zachry ineering Center — bring in |6ut $7 million a year in out- ide revenue, Richards said. .« t i Betty Young, general manga- J _ > er °f Ramada Inn in Col- Jjpie,*ge Station, said that even the flrge number of conventions Texas A&M attracts will not be enough to support a Ramada Inn, a Hilton, a Sheraton and all the motels in College Station. “Somebody’s going to go bankrupt,” Young said. “I just can’t see them coming in. I don’t understand it.” The Ramada Inn, originally built in 1963, expanded with a 17-floor tower in 1983. Young said a nine-floor tower was ori ginally planned, but that 17 floors were built in anticipation of future business. However, the top five floors of the tower have yet to be com pleted, Young said, because there isn’t enough demand for the rooms. She said the top floors probably will be con verted to apartments or business suites. 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