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By TERI BALOG
Reporter
Imogene Chamberlain, a guest
lecturer at Texas A&M, is listed
in the 1985-86 edition of Who’s
Who in American Women.
Chamberlain, 59, was the first
woman to fly a four-seated Lake
Buccaneer plane from California
to Sidney, Australia. She also is
believed to be the first woman to
fly that distance solo. She made
the flight in March 1978.
“There were two planes that
went that distance,” she said. “No
one thought they could be flown
there. Well, we proved them
wrong.
“One of the reasons the trip
hadn’t been tried was because it
wasn’t known if the plane could
carry enough fuel.” Chamberlain
said the seats were replaced by
fuel tanks to provide enough fuel
for the trip.
The journey lasted 10 days be
cause of layovers, she said. She
flew in a hopscotch fashion. She
said she flew for 19 hours to get
from California to Hawaii and
then for 10 hours at a time until
she reached her destination.
The 15-year resident of Bryan
has flown planes to Canada, Mex
ico, Germany and the Virgin Is
lands. The Chamberlains keep a
four-seat Mooney at Easterwood
Airport.
“If the trip is over the distance
of Austin or Houston, we fly the
Chamberlain Airlines,” she said.
Only as a last resort do they take a
commercial airline.
Chamberlain’s husband How
ard, who is an associate professor
of management at A&M, received
his pilot’s license before they were
married, but Chamberlain said
Photo by ANTHONY S. C/
Imogene Chamberlain, a lecturer at Texas A&M, sits in her four-seat Mooney.
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she didn’t learn to fly until they
married.
Chamberlain, a member of the
International Organization of
Women Pilots, is an adviser of the
A&M Flying Club. She also tea
ches Industrial, Vocational and
Technical Education 475 at
A&M. She says the course teaches
all there is about flying except
how to fly.
Chamberlain said the course
can help prepare people plan
ning to enter tne field of aviation.
It will help to better their under
standing of the field, she said.
She said that although one
might consider the course to be
something like ground school, it
actually has a much wider
breadth than most ground
schools do. This course covers
regulations, training and more,
Chamberlain said. And it lasts a
semester, she said, much longer
than the three weeks that some
ground schools run.
Students in the class range
from freshman to retired Air
Force pilots. At the end of each
semester the students can take a
Federal Aviation Administration
exam if they wish. They are not
required to take the FAA exam
and will be given a regular course
final even if they do take it,
Chamberlain said.
“My husband started the class,”
she said. “Although graduate stu
dents taught the class for four or
five years, there was a high turn
over rate.”
Chamberlain, convinced the
department head that she could
be a stable influence on the class
and has been teaching it since
then.
“Sirice the class is not offered
this summer,” she said, “I plan to
catch up on all the projects that
we have left unfinished.”
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H AUSTIN — An increase in the
state's telephone bill could bust the
budget, an assistant attorney general
said Tuesday as the Public Utility
Gotnmission began consideration of
Southwestern Bell’s $277 million
rate hike request.
B The package would add 18.5 per
cent to the state government’s Bell
bill, which is now about $40 million a
jyear, according to Assistant Attor
ney General Scott McCollough.
(“We’d have to find it somewhere,
either through personnel reduction,
reducing services or reducing the
number of telephone lines,” McCol
lough said. “Certainly, that’s not in
the public interest. We need those
telephone lines.”
I During questioning of Jim Ad
ams, Bell’s Texas president, McCol
lough also mentioned the possibility
of a tax hike to pay the phone bill.
P “That would be one way,” Adams
replied.
\ McCollough and Allen King, rep
resenting the Texas Retailers Asso
ciation, also questioned Adams
about Bell’s request to add a 5 per
cent penalty to business phone bills
If Southwestern Bell
wants more money, they
should be more resource
ful. — Roy Irwin, an Aus
tin man testifying at the
Bell rate hearings.
not paid on time.
Adams said the company is
looking for ways to combat business
customers who intentionally pay
late. In some cases, King said, it
takes awhile for business customers
to review lengthy, complicated bills.
“It is not our intent to penalize
customers with late charges on the
basis of some error Southwestern
Bell has made,” Adams replied.
“What we are attempting to do is
simply provide for a more prompt
payment of bills than we have pre
viously seen.”
Bell is not seeking a late charge
for residential customers.
“Residential customers on occa
sion do pay late,” said Adams. “They
do not pay as late as businesses do,
who have a concerted effort” to pay
as late as possible.
The lawyers took over the case
Tuesday after comments from just
one consumer. No consumers
showed up Monday for a session set
aside to hear Texans’ thoughts on
Bell’s plan that would raise monthly
residential bills by about $ 1.50.
Roy Irwin, an elderly Austin man
who has testified at previous Bell
rate hearings, used his white cane to
help find his way into the meeting
room.
“I just wonder why year after year
we have these rate increases,” he
said. “If the company wants more
money, they could be more re
sourceful.”
He also complained about Bell’s
request to lower the number of free
directory assistance calls from five to
three per month. There is a 30-cent
charge for directory assistance calls
above the limit.
“There are many people who are
not too good on looking up num
bers,” Irwin said.
Faculty Senate
meeting set
for Monday
The Faculty Senate will consider
recommendations Monday for crite
ria to be used in the determination
of which scholarships are compet
itive academic scholarships.
Texas’ tuition increase bill allows
“a student who holds a competitive
academic scholarship of at least $200
for the academic year or summer for
which the student is enrolled and
who is ... a nonresident ... is enti
tled to pay the fees and charges re
quired of Texas residents . . ..”
Guidelines submitted for Senate
approval are:
A sufficient number of appli
cants, including Texas residents are
considered for the award.
Promotion of academic excel
lence is the primary consideration in
awarding the scholarship.
Selections made are forwarded
the scholarship committee for ap
proval of the waiver.
And, international student re
cipients must not have entered a
Texas college or university prior to
June 19, 1975.
Former AScM student to be in District 1 runoff
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The nationally
watched election in Texas’ 1st Con-
ressional District will be settled
ug. 3, when a runoff election is
cheduled between Republican Edd
Hargett and Democrat Jim Chap
man.
Hargett, 37, was the starting quar
terback for Texas A&M in the 1968
\ Cotton Bowl. He has also been a pro
fessional football player and is cur
rently an electrical engineer.
Hargett is making his first bid for
office. He said Saturday’s election
results met all his expectations.
“I had two goals,” Hargett said.
“One was to win by 10 percent, and
the other was to get over 40 percent
(total vote). And we accomplished
both of them.”
State officials Tuesday certified a
canvass of the election, showing
Hargett the winner with 42.01 per
cent, 29,720 votes. Chapman fin
ished second with 30.2 percent,
21,382.
The election is being held to re
place Democrat Sam B. Hall, who re
signed his seat in the U.S. House to
become a federal judge.
The race has drawn considerable
attention as the national political
parties have watched it for indica
tions of public sentiment and trends.
Chapman, 40, a former Hopkins
County district attorney from Sul
phur Springs, pointed out that he
faced five other Democratic candi
dates while Hargett was the only Re
publican running.
“If a candidate can only get 41
percent of the vote and outspend the
other candidates 2-to-l, that indi
cates Texas is still Democratic coun
try,” Chapman said.
Gov. White agreed, pointing to
the large amounts of money the
GOP has spent on Hargett’s race.
“In spite of all the money they
could pump in from the North and
all the Republican areas, there was a
very strong Democratic turnout,”
White said.
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