Franklin F. Snyder
A ..
Yes.
Q .. .
Okay. Do you remember any of the other key civilians in civil works when you
were there?
A ..
In each field there were the heads of the various sections. They were all experts in
their field. Burwell was a well-recognized man, the one that died from an infection
he got overseas. Bloor, the head of structures went to the World Bank when he
retired, so he was a pretty well-known man. Middlebrooks was a recognized expert
on soils.
Q ..
A lot of those folks were going to the World Bank then.
A ..
Casey in the real estate. Being involved
I got to know, I think it was a
Yes.
in those regulations for other peoples' projects and stuff, I had a certain amount of
contact with the Chief's legal advisor. Judge Kimball was really a fine man. I used
to say that all lawyers should be drowned when they were born. Well, I've known
two that that doesn't apply to. Kimball was one of them. I also talked to him about
problems other than those reservoir regulations, but he always had a good answer
for you.
Q ..
Could always provide the answer you needed?
A ..
Yes.
Q ..
The whole business of reservoir regulations. That was relatively new on the system
wide basis, wasn't it?
A
That's right. It was sort of like I mentioned earlier, going around trying to get these
Weather Bureau people to put their ideas down on paper so that it would be a matter
of record. It was a little bit like that with the offices operating the reservoirs. We
put out an engineering manual which I wrote on reservoir regulation. The
requirements went out, they had to have a written operating procedure and get it
approved. Now, I think everything is decentralized.
I remember one time, I think it was in the Missouri River Division during one of the
floods, in order to get a little more storage they put sandbags on the spillway and
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