Franklin F. Snyder
looking individual? but we all did admire him. He was still playing tennis at quite
an old age. That was more outstanding than anything else.
How long ago did.
I got to know Carl Giroux some, but I never did know McAlpine to speak of.
Q ..
They weren't around much into the 50s, were they? They pretty much retired
before that.
Right, they were before that.
A
Q ..
In the 1950s, did you have much to do with Colonel Starbird, [Alfred] Dodd
Starbird?
Some. He had quite a career when he went over to the Atomic Energy Commission
A
I just had the normal contacts, but after he went over to the Atomic Energy
Commission, I forget who the head man was. He had a farm down some place in
Virginia, and he wanted to build a small dam, so Starbird had me come over and
talk to him. The designing of a small dam wasn't my field, so it ended up by
someone else helping him out. But I was over to wherever the Atomic Commission
people were then at Star-bird's suggestion.
Q ..
One of the reasons I ask you that is because in the mid-1950s Starbird was the
Assistant Chief of Civil Works for Flood Control. That was a relatively unique
position then. Was that something created for him or was there so much emphasis
being placed on flood control that they created that position?
That surprises me a little bit because there were always several officers helping the
A
Assistant Chief for Civil Works. In 1949, the chart shows an executive, a Deputy
Chief for Rivers and Harbors, and a Deputy Chief for Flood Control. There were
always reorganizing and changing titles. Colonel Starbird was always asking
questions, so we had a file folder Labelled "Starbird Questions.
Q ..
Now, he was more of an equivalent of an assistant to Itschner. He had his own little
box under Itschner when Itschner was Assistant Chief for Civil Works.
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