HE BATTALION
Tuesday, October 31. 1961
College Station, Texas
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CHRIEVER, ’31, HEADS MISSILE PROGRAM
Aggie General Leads U.S. In Space Race
DALLAS <^P) — House Speaker
jam Rayburn, ill with incurable
aicer, left Baylor Hospital today
ud returned to his home at Bon-
bn.
The 70-year-old speaker entered
Ike hospital here Oct. 2 complain-
iif of a backache, which he then
Another ICBM Rocket Success
Gen. Bernard A. Schriever watches as a huge solid-fuel
ilinuteman ICBM rises majestically into the sky from its
launching pad. The 50-year-old Aggie graduate is chief of
the Air Force Systems Command and a prominent figure
inthe success of the U. S. missile system. (Saturday Eve
ning Post Photo)
Speaker Rayburn Returns
To Bonham From Hospital
teie Debaters
To Open Season
iFort Worth
The A&M Debate Club will open
is forensic season this weekend
litha visit to Fort Worth for the
mal TCU Debate Tournament.
The Aggies will enter four
tas in the contest, which will
Mude over 100 teams from nine
iates.
The subject this year is Resolved,
That Labor Unions should be un
is the jurisdiction of anti-trust
ifislation,”
The organization last night ac-
hpted several new members:
imes E. Sartain, Larry A. Her-
tan, Tim A. O’Neal, Karl L. Ru-
instein and James M. Roberts.
In addition, this year’s officers
tire officially confirmed. They are
hbert M. Denney, president;
Tiarles Grey, vice-president and
lick Shengel, treasurer-secretary.
The Debate Club meets every
londay night in the Birch Room
lithe Memorial Student Center.
attributed to lumbago. Physicians
later diagnosed his illness as wide
spread and incurable cancer.
The team of doctors attending
Rayburn issued this medical bul
letin at 6 p.m. Monday: i
“Mr. Rayburn has had a rela
tively comfortable day. As an
nounced in the news bulletin this
morning, Mr. Rayburn received
chemotherapy today. The drug
was FUDR. There has been no
major change in his condition.
“It is too early to determine
the extent of improvement in his
^mdition as a result of the treat
ment to date. It may be several
weeks before beneficial effects of
the treatment may be apparent.
“Although the doctors at Baylor
have not changed their recom
mended course of treatment pres
ently being administered and con
templated for the future, the fam
ily has decided to return Mr. Ray
burn to Bonham, feeling that the
paramount consideration at this
time is deference to the desire of
the speaker to return to his
home.”
Holton issued a statement from
the family of the speaker. It said
that “in making this decision to
return him to Bonham, the de
termining factor was the speak
er's often expressed desire to end
his days among, in his words,
‘Those friends and neighbors who
for so long have given me a love
and a loyalty unsurpassed in any
annals.’ ”
By ALAN PAYNE
Battalion News Editor
Thirty years ago last May,
Bernard Adolf Schriever walked
from A&M with a degree in engi
neering to greatness and fame as
chief of the U.S.’s huge Air Force
Systems Command.
Now a 51-year-old four star gen
eral, Schriever commands Air
Force research and development
as wpll as most of the Defense
Department’s missile and space
programs.
The general’s success, however,
came only after a long, rocky
fight from an immigrant’s status
in New Braunfels, to San An
tonio and then A&M, flight school
and finally to the highest eche
lons of the U.S. Defense Depart
ment.
Schriever walked from A&M to
a world in the depths of depres-
siqn. He could not find a job in
engineering and was never again
to return to that actual profes
sion.
While in high school and later
at A&M, he compiled extremely
high marks in his studies and fin
ished near the top of A&M’s
Class of ’31.
When he graduated, Schriever’s
only job offer was .$250 a month
as a golf professional. He turned
this down, explaining, “I decided
I hadn’t gone to college just to
become a golf pro.” He found
temporary work as a clerk.
As a youth, Schriever had been
quite competent in golf. He was
reared at a golf course-sandwich
stand in Brackenridge Park at
San Antonio as a German immi
grant.
His mother and brother Ger
hard, now an Air Force colonel,
came to the U.S. to join their fa
ther in New York. The father,
a ship’s engineer, sent his family
to Texas and registered himself
as an immigrant.
The family had been in Texas
less than a year when the elder
Schriever was killed in an accident.
Mrs. Schriever took a job then as
a housemaid.
Her employer built the Schrie-
vers a small refreshment stand
in Brackenridge Park and also
taught the two boys to play golf.
Then when the employer died, Mrs.
Schriever took over the stand full
time.
Ben was soon a caddy and later
a player. He was scooting in the
60’s and low 70’s by the time he
entered college, finishing most
of the tournaments he entered in
one of the two top positions.
Schriever finished A&M with a
reserve Army commission in the
field artillery and followed the
military services when the de
pression prevented him from find
ing employment as an engineer.
Less than two years later, he
was accepted as an active duty
aviation cadet and won his wings
at Kelly Field.
After two years as a bomber
pilot, Schriever found himself
once again unemployed because
the Air Corps could not support
all its reservists.
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Then followed an unsuccessful
year as commander of a Civilian
Conservation Corps camp in New
Mexico. A week after he was
released he reached the semifinals
of the Texas State Amateur tour
nament and once again seriously
considered professional golf.
Schriever then got that one big
break and found himself fast
winging to Washington and the
very top in the U.S. defense plans.
He was called back to the Air
Corps for active service, placed
under the command of Maj. Gen.
George H. Brett and married
Brett’s daughter, Dora.
After receiving his regular com
mission he became a test pilot at
Wright Field, was sent to Stan
ford to earn a master’s degree in
aeronautical engineering and then
served in the Pacific, where he
rose from captain to lieutenant
colonel.
By the early ’50’s Schriever was
scribed as an unpopular Air Force
colonel involved in a running fight
with top generals in his service.
Things came to a showdown over
the proposed B-52 heavy jet bomb
er for carrying atomic bombs and
other weapons.
Schriever, with the backing of
several scientists, argued violently
with Air Force Gen. Curtis Le-
May that before the B-52 could
be ready, improvements would
make the atomic bomb small
enough for B-47’s.
To the bewilderment of both
superiors and subordinates,
Schriever won his fight, the plan
was a huge success and he was
rapidly on the way to becoming
a four-star general, himself.
The fight could easily have been
the downfall of his career. His
superiors admired him, however,
for his determination and courage
in fighting for what he believed.
Immediately after receiving
command of the U.S. missile pro
gram, Schriever secured numerous
top-flight scientists and mathe
maticians and the advanced U.S.
space program was off the ground
and on its way.
The hydrogen bomb was reduced
in size, ICBM’s became household
topics, the Ballistic Missile Divi
sion was formed, the Atlas pro
gram was given the highest mili
tary priority in the nation, Titan
and Thor missiles were launched,
the Minuteman was a success and
suddenly Gen. Bernard Adolf
Schriever w&s on the lips of every
American.
Many A&M graduates have tre
mendous success stories to tell,
but few if any can rival the story
of Bernard Schriever.
His formula seems quite simple
Engineer Meet
Now Underway
Latest methods of evaluating
performance of petroleum reser
voirs will be emphasized at the
fifth Advanced Petroleum Reser
voir Engineering Course, which be
gan yesterday and will end Nov.
10.
Information gained at the course
may be used as a basis of selecting
field operating procedures to
achieve optimum i-ecovery.
James W. Amyx of the Depart
ment of Petroleum Engineering
one of the coarse instructors, said
the two-week session will include
12 hours of lectures on transient
flow and well performance. A total
of 24 hours of lecture and computa
tion will be devoted to recovery
methods, 32 hours to reservoir per
formance and eight hours to appli
cation of digital computers to res-
ei’voir engineering problems.
The first session opened at 8
a. m. yesterday in the W. T. Doh
erty Petroleum Engineering Build
ing.
A limited number of openings is
available both in the upcoming
course and the spring offering
slated March 5-16, 1962.
Representatives from 113 major
and independent oil companies,
along with others, are scheduled
to attend. They include oil people
from Indonesia, Canada, Califor
nia, Oklahoma, Texas, Mississippi
and Colorado.
Other instructors at the short
course are Robert L. Whiting and
D. M. Bass Jr. of the Department
of Petroleum Engineering.
—hard work. As one aide once
said, “Hell, he must work all
night!”
Every hour, every day, Schrie
ver will most likely be found at
work. Even his weekends are
filled with staff meetings and
endless study.
Top flight scientists, politicians
and military men have been quot
ed as preferring not to think
about where our space program
would be if not for Gen. Bernard
Adolf Schriever, Texas A&M,
Class of ’31.
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