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Easterwood Airport
expands for Aggies
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By DIB WALDRIP
Reporter
■ Easterwood Airport is growing to
meet the needs of the growing com
munity, assistant manager Don Rob
inson says. '
During home-game weekends,
Ifaffic at the airport increases a great
deal. Former students and members
of the press fly into Easterwood for
the game.
■ Depending upon who the Aggies
are playing, traffic at the airport in
creases from a low of 30 additional
folanes a day to a high of 200, he
said. On such occasions the airport
Hoses one of the runways and parks
: extra planes there.
To accommodate the increasing
demand, the runway will be ex
tended about 6,200 to 7,000 feet,
he longer runway will enable the
irport to service larger planes.
New hangers also are being built
to house the increasing number of
privately owned planes at the air-
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I Plans are being made to relocate
and enlarge the terminal in the next
three to five years, he said. In doing
so. the airport possibly would attract
a lull-service airline.
■ Now, two commuter airlines in
College Station offer flights to and
from Houston and Dallas — where
connecting flights may be taken else
where.
Rio Airways flys to and from Dal-
las-Ft. Worth Regional Airport with
connections and single ticketing
available with Delta Air Lines.
Royale Airlines flys to and from
Houston Intercontinental Airport
with connections and single ticketing
with several airlines.
Most of the larger airlines now of
fer a convenience service to their
customers — single ticketing, which
means only one ticket for the entire
flight is purchased.
This removes some of the hassles
of transferring flights.
Several local companies offer
charter services, plane rentals and
flight schools. The cost of chartering
or renting a plane depends upon the
size and speed of the plane, Robin
son said. The prices vary from 70
cents per mile to $ 1.10 per mile.
Licensed pilots can rent and fly
planes owned by aviation companies
here, Robinson said.
Three flight schools offer private
pilot courses here, Robinson said.
The cost of these programs average
about $2,500.
Business Executive of the Year:
‘Success is not achievement’
By SARAH OATES
Stuff Writer
By the age of 31, just four
years after a stint in the Navy,
Harold S. Hook was running a
major insurance company.
Before he turned 40, he had
been president of three such
companies.
Success is a familiar word to
the 50-year-old Hook, named
Business Executive of the Year by
the Texas A&M University Col
lege of Business Administration.
“I’m delighted,” Hook said
during a press conference
Wednesday morning. “I’m glad I
was chosen.”
William Mobley, dean of the
College of Business Administra
tion, said the award is a way to
recognize excellence in business
leaders in Texas.
“Although he’s not an Aggie,
we certainly take great pride in
claiming him as an honorary Ag
gie,” Mobley said as he made the
presentation.
Hook is chairman and chief ex-
Harold S. Hook
ecutive officer of the American
General Corp., a Houston-based
insurance firm with assets of $18
billion. It is the fourth largest
shareholder-owned insurance
group in the United States.
Hook, a former chairman of
the Houston Chamber of Com
merce, also is known for devel
oping Main Event Management,
a group of nine integrated man
agement systems, and MODEL-
NETICS, a management lan
guage.
MODEL-NETICS is a lan
guage of 151 symbols, symbols
that stand for different manage
ment theories such as delegation,
planning and control. Hook said
the language was created to sim
plify management jargon.
“We try to create one universal
language of management that al
lows everyone to understand
things the same way,” he said.
“The power of the system is that
the models go together to deal
with all the problems of life.”
To ill istrate the system. Hook
outlined what he termed the “se
ven ports.” He said they rep
resent the major areas of a per
son’s life: job, health, community,
family, church, recreation and
self-development.
“The problem is you only have
a 24-hour day to spend in one or
more areas,” he said. “The price
you pay to achieve more in one
area is devoting less to another.
Usually, the price is some area of
self-development.”
Hook said the idea behind this
24-hour model is to develop the
ability to do more in a given time.
“Most people think only about
one port at a time,” Hook said.
“For example, you might think
only about making more money
without thinking of the trade-offs
involved.”
Hook said a person can use the
model to see if he is happy with
his job and if he is reaching his
goals.
“Success is what you get from
yourself,” he said. “Achievement
is enslavement to the expectations
of others.”
Hook advised business stu
dents to “get some idea of what
success is, and decide what you
want to achieve.”
The Wall Street Transcript
twice has named Hook the out
standing chief executive officer in
the multi-line insurance industry.
Hook also has received twice the
chief executive officer award
sponsored by Financial World
magazine.
Reserve jets can serve as ‘flying hospitals’
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■ Airplanes in the Civil Reserve Air
jFleet can be converted into “flying
glipspitals” for use in catastrophes or
a large scale conventional war,
according to a recent study by the
■enter for Strategic Technology at
nexas A&M.
■ Dr. Dan Bragg, assistant director
■ the center, said the Civil Reserve
Aii Fleet contains about 320 aircraft.
Most of those aircraft are jumbo jets
(ms), but there also are DC-10s, L-
Ivllsand a few DC-8s and 707s.
He said that although some air
lines have not participated in the
program, approximately two-thirds
of the total U.S. fleet of jumbo jets
used in airline service today are in
volved in the program. These jets
can be called upon during emergen
cies.
“We have devised a plan with
which at very small cost and very
little trouble we can convert these
airplanes to give a ... hospital atmo
sphere,” Bragg said. “And at the
same time, when the need is over
with, the airplanes can be converted
back to their normal role without.
having to do any repair to them.”
Bragg said the 747 will hold 180
patients with a maximum of 60 per
cent on litters (stretchers) and 40
percent who are able to walk.
He said the litters are arranged in
tiers starting about six inches above
the floor and going up approxi
mately four and one-half feet.This
allows the nursing crew to tend to
the needs of the wounded with mini
mum difficulty.
“In the event of a catastrophe —
like a big war — U.S. hospitals, par
ticularly big city hospitals, already
have agreements with the military
that they will designate a certain per
centage of their beds to wounded
military,” Bragg said.
He said one of the problems the
U.S. Air Force has encountered in
program funding is dealing with
commanders who are concerned
with winning a war.
Bragg said the airplanes in CRAF
partially are paid for by the military
in the same manner many merchant
ships are by the Maritime Adminis
tration for the Civil Merchant Fleet.
The airlines also will he reimbursed
for the actual cost of operating the
airplanes, as well as the lost revenue_
for not hauling passengers, he said.
The aircraft in CRAF actually will
be operated by civilian crews, but
there also will be a U.S. Air Force
medical crew along with each one,
Bragg said.
“Right now the only use we make
of them is for maneuvers, like when
we fly several divisions to Germany,”
Bragg said. “That’s called a stage-
one call-up.
“In the event of a war or emer
gency, we would have a stage-three
call-up, which would involve com
mandeering all of the airplanes.
They all would have to be available
at a certain point previously desig
nated within 48 hours, with a crew
with all their passports, clearances
and shots — ready to go.”
Bragg said CRAF was used during
the Vietnam War to a limited extent
to carry troops and wounded, but
without the special equipment they
have designed. He said the airplanes
were simply stripped out and the
wounded were placed on the floor.
“We hold human life in higher re
gard in this country than any other
country in the world,” Bragg said.
“We want to do this to take care of
our people.”
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