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Mr. Eau. Well, if I may just transverse to the day before, our divers, 

 in preparing to put in these cable braces went down to move out the 

 hydrostatic cable, and found tliis one brace broken. 



By the time they came up it was late Saturday night, and the report 

 was not phoned in to us until early Sunday mornmg, in fact it was 

 phoned in to one of my enginers who called me about a quarter of 

 nine Sunday morning on January 8. 



I told him immediately to call the architect-engineer who, in this case, 

 was Ted Kuss, because he knew Ted Kuss' home phone, and report the 

 findings to him. 



Senator Symington. And then ? 



Senator Stennis. Pardon me just a minute, gentlemen. What date 

 is this now ? You have given the day of the week. 



Mr. Rah. This is Sunday, January 8, sir. 



Senator Stennis. All right. 



Mr. Eau. That the conversation — it was actually found on Saturday, 

 January 7. 



Senator Stennis. Very well, proceed. 



Mr. Eau. It was January 8 that we had this conversation, or these 

 conversations. 



Mr. Kuss asked my enginer if there was any other damage found, 

 and he said he had not talked to the tower directly, why, he said, he 

 didn't know, but he would call the tower immediately and call him 

 back, which he did. 



And it was reported back to him that, to their knowledge there was 

 no other damage fomid by the divers the day before. 



He talked to Mr. Kuss again later in the day and conveyed the in- 

 formation to me by phone, asked me — if I may read his telephone 

 conversations, I think it would be better than my 



Senator Symington. Could you put it in the record ? 



Mr. Eau. Yes, sir. I would. 



Senator Symington. The nub of it was what ? 



Mr. Eau. Well, he asked about these diagonal braces, whether this 

 new break would change the idea of these braces; whether, in turn, 

 this one should be lowered doAvn to minus 175 feet to take care of this 

 other panel, and it was at that time that Kuss said, no, he didn't think 

 that would be the right thing to do. 



Senator Symington. What firm is he with agam ? 



Mr. Eau. ISIoran, Proctor, Mueser, & Eutledge. 



Senator Symington. You had a meeting on the 12th, didn't you? 



Mr. Eau. Yes, sir. Well, all that week we were in contact with 

 Ted Kuss; our engineer Bob Koch was actually talking to him and 

 conveyed all the information to me, talking about the capa*bility of the 

 tower as it now stands. 



Senator Symington. Did the Eutledge company send anybody 

 down to the job during this time? 



Mr. Eau. No, sir. 



Senator Symington. So that it was all on the phone or in writing 

 or in person without going and looking at it; is that right? 



Mr. Eau. Actually it was all on the phone or in person. 



Senator Symington. Yes. "V^Tiere was the meeting on the 12th of 

 January ? 



Mr. Eau. It Avas in my office. 



