The Cross Section, Volume 10, Number 1, June 1963 Page: 4
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Page 4 THE CROSS SECTION June 1963
RUSSELL BEAN REPRESENTS LUBBOCK AND
LYNN COUNTIES ON DISTRICT BOARD
Russell Bean is one of the two most recently elected members on the Board
of Directors of the High Plains Underground Water Conservation District. He
represents Lubbock and Lynn Counties on the Board.
Mr. Bean is a member of a well-known pioneer High Plains' family. His
mother and father met during the early days of the region's development,
after having moved here with their families. In 1881, Russell's mother,
formerly Nora Hunt, moved to Estacado, a community in northeastern
Lubbock County, from an Indian reservation in Oklahoma. Her father was a
Quaker doctor. During 1893, George R. Bean, Russell's father, came to the
High Plains. He was a rancher and school teacher. Later, in 1901, he set up a
law practice in Lubbock. For many years, until his death in 1962, he was
one of the city's most prominent business and civic leaders. Among other
things, he served on the Lubbock School Board. One of the present day
elementary schools in the sprawling system is named for him.
Mr. Russell Bean was born in Lubbock on August 19, 1912. He finished
Lubbock High School in 1929 and graduated from Texas Technological College
in 1933. Always interested in agriculture, he farmed during his college years,
and majored in horticulture.
With the area, and the nation, in the grips of depression, he decided to
see some of the rest of the world. He ended up in Haiti, an island in the West
Indies. working for an American company that produced sisal. He liked it
so well that he decided to stay on permanently, and remained until 1948.
Sisal is used in making rope. When World War II commenced, the demand for
sisal was so great that the company Mr. Bean worked for acquired additional
land and expanded its operation. Mr. Bean became superintendent of a new
plantation and was in charge of the operation. He was responsible for growing
and processing as much as 26,000 acres of sisal.
During his years in Haiti, Mr. Bean acquired farm land in several counties
in the Texas High Plains. In 1934, his brother Robert, who is at this time a
District Judge in Lubbock, had an irrigation well drilled on one of the family
farms. This was the Bean's earliest encounter with irrigation. Then in 1947,
Russell drilled wells and commenced irrigating all his cropland.
Mr. Bean is married to the former Pauline Yeager Edwards. They have three
children; David 25, is married and in his last year at the Southwestern
Medical School in Dallas; Byron, 22, is a senior student at Texas Technological
College; and Jane, 18, who last month completed the curriculum at Lubbock
High School, plans to enter Texas Tech this fall. The Bean's reside at 2806
21st Street in Lubbock.
Even though Mr. Bean's farming interests keep him busy, he still finds
time to serve on a multitude of committees and boards. He is on the board
of directors of the Lubbock Community Planning Council and the United
Fund; a member of the board of directors of the Farmer's Co-op Compress
in Lubbock; Secretary of the Frenship Co-op Association; and President of
the Lubbock County Historical Committee. He is also a member of the First
Methodist Church in Lubbock.
Mr. Bean was elected last January by residents of Lubbock and Lynn
Counties to serve on the five-man Board of Directors of the Water District
for a two-year term of office. In re-organizing the Board for 1963, Mr. Bean was
elected to serve as Secretary-Treasurer.The people of Lubbock and Lynn Counties are fortunate indeed to be re-
presented on the Board of Directors of the High Plains Underground Water
Conservation District by a man with the education and experience possessed
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RUSSELL BEANCONSERVATION
The "Water Newsletter" reports
that, "Concentrating rainfall with plas-
tic covers has enabled U. S. soil scien-
tists to grow 50 bushels of corn per
acre in a drought year, without irri-
gation, in south-central N o r t h Da-
kota. The technique involves cover-
ing ridges of soil between corn rows
with plastic film, and although it is
too costly now for farmers, it may
lead to new m o i s t u r e-conserving
practices that can be put to general
use. Rain falling on the plastic drain-
ed off and was concentrated on the 10
percent of the soil that was bare. As
a consequence, a 1/4-inch rain actually
became 2-1/2 inches of water along
the line of growing plants."
* * * * * n ejy
In a paper prepared by W. L. "Bill"
Broadhurst, Chief Hydrologist for the
High Plains Water District, and de-
livered at the first annual meeting of "Through
the West Texas Water Conference, an
interesting proposal to alleviate fu- water supplCONVERSATION
ture water shortages was presented.
Broadhurst suggested, ". . . When
atomic energy, or any other form of
energy can be developed at nominal
cost, why not extract hydrogen from
the sea, transport it inland through
pipes to strategic points, extract oxy-
gen from the air, combine the gases
and form water? This will seem absurd
to some today. I assume it would have
been absurd 100 years ago to expect
that Plant Xin the sandhills in Lamb
County would today be developing
and delivering energy to heat our
homes in winter, cool them in summer,
light them at night, and do a thousand
and one other things for our comfort
and enjoyment. What would such a
plant use for power? There was no
coal or falling water within hundreds
of miles. Yet today Plant X is a reality.
research, man need not
be stymied by a depleting ground-
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High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.). The Cross Section, Volume 10, Number 1, June 1963, periodical, June 1963; Lubbock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1532859/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.