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State Senator Max Sherman, Amarillo, and State Senator Kent Hance, Lubbock,
participate in a news conference October 28 in the District's Lubbock office. The
subject of the conference was the proposed new State Constitution, to be present-
ed to the voters of Texas November 4.EVALUATION ... continued from page 1
of rainfall data indicate that cloud
seeding does not influence rainfall."
Results Same for Cotton Losses
Likewise, exhaustive tests were ap-
plied to the effect of cloud seeding on
the percentage cotton losses incurred
by operators who reported losses due
to hail. Again the results-"statistical
analysis of cotton losses attributed to
hail and insurance damages paid due
to hail damage on cotton indicates that
the hail suppression program did not
significantly affect cotton hail damage."
Indeed, the findings of the report
suggest that weather modification at-
tempts in the area have had no signifi-
cant effect on the observed rainfall
distribution or hail damage. However,
this does not prove that there is no
effect from seeding programs. It ap-
pears that the "question" of weather
modification remains unanswered.
*An Evaluation of Weather Modification
Activities in the Texas High Plains, Texas
Water Development Board Report 193, by
James R. Scoggins, P. Das, John F. Grif-
fiths, Herman O. Hartley, Ronald D. Lace-
well and George W. Bomar.
Questionnaires
Mailed to Farmers
Approximately 75,000 Texas farm-
ers and ranchers will receive a crop
or livestock questionnaire between
mid-November, 1975, and early Janu-
ary, 1976. In order to provide com-
prehensive information on Texas agri-
culture, this roundup survey of crop
production and livestock numbers is
made annually by the Texas Crop and
Livestock Reporting Service, in coop-
eration with the Texas Department of
Agriculture and the Statistical Report-Haves vs. the Have-Nots:
Should Water be Shared?The idea of sharing natural re-
sources is discussed more and more
frequently these days, with the shock-
ing realization in many areas of the
country that water, natural gas and oil
are becoming more and more scarce
with ever-increasing consumption.
Dick Reavis, writer for The Moore
County News-Press, Dumas, Texas,
reported in a recent article in that
newspaper that U. S. Senator John
Glenn of Ohio has been arguing in the
Senate that "natural gas should be re-
garded as a national resource, not one
belonging to the state in which it is
found."
State Should Not Be Without Resource
Reavis theorized, like the Senator,
that a state without a natural resource,
whether it be natural gas or water,
should not be without this resource
because of a geographic misfortune.
Speaking of the surplus water avail-GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP
SCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER 9 AND 10Groundwater conservation district
directors and managers from the Great
Plains States of Texas, Kansas, Nebras-
ka, Colorado and Oklahoma will con-
duct a groundwater management work-
shop December 9 and 10 at the Silver
Spur Convention Center in Dodge
City, Kansas.
The major thrust of the workshop
will be to discuss and study three
major areas of concern to ground-
water management districts: 1) Gov-
ernment's Role in Groundwater (with
statements by Federal, state and local
government officials); 2) Reports of
Local Management Districts (a discus-
sion by managers and directors of what
local districts are doing), and 3) Ener-
gy Outlooks for Pump Irrigators (rep-
resentatives from the natural gas,
petroleum products and electricity in-
dustries and the Federal P o w e r
Commission and the Federal Energy
Administration).
Nebraska's new Groundwater Man-I lip
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Zagement Act, signed into law in May,
1975, will also be reviewed during an
informal session on the evening of
December 9. (For more information
on the Act, see the July, 1975, issue
of The Cross Section.)
Members of the committee sponsor-
ing the workshop are Frank Rayner,
District Manager; DeLynn Hay, Exten-
sion Agricultural Engineer, Kansas
State University; Deon Axthelm, Ex-
tension Water Resources Specialist,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Bo-
nita Hoeme, Secretary-Treasurer, Tex-
as County Irrigation District, Guymon,
Oklahoma; John Vasa, Chairman,
Frenchman Groundwater Management
District, Holyoke, Colorado, and Mil-
vern Noffke, Manager, Big Blue As-
sociation of Groundwater Districts,
York, Nebraska.
Anyone interested in obtaining a
copy of the conference schedule should
contact the Water District office in
Lubbock./1
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able at certain times of the year in the
banks of the Mississippi River, he
wrote, "Down the road a few years this
same kind of national thinking needs
to be applied to surplus water that can
be imported to Texas, where there is
a shortage every now and then."
Proposed Texas Constitution
Reavis has made a good point, but
it should also be noted that the Texas
Legislature has put before the voters
of Texas (in the form of a proposed
new State Constitution) a different
view on sharing between the haves and
have-nots. One very encouraging ad-
dition to the proposed new Constitu-
tion, Section 8(b), Conservation and
Development of Natural Resources,
states, "No state fund established for
purposes of water development, trans-
mission, transfer, or filtration may be
used to finance a project that contem-
plates or results in removing surface
water from the river basin of origin if
the surface water is necessary to supply
the reasonably foreseeable water re-
quirements of the basin for the ensuing
50 years. This subsection does not ap-
ply to a removal of water (1) that is
sufficiently replaced to the point of
removal from outside the state or (2)
that is on a temporary, interim basis."
However, the following question
arises. If the provision restricts move-
ment of water from the basin of origin
to another basin for the next 50 years,
when does the 50-year period com-
mence? Under the present system,
adopted in 1962, it could be said the
period would end in 2012. And, if
the proposed new constitution is ap-
proved, the 50-year period would ex-
pire in 2026.
Amendment Would Increase Funds
Even if the provision of the pro-
posed new constitution fails November
4, Senate Joint Resolution Number 49,adopted by the Texas Senate on April
17, 1975, and by the Texas House of
Representatives on May 27, 1975,
which is a proposed amendment to the
-cont. on page 4 ... HAVESing Service, U. S. Department of
Agriculture.
Producers Selected by Size
According to Charles E. Caudill,
Agricultural Statistician in Charge of
the Texas Crop and Livestock Report-
ing Service, Austin, producers from
each of the 254 counties in Texas are
-cont. on page 4 ... QUESTIONNAIRESL
State Senators Kent Hance of Lubbock (second from left) and
Max Sherman of Amarillo (second from right) visit with Dis-
trict Directors Chester Mitchell (far left) and Ray Kitten (far
right). Senators Hance and Sherman were in the District's
Lubbock headquarters office to explain various aspects of the(3i
Yre
Siproposed new State Constitution, to be voted on by the elec-
torate November 4. The Legislators also participated in a
press conference in the District's Board of Directors' room
October 28. (See related photograph on this page.)October, 1975
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