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ryan TRIP DRLD 1737 Rainmaker can’t get license COURT’S SADDLERY . . . FOR WESTERN WEAR OR FOR YOUR MARE. FOR SHOE REPAIR BRING IN A PAIR. 403 N. Main 822-0161 AUSTIN (A 5 ) — Homer Berry, who says he can bring five inches of rain to Stonewall County, fail ed to convince the Texas Water Development Board Wednesday of his capabilities. “Apparent lack of qualifica tions . . . unethical claims ... in complete and apparently false documentation” were some of the comments of the board’s staff on the request for a license filed by the retired U.S. Air Force major from North Little Rock, Ark. The board rejected Berry’s ap plication unanimously. About 40 ranchers and farmers in Stonewall County put up $10,- 000 for Berry to bring them five inches of rain to the drought rid den area within 30 days. “I went around selling a pro- DON’S SALVAGE CENTER SAVE ON THESE ITEMS and MORE • FURNITURE • GROCERIES • FABRICS • GIFTS • AUTO ACCESSORIES WE BUY and SELL ACROSS FROM THE COLLEGE STATION WATER TOWER DWIGHT W. ANDRES, M.D. Internal Medicine announces the association of TED S. NOVOSAD, M.D. GENERAL PRACTICE 3501 Texas Ave. Bryan, Texas Office Hours (Monday-Friday) 9:00-12 a.m. 2:00-5:00 p.m. Telephone Office: 846-5754 Home: 846-8511 gram that I didn’t believe in at first,” said Charles Abernathy, one of the ranchers, in Austin Wednesday. “He would have to produce five inches of rain before he receives a penny.” Berry did not attend the pro ceeding before the water develop ment board on Berry’s request for a permit and license. “I’m just trying to give that / old man a chance that I promised him,” Abernathy said. The need for a license came to light when Berry’s efforts near Aspermont were carried by the news media. State law requires a weather modification permit. To expedite matters, meteorol ogist John Carr of the water de velopment board went to Asper mont to confer with Berry and the parties concerned. “Because of Berry’s apparent lack of qualifications, his uneth ical claims for his rainmaking technique, incomplete and appar ent false documentation of his application ... it is the staff recommendation that he be denied a weather modification permit,” Carr told the board. Berry’s application states that he intended to “create a low pres sure area aloft with a trough. For one inch to five inches of rain—one inch for a row crop, five inches to break a drought. The five inches fall over a seven- hour period.” His equipment consisted of a “brick lined barrel with an air blower operating off a pickup battery,” and several cloud seed ing chemicals. “I asked him if he planned to make clouds in a cloudless sky,” Carr said. “And he said ‘yes’. This is against scientific knowl edge and belief.” The name of the game is cloud treatment,” Carr said. “He can not make clouds. He can’t make a low aloft.” Carr said the method and equipment used by Berry was an “old fashioned system” and would not deny that it might work. However, he said, cloud seeding from the ground normally is done in mountainous area where there is sufficient upward air flow to get the seeding vapors to the clouds. “You all know how flat it is out there,” Carr told the board. The staff had difficulty in checking Berry’s background, Carr said. “He states that he has an M.E. degree, presumably mechanical engineering, from Rockwell Col lege in Coronado, Calif.,” Carr said. “A check of the National Education Directory and a tele phone check with the chamber of commerce in Coronado disclose no record of any such institu tions.” Carr also said that several claims of rainmaking could not be substantiated, although he was not saying they didn’t happen. Abernathy gave the board a book of press clippings relating Berry’s rainmaking ability. “Mr. Berry is not known to any of the reputable scientists and technicians in the field of weath er modification with whom we have checked,” Carr said, “nor could we locate any publication by Mr. Berry or any reference to him in the scientific field.” The weather modification ad visory committee to the board also advised against granting Berry a permit. 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Call 822-2520/(823-1100 after 5) State license being processed. 82tl6 Babysitting day or evening. 822-4788. 64tfn HUMPTY DUMPTY CHILDREN CEN TER, 3400 South College, State Licensee 823-8626. Virginia D. Jones, R. N. 99tf: FREE WINE GUIDE Free Wholesale Catalog Hundreds Brand Name Products At 30% - 50% Off Student Owned Write University Investors Box 50022 - Dallas, Texas 75250 J|-|f BATTALION Thursday, February 25, 1971 College Station, Texas Page 3 TROPHIES WON by the Fish Drill Team in Laredo are presented to A&M President Dr. Jack K. Williams for the university. Team commander William L. Peppard of Houston, right guide Michael Nielsen of Dallas and junior advisor Louis Ullrich of San Antonio made the presentation. The trophies will be inscribed with ‘In Memory of Richard A. Hanes,” senior advisor killed in a Feb. 14 car crash, and given to his parents. Vietnam veterans receiving financial reward from states By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Returning veterans of the Viet nam war are being rewarded in several states with bonuses rang ing upward from $10 for every month of service in Southeast Asia. Millions have been appro priated and are being spent on the projects. An Associated Press survey showed that among the states that have passed bonus legisla tion since the conflict began are Connecticut, Illinois, Massachu setts, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Vermont. The American Legion reported bonus proposals were pending in 15 other states, including Indiana, Kentucky, California, Tennessee, Georgia, Arizona, West Virginia, Washington and Alaska. The measures vary from state to state, but generally all require residence in the state at the time of entry into the military and are dependent on some standard of service, either the Vietnam Serv ice Medal or an honorable dis charge. Some states provide extra bonuses for disabled veterans or for families of men killed in Viet nam. In Pennsylvania, the state’s Vietnam Conflict Compensation Bureau pays veterans $25 for each month of service in the Viet nam theater of operations. Time spent in a military hospital for a disability incurred in Vietnam is counted in determining compen sation. The state has appropriated $56 million for the program and has paid out $35 million so far, with an average payment of $300. To apply for the money, a vet eran must file a certificate of duty from his commanding officer or a discharge document. Here’s how the program works in some other states: — Connecticut: Under legisla tion passed in. 1967, the state has distributed $16 million in bonuses to veterans and their survivors. A veteran is paid $10 for each month of military service, any where in the world, since Jan. 1, 1964, with a maximum bonus of $300. — Vermont: Legislation passed last year provides veterans with $10 for each month of active duty in the armed forces from Aug. 5, 1964 — the date of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution — through June 30, 1971. There is a maximum of $120 per veteran. The legislature has appropriated $1.28 million to provide bonuses for an estimated 10.000 eligible veterans. —•Illinois: The 1965 Bonus Act provides $100 to any state resi dent qualified for the Vietnam Service Medal. Beneficiaries of servicemen who died as a result of service in Vietnam receive $1,000. The state has given out 113.000 veterans’ bonuses and 2,500 survivors’ grants for a total of almost $14 million and has appropriated $3 million to fund the program this year. — Massachusetts: A Vietnam veteran receives a $300 bonus and a veteran of service elsewhere $200 under a measure sponsored by State Rep. William F. Hogan, a Democrat. Hogan said the state has paid out $35 million since the (program started several years ago. — New Mexico: A 1967 propos al extended a state law giving property tax exemptions to resi dent veterans of World War II and the Korean conflict to include men who served in Vietnam. A qualified veteran receives a $2,000 property tax exemption, applied on the assessed valuation of his property. The veteran receives a one-third reduction on the cost of his annual motor vehicle regis tration. Under the law’s provi sions, a Vietnam veteran must have served after Aug. 5, 1964, and must have been awarded a Vietnam Service Medal. — South Dakota: A bonus bill passed in 1969 provides payments of $10 for every month of service to veterans discharged after Aug. 4, 1964, and $20 for every month of service to veterans discharged after July 1, 1958. Money for the measure, however, was not appro priated until 1970 when $750,000 was allotted for the program and bonus director Lou Davis said the sum ran out after 2,787 veterans were paid an average of $251 each. Davis said 7,845 applica tions were unpaid as of Feb. 1. There are three bills pending in the legislation to provide further appropriations. CHARLES E. THOMAS Texas A&M - Class of ’64 Protective Life Insurance Company is proud to announce that Charles E. Thomas brings the trust of over six and one half years experience to his new position as Agency Manager of the Texas A&M University Agency. During his outstanding career of discussing the insurance needs of Aggies, he has achieved every major Industry award and honor. Protective Life is most proud to have Charles heading our Texas A&M University Agency. If the kind of job he has done in the past six and one half years is any indication, Texas A&M will be well represented. 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