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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-
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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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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.
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