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state/national Battalion/Page 9 March 25, 1982 Rainmaking bill vital, OU profs stress United Press International OKLAHOMA CITY — A ate-supported weather modifi- uion program is needed to neet water demands of Oklaho- na's growing population and to inimize effects of future roughts, officials say. But funding for the rainmak- ig effort — which is being de igned by state officials, Uni ver ity of Oklahoma meteorologists nd a Tulsa firm — depends on Water Development Fund bill [hat is stalled in the Legislature. “It was all tied in with the 'ater Development Fund,” said arold Springer, chief of the ngineering division for the )klahoma Water Resources card. “We had a lot of hopes ir that money.” The bill calls for setting aside 50 million a year until a $400- lillion fund accumulates. The loney would be used to finance ond sales for water projects round the state. OU meteorology professor ohn C. Pflaum said meteoro- tgists and officials have recom mended a $ 10-million weather modification endowment fund s the beginning of a compre- ensive cloud seeding program. “I’m not saying the whole tate could be seeded for that mount of money, but it’s cer- minly a very good start toward roviding some rain in parts of |he state where it’s most ceded,” he said. Seeding consists of releasing mtoclouds chemicals that prom- te the formation of raindrops, e or snow crystals. A brochure prepared by flaum and fellow OU professor mos Eddy said the state’s rowth will increase the need for r ater. “Oklahoma is a state ex periencing rapid ecomomic and ndustrial growth,” the rochure says. “As demand for vater increases, the state’s vul nerability to drought becomes more critical.” The brochure said the groups concluded that seeding efforts should be coupled with expan sion of storage facilities such as reservoirs, stock ponds and aqueducts because few clouds are available for seeding when droughts actually happen. Pflaum said cloud seeding would not eliminate the need for other water projects for the dry western parts of the state. “I don’t think weather modifi cation will turn western Oklaho ma into a tropical jungle,” he said. Springer said if the $ 10- million fund is not possible, the OWRB would like to fund a $90,000 effort to gather data on summer cumulus clouds which are more likely to respond to seeding efforts. But be said the way things ai e going the funding effort prob ably will have to wait until the next legislative session. Pflaum said a state-controlled seeding program would be more desirable than some privately funded seeding efforts because of the possibility that the profit motive may take a front seat to citizen needs. Pflaum said science has “evolved now to where we hope we have more effective methods of influencing the w'eather.” And he said the longer a seeding program lasts, the more accu rately its effects can be gauged. Pflaum joins other meteoro logists in questioning the method of using ground-based silver iodide generators to seed clouds. This has been used by some private weather modifica tion firms hired by some western Oklahoma farmers. “But I think that’s better than not doing anything,” he said. “It’s certainly better to try some thing than to just sit around and watch the crops die.” arm worker pay insured’ in Valley .S. official says United Press International SAN JUAN — An official of Ihe Department of Labor says pis office has several people forking solely to insure that lexas farm workers receive the federal minimum wage they are Jrititled to, and they have found jery few instances of non- [ompliance by employers. An American Civil Liberties nion attorney, however, said tiesday the ACLU and the L r n- |ted Farm Workers union were areparing lawsuits against at |east 100 Rio Grande Valley far mers charging violations of the federal minimum wage law. The UFW says workers in buth Texas citrus groves and Vegetable fields earn an average pf only S2.45 an hour, w hile the sage law' calls for $3.35 an hour. ACLU attorney Jim Harring- lon, who helped union organiz- Lesar Chavez lead a six-dav protest march against low wages last week, said the union scrap ped its original plans to present the Labor Department more than 400 wage complaints against 100 different growers because the UFW believed the government would not properly investigate the complaints. “We decided that it was worthless to take the complaints to the government and decided to go ahead and file suits ourselves,” said Harrington, whose wife, Rebecca Flores Har rington, is the union’s Texas di rector. He said the first probably would be filed this week or early next week. Bob Scott, supervisor of the Department of Labor’s wage and hour division in Corpus Christi, Tuesday denied the government was neglecting farm worker complaints. Old South Restaurant NOW HIRING wait people bus people 12 noon-6 p.m. Monday-Fridav ParkuiOY Square S. Texas five. & Southuiest Pkuuv. dishwashers SOUTHWEST PKWY. (• N S I N S !> k s S 24-Hr. 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