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April 6, 1982
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Scientist honored
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by Kelli Proctor
Battalion Reporter
Dr. Perry Adkisson, deputy
thancellor for agriculture for
the Texas A&M University Sys
tem, has been named 1982 Dis
tinguished Texas Scientist by
|he Texas Academy of Sciences.
Adkisson recently received
the award in recognition of his
vork in insect biology and de-
teloping pest management sys
tems for cotton growers.
For instance, some of his stu-
jies revealed that the length of
[he day was a major controlling
jfactor in the reproductive cycle
bf insects which explains why
jthey are reproductively dor-
lant in fall and active in the
Spring.
Adkisson is only the third
person to receive the award.
Adkisson was elected in 1979 to
the National Academy of Scien
ces, an organization chartered
by the U.S. Congress to provide
advice to the president and Con
gress on scientific matters and
problems.
“It is the most prestigous sci
entific group in the United
States and election to member
ship is considered the highest
honor you can achieve,” Adkis
son said.
Adkisson received his bache
lor’s degree in agriculture from
the University of Arkansas and
his master’s degree in agronomy
also from Arkansas. He received
his doctorate from Kansas State
University in entomology and
did post doctorate research in
insect physiology at Harvard
University.
In 1958, Adkisson came to
Texas A&M as assistant profes
sor and a project leader in cotton
research. He was promoted in
1979 to deputy chancellor of
agriculture after serving as head
of the entomology department
and vice president for agricul
ture.
As deputy chancellor for agri-
culture, he oversees and coor
dinates activities of all agricul
ture agencies and services for
the System, Adkisson said.
High court strikes down
paternity suit time limit
exas supplies water
to an Arkansas town
United Press International
TEXARKANA, Ark. — Tex
ans may have to fight for Arkan-
Psas water to keep their farms
jlush and fertile in the dry west-
plains, but Arkansas has
leen quietly siphoning water
om Texas since 1928.
The joint water department
j§f Texarkana, Tex., and Texar-
lana, Ark., uses about 60 million
aliens of water a day from
fright Patman Lake, about 10
fitiles west of the Arkansas-
|Texas border.
1 “We’ve chuckled about it, but
haven’t raised any flags over it,”
Sharp said.‘W id peorge Bashaih, an attor-
u dose " ney for the Texas Department
Buck Floren|p f Wa^r Resources
I he cities struck the water
greement in 1894 and first
sed water from wells in Arkan-
Butin 1928, they switched to
lakes in Texas and have been
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tsing Wright Patman Lake wa
ter since 1957.
Texarkana, Ark., pays for the
reatment of water used by its
lesidents — about 40 percent of
te cost last year — but other
wise, the water from Texas is
free.
Records show the mayors of
the two Texarkanas worked
together to get the first state per
mit to use Texas lake water,
Basham said.
Selling* water to Arkansas
irobably was contemplated all
ong,” he said. “There’s no leg
al impediment under the water
code. And we, as an agency,
have no problem with it.”
Roger Ford, director of the
joint Texarkana water depart
ment, said he also knows of no
one upset about the arrange
ment, but he is getting uneasy.
“This puts Texarkana in a
very uncomfortable position,”
Ford said. “We don’t want our
water resources and our future
water supply to become part of
the political situation.”
Texas Gov. William Clements
has been boasting for more than
a year that Texas will “steal” wa*
ter from Arkansas when the
Ogallala Aquifer under Texas
runs dry.
The Arkansas Legislature
tried to dissuade Clements last
year by passing a law forbidding
the export of more than six gal
lons of Arkansas water at a time.
But Clements has continued to
assure Texas audiences that
Arkansas — and specifically
Arkansas Gov. Frank White —
will be willing to sell water to
Texas.
One serious study proposed
building large canals from
Arkansas to West Texas. Less se
rious Arkansas planners have
suggested trading water for oil
— barrel for barrel.
Ford said Texarkana is work
ing on a plan to get water from
Millwood Lake, directly north of
Texarkana in Arkansas. But
building a reservoir and distri
bution system would be a mas
sive undertaking, and Texarka
na will have to depend on
Wright Patman Lake in the
meantime.
Without it, Ford said: “If we
needed water right now, we'd.
have to wait almost 60 years be
fore we got a drop.”
United Press International
WASHINGTON —The Sup
reme Court ruled unanimously
Monday that the father of an
illegitimate child cannot escape
paying child support merely be
cause the one-year time period
for filing suit against him has
lapsed.
Tackling the sensitive legal
issue of paternity suits, the jus
tices struck down a Texas law
requiring an unwed mother to
sue the purported father during
the first year of her illegitimate
child’s life.
Under the Texas statute,
once a child’s first birthday has
passed, women cannot pursue
such suits, which generally are
filed for child support pay
ments.
Writing for the court, Justice
William Rehnquist concluded
illegitimate children must have
the same opportunity for
obtaining financial support
from a parent as legitimate chil
dren.
“By granting illegitimate chil
dren only one year in which to
establish paternity, Texas has
failed to provide them with an
adequate opportunity to obtain
support,” Rehnquist said.
He stressed an unwed mother
is in a particularly tough situa
tion during her child’s first year
of life as a result of “financial
difficulties caused by child-birth
expenses, continuing affection
for the child’s father, a desire to
avoid dissapproval of family and
community, or the emotional
strain and confusion that often
attend the birth of an illegiti
mate child.”
Texas officials argued the
one-year limit was needed to
prevent misuse of the legal pro
cess and because an alleged
father may have a difficult time
presenting evidence on his own
behalf long after a child’s birth.
But Rehnquist declared the
12-month time frame “denies
illegitimate children in Texas
the equal protection of the law.”
The court did not say specific
ally how long a period a state
must allow for filing paternity
suits, but indicated it must be
substantially longer than one
year.
The appeal was brought by
Lois Mae Mills of Sinton. She
challenged a state court ruling
that threw out her paternity case
against Dan Habluetzel.
State courts refused to hear
Mills’ arguments because she
filed the case when her child was
13 months.
Noting the Supreme Court
previously had accorded num
erous rights to illegitimate chil
dren, Mills told the justices:
“These rights are currently
meaningless to a substantial class
of illegitimate children in Texas
by virtue of the one-year statute
of limitations in paternity cases.”
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ullock says Texans
must pick programs
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dton; Hamp All I AUSTIN — Comptroller Bob
Boston; Bill Hal ^Bullock estimated Monday that
Texas will lose $650 million be-
ause of federal budget cuts and
ailed on state and local author-
rcuis, — ™hes to decide which federal
i; and Charlie tfprograms they want to start
paying for.
[ “The 1983 budget the presi
dent has submitted to Congress
proposes eliminating and trim-
; ming hundreds of programs
Uncle Sam has been paying for,”
Bullock said. “As best I can tell,
these cuts will mean about $150
| million less in social services and
not more than half a billion dol
lars less in grant funds for
Texas.”
2 /sq Bullock said some of the
Ml funding cuts probably would be
restored by Congress. He also
said Texas could afford to pay
r or the “best” of the programs,
possibly without a tax cut.
Bullock said Texas only gets
$1 in federal grants for every
$ 1.40 Texans pay to support the
grants.
“We can keep that money at
home and use it more efficient
ly,” Bullock said. “And we can
probably meet the needs of our
students, the poor and needy
without a tax increase since we
can still depend on the federal
government to spend more de
fense dollars for products made
in Texas and to keep mailing So
cial Security checks to Texans.”
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