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Page 16/The Battalion/Tuesday, October 30, 1984 Dwindling water causes concern United Press International SAN ANTONIO — Texas’ boom ing population and economic growth is creating a competitive market for water supplies, and higher water prices will lead to cut backs in agriculture and other w'ater- related industries, an economist said Monday. Victor L. Arnold, director of the Bureau of Business Research at the University of Texas, said water is the most critical issue confronting the future of Texas. Arnold said there was little dan ger that Texas will run out of water, but he said dwindling groundwater sourcfes will lead to scarce supplies by the end of the century. He said irrigated agriculture, in cluding the cotton-based economy of the Texas High Plains, will feel the most effects of high-priced water. “There will be a competitive mar ket for groundwater,” Arnold told a water resources symposium spon sored by UT and Texas A&M. “Irri gated agriculture may be the first one to bid out of the process.” Arnold, citing the rule of capture law, said the state’s problem was not water scarcity so much as water pol- The law, created in 1904, says that a railroad could pump massive amounts of water from its land with out regard to the supplies of nearby land owners. He said the law had led to an atti tude of, “You better get all you can while you can.” However, Arnold argued that the opposite approach — state control of all underground water supplies — was not the answer. He said the best solution was in local cooperative agreements. Arnold said the High Plains dis trict has helped stem the growing decline of the Ogallala Aquifer, the giant pool that supplies water for cotton farmers in the Panhandle and West Texas. Priest killed Frogmen search for body; government agents held United Press International WARSAW, Poland — Frog men searched a river of strong currents and whirlpools Monday in northern Poland for the body of a pro-Solidarity Roman Catho lic priest apparently killed by gov ernment security agents. A government statement broadcast on national radio said two of the three interior ministry security agents being held in the kidnapping of the Rev. Jerzy Po- pieluszKo admitted dumping his body in a waterway in northern Poland. Popieluszko was kidnapped Oct. 19 near Torun, a city on the Vistula River 125 miles northwest of Moscow. According to the statement, one defendant in the case said Po- pieluszko’s body was dumped in the river. Another defendant, according to the statement, said it was dropped into a reservoir near the city of Wloclawek. Popieluszko was one of the most outspoken supporters of the banned Solidarity trade union. He used his St. Stanislaw Kostka church in Warsaw to deliver monthly sermons praising Solida rity and lambasting the govern ment’s human rights policies. Stanislaw Malkowski, a pro- Solidarity priest, said the church hierarchy already had begun the lengthy process to declare Popie luszko a “blessed,” one step below sainthood. Poles already are comparing Popieluszko to St. Stanislaw, a bishop murdered by a Polish king in the 11th century for defending human rights. Solidarity union founder Lech Walesa told 15,000 worshippers in a Gdansk church Sunday^ believes the priest was kidnap^ as part of a power struggle l*. tween Premier Wojciedl jaruzelski and hardline nents within the communistg#. eminent. NEW E Minister h Led We. |er own : [rust of Ir I “Prime I Ihi, is no i lency rep An of tic fevo bodyg “It (the kidnapping) wasi tended to cause a lot of troullr for Prime Minister Wi Jaruzelski and every ordmanM le,” Walesa said. Walesa cautioned Poles to ttJ main calm for at least a week Iter in tin Iitomatic las repor Pours later Preacher wants to cool Baptist controversy United Press International But Arnold noted that of the 12 districts created by under the law, only six are engaged in signiFicant programs and policies. m “The challenge is to manage in a cooperative environment,” he said. “The more local cooperative ven tures, the less chance of government stepping in.” HOUSTON — A preacher seek ing election to the Baptist General Convention of Texas is challenging leaders of his denomination to end the name-calling associated with a controversy over inerrancy of the Bi ble. The Rev. Lester B. Collins Jr., pastor of one of Houston’s largest and most conservative congrega tions, Tallowood Baptist Church, told his congregation Sunday that name-calling over the doctrine of in errancy (infallibility) and what is taught at Southern Baptist colleges and seminaries threatens to "destroy our credibility as Christians.” Abner V. McCall, chancellor of Baylor University in Waco, said he expects Collins to be nominated for first vice president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, wnich meets in Dallas I uesday through Thursdav iuay. McCall indicated the nomination of Collins is part of a strategy by moderates to put doctrinal funda mentalists, who are also loyal sup porters of Baptist institutions such as Baylor, into slate leadership posi tions. Baylor has been under fire by Baptist fundamentalists for employ ing a Mormon, Dr. Phillip Johnson, as a Spanish professor. 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