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
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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.
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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
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Pours later
Preacher wants to cool Baptist controversy
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But Arnold noted that of the 12
districts created by under the law,
only six are engaged in signiFicant
programs and policies.
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“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.
While acknowledging that!
erred in hiring Johnson beantl
is .i Mormon, Collins said they ] \] { i _ 81 h
sor should not be fired.
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