The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 32, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 12, 1965 Page: 4 of 12
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Winkler County News, Kermit, Texas
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underground Water Has Major Role in Texas Development
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Editor’s Note: While Texas
builds water 'reservoirs as fast
as it can find the money, vast
stores remain underground, al-
most untouched. Bringing the
water to the surface costs too
much for general use at the
moment. But there may be a
day when it will be worth tap-
ping. A survey)
RIVER RU.SH HOUR? — Seven amphibious autos take off from Michigan Avenue
Bridge for a sprint up the Chicago River. The two and one-half mile unusual race was
won by Bob Duller of Chicago in nine minutes, forty seconds despite the wet track.
By ROBERT E. FORD
LUBBOCK (AP) — The Lub-
bock telephone directory lists 63
companies offering irrigation
services.
It points up what underground
water does for the economy of
the South Plains and a part of
the Panhandle. The question of
whether it rains or not is of
small importance to thousands
of farmers.
All they need do in dry weath-
er is turn on the pumps. It al-
most takes the gamble out of
farming.
Although the great under-
ground reservoir of the Ogallala
formation of this rich area is
well known, it is only one of
many such reservoirs in Texas.
The remainder are virtually un-
tapped.
Some other farm Irrigation
does occur in the Lower Rio
Grande Valley, the Winter Gar-
AirPollution Gets Emphasis from Oil Men
den Area, along the Gulf Coast
and in the Trans-Pe$os. But the
South Plains, sometimes called
the High Plains, is the largest
user.
When the per acre value of
irrigated cotton and sorghum
grain is almost double that of
non-irrigated areas, why do
farmers not drill all over Texas
for irrigation water?
One reason is that most un-
derground reservoirs cannot be
reached as easily as they can
in the High Plains. The farmer
must dig deeper and use more
energy to bring water to the
surface, and this is costly.
Too, about half the water
beating formations are in the
eastern portion of the state
which has plenty of rain. There
are occasions now and then
when a farmer could irrigate
for a few days in eastern areas,
but this limited usage would not
pay for the drilling, pipe, pumps
and work.
A new tax ruling may create
a more favorable climate for
irrigating from underground
reservoirs in higher cost-benefit
drilling areas.
A High Plains farmer, Marvin
Shurbet of Petersburg, acting
for himself and number of
others, obtained a ruling that he
was using up his stock of water
and therefore he should receive
By MAX B. SKELTON
Associated Press Oil Writer
HOUSTON (AP) — Air Pollu-
tion research is receiving in-
creased emphasis from the
petroleum industry.
The American Petroleum In.
stitute estimates oil companies
will spend more than $41 million
next year on such research.
This would boost such expendi-
tures since 1956 to more than
$250 million.
Houston Area
Gets Trees
AUSTIN (AP)—-Texas’ first
project under the 1965 Highway
Beautification Act will place a
variety of trees, shrubs and
flowers along a 5.6-mile stretch
of Interstate 45 near downtown
Houston.
The Texas Highway Commis-
sion Thursday approved the
project, which will extend from
airline drive; to West Dallas Ave-
nue, including the North Loop
interchange.
Plans call for planting of
oaks, magnolias, cypresses,
cedars and evergreen shrubs
and flowers at a cost of $90,000,
financed through the 1966-67
highway beautification program.
Other projects approved by
the commission included:
Webb—West frontage road On
Interstate 35 from Laredo to
near the U.S. 83 interchange, at
an estimated cost of $1.07 mil-
lion.
Ward—Surfacing of a 19-mile
section of Interstate 20 and 0.6
mile of U.S. 80 near Monahans,
at a cost of $962,000.
The institute also has ear-
marked $1.8 million for air and
water conservation studies the
next 12 months and has estab.
lished a new staff unit to ac-
celerate the program.
Frank N. Ikard, president bf
the trade group that represents
all segments of the domestic
industry, has said conservation
matters overshadow all other
problems oilmen now face at
the governmental level.
Ikard, a former Texas con-
gressman, has expressed fear
emotionalism could prompt
hasty actions by Congress or
state legislatures.
“Obviously, a large and nee-
essary Job lies ahead for this
nation,” Ikard said recently.
“Our industry must give its
fullest cooperation in this na-
tional effort to improve our air
and our water resources. At the
same time, we must also do
what we can to put a good
cause on a rational track.”
“Industry cooperation is not
made easier by the emotional-
ism with which the matter is
now charged — an emotionalism
we can see intensified.”
In recent speeches, Ikard has
discussed a new amendment to
the clean air act of 1963 and a
74-page report released Nov. 5
by the environmental pollution
panel of President Lyndon B.
Johnson’s scientific advisory
committee.
The clean air act amendment
gives the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare to set
standards for emissions from
new motor vehicles. Its provi-
sion for increased federal air
pollution research include a
study of automotive hydrocar-
bon emissions from the car-
buretor and fuel tank.
The report by the environ-
Smart Fortifications
May Be Broken Do wn
GENEVA (AP) — In his Al-
pine bastion in the heart of Eu-
rope, the Swiss male has forti-
fled himself against a danger-
ous foreign import — women’s
vote.
His fortress is not impregna-
ble. Some dents have been
made in it. Hard-working suf-
fragettes predict that perhaps
by 1970 Swiss women may win
the right already granted ladies
of Upper Volta and Burundi, in
Africa.
Since 1919, the tradition-
minded Swiss men have calmly
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Water-
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voted "no” 23 times to projects
for their women’s political eman-
cipation.
“Let them be women, they
have plenty to do as it is,’’ is the
typical reaction of the average
Swiss burgher.
Swiss arguments against
women’s vote are threefold:
—Politics will split marriages
if husband and wife vote for dif-
ferent candidates.
—Women will vote as thecler-
gy tells them to.
—Only left-wing women would
bother to vote and pretty soon
Switzerland would be sub-
merged by communism.
However, suffragettes and
their backers have made some
headway. In a 1959 referendum,
three cantons (administrative
areas) accorded women the
right to vote on local issues.
Oddly enough, there is a fed-
eration of Swiss women against
female suffrage. It has vowed to
defend Switzerland against
women’s vote — “this danger-
ous foreign import.”
“The great majority of Swiss
women see absolutely no viola-
tion of human rights in the fact
that they have no right to vote,”
said the federation in a recent
statements.
The federation’s president,
Gertrude Haldimann - Weiss, be-
lieves women voters would
hamper rather than advance the
cause of Swiss democracy.
“By obtaining voting rights,
women would lose their natural
prerogatives,” she says. “The
political indifference of a great
number of women would hinder
the functioning of direct democ-
racy which we enjoy and would
ultimately diminish our rights,”
Mrs. Haldimann-Weiss be-
lieves in another solution — a
Swiss solution:
“It is quite possible that in
Switzerland the misguided eman-
cipation scheme can be re-
placed by a solution more in the
spirit of Swiss mentality, for
instance by according women
more say in the matters of ed-
ucation and welfare.”
mental panel includes more
than 100 recommendations. The
report also says “the pollution
from internal combustion en-
gines Is so serious and is grow-i
ing so fast that an alternative
nonpolluting means of powering
automobiles, buses and trucks
is likely to become a national
necessity.”
Ikard says the report, how-
ever, does conclude that urban
air pollution, while having some
unfavorable effects, has not
reached the stage where the
damage Is as great as that
associated with cigarette smok-
ing.
Automobile exhaust fumes are
a major target but the petrole-
um industry’s air pollution re-
search program also is aimed
at minimizing emissions from
refineries, storage tanks and
other facilities.
Studies by the petroleum in-
dustry and automobile manu-
facturers indicate there are four
sources of air pollution caused
by motor vehicles. They are:
Tailpipe exhaust-p-65 per cent
Crankcase vents—20 per cent
Carburetor vents— 9 per cent
Fuel tank vents— 6 per cent
Starting with 1966 models,
practically all the cars sold in
California will carry special de-
vises designed to reduce exhaust
hydrocarbons by an estimated
70 per cent.
Major automobile manufac-
turers also now are installing
on some models ventilation
valves and systems designed to
divert crankcase gases to the
carburetor so they can burn in
the regular combustion process.
JFK Was Not the
Target, They Say
DALLAS (A.P) — Lee Harvey
Oswald wanted to kill Gov. John
Connally—not President John F.
-Kennedy — according to Judge
Joe B. Brown,
“I really think Oswald was
shooting at Connally. The Presi-
dent got in his line of fire,” the
judge said in a television ap-
pearance broadcast Nov. 27 in
the New York area. Transcripts
of the appearance were shown
Thursday.
Brown said Connally had not
changed Oswald’s undesirable
discharge from the Marine
Corps and said he believes this
is why Oswald wanted to kill the
governor.
Connally, riding, with the
President, was critically in-
jured. He had resigned4 as Sec-
retary of the Navy by the time
Oswald’s letter was received
and had no power to act.
A transcript of the television
program was filed this week as
a part of a legal brief in ap-
peal procedures.
The judge also said he thinks
Jack Ruby, who later killed Os-
wald, received a fair trial. “He
thinks he got one, too,” Brown
said. “He told me so two weeks
ago.”
a depletion tax allowable similar
to the oilman who is using up
his oil.
However, the amount of
money involved in the ruling
was not great. Shurbet asked
for a $377.18 depletion deduction
for 1959.
The Texas-Water Commission
reports that one-fifth of the High
Plains water has been mined by
the 55,000 wells pumping about
5 million acre-feet of water an-
nually. An acre-foot is 325,851
gallons.
The Ogallala formation is be-
ing recharged at a rate of 30,000
acre-feet annually. Eventually,
experts believe, farmers will
need to go deeper — meaning'
It will cost them more to irri-
gate;
The Edwards Limestone for-
mation in South Central Texas
has wells producing 17,000 gal-
Ions a minute and the reservoir
restores itself by 550,000 acre-
feet annually.
One of the largest formations
is the Carrizo-Wilcox Sands
stretching from the Rio Grande
northeast to Louisiana. But
wells must go down 5,000 feet.
This means the water can be
used only for high-profit crops
such as the winter vegetables
of the Winter Garden- area.
The Gulf Coast Sands, reports
the Federal Reserve Bank of
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Dallas in a recent publication,
are largely utilized for munici-
pal and industrial purposes.
However, in portions of the rice
belt, irrigation is widespread be-
cause that crop needs huge
quantities of water.
J. C. Grady Jr., agricultural
economist of the Reserve Bank,
reports that about 2.5 million
acres of cotton and the same
acreage of grain sorghum are
irrigated in Texas. About.900,000
acres of wheat receive irriga-
tion, water.
Although rice accounted for
only ;6 per cent of the acreage
und&r ‘irrigation in 1964, it used
tl*#eif5 cent of the total output
of wells in the state.
Texas A&M University in a
1958 study found that farmers
in the South Plains spent from
$52 to $81 an acre for irrigation
equipment and the operating
costs varied from $5 to $8 an
acre.
High plains farmers, realizing
that some conservation is in
their best interests, have under-
taken conservation measures to
stop evaporation, to use water
a second time and to replace
water in the underground forma-
tions in times of heavy rains.
Use of underground water'Is
growing. In 1958, 26 per cent of
the acre-feet used for irrigation
came from surface sources, but
this dropped to 18 per cent by
1964.
It is estimated that Texas
farmers used 10 million acre-
feet of underground irrigation
water last year.
This is equal to the combined
storage capacities of Lakes Tex-
oma and Rayburn.
People Pamper Pets
With Christmas Gifts
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) —
Mrs. Jim Wilkinson, a pet shop
owner, says people “like to
pamper their best friend, espe-
cially at Christmas.”
One customer, she said, would
be satisfied with nothing less
than a red chiffon negligee
trimmed in feathers for her
white poodle. “Now my poodle
can lounge around in style,” the
customer said.
The original dimensions of the
Washington Monument were
changed as a result of research by
George Marsh, a United States
minister to Italy. A true obelisk,
he reported, would have a height,
about 10 times its base width,
hence the monument's final
proportions: 555 feet 5-1/8 inches
high to a base 55 feet 1-1/2
inches square.
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Parsons, J. Arthur. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 32, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 12, 1965, newspaper, December 12, 1965; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth910266/m1/4/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Winkler County Library.