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Show RAINMAKERS PLAN BEAVER MEETING President Eisenhower's committee com-mittee to evaluate cloud seeding seed-ing thruout the United States will be in Beaver on Saturday, April 14, to hold hearings and discuss items in their report to the President. The committee is expected to arrive in Milford in the forenoon, fore-noon, where a caravan of cars will meet them and transport them to Beaver, where a noon luncheon will be held. County Commissioners, water officials, and officers of various i .organizations from Washington, Iron, Beaver, Millard and Juab counties are invited to attend the luncheon as guests of Boyd Quate, former secretatry of the Southern Utah Water Resources Development Corporation. Following the luncheon a public meeting will be held in the court room where anyone interested may attend and discuss dis-cuss with members of the committee com-mittee the feasibility of cloud seeding. Dr. J. Vern Hales, head of the University of Utah Meteorology department, will attend and may discuss cloud seeding. He was one of 38 weather experts from over the world who presented pre-sented papers at a conference on weather modification studies at Tucson, Ariz., this week, and will travel directly from the conference to the Beaver meeting. meet-ing. Dr. Hales supervised a U of U cloud seeding study recently. re-cently. Senator Arthur V. Watkins made arrangements for the government gov-ernment officials to attend the Beaver meeting. |