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Show Indicate Favor Of "Rain-Making" Contact Renewal Lloyd Johnson, Richfield, president presi-dent of the Southern Utah Water Resources Development Corpora -tian, said today that directors of the organization expressed themselves them-selves as favoring a continuance of their present contract (which expires April 1, 1952) with Dr. Irving Irv-ing P. Krick. The county committee of the Water Resources Development Association met with the county commissioners Tuesday night in the county office to plan for the coming contract with Dr. Krick. It was passed unanimously unanimous-ly by the committee that Mil- lard county continue with the cloud seeding program. The county commissioners agreed to levy up to one mill for this purpose. pur-pose. The directors last year, Olaf George of Kanosh, and Dudley Crafts of Delta, were re-elected unanimously to fill the positions of directors for the coming year. Johnson said each of the 28 directors, di-rectors, representing the fourteen Southern Utah Counties currently undergoing rain-increasing experiments, experi-ments, indicated he was impressed by Dr. Krick's presentation at the annual "rain-making" convention in Richfield on Monday, but that, until they return to their home counties to be replaced or re-elected to the board of SUWRDC they will not commit themselves to approval ap-proval of the contract renewal. The directors will meet aagin in Richfield on March 29, at which time they will elect new officers oil the corporation and accept or reject Dr. Krick's 1952-53 contract. Johnson said Krick has indicated that he can proceed with his south em Utah project during 1952, adding ad-ding certain services, at a reduction reduc-tion in cost to the contributors. Last year thirteen counties paid Krick's firm a total of $88,000 for his rain-increasing attempts. (The fourteenth county, San Juan, is included in-cluded in a similar project being conducted in western Colorado). Directors who have been empowered em-powered to negotiate with Krick's Denver firm are MeKinley Morrill, Piute County; Dudley Crafts, Millard Mil-lard County; A. J. Frandsen, San Pete County; Rass Gardner, Washington Wash-ington County; Leonard Johnson, secretary of SUWRDC and president presid-ent Johnson. |