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Weather Meeting ] Deemed A Success,, Schaefer Top-RateA most exceptional annual t meeting was that of the Trl ;l County Weather Research which I was held at Ifio grange hall near ! Condon on the 30th. The featured r speaker. Dr. Vincent J Schaerer, of Project Cirrus of the General Electric Corporation, gave an out- ■ Standing talk on the series of • weather modifications as it has | been carried on for the pasi twenty years. IDr. Schaefer’s unbiased report was well taken by everyone there 'According to him there was m ' doubt hut what weather mQdifl i! cation was as possible as any • * ming could hi* In fuel, he said General Electric, cooperating with j’ the Navy, the Army, and the Signal Corps have proven this so1 that three years ago expcrimenta tion was discontinued They an- : now concerning themselves mare ' on what, when, and how” of ^ cloud seeding and operations l« modify the weather.Dr Schaefer, through his set ry ies of slides. Indicated that work ( is being carried on in every country In the world in weather modification Many countries ' art* far ahead «f the United Stales in the program, tip said. 'Indicating that there was no 1 question at all hut that within the next few years many of th 1 ' answers that are now being 1 sought would te discovered as 1 simple. Dr Schaefer said that tl program could he evaluated to the point where definite stops ; could be followed for the best ( results whether for rain making 1 or disintegration of local Storms, 1 Including Hall and heavy thunder showers.Oregon State College meteoro ' logists Working with the Trl-County Weather Research In evat | uating the program, again this ( \ear reported that the evaluation • program could noi point to an | increase or decrease In natural 'precipitation over the area com pared with the controlled si niton. [ [They art* striving to work out N i newer and better evaluation j methods that will become more lt;‘accurate In I he values of cloud | seeding for increased pred pit tilt Ion, GProposals fur a program l«r ( 1953 5-1 presented t tour cloud | seeding operators were dls'-usscd , j In full Water Resources Develop- t mem Corporation, headed b.v Dr, , Irvin P Krlck, and North Amert-j, can Weather Research Corpora-,I tion which holds the present curt-1 tract, were most favorably re*- j ! reived.A proposal presented by North American whereby the, would receive a $4(Ki payment for each one fourth inch rainfall per weather station per day seemed to he 1 most popular with the group at-j tending the meeting A maximum of $24,000 per year for the Tri-County area would he char-' ged Many thought that such an arrangement would he acceptedby l he crag tern tors motd enthusiastically
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Heppner Gazette Times
Heppner, Oregon, US
Thu, Jul 02, 1953
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