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THIS IS THE LAW legality of rain making Who owas the clouds and the mcisture in the air? Who can tamper with the clouds? Who can prevent others fit in tampering with them? Whit are your legal rights if o.io takes the moisture ' ut of a cloud headed your v.iiy' 1 Or artificially creates a flo r or a snow storm that damages you? These and many other questions have cau-.'d the law to be up in th:> air. No-Tawyer can at the present time speak authori tatively on all the answers. Back in 1916 the City of San Diego, California, em ployed for SIO,OOO Charles Hatfield to make tain by the use of chemicals. After twenty-seven days of Hat s eld’s secret chemicil-mix ing, San Diego had 2.5 in ches of rain in twenty-four hours still a record for that city. Unfortunately, the rain washed out a dam, causing loss of life and great property damage. Claims totaling almost a million dollars were filed against the city for these injuries. Hatfield fled to safer grounds, and the city succeeded in getting the law suits dismissed on the basis that the rain was an act of Tills was in the days before there was scientific proof of rainmaking. San Diego did not forget the danger from Liability, ANTIQUES AND CRAFTS a* e j,^' MAY WE HELP YOU CHOOSE ? THE West Moin St. Burnsville N.(. THE TANCEY RECORD however, when, in 1048. San Diego hired another rain maker, the city purchased insurance to cover damage •to the amount of $500,000. Attempts to produce snow in Nevada for ski meet have resulted in charges of illegal water diversion and threats of litigation from Utah. On October 13, 1947, the Federal Government con ducted a nucleat.ion experi ment on a hurricane which was then located about 300 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. By the n s ght of the 14th, the • hurricane, which had been moving off-shore, had reversed the direction of iti movement. It entered the coast a short distance south of Savannah on the 15th, doing estimated damage of $2,000,000 in the Savannah region and unestimated da mage in South Carolina. Dis putes soon arose about the relation between the nuclea tio:i and the hurricane da mage, but shortly thereafter details of information on the matter were classified by the Department of National De fense as military secrets. Only a very few cases in volving weather modifica tion have so far actually ma tured into final judgment. In 1950 the City of New York employed a rainmaker to allov ate a water shortage. A resort owner in the water shed area being seeded sought to enjoin the city from its attempts at rain making. He said the rainfall wouia De narmtul to his re- sort business In denying the injunction, the court said: “The relief which the plaintiff asks is opposed to the general welfare and public good; and the dan gers which the plaintiff ap prehend jire purely specula tive. The court will not pre vent a possible private in jury at the expense of a po sitive public advantage." On the other hand, a Texas court in 1959, enjoined the seeding of clouds by a group of farmers. The ran chers in an adjoining county had offered evidence that the seeding activity had re duced the natural rainfrl on their lands. The com said that a landowner is en titled to such precipitation as may come naturallp from clouds over his property and that the enjoyment of such benefits would be protected by the courts if interfered with improperly and unlaw fully. Too much weight should not be given to the limited number of cases presently decided on the subject of rainmaking. Each has its own peculiar set erf acts. It is going to take a consider able number of cases before there develops a fairly ascer tainable body of law govern ing all of the activities of the rainmaker, in the cou rse of time, there will un doubtedly be legislation deal ing with the subject. You May FIND S "A Million - Dollar Baby” l ™ IS 5< AndJo< Store I We’ve "A Raft” Os "Precious” SJcJI DOLLS * '-» m vj Doll Houses - Doll Furniture Doll Clothes, ETC. $ 1$ $Mi AND £vtRY OTHER toy i T 'Swl "/ fOR * •’O^ 6l * l 0R ®O.Y THERE’S A BEN FRANKLIN GIFT u |p ; TO FIT EVERY PURSE BEN FRANKLIN’S FIVE & TEN Burnsville, N.C. Home Economics Bldg. Dedicated At ASTC BOONE—On Sunday, Dec. 5 at 2:30 p.“ m., Appalachian State Tea-chers College dedi cated a new home econo mics building in honor of I. llie Shull Dougherty, wife of D. D. Dougherty, one of the co-founders of the col lege. Mrs. Dougherty, succeed ing her husband, served as business manager of the col lege for several years. She was particularly interested in the program of home eco nomics. She died in 1945. W. B. Austin, attorney from Jefferson and long time friend of the Dougherty family, delivered the princi pal address at the naming and dedication ceremony conducted in the I. C. Greer Hall, which is adjacent to the home ecoomics building. A response was given by Mrs Clara Dougherty Brown of Charlotte, a relative of Lillie Shull Dougherty. The 26380-square foot building was erected at a cost of $227,351.26 and Is one of several new constructions on the Appalachian campus. Following the dedication ceremony, open house was held in the home economics building. Miss Mary Brown Allgood, chairman of the THURSDAY, DEC, t, IMS Soil & Water Conservation To Elect Supervisor Notice to qualified vot ers in Yancey County. Elec tion of Supervisor for Yan cey Soil and Water Conser vation District. Pursuant to North Carolina General Statute 139-6 as amended by Chapter 815 of the 1963 Session Laws, an election will be held in Yan cey County on December 10, 1965, to elect one supervisor for the Yancey Soil and Wat er Conservation District for a three-year term beginning January 1, 1966. All qualified voters residing in the coun ty will be eligible to vote in this election. Candidates for this office are Carlle R. Rice and Oscar Deyton of Burns ville, N. C. Polling places will be located at: County Courthouse, Bur nsville, N. C ; Deyton Farm Supply, Burnsville, N. C.; England Barber Shop, Cane River, N. C., and 2nd floor County Courthouse, Burns ville, N. C. Appalachian economc department, and her staff served as hosts. Mrs. Clara Dougherty Brown of Charlotte is the wife of the Rev. Roy Brown, former pastor of Higgins Memorial Church here.
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