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<br />..1.\.J":t~ <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />years but it has been about five years <br />since the hail suppression program first <br />began in the North Platte Valley around <br />Scottsbluff; This was conducted by a <br />number of different contractors, among <br />them Jim Cook who is now working with the I <br />Weather Bureau, Mho flew his airplanewith <br />a silver iodide generator on it into the <br />clouds and he'd come back all black and <br />blue, beat up and with a bloody nose. So <br />far as physical damage, he suffered quite <br />a bit of damage. Because he had the nerve <br />to go up and vry this, I think Jim Cook <br />had the respect of the people in the North <br />Platte Valley, and also because of some of <br />these effects and changes in the clouds <br />that I described to you and of which I <br />have a few pictures which I passed around <br />to you here, the people observed that there <br />was something different going on. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />Now this has been going on up there <br />for about five years. It went on through <br />last year in the North Platte Valley anq <br />they spent up there on the order of $50,000 <br />or $60,000, again contributed voluntarily. <br />Well, the word of this passed on down to <br />the South Platte Valley of Colorado last <br />year so the group in the South Platte Valley <br />of Colorado met with the contractor (it~s <br />not the same one) in the South Platte Valley <br />last year about the middle of May and the <br />contractor orfered to develop a .programof <br />hail suppression in the South Platte Valley <br />from Sterling on towards the northeast for <br />a price, oh, I don't know, but on the order <br />of $40,000. A considerable amount of <br />money was raised and he began operations, <br />after a fashion, around the middle of July. <br />He had difficulty getting generators in and <br />aircraft in but when he did get them in, <br />people again noted these effects on the <br />clouds. Although a lot of hail occurred <br />out there last year, there were enough of <br />these effects that people knew that some- <br />thing different was going on. So this <br />year, I think their system works something <br />like this: that over the area where they <br />are thinking of conducting a program, they <br />ask interested individuals to meet and they <br />have a number of directors scattered out <br />over the area. These directors go around <br /> <br />I <br />