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<br />APPC'IN~.'MEN-r OF UNI'l'ED STA'l'ES COMMISSIONER ON
<br />INTE~NA~IONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION,
<br />UNITED STATES AND MEXICO
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<br />lllr, Josepb F.. Frledkin tool(. ht6 oath of office today as Uni ted
<br />St.-RtE'El CCimmj,'~aJoner on thE! International Boundary and Water Commission,
<br />Un:l.ted State" 'JI1,j Me:ldco, HI; (n,\0ceeda Colonel L, H, Hewitt (U,S, Army
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<br />'rhe new Cormnies1oner :lEl 9- career employee who has been with the
<br />UnH.f,,-j St,ate8 Section of: the Commission continuously since April 2,
<br />1931!, ,,}(cept foY:" h18 m~litary 881'vice, He became its Principal Engineer
<br />(Supervising) ~,n 1952,
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<br />Mr, Friedkin, born October 18, 1909, in Brooklyn, New York, has been
<br />a r,~"ident of El Paflo, Texas, most of his life, He is a graduate of the
<br />'.l'eXd.1J College of Mines and Metallurgy (BSME, 1932), a branch of the
<br />Un.1 vel''':!. t;y of ~re}(at3, and took gradva te work in hydraulics and 8011
<br />,(;(;c!--,a,de!! at M:te~,i8,-,ippi 3tfite Ua.! vers1 ty, From September 1942 to
<br />F,,':n'tlux'y :,9)46, while in th,) Corp~, of Engineers, United States Army, he
<br />W:",\ ,",,,-,j.gn.ed to -i,he H~'dr8.-~,lic- Laboro, tory , Vicksburg, Mississippi, and
<br />6",'\,,,,1 on t.rw~harmel StablUzation Boar'd of the Mississippi River
<br />Co;"lId_IlI~:,:_on dUl'lng t.heleat two years of his mill tary service, From 1946
<br />to 19".>2 he was in cr.ul'ge of the United States Section's field office at
<br /><>:n r.>1.e[~o, Ci'l Ii for'fila. Mr" Fr:l_edlc1n is a registered professional
<br />:)nr,1:'18f.~r ..tn eJ,l t-h<e States be'rder1ng on Mexico, a fellow of the American
<br />.',:v,c,e ",y of Gi.v.U, Engineers a11c! Alilerican Geophysical Union, and a member
<br />':',"::;-lC Ho(:al';,r C.','-lb of E1 Paso, IU" wife was Nellie May Berry of Elk
<br />::;-; ,:;~;,) (Ac~ah0rr.[;1, =nd t;hey have tUG daughters.
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<br />'.~'h<, Ji'1t,et'natJ,onal Bound'.ll'.Y and \later Commission, United States and
<br />:tfj(:x,t,::0 I (:onO;\,:i.~,t;8 ot a Uni t.ed ':>tatea and a Mexi.can Commissioner ~ and the
<br />"'I'ei"",,)' ,.1' 191;4 wtth M-=xl(.:ostlpu:Jatea that each must be an engineer,
<br />f'l"H\('.'tionlr)g under ~he pol.Lc:; direction of the Department of State and
<br />tne Mexican Ministry of Foreign Relations, the Commission is charged by
<br />numel'OUS treaties and laws with the conduct of an international program
<br />for the solution of engineering problems along the 1935-mile boundary
<br />with !Ilexlco.
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<br />i-Im,)ng .'.ts act,1."..ttics, the Commisslon is presently entering the con-
<br />ntrucU,on pnaae ,)1.' a S8';O'ld greet intarnatlonal dam on the Rio Grande,
<br />'l'll.:" flr"-lt, F'R.lcon Dam, was (Oomplet.ec! in 1953 and has already more than
<br />;)Rlrj f.'or.' i tfl'e.lf' :1 n flood cor',trcl. The Congr'sss authorized the United
<br />,'jt<,tes ;,ectlon In June 1960 '0,) p,coceed vllth the fltill-larger structure
<br />t,o be k'J,DI'il\ as Pm:l stad Dam. l'he Commission also administers the de-
<br />l::vel'S' of (;olol'a<.1o RiveI' watc'T' 'GO Mexico under the 1944 treaty, and is
<br />enga,;ed :In an intensive study to remedy a. salinity problem that has
<br />€l1~;tEH!{1 \d.1ih M('~xlc(, ~ The C'Jllltni ,~is~,on is in charge of flood control on
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