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<br />''W .\-\." r,.ILl) <br />..o~ cN-&...~~ <br />Thone Urges Successor to River Commission <br /> <br />Byll. World-Herald Sian Wrller <br /> <br />Milwaukee - Gov, Thone said <br />Mond:1Y the Midlands need a succes. <br />!-'lr organization to the Missouri <br />River Basin Commission that will <br />recognize the interrelationship of <br />water and the regi~n's economic de-' <br />velapmen!: <br />Thone told The World, Herald that a <br />resolution "approved by the Midwest <br />Governor's Conference on water <br />doesn't affect the Missouri River <br />area so much as it does the Great <br />Lakes states, <br />That resolution calls for a commit- <br />tee or the governors lO engage in <br />continuing policy studies on the ap- <br />plication of water resources to the <br />economic revitaliiation of the Mid- <br />west. That revitalization was the cen- <br />lral theme of this year's governors' <br />conference.. \ . <br />.. Thone said the Missouri River <br />Basin Commission - a federal <br />agency that officially expires Sept. 30 <br />- served an important purpose in the <br />fields of water studies and their <br /> <br />Impact on the agriculture, transpor. <br />talion and recreation of the Mid- <br />lands, <br />"But it did not attempt to carry its <br />interest to the next logical step of re- <br />lating the use and. proper manage. <br />ment of Missouri Basin water to the <br />economic development of the basin <br />region,"hesaid. . <br />Thone is proposing that states In <br />the region establish a successor unit. <br />Thone said he raised that idea with <br />Govs, Ray of Iowa, Christopher Bond <br />of Missouri and -John Carlin of <br />Kansas and was told they agreed wiih <br />the stepped-up role for the replace- <br />ment group, A meeting is scheduled <br />Sept. 28 in Omaha, Thone said, as <br />part of his effort to establish a one- <br />year interim association to succeed <br />the commission. <br /> <br />Other developments at the gover- <br />nors' conference Monday: <br />-Presidential assistant Richard <br />Williamson said he will notify Presi. <br />dent Reagan of Midwest governors' <br />concerns about an Internal Revenue <br />Service ruling last week. The gover- <br />nors said the ruling would jeopardize <br />the sale of bonds to raise loan funds <br />for certain state programs benefiting <br />farmers or small-business me-n, in- <br />duding Nebraska's agricultural <br />bond plan, <br />-Former Nebraskan Clayton <br />Yeulter, president of the Chicago <br />Mercantile Exchange, told the gover. <br />nors he is worried about recent grain- <br />price drops and encouraged them to <br />emphasize farm exports. Yeutter <br />said some farmers face "a tragic sit. <br />uation" - low grain prices and high <br /> <br />C1+"'~\, <br /> <br />o <br /><::) <br />o <br />en <br />1...;.:.") <br />en <br /> <br />~ . .- .... <br /> <br />interest rates - unless market con- <br />ditions improve. <br />-Wisconsin Gov, Lee Dreyfus said <br />water resources are one of the most <br />important assets the Midwest has in <br />its effort to halt the movement of <br />business and population to the South <br />and West. He predicted thatlhe Snow <br />Belt someday will be the Water Belt, <br />and the Sun Belt will be known as the <br />Sand Belt. <br />":"'Williamson said Reagan is plan. <br />ning "fall initiatives~' on crime.con- <br />trol programs, volunteerism, <br />economic enterprise zones in cities <br />and transferring more authority <br />from the federal government to the <br />slates, Anti-discrimination efforts in <br />behalf of women also will be em- <br />phasized, and the economy. remains <br />the top priority, hesaid, <br />