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Show 1 . v : t rr' " . - V-.:,::. f, f ? ' , "- ' ' . . ' ' Ky.y.; .7.;.';-',;-. , . " v. -4 Members of the combined 4-H Clubs of Moab pitched In Monday to clean a number of weed-filled lots In the business section of the community. Here they are shown with their leaders beside a huge stack of weeds behind the new County Library building, build-ing, which will be opened soon. (T-l Staff Photo) Washington D. C. Visited Last Week By T-l Reporter, C. Sharp Washington, D. C. This city of the nation's capitol is a monumental area worthy wor-thy of a great democracy. It has hundreds of beautiful beauti-ful buildings, monuments, historical spots, parks and museums grouped around the Capitol.. . The population and mode of life have changed in the last generation. The District of Columbia, as of July !, 19GG, says the Library of Congress, consisted of 506, 100 non-whites (almost all Negroes) and 291.900 whites. There are elite white districts dis-tricts within the city itseif, but most of the homes and apartment houses within the city are taken over by the Negroes. Many of the whites holding administrative positions live in beautiful subdivisions in Maryland and Virginia and drive to and from the cap-tol cap-tol daily. As a result, much of the population literally is on wheels. The big urban center cen-ter seems on the way down and rural or semirural living liv-ing with frequent big shon-ping shon-ping centers is in the ax-cendancy. ax-cendancy. Resurrection City of last spring has been resodded. Occasional boarded stor-3 windows give evidence of past riot rianiage. Utah's senators and representatives rep-resentatives were away, but staffs were available to dispense dis-pense information. Sen. W. ,Rennett was attending the Republican National Convention Conven-tion in Florida. Sen. Frank E.' Moss, Democrat, is in Russia representing the U. ,S. Senate at a world power conference. Rep. Laurence J. Burton, a supporter of Richard Nixon, Nix-on, was at the Republican Naffonal Convention & Rep-Sherman Rep-Sherman P. Lloyd was in Utah beating the bushes for votes prior to the Novnber election. Because Congress has adjourned ad-journed until September, the Capitol, save for throngs of visitors, was quiet, affording opportunity to enjoy the hundreds hun-dreds of statues, busts, paintings paint-ings and rich traditions. The desks in the Senate, forinstance, are hand crafted of Honduras mahogany dating dat-ing back to 1818. The older ones were burned by the British in the War of 1812. These beautiful desks still bear the names of senators who have used them, scrib-bld scrib-bld on inside drawers. The names of Daniel Webster, Web-ster, Jefferson Davis, Huey Long and others were uncovered un-covered for us. The scar of a Civil War sabre cuL neatly neat-ly mended, is seen on one desk. On top of each desk is an antique ink well, a steel pen, pencils and apepper shaker filled with powdered graphite graph-ite for blotting ink. "No one uses the graphite, graph-ite, but it is traditional to provide it," John Graves, assistant secretary to the Senate majority, said. In the office of Sen. Moss, Grant Midgley, administrative administra-tive assistant, and Dale O. Zabriskie, press assistant, briefed us on recent evenls affecting Utah, i Big news to Utahns is the report of the conference com mittee reaching a final version ver-sion of the $1.3 billion Colo. River Basin Project Bill. Like it or lump it, this bill as reported out by the conference con-ference committee appears almost certain to be passed by both House and Senate after Congress reassembles in September. Sen. Moss deplored loss of a provision in the House version ver-sion of the bill calling for study of importing water into in-to the Colorado River and the new bill instead postpones post-pones any study of this for 10 years. "Reports by the House Interior Committee have shown simply that there is not enough water in the Colorado to take care of th'.i needs of the states," hti said. Arizona gets a coal-burning plant to pump plenty of water to the Phoenix Tucm area and California will be plentifully supplied. Sen. Bennett and Reps. Burton and Lloyd described the conference report as a workable compromise in that it lays upon the federal gov ernment the hurdon of supplying sup-plying 1.5 million acre feet of water annually to Mexico. Mex-ico. II also approves $fji million for Utah's Dixie Project Pro-ject to be financed partially partial-ly from power revenues from lower basin dams, and approves ap-proves the $4:j.8 million U-inlah U-inlah Unit of the Ute Indian Project contingent upon a satisfactory feasibility re port. |