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Show I I Fifteen Years Effort Brings Weber Basin Reclamation Project To Point of Fruition t In the near future work will start on the biggest irrigation project Utah has even seen the Weber Basin Project. A major part of the project will be in Davis' county, and Davis county will .be a principal i 1 i - i v GUEST COLUr.lIST Editors note: The views What's Coming ex- HORSE SHOW AND RODEO annual presentation- of the Davis bounty Sheriffs Posse. Featuring 14 events, the how will take place at the Posse grounds, Kaysville, May.30, 2 p. m. and 8 p m. pressed in these columns are those of the writer and not nec- - essarily those of this trict an active entity, and appoint a -- f f Dean dent of dub, tI and the mCT elected: W board of nine directors. and Keith The nine Conservancy district diGeorge rectors will include three from DaDANCE AND PLAY, to be pre- Clark, Lion vis county, four from Weber counsented by the Layton First and son, tail ty; one from Morgan county, and Second ward Beehive Girls, May one from Summit county. beneficiary. CHENEY CLARK to 23, Layton Second ward MIA. EvThe project is calculated proThe Weber Basin project was By dent of vide irrigation waters for 70,400 first conceived in Davis county. It eryone invited. 82 Post Commander acres of land that now lies barren was the vision and enterprise of FLINT DICKSON, Layton, reand unfruitful for lack of water. Davis county men that brought the Kaysville The project will augment the sup- giant reclamation project from the cently returned from European L. Mrs Rex BollscW is . for American the The D. S. mission field will give talk water of purLegion municipal ply meeting tables of local water users ed anof veterans all show feet and acre films on his travels organizato the threshhold of actual accom- greatest president of the V poses by some 40,000 to I A.,' am all and in tions going at history. where stands throughout it nually. Europe; Layton today. plishment othen; the about what tell Warwick, Third ward Mr. Vern rS! you something In 1934 there was a drought in Special Interest class Cost of the entire project has presidents; Mrs. been set at $70,000,000, but the Davis county. The entire harvest American Legion is, what it has May 22, 8 p. m. is and is and done it retary and Mrs. EliJ doing, why incalcufew acres of a benefits it will provide are produced only sugar treasurer. best and veterans the HORSE strongest SHOW, featuring some lable in dollars and cents. It will beets. Acres lay blackened and friend. of the wests finest horses, at the wasted under abundance the desolated in water sun, ample provide Barbara Larkim.'J launwant moisture. was of posse grounds in Kaysville, June The Ameriacn Legion for now and for "all the forseeable through m. 7:30 Twelve p. future. Thousands of acres of new This prompted certain men to ched at a caucus of some 1,000 rep- 3, riding events, Blame Nuttall, Bol, farm lands will be opened up, the look about for new sources of resentatives of units of the fifst starring Sunbeam- a Palomino Mrs. since April 2 way will be opened for the estab- - water. A water committee was ap- A.E.F. in Paris, .France, March American bred saddle horse, valued lishment of new industries in Da- pointed to serve on the County 5 to 17, 1919. It was chartered sev- at $2,500. Sd M.rs- &W vis county, and home builders will Planning Board. This committee eral months later by Congress and lately Mrs. Loretta IL (V not be constrained through lack of called attention to the need for ad- he charter was amended October K Ri. ditional water, and to its logical 29, 1942 to admit honorably dis- posts now have their Auxiliary sufficient water rights. . 10. May units. Basically the project Js designed source, the Weber river. But scant charged veterans of World War II to conserve the waters of the We- - attention was given by the Bureau ;o membership in addition to those . The chief purpose of the AuxilW. ber river that for years have been of Reclamation, occupied in other of World War I. iary is to give support to all pro- celebrated her 73thWn, grams of The, American Legion, home in Kaysville biitkj, running unused through an area matters. Sunday. and in this respect it has been exLegion Strength for water, and draining in- - Soon the water committee evolvcrying l to the Great Salt Lake. In addition ed itself into the Davis County Waeffective. The Auxiliary is Today the American Legion has tremely Edna Parker, elected a tower of strength in The Amerithe project will conserve the spring ter Users Association, and for two over, in 58 17,000 posts organized of the Lantern club, and V run-o- ff of the mountain areas in more years efforts were made to one de- can Legions, endeavors in the fields Camilla including, departments, Barton, vie F the Weber Basin area. At present get interest aroused in a Weber partment in each of the 48 states of rehabilitation, Americanism, national security and community Ruby Williams, secretin? only 60 of the water potential of river project, but to no avail. and the District of Columbia and services. ' er. the Weber Basin is being put to Finally in May of 1047 a step one in each of the following: Alas An outstanding annual Auxiliary j use; the other 40 going to waste. was taken that brought results. ca, Hawaii, Panama, Puerto Rico, is Water storage will be accom- The board of directors of the Water Canada, Marilyn Timothy a. Mexico, program of Poppy Day. Through Islands, Philippine Mr. and Mrs. since the sale Bone, these red memorial plished by the construction of four Users Association called a meeting, France and Italy. It has combined made by disabled veterans, urday. new upstream reservoirs, and en- - and invited every agency and every assets, including the national, state, flowers, the of individual the who Pineview had anything to do district, county and post levels, Auxiliary raises huge, funds largement present reservoir. The new reservoirs will with water to attend, Mrs. Horace year for the support of its at high as $200,000,000.00. every efbe at Perdue, Salt Creek, Jeremy child rehabilitation and welfare those who attended the Among president of Davis highM ?or the fourth consecutive year it forts. . and Magpie, all located on the meeting were E. O. Larsen and enrolled well as Mrs. Ray Dawson than , 1949 more during 1948 the Auxiliary contri vice president; Mrs. Ruhr During drainage system of the Weber riv- Reid Jarman, of, the Reclamation 3,000,000 members many more. It er. Service. They listened while one numbers in its membership more buted $25,000.00 to The American and Harold Holt, also tk Also planned is construction of after another of the Water Asso-- a overseas Legion' for its. national rehabili dents. more wounded tatton veterans, hugh reservoir at Willard. This ciation men propounded the program. It expended . $2, veterans and more decorated vet32 129,374.48 ousness feet of would the water through its departments being deep, Mrs. (ferminie William shortage in erans than all other veterans oron and hftre a storage capacity of 205,000 Davis county. , units disabled to service combined. In a survey veterans. Kaysville, who marked i acre feet of water, nearly five of list contributions As the meeting drew to a close, ganizations (A made last year, its ranks included birthday Monday. j times the capacity vOf the Pineview the question was put firmly to the some 200 Congressional Medal --of and expenditures for 1949 have not reservoir at present. In dimension assembled group: Who can help Honor winners, the President of yet been received by the writer.) Dean Swaner, new pnd it would be more than six miles us with our water problem? the United States, eight members , During. 1948 the Auxiliary also Farmington Lions club; it and four miles wide. . The The two Reclamation j long Service ot the U. S. Supreme Court, six contributed $30,000.00 to the child man Brown, secretary; Gi east dike would be 40 feet high. men stated that they would under-- j members of the Presidents Cabin- welfare program of The American and Ricks, same time its de- son, Dave Lund At The Pineview reservoir would be take some inuvestigational work, et, 45 U. S. Senators, 205 the Legion. Congress vice presidents; BokJ increased in capacity from its pres- - but other than that could promise men and 23 Governors of partments and units spent a total man,tail states. twister; Arthur ton, ' i ent 44,200 acre-feof in to aid financial to 92,500 acre- - nothing. $1,268,463.00 in American walk Leaders of tamer. An appeal was than made to the Life wear every j feet. The American Legion needy children of veterans. Annu Water for the Davis county area, Utah State Water Users Associa-- I button. ally the Auxiliary awards 10 na tional presidents scholarships of of federal and state stitst between Ogden and Salt Lake, and tion for their cooperation and help. . $600.00 each to daughters of de- is .there today because : the Wasatch foothills and the Great This resulted in a Legion Commissions meeting of Wil- - , ceased veterans to enable them to can Legion either initiated, Salt Lake, would be supplied by a liam R. Wallace, president of the The American Legion is organ- attend or supported it The , college. giant aqueduct running the length Utah Association, a group of Da- - ized for action under 12 basic naof the county along the lower moun- - vis Association directors, and Mr. American Legion legij, commissions. These are the tional Ideals I tain Legion has been its chievement The Larsen Davis of the Reclamation Serv- commissions slopes. aqueduct on Americanism, I have now given you a word of the G. I. Bill of Rights! would take water from the Weber ice. It was decided that a thorough child econom welfare, convention, Of the working organizaWar II veterans. Thiswisi aqueduct at the mouth of Weber effort would be made to launch a ics, finances, in- picture relations, foreign tion of the American Legion now omnibus veterans bill canyon and convey it south along complete survey of the Weber riv-th- e ternal affairs, legislation, publica- let us look at the record of what and it became a law on. foothills as far as Val Verda. er. tions, public relations, rehabilita it has accomplished and is accom 1944. The acqueduct would be approxi- J The survey work tions and security. They have their Session at the time. and 23 miles Second plishing present The mately long. The aqueduct completed. The. meetings on the department, The American Legion sprang Congress was one has already been surveyed tinued, and the voice of Davis coun-an- d counterparts oty district, county and post levels. spontaneously out of the fellowbut The marked with flags by U. S. bu- - ty water users continued to cry out These record, on a form chain of leadership reau of reclamation engineers. ship of men and women who gion recorded one oi w Utahs representatives in Wash- - command which carries out na- formed the The entire Weber Basin project ington, D. C., took up the cry, and tional strong friendships during cessful legislative s Leof the American policies their common service in the war- of 114 bills initiated is expected to take about 12 years finally a bill calling for the Weber gion as the delegates to time armed forces. adopted by in construction; however, water Basin project was put before Pope Pius XII by The American LeP, the National Convention and by made a of The benefit of veterans, . between Brigham City and gress and approved. National Executive Committee. American moving appraisal the The next step is the beginning of These Legion in the fall of 1947 Bountiful are expected to accrue out of resolu- when he told policies grow actual construction work. That date tions passed visiting Legionnaires earlier, upon completion of that by American Legion at Vatican City has not been the that, There is a of effects but that set, definitely portion project Posts and sent through county, disbond uniting your members, this area. preliminary work and planning is trict and convention grim in the forged Before actual construction work being wound up, and the project channels to department unspeakable horrors utions. the national meetings. of war, strengthened and purified on such a project can be started, should be underway within the next In that respect The American Lememories of heroism, unselfishby various preliminary arrangements year, SAttfS.L gion is a most democratic organi- ness, affection and devotion. must be accomplished. One of the zation. It recognizes no distinc The founders of The. American . things necessary is the creation of hm tion of rank, birth, race, class or found their cheif concern a Conservancy district, a represen-- 1 creed in its membership the only Legion in the protection and welfare of tative body created by court to act is an honorable dis- their disabled requirement comrade and the deas representative of the area, in charge from wartime military or pendents of their hero dead. Out dealing .with the federal govern naval service and loyalty to Amer- of this concern grew naturally The ment for construction work on the ica. Every paid-u- p member has an American Legions great service project. equal rightJto be heard at Ameri program of rehabilitation which The court will authorize the crecan Legion post meetings and de was a Legionnaires of ation of such a Conservancy dis-- 1 Funeral services for Mrs. Joseph cisions are reached by a majority their payment by obligation as veterans. trict upon the fulfillment of certain Freer, who died Wednesday in opinion. Among these re- - ley, Idaho, of causes incident to Rehabilitation Service American Legion Auxiliary quirements is the submission of- age, will be held in the Layton In the field of rehabilitation, Affiliated' with ' The American which means service to disabled petitions signed by property own- - First ward chapel Monday at 1 p cream. ers in the area testifying that Legion is its Auxiliary ' .which is veterans, war widows, orphans, de She vas the former Penninah the largest patriotic organization pendent bereaved tion of a Conservancy district has parents, and all sufficient popular backing. Whitesides, daughter of Mr. anc of women in America. Its member and women and their These petitions have now been Mrs. Lewis Whitesides, of Layton, ship includes the mothers, wives families in need of help, The Amer' turned into the Second District and resided here prior to moving to daughters and sisters of Legion- ican Legion is supreme. No other court by Davis, Weber, Morgan and Burley a number of years ago. naires. During 1918 The American organization approaches the Hold that Summit counties, and after a 90- - Friends may call at the home o Legion Auxiliary reached an all-tiof The American Lerecord membership of 951, gion in this important service work John. It I PU day waiting period allowed for any a brother, E. M. Whitesides, Lay rm ald objections or complaints, the court ton, from 10 a.m. until time of the 746 in 12,694 units. Almost three for veterans. may declare the Conservancy dis-- 1 services, Monday. fourths of all American Legion Every major veterans legislation American Legion and What it la S n i , - 1 - - i. i nt t ; ! ; ' ; ( V - h - 1 es-imat- ed ' seri-reservo- ir, I ; s 3 -- et t t ? ... s, ' i . t was-undertake- n, con-rou- te : s ( ; con-benef- its i 0 t . rv I I ji ' I Frppr FllTlPTm Rites Will : Bur-requireme- nts. me t A r ' i |