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Show ,A' A pH tOh tn ";s's ' i c the Utah Dorothy's Job Is Western Women n p rn p tr (9 Salt Lake City, Utah February 24, 1956 River Storage Booklet Tells Both Arguments In Brief The highly controversial Colorado River Project comes up for the final bout with Congress this week, with the backing of Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay. McKay told a joint conHouse action on the highly controversial Upper Colorado gressional committee that he reReclamation Project is scheduled for late February or early gards the project as an outstanding example of the type of March. project that the federal government should undertake." Few subjects have generated more controversy than the development of water resources by the Federal Government. Few issues contain implications of greater significance for the role The U. S. Department of Agrito be played by the government in society. The Upper Colo- culture has announced that the rado Project has focused sharply conflicting points of view with Commodity Credit Corp. is iniprogram for sales to respect to federal responsibility in the development of water tiating a on credit. This change exporters resources. in policy, effective immediately, is in line with intensified efforts The American Enterprise Assotee a and now is the of recent months to reduce Govmember in ciation has published The Upper Senate on Committee ernment Interior and holdings of surplus agColorado Reclamation Project" Insular Affairs. commodities. ricultural which presents the views of SenIn addition, he is a fruit farmator Arthur V. Watkins, a leading a rancher publisher of the of and er, Raymond protagonist ValTimes Congressman Dawson gives his the a Utah and of Moley, principal antagonist on political contributions," views News has and been Counsel the Upper Colorado River Proj- ley a heated to subject in Washington the Provo River Water Users ect. these days, in. his weekly column Association since 1935. He has In favoring the Upper Colorado had a lifelong interest in irriga- on page 2. River Project, Senator Watkins tion and reclamation. states: " Raymond Holey has beeii conThis Baker ' Priest Ivy The Colorado River Storage tributing editor, of .Newsweek week the nations treasurer told Project is necessary to regulate, from 1937 to the present time. tribulations of poverty from His career covers the fields of the control and convey the waters the experience angle, in the Salt of the Upper Colorado River for education, public service and jour- Lake- - Tribunes series, Lenten and to those areas entitled to its nalism. For many years he was Guideposts. The popular treasuse under the terms of the Colo- professor of public law at Colum- urer, in Salt Lake City last week rado River for and to those areas bia University. As public servant, to speak at the Lincoln Day dinentitled to its use under the terms amon other assignments, he has ner, gave advice to readers, tellof the Colorado River Compact been assistant Secretary of State ing them to use their talents to and Upper Colorado River Com- of the United States. He has writ- the best of their ability. From ten numerous books and articles Mrs. Priest, these words have pact. on political and economic sub- merit look where her philosophy economiIt is a jects. He has long been interested got her. cally sound, completely e project de- in the problem of water resources (Continued on Page 3) signed to provide for the conser- development. vation and development of a water supply for a four area larger than state BEEF AGREEMENT WITH ISRAEL SIGNED New England. No other comparable river development program has ever been presented to Congress for authorization backed by the detailed engineering and economic studies and interstate cooperation in its planning reflected in this Bill. This project has been under detailed study and investigation for more than 20 years In opposing the Upper Colorado River Project, Mr. Moley states: I shall show . . . that the project, despite the length of time during which it has been discussed, is ill planned in' part, and in other parts not planned at all, that that it is not it would involve an excessive, not to say an incredible cost per acre benefited, that the power aspects are with the possible exception of the Glen Canyon dam financially infeasible, that in order to manufacture a case for feasibility An agreement with the Government of Israel was signed rethe bills embody dubious exercently at the office of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Bencises in bookkeeping, and that the son, for the sale of 40 million pounds of beef, worth ten million national interest demands that dollars, to Israel, for Israeli currency. Signing for the Israeli the national interest demands that reGovernment, is Ambassador Abba Eban, seated left. Assistant the entire proposal should be Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, George V. Allen, viewed by a genuinely independseated for the U. S. Standing left to right are: Rep. William S. ent and competent board." Senator Watkins (R., Utah) has Hill (R Colo.); Rep. Page Belcher (R., Okla.); Secretary Benson, and Rep. Henry A .Dixon (R., Utah). Half of the 40 million been a member of the U.S. Sen ate since 1947. He has served on pounds of beef will be purchased, starting immediately, with the balance to be purchased next Fall. the Senate Public Works Commit Watkins Takes 'Pro1 Side of Project, Moley Argues Against Passage 4 i i t .i i I i i ) i f t FROM THE BOTTOM UP Dorothy Stevenson, national vice chairman of the Campaign Committee for the Federation of Womens Republican Clubs, gives western women pointers on how to organize from their neighborhood on up. Lick Stamps, Type Letters, It Helps, Says Fed. Exec. Every woman can do something to help in the campaign whether it licking stamps, telephoning, typing or just talking in her spare moments. Dorothy Stevenson speaks from experience. She maintains a home, works with volunteer organizations and is now handling a national organization post for the Womens Federation of Republican Clubs. Orem-Genev- i well-planne- This grass roots" worker knows what she is talking about when she urges women to get into the political shuffle and do their part. Her first political activity consisted of the semingly menial" tasks. Now as Vice Chairman of the Committee, Mrs. Campaign Stevenson has the job of selling and teaching organizational planning from the precinct up. She is aided on the eastern coast by Sue Wilson, secretary to Congressman William Dawson, Washington, d, self-liquidatin- g, long-rang- vitally-ne- D. C. eded semi-dese- The job of vice chairman Is a big one. It means traveling from state to state doing grass roots" organization. Goal of the 1956 committee, according to Mrs. Stevenson, is to train federation workers to help organize every precinct, recruit new members and build reserve groups throughout the county and state organization. One woman in every voting district is the minimum goal," Vice Chairman Stevenson reports. She accomplishes her task with the use of visual aids, showing her audiences the fundamental steps of organization, statistics from previous elections and the projected plan for the 1956 cam- rt ..." 1 self-liquidatin- g, I I t i I I paign. In order to teach the fundamentals of grass roots" the teacher has to understand every step. Mrs. Stevenson learned the procedure the hard way by taking every step herself. She gained much of her knowledge of organizaton by being a volunteer worker in several organizations. Since moving to Salt Lake City in 1938, Mrs. Stevenson has worked with the Cancer Society, the Medical Auxiliary and the Womens Legislative . Council. I Her work with the Legislative group won her the post of treas- - New Feature When election time rolls around you can bet that the will be done if people work-behind-the-scen- es like Dorothy Stevenson are doing it. During the next few weeks the Statesman will run a series of feature articles on some of the Utahns behind the scenes and on the main stage in political activity. Statesman readers who have ideas on persons who have done and are doing grass roots" work and should be given a printed pat on the back, drop a suggestion card to the Statesman, 421 Church Street, Salt Lake City. urer on the National Council on State Legislation. She also worked with the Red Cross and with several bond drives through the years. With this backlog of experience, Mrs. Stevenson went into . politics. In 1952 she got into the fringe battle working as a stamp licker volunteer for Representative Dawson during the last 10 days of the campaign in Utah. She also worked on Senator Bennetts campaign crew during the 1952 push. She moved up in 1954 to head the drive for Rep. Dawson as vice chairman of his campaign committee. This taste of politics was enough. Now Mrs. Stevenson says she bears the bell and is ready to go to work." She has worked consistently with the Utah Federation of Womens Republican Clubs. When the national post came along she was still handling some of the addressing and other menial" (Continued on Page 3) of Utah O A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to Good Government Vol. 10; No. 7 Unlv ( |