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Show Page 1 DAWSON Jim IS. THE UTAH STATESMAN 1951 REPORTS Rewarding Congressional Session Draws To Close For Summer ... ADJOURNMENT NEAR It These provisions, plus increased Originating many hundreds of begins to appear that Congress funds for protection and devel- miles away, the flights will aim will adjourn by the middle of opment should make many new for the Wendover homing range. July. From Utahs standpoint, it will have been a very rewarding sesssion. The most important legislative accomplishment, of course, is passage of the Upper Colorado River Storage Project the largest single reclamation project ever authorized by Congress. With the authorization came a guarthe first appropriation antee that this vital project will not be pigenholed, but will be constructed with all rapidity. recreation areas available for our citizens. A new range for high-altitud- e instrument bombing is now set After the test runs, the 'HOME OFFICE . . . After ad- up. planes will return to their distant journment, I intend to return to bases, leaving the pilots and crew Utah and open an office at the more practiced and Utahns no Newhouse Hotel, as I have done wiser but safer. each year previously. I also intend to make an THIEVES HONOR The most survey of the Central Utah Proj- accurate observation I have heard ect. This vast $204 million dollar series of aqueducts and reservoirs on Krushchevs talk denouncing was approved as part of the Up- Stalin was made by Sen. William F. Knowland of California the per Colorado Storage Project. It other day when he inserted its is this project that furnishes the text in the Congressional MORE ROADS entire In addition water for Utahs farmers. Record. to the Upper Colorado, other legislation approved this session will OVERHEAD OVERHEAD . . . Observing that Krushchev did have a dramatic affect on Utahs act not new mention Stalins crimes Utahns will never hear them, but economy. The highway will make millions more per year periodically from now on, huge against other nations, Sen. Know-lan- d available to the state. as said: Aside from the downand jet bombers In addition, separate and great- many as 50 in formation will grading of the former leader ly liberalized provisions have be flying over Salt Lake City. Stalin, there is no indication of been made for forest roads and They will be flying so high, how- an offer by those who were his highways and for roads in our ever, that they can be neither accomplices in crime to return national parks and monuments. seen nor heard from the ground. any of the loot. ... nd ... B-5- 2 B-4- 7 Sen. Wallace F. Bennett (right) dishes out Utah strawberries to Sen. George Aiken of Vermont. Sen. Bennett treated the entire Senate to the choice Utah berries, which he had flown to Washington, D. C. The Senator Reports By Sen. Wallace F. Bennett Tick-toc- k ... As I write this, word has just on Flaming Gorge. It will be used )een received of the Presidents tor access roads to the dam sites, operation at Walter Reed Hos- lousing facilities for workmen, . .. tick-toc- k the whiskey that didnt watch the clock . . . seven and diversion tunnels to be used during construction of the dams. pital. At this moment, I am sure, all Americans are joining in the hope and prayer that the operation was y successful, for few leaders in have won such universal love and admination of the people as has President Eisenhawer, and his health is a matter of deepest concern throughout the world. Jordan River Flood Control Another item important to Utah was also passed by the Senate committee an appropriation of 53,000 for flood control on the Jordan River. This amount will complete the preliminary work on the project to deepen and widen the channel of the Jordan River and the Surplus Canal. The floods of 1952 pointed up the need for this work, and it now appears that we will soon see it begun. I am confident that this amount will be passed by the Senate. his-or- The honest and forthright man-ne-r in which the news about the presidents health has been given to the press is indeed commendable. It is reassuring to know that we are being kept as fully Informed as possible. bng years! Vice President Nixon has pre. dicted that the President will be A Treat from Utah back on the firing line soon. Countless millions throughout the This week I had the privilege world hope he is right. of treating all of the members of the Senate to luscious Utah straw$13 Million for Upper Colorado which had been berries, picked The committee work has been just the day before, and were flown here to Washington. The strawberries we get here in the East just don't have the same flavor as those we grow at home, so they were considered This came as welcome news to quite a treat. those of us who testified in favor We dont get unanimous agreeof more than the $8,000,000 orig- ment very often in the Senate, but inally planned. The Bureau of on the question of whether or not Reclamation indicated that it Utah strawberries are tops, I dont could use fore than the $8,000,000 think youd get a single dissentduring the fiscal year beginning ing vote.l in July, because preliminary negotiations on roads and other facilities went more rapidly than had been expected. I believe the Senate will approve the full $13,000,000. O: course, there will then remain the problem of holding the increase in a joint Senate-Hous- e conference committee, because the House of Representatives voted only $6,000,000 for the project. However, I am hopeful that the Senate figure will prevail in conference, so that we can ge; the project off to a good start. Most of the money will go for the Glen Canyon Dam, although a substantial portion will be spen completed in the Senate on the appropriation for Upper Colorado, and the committee is recommending $13,000,000 for the first year of the project. ' Kentuckys Finest STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY 86 PROOF 7 YEARS OLD Straight BOURBON OLD CHARTER DISTILLERY CO., LOUISVILLE, KY. ; |