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Show Moss Presents Report on Electric Power Requirement A report on the anticipated demands for state building and power requirements of the municipal mu-nicipal and REA users of the Upper Colorado Basin was presented pre-sented this week by Sen. Frank E. Moss by a group of electrical cooperative officials who were in Washington to attend the national na-tional convention of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. As-sociation. The occasion, a breakfast at the Shoreham Hotel, was attended at-tended by members of the staffs of Senator Bennett and Reps. King and Dixon. The report, presented by Reed Burr, manager of the Garkane Power Associatoin, Richfield, indicates in-dicates that the 39 municipal power plants and electric cooperatives coop-eratives in Utah expect to require re-quire 867 milloin kilowatt hours by 1970. In 1957 they generated 211 million kwh, purchasing 186 million from other sources. Under the law, municipally-owned municipally-owned plants and cooperative groups have first call on power generated at projects built by the federal government. Also discussed was the "tie- line" the transemission line to link Glen Canyon power to that of Flaming Gorge. "It is essential that this tie line swing through Utah's populated popu-lated areas. This will make it less expensive to build an overall over-all system of transmission, utilizing utiliz-ing private power, municipally produced power, and Colorado River power to best advantage as the future growth of Utah may require," he said. It was suggested that the possibility pos-sibility of connecting the Utah system with a cooperative at a point above Snowville be investigated. inves-tigated. This Would link Colorado Colo-rado River power with the great Pacific Northwest power grid. Mrs. Eva Leona Hansen Carlson, Carl-son, Richmond, Cache County, has been named Utah Mother of the Year. Mrs. Carlson is mother of nine sons and five daughters. Gus P. Backman. executive secretary of the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce, has been named to' the Board of Directors of Bonanza Air Lines, Inc. |