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Show Greater Utah Valley, Inc., Urges Syr,, Of Flood Areas, Control Organization "Everyone talks ah , er, but no one eve Ut th about it". We SK change the climate,' by organized effort t 1 t fects of abnormal H. less damaging to 0k life. uut ec0C;. Present indications reveal that Jupiter Pluvius is about ready to call it a day, after inflicting the most serious flood damage experienced exper-ienced in Utah Valley since we secured the area from the Indians. Withal he is a most unpredictable unpredict-able old gent. Why, after acting relatively decent for nigh on to 100 years, he should suddenly break out with a rash of damaging damag-ing floods is anybody's guess. Meteorologists tell us to hold on to our hats, however, for the aquatic aqu-atic gentleman might stage a repeat re-peat performance anytime during the next five or six years. "The singed cat slums the fire" someone has said. Certainly we who live in Utah Valley should begin be-gin here and now to initiate and carry forward a constructive program pro-gram that will reduce to a minimum mini-mum the hazards that will be inevitable in-evitable if and when the 'snows come again". It is the honest opinion of j Greater Utah Valley, Inc., that a; program be set up, coordinated by j Utah County Planning Asociation. This organization would logically include such units as the Army Engineers, the Soil Conservation Department, the Bureau of Reclamation, Recla-mation, Civic Groups and City and County Government Units. The advantages of such a plan are many. Duplicate effort would be avoided, funds could be used with maximum benefit, costly mistakes mis-takes could be avoided), and valuable val-uable time saved. ' Now is the time for intelligent action. As Mark Twain once said, |