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Show Navajos Initiate Plan to Aid , Water Project The Navajo Indian Tribe is show-wg show-wg the way for other people of the "western" states in their sup-Port sup-Port of the Colorado River Storage Project. This was the opinion, today of Calvm W. Snyder, chairman of Upper Colorado River Grass Roots, JNc., an organization of citizens from Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming pressing for support of the project. Mr. Snyder .pointed to Navajo sup-Port sup-Port in contributing $10,000 to the Grass Roots organization. The Navajos staged a war dance dramatize their support of the project. The war dance January 24 at Window Rock, Arizona was the first such event since the Indians Ind-ians were on the war path In the 1850's. "If the citizens of the four states can realize- as have 'the Navajos what (this means to the West, I'm certain they'd give itheir full support," sup-port," Mr. Snyder said. Citizens will have the opportunity opportun-ity to show the)ir support of the project when the Grass Roots organization! or-ganization! sponsors "Aqualante" week, early in February. At 'that time, citizens will be enrolled 'as "Aqualantes" or water vigilantes vigil-antes pledged to support tlje Colorado Colo-rado River Storage Project. "The .project is vitle to the Western West-ern states, because we desperately need the water allotted to us toy the Compact of 1922," Mr. Snyder said. "Too, it's a project that will do muoh for the nation as a whole. It's 'must' legislation in this session of Conress if the West is to maintain main-tain its 'growth and progress," he said. |