Show water ater and ani power i wi board ici will ill lead storage 11 act a it tal in utah tah 0 1 4 41 1 r 4 i s m X N f 0 I 1 04 0 k i 1 s V J IL T 4 tr v ma AA fy V t n t ilk ralph ashton lett center won the championship trophy at the annual golf tournament for 11 third straight year last week vida shepherd left was winner af the championship trophy in the wombs division with lola anderson right winner of the first flight bud anderson standing stand inq won the consolation trophy and dwight kamp sitting won the first mens blugh W colton heads boards river alti wr committee water and power board has decided to take over tin job of promoting and selling the upper colorado vol 0 ra 0 river storage project ct on a state level here in utah tah and to instigate an interstate inter state publicity campaign of 0 01 upper basin states to tell the colorado river atory story to the general public placing particular emphasis on the eastern lection of the united states where here reclamation cla clar mation nation is not familiar to the people e pe the board has instructed ita its colorado river development committee of which hugh W colton of vernal is chairman to formulate a plan an which can be i adopted in utah U h to organize tho the state and one which would be I 1 suitable for a pattern to be used by all tha the states george D clyde water director along with members of the water and power board m met et v with uh governor J bracken lee this week and received hla his pledge edge tor for complete support both financially and otherwise planning is now being carried un in small group r 0 up meetings in preparation r ep fo for r the beginning of ahe h e program recommendations will be made to the utah water and power board by its colors colorado river committee at the annual meeting to be held september 21 in salt S it lake city mr colton colto met tuesday evening in vernal with irvin gosslin assistant to jeff will executive secretary of the upper er basin Cominis commission sion bid au mcfarlan I 1 r administrative engineer of the house interior and and insular affairs committee parley neeley head of the bureau of bo ito cla office at spanish pork fork sen B H chairman of the upper Color colorado nOo river development committee of 21 counties C R henderson chair man of the uintah county colorado river development committee and L Y sec cc kv Z and mr hendersons commute taft goselin pointed out tm that ft upper basin Comin ladon was established for the promotion of agricultural and industrial development velo ment of the Colorado Rivet River P continued on page 8 11 41 WATER POWER BOARD continued from page paye 1 basin and that it should be ahe job of the commission to carry on the nationwide nation wide publicity program A meeting of the upper basin commission will be held september 20 at grand junction for the purpose of considering a plan according to mr gosslin Gos alln who estimated the job would take at leant least the project will be a test he aid said a best test to see of wo we keep reclamation cla mation or it if it shall be abandoned it was pointed out at the meeting that many congressmen who are friends of reclamation found it necessary to turn against the upper colorado luver river storage project and echo park dam because of the pressure from constituents it was also pointed out that the republicans maintain their majority in the house this fall fail rep john saylor R pa become the chairman of the important irrigation and tion lion subcommittee during session should the democrats gain control on the other hand the the upper basin states would gain a great advantage in guiv hig ing a friend rep clair engle D calif made chairman of the vital interior and insular affairs committee of the house hugh W colton will call a meeting ine eting of his committee for this saturday at 1 p m in salt lake city to which he ne has invited representatives of the various project promotion committee and aad others who have had ex experience perl and background on the type of promotion needed to out U t I 1 through the upper colorado RIV river storage project |