Show ECHO PARK GAINS GABS NATIONAL PUBLICITY IN 4 MAGAZINES publicity on the upper colorado river storage project and echo park dam quickly jumped from a few articles in the vernal express to major stories in the salt lake dailies and features in national magazines when hearings before the house subcommittee on irrigation and reclamation began in washington g among the top publications to come forth with information on the western project was lite magazine with more than 5 circulation on page 4 45 and 46 of the picture publications february 22 issue mue is a story entitled sounds of anguish from echo park ark using five pictures a map and words to describe the controversy main picture used bv by lite life Is of steamboat rock at the site of the proposed dam showing the height at which dam builders say the water would rise and the line which conservationists say would be the top of the water on the second page are pictures oi of ernest olie olle larson of the reclamation bureau office in salt lake city who testified in behalf of echo iii park irk dam and ulysses grant III who Is bitterly I 1 against construction of the yam dam in dinosaur national monument the ile first national article of the present series came from newsweek when in their january 25 issue they wrote of th the e dam and dinosaurs the word article gave the history of the project very briefly presented statistics on costs and pointed out results of the project and advantages of building echo park dam both life and newsweek were fair in their presentation on as was national geographic magazine in its 28 page article a appearing in the march issue we the exclusive magazine used pictures of which 16 were in beautiful color showing the canyons of dinosaur national monument the pictures were and the article written by breed while on a trip down yampa with BUB bus hatch wirth national parks chief howard baker head bf mountain national and jess lombard supervisor of dinosaur monument the group made 4 A W day trip down the yampa to split mountain gorge in rubber navy boats last summer the fourth article to appear in a national magazine was written by bernard devoto former utahn and longtime long time foe of echo park dam it was printed in the february issue of harp ers mazine magazine only a part is dedicated towards the bonu ment and echo park dam and that definitely Is anti dam many newspaper articles concerning the project have appeared throughout the nation notion also and especially california milt searle brought a letter to the express from bill finnesey member of the H D lee company advisory board in which clippings from the sacramento bee had been inserted an editorial in the bee condemning echo park dam was met by many letters from the readers both for and against the dam harvey J nielsen Nl elsen former vernal resident sent an art ie le from riverside california discussing the speech of secretary of the interior douglas mckay before the loa los angeles chamber of commerce and the statements made by him the following day regarding a recreational program for dinosaur national monument in connection with the construction of echo park dam |