Show testify during hearings this week saw the presentation of the upper colorado biver river story before the house irrigation and reclamation subcommittee by utah colorado and wyoming i ng witnesses testifying from vernal were sen son B H G B E and dr leboy leroy kay the week also saw definite signs of weakening an in the california attack on the project juani nep rep biair engle D ballf chairman of the house interior and insular affairs committe tc said that as a californian Cali forian forlan he be resented tactics being used to fight the project he Is from northern california later california attorney general pat brown browm said at a press conference in washington that he had met with sen clinton P anderson D NM chairman of the senate II irrigation gation subcommittee and thai that he anderson had told me be no more projects started in california unless our opposition to the upper basin plan is modified im rm afraid if we take a too ed attitude it will prevent water development in our state great ill ili will has been generated toward california in this matter sen and geroge D clyde utah commissioner of interstate ter state streams and rp representative of the upper colorado river commission testified tuesday even rep john R say lor R pa the arch foe of the P proposed r 0 e d storage program commended comp m e n pd oed the pair on their presentation sen tation and rep 13 F D cal went out of his way to congratulate mr clyde for the case he had presented in behalf of utah mr String barn said after auter 39 years of waiting for something to happen the monument is still in such an underdeveloped condition that it is embarrassing s to direct visitors to the headquarters which is composed of a few lumber shacks A US congressman on a recent visit declared this is a national disgrace the building of echo continued on page 8 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 continued from page 1 ihrk dun would breite one of the tile wo brosl A useful and attractive n ere notional areas in the tile united states something that Is need fd ed badly in III thi alili dy lay of tion pies pressure sure A new propos proposal al came up tip tills this w wc k which would create a mckage reclamation bill corn com I I 1 ing with the upper colorado 0 the lio proposed idaho i oregon hells canyon dim tho the california tr trinity clity alvir how now far this w will III KO go no one can say gay at lat 1 his iq time ime alic seriate tc interior commit cc ve nt fit the same time announced plant to visit the three propos i d I 1 western projects ts next month they would would visit echo parks NI hutc t V list at on oil april 1 f willard F libby acting head of the atomic energy commission refuted charges by california that hydroelectric plants in the upper basin would become become obsolete elephants due to atomic power I 1 1 I 1 I he generation 0 of f electric electricity ty from nuclear fuel should first become competitive with conventional vent ional fuel in areas of high ost we feel this could happen during the 1960 1060 period briod however regard regardless les of fh this is fact it Is our feeling that hydroelectric plants which can be economically justified nt at this time probably will not become isolete bs olete during their useful life mr libby wrote in a letter to wallace F bennett R 11 utah sen bennett pointed out to the subcommittee monday that the amount the US government has invested in reclamation Is small compared wit with h the billion spent in forcing aid after world war 11 II reclamation figures also are lower than the 0 9 billion dollars spent on hood flood control in rivers and harbors in the past five years he added not one penny of this flood control mone money has or ever will be rep repaid aidIe he declared foreign aid is Is an outright grant never to be returned and certainly without interest tom bolack N M chairman of the upper r colorado grass roots inc reported that his group has a membership of in utah colorado wyoming and new mexico who serve without salary or expense accounts citizens from all walks of life from school children housewives and businessmen right up to the governors of the four states are all in back of this project he said G E director of the utah field house of natural history in vernal asked how much wilderness do the people want in utah alone there are two national parks and nine national monuments in addition to seven national forests besides we have hundred of thousands of square mile miles of wilderness running around loose outside these areas if some of this wilderness can be put to work doing something useful instead of being merely ornamental it should not be look looked d upon as a national calamity calami tN the ni nt a first ship designed as an aircraft air crift carrier was the ranger people who live it up usually discover that they have to ir live ive it down nell clarke the navy uses about 00 0 pounds of butter yearly |