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Show COLORADO RIVER WEEK ENDS; NEXT jlS 'AQUALANTES' ! Mountain Westerners have only a few days left to pick up their option on the future. J Colorado River Week ends j Saturday. "Thousands of citizens have I joined the most remarkable grass roots movement of recent times," Hugh W. Colton said Thursday. "We've re-awakened the pioneer spirit of our forefathers. fore-fathers. We're going to get our long-delayed fair share of I basin water and your neighbor I wearing the six - pointed Aqualante Aqua-lante badge will be partly responsible," re-sponsible," he said. Civic leaders in every city and county in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming , have pitched in to hlep boost I the vital river storage project ' now before Congress. Citizens who haven't joined the Aqualante Aqua-lante program are urged to do so at once. ' In case some residents do I not know how to join the Aqua-I Aqua-I lantes, the enlistment office is as close as your nearest mail i box," Mr. Colton said. Letters land donations should be sent to state headquarters: Aqualantes, ' S:.'t L. I.i City. The special week v. as ini-Ug united by th Upper Colorado Rier Gias; Koots, Inc., a group of citizens working to secure passage of th eriver storage project. Mr. Colton is acting chairman. Each Vigilante is , carrying forwaid the fight to combat "false information being spread nationally against the project, Mr. Colton said. IVmarily each Aqualante is doing this by writing writ-ing friends in other states and telling lliem.the line facts in the case. E:ich Aqualante also is 'wiping to alert hi.i neighbor to the piopagand.i pressure being be-ing exerted against Congress- ( men by opponents of the project. proj-ect. And each Aqualante has subscribed $1 or more toward financing the fight to pass the crue!al river bill. I |