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Show The Salt Lake Tribane, Thun. .lay, August 17, 1961 Carmichael Wft M Worry OlAlRMMl 2i? v SuZidleiniQs, 2i? Eaooo, 2i? i Cr Bureau Briefs Water Needs To Double, Utahn Says Tribun Wuhlnston Bureau ZWASHINGTONugriffSenrJrank JL Motj -- said W e ednesdaythat development of water jre -- sources was vital to the future growth of Utah and the West - YD-Uta- basin-wid- THE STATEMENT was prompted by Senate Interior Committee hearings on the resources proposedact water of 1961 which planning opened Wednesday. The committee found that we must double our usable water supply between 1960 and 1980 if we are to keep our standard of Jiving rising for our growing population. HE EXPLAINED the bill, recommended by --President Kennedy, would set up a cabinet level 'water resources council to develop comprehensive plans for protecting water supplies throughout the nation. . i Named to Board WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 Dr. Sterling McMurrin, U.S. Commissioner of Education and a former vice president of the University of Utah, has been named to the board of foreign scholarships- by President Kennedy. ' ' . THIS WAS announced Wednesday by Sen. Frank E. Moss who pointed out the ' board supervises the State Departments student exchange program, better known as the Fulbright program. "The Fulbright scholarship said Sen. Moss "is . program, one of our most successful attempts to bring about a greater degree of understanding and cooperation for between ourselves and other nations. ), DR. McMUREIN is devoted to the free worlds cause and understands how necessary it is to advance that cause, he . ' added. Swearing-I- n Today WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 Former Utahn Esther Peterson is scheduled to be sworn in Thursday as an assistant secretary of labor. ; THE $20,000 a year subeab-ine- t post for Mrs. Peterson will be the highest position held by a woman in the KenSince nedy Administration. has Peterson Mrs. January been an asistant to the Secreof tary of Labor and director buwomen the departments reau. Under a bill cleared by Congress last week the Department of labor received an addi-lonal assistant secretary and President Kennedy .selected Mrs. Peterson for the position. 1 I ; - . Resigns GOP Post WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 Rollis S. Nelson, a (P) North Dakotan who has lived fci Washington 16 years, said Wednesday he had resigned as director of ties farm division of the Republican National Committee. f EVERYDAY LOW' PRICE twHft Premium'' CU3E STEAKS at csed, Uizlsrf reccndlllsnod typetvrlScrs, new portables end elecirlca, eddin r.sd-r.-:3 0-CM- I if IH" Buy on these convert- - lent' terms now and enjoy your own sew- - ing machine PLUS sewing table at this combination price. tf dims - j , rnmsMMSzi goes cr |