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Show Page 4 Jue 29. THE UTAH STATESMAN DIXON GREETS 4-- H DELEGATION 1956 Senator Watkins Notes Utah Are as Gait helping Inland and flood- the Forest, provided $10,000 annually for such purchase, but with more than President Eisenhowers pen has 10,000 acres requiring restoration completed the OK on my bill' to this program is moving much too give our Joint Committee on the slowly. Economic Report the simplified The response of local groups name of Joint Economic Commit- both public and private on this tee and to provide a January 20 matter has been exemplary; report date for the Presidents through June 30, 1955, they had annual statement upon the eco- already donated 15,726 acres acnomic health of the nation; quired at a net cost to them of The real importance of this 91,805 to aid the program. change is to provide inclusion of Also they resold 5,302 acres at fourth-quarte- r 1 figures in the sta- a loss of $4,218 and gave up tistical review of the preceding in Forest Receipts Act funds so that this money could go to year. Businessmen, economists and use. members of Congress are finding A HELPING HAND this annual report increasingly Word this week that 12 Utah more authoritative and useful. It amilies in northwestern Box Elis required as part of the 1946 der County will be aided to n Employment Act procedure, and service through a loan by serves as a key to much legisla- tural Electrification Administra-io- n tive thinking. to Raft River Electric CorCASH FOR CACHE poration of Malta, Idaho, recalls The Senate this week approved igain what a fine work REA has a $200,000 appropriation to aid brought through the years. in purchase of privately-helLiterally a world of light has to these rural people come of lands within the perimeter Cache National Forest. through this Federal program. And along with it the opportun-tBy bringing these acres into to participate with city resihastened. can be control damage A 1938 law for such purchases dents in enjoying all the convenances of modern living electricity makes possible. FOR WATERSHED AID Nineteen Utah areas currently are seeking Federal assistance in construction of projects, and several more applications are in view. Locally, these projects are as mportant often as their counterparts. At least anyone who has seen floodwaters pour down one of the canyons will scoff at the term small . . . Seeing boulders a foot through tossed about like marbles is very chastening. Plans should be completed and sent to Congress next year for Chalk Creek in Millard County; American Fork-Dr-y Creek (Utah) and Coal Creek Canyon (Iron County) watershed projects. If others reach the operations stage some funds are available to begin construction in the year beginning July 1 ,the Soil Conservation Service advises. Santaquin and Pleasant (Utah County) Cr?ek (Sanpete County) are advancing; with allotments set up By Sen. Arthur V. Watkins MAKES IT LEGAL soil-erosio- n ! $21,-29- land-purchasi- ng ob-ai- d Left to right are Julia Ann Wamick, Pleasant Grove; Darrel Thompson, Plain City; Rep. Henry Aldous Dixon; Merlene Yonk, Mendon; Richard Duke, Helper; and Gordon L Beckstrand, Assistant Supervisor of Youth Programs at Utah , State Agricultural 4-- H Clubs. College. Congressman Dixon spoke on the House Floor commending y smaller-watershe- d big-broth- er . Congress may be a cause to drive them from their homes. New Mexicos Senators and Congress- men know of their situation. WHO STAND IN NEED Virtually all of us are either the children on the of immigrants. One would think that in view of this the plight of the immigrant seeking our shores would receive a from ready response. I regret what I am learning of this Session of Congress that such is apparently not the case. Monday I informed the Senate that I was getting sick and tired of the delay on the four bills that I am sponsoring on behalf of the Administration to bring some reform into our Act and Immigration and Refugee Nationality Act provisions. I particularly urged my fellow Judiciary Committee members to got something done and bring these measures to the floor. These bills involve the lives and fortunes of thousands upon thousands of people. And while I naturally favor the present bill s to admit some Basque to America from Spain under eased rulings, I surely hope Galley 5 Statesman that this comparatively small contribution to such legislation will not mark the sole help we can give those abroad at this Session. FASTER DROUGHT RELIEF President Eisenhowers decision to permit Agricultural Secretary Ezra Taft Benson to name counties in Utah eligible specifically for drought relief will speed up administrative clearances greatly. Washington County was the first such named to qualify under this new program. If a county needs help it now applies directly to the State Drought Relief Com mittee, which investigates mj recommends to the Governor, who in turn reports to Secretary Benson for a final clearance. Last year eight Utah counties were officially eligible: Western Box Elder, Daggett, Emery, Garfield, Kane, Piute, Rich and grand-plus-childre- n much-neede- d sheep-herder- Wayne. If conditions warrant, they, may receive aid again this year. HERE AND THERE Looks like Gunnison may be the first Utah rural city to seek a local library under the newly-passe- d for each. DOLOR TO THE SOUTH Library Services Act; local five, interest is already Indicated in Daily the mail comes in six and seven times but few such a program . . . Good thing times has it produced mail more about this Congress: Its ready sponsorship of approtouching than that received this last two weeks from some resi- priations greatly augmenting redents of New Mexico. Almost all search funds to promote better are written in Spanish, very fully, very humbly, and almost as if the writer was not too used to composing letters. They recite a similar story of an old Spanish grant, Ojo del Espiritu Santo, upon which for years they have earned their livelihood in arrangement with the Indians and Federal agencies. Now they fear a measure before i! (KMtlS Sifts: Out of Kentucky, the great bourbon country, comes the greatest of them all, mellow, warmhearted, aged to perfection six full years . . . Ancient Age. We challenge you to find a better bourtpn. Kentucky Straight BOURBON-Whiske6 Years Old 86 Proof Ancient Age Distilling Company, Frankfort, Kentucky. y ITEM OLD mTOFILL is A the sight of veteran Senator Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island, still hale and chipper, who this week won Senate accolades when he broke all records as the eldest member ever in the Senate he is less than four months short of 89 years, still walks miles to work, and can really take care of himself both on and off of the Senate floor! care- health . . . (fsviilMgtttft' . 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