| Show Sees great future Clyde Visits County Wednesday was Governor's Day in Duchesne as a large delegation or church and political leaders met Governor George D. Clyde at Duchesne for a brief ceremony before he and several other state and Bureau of Reclamation officials were taken on a tour of proposed water storage projects in the DIRECTING THE tour which included three potential reservoir sites for storing natural winter flow and runoff water was the Duchesne County Water Users Leo chairman of a special study committee representing all water was director of the tour that ended at 1 p.m. in Roosevelt where the Chamber of Commerce was host to a luncheon for the local water committee and other This was followed by a public meeting at the Stake Center at p.m. Before leaving the City of Duchesne where Mayor Roy Eliason and County Commission Chairman William welcomed Clyde and his traveling the governor was taken for a quick look at a possible flood danger area on the Duchesne River adjacent to the City of Mayor Eliason and City Councilman Neill Jensen reviewed what had happened and showed the governor what could easily happen again when high water A CARAVAN of approximately a dozen cars headed by i Haueter and Clyde made their first stop at the Upalco site where two engineers working on plans and study of Francis Todd and Gilbert Horrocks of Brig-ham City briefly explained the features of the proposed project that will either be built by local water users or will become a part of the Central Utah Upalco the caravan traveled through Roosevelt north to Cedarview for a quick look at McQuire which has potential as a small reservoir of about 2000 acre-feet Next stop was at Monarch or which also could become a storage reservoir for approximately acre-feet of Both would be part off the Uintah River drainage Explaining features of these two sites was LaMar Soil Conservation Service who had made a brief preliminary study of CONDUCTING the Chamber of Commerce luncheon which included approximately sixty-five people was Men-ill J. chairman of the Water Development Mayor See page 8 Governor Visits from laco Merlin Sullivan and Keith Chamber extended messages of welcome to the visitors and local This meeting was also the regular semi-monthly meeting of the Only speaker at the luncheon was Governor Clyde who was introduced by Cliff who is a member of the fact-finding committee of water Clyde made a strong plea for cooperation and unity of people and purposes in working toward those goals that must be set if success is to ARE LIVING in an age when the great stores of natural resources are being utilized to help our great nation remain strong and We must constantly strive to keep our defenses strong so that those people who crave power by aggression will leave us We must have the same spirit of pioneering as those people who settled this great state if we will Clyde He reminded that one of the truly great storehouses of resources is here In the Uintah and predicted great things will come in the very near AT THE PUBLIC meeting officials of the Bureau of Reclamation were introduced by Chairman who along with Utah Water and Power directors Jay Bingham and Dan and State Engineer Wayne Speaking for this group was who urged a unified front here in Duchesne and support of the proposed seven-county conservancy Speaking for the Bureau was Palmer B. project development engineer of Region He also urged cooperation and unity of purpose in getting an organization perfected that could negotiate with the Bureau for those things to come through Central He also assured the local people they wanted to return within two months or less and make a full report of the Bonneville and also the progress being made on other phases of Others from the BR were Her- bert E. special service Region John project CUP and Ed project development IN inS REMARKS at the general meeting Clyde reviewed some of the history of the Upper Colorado River up to the time Congress in 1956 gave authorization to begin Its development which would give the upper basin states their fair share of the water they were entitled to as set forth in earlier river compacts between the upper and lower basin took 40 years to get congress to authorize such projects as Glen Flaming Gorge and Central and will take years to complete the planned The initial phase of CP will require from 20 to 25 years to and million will be spent in this area to do the Clyde told his The governor pointed out the tremendous impact of spending most of which will be in Duchesne will have on the of the country He again urged people to look to the overall effects Central Utah will have on this THE FINAL ACT Governor Clyde performed Wednesday was to present a gift to Martha senior cit- izen of the Ute Indian at tho Stewart Rest Home In where she has been residing the past several Under the direction of State Senator Bennie music director at Union High the audience at the meeting heard a trumpet trio composed of Burton Dallas Lowe and Kent who played two numbers accompanied by Diane and a reading by Susan who placed superior in a state drama meet who is also a member of the water users assisted with arrangements for the public Haueter briefly explained the purpose of the day with the governor and other officials |
