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Show A PROCLMATION JOIN THE AQUALANTES WHEREAS, the Colorado River Storage Project, the most important import-ant issue to face our state in many years, is now before the Congress of the United States, and WHEREAS, this project will greatly aid and benefit the people of the entire United States by strengthening he national defense de-fense program and the national economy and by providing vitally needed water and power to meet the essential needs of the West, and WHEREAS, citizens of the four states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming have organized the Upper Colorado River Grass Roots, Inc., an organization pledged to support this project and to give all citizens a chance to join this crusade by becoming "Aqualantes" or water vigilantes to fight for this last major water source of the West, THEREFORE, I proclaim the week of February 13 to February 19 as "Aqualante Week" and do hereby urge citizens to know the project and to join this organization and support it by telling and writing friends and associates in other states the facts on the Colorado River Storage Project and to support it in every other way possible. (Signed) PAUL MURPHY Mayor of Roosevelt City |