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Show --- i Colorado River. . . (Continued from Page 1) and up.. Public Subscription The coordinating committee, ' composed of two members from each state, plans to raise its funds by public subscription after the program is launched. But each state committee will decide for itself it-self whether to seek additional funds from the legislatures. i At the suggestion of R. J. Cou-ry, Cou-ry, adviser to the New Mexico member of the compact commission, commis-sion, the name of the Echo Park unit will be changed to the Yam-pa-Ladore unit for publicity purposes. pur-poses. Reasoning behind the change was that use of the term "park" creates an erroneous im-, im-, pression that the project would be built in a "park" similar to Yellowstone, Yel-lowstone, Zion, Rocky Mountain or Yosemite. I Mr. Coury suggested that the opposition, having spent $350,000 1 to create this false impression, I might have to spend a considerable consider-able additional sum to try to prove that the Yampa-Ladore is the same thing they have been attacking attack-ing under another name. In accordance with the proposal, propos-al, a map showing the recreational recreation-al area to be created as "Echo Park, was changed to The Yampa-Ladore Playground. ! The commission and its advisers were invited to meet in the near future in Cheyenne, Wyo. i ' . |