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Show feiiiy-fliie Uintah iassn lelegates isi Way Tffl fitted' Mm Mi Hearing A "Save Echo Park" delegation, consist ing of twenty-nine men and women, representing rep-resenting all the people in Duchesne and Uintah Counties are leaving this weekend week-end for Washington, where they will participate in a special congressional hearing on the Upper Colorado River project that has been given the nod of the Interior Department. Hearing will open on Monday, Jan. 18 under the direction of the House Irri- . . gation Sub-committee on authorization legislation for the Upper Colorado River project, pro-ject, that includes Echo Park Dam and the Central Utah Project. Beginning last Tuesday, Jan. 5, at a Roosevelt Chamber of Commerce meeting, a campaign was started to get a representative delegation from Duchesne county pledged to attend the hearings, and finances to pay their way. Cooperation has been wonderful, and all ready to leave the Basin, some today and others Jan. 16, with airplane reservations in their pockets, are ten from Duchesne County. They will join 19 from Uintah County in Washington next Monday. ' Spearheading the campaign to get delegates was the Roosevelt Roose-velt Chamber of Commerce committee com-mittee on Echo Park and Central Cen-tral Utah projects, headed by Bennie Schmiett as chairman, and composed of Dr. R. V. Larson Lar-son and E. J. Nixon. The first official act of the committee was to meet with the Duchesne County Commissioners Commission-ers last Friday and ask them to appropriate funds for two delegates. The delegation at Duchesne Du-chesne consisted of representatives representa-tives from most all areas in the county. The commissioners allowed al-lowed $900 for two delegates and asked the committee to' select se-lect the men to represent the county. Floyd E. Lamb, chairman chair-man of the board, and A. Hale Holgate, vice-president of the Duchesne Water Users, received the nod. The latter being an alternate for Horace Allred, who was chosen, but was unable to' go. Other members of the delegation dele-gation and their sponsors are? as follows: Mr. Schmiett, George Stewart, and a third member, to be selected, Chamber of Commerce Com-merce and other business, professional pro-fessional and other individuals-in individuals-in the Roosevelt, area; Kenneth: Aycock, Roosevelt City; Charles--Edwards, Uintah Farmers Co-op' and Farmers Union; Chester Lyman, Ly-man, Duchesne City and business busi-ness people; Wayne Malin. Roos-I Roos-I evert Commercial Club; and Ray Brown, Moon Lake Electric Association. Mr. Schmiett and Mr. Malin were scheduled to leave by Frontier Airlines from Vernal today, Jan. 14, along with a delegation from Vernal. Others will leave Saturday morning and Saturday evening by the same route. The Vernal delegation is headed by its former mayor and present state senator, B. H. Stringham, who is chairman of the Twenty-one County committee. commit-tee. Others are Lawrence Sid-doway, Sid-doway, executive secretary of the Vernal Chamber of Commerce; Com-merce; Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Bau-cum, Bau-cum, Mr. and Mrs. Grady Russell, Rus-sell, Hugh Colton. Dr. Ernest Unterman, "Spot" Johnson, C. D. Dudley, county commissioner; commission-er; H. B. Millicam, Eva Ashton, Chris McKinlay, Leon Christensen, Christen-sen, Ralph Siddoway, newly elected mayor; Dale Jensen, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Turner, president of Vernal Chamber of Commerce; Com-merce; Harry Ratliff, Mrs. A. P. Vorhees, Mrs. George Adams and Dr. J. LeRoy Kay. |