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Show They're 75 Strong . . . . Utah Delegates A t Washington Giving Great Mid To Echo Park Utah's delegation to the Echo Park hearing in Washington is contributing much to the progress pro-gress of educating congressional representatives from all over the nation as to the true picture of the project, is the report reaching the home front as the hearing enters its fourth day. A telephone communication and a wire from Roosevelt members mem-bers of the delegation late last night indicate the picture looks much brighter than it has previously. pre-viously. "We are working hard, spending many long hours and learning a lot about how our congress works," is typical of the statements coming from the local delegation. A telegram from Bennie Schmiett, chairman of the Roosevelt Roos-evelt Chamber of Commerce Echo. Park committee, indicated the hearing was just getting started, and will take several days to' complete perhaps two weeks. He stated there were 75 delegates from Utah and they were making impressive records in their tireless work contacting contact-ing the entire congressional representatives rep-resentatives from all states. Several Utahns have appeared on the witness stand during the first three days, among which" were E. O. Larsen, director of the Salt Lake regional office of the Bureau of Reclamation, and Congressman Douglas R. String-fellow String-fellow from Utah's first district. Expected to take the stand today, to-day, Thursday, is the Basin's own State Senator B. H. String-ham String-ham from Vernal, and perhaps Dr. Ernest Untermann, also' of Vernal. To more effectively carry on their crusade for the vast Upper Up-per Colorado River project, Utahns met together early this week and perfected an organization organiza-tion and named various committees, commit-tees, which are designated in six divisions. George D. Clyde, state representative repre-sentative on the Colorado River Commission, is chief executive of the group. Hugh V. Colion-Vernal, Colion-Vernal, is chairman. Jay R. Bingham, Springville is secretary; Thomas Jensen, Salt Lake City; Henry Roberts, Provo, and T. Clark Callister, Fillmore, are committee officers. A ladies' committee is headed by Mrs. Leo P. Harvey, Salt Lake City. Mrs. Rae Ashton, Mrs. George Adams and Mrs. Colton, all of Vernal, and Mrs. Jensen, are members. Jay R. Bingham is chairman of the administrative committee, commit-tee, assisted by L. Y. Siddoway, C. R. Henderson and O. L. Johnson, John-son, all of Vernal. Congressional contact workers work-ers are headed by Mr. Jensen and include Don V. Tibbs, Sanpete San-pete County; H. T. Godfrey, (Continued on Back Page) Echo Park .... (Continued from page 1) Salt Lake City; Verl G. Dixon, Provo, and Chris McKinlay, of Vernal. Henry Roberts is chairman of the national organizations committee, com-mittee, assisted by Gus P. Back-man, Back-man, Walker Wallec and David D. Moffat of Salt Lake; Henry Millecam and Leo P. Harvey, Vernal. Bennie Schmiett, Roosevelt, is chairman of the Publicity Group, aided by Wayne Malin, Roosevelt; Betty Barnes, Vernal. T. Clark Callister heads .the liason committee. John S. McAllister, Mc-Allister, Sanpete County; State Sen. B. H. Stringham of Vernal and H. T. Godfrey are committee commit-tee members. State Atty. Gen. E. R. Callister, Callis-ter, Judge H. A. Howell and Sen. Stringham are legal advisers ad-visers for the entire group. All Utah delegates meet for an early breakfast at their hotel headquarters before proceeding to the hearings on Capitol Hill. |