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Show Two Roosevelt ftlen Cited For Water Development ' Two Clubs Join To Hear Talk On Colorado River Two Roosevelt ' citizens were honored at a joint meeting of the Lions and Kiwanis clubs last Thursday night, and members heard a challenging address by George D. Clyde, director of the Utah Power and Water Board. He has also been very active in the promotion of the Upper Colorado River development project. A veteran farmer and rancher, Horace Allred, was cited by the Bureau of Reclamation for his tremendous tre-mendous contribution to the development devel-opment of water projects in the Uintah Basin and the state of Utah as a whole. Representing the Bureau was Reed Jarman, who gave a detailed account of the activities of Mr. Allred who came to the Basin in 1918 and began immediately im-mediately fighting and working for better irrigation facilities. His citation, ci-tation, which was signed by the Secretary of the Interior, Douglas McKay, was also accompanied by a personal letter from the secretary. secre-tary. In his remarks, Mr. Jarman pointed out that only one other ' similar award which is known as the "Conservation Service Award," was being presented in Utah, and that went to William R. Wallace, aging veteran of Utah's fight for her share of the Colorado River water. Newspaper Honored The other award went to Cliff Memmott, editor-publisher of the (Continued on Back Page) ROOSEVELT MEN CITED. . . (Continued from Page One) Roosevelt Standard. This citation was presented because of the outstanding out-standing job done during the current cur-rent year of publicising the Upper Colorado River Development program. pro-gram. B. H. Stringham, state senator sen-ator from Vernal, and president of the Twenty-one County Commission, Commis-sion, made the award on behalf of the Grass Roots Incorporated, and the Utah State Press Association. In presenting the citation to Mr. Memmott, Senator Stringham told the group that early this year the Utah State Press Assn. and Grass Roots, Inc. joined in a contest among. Utah's weekly newspapers and announced that the paper that did the best job of publicising the Upper Colorado River would receive re-ceive a plaque. The Standard was chosen for first place in the state with ' the Springville Herald of Springville as second. Praised Basin People In the early part of his hour and one-half address, Mr. Clyde paid a glowing tribute to the stability of the men and women of the Uintah Basin who were fighting against tremendous odds when they came to this country to settle and try to build up an empire. em-pire. "You have succeeded, and with such men as Mr. Allred, Mr. Stringham, Byron Colton and others, oth-ers, to spur you on, the Uintah Basin is destined to some day become a veritable garden of Eden," Ed-en," Mr. Clyde said in his tribute to the leadership of the people. Mr. Clyde gave a very comprehensive compre-hensive story of the proposed Central Cen-tral Utah Project, which is a must if Utah is to grow, and clearly emphasized em-phasized that if and when it becomes be-comes a reality, the Basin will not be losing its water. "Before one drop of water leaves this area, complete provisions will be made in the project to replace and greatly great-ly enhance the present supply of water that comes from the upper streams of the Uintas," Mr. Clyde stated. In commenting on the unfair methods being employed by the opposition to the project, Mr. Clyde said fabulous sums of money are being spent to spread "lies" about the cost of the project. "They say the project is too big and too expensive. But what the Californians should say is, if we can keep the upper states from getting the water, it will continue to flow down the Colorado onto the lands of Southern California," Mr. Clyde said. November Meeting Mr. Clyde reported that a meeting meet-ing for November 1 of the Upper Colorado Commission would consider con-sider all the latest developments, and he felt sure a bill would be framed and approved by the commission com-mission that could go directly to the House of Representatives early next year, without having to be detoured into a dozen different committees. Forty or fifty votes in the lower house are needed to get the bill passed, and that is our biggest job, Mr. Clyde suggested. In concluding his very informative informa-tive and interesting speech, Mr. Clyde called for a final big surge of interest and enthusiasm, plus a lot of work and planning by the people here in the Basin and elsewhere else-where in Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. "We must convince con-vince our friends outside our own area, that California is selfish in their opposition, and if they are successful in stopping the approval of the Upper Colorado Development, Develop-ment, they will stop the progress of the entire West and the nation," he said in conclusion. The meeting was planned jointly joint-ly by Lynn Poulson, Lions president, presi-dent, and John Wogec, president of the Kiwanis Club. Bennie Schmiett, chairman of the water development committee of the Chamber of Commerce, conducted the meeting as toastmaster. |