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Show Parade Of Witnesses Urge Dam Okeh At Washington Echo Park Hearing WASHINGTON, Apr. 6 A parade of witnesses, including a score of Utah public and civic officials, Monday presented a well organized appeal to Secretary Secre-tary of the Interior Oscar L. Chapman for his prompt authorization author-ization of the proposed Echo Park and Spljt Mountain dams. Highlight of the afternoon session ses-sion was the unscheduled and dramatic plea for the project by Senator Eugene D. Millikin (R. Colo..), who described the Echo Park and Split Mountain sites as the best possible locations, loca-tions, and said any of the suggested sug-gested alternative sites would be unsound and result in the loss of several hundred thousand acre-feet of water. Earlier in the day three other senators and three members of Congress, including the entire Utah delegation pleaded for the upper Colorado river storage project. They were Senator El bert D. Thomas, Senator Arthur Ar-thur V. Watkins, Senator Edwin D. Johnson, Rep. Reva Beck Bosone, Rep. Walter K. Granger, Gran-ger, and Rep. Frank Barrett of Wyoming. |