ANNUAL PRECIPITATION 2 TO 30 INCHES
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ANNUAL PRECIPITATION 30 TO eo INCHES
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U. S. Weather Bureau
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DEDICATED TO THE TASK OF PROVIDING ADEQUATE WATER FOR A PROFITABLE AND DIVERSIFIED IRRIGATION AGRICULTURE IN WESTERN AMERICA-AN EX·
PANSION OF WAR FOOD PRODUCTION THROUGH MORE IRRIGATION-THE CREATION OF NEW FARM OPPORTUNITIES AND THE STABILIZATION OF DROUGHT AREAS. AS LONG AS THIS NATION CONTINUES TO INCREASE IN POPULATION A MILLION PER YEAR. AND WE CONTINUE TO IMPORT ANNUAllY THE AGRI·
CULTURAL PRODUCTS FROM MORE THAN FIFTY MILLION ACRES OF FOREIGN SOIL. WE NEED HAVE NO FEAR.OF OVER·EXPANDING THE RECLAMATION_OF OUR ARID LANDS.
1119 NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING. WASHINGTON 4. D.
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A. BATTLE FOR MORE FOOD, THAT WAS WON A Review of Irrigation War Food Projeots
On the front oover of the Printed Prooeedings of our 1942 annual meeting we print- ed this sentenoe in a box; "Food Ca.'! Beoome the Most Critioa.l of all War Material
n"About the same time the War Production Board (not associating federal irrigation projects with food production) issued stop orders against all federal irrigation . projeots then under construction.
The National Reolamation Association immediately undertook the task 'or ·aoquaint- ing the WPB of the war food emergency and arousing projeot sponsors and federal departments to a concerted effort to have the War Produotion Board rescind those stop orders.
Before the 1943
a~~ualmeeting, thirteen federal irrigation projeots
~~dthirteen Indian irrigation projeots had been approved by the War Production Board for immedi- ate oonstruction as war
foo~projects. A year later twenty-seven Bureau of Reclama- tion war food
projects~in addition to the Indian projects, had been approved as war food projeots and were granted priorities for manpower and materials, and were on their way (not without great obstacles). Today as the wars coma to an end, with food really the most critical of all war materials and the most essential element in the world for the establishment of peace, we submit n. report on ·the results of irri- gation war food projeots as of today, with a brief swmlary of the contribution which the total 4,139.349 acres of federally constructed irrigation projeots have contri- buted to the food supplies of the Uhited States and the United Nations.
Despite shortages of labor and material, the Bureau of Reolamation has made sub- stantinl progress in construction of irrigation facilities on .its war food projeots.
A total of 1,293.782 irrigable acres are included in the approvod war food program, oleared for construotion by the War Production Board. Of this area~ 204,h35 a.cres . were given water service
duri~gthe 1944 crop
season~consisting of lands served by the Madera Canal and Friant dam, Central Valley project, Culiforrlia; a portion of the Roze. division, Yakima project, Washington; and a small acreage on the Gila pro- ject in Arizona~ Crop results for these areas are included in the 1944 totals.
Of the total
acrea~eincluded in the Bureau's war food construotion program 253,565 aores are reoeiving a supplemental water supply this year. to stabilize and
inorease production, and 69,687 a.ores of new
lands~the majority in private owner- ship, are sohedu1ed to receive irrigation water for the first tiIne in 1945- This represents an increase of 118,817 acres over the aoreage served with irrigation water from realamation systoms in 1944.
Completion of construction on a majority of the war food projects is expected so that the lands will reoeive new and supplemental water service in 1946. It is now
OFFICERS ORA BUNDY, PRESIDENT
ROBERT W. SAWYER, FIRST VICE·PRESIDENT HARRY E. POLK, SECOND VICE·PRESIDENT J. A. FORD, TREASURER
F. O. HA'>IE, SECRETARY·MANAGER
HUGO B. FARMER, YUMA, ARIZONA J. R. FAUVER, EXETER. CAliFORNIA CLIFFORD H. STONE, DENVER. COLORADO N. V. SHARP, FILER. IDAHO
PAUL W. APPLEGATE. WAKEENEY. KANSAS O. S. WARDEN. GREAT FALLS, MONTANA
DIRECTORS H. D. STRUNK. McCOOK. NEBRASKA A. M. SMITH. CARSON CITY, NEVADA E. W. BOWEN, TUCUMCARI. NEW MEXICO HARRY E. POLK. WILLISTON. NORTH DAKOTA FRANK RAAB, CANTON. OKLAH('~A
ROBERT W. SAWYER. BEND. OREGON MILLARD G. SCOTT. PIERRE. SOUTH DAKOTA ELDON B. SMITH, MERCEDES. TEXAS ORA BUNDY. OGDEN, UTAH J. A. FORD. SPOKANE, WASHINGTON W. F. WILKERSON, CASPER, WYOMING
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I!II2 - August 17, 1945
estimated a total of 234,757 ,acres of new lands will be served next year and that
598,325 acres will then be reoeiving supplemtnal water.
The following tabulation is of interest.
Pro~ress
of Authorized War Food Projects
i
t ••
Irrigable Acreage Benefited
"
e , 19L~5 r' 191+6
----~---+I---·~---
: .Supplemental. 'Supplemental
t
Projeot
ttNew lands
IWater ,New la:nds: Water Gila, Arizona.
Coachella, Calif.
~dera
Canal, Calif.
Friant Dam. Calif.
Colorado-Big
ThOrr.p3Cll,Calc.
Anderson Ranch, Idaho Fbrt Shaw Dra.inage, Mont.
Sun River - Pishkun, Mont.
Tuoumcari, New Mexico Carlsbad Iraimge, New Mexico Lugert-Altus, Okla.
Deschutes, Ore.
Klamath-Modoc, Oreg-Cal.
Modoc
Ex~,Oreg-Cal.Provo River, Utah Yakima-Raze, Wash.
Mancos, Colo.
Post Falls, Idaho Bitterroot, MOnt.
Int a.ke, Mont.
Dodson
~~ping,Mont.
Missoula Valley, Mont.
Mirage Flats, Neb.
Rapid Valley. S. D.
Balmorhea, Tex.
Newton, Utah Scofield, Utah
Totals
445 o
64,02?, /
l25,97o.!r o o o o o o
o o
° o
o 14,000
o o o
o o o
o o o
o o
8,500
o
3,300
o o
o o o 7,000
o
20,000
o o
o o
26,700
o
2,527 o o o o
o o o 1,660
o 69.687
o o
80,000 160,000l/ .
o o
600 o o
1,200
o o o o
10,200
o
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1,000 o
° o
° o o
°
565 o
e,5 0 0' 10.'000 20,000
o
o o
o o
45,000
o
40,000 20,000 12,5 00 12,100
o 32,05 0
2,000 2,527 14,600 620 1,200
°
12,000 o o 1,660
o 234,757
1/ Supplemental service on interim basis.
A Summary of the Progross on Authorized liar Food .
Proj~cts
Total areas served water - War Food Program
1944 204,435
1945 3 23,252
19L~6 833,082
Additional 460,700
°
3,500 80,000 160,ooa!/
90,000 100,000 600 97,000 o
1,200
o o
o o 19,300
o
. 8.000 1,000 4,000
240 o
900 o
12,000 7,520
565
12,500
598,325
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Construction Continuing - High Yields Reported
Construction will oontinue on the Colorado-Big Thompson
projec~Colorado; the Anderson Ranch projeot, Idaho; and the Modoc Extenoion of the Klrunath projoct, Oregon-California, and additional lands in these projeots will be served in 1947.
The Roza division of the Yakima project, Washington, the irrigation of ~ich is being hastened under the war food program, is developing from sagebrush la.nd into an extensively farmed area, as fast as water beoomes
~vo.ilable.The Roze. lands in 19W+ produced crops with an
aver~gegross value of $222.36 per acre. In the apple- growing Tieton division of the Yakima projeot, now fully ' developed, the 1944 gross crop value wus $598.34 per aore, while on the Okanogan project in northern Washing- ton u value of $592.32 per acre was reported. Tho Tule Lake division of the
Klamath project - land reclaimed from the former lake bed - produced crops last year worth an average of $193.55 per acre. In the Southwest, the Salt River pro- ject, Arizona, raised crops averaging $16l,29 ,per acre in value, anq the Imperial Irrigation District, California, produoed crops worth $160.77 per aore. The fedBr- ul reclamation projects, of which the above are a few outstanding exmJples, are contributing large quantities of alfalfa. grains, sugar beets,
potatoes~beans, vegetables, ,and fruits to the nution's food supply.
Indications are that the 1945 war crop results on Bureau of Reolamation projects will equal or exceed the 1944 total gross value of $1..,,11,226,364, produced on
4,139,349 acres in cultivation whioh were irrigatod in whole or in part with water furnished by reclamation systems. Total food a.nd forage crops produced in 191+4 amounted to 11.368,996 tons and the 1945 tonnage may go above that record-breaking figure. This and more will all be needed if the peoples of the earth are to be fed.
C~nal
Work Finally Started in Central
Vall~~With the end of the war oomes .news that the contract for the first 5.6-milo sec- t ion of the l60-mile Friant-Kern Canal on the Central Valley project of California
has been let. The contraot price was $1,163.340, the lowest of 11 bids • . The com- pleted canal is estimated to cost $23,500,000, at 1940 prioes. The canal will have a muximum depth of 15 feet and a maximum width of 100 feet. It will supply supple- mental water to one of the richest and most diverse irrigation areas of the world.
Nearly 1,500,000 acres of highly developed land will be saved and stabilized by this supplemental water supply.
Where Do Irrigation Districts of the West Stand on Regional Authorities?
It has been
sl~gestedthat the irrigation districts, water users associations and other farmer-oontrolled water groups throughout the West express themselves in resolutions concerning the regional authority proposals now before the Congress, with the idea that the recolutions be presented to the Irrigation and Reclamation Committee of the Senate when it starts hearings on the MUrray M.V.A. Bill in September. Such resolutions sent to this office will be submitted for tho record of the hearings.
Respectfully submitted, F. O. Hagie ,
Secretary-Manager
FOH:me
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DEDICATED TO THE TASK OF PROVIDING ADEQUATE WATER FOR A PROFITABLE AND DIVERSIFIED IRRIGATION AGRICULTURE IN WESTERN AMERICA-AN EX.
PANSION OF WAR FOOD PRODUCTION THROUGH MORE IRRIGATION-THE CREATION OF NEW FARM OPPORTUNITIES AND THE STABILIZATION OF DROUGHT AREAS. AS LONG AS THIS NATION CONTINUES TO INCREASE IN POPULATION A MILLION PER YEAR. AND WE CONTINUE TO IMPORT ANNUALLY THE AGRI- g~iT~:I~L ':~~~~CTS FROM MORE THAN FIFTY MILLION ACRES OF FOREIGN SOIL. WE NEED HAVE NO FEAR OF OVER·EXPANDING THE RECLAMATION OF
1119 NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING. WASHINGTON 4. D. C. August 4. 1945
PROSPECTS FOR ANNUAL MEET- ING THIS YEAR - DOUBTFUL'
Unless there are dramatic ohanges in the Pacifio war, it will obviously be impossible for this assooiation to hold its annual meeting and convention as usual t hi s year. Numerous conferences on the subject have so far failed to orystallize any plan, or even a substitute for the an.'1.ual meeting of all members of the ass 0cin-
tion~
Suggestions from members will be appreoiated, but without
asubstantial les sening of transport demand for the armed servioes. it appoars that there oan be no annual meeting this fall.
HEA RINGS ON M.V.A. BILL
S'ffET TWO WEEKS AliVI'ER 'SEIJATE RECONVEHES
On July 26. before adjourning August 1 to
reo~nveneOctober 8. the Senate gave its unanimous oonsent to a
reoon~endation
by Senator Overton, conourred in by Senator Murray. tha.t the hearings on the Murray M.V.A.
Bill (s. 555) begin "two weeks after the date upon whioh the Senate reconvGnes
lt•If the Senate does 'not reoonyene until October 8. that would mean hearings would start on October 22. However, if the fortunes of war or anything else should bring the Senato baok ahead of time, it would move up the date for the hearings.
SPE CULATION ON THE
I~'ERIOR SECRETARYSHIP
No other oabinet position affects the West as
intimat~ly as does the Department of Interior. Harold L.
Ickes, the present Seoretary, has held the office longer than any other man. Under his administration more reolamation has been
accom~lishad
than under any other Seoretary. However, he is now talking about re- tiring. If and when he does, there is great speoulation over who may succeed hiM.
M~ny
names have been prominently mentioned. Probably the name that has been discus- sed the most is that of WyoDingts popular Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney. Never a
ca~didute
for the position, Senator Of Mahoney has oontended that he could render greater service in the Senate, but of oourse he could, like others, be drafted for the place. However, it now appears that the administration has decided it will not f urther weaken the Senate by drafting senators to fill cabinet
posit~'t;?ns,but will
l ook to ex-senators and other men of legislative or administrative exp-eriencc. At
the moment the name of ex-Senator D. Worth Clark of Idaho is being very\ prominently mentioned for the position. With the Senate now in reooss until October 8, it is unlikely that any changes. will be made much before the Senate . is again
~nsession to confirm any appointment.
PROGRESS ON THE MISSOURI RIVER
In the six months since Congress approved the joint plan of the Army and Bureau of Reclamation Engineers for the full development of the Missouri River Basin and authorized four hundred million dollars to start the work, Congress has appro- priated 'five million dollars to a half dozen federal agenoies to complete their plans and put them in blueprint form ready for letting contraots as soon as the war is over. Within the past two months the Army Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of Agrioulture, and the Federal Power Commission have set up an
OFFICERS ORA BUNDY. PRESIDENT
ROBERT W. SAWYER. FIRST VICE.PRESIDENT HARRY E. POLK. SECOND VICE.PRESIDENT J. A. FORD. TREASURER
F. O. HAGlE. SECRETARY.MANAGER
HUGO B. FARMER. YUMA. ARIZONA J. R. FAUVER. EXETER. CALIFORNIA CLIFFORD H. STONE. DENVER. COLORADO N. V. SHARP. FILER. IDAHO
PAUL W. APPLEGATE. WAKEENEY. KANSAS O. S. WARDEN. GREAT FALLS. MONTANA
DIRECTORS H. D. STRUNK. McCOOK, NEBRASKA A. M. SMITH. CARSON CITY. NEVADA E. W. BOWEN. TUCUMCARI. NEW MEXICO HARRY E. POLK. WILLISTON. NORTH DAKOTA FRANK RAAB. CANTON. OKLAHOMA
ROBERT W. SAWYER. BEND. OREGON MILLARD G. SCOTT. PIERRE. SOUTH DAKOTA ELDON B. SMITH, MERCEDES. TEXAS ORA BUNDY. OGDEN. UTAH J. A. FORD. SPOKANE. WASHINGTON W. F. WILKERSON. CASPER. WYOMING
VOL. IX, NO. 12 . 2 - August 4, 1945
Inter-Agency C , ommittee to help integrate the plans of: all interested f'ederal and state agenoies. This Inter-Agenoy Committee is oomposed of a representative f'rom each of the above f'ederal agenoies and of four governors from the Missouri Basin stutes chosen b.Y
~ssourlBasin Governors' Oommittoe. Their first meeting held at Omaha on July 19 was oarried out in the spirit of the 1944 Flood Control Aot whioh reads in part as follows.
"It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress to reoognize the interests and rights of the states in determining the development of the watersheds within their borders and likewise their interests and rights
in water utilization and oontrol." '
This prooedure truly appears to be ftDemooraoy ' on the. Forward Maroh". The August meeting of the Inter-Agenoy Committee will take plaoe at Omaha on August 16. tpe September meeting at Billings, Montana, on September 20.
30-PAGE BUREAU PAMPHLET,
"PDTTING THE MISSOURI TO
W"6R'i(Ti, DUE OFF PRESS SOON
A highly illustrated pamphlet on the present approved plans for Missouri River development, soon to be off the press. will make olear to anyone who reads it .the ohanges whioh will take plaoe when that wild, destruc- tive, indigent river is finally harnessed and put to work for the benef'it of all the people of' the Missouri ' Valley_ Copies oan be seoured by writing tho Information Division, Bureau of Reolamation, Interior Department. Washington 25, D. C.
ttFREEDOM'S GREATEST FOE" Through the courtesy of Mr.
offioe has mailed you under
a
very outstanding address by J. P. Seiberling before the Dallas, Texas, in April, titled "Froedom's Greatest Foe".
find time to read it
~ndpass the message along.
George Seiberling, this separate oover a oopy of' Salesmanship Club of
We hope every member may
"BUS
11~SSmIDER TRUMAN" Wa.lter Chamblin, Jr., Executive Direotor of the Nation- al Assooiation of
~nuf'aoturers,reoently addressed the Washington Trade Association Exeoutives on the subjeot of "· Business Under Truman". -The address was so timely, so fair an appraisal, and so informative that we are enolosing ono to eaoh member. We know you will f'ind it most help.ful.
It
IT
tS TIME TO EMBALM
THS WIAtt Copy of an editorial on the above subjeot from the
Montana Miles City star throws some
ligb~on the re- oent eleotion in MOntann and the relationship of that election to the campaign for *n M.V.A. in Montana. You will enjoy it.
N.R.A. OFFICE CHANGES On the 21st of July Miss Ernestine Hudson, who has been the efficient offioe seoretary of the National Reclamation Assooiation for the past two years, was married to Porter Hastings Gott, Lt. (jg), Dental Corps, USNR. The happy couple are now making their home at
Williamsburg, Virginia, where Doctor
Got~is stationed.
Miss Mildred ' Edney of Mankato, Minnesota, has taken over the position formerly held by Miss Hudson and is making many friends for herself and the assooiatioh.
Starting in July, Mr. John Henry Shaw, former newspaper publisher from Denver,
Colorado, has been in the office assisting with a growing burden of work inoident
to the assooiation's
enl~rgedand growing program.
VOL. IX, NO. 12.
SUB-C011MITTEE MEETS "TO CLARIFY l60-ACRE LIJID
LIMITATION PROVISION
- 3 - August 4; 1945
The L&nd Dimitation Policy Committee. referred to in
our Juhe 29 Water Conservation Conference newsletter, announoes that a sub-committee is meeting in Colorado Springs August 13-14-15 to draft amendments to the Federal Reolamation Aot. A full report of their program probably will not be
avail~able for another sixty
days~SECOND EDITION OF "THE
AUTHORITY ISS tiE" iqOW ON FRESS
The unpreoedented demand for copies of the 66,000- edition of "The Authority Issue" ha.s been such as to require the ordering of a seoond edition whioh is ing favorable oomment
expeoted off the press soon. ' The pamphlet is attraot- from many sources.
HEP RINGS ON HeR. 520 FOR SET TLING, VETERANS ON R:r~rAl'IAT ION PROJECTS
Through the courtesy of Congressman Murdock of Arizona, Chairmah of "the House Cof!imittee on Irrigation and Reolamation; each of our members has reoeived Part 1 of these hearings; and Part 2 is now being mailed, . In addition to the facts concerning H.R. 520, of which Congressman Murdook is tho au+hor, there is muoh material of great value in these two hearings. They should be perused carefully and made a part of your Reolamation Library.
In Part 1. pages ,0 to 62, is a swmnary of authorized projeots in seventeen states for construotion in the post-war period. Anyone who reads this list will not foel , t hat they have to wait for a federal regional authority to be set up to get western
development.
Page~168 to 179 cover the Missouri River Basin plans.
In Part 2; now being mailed you by Congressmah Murdook, on pages 299 to ,03, is some power information of more -than general interest. Both volumes are worth oareful study.
BILLS YOU MAY WANT TO
KEEP --- y' OUR EYES ON ... s~ ,62 by O'Mahoney, amending the Faot Finders Aot of 1924 relative to costs of investigations of certain reolamation
projeots~s. 395' by Hayden (for Hatoh) (by request). to modify the application of the excess land and repayment provisions of the federal reolamation laws to the Central Va.lley Project; California.
H.R. 1695 by Peterson, to amend the Boulder Canyon Projeots Aot; approved December 21, 1928.
S. 894 by OtMahoney, to authorize the oonstruotion of oertain federal reolamation works in the upper basin of the Colorado River.
H.R. 380, by Curtis, to provide for the deduotion from gross inoome for inoome tax purposes of expense incurred by farmers for the purpose of leveling land used or to be used in farming operations.
S. 1260 by MoFarland, to supplement the Reolamation Extension Aot (Aot of AUgust 13, 1914. 38 Stat. 686),'
FOH:me Encls-2
Respectfully submitted, F. o. Hagie,
SeoretarY-Manager
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DEDICATED TO THE TASK OF PROVIDING ADEQUATE WATER FOR A PROFITABLE AND DIVERSIFIED IRRIGATION AGRICULTURE IN WESTERN AMERICA-AN EXPAN- SION OF WAR FOOD PRODUCTION THROUGH MORE IRRIGATION-THE CREATION OF NEW FARM OPPORTUNITIES AND THE STABILIZATION OF DROUGHT AREAS.
VOL. VIII. NO. 12 1119 NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING, WASHINGTON 4, D. c. !'1A.Y 19, 1944 SENATE HEARINGS CONcLtmED ON RIVER AND HARBOR BILL
A sub-Committee of the Senate Commerce Committee, Chairmaned by Senator Overton Louisiana, which began hearings April 25th to consider amendm ents to the River and Harbor Bill, concluded their hearings on May 18th. Most of the time from May 10th t o
~y18th was devoted to considering the amendment sponsored by the seventeen western states and twelve eastern states, proposed by Senator O'Mahoney for the fol-
lowing Senators: Austin, Bushfield, Chavez, Clark of Idaho, Downey, Hatch, Hayden, Johnson of Colorado, Langer, McCarran, McFarland, Millikin, MUrdock, Murray, Nye, Robertson, Scrugham, Thomas of Utah, Thomas of Idaho, Wheeler, and Wilson of Iowa.
Senator O'Mahoney, representing both eastern and western Senators was ably aid- ed by Senators Millikin, Robertson, Wheeler, Murray, Nye, Langer, Gurney, Bushfield, Johns on, NcCarran and other western Senators, and by an unusually competent group of witnesses which included Governor Ford of Montana, Governor Moses of North Dakota, Governor Bottolfsen of Idaho, Clifford H. Stone, Director of the Colorado Water Conservation B oard and appearing for water interests in the states of MOntana, Wyoming, North
D~ota,Idaho, Utah, Washington, Colorado and for this Association, and Royce J. Tipton, Consulting Engineer for western Governors and for this Associa- tion.
Other witnesses included Attorney General Alban J. Parker of Vermont, Dwane E.
Minard, Jr. of New Jersey, ' Ellwood J. Turner of Pennsyl van ia and R. C. Beckett of Delaware. Bureau of Reoloonation officials ' appearing in behalf of the
~endmentincluded Commissioner Bashore, W. G. Sloa.n, H. L. Wulster, How ard R. Stinson, and E. B. Debler. The Twin Cities of Minnesota furnished two excellent witnesses in
I'1r. N. K. Carnes, 11anager of the Central Cooperative Association and Fred P. Fellows,
M anager of the st. Paul Association of Commerce. Still another witness was
Mr. Millard G. Scott of South Dakota, and many others, including a representative of the Railroad Brotherhoods.
The entire West is indebted to such Senators as Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming, Eugene D. Millikin of Colorado, Edward V. Robertson of Wyoming and others who have helped weave the testimony of our expert witnesses into an irrefutable argument for positive action by the Congress.
The testimony taken at the hearings is expeoted to be printed in a week or ten days after which the Committee is expected to "Trulrk up the Bill". At this writing it appears probable thut the Bill nay not get to the fl oor of the Senate before June loth. We doubt that the Committee will mnke our anendrnent
0.p!lrt of the Bill, which will necessitate writing it int o the Bill on the Senate floor.
SEN ATE HEARINGS ON FLOOD CONTROL BILL DUE TO START MAY 29TH
Last week the House passed the Flood Control Bill with little ohange. At a last-minute meeting of the House Flood Control Committe e a part of one of
OFFICERS O. S. WARDEN. PRESIDENT ORA BUNDY. FIRST VICE PRESIDENT ROBERT W. SAWYER. SECOND VICE·PRESIDENT J. A fORD. TREASURER
f. O. HAGlE. SECRETARY·MANAGER
HUGO B. fARMER. YUMA. ARIZONA J. R. fAUVER. EXETER. CALIFORNIA CLIFFORD H. STONE. DENVER. COLORADO N. V. SHARP. FILER. IDAHO
E. PORTER AHRENS. SCANDIA. KANSAS O. S. WARDEN. GREAT FALLS. MONTANA
DIRECTORS H. D. STRUNK. Me COOK. NEBRASKA A. M SMITH. CARSON CITY. NEVADA E. W. BOWEN. TUCUMCARI. NEW MEXICO HARRY E. POLK. WILLISTON. NORTH DAKOTA fRANK RAAB. CANTON. OKLAHOMA
ROBERT"W. SAWYER. BEND. OREGON MILLARD G. SCOTT. PIERRE. SOUTH DAKOTA MILTON E. DANIEL. BRECKENRIDGE. TEXAS ORA BUNDY. OGDEN. UTAH
J. A. fORD. SPOKANE. WASHINGTON W. F. WILKERSON. CASPER. WYOMING
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Congressman Rob, inson' s amendments was accepted, offered on the floor as a Coromi ttee amendment and was approved as n part of tho Bill. Another western amendment offer- ed on the floor by Robinson of Utah was rejected, as was
athird western amendment which was offered by Lemke of North Dakota. The Lemke Amendment lost by only five votes. Senate hearings on the Flood Control Bill are now scheduled to start on May 29th before Senator Overton's sub-Committee. A united effort will be made to
a~end
