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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1955.

MORE LONG DELAY FACED BY

COLORADO STORAGE PROJECT

Angry words flying in hot and steamy Washington be- tween two Western con- gressmen may

brew up a new battle over the multi- million-dollar Colorado storage project noxt year.

It's a battle that could calo further long delay in startingt the biggest irrigation and power programme ever proposed in the West.

Here is what happened: On the eve of adjournment, with

congressional tempera frayed by the last-minute legislative rush, a row broke out Letween two of the koy Agures in the controversy.

First, Rop. Dawson (R-Utah', a leading GOP proponent of the programme, spoke out in critical terms of a statement attributed to Colorado's Gov. Ed C. folution, who had been quoted us saying that the project was "atrocious and that the con- gressional legislation should be killed.

for

Damaging Blow

Mr Dawson said the Governor's oking for statement had struck "the single most damaging blow" to the project.

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MUSICAL

Mr

Dawson's

Gov.

Johnson drew prompt die from fellow Cokraden Rep. Aspinali, Democratie Chairman of a foure subcommittee handling the bill. Mr Dawson is a member of the subcommittee.

Mr Aspinall snapped that Mr Grillelam had. "en-

awson the whole project and

LARGE STOCKS of musical instru. had "made it more dificult to inante including violins,

work guliare,

together from now on." metrunumes, plno, acpordiona, naw

Long after the Dawson- and reound Lioned Upright and

Aspinal! grand planos, organs, vidios, bar

clash broke out into the open, soons, frenchhorns, pleculos, saXU-

Aspinall was stil clarinets, sousaphones, seething. phones,

truna, strings 44T

Cilu

accessories. Prices reasonable, Mayfair Music Company, 23,

Ling Street Telophone 27312

LATEST OPERAS available are Bartored Bride, Dalibor, The Kims, Olajo, Falstaff, Bultarily, Sudmamy buta, Boheme, *vita, Faust, Turandot. Electra Salome, Boris

Asked about the prospects for carly House action on the bill next year, Mr Aspinall told u reporter:

"At the present time, the out- look is not too good. I'm not Loo well pleased with the

Godunov, Life For The Tear, criticism of Gov. Johnice and

Barbiere, Tosca, Lohengrin, Meister- singar, Tristan, ele, from D. Esses, 4 Des Vorux Itund, Room 1, 2nd flour. Tel. 30106.

want to go brack home and sce what can be done.”

informants

Other flore-up on Capitol Hill reflected Colorado's resentment over get ting what it considers the short end of the stick on benefits from the project.

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RUSSIANS

Exhibition Of Bibles

Bibles WILL STAY At Mainz

Mainz, Aug. 9.

The Gutenberg museum

AWAY

Berlin, Aug. 9.

at Mainz has organised a The Soviet Union will not Biblo exhibition to celebrate take part in next month's the 500th anniversary of the Leipzig autumn trade fair, printing by Johannes Guten- fair officials announced to- borg hore of his Bible, day.

claimed to be the first book ever printed.

It will be the first time since the foir resumed after the war

not exhibit.

There are about 400 exhibita in 1946 that the Russians will of printed and manuscript work, including some priceless rarities. Most come from the museum's

own collection of 3,000 Bibles.

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exhibit at the fair.

They always had the biggest

Three magnificent manuscript The announcement was made bibles from the 10th century, in at a fair press conference in gold lettering on purple parch-East Berlin.

ment, estimated Áo be worth

500,000 marks (more than Nu reason for the Soviet £40,000 sterling) are being lent by Mainz Cathedral.

Centre Piece

The exhibition, which will be open for several months, gives

action was given, but a Fair spekceaman said, "I suppose the Soviets are too busy with other International affairs,"

The tale wifi

an almost complete view of the September

from 4 13 0. About 30

history of Bible production by Paltons will take part.-United

manuscript and printing.

also of Bible Ullustration.

and Press.

The centre piece of the ox- hibition is a representative

group of Bibles from German

They include the four-volume, Arkt edition of the Gloss3 Ordinaria, printed at Strasbourg In 1481, and a copy of the first

Going Home To Vote Against

printed pocket Bible produced The Communists

in 1401 at Báslo,

The Reformation is marked by the Orst Bibles in the Ger- man language, translated by Luther and other early Protestants.

Among a number of “polyglot" editions, in which versions in two or more languages ore given the "London side by side, is polyglot" which gives the text in ten languages.-China Mail Special.

Detroit, Aug. 9. Sixty citizens of San Marino, living in Detroit, and New York, havo, decided to fly home in order to swing the voting balance against the Communist Party when elections are held In the tiny republic next Sun- day.

Humbank Mularoni, organiser ......... of the voyage, said that the 60

votes added to those Holsinki, Aug. 9.

of the Finland

the

Chinese Christian Democrats might be and People's Republle signed a trade enough to "save" Ban Marino agreement in Peking for the from a victory by the Com-

to munists who now period from May 1, 1955

hold the April 30, 1950, the Finnish For- majority of seats in the Assem-

bly. eign Ministry reported.

exports Finland's principal

Mutaronl said that Com- under the new agreement will munists won the 1951 election Green; to take about 75 million acre

While the arguments rage, comprise timber, cellulose paper feet annually into the Arkansas swift population and industrial and metal goods. She will im-by only 120 votes. River for Pueblo's water supply growth are accelerating crisis port vegetable ail and ten Sen Marinio, a small republia and supplemental irrigation of situations in which it appears among other things.

near the East const of Maly, has the rich valley country, extend-] that tough decisions must bo No other details have been lonly 14,000 inhabitants.—France-

mode. Ing into western Kansas.

Presse. -disclosed so far.-Neuter,

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

Park Dains. respectively in Reclamation Bureau's said the Arizona and near the Utah-Mountain Power Dam.

Colorado state line. Together Another separate, through-the- they would cost. 600 million mountains diversion proposal is POSITIONS VACANT

dollars.

the Frying Pan-Arkansas project. ACCOUNTANCY,

Alarm in California It would cost 150 million dollars BOOK-KEEPING, Company Secretaryship, Costing. An "Intemaive Method Course (For These informants Intimated Glen Canyon would have a Award of Diploms as Aspocate or Follow)

will namlart

that Mr Aspinall will probably holdover storage capacity of 20 you to high status and botter salary. Interesting kislet on re-writing the whole million acre foot and produce spare-time Postal Study with expert

measure next year to give his 000,000 kilowatts of power, Echo tutors: Guaranteed Courses for

Park would store 9,400,000 acre state & bigger share. Chamber of Commerce, London

and R.S.A. Institute of Commerce, Die.

generate Under the current bill, already feet

200,000 For Free Booklet, write

Now approved by the Senate, 240 kilowatts In Southern California, London School Of Accountancy, 67, Monmouth Street, London, WC.2.million dollars would be spent the Colorado River England.

the Metropolitan Water District for irrigation units in Utah, 35 million in Wyoming, 38 million oppose the

the project us too big in New Mexico, and slightly and too costly. In addition, they than 25 anilko in argue that it might cut into Colorado,

water allocation pledged to the By contrast, Mr Aspinall says lower

basin

under tho 1022 fower ons Colorado contributes 72.18 per agreement, cent of the Upper Colorado The latter argument chures River water, Utah 14.03 per cent,

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that

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House action on the bill was ears the region's

population has i-ashclved

until next year when swelled from 5% to 8% million. Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex) and Economists predict it will reach Minority Leader Martin (R-Mass) 10 million by 1875-if the water decided on the basis of an in- holds out. But it is estimated formal poll that the measure

present supply will sup- lacked sufficient votes to pass port P population

only this year.

8,100,000,

Southern California twice in Ballbury Tempers Must Cool the past has been forced to Unless tempers cool, it may reach long distances. for precious SOMETHING EXCLUSIVE, Collec- ince equally tough sleddrig water. Its first effort was the tars packets of assorted stampe.

in

1950.

Los Angeles Aqueduct, which From 20 cents per packet upwards.

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the Sierra Nevada Street, Hongkong and Sillsbury 1,650-mile stream that is some- Mountains. The second was Hond, Kowloog.

times called the Nile of America, the Colorado Aqueduct, which It rises in the Rocky Mountains brings water from Parker of Colorado and

the Dam, on the Colorado, it now is

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Green River in Eastern Utan. leaking again to the water-

Then if flows southwest through | rich

mountains of northern

Ulah and Arizona, swings wesl-California. The proposed Oro- ward to form the Grand Canyon,

ville Dam on the Feather and turns

South through River would be tho crigin Lower Californic to the Gulf of

water brought south cf California.

and through

the Tehachapi The area drained by the river Mountains. and its branches shown on the Backers of the Colorado pro- accompanying map covers about ect discount Southern California 225,000 square miles.

fear that upper basin use would The interests with a stake in cut the water pledged to Call- the storage project range from fornía la 1922- They say the San Diego and Los Angeles to Colorado project would not only El Paso, Tex.,

and western | ESSUPE continuation of the Kansas. Citles contending for pledged water to the lower basin, municipal water supply from but that it would be provided in the basin area include Denver, a balanced flow through flood Colorado Springs and Pueblo, for drought.

rque, N.M.

Colo.; Utah; and Struggles & Quarrels controversy OVET the Upper büsü partisans sigue almost as far as the white man's Southern California was made by the 1923 compact. population of the West. Although possible there is

argument and conten- Now, they contend, it is only tice among neighbours almost all fair that storage dams be built

river, to

to give the upper basin a similar has opportunity.

Colorado's supply goes back that the swift development of

the way up and down the

one of the principal conflicts

been the tug-of-war between In addition to struggles be- the upper basin states of tween regions, there are quatrels Colorado, Wyoming, Ulah and between and overs within in-

Now Mexico and the lower basin [dividual states' in the upper, and states of California, Arizona and lower basins. Nevado.

Arizona and California are In 1022 on interstate compact hassling before the US Supreme division of 1% divided the water at Loe Ferry, Court over

foot of lower Ariz, allocating 71⁄2 million acre million acre feet onder to the upper and lower | basin water.

Within the slate of Colorado, basins. An acre foot is an acro

of water a foot deep, or 320,000 there's a bitter, fight between galluna,

The › agreement cleared the way

cast

by

and west. The western slope country surrounding Grand for construction of Hoover Dam, Junction,

booming uranium which came the key to the capital, battles the efforts Jower basin's use system. The Colorado Springs and Denver to Upper basin states, without make a transmountain turstrol storage dams, have been able to diversions of Colorado use less than 2 1/3 million nore water through the Rockies. feet of their aliosted 7 million “Denver, fastest growing contre Acre foot supply. They would in the mountain West, scos its do must be under the peas (induskesal growth stopped dead. posed Colorado whorage projpet by 1963 without more water. It The heart of the prolaos arnald has more for coust trying to win be the Glen Canyar and zone in demountala diversion. Crows the

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