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CONGRESSMAN

REPORTS

By Rep. Burr P. HarriPon

The House of Representatives devoted two days last week to debating the Upper Colorado Reclamation Project, and I was asked to vote for an authorization involving an estmated ultimate contribution by Virginia taxpayers or $67 million or more.

I could not, and did not.

If Virginia , members of Congress are to expect fair and sympathetic ■ consideration of Virginia : needs, it is reasonable that they should listen to arguments by other States in behalf of their own requirements.

I listened as the Upper Colobated vigorously, and the evidence rado Reclamation Project was deon both sides was complicated. The principle sponsors from Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona contended that hundreds of thousands of acres of wasteland would be brought into production with water from the huge reservoir lakes created by the dams to be built.

It did not seem logical to* me to authorize the expenditure of up to $4*bilIion iot this system of dams, to create additional agricultural production, at the same time as we were being asked to authorize the spending of other billions for a soil bank to take land out of production. '

There was discussion, in the debate, of the plight of the Navajo Indians, who live on a great reservation in the Southwest. In behalf of the Upper Colorado plan, it was contended that the Navajos would be given an opportunity to

to Elmer D. Hkkerson and Evelyn R. Hickerson, .07 of an acre, in Wakefield District; deed.

From Manuel M. Jenkins et ux to Samuel T. Willett et ux, 4 tracts in Jackson District; deed.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

Herbert Brown SmoOt, 24, mejchanic, son of George Thomas Smoot and Etta Bea French Smoot of Washington, and Laura Ann Atkins, 17, daughter of Kinsey Jefferfon Atkins and Ixzer Virginia Dodson Atkins, of Washington. The license was issued March 5, 1956.