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<br />~ <br />IJIJ! :J~ ( <br /> <br />Stone's Death <br />Shocks Friends <br />All Over Nation <br /> <br />!OOl".. ~Io"." on JI"l:l' I .J~o. <br />R)" nOHl.;ftT II. H.\:\~t~~.. I <br />Ill'''\'"" "O\t Staff "'rIIN. <br />Thfo unc;\:pt'Cfcd "('lith 01 Judge <br />';Ilfford H. Slooe, Co!orado'~1 <br />v.u'll"lv kn<:l\\.n dir..Nor of the Mat.., <br />\nlrt'~ con..~t\'atjon board. ~hoc.kedl <br />Walo:or (':\p('rls and il. host ot friends' <br />from ('oast to coast Wrdn('!'da)', I <br />JUdl;l' :'Itonl' di{>(j quietly dunn;:; <br />the m!:'ht at lhf' Sf. Charles hotel <br />it :\ew Orleans, whl-re- hf' had) <br />flow" Tu('s.dll)' to llfttod a ml"l'lJnS:1 <br />of fhe ArkallsIIS-Whi!('.Rt>d tin...' <br />h;uins inll'l'lll;l"ncy ('ommift~. <br />As Colorado's first ami only <br />waler .;onservation board director. <br />Judge Slone wrote page after page <br /> <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />, ., ..~ .~~, 't~ <br />lllll .. "" _",,,..,'. <br />r1"',. .. .. ",';'. <br />I ' <br />'.... <br />,,::) , <br />.. <br /> <br /> <br />JUDGE CLIFFORD H. STONE. <br />Dies in New Orleol1\. <br /> <br />in rhl' nation's 1'IIlf'r hi~lor\'. Pitt._ <br />ins:: Ih.. \\,ay for full I1rvf'i~Plnenl <br />or lhi> \\'('~I's t"r('at war"r rl!'~ource~ <br />hy ~killfuny ne:;:olialmg ioterM8!e <br />a:::rt'cments. <br />H... bream... !1'cOi:nl~d IH the na_ <br />li"n'$ Il'adm.l:" \'i1tf'r AUlhorih' and <br />hI' n>jl"C'lei'! ~l'\'l"ral offers ol'othr[ <br />pOSls ilt salaries tar e"','f't'dm:;: lhl' <br />S,qloiO CoJor;ulo paid him. <br />U:.I'7 O~... :\1f;)lOnIU~ <br />"But Jud!:;e Slone has ll'rt in his <br />paBlnJ.":, hi\ 0\\1'1 mf"l)lori31 whi"h <br />is wriHt'n in the hi.'lory of Ollr Wil_ <br />ler ["(m~er\"a!ion program Sinn" It. <br />lnn'p:iO<1 in 193':, <br />'"Ar th(' 11mI' (I{ hi~ df'::!.th h.. \\11' <br />on an import anI mi"IOl1 for Co!".. <br />Tado, fl'prt'!('ntini: rhl' "taT". 1" <br />pt-npl(' and :hf> "n\'t':TH'lr III rOl' <br />ArKan~a~'\\~n:;'''.P.t>d t'lw'r h3...~in. <br />11lll"rall'rnl'Y c(lmmillrf' m Xew Or. <br />11"1ln., .\1.,' hl'arlfl"lt ,'ympa~hy is <br />e.xr"nd"d 11'1 hIS family." <br /> <br />Similar trihutl'~ J>QUr"l'd ill from <br />lop stale, t<<ll'raland local aUlhorl_I' <br />tips 'rom Xew Orll'an.s In BoIse. <br />1riaho, as th-P .oe\.\'s af Judgl' StOl'l!"s <br />d"ath hurtled th/'tIIJgh th!' !<hockl"d <br />\\'I"st. <br />For Ihi, tir"l'll'ss, kindly (,Ounl)" <br />judl;"t' from GUnnl~on ('(lUnty had <br />won lhfo resfl('ct and crmfidr/1l'" <br />(>\"('n of thoo;r oPpos"d on .....est.widr <br />walrr problf'ms, <br />1'"0':":"0'1::1) -\~~O('J.'T.;s. <br />Hl.~ firalh Itt 64, af/rr 'Iflren, <br />Ycars il~ con.~('n.'lltjon hoard din'!;'1 <br />lor and doz"ns of lmportant stalt. <br />I\'pstCll'l and nlltional >I.~Sil;'nmenl~1 <br />.11111 posillon.~, stllnnrl1 f\"d"ral, <br />!'l~l(' IInd pM\'al(' a~socialt'5, <br />GO\ernor Thornton d"c1l1rM; <br />"I am deeply grl('vt>d at hi~ P.lSS, <br />ins: for h(' Wil~ A \'lIlurd Pl"rsollal <br />friend and II mO!'I capable aUlhor. <br />jt~' on waltr l'onsrn.'atiM, con- <br />,'d('miously and fOlllinuously Using <br />IllS J:"l'eat lal('nl in Protl'('lm,l;" Colo- <br />!"arlo', water righl!:, lite blood of <br />our 'Hille. <br />"Ills contribUlion to !h(' "'('lfan' <br />(If thiS slate and 10 its !'conomic <br />dcvelopment has bren in\'alullhle. <br />indeed. for then> WolS no 1'110", IIbl(' <br />authonty I'll'll' farsighted PXpotJl'nl <br />of sounl1 wal!'r con~prvalion poli- <br />cie~ than Jud.l:e Srone, <br />"HI" m..riled and f'njoyed an tn. <br />\'iahlt' national reputallon liS an <br />".'f.It"rt on "'al('r rompr\'ation anrl <br />31/ Colllrado ha.~ 1\utfrr"l'r1 It l!ie\'er(' <br />I....s. <br />Ron:" ....t:.\R l;l':":"I"'O:", <br />Judr;:e Slone was born at Po\\'. <br />o('r'l1orn, C-Olo, near Gunnison. on <br />July 16, 1~~. 11.. J;:rltdualf'd from <br />(;unni!;{)n high school and Ih", t'ni, <br />\r/"Siry ot CoI<>rltdo with both hacn. <br />,,101' of 11115 II.nrl L. L, B. d(';::"l"1'es, <br />From )913 10 1921 h.- "as ('1)llnl)' <br />judJ:"e (I( Gunni...on ('owny, II.nd l/1(>n <br />1'111erc:11 prJ\'l!e law practl('C lor <br />fllleen)'eltrs. <br />In 1936 Jud:;e Stone ....~5 elected <br />1(\ the !<Ialt' legislature as a Demo- <br />f'fat. Thl' 10110\\"inl: )"l'llr l~ ~lat(' <br />~~' Ill' Ih>:> consenallon boItrd Itnd <br />