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<br />UU1931 <br /> <br />PAIVE 8 . ROUNDUP. 0 <br /> <br />CAPITOL <br />NOTES <br /> <br />-By Bert Hanna <br /> <br /> <br />Hanna. <br /> <br />. <br />A FINE gentIem.:m, a truly great <br />- Coloradan and a 'public ser\,- <br />ant so devoted to his job as to sac- <br />rifice his own life, has passed from <br />1he statehouse scene and there is <br />gre<:lt sorrow over his departure. <br />The death of Clifford H. Stone, <br />friendly, kindly, plodding director <br />of the slale water conservation <br />boanl. is a tremendous loss to <br />Colorado. <br />]t's "impossible to reptace him. <br />. You can't really replace such men. <br />He knew more about water than <br />any m:\n in the west and no other <br />individual ever did so much to pro. <br />teet and develop Colorado's water <br />resources. <br />ThiSe1'cporter covered Stone's of- <br />fice mAny :veal'S. We've never <br />heard him say a mean wOl"d about <br />~nyone. He ne\'er m8di;!' a public <br />s1aternent without full knowledge <br />of his facts. Dealing always with <br />techniCrll problems of great com- <br />p1exity - compae.ts and project <br />agreements-he was always human <br />and understanding." <br />The last words he said to us at <br />a presS conference last week, <br />shortly before his death, were: <br />'Tve al.....ays fried to keep politics <br />out of any consideration of Colo~ <br />rodo wafer matters." The many <br />tremendOli.<; undel'\akings of be"nefit <br />to all the people which are his <br />monuments attest to tnat credo. <br />, . <br />