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<br />OU1934 <br /> <br />Rites Held <br />For Stone <br />At Boulder <br /> <br />DUlVft' 1'0lI~ Special. <br />BOULDER, Colo" Oct. '25,-Fu- <br />neral services were held here Sat- <br />urday for Clifford H. Stone, 64, who <br />as director of the Colorado Water <br />Conservation board "became one of <br />the nation's top authorities on wa~ <br />ter matters. <br />Judge Stone died Wednesday at <br />New Orleans, La., in his sleep. He <br />was in New Orleans to attend a <br />meeting of the Arkansas-White- <br />Red River Basins Interagency com- <br />mittee, a group he helped to found. <br />Top-level officials from several <br />western states attended the funeral <br />lIervices at the First Congregational <br />church with the Rev. Sydney Buck- <br />ham officiating. <br />Included among the pallbearers <br />tor the nationally.known water ex- <br />pert were J. M. Dille. Jean Breiten- <br />stein, R. M. Gildersleeve. J. G. <br />Will, and Maj. L. R. <br />Wingfield. <br /> <br />HEART ATTACK FATAL. <br />Judge Stone died apparently of a <br />heart attack in his hotel room after <br />a long day of work Tuesday. He <br />was found dead by a close friend, <br />John Bliss, state engineer for New <br />Mexico. <br />During his long lifetime of serv- <br />Ice to Colorado. Judge Stone made <br />8 major contribution to the com- <br />pletion of every interstate water <br />compact entered into by the state <br />l5ince 1937 when he was appointed <br />to the post he held at his death. <br />Upper Colorado, Rio Crande and <br />RepUblican river compacts were nIl <br />the result of Judge Stone's efforts <br />to guide Colorado to her fair share <br />of water. <br />He was a leading spokesman for <br />the states in the Upper Colorado <br />River basin in their fight with <br />California over t hat stl'eam's I <br />waters. His death shocked the en- \ <br />tire west. <br /> <br />-Ra'f [, PetersorJ <br />