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<br />'S.-J- '-"'1 (Jh... ~' <br /> <br />-.._-~ y.---- <br />j <br />M$16W)1tjN SEES IT <br />'Under The CapilolDome <br /> <br />By ALVA A. SWAIN <br /> <br />,!HE COMPLICATIONS CAUSED program. The fact, tnot the meet- <br />BY THE DEATH OF ' ing was to be held in California <br />JUDGE STONE had all of the delegates from tbis <br />Colorado oUicials' are still stunn- state nervous. California has for <br />ed over the death in New Orleans years, been trying to get ahead of <br />of Judge Clifford Stone. Just how the state so far as authority over <br />to go about filling the many posi- the waters of the Colorado river <br />tions he held with efficiency is a are concerned. They out voted <br />problem. He was the director of Colorado one year ago at Amar. <br />the Colorado Water Conservation ilIo. Tex. With Slone out of the <br />Board. This position is filled by picture the work of protect" . <br />the board itself. The position is Colorado will fall on the rest I <br />under civil service but the commis. the delegates who will be hea <br />sian has never held an examina. by Jean Breightenstein an~, <br />tion and it would be difficult for Ireland. No one will be app <br />it to bold one tha('CO~d;,'b"e,!,"se:d,,-, !'H\-$9~.,~I'~",p}ace before that f1~' <br />to select a successor,~o MrloSonef log .JR'f:>;tl\e.i new man mi .' <br />He was a member1.of'Jt.e~UJtpeJ;' ba.v~ .a.~t::lear idea of wh ; <br />Colorado River CommiBsion. 1Tbis had in lD,i11d. Breighten g <br />place is filled by.:.the "goVerlror1I," : I~el~d',:Qo.Jlfor they wo ; <br />Mr. Stone was':a.dJreetar 'o!t'the Im,~OI} the.,program. ' 't,:~ <br />National Reclamation' .Association. <br />This position is filled by the Colo. <br />rado delegates to the meeting of <br />l the Association. He was a mem- <br />. ber of the Arkansas River Com. <br />: mission. This .position is filled by <br />: the commission itself. Mr. Stone <br />1 was a member of the Missouri <br />River Basin Commission. This posi. <br />~ tion is filled by the governor. He <br />I was a member of the commission <br />that is making a study of the <br />water and other natural resources <br />of the White, Red and Arkansas <br />rivers. This position is filled by the <br />governor. <br />For his work on all of Uiese vari. <br />ous commissions he was paid the <br />sum of $8400 a year and expenses~ <br />He traveled over one half of his <br />time and his expenses far exceed- <br />I ~d ~is salary, It was his determ. <br />I matlon to protect the water right~ <br />\ of this state that kept him on the <br />iobsolong. _________ <br /> <br />",-.~ <br /> <br />-, <br /> <br />THE COLO~ <br />CONSERVATION BOARD <br />Naturally his gre t <br />as director oC the Ca el't wdork was <br />C . 0 ora 0 Water <br />onservatlOlI Board Th' b <br />has final sa . IS oard <br />of lhe state ~n s.o'lastto .the policy) <br />t In erstate wate . <br />~at ers. Generally speaking th r <br />.oard folJowed. his recomm e <br />hons. Not once did h enda. <br />them astrav and not o~cever lead <br />. state, under his direction e lha~ t.he,' <br />~aJ~~atOb W8Je.r that beionO:edo~~1 <br />state Offic~~rs ~~do":lpoSed of five <br />Each of the' - nme members. <br />a different wa~~nre s~~~t ;he:resent <br />lers them over the state as f:r:t- <br />as could be desired Th ly <br />are: the governor, ~tto:n:emebers <br />~l~nS~~: engjne~r,. directo~ ~{nte:~ ' <br />or of thCeommlsSlon, and direct- <br />board Th 1 Water . Conservation <br />sp.lf Th e. ast one IS Stone him. <br />M" C .e nme members are: C J <br />cormack, George A P . . <br />former governor Telle A' ughe, <br />Dan B H r mmons <br />. unter John W 'B ' <br />A E H dl' ,eaty <br />J' . ea ee, George 1: B.' ' <br />. M. Dille and Ed L D t h 31 ey, <br />NOTHING WILL BE' D~N"e er, <br />FOR A WHILE <br />tio;~ere is 3. meeting of the Na. <br />LOngIB~:~~amati.on ~ssociation in <br />11 to . CalIforma, November <br />15. Judge Stone wa . <br />char~e of the Colorado end of Sth~~ <br /> <br /> <br />