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. . . '.) COLORADO n,FOffi1ATION Newsletter - Thursday. Ap'ril 8. 1954 - Pa~e 1~ A movement has been started for s i~naturcs of ':iestern Colorado property o,mers on petitions setting up a ~cstnrn Slope water conservation district. to serve as a voice with particular refcre:lce to translllountain uater diversion "rojects........ State Sen, Donald G. Brotzman recently sue:gested that the legislature might be the forum for rettlin3 Colorado's water controversy. Brot::rnan heads a special eight-man legislative c ommi ttee charzed ',ii tb the ~tuC:y of the problem. two of whose major facets are the loc<'lticn of dams and Denver's "roposed transmountain diversion of Blue River water. Conunittee members;ere to study the constitution. statutgsrand feasibility of of setting up two water conservancy districts, as well as tJle Colorado River cempact of 1922........ ------------------------------.------------------ { Colorado's oil production set' an all-time record, ,lith an average of 121.697 barrels a day, topping the previous record by 1.763 barrels. Fields leading in production ~re Rangely \!eb~r in Rio Blanco county; Little Beaver in t-Iashington county; Adena in Eorgan county; and liilson Creek field............. I Jean S. Breitenstein ,ras nominated by :' resident Eisenhower to be Colorado's I second federal district judge. Long regarded as one of the leading authorities on water law, h:-::::-::::::-::-::::::::-:::-:::-~:::::::-~::::-:onservation Board. \ a post he has held since 1937; and is expected to be on the job by May 1......... I -------------------------------------------------------- Sedond grade pupils in Denver, Jefferson. '-.d3lllS, Arapahoe, Pueblo, El Paso. and Held counties will participate in the polio vaccine program beginning late this month. Dr. Roy L. Cleere, State Health Department director, reaffirmed his confidence in the safety of the yaccine to be used.,......... -------------------------------------------------------- Apparent low bidder for the Rifle Creek hatchering and rearing ponds--expected tote the largest trout rearing installation in the world---was the Gardner Construc- tion Company with a bid of $92.5 .000. Final determination was to await detailed studies, the contract to be <warded when approved by the game and fish commission. Nine bids were submitted. Specifications covered a dcun, diversion line, distribution system, etc. Estimates by Thomas L. Kimball. game and fish department director. were that the unit will ?I'oduct over 1 million legal size fish a year. Hork if' to',start in a feH weeks............. ------------------------------------------------------------ State Rep. Rena Taylor roid she would seek re-election this fall, and was not a candidate for congresswoman from the fourth congressional dlstrict......... . .. . John Burns, former Glenwood Springs Chamber of Cmronerce manager (cf. page 4). was hired, as secretary of the Leadville-Climax Chamber of Commerce, to take over April 16........... Colorado's share in the $20.000.000 fund sought to fight cancer has beenset at $168.000.....~.... - : -", , ,,, --------------------------------------------------- County jails---including Colorado's----came in for some adverte criticism in an article in Five-Star De~ ective Nagazine. describing a national SlrYey. In general. Colorado was rated fourth from the bottom. Weld county jail in Greeley, however, rated 11th best in the country......... ----------------------- --------------------------- Colorado's levels of average educational attainments were rated high in a survey by the National Education Association: 8.1;; com_:leting four years of colleGe, as com:,ared to a natioaal avera;e of 6;;; 10.9 !':edian years of schooling, as compared to the national 9.3 ; only 8.l;~ of inducj;ees f<liling the scrvices I qualification test, as compared to the national l6.4~. vlith regard to people over 2.5 ,lith less t:lan five years ofsch09ling, the state was 19th in tlle cotmtry, wit,h 7.l~ as compared to the national lJ$~ Average pay to teachers was ~3.500. putting it 21st on the list. ----------------------------------------.------------------- 26Z2