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....;' .' . . .. 6- ..: ,/l-J.J ,} ~ ..-- . . COLORADO INFORI1ATION N E ~ S LET T E R Vol. 16, No. 10 3J. 2 17th st. Denver 2, Colorado. 'rhursday, March 11. 1954. Dear Subscriber: Hi5~ wind storT1S adied new trief to farmers in southeastern Colorado count::.es plaE;ued by dust and drouth. The snow storm of two woe1.~s ago bad '. loa.rrlly served to alleviate the situation. Dur5 ng tbe ':leck Gov. Thornton received tele grams from Kit Carson Co,mty, sipned by Commls sioner Chairman Harold Schmi~t. and County j.ttOI'lley Rj.chard D. l'homas. hey as1{ed for an immediate s')eo:',81 session of the legislature to retlder the wind erosion law "worlwble". The Governor sai.d they reflected the sentiment of many "substan- tial citi_l;\ens" llring in that area. No decision had been reached, he said. A (~l million of federsl emergenoy drouth aid has be"m asked. Talked aoout -- no decision was reached -- on the state 1,evel W8.S the possibility of a ~250,000 state fund for loan:! to farmers and re,nchers who need help in listing and ch:l.seling the soil... ~-----------------------~ I I A new slogan to promote intra-state harmony was adopted at the Longmont annual meeting of the COl':Jl'ado Chambers of Commerce:-- "The Continental Divide divides the watel' and the continent but let'!! not 1 et it divide Coloradan. ;Juggested as a possible solution to the wateC' controversy by state Senator Don Brotzman was the special legislative interim com- mmittee he heads. Surplus water in the ColoradO River would be appropriated in the name of an :l,ndependent -state agency, which would re-appropriate the water. He said there was a c.ertai.n give-and-ta]{e in the General Assembly, ReceiVing much atteX'.'C1,on on both sides of the slope was the ' speech earlier in the me",t-ing by Glrmwood Springs Chamber of Commerce manager John P. BUT.'ns on transmoullltain diversion of 1'later. He was variously hailed and condemned for his discussion of "self app>ointed" western slope spokesmen..... I I -----.------------------------ In his speech at the R~~~bers o~ Cowaerce convention, Mark U. WatroUll, Colorado Ohlef En--].neer, sfud the hiShway Department was prepared to build neVI r.Jac'-s at a rate d' !;P32 m' 11 ion a -ye ar if the people vote the plan for ()35 milliJn in anticiPJ. tion warrants... A general program frr wark imY)rovement s tal'ting July 1 was described as:-- abou $8'10,000 on US 6-34 and 138 between Denver and Julesburg; $700,000 on US 550 between Eontrose and the New Mexico J.:h.e; about $;1,300,000 on US 40 between Denver and Cheyenne '!Iell~. and $750,000 on US 40 betwecm Denver and the Utah border; about $l,OOOr' 000 on US 6-24 uetween Grand Junction and Colorado Springs, and ~800.000 on that h1ghway between Colorado Springs and Burlington; 2.000,000 on US 85.87 between Denver and the New Mexico line; 1,300,000 on US 85 from Denv3r to the Wyoming border; $1.200,000 on US 50 from the Kansas border to Grand Junction; $1,000,000 on US 160 from Walsenburg to Utah.,... -------------.-------------------- Revenues for old age ~ensions 1n February were much lower than for last year --- $2,354,982 as compared to ~3,6G7,410.340~e and if the trend continues, the present maximum ~90 a month p€rl sion 2S()l!lY have to be cut, state welfare officials said....... vv ' I'" \