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<br /> <br />""po' <br /> <br />\'01, :'\\"1, Xo,l <br /> <br />~~a~ <br /> <br />May, 19S~ <br /> <br />1119 XATIOXAL PRESS BUILDIXG . \\"ASIlIXGTOX 4. D. e. <br /> <br />THE WEST CONTINUES TO CELEBRATE <br /> <br />WASHINGTON CElEBRATES <br />MILlION-ACRE PROJECT <br /> <br />\\'ashington State is planllinJ! <br />olle of the most unique and inter. <br />esting cclt>bratiolls l'WI' heIr! in the <br />histor\' of westel'll 1'(,c1amatioll, <br />The J'easons fOl' such a ~,,,,'I,,,'bl'ation <br />are two-folr!, Xot on!\' an' thl' <br />r>t'opl..., of \\';\shingtoll State, along <br />with people from oth...'1' stat('s <br />thl'Oughout till' '\'('s1. ",'l,mnwmnrat_ <br />iug the tiftil'th allni\'t'rsal'Y of till' <br />passage of the Xatioll<tl Hedama- <br />tion Act, but tht,,\, an' (~sllt'cially <br />celebratill~ tilt' first dt,Jin'l'Y of <br />water to the ~iant Columbia Basin <br />pro.it'et. Tilt' uttimatl' size of this <br />proj('ct ]s so ~l'l'at - 1.():!~I,OnO <br />aCI't'!'.-that it is like nddinJ,:' an- <br />otlWI' Statt- to tht' {'nion. It is <br />l'stimatec\ that about x7,OOO acrC's <br />will be i1'l'il!al,'d for tilt' lil'st tim(' <br />in 19:i2, and <\ppl'Oximnkly 60.1100 <br />acres anmmtl\" thel'('nftt,1' filll'illll <br />the next six j'('ars, brin!!inJ,:' to a <br />total about ;,oo,nnn acn.S---{ll' 0111;'- <br />half of th(' P]'(ljec1-und('l' il'rilla- <br />tion bv HI.-.l'l. <br />FoJiowin.'!' j,... a listillll of ('\"('Ilts <br />for this c('kbl'ation: <br />.l1fl.Y 22.;!.'i <br />Tri-City Aqua-Rama-Past'o <br />Parade--Floats-Story of \,"ater <br />from lee Age to Atomic Agl'. <br />.l1ay;! <br />Kiddies Pal'adt'-K('llllewick <br />Jlay.!ti <br />"Gl'eat TI'l'asure lIullt"-Quincy <br />,llny27-JIII11'1 <br />Ca \'alcadt,--Pagl'ant-Soap <br />Lake <br />Pagrant of th(> Grand Coulee <br />and of watl'I', 'ion persons <br />participating. <br />(('""/;,,u.',1 ""'1"19( l. ('(JIll"'" J) <br /> <br />2474 <br /> <br />- <br /> <br /> <br />Winners of Farm-jin-a Day <br /> <br />Pictured above is Donald 0, Dunn and his wife, Vernetta Jean, and their <br />two daughters, Sally Ann and Deanna, who are the lucky winners in the nation.wide <br />contest sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars for the most worthy veteran, <br />who will receive 0 Farm.in.a.Day, during the Grand Coulee celebration in <br />Washington, <br />Dunn, a veteran of 25 months overseas in Europe, was an ormy tank driver <br />with the 9th Army in its initial drive through France and inta Germany, He drove <br />the eighth tonk that crossed the Ruhr River with Company A and was one of the <br />two tank drivers, out of thirty. silt in the outfit, who was not either killed or wounded. <br />Both Dunn and his wife were born and raised on 0 farm in the same com. <br />munity near Marion, Kansas. <br />Following his return from the war, they became lenter.farmers in the some <br />area in Kansas and had succeeded in acquiring a good outlay of modern farm <br />equipment. During the 1951 Kansas River flood they were completely wiped out <br />and were forced to sell their mochinery to pay their debts. After thot they moved <br />to Yokimo, Washington, where Dunn has been selling farm machinery. He insists <br />he would much rather use the mochinery than sell it, <br />