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<br />. . ~-- . <br />1...:.:,., <br /> <br />HI <br /> <br />became members <br /> <br />55 <br />of the Associutiun. <br /> <br />'I'he last event recard.ine <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />fund raising was a proposed 0110 htlnc!rc'] cl()ll'~r :.1 ,)l,'1tIJ run':) <br /> <br />raising dinu.:r. Ab')'.lt two hundred plates were sold for the <br /> <br />event, but tne orlja;lizera of the proj,.'ct !J(>c,,.me conceI'necJ <br /> <br />about tile overhead <)1' the dinner, foo'l cost, l'ento.l. of the <br /> <br />bui.Ldil1E;, etc., and. so with the af,roement of the <br />culled ofr the dinnor thereby allo,llnC 1.'01' a 1 OU/',~ <br /> <br />cO~1tri~)ut'):::'8 <br />~(, <br />)1"o:':"5.t. <br /> <br />The r~!J.jority of the:;e funds were to sr.;nd lJeopJ.,;> to 'cia,,:hincton <br /> <br />for the purpose <br />57 <br />Project. <br /> <br />of :'.obbyine; on behalt' of the ?ry:L:~SJ8n-Ar};Il:1.sas <br /> <br />r.rhe~e :?unas ....lcre <br /> <br />very import:mt <br /> <br />for tw: !)rojc~t ~na <br /> <br />if tnese funds had not been :n:J.cle avai.lable tne!1 the Project <br /> <br />mic;hl; not have had ttle eventual succcsr, it ,liv., <br /> <br />In 1952 follmtinc; the approval. by tho Colo~'(\'lo ':lat,:;r <br /> <br />Conservation I30ard of the Oporatinf\ PrinciTllo:> of the ?rYinl:;pa!1- <br /> <br />Ark!J.nsas Project the project "as fi.nally introduceu in Consress. <br /> <br />The first fedoral document ever publislwd was Sp.:1:1te DOClJ.!n()111; <br /> <br />106 (~7th Congress) und.er tile joint sponsorshi.p of Senators <br />55 <br />Milliken ana Johnson of Colorado. nepresentativ~ Chenoweth <br /> <br />also proposed a bill to the Ho.use of H'3presentativGs in 1952. <br />59 <br />The first hearine;s on the bill were scboduled in th'l Hou:;e in 1953, <br /> <br />55 <br />Brnst, F. 110. <br />56 <br />Ib id., p. 111. <br />57 <br />Cooper, p. 94. <br />58 <br />Beise, p. 3. <br />59 <br />HoaG, p. 132. <br />