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<br /> <br />The eighth annual conference of the Colorado River Water Users <br />Association was called to order by President Hampton C. Godbe at the Thunderbird <br />Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada at 9:45 A.M., December 6, 1951. <br /> <br />An address of welcome was given by the Honorable C. D. Baker, Mayor <br />of Las Vegas. <br /> <br />The following committees were appointed by the President: <br /> <br />Auditing <br /> <br />Leo A. Snow (Chairman), John A. Leavitt, <br />and Dallas E. Cole <br /> <br />Budget and <br />Finance <br /> <br />Victor I. Corbell (Chairman), <br />Howard F. Clark, Evan T. Hewes, <br />and Wayne Wilson <br />C. A. Anderson, Arvin B. Shaw, Jr., <br />Robert S. Leighton, John H. Bliss, <br />Perry W. Jenkins, and Wayne Wilson <br /> <br />Resolutions <br /> <br />Addresses delivered at the conference are smmnarized herewith: <br /> <br />~t-*{t-..Jt-*{~*{(-{..** <br /> <br />ACTIVITIES OF THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS <br />IN THE COLORADO RIVER BASIN <br /> <br />Colonel W. R. Shuler, District Engineer, Los Angeles District <br /> <br />Activities of the Corps of Engineers in the Colorado River Basin <br />during the past 12 months have been small, because of a situation which <br />none of us likes but which is forced on us by world conditions. The <br />growing requirements of National Defense have sharply curtailed our activi- <br />ties on public works. The Corps of Engineers, because of Rivers and Harbors <br />work and flood control activities, is the only military organization equipped <br />with essential planning and construction personnel and with a nation-wide <br />system of offices which permits the decentralization of military construc- <br />tion activity needed to get quick results. Thus the vital civil works <br />functions of the Corps of Engineers serve to maintain it as a nation-wide <br />organization, completely decentralized, and ready at a moment's notice to <br />expand to meet any National emergency in military construction. During <br />January of this year the Corps was directed to design and construct a vast <br />and complex Army and Air Force program. This meant switching large numbers <br />of personnel from their normal civil works mission to the new military <br />mission. In the Los Angeles District we have, in various stages of design <br />and construction, approximately 200 million dollars worth of urgently needed <br />military construction, spread over southern California, Arizona, and southern <br />Nevada. <br /> <br />Since the initiation of this military program, the civil program has <br />been gradually curtailed. Last year the President directed all Federal agencies <br />to screen their programs with the objective of deferring or curtailing projects <br />which did not directly contribute to the defense effort. <br /> <br />-1- <br />