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I 0183 LOS A~t'& . """'i!l A 'f' HE' -/INER B.2 S.tu,doy, Ap,il 2, 1966 Donl!lld Goodent'lw, Managing Editor George R. Hearst Jr., Publisher * :!IIUUlllllnIllIUlI1I11I1H1I11I11I IIII11IHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII" 111111111111 "111111111111111111111111111111111 ~ I The Readersl Forum I ~IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1111I1I11I11111I11111111~1111I111'lllIlllllnllllllltllr. Calls Senator's Sill Another Maneuver A to-year program of Federal watEr 're- source research was recently praised by President Johnson when it. was published by his Office of Science and Technology The reporting experts are all officials nf the executive branch of government ann. on page 8 of their report. they Jointly oh served that "any evaluation of research potential depends upon judgment based on past experience." Concerning water resource manage- ment. much of our national store of expe. rience is the experienCe of governmen t engineers and managers such as those on the l!\a11 of the Bureau of Reclamation. The point Is that Sen. Henry Jackson of Washington now proposes In his Sen. ate B1I1 3107 t.o establish yet another na. tional water commission, but this one with Federal official experience eliminatP.d. The bill proposes that none of the seven rnember~ nf the commission shall be an officer or employe of t.he government. Thls 1-' just. Rnother maneUVer of Sen. Jackson to delay even the stUdy of Alt-er- natlYe ways to Ilupplement inadeQuate wa. ter In the Colorado River by Importln~ surplus suppl1es from other nvers which have more water than local residents can use now or in the future. Such a possible source 01 help lor the thirsty Southwest's expaneling popUlation is the ColumbIa River. Il water resources are meaningful oniy as water Is used to help people, neighbors of the Columbia RIver can be pleased to realize that the National Planning Asso- ciation feels they have less to fear from population growth demands than do resi- dents in the COlorado River basin. Yet Sen. Jackson persIsts In blocking even studies of alternatives which may in. valve water from the Columbia River. Per. haps Sen, Hayden of Arizona. or our own Sens. Kuchel and Murphy, wllJ fl11~ . way to amend Sen. Jackson's hiIJ before it gel.3 out ll'l committee bOth to clear t.ho ",.y for solving the presstng water problem facing the Southwest and to avoid insult ing President JOhnson's administrative helpers by blocking their participation in national water studie5 under the inferenr.p. these men would distort. the [;:Icts to en. hance t.heir own interests. GERALD SCOTT. West LOs Angeles.