10 TH E TASUL DO UPB ONS BeUs Lele ee 
Last Chance at Echo Park 
By RAYMOND MOSTEK 
WHEN CONGRESS RECONVENES in January, one of the first orders of business 
will be to take up the controversial Upper Colorado River Project. This 
complicated bit of legislation includes the oft-debated Echo Park Dam in 
Dinosaur National Monument on the Colorado-Utah border. 
The Senate passed the Project bill by a large margin. In the House, the 
bill never came up for a vote because of the determined opposition of con- 
servationists throughout the nation. A House subcommittee eliminated the 
Echo Park provision, but that does not mean that the proposal will not 
come up again. Two dangers remain: 1. The dam could be restored in con- 
ference since the Senate has already approved it; 2. If the Project is ap- 
proved without Echo Park dam in it, those interests which would benefit by 
its construction almost certainly would press for the dam in the future. Two 
other facts should be emphasized: 1. No dam has been built in a National 
Park in 40 years; 2. Not a single drop of water impounded by the dam will 
be used for irrigation, as it is simply a power project. 
There is a possibility that Sen. Richard Neuberger may introduce legisla- 
tion to make Dinosaur National Monument a new primeval National Park. 
In that event, one of its most spectacular sights, Steamboat Rock, would be 
a mecca for thousands of tourists. You are urged to write again to your 
local Congressman; ask him to defeat the entire Upper Colorado River 
Project. Do it now. He has already returned to Washington. 
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List of Illinois Congressmen — 1955 
Names of members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois: 
District Representative Area Represented 
eo meaW 1am (ala Wsoti. ee ee es Chicago — Burnham Park 
2-ee- Barratt ©) Hara ee eee Hyde Park — So. Chicago 
oO. eedames« Murray 2. ee eres Evergreen & Morgan Park 
Ao William McVevysa-e. eee S.W. Chicago Suburbs 
OO. ae ONN eK 1UCzZ ysis eee eee Englewood — Chicago Lawn 
6,3 Thomas: O/ Brien. 1]. ee Hawthorne — Cicero 
aot d AIVIES DOW LOT: cee a eee ee Pilsen — Union Park, Chicago 
338) Chomas:Gordons4 =. 7 eee Logan Square — Wicker Park 
OJ aeroidney ~Y ates es Lincoln Park — Lake View 
107 Richard’ Hon man eee Berwyn — Proviso — Riverside 
ae laimothny (sheen a ne ee eee Norwood Park — Jefferson Park 
IZeechatliess Doyles. 2 aa. eee Rogers Park — Uptown Chicago 
15.0e Mareuerite: Churches ee Evanston — Barrington — Wheeling 
14. 
Chauncey/ Reeds. teen ee McHenry — Kane — Dupage Counties 
