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This year, after Kansas' billion-dollar flood of 1951 served notice that the Kansas City area might be inundated again & again until the Kansas and its tributaries were controlled, Congress appropriated $5,000,000 to start Tuttle Creek Dams. Embattled Blue Valley residents still hope to block the project's completion, and their warning that "if Tuttle Creek is built, there is a shadow and threat over every fertile valley in the Missouri Basin" has not gone unnoticed in farmhouses that have been marked for condemnation in other river valleys if the "big dam" principle wins...
Pick-Sloan irrigation projects have been attacked as unpractical, uneconomical and unnecessary-and as vigorously defended. In South Dakota, farmers oppose the 250-mile-long storage reservoir planned for the big Oahe Dam across the Missouri near Pierre (pronounced Peer). Some insist that the reservoir's water will never be used for farming because the easily eroded South Dakota soil is not suitable for irrigation...
Early in the Pick-Sloan plan, the Montana Power Co. made a determined but unsuccessful effort to prevent the Bureau of Reclamation from building a power-generating station as part of the Canyon Ferry Dam across the Missouri near Helena. Since then, private power companies in the valley have acclimated themselves to a policy of uneasy coexistence with the Government projects. They have been willing to buy electric power wholesale from the Government, but they have been afraid that the Government might use the reclamation projects as steppingstones to the socialization of the valley's electric utility industry...
Last week Harry Truman boarded an Air Force Constellation in Washington and headed for Arkansas, His prime objective was the dedication of the big new Bull Shoals Dam on the White River. But he succumbed to campaign fever almost as soon as he breathed the hot summer air of the outlands...
...appearance at the dam got off to a wonderful beginning. The country around had been parched for weeks, but almost as the President began speaking, rain fell. "It looks like I really brought you good luck," he said. His speech was an appeal for Southern loyalty to the Democratic Party...