CONSERVATION: Dam Suit

Beaten in Congress, angry Arizona last week began in the U. S. Supreme Court a final attack upon Boulder Dam* The court allowed the State, through K. Berry Peterson, its attorney general, to bring suit against California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur in an attempt to have the Colorado River Compact and the Boulder Canyon Project Act declared unconstitutional.

The defendants must respond to the suit by Jan. 5.

Arizona's filibuster could not beat the Boulder Dam bill in the Senate. Its pleas for a veto were ignored. Last week's suit released...

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