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News release: Job Corps men help clean up debris after Colorado's severest floods

The news release announces that men from four Job Corps Conservation Centers in the West are helping Colorado clean up following the severest flooding in the history of the State. The release goes on to detail the number of young men from each center and their assigned duties as part of the cleanup...

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Main Author: United States. Department of the Interior
Format: Text
Language: English
eng
Published: 1965
Subjects:
Floods
Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11166/168860
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spelling oai:archives.mountainscholar.org:p17393coll32-54842023-05-11 News release: Job Corps men help clean up debris after Colorado's severest floods United States. Department of the Interior Colorado 1965 June 22 1965-06-22 The news release announces that men from four Job Corps Conservation Centers in the West are helping Colorado clean up following the severest flooding in the history of the State. The release goes on to detail the number of young men from each center and their assigned duties as part of the cleanup efforts. Floods English eng press releases Text William H. Nelson papers on Colorado Water William H. Nelson papers on Colorado Water Box 12 Colorado Mesa University. Tomlinson Library https://hdl.handle.net/11166/168860 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT of the INTERIOR * * * * * * * * * * * * * ********news release OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DeWitt - 343-4662 For Release JUNE 22, 1965 JOB CORPS MEN HELP CLEAN UP DEBRIS AFTER COLORADO'S SEVEREST FLOODS Young men from four Job Corps Conservation Centers in the West are helping olorado to clean up !ollow1ng the severest flooding 1n the history of the State, the Department of the Interior announced today. Thirty men from the Bureau of Reclamation's Job Corps Center at Casper, Wyo., are already working on cleanup operations in and around Denver, having arrived June 18 to start work when the flooded South Platte River began receding. By chance, the Casper Camp contingent was met at the Denver airport by United States Representative Wayne Aspinall of Colorado and by Kenneth Holum, Assistant Secre-tary of the Interior for Water arid Power Development. Mr. Holum was on his way to dedicate the Casper Conservation Center later that day, after which he and Representative Aspinall went on to Collbran, Colo., to dedicate the Conservation Center there. -------------------------- ------------------- Thirty young men from the Bureau of Reclamation's Collbran Center are en route to help out in the Colorado disaster area, as are JO each from a Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affair.s center at Winslow, Ariz., and from a Department of Agriculture Forest Service center at Grants, N. Mex. These three units will help rebuild damaged irrigation systems and will do cleanup work in and around Sterling, Lamar, and Trinidad--three of the hardest hit communities in eastern Colorado. Sterling is in the valley of the South Platte River in northeastern Colorado, while Lamar and Trinidad are in the Arkansas River valley in the southeastern part of the State. Irrigation distribution systems in both watersheds have been severely damaged and must be repaired or replaced immediately to avoid widespread crop fail-ures when the farmlands dry out and the young crops are again in need of irrigation water. The young :men from the conservation centers are expected to be at their tasks for at least two weeks and perhaps considerably longer. xx x P.N. 65268-65 http://archives.mountainscholar.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17393coll32/id/5484
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United States. Department of the Interior
News release: Job Corps men help clean up debris after Colorado's severest floods
description The news release announces that men from four Job Corps Conservation Centers in the West are helping Colorado clean up following the severest flooding in the history of the State. The release goes on to detail the number of young men from each center and their assigned duties as part of the cleanup efforts.
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author United States. Department of the Interior
author_sort United States. Department of the Interior
title News release: Job Corps men help clean up debris after Colorado's severest floods
title_short News release: Job Corps men help clean up debris after Colorado's severest floods
title_full News release: Job Corps men help clean up debris after Colorado's severest floods
title_fullStr News release: Job Corps men help clean up debris after Colorado's severest floods
title_full_unstemmed News release: Job Corps men help clean up debris after Colorado's severest floods
title_sort news release: job corps men help clean up debris after colorado's severest floods
publishDate 1965
url https://hdl.handle.net/11166/168860
http://archives.mountainscholar.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17393coll32/id/5484
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