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Show THE THREE-RING CIRCUS 133 Republic and Gazette, $1,000. Mountain States Tel. and Tel. Co., $1,500. Valley National Bank, $1,000. Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co., $1,000. Horace W. King, professor emiritus of engineering at the University of Michigan, and a nationally known hydraulic engineer, unexpectedly entered the fight with a long letter to the Los Angeles Times denouncing the project and supplying technical data to show its infeasi- bility.147 Said Professor King: "To donate government funds to so unworthy an undertaking that will enrich a rela- tively small community without corresponding advan- tages to the country as a whole would be gross injustice to every American citizen outside the area benefitted." The next move of the irrepressible Poulson was to present to Congress one of the most important documents of the project war to date. It was a letter written on February 4, 1949, by Frank Pace, Jr., director of the Bureau of the Budget, to Interior Secretary Krug. The Budget Bureau, said Pace, had completed its study of the project and had written a summary and a report which had been reviewed by the President, and the President had instructed Pace to advise Krug "that authorization of the improvement is not in accord with his program at this time and that he again recommends that measures be taken to bring about prompt settlement of the water rights controversy." 148 California forces were jubilant. Here, they believed, was an executive epitaph for the Arizona project. It was not in accord with the President's program, and approval by the Budget Bureau had been refused. The Pace letter had no sooner been made public than |