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Show [ n the dissemination of information and the creation of the necessary public interest, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Telegram and The Deseret News were invaluable. ORGANIZATION OF PROVO RIVER WATER USERS ASSOCIATION The Reclamation Bureau plan demanded one contracting entity, one water users association, primarily responsible to the Federal Government for the repayment of project costs and ultimately responsible for the operation and maintenance of the project works, with the actual water users as subscribers to its capital stock. The organization plan as it has developed, substantially as first outlined, is shown graphically on the preceding page. In order to meet this requirement a committee consisting of A. V. Wat- kins, Abel John Evans, E. A. Jacob and Fisher Harris was appointed to formulate and submit articles of incorporation of the Provo River Water lasers Association. This was completed and accepted on May 2, 1935 and the Association became a corporation with the following as incorporators and its first board of directors: Lawrence M. Atwood, W. D. Beers, A. J. Evans, J. W. Gill- man, George D. Keyser, Fisher Harris, Louis Marcus, Yirgil H. Peterson, A. V. WTatkins, Walter P. Whitehead, and H. Clay Cummings. The first officers were Louis Marcus, President; J. W. Gillman, Vice President; and E. A. Jacob, Secretary- Treasurer. Four of the original incorporators, J. W. Gillman, Walter P. Whitehead, W. D. Beers, and Fisher Harris, 58. J. W. Gillman, an incorporator and President of the Provo River Water Users Association, and who has been an active backer and worker in the interest of the Project for nearly tivo decades. are still members of the Board. Mr. Gillman is now the President, and Chairman of the Executive Committee; E. A. Jacob is still Secretary- Treasurer, and W. D. Beers, then and now City Engineer, and Fisher Harris, then City Attorney and now Counsel for the Water District, are directors and members of the Executive Committee with S. O. Bennion, who since 1938 has been a director representative of Utah Lake Distributing Company. A. V. Watkins, one of the original incorporators, is the Association Counsel. Three of the other directors of the Association are S. A. Kennedy, who has served as such and as a director of the Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City since 1935; J. A. Nelson, |