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TWENTY-ONE THE JUBILEE BUS Through the summer and early fall of 1971 we had waited expectantly the announcement of the crucial hearing on H.R. 8382. Finally, the Pine Bluff Commercial, September 23, 1971, was able to provide us with the welcome news: House Hearings Set on Buffalo Bill Congressman John Paul Hammerschmidt of Harrison announced yesterday in Washington that House hearings had been set for October 28 and 29 on his bill to make the Buffalo River in North Arkansas a national river.... Hammerschmidt's bill, which he called "the latest best estimate" by the National Parks Service, would appropriate $16.1 million for acquisition and more than $l2.1 million for development. He said he thought that perhaps even these higher figures were "conservative" estimates. October 28 was scarcely a month away, and although we had anticipated the event since January and had put forth more than one directive to our membership , we were going to be cramped for time. The mechanics of the thing was going to require greater effort than anything we had been through up until now. The Ozark Society Goes to Washington The first action was to issue an appeal to all members to write to the chairman of the subcommittee offering personal endorsement of H.R. 8382. Immediately thereafter all conservation agencies and organizations concerned were contacted with the same request. The next consideration was the matter of sending delegates to the hearing. We knew that it would not be wise to swamp the committee with a huge number of people, but, on the other hand, we did not want to appear with a scanty crowd. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission had offered the use of its airplane which was to carry delegates from the commission and also from the 451 TWENTY-ONE THE JUBILEE BUS Through the summer and early fall of 1971 we had waited expectantly the announcement of the crucial hearing on H.R. 8382. Finally, the Pine Bluff Commercial, September 23, 1971, was able to provide us with the welcome news: House Hearings Set on Buffalo Bill Congressman John Paul Hammerschmidt of Harrison announced yesterday in Washington that House hearings had been set for October 28 and 29 on his bill to make the Buffalo River in North Arkansas a national river. ... Hammerschmidt's bill, which he called "the latest best estimate" by the National Parks Service, would appropriate $16.1 million for acquisition and more than $12.1 million for development. He said he thought that perhaps even these higher figures were "conservative" estimates. October 28 was scarcely a month away, and although we had anticipated the event since January and had put forth more than one directive to our membership , we were going to be cramped for time. The mechanics of the thing was going to require greater effort than anything we had been through up until now. The Ozark Society Goes to Washington The first action was to issue an appeal to all members to write to the chairman of the subcommittee offering personal endorsement of H.R. 8382. Immediately thereafter all conservation agencies and organizations concerned were contacted with the same request. The next consideration was the matter of sending delegates to the hearing. We knew that it would not be wise to swamp the committee with a huge number of people, but, on the other hand, we did not want to appear with a scanty crowd. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission had offered the use of its airplane which was to carry delegates from the commission and also from the 451 Publicity, Parks, and Travel Commission and the Wildlife Federation. It could carry only five individuals besides the pilot. It goes without saying that our contingency fund, which had been set aside especially for this occasion, did not contain enough to fly more than a few more people to Washington, D.C. To obtain any considerable number of representatives through the use of private automobiles also was obviously not a practical method to use. We did not want to leave matters to pure chance, trusting that whoever could go would go and perhaps that we might come up with a respectable number. In considering the matter, I recollected that the Upper Eleven Point Association had on more than one occasion sent delegations to Washington on a chartered bus. At first this did not seem like a good idea, but while in Little Rock in early October contact was made with Everett...

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