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...Together. The peacemaker in the feud was Ancher Nelson, 49, a plain-spoken Minnesota Republican who was a farmer until he was appointed by President Eisenhower last year to replace onetime Agricultural Secretary Claude Wickard as boss of the Rural Electrification Administration. Shortly after he went into office, heads of the East Kentucky cooperative sought him out to plead their case in the long fight. The REA had authorized $28 million in loans to build a power plant at Ford and 798 miles of transmission line. But after giving the co-ops $15 million, the Government agency had stopped handing...
Last week the President also: ¶Nominated Minnesota's Lieutenant Governor Ancher Nelsen, 48, to be Rural Electrification Administrator, replacing Claude Wickard who resigned by request. A rawboned, farm-bred son of Danish immigrants, Nelsen is a longtime partisan of the farmer...