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...Securities and Exchange Commission hearings, last week got around to the proposed location of the $105 million plant. President Thomas H. Allen of Memphis' municipal utility company, which will be served by the new plant, pointed out that its site across the Mississippi River near West Memphis, Ark. might be submerged by flood waters. Further, he said, a $10 million transmission line would be needed to bring the power across the river, an expense that would not be necessary if a plant were built on the Memphis side of the river. Said Allen: "The West Memphis site...
...time it was the turn of the Securities and Exchange Commission. SEC was not interested in the public v. private power debate that has raged around the contract. It was interested only in financing details of the null plant that Dixon-Yates has contracted to build at West Memphis, Ark. to provide power for the Atomic Energy Commission. Like any other new company planning a stock issue, Dixon-Yates needed to satisfy SEC that the costs and profits it expects are reasonable...
Last week, tears streaming down his face, Leon Gilliland of Yellville, Ark. accepted from Army Secretary Robert Stevens a real medal, the Medal of Honor, posthumously awarded to his son for "incredible valor...
...Sergeant Gilbert Georgie Collier, 22, of Tichnor, Ark., who was injured when he and his commanding officer stepped off a cliff in total darkness deep in enemy territory. Collier refused to go back with the rest of the unit, but stuck it out with his commanding officer. They crawled back up the cliff, hid, were ambushed and separated. Collier was wounded, ran out of ammunition, and routed four of the enemy with his bayonet before being rescued. He died at a battalion aid station...
...accustomed idiom of the lower East Side, Odets has made Noah (played by Menasha Skulnik) a symbol of fatalistic determinism while his son, Japheth (played by Mario Alcalde), represents the viewpoint that God wants men to work out their own fate. This clash (played by a rudder for the Ark, which Japheth insists upon and which Noah calls a sinful negation of God's Will) is not a startling new theme, but is well dramatized and well acted...