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...farmer from rural Arkansas--from the Wright-Plum Bayou area of Jefferson County--got up before thirty-five or so other farmers who lived and worked nearby, and told them, "I don't believe this power plant over here belongs to Arkansas Power and Light Co. I think it belongs to some New York concern...
What they were all concerned about was the coal-fired electric generating plant that Arkansas Power and Light Co. plans to build on the banks of the Arkansas River, about three miles from the homes and farms of the people of Wright, Redfield, Ferda, and Plum Bayou...
...plant is going to have on their economic livelihood. Rural Arkansas is cotton and soybean country, and scientific studies have long ago demonstrated the susceptibility of cotton and beans to damage by extremely low levels of sulfur dioxide in the air. The farmers of Wright, Redfield, Ferda, and Plum Bayou don't want to see their means of making a living destroyed by Arkansas Power and Light...
...that Harvard is in a position to see to it that if AP&L builds their plant they build it in such a way as to minimize the threat which the plant poses to the economic livelihood of rural Arkansas. Consequently, the farmers of Wright, Redfield, Ferda, and Plum Bayou, organized into the ACORN Protect Our Land Association, ask Harvard to exert pressure on Middle South Utilities to do the following things...
Bewitched Bayou. Sorcery, spells, and satanism mar this otherwise enchanting tale of a magician who loves the water. At Hasty Pudding Theatricals, and in its last week...