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...battle to hold onto its facilities in Paducah, Glasgow and Princeton, Ky., where residents are trying to buy the plants, then buy power from TVA at a 30%-to-50% saving in electricity bills. But the once-widespread bitterness against the TVA has been largely muted, especially since private powermen no longer fear it will spread over the nation. TVA's congressional bond amendment has a clause limiting its expansion to no more than five miles beyond its 1957 boundaries...
...combine of Detroit Edison Co., 17 other utilities and seven manufacturing firms - was challenged by a group of unions led by Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers. While they raised the issue of safety, their more important aim was to push the cause of public atomic power. Private-powermen say the unions want to force the plant to be shifted to a remoter area, where industry could not afford to build it, thus force the Government...
...Perce, which would produce 1,672,000 kw. and store 3,900,000 acre-feet of water, also curb the flood-prone Salmon River, a wild branch of the Snake. Though FPC left Nez Perce open to private construction by Pacific Northwest Power, a four-company combine, powermen feared that such a dam would almost certainly need heavy federal financing because of its cost...
...Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, who has modified the policies of his predecessor, Douglas McKay, and quietly stolen some thunder from Northwest Democrats. Last week all eyes turned to Seaton's suggestion for a $274 million multipurpose dam at Pleasant Valley instead of at Nez Perce. FPC and many powermen have opposed it because it would be above the Salmon and Imnaha Rivers, thus store much less water than Nez Perce. It would also flood out the lowest Hells Canyon dam that Idaho Power Co. is licensed to build. But Pleasant Valley, under hard study by the Interior Department since...
When Defense Mobilizer Gordon Gray granted Idaho Power Co. a fast tax write-off on two Snake River dams (TIME, May 13), he handed public powermen and the Democrats a political grenade. Last week Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver's antitrust and monopoly subcommittee pulled...