Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Tales of Hoffmann, with Tucker, Peters, Stevens, Amara.
Second Look. Not until 1937, when the Federal Government built 1.200 miles of low-cost rural lines, did most of sparsely settled Stevens County (pop. 19,500) get any electricity at all. The privately owned Washington Water Power Co., which served a few Stevens County towns, had been unable during...
In 1953 the P.U.D. began legal condemnation proceedings against the private company's facilities, and many Stevens County citizens took a second look at their ostensibly "cheap"' public power system. Washington Water Power (whose 4OO-mile Stevens County lines amount to only 2% of its statewide holdings) saw...
Heavy Vote. The question on the ballot: "Shall P.U.D. No. i sell all its electrical transmission, distribution and associated properties to the Washington Water Power Co. for $2,905.000?" Both sides agreed that if the Washington Water Power Co. failed to muster 60% of the voters, it would sell its...
On election day 74.2% of Stevens County voters went to the polls (v. 60% in the 1952 presidential election). Result: 5.009 in favor of the company, 2,028 against. Although Northwesterners for the first time in the memory of man had voted solidly for private power against public in an...