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...competition. At 60 he finished second in a 32-mile race from Ste. Agathe to Shawbridge, Que. The next year he led a dozen skiers on a 150-mile trip north of Mont Trem-blant, through the Five Finger Lakes area and down the Devil's River Valley. "The old guy set a hellish pace," remembers a Montreal businessman who went along. "He nearly killed us." Until recently, Pop used to jazz up meetings of the Red Bird Ski Club (which he helped to found) by standing on his head on the dinner table...
This year's melodrama concerns the efforts of two villans to rest the ownership of the Walker Valley, Pine Bush & Pacific Railroad from a defenseless, aged widow. She, inevitably, has a beautiful daughter who, of course, figures in the dastards' ultimate goal. They do not succeed, however, thanks to the "Courage and Valor in all Things but One" (Drink) of one Truman Pendennis. Not even poor Truman ever seems really doubtful about the happy outcome, and all is well...
...world's biggest privately owned power producer is American Gas & Electric Co., a seven-state utility network whose twelve major plants turn 10 million tons of coal a year into power for nearly 5,000,000 people from Lake Michigan to the Tennessee Valley. Last week AGE announced a program to grow still bigger; it will spend $700 million to boost its 4,000,000 kw. capacity (enough to light 7,000,000 homes for a year) by 65% in the next five years, the most ambitious five-year expansion ever tackled by a private U.S. utility. The program...
...that have been lured into the area by plentiful, low price power, e.g., the Atomic Energy Commission's huge Portsmouth, Ohio, project whose round-the-clock 1,800,000 kw. appetite is met by AGE (38%) and 14 other utilities that combined to form the $400 million Ohio Valley Electric Corp...
Scholarly Powerhouse. In its 50 years of operation, AGE has consistently shown that a privately owned utility can do a good job of competing with public power. AGE helped modernize the backward areas of the Ohio Valley in much the same way that TVA has enriched the Tennessee Valley, and it lured many heavy industries that might otherwise have settled in the Northwest, where government power is cheap, e.g., Henry Kaiser's new $120 million aluminum reduction plant at Ravenswood...