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w. vjifc f3 SSfe. tMSt" 1 1 cood western v- SIRLOIN Op 4w j(V? i IJ CLUB Lv i ir" wft 0 EfflM lb. SrQJ 59c PORTERHOUSE STEAKS OUIIAI I BONELESS I a 8 rib ROAST 29c STEW ALL CUTS UNCONDITIONALLY GUARANTEED FULL FLAVOR or YOUR MONEY CHEERFULLY REFUNDED i' "JiA LEAN FRESH GROUND BEEF 3 69' DELICIOUS FOR MEAT LOAF unn'm Bti 1PR0DUCEC SPECTACULAR PICTURES SHOW ATOMIC DESTRUCTION OF HOUSE. Here is a spectacular series of pictures showing the complete destruction of House No.

1 during the atomic test on Yucca Flat outside Las Vegas, Nev. Only two and a third seconds 'elapsed Page 8 THE PALM BEACH POST, MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1953 GREEN TOP from the time the first photo was snapped until the last one shown I TVA Nears 20th Birthday; Knoxville Wonders About Climate Politically I mm in lower right. The camera, an automatic device, was encased in a two-inch lead sheath only 60 feet from the house. The house, itself, was located 3.500-feet from "ground zero," the blast center. The only illumination was the bomb's eerie light.

In the upper left the house is shown at the instant of the blast. An instant later, in upper right, the entire front of the house is a raging mass of flame. In the lower left the destruction continues as the force of the blast makes itself felt. Note the flying splinters and the entire roof being lifted off. Destruction is complete in the lower right as the $20,000 structure is reduced to kindling.

Almost unbelievably, mannequins in the basement shelter were unharmed. (AP Wire-photo from Atomic Energy Commission). By RELM.W MORIN KNOXVILLE, March 21 () The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is nearing its 20th The return of the Republicans to Washington apparently has raised the hopes of advocates of private power. One of the most recent state I bunches birthday. Celebrations are in the making ments came from Sen.

Welker (R-Idaho), who said in Chattanooga1 now, but even as they plan the that TVA should be sold, that pri party, people here are beginning to as a single industrial complex, stretching across 80,000 square miles of hills, valleys and forests. The main drive shaft is the mighty vate enterprise could do a better job of running it, and that he wonder about the weather the weather, that is, in Washington. Tennessee River. The reason why: This is the first Republican ad In a few years, however, depend HARD CRISP SUNKIST ministration since TVA was created ing on what Congress does, TVA favored the sale of all big government-operated businesses, not just TVA. A few months ago Charles E.

Wilson, former head of General Electric, expressed a similar with the support of Franklin may De powered Dy more steam- generated electricity than by Roosevelt in 1933. What attitude toward TVA will be taken by the Cotton Specialist Seeks To Bolster Exports To Orient WASHINGTON, March 22 (UP) The Agriculture Department said today it is sending a marketing specialist to the Far East to study the big drop in exports of American cotton to the Orient and possible means to bolster the sagging trade. At the same time, a department hydro-electricity. TVA says it can't meet the val opinion-that the government should dispose of power, water and simi ley's expanding needs with hydro lar enterprises to private owners. power alone.

So far it has com pleted two steam plants. Six others The governor of Tennessee, 32- new administration and Congress? The possibility of curtailment is being discussed in the Tennessee Valley. Whether this might be done by legislation in a Congress fairly evenly balanced as far as party politics are concerned, is debatable. But TVA is 'dependent upon toldare under construction, and others year-old Frank G. Clements are planned.

this reporter he wrote President Eisenhower, asking him to spell If the schedule is followed, steam generating capacity of the whole TVA system will exceed hydro capacity by October 1954. Physically the TVA "plant" is report showed total exports of the out his views on the subject. The reply came from Sherman Adams, top assistant to the President. Clement said "About all he did was restate the things Eisenhower said in his campaign speeches. American fiber the first half of the current market year (August- composed of 30 giant dams on the Tennessee and its tributaries.

1 "tAua 21 WW. III January) were down 51 per cent: There are the three principal func- loday, we ve got TVA and it from a year earlier. Shipments to all destinations should no longer be the subject of tions of TVA-power, flood control government appropriations and the Eisenhower administration is pledged to cut spending. Ever since May 1933, when it came into being, TVA has been the subject of controversy. It has been damned as "pure socialism" and called the first big step toward socializing the whole of the United States.

It has been praised as a wise, far-seeing operation, of immense benefit not only to a once depressed region but to the nation as a whole. and navigation. They are the easi any debate, government has a moral obligation to provide the est to assess in terms of dollars earned, saved or spent. It isn't so easy to evaluate the power needs for this area through TVA. "by-products" of TVA, which in Clement added that he does not believe there is any disposition to totaled only 1,810,000 bales compared with last year's total for the six month period.

Exports to Japan normally largest user of American cotton abroad amounted to only 378,000 bales compared with 681,000 the first six months last year. India took only 27,000 bales. Last year! 474,000 bales entered her ports during the same period. sell TVA to private interests. Before the election Eisenhower It has gathered within itself and 1 PASCAL IE TL TR TT clude even, malaria control.

TVA is a big machine, in short, that affects virtually everything in the lives of five million persons in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, epitomized the vast, many sided struggle over the proper role of the told questioners: "Rumors are being maliciously spread in TVA areas that I propose not only to decrease the efficiency of the operation, but to abandon it, which is grossly untrue and utterly Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky. Legally TVA is a government federal government. Is it government-in-business? Or is it government doing for the people what they can not do for themselves? corporation. It reports directly to Congress, gets it money from Con- talse "If I am elected president, TVA'gress. It is not a part of any de- will be operated and maintained atipartment.

FULLER BRUSHES Is it paying its way? a maximum efficiency. The report also noted that prices of foreign grown cotton declined last November. It said this widened the gap between prices of American and foreign cotton. Carl C. Campbell of the department's foreign agricultural service is the one assigned to visit Japan and "other countries in eastern and southern Asia" with an eye to improving foreign sales there.

He will visit the big textile markets at Taipei, Bangkok, Karachi and Take either side down here and This has not quieted all the uneasiness or stilled all questions. What is TVA? TVA is like a vast factory, out goods and services. AND DEBUTANTE COSMETICS SALES SERVICE PHONE 6731, W.P.B. To get the picture, imagine it you can get into fights. TVA gets operating funds every year from Congress, so the answer at first sight would seem to be no.

However, some phases of TVA are "non reimbursable. "''That means they do not produce cash returns, however valuable they may be otherwise. You cannot determine in dollars the value of re Aden. Before he leaves on his assignment, Campbell will confer with cotton exporters in Memphis, Houston and Los Angeles, the depart forestation, silt control or flood ment said. control.

Not far from Athens, a British concern, Bowaters Southern Paper is clearing ground for a 51-million dollar newsprint and Sunshine Sweets Factory Packed TWIN OAKS 1 1 'A Tomatoes pulp plant. Bowaters, says a man who was close to the negotiations, very near Navy Identifies Pilot Of Fighter JACKSONVILLE, March 22 (IP) The Navy today identified the pilot of a Banshee jet fighter plane which exploded and crashed into the Banana River near Cocoa Beach as Lt. John M. Dunlap of Fighter Squadron 101, Cecil Field ly went elsewhere. The JNo guarantee tht electric power would be available in sufficient supply.

This is a sore point witn many people in the valley. They say the great government defense plants are sopping up elec tricity as rapidly as new sources A salvage crew recovered Lt. are developed. It has been estimated, for example, that the Oak 3 Ridge atomic plant uses as much electricity every day as Butlaio, N. a city of 600,000.

The new aeronautics laboratory at Tullaho- ma will be another giant electrici ty-eater. The claim is that industrial ex uuniaps Doay irom ine river 10-day. A deluge of rain that blanketed out vision in the area brought a halt to joint diving and salvage efforts Saturday afternoon. Lt. Dunlap's plane was one of five jets on a routine cross-country flight from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Witnesses said the plane exploded at an altitude of about 10,000 feet and then plunged into the Banana River, 10 miles north of Patrick Air Force Base. The Navy said a heavy thunderstorm prevented the other pilots in I 1 DUCHESS 0 ICE pansion has been restricted simply because adequate power cannot be guaranteed. This, incidentally, is one of the a great points of controversy be Our Reg. $68.00 Giant Size tween private and public power all over the country. Private power is bitterly opposed 40' 72' WALL MIRRORS to TVA's steam plant proposals.

Almost from the first, nearly 20 the night trom detecting the explosion of Lt. Dunlap's jet, Lt. Dunlap's widow Mrs. Harriett Louise Dunlap, and two sons 5 and 3 years old, live here. EGGS AND POULTRY years ago, the utilities have con For life-time beauty ond gracious living on ntfieclaij a modest budget, tee these beautiful plat tended that the words "flood control" and "navigation" were disguises for the true purpose of TVA.

That purpose, they say, was to put the federal government in the power business, to wreck the JACKSONVILLE. (AP) Poultry E4 egg market: glass wall mirrors. At this low price, every home can afford the new look of modern luxury! FLORIDA BOGS Minimum wt'iuhls TXT rnv lumhn existing Southern companies to medium 3914 fmail 34 nationalize the electric power Ej.t wet welstht Per Dozen rn Larce '11 rj unit Giant Size NSTALLIS Large 24 oz. .57 Medium 21 oz. .55 irausiry.

For the future? I PLANTER'S COCKTAIL NORTHERN LUNCHEON Quick, expert, permanent and secure installation at no additional cost I Come In loday or phone for rtpreientotive to call of your home. No obligation, of count. OTHER SIZES PROPORTIONATELY LOW PRICEDI Gordon Clapp, chairman of the TVA Board of Directors, puts it Small 18 oz. .49 .54 Poultry to large dressers: Frvers 28 29; hens red 29-311; hens white 24-25; nens light 20-21 rnoslers old 18-19. Small lots or poultry (under 2.500 lbs.) this way: MnnrnriA II "Can we go on? Can TVA pro aeuvereu ny imrKers or proaucers to retail dressen usually 2-3c higher.

7 i vide a billion dollars worth of new power capacity in the next five-year period? We can if we have the patience, the energy and the intel I YOUR ORDER I 1 3-1565 1612 So. Dixie ligence, to make our case before the people of the whole country and their representatives. SMS The valley has been persuasive LL before. It can be again." Television on theater screens is GO achieved by two processes, one of which reflects the signal from a high powered TV tube on the big screen through lenses, and the other which uses film in a rapid develoDine orocess where the film QUANTITY prices reSId 120 N. ROSEMARY 436 N0RTHW00D AVE.

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