The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 32

been activated In the Ocoee-Conasauga area nf Polk County fgtC-12 Kwwwrilla Haw-SeatiMl Sunday Jwwnf I 30 Years Reflect Progress Utility District OK'd BENTON Jan 1 (Special)-H Sartin Polk County Court chairman has approved a Hiwassee Water District for the area north of the city limits Directors include Me-Clary McNelley and Qualls Application has been made for a Federal loan Also the Ocoee Utility Dis-trict of Bradley and Polk has TVA Employment Low Despite Load DUCKTOWN REELECTS DUCKTOWN Jan 1 (Special) I Presswood has been reelected city commissioner Ho received 127 votes to 59 for A Hughes Presswood is now mayor Carmel Gibson and Donald Nicholson are also commie-sioners The commissioners elect a mayor WUWWWWWWM paid for by a locally-organized Beech River Watershed Authority which has already collected $2000 in recreational user-fees as use of the lakes started Thirteen citizen tributary area development organizations were in operation during the year and a 14th was being organized These organizations had 7500 members including 1000 active as officers or on work groups Work continued on the unique 17V 000-acre Land Between the Lakes Recreation Area in Western Kentucky and West Tennessee Land buying continued and the first camping ground and day-use areas were completed a youth activities station was begun and visitor reception accommodations for a 4500-acre conservation education center was completed and a forestry trail set up Meanwhile the value of public and private recreation developments on TVA lakes increased 614000000 to more than 6182000000 000 making total TVA payments to the Treasury over the years more than 6500000000 One-fourth of TVA's total power geneiilkm came from dams three-quarters from steam plants The steam plants burned 22500000 tons of coal TVA's installed generating capacity increased 1322000 kilowatts to 14S75 615-kw Memphis rejoined the TVA system bringing 200000 customers Home use of electricity averaged 10-831-kwh and homeowners paid an average of 092-cent per kwh The comparable averages are 4814 kwh and 228 cents per kwh FLOOD CONTROL TVA's dams averted 649000000 in potential flood damages during the year bringing the total damages averted over the years to 6365000000 Much of this total figure however involves saving flood damages to the same land year after year much of it at flood-prone Chattanooga Rainfall over the valley averaged 568 inches more than four tents were granted to TVA for a new total of 152 FORESTRY Forty-one new or expanded forest-based industries were built or announced in calendar 1964 in the Tennessee Valley representing an investment of $17000000 and 3000 new jobs More than 57000 acres in the Valley were reforested and the seven states in TVA's "Plant Trees Grow Jobs" campaign reforested 410-000 acres nearly onothird of all reforestation in the nation Up-to-date inventories of forest resources were completed on about 1000000 acres of land and reports detailing vsrious specific opportunities for wood products manufacture were ls-sued concerning the valley's surplus hardwood supply TRIBUTARY AREA The precedent-setting Beech River multipurpose water project in West Tennessee was about finished It involves eight dams and reservoirs and channel improvement and will be partly inches above the long-range median Rosman NC set a new Valley-wide rainfall record of 3538 inches within eight days NAVIGATION Freight shipped nn TVA's waterway was a record 15400000 tons and savings to shippers over the next most economical mode of transportation were 626200000 Private inveatment in waterfront plants for the year was 680000000 bringing the total to more than $1000000000 Cooperative educational arm test demonstrations and distributor were extended to three new states making the total 46 states Nearly 267000 tons of TVA fertilizer were used in these educational programs up 10000 tons over 1964 Thirty-two free licenses of TVA chemical developments were issued bringing the total to 414 held by 256 companies and used in 390 plants in 38 states Six new pa- CHECKER CAB CO Announces CHECKER BARREL CONTEST WINNERS Grand lastaurant lais Grill lackey Clvfc Ft Sander's PtX Gains Oadhay By POWELL LINDSAY Thirty years a years after TVA was there was no flood control worthy of the name on the Tennessee River no regional barge shipping and TVA sold only inn0000n0 kilowatt-h ours of electricity Forest fires burned per cent of the Valley's woodlands and only 2000 acres were reforested Some 300 people in the Valley had malaria TVA hadn't even finished building itr first dam And on June 30 1935 TVA employment totaled 10457 Work Expands Thirty years later in fiscal 1965 TVA's dams averted an estimated S49000000 in potential flood damage more than 15000000 tons of shipping moved through the navigable waterway and TVA sold nearly 7nnnrinnooon kilowait-hours of 700 times as much as in 1935 Forest fire losses hover near one-quarter of I pe cent more than 1000000 acres have been reforested and there hasn't been a malaria case in the Valley in more than 15 years Private industry has invested 81-000000000 in waterway plants And on June 30 1965 TVA employment totaled 19469 exactly 12 repeat 12 more than 30 years before TVA's annual report issued for release today said that TVA's employment has dropped some 2200 in the past three years Employment May Rise This drop is entirely in hourly construction workers and reflects a comparative pause in major construction projects during the past three years On June 30 1962 TVA had five major projects with employment of more than 250 paced hv the huge work force of 2200 at Paradise Steam Plant Last June 30 TVA had only one such major project under way Bull Run Steam Plant with a work force of 1200 But since last summer employment at Nickajack Dam has risen to 1100 and a large work force is gathering for the third unit of the Paradise plant So the fiscal 1966 report pmhablv will show a rise in employment Highlights of the 1965 TVA report: TVA sold 69900000-000-kilowatt hours of electricity for 6296000000 making a net income of nearly $55000000 It paid the US Treasury 652600- Dandridge-Newport 1-40 Use Due in New Watt B-UT Dam Orchid Grid Grave Hall-UT Dam UT Hasfital (Infs Desk) Knaa Jewelry I Lean Carat Witten Hass UT Dam little Brawn Jug Dr Caitiaa affiia staff Dr A I affka staff White States (Bdwy Canlur) Admiral Ban Bnw mptsyiss Jna's Grill Dr effice staff Tli ran Taalhars 305 Club Naw Wast A- UT Dam Krafar't (Bdwy) Dr Martin affka staff Mildred Keith Cedar Chest Hvddla Tavvn The 164 miles nf 1-40 between Newport and the North Carolina line was graded and drained and bridges built before 1965 But it is still indefinite as to when the stretch will be paved Mr lddins said last January that it seemed pointless to complete an isolated segment of expressway before North Carolina had some Interstate ready at the state line "But we will have T-40 com east end of the 20-mile stretch 33 miles were recently completed to connect with Slate 32 which goes to Cnshy However Mr lddins believes it may he "two or three years" before any nf 1-40 is built from Dandridge westward to Holston River Bridge near Burlington Within the city the 1-40 link between Burns St and the Holston was contracted for last month pleted to the state line by the time North Carolina completes its portion between the line and Asheville" he said It is reported that North Carolina expects to do that hv late I960 but Mr lddins had no comment on that The ending year finds right-of-way acquisition for North Expressway (1-75) between Sharp's Gap interchange and Emory Rd virtually completed This link is expected to be con-1 tracted this coming summer In the nurse of the new year a continuous 3)-mile stretch nf East Expressway (Interstate 40) between Dandridge and Newport is scheduled to be in use State Highway Regional Engineer lddins says All needed to complete this stretch is the paving of 86 miles from a point just west of Dandridge to 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