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$25,000 Or An Oil — I \ Decision Up To Fitzhughs lt;Foes Of Dixon-Yotes GermVictory In Yearlong BattleWASHINGTON (*)—Elated opponents of the Dixon-Yate® private power contract today claimed a mator and possibly decisive victory in their yearlong battle to block the project.Cause of their jubilation was an order issued by President Eisenhower last night. It calls for a new look to determine whether it ♦would be in the interest of the Iretr-Trr -cfmtimfF «f TW rmrcl the Dixon-Yates contract.” now that the city of Memphis has decided to bqild its own plant The President asked the Budget Bui e«u to conli the matter ergy Comr sec Valley rector Rowland ”a probable re.® thi Dixon Yatlt; plant won't needed He promised a recommendation in ample time' for consideration by the Senate when it takes up TVA appropi lations. probably next week.Sen Keiauver (D-Tenn), who has fought the Dixon-Yatts project from the beginning, said the President's action indicated to him that “they are thinking very seriously about this and I think the contract will bo canceled ” Sen , O'Mahoney (D-Wyo) agreed with Kefauver.Sen Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. the Senate Democratic leader,said he hoped the President's order “Is prelimmary to cancellation “In Memphis Mayor Frank To bey said the President’s action wa* one to be expected, as it is perfectly logical that there would be no need for the Dixon Yate; plant to serve the Memphis area if Memphis was building its own 1 plant.”Mayor George Derepater ofKnoxville said. “J think after allthe information is in. they’ll drop the whole thing/* Dempster, who also is president of Citizens for TVA Iin' Mr and Mrs Vernon Fitzhugh and two on.s, Mike and Gene of 1009 Pollard didn't leave Fayetteville today, as they had planned, on a vacation trip to the Gulf coast. Instead they were busy getting ready to make a trip to Okla horna City to look over oil liolding? which they may soon own. The change in plans came yesterday when the Fitzhughs were informed they were the winners of a first prize in a national contest conducted by Amana Refrigeration. Inc.. of Amana, Iowa, and could have their choice of a cash prize of $25 000 or a producing Oklahomaoilell.with thi nission ar Authority Budj Hugheias informed some two i etffct he wa n w innerin the contest—but not that he hadwon first prize Up until yesterday he thought he was to receive a freezer. Then H Gertz of the i Reulxn H Donnelley Corporation i in Chi igo came to town and lt;spread the gcsid news at the Fitz- 4 hugh home. Since yesterday eve- 4 n i n g “We’ve been liviigovernment 140 cancel the contract “ The contract calls for the government to repay the project/ backers for their actuai outlays ;n the event of cancellation.Acting under a contract with the AEC, the Dixon-Yales utility group already has started work on the 107-milhon-dollar plant .at West Memphis, across the Mississippi River from Memphis Present plans call for feeding energy from this plant into the TVA system to replace power diverted to government atomic plants.Fitzhugh » Name Was Drawn OutIf he should choose the oil wi he would have an income of abo $3,000 a year, and according engineer- reports, tf could continue for 30More Than 150 Forty And Eight MembersWith Families Expected Here For WeekendThe largest group of Forty and Eighters to convene in Fayetteville since 1936 began arriving today for the annual Independence Day Promenade and Wreck held by Voiture 956, the local chapter of the organization. More than 150 members, many with their wives and families, art expected fromcars to the Veterans Hospital an open house for visiting leaders at the Mountain Inn Saturday afternoon. The annua’ banquf and ball will be heTd a* the Legion clubroom* beginning at 7 p. m., Saturday. Open houslt; *or the ladies at the Mountain Inn and the bushier meeting and Forty and Fight Wreck at the legion ill be held Sundav morri: ethan 30 itirinhe' Gov. Orva! E. Faufous of Arkansas.Many of th'* mc-mfcer- plar. to .•'ay over ir FayettevflL and the Ozark® for the Fourth of July on Monday.rated reasonably” at $100000. and if tins prize is chosen the Fita-hughs will have a half interest in all oil and mine; al rights to a 40-acre tract near Oklahoma City, where there are two producing oil wells m operation.This is what the family is going to see Tuesday when they visit the capital city of Oklahoma. Fitzhugh plans to get “some expert advice” while in Oklahoma concerning the oil business, and will not make up his mind immediately what he will take as prize. He expects to decide within a week or 10 days.This is the story Fitzhugh tellsAbout six weeks ago he received from the Holland Bros locker plant a blank to fill out in order to enter the contest He was working an evening shift at the South western Bell Telephone Company where he is employed as switcb-man, and Mrs. Fitzhugh wa - helping out at Washington School “Not having much to do around the house .; the daytime 1 Ht down one afternoon and filled out the blank and that evening we addressed it and mailed it in. he reIwo Performers AfRodeo Are InjuredSPRINGDALE (Special) Two onrttcipants in the Rodeo of the )zarks at Springdale suffered Jn uries in the performance? last ight.Willard Comb, 33, Checotab, Okla , received iniuries to his left chert while bulldoggitig a steer 'GOVERNOR FAUBt’Sie Forty and Eight Is the fun or-inization of the American Le-iightrightAmong the visiting dignitaries ill be the national commander, Earl Simpson of Tulsa; Charles . Ardery of Indianapolis, and the nking officers of Arkansas, Ok-homa, Kansas and Missouri. Activities during the two-day eeting July 2 and 3, will include parade of Forty and Eight boxwho was also .slightly gored ■from Springdale Hospital morning after spending the there.Also hospitalized for *he and released (his morning Kenneth Morris of Westville, Okla He had fini hed riding a Brahma bull and fell when he tumped from thp animal. His left : houlder was dislocated.In a report yesterday Ken Mav. nard was listed a* having been injured Wednesday. It should have been stated that Bob Mavnrrd was the accident victim.On June 17 he received a tele phone call Irom Dallas, informing him that a representative of the Wiiiiain J. Burns Detective Agmcy would call on him the following day to a.sk some questions, and the next day the detective made a thorough investigation, asking questions not only’ about Mi. and Mrs Fitzhugh, but about their families as well. It was macio plain that this was in connection with the contest, so the Fitzhughs felt pretty sure they had won something From then until last Tuesday nothing more wa* heard, and then a telephone call from Chicago was received and the lucky coup’ told that a freezer would be in the Fitzhugh home. That was what they thought they tad won until y esterday when they wt-rlt;- informed that realh thev had a choice for first pnzlt;Yesterday thev changed their vacation plans and didn't mind a bit They will visit the Gulf Coast some other time when things have quieted down a bit News spread through the rnv munity last, night, and friend; and acquaintance^ phoned and went by m person Telephone calls and telegram? from al! over poured n The Fitzhugh? cam * here from Little Rock a year ago. He has been with the telephone company for 15 year*.in h quandary They don ' ^ °tPu*ka TIMESFOTOi
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Fayetteville Northwest Arkansas Times
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Fri, Jul 01, 1955
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