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...past few years, utility men have also displayed a new aggressive spirit in pooling their resources to meet the challenge of atomic power. When the Atomic Energy Commission wanted a 900,000 kw. plant to supply its Paducah, Ky. works, five utilities combined to do the job at Joppa, Ill.; last year 15 companies joined to put up the two biggest private-power plants in the U.S. (total capacity: 2.2 billion kw.) to supply power to AEC's Portsmouth, Ohio atomic plant. Utility men have not forgotten that their own future may lie in atomic energy. For the past...
...Forbes has already won $48,000 this season. Wagner plans to start easing the horse off now, sharpen him up for the time trials to be held in Lexington, Ky. in October, where he will be racing against the clock rather than against other horses. There, if the horse can beat the world record for time trials of 1:55, set in 1938 by Billy Direct, Wagner believes Hi-Lo's Forbes will be worth far more than the $50,000-a-year stud fees he now potentially merits as a full-time stud...
...sheriff-Scott Compton of Alphoretta, Ky.: "I have been a coal miner for 33 years and also a deputy sheriff of this county for eleven years. I have not shot or killed anyone, nor have I beat up anyone. I am the son of John Compton and Ida Hall Compton of Mud Creek...
...jailer-A. J. Allen of Garrett, Ky.: "My relationship on my father's side is that George Allen was my grandfather. Grandmother Allen was the daughter of James P. Patton. My mother was Reuben Stephens' daughter. I am the son of Andrew Allen. My grandmother Stephens was the sister of the late L. Hicks and Jonathan Hicks, of Middle Creek. I married the daughter of Bud Handshoe, of Hueysville, Ky. Her mother was the daughter of Hi Fitch. The deceased George Fitch, of the Mouth of Brush Creek, was her uncle. A few words to mothers: If your...
...divisions. In twelve busy hours, paratroopers burned 20,000 liters of gasoline, set off 5,000 tons of ammunition and explosives. They seized 200 machine guns and automatic rifles, 1,000 light machine guns, six Molotov trucks, engines, machinery and a stock of penicillin. They demolished the Ky Cung River bridges, across which flows the bulk of the 3,000 tons a month of supplies which Red China sends to Ho Chi Minh...