European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Stars and stripes 1945 map shows nations watersheds which May follow Tva pattern if flood control Bill is passed by they Are Columbia Missouri Valley and Arkansas upper right Corner is shot of three army planes carrying latin american times wide world and press association diplomats on Tva tour Over big Chica Augua lower left is Cut of the Arizona spillway of Boulder lying1 open to empty upper part of Lake Mead in preparation to handle torrential Spring which will refill the May get a harness on him Congress gives godhead by France Herron tomorrow staff writer tax Pecten to stir up a Huff and a puff is the flood control Bill recently plop Ped into a Busy congressional if passed with its present proposals the Bills ultimate result will be a firm hand cuffing of More levees and Power and improved navigation along the nations the plan is enormous including an appropriation of and nearly 36 contemplated projects in some 20 for harnessing and putting Rivers to the so far As jobs Are con appears such a vast construction program1 will require skilled labor of All veterans of this War will have been Well qualified for much of the engineers will be especially As ordnance and maintenance signal and tank corps truck and Bulldozer mechanics and pm trained those in favor of the Bill Point to the Tennessee Valley authority As a Success Ful Guinea in the annual report for the fiscal year Tva earned a net income of More than 20 billion with 75 percent of All Power generated by the project channelled into War oceangoing vessels now much of the chemicals and High to winning the War manufactured in the Tennessee Val aluminium and two important War also Are located in this area and Are supplied with Tva electrical freight traffic Down the Tennessee River is breaking All records because of improved Channel it has been to build oceangoing vessels in the River arguments anticipated against the Bill Are that Cost of construction May be great than the actual and that there Are not enough to Purchase All the Power that the project would be capable of opponents also Are sure to claim that the government does not right to condemn private property for the building of Public works on the tremendous scale required in the if the Tva is a the utilities can be expected to Label the project an encroachment on private property by the Federal should the Bill Rivers and River groups to be laced together Are Connecticut Hudson and Delaware James and Roanoke Chattahoochee and Tomb gee Lawrence and great cum Berland and Wabash upper and lower Mississippi Platte and red River of the North Arkansas and red River of the South Rio Grande and Colo Sacramento and san projects have already been carried out on two of the principal the Colo Rado is now largely controlled by Boulder the grand Coulee and Bonneville on the also Are in Tva Down in Tennessee the completion of floodwater storage facilities by next year will reduce crests on the lower Ohio and Mississippi by 2 to 4 tvs annual output of 12 billion kilowatt hours of electricity makes it the largest Power a lot of horsepower wide world photo sufficient Power to illuminate Chicago is produced by this giant Generator at grand the Generator and Turbine tip the Scales at the Section shown Here is 45feet in diameter and 22feet High the entire unit with Waterwheel and Shaft equals height of an 8story this la the first of 18 planned for the huge Washington Power Ducer in the with three quarters of its output going into War also through tvs cooperative programs More than seedlings have been planted on eroded private and Public Tva electricity is distributed to about Consumers through 130 locally owned and managed municipal and co operative Power sales in 1943 totalled Missouri River Valley the Missouri watershed covers about one sixth the total area of the United and nearly Square Miles of Ca bad floods in frequently during 1943 and 1944 wrought heavy damage in this of much of the nations floods in May and june of last year caused Worth of proposals for the Eva area include deepening of the 760mile main River Chan Nel to Sioux City from 6 to 9 Exten Sion of irrigation to additional acres and construction of hydroelectric Power Arkansas River Valley the Saint red and White Rivers Drain this stretch ing Westward Miles from the missis Sippi to the much of the nations Oil and 95 percent of its of the worlds helium Are found these erosion is a serious More than acres have been made useless already and More Are end an irrigation is essential in the dust and flood control is important else Columbia River Valley resources of the Pacific Northwest Are estimated at 41 percent of the total potential hydroelectric Power of the grand Coulee and Bonneville projects have tapped much of this sponsors of a Tva for the advocate construction and operation of Tiew dams for Power and As Well conservation of Timber resources and adequate fishing supplies to Benefit the regions major the program sponsored by the flood control Bill would take from 10 to 15 to