Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-11-21 | Page 4 | TVA's Chicamauga Dam Draws President's Praise

TV TVA's As A's D Darn Dam m Draws Presidents President's Pl Pl Praise aise CHATTANOOGA Tenn Nov 21 AP President AP-President President Roosevelt stood on the north embankment of the Chickamauga T V A dam today and pronounced t the e more than half completed structure an sections of the country example of progress for other Inspecting a concrete navigation lock ock of the pun lit un Tennessee river the he president representing the executive executive ex ex- branch brought the big new deal deaf power-navigation power experiment experiment experiment ment in this watershed under the scrutiny of all three branches of the federal government The supreme court had a suit before before before be be- fore it to test the constitutionality of T V As A's yardstick power program program pro- pro gram while a joint congressional committee was proceeding with an investigation of its administration Meets Project Workers After motoring 10 miles to the dam through crowd lined streets the president alighted ed from his open car and was introduced to project workers by Mayor E. E D. D Bass of Chattanooga The chief executive said he hadnot had hadnot i inot not intended making malting a speech but buthe butic but he ic could not resist the opportunity of thanking the 2200 men men- men building the dam and the of others on other T V A projects for the splendid job they were doing He said the effect would be felt by generations to come Something for Grandchildren They were not only putting up a structure to provide a few kilowatts kilowatts kilowatts kilo kilo- watts of electricity improve navigation navigation navigation navi navi- gation and highway travel and to reforest cut over land he lie said but were doing something constructive constructive constructive tive our grandchildren e He said the Chickamauga dam a foot long project which will cost about when completed completed com corn in 1940 was setting an example example ex ex- ample for progress in other sections sections sec see of the land even where no dams were possible Leaving the dam the presidential party drove eight miles to look over the modern farm of his old friend County Judge Will Cummings and the Civil war battlefields of Missionary Missionary Missionary Mis Mis- ridge and Lookout moun moun- i tain tam The president is en route to Warm Springs Ga I