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Show Park of TVA Area Proposed WASHINGTON. Jan. 15 tffv-President tffv-President Roosevelt submitted to congress today a proposal by the Tennessee valley authority to convert the area encompassed by the T V A development In six southern statea Into a giant national na-tional playground. "Many of our citizens and even government officials hold a belief," be-lief," the president said In a special spe-cial message to congress transmitting trans-mitting the report, "that the purpose pur-pose of the act creating the (Tennessee valley) authority was primarily the development of electric power. "It la perhaps time to call attention at-tention to thla utter fallacy." Additional objectives, Mr. Roosevelt said, were to control flood damage estimated at 120,-000.000 120,-000.000 annually and to make the river navigable. In Its broader broad-er sense the TVA was formed, he continued, "to rslse the standards stand-ards of life by increasing social and economic advantages In given area." |