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Show QUESTIONS POWER PLAN. . Although, several cities in the Tennessee Ten-nessee valley have signed up for power pow-er under the terms prescribed by the Tennessee Valley authority, some of them are not ' very enthusiastic over their contract, according to the Sheffield Shef-field Standard, published in the Muscle Mus-cle Shoals area. In a well-considered editorial on the subject, in which the objections to- the authority's plan are set forth, the Standard says:' "Well-informed business men doubt the praticability of the plans adopted by' the Tennessee Valley authority for the resale of hydro-electrical energy generated at Wilson dam. It is a known fact that city officials of the three cities in the Muscle. Shoals district "are not at all jubilant over the contracts they have madie with the TVA." One of the principal objections to the TVA contracts is that it establishes estab-lishes the rates at which cities must resell the power bought from the government. These resale rates are such as to make it impossible for the cities to break even on their power operations, according to competent engineers. en-gineers. Another objection is that the j TVA rates are such as to virtually j preclude the possibility, of industrial j development in the area it is to serve. '! The Tennessee valley experiment: will be watched with interest by the ; country at . large, and many ' thought- j ful citizens freely predict that under the present set-up it may prove sad-1 ly disappointing j |