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Show Here's Where Your Money Goes MO SIIREVEPORT, LA. If your pay check looks pretty slim after all the "deducks" for old age, taxes and what not; lake a good look at the two drawings above. The one on the left shows the power lines of electric light companies now serving 847,205 homes in Missouri, Kansas, Uua-homa. Uua-homa. Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. These companies have served this, area for years witn plenty of power, good service and fair rates. Now look at the drawing on the right, it snows the power lines the government plans to build in the same area to serve the same customers. Not a single new customer will be served who does not now have, or can get, electricity, ine government, through the Southwestern Power Administration, plans to spend $200,000,000 of taxpayers' tax-payers' money to build this duplicating power system. This proposal is made in spite of an pirer bv the electric companies to buy all the river control power now being produced and wnicn will be produced, distribute it and pass the savings on to the people in the form of lower rates. So if taxes are cutting your pay check and whose check isn't cut, remember that a lot o your money is being spent for this sort of thing. |
