The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-11-20
BIG POWER PLANT
FOR ARKANSAS
White River at Cotter Will Supply
100000 II. P.-Picture Shows New
Deal--Negro LabOrers Paid
More Than Teacher.
(By Clio Harper)
Special to The star.

Special TO The star
Little Rock, Nov. 12.-Arkansas
will have a power dam with a spillway
greater in height than Niagara Falls
when the Dixie Power Company COM
pIetes its stupendous project on White
river in the vicinity of Cotter. The
dam, according to the estimates Of
Col. Henry A. Allen, chief engineer,
viii be 240 feet high and 2300 feet in
length. Only one day wills be neces-
sary to supply 100000 horsepower "a
hours a day and one-half of this the
company contemplates offering to the
rice belt of Arkansas? Officials of the
company have recently made an in
spection Of the rice district and be-
lieve that the field will be materially
increased with a certain and cheap
power For this reason contract
will be entered into with distribut-
ing company, should one be organized
in the rice belt. to supply $4,000 horse
power the 100 days of the year that
water is pumped onto the rice.
The Dixie Power Company project
is a S100,000,000 proposition and the
+ engineers are now working As miles
above Cotter There are 40 men in
the corps, and their work is. proctical-
" completed. The overflow, or back
water from the dam viii extend to
Forsythe
Should the contract to supply the
rice fields be entered into, the COM
pany will bring its high power trans
mission line across the mountains to
Conway or Morrilton, offering power
there for the development of manu-
facing enterprises. The line will then
run thru Jacksonville, in Pulaski
county, to Lonoke, Carlisle, Hazen,
Stuttgart, Dewitt and Gillett.
! w. Y. Powell, president of the COM
pany, has gone to New York in con-
nection with the project, after q
month spent with the engineering
corps, and in Little Rock.
New Deal Wins for Picture Show.
! The millennium is evidently herea-
bouts. There is a motion picture
show in Little Rock which is operat-
ing without advertising slides being
shown between the reels of motion
pictures. The relief from 10 or is
minutes of torture. looking at adver-
tising slides involuntarily is such that
the theater is more than making up
in increased patronage the loss from
the screen advertising. The Palace
theater management states that the
policy will be continued.
New Farm to Table" Plan.
Raymond Beck of Akron, o., chief
engineer of the Highway Transports
tion department during the war, now
filing a like capacity for an automo-
bile tire concern in Akron, has started
a new movement which threatens to
bring many dollars to the farmers of
the United States. Mr.. Beck initial
ed the Rural Motor Express, Return
Loads and other wartime propagan-
da to demonstrate the usefulness of
the motor truck. His latest is Farm
to-Table week. Mr.. Beck proposes
that the city folks drive into the coun-
try this week and purchase food stuff
from the farmer. He advises the farm
ers to make display beside the road
so that the passers by will know what
he has for sale. The Arkansas Auto
mobile Association has taken the mat
ter up in Arkansas and it is thought
that permanent trade between the
city and country will thus be built up,
and the farmer get rid, of much pro-
duce that now goes to waste because
he has not sufficient quantity to take
him to town. The Arkansas motorists
will push the movement the year
round
Negro Labor Get More Than Teachers
Arkansas school teachers were
among the first to call attention to
the inadequate salaries for which they
have always been forced to do their
work. and they are among the last to
get recognition.