The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-17
Supreme Court Has Ruled For Ne1u Deal
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was to control waters of the Ten- nessee and its tributaries. The river was described as running away witf the soil" and consequently damaging agriculture and contributing tC floods in the Mississippi Valley.
 IVA was the New Deals answer tc the perennial political quesion oi what to do with Muscle Shoals-the giant World war nitrate plant.
 But there were still other and more significant objectives, including the controversial power production issue.
 As outlined by IVA officials, ob- iectives of the development briefly are:
 l. Unified development and con- trol of water sources on the Tennes- see and tributaries through con- struction of dams to provide naviga- ton, control floods, and generate electricity.
 3. Provide for national defense through operation in standby" con- dition, nitrate plant No. 3 at Muscle Shoals, operate laboratories and ex- perimental plants for purpose of fur nishing chemicals for military pur- poses and agricultural purposes in most ecoonmical manner.
 3. Experimentation and demon stration to improve, increase and cheapen distribution and applica- ton of the major elements of plant food needed to rehabilitate the soil
 1. Disposition of surplus power tc greatest number of people to assist in liquidating the cost of the Auth ority's projects.
 5. Planning for a complete water shed including demonstrations ot proper methods of erosion control afforestatoin, and use of marginal lands.
 To control the river a system of coordinated dams is being construct ed. Besides their flodo control fea- ture the dams will open new inland waterway, some $50 miles long be- tween the Ohio river at Paducah Ky, and Knoxville, Tenn. Iva of. ficials emphasize that the authority will open the mineral resources oi the region to development, they in' sist, however, that hydro-electrit power is only secondhand motive ir the huge project.
 Two dams will be completed early this year. The first major construc. ton project, Norris dam, named af' ter Sen. George W. Norris, tht father of TVA", rises to a great height on the Clinch river, tributary of the Tennessee. This l, 30 miles northwest of Knoxville Tenn. The dam, costing $34,000, ,00( will form 8 reservoir exceeding tht District of Columbia in area. It. main purpose will be to store water with which to feed downstream pooh in dry weather.
 Also nearing completion is Wheel CT dam, named after Gen. Jot Wheeler, of Civil and Spanish American war fame. Whose home ii near the site. This is a $28,000, ,00l non-storage type dam 50 feet higt and 5000 feet long. Its navigation lock was completed by the army en' gineers corps before IVA started tt build the dam proper. Wheeler dan is located some IS miles above thu war time built Wilson dam. Its pur' pose is to eliminate the last trace o the historic shoals which gave Muscle Shoals its name.
 A start has been made further downstream on Pickwick Landing dam, located near Shiloh battlefield in Tennessee. Thi sis just over thu Mississippi-Alabama line and vii back water to the Wilson dam tl carry out part of the navigatoin flea ture of the program. The dam vii cost $28,0OO,OOO but will have m power installations for the present.
 On January 2 IVA announcet that construction would begin imme diately on Chickamauga dam, sev eral miles above Chattanooga, ol | the Tennessee river. This will b l04-feet high and 5.6e5 feet long. It purpose will be to create Q 9-foo channel for distance of 60 mile upstream.
 The fifth dam of the project & ] far underway is at Gunterville, Ala Tentative plans call for Q dam 4.O7 1 feet long and 90 feet high. This toe will have 6 navigatoin lock givinI the river a 9-foot stage in that vi cinity.
 Carrying on the work of the auth ority is a force of i2,7S0 persons. ! policy recogniing the right Of col iective bargaining and employe or ganization has been adopted in car rying on labor relations.
 The wage scale begins with un 4 skilled laborers ct 45 cents an houl handy men and helpers get 60 to q cents an hour, and skilled el.OO al hour. The basic workday s 6 hour. Time and a half is granted for al over eight hours of work in one day Workers on the TWAS large con struction projects are housed I