The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-01-04
IVA Plant and

fabricated portable homes, and with
| in recent months the British have
had many of the TVA-designed houses
shipped to England to replace those
which were bombed.
Walter Skeeles, South African in
dustrialist and chairman of the advis-
DRY committee on employment for
discharged soldiers in Capetown, made
study of IVA activities. He saw
IVA as a pattern for postwar recon
struction and relief of unemployment.
what so many employers and rep
lresentatives of business have been
unable to see," he said, "is that state
enterprise and private enterprise are
both necessary to proper national de-
velopment."
Jan Ciechanowski, while on visit
as Polish ambassador to the United
States, said, 81 come to IVA as a
student, because it is a project of the
most enormous Importance to the
world and the model for the future. ]
hope in my country we will be able
to develop some project along this
line"
India not only sent delegations, but
borrowed w. L. Voorduin, head of the
authority's planning division, to serve
on midas central technical board for
overseeing the building of water power
projects.
IVA Sends Experts
Other key IVA men left the author
ity to help in other countries, by re-
quest of those governments, includ-
ing DR.. E. Harold Human, senior BIZ
ologist, to Mexico; Bartin M. Jones,
head planning engineer, water control
planning department, to become chief
engineer of Corporation Peruana del
Santa, Lima, Peru; Thomas H. Hall,
principal placement officer, to be dep
uty administrator with united nations
relief and rehabilitation authority in
Cairo, Egypt; and James B. Hays,
who was project engineer of Upper
Holston development, to be consulting
engineer with Commission on Pales-
tine surveys. Many others have gone
to projects in the United States.
Delegations of Russians have come
to the Tennessee Valley and United
by Russia to design IS hydro-electric
plants. Plans for the Russian plants
were completed by IVA engineers.
President Truman himself took cog
nizance of all this international inter-
est in IVA, when in dedicating the
S115, 100000 Kentucky dam, at Gilberts-
vile, KY, he said:
why has IVA succeeded so well?
Why does it attract the attention of
the entire world? To me the answer |
is clear-TVA is just plain common
sense. 1t is common sense hitched |
up to modern science and good man.
agement. And that's about all there
is to it.
Instead of going at the river piece
meal with dam here and a dam |
there, the river was treated as /
whole. The dams were all designed |
so that they would fit together as
Unit and in that way get the most |
service out of the river for mankind"
What Has Been Done
But there are opponents of the IVA,
who argue that it undertakes a job |
which should be left to private enter
prise Even in the Tennessee Valley
the path of the authority has not al
ways been smooth.
Since 1888, with gathering momen-
,um, IVA has built 16 large dams,
created more than 600 miles of nine
DOT navigation channel for commerce,
more than 10 million acre
eet control storage, produced more
han AZ billion kilowatt-hours of cleo |
ric energy, marked up nearly 167 mil
ion dollars in revenues, provided 1873
million seedlings for reforestation,
manufactured more than 100000 tons
If phosphate fertilizers. 1t has devel-
ped barn hay driers, trailer thresh-
ng machine, Managing cabinet,
Tome food dehydrators, a new sweet
'otato curing process, portable sprink
or evstems homp-mada e1pctrio brood /