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Page B EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Thurs.. Mar. 21, 1963 DT " : 1 H hG KENTUCKY J 1 1 n TENNESSEE 7j'miz NX. J- 7 ----- fF ' I IWMSOMI I rVHfHM V AI5S. I GUWlWSVlUt GfOffGA Dam Sites . -. .. (AP Wirephoto) This is the complex of power dams (boxed) and storage dams (underlined) on the Tennessee River and its tributaries through which the flow of water can be controlled to avert adding to flood conditions in the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. With a flood crest coming down the Ohio, the Tennessee Valley Authority Tuesday cut the Tennessee River flow from' 350,000 cubic feet per second to 250,000 cubic feet per second. In 1958, 1960 and 1961, the Ten nessee was stopped entirely to control flooding on the lower Ohio ana tne Mississippi. TV A Juggles River Flows To Avert Flood Damage By BOB IIORTON Of the Associated Preig KNOXVILLE, Term. Rain beats monotously against a house in northern Alabama, on a tobacco field in southern Ken- tucky and down a gully in Tennessee. From the farmer to trie sal aried man to the independent operator . in the sand-hauling business along the Tennessee River, the questions are about the same . i How n.uch is it going to rain? When is it going to quit? What is the Tennessee Valley Authority doing about it? No one can answer the first two with certainty. That com plicates the answer to the third, which involves hours of tedious paperwork, split-second figuring by man and computer, perhaps hurried messages by microwave radio during the night, and jug' gling of waters behind more than two dozen dams. The TV A that swirled with political controversy in the '30s today in the face of floods can chut off completely the Tennes see River where It enters tne Ohio River at Paducah, Ky. We Fight Time' One of its decision-makers Is Alfred Cooper, chief of TVA's river control branch, who sums up his job: "We fight time." If conditions call for it, white haired, bespectacled Cooper twists the technical faucets that turn off the Tennessee. The Tennessee was stopped dead in 1958, I960 and 1961 to control flooding on the lower Ohio and down the Mississippi. TVA figures it has averted about $31.5 million damages along those areas by regulating the Tennessee's flow. At Chattanooga, Tenn., TVA estimates it has prevented $148 million in losses from 31 po tentially damaging floods. If Cooper has any simple formula for controlling a run away river, it Is this: Clear the mainstream of as much water as possible ahead of an expected flood crest, and hold back waters from the tributaries until the crest passes. The hitch is deciding which of TVA's nine mainstream dams to open and which of its five major tributary dams to close, how much and for how long. The answers are determined at TVA's 25-man flood control office beginning about 7:30 each morning, when a reproduction machine begins reeling out sheets filled with data on rain fall, reservoir elevations and discharges at each dam. Critical Points Cited Minutes later, a teletype begins spelling out forecasts from the Weather Bureau where TVA pays the salaries of three meteorologists. About 8:05 a.m., information begins pouring in from 10 area offices where field engineers have received reports from 200 rainfall stations and 43 stream gauges throughout the valley. Armed with computations, Cooper and other experts hud dle in the seventh floor of a TVA building in Knoxville to discuss where the critical flood points are. After brief discussions, thev decide to begin preliminary dis charges to empty the main stream for storage capacity. Orders go out to various dams to step up discharges by care fully calculated amounts. With a new flood crest com ing down the Ohio, TVA Tucs- I day curtailed the Tennessee flow from 350,000 cubic feet per second 160 million gallons a minute to 250,000 CFS. It may be cut to 200,000 CFS. The idea is to slice the Ten nessee flow to a minimum when the Ohio flood crest passes Pa ducah and then allow the Ten nessee's pent-up water to flow in behind. SAT, MAR. 23, 10:30 A.M. VACATION FUN SHOW! TWO FULL HOURS OF FUN AND LAUGHS! M Coming fCART00N5 I THROUGH THI MAGIC IYIS 1 JV ITS COMING . , . XJ OFFERS A WASHER IASY ftUOOIT TIIMI NEW FOR ONLY V R00 n (RSI J DOWN U MONTHLY sUlQlJ 00 NO TRADE NEEDED 5-YEAR TRANSMIS SION GUARANTEE FREE DELIVERY & INSTALLATION SPRAY RINSE UNBALANCED LOAD CONTROL PORCELAIN TUB AND BASKET 90 DAYS TO PAY SAME AS CASH mm .A Goodyear Store 7th & Chornelfon Dl 3-2501 FrttJ Storeilde Forking Project Studies To Be Completed WASHINGTON Ml Son. War ren Magnuson, D-Wash., . says design studies will be completed next August for construction of Lower Granite Lock and Dam Vk miles above Almots, Wash., onthe Snake River. Brig. Gen. Jackson Graham, director of civil works for the Army Engineer Corps, told Mag nuson the plan called for in itial installation of three units producing 405,000 kilowatts. Graham said the dam, 32 miles downstream from Lewis ton, Idaho, would have a po tential of six units or 810,000 kilowatts. Personal Income Dips in February WASHINGTON (UPD Perso nal income declined in Febru ary, but government economists were not alarmed. Analysts said the January in come figure was swelled by a special GI insurance dividend payment wnicn added $3.5 bil lion to that month's total. Thus, at the seasonally adjusted rain the normal February income reany was Dillron greater than January, they said. The Commerce DeDartment rnnnrt said the February personal in come figure was $450.8 billion, compared to $452.4 in January. Discounting the insurance div idend the January fienrn w $448.8 billion. FEATURE TIMES mOTOR-vu DRive-in T h e n t r e rODO SPRING OPENING TONIGHT Thursday, March 21st COME EARLY HAVE FUN! Our Annual FREE Show "Don't Knock The Twist" ( "The Hellions" Chubby Checker! Richard Todd Anne Aubrey Thursday (feature! Subject to Chanfe) FOX Son of Flubber, 10:30 a.m., 1:15, . :SO. Whistle Down the Wind, 12:20, 4:19, I. HEIL1G The Courtship of Eddle'a Father. 1:40, 5:40, 9:50. The Pass word Ii Courage, 1:50, 7:30. MCDONALD Two for the Seesaw, 1, 4:50, 8:40. Pressure Point, 3:05, (:55, 10:40. First Run In 2 Theatres . . . Doors Open 12:45 Today OPEN 7:00 SHOW 7:15 14th a Henderson Clenwood OPVM PWDV L'lrllT Car Beater and Bain Shields Available J n K QaajjBBaieaiwalaaaaeaoart W V a A 1 - AT if Edtie Father G enh FORD C Shirley JONES,; ASlEVENS-WNAMERBILl WBtWASHBoVrjOO-TOrf- HOWARD mumsiom m ueraocaos CO-HIT Dick Borarde Mckenzie isprtmfieid) 40 Pounds of Trouble, 1:45, 9:30, S:1S. 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