The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 January 1955 — Page 7

THE DAILY BANNER, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA. MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1955

Arkansas Town Foresees Boom In Dixon-Yates P-an MEMPHIS. T< nn J^n

ir ^d. the city wants i and annex nearby Ark., and civic leaders . of what the plant will e East Arkansas area.

ahead fast. In 1935, he became secretary and treasurer of Electric Power and Light Corp., and nine years later was president of the firm.

hin J it all are two men, unknown to the generunt»l they put their .* 'her. Dixon-Yates is a

When Middle South Utilities was fo*Tned in 1944. Dixon became president, a job he still holds.

>—The controVe power plan is West Mem phi town” ideas ev troversy over th> j rages. Under the Dixon 5107,000.000 po' be built near We * send p Aver into Tei Authority lines t TV A sen Is the A Commission. The plan has m news, with a s' versy blowing up Residents of the ” many Democrats m unco tb pr, pr Republicans conter. the government i: ers money. In West Mempi. the Mississipo P they’re not ei* n wi final decision. Multi-million ial and resi lent: t!

• “n of the last names of r H. Dixon and Eugene A. m is president of Middle . Utilities; Yates is chairthe boari of the S^/uthC i .p.iny. Those two firms ,\ a total of eight private r ompanies in the South. Dixon-Yates combined < used to describe the pno- ! by Middle South and the “Ur Company to build a • plant under contract to A EC. x n just turned 50 in DecemHe s been a top power of- ' . • 10 years, and his story be called a typical Amerii( cess story. He never went ii! f, ge, .but he’s risen from a '-month junior clerk to a 0-a-year president, first job Dixon had was . t: c Bond and Share Co. ■ w Yo* k. He did a little bit e thing, from sweeping out e ,on up. He moved

Dixon is a chubby man. with a receding hair line. An athlete in his younger days, he now makes woodworking and gardening his hobbies. He has a complete woodworking shop in his Tenafly, N. J., home, and often makes repairs around his house. Dixon, like Yates is a Republican and believes the Dixon-Yates proposal is a good thing for both government and taxpayers. Yates is 74. went to a private school and took an engineering degree at Rutgers. He then worked as an engineer on construction work. The construction work led him into the power field. He was in charge of construction of Alabama. Power Company’s first hydro-electric plant in 1912. Eight years later the firm called Yates and made him vice-presi-dent and genei’al manager. He later became vice president of Southern Power and Light, then had the same title with huge Commonwealth and Southern.

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He was elected president of the Southern Company in 1947 and chairman of the .board in 1950. Dixon and Yates had only what has been described as a “nodding acquaintance” before getting together .cn the DixonYates proposal. Yates fii"st sought to interest TVA in letting his firm build a olant to sell TVA power but was turned down. He was told to try the AFC. * Then a friend suggested that a olant be built in the Memphis j area, where power was needed, and that Dixon’s firm might be interested in joining such a deal. And that’s how Dixon and Yates became Dixon-Yates.

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