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Ed Harris of Huntly charged that Vepco is spending more money for advertising than for research.
“Is it not significant that Vepco spent nearly $9 million in one year for advertising electric power and only $779,000 for research?” Harris asked.
Where did you get those figures?” demanded Vepco attorney Evans Brasfield.
“From the ‘Washington Magazine,’ and other articles, and they have never been challenged,” Harris replied.
“Vepco malfes much of impending shortages,” Harris told the Commissioners. “But there is another kind of shortage of which it says little . . . and that is a growing shortage of the kind of back country, beautiful land that you have seen around you on your tour of duty here.”
Commissioner Shannon said the Commission last summer had told Vepco to change its advertising emphasis from the promotion of power use to the promotion of power conservation.
“We are very much interested in this,” he said.
MANY OF those who testified both at Warrenton and at Washington would not be affected directly by the proposed power lines. They came to testify, they said, because of their concern for the beauty of the whole land, and because of their neighbors who were directly affected.
Like Linda Balentine, who said she did not own property and would not be directly affected: “My esthetic sensibility is offen
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