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Editor:
I was appalled, as must have been tens of thousands of other Virginians opposed to Vepco’s newest application for a tremendous rate hike, to see Gov. Mills E. Godwin in a news conference throw his considerable weight on Vepco’s side well in advance of a decision by the State Corporation Commission.
The purpose of the SCC’s hearing on the giant utility’s rate proposal, which would give it an additional $123.7 million a year, was to hear expert testimony on both sides and subsequently make it» finding based on the evidence and the public interest, insofar as it-could determine the public interest by witnesses and the thousands of letters, telegrams, phone calls and signatures on petitions filed with the agency. ^Fhe hearings were jammed with concerned opponents who would be
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