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To the editor:
Any business in order to succeed must depend on prudent management. However, this is not so for the lucrative monopolized electric utility industry.
Information received by mail from the NPEC (Northern Piedmont Electric Cooperative) office and printed in the Star Exponent states that there will be savings of from four to 10 million dollars over a 10-year period by consolidation with Virginia Electric Co-op.
Although these figures are given as estimates, ranging from bottom to top of the ladder, they can only be achieved by prudent management.
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