Business: Letter to the Governor

In the mail of New York's utility-baiting Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt there rested last week an open letter from Floyd Leslie Carlisle, Chairman of Niagara Hudson Power Corp., largest U. S. electrical power system. In it onetime Cornell-Debater Carlisle answered a recent radio speech by the Governor.

To the Governor's statements that a consumer in Albany would pay $19.50 a month for 250 kwh., one in Schenectady $9.30, Mr. Carlisle replied: "This is entirely incorrect, as in Albany for that number of hours use the rate would be $9.30 per month."

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