The Press: Free Press & Power

Publisher Roy McDonald of the Chattanooga Free Press does not like TVA nor any other Government power project. He considers them a head start toward State socialism and "the complete destruction of the profit incentive that has made America great." This message the Free Press has repeated with loud and monotonous regularity ever since it was started as a throwaway weekly to advertise Mr. McDonald's chain of Home Stores (groceries).

Two years ago the Free Press donned long pants and became a commercial afternoon daily with a Sunday edition. Immediately Tennessee Electric Power...

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