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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1977)
I Electricity ■ i 3 Griffin-Spalding will have plenty during peaks in the summer months Electricity usage in Griffin and > ‘ Spalding is expected to be much higher this summer than it has in past years and electricity suppliers have made • some changes to accommodate the increase. Clifford Hudson, superintendent of a the Griffin Electric Department, said a L new circuit has been installed in the r city’s equipment to accommodate the (anticipated increase in electric power 1 usage. The new circuit does not add to the city’s capacity, but splits part of the system so that less of the load is on switches, breakers and associated equipment in the city’s substation. The new circuit already has been put into service. “We are now receiving our electric power through the Municipal Electric * Authority of Georgia and do not anticipate any shortages during the summer months,” Hudson said. » Hudson said there is a possibility of some of the electric generating plants being down during the summer months, t but this cannot be forecast. “The city’s equipment is in good shape. We are continually making repairs and improvements to the ’ system,” he said. Hudson said the city’s capacity is cut some during the summer months , because of the heat. The high temperatures affects the operational efficiency of the transformers at the city’s substation. “We will probably have some transformers to bum out in some areas causing temporary outages, but we do ’ not anticipate any major problems in supplying the people of Griffin with electricity during the summer , months,” Hudson said. R F. “Bob” Armstrong, president of the Central Georgia Electric , Membership Corporation which serves much of Spalding County, said one of the major problems during the summer months will be transformer overloads * and bum outs. Armstrong said the overloads and burnouts will be caused by the addition * of air conditioners and other electrical appliances to household systems. “If those people who are planning to , add an air conditioner to their system would notify us, we would check the transformer and other equipment to determine if we have the capabilities to * supply ample electricity to the home to meet the demands,” he said. Armstrong said the CGEM has ample » equipment and facilities to serve the /1 > ' I JnL \ \ I j^s'sWbE^‘ * \ ■£? \ , ' K a \ akHSh SB F . >-*“7/* \ M < 3HIR | \ Linemen are working on high-voltage lines in the Griffin area to make sure they are ready for the peak usage of electricity expected this summer. GRIFFIN DAI EV NEWS Daily Since 1872 Ml.- f jj. ’j Ik. _ <■ CLIFFORD HUDSON ...talks about electricity. people in its area. “We do not anticipate any problems in our own distribution system,” he said. Armstrong said the Central Georgia EMC depends on others to generate the electricity it distributes and there could be some problems at the generating plants. “We are members of a cooperative that owns part of two generating plants, but this does not mean they could not have problems,” he said. Armstrong said he is not worried so much about the upcoming summer and the peak electric usage then as much as he is several years in the future. “New plants must be constructed to provide Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, April 16,1977 enough electricity to meet the demands. It takes years for the construction of these plants. Without new generating facilities in the near future, there will not be enough electricity to meet the demand in the future,” he said. Electric power generating companies in Georgia and other states in the southeast have a borrowing policy, Armstrong said. He said this policy' had helped to relieve some of the burden during the summer months. “During the summer months, electric power is borrowed from TVA to supply the needs in Georgia and Florida and in the winter months TVA borrows from the generating plants in Georgia and Florida. One of the problems of the past winter was the cold hit the entire southeast and each generating area needed all of the electricity it could produce to serve the customers in the immediate area, Armstrong said. He indicated there was none for other companies to borrow. Jack Doster, Griffin manager of Georgia Power, said the reserve capacity is enough to sufficiently serve Griffin and Georgia during the summer months. “There will be plenty of electricity for the people of the area unless we encounter some unforseen problems,” Doster said. “We anticipate no brown outs or black-outs,” he said. Doster said Georgia Power, in anticipation of increased electricity usage this summer, had installed larger transformers in several places. “Our local equipment is in excellent condition. Our engineers have planned a reserve in most of the transformers,” he said. He said there may be some unexpected problems with the local equipment, but these, if any, should be minor. Doster also asked residents who are planning to install air conditioners or make other major changes in their electricity demands on the system to contact the company. “They should contact their electric company — no matter which company it is — so tahe engineers can check on the amount of electricity available to the home,” Doster said. Overall, Hudson, Armstrong and Doster agreed there would be an ample supply of electricity for Griffin this summer. 1 k i**- 1 PErr ~hi * * - ■ n ■ 1 ■ \ « wM ■ iSkT ii ■ i IBRy I ■ JImII I• f I 'Aj ' I i ■MMMBMiE I! Btr m - /' v k *'2Bi MIM iiif*? '• ’’ r - "'S’ ' f - Arthur Fountain, right, of the Griffin Electric Depart ment takes a look at a three-phase, 12,000 volt cutout in the Griffin electrical system. Landmark Hunt house spared destruction The historic Hunt house on the First Baptist Church property will be dismantled and restructured on a 25- acre site near the Griffin Country Club. The Griffin-Spalding Historical and Preservation Society made the announcement today. The home is one of 10 in the Griffin area in the National Historical Register. It will remain in the register after it is moved. Judge John Goddard who has been a Historical Society leader from its start said Dr. Grady Duke would dismantle the home and move it to the Shoal Creek area. This will be the second such project for Dr. and Mrs. Duke. He moved the Rozzie Bell Newton home from its West College and Eighth street location to People ••• and things Manager shouting to Little Leaguer to go home (meaning home plate) and little player heading for dugout, getting his glove and heading home. Little League catcher finishing warmup listening as ump shouts “Throw it down,” meaning to pass the ball around in the infield. Player follows command to the letter and throws ball down into the ground. Grandfather buying Farrah-Fawcett Majors rug, explaining to clerk it’s for his grandson. Convicted murderer weds on day of death sentence NEWKIRK, Okla. (AP) - Just 10 minutes before he was sentenced to die, a convicted murderer married the woman who was the state’s chief wit ness against him. “How about that, two death sentences in one day,” Richard Lawrence Hager joked Friday as he was handed his marriage certificate. He married Connie Sue Vaughn, 21, whose testi mony led to his conviction Feb. 23 in the execution-style slaying of his former wife’s boyfriend. The ceremony was performed by a minister in the chambers of District Court Judge Lowell Doggett. After ward, when the court was called into Vol. 105 NO. 90 the Country Club area. Dr. Duke plans to live in the restored Hunt house. First Baptist Church officials worked with the Historical Society and Dr. Duke in making arrangements. The exterior of the house will be restored as it is now but the interior will be changed. Solar energy to power Shenandoah plant ATLANTA (AP) — The use of solar energy to power a West German textile manufacturing plant at Shenandoah, Ga., could save about $2 million over 20 years and marks a new step in the nation’s solar energy research, the Georgia Power Co. said Friday. Spokesmen said the utility has been awarded a grant by the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration to develop the first experiment in the large-scale com mercial use of solar energy. “This will be a major step forward in solar development, and it is likely to generate many valuable spinoffs for later solar energy use,” said Walter R. Hensley, Georgia Power’s vice president for economic services. A generating facility with five acres of solar collectors will be built at Shenandoah, one of 17 sites that com- session, Doggett set June 27 for the exe cution of the 28-year-old Hager. The sentence will be reviewed by the state Court of Criminal Appeals. Electrocution is the prescribed manner of carrying out death sentences in Oklahoma, but a bill is pending in the state legislature that would allow a condemned person to die by means of a drug injection. Hager was convicted of murder in the slaying last September of Anthony Corley, 19, the boyfriend of his then estranged wife. Miss Vaughn, who is pregnant, had been living with Hager at the time of Corley’s death and testified in the trial Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA— Fair and mild tonight with low in the mid 50s. Fair and mild Sunday with high in the mid 80s. Low this morning 50, high Friday 83. It originally was constructed in the 1850 s by W.W. Chapman then W. J. Kincaid purchased it. Mr. Kincaid was a leader in developing, the textile industry in Griffin. The house remained in the Kincaid family until the First Baptist Church purchased it. The church plans to build a chapel on the site where the Hunt home is now. peted for the project. The textile firm of Wilhelm Bleyle, K. G., the first West German company to locate in Georgia, will begin full oper ation of its plant by early 1981, officials said. J Jib k * fl Hi “It seems the things we need the least are the ones that are advertised the most.” that Hager told her the day of the shooting, “The boy is dead. I had to shoot him several times.” The couple had been married March 17 but the ceremony was voided after the judge who married them learned that Hager had not waited the required six months since his divorce from his first wife. Hager also is charged with kidnaping in the alleged abduction last November of the son of District Attorney Joseph A. Wideman. No trial date has been set on that charge. The prosecutor’s son was released unharmed and two other men have been sentenced to seven-year prison terms.
