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Memories, Old And New, Highlight
1 Lampkin Grove Reunion
The Lampkin Grove School
Reunion held last week in
Appling was a great success,
with one exception -* James
Avery, who lives in Tatums,
Oklahoma, is now recovering
in University Hospital.
The week’s activities began
on a very high note. At the
registration ceremonies, one
could see car license plates
from all across the
country-Florida, New York,
California, Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania, Texas-all of the
cars belonged to alumni of a
one-room elementary school
that used to stand in the red
clay of Appling, Ga. It was
their first reunion, ever. They
embraced each other so hard
that they sometimes lost their
balance. They joked and told
stories and generally turned
the clock back 30, 40, or 50
years.
On Tuesday, there was the
hike to the original site of the
school (tom down in 1957), a
cookout on Thursday and a
baseball game on Friday that
will never be forgotten. James
Avery, a standout third
baseman (in his day), caught a
line-drive with his right eye
instead of with his glove. And
whereas the incident will
spark many a laugh in the days
to come, right now it is a
serious matter. The eye will
require surgery, and everyone
is wishing him a speedy
recovery.
The idea of the reunion was
conceived by Walton Avery, a
resident of Philadelphia since
1929. He recalls that two
years ago, “This idea just got
in my mind. 1 talked to a few
people who had attended
Lampkin Grove and they were
all enthused.” He then
contacted his sister, Mrs.
Wilhemenia Sanders of
Appling, and she organized a
committee to get the ball
rolling. Harriet Parks, Sarah
The New Action Program
A.R. Johnson Jr. High School
has a new program in Industrial
Arts Department Called the
Action Program.
Action is a program designed
to give youths practical business
nad economic education while
still in high school. Action
provides real-life experiences
normally not acquired until one
begins fulltime employment.
The total Action program takes
place in school except for the
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TRANSMITTING - Young Theresa Mitchell, a patient at the
Medical College of Georgia’s Talmadge Hospital in Augusta,
wears a short-range FM radio transmitter on her head that helps
doctors better understand her illness. The 12-year-old patient,
daughter of Mrs. Helen Mitchell of Augusta, is suffering from a
minor form of epilepsy. Dr. Paul Dyken, chief of pediatric
neurology at MCG, uses the FM apparatus to provide constant
monitoring of patients brainwaves in the testing of various
anti-epileptic drugs.
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Wahington and Anna L. Dent
served with her on the
committee. Everybody
cooperated 100 percent.
Those who couldn’t come sent
their approval and donations.
Avery said he wanted the
reunion centered around the
church (Lampkin Grove
Baptist) because, “This is
where it all got started. It is
reminiscent of from whence
we have come.”
The culminating activity
was a Sunday morning
worship service at which
Lampkin Grove pastor, Rev.
Charlie Wright, brought the
message. Current Columbia
County School Superintendent
John Pierce Blanchard also
brought greetings, and was
presented with a plaque from
the alumni of Lampkin Grove
Elementary School. Others
appearing of the program were
Mrs. Carrie Washington
(Brooklyn, N.Y.), Clinton
Dunn (Los Angeles, Calif.),
Mrs. Anna Dent (Evans, Ga.),
Mrs. James Avery (Evanston,
Ill.), Eugene Washington
(Augusta, Ga.), and The S.G.
Nobles Chorus.
Thomas Garnett (Appling)
gave special recognition to Mr.
Cluese McCladdie, a former,
teacher. IN MEMORIAM was
presented by Mrs. Eulala Tutt.
Forer teachers present were
Mrs. Susie McCladdie, Miss
Francis Wilborn, Mrs. Sadie
Washington, Mrs. Wilhemenia
Sanders and Mrs. Sarah
Washington.
Unable to attend this first
reunion were Mrs. Miriam
Shanks (Phila., Penna.), Mrs.
Jaunita Clark (Harlem, Ga.),
Mrs. Annie Sullivan (Clarks
Hill, S.C.), Henry Wilborn
(PhU., Penna.), Mrs. Carrie
Henderson, Mrs. Bernice
Mayson, Mrs. Clarisse
Bennings, Mrs. Oturia Williams
and Mrs. Idella Hayes.
The reunion will be held
every five years.
time actually spent in personal
selling.
One experiences everything
from the process of
incorporation to the
step-by-step procedure involved
in liquidation. These are only
some of the principles of
business which one learns as a
member of Action. Whether one
chooses to work for someone
else, or decides to go into
business for himself, what he
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Steve (L) and Johnny Avery, with parents Mr. and
Mrs. Johnson Avery.
While the adults at the
Lampkin Grove School
Reunion went back to the
“good-old-days” hugging, and
kissing and remembering, two
little boys, with very
promising futures, played with
other kids whose experiences
could not take them back
very far. One is eight, the
other is ten, and they appear
in nationally televised TV
commercials earning salaries
that most adults would like to
bring home.
Steve, the eight-year-old,
appears in a commercial for
American Dairy Products. Ten
year-old Johnny is currently
seen in a spot for Jiff Peanut
learns as a member of Action
will no doubt prove to be
valuable.
The Action Program at A.R.
Johnson Jr. High School is the
only one in the Richmond
County School system.
Members of the Action
Program are Wayne Jordon
President, Tony Carthem Vice
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ACTION MEETING Photo by Charles G. Harris, Jr.
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Janies R. Johnson, Diney
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recently completed a one-week
course on 3M’s VQC
new-technology copier at the
3M Company graphic systems
training center in St. Paul, Minn.
Johnson is a customer service
representative for Lanier
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Gordon Hwy., Augusta, Ga.,
which distributes 3M business
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Their entry into television
was quite accidental. Their
mother, Mrs. Louisa Avery, is
a Los Angeles nurse. One of
her patients was a commercial
television star. The patient
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Johnson Avery, father of
the boys, is a native of
Appling, Ga., and attended
the Lampkin Grove school.
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Customer Report #4
What are the chances of a power shortage here?
Will fuel problems affect my electric service?
Are you doing any research on new sources of fuel?
Our fuel supplies and generating capacity
appear adequate for this year. But your ser
vice may be affected unless much-needed
construction can continue and solutions to
fuel problems be found.
Coal is the major fuel used by Georgia
Power and delivery contracts are firm for
this summer, our peak period or time of
greatest demand. The most critical factor
affecting your electric service is the forced
postponements, possibly even cancellations,
in our construction program. Existing plants
should be sufficient for 1973, with some
generating capacity above our customers'
needs, barring any unusual events. Beyond
this year, the outlook is not good.
Our present customers are using more
electricity every year, and new ones are
constantly being added. The only way to
keep up with this growth is to build new
plants. But inflation and reduced earnings
have created an extremely serious financial
situation. Unless Georgia Power is allowed to
increase earnings, the necessary construction
can't be continued. Increased earnings would
not be enough to pay for the construction
itself. But they would enable us to borrow
the hundreds of millions of dollars needed
from investors.
Shortage Seen Ahead
If generating plants can’t be built, there
will be a power shortage in Georgia, pos
sibly in a few short years. We are able to
exchange power with neighboring utilities
in short-term emergencies (after assuring
that our own customers’ needs are being
met) but we cannot depend on buying power
from outside sources on a regular basis.
Nor is there any way to store up power dur
ing off-peak periods and save it for later. It
must be generated the instant it is demanded.
Aside from construction, fuel does pre
sent problems, too. Obtaining immediate
supplies is the job of the fuel industries.
Georgia Power and other utilities are, how
ever, engaged in research and development
of long-term supplies. Most of our work is
cooperative and there’s a sound reason for
this. If every company did extensive inde
pendent research, it would mean a needless
and costly duplication of efforts.
Long-term Projects
Technology for utilizing the more exotic
energy sources, such as geothermal and solar,
may not be available until the next century.
So research is being concentrated on energy
sources that can be developed sooner. One
is the liquid-metal fast-breeder reactor.
Georgia Power is one of 300 utilities
joining "with governmental agencies in
LMFBR development. A pilot project will
be constructed in TVA’s service area for
demonstration and operation.
Successful development of the LMFBR
will offer a potentially large new source of
economical nuclear energy. But we’re not
The Augusta News-Review - August 23, 1973
Georgia Power Company
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putting all our hopes in one reactor. We’re
engaged in other projects that could con
ceivably put to greater use the available
coal supply, the nation’s largest reserve of
fossil fuel. More environmentally acceptable
technology must be devised if coal reserves
are to be utilized efficiently.
Cleaner Coal
Scientists are exploring some 30 tech
niques for removing pollutants from coal.
Two of the most promising are double-alkali
scrubbing and dry adsorption. Georgia
Power, along with other members of The
Southern Company, is helping to develop
two pilot flue-gas scrubbing plants to study
these techniques. Basically, both are meth
ods of removing sulfur dioxide from flue
gases when burning coal.
Southern Company members also are
building a research plant for studying the
possibility of “solvent-refining” coal before
it is used as fuel. This would remove sulfur
and ash prior to burning.
Environmental Research
In addition to fuel-processing studies, the
research department of Southern Services
(part of The Southern Company) works on
many projects relating to the environment.
Georgia Power also has its own Environ
mental Division in the General Engineering
Department, with a full-time staff of 25 bi
ologists, engineers pollution specialists and
technicians." Research and preoperational
studies for plant sites are their chief jobs.
Costs Extremely High
Still another way of investing in research
is through things we buy. As manufacturers
develop improved equipment and materials,
either for producing and supplying electric
ity or for environmental protection, we buy
them. The cost of research and development
is reflected in the purchase price.
Similarly, the millions of dollars being
spent by utilities for research must neces
sarily be reflected in the price of electricity.
There simply is no other source of money
to pay for these vital but costly efforts.
For several decades, the electric indus
try has worked diligently to provide ample,
low-cost power for this country’s burgeoning
needs. Expanding use and the resulting ef
ficiencies of production brought declining
rates for many years. Your average residen
tial price per kilowatt-hour is 22 percent
below the national average of investor
owned utilities.
It would be wishful thinking to say that
rates won’t have to go up again, or that
they may even come down someday. We
must be honest and realistic in assessing the
impact of inflation and fuel scarcities on the
future price of electricity. It must eventually
reflect those pressures, and it would be wrong
to tell you otherwise.
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