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TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1949..
(eorgia Manager Of Southern
Bell Discusses Phone Rates
LANTA, Jan. 10—Claude J.
Yfig, Georgia Manager of South
ern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
Company, Sunday made the tpl-
Jowing statement in connection
with Georgia Telephone rates:
«wrhe statement madq by the
Chairman of the Georgia Public
Gervice Commission on January 8
was extremely unfortunate as it
merely served to confuse the. situa
tion and without in any wise at
tempting to clarify or solve it.
“The Southern Bell Company is
like any other pérson or corpora
tion. 1f it is to live and to continue
to render service in Georgia and
to serve those who now want tele
phone service, it must hgve suffi
cient income to make this possible.
1+ differs from other persons or
f-;)rporations only in that its rates
are regulated by constituted au
rity.
m?‘anZe every other business the
war caused vast changes in the
telephone business and caused vast
increases in théscosts of operations.
Increases in wage rates since the
war have resulted in increased
telephone wages in Georgia alone
of over $6,000,000 a year. Other
costs have increased accordingly.
Farnings naturally have decreased
rmingly.
“ . Hearings Held
“Faced with an emergeney situa
tion, the Company went to the
Georgia Public Service Commis
sion over two years ago, told the
Commission of this emergency and
that emergency relief was urgent
ly needed. Hearings were held and
the Commission given full infor
mation as to the Company’s finan
cial difficulties. This condition
continued until the Company was
actually losing about $1,000,000 a
year on its Georgia operations. The
rates which were in effect when
the Company sought this relief
were those established in 1933 at
the very depths of the depression.
“Despite this -emergency, the
Commission took no action on the
Company’s plea for relief until
January 23, 1948, over 15 months
after the Company had sought re
lief. During this 15 months period
—despite its finanecial condition —
Southern Bell continued to render
service and to build and enlarge
its facilities to care for those Geor
gians who wanted telephone ser
vice and could not then get it.
Since the war, Southern Bell has
spent over $60,000,000 to improve
and expand telephone service, both
in the cities and in the rural areas
of Georgia. This was done on the
faith that the Company would be
permitted to earn a reasonable re
turn. #
“The Commission’s order issued
after this 15 months delay author
ized rate increases which were a
mere pittance, in face of the Com
pany’s urgent need. 'To meet the
demand for service in Georgia and
to continue to render good service,
the Company was forced to seek
relief in court from these unreas
onably low rates. ;
Suit Filed :
“It is for this reason that suit
was filed on January 30, 1948, in
which suit the Company contended
that the rates prescribed by the
Commission were too low. This
case was finally carried to the Su
preme Court of Georgia and the
contentions of the Company were
sustained in every particular.
“While this matter was still be
ing considered by the Supreme
Court, the Commission called upon
the Company to show why “just
and reasonable rates” should not
be fixed by the Commission. The
Company answered that there was
no reason why the. Commission
should not fix just and reasonable
rates and in fact asked the Com
mission to fix such rates. The
Company again gave to the Com
mission all the information which
it wanted as to its operations.
These hearings were completed on
June 7, 1948.
After the Supreme Court sus-
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tained the Company in every re
spect, the emergency rates which
Southern Bell had formerly sought
from the Commission were put into
effect. These emergency rates
were not sufficient to yield a just
and reasonable return. The Com
mission has not prescribed just and
reasonable rates even though re
quested to do so by the Company
and even though the hearings on
this question have been closed for
over seven months. We are anxi
ous for the Commission to make its
findings in this case and urge them
to do so with dispatch.
Fair Return
“Here again, Southern Bell is
like anyone else. If it is to render
adequate service and to serve all
who want telephones, it must have
money to build plant, pay wages,
taxes and other expenses. In
1948, the Company spent over
$23,000,000 in Georgia for new tel
ephone facilities and must spend
equally this much in 1949 if it is
to serve Georgia and Georgians
adequately. To get the money
necessary to serve this State, it
must be allowed to earn a fair and
reasonable return, and this is all
the Company has been seeking of
the Commission, since November,
1946,
“When the Commission failed to
set just and reasonable rates, after
this last delay of over six months,
the Company went back to the
Court, pointed out that the “emer
gency” rates were not fair and
reasonable and that the Commis
sion had for over six months failed
to fix just and reasonable rates,
and asked that it no longer be lim
ited to the “emergency” rates’ef
fective in August.
“Again the Company’s conten
tion was upheld by court action
and the present rates put into ef
fect.
“These present rates are fair
and reasonable. They are legal.
They are necessary, if the Com
pany is to continue to serve Geor
gia adequately.”
Public Library
Use Increased
During 1948
Residents of Clarke, Oconee and
Oglethorpe - Counties read 10,713
more books in 1948 than in 1947,
according to figures in thg 1948
annual report of the Athens Re
gional Library. The number of
loans totalled 135,326 as against
124,613 in 1947 and 79,006 in 1946.
Of the 1948 loans, 50,513 were
adult books, and 84,813 were juve
nile. :
This is due to the fact that the
largest proportion of loans from
the Bookmobile is to school chil
dren, as each county school is vis
ited once a month, and each child
in school has access to bookmobile
ibooks. During the past year the
‘Bookmobile Service circulated 20 -
419 books in Clarke, 22,753 in
Oconee, and 26,898 in Ogietnorpe
county, making a total of 70,070.
This represents an increase of
7174 over 1947.
. The Main Library in Athens cir
culated 39,807 ' books and maga
zines in 1948, a large increase over
the 38,138 total for 1947. When the
Library expands into the new
building on the corner of College
and Hancock avenues, there will
ldoubtless be a continued increase
in its use. Of the other branches,
Bogart and Lexington showed sub
stantial gains in circulation over
1947.
When bottle caps, toys, cans and
similar objects are lithographed,
decoration often is applied to the
flat surface before it is formed
into its final shape.
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The Poor Man’s Philosopher
CHILDREN ARE THE BEST WRITERS
By The Associated Press |
Some notes of the writing trade:
The late Arthur Brisbane was
fond of saying that if you put
three chipanzees to work on type
writers they would in time write
all the books in the British Mu
seum.
This is probably true. But they
would be more likely to turn out a
Brisbane editorial first than, say,
a book like Tolstoy’s “War and
Peace.”
Unfortunately, there is no way
to test this theory. No reward has
yet been found that would induce
an ape to spend that much time
at typewriter.
It isn’t that apes are too self
conscious to put down their
thoughts. They just believe more
in direct action. They can better
express their view of life by spit
ting through the bars at bystand
ers than by cramping themselves
before a typewriter.
| Hackneyed Terms
But no child ever .talks in
hackneyed terms. Not until he has
been put though the wringer of
‘education. To him the English lan
guage ig as fresh and powerful
[as it was to Chaucer and Shake
'speare, and he usese is as boldly.
This spreading immortal language
of ours, the greatest tongue the
lworld has known—lt will always
be fresh and new to the writer
who dares to bend it to his needs
with a child’s freedom.
Let me give a borrowed exam
ple of the child’s matchless gift
of imagery. Columnist Frank Far
rell published it recently in the
New York World-Telegram.
A radio producer’s small dau
ghter spent the afternoon at the
American Museum of of Natural
History, a storehouse of stuffed
animals and bony extinct mon
sters. P
When the mother asked where
she had been, the small girl re
plied:
“To a dead z 00.”
Genteel Despair
Ever since readying that anec
dote [ have been in a mood of
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genteel despair. A trained writer
could work a month and never
achieve the capuule -perfection of
this child’s offhand description of
a museum.
Perhaps every writer should
hire out as a part-time baby sit
ter and evesdrop on some childish
prattie. It might loosen him up
when he went back to his type
writer. °
On the other hand he might
come back and start writing
something like this: .
“Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da! glub,
glub!”
- Maybe that is what happened
to Gertrude Stein, who wrote “a
rose is a rose a rose is a rose is
a_."
You can’t ‘depend on a schild
with a single track mind.
One of the best-selling au
thors in Soviet Russia is Joe Sta
lin, the old watchdog of the
Kremlin. - e
It is too early to tell how he
will ultimately rank in the world
of letters. But at least one of his
observations is profound enough
to ring through the ages.
Stalin, it was, who onece Wrote:
“Paper will put up with any
thing that is written on it.”
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The engineer keeps his eye on the track
ahead, wide awake and alert. A New Year
can be likened to a track ahead, and we
of the Central of Georgia Railway Com
pany look to the future as we face another
year. .
The vital quality of wide-awake alert
ness is an important part of the reorgan
ized Central of Georgia. It is our heritage.
It has won us achievement. It has, we
believe, gained us the friendship of the
people in the territory we serve, and it
has kept that friendship through the years.
In this new year, as in every year, the
alert men and women of our organization
take their inspiration from that heritage.
In every phase of our operations, we are
alert to ways of providing better service
for our passengers and shippers.
Many things have been done. Installa
tion of heavier rail. Extension of auto
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Seek More Hours
Free Of Worries
Seek more hours for yourself
during the New Year which are
free of pressure.
As we grow older, the need to
relax becomes increasingly more
important. There is a need to relax
both mind and muscles.
So, count as triumphs every
hour that you can spend freed of
vexations. You can dismiss nig
gling worries by pushing them out
of your mind for an hour. Even
the woman who is hounded by the
problems of never making ends
meet can take “French leave” for
an hour every now and then from
her household worries. If there is
no other way of escape, she can
bury herself in a fascinating book
or seek oblivion in an absorbing
movie.
Don’t forget, while plotting ways
to relieve tensions, how quickly
mental and pw:ysical relaxation can
be gained from a long hike or a
whirl of your favorite winter sport.
I Don’t overlook the value of a
super-relaxing facial in which
many beauty shops specialize. In
the hush-hush atmosphere of a
softly lighter room in which your
‘comfort is catered to and where
the creamed hands of a beauty
lshop specialist induce you to re
-Ilax, you can spend a blissful hour
}freed of pressure that so often
‘assails the busy woman at home.
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ON THE
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If you can possibly be Qlear a
radio this afternoon at 5:15 be
sure to tune in to WGAU-—1340 on
your dial for “Sleepy Joe." This
program is rapidly winning the
hearts of all people young and old.
The series comes on every after
noon, Monday through Friday. Be
lieve me it’s terrific! It’s mainly a
program for the kiddies because it
concerns the tales of Brer Fox,
Brer Rabbitt, Brer Turtle *and
many others, but the truth of the
matter is that many college stu
dents and adults are getting a lot
of pleasure out of listening. Sleepy
Joe does all the imitations, which
consist of a great variety of the
famous characters. Listen at 5:15,
it's wonderful entertainment,
The Death Squad is called upon
to find a solution to ‘“The Double
Motive Mystery Case” on WGAU
CBS’ “Mystery Theatre” tonight at
8:00, .
A mysterious midnight telephone
call is the cue for WGAU-CBS’
“Mr. and Mrs. North” to go ex
ploring a dark pier for clues to an
unusual crime, during the mys
tery-comedy broadcast at 8:30 p.
m.
Top - name personalities and
headline newsmakers are inter
viewed by emcee Dwight Weist on
WGAU-CBS' “We The People” at
9:00 p. m,
Morey Amsterdam welcomes
back a packed ringside of revelers
at his mythical Golden Goose case
on WGAU-CBS’ “Morey Amster
dam Show,” at 9:30 p. m. George
Gibbs is featured as singer and
comedienne., The cast includes
Betty Carde, Art Carney, Jac
queline Susann and Charlie Irving.
A correct answer to the “Secret
Saying” on WGAU-CBS’ “Hit The
Jackpot” will be worth thousands
of dollars when the program is
broadeast tonight at 10:00.
A distressing report on the out
come of Peg’s illness has complete
ly upset the plans of Ken and No
ra in the sequence of WGAU-CBS’
“This Is Nora Drake” which is
broadcast Monday through Friday
at 2:30 p. m. o
Household chores made easy onl
“Hint Hunt” five days a week.
Funster Chuck Acree, with the aid
of the audience, offers household
hints for alert housewives on
WGAU-CBS' “Hint Hunt” every
afternoon Monday through Friday
at 4:00. s ¥
The fashion wise women will be
interested in “Feminine Footnotes”
which come on the air at 2:00 p.
m. Monday through Friday from
the Henry Grady School of Radio-
Journalism. This is one of WGAU’s
public interest programs.
Don't forget the completely new
“1340 Platter Party” tomorrow
afternoon at 3:00. Sound effects,
matic block signals. Centralized traffic
control. New Diesel and steam locomo
tives. New freight cars. New streamlined
passenger trains. Reduced round-trip
fares. Such are a few of our accomplish
ments. Others will follow as conditions
permit.
Our heritage of wide-awake alertness
is reflected, too, in the activities of our
agricultural and industrial development
departments. Here we are proud to help
in furthering the building of the South,
making prosperity for the region through
aiding business to find locations and by
helping tke farmer to introduce more
profitable crops and better methods for
southern agricultare, livestock raising
and forestry.
Yes, the Central of Georgia keeps its
eyes on the track ahead . .. alert to every
opportunity to live ap to its motto —
“A good friend all along the line”
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i NEA Staff Writer
Make winter’s duds give a Jive
lier performance between now
and spring by running in fresh
scenic changes with accessories
which you can whip up yourself.
l Ready with suggestion for mak
‘ing gay gimmicks with sequin
banding, chiffon neckwear and
crisp pique yokes is Edith Lut
yens, New York fashion designer
"and theatrical costumer.
I Give a basic black dress a glit
tering new role by hooking a cor
selet of sequins around your
waist, suggests Miss Lutyens. To
encircle your waist with glitter
buy a gix-inch wide strip of ce
,quin banding which comes solid
|ly paved with multi-colored spar
kle. Shape and fi¢ this, cummer
band-fashidn, around your mid
riff. Bind the cut ' edges of the
banding with narrow black gros
!grain, Stitch fasteners inside
\binding edges and hook up your
sparkling waistband. A square of
sequin banding can olso be sewed
(flat to hipline or bodice to make
~a glitter pocket for a dark dress,
says Miss Lutyens.
Give a dark basic dress a fore
taste of spring with an accordion
pleated chiffon neckerchief, dou
ble cuffs which are as fluffy as a
spring cloud. Such fragile pretties
may be made from pastel chiffon
strips which you can have pleated
jokes, the latest recorded tunes are
all featured on this one hour of
fun show, conducted by Alan
Westbrook, the world’s largest
midget.
Jack Benny’s new address is
Sunday night WGAU-CBS.
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either at the store where you buy
the fabric or at a good dry clean
ers. Bind the edges of a 27-inch
chiffon square, Have it filg;ted
on the bias to make a supple, scarf
which is easy to manipulate into
graceful folds around the neck
line, Fluffy cuffs are as easil
contrived by doubling a 10—incg
wide strip of pleated chiffon and
gathering onto a narrow silk bind
ing to fit around sleeve cuff. The
tighter the pleats the fluffer the
cuff, says Mfiss Lutyens, who ad
vises using a strip which before
pleating is 44-inches long.
Buttons team ‘up with white
pique to double the decorative ef
fect of starchy collars and cuffs
which Miss Lutyans says will' pep
up the quietest dress. Her trick
for frosting a dress is to sew a
row of buttons around the shoul
der yoke and rows of matching
buttons around sieeves just below
elbows. These are planted .to an
chor a fitted over-yoke of white
pique and matehing cuff. Pro
vided with buttonholes to match
the buttons, it is no trick at all to
put on yoke and cuffs for a
spruceup, to remove for easy
laundering.
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