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Georgia Power Cos. To Ask
PSC For Emergency Raise
The Georgia Power Com
ps ry today will ask the Public
Service Commission for emer
gency rate relief to ease a
financial crisis that endangers
the state’s electric power
supply ■ The request applies to
the company’s residential,
commerical, industrial and
other customers served at
retail rates.
“If we don’t solve this
problem now, Georgia con
sumers will find themselves in
an energy crisis of unpre
cedented magnitude,” said
Edwin I. Hatch, company
president.
‘The consequences could be
catastrophic,” he added.
“Without an immediate
increase in rates Georgia
Power’s construction program,
already curtailed because of
inadequate earnings, would
suffer further cutbacks,”
Hatch said.
The company must carry out
a $3 billion construction
program over the next five
years to meet Georgia’s
growing power needs, he
explained. “Even greater
amounts will be spent in the
years after that to provide for
power needs that will quad
ruple by 1990,” he added.
He said that, in addition, the
company will have to file for a
permanent rate increase very
shortly to bring revenues back
to a level that will cover
all operating costs, pay
for environmental protection
equipment required by law and
provide a fair rate of return on
total plant investment.
The proposed emergency
increase would go into effect by
July 1, and would provide the
company sll.l million in
additional revenue before
September 30. It will add
approximately 3.7 cents a day
to the average residential
consumer’s electric bill.
‘This Emergency increase is
absolutely essential to avoid
the immediate financial cri
sis," Hatch added.
“Inadequate earnings have
already influenced the cutback
of four major generating
stations,” Hatch said. These
stations are a nuclear generat
ing plant near Waynesboro, a
nuclear unit near Baxley, and
two pumped-storage hydro
electric plants, one near Rome
and one between Eatonton and
Sparta.
Hatch said the emergency
relief is being sought so that
the company’s earnings will be
sufficient to legally permit a
proposed $l5O-million sale of
first mortgage bonds and a $25-
million sale of preferred stock
scheduled for November.
“More than 80 percent of
Georgia Power’s construction
funds must be raised from the
Developers-lnvestors
Don’t miss out on this 210-acre tract in Butts County,
now being offered for sale for the first time. Three miles
west of Jackson Lake, 60 minutes south of Atlanta, 40 min
utes north of Macon, this tract lies in the path of a dynamic
residential growth area.
Heavily timbered for immediate profit, watered by a
branch and large creek with rushing shoals and deep pools,
the tract abounds with deer, quail, beaver, coon, squirrel and
assorted wildlife.
Good dirt road access now, with paving scheduled this
year, plus the proposed county-wide water system will send
this property far above the firm $300,000 asking price.
Owners will finance and tailor terms to buyer’s needs.
Little, or no, down payment required, interest only for five
or more years, payout an additional eight or ten years.
Deal direct with the owners - no brokers or agents
need apply. For further information call 775-3107 day or
775-7313 night. Or write Box 249, Jackson, Georgia 30233.
sale of securities,” Hatch said.
“And if our earnings are not
adequate to permit the sale of
these securities, we will not
have the capital to build plants
necessary to provide power for
Georgia’s future,” he added.
Future power shortages in
Georgia could cause wide
spread unemployment, an
exodus of young people from
the stateforla ck of opportunity
and perhaps cessation of all
industrial plant expansion,
Hatch warned.
While the consumer price
index has risen more than 40
points since 1958, he said, the
price per residential kilowatt
hour has declined from 2.05
cents to 1.9 cents. He added
that even with the proposed
increase, the Georgia Power
average would be well below
that of the nation.
“Our present price for
electricity is simply too low to
allow a fair return on
investment,” Hatch said. “For
the past 12 months the rate of
return on the company’s more
than $2 billion worth of plant
was 6.65 percent, far below the
return erf 8.26 percent author
ized by the Public Service
Commission.”
Graduates
Names Needed
For 1954-65
Members of the Jackson
High School graduating classes
of 1954 through 1965 who
possess a copy of their
graduation program or a
complete listing of their
graduating class are asked to
donate or lend the items to the
school. Copies of the classes
will be made and returned if
desired.
The office staff last week
located an old binder con
taining lists of the graduating
classes of Jackson High School
from the year 1900 through 1972
with the years 1954-1965
missing. The school desires to
locate these missing names
and complete the book which
would be a complete listing of
the classes for 72 years.
Persons having information
may contact the principal’s
office at Jackson High School,
775-7175.
CARD OF THANKS
I wish to thank my many
friends and relatives for their
many kindnesses during my
hospitalization. For the cards,
flowers, calls, to the doctor and
nurses and especially to those
who ca me to sit with me I shall
be eternally grateful. Thanks
again. Mrs. Lizzie Barnes.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Georgian
To Lead
Moose Order
Chicago, ILL. - James S.
Rivers of Cordele, Ga., owner
of chains of radio stations and
motels and a banker, was
elected last week to the highest
office in the Loyal Order of
Moose, that of Supreme
Governor.
Following his election, Riv
ers was given a standing
ovation by delegates and
visitors in attendance at the
85th annual international con
vention of the Moose being held
at Mooseheart and the Conrad
Hilton Hotel in Chicago.
Rivers joined the Moose in
April of 1951 and is a life
member. He is also a member
of Chattahoochee Valley Le
gion No. 130, the second degree
of the Order, and has been
awarded the Fellowship and
coveted Pilgrim Degree of
Merit for his outstanding
service to the humanitarian
programs of the Order.
The new Supreme Governor
served as Deputy Supreme
Governor of the states of
Georgia and Alabama before
being elected to the Supreme
Council in 1963. He was
elevated to Supreme Prelate in
1971 and to Supreme Junior
Governor in 1972.
Active in community life,
Rivers is a member of the
Methodist Church and a past
steward, is a charter member
of the Cordele Rotary Club and
a past president, is chairman
of the 13th Georgia Senatorial
Executive Committee, a lieu
tenant colonel on the Gover
nor’s Staff of Georgia, and a
member erf the famous Uni
versity of Georgia Gridiron
Club.
Rivers succeeds Phillip R.
Morse of Corning, N. Y. as the
Supreme Governor of the
Moose. Morse, an industrialist,
automatically becomes the
junior past Supreme Governor.
REACT Team
Formed In
Henry Cos.
The recognition of the Henry
County REACT team No. 2381,
to be headquartered in the
county youth center, as an
official REACT team has been
announced by REACT National
Headquarters in Chicago,
Illinois.
REACT is a community
program to provide organized
citizens two-way radio com
munications in local emer
gencies. Sponsored nationally
as a public service by General
Motors Research Labora
tories, Read’s objectives are
(1) to provides supplementary
system of radio communica
tions for local emergency
situations and (2) to promote
correct and efficient use of
citizens radio.
More than 40,000 citizens are
members of about 1,500
REACT teams in the U. S. and
Canada.
Coordinating the Henry
County effort will be John H.
Moss, 220 S. Burke Circle, who
is President and team leadeer
of Henry County REACT. John
said that monitoring stations
will be in operation 24 hours a
day for the purposes of
relaying emergency messages
to the proper authorities.
The Henry County REACT
unit already has 23 members.
“In many communities,
citizens two-way radio has
proved the difference between
life and death,” John pointed
out. “From an accident scene
on a remote country road, a
citizen whose car is so
equipped can instantly alert an
ambulance, a doctor and a
hospital staff. He can also save
precious moments in disaster
situations where emergency
oxygen or a resuscitator is
needed.”
“Citizens radio has many
other community uses as well
as possibilities in the event of
national disaster,” he added.
‘Through organized effort we
expect to utilize its potential
more fully.”
Citizens two-way radio was
created by the Federal
Communications Commission
to satisfy a need for low-cost
two-way radio for necessary
farming’s
come a long way
... since the days of quilting bees, kerosene
lamps, and horsedrawn plows.
Today’s farmer must be a scientist-engi
neer-economist-businessman . . , with a dash of
philosopher thrown in He has to be. to continue
settinq our tables with an unequalled variety and
quality of food, in the face of soaring costs . . .
to produce food and fiber for 4. r > people,'when
Iwo decades ago it was only 14.
We of America's nearly 1,000 consumer
owned rural electric systems which serve the
majority of our nation s farms know firsthand
about the farmer’s vital role in our modern
economy.
We know that in our progressive, changing
world, some things arc worth saving. Like an
heirloom quilt. Like the family farm.
Central Georgia
Electric Membership Corporation
Flovilla Happenings
By Mrs. S. A. Elliott
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Marsh
and children, Robert, Marie
and Larry, Jr., went to Lion
Country Safari Sunday evening
and enjoyed it very much.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Cook
spent Wednesday night and
Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. S.
A. Elliott.
Friends of Miss Marcia
Morgan a re glad to know she is
home and feeling better.
We all extend sympathy to
the Dodson family in the
passing of Mr. Leonard Dodson
who passed at the Jasper
Memorial Hospital on May
22nd.
Robert Marsh is spending
this week at Myrtle Beach, S.
C. with his father who is
working there.
Miss Roxie Smith spent
Sunday with the S. K. Smith
family. Also recent visitors of
the Smiths were Mrs. J. C.
Funderburke and Mrs. Vivian
Hightower and Mr. William
Westbrook of Forsyth.
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Martin
and twins, Jack and Jackie,
visited the S. A. Elliotts last
Tuesday.
Recent visitors of Mr. and
Mrs. Johnny King were Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Boyd of
Forest Park and Mr. and Mrs.
Bob Fincher and Cindy of
Jackson.
We all extend sympathy to
Mr. and Mrs. H. B.TuUis in the
passing of his mother, Mrs.
Mary Lu Tullis, who passed
personal and business com
munication. Today, any citizen
over 18 years of age may own a
private citizens radio com
munications system once he
has applied for and received
his easily-obtained radio sta
tion license. There are no
exams required; the license
costs $20.00 and may be
secured on request from the
F.C.C.
Adaptable to a host of office,
industrial, farm, home, auto
mobile and leisure-time appli
cations, these radios have a
practical range of 10 - 30 miles,
depending upon geography and
conditions.
THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1973
away at Westbury Nursing
Home Friday morning where
she had been a patient for
several years and had been in
declining health for some time.
She was a faithful member of
the Baptist Church until her
health failed.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul James
and boys, Michael and Bran
don, of Decatur were luncheon
guests Sunday of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Harper,
and they also visited their
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
George Barnes in the evening.
Visiting Mr. and Mrs. Joe
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Waits Sunday were Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Koch, Mrs. Lucy
Koch and daughter, Dorothy,
of Atlanta, Mr. and Mrs. Tate
Turner of Hillsboro, Mrs.
Curtis Cochran of Juliette, Mr.
Edward Waits and Mr. Henry
Collins.
Mr. George Long of Forsyth
visited his mother, Mrs. D. T.
Long, Saturday night.
Mrs. Grace Britt and Miss
Jane Bland of Griffin visited
Wednesday with Mrs. Edna
Long and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cook and
boys, Mark, Gregg and John,
were hosts Monday evening to
a cookout. Those attending
were Mr. and Mrs. Emerson
Burfordand family, Mrs. A. G.
Cook, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Williams and boys, Glenn and
Andy, and Mr. J. D. Williams,
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Cook of
Ashland, Mo. On Friday
evening Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Williams and boys, Glenn and
Andy, and Mr. J. D. Williams,
were hosts to the group, the
occasion also being Andy’s
birthday.
TOWALIGA VBS TO
BEGIN JUNE 18th
Towaliga Baptist Church will
hold its Vacation Bible School
beginning Monday, June 18th,
and extending through Friday,
June 22nd. Classes will begin
each morning at 9 o’clock and
beoutat 11:45a.m. Mrs. Sonya
Fleming will be in charge of
the school.
Rev. J. C. Parham, pastor,
urges all boys and girls in the
area to attend this school.
