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Hawkes Library Provides
Community a Reading Variety
By Dale Whiten
If you’ve heard about a
recent best-selling novel that
you think would probably
make interesting reading,
chances are this book might
be found among the esti
mated 15,000 volumes at the
local library.
In addition to current
fiction and non-fiction novels,
Hawkes Library contains
reference materials and
periodicals such as TIME,
U.S. NEWS AND WORLD
REPORTS and NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC.
The literature in the adult
section of the library is
varied: books and novels on
medicine, biographies which
have attracted wide publicity
and critical acclaim, Russian
and British literature, and
books related to science and
science-related fields.
There is also a children’s
library which could conceiv
ably accommodate the read
ing appetite of most boys and
girls in the county. The
children’s classics are there,
those by Hans Christian
Andersen, Mark Twain, and
Washington Irving. And for
the smaller kids there’s
Mother Goose and Dr. Seuss.
Hawkes Library is part of
the Flint River Regional
Library System which in
cludes, in addition to Butts,
Clayton, Fayette, Henry,
Homemakers
Face Problems
With Budgets
by
SUSAN MILLSAP
HOME ECONOMIST
GEORGIA POWER
Today’s Georgia home
maker has been faced with
budget-planning problems
quite different from those of
her mother or grandmother.
Increases in the cost of
products and services in
nearly every aspect of daily
living form an entirely new
dimension in financial plann
ing in the average household.
Among the many services
which have increased in cost
in recent years is electricity.
Here are the answers to a few
questions customers fre
quently ask about the cost of
electric power.
Q. Are any efforts being
made to help me keep the
cost of electricity in my home
as low as possible?
A. The power company is
conducting a customer in
formation and service pro
gram to help consumers
understand how they can
help keep down the price of
electricity. A call to the local
office will provide you
information on this. Trained
experts can visit your home
and advise on insulation and
comfortable yet economical
thermostat settings and
many other energy saving
practices. Second, new pro
grams and policies are
underway to lower power
company operating costs.
Some already have saved
millions of dollars. Third,
experiments are underway
with alternative rate struc
tures that would encourage
customers to shift some of
their usage from peak hours
to off-peak hours. Also, the
company has built four
energy research and demon
stration homes around the
state to study methods of
lowering energy require
ments in newly built homes.
A similar program is
underway in conjunction
with the U. S. Department of
Housing and Urban Develop
ment (HUD) to demonstrate
energy economizing in older,
existing homes.
Q. Why can’t my electric bill
remain the same as it was a
few years ago?
A. Just as homemakers are
paying more then ever before
for food, clothing, housing,
transportation and other
necessities, electric sup
pliers are paying unprece
dented prices for equipment,
materials, labor, fuel, taxes
and interest. Coal, for
instance, has doubled in
Lamar, Pike and Upson
counties.
The library was built in the
1920’s from money donated
by Mr. A. K. Hawkes, a
native of Massachusetts who
owned a pharmaceutical
company in Atlanta and who,
in his will, specified that five
libraries be built in different
counties in Georgia.
After some indecision as to
whether the Hawkes Library
would be built in Spalding or
Butts County, Jackson was
selected as the site.
However, the regional
headquarters is in Griffin
where the ordering and
selecting of books takes
place.
The Jackson library is
switching to anew system of
filing books which will
eliminate the card catalog.
The new system employs a
computer print-out which is
in book form.
There is a full-time
librarian -M. S. Torbett- on
duty at Hawkes Library
which is open 9-6 Monday,
Tuesday, Thursday, and
Friday and from 12 noon to
8:00 p.m. on Wednesday.
The library board in Butts
County consists of Richard
Watkins, chairman, Miss
Georgie Watkins, and Ralph
Carr, Jr., treasurer. Walter
Murphy of Griffin is the
director.
price during the past five
years, and Georgia genera
ting stations consume more
than 17 million tons a year to
produce the electricity you
use. Also, the steadily
increasing demand for elec
tricity makes it necessasry to
build new generating plants
and new transmission and
distribution facilities. In
Georgia alone, a half billion
dollars is being spent
annually on new construction
to meet consumers’ growing
needs.
Q. Why does a big industrial
customer have to pay less
per kilowatt-hour than a
residential customer?
A. Just as a grocery store
operator pays less per
orange when he buys a
truckload then does the
individual customer who
purchases only one orange,
so does the industrial
purchaser who buys large
quantities of electricity pay
less per unit, or kilowatt
hour, than does the person
who buys power in relatively
small amounts. The reason
behind each pricing transac
tion is the same; the price is
determined by how much it
costs the supplier to deliver
his product. Large industrial
firms, unlike residential
customers, take their
electric service directly from
transmission lines. The sup
plier does not have to build
and maintain the costly
distribution line system
required for the residential
classification. Even if large
industries subsidized resi
dential users by paying more
than their share of unit costs,
the additional costs eventual
ly would be borne by the
consumer who purchases the
industrial products.
Finally, due to a pricing
factor called “demand
charge”, large industries, in
actuality pay proportionately
more for electricity than
most of the public realizes.
While a residential home
maker pays only for the
electricity she uses, an
industrial user pays a basic
cost in addition to kilowatt
hour consumption. That cost
is based on the amount of
electricity used at the plant
during a pre-determined
peak period.
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storms on earth. No other
types of storms can match
the combined intensity, size,
duration and destructive
ness of the hurricane. Hur
ricane season runs from
June through September in
this country. In the last 10
years, 13 hurricanes have
reached the continental
United States, leaving 504.
dead and destroying more
than $5 4 billion in property.
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Booklet Deals
With Child’s
Hospital Visit
Going to the hospital can be
a trip into the unknown
strange routines, unusual
smells, science-fiction ma
chinery. And for a child,
there is also the separation
from his or her family, home,
and familiar surroundings.
So perhaps now is the time
for you to prepare your child
in case a trip to the hospital
might become necessary.
Take him or her to the
hospital for a tour to learn
where it is and what it is like.
And for bedtime reading, get
some books about children
who have had hospital stays.
The Department of Helath,
Education and Welfare has a
new publication that de
scribes and rates some of
these books, and tells what to
look for in others you may
find. For a copy of Books that
Help Children Deal with a
Hospital Experience, send 50
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OK. Pueblo. Colorado 81009.
Here are some points to
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look for in books you are
selecting:
Make sure the book fits
your child’s needs and, if you
know he or she is going to the
hospital, deals with the type
of treatment he or she will
be facing. Many of the books
talking about specific ill
nesses can be used to prepare
youngsters for other children
in the hospital with different
illnesses.
Be sure the book presents a
realistic picture of the
hospital experience. A
though you don’t want to
overwhelm children with
details or frighten them
needlessly, they should be
told that some procedures in
the hospital are unpleasant
and some even hurt.
And read the book yourself
first. Make sure the story is
interesting and that the
illustrations are appealing.
No matter how instructive
the book is, it won’t have
much impact if the child is
bored by the story.
Books that Help Children
Deal With a Hospital Experi
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the current edition of the
catalog, Consumer Informa
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Administration, the free
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sending a postcard to the
Consumer Information Cen
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totaled $71.7 billion at the
beginning of 1976 —an in
crease of 18 per cent over
the previous year and nearly
three times more than 10
years ago. The reserves
guarantee pension payments
when they become due. The
number of persons receiving
payments under pension
plans administered by life
insurance companies has
more than doubled in the
past 10 years. The annual
payments are more than
three-and-a-half times as
large. Last year. $2.5 billion
was paid out.