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Snapping Shoals Joins In Building Nuclear Power Plant Snapping Shoals Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) has participated in an historic agreement to help assure electrical energy for the future. The agreement, which provides for the cooperative building of the Alvin W. Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant near Waynesboro, was final ized in Atlanta on January 27, 1977. Snapping Shoals EMC was represented at the cere monies by Oglethorpe Elec tric Membership Corpora tion, the power supply organization for 39 of Georgia’s EMCs. Snapping Shoals EMC is one of the founding members of Ogle thorpe Electric. The agreement marks the first time in Georgia that four power supply entities will share ownership in a power generating facility. Plant Vogtle, which origin ally began as a project of the Georgia Power Company, will now be owned under the following arrangement: Georgia Power Company will have a 50.7 percent ownership interest; Ogle thorpe Electric will have a 30 percent ownership interest; Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG) will have a 17.7 percent owner ship interest; and the City of Dalton will have a 1.6 percent ownership interest. The unique arrangement between an investor-owned utility (Georgia Power Com pany), a nonprofit, member owned utility (Oglethorpe Electric), and municipal directed utilities (MEAG and City of Dalton), is considered a major accomplishment in solving the financing of a generating facility. Construction on Plant Vogtle, which had begun as a four-unit facility, was halted by Georgia Power Company late in 1974 due to financial difficulties. The revised plans call for a two-unit facility capable of generating 1.150 megawatts per unit. j-iTHE CHIRO-INFORMER:£ Do fear and concepts keep you from better health? Do fear and concepts keep you from Chiropractic because you “don’t believe in it”? Do you fear manipulation and joint “popping”? Modern times demand open minds. You need to know about gentle treatment' methods without forceful adjusting to give maximum recovery, available thru modern research. Acutely ill and post-surgical cases can receive proper care. Join fifteen million others who find better health. Chiropractic has never been disproved. Information & appointments: Dr. R. J. Cartwright, 540 W. Third St., Ph. 775-7193. the %l^m jf'XJMb fcu’i IN CONCERT AT GORDON JUNIOR COLLEGE Alumni Memorial Hall Barnesville, Ga. February 16, 1977 8:00 p. m. GENERAL ADMISSION - $2.50 Construction is expected to be completed in the mid 1980s at a projected cost of $1.75 billion. Oglethorpe’s estimated share for the completion of the project is $823 million. Though the agreement for the buildmg of Plant Vogtle is the first time in Georgia that four power supply entities have cooperatively partici pated in a single project, there is precedent in the state for joint ownership in power generating plants. Oglethorpe Electric pio neered the concept in Georgia of ownership partici pation by purchasing a 30 percent ownership in the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Power Plant near Baxley in 1975, and a 30 percent ownership in the Hal Wans ley Fossil Power Plant near Carrollton in 1976. According to Oglethorpe Electric’s General Manager, F. F. Stacy, the agreements with Georgia Power Com pany involving Plants Hatch and Wansley, “....served as something of a proving-point. It was, on the surface, an unusual agreement -a negotiation between an investor-owned utility and the nonprofit, member owned utility. In the past, our 39 founding EMCs had negotiated directly with Georgia Power Company for the majority of their electri cal needs. Though they were buying power on a wholesale rate, some critical concerns developed in the early seventies. Georgia Power Company, faced with in creased costs, began to raise wholesale rates and the EMCs experienced a 200 percent increase in less than five years. Further, because of the need for more generating and transmission hardware, Georgia Power Company could not com pletely assure the availabil ity of electricity in the future”. Oglethorpe Electric was established as a power supply organization due to those problems, Stacy added. “We knew, however, that we would have to become involved in generating and transmission of power,” Stacy said. “And that is when we negotiated for 30 percent ownership of Plant Hatch, followed by Plant Wansley, and now Plant Vogtle. Ultimately, we hope to be independent of the need to purchase wholesale energy. Our goal, on behalf of Snapping Shoals EMC and the other 38 founding EMCs, is to be independent by the early 19905”. Mr. J. E. Robinson, manager of Snapping Shoals EMC, added that funding for the purchase of generating and transmission capability was made available to Oglethorpe Electric from long-term loans that have THE JACKSON PROCRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA been guaranteed by the Rural Electrification Admin istration (REA), which is an agency of the U.S. Depart ment of Agriculture. “The administrator of the REA. David A. Hamil, has long been an advocate of the cooperation between investor-owned and member owned utilities”, Mr. Robin son said. “In essence, what it means is that resources are pooled, responsibility shared, and present and future needs for electricity are met in a more effective and cost-efficient manner. We believe that future demands could not have been met if we had continued to rely primarily on wholesale electric energy from Georgia Power Company. In short, we think we’ve been involved in the pioneering of a good cause.” Atlanta Judge To Address Griffin Group The Griffin chapter of the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International will hold its next meeting on Saturday, February 19th, at the Holiday Inn of Griffin. Judge Kermit C. Bradford, of Atlanta, will be the guest speaker. A civil court judge of Fulton County, he served as a counter spy in World War 11, working with Scotland Yard and the French underground. Judge Bradford’s conver sion came about as the result of his successful handling of a sensational murder case in > 1952. Meeting of the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship are open to anyone desiring fellowship in Jesus Christ Regardless of sex, race, or denominational background. A buffet dinner will be served at 6:30 for the February meeting for $4.00, with the meeting starting promptly at 7:30 p.m. Reservations may be made by writing P.O. Box 387, Griffin 30224, or by a phone call to 228-6700 in Griffin. Agricultural Pests Starlings, sparrows, Japa nese beetles and roughly half of the United States' major agricultural pests have come from foreign lands. On the other hand, the North American musk rat overran Europe and the European rabbit nearly ruined Australia. Volare Premier Priced over s 4ooless0less than Ford Granada Ghial That's quite a difference! 'Base sticker prices on comparably equipped models excluding taxes and destination charges paa CariwMojwfa PHO 137 W. THIRD ST. PET of the WEEK By Dale Whiten The mother is a Great Dane and the father is a German Shepherd, so maybe 13 puppies is not unusual but to see all 13 of these little black puppies together is a little surprising. It was five degrees the day the puppies were born to Lady and Big Boy and many people suspected they wouldn’t live. But due to the effort of Mrs. Don Rogers, who fed the puppies with bottles and medicine drop pers because the mother couldn’t nurse all of them, all 13 of the puppies survived. Mrs. Rogers said it was interesting to watch the mother dog care for her puppies. She said that after she had fed them with the bottle, Lady would wash the puppies if they had milk on their faces and she would cry for help if any of the puppies had fallen from their bed and she couldn’t get them back in. Mrs. Rogers explained that before the puppies were born a six foot by eight foot manger-like bed (with pine straw) was prepared for Lady, and though 13 puppies were not anticipated, the bed worked out well. The bed for Lady and her puppies was built under the Rogers’ house, but because of the extreme cold, extra precautions had to be taken to make sure the puppies stayed warm. To provide extra heat, a spot light was burned throughout the night to keep the puppies from freezing. The puppies are obviously fond of Lady and Big Boy, and when they are let out to run around in the yard, they follow their mother and father who hurriedly get away from them. However, affection for the puppies is returned in other ways such as the first time Big Boy saw the puppies and apparently knowing they were his went over and nudged them. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, who live on Jackson Lake, believe if the puppies inherit thetr father's strength they wil' be extremely durable. That’s because Big Boy has been seen by several people on different occasions swim ming for miles in Jackson Lake. The Rogers family has decided to keep one of the puppies and have named it Allmark because of his outstanding marking. ffpMl lt r~ Julie Dennard is shown giving Lady a friendly and sympathetic hug at feeding time. Photo by Carole Lawrence. Senator Nunn Works To Stop Excess of Federal Paperwork WASHINGTON Four United States Senators an nounced that they will take the battle to reduce govern ment paperwork to the Senate Floor. Senators Thomas J. Mcln tyre (D-N.H.), chairman of the Select Committee on Small Business Subcommit tee on Government Regula tion, Walter D. Huddleston (D-Ky.).Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), and William V. Rother iR-Del.) intend to amend major pieces of legislation coming to the Senate for a vote, to cut the paperwork burden on those Americans "least able to cope with it.” The Senators said in a letter to all members of the Senate that “We believe the Senate should do everything in its power to cut unneces sary paperwork and red tape resulting from some of the legislation we enact.” In the letter, the Senators said they would ask specific questions about legislation that could increase paper work burdens. They are: ”1) Who will have to file and complete reports after the federal bureaucrats take our legislation and publish their regulations? For in stance. we may want to know how a piece of legislation will at feet our small businesses or our elderly citizens. “2) How’ long will it take the person affected by the THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1977 regulations to fill out the required paperwork? Some bureaucrats call this ‘num ber of man-hours of report ing.’ "3) What steps do the sponsors or floor managers of the bills we question expect a federal agency to take to limit the number of forms and the amount of time it takes to fill them out ? W’e will also question the costs to the person who fills out the forms. We all know that many of those people who would have to fill out the forms are already hard at work complying with the existing paperwork burden. "4i What steps can be taken to ensure that there is no unnecessary duplication in paperwork when the regulatory authority we give an agency already exists somewhere else and may have led to a reporting requirement?” The amendment the Sen ators said they will propose to major pieces of legislation would require that govern ment agencies take into consideration the reporting burdens associated with new laws, and report to Congress every year on how they have cut paperwork. 1304 jan'76 heat for your money! 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