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HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 28. 1951
Ga. Power
Asks Rate
Increase
ATLANTA,—The Georgia Pow
er Company has applied to the
Georgia Public Service Commis
sion for electric rate revisions es
timated to increase the com
pany’s revenues by $4,275,000 a
year. According to Harllee
Branch, Jr., president, new rate
schedules are proposed in the res
idential, commercial and indus
trial classifications. The overall
increanes to residential and in
dustrial groups will total approxi
mately 8.5 per cent. Those to
commercial customers will total
about 2 per cent.
In the proposed rate schedules,
Mr. Branch said, all bills will be
on a net basis and the penalty for
failure to pay within a 10 day ,
period will be eliminated. This
provision w r ill also apply to other
rate schedules which the power
company does not propose to
change, including rates for mu
nicipal water purping and street
lighting, and service to munici
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resale.
Rates applicable to commercial
and industrial customers have
been redesigned for greater sim
plicity, and several schedules
have been eliminated.
New Rate Schedule
The new residential rate re
quested of the Commission is:
First 20 KWH—SI.OO
Next 30 KWH at 4.0* per KWH
’’ 50 KWH at 3.0* ” ”
” 100 GWH at 2.o<t ” ”
” 300 KWH at 1.5* " ”
Over 500 KWH at I.o* ” ”
The present net residential rate
is:
First 20 KWH—SI.OO
Next 20 KWH at 3.75* per KWH
” 40 KWH at 3.0* ” ”
” 120 KWH at 2.0* ” ”
Over 200 KWH at I.o* ’’ ’
Mr. Branch said there is no dif
ference in the two rates for min
imum bill customers using 20 kil
owatt hours or less per month.
(For small residential customers
1 using 40 kilowatt hours a month
the bill under the new rate would
be SI.BO, 5 cents more than the
cost under the present rate. For
100 kilowatt hours the cdst under
the proposed rate would be $3.70
against $3.35 at present. For 250
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kilowatt hours the cost would be
$6.45 against $5.85. Large res
idential customers using 500 kil
owatt hours a month, including
250 kilowatt hours for water
heating, would pay $9.25 instead
of the present $8.35.
In the proposed residential
rates an extra energy charge is
provided in the case of a few
large customers who use electric
ity for house heating, air condi
tioning, or other purposes. A
flat 30-cent per month increase
in water heating rates for all ex
cept minimum use customers is
provided.
Small Increase
In the cost of most commercial
customers, changes in their indi
vidual bills would be too small
to be significant.
The average industrial custom
er of the company will receive
an increase in rates of slightly
less than 10 per cent. The pres
ent 23 rate schedules will be re
duced to 18 and the demand and
energy charges will be revised in
the interest of fairness to all
classes of users. The average
price per kilowatt hour paid by
all industrial customers will be
increased from 9.2 mills to 10
mills.
“Our average residential rate
per kilowatt hour,” Mr. Branch
said, “is 27 per cent below the
national average. The company
was granted a small increase at
the end of 1948, amounting to a
flat 25 cents per customer per
month. This is the only rate in
crease we have had since uniform
: state-wide rate structures were
■ established more than 20 years
■ ago. Against this single rate in
' crease, we have had five major
• reductions in our residential rates
I saving our customers millions of
dollars annually as the result of
I a continuously decreasing aver
i age cost per kilowatt hour. A j
typical customer using 100 kilo- |
watt hours per month pays $3.35
net under our present rate and
we are asking an increase to $3.70
a month. This is "less than ha
would have paid in 1939, or in
any year prior to 1939. Under
the rates which was in effect
from 1929 to April, 1933, which
included the lowest point of the
depression, this customer would
have paid five dollars for the
same amount of service, or 35
per cent more than we are now
requesting in an era of record
breaking price levels.
Rates Slow to Rise
“Electric rates did not follow
the general trend of the cost of
living but decreased steadily up
to 1948 when other costs were in
creasing. The small rate increase
of 25 cents per month which the
Commission allowed us in 1948
and the small increase now pro
posed offset only a small fraction |
of the decreases over the last two
decades.
“The company is asking for the
new rate schedules because our
earnings arc declining as a result
of higher wage costs, fuel costs,
materials and supplies, taxes and
other expenses. Since the begin
ning of 1948 the company’s an
nual payroll has increased $3,509,-
000 or 46 per cent; cost of fuel
has increased more than $6,000,-
000 a year, or 103 per cent, and I
annual taxes have increased more ||
than $5,500,000, or 71 per cent. I
What we are requesting in these I
new rates is a rate of return of j
sufficient size to attract new cap- a
ital to provide for Georgia’s fu- I
ture growth.
New Capital Sought
“Our ability to attract new j
capital is of the highest import-*
ance, not only to this company
but to the people of the state. We
are now engaged in a tremendous
expansion program which has
been underway since the end o
World War II and which will
continue for several years to
come. In the five years, 1946-50,
the company invested $114,000,-
000 in new electric facilities and '
during the three years, 1951-53, i
we expect to invest an additional !
$99,220,000. The new facilities are i
urgently needed to provide for I
the growth of Georgia’s national j
defense and peacetime industry i |
and to serve the homes and bus- i |
iness establishments of its citi
zens. The money must be obtain
ed from investors who naturally
will not put their money in our
business without expectation of
an adequate reward.
“In addition to our primary
duty of providing adequate and
dependable electric service, we
want to continue to work for the
advancement of Georgia’s com- I
munities and to earn enough
money to carry on this work.”
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PETITION FOR CHARTER
STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF HOUSTON
TO THE SUPERIOR COURT
OF HOUSTON COUNTY:
The petition of J. Meade Tolle
son, J. M. Tolleson, Jr., Hugh
Lawson and T. R. Tolleson, each
of whose Post Office address is
Perry, Georgia, respectfully show
to the Court;
1. Petitioners desire for them
selves, others to be associated
with them and their successors, to
be incorporated and made a body
corporate, for a period of thirty
five (35) years, under the cor
porate name and style of Tolleson
Supply Company, Incorporated.
2. The object of said incorpora
tion is pecuniary gain to the ,
corporation and to its stockhold-1
j ers.
3. The principal office of said
corporation will be located in the
City of Perry, Houston County,
Georgia, but Petitioners desire
the right to establish other places
of business elsewhere whenever
the Board of Directors of said
Corporation determine that same
is advisable.
4. The business to be carried
on by said corporation is as fol
lows:
a. The buying, selling, manu
facturing, processing and gen
erally dealing in lumber and tim
ber products.
I b. The manufacturing, buying,
selling and generally dealing in
builders supplies of all kinds.
c. The buying, selling and gen
erally dealing in hardware and
household appliances.
d. The building, remodeling,
repairing, buying, selling and
generally dealing in dwelling
houses and buildings of all kinds.
5. The capital stock of said cor
poration shall be TWENTY-FIVE !
THOUSAND DOLLARS ($25,-
000.00), represented by two hun
dred fifty (250 shares of common
stock of the par value of one
hundred dollars ($100) per share;
the Petitioners pray that they be
granted the right to increase such
capital stock from time to time
by a vote of the majority of the 1
stockholders of said corporation ;
to an amount not to exceed the ;
sum of ONE HUNDRED THOUS
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AND DOLLARS ($100,000.00),
such increase in capital stock to
be either in preferred or in com
mon stock, as a majority of the
stockholders may determine.
6. The amount of capital with
which the said corporation shall
commence to do business is
TWENTY - FIVE THOUSAND
DOLLARS ($25,000.00).
7. Petitioners present to the
court herewith a certificate from
the Secretary of State of Georgia
under the seal of his office, in
manner and form as required by
law, certifying that the name of
the proposed corporation is not
the name of any other corpora
tion now registered in the Office
of the Secretary of the State of
the State of Georgia.
j WHEREFORE, Petitioners pray
that they be incorporated under
the name and style and for the
purposes herein set out and that
they be granted all rights, priv
ileges and immunities, which are
now or may be hereafter granted
to like corporations by the laws
of the State of Georgia.
NUNN and AULTMAN,
Attorneys for Petitioners
HOUSTON SUPERIOR COURT
The above and foregoing appli
cation coming on regularly to be
heard, and it being made to ap
pear that said application is le
gitimately within the purview
and intention of the laws of the
State of Georgia, and the Peti
tioners having presented with
said petition a certificate from
the Secretary of State of the
State of Georgia, certifying that
the name TOLLESON SUPPLY
COMPANY, INCORPORATED,
is not the name of any other ex
isting corporation now registered
in the Office of the Secretary of
State of the State of Georgia.
It is therefore considered, or
dered and adjudged that the said
application for charter be, and
the same is hereby granted, and
the Petitioners, their associates
and successors, are hereby in
corporated under the name and
style of TOLLESON SUPPLY
COMPANY, INCORPORATED,
and with all of the rights, powers
and privileges as prayed.
At Chambers, Perry, Georgia,
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this the 26th day of J une 195]
a. m. anderson’
j. s. c. m. c.
Filed in Clerk’s Office J Une 9*
1951.
TOMMIE S. HUNT, Clerk
Houston Superior Court.
ORDINARY’S CITATION^
Georgia, Houston County.
Mrs. Laura W. McCommon
having applied for Letters 0 f
Guardianship for Obie P, jj c
Common, Incompetent; this
therefore to notify all persons
concerned to show cause, if an
they can, why her appli catio ;
should not be granted at the
Court of Ordinary on the First
Monday in July, next.
This, June 4, 1951.
JOHN L. HODGES,
Ordinary.
ORDINARY’S CITATIONS
GEORGIA, Houston County.
.Mrs. Mary Lee R. Griggs hav
ing applied for Letters of Ad
ministration on the estate of Jack
E. Ragin, deceased; this is there
fore to notify all persons con
cerned to show cause, if any they
can, why her application should
not be granted at the Court of
Ordinary on the First Monday i n
July, next.
This, June 5, 1951.
JOHN L. HODGES,
6/7 4t. Ordinary,
GEORGIA, Houston County.
Mrs. Mary Lee R. Griggs hav
ing applied for Letters of Ad
ministration on the estate of Mrs.
Mary Elizabeth K. Ragin, deceas
ed; this is therefore to notify all
persons concerned to show cause
if any they can, why her applh
cation should not be granted at
the Court of Ordinary on the
First ,Monday in July, next.
This, June 5, 1951.
JOHN L. HODGES,
6/7 4t. Ordinary,
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