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Georgia Power Co.
To Spend $7,000,000
ATLANTA, Jan. 3.—The Georgia
Power company will spend approxi
mately $7,000,000 during 1937 for
new construction to extend and im
prove its service facilities, according
to an announcement today iby P. S.
Arkwright, president of the com
pany. Os this amount, approximate
ly $1,000,000 will be spent in the con
struction of 760 miles of new rural
electric lines and extensions to exist
ing rural lines. This rural line con
struction will be a continuation of
the 1936 program in which 930 miles
of rural lines were built.
In addition to its own expenditure
for rural electrification, the company
will continue its policy of co-opera
tion with the rural electrification ad
ministration, an agency of the United
States government formed to finance
the construction of “co-operative”
rural lines, Mr. Arkwright said. He
pointed out the fact that the REA
has already granted or allocated
more than $1,000,060 to build “co
operative” lines in Georgia.
The Georgia Power company’s $7,-
000,000 budget for new construction
in 1937 is the largest since 1930. It
is made necessary by the rapidly
growing needs for electric, transpor
tation and other facilities which the
company provides.
In a number of Georgia cities, im
portant additions will be made to in
crease the capacity of substations and
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transmission and distribution lines.
Among the larger projects are the
following:
More than $330,000 will be invest
ed in Augusta and its vicinity to in
crease the city’s power supply.
More than SIOO,OOO will be expend
ed in Athens to provide for the grow
ing use of electric service by resi
dential, commercial and industrial
consumers.
The electrical needs of Columbus
will require more than $120,000 for
new facilities.
In Atlanta alone, more than sl,-
000,000 will be spent to provide ad
ditional electric and street railway
service and for improvements at
Plant Atkinson, the company’s 100,-
000 horse power steam-electric gen
erating plant on the Chattahoochee
river.
To afford an improved power sup
ply for the western section of the
state, a new substation will be con
structed at Bremen. A new substa
tion will also be built at Griffin and
important improvements will be made
at the substation at Thomatson.
The main transmission line from
Atlanta to Macon will be rebuilt at
a cost of more than $275,000. This
line serves Jonesboro, Griffin, Barn
esville, Forsyth and other communi
ties and the improvements will give
those towns greater assurance
against interruption to their service.
Completion of a transmission line
from Eastman to Hawkinsville and
construction of a new transmission
line from Madison to Greensbobo will
strengthen the company’s state-wide
network of power lines and give
those towns and the surrounding ter
ritory additional sources of power
and additional protection against
service interruptions. Construction
work on these two lines will require
the expenditure of approximately
SIOO,OOO.
Miscellaneous improvements ti o
service in at least twenty other cities
will call for expenditures of more
than $500,006.
The company’s total operating and
construction budgets for 1937 will be
in excess of $21,000,000, Mr. Ark
wright said. Os this amount, $7,500
000 will be paid to employes of th'
company in wages and salaries.
Tax payments to the federal gov
ernment and to sjate and local agen
cies will amount to more than $3
000,000. Os this amount tax payment
by the company, in compliance wit'
the unemployment and old-age pro
visions of the social security act wil
be approximately $225,0C0. This is i:
addition to the amount which will b
deducted from employes’ wages ii
accordance with the requirements of
the law.
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THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1937.
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H« Is Also Powerful Enough to Pull Over a Fifty-pound Bridge Lamp, Haul
All the Light Plugs Out of Their Sockets, and Any Family Possession He
Hits With His Tail Is Just Something You Formerly Owned.
WE HAVE ANOTHER
DOG NOW
By FRANK CONDON
WELL, the Skipper is going
along on over to the dog
heaven, and I suppose the less
said about that, the better.
The Skipper was a Boston, the small
type, of no great mental stature, fussy
like all elderly females, seven years in
command of our yard, nervous as a
bowl of jelly and a natural hater of
grocer’s boys, laundry wagon drivers,
bill collectors and pimpled youths go
ing through college If you hand them
two dollars for a magazine.
The Skipper passed on at the dog
hospital and I’m glad she didn’t cash
In here at home, for that would have
been truly awful.
She always had a hunch about the
dog hospital. The doctors are all kind
ly, genial and helpful, but nevertheless,
the Skipper used to shudder whenever
we drove her over to the hospital for
some mild ailment, like red-eye or hot
nose. She just didn’t like the place and
there was reason for her fear.
Once upon a time, she had four pups
In that hospital, and it took a Cesari
an to pull her through.
This time, she came down suddenly
with a sickness, that if you get it and
you’re a dog, your goose is cooked. I
didn’t know. I thought it was just an
other stomach-ache from eating snails.
Well, the dog hospital telephone lady
rang me up on the fourth day and said:
“I’ve got some bad news for you.”
That’s all she needed to say, and for
the next five days, our place was like
a morgue. We all swore fervently we’d
never own another dog, not in this
world. Too harrowing.
About the fifth dogless day, the house
began to take on a slightly haunted
feeling. Not enough noise. No scratch
ing sounds. There was an old swing
in the yard where the Skipper was
wont to snooze away the afternoons
and we hastily gave that to the Salva
tion Army truck, but it didn't do any
good.
“Maybe,” I opened up, “maybe we
ought to get us a new dog. After all,
we are normally a dog family and this
preternatural silence around here is
giving me the willies.”
Everyone immediately agreed.
“But no more Bostons. They are en
tirely too fragile for this world. We’ve
had miserable luck with small animals,
so suppose we purchase a large, quiet,
meditative dog with a philosophic out
look on life. Bostons are always fret
ting themselves into a fever.”
There ensued a brief period of dog
hunting and kennel looking, and pres
ently this new dog appeared upon our
horizon, and very much larger than a
man’s hand. A bald-headed German
owned the kennel, and when he opened
a certain wire door, out of the dim
ness floundered the strange-appearing
animal that has since become part of
our household. The German said be
was exactly three months old. I no
ticed that he was having trouble with
his legs and steering gear, as he stag
gered about the room, hitting objects.
“Acts kind of drunk,” I observed.
“What’s the matter with him?”
“He’s just young,” the German ex
plained.
“What breed of dog would that be?"
“He’s a Great Dane.”
"Why are all his legs broken?”
“They ain’t broken. They just look
so. When he gets older, they straight
en out.”
I was further informed that the
singular beast weighed 40 pounds and
would tip the beam at 160 when he
reached his full flower.
“If it is our intention to purchase a
large dog,” I informed the onlooking
family, “then here is certainly a large
dog, or what will be one soon. In addi
tion to that, we have never owned a
purple dog, nor have I ever previously
seen a purple pup, or heard of one.
What do you all say?”
We signed the contract then and
there and the German dog merchant
led our new' purchase out to the car
and stuffed him aboard, where he in
stantly went to sleep. I was given,
with a touch of formality, a typewrit
ten pedigree card, mentioning the rath
er unusual ancestry of the new Dane.
The card stated in so many words that
his father was Caliente Tiger and his
mamma was that famous Dane dame,
Aurora Tiger. Both parents happened
to be present during the negotiations
at the kennel, but neither seemed in
clined to recognize their son, or display
any interest or pride in him. They
were probably grumpy because he had
turned out to be a purple son, as they
were not purple themselves, one being
a soiled gray, the daddy Dane, while
the mother was a sort of tornado roan.
They were both one size smaller than
a navy tug, so we know what to ex
pect as time passes.
The biography card stated further
that the formal name of our new pos
session was Tiger Cliffton Ranger,
which to me is utterly ridiculous and
far-fetched, and was vetoed by all on
the way home. Fancy strolling about
the house and calling plaintively:
“Here, Tiger Cliffton Ranger, come get
your pork sausage.” So we called him
Jeeter.
As we were leaving for home, the
German suggested that we return in
a month, bring Jeeter back and the
man would trim his ears, a process
that consists of cutting notches out of
the ears, which hang down normally
like a couple of cold buckwheat cakes.
When he shakes his head, they fly up
on top and form a sort of lunatic
beret, and that’s the way they’re going
to stay, as I see no sense whatever in
nicking Jeeter’s flappers. The man in
sisted that if they weren’t trimmed, I
couldn’t show him at the dog show. I
don't want to show him. All I ask is
that he remain quietly in the yard,
try to learn a few good habits and
quit pawing the screen doors.
Skipper used that trick, too—, paw
ing at the screens, making mournful
noises and trying to beg Inside the
house, but there was a difference.
Skipper’s pawing was a quiet scratch
ing, but when this Jeeter guy paws a
screen door, you haven’t any door left
—only a hole where the screen was.
Anyhow, we are on a large dog basis
now and are watching him grow. He
eats pretty well and has an easy taste
in foods, as he will eat anything ex
cept a live bee. He tried eating a live
bee the other day and we had to ex
plain matters to the local police. His
regular food is ground round steak and
cod liver oil, the oil being to make his
legs strong enough to lift him.
It costs us 60 cents a day and will
be a little more when he grows up—l
imagine about two dollars an hour, af
ter he gets his full, adult appetite. He
is growing stronger daily and can now
raise himself off the rug if given time.
At first, he could fall down perfectly,
but was no good on the up stroke. He
is also powerful enough to pull over a
50-pound bridge lamp, haul all the light
plugs out of their sockets, and any fam
ily possession he hits with his tail is
just something you formerly owned.
He tried sleeping in the Skipper’s old
dog-house, but that idea was no good,
as we had to take the roof off and pry
him out with a hammer. He looks like
an idiot and everything he does is pre
cisely what an idiot would do if un
disturbed, so 1 believe we will keep
him.
The family was annoyed the other
morning when it was discovered that
in his early morning frolics, Jeeter had
taken down a small tree and was ap
parently going to eat it, root by root.
“That’s all right,” I said. “Let him
play. You wanted a large dog and
that’s what you have. He is a healthy
brute and will probably never die. An
other thing.”
“What?”
“You’ll never find him over in the
dog hospital with four pups and a
Cesarian —not Jeeter, the Great Dane.”
• Frank Owaos,—WHO t
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