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Ifi THE CLINTON CHRONICLE ItiarWaT. Hay SI. IHf By SPECTATOR.. COMMENTS OD MEN AND THINGS « m 19M ‘Hus was an increaw at 14'r over the previous year. These taxes help provide all services of j local, state, and federal 'govern ments. military forces, public roads, etc The company continues to be the largest taxpayer in several coun ties in which it operates Total electric sales reached a whopping 3 25 billion kilowatt hours. ~ an i ncrease 0 f \2< r over 1957 sales What is the biggest South Carolina S26 1 million was spent for im- 3.988 new residential, commercial enterprise? Guess at it a moment, provements and additions to elec- and industrial customers were add- Recently 1 read an advertisement in trie, ga? and transportation facil- ed during the year, making a grand main of our papers and 1 thought flies. During the year 275,000 KW total of 179,468 electric customers of thus great investment in our was added to electric generating served by SCEGCO at the year’s State $225,000,000 — two hundred capability, bringing SCEGCO s to- end and twenty-five milbon dollars and tal capability to 890.000 KW Of this employing about nineteen hundred 82'". is dependable, firm steam, of our fellow citiiens. If I could per- generation. 220 pole miles were add jjuade someone to invest five million ed to electric distribution and trans- dollars in my little home town, or mission systems bringing the total to oven one million dollars. 1 would 9.054 polf miles within the corn- take off m\ bat and, if necessary, pany s 23-county area, welcome the., investment ^with a i,H47 employees received a total brass ham! And so would St. Mat- () f 599 tmllion in salaries ami wages thews and Cameron. Alas and during 1958 This represented an in- alack * crease of 12^—Over the previous The largest investment in South year There were 31.197 stockholders Carolina .is that of the South Caro- whose invested savings provided hna Electric and Gas Co. much of the capital for the growth The advertisement tells much of and continued expansion of the Com- extensions of both electric and gas interest so l quote the items of pany s facilities and services. facilities. Steps are being taken to Mineral information: SI 18 million was provided for tax- expand the gas business in parts of the company's territory not now RETIRE 7.4 billion cubic ftvt of Natural Gas were sold, an increase of 8 f !> over 1957. 2,649 new customers were added, making a new total of 39,627 gas customers at the close of 1958. 82 miles of gas distribution mains of 3 inches or larger were installed. Natural Gas service was extended to the towns of Hampton and Barnwell during the year. $66.5 million has been budgeted for construction during the years 1959. 1%0 and 1961. This will be ust*d for many improvements ami receiving this service. Thirty-year to South Caftliiu from Misoouri I haurd the guess that he has poured at least a hundred million dollars of fresh capital into the company under his conservatively progrea- sive management I’m proud of every , man. farmer, merchant, lawyer, physician, me chanic—everyone in fact, who de votes his talents to the service of our state. And that is true what ever may be his place of birth; we welcome all. from every state and Canada but I think we should recog. nize great achievement by our na tive sons. And about a thousand more men and women have found employment since S. C. McMeekin came back to his home state. With his usual vision and grasp he brought natural gas to us. * • • In commending pubhc service I j would add my word of cominenda tio to our governor and all those who participated in the so-called 1 "Rights” hearing in Washington. Senator Broun took occasion to lec ture and admonish the Democrats for their attitude toward the South, This was sepecially timely because the whole question is pobtical, pure and simple. I may be in error there, for there was nothing pure about it and the whole matter is so en tangled that its mystification refutes Raymond Malty, one of the first at the Roosevelt Brain Trust, bat this to say of TVA: (IV State) 1 ’’la his budget moasage the Praa- ident has again recommended that the interest rates charged by the TTeaeury to a number at govern ment agencies be made more ad equate"' i This means that the subsidies in volved in this process of borrowing at low interest be reduced Among the agencies thus enjoying govern ment bounty is the Rural Electrifi cation Administration, which in turn lends the money to co-operatives. The president adds the obvious truth that this would ‘reduce gov ernment expenditures significantly.' This is not the first time that the President has urged this step. Up to now, the people benefitted by your old electric shaver! r; get the new rotary blade favorite gas franchises have been obtained : a n ideas of simplicity. from numerous communities in c - „ ~ , „ . - , ,, , . , . Since the Democrats are m full wh,ch the company furmsh,, elec. oha (>f |he ^ , , h tnc service Plans for Ihe consfruc- Houa , Senator Blwn s(00d sqnare . ly on the ground and talked frankly Plans for the construe tion of a nuclear-fired power plant at Parr are progressing on schedule with 1962 being the target date for completion That is quite informative. I think, and I may use it, because no one will use more or less because 1 am making this comment. I am greatly interested in every business operation in South Carolina, whether it be an investment of New York or Massachusetts men or our own South Carolinians, but. quite to the Democrats. Let us see what’s what and why. As I see it, our National leader ship, beginning with Mr Roosevelt, has acted tfward the South with notable stupidity. England tried for years to impose customs and laws on Ireland and failed utterly and miserably I am tempted to quote Patrick Henry: Caesar had his Brutus: Charles NEW Now the largest - selling electric shaver in the world 1 »t*ok« Off wbiftkgrt Nor*co n«od« no Mtlmf. outomoti colly odium to ony board How about yOur Mai It lO»t its z-p* Tha Saw No'e'co Scatd ihave' 9* w* i*#rx •nT* rotary b-aovi o' "g a bac- and *o»tn act or* t*at way *xi Pw«< Ba-ear* jtat>o‘ > a'y tva-dt 1? i*f inarp^.rig fc asat twaaj 4'Ownd to Shet $24 *5 T-a trie now Norotco ftpoodariovor on lot . tan,I#, -BrinMoy Now* — NBC - TV. naturally, I take the deepest interesi tbe First his Cromwell; and George in a great company whose magni- Third may profit by their ex- tude surpasses that of any other ample.” If Patrick Henry didn't South Carolina company. soy that I'll say it for him. 1 suppose I am somewhat of a We try. we Americans, to correct dreamer, yet I take pride in being conditions all over the wwld. but we eminently practical, a sort of Scot, Precipitate turmoil among our- , with both feet on the ground and a a *l v * 5 - Until Mr Roosevelt used firm believer in the old-time artth- Farley to make an issue of race metic that two and two make four, *mong us we lived ti'anquilly in the never five. So there is always a Sooth And even today, our -poradic practical man responsible for great in,tt>uriU merely are tike specks oa achievement* He may be a man *h«" horizon the relation- among of vision, of course, but not a vision White and Colored people are not ary As the Book says. "Where there “"happy, the ambtUou.* t’olored i* no vision, the people pensh "{**■ *** always jt liberty to move Even m to Washington Rahimore Philadol- Amon* those men who can look P**is. Chtrnai New York and De nt. the future and then make ** i* B II Ed Far from being vtctim-zed few the FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 30th day of June. 1959, I will render a final account of our acts and doings as Administratrix of the estate of W. R. Anderson in the office of the. Judge of Probate of Laurens Coun ty, at 10 o'clock a. m., and on the same day will apply for a final dis charge from my trust as Adminis tratrix. Any person indebted to said estate is notified and required to make payment on or before that date; and all persons having claims against said estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. MATTIE A. GOODWIN, Administratrix, Rt 1, Laurens, S. C. April 30, 1959 41-M-29 have TW Rural ElectriflcaUee i drat ton was established to farmer* la thialy populated a to have the advantage of electricity —aa advaatage which private com pames could not afford to supply The working out of the plan in- volved the err at wo of farmers' co operatives. who built the transmia- sicn lines, obtained the power—for the most part from private com panics—and sold It to their farmer members In the course of year*, the need of such remote farmers has very largely been supplied. And meanwhile many of these coopera tives have waxed larger and larger. They have become sizable business capable of giving private companies stiff competition because of the ad vantage they have of getting money cheaper than can private compa nies. More recently, with their market they hare wetcwtaal by private it la comaderod that the censoa shows the greatest grow th m population is in aon-larm ing bat nan-urban areas, this is a rich market indeed This group of co-operatives— •ooaeiy joined, so far aa lobbying and propaganda are concerhed, In the National Rural Electric Coop erative Association—hat become a great force for public, subsidized power. It moves into battles over public power projects such as that which centered upon Hells Canyon. Thus, there has been created with government subsidies an agency which presses, far beyond the In terests of the remote farmers whose need originated it, toward more and more government in business. C. B. 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