The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, May 21, 1959, Image 16
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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By SPECTATOR..
COMMENTS
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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.
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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
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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. Shuman, President, Amer
ican Farm Bureau, asked recently
of tit taM prspnnsn** rf
power m m th#
are they
a serlalistk
power program’ This would be a
grave threat to the cooperatives
themselves.
Mr. Moiey Is an outstanding au
thority on public affairs.
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