Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, April 6, 1967—PAGE 7 if striped bass were electric eels .. m wouldn’t have such a hard time lettiag al you people kaow our business. We’ve even tried to figure out a way to put an electric outlet on catfish. AC and DC charges in a crappie. A kilowatted rockfish. But there’s no way. Can’t be done. A fish is a fish. And electricity is electricity. We should know. We handle more of the two than just about anyone. A million fish a year. Almost two billion kilowatt hours of electrical power. That’s enough fish to feed every man, woman and child in South Carolina at the world’s largest fish fry (you bring the hushpuppies). That’s enough electric power to light up the state like a Christmas tree for a month. But it’s a good thing we don’t get our fish and electricity mixed up. You might, but we can’t. We’d look mighty funny trying to serv ice our customers with a ton of fish. SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC SERVICE AUTHORITY Hunter gives j testimony in Washington WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 22—Rural Electric systems, as locally owned and operated pri vate enterprise, do not wish to remain forever as M wards” of the Federal government, a South Carolina man yesterday told the House Agriculture committee. T. W. Hunter, of Newberry, newly elected president of the National Rural Electric Coop erative Association, said that rural electrics need a M credit ladder by which they grow in financial strength and matur ity, they can move from com plete dependence on Federal financing to eventual self-suf ficiency. ” Hunter's testimony was in troduced during the opening day of heatings on legislation to create a rural electric credit system designed to bring funds from the private money mar ket into the rural electrifica tion program to supplement the present REA loan program. “The only source of capital now open to the rural electric cooperatives and other consum er-owned rural systems is the REA 2 per cent loan program” he told the committee. “It has served the cause of rural elec trification well in the past and will continue to be an aboslute necessity in the years ahead for many rural electrics which are serving thinly settled reg ions. ” “However,” he said “It ap pears to be unrealistic to ex pect the congress to appropri ate all of the ever-increasing amounts of money which the rural electrics will need to meet their future load growth.” The NRECA official cited studies which show that the rural systems will need to in vest about $9.5 billion in fac ilities during the next fifteen years—twice as much as has been used since the program began in 1935. Congressional appropriations for the regular REA loan program, he said, would fall about $4 billion short of that figure. During the same period, Hunter stated private power companies ex pect to invest $120 million. Hunter explained that the needed funds reflect the grow ing use of electricity in the rural areas due to modern technological developments in agriculture and the increase in rural areas development. Since 1957, he pointed out to tal sales for the rural electric systems grew from 20 billion kilowatt hours to 48 billion kilowatt hours, an increase of 117 percent while the total el ectric industry rose only G6 percent. Estimates indicate that by 1980, the rural electric pow er output will increase by ano ther 180 per cent over the 1965 level. He said the new credit sys tem would allow funds from the private money market to be used by rural electric sys tems which can afford to pay a higher interest rate for the capital they need to meet this growing power demand. At the same time, he added, it would let the rural electri fication program take its first step towards independence from federal financing. He explained that federal funds in vested at the outset would eventually be paid off by the borrowers and the credit sys tem would be owned and op erated by the rural electric systems. Hunter told the committee that adequate electric service in rural areas “is essential to the success of our efforts to re vitalize the farm and non-farm segment of the rural economy.” He said the stability of the ru ral economy affects the urban as well as rural areas. “The rural electric systems share your concern over the resultant outmigration to our already overcrowded cities of Tips given to prevent poison Poison Prevention Week in South Carolina gained impetus today when the State Board of Health revealed that an av erage of 45 people in the state dies of accidental poisoning each year. Dr. Hilla Sheriff, director of the Accident Prevention Sec tion of the Board pointed out that hundreds of additional people received medical care in time to be saved, but re quired thousands of days of hospital care and expensive treatment. “For this reason National Poison Prevention Week, is an important one for us to ob serve,” Dr. Sheriff said. “We must have a continued cam paign of education to alert the public to the danger of acci dental poisoning, especially in children. Proper handling and storage of medicines and house hold products is often the ans wer to prevention of accidental piosoning. “It has been estimated that over a million accidental pois onings occur each year in the nation.” Dr. Sheriff added, “and most of these are among children under five years of age. A campaign which high lights this problem for one week will hopefully result in an informed public that will take steps to avoid this year- round hazard.” Dr. Sheriff listed the nine key steps to poison prevention in children in the home: Keep household products and medi cines outof reach and out of sight; store medicines separ ately from other household products; keep all materials in their original containers; be sure all products are properly labled, and read the label be fore using. Also: never take or give medicine in the dark; avoid taking medicine in the pres ence of children; never call medicine candy; always use its proper name; clean out your medicine chest periodically. Get rid of old medicine by flushing it down the drain; and keep syrup of ipecac in the home as a first aid measure for certain poisons. Ipecac is used to induce vomiting when indicated, however, consult your family doctor about using it. Of the persons who died in South Carolina last year, the following number died from types of poison indicated; 16 from poison by alcohol; six from poison by other unspeci fied drugs; five, lead and its compounds; three barbituratic acid and dervatives; three as pirin and saylicylates; and one, arsenic; five, other solid and liquid substances. Hair restorer said dangerous The State Board of Health issued a warning today that a product labeled “Ahead” cos metic is being distributed and sold as a hair restorer without the approval of the National Drug Administration, and may contain harmful chemicals. The Food and Drug Admin istration has recommended to various District Attorneys thru out the United States seizure of four lots of this article for violations including—1) failure to list active ingredients; 2.) lack of NDA approval, and 3) manufacture by a firm not registered as required by law. farmers and farm workers who no longer can make a living on the land,” the spokesman said. “We recognize the need for a prosperous and dynamic ru ral economy, not only for the social and economic benefit of those who live in rural Amer ica, but for the benefit of the nation as a whole.”