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The cost of electric power has skyrocketed during the past year along with the cost of just about everything else. As a result consumers all across the nation are taking a close look at their use of electricity and trying to cut back usage. The benefits that electricity gives us are numerous — lighting, cooking, refrigerating , food, washing and drying clothing, heating and cooling homes, to name only a few. Also, many jobs in business, industry and on the farm are done quickly and efficiently by electricity. Electric meters measure the amount of electricity used in a given home or plant. The meter measures the number of kilowatt hours used each month. The kilowatt hour is a unit of measure by which electricity is gauged. For example, if ten 100- watt bulbs are burned for one hour, then one kilowatt hour of electricity is consumed. To use another illustration, a television set consumes 300 watts per hour; a radio 100 watts; a refrigerator 200 watts. Add to this 400 watts (four 100-watt bulbs) for lighting and you get 1,000 watts or one kilowatt hour, when all of these things are operated for one hour. Reading an electric meter is not as complicated as it looks. The meter measures electricity usage in much the same way that a clock measures hours. The rotating disc in the meter moves at a speed in proportion to the amount of electricity being used. The more electricity that is being used, the faster the disc turns. Most homes are using electricity at all times. Appliances such as refrigerators, freezers, clocks and thermostats for heating and cooling systems all operate automatically. Most electric meters have either four or five dials as shown i.n figure 1. The figure above each of the lials indicates the number of olowatt hours to pass through TONDAY, march 31, 1975 the meter in one revolution of the pointer. Some of the dials go clockwise and some counter clockwise. The dials should be read from right to left and the numbers written down in the same order. If the pointer of the dial is between numbers, use the smaller number. The far right dial in figure 1 stands between five and four, so the smaller number, four, should be used. If the pointer on a dial has not completed its revolution to zero, it affects the way that the dial to its immediate left is read. For example, in figure 2, the dial on the left registers directly on the five, but the pointer on the right has not yet reached zero. This makes the reading on the left dial four. Remember to read from right to left. Figure 3 shows the correct way the dials should be read. The meter must be read on a regular basis in order to determine how much electricity is being used. Most people find that a weekly reading is the best and most convenient method. Take the reading on a particular day. Say the meter shows 9374. On the same day of the next week, read the meter again. This time it shows 9624. By subtracting the amount for the first week from the amount for the second week, you will get 250 kilowatt hours of electricity you have used. Now, see how well you can do on figure 4. 50-Year Employee Retires Friday, March 28, was the last day at work for James H. Gallimore, 50-year man. Mr. Gallimore, head loom fixer at the Bedspread Mill, will retire under the Fieldcrest Pension Plan effective April 1. He completed 50 years of continuous service with the company last September 1. He was never off of the payroll except when he was sick and he never had a lost-time accident. He was born in Carroll County, Va., and moved to Eden when he was 10 years old. His father was a painter and his mother worked in the Karastan Burling Department. Of the nine children in the family, eight of them at one time or another worked at the Karastan Rug Mill and James worked at the Bedspread Mill. James Gallimore started work shortly after his 14th birthday and was in the Inspecting Department for a short time before transferring to the Weave Room. He worked as a filling and quill hauler, weaver, and loom fixer. He has been head loom fixer since 1942. He has taught classes in weaving and loom fixing both at the mill and at the Vocational School and estimates that he has trained from 40 to 50 other fixers. He has about as much experience and knowledge of Jacquard heads as anyone in the company. He at times has worked with the Mechanical Development Department on various projects for the Bedspread Mill and worked with the late Ivor Moberg on the development of the loom to make the first loop Top Weavers And Fixers Dobby Terry Weavers W/E March 9 Jacquard Terry .. Robert Ferguson Dobby Terry Fixers W/E March 9 William Kendrick Jacquard Terry .. .. Lee Hazelwood : Dobby Terry Weavers W/E March 2 ... Bishop Wright ! Jacquard Terry .. Dobby Terry Fixers W/E March 2 Jacquard Terry .. JAMES H. GALLIMORE pile bedspread. Mr. Gallimore is an avid trout fisherman and enjoys hunting of all kinds. He also likes to work in his garden and frequently helps out with the cooking at home. He is married to the former Loma Hatcher who is retired as a copyist in the Karastan Designing Department. They live at 917 Tulloch Street where they have owned their home for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Gallimore have three children: Mrs. H. C. Hutcherson of Eden, Mrs. James Kallam of Atlanta, and Michael Gallimore who graduated in pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is employed by Duke University. They also have five grandchildren and one great grandchild. Missoni (Continued From Page One) feature demonstrations on decorating with sheets, make-up and skin care, and continental cooking. The stage setting for all this activity will be a replica of the bedroom, dressing room and bathroom which was featured editorially in the March issue of Mademoiselle showing how Missoni sheets could be used as a home furnishings fashion fabric throughout the home. The cast of players for this exciting event include a Mademoiselle editor who will act as show director and will discuss decorating, fashion and make-up; home economist Judy Lindahl who will represent Fieldcrest and demonstrate decorating ideas; and Lyle Saunders of Etherea who will illustrate the technique of applying make-up as an art form. Two Craftsfair alumni will also participate in the promotion: Chris Baumer will prepare enticing Italian desserts for customers, and Bob Fuhr has traded in his banjo for a guitar to accompany the Missoni-Made- moiselle-Etherea event with Italian tunes and songs. Beginning at Dayton’s- Minneapolis on April 3 and 4, they will perform at Higbee’s- Cleveland, Macy’s-San Francisco, Woodward & Lothrop-Washington, D.C., Filene’s-Boston, Blooming- dale’s-Fresh Meadows, Younker’s-Des Moines, Shillito’s-Cincinnati, Rich’s- Atlanta, and Gimbel’s- Milwaukee, Sanger-Harris- Dallas, and Burdine’s-Miami. 3
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