The Chowan Herald
SECTION B
Utilities Commission Hears Rate Increase Request
TARBORO - The N. C.
Utilities Commission began
hearing testimony in
Raleigh on Tuesday, as part
of its consideration of
Garolina Telephone’s
request for a general rate
increase. Public hearings on
' the company’s request were
v scheduled for the last week
of January at Elizabeth
City, Tarboro, New Bern
and Fayetteville.
In testimony filed on
January 12, the Public Staff
of the Utilities Commission
recommended that only
516.3-million of the com
pany’s $47.2-million request
i he granted. The Public Staff
represents the public in rate
proceedings before the
Commission. The Staff
found that “the overall
service provided by the
Carolina Telephone and
Telegraph Company is
good” and agreed with the
company’s proposal to in
crease local calls from coin
telephones from 20 cents to
25 cents.
• Disagreement on four
principal areas accounts for
the majority of the dif
ference between the com
pany’s request and the
Public Staff’s recom
mendation. These dif
ferences center around the
level of long distance
revenues received by the
company, whether or not to
consider revenues from
Yellow Pages advertising in
setting rates, the capital
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structure of the company,
and the rate of return
stockholders should be
allowed to earn.
In supplemental
testimony filed with the
Commission chi January 22,
the company reduced its
request from $47.2-million to
$45.8-million to reflect its
increased estimate of long
distance revenues. Wayne
Peterson, president of the
Tarboro-based utility,
recently indicated that the
amount of the company’s
request may be further
reduced if the Commission
approved a pending request
to increase long distance
rates. However, Peterson
said, “our need for ad
ditional revenue is certainly
higher than the Public Staff
contends in its testimony.
In its August, 1981, ap
plication, the company cited
inflation, deregulation,
competition, and the need
for a higher return to attract
investors as the principal
reasons behind its request to
increase rates. The com
pany requested an 18 per cent
cent return on stockholder
investment as part of its
requested 13.28 per cent
overall rate of return.
The Public Staff
recommends a 15.75 per
cent stockholder return and
an overall 12.33 ppr cent rate
of return for the company.
The staff also contends that
the capital structure of the
company should be based on
the consolidated operations
of United Telecom
munications rather than the
operations of Carolina
Telephone as the company
contends. Carolina
Telephone is a subsidiary of
United.
“Although the Public
Staff’s recommended return
on stockholder investment
represents an improvement
over its previous recom
mendations, we don’t
Flanagan Leaving Football Post
LAFAYETTE, La. -
Dwight Flanagan, offensive
coordinator on USL’s Ragin’
Cajun football staff and a
member of the Cajun staff
since 1974, has announced
his resignation from the
staff to enter private
business.
The 33-year-old Flanagan,
who took over duties as
offensive coordinator last
July after serving six years
as wide receiver coach,
announced his resignation
this week in a letter to USL
president Dr. Ray
Authemeqt and athletic
director Dan (Sonny) Roy.
Highway Fatalities Down
RALEIGH For the first
time in 18 years, fewer than
1,500 people were killed on
North Carolina highways in
a single year. Based on
figures released today by
the State Highway Patrol,
1,483 people died in traffic
accidents in 1981.
Colonel John Jenkins,
State Highway Patrol
Commander, credited the
dip in highway fatalities to
the “concern for improved
safety by. most drivers in
North Carolina as evidenced
by their voluntary com
pliance with the 55-mile-per
hour speed limit, and the
strict, but fair and im
partial, enforcement of our
traffic laws by the State
Highway Patrol Troopers.”
The 1981 traffic fatality
figure of 1,483 deaths is 31
fewer than the 1,514 people
who died on North Carolina
believe it adequately
recognizes the return in
vestors can earn elsewhere
today,” Peterson stated.
“This is especially true
when you consider that the
Staff’s recommended return
is based on a capital
structure not appropriate to
Carolina Telephone.”
The company contends
that applying United’s
capital structure to Carolina
Telephone is like saying that
“I’ve been contemplating
getting out of the profession
for some time,” Flanagan
said. “I’ve had some other
coaching opportunities, but
I’ve just about ruled out any
coaching positions at this
time.”
The departure of
Flanagan leaves a vacancy
on the USL staff, and Roy
said that an announcement
of a position vacancy would
be forthcoming in the near
future.
Flanagan came to USL in
1974 as a graduate assistant
and became a full-time staff
highways in 1980.
There were 174 fewer
driving under the influence
arrests made by troopers in
1981 compared to 1980. “In
1980, Colonel Jenkins said,
“troopers arrested 48,270
motorists on DUI charges,
the largest number ever
charged for DUI in the 52-
year history of the Patrol,
and they charged 48,0%
during 1981.”
Colonel Jenkins praised
the troopers for their
determination to remove
every drunken driver
possible from the state high
ways as evidenced by the
high arrest numbers for
DUI in both years.
“We know that speed and
alcohol-impaired drivers
are the leading causes of
highway fatalities, and I
know of no greater con
tribution that can be made
to saving lives on our high
ways than to remove the
alcohol-impaired driver
from our highways,” he
said.
During the first eleven
months of 1981, total high
way accidents in North
Carolina dropped by 2.7 per
cent compared to the same
period in 1980. There were
132,151 accidents in that
period in 1980, and 128,629 in
1981.
In the same time period,
alcohol-related accidents
increased by 12.3 per cent in
1981 compared to 1980.
There were 12,426 alcohol
related accidents in the first
eleven months of 1980
compared to 13,948 in 1981.
Colonel Jenkins praised
the public for their con
tribution to the decline in
traffic fatalities and ac
cidents in 1981 compared to
1980.
“The public’s support of
| lur collision prevention
program contributed
I greatly to the dip in highway
I fatalities and accidents in
1961,” Jenkins said.
| “We hope that the public
I will continue to support our
I efforts to reduce traffic
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be an even greater year for
) traffic safety on the high
| ways of North Carolina,”
' Colonel Jenkins said.
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SECTION B
the local Chevrolet dealer is
just a smaller version of
General Motors,” Peterson
commented.
Both the company and the
Public Staff will formally
present testimony to the
Utilities Commission at the
Raleigh hearings which are
expected to last about eight
days. The commission is
expected to issue a ruling on
the company’s request
around the first of April.
member in 1975, and in his
six years as receiver coach
practically every Ragin’
Cajun passing and receiving
record was broken.
He began his coaching
career at his alma mater in
1971 and received his
masters’ degree in 1972 in
education before earning an
educational specialist
degree from USL in 1974.
He served as an assistant
at New Hanover High in 1972
and went to Samford in 1973
as receiver coach before
coming to USL.
“One of the main reasons
I’ve stayed here,” said
Flanagan, “is that if I ever
decided to get into private
business that this would be
the place to do it. My family
likes it here, both of our
children were born here and
it’s the type of area that’s a
great place to live.
“I plan to be one of the
players’ biggest boosters,”
he added. “I’ll be pulling for
them just as much from the
stands as I used to from the
sidelines.”
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HIGHWAY 17 LEADERS W. P. (Spec) Jones, of Edenton, left, vice chairman of the
Board of Directors of the Highway 17 Transportation Association In North Carolina, is
shown discussing the highway with fellow executive committee members, William B. (Bill)
Page, center, of Washington, the association’s president, and Tommy Combs of Elizabeth
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association is working to get the highway four laned through Eastern North Carolina.
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