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New REA Building Denotes Progress The new Carteret-Craven Electric Membership building is another sign of the progress in this area. Located at the western limits of Morehead City on highway 70, it Is the last word in modern design, Jerry Schumacher both outside and in. The structure itself and modern furnishings represent an investment of more than $100,000. The formal opening will take place Saturday and Sunday. Electricity- Provides Many Labor-Savers for Farmers By DANIEL W. TEARE < Finn Electrification Specialist Rural Electrification Administration Electric power is rapidly taking its place on the farm as a major source of energy to increase pro duction, save labor, and prevent waste. It is said that there are approximately 600 electrical ap pliances used about the farm and the farm home. This is an amaz ing number when it is realized that basically there are only four uses which these 600 appliances can make of electric power. . Obviously, the first is light, which has been used in many ways to increase the working day of the farmer, to increase production, and to prevent loss and other waste which frequently occurs on the farm. The second use is for heat, and many appliances make only this one use of electric power. Water heating, cooking, electric hotbeds, and brooders, represent some o' the various methods by which heat is applied to the business of agri culture and farm living. Provides Power ?The third use of electricity is" for power, typified by the electric ?fotor. Electricity is an ideal tource of energy for driving all tools and machinery previously op erated by hand. A quarter-horse power motor is equivalent to two m*n on any task which it can per form. When this fact is recognised K will be apparent that continued hand operation of equipment is a useless attempt at economy. Fur thermore, the electric motor can, if necessary, work 24 hours a day. which is more than the worst slave-driver ever attempted to get from humans. The fourth application of elec tric power is relatively little known, although it is used in prac tically every home. This is the relatively new field of electronics. Simply, it may be said that elec tronics constitutes the control of electric power with either gas-filled or vacuum tubes. The most com mon example of this is the radio tube. Other examples of electronic tubei include fluorescent lights, television viewing screen tubes, snd several other special tubes which are gradually being applied to automatic controls of farm equipment. Electronics was the foundation of much of our high speed factory production for the war effort, and great strides were made in this field. Some of these uses are slowly being tranaferred from the factory to agricultural production problems. The tint letter of the four words, beat, electronics, lights and pow er. make up the letters of the word "Help." These four basic forms which can be uaed in approximate ly MO different devices, can really HELP the farmer and the farm family to do their work, to enjoy life and to have a living standard second to none. ? Heat h Valuable Heat, that Is, heat produced by electricity, is especially valuable because It can be applied in limit ed areas and in the exact amount required. Pig brooders using elec tric beat are known to have an av erage of one pig per litter. Stock taak heaters not only provide a constant supply el water to lire stock In cold weather but they ako eliminate the cold chore of breaking Ice and the fire harad of fuel-burning 'tank heaters. Electronic controls may be uaed to start and stop many kinds ef automatic equipment Electronic tubes that are activated by changes la temperature, humidity, or light an now available. Utilising only . quaatittes of current them REA Board tc Past Presiden The board of directors of the Carteret-Craven Electric Member ship Corp. will honor in the near future the late George L. Brock way who died during his term of office as president of the board. Mr. Brock way, a native of Scran ton, Pa., was president when plans were started to erect the new REA building. He died Aug. 1, 1953. George L. Brockway . . . died in office The board expects to put up a plaque or plant a tree to his memory. The late president, who was an engineer on the Pennsylvania turn pike, came to Cherry Point Marine Air Base in its early days of con struction. As design superinten dent in the public works office, he was the top-ranking civilian em ployee on the base and was recog nized as outstanding in his field of work. > A homeowner in llavelock, he became a member of the Carteret Craven Co-op in 1942 and was made circuits, and many other devices. Light is being used lor many purposes, but most generally (or heat or illumination on the (arm. A South Dakota farmer reports that hanging a 60 watt light in each corner of a 100-ewe lambing pen entirely eliminated disowned lambs this year. He reasoned that in a lighted pen the ewes could follow their first-born lambs about the pen until the second lamb was born. Thus the firstborn lambs and ewes were never separated. With a heavy lamb crop averaging 80 per cent twins, not a single lamb was disowned in his flock this year Before lighting the lambing pen, 10 or 12 ewes could always be expected to disown one o I their twins. Motors Efficient Power from electricity is used in so many ways that it is needless to list them here Of special val ue Is the fact that electric moton are highly efficent, ranging from 60 per cent efficency in one-qaar ter horsepower motors, to 89 td BO per cent in the five and seven and one- half horsepower sizes. Another important feature Is th|t ? motor of the exact slse needed can be obtained to fit each Uik to be done. Heat, Electronics. Light and Pow er are supplying the HELP that every farmer needs to increase his profits; reduce his lone*, and save his labor. Altogether, it adds up to greater farm eflieancy Use electricity profitsoiy un produc* UveJjr. Itpvs. > Memorialize it Brockway a member of the board of directors in 1947. He was elected president of the hoard of directors in 1947. He was re-elected president of the board in January 1952 and was serving his second term as presi dent when death was caused by a stroke. During his term of office the land for the new building was bought and the Southern Engineer ing Co.. Atlanta, retained as archi tect. His wife is still living at Havelock. Their son is an archi .Ucmtal yj* i REA Maintains Branch Office In Havelock Area To serve their 750 customers in the Havelock area, the Carteret Craven Electric Membership Corp. maintains an office there. The office is located in the, ad ministration building in Slocum Village. The receptionist-cashier U Mrs. Blanche McCliman. The lineman at Havelock is Curtis Mer ritt. He answers service calls and also checks meters. The Havelock branch is connect ed with the Morehead City office by two-way radio. Mrs. McCliman can talk to the Morehead City of fice or directly to trucks that are working throughout the county. The Havelock area in Craven is the second largest district served by the Carteret-Craven REA Only the Newport to Swansboro. Maysville and Stella lines have more customers. Electric light in the poultry house increases egg production 10 per cent in fall and winter when . prices are higher. Electricity CAN Cause Death Rules on Proper, Safe Use of Electricity Should be Followed Electricity is a killer and a destroyer. It is also one of the greatest boons to mankind? when properly used. Electricity is a killer when it uses the body of some child as a short cut to wherever it is going. It is more likely to short cut in the presence of water or dampness, when loss of insulation exposes bare wires to human contact, and where exposed switches or loose switches herald death to those who touch. Neglect of connected electric irons is said to cause 300 fires ev ery week, and fire can be a prop erty destroyer as well as a cause of death. Overloaded wires in the Hundreds of thousands of farm families are now using electricity for the first time, so the need for planning and caution must be re peated over and over until care ful living with electricity becomes a habit. Electricity is so safe when used with precautions as a servant of mankind, and so dangerous as a weapon of destruction when abused, that these "Do's* 'and "Don't's" should be repeated over and over until safety habits with electricity become an established fact of family living in farm homej. Things To Do 1. Check your whole wiring plan with a competent inspc tor before installing'it in your home. 2. Insist on the proper size and type of wire (at least No. 12 or larger), and on enough circuits and outlets for both present and future needs. 3. Locate switches away from children and pets. Demand thor ough grounding of the neutral sys tem conductor, of all stationary equipment and of other electrical equipment using one-fourth horse power or more. Ground all exposed metal of the wiring system in the house and outbuildings. 4. Have all wiring and electrical (See Electricity Pg. 3 Sec. 3) Directors Guide REA Affairs Member* of the Board of Di rectors meet In the ipeciou* con ference room Id the new bnildlm Seated, left to right, ?r? ti? offi oer*. They are Gordo? T mMW, Crab Point, tr*aaur?r; Chreoce MUlii. Newport, vice - prMidant; Georg* W. Ball. Harlowe. pre?i deot; LkmM W PalWtiar. Bul la, MCNUrjr. Standing, left to right, in #. C. Carlton, manager ol the &r teret-C raven Electric Memberwilp Carp., Everett* S. Kooooe. Mi? bora; Roger W Jaoaa, ?road Photo by J?rrjr SchtuiMdwr Icraak; Gilbert WUMiurat, Strait*; Earl Day, Cedar lalaad; W. J. Wjmaa Jr. Havatoek, aad Qaorfa Ball, KarafeaW City, attorney RE A Manager Tells Story V. ? * * ? Of Carteret-Craven Co-op 28,000 More Rural Carolinians Get Electric Service During 1953 Electric power's energetic kilo watt went to work last year for nearly 28,000 more rural North Carolinians. The State Rural Electrification Authority, citing the gain in its annual summary of progress, says it now could report 94.1 per cent of North Carolina's farms are get ting electric service. That, the REA noted proudly, is "somewhat greater" than the national average of 90.8 per cent. A bound copy of the REA figures, presented Governor Umstead by REA Chairman Gwyn B. Price, showed 508,863 rural consumers and farms were drawing electric current on July 1, 1953, an increase of 27,750 over the total reported for July 1, 1952. Gain Steady Price said the gain has been steady and encouraging ever since the rural electrification program got underway in 1935. In 1935, Price recalled, there were only 1,884.8 miles of rural electric distribution lines serving 11,558 rural consumers, including 9,672 farms. Last July, there were 271,455 farms connected and a year earlier, 260,811. A comparison of figures for 1935 and 1953, Price said, shows "the true growth of the program." "Throughout the years," Price noted, "the Authority has acted as a central clearing house for all matters relating to rural electrifi cation in the State. It has assisted farmers and farm organizations and has cooperated with the North Carolina State College Extension Service and the Federal Rural Electrification Administration in the dissemination of information." It also, he said, has "worked with the electric membership cor porations, municipalities, public in stitutions, electric utility com panies and many agencies of the State and federal governments in terested in rural electrification in an effort to keep the program on a sound basis." ' he report showed ^4.!$94 14 miles of rural distribution lines were in use last July 1 serving 508,863 rural consumers. An additional 761.51 miles, to serve 4,240 addi tional consumers, were under con struction. and 2.532.1 ? miles, to serve 11.H37 more consumers, were authorized. When all work underway or planned through the July 1 survey period is completed, the report said, North Carolina will have a 'otal of 78,287.75 miles of rural dis tribution lines serving a total of 525,000 rural consumers. A year earlier, on July 1, 1952, the totals stood at 72,872.51 miles of line and 481,113 consumers. An additional 732.24 miles, to serve 3,659 additional consumers, were under construction, and 2.972.23 miles, to serve 12,614 consumers, were authorized. Back in 1948, there were 49, 846.87 miles of rural distribution lines serving 307,888 rural con sumers. Privately-owned electric com panies had 33,477 miles of rural distribution lfnes last July I and 298,980 rural customers. They also had 84.16 miles under construction to serve 317 additional customers and had authorized construction of 231.9 mi)es more to serve 1.378 others. On July faMH* panies' totals stood at 32,408 18 miles, serving 282.538 customer., m operation. 7264 miles under construction to serve 38# "J*?"" ers and 271 82 miles authorized to serve an additional 1,705 custom ers. Municipalities had 3 818 59 miles of rural lines last July 1 43 404 rural customers, one mil under construction to serve l"? customers, and 19.1 miles more authorized to serve 105 rural cus tomers. , , ,. On July 1. 1952, the municipali ties had 3,745 79 rural miles serv ing 40,258 rural customers in oper I a" ion; 38 miles to serve 173 cu* tomers under construction and 45^6 miles to serve 265 customers sched uled for construction. REA Co-Ops The REA cooperatives had 37, 582.63 miles of line and 165,128 member-customers on last July l. 675.6 miles to serve 3,720 mem bers under construction, and 2, 279.5 miles to serve 10,445 mem bers authorized for addition. Public institutions last year served 1,353 rural customers through 115.92 miles of rural dis tribution lines. New R'vcr L,ght and Power Company had 269 cus tomers; the University o North Carolina's service plants, 799 cus tomers, and Western Carolina Col lege, 301 customers. Carolina Power and Light Com pany had 14,673.41 miles of rural lines and 117.292 rural customer^ A year earlier, it had 14,165.03 miles and 110,709 rural customers By next July 1, the report showed it will have at least 14.785.40 miles of rural lines and 117,882 rural cus tomers. . 1A Duke Power Company had 14. 240.07 miles of rural lines and 14?. 451 rural customers. On July '? 1952, it had 13,833.63 miles and 138,044 customers. By next July 1, it expects to have at least 13, 336.49 miles and 147,106 customers. Virginia Electric and P?jljr llg fzBW miles and 20.35* Wraf c? tomers in North Carolina, against 2 756 miles and 19,003 customers listed a year earlier. By "ext j""'* it will have at least 2,895 miles and 20,698 rural customers in me S Nantahala Power and Light Com pany's totals last July 1 stood at ' 1 161.27 miles of rural lines and 8,456 rural customers. A year earlier, they stood at 1,111.5 miles and 8,837 customers. Work under way and authored may ralw i the figures by next July to 1,218.07 miles and 8,765 customers. Totals Reported Here, according to the ?P?rt' were totals of lines and customers for eastern REA electric member ship corporations as of last July 1. JUAlbemarle. 572 miles and 2.233 members; Brunswick, and 7.635 members; Cape Hatteras, 82 miles and 570 members; Car teret Craven, 383 miles ?nd 2,905 members; Central (of Sanford ) W? miles and 2,364 members; David son, 1,696.49 miles and 6,913 mem "^Edgecombe-Martin, 968 miles and 4,066 members; Four Cwinty (of Burgaw), 2,131 miles and 8,574 members; Halifax, 1,103 miles and 1 4,332 members; Barkers Island,) 15 miles and 362 customers; Jones Onslow, 993 miles and 5,753 mem bers; Lumbec River, 1,763 miles and 7,687 members; Ocracoke, 14 miles and 178 members. Pamlico- Beaufort, 470 miles and 2,033 members; Pee Dee, 1,811 miles and 6,670 members; Pitt and Greene, 557 miles and 3,414 mem bers; Randolph, 1,557.7 miles and 6,197 members; Roanoke, 1,572 miles and 5,719 members; South River, 1,792 miles and 7,377 mem bers. Tri-Couiity (of Goldsboro) 1, 263.5 miles and 5,173 members. Wake (which serves Durham, Franklin, Granville, Johnston, Nash, Vance and Wake), 993 miles and 4,018 members, and Woodstock (which serves Beaufort, Hyde and Washington), 447 miles and 2, 126 members. Members of the REA board who serve with Price are Dr. S. H. Hobbs Jr. of Chapel Hill, D. E. Purcell of Reidsville, Route 4, C. L. Ballance of St. Pauls, Glenn Palmer of Clyde and George R. Hughes of Trenton. Ancher Nelsen Supervises REA Administrative Head Operates 280-Acre Farm in Minnesota Ancher Nelsen, REA Adminis trator, has operated a diversified 280-acrc farm near Hutchinson, Minn., since 1924. The principal crops grown are corn, hogs, and dairy products. He has long been active in 4-H Club work, the Farm Bureau, and farmer-cooperative af fairs. Mr. Nelsen helped organize the McLeod Cooperative Power Asso ciation at Glencoe, Minn., and he is a director and vice-presidcnt of that association. He has also been Anther Nelson . . . heads REA vice-president of the Minnesota Electric Cooperative and a director of the local Farmers' Cooperative Elevator Association. He has been president of his local Farmers' Mu tual Insurance Co., and president of the Minnesota Association of Mutual Insurance Companies. In 1933 Mr. Nelsen was elected to serve as state senator in the Minnesota legislature and was re elected to this post biennially until 1948. In November 1952 he waa elected lieutenant governor of his state. While a member of the state legislature, Mr. Nelsen took an ac tive interest In legislation pertain ing to markets and marketing, dairy products, and livestock. In addition, he has represented the Minnesota dairy industries committee at congressional hear ings in Washington. He has also been active in consrrwlion organ izations. The REA administrator waa born on a farm in Renvillf County, Minn , Oct. 11. 1904. In 192ft be married Ho Zimmerman of Brown ton, Minn. They have three chil dren: Richard 21, Bruce 17, and Miriam 11. Mr. NcUen la a mem ber of the Main 8treet Lutheran Church in Hutchinson, hla home town. REA ProvidM Farm Folk With Telephone Service There were 23,942 farms with telephones in North Carolina in 1990. Tbta waa B.1 per cent of the total number of phones, in the state. As of Jan. 1, 1954. REA had al located a total of $7, 50t, 000 for loans to five commercial companies and five cooperatives til North Carolina. These loans will enable the borrowers to serve 15,800 new subscriber* and to provide im proved service to 5,881 present ?ubicribera. In addition. REA had on hand $4,085,410 In telephone loan appll cations from organizations in North ? By W. C. CARLTON REA Manager The critical need for elec trification of North Caro lina farm homes was first brouRht to the attention of North Carolinians by Gov ernor J. C. B. Khringhaus. He made rural electrification a major issue in his 1932 campaign and stressed the fact that a statewide survey by a North Carolina State College showed that only one farm in a hundred in North Carolina received cen tral station electricity. As a further consequence, the legislature created the North Caro lina State Rural Electrification Authority, and then a bill was passed permitting non-profit com panies to be formed by the farmers so that they could serve them selves with electricity. An order signed Aug. 2, 1040 by the North Carolina Rural Electri fication Authority permitted for mation of an electric membership corporation by a group from Car teret and Craven Counties. Lead ers who were prominent in or ganizing the cooperative are too numerous to mention but includ ed County Farm Agent John Las siter, George W. Huntley Sr., D. F. Merrill, all of Beaufort, G. W. Ball, Harlowe, Gerald Whitehurst, Straits, W. S. Goodwin, Lola, Claude Garner and C. T. Cannon, both of Newport, L. W. Pelletier, Stella, Borden Adams, Broad Creek, John S. Jones, Swansboro, and A. B. Morton, Bachelor. The Corporation was granted a certificate of incorporation Aug. 17, 1940 On Aug. 21, 1940, the first Board of Directors met and repre senting the applicants, set up the constitution and by-laws stating that the aim of the cooperative was to "make electric energy available to its members at the lowest cost consistent with sound economy and good management." At this first meeting, further results of many days and nights of hard work were realized as mem bership applications and member ship fees of $5 each were put in by 444 persons. Elected as first officers of the cooperative were president, George W. Huntley; vice "preilflMifTt?: W. Pefletier; secre tiry-treasurer, George W. Ball. Recognition was also voted to be given to Honorable Graham A. Barden as an expression of appre ciation for his cooperation extend ed the rural people of Carteret, Craven and Onslow Counties and a "rising vote of thanks was given Aycock Brown, Editor of the Beau fort News for his faithful work and cooperation through the past months on this project." Mr. L. E. Wooten, consulting en gineer, Raleigh, was selected as the system engineer. In February 1941, the directors were authorized by the members to execute papers for the first loan to finance the construction and operation of clec trlct transmission, distribution, and service lines by the cooperative. Alvah Hamilton and George H. McNeill, Morehead City, were the cooperative lawyers guiding the steps of the rural people embark ing in this new venture. An office was secured in the Noe building in Beaufort for $12.50 per month. H. H. Lewis Jr., Beaufort, was ?elected at the first manager in February 1B41. In April 1M1, the Miller-Baxter Co. was the low con tract bidder to conatruct the ne cessary substation and electric lines to the farm homes. In Au gust 1941, an application was filed for permission to construct elec tric line* to the Cherry Point Ma rine Air Base to serve anticipated new civilian business in that vicin ity. After that permission waa granted, an allocation was request ed to build electric lines to Salter Path and Crab Point. C. H. Youhg Selected In December 1M1, C. H. Young was selected at operating mana ger from the 26 application re ceived. He waa soon to be called into the military services, and H. H. Lewis Jr., was put in charge as superintendent The war needs came cloeer home and bigger and heavier construc tion waa required to adequately serve the air fielda at Bogue and Atlantic. Again, the confident farm people borrowed money to conatruct these lines. Starting Dec. 1. 1942, Quincy L. Caughman was employed as sup erintendent of the cooperative. Caughman was followed by Rog er Martin McGirt Feb. 19. 1943. This heavy turnover in adminis tration of the cooperative was due mainly to the exigencies of the times with many lucrative positions open to those who could satis factorily carry out the require ments of the job. In July 1943 Mr. McGirt was reemployed aa super intendent Directors Re-elected The members of the cooperative had an annual meeting Dec. 1, IMS, and re-elected all dirccton The annual report of the operattaM showed that although the purpose*
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