I REA history Is Recalled
Continued From Page 1-B
N.C., to determine if suffi
cient interest existed to justify
applying for afi REA charter.
It did. An application was
filed under the name Albe
marle E’ trie Membership
Corporate ..
Less than a month later, the
Board of Directors (elected
during the January gather
ing) returned a collective list
of 952 applications for mem
bership in the co-operative.
Linesmen set the first pole in
December, 1945.
An office was rented in
Hertford above the old Peoples
Bank Building (now torn
down). Archie T. Lane, Sr., a
Perquimans Board of Direc
tors ^nember, served as man
ager until the arrival of
Gilbert Whitley of Farmville,
N.C.
i In 1950, John Coston of
Hookerton, N.C., followed
Whitley. He remained as
manager until his retirement
in 1974. During his manager
ship, the co-op moved to larger
quarters on U.S. 17 Business
South of Hertford, broke even
on its expenses by 1952, and in
1965 built a complex on U.S. 17
Business North of Hertford,
its present location.
Edward E. Brown man
aged Albfemarle EMC for nine
years prior to the board's se
lection in 1983 of Dorris
Byrum White.
Mrs. White, 62, a native of
Hertford, attended Campbell
University. She is the wife of
Charles E. White, Jr., the
mother of Martha, Frances,
and C. Edmond White, III,
and the grandmother of
Charles and Henry White.
An employee of Albemarle
EMC since December, 1945,
she is the only woman man
ager now or ever of a N.C.
REA Co-op. (There are 28 in
the state.) She became the
sixth woman in the nation to
hold that position when she
accepted the job. Currently,
there are 14 women co-op
managers in the U.S.
Mrs. White served as
president of the N.C. Associ
ation of Electric Cooperatives
in 1987-88.
Questioned about periodic,
governmental efforts to abol
ish the REA, she said, "We’ve
had loan funds cut for the past
20 years. Whereas we used to
get 100 per cent funding from
the government, we now bor
row less than half of our fund*
needs.
"A man, Walter Hajrrrson
of Georgia, once said ’The
REA was born out of politics,
and it would probably die out
of politics.' Nonetheless, I
don’t expect any major
changes in the REA in the
next few years.
"As for Albemarle EMC,
we have seen a drastic change
in our type of members. In
1946, the majority of members
were farmers. Today, only
about 35 per cent are farm
ers.”
Mrs. White stated that she
believed Albemarle EMC was
the first utility company in
this area to install energy
saving, load management
switches.
The company, a $10.5 mil
lion business still owned by
its members, serves 7,600
families and maintains 943
miles of line.
Its 23 employees include
Edenton and Chowan County
residents Bob Brooks, Jimmy
Keeter, Roy O'Neal, John
Coston, Melvin Evans, Jr.,
Tony Byrum, Marvin Owens,
and Glenn Parks.
Regarding museum ex
hibits, they do arouse nostal
gia in younger generations.
For as children, perhaps
merrily sailing from the top
of a chicken coop in the wash
yard, pretending to be Super
man or Wonder Woman, they
didn't recognize the lines
etched on Granny's face as
being marks of toil.
Instead, watching her stir a
pot of boiling laundry, they
interpreted the creases as
wrinkles of mirth, amuse
ment at their antics, her care
free grandchildren.
Without question, they ac
cepted the fact of her love, evi
dent by the frequent, con
cerned glances cast their way
from one who had raised 10
children of her own.
As adults, their admiration
joins remembrance; so does
appreciation. Because of elec
tricity, yesteryears' drudgery
vanishes with the flick of a
switch.
The accomplishment of
electrifying rural homes
truly materialized from the
long-practiced concept of
people doing together what one
could not do alone. After all,
that's the American way.
A
Weatherization Grant Funded
Continued From Page 1-B
storm windows on the homes
of residents whose income
does not exceed 150 percent of
the poverty level ($19,050 for a
family of four).
Homes eligible for the pro
gram are evaluated to deter
mine the most cost-effective
measures to be installed. On
average, the grant is expected
t» fund $1,400 in energy con
serving improvements to each
home weatherized. This av
erage cost per home weather
Major Home Repair
Douglas Construction
482-7950
ized includes the cost of mate
rials and labor.
The Economic Improve
ment Council Inc. is one of 45
community action and public
nonprofit agencies across the
State of North Carolina which
implements the Weatheriza
tion Program at the local
level. The grant announced
by Secretary Broyhill is ex
pected to fund assistance to 70
homes over the next twelve
months.
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