y*. Page 10 - The Chronicle - Satai Red Tape Strike Lady Pays by Rndy Anderson Staff Writer Almost a month ago Mrs. Lillian Robinson, S3, of 1018 W. 14th Street, had her gas turned off for non-payment of a bill. The bill was paid, marked and dated bept. 2Jrd by the Piedmont Gas Company. But a mix-up in paperwork at the companyand the slowness of channels caused Mrs. Robinson to spend a chilly weekend at home without heat. Mrs. Robinson said that two weeks after her husband had paid the bill a service man from Piedmont Gas Company came to her house last Thursday with orders "to cut the gass off." Mrs. Robinson said she asked him why and 1 * > ~j?Odessa )) Jew VA 9^ ij Located in uppei Formerly ( ?- Speci in bi I & jewelry fa n Odessc I I Present |! $ 1.00 || J On Any Item Prio X _ % ^ / (ffirtoaten / A Magnifice / of Qua] / Over 30 yea] / Cleaning \ INSURED COLD STORAG1 "( E 725> Winston-Salei iday October 16, 1976 >s Again ? :,Bill-Gas she was told for non-payment ,She said she tried to explaii to the service man tha she ha< a receipt to show him tha would prove she was tellinj the truth. She said hi became very nasty toward he and hurt her feeling tremendously. She said the servicemai refused to look at the receipt She said she was told by ; manager at the gas compan; that she would have to brinj the receipt to his office befon her story could be believed. Friday morning her hus band reportedly went then with the receipt. He was toh by the manager that the ga: would be cut on the same day It wasn't. Mrs. Robinson called Frida; afternoon to inquire why it ha< - Rene? ; relry , " level of McCrory| H.L. Green i I ticelets, necklaces, 1 ~>r all occasions { i ? Renee j | this card for i ] Discount ! ed $2.00 or more 1J J Ha mi Collection ity Furs rs experience & Glazing ? ON OUR OWN PREMISES )ial 8303 m Hyatt Hous< Turned not been turned on. She said n she was told that the i servicemen did not work in the t rain. The result was no heat ^ over a weekend that gave us e our first taste of winter. She r felt these things were s happening to her and her husband because of their n color. However on Monday; a a serviceman did come out to y turn the gas back on. But ^ much to the dismay of Mrs. e Robinson, the serviceman said in answer to her inquiry that the seal on the gas meter had ? been put on because the i company felt that someone s had been using gas from a meter that was supposed to be turned off. She said that this V was adding insult to injury i because she nor her husband Ihad any idea of how to turn the gas on even if they had tried, she insisted thatlhey had not touched it. Carl Christensen, office manager for Piedmont Gas, explained that what this unfortunate occurance mounted to was that the account'the Robinsons paid on was at the same time being closed out for non-payment. 41lf they had paid just two days before or the day after their bill was /| finalized, none of this would 11 have happened/' he said. [I He said it was just one of fl these times 44when everything )l happened at once and the A paperwork was to slow getting in the right hands.'* He said ? the accounts representative || probably collected their bill I not knowing that it was in the w process of being closed out. A 44The reason the seal had I been put on the meter," he I said, "was because the 1 company showed that gas was 1 See Gas Off, Page 18 ) 1 . // -/ tk% ^Afiricai^S V ?B ^ The Europe D??* x at i j The adventures of the Portuguei the 15th century drew greater atte the earlier ones partly because the Portuguese government, partly be European states in the discovery < partly because of the comparative disseminated following the inven Portugal was also the first wideh to embark upon_a career of discovi territorial growth was completed b era of national greatness at the b< reign. The Portuguese had bee aggressive action by their wars ag the Portuguese found more expi nature in an outward expansion 1 During the 14th century, Por Canary Islands, the Madeira, i crusades against the Moors stimu ships while the state encourage providing timber free to Portugi insular position of Portugal, the e its nennlp thp prnnnmir viaKiliti; qi . , W ^ > W ? ? V V ^X'lix'iai >V IMUI1 II y U1 state do not completely account for in West Africa. This was achieve^ Henry, the 4th son of King John The foremost patron of seafarinj Prince Henry "the navigator." A Moorish stronghold of Ceuta, Y Christian King, Prester John whos flowing with gold, milk, and honey of Africa as far as the Senegal riv trade into the heart of Africa by themselves in gold, slaves, and ivo his "master plan". He would expli determine just how far the Moorisl people of Africa were to be christh which the Moors carried on with W by an ocean route to Lisbon. Of cou John would help to secure the work all, mnce Henry thought that his e route to India, while Portugal greatness in Africa such as woul realization of Europe. Between 1420 and 1431, Prince some progress in the exploration However, it was not until 1441, th Goncalves rounded Cape Blanco, and returned to Lisbon with a samp of black slaves. These first black trained as interpreters for future ve enthusiasm for the schemes of Pr greeted with a degree of mockery, his 1441 performance and returnee and West Africans to be sold as sla start of the trans-AlAantic slave tn who insnirpd all nf thic ?***>? . ^ ? -v w v/ i % l l l?J IIV f W I 111 CI1 African coastline. VINES ONE-HOUR 0 "Cleans Bett< 905 N. Ub Winston-Sal potlight I x :S. ans v^ainc Q / se into West African coast in ?ntion of the Europeans than voyages were backed by the cause of the interest of other of a new route to India, and ) ease with which news was tion of the printing press. y popularized European state ery. Founded about 1095, its y 1293. In 1393 it entered an jginning of the King Jon fs ?n unified and aroused to ;ainst the Moors. Eventually ression for their aggressive beyond the Atlantic, tuguese vessels visited the and the Azords. Maritime ilated the building of strong d seafaring enterprises by Liese ship-builders. Yet the arlier seafaring enterprise of rid the political stability of the the advent of the Portuguese d by the presence of Prince i I of Portugal. ? enterprises in Portugal was s a result of his stay in the le heard of the legendary e kingdom was thought to be . He also heard of the interior er. He heard of the caravan t < ? - ? - wnich the Moors enriched ry. Then Henry came up with re the West African coast to h power extended. The black anized while the inland trade est Africa was to be diverted rse, a friendship with Prester ings of his plans. But most of xploration would open a new would achieve an imperial d not have been capable of Henry's 8s mariners made of the West African coast, at one of Henry's explorers, landed on the African coast >le of gold dust and a number c 1'* * 0 wtit mnaiianizcu ana mtures. Now there was great ince Henry which were first In 1443, Goncalves repeated 1 to Portugal with more gold tves in Europe. Thus was the ide. 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