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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
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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<
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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
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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.
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I been put on the meter," he
I said, "was because the
1 company showed that gas was
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