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Piedmont Natural Gas Company
promises speedy action on its pr
eight Carolina cities, including Ch
“ The Piedmont corporation receiv
from the Federal Power Commiss
efforts. Officials now see it posi
supplies of natural gas by the con
The seven cities the Piedmont j
Natural will serve, besides Char
lotte, are Winston-Salem, Greens
boro, Salisbury, High Point in
North Carolina, and Greenville j
and Spartanburg in South Caro
lina.
The Commission’s decision in
favor of the company, headed by
W. Priestly Conyers, Jr., of Spar
tanburg, also apparently brought
somewhat nearer authorization,
requested by two other Carolina
companies, for franchises to sup
ply natural gas to msny other
communities in these states.
These applicant companies are
Carolina Natural Gas Corp. of
Charlotte and Public Service Co.
or North Carolina* Inc., of Gas
tonia. *+
Won't Fight Rating
Charles B. Zeigler, Public Serv
ice president, said today that his
company will not attempt to con
test in court over the FPC ruling
in favor of Piedmont Natural. He
explained that his company al
ready has filed an alternate plan
for natural gas distribution .ex
cluding the communities awarded
to Piedmont Natural.
Meanwhile Murrey Atkins, Car
olina Natural president, said he
will withhold comment regarding
a possible appeal to the courts
from the FPC decision. He indi
cated that a -statement will be is
sued after he has studied the
FPC ruling’s text.
However, at Hickory, leaders in
municipal and commercial affairs
of Hickory, Lenoir and other
communities in that section de
cided to continue their fight to
obtain natural gas supplies for
that area.
At a conference there recently,
a resolution was adopted, calling
upon Gov. Kerr Scott and the
North Carolina Utilities Com
mission to withhold formal ap
proval of the FPC award to
to Piedmont Natural -3k af least
until the Hickory area communi
ties have had opportunity .to for
mally support their demands for
natural gas service.
Hearings February 20
Hearings were set for Febru
ary 20 by the commission on ap
plications of these companies,
which failed in their effort to
obtain franchises to operate in
the cities to be served by Pied
mont Natural. The Power Com
mission indicated that it expects
these companies to amend tbeir
applications to eliminate requests
for authority to supply communi
ties awarded to Piedmont Natu
ral.
Mr. Conyers and Duke Power
Company, with headquarters here,
announced several months ago
an agreement whereby Piedmont
Natural will pay Duke $6,000,000
for the manufactured gas plants
Duke operates in eight cities.
These cities, in addition to Char
lotte, are Winston-Salem, Greens
boro, Salisbury, High Point and
Burlington, in this state and
Greenville and Spartanburg, in
Sooth Carolina.
Mr. Conyers, estimated that
approximately $1,200,000 must be
expended to construct lateral
lines to supply natural gas. The
FPC authorized Mr. Conyers to
obtain gas supplies from Trans
continental Pipe Line Corp., which
rapidly is completing a line ex
tending from Texas to New York
through Piedmont Carolina. Pied
mont Natural plans to lay ap
proximately 74 miles of lateral
lines .and install various other
facilities. -
Conversion or gas miming
equipment in factories, stores, of
fices and homes and elsewhere to
consumption at natural gaa will
be necessary before this lower
cost fuel can be substituted for
the presently consumed manufac
tured gas. Engineering, sources
explained that this conversion
will be necessary as natural gas
is much “hotter” than manufac
tured gas and different burners
are required.
Moderate Costs
Cost of this conversion will bo
moderate. Information was un
available here as to whether
conversion costs will be paid by
Piedmont Natural' or the gua
consumers.
. Mr. Conyers was reported in
press dispatches from Washing
ton as estimating that necessary
of Spartanburg, S. C., this weak
>gram to furnish natural gas to'
arlotie.
ed the go-ahead signal lost week
ion, after eight months of legal
ible for the eight cities to huve
ling Fall season. ,
preliminaries can be completed
in. time to provide natural gas
for these eight cities for the
1951-52 Fall-Winter-Spring heat
ing season.
Much work must be done by
Piedmont Natural before actual
pipe laying is started. This pre
liminary work will include fi
nancing, survey, securing rights
of-way, and purchase of the pipe
and other materials and equip
ment, Mr. Conyers explained.
The FPC recently authorised a
substantial increase in Trans
continental Pipe Line’s transport
capacity, anticipating the grant
ing of franchises for natural gas
service in the Carolines and else
where with Transcontinental as
the supply source. The FPC also
stipulated that Transcontinental
should deliver 22,000,000 cubic
feet daily to Piedmont Natural,
with provision for subsequent in
creases as consumption should re
quire.
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Blueprints For
'Iron Lung' Will Be
Donoted to Public
Blueprints and specification,
that will make it possible for “anj
good mechanic” to build an iron
lung for emergency polio cases an
being drawn up by a manufacture,
at Muncie, Ind.
Hie manufacturer, Jack Reich
'art, learned about iron lungs afte.
a Muncie hospital called upon him
to make one for the 8-year-old soi
of a local policeman. The hospita
had 28 polio patients, and then
was only one iron lung in tht
copnty.
Until that time, Mr. Reichar
had never seen an iron lung. How
ever, he took plans worked out in
a similar emergency by anothe
manufacturer at Marquette, Mich,
and took the data to his plant.
Mr. Reichart went to work, am.
the whole town worked with him
All needed materials were donatre.
The dozen or more employees co
operated in the Reichart plant b;
toiling all night without pay.
They assembled'steel barrels, in
dustrial alcohol drums, several vac
uum sweepers, and aponge rubbe
—all went into the job. They user
crank shafts from an outboaid mo
tor and a quantity of plywood.
Job Takes 10 Hours
The iron lung was assembled af
ter 10 fours' work. It was take,
to the hospital, and the policeman’
son was the first to use it.
Immediately Mr. Reichart con
structed two more of the respira
tors. Then he began work on an
other five. When his plans hav.
been committed to paper, any com
munity, he says, will be able to
assemble the apparatus.
J. B. MOONEY HEADS
AttNUMurie C. of C.
Albemarle — At a meeting of
the merchants division of the
Albemarle Chamber of Commerce,
J. B. Mooney, manager of the
Penny store in Albemarle, waa
elected chairman for the year
1951. D. A. Moose served in this
capacity in 1950.
Other officers cboaea for the
year include Sanford Davis, vice
chairman; E. M. Langley, direc
tor of the North Carolina Mer
chants association; and the fol
lowing directors: D. A. Moose,
Fetzer Hartsell, Baxter Stokes,
Francis Starnes, Bob Yingling,
C. B. Smith, A. U Griffeth, ’ and
Bill Morrow.
The merchants voted to con
tinue taking four regularly sched
uled holidays as they have for
the past few years. These are
Easter Monday, July Foorth,
Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
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