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Miss LaVerne Ward, above, la head bookkeeper in the Piedmont
Electric Cooperative office (n Hillsboro..
Engineer
Vance Martin, above, is engin
eer for the Piedmont Electric
Membership Cooperative. His
duties also include work orders
and utilization.
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The duties of Mrs. Fallie Gery,
above, are those of assistant
bookkeeper and entail many
different jobs in a year’s time.
Paperwork
Never Ends
For Trio
! Office work never stops for the
office employees of the Piedmont
I Electric Membership Cooperative,
j Capably handling the work of
: billing, accounting, government re
I ports, bookkeeping, typing, meter
' reading, and the thousands of oth
er details of office woork are Miss
LaVerne Ward and Mrs. Fallie
Gery. Miss Ward is bookkeeper and
Mrs. Gery assistant bookkeeper.
Vance Martin is in charge of
engineering, work orders and util
ization.
All of the office force works un
der the direct supervision of F. E.
Joyner, manager of the coopera
tive.
Miss Ward has been with the co
operative since 1941. Her duties
are numerous; however, the most
important are members account
_ ing and government reports.
Mrs. Gery works as direct as
sistant to Miss Ward and her du
ties,- too, are * numerous, including
typing, collecting, jneter reading,
and billing of accounts. She has
been with the cooperative since
1944.
Martin has been with the co
operative for about 13 months,
having started work shortly after
his release from the Navy on De
cember 6, 1945.
Farms
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Iowance for repayment of the gov
ernment loan. Interest and amor
ization are paid from operating
revenue. When the loan is repaid,
the member-consumers will be
joint owners of the electric sys
tem. Meanwhile, the membership
runs the business. Each member
has one vote at business meetings
A board of Directors is electee
once a year. The Directors em
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Manager Of Cooperative
F. E. Joyner, above, is shown at his desk in the office of the Pied
mont Electric Membership Cooperative In Hillsboro. Joyner, a mem
ber of the Hillsboro town board of commissioners, and district Boy
Scout leader in Orange county, is manager of the office ,and super
visor of all REA s activities, in the six-county area of Orange, Ala
mance, Durham, Caswell, Granville and Person. He was employed by
the board of directors as manager of the co-op in September, 1942.
ploy the manager, fix the; rates
and otherwise direct the business,
reporting periodically to the mem
bership. —:——
The Rural Electrification ad
ministration provides technical ad
vice that will help the local man
agement to operate in accordance
with the terms of its loan -con
tract with the government. Engin
eering assistance, legal advice, a
standardized accounting system
and development of new electrical
equipment are typical REA. ser
vices to borrowers.
Most REA borrowers operate
anly distribution systems, pur
chasing power at wholesale from
public bodies or commercial sup
pliers. In areas where the power
supply is-inadequate or borrowers
cannot purchase power at reason
able wholesale rates, loans are
made to finance generating and
transmission facilities. REA loar.
approvals for this purpose amount
to less than 10 percent of the total.
io nnance me cost ol wiring
and plumbing installations and
the purchase of appliances by con
sumers funds are lent to coopera
tives, which in turn lend the mon
ey to individual members who need
credit to wire their farms. These
are the only REA loan funds that
reach individual rural consum
ers. The demand for loans of this j
type has never been great.
REA believes that in any rural J
community every farmer who
wants electric service is as much
entitled to it as another. In carry
ing out this policy of area cov
erage, REA borrowers group farms •
in thinly-settled territory on lines j
with those in more populous areas !
In this way, they are able to serve j
entire rural communities at uni-j
formly low rates. , j
The experience of farmers in
recent years- in using electrical ,
equipment to increase farm pro-j
duction arid income has shown tha*'
electricity on the farm is not a
luxury but an economic necessity
that will more than pay its way
REA and its borrowers have taken
the lead in encouraging farmers
to make full use of electrical de
vices. Today, electrical equipment
is playing a majorjtart in all types
of farm productioit and process
ing,and a variety of new electri
cal farm equipment is being de
veloped.
In addition to benefiting farm
ers, rural electrification has great- J
ly stimiujjated city and small town j
employment and trade. Experience
has shown that for every dollar
spent in building rural power j
lines, farmers spend two dollars
for wiring, plumbing, equipment
and appliance. Added to these di
rect business benefits is the ef
Legal Adviser
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At the beginning of the REA
movement in thie section the
law firm of Graham and Es- i
kridge in Hillsboro was retain
ed for legal advice. During the
past few years this work has
' been handled by J, Dumont Es
kridge, above. A. H. (8andy)
Graham, former lieutenant*gov
ernor and speaker of the liousdj’**
Is senior member of the firm
and now state highway commis
feet of rural electrification in in
creasing farm efficiency and in
come and thus contributing to
cuiumuniiy morale and prosperity.
The REA program is not rest
ing on past laurels and achieve
ments. New consumers are being
added to REA-financed lines iust
as rapidly as materials for line
construction become available. Be
tween July 1, 1945 and June 30,
1946, the number of consumers
orved by REA-financed systems
increased by more than 260,000.
This was a larger one-year in
crease than had been recorded in
any other fiscal year except 1940
During the 1946 fiscal year,
made loans of $300,000,000,
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History
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farmers in each community who
were finally able to get the neces
sary right of way easements sign
ed and membership fees paid in.
A few of the men who gave gener
ously of ther time and energy
during the organization period of
the Piedmont Electric Membership
Corperation were Gera Sykes,
Clyde Roberts, and Zeb Burton.
There were many other too num
erous to mention who supported
the movement with vigor and en
thusiasm.
The Piedmont Electric Member
ship Corp., a REA Cooperative,
with headquarters at Hillsboro, N.
C., is now operating about 400
miles of rural distribution llnw
in Orange, Caswell , Alamance,
Person, Durham and Granville and
is at present serving about 1,300
members. It has 150 miles of 1<n»
now under construction to serve
500 new members. It also has mon
ey available to construct an ad
ditional 200 miles of line to serve
650 new members. F. E. Joyner,
manager of the Cooperative, states
that plans call for serving 3,600
members with about 1000 miles of
distribution lines by 1952.
The dream of electricity on the
farm has indeed become a reality.
CONGRATULATIONS TO
Piedarat Electric Meaberskip
Corporation
ON ITS EIGHTH ANNUAL MEMBERS
V MEETING
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