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Piedmont Outlines Hopes
To Serve 3,500 Members;
Home Office Will Be Built
Long range plans for the Piedmont Electric Membership
Corporation call for the co-op to serve 3,500 members with
1080 miles of line by 1952, according to present plans mapped
by the board of directors and the manager, F. E. Joyner.
At the present time the co-op serves 1,271 members with
electricity over d network of about 400 miles of distribution
lines in Orange, Person, Granville, Durham, Caswell and Ala
mance counties.
Now under construction are an
additional 150 miles of line to
serve about 500 members. Funds
are also available ior construe*
tion of 200 more miles to bring
electricity in to the homes and
farms of 650 additional members.
One large immediate objective
of the co-.pp is the construction
of home office and warehouse
facilities In Hillsboro on a lot
on the corner of Tryon and East
Construction will start on this
Boundary streets.- _ ~r::
project as soon as approval is se
cured from the CPA and necessary
materials are available. •
Availability of necessary mater
ials will also determine how fast
the...co-op is able to build and
maintain additional lines to serve
the many hundreds of people now
clamboring for electricity.
Deliveries for some of the ma
terial is not expected until as late I
as December, 1948 and January,'
-1949. Manager Joyner asks that
all members' who have signed to be
patient. “These lines will be con
structed as soon as possible," hej
says.
REA ACCOMPLISHMENTS
IN NORTH CAROLINA
The rural electric cooperative
association financed by Rural Elec
trification Administration loans in
North Carolina, have played a ma
jor part in the substantial progress
made in rural electrification in the
state in the last 10 years.
When REA was established in
1935, only, 9,600 North Carolina
farms, or 3.12 percent of all the
farms in the State, were electri
fied. Latest official estimates show
that as of July 1, 1946, the number
of North Carolina farms electri
fied had increased to more than
43.8 percent of the State total.
More thon one-third of the state’s
electrified farms are served by
power lines financed by REA loans.
The 34 rural electric cooperatives
of the state are operating near
ly 15,000 miles of rvfral power
lines serving more than 58,000 ru
ral consumers, most of which are
farms. • »•
The Federal program to aid ru
ral electrification in North Caro
lina got under way in September,
1935, when the first loan in the
state was approved by REA. Since
that time, REA has approved North
Carolina loans totaling more than
$321000,000. Approximately two
thirds of this amount remains
available to the cooperatives and
is being-drawn upon as needed to
construct additional facilities.
Like other REA borrowers
throughout the nation, the North
Carolina cooperatives pay 2 per
cent interest on thier loans and
Director
A merchant and a farmer, A.
P. Dabbs, route 1, Yanceyville,
has served on the board of di
rectors since 1938 with the ex
ception of one year, 1943.
' have 35 years -to repay them. To
date, the North Carolina systems
are ahead of schedule in meet
ing their repayment commitments.
They-have already paid nearly
$7,000,000 of principal and inter
est to REA on their loans, includ
nearly $600,000 repaid on princi
pal in advance of due dates.
Scarcity of line construction ma
terials has handicapped the con
struction activities of North Caro
lina rural electric associations
since the war, but they are adding
new consumers as rapidly as pos
sible. During the year ending June
30, 1946, more than 9,150 new
consumers were added to the lines
of the REA-financed systems in the
state. Objective of the co-ops is
to extend electric service to as
many as possible of the 161,000
North Carolina farms that remain
unelectrified.
REA-financed cooperatives op
erating in North Carolina are:
Haywood Electric Membership
Corporation, Waynesville; Pitt and
Greene Electric Membership Corp
oration, Farmville; Edgecombe
Martin County Electric Member
ship Corporation, Tarboro; Four
County Electric Membership Corp
oration, Burgaw; Blue Ridge Elec
tric Membership Corporation,.Len
oir; Rutherford Electric Member
ship Corporation, Forest City; Ro
anoke Electric Membership Corp
oration, Rich Square; Piedmon
Electric Membership Corporation,
Hillsboro; Halifax Electric Mem
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J. L. BROWN 8 SONS
Wishes the REA members a
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successful meeting in Hillsboro
See ns for all yonr
FARM and HOUSEHOLD NEEDS
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We Handle
Director
Clyde T. Satterfield was elect
ed as a director in 1944'and has
served each year since then. He
lives - at Timf»erlake ' and Is a
farmer. - -
bership Corporation, Enfield;. Pee
Dee Electric Membership Corpor
ation, Wadesboro; Davidson Elec
tric Membership Corporation, Lex
ington.
Randolph Electric Membership
Corporation, Asheboro; Davie Elec
tric Membership Corporation,
Mocksville; Harkers Island Elec
tric Membership Corporation, Har
kers Island; Union Electric Mem
bership Corporation, Monroe;
Brunswick Electric Membership
Corporation, Shallottee; Jones
Onslow Electric Membership Corp
oration, Jacksonville; French Broad
Electric Membership Corporation,
Marshall; Wake Electric Member
ship Corporation, Wake Forest;
Cornelius Electric Membership
Corporation, Cornelius; Surry-Yad
kin Electric Membership Corpor
ation, Dobson; Tri-County Elec
tric Membership Corporation,
Goldsboro; Lumbee River Electric
Membership Corporation, Raeford;
South River Electric Membership
Corporation, Stedman; Burke-Mc
Dowell Electric Membership Corp
oration, Morganton; Carteret
Craven Electric Membership Corp
oration, Beaufort; Pamlico-Beau
fort Electric Membership Corpor
ation, Grantsboro; Central Elec
tric Membership Corporation, San
ford; Woodstock Electric Member
ship Corporation, Belhaven; Ocra
coke Electric Membership Corpor
ation, Ocracoke; and Albemarle
Electric Membership Corporation,
Hertford. The last two energized
their systems for the first time in
September, 1946.
Farms
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which .will , enable the cooperative
to extend service to approximate
ly 565,000 new consumers. For
the 1947 fiscal year, Congress has
authorized REA to lend $250,000,
100 to finance expansion of rural
Dower systems. The two-year to
tal of $550,000,000 is more than was
available for REA loans during
he previous nine years of the
program.
Despite the progress in rural
electrification since 1935, a huge
job remains ahead. The latest of
ficial estimates show that as of
July 1,* 1946, approximately 2.
770,000 American farms—ol’ which
more than 160,000 in North Caro
line—still lacked electric service.
At least as many non-farm ru
ral establishments remain une
lectrified. The goal of REA and its
borrowers, under their area cov
erage policy, is electric service
to every one of these potential
rural consumers.
Director
8. C. Wilson, route 1, Chapel
Hill, first served on the board of
directors in 1942 and -has been
returned every year since then.
of southern Orange county.
Harness
Power
North Carolina farmers have
found that most chore jobs on the
farm can be done quicker and
better wifh electricity. As more
and more of the State’s farmers
recognize this fact, they are using
electric power in steadily increas
ing quantities and thus helping
more-farms throughout the state
to get electric service.
Rural electrification in this
country was delayed for many
years because of the belief that
the average farmer would, not use
enough electricity to pay the cost
of serving him. Many were skep
tical when the Rural Electrifica
tion Administration justified its
first North Carolina loans in 1936
by estimating that the average
consumer served as a result of
these loans would use 100 kilo
watt hours of electric energy a
month.
Today, fiscal 1946, with elec
trical equipment .coming. on the
market in increasing quantities,
^EA estimates that before long
oower consumption along REA
financed lines in North Carolina
vill average 150 or more kilowatt
hours per consumer per month and
hat cooperatives will thus be able
to extend service into much more
thinly-settled territory than was
originally contemplated.
Electricity not only brings ru
ral people city conveniences—elec
tric lights, running hot and cold
water, refrigeration facilities and
other household equipment and ap
pliances—but also provides the
means of more efficient farm pro
duction by taking over scores of
routine farm jobs.
Director
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Julian Jobe, route % Mebane,
an Orange county farmer, has
served as a member of the board
of directors since 1938. _
In certain areas of North Caro
lina, electricity can play an v
portant part in developing a dairy
industry. Electricity operates elec
tric milkers, coolers, cream sep
arators, and hot water heaters and
provides running water. ..
Poultry raisers use eiectrfdty
'or chick brooders and place lights
n the poultry house to increase
>gg production of their flocks. Pig
brooders nave also become inr.
ingly popular in the past rew^
An electric motor can be
to drive tool grinders, drill!"
bench saws, operate a chum h
a one-hole com sheller, 0pe^
meat grinder or a household fu
and cereal mill. Many farmer!*
motors to power elevators in«!
bams to lift grain, com, baledl
or other bulky crops.
FAMOUS NAMES
^ hojpoint appliances—
Ranges, Water Heaters, Refrigerators,
Freezers, Washers, Ironers.
^ GENERAL ELECTRIC—
Radios, Irons, Fans, Toasters, Coffee Mak
ers, Waffle Irons.
-RADIO SER\aC£—
DUNCAN’S
"Electric Servant*”
216 Reams Ave. Roxboro
Phone.
Home of William
Hooper
St. Matthew’s
Episcopal Church
Webb Home
Confederate
Memorial Library
Methodist Church
Baptist Church
SEE HILLSBORO WHEN YOU ATTEND
The Eighth Annual REA Meeting
We Extend Our Welcome To Yon
Sykes Motor Company
Oldsmobile Sales and Service
Hillsboro Sundry
Soda Fountain, Bus Station
Cole Motor Company
.Pontiac Sales and Service
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Richmond Motor Company v
Dealers in Two Gr^at Ford Cars—V-8 and‘‘6"
Forrest Brothers
Groceries—Meats
Hillsboro Flower Shop
Flowers.For
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