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■Wr 5.=? U'?!-: :OffoIiiia Powo’ To Opal New Plsmt Sept. 30 * Lumberlon, N. C.—A vigorous chapter wiU be added to the story of the electrification of the Car- olinas Friday. September 30th. when Governor W. Kerr Scott closes a switch and sends 60.''00 electrical horses galloping over the Car.'hna Power Company’s network of lines. Occasion will be the formal inaujpir®tion here of production at the Company’s (Lumberton steam electric gene- I rating plant, three iniles from this Uown, and on ttie banks of the j Lumber River. , Wittiin a few months, installation of another 60,000 unit will bring capacity to 120,000 horsepower, and basic provisions have been made to double this as the need arises. Formal opening of the new sta tion will begin at 2:30 p. m. Fri- da.v. and will be broadcast. In addition to Governor Scott. Rep. F. Ertel Carlyle, and L. V. Sutton. ' president of CP&L, will partici pate. for condensing spent steam back UNIQUE STRUCTURE jinto water. A dam, its top only The addition of a twelfth gene-1 three feet below the surface of rating plant to the facilities of Caro4na Power & Light—^three steam, nine hydroelectric—intro duces a new type of power maker to the southeast. It is of the semi- o/tdoors construction, with only essential parts covered, and much of the structure open all around. The nejw plant, operating at full capacity 85 p6r cent of the time, will generate t5?.000,000 kilowatt hours per year, and bring an abundance cf electricity to one of the richest agricultural areas the CSnnal level-of the stream, guarantees a basin of condensing water, blit all the wafer taken from' the river is returned to it. HOW IT WORKS How coal, water, machinery and ingenuity are combined to pump electricity into the homes, stores and factories of the Caro- linas will be graphically demon strated at lih* opening of this, new plant! Coal, brought over spurlines of two railways (950 tons per day of the two states, and one hungry at full load on two unitp) is car. for new ind’usfl’y. The power tied by endless belts to a crusher. .enerated here is eq’aivalent to From here it goes to pulverizes, that used by over 300,000 average v.'hich reduce it to the consisten- residences. ! cy cf talcum powder, and it is 'tVEIGHXy I then blown through six jets into 7;.2 new L’jm.berton plant re- the huge boilers, where it burns presents a lot of steel, cement; in suspension, much as gas, or oil Your GREATEST Home Heater Value Fully Automatic No Work • No Dirt and sheer weight. Behind the 200- foot smokestack are two 115-fcot boilers, made of huge arcs tem pered steel pipes rimmed by ce ment walls. The boiler room is based on 1002 pilings, each de signed to support 20 tons. Beyond the boilers are the steam turbines, cone-shaped flanges or wings up on a shaft connecting with the generator. The turbine room is built on a five-foot-thick foun dation of cement, laid 38 feet ’ a’.aw the surface, and each tur- .jine peie tal—a massive table— weighs around 12,5?0 tons. Thfere’s almost as much stuff underground as there is in sight. The plant is located on a 1,000 acre tract lying along the river. The river channel itself under- - ent a change to supply the enor mous quantity of water needed With thermostat-control, you can enjoy FULLY AUTOMATIC HEATING, no work, no dirt, no forgening, no wasteful overheat ing. For carefree comfort—all- over warmth—buy PERFECTION. See It Here Today RAEFOUe Ft^RNilORE CO. Southern Marble Works THONE :i7-l EAEFORD, N. C. Lumberton, N. C. i U-ei our prices before buy iir monument. would do. The boilers are composed of miles of pipes made of special al-^ lay steel, surrounding this , fire nine stories high. Heat-resistant cement backs up the network of pipes, and behind it is another maze of pipes through 'which water circulates to all pointy of Ihe boiler to keep the pipes^'next/to the. fire frorn burn ing up. ■ ' Water, derived not from the river, but frorn deep wells near by, circulates in the pipes expos ed to the heaf, and is transformed into steam at h pressure of 1350 pounds p^r square inch at a tem perature of 955 degrees Fahren heit, at which temperature the pipes are red hot. For the sake of economy, the heat from the huge fire is not re leased entirely through the smoke stack, but blown back into the maelstrom by fans to add its tem- pferature. Little is left of the coal, but ashes are collected at the bottom of the furnace, ground to fine par ticles, gnd taken away ih sluices +0 disposal grounds some distance from, the plant. The steam is ruShed to the tur- bi" »• and thrown against the •-pne-like flanges, .which turn the turbines at a speed of 3600 revo lutions per minute, much as wat er turns a waterwheel, and this energy is transformed into elec- trIcity in the generator. is at this point that the Lum ber River enters the picture. As the steam is released fropi lis narrow confines, and volving metal wings bines, it loses its force because of expansion. Presence of the spent steam in the far end of the cham-. |ber blocks the entry of Working I steam at the entry end. To get 1 exhausted steam out of the way, I d condensing system, using the cooling waters from the river, quickly reduces it to water, which is retprned to the boilers for re heating into steam. The 100,0!0 gallons circulating each hour in the boiler pipes is thus used over and over again. From the river cOmes 125,000,- 000 gallons per day for condens ing, after being chlorinated at the intake. It is pumped to the con- densors through four 36-inch pumps. That is enough water to supply a city of a million popu lation. I The power thus generated is stepped up to 22,000 volts and transmitted to the Lumberton* subs^ion, and stepped up to 11Q;000 volts to go to other points for distribution over the Carolina Power and Light Company’s net work. . The plant was designed and its oonstructioh supervised by Ebas- co Services of New York. G. E. Chamerlih succeeded C. H. Kel sey as consruction superintendent. Blythe Brothers of Charlotte and many other sub-contractors did most of the work. Resident Superintendent of the plant is J. S. Newbold. Approxi mately 60 persons will be requir ed to ■'operate the station. tion. > Shifts in production must be made to bring about a better ba lance. ' When bins. « cribs and warehouses are full—excess pro duction wastes soil fertility and depresses farm prices. Price sup port, efforts without adjustmeifts to changed needs place an unnei^ essary and expensive burden ^n the government. • \ In answer to critics of adju^ ment effort, Mr. Hasty states; “Those who look upon allotments as curtailing freedom—somebody telling farmers .what they can grow and what they can’t-^fail to recognize that allotments are for the protection of both the farmer and the consumer. The program is merely an orderly means of adjusting production in- :stead of bringing it about through depression and a market crash.” 0 r National Fire Prevention Week will be observed from October 9 to 15. 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I • Since the day of Benjamin Franklin and his kite and key, ELEC TRICITY has had a more and more important influence upoit the peo ples' welfare It has made mass production of goods possible —^ it has eased burdens of work in industry and agriculture andihas migde the American standard of living the highest in the world I Electricity has made the American Heritage the envy of the world. , e ■■■ CcAROLINA power & LIGHT COMPAWVj Office: Central Avenue YOU CANJ40W make /tmy uHtk nmo i>BCAL^ Tranter Letters i and Numbers ^ OOMS* WINDOWS‘TIUCKS tU, y 'WIU STICK OH MIVTNMD f i •UST A IVniMi •SASIlVK^tO i •MADS MDSttlSnOMlflOSH* , VERY mxPSNSiVS This product will be demonstrated in our store on Thurs day, Sept. 29, 1949 by a company representative. If your condition l^ias been diagnosed by a physician as bronchial ASTHMA, we are sure you will be interested in this product. I If you are a present customer of the company,'please bring in your nebulizer for free servicing or repair. 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