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Along The Way
___ By Emily Kllletfe f
May marks the 50th anniversary of
the Rural Electrification Adminis
tration.
Rural America was the last to
receive electrical service to homes.
Today, it is hard to imagine our
country and life without electricity at
home and at work. In fact, the
" largest percentage of the American
population has no memory of a time
without electrical service to our rural
homes and the local cities.
The Rural Electrification Adminis
tration was established as a federal
agency through an executive order of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt on
May 11,1935.
Fewer than 11 percent of Ameri
can farms had electrical service in
1935. In southeastern North Carolina
one 6f the few privately-owned
utilities to take advantage of the
REA loans was the now defunct
Tidewater Power Company head
quartered in Wilmington. A branch
office of the Tidewater Company was
located in Warsaw and the utility
provided electrical service areas of
Duplin.
The May 30, 1935 issue of the
DUPLIN HERALD published an
article about the rural electrification
movement. The article was based on
a report presented to the North
Carolina Governor about the rural
electricification movement.
Rural Electrification Just Ahead
That rural electrification promises
to be "one of the greatest forward
movements in all the history of rural
North Carolina" is the confident
prediction of Dr. Clarence Poe,
chairman of the North Carolina Rural
Electrification Committee, in pre
senting his formal report to Governor
Ehringhaus Wednesday, May 29.
For Duplin County, Dr. Poe's
report summarizes the results of
surveys so far made as follows,
together with state averages of
totals, also.
Number of lines surveyed, county
9; state 677.
Length of all surveyed lines in
miles, county 69.77; state 4,486.57.
Total number of interested pros
pects; county 353; state 23,779.
Interested prospects per mile,
county 5.06; state 5.08.
Estimated connected load in KW,
county 1101.4; state 70,374.
Estimated cost of all lines sur
veyed, county $117,946; state
$7,477,273.
Estimated connection load in KW
per mile, county 17.20; state 17.70.
Estimated line cost in dollars per
mile, county, $1,678; state $1,666.
Estimated line cost in dollars per
prospect, county, $332; state $328.
Estimated annual revenue, county
$11,835; state $742,454.
Estimated annual revenue per
mile, county $170; state $165.
Estimated annual revenue per
prospect, county $34; state $32.
Estimated annual consumption in
KWH, county $150,660; state
$10,648,534.
Estimated annual consumption,
KWH per mile, county 2,159; state
2,373.
Estimated annual consumption,
KWH per prospect, county 427; state
467.
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Last week the DUPLIN TIMES
received a press release from Four
County Electric Membership
Corporation about its history. The
electric company services part of
Duplin and is headquartered in our
county in Rose Hill. The main office
of the company is located in Burgaw.
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Four County EMC
Locally, Four County EMC was
chartered in 1937 to distribute
electricity to the rural areas of
Bladen, Duplin, Pender and Samp
son counties.
By 1938 an initial loan of $145,000
had been obtained from REA, and in
1939, the fir 175 miles of line
serving 432 member-consumers was
energized.
In the early days the Cooperative
was headquartered in Kerr Station.
Today, Four County has its main
office in Burgaw, and district offices
in Elizabethtown, Rose Hill and
Burgaw, and it serves over 19,000
consumers.
From its initial loan of $145,000,
the Cooperative has increased its
plant value to more than $31.5
million.
It is governed by a consumer
elected board of directors, whose
president is R.W. Blanchard Jr. of
Turkey. Vice-president is W.A.
Settlemeyer of Kiegelwood, and
treasurer is R.E. Pendergrass of
Tomahawk.
Other directors include J.J.
Malpass of Burgaw; O.Homer
James, Wallace; Garland P. King,
Teachey; Lucille Eakins, Watha; Iva
W. Brinson, Magnolia; James
Hollingsworth, Willard, tend
Linwood Royal, White Oak. I
General manager of Four County "
EMC is L.P. (Bill) Beverage of
Burgaw. District managers are T.R.
Vick, Burgaw; Bryant Herring,
Elirabethtown, and Glenn Brad
shaw, Rose Hill.
Homemaker
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Graduation
Rose Hill Restaurant was the
setting for the Homemaker Health
Aide class graduation. The com
mencement took place May 2. The
class was co-sponsored by Du-Penza
and James Sprunt Technical College
and was a training program designed
for older workers.
The guest speaker was Ms.
Margie Parker, field representative
for Rural/Private Industry Council,
Division of Employment and Train
ing, Natural Rescources Community
Development. Ms. Parker, a
graduate of Bennett College and
UNC-CH, spoke on the pride her
division took in seeing people meet
goals that thev thought were im
possible. She offered each graduate
a challenge. "Don't put your certi
ficate in a frame or hang it on a wall,
put your training touse."
Members of the graduating class
are: Elouise Blocker, Louise Bron
son, Mary Dixon. Lular Duckett,
Lottie Farrior, Dennis Graham, Elmo
Hayes, Inez Haley, Lois Lamb,
Dorothy Lamb, Thelma Miller, Elea
nor Moore, Elizabeth Smith, Kate
Shaw, Eula Wallace, Mrs. Clarence
Williams, Ernestine Williams,
Eleanor Williams and Gladys Wil
liams.
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