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News from
HARLOWE
? ? ?
June 4 ? Leonard Jarman has
been visiting Mr. and Mrs. William
Karl Jarman at Beaufort this week.
Master Bobby Chadwick had his
tonsils removed at the Morehead
City Hospital Tuesday.
Mrs. J. W. Pryzgodzinski and son,
Joey, and Mrs. E. R. Bowlin Jr.
were at Cherry Point Tuesday af
ternoon.
Miss Margaret Ann Prysgodzin
ski has been visiting friends at
Cherry Point this week.
Mr. and Mrs. A1 Edwards and
son, Ronnie, were in Beaufort
Monday.
Mrs. A. N. Bell, Mrs. E. R. Bow
lin Jr. and son, Ray, Mrs. A1 Ed
wards and children, were in Beau
fort and Morehead City Thursday.
Mr. and Mn. Clifton Piner, New
port, visited her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. A1 Edwards Thursday alter
noon.
Mrs. J. W. Przygodzinski and
son, Joey, were in Newport and
Morehead City Thursday.
Master Charles Mason and Miss
Jennifer Mason had their tonsils
removed at the Morehead City Hos
pital Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Cannon spent
Sunday at Seven Springs.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Bell, Mrs.
G. W. Ball, Mrs. Earl Dickinson
and James Dickinson, Core Creek,
were in Beaufort Friday.
Mrs. Luke Turner and son, Tony,
Mrs. J. W. Przygodzinski and Mrs.
E. R. Bowlin were in Beaufort Fri
day morning.
Mrs. Rodman Taylor and daugh
ter, Mrs. ?Bdsel Bell and son, were
in Beaufort and Morehead City
Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. Ervin Garner, Mrs. Letha
Henderson. Mrs. Wayne West, and
children, Newport, and Mrs. Ruth
Garner, of ECC, Greenville, visited
Mr. and Mrs. A1 Edwards Friday.
Mrs. Emma Davis was givfn a
surprise birthday dinner Thursday,
June 2, at the Harlowe Community
Building in honor of her B2?d
birthday. She received many gifts
from the many friends and rela
tives who enjoyed the dinner with
her.
Out-of-towners present were Mrs.
Roy Butner, Havelock; Mr. and
Mrs. Lionel Pelletier, Mr. and Mrs.
Gerald Pelletier, all fA>m Stella;
Mrs. C. S. Maxwell, Miss Laura
Thomas, Beaufort: Mrs. D. G. Bell,
Morehead City; Mrs. Earl Dickin
son and Mrs. Jim Dickinson, Core
Creek.
Mr. and Mrs. Wetherford and
children, Mr. and Mrs. Lacy Jar
man and son, Cherry Point, spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Will
Connor.
Mr. and Mrs. Rodman Taylor
and children, Bachelor, Mr. and
Mrs. Carroll Millis and children,
Newport, visited Mr. and Mrs. Ed
sel Bell Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Burney Wethering
ton, Vanceboro, visited Mr. and
Mrs. Kuch Williams during the
weekend.
Miss Cherrie Hardison, New
Bern, spent the weekend with her
grandmother, Mrs. Ivey Taylor.
COUNTRY
GENTLEMAN
STRAMHT RORRBOR
WIISKIT
6 TIMS
OLD
t6 PROOF
oeueoKE
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June 6 ? The June meeting of
the Woman's Society of Christian
Service met Monday afternoon at
(he Methodist Church. Mrs. Jack
Willis, president 1955-56, presided.
Mrs. Wilma Williams and Mrs. Ed
na O'Neal gave reports.
It was voted to change the meet
ing hour from afternoon to 7:30
p.m. during the summer months
and to hold meetings in the Church
Recreation Hall. Mrs. Elizabeth G.
Howard and Mrs. Iva O'Neal were
appointed to serve on a committee
to make a survey on distribution
Df the magazine "The Upper
Room.''
It was suggested that members
of the ,society be available during
the summer months to help Sun
day School teachers entertain the
children, particularly those of the
primary and beginners depart
ments. Other business centered
around the completion of the par- .
sonage fence and the furnishings
for the Church Recreation Hall.
Several old friends have come
back to Ocracoke this past week.
Mr. and Mrs. Simmons Fentress
were at Wahab Village Hotel; also
there was Col. Edson D. Raff, who
flew his own plane in from Fort
Bragg and who plans to return for
July 4th weekend. Mr. and Mrs. W.
G. Brown of Durham were back
for the weekend; with them was
Gordon Brown, their son, anrt Miss
Carol Cooke, of Durham.
Mr. Clark Dillon of High Point
i? spending two weeks at Silver
Lake Inn. He has visited Ocracoke
off and on during the past 25
years, but has always come hereto
fore by boat This time, after com
ing across Hatteras Inlet on the
ferry, he waited for low tide and
drove his stunning new Buick con
vertible down the Beach to Ocra
coke
Dr. E. A. Branch, director of the
Division of Oral Hygiene, State
Mr and Mrs. Walter Williams.
Bay View, visited Mrs. A. N. Bell
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. A1 Edwards and
children, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Bow
lin and son, and Mr. T. W. Fox
attended church services at New
port Sunday.
Department ot Health, and J. M
Fleming, alao of Raleigh visited at
Oeracoke for two days. Dr. George
Dudley State Dentist spent a week
at the school working on children's
teeth.
John Tolson of Brooklyn, N. Y.
and Mrs. Laura Copeland of Vir
ginia Beach, are visiting Mr and
Mrs. Charlie Tolaon.
Mr. and Mrs Lee Folger of
Greenville spent last weekend at
their cottage here. With them was
Mrs. Dolly Orgain of Farmville,
Va., who wax thrilled to catch a
56-pound cobia, fishing with Capt.
Thurston Gaskill in the "South
Wind."
Mr. and Mrs. Dix Daugherty and
child of Raleigh are visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Tolson.
Members of the Susanna Class
of the Methodist Sunday School
will meet on Friday with Mrs. Tres
sie Howard.
Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Williams an
nounce the birth of a son, Dallas
Jr., at Sea Level Hospital May 31.
Mrs. Williams and the baby re
turned to Ocracoke on Saturday
bjr plan*
Mn Julius C. WaUer of New
Bern ha* been viaiting her son aad
his family, Mr. and lira. Rudolph
Waller. Her granddaughter, Kay
Waller, will return with her to
New Bern (or a viait this week.
Mrs Thurston Fuller Gaskill and
son, David Filler, and Mrs. Nina
Williams spent several daya laat
week at Duke Hoapital, Durham,
where David Fuller is receiving
treatment.
Mrs. Graham Buskirk is in the
Marine Hoapital at Norfolk
Mr. and Mra. Theodore Rond
thaler spent several days in Beau
fort and Morehead City recently,
and while there made their first
trip to Salter Path and Emerald
Isle. They have now returned to
Ocracoke Isle.
Mrs. Murray Tolson returned to
Morehead City last week, staying
with Mr. and Mrs. E. Stamey Davis.
Mr. Tolaon, at Camp Lejeune Hos
pital, hopes to get out and return
home this next Sunday.
Corn Ear Worm Can Be
Controlled by Using DDT
By lOBCKT SCHMIDT
Sonic oj you sweet corn growers
may be looking forward to the sat
isfaction and Joy that will b? yours
when you sink ?your teeth in the
first tender ears. Perhaps the corn
ear worms ace also looking forward
to that time ? and th?y usually
get there first. However, they can
be effectively controlled with rery
little trouble.
For small gardens it is probably
sufficient and easiest to dust the
silks of the corn with S per cent
DDT dust. The dust should be ap
plied directly to the silks when
about three-fourths of the silks are
showing and again when a few of
them begin to turn brown.
The moth lays tha aggs on the
silks and when thay hatch out, the
small corn ear worm feeds t^ere
before be eaU into tfce ear itself.
For large plantings a power spray
er should be uied and a DDT-min
eral oil emulsion is recommended
by our entomologists. This spray
haa been found to be vary effec
tive lot the control of the ear worn.
With the advent of hot, dry
weather we may txpect have
trouble lyitb red mites, rwmwomfr
called "rod spiders." These vary
small insects attack the undersides
of the leaves at many flowers,
vegetables and shrub*, sucking the
plant juices and often killing the
plants.
If the leaves of toast!**, beans,
dahlias or other garden plants turn
a brownish yellow polar they
should be closely examined for red
mites. "Bed mites are very difficult
to control. Ualathion has been
found to be effeative but if toxic
to human being* and ihould be
uaed with car* aad strictly accord- 4
ing to manufacturers' directions
Aad while we are aa the subject
of inaect control let us not forget
the ever-preaent Mexicae bean
beetle. Don't l*t the beetles seri
ously damage the bean plants be
fore you do something about it. As
seoa as you aae sane of the beetles
y v* large brows or yellow
bird beetles with It spots on
their Wing covers ? or as soon as J
you notice that same of the bean
leaves b?ve been eates sa that they
r?*embk a piece of lace, it is time
to get busy
The best control in the home tar
dea is a 1 per cent rotenope dust.
Since the beetle feads on the un
derside of the bean leaves the dust
must be applied to the undersides
of the leaves to be effective. Ro
teoone is not toxic to humans and
therefore ma> be used without dan
ger even after the bean pods have
formed.
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Mr. Co-op Member:
' We Wffl Wheel
Kerr Dam Power!
L. V. SUTTON, President
Carolina Power & Light Company
STATEMENTS TO THE CONTRARY
ARE INCORRECT AND MISLEADING
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arolina Power & Light Company ii ready and willing to
"wheel" Kerr Dam power to rural co-ops at the same wheeling
fees as in the Virginia contract, and to firm it up for the co
ops at the same rates charged by VEPCO.
Then, why no agreement?
The answer is simple. CP&L's efforts have been blocked
by public power advocates who, I am convinced, are more
interested in extending government further into the power bus
iness than they <#re concerned abooF co-ops getting Kerr Dam
power.
The main point of disagreement and delay is one we believe
you will readily understand. That is our unwillingness to
put a Federal agency in the power brokerage business by sell
ing it our power for resale to our customers in competition
with us.
Public power advocates have insisted that we not only
wheel but that we supply large amounts of additional power
to the government for resale.
We have submitted three proposals. The first would take
all the power allocated to our area at the dam and distribute
it at prevailing rates. This would save the government about
$180,000 a year in wheeling fees, or twice what is claimed
the co-ops would gain under the Virginia-type contract. Sec
ond, we proposed to wheel to the co-ops that portion of the
power that would be allocated to them under the Virginia-type
contract ? and at identical rates. Our third proposal would
in effect, provide for the allocation of practically all the energy
from the project available to co-ops in our area in an average
year and would save the government the wheeling fees on
the steam power we supplied to the co-ops. In dry years, this
saving in wheeling fees could amount to half the total wheel
ing costs. This proposal also would resu)' in a higher payment
to the government and more taxes to the State of North Caro
lina than the Virginia plan.
We offered to firm up Kerr Dam power, that it, supplement
the government power during times of low water and periods
of deficiency so that it U commercially usable, and sell such
additional power requirements directly to the co-ops, at the
same rates to the co-ops as under "the Virginia contract but
without any wheeling charge. The end result of our proposal
would be as good as or better for the co-ops than the Virginia
contract.
Our offers displease the public power advocates. I refer
specifically to Mr. Willam T. Crisp, attorney and spokesman
for the Tarheel Electric Membership Association. I also refer
to the Association's key negotiator and Mr. Crisp's advisor,
Mr. T. Foley Treadway, whose firm, the Southern Engineering
Company of Atlanta. Ga.. has engineered and supervised the
building of millions of dollars oi co-op transmission lines and
stands to profit further II the transmission lines Mr. Crisp now
advocates are built. I also refer to Mr. Crisp's incorrect and
misleading statements May 19 beiore the subcommittee on pub
lic works of the House Appropriations Committee.
Mr. Crisp is simply not telling the truth when he says our
Company will not wheel Kerr Dam power to the North Caro
lina co-ops served by our company. ,
In statements before the Gonaresslonal committees and in
letters and proposals to the Interior Department, I have said
that our Company vOl wheel, transmit or carry that power at
the same wheeling rate per KWH that Is paid under the Vir
ginia contract. This offer still holds. <
Mr Crisp Is rather careless in his statements. He claims that
the 17 co-ope served by VEPCO have saved over $350,000 since
the arrangements began in 1 952; however, his own supporting
statement shows that these co-ops purchased during that per
iod 473,457,120 KWH at an average cost ol 6.84 mills per KWH
(or a total cost of J3.237.69S. According to his statement, the
co-ops would have paid 7.5 mills if they had been buying elec
tricity from VEPCO. On that basis he claims a saving to the
co-ops of $340,292, but simple arithmetic proves the figure
should have been $313,234. What he fails to say is that for
whatever savings the co-ops mpde under the Virginia contract,
the Federal government paid approximately $650,000 in wheel
ing charges. In other words, in order to obtain the rate of 6.84
mills instead of a rate of 7.5 mills, a saving of only two-thirds
of a mill per KWH, the government paid an average of 1.4 mills
per KWH for wheeling. Therefore, for each dollar the co-ops
saved, the taxpayer paid more than $2.
Mr. Crisp's own figures indicate the five co-ops served by
VEPCO in Carolina (which are more comparable to those we
serve) paid an average of 7.08 mills, or a saving of only $23,293
since they began purchasing Kerr Dam power August 1, 1953.
Compared with CP&L's present 7V2-mill rate, the saving would
be less than one half of a mill pqr KWH. In this case, every $1
the co-ops save would cost the taxpayer approximately $3.
Mis statement of'the amount of money the co-ops have lost is
areatly exaggerated. We have records of the demands and
the consumptions of these co-ops and comparing the 90c per KW
demand charge plus 4'/? mills per KWH with our 7'/i mill* per
KWH and no demand charae. we are convinced that the serv
ings could not exceed $2,000 per month. This is only one fourth
of what he claims.
Mr. Crisp also fails to state that, though handling all the
Kerr Dam output including the share allocated to CP&L, VEPCO
had to furnish from its steam -plant for resale by the govern
ment 46 per cent of the 473,457,120 KWH delivered to the co
ops during this period. This means that the Kerr Dam hydro
power met only 54 per cent of the needs. Had YEPCO handled
only two-thirds of the output VEPCO would have to supply
steam power for much more than 50 per cent of the co-ops needs.
Statements that the co-ops do not wish to buy from the pow
er companies because the power companies would then go to
the State Utilities Commission and get the rate raised are ab
surd. Such a contract would be an interstate contract with the
Federal aovernment for sale of power at wholesale for resale
and would not be under the jurisdiction of the state utility com
mission but would be under the Federal Power Commission,
the same commission which regulates the rates on all power
sold by government agencies.
The Tarheel Electric Membership Association advocates "self
liquidating" transmission lines, or funds for their study. Under
the Virginia contract. Interior Department now pays an aver
age of 1.4 mills per kilowatt hour wheeling fee for transmission.
The wheeling fees in thev Virginia contract are about the' low
est wheeling fees in effect throughout the country and are
greatly lower than the cost of building, maintaining and op
erating transmission lines.
Public power advocates prefer the transmission lines, how
ever. as part of their ambitious fieslgn. Once built, costly
transmission lines would be argued as Justifying government
eteam plants; then the additional generating capacity would
be argued as justifying more lines.
Carolina Power & Light Company shares a common interest
with the eo-ops in developing the area they serve. We want
to help every individual operating co-op to derive any bene
fits that are available to It from Kerr Dam power. But m re
sist the public power bloc which is seeking to erect a political
power empire at the expense of the taxpayers of Horth Caro
lina and the nation and to the detriment of our company.
Exccrpti bon m iWwinl Made by the AssUtaat IknKit il the Interior, M S. Aandohl. belfre the Senate
Subcommittee on Appropriation! hi Public Works bt Utcal year MSI. ? Pre renting budget ntlpdH ol now
caA requirement*? Hay 31, 1SII
SOUTHZASTE1M POVTCl ADMINISTRATION
The e iHmate ol yi.lM.NI ?or the Seutheaitem Power MnMnietrgH? ???m feiallag mmei lor the
Mrte and tranuniiiien ol power la the am. . . . The greater pari el th? eitimate i* to cover the parcbai* o( llrm- V
ing energy and cost ol wheeling charge! aadet ? contract with the Virginia faoitrie and Vmtoi Company."
TOMIU
(CAROLINA POWER A UOHT COMPANY)
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