ftHiMptfrr John J&
’ Warrentoh ■ has ah
-•that\bis district’s post
tall be Jocated in Scot
n has long beat in need
office facilities
is
souirty in his district-by
ading at the, very Idgstv
jrbTwneBdeJtn^ti <mE$,
—• \ • '*.;>-•§>-.'*>
installed Kinston Post-;
. R. Wooten has had a
survey ■ rrtade1:;' isfISP
>uilding in an effert to
«s>4,jrtrvice, but at
staring Wooten
spector straight
- In ord«fWto; help with' the
Chris tmast ^ash hi business at
the • Kinston Office an annex
■which will be used lor parcel
post packages has been rented
and will be put into use about
t*se«nber/il^h. ■ annex is
located on thp Atlantio and East
Carolina^ railroad right of .Way
between wtoth and Gordon
streets! ■,"'. ’"jf-l
Meanwhile there is little pros
pect ol any permanent relief for
.tfee toal djKce,,.since even the
embar:
Jr., heard a report from Air
port Activities Expediter Ma
rion, Parrott, approved propos
ad JSm for two new rural
schools, gap* tentative approv
aito Health CWfieer R. J. Jones'
plans to hkv* a mass X-ray
surrey in Match, ordered pay
ment of the debts incurred in
tie abortive effort to incorpor
ate Deep Run. pare county em
ployees a -day off before and
after Christmas, inspected the
jail and jailer's quarters with a
view, to separating the living
quartan entirely from jail ac
tivities, allowed Guy Stftter
ton to settle Rack poll tat&adue
for $34.89, heard report*^ Rom
Tax Supervisor Milton Wil
liams and Welfare Superin
tendent G. B. Hanrahan and
gave an OX to Airport Com
ihtssioneo, Carlton Pollock on
his proposal to drop insurance
on all buildings at Hie airport
ifSSwt*
-
The Ttefierrtfeier tdrin • orVones
County Superior Coui^fis^Tren
ton opens Monday under il}e di
"" f'i? Judge WilKjjfciTHoir
Pittsboro. - Clgfk .#1 tffe’
Murray WfejtgJhiif has-re
ported 75 crimin^l^catfM’.Jto. thi;
calendar facing thbcourp Ifcti in*
dications.^jBwweek are that the
session igttgr, go to the dogs/**^
The dbgs are expected to dom
inate the court session because
of 4 question of ownership and
the resulting disputes, verbal and
physical. The major amt of them
involves four out-juf-coiinty men
on seven' warrants in the Long
Point case in White Oak Town-,
ship. In that insfance assault
with a deadly weapon with in
tent to kill charges are involved.
The second case is one of a
charge of' simple , hog . larceny
against Floyd Johijson in the
Comfort community; The -two
cases are expected to throw
Clerk of the Court Whitaker’s
calendar Jar out* of kilter.
In the regular cases listed are
included, charges of attempted
iape against Booker T. Hill for
thfrinost serious one, aqd- a num
ber charges of larceny
CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
The Kinston board of alder
men Monday night voted to
have City Manager Bill Heard
and Utilities Superintendent.
Bill McAdams install every
possible Christmas light in the
„ downtown area of Kinston.
This action followed a plea by
several members of the Mer
chants' Association and Baptist
Pastor Howard Dawkins. The
hoard also. votGd to pay up 'to
half of the. cost-of an X-ray
survey for TB in the county,
accepted a low bid on ar track
for Ike building, impedgr. and
acted on several other mattesa,
HOT WIRE DANGER
The lights went put in a part
of downtown Trenttm on Sat
urday about noon. nnd them
was an element of danger it
the power shutdown. Tke
transmission line burned in 1
on the corner in front o1
Courthouse and lay hitting i
sputtering on the ground <
the arrival of a repair crew.
Volunteer citizens stood by Use
danger spots and warned pas
sersby away from them unfit
the line was repaired.
By Fred Whitaker .?•*
Therebegan last month
Eastern Carolina a cooperative
move which at the. end of 1952
Stay make toW Ot W gitiw'Wtft
hydro-electric ;d*$P,.itii£$he
ke River .Just across the
fine in Virginia. '
The cooperation of the four
cities in the use of their munici
pally owned power plants, with
out federal government partici
pation, is one contemplated since
the early 1920’s. But is was on
November 21 that the idea be
gan to work in earnest. "Since
that time positive moves have
been made in the nation’s capi
tal, as well as in North Carolina.
On November 21 four city
managers, Roy Williamson of
Rocky Mount, F. T. Green of Wil
son, Martin Swartz of Greenville
and W. J. Heard of Kinston, Con
sulting Engineer William C. Ol
; r sen of Raleigh and Utilities Di
p j* rector Kenneth Knight of Rocky
• Mount began to explore the pos
- sibilities. In that Wilson meet
■ ~ ing several pieces of information
- • came to light, some of them vol
. .* • unteered by Manager Fred Har
ris monv Of the Jones-Onslow Rural
Electrification Administration.
It was learned that the REA
has tentative plans for the erec
. . tion of. a huge steam plant for
the generation of power near
plant it
«bc! to‘'Seven. fcoura each day to
maintain tKe-.Wfcter l&jet iii tfo
Roariofea Htwr basin.' die
108,000. kilo watt hours of power
stw& dh tbe^wSpt plants -and
afi®6 for * much more economic
al operatidn'. ;j
The fact upon which the four
municipalities' are working is
that, they Will be able to oiler to
•the REA from their plants as
much power as would be avail
able from the contemplated plant
near Kinston. The total gener
ating power to be available from
their plants will be 92,000 kilo
watts. Their circuit demands to
tal 42,700, and their technically
“firm” capacity is 77,000 kilo
watts. That is when the main
generating turbine of each unit
is excluded. Even in the event
of such an improbability the sur
plus would be 34,300 kilowatts.
The cost of a loop to unit the
four cities on a cooperative bas
is is estimated at a million and
one-half dollars, only a fraction
of the cost of a single plant to
supply the same power. The
present REA demand for this
section is some 25,000 kilojvatts
at peak, but in five years time
the extension of rural distribu
tion is expected to reach 50,000
kilowatts, officials estimate.
The proposed move of the four
cities has been hailed at a meet
ing of the East Carolina Engin
eers Club as the finest move ever
made towards a cooperative or
ganisation to tie together all
power facilities available for the
common good of all of Eastern
Carolina. The municipalities
have always had the same rights
to federal power as any coopera
tive group, but in the past have
failed to reach an agreement
whereby they could take advan
tage of the opportunity, ft has
litical...
■ i , . .
The projected idea Vas liked
by the federal; Official^ but no
commitments were made. Sey
mour told the municipal officials
p*e plan would be given careful
consideration from a policy side,
(P cities must find a
Tapplicf&ibns for tfie Buggs
Island powef have yet been pro
cessed by the federal govern
ment. An office for that pur
pose is expected to be set up by
the Department of the Interior
~early in 1950 and the execution
of power contracts is expected
to take place about the twiddle at
tbe year. The federal offkirik
arp agreed that the eon
. for all concerned in the relief
of peak loading of facilities.
The latest move in the power
project took place in Tarboro an
Friday in a meeting of the offi
cials of the four cities with REA
officials and a group from that
section beginning the formatknt
of a cooperative association. Rep
resenting Kinston at that meet
ing was Utilities Superintendent
W. G. McAdams. It was there
that the progress of the planning
took on a legal aspect.
1 ihe REA officials told the
group that in the event such a
plan could be effected the REA
must be able to purchase the
power on a stable rate. The lour
cities in the loop must set such
a rate cooperatively between
themselves, as well as other ne
gotiations incident to such an ar
rangement. The question was
also raised as to whether the ci
ties under the governing statutes
could enter into such an arrange
ment.
As well as the legal study now
being made by the attorneys at
the municipalities, their engin
eers are studying the technical
problems involved. The official
of the- REA in this district tofel
the representatives of the mu
nicipalities that they would
shortly begin a “board” study at
their requirements in view d
such a cooperative tie-in. In
tense research and preparation
by all those involved in the pro
posed project is required.
The next meeting for the con
tinuing study of the Eastern
Carolina municipal electric pow
er cooperative is expected >to
take place in about 10 days.
Much vital spadework required
ill the preliminary processing of
the project is expected to tn
completed by that time. In the
xneantime> also, the enthusiaan
of those concerned in the plan
ning is grouting. It offers notsre
ly great assistance to the pro
gram of rural electrification, fhqy
feel, but also relief from a lonely
responsibility the four towns
now have in supplying electric
power to their citizens.