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Page 6B-KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Thursday. August 16, 1984
Ma Bell
Is Going
Up Again
Y our telephone bill’s going up
Aug. 16 from $11.67 to $14.00 a
month, an increase of $2.33.
Southern Bell’s residential
customers here and throughout
North Carolina will see a 20 per-
cent hike in the price of their
basic telephone service, accor-
ding to Ray Thornburg of the
Gastonia office.
Southern Bell today notified
the North Carolina Utilities
Commission that it will increase
its rates for telephone service in
the state on August 16.
The new rates will raise the
company’s North Carolina
revenues by $51 million. The
new revenues are subject to re-
fund pending the outcome of the
company’s $121 million rate case
filed in January. Hearings for
Southern Bell’s general rate case
are scheduled to begin
September 13.
Under North Carolina law, a
public utility can apply new rates
six months after the date they
were proposed to go into effect.
No rates put into effect under
the law can result in an increase
of more than 20 percent of any
existing rate classification.
Jere A. Drummond, Southern
Bell’s vice president for North
Carolina, said this was the first
time since 1975 that the com-
pany had increased its rates
under the provision. He cited
divestiture as the primary reason
for the Commission’s delay in
hearing Bell’s current rate re-
quest.
“In February, the public staff
filed a motion with the Commis-
sion proposing that hearings on
the case be deferred while
Southern Bell filed actual
revenue, expense and rate base
information for the first three
months and the first six months
of this year,” Drummond said.
“They wanted to see information
that actually reflected our opera-
tions after the breakup of the
Bell System. Divestiture has
caused extensive changes, both
directly and indirectly, in our
business. In its motion, the
public staff acknowledged that
Southern Bell might have to put
rates into effect under bond, and
recognized that it could be a
necessary consequence of its mo-
tion. The Commission approved
the public staff’s motion.”
“We don’t like to raise our
rates for phone service,” Drum-
mon said. “We have no choice.
Since January, we've operated in
the competitive world, a world
filled with risks and becoming
void of the subsidies once used
to support basic local phone ser-
vice. We simply cannot continue
to offer this basic product at a
price less than half of its actual
cost. No business can.
“We will continue to work
with the Commission, the public
staff and our customers to
resolve these issues resulting
from the dramatic changes in the
telephone industry,” Drummond
said.
Carpenters
Set Reunion
The second annual family reu-
nion of descendants, relatives
and friends of Charles P. and
Bright McClure Carpenter will
be held Aug. 19th at 1 p.m. in
the Fellowship Hall of Oak
Grove Baptist Church.
Bring a well filled basket and
enjoy a time of good food and
fellowship.
Call Bertie Stewart at
739-5104 for additional informa-
tion.
Circle
Groups
Meeting
Circles of Central United
Methodist Church held regular
meetings this week.
Circle 4 met Monday evening
at the home of Peggy Vaughan.
The Tuesday morning circle
met with Mrs. Mae Tesseneer.
In ancient Greece, women
counted their age from the
date on which they were
married, not the day they
were born.
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