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MEETYOUR •NEW EDITOR

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IT IS with considerable pteasure tire secretary of the Xorth Carolinathat we introduee so eompetent a Tuberculosis Association.

person as the new editor of The In addition to the above achieve-Spotlight. Step right up, folks, and ments, )-our new editor is the youngestmeet Mrs. Frances Newsom Miller, member ever elected to the Board of

who, begimtiug right now, takes ox,er Trustees of the Greater University ofthe editorship of both The Spotlight Xorth Carolina. Hers is an eight-vnd the Dealer Coor_nator. year term. In 1943 and again in 1944

Franees Miller is a native of Win- she was awarded first prize for theston-Salem, l_\ C., and a graduate of best news story of the year by theWoman's College at Greensboro. For N. C. Press Women, state women'stwo at_d a half years she was on the journalistie organization. She hasstaff of The News and Observer in hobbies, too---just now it is interior

decorating, her own apartment as the -¢_'Raleigh and at the time of her resig- base of operations. It is a diC6eultnation there some four months ago hobby with wartime scarcities of ma-held the position of assistant city edi- terials she explains. She writes fie-tot. Romance was the motive for her tion too--but probably not in Theresignation. She married the guy_ Spotlight. You folks are all going toL L. (Bing) Miller, assistant execu- like Franees Miller.

--By AL BAH_'r.

1943 AnnualReport ICoWins Recognition Imlco=.,party's 1943 annual report received the

the award of honorable mention in II the .(competition with about 200 other corn- , holderspanics in the Public Utilities Advertising I$6 andAssociation's1944contest, tunlty t

The Company's report was judged $5 pretsecond only to the report _f the Dayton basis.Power & Light Co., Dayton, Ohio. Also agreem_receiving an honorable mention was the _ eel at le_annual report ot the _Visconsin Public ,w _referre_Service Lcrpcr_tton of Greeu BaY, Wis. Durln_

Judging was on the basis of appear- m Mayance and understandability. ' Judges Istandingwere members o[ national advertising I offered ]agencies. Ithe new

The Company has won two previousawards on annual reports--the regional Iexehang_award for the Southeasternregion in [of $5 pr1941 and 1942, during which competition pared wwas anlong about 29 companies. The stock ou1944 award, however, was won among _£hts r_ome g00 companie_ throughout the ha- a reducttion serving from 100,000 to 400,000 provisiovcustomers each. " Prior to

The prize-winning report was prepared set asld_by the Company's Advertising Depart- ferred stment, of which E. N. Pope, recently elect- cost o[ s_ed president of the Public Utilities Ad-vertising Association, ts director.

The 1944 contest chairman was Robert mon_vealtlx Edison Company of Chicago,Plowe, advertising director of the Corn- Illinois.

Company'sRefinancingMove,,sCashPosition

& refinancing move sAnction_ by tion of lO per cent of the stock wiltthe Securities Exchange Commission, amount to $780.440:

-Company r_tly o_ .to the The aavin_l brought about by the r_holdem of the outstanding shares of its dm_tiozt _ _he coQt o[ divic_end_ wilt be

and $7 preferred stock the opPor- placed in the Company's reserve fund. ._• tO exchange such shares for a new thus improving the Company's czmh po81-

$_ preferred sto©k, on a share-for-share _ion, and because o_ the reduced dirt-basis. This exchange offer followed an dend requirement providing a better riskagreemelt by the Company to call or can- for the stockholder.

cel at least I0 per cent of its outstanding This recent refi_ncinK move i_ a t_n-"stock. - tinuation of a plan which started with

During the 30-day period which ended the refinancing of the Company's bonds,u May 12. 91% per cent of the out- i1_ 1_40. when the Company refunded ltz

standing $6 and $7 preferred stoek was bonded indebtedness by selling to 11 in-ofl_ered by the holders in exchange for surance companies all of its $46.000.00@the new $5 stock. As a result o[ the of bonds, at au interest rate of 3% periexehange, there now are 156,158 _hare_ cent. _he former _nterest. rate was fiveof $5 preferred stock outstanding, corn- per cent, thus bringing about an annualp_red with 173.505 shares of preferred saving of more than $500.000._toek outstanding prior to the exchange. In eommentiug on the recent exchange

offer to _stcckholders, I_ V. Sutton ex-Thla reffn_m.'tnK move also resulted in plalned: "'Prior to the exchange offer,

a reduction of $354,161 in the a,nual _pproxlr_ately 75 per cent of the pre-provision for preferred stock dividends, ferred stockholders of the Company livedPrior to the exchange offer, the Compan7 in the two Carolinas. It's gratifying toset aside annually $1,134,601 for pre- report that more than 98 per cent of the .!ferred stock dividends, while the annual _b_re_ held by resident stockholders wereco_t o_ such dividends since the cam:ella- offered for exehnn_ge.'"

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Electronic Defroster Cc

DevelopedFor Foods i_'NONVERSION of a vital implement of tubes, produces dielectric heat which tucky,_.j war into a kitchen accessory that reaches the core of the frozen substance Commi

will defrost frozen foods almost in- and its surfaces at the same time. This tires, !stantly, while preserving their taste, t'ex- produces uniform defrosting, mitteeture and nutritive value, looms on the Defrosting by electronic means is the pr,postwar horizon, achieved so rapidly that there is no chem- Valley

High frequency heat, the electronic icat breakdown in the structure of the In himiracle whose yeoman service in the war food such as occurs under normal thaw- May sa:includes the dehydrating of Army K ra- ing procedure. Thus, it is possible to is to pttons, has now been successfully bar- retain the color, firmness and texture of assumpnessed by the nation's leading food dis- tree-matured fruits and vine-fresh bet" Authortributor as a high-speed defroster of ries. cess."large quantities of frozen foods, it was Another possibility for dielectric His :announced last night, is indicated in the fact that it cooks as

"In much tile same way that a radio well as defrosts. Dr. Cathcart said that Tenstation transmits sound, this device if the defrosted food is allowed to remain

'broadcasts' a beam of dielectric heat in the "'oven" after it is fully thawed, it Tennthroughout a solid block of frozen food, actually begins cooking. Food prepared muchthawing it in minutes instead of hours in this manner would be done in much tivities.or days," said H. W. Gilb, director of shorter time and be uniformly well done lion calthe Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co's or rare throughout, just as the defrosting tion o_national bakery division, which has been is uniform. _undre,experimenting in the new field for nearly Dr. Cathcart expressed satisfaction soil? lsix months. "The net result of our el- with other recent experiments in de- is left aforts will be to enable the food industry frosting frozen eggs. Storage of throughto move perishables from producer to eggs re_luires considerable space in large- only hilconsumer in better condition than has scale bakery operations, and additional it hasever before been possible." room is necessarily tied up by the tedious ins the

The most recent dielectric test con- defrosting process. The new method, he and de'ducted at the Newark laboratory of the said, would save thousands of hours of ServiceFederal Telephone & Radio Corp. by Dr. waiting time annually at A. & P's 37 I see mWilliam Cathcart, head of the A. & P. bakeries as frozen eggs and other-in- maintalbakery laboratories, resulted in success- gredients move quickly through the elec- job.ful quick-thawing of fully ripened tronic beam into dough and batter mixers.

peaches, which are among tl_e most high- --Journal of Commerce. Letly perishable foods. Thirty-pound car- ment ittons of the fruit, solidly frozen and nor- --_-- power Ireally requiring 20 hours to defrostsafely, were thawed in less than fifteen The

minutes, with the aid of the megatherm PERSONNEL CHANGE ley Autlhigh frequency process, ieated

Federal Telephone officials predict the A1 Barrett, for the past several fallacy learly development of a small consumer- months editor of The Spotlight and by falli

"type device to be used like an electric the Dealer Coordinator, has taken does nctoaster for defrosting packaged frozen over duties in the Ad_ertising Depart- of the sfoods. Another development may be a ment formerly held by R. W. "Gus" sarily clquick-thaw attachment for postwar zero Youngsteadt, who has accepted the but onestorage boxes, job of program director of Radio Sta- some of

" lion WPTF here in Raleigh. ing, wa'The .new defrosting method involves (1)

use of an "oven" in which the floon and ier inveceiling are insulated metal plates or elec- --_ -- duction-trodes which are connected to a high ge_erat_frequency generator. Frozen food that Is efficientplaced between these Dlates is subjected FOR SALE: Casting rod and reel, at rea- $90 perto what Dr. Cathcart described as elec- sonable price. Rodney Watson, Golds- Valleytronic uniform heating, qhe nosy equip- boro, N.C. capacityment, employing high-powered vacuum its own

Four The Spotlight July, Jfl

CongressmanMayDebunksTVAPART TWO

THIS i_ the soconcl of th_ two-part $259,51_.000. After their phony book-story giving yon the. statement re- keeping has charged off enormous sumscently delivered by A. 3, May of Ken- to phony flood control and still phonier

lucky, Chairman of the Military Affalr_ navigation benefits, their own fguresCommittee of the HouSe of Represent•- show an investment cost of $1e3 pertires, before a subcommittee of the Corn~ kilowatt of capacity. That's about 114mittee o• Commerce during hearings on per cent more than the cost for steam.the proposed bill to create the M!_•rl (2) Water power usually requires nValley Authority. heavier investment in transmission lines

In his opening statement Congressman and rights of w_r to transport the powerMay said, "'My purpose in appearing here from the dam site to the market. Steamis to present a factual challenge to the plants are located by man; hydro plantSassumption that the Tennessee Valley were placed by nature. Man locates hisAuthority is. has, or ever will be aane- steam plant as near to the market asces_'" possible. Dam sites are usually tucked

His statement continues: away up in the monntal•. Not only is _the transmission of power a• expensive

Te_ssee VJ.I!._ .4kwtJhority "Soil investment, h•t there is always u io_ o[Conservatima" power over the lines in direct ratio to the _

Tennessee Valley Authority makes dists_ee.._much ado about its soil-conssrvatio• ac- (3) Water power is more expensive _tivitiss. What benefit in soil eonserva- because it is unpredictable and dependenttin• can outweigh the Imrmane•t destrue- on the vagaries of the weather, while

r tion or elimination from production of steam power is controlled by the will ofI hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile mA_ in direct relation to the immediate "_i soil? Moreover. much of the land that m_rket requirements. This factor createsI is left after Tennessee Valley Authority is the necessity for n double investment,

through with its inundation program are the /installation of stand-by steam facill- _ i_only hillsides and barren uplands. True, ties to take up the slack when demand _ _it has done an imitation job in duplieat- exceeds the capacity of a failing water _ i_in• the teachings and practices Originated supply. _ ::and developed by the Soil Conservation This fallacF of cheap power has an _ :.Service of the Department of Agriculture. honest origin. There was a time, ex- ;_ _i see no singular virtue in the taxpayers tending over a considerable period, when _ _maintaining two agencies to _o this one hydro power actually was cheaper, injob. spite of the handicaps 1 have just lists@, _ '

jec_ _As • Power Pro tb_ any other source of electricity. Th_ _-_,__Let ns consider the Nation's invest- was because the methods of producing _ _.:

merit in Tennessee Valley Authority as • power from steam originally were far __ !_power project, less efficient, far more costly, than waterpower.

The whole theory of the Tennmmee Val-Icy Authority power development is prod- Early steam plants required as much :icated on a widely held fallacy. That as 10 pounds of _ per kilowatt-hourfallacy is the belief tha_ power developed of electricity.by falling water is. beca_ the water But there has hardly been •Tear uiueedoes not cost anything and comes out the turn of the century in which Ameri- _-of the skies as _ gift from heaven, •eees- can scientists have not increased the ef-sarily cheap power. That is a gr_ve error flcieney of steam generation, and inbut one which is widely held. Here are which the national average of all steam _,_ome of the reasons why, generally speak- generating plants has not shown an in-in_, water power is more expensive: c_r,_ in efficiencY.

(I) Water power requires a far hoar- On the other hand, the modern water-ier investment o_ capital per unit of prq- power turbine re.hod its practical limitduetion--the kilowatt--than does power of efficieneF--more than 98 per cent---_enerated by steam_ The modern and 25 years ago. At that time the national_flicient steam plant can be built at about average of steam-plant emcieney was 3.5$90 per kilowatt of capacity. Tenness_ pounds of coal per kilowatt-hour of elec- . _",'alley Authority has an installed hydro tricity. Today the nationgl average is - _"

_'apacity of about 1.500,000 kilowatts at 1.34 pounds per kilowatt-hour. More- ::_its own ailoc_tion of capital costs of over. the latest and most modern steam

July, I_94k_ Fi_e -_ _-.

plants manufacture electricity with three- so much higher that its so-called cheap |quarters of a pound of bituminous coal power m_'th would be exposed for the Iper kilowatt-hour--a figure that will fake that it is.eventually become the national average. Another concealed subsidy is the fact

Now of course there are a few excep- that this so-called businesslike concern |tional cases, such as Niagara Palls, where pays practically no interest. It does pay iyou have a relatively constant flow of $621,000 interest at a paltry 1 per centwater, an enormous drop or head, and to the Federal Government on someall five of the Great Lakes as your cost- bonds issued to pay for certain privatefree reservoir. But these exceptions are utility properties bought several yearsso few as to prove the rule. ago,

By and large, hydro power is rapidly By its own charged-off, debydratedapproaching obsolescence. The day will capital base for power it still has ancome when a power dam will be as an- investment in revenue-producing powertique as the old Chesapeake & Ohio canal properties totaling $4OO,O00,000. Everyup_along the Chain Bridge Road. mother's son of us is supporting this war

So the Tennessee Valley Authority and this Government by purchasing allstarted off with a costly, obsolescent the E bonds that "we can afford. Themethod of manufacturing electric power. Government pays us 2.9 per cent interestIn order to justify the expenses it was on 19 bonds held to maturity. I claimforced to find a subsidy, a subsidy which that the Tennessee Valley Authoritycould be concealed, ought to help pay its way in interest on

The Tennessee Valley Authority has its revenue-producing properties at leastas much as the Government is paying usseveral important subsidies. Two-_fleod for our V_rar Bonds. If the Tennesseecontrol and navigation--concealed in its Valley Authority did pay interest to thatcapitalinvestment,amount to 60 per cent extent, it would turn into the Federalof the multiple-pro'poseinvestments, or Treasury $11,600,000 instead of $621,-$147,000,000 of a totalof $245,000,0C0. 000.These come from the fraudulent book-keeping claim of flood benefits, fixed arbl- In other words, the Tennessee Valleytrarily by the Tennessee Valley Authority Authority is a wartime tax slacker toat 28 per cent, or $68,632,000, and from the extent of millions of dollars annu-the write-off of 32 per cent, or seventy- ally. And it is a War Bond slacker toeight-million-dollars-plus, to alleged nay- the extent of $11,000,000 in interestigation benefits, also arbitrarily set up money annually.by the Tennessee Valley Authority. The In other words, the paper profitofAuthority setsdown its.totalfixedassets, $15,000,000 the Tennessee Valley An-completed and in service on June Z0, thority claims should tn fact be a de-1944, at $544,000,000. This includes flcit---a deficit that you and I are helpingelectrical plant "such as transmission to pay in our taxes and our War Bonds.lines,substations,and steam-generating And that deficitwould run even higherplants completed and in serviceon June if the balance sheet could show the 1530, 1944. But by means of these arti- or 20 millions of dollarsworth of foodficlalcharge-offeitisthus able to reduce crops that Would be produced from thethe capitalbase of itspower investment. Tennessee Valley Authority's drowned-

These allocationsserve an additional out lands.

function besides lightening the burden of I started out to demonstrate that thecapital costs. The subsidy is continued Tennessee Valley Authority is a failurein the operating expenses and a total of as a power project. I think I have suc-$2,500,000 for operating expenses was ceeded.charged off to flood control and naviga-tion in fiscal 1944. But the fact r_mains that it does pro-

duce power and lots of it. And the argu-Another important subsidy when con- merit Is made that even if it is a financial

sidered from the viewpoint of the Federa_ sick chicken, nevertheless the Nation wastaxpayer--and every man, woman, and lucky to have had all that power avail-child is a heavy payer of Federal taxes-- able for the manufacture of aluminum in_is the Tennessee Valley Authority's avoid- when war struck us. Pc:ance of all Federal taxes as well as most erllocal taxes. The Tennessee Valley An- This reasoning is plausible until you ofthority pays 5 per cent of its gross power examine the facts more closely. The l_re- vicrevenues to local governmental bodies sumption implicit in this argument is viein lieu of taxes. But its competitors that had the Tennessee Valley Authoritymust pay, on a nationalaverage, a tota| not been built,then no additionalgener- ce_of 24 per cent of their gross income.in ating capacitywould have been installed Cbtaxes. If the Tennessee Valley Authority in this area by private industry. The 25,had to pay the same taxes as a private fact is that the electrical industry is one macompany it would have to raise its rates (Continued on Page 33) l

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Line Supervisor ReceivesLife-Saving Medal

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The Edison Electric Institute life-say- engaged with others in line repair worklng medal has been awarded to Arthur near Canton, and while he was on a polePern Wright, line supervisor in the West- he came in contact with 2,300 volts ofern Division. The medal and certificate electricity, severely burning him on hisof award were presented by C. S. Waiters, arm and thigh and rendering him un-vice-president and manager of the di- conscious. Wright, then line foreman,vision, assisted by Owen O'Keliey, lineman,

The specific citation was for the "sue- quickly removed McClatchey from thecessful resuscitation of Roscoe C. Me- pole. When it was found that he hadClatchey, near Canton, N. C., on July stopped breathing, Wright began admin-25, 1939." Wright is the 12th company lsterlng artificial respiration at once inman to receive the award, the manner recommended by the Edison

MeClatehey, a company lineman, was (Continued on Page 12)

July, 1945 gc_;cn

Clean-Up ResultsIn Good Story !Recent changes in personnel in the Murray received

Advertising Department resulted, among the picture becauseother things, in the cleaning out of some of a friendship withfiles. The list of interesting items dis- the Ace which decal-covered in those files is too long to be sped through busi-reproduced here (the list includes "Gus" ness c o n n e c t i o ns.

Murray was handling¥eungsteadt's Sunday trousers) , but con- the automobiles offldentially, from the looks o£ the files it the Rlckenbacker Au-wouldn't have been surprising to find tomobile Company--Adolph stuck around in them some- Rlckenbacker's fir s t -_where. . business venture fol-

Among the_ interesting items found in lowing World War I. sthe bulging files was a large photograph The occasion on which sof none other than Eddie Rtckenbacker, ._furray flnltlly gets the Ace gave Murraydated April 2, 1922, and autographed as his picture back. the photograph was rcfollows: "To Murray R. Bird, with a a.Rockford civic ban- wsmile and success fro' ell Capt. Eddie quet at which Rickenbacker was the guest " tiRtckenbacker, April 2, 1922." of honor. O

Murray received the autographed pie- The photograph strayed into the files tlture when he lived in Rockford, II1., of the Advertising Department when it i%1and operated an automobile business was decided that the circumstances sur- bthere. It was during the days following rounding the picture would make a good Cconclusion of World War I, when Ricken- story for The Spotlight, but the story, llbacker, now p_esldent of Eastern Air- "labeled "Something We Can Do Later,"lines, was one of the war's most famous is just now getting into print, and Mur- _,heroes--the "Ace of Aces." ray finally has his picture back.

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John D. Caldwell "%Ve hope and expect to come backof Ashevllle,now re- next winter and spend most of our timetired after continuous in Bay St. Louis and the Gulf Coast Jcservice with the Corn- where I have quite a number of rein- k*puny and one of its tires." thp r ede cessor corn- In compliance with CaldweU's re- arpanics since 1903, re- quest, his retirement check was mailed Icently wrote the fol- to his Asheville address, and upon his arlowing letter from return to Ashevllle,Carpenter received- ncNew Orleans to R.B. a second letter in which Caldwell stated: KCarpenter: "The Company retirement plan and m

"lain headlngbask our friends in the Company make our inj"for the hills and cool life happy and are certainly a blessing ha

- breezesof North Car- to us old folks." ofJohn D. Caldwen olina in a few days Caldwell retiredin November of 1944 fad

and I am asking you after serving since 1903 as clerk in the tr_to please mail my check to 8 Crown accounting department in Ashevllle. inlStreet,Asheville,N. C. I expect to be "[he Company's supplemental retirement rathere by the time thisletterreaches you. plan became effectivejust two months isl

"I have spent a pleasantand enjoyable before hle retirement, vsseason here, with several trips-to xhy amnative town of Bay St. Louis, Miss., --_-- fe_where I find a few old friends and rel- Watives left. Mrs. Caldwell and I have Trees have about the same amount o£ fe_had a great time, but the weather is sap in winter as in spring. Like people, pa:gettingtoo hot for us. they only seem sappier then. Co

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NewsandViewsfrom the Armed Services .,,

By PAT BENDER o[ the time it looked as though we wereabout, level with the rim. It was diffi-

We recently received a letter from the cult to see much in detail. Traveling at iPublic Relations Ofllce with the 15th 200 miles an hour and right close up,AAF in Italy that Second Lt. William you had to look fast to see anything atL. Green, Raleigh, has been awarded the all. With all of these features of beauty _.Air Medal. Lieutenant Green is a pilot in mind the natives call it 'Garden of

• with a photographic reconnaissance Island.' They have only one town of anysquadro_ anti has flown 11 combat mfs- size. _hat is Lihue with a population -sions, o[ 4,250. Small villages were spotted all !:i

He was" awarded the Air Medal for around but usually had _ust a few houses.aerial fligh_t "After covering this pretty well, we _"meritorious achievement in

while participating in sustained opera- turned south to the Island og Nuhau, _-tional activities, against- the enemy, which is separated from Kauai by 22Overseas since January, 1945, he is an- miles of water. Nuhau is mostly table-thorized to wear the European-African- lands and covered with grass. It is _tMiddle Eastern theater ribbon with three given over entirely to sheep raising, andbattle stars, and the Distinguished Unit has no towns worth mentioning. SmallCitation Badge. He entered the Army villages loom up every here and there,inJune,1943.

Max Miller Receives Promotion to MajorWe recently read in the News and _(

Observerof the promotionof MaxMillerto Major at NVright Field, Ohio, where -_he is chief o[ the supply unit, Communi- _-cations Section, Supply Division, it is an-nounced by the Public Relations Office. _,

Major Miller was an electrical engl- _:neer here in Raleigh when he entered _the Army in 1942.

Some Other Letters

This next letter from Petty Officer CoyJordan is so long and interesting I hardlyknow where to begin so will start withthe descriptionof the Islands of Kauatand Nuhau. He says,"On May 11, 1945,I took a ride over the Islands o_ Kauaiand NauhRu which is about 100 milesnorthwest of Honolulu. The Island ogKauai is roughly circularin shape, andmore or lesslikea singlemountain reach-ing 5,250 feet toward heaven. Kauaihas the heaviest growth of vegetationof any of the islands. This is due to thefact that it gets a better sweep of thetrade winds than any of the others, bring-ing it heavier rainfall. Actually therain isso heavy that itisthe most erodedisland of the group. Just full of deepval).eys, caxlyol_s, pinnacles, fluted ridges Our work|ng-flghflng _eam |his month Is )V. I*,

and waterfalls. One of the outstanding May. superintendent of the RoekJngham Sub-features is the Grand CanyoH o_ the _tatl_, wh_ |_u_ tmrv_ 39 .years w|th _ro_ina

l'ow_r & Light Comlmny, and his son, J,t. W. L.Waimea. This canyon is three thousand -_|tly, Jr., who recently obtained his eommla-feet deep KrlC_ gol'mB _, landmark corn- slo_t and now is $1atlonet| _tt CltnllJ Croft, S. C.

parable to our Granct Canyon of the Lieutenant ,May attended Slate College for fourye_tva an_ wl_rked with the _ompan_, for three

Colorado. We flew up this Cal_yOlL Part _-ears before entering the service.

July, 194_ Ni_O

half my time in Paris and the rest inFrance, Germany, or England. All thetraveling has been very educational.

"After over 200 combat days, theygave me a break and sent me here toParis. To say that this is some townwould be putting it mildly. One thingsure, I now know and understand thefull meaning of the sayings 'Paris in the_pring' and 'April In Paris.' Really, Ihave had a wonderful time and I wouldnot have alissed it for the world. Asyet I do not know what the future holdsfor me, as far as the war in the Pacificis concerned. Ant looking forward toreturning to Asheville--four years is along time to be away.

This houd_Jonte twosome Is (?apt. _Vlllhtm (lnu) "Some of the things one sees and hearsn. _helton, ,lr., alnd wife, who Is front Ollln-

heron, snappe_l whne inn was on lellve lifter over here are hard to believe. I am

returmming" from cl_l_lcl|, lie was wllh s nomber s$1re the folks at home will never believeGronp with which lie new rerun- missions ol'er them when we come home. "]:he sooner_nlslllenL Europe. Bill was wilh the Adverlis|ngDelmflment unln lie went Into tile service on ][ can go home the better it will be, ItJuly-4, 1041. already has beau foul' year_ since I de-

parted from the Company.

he'ever. When we had passed Nuhau, "We sure miss each and every one ofwe flew over a little dot of an island the folks at home and look forward tonamed Lehua. All there is room for on the day we will be returning. By theLehua is a lighthouse. Since the Island way, have any plans been made us tosticks up 707 feet, this mast be one of the future for men returning to the Corn-the most elevated lighthouses in the puny?"world."

Let us heal' from you again, Coy-- Captain Norman 31. York Writes Fronlletters like yours are always welcome. Mulheim, Germany

Captain York writes that he is in the.heart of the Ruhr. "'My outfit was the

In a recent letter from Lt. V. A. Lung American outfit in the airborne invasion(Raleigh) he gives an account of how of Germany, east of the Rhine. Wehe rations liis mail for himself. He helped take the Ruhr district, thensays: "When we llit port the mall bag cleaned out the Ruhr pocket. This isis full and maybe a dozen or more letters the section that corresponds to our Pitts-are waiting for me. I used to grab themlike a pig. but I soon learned how lone- burgh. It was full of steel mills, coalsome it can get at sea without mail. I_ow mines, and various other industries." LetI read the freshest letter from home to us hear from you again soon.make sure no one is ill, then I carefullyhoard the balance and ration myselfdaily. Tills practice requires an un- Pfc. Cleveland H.commoli amount of.self-control, hut pays Thayer is a soldierbig dividends when at sea. You would who has seen plentybe surprised to see how I can shuffle of action in Eur_t_e.through my unopened mail, drooling Private Thayer land-like a miser over his money." ed in Southern

Lieutenant Lang goes on to s_y he l_rance with the"hasn't found a spot yet that I'd trade 100th Division latefor the sorriest part of North Carolina, in October of 1944.and the sooner I get back the better I'll Within five days hislike it." And we all hope, Lieutenant,. division was "on line"that it won't be long before you get your and in the thick ofwish. battle with the Sev-

enth Army in the Vos-

Here are some excerpts from letter_ l'rlvJtle Tha},er gee Mountalns. Thisdivision remained "'onrecently received from Capt. John L. line" for more than" 170 days until with-Penzer, who writes from -Paris: drawn from combat a few days before the

"My new work Keeps me very busy final surrender of German forces in theand requires a great deal of traveling. Seventh Army area. Private Thayer'aUnder present condttions'I spend about (Continued on Page 32)

Ten The Spotlight

"RED" PLOPEELECTED ablomoneymurder,andwiththegradnalreconversion of industry as orders for

PRESIDENTPUAA warmaterialsarereduced,thejobofthe _:;• - utility advertising man becomes increas- _

ingly important." _The new pres- The Public Utilities Advertising Asso- _:

ident of the Pub- ciation, embracing over 300 electric, gas, _lie. Utilities Ad- transportation, telephone, and other pub- "_,vertising Associ- lic utility companies in the United States _:ation is E. N. and Canada, is an affiliate of the Adver- i i"Red" Pope, the tising Federation of America. ThroughCarolina Power the association Pope has aided in bring-& Light Corn- lug about a better appreciation of adver-party's advertis- tising as a means of interpreting policiesi n g d i r e c to r. and practices of local operating units for .Pope's elevation their customers and has been active into the presidency the utility industry's national advertis-_om the position ing program.

vice-president __ _ __ ,,occurred on June

6 in Chioago, Here's How To Getwhere the assocl- o

a t 1 o n's officers, GO_el_l_O?f_S A÷_,_ _1_h_l ;=E. N. "Red" Pope directors, and re- . z_l[4t_l*

gional chairmen !tmet for a wartime meeting. A trip to the Ex-Pope has been a member of the Public eeutive Mansion and

Utilities Advertising Association for more a ride there and back :cthan 10 years, during which time he has in Governor Cherry's _served as secretary and vice-president of car, driven by the -_-=.the association. He also has served on Governor's chauffeur, -.the board of directors and as chairman were an unexpected _:-of the association's Better Copy Contest. part of an evening ofAdvertising originating from Pope's de- entertainment enjoy- _partment has won seven awards in con- ed recently by Hildatests sponsored by the association. Barbour, when she

joined a group fromA native of Cumberland County, Pope the Salvation Army

has been with the Company for 22 years, USO here in Raleighhaving served as advertising director for

18 years. He received his A.B. degree llllda on a scavenger hunt. _.in 1921 from Wake Forest College and Hilda is secretary tothe following year did post-graduate W.L. Yoder.work at Harvard University. The highlight of the entire scavenger

His first connection with the Company hunt was the trip by Hilda's group towas in 1923 as an appliance salesman, the Mansion, where they were sent toHe served in this capacity in various get the Governor's autograph. They gottowns on the Company's system until the autograph. A spokesman for the1927, when he became advertising man- group told the story in this way:ager. In 1934 he became residential "We were trying to hail a cab in frontsales manager, and in 1935 was made of the hotel to take us to the Mansion.director of sales promotion and adver- After waiting about 10 minutes for aUsing when reorganization of the Corn- cab, we spotted a State trooper, and de-puny took place, tided that we would ask him to take us

In accepting the presidency of the Pub- over there in his patrol car. You canlic Utilities Advertising Association, imagine our surprise when the trooperPope reminded members that "support turned out to be the Governor's chauf-feur. We told him who we were andof the war effort is still the first concernof utility advertising." Looking to the what we wanted, so he told us to get in--which we did. In a very few minutes wefuture, he stated, "It is reasonable to ex- found ourselves at the Governor's Man-pect, however, that many changes will sion. _Ve went in and asked for theoccur during the next 12 months which Governor. Although he was retiring andwill have an important bearing upon ad- we had caught him with his shirt off,vcrtislng policy. _Vith the availability he was a grand sport and gave us theof appliances, the possibility of resuming autograph. He then told his chauffeurour programs of rural electrification, im- to bring us back to the club. It wasprovement in local transit facilities, re- really a thrill, and he was a good sport,financing to take advantage of a favor- too."

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NEW STARS ON THE Hour" starting July 29, while Robert.Armbruster takes a holiday."The Electric Hour" is sponsored by

ELECTRIC HOUR 1_7 electrie light and power companies"

Two new stars on "The Electric Hour" -- _

recently were introduced to the radio au-

dien0e.TheyareSopranoFranciaWiteI T,'m [and Tenor Felix Knight, co-stars of thesummer edition of "The Electric Hour." • • 4Their introduction on the new series took

place when Nelson Eddy made his final |Ve Ex_end Syutpa_lLy to:appearance on this popular program.Frank Grakam will continue as an- The family of William T. Haywood of

nouncer, and Wilbur Hatch, one of Hol- l%fount Gilead in his death on June 20.lywood's outstanding musicmen, will sub Betty Wheeless, Raleigh, in the deatl/ :as musical director on "The Electric of her brother, Raeford Wheeless, killed

in action on June 1 on Okinawa. azSterling and Bob Laney of Cheraw ilx m

the death of their father, E. W. baney.

Evelyn BHnson, Raleigh. in the death olof her husband, CpL Darius M. Biinson, wkilled in action on March 16 in Germany. a!

Fred P. Strong in the death of his t_brother-in-law, bq

Marriages: t_E. G. Lewis, USNR, son of P. E. Lewis, v._

Henderson, to Jewel Allen on June 12.• th_! Born to: ov

_ CpL and Mrs. O. C. Ritter, Fort Myers, w_Fla., a son, Philip Wayne, on May 29. w_

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(Continued from Page 9)Electric Institute. As the result ofWright's immediate work, the injuredlineman finally began breathing againand regained consciousness after several

Soprdno ]_'mncla White minutes.McClatehey subsequently recovered

from his burns and again worked withthe Company line crews until enteringthe Army. He spent two years overseasin the European theatre as a private,first class, and recently returned to hisemployment with the Company.

Wright has been employed by theCarolina Power & Light Company for21 years and has taken an active interestin the study and application of safetyrules and regulations.

The medal awarded Wright was formed"from copper taken from the bus bars

the first electric generating station con-structed in New York.

Those witnessing the presentation ofthe medal to Wright were: J. L. Bum-gardner, J. R. Brown, M. V. Weaver,William Aiken, Aaron Harwood, D. K.Plemmons, M. W. Cosnell,J. C. Stiuson,H. W. Allen, W. R. Cody. Jr.,EdwardClontz, R. L. Honifield,B. N. Buckner,R. G. Thyse, Mrs. Dorothy Eanes and

• Teller _'eilx Knight Sue Pettlt, all employees of the Company•

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There is also a fair lassie among us

now whom you should" really know. Sheis Edna Gray Holmes from Dunn and iseverything you could ask for. Some youngman had the same idea and did something :._about it for on "the" finger is a beauti- fi_

DUNN Jut sparkling diamond. ._We are truly delighted to have you _._

By DELANE_/ TURL1NGTON with us, Edna Gray. That happy smile _helps us through the day. _!

While changes are coming about all _

around, let us tell you this one brought We had a visitor recently and though _._on by the ending of the European War. at that time he was in a Navy white, we ,

For a long time we were quite consci- learned that he is quite civilian now. Bill _ous of the fact that Jean Cooper's heart Harrington is home to stay with us awas divided, and through close observ- while and it's nice seeing him aroundmore frequently than in the past three _ance and many questions we learned years. _-that the other half belonged to a mem-

ber of the Eighth Army Air Force over Good-byes were said by Joe Young here !iin England, S/Sgt. Everette Barefoot. a few weeks ago. Joe and his wife are _.With the announcement of V-E Day we now making their home in St. Pauls,began to notice an unusual gleam in N.C., where he will be associated with _:those dark brown eyes of Jean's and then the Keith Hardware Company. We're _one day we heard it. "Everette is on his missing "Squeak" and expect to see himway home." Just a few days later he occasionally as time goes by.was here, hail and hearty, and in only afew days more the cat was all in the bag Vacations are beginning to get in theand we received invitations to tile wed- prima. As a prelude Kat Shanks, Double _.ding of Miss Jean Cooper to S/Sgt. Ever- E. McLamb, and Delaney Tizrlington tookette Barefoot. HIs gain was our loss but week-end trips to the beach. Double Eour best wishes go with them throughout viewed the sights at Wrightsville Beachthe future, while Kat and Delaney took in Myrtle

Beach. Margaret Draughon started herAmong other changes brought on by vacation season by getting a good tan

the ending of the European. War We are at White Lake. And, of course, Henryhonored to introduce the first _eteran Tyler and Pat Treadaway are kept busyof World War II to join us--William by the maintenance and pleasures of theDewey Jackson. He came to work with boat Punch, at the "cabin" down on Capeus a few weeks ago straight from the En- Fear.gineers of the U. S. Army and is_ nowhelping our linesmen with their loads of aLINTON

work. By DOT PARKERJackson entered the Army on August

14, 1941, and went overseas on February Now let me see. What can I use as an18, 1942. He participated in the invasion opening sentence for my SPOTLIGHT ar-of North Africa and Italy. On March 26, tiele this month? "Flash! this is 'Dottle1945, he returned to the U. S. A. after Kilwatt' doing all in her power to shed37 ruonths of service overseas wearing a little light on the happenings aroundfive battle stars, the good conduct, Pre- Clinton." No, that won't do. (GuessPearl Harbor, and the European Theatre that corn I had for dinner Is affectingof Operations ribbons. May 13, 1945, my mind!) How about, "Greetings, fel-with 102 pointsto his credit,he was dis- low members of the 'kilowatt gang."charged from service. Once again it is time for us to exchange

Upon further questioning we learn that bits of gossip 'over the back fence.' " No,Jack is from Newton Grove and has a that won't do either. Ouch! what hit me?brother who has served two years with Why, goodness me---it was an ideal Ithe Coastal Artillery and is now stationed just won't have an opening sentence. I'llat Ft. Lewis, Wash. We are glad to have start right in with--Jackson with us and hope that we canbegin to help repay him for what he was - Congratulations, "Sara," on your ninthhighly instrumental in doing for us. anniversary with the Company. True, it

Jul}', 1945 TItirtee_

is a little late for congratulations, since ported to California for further duty, andMay 31 was the "big day," but neverthe- bib wife plans to join him there in theless, "Happy anniversary!" near future. E. G. is the younger son

of P. E. Lewis of the Henderson dtvisiou.Sh-h-h-h, don't look now, "Becky,"

but your smile is showing, and could that t_-- Lt. Bill Windley, abe "stardust" I see in your eyes? What's former employee inthe occasion? Oh! I remember now--the the Sanford office,dental school in Richmond is out and a visited his parents incertain young sailor who can best be de- Henderson while onscribed as a "dream man deluxe" is corn- leave last month. Billing home In a few days for two wonder- came in to see us andful weeks! Oh, well, my sister told me _ chatted for a whileonce that "every dog has its day.'" (Of about the Company,course, I've been barking ever since, but _ _ the arm y, the war,nothing has happened yet!) W_ etc., but he seemed to

be most proud of hisThis hot weather is making White Lake little girl, Ann Joyce.

as popular as----well, as a cigarette girl! We think she's very"Becky" went down last Saturday night Am_ Joyee C U t e and that sheto spend the week-end and I went for a should be proud ofwhile Sunday afternoon. I was awfully her daddy, who has an idea he will bedisappointed, though. I didn't even get going overseas before very long.sunburned!

Congratulations are extended to Mar-"Benny" Simmons, former cashier of tha Bailey upon graduation from Hen-

this offide, who is now in Hartsville, S.C., derson High School. Martha is the daugh-has been by to see us for a few minutes ter of Mr. William Bailey, manager of-two or three times recently. We were the Henderson division. Her plans arevery glad to see him and to hear that to enter St. Mary's Junior College in Ba-"Raleigh" Bryan, former line foreman leigh this fall.here who is also in Hartsville now, isstill alive, and not "kicking." Helen W. Jackson, Home Service Rep-

resentative in the Henderson district forAnd now, taking the "bitter with the almost a year, reported to Goldsboro the

sweet," .we are all very sorry to hear that last of June for work in that district."Sam" Stowe's wife has to go to the hes- Helen seems like one of "our family,"pital in a few days for an operation. I'm and though we miss her very much, wesure that all of you who know "Sam" and wish her the very best of luck and successMrs. Stowe will join us in wishing her in her new location and expect her to paya speedy and complete recovery, frequent visits in Henderson.

We've been very fortunate in having Herbert Clopton, son of W. C. Clopton,so many nice visitors this month--R. H. of the Henderson Substation, has writtenPearce, J. S. Bom'ne, J. T. Piper, S.P. a very interesting letter home since theVecker, and H. M. Tyler. Come again, censorship on letters from the Europeangentlemen, we're always glad to see you. theatre of war has been lifted somewhat.

Herbert is in the 101st Airbourne Divi-sion, 502 Rept. Co. B, Paratroop Infan-

HENDERSON try. HIs letter follows:

By DORIS DENNIS "I guess it will he o.k. to tell you afew things now that it is all over--things

It seems that the month of June is I couldn't tell you before. _'or if oldmore than a time for weddings. It is Jerry knew we were going to jump wayalso a time for graduation, vacations, and behind his lines be would have been wait-visiting, and we have incidents to repre- lug and killed us before we could hit thesent each occasion, ground. It was rough enough as it was,

for we were always first.

We certainlydid miss Mary Sills,Petty "When we were taking off to jump inwhile she was vacationing. She spent a France on D-Day, it was eight o'clock inweek at Urbanna, Vs., with some friends the morning, June 5. We flew over Francefrom Henderson and came home report- for about 30 minutes. It seemed likeing that a fine time was enjoyed by all. hours. I have never seen so much lead

coming up in all my life. How our planeE. G. Lewis, USNR , a veteran of Euro- stayed up I can't see.

peau waters,,and Jewel Allen were mar- "When we jumped inHolland our planeried at the First Baptist Church parson, didn'tstay up. When we were going out,age on Tuesday, June 12. E. G. has re- it was on fire, I was sure sweating for

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I was the last man to jump. I didn't i _,-

know if I would get out or not. [ W e t _"As for Bastogne, Belgium, you must S e r h n _:

have read in the paper how the Germans _broke through and surrounded the 101st _.!A/B Division and told us to quit fightingand to give up or they would kill all of CAI_TONus. We didn't give an inch of ground,hut they got almost all of us. I really By VIRGINIA DUNCANgave up hope, and went fro" all or noth-ing. We are glad to hear that J'. E. Tate

"I bad a letter from a friend yesterday, is feeling much better these days, and .-i.He is back in the States. He lost both we hope he will be back with us soon.

legs when we jumped in Holland. He and L.J. Cannon rounded out 30 yearsI lay in a ditch, for Jerry was shellingher out of us. Once we were about 10 with our Company on June 15. Cannonyards apart when a shell fell between is chief dispatcher in the Western Divi- -..us. It didn't go off. Later on we started sion, and we see a lot of him in Canton.driving and reached a small town. Thatis when the Germans threw in the shells. Mrs. Helena Henline's mother, Mrs. iThis fellow and I were standing behind Eaton Moore, is now recovering from aa house when two shells hit right in on very serious operation. Helena sends herus and that is when he got his. It blew thanks to all the Carolina Power & Lightoff my hehnet, my right pants leg, and employees who remembered Mrs. Mooremy gun was blown out o_ my hand. How during her illness.I missed gettingkilledis just pure luck.

The good Lord was sure with me." ASHEVILLE

We are glad to welcome Bing Miller By ELIZABETH J. MOORE _again who is to be with us for a whileduring one of his frequent visits. Roy Hawkins' son,

Sidney, is member of ;_Lee Edwards Forensic i

FAYETTEVILLE Club. We looked it

By ROY C. COOK up in the dictionary _.!and find that "foren-

Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Baucom and their sic" means debating. .two sons, Tommy and Bryant, are now So, Sidney Hawkins, _{

aged 15, was a repre- ,_!living on Robertson Street---climaxing along search for a house, sentative of the Lee _.'"

Edwards High School _!_ ._ debating team which

Bruce Ratts spent a few days at home _recently but is back at sea now. Jack _,:__:_ took part in a mockis with the army and is in school in Aus- legislative session intria. No details given in his last letter. Sidney Knoxville with 150Tennessee High

School boys. Sidney'sW. H. Cross has a new schedule he Is part was to present a bill in favor of

working between Fayetteville 66K.V. sub compulsory military training after theand Duke. W. H. Miller will relieve Fay- war for boys of 18 years of age. Weetteville 110 K.V. and Lumberton, start- don't know whether Sidney's bill willing in the near future. We have been re- settle the question or not, but we dolieved recently by Felix May, I_. C. Henry, know that Sidney is a smart boy and we,and Reece Smith. with his parents, are proud of him.

Tim Burrus, Joe Devall, and Coy B. Six prints by Dorothy Swain, sister ofKelly are working on the Goldsboro line. "our" Betty Swain Starnes, Asheville, ap-

pear in the first issue of Maelstrom, aJohn Blankenship and family are re- picto-literary m ag az i ne published in

ported to have been in Fayetteville a Coral Gables, Fla. The write-up in con-few days ago but hurried back to Ashe- nection with Dorothy Swain's prints saysville and cooler weather, that she studied lithography and etching

under Harry Sternberg at the Art Stu-

] _f _/_0F6 _0g_/ [ dent's League of New York, on a scholar-

ship. It further states, that she had sev-eral one-woman art shows in Ashevilleand in Greenville, S. C., and for the pastthree years has done flying activities for

July, 1945 Filteen

the government--including one year of It looked like old times, seeing Johnferrying planes for Piper Aircraft, one Caldwell around the office. John Is heroyear as an instructor for the Army and for the summer from New Orleans, andNavy, and a year as a member of the he looks well and rested. We were allWomen's Alrforce Service Pilots. We are glad to see John Caldwell on this trip.proud of Betty Swain!

Nan Schell substituted for NolleVivian Bushoag took her vacation be- Swearagan when Nolle took her vacation

ginning the firstday of June, visitingher the middle ofJune. The name Nan seemsmother in Clinton, Me. Vivian reports to have a speelaIconnection with flower-a good trip and a good time, but she likes raising because, like Nan Kllllan, Nanthe climate in Asheville"me" than the Shell raises lovely flowers,too. If herclimate of Clinton in the summer time. sweet peas and roses were samples of

her flower-growing skill, why, give usGordon Jones came by Asheville on fits ample samples!

way to au American Business Club "con-fereace" the middle of June, which took Maybe the spelling wouldn't be cot-place in Indianapolis. Gordon looked rect,but the locationis Hitler'shideout,fine. _Ve were glad to see him up this and Sgt.Raymond Cameron, paratrooper,way. Gordon recentlyorganized an Amerl- isstationedin officersbarracks rightnextcan Business Club in Raleigh, with 26 to it, or rather, what is left of it since itmembers to date. was bombed and the only thing remain-

ing untouched is the tearoom. SergeantMary Boling and Martha Sessoms took Cameron also saw Goeriag's lodge and

their vacation in Atlanta recently. They private train. He described these super-went by bus to Greenvilte, S. C., and possessions of modern elegance as "outboar_ledthe Strealnliaer from there. "l'hey of this world." Raymoad has seen a

painted the town red, year and a half overseas service in thewe understand, and war, and has seen enough things of in-had a grand time in terestto last him for quite a while.

.: general.We are proud of Lt. Henry R. Steffens,

If you knew Susan wile received a Bronze Star for mcritori-as we k n o w Susan, pus.service in the European theatre ofyou would share war. Lieutenant Steffeas is now sta-in our unprejudiced tinned at Zell,Austria. He served withview that she isevery the Army in France, Belgium and Ger-bil as nice as she many, and by performing the multiplelooks. Susan livesat .dutiesof forward observer, liaisonandEnka, N. C., and is reconnaissance officerand platoon corn-LouiseCorbin'sniece, sander, he distinguished himself bySusan was two years courage under fire and unswerving appli-

sn_u old on June 11. cation to duty. Best of all,LieutenantStoffens is liked by his men who have

When the 12 o'clock crowd of girls shown him loyalty and hearty co-opera-.made a lemon pie and ate half of it for lion. Julia Stei_cns, as you know, istheir lunch, expecting to eat the other Credit Manager with the Company Inhalf the next day, they.didn'texpect the Asheville.remaining half to disappear! But itdidjust that--with a note on the empty l_late Nolle Swearngan took her vacationto the effectthat "Crowson Cameron took around the middle of June, spending itthispie." visitingher sistersand resting. She re-

ports an enjoyable rest, and pleasantThe girlsran the joke down, and dis- visits.covered that Jim Hall, whose office is in

the Company kitchen, saw the remaining James S. Redmond, with the Commer-half of the pie in the refrigerator, and it cial Sales Department of our Companywent over big with him! They allhad a for seven years,resigned recently to ac-good laugh over the joke, and the girls cept a positionwith the H. J.Heinz Com-sat down and wrote him thislittlejingle: pan}'. Jim willcontinue to livein Ashe-Three littlegirls were so hungry they rifleIn his new business connection. We

could die wish him allthe luck in the world in his

£_'louthsallset for a nice lemon pie. latestsales activity.

_Vho ate the pie up? Do you think that Pern VCright'sreceivingof the Edisonwas nice? • Electric Institutelife-savingmedal and

But lg It be mice, or if it be man, certificate of award _or the saving of theTileleasthe could do would be to wash lifeof Roscoe McClatchey on July 25,

up the pan! 1939, was the firstaward of its kind

ever given to any of our employees inthe Western Division, Sue Pettit informs _us. The complete story of this achieve-ment is written up elsewhere in The Spot- _.light, hut the fact that this award was :ithe first one given in the Western Divi- --_sion we believe merits an additional pat _-

on the back of Pern _Vright.

_Ve have just learned that Catherine :,Threlkeld Rutherford, foruterlywlth theBookkeeping Department in Asheville 'and for a short time contributing editorfor the Western Division to The Spot-light,has a son, born at Catherine'sfor- _mer home in Lexington, Ky. Catherine'shusband iS at present with the Army _.-,overseas.

Also, we learned that the former Vir- :_glnia Clayton, cashier in Asheville, who -_left us to go to Winston-Salem to bewith her husband, has a daughter. Vlr- igtnia's husband is now in tile Army Medi- '

ing.CalCorps, completing his medical train- IIILSUE PETTIT'S CORNER

Richard G. Thyse, Supervisor of tileMeter Department, Asheville, is a very "_modest man. Yet the facts concerninghis advancement show that he is a very '*Thyse" "_worth-while person and one who really - -_

knows his job. old-fashionedwind instrument was played ._:Richard (he prefers that title to in the Scandinavian countries 40 years ._

"Thyse") came with our Company in or more ago. _'_1923 from the Ottertail Power Company _in Minnesota. He started with the Corn- _

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then transferred to Raleigh. From Ra-leigh, Richard came to Asheville wherehe has been stationed ever since.

He was born April 1 on a farm inMinnesota and lived there for about 25years. He attended the School of Engi- RALEIGH DISTRICT

neerlng in Milwaukee, where he received By JEAN TAYLORhis electrical education. He married the

former Miss Eva Gilbert. from Norfolk, Judy Bryan was a bridesmaid in herVa., and they live in their own home at brother's wedding in Benson on June 1.18 Melrose Avenue, in Ashevllle. We know it must have been a beautiful

Richard is a member of the Church wedding.Council of St. Mark's Lutheran Church,belongs to the Viking Club of Asheville, A.C. Sutton is without a family atand is a member of the Supervisory Corn- present as his wife and three childrenmtttee of the Carolite Credit Union. are spending a month in Fort Lauder-

To our way of thinking, one of the dale, Fla., visiting.most unusual things about RichardThyse is the fact that he can play almost We miss Murray Elrd and S. H. John-any musical instrument, in particular the son who are at present working upstairsviolin, although he has never taken a with Paul.Davis in the Right-of-way De-music lesson• And he, tells us that to partment.his personal knowledge he Is perhapsthe only person in the United States at. Vacations are rolling around again andpresent who plays a musical instrument this month we find Mary Frances Rue-known as the Birdh Bark, which instru- berry and Jean Taylor basking in thement was given him by a man from Swe- sun down at Myrtle Beach. They bothden when Richard was six years old. This agree it's a swell place.

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Here is a letter from a former em- Pictured here isployee, Jefferson C. Berry, which is of S.A. Jones, bus driv-great interest to a lot of our readers, er, who celebratedBerry was employed as a bus driver, his 3$th anutversary

with the Company on"Abadan, Iron, May 21. That's a

3 May,1945. mighty fine recordand we congratulate

"Dear Mr. Tongue: him."I have .been intending to write you

for some tBne now, but seems like I have Well, it seems wealways been so busy since coming ever- • are saying "hello"seas that I couldn't get around to it. and "good-bye" toI want to mention.now that I have been Anne Lumsden allinreceiving The Spotlight for several one b r eat h. Yes,months and enjoy reading about the men s.A. Jones Anne left the Corn-of the Cmupany who are at home doing pany about a week ago to accept worktheir part In the war by carrying the with another company. Even though herpublic. Also the items telling about the stay with us was short, she made manymen who are in different parts of the friends in the Company and we're cer-world, wearing khaki, tainly going to miss her. Hurry back

"I am now stationed in Abadan, Iran, to see us, Anne.working in the Fire Department on thisbase. I am driver of a 1,000-gallonpumper that weighs 37,500 pounds gross. ZEBULONI am enclosing a picture of the truck andthe crew, after a ran. [ am on the top By DOROTHY G. PERRYof the track, at number one turret. SinceI have been on this base we haven't lest Summer is really here, and also vaca-a single plane due to fire damage. Since tion time. The first in this districtto

_. coming to this base, I have taken pho- start the ball rolling was none ether thantography for a hobby, doing my own our own service man, Elbert L. Pearce.developing and printing. "[he weather Hope you have a nice rest, Elbert, andhere is said to be the hottest in the that our time comes before long.world, with a daily average daring themonths of April through September of The Nashville Lions Club has electedover 100 degrees. Last year a high tern- A.C. Huckabee as "tailtwister." "Hack"perature of 165 degrees was recorded, is local representative in Nashville.I am hoping to be out of this forsakbnplace before another year rolls by. I The Air Medal has been awarded tohad better close for this time• Again Lt. William L. (Billy) Green by the 15thlet me add that I appreciate the maga- AAF. Lt. Green is a pilot with a photo-zinc 'Spotlight' and would appreciate graphic reconnaissance squadron and hasyour telling them of the fact. flown 11 combat missions. He was

"Looking forward to the day when I awm'ded the Air Medal for meritoriouswill be back in dear old Raleigh and achievement in aerial flight while partici-workiug for the C. P. & L. Co., I remain pating In sustainedoperationalactivities

"Jefferson C. Berry." against the enemy. Overseas since Janu-ary, 1945, he is authorised to wear theEuropean-African-Middle Eastern theater

_:__ ribbon with three battle stars and theDistinguished Unit Citation Badge.

Billy graduated from the Army FlyingSchool at La Junta Field, Colo., and wascommissioned a second lieutenantin Au-gust, 1944. He worked with the Com-pany inRaleigh beforeenteringthe Armyin June, 1943, but his home is here inZebulon.

We want to congratulate our line crewon the splendid work they have beendolng--what with new connections and

-storms. We feel that we have a rightflVarking umler the broiling Iron sun (it to be proud of them,

reached a high temperature of ISS degrees there

last year) _e Jefferson C. Berry a_d hie crew. NOW that the war is over in Europe,Jefferson Is on top of the lruek, at number oneturret, there are quite a few service men return-

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lug--some on furloughs and some with G. B. Allen, former ewployee at _:'discharges. Each time we see one of Method Substation, came by the office -_these returned service men it makes us on May 26. After serving several months _realize more and more the job we have with the Seabees in the Pacific, he is nowahead of us in order to sink "That Ris- stationed at Camp Lejeune.ing Sun" and bring all our loved oncehome for good. E1/c James E. Marks also visited the -'.

office on June 5, 1945. He is a formeremployee of the substation division ofthe Operating Department. He joined

• the Seabees in June, 1942, and has been

General Offices lu theSouthPaei.eforthe pasmouths, attached to the Second MarineDivision of Engineers.

June is the mouth for the celebrationOPERATING DEPARTMENT of w. R. Hanehey's 25th anniversary

By HILDRED HUTCHINS with tlle Carolina Power & Light Com-pany.

W. R Dear has been down South Caro-lina way for the last few days. We're Not long ago some one made the re- .wondering if he could by any chance be mark that if he didn't know Isabella Gillmissing this tropical heat wave with its had been with the Company for 17 yearswindstorms. If so, he will never believe he would think she wasn't a day over

us when we tell him of the many trees 19. And he was right. July 2 marksand house-tops that blew off and landed Isabella's 17th year with the Company. _t

will he? We congratulate her on her years of serv- _!Oil our power lines,ice,and also for keeping herself young .__

Major Max I.Miller visitedthe Oper- and "being just 19."ating Department recently. It was his _.__iret visit since receiving his promotion Marnitte Adams celebrated her secondenabling him to wear a gold leaf. year with the Company on July 1. Y_.=

Cpl. O. C. Rltter, Fort Myers, Fla., It is always nice to report new era- ._:former employee of the substation divi- ployees in our department, but ever so _sion, is now the proud "papa" of a 7 lb. often we lose an old member and have ,.:9 oz. baby boy, Philip _ayne Ritter, born to mention that too. This time it is R. C.May 29, 1945. Kirk who leaves the Company on June e_

29 to accept a position as Field Engineer -:-_for Kyle Corporation in Atlanta, Ga. He _:

We were very sorry to learn of the promises, however, to come back to visitserious illness of Kathleen Chappell'sfather. He is much better now, how- us often. W. J. Brogdon will take overever, and Kat has returned to work once Mr. Kirk's duties.

more. H.B. Robinson, A. J. Skaaie and Blair

Sally Darden journeyed to Asheville Jenkins attended a meeting of the South-on Wednesday, June 20. She had to east Regional Load & Frequency Corn-take Buzz to camp. Buzz, by the way, mittee in Western North Carolina onis her eight-year-old son, and we bet that June 13 and 14.before the end of the camping seasonSally will be making another journey to In a lettm' written to W. B. Bourne,--bring Buzz home. Carolina Power & Light Company, Rock-

ingham, N. C., by L. A. Turnage, super-Those attending the Foremen's meet- intendent of power at Seance Products

ins in the Raleigh office, May 31-June 1, Company in Hartsville, S. C., Mr. Turnagewere B. L. Owens, T. R. Ratts, J. E. made the following statement: "I shouldCross, R. F. Harris, J. F. Rockett, J.W. like to take this opportunity to eompli-Blankenship, N. H. Russ, J. W. Dickens, meat Mr. N. H. Russ and his crew forW. H. Fields, G. M. Wooten, O. L. Bryant, the splendid way in which they hand-ledJ. C. Bullock, N. M. Thomas, and H.F. the Substation conversion at Rocking-Garris. O. R. _Villiams was not able to ham; it was a pleasure to work withattend due to an illnesswhich _or some them on this project." More power totime has kept hintin the Veterans' Hos- you and your crew, Mr. Russ!pital at Fayettevlllo. H. B. Robinson,A. M. McCabe, D. L._Hendrix, J.W. W.R. Buchanan and R. C. Kirk haveCoates,and O. S. Anderson attended from been teaching night classesat State Col-the Raleigh office. Mr. L. V. Sutton gave lege to ASTP groups. Their subjectsa very interesting luncheon talk. are A. C. Circuits and D. C. Machinery.

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It seems that the substation employees more backs to be so little! She is nowhave started taking their wen-earned va- paying for her little escapade with acations. This month we have N. R. San- bee-u-tiful array of redbugs. You see,derson, J. W. Parker, Jr., and R. C. "Pee Wee," crime does not pay!Moore on our vacationing list. The lmmmock was an object of much

attention AND debate. It seems thatRay Goodwin spent a few days recently Mr. J's ability as a "knot man" was re-

in Mary Elizabeth Hospital. He had an garded as a rather dubious one. It wasinfected gland, but a few doses of pent- decided that an "acid" test should becinin soon fixed him up. applied before any reclining would be

• done. Jo Burnette consented to be theWe extend sympathy to Mr. Fred P. official tester. Soooooo, she crawled in.

Strong in the death of his brother-in-law. Such bravery; such courage! The restof us were sissies and wouldn't take the

_. risk, but tile age of chivah'y is not dead,as Jo so willingly proved to us. ThingsFUN AND CHIGGERS were just rosy for a while, and Jo and

- - the hanlmock were co-operating corn-

By CHARLOTTE FULKS pletely. Suddenly there was a thud anda ker-plunk. Jo's good intentions were

After many turns, bumps, giggles, etc., treated pretty roughly on that oldwe finally arrived at the "Shack" of "S. ground! The inevitable had occurred.

i: W." Jones for a party which he had We want you to understand that Mr. J'splanned a long time ago. You've heard "knot-tying" was entirely to blame, be-the song, "Time on My Hands." Well, cause later tile same thing happened withthanks to Marion Williams' speed king Hildred Hutchins and "Izzy." -We're he-reputation (which she so tleftly dmuon- ginning to wonder if Mr. J. didn't sortastruted for us) "Izzy" Gilt and all pas- have his eye out for a little mischiefsengers in her buggy had "Dust in Their when he put up that little trinket!Eyes." It was a mad race, but Marion When delicious aromas of fried chick-managed to emerge victorious due to a en began to reach out their little fingersstrategic plan of attack. _Ve she' are to tease our "smellers," we began tothankful for "Izzy's" bright and sunny believe that there had been an ulteriordisposition, 'cause it could're been great- motive behind Mr. J's previous snack.ly dimmed, considering the dust that was He knew in advance what good cooksthrown her way. Susie Senter and "'Izzy" were, so he fig-

Not only were we greeted by a Wave ured if he 'could fill us up beforehandin Mr. J's boudoir, BUT he had erected he'd have a head start on us. We admita swing, a hammock, and a little game that was a pretty smart move, but wefor us to play. We were treated quite fooled him. Although we could're eaten10ts more had we not been "stuffed" be-royally, fore, we just weut ahead and "stuffed"

Confession time has come. The Wave some more! _rithout a doubt, we allwas only cardboard, and I think she was agree that we'd like to adopt both Susiesellln' Coca-Colas! and "Izzy," put them in our pockets and

Every one had been sitting around take 'era home with ns. They are trulysinging, convcrsin', messin', and mostly masters o_ the culinary arts. Mr. J'sjust taking life easy and concentrating sister also deserves orchids for l_er con-on working up a ravaging appetite when tribution of delectable potato salad. ItBingo! We were pl;esented with an in- really hit the spot. _re have Mr. J'sbetween snack. Snack, did I say? It mother to thank for "undressing" thewas practically equivalent to a four- little chicks. All six of them! Thesecourse meal. Of course, we couldn't are mentioned because we do not wantcontrol ourselves, even with fried chicken him to have ALL the credit for achievinglooming in tbe near future, which, inci- such party perfection.dentally, had been called fish for a week. Have you ever tasted any "gold Juice?"Now I ask you--could you, with all these You've heard of "cow juice," I know.palatable confections before you? Cheese, Well, we had "gold juice." How it waspickles (sour and sweet), olives,potatochips, cheese crackers, assorted nuts, managed we do not know. One just doesginger ale, lime ricky, and lemonade. Ah, not ask suck questions. _re do kuowsweet misery of life especiallyon a full, that we had access to a whole crate offullstomach, bottlecokes! We reallydevoured them,

As a "refresher" course, "Pee Wee" too.Peacock kindly contributed her share. To make the end of a lovelyday love-.EveLT one found themselves being at- ller,what de you think? We had home-tacked hy an "icebarrage," thanks to the tnade devil'sfood cake with chocolate"Runt." She can put more ice down icingan inch thick! She' was good.

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At this point we would like to make We truly miss Thelma Parham whopublic our two and only complaints. We worked with us a short time while herjust didn't have enough room for all the husband, Tom, was stationed here. Thel- _.good food that we wanted to eat (we ma has gone back to her home in Georgia :.only made gluttons of ourselves as it is!), to live now that Tom has gone overseas, iand last, hut not least, we wish we had Fthe vocabulary and the ability to express Martha Goldston of Goldston hasour appreciation for a day full of fun joined our crew and we're mighty glad _:and good eats. We really had a merry to have her. with us. ;._time, Mr. Jones. Thanks a million from c-"Mama Chick" and all the little "Chicks." Ellen Watser's husband, First Lt, Ray- :

mend F. Walser, who is stationed ill Eng-land with the Eighth Air Force's 55th

0USTOM_R_ A000UNTIN_ Fighter Group, has received the AirDEPARTMENT Medal and an Oak Leaf Cluster for "meri- ._ "torious achievement in aerial combat

By DORIS SCOGGIN oyer Germany." He is a pilot of a P-51Mustang. _.

We extend our sympathyto BettyWheeless, whose brother,Raeford Whee-less, was killed in action on Okinawa on _,June1.

Caroline White, who was formerly one

of our cash-posting clerks, brought herlittleson, Jimmy, by to see us the other

day.

We are glad to report that Mary Good- .iwin is home recuperating after a recent -_

operation. !

Margaret Buffaloe and Anne Sprinkle .!_spent most of their vacation at home and Creport a line time.

]L¢. Raymond F, _Valser Is shown receiving theMarvin Stubbs. found plenty of time Air Mt_]al f_m Lt. Col. Rlshetfl, commandingon his vacation to get in some tennis, officer Ot the ]b_ishtl_, _LIr Force's 55th _Ighter _-_-i

Incidentally, Stubbs ezitered the tennie Group. ._

tournament that was held here recently Sorry, that's all for this month, folks. _and made quite a showing. I thought I would have a picture of the

girls in Mr. Stubb's office who went toMary Usry paid ue a visit recently. Wrightsville Beach for the week-end re-

Mary's husband, Sidney, has gone to the cently, but they decided they would make_Vest Coast to await further orders, more profit by showing the picture at five

cents a look.

E. L. Perry took a few days of hisvacation to get his spring cleaning done,which consisted of some painting and ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTquite a bit of lawn-cutting.

By HILDA BARBOURThe Customers' Accounting Depart-

ment is enjoying a visit from auditors Congratulations are in order for D. E.Shearin and Jones. Stewart for the fine job he has done in

the Seventh War Loan Drive. He hasSgt.CliftonPowell isstillstationed in given a lot of time to this work which

England and writes that he is getting has been a real success.along fine, although to him there is anplace like the good ole USA. Excitement! That's what we had when

Capt. Ward Hill arrived in the U.S.A_Mr. Phillips recently attended a Na- We were all happy along with Dot, and

tional Office Management Association she could hardly wait to see her won-meeting in Greensboro. derful husband. She met him in New

York where they spent two weeks andMary Richardson, one of our smiling then on to Virginia to visit his family.

tellers, has been transferred to Mr. Pape's Ward is a former employee of the Corn-office. We miss you down here, Mary, pany and was associated with the Legaland hope you will like your new work. and Right of _Vay departments for sew

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eral years, and we're especially looking Virginia really had a nice trip. I betforward to a visit from him before his lets of us would llke to have been with30-day furlough is over. By the way, her.this is why l'm pinch-hittlng for Dot thismonth. Mrs. Correll reports a nice vacation at

home and at Wrightsville Beach.We welcome to the Personnel Detlart-

merit Sara Steed, who comes to us fromthe Farm Security Administration. Here's PURCHASING DEPARTMENThoping you like us as well as we likeyou, Sara. We'll have Sara's picture By RODNEY E. COOKready for yea next month.

We welcome to theMr. Stallings went on a most enjoy- Purchasing Depart-

able flsiling trip a few weeks ago. Guess merit Eva Warner,how many fish he caught--well, I'll let who joined us Juneyou ask him. 13. Eva is quite an

• ambitious and attrac-Seems quite unusual, but almost every tire girl as you can

one in tile maih'oom had a birthday last see from her picture.month--no ages, please. We sincerely hope

she will be with usHllda Barbour celebrated her third for a long time and

anniversary with the Company last will like us as muchmonth, and Mrs. A. B. Goetze her 1$th. f as we already like

her.We were glad to see Frances Marley, E_.a

who is now employed in Washington, andRuth Bullock of Charlotte when theypaid us surprise visits recently. Beginning with the

next issue, your con-Now is the time for us all to be going tributing editor will

to the beach, and it seems that lots of be Reba Stancil.the girls have already been. Charlotte There is no need toWeeks reports a most enjoyable week- tell you about Reba,end at Myrtle Beach recently. 'cause most every one

The charming young lady knows her. I am surewho is with us while Dot Hill Reba will keep youis away _ Peggy Brown. She posted on the doingsis a Raleigh girl and was grad- of this department. Rebauated from Hugh MorsonHigh School last month. We're H. 1t. Rickman and family spent a

I'egg)"B_,_.lt so glad to have you, Peggy, week at Beaufort. He has a very good

and hope you're enjoying your case of sunburn--but give us time, we'llstay-with us. get a tan later. 11eba Staneil spent four

days at Carolina Beach during June. TheVirginia Combs spent a month recent- remainder of the time was spent with

ly with her brother, Lt. Edwin L. Combs, her family in Rocky Mount.and his family on _Vhidbey Island, Wash-ington, where he is presently stationed Now that we've talked about vacationsat a Naval air base. While out there and said the hello's, it is time to sayVirginia became an aunt for the second good-bye! Yes, I imagine when thistime. She already has a nephew and comes off the press this contributing edi-this time it was a girl, so Aunt Virginia tor will no longer be a member of theis very proud. On her trit_ she made a C. P. & L. family. It seems like only"circle" tour of the country, going the yesterday I was "adopted" into the faro-northern route through Chicago and the ily! The past year and a half with theGlacier National Park and coming back Purchasing Department has been mostdown the West Coast through California, pleasant. If I knew some 75-cent wordsthe deserts of New Mexico and Arizona, that Mr. Kimball uses I might be able toand on through Texas and Louisiana-- express my feeltngs toward each persona distan_ce of some 8,000 miles and cover- in not only this department but through-ing 23 states. A stop-over was made in out'the whole Company. I know youLos Angeles, and she caught a brief, have been annoyed when your ordersglimpse of Hollywood and other points were late, but since we are the end ofof interest. A short stop-over was made the line we had no one but Uncle Samalso in New Orleans. where she visited to pass the buck to, and he didn't mindthe famous French Quarter of the city. adding our troubles with the many more

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he had. However, I hope next year it glowing report of New York, she sawwill all be over and everything will be the lights, but from Doris' Just as glow- _running along even smoother than tn pro- lng report, she didn't see a single one. _war days. To all of you in Raleigh and Doris went to visit her "Bill's" family in ithroughout the system, come to "615" New York and saw only BIll from whatwhenever you can and meet the Put- we gather! Who blames her! Youchasing Department crowd--they are won't catch me being sour grapes just _ireally a grand bunch of people and al- because I haven't seen my husband 1_ _.,ways ready to help and with a smile, too. 27 months. _

Margaret Marshall spent two weeksGENERAL ACCOUNTING with her Dad in Mississippi and reports :--i

DEPARTMENT that state is still her favorite. I. L, _iJones walked in one morning about four i=_

By ALICE FILLEY shades darker than he was when he left. _He spent his vacation at V_rightsviUe

We have a belated case of spring fever Beach. _in the Accounting Department, and it can" __|he accounted for by the fact that you Even in this period of desired inac- _cannot get into our office without running tivity, some of our folks are still havinginto dividend preparation and more birthdays and July seems to be a very _stockholder exchange tabulations, and, of popular month. Here's proof: Adacourse, scattered among the desks are Daughtry has a birthday July 3; Gordon _payrolls, bonds, postings, fixed capital-- L. Jones, 9; Carl G. Willard, 9; Mary _and--well--everything else the Account- Hatcher, 12; Minnie Te_'rell, 15, anding Department does. The work is O.K. Chariie Cartwright, 22. Happy birthdayand we are taking care of it, but the to all of you, and don't worry--we are _thing making the picture different is va- not going to guess at the number of-cations. Don't jump to conclusions; we candles. _

love them! If they affected us in only Congratulations are in order for Anna-one way the situation would be well inhand, but as we have to do things differ- belle Gill and Fitzhugh Batts. Annabelle _

ently, they affect us three ways. Most of has just completed her first year of serv- _us are going on vacations--work gets ice with the Company, and Fitzhugh isharder day after day; many of us have beginning his twentieth. Yep, he likes =_the place heaps, and if I am any judge, _just returned from vacations---draw your the feeling is mutual. :_own conclusions here; and th_ rest of us •

are anticipating out'vacations and count- We had a card from Millard Wildering the days. Enough said! the other day and we learned that be is

Anyway, folks, even with all this hot now in Germany. You see, Millard hadweather and interference we would like to be different from the rest of us; heto say "Hi" and happy vacation to you! wanted to celebrate V-E DaY on Hitler's

front steps!Since vacations are our theme right

now we must tell you about these folks Don't be surprised any time you hearof ours who have recently had their vaca- of Mary Edyth Britt, bringing her week-tions, t_lost of them reported "stay-at- end bag to work with her. It will meanhome" days, and strangely enough they only one thing--she will be meetingenjoyed them. Poe Holder left, telling Frank for the week-end. About twoabout all the gardening he was going to weeks ago she met him in Richmonddo in a week. He came back with a tan and has been beaming sunshine since.he acquired by sitting in the shade and She says she thinks Richmond is won-gave the report, "Whew! Too hot to derful; we know Frank's being therework!" Don't tell Poe, but we knew it had a lot of infuence on her opinion.all the time. "She loves that man!"

Fitzhugh Batts left, saying nothing ex-cept "so long," and he came back saying That adage "sweets to the sweet" is"Hi." That's all--you see Fitzhugh be- very fine, but we have found that evenlieves in not having too much to retract it can be over-done. Candy Wyatt cameand practices what he lets somebody else traipsing in the other morning, or per-preach for him. From what we could haps I should say swaggering. Whengather he had a wonderful week, but we calmed her down enough to get herdidn't work alick. Just listened to "Lure to make sense, we learned that she had'n' Abner." just received two rolls of films and two

boxes, yes, I repeat, two boxes of candyDoris Williams and Anne Jenkins went from her boy friend. Now I call that

to see bright lights, or rather they went too much to happen to one person, butwhere the lights were. From Anne's it did. Candy, if it is a peace offering

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:. from him. how about making him mad Hugh lsley automatically becomes amore often? member of the Board of Governors in

his capacity as first past president.Floye _Vatktns is an apprentice sea-

man at Hunter's College now, and from Hugh Isley had a very strenuous butwhat we llear she is full-fledged Navy! productive trip to Atlanta on June 20She likes it fine and says: "When I come to attend a one-day conference of theback I will be able to do the carrying Sales Section of the Southeastern l_lec-of adding machines any place they need tric Exchange. The train was late andbe taken. Will probably be able to pick the meeting started immediately uponup a tile cabinet full of 'stuff' and cart his arrival and adjourned just in timeit down to the file room. You really for him to catch the "train back to Ra-have to be 'super-duper' to take what leigh, but Hugh says it was worth it.they dish out. So far I have." Incidentally, Hugh had a birthday on

June 9. Congratulations and manyA. B. Mbns bas ahnost forgotten her happy returns!

operation although she hasn't returnedto worl¢: She is at home now, recuper- Murray Bird's latest announcement isating on the side. We are glad she is that he will soon be numbered among thefine and we are looking forward to hay- Company's rural customers. He and

, ing her back with us. Mrs. Bird have bought a suburban home_: with several acres and are full of plans_: for this new venture. They will not_ SALES DEPARTMENT move until late fall, so details of their

By LOUISE SWAIM plans will not be divulged until then.

Dorothy Reynolds, daughter of RossSomething Special was asked for by H. Reynolds and student at Woman's

A1 Barrett for the June issue of The College in Greensboro, North Carolina,Spotlight. In making notes on the hap- Is home for the summer. Mrs. Reynolds _penings of the Sales Department for the remark would probably be "Home? Oh,month, it turned out that "Red" Pope's yeah!" because Dorothy's vacation in-name appeared more often than that ofanybody else. So, "Red" and "Red, Jr." volved a trip to Nags Head, then servingare our features! as counselor at Vade Mecum girls campnear Pilot Mountain. There are two ses-

sions of the camp and Dorothy plans to"Red, Jr.," underwent a successful ap- be there for both periods with another

pendectomy at Rex Hospital on June 19-- trip to the beach in between. We wishso successful that he was entertaining for Dorothy a wonderful summer beforehis host of friends (plenty of girls in- pitching into hard work again during hereluded) in a matter of only a few days. junior year at college.From then on his room at the hospital

was the hangout for the crowd, with On June 4 Lt. Gee. E. London (USNR),"Red" acting as master of ceremonies.He is getting along fine and by the time in his usual unhurried manner, paid thethis issue is released he wilt be up and General Office a real visit. He didn'tknow where to, but he was on his way:_ at 'eul.

. . . and seemed anxious that he notmiss an issue of The Spotlight. Here's

Several items have appeared over a hoping this issue catches up with himperiod of years about "Red, St.," and without too much delay. We will lookhis trips to Chicago. to attend the meet- forward to a letter telling us of his newings of the Publl_ Utilities Advertising assignment, i.e., as much as he is allowedAssociation. So on June 4 he went toChicago and this time was elected Presi- to tell.

dent of the association. A very compli- A surprise visit from Sam Weimer onmentary article appeared in the Raleigh June 19! Sam looked well and was en-

_:_• News and Observer and lots of news- thusiastic over his new job with thepapers on the system, giving the historyof "Red's" activities with the P.U.A.A. South Carolina Power Company in Co-

_ lumbta. We are looking forward to_: The members of the Sales Department_. join his other friends in expressing sin- seeing a copy of the first edition of their-_ cere congratulations on receiving sucli ' employee magazine, which Sam is editing._'_ a high honor. Of course, he gets The Spotlight everymonth.

On June 4 tbe Raleigh Lions Club --_--held its annual election and "Red" Popewas elected as one of the vice-presidents BUY ANOTHERof that organization.. : . Paul Lymanwas also elected "vice-president . . . and BOND TODAY!

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DISTRIBUTION & SERVICE been transferredto the garage. She is

DEPARTMENT stillIn the D. & S. Department, how-ever, so we haven't really losther. In

By R. S. MARTIN fact,she drops in every day or two. _Vemiss you. Hettie, and hope you'llcon-

To those who know his dad, no intro- tinue to visitus.duction of the young man shown in the ......photograph below is necessary, but for- Ruby Stancil,our ._the benefit of the newer employees we n ewest employee,introduce Jimmy, son of "Pete" and has taken the deskLouise Bazemore. vacated by H ett ie

Stallings. R'a by isJimmy has made quite a name for him- f r o m J o h n s t o n

self in local sports, especially in basket- ," County, and received .ball. Those who have been reading The her secretarialtrain-Spotlightwillremember how he, as cap- ing at Hardbarger'staln, led his team to victory. Secretarial & Buni-

On May 29 another honor was con- hess School. Immedi- _.ferred upon Jimmy when good Citizen- ately after complet-ship awards were presented to outstand- lug her training she _-ing members of nine Gra-Y clubs, two joined the C. P. & L.Junior Hi-Y clubs, and two Senior Hi-Y Ruby family. Maybe we'llclubs, as the membership met for the • have her photographannual rally at the Raleigh YMCA. More iu tile next issue, we couldn't get one this -_than 400 grammar school and high school time. All of us welcome you, Ruby, andboys attended, hope you'll be with us from now on. r_

In addition to being a recipient of theGood Citizenship Award, Jimmy was We are happy to report that W.P. _"electedpresidentof Hayes-Barton Gra-Y, Kirkpatriek, primary meter tester,afterand took the oath of office on the night several weeks illness is up and about, -_the medal was presented, though still unable to return to work. :

! The boys from overseas are beginning Ito come back and the girls who havehusbands in Europe are so excited they :_can hardly contain themselves. AgnesSmith, meter tester, is the latest MrS.Lucky. Her husband, T/4 Sgt. James A.., _!Smith, returned from Italy on June 8 _after 38 months overseas. Let's hope the _yellow men will soon be convinced their _-fightis hopeless. Then all the boys canreturn.

Haywood Death

In the death of William T. Haywood ofMount Gilead on June 20, after an ex-tended illness, the Company sustained a

• great loss,which is keenly felt by allJimmy Jimmy's Award employees whose pleasure it has been to

Despite the recognition he has received, be associated with him over the years.Mr. Haywood came with the CompanyJimmy is extremely modest and self- in the latter part of 1921 and for severaleffacing, just like Pete. It was only after years was connected with the Engineer-several months effort that we obtained ing Department in land survey and thehis photograph, location of transmission lines. Major

Congratulations,Jimmy; we're proud projeotson which he was responsibleforof you. the establishment of flow line contours

were the Buchanan Shoals and TilleryOur sympathy goes to Evelyn Bllnson, developments, which required the utmost

meter tester,whose husband, Cpl. Darius skilland adaptability.M. Blinson,was reported killed in action He went from the Engineering to thein Germany on March 16 by mortar fire. Right-of-way Department about 1930,Corporal Blinson was a member of a since which time he was engaged in vari-reconnaissanceuni_ of the 101st Cavalry ous and intricateright of way and flow-of the Seventh Army. land problems looking to the best inter-

ests of the Company.We've lost another employee in the It goes without saying that Mr. Hay-

office. Hettie Stallings, steno-clerk has wood will long be remembered.

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i and we think he's tops. No matter when

i S th I you call or how busy he Is, Hardy isi O ]._ e r n always nice, porte, and co-0peratlve,

Speaking of fishing--two more names

- can be added to our Company's membersFLORENCE of the Isaak Walton Club! Geddie and

.Johnny Riehards had a gala day not, too_" By COLEMAN HARRIS long ago down at Santee Cooper. Ac-

cording to their reports they caught a._ Johnnie Richards held his seventh and total of 91 and said the fisllweighed

final nleeting on Customer Relations in so much they ahnost turned the boatthis series for tellers, clerks, and meter over. We didn't see any evidence exceptreaders in the Southern Division, May 29 the broad grins on their faces for severaland 30, at tile P&M Care in Florence. days after, and even now when any oneThe following girls attended: Ruby Bttr- speaks of going fishing they have thathie and Audrey Powell of Hal'tsville, "far-away" look in their eyes.Margaret Norton of Mullins, Mildred -

Lane and Sara BaBentine from Marion. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Aycoek and son,Odeil Paurrows and Bee Carraway of Sonny, are spending this week at MyrtleKingstree, Rachel Whitehead of Lake Beach. We hope they have a grand timeCity, and Doris Atkins from Dillon. We and don't get that unpopular shade ofthink these meetings will have good re-suits not only from what can be learned pink that is so prevalent at the beach.on the subject, hut also from the con-

Business has been picking up latelytacts made. among the personnel of ourCompany. in our offices,and we have been glad to

see so many of our friends in. Amongthem have been J. A. Jones, W. R. Dear,Pete Bazemore, Stuart Martin, P. E.

! Davis, E. B. Hicks, H. O. Drennan, andJ. T. Piper. By the way, just ask Hickswhat was all the commotion about hisrunning around looking for his pants.

We've just learned that Capt. BillBaruwett, formerly with our SaLes De-_partment, has just returned to theUnited States after having been overseasfor the past 34 months. We hope tohave some pictures of Bill and be ableto tell you some of his experiences bythe next issue of The Spotlight.

These 1Ire the twoYoung dttughteg8 of31r. and .31re. S. ]3.IVieker of Ilartsvlne,S. C. --Rulil, left,_tttd S_r_h, right._Vleker is trans-ml_qtoll line foremanin llartsvlUe.

'_ or. T. Piper of the Raleigh Garage and_ R.W. Shorter of our Garage here in .

Florence made a recent survey of our.._-_........... _'- " _. ....... Division.

llere Is Kay nh,lmrds, the beautiful littledaughter of 31r. und Mrs. Jolnmy lliehards. F'or the past "few weeks George H.Kay has Just finished the first g_tde. Ti_Olllas has been in our" vicinity securing

right of way for the new Florence-MarionHardy Russ, so we've been told, wasthe envy of all his friends the other day II0-KV line.when ha'pulled in'a 12-pound rock bass. --_-We believe Hardy must be as good afisherman as he is a Substation Operator, "$tUY WA_ ]_0ND_"

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MARION Clelia Allen and Frances Wesley spentthe week-end at Myrtle Beach and came

By MARY BETHEA back with a "flame-tint."I

On Friday, June 1, we had a get-to- Cora B. Cook spent Fatller's Day with i Igether supper which had a double put- her father in Denmark.pose. First, it was to welcome ArchieHanna, lineman, who was transferred It was a pleasant surprise when Alicefrom Hartsville; Smith Barber, ground- (Rowell) and Jimmle Ipock from Rex-man; and Sara Ballantine, meter reader, bore stopped by to see us. They wereSecondly, it was to say good-bye to W. both looking fine and it was certainlyR. Mttrray, who was our local manager nice to see theln. Please come backin Dillon but has been transferred to again real soon.

Troy, N. C. Every one had a good time, _but there was a note of sadness at Mur- Visitors from the armed forces includeray's leaving. We wish him well and Roy Raiues, Jr., of the Navy; Gordonhope he will find time to come to see us Lane, of the Mercbant Marines; Milton ':often. The girls in the Marion office pre- Lane, of the Navy; and Lt. Col. W. B.pared tile supper and it was really fine, McCall, the writer's nephew, who flew _:"the menu being fried chicken, potato fronl Naples to New York in 20 hours ,:salad and cherry pie, etc. My! My! Tom after having served with the Fifth ArmyEctor, Shorter, Jm'ry Cook, and McGowan for 30 months. The writer was somecame over from Florence, and Dick Whit- excited, as she did not know in adyancetington, who is still on the sick list, was that W. B. was on the way home. _.

with us too. Dick is almost well now _11and will be back with us soon. We were glad to have the following E

visitors during the month: Marvin-J

Hanna has found an apartment, but Stubbs, who honored us for the first :_

D. R. Bostick is still looking for a house, time (we gave him some catfish water ._He had better hurry up, 'cause Charlie so he will return), Paul E. Davis, D.L. 'iand Ellen Guirkin will move in on him Cannon, R. S. Martin, George Thomas,

July 1. F.C. DeWeese, J. A. Archer, and last, ii_-' but not least, S. Paul Yecker. ._

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Our "Din-up" boy is l:_Ens. 31erson Scott. Jr.. [_

who flies a S_SF nl_e. [_

Sarah Carter and Doris Atkins frontDlllon, Margaret Norton and Mary Sue tiMartin from Mullins, and Mildred Laneand Sara Ballantine from Marion attend-ed Johnnie Richards' school on May 23and 24 and May 29 and 30. Three at-tended each school. They report a fineschool. Said itwas the best one Johnnie

had had. They got lots of help, andhope some time they can go to another Ione.

This group of girls eall themselves "n. R. l_s-We thank Cooper, Broadwell, and tick's harem." Left to right: kn_llns, ,3laity

Markham for helping us with our tele- l_ee seott ttnd Mndred irene; standing, Sartt ]_tllanllne0 Cor_ B. Cook, Mary ilethea_ Francesphone confliCts and radio interference. Wesley, and Clelitt .Allen. [i

Mary Bee Scott spent part of her vaca- Mildred Lane was our representative Itton at Ocean Drive where she _oined her for the bond drive on Friday, June 15,brother, Earle Scott. Earle came back and she really "went to town." She soldby to see us. He is a recruiting officer 35 bonds during the day which amountedfor the Navy. to $1,775. We are very proud of her

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record and believe she would have rated HARTSVILLEa prize if the number of bonds sold in-stead of amount of money involved had By DOT CAMPbeen considered. Hers were mostly small,$25 and $50 bonds. "Beat with the heat"--that's us folks

down Hartsvllle way. It hasn't gottenus down yet and we refuse to let it do

CHERAW so. we just sweat it out and are look-ing forward to our vacations. Several

By PATTIE POSTON of the folks have already taken a weekof theirs. They Just couldn't wait any

Pattie Poston spent the week-end of longer.June 9 in Columbia, S. C., attending thehigh school graduation of her niece, Margaret Fincher spent a week in Co-Frances Stanton. lumbta attending a conference at Colum-

bia College. She reports a fine time ex~Lillian Townsend celebrated her seeohd cept for the fact that her roommate's

anniversary with the Company on June 7. name was Meta and Margaret was con-stantly reminded of her work.

Lillian Townsend, May Bundy, and R.B. Snell attended the school in Florence Ruby Barble spent her week at home,conducted by J. G. Rlchards. just taking life easy by swimming and

• sunning. We were all real envious whenJulia Grace Matthews spent several she came back to work with the nicest

days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. suntan. Ruby said. "See, you don't haveL. Matthews. to go to the beach to get a suntan. Ole

Sol is just as hot here as the beach."

B. W. Simonz and family spent a weekvisiting friends in Dunn, N. C.

Daphne Woodham and her sister vis-ited sister's in-laws in Rock Hill recently.

Hats off to our own Margaret Fincher!She was recently elected President of the

Billy J o It n s o n, nge Young People of the Pee Dee Presbytery.eight, _tnd Tommie Jehn-son, age eight montlls, Congratulations, and we she' are proudare the two sons of Mr. Of you.and Mrs. ,1ohn_l|e T.

Johnson of Cheraw. S.C. A ray of sunshine Is missing around

The employees enjoyed a very lovely our office, and the ray to whom we are re-[erring is "Rock" Tariton. Severalpicnic at the State Park Beach on Wed- weeks ago he fell from a 30-foot pole andnesday, June 13. The supper was pre- cracked his vertebrae. He was in Me-pared by Mrs. Matthews and enjoyed by Leod's Infirmary, Florence, S. C., for two

• all. H. G. Lee and family from Harts- weeks, but we're glad to report that he'selite were the only out-of-town guests, able to be up and about now. Course

Grace Scarboro and daughter, Marie, it'll be a long time before he'll be ableto work. We wish for you, Rock, ahave returned from a visit to her home speedy recovery, and we want yon toin Zebulon, N.C. know that we miss that smiling face of

yours and that sunny disposition.On May 22 the twin daughters of R.

B. Snell celebrated their fourth birthday The night of June 6 was "the night"and Tommy Matthews celebrated his sixth and one we'll never forget. "Boss" Leebirthday, and Mrs. Lee were host and hostess to

• a company supper given at their lovelyMessrs. Vecker, Ector, McGee, Hutch- home on Fifth Street. The honor guests

inson, Beekworth aud others from Flor- were Raymond Martin and his betterence and Sumter attended the 'funeralo[ half, Martha. Raymond was home onE. W. Lauey, fatherof Sterling and Bob leavebefore going overseas. We allcon-Laney. gregated on the l_ack lawn for supper.

XATordscan't express just how deliriousAuditors Miller and Jones paid us a the food was. There wasn't a bashful

visitduring the month. Other visitors one in the crowd and nobody re[usedfor'th.e month were S. P. Veeker, T.D. "seconds." "_he menu consisted ofEetor, Paul E. Davis, Stewart Martin, chicken salad, stuffed tomatoes, lettuce,J. T. Piper, and W. P. Lyman. pickles, olives, potato chips, rolls, tea,

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iice ereant and cake. What a spread, eh? We have enjoyed recent visits fromThat's just what we said. Mrs. Lee, in Febe and Olin Broadway, Jr. They both !our opinion, is tile best of cooks and we spent a week in Maxton. We, as welljust rate her as "tops." After supper as their little friends here, are anxiouswe played cords and Mr. Lee showed us for them to come back.his hobby--the most beautiful collectionof antique glassware you ever saw. A Betty and Chuck Pearce spent severalmost enjoyable evening was spent by all. days recently at White Lake. From all

reports they had a wonderful tints andwe are mighty glad Uncle Sam gaveChuck a llttletime off.

Lib Long of Roeklngham, a very popu-lar young lady with us all,helped us oatfor several days while Betty Pearce wasaway. We hope Lib wilt bring the girlsfrom Rockingham to see us some time.

W. 0. Jones and family are spendingtheir vacation at Myrtle Beach. Wright _missed a big storm in his territory while !away Maybe he is a good vacation

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D. L. Cannon and H. O. Drennan "Paid

us a visit recently. Mrs. Drennan and _i

Betty Jane returned to Raleigh with :_them after spending some time in Max-

ton with Mr. Drennan's parents.

TILLERY iiBy FRANCIS B. DUNLAPSttmmle Sue Lowery Is the attractive daughter

of Sir. and M_s. Henry B. Lowery. Sammie Sue Vacations have begun here. Parker !_was graduated f_Dm HartsvU|e High School in Dunlap and James Colson were the firstMay nnd plans to enter Coker College In the fall. employees here to have one. Both re- )

port rather quiet ones. James Craven =;_:i

_ ntral 1 and RObert Henly were the first guards_!_tOvacation. ,:_:,e William T. Ayeock, E_2/e of USN,

spent an afternoon visiting here withfriends. Bill, back from submarine ac-

MAXTON lion, looks swell, but he has had enoughof war.

By ANN MaeK1NNONEmployees here join the entire Corn-

Pat Patterson was lucky, and unlucky party in mourning the death of Mr. Wil-too, recently when he had a narrow es- liam T. Haywood, and our heartfelt sym-cape. While working in Fairmont clear- pathy goes to his family in their loss.lug up storm trouble he was hit by a car. Mr. Haywood will long be rememberedThe driver of the car drove directly for faithful service and his many fishacross the street hitting the company stews prepared for his friends.truck and Pat. An unlucky day because

Pat was skinned, cut, and bruised, but Lt. Louise Nash Dorsett, USNR, ofa lucky day that he was not hurt more Washington, D. C., spent a recent week-

seriously. We are mlghty glad to see end with her parents, Mr'. and Mrs. FrankPat stillon the job, even though he has M. Nash.a big black eye and several bandages.

Mrs. Benjy Nash and small daughter,We welcome Ernestine Burns to our Patsy, of Charlotte spent Sunday with

since. Ernestine is a Maxton girl and Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Nash.has worked here for several years with

the telephone company. We hope we will James E. and Mrs. Poe have returnedbe lucky enough to keep her for a long after spending several days in Tynertime. with Medlln and Mrs. Belch.

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ROCKI_NGHAM of our Division from the various offices.Each of, the three groups met for two

By MILDRED McLENDON days--one group on May 30 and June I,one on June 4 and 5, and the other on

The thm'mometer has tried Itself this June 7 and 8, Two of the groups weremonth. Itseems that itreached itsvery luncheon guests of the Rotary Club ofhighest, tiler Just as suddenly proved which June is a utember, and I mighthow "low-down" it could be! add that they received very flattering at-

tention from the members! _ft'_andThree separate groups of two were Mrs. Chandler had a party for each group

sent as representativesof the Rocking- on the evening they stayed overnight,ham Officeto Southern Pines for a study and every one had loads of fun playingcourse, directed by Mr. J. M. Phillips. skRtlee (and ifyou've never played skit-Each group returned better informed on flee,you just ain't llved!) and gettingthe subject,glad they had met some of acquainted. All in all,I think every onethe sisterofficeemployees, and charmed enjoyed attending the meetings and hadwith the new Russian game "Skittle" a good time doing it!that was the highlight on the programat Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Chandler's. It Joe Steed has added a new meu,ber towas quite nice of the Chandlers to ex- his staff,namely, Sta_tleyTobln. Stanleytend us such gracious hospitalityand isa l_ome-town boy and has already fittedinviteus over to theirhouse for a party, right in with the rest of the "gang."We shan't be forgetting the good timewe had. Monty Hicks paid us a visiton June 6,

the objectof which was to be guest speak-Wasn't that a beautiful cover on The er at the Kiwanis Club.

Sl)dtllghtlast time? We have senti-meutal reasons for especiallythinking Our recent bride,Dot Slarks, is nowso---since it is none other than our a "war widow." lye left for overseas(H. D.) "Herbie" Rowell "in action." last month.

Bight now "Chief" (H. M.) Cameron Here's where Isign off,and how"aboutand family are residing at the seashore, an applicantto thisad?

Mr. _V. B. Bourne took a week of his _VANTED: One Spotlight reporter. Novacation and spent itswimming and fish- experience necessary. No pay either;ing at "W'alou." The sun beamed down work one-half hour each month. Ion him and gave hint a flushed complex- repeat NO PAY, but just think of theion, but we think he's going to turn tan, enjoyment others will get out of read-much to our envy. lug your very own column! APPLT

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Mr. S. P. Vecker paid us an unexpectedvisit recently. 'Twas nice while it last- ASHEBOROed, but that was a ]nighty short visit.

By MAXINE BURROWMr. Sam Weimer called by to say

"hello" wheu passing through town on "Gertie" (Mrs. Gertrude Beeker) ishis way to Raleigh. He is now working gone, and we miss her. She is a "cas-in Columbia, S.C. ualty" of the war. She should receive

the Congressional Medal or a reasonablefacsimile thereof. She lost her cook and,

DIVISION OFFICES after a few days, the cries of two smallhungry children got the better of her.

By GEORGANNE AUSTIN She is new the cook. She is one of ourpostwar plans when maids become more

This will be the last column yours plentiful.truly will edit. , I've decided to becomea homebody. I'm gonna miss the gang. We are currently out of a janitor.but seeing as how I only live a couple Surely would be nice to have one onof blocks away. I can still pop up for a these hot days. We've offered the jobvisit! I've been trying to get some one to Mr. Frank Conyers from the Florence,to take over my Spotlight column, but S.C., office. He.could do it while herenot much luck so far. If you don't see helping round up right of way. Thisany news for the next month, you'llknow morning we tried to put a broom intowhy! How about using -some of your his hand so that he would help us sweep,powers of p.ersunsion,Al? hut that didn'twork. He said that he

was here to clean up Mr. Paul Davis'Jtlne Phillips conducted a series of dirty work--not ours. He must be ha,f-

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overheard him telling about "shooting thing• Sessions in the morning, lunch,the bull" for a farmer, and as scarce as more sessions in the afternoon, and thenmeat is these days, we don't believe the good soft chairs. After dinner all of usfarmer will like it when he finds it out. went over to the Chandlers and such t

lovely and gracious hostess and llost.We were glad to have visit us during That was the really enjoyable part of the

the month Messrs. Chandler, Howarth, "School."Joe Steed, and Paul Butler of SouthernPines, and Dan Stewart of Raleigh. SANFORD

We are taking this opportunity to ex- By VIRGINIA ALLENtend a hearty welcome to Dot Harper,Jewel Lucas, and Howard Allred. Dot Oh happy day! Summer is here andand Jewel are right-reading meter read- you know what that spells--VACATIONers and. are really doing a swell Job. TIME. Gracie is the first one to takeThe dogs like to chew on Jewel best, her vacation. She came by to see ushowever. We suggested equipping them last week and has the promise of a nicewith Jatos to stimulate their get-away, tan. Better make good use of the lastbut they say that no dog---or wolf--has few days, Gracie, 'cause you will soonovertaken them yet. Howard is learning have to start working instead of playingthe business, and is really catching on around.fast, Sure is nice to have you with us,Howard. Lt. Bill Windley paid us a call re-

cently. Bill was on furlough from CampWe were supposed to have a bunch Lee. He promised to bring little Ann

of pictures for you this month, line crew Joyce bY to see us, but the weather wasand all, but complications set in and we unfavorable and we didn't get to see her.didn't get them. Maybe next month, I We hope Bill and Ann will soon be backhope. again and can then bring Ann Joyce by.

Yours truly has been in the Troy of- Another visitor recently was Suzie.rice "filling in" for some time, but back Sue had been home (that is Liberty) forhome to stay now. I enjoyed it a lot. the week-end and was on her way backThose Troy people are really nice, but to Troy. Hurry back to se_ us, Suzie--there ain't no place like home. we are still missing you heaps.

We managed to Our "all-girl office crew," not iuclud-

capture this picture ing our manager, Mr. Gray. Ires recently i_of S1/c Way Iand completed the two-day course on Cue-(Sally) Newman, for- tomer Relations held in Southern Pines. _mer meter reader in Our "Professor" was June Phillips, and ._our Asheboro office, he is a good one, too. Our thanks to"Sally" is getting him. I feel sure that we all received aalong fine and we great deal of benefit from this meeting.know that he is doing We particularly enjoyed meeting thehis job well, girls and boy from the other offices. I

was not fortunate enough to attend theWell, school days one that the "boy" attended. Maybe I

are here again. We will have better luck next time.had no apples for the

sl/c Wag'laud teacher, but we gave We wish a speedy recovery for little(_|ly) Newman June Phillips our at- ' Tommy Fletcher, young son of our meter

tention and interest. We were thrilled reader, T. J. Fletcher. Tommy under-over the idea of "getting a couple of days went an operation on his eyes at Dukeoff"; but before the session ended those Hospital last week. Fletcher is hopingchairs sure were hard. Of course, we real- to bring him home this week, and weize the expense and e_ort the Company hope that he can and that Tommy willgoes to for these schools,or rather lee- soon be up and running around.tures and discussions, so there are nofunds left with which to buy soft seats. We welcome O. M. Alexander fromThe idea of public relations is something Vase. "Alex" is working with the linethat we all should keep in mind, so we crew for the summer months, and weare glad to be off to school. Eight of us hope that he will like it here with us.•attended, and from the reports of these,some had a fair time and some had a "Cousin Mac" and Page Choate havegood time. However, all enjoyed Mr. been securing rightsof way in our terri-and Mrs. Chandler's hospitality,vittles tory, and the people have been flockingand "skittles."The fellowshipwith the in wanting to know when we are goingemployees who attended was worth some- to build their line. Folks, won't it be

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wonderful when the time comes that We were glad to have J. A. Waddellwhen they want service, we can go right back with us for a couple of days.

i out and run the line for themY Among our plant visitors we find:Billy Joe Wlllett, son of W. F. Willett, Mary Baity, Sarah Baity, Louise Baity,is in Lutterloh Hospital. Billy Joe had Aretta Yarborough, Ruth Baity, J. A.his tonsils removed this morning, and he Phillips, A. J. Skaale, R. S. Talton, andtold his mother that he was ready to go M, T. Dunlap.home this afternoon.

Within the last week, if I am countingcorrectly, every member of the McNeillfamily has felt "puny." Mary managedto get to work this morning. Hope theywill all be feeling better long before thisissue comes out.

Dudley has moved his family to San-ford and they are living at 13 Park Road.Dudley had quite a time finding a place,and we hope they will like it fine.

Last but not least was the little hur-ricane or tornado we had yesterdayafternoon around closing time. I guessTm stretching that some, but I mean thatwind was buffing and puffing, and I'mnot kidding. No rain, but plenty of wind.It left quite a trail of lights out, trees on]lines and poles down. The crew was outuntil the wee hours of this morning."Alex" had quite a time taking some ofthe calls last night. He thought he hada nice job, but after the calls began pour-ing in, he changed his mind. Can't blamehim much myself,I know what itis.

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By PAULINE MOORE

Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Gennttson re-cently visited Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Mathis. Shown above ale BranSt Hackney, 81/e, _n

v*f Mr. _x_d Nllm. J. 5. Hwekne_-. and "D|x|e '_"Dixie" Marshall, S1/c, former resi- _arsban, SI/e, sen of ._|r. and _|rs. Z. s_rshedlo C

dent of Cape Fear, was the recent visitor Iat the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. John- _t" _" isou. "Dixie" says, "Cape Fear sure looks Lgood to me." NEWS AND VIEWS h

(Continued from Page 10) aClifton Palmer, C/M, who has justre- assignment in the "Recon" troop of this T

turned from Okinawa, spent a week with divisionwas drlvtng a "point" jeep for dMr. and Mrs. 0. A. Palmer. his section, u

After fighting through the Vosges aGeorge Allen and Son seem to have Mountains to the Rhine and ac_'ossthe p

completed their Job and have left us. Saar River, this outfit was forced to fall t_A_yway, we have all six of our low-press- back across the Saar before the German tl_ure boilersin good running condition, counter-attack launched on New Year's a_

Eve against thinly held positions vacated a_we are glad to hear that ¾rorthy by divisions joining General Patron's al

Pendergrass, Leo Buchanan, and Wilbur forces in the relief of Bastogne. They p(Clegg have been discharged from the held these positions in the face of Ger- e_Army by the point system, man efforts to break through and recap- m

ture Strasbourg. Later, they joined in• We are happy to add C. A. Watson, tire battle of the Saar Valley, crossed the fuJr., and Johnny Odom's names to our Rhine, and participated in bloody fight- culist of Cape Fear employees. Here's to ing, including the battle for Heilbronn, sy_you, boys! known as "the second Bastogne," these sh

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forces being cat off from the remainder in all the United States that failed toof the Seventh Army from April 7-17. meet the industrial power requirementTheir battleexperience ended neat'Augs- of the area.burg in Southern Germany. The logic of thisargument as applied

Private Thayer is taking life a bit to the bill before this committee runseasier now, being located at Geislingen, like this: "Go ahead and build anothera sizable town near Ulm in the Province valley authority white elephant and hopeof Wurttemburg. His outfitis stilloa [or another war to bailitout!""patrol" in this area, and it is rumoredthat they will remain in Germany on The Tennessee Valley Aathority_An i"'Occupational" duty. This may be Anti-Social Institution

changed, however. Before I leave this discussion of the

_;ergeaat IVmle Lacas Proomted Tennessee Valley Authority as a powerprojectI should llke to make the obser-

'_Velearned from a recent letterfrom cation that the Tennessee Valley Author-_Vade of his promotion to Sergeant. Keep ity is guilty of flagrant hypocrisy in itsup the good work, Sergeant--we're mealy-mouthed, holier-than-thou attitude

proud of you. of being "socialminded," of rendering a igreat social uplift to the community and -Sgt. William Stephens, brother-in-law to the Nation.

of Roslyn Goetz, recently was awarded I contend that the Tennessee Valleythree bronze stars. Authority isa downright anti-socialinsti-

•k lotion!

Sgt. Willard Dudley (Hartsvnle) How does the community and the Na-writes that he is receiving The Spotlight tion benefit when the Tennessee Valleyand how homesick it makes him to look Authority uproots 56,000 American ctti-at the pictures of people he used to work zeus from their homes, their livelihood,with. Sergeant, let's hope you will be their churches, their schools, their ances-here with us again before so very long. tral graves? How does the Nation benefit

as these thousands of dislocatedcitizensMISSING IN ACTION try to find new livelihoods and to mend

their broken livesin new communities?We recently read in the News and

Observer that Eugene Lee Oliver, Jr., How does the Nation benefit--particu-Mt. Gilead, Electrician'sMate 3/c, has larly in wartime, with the lo_s of 15 tobeen reported by the Navy Department 20 millions of dollars worth of badly =_as missing in action in the Pacific. His needed food crops? :_wife, the former Marian Candle, and In the fiscal year 1944 the Tennesseetheir son live at 708 E. Hargett Street. Valley Authority produced eight and a

half billionkilowatt-hours of electricity

--___ by its obsolete water-power methods. In ,_.the years to come that figure will be a

CONGRESSMAN MAY DEBUNKS TVA fair minimum annual production. Now(Continued from Page 6) the generally accepted figure on coal pro-

of the few that were ready for war on duction, sale, and distribution is that oneDecember 7. 1941. It is one of the few ton of coal creates one day of work forindustries that has always been able to one man. That means in mining, truck-meet all demands at all times. We've ing, rail haul, sales, and distribution,had our brown-outs---some due to short- The figure applies to coal consumed byage of water in the Tennessee River. steam electric plants also, because otherThe Tennessee Valley Authority fell types of coal must be mined with steamdown so hard that it would have been plant coal or the price would be distorted.unable to meet its war loads but for the In other words, the Tennessee Valleyassistance of neighboring and neighborly Authority's hydro program last year dis-private utility systems. Power was placed 3,171,142 man-days of labor. Per-transmitted to the Tennessee Valley An- haps that has been to the good duringthority by replacement from as far west these days of tight manpower. But whenas Texas and as far south as Florida, 12,000,000 men come streaming backand as far north as Cincinnati. There from overseas and start looking for jobs,also have been brown-outs to save man- every Senator and every member of Con-power and coal,but not because the pew- gross isgoing to be tremendously worrieder industry did not have the facilitiesto about the unemployment problem.

meet all demands. I say to you that every time we voteIt is pure conjecture of the most fancl- for a federally subsidized hydro project

£ul kind to assume that the area now oe- we are adding to the postwar unemploy-cupied by the Tennessee Valley Authority meat problem. NVe will be voting mensystem, had it remained in private owner- out of jobs just as surely as a judge pass-ship, would have been the one lone spot ing sentence on a convicted prisoner.

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And you will be voting for increased monies when Tennessee Valley AuthorityWork Projects Administration and made- current was switcbed into that city'swork doles. Last year steam power con- electrical system. That was 11 years ago.sumed $2,760,000 tons of coal. This is Tupelo had one textile factory then.the equivalent of 82,760,000 man-days There was a minor real estate boomof work tu the coal industry. There is a at the time, as the Tupelo folk were ledreservoir of honest labor that the hydro to believe that It would soon become apower advocates are constantly eating flourishing industrial city. But whatinto and would eventually destroy--with happened? The sad truth is that Tupeloa system that began to become progres- lost its only factory and now has none.sively obsolete 25 years ago. According to the census of manufae-

And lastly, I claim that the Tennessee turers, the average cost of power is lessValley Authority is anti-social because than 1_ per cent of the finished product.the spread of this type of Federal agency Only the light-metal industries find pew-is harmful to ergautzed labor. It is true er an important cost factor.that Tennessee Valley Authority workersare organised, that they bargain collec- Except for the artificial location oftively, that they maintain the outward aluminum industries for war purposes,appearance of organized unions. But there is no evidence that the Tennesseethe fact is that this show is a hollow Valley Authority has been able to luresham. Suppose Tennessee Valley Au- any new industries away from the pres-thority workers, bargaining collectively, ent establishment.cannot agree with their management. I hope and believe that the case againstWhat happens tlten? Nothing. For they the Tennessee Valley Authority could restcannot strike. Unions cannot strike at this point. It has been demonstratedagainst the United States Government, to be a flagrant failure in all of its pre-ss President Roosevelt made amply clear tensions to success. _Ve have spent ayears age. And without the right to great deal of money on a sort of labors-strike, to enforce their just demands, the tory experiment in water control and itunion loses its chief, almost its only has proven to be a failure. Logically,power, it follows that the Federal Government

Some professional union leaders, with should cut its losses and get out of thean eye to the union treasury more than to valley autherity business.

union rights, have been short-sighted Isn't One Failure Enough?enough to endorse the authoritarian sys-tem of river development. Tennessee But the case against creation of fur-Valley Authority has been glad to recog- ther valley authorities will not neces-nize the union for bargaining purposes sarily be closed on the basis of the con-and its employees have dutifully joined clusion that our first experience in aup. But the union under Tennessee Val- valley authority has proved a failure.ley Authority might just as well be a There are fanatical advocates of a set-tame company union, tain philosophy of government who would

How About Industrial Development? merely argue that we should profit bythe mistakes of the Tennessee Valley Au-But, proponents of Tennessee Valley thority and create better and finer au-

Authority have argued, Tennessee Valley thorities on the basis of that experience.Authority offers cheap industrial power; It is my purpose therefore to suggest thatits low cost will attract new industries to this whole idea of a virtually autonomousthe region. That's another propaganda corporation, with all the powers and ira-fallacy that Tennessee Valley Authority munities and privileges of the Federalseems to have sold successfully to the Government combined with all the pew-public, era, privileges, and immunities of a pri-

The fact is that cheap power is only vats corporation, is a misbegotten conceptone factor and generally a minor factor of the functions of government alien toin regional industrial development, the American system and detrimental toFreight rates, distance to market, avail- the process of democracy. It can proveability and wages of labor, local taxes, to be a cancerous growth, which in thethese are vitally important consider- end could destroy the system of govern-atious. Many industries would not re- meat as we now know it.mo_;e themselves from their present lees- I am reluctant to introduce such wordstion if you gave away the juice, as communism, socialism, Marxism, or

Tennessee has developed somewhat, even of totalitarianism into this discus-but only maintains its relative position sion. They are all misleading when ap-with its sister states which do not have plied to American politics. If we everTennessee Valley Authority power, have a totalitarian state in this country,

Mos_ of you will remember the fanfare whether it be a Communist or Fascist orand drum-beating a decade ago when the something in between, it will he a politi-city of Tupelo, Miss., held elaborate cere- cal ideology with a peculiarly American

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name and _an American adaptation. I ticularly the public services. The firstcertainly do not expect the Russian brand attempt in that direction he said shouldof communism to be introduced into this be in the electric power industry, which,country lock, stock, and barrel. The new of course, is indispensable to the livessystem is more likely to come into being and homes and industries of the Nation.if certain trends continue toward a Back in 1927 the electric industry hadgreater and greater control over lives of an lnvestnlent of $3,000,000,000. Hisindividual citizens by evolutionary pree- remarks on the subject were as follows:ess and piecemeal legislation, so that "We cannot hope to take over theafter a considerable period of transition whole $3,000,000,000 industry success-we will wake up one election day and fully, even If it were generally thoughtdiscover that the list of candidates on advisable to do so at the moment ....our ballet represents one party only. VCe But a scattered series of great generatingwill find that the citizen is a creature of plants selling their power within 300- !the state, and that the state is no longer mile radiuses might be expected to havethe creature of the citizen, a very considerable influence upon the ._

We in America who for many years extension ot public ownership to the

have teared the Communist Party as such transmission lines and the whole indus-need not, we now realize, have lost any try."

sleep over tile so-called Red menace. Again, in explauation of the techniqueLong ago the leaders of radical thought he would accomplish the socialism in thisin this country realized that the classical country, this writer explained as follows,approach of socialism to control the state and I quote:

--which is proletarian revolution--would "'[he very idea of saying to people thatbe impossible in the United States. you want government ownership of rail-

One of their leaders, a man whom I roads or electric power not because it.isshall soon identify, wrote .as follows lu eternally right, but because it is cheaper1927: for the workers and can be so proved,

"We have no caste system in this court- will be hailed by some as compromise ortry. We do not have quite the inferiority betrayal of socialism. But, as I under-complex of the European workers upon stand it, Lenin himself summed up eachwhich to found our philosophy. The situation by itself and met it as he could,workers of this country are climbing practically and pragmatically, and afterthrough marriage, the education of their that was done sat down to write thosechildren, and the like out of the prole- long, dry theses of rationalization prov-tarlat as rapidly as they can go about lng that Engels and Marx would havethe business .... The chances are against agreed."

the amalgamation in the near future of One more quotation from this prophetthese various class struggles into one and I am done and will reveal his name:against the whole profit system."

"The students coming from the collegesIn a lecture on the same subject the today can do something more than be

author declared himself in a book on- filled with wholesome and cleansing in-titled "Socialism of Our Times" as fol- dignation. They can he of enormous uselows: to the movement as government officials,

"The very subject transitional state starting in small and definitely workingimplies that we have accepted the alter- on the reasonable hope that in the coursenative of encroaching control in place of of another 10 years we shall have goe-the dream of cataclysmic socialism "which ernment control ot a much more definitehas engrossed people dissatisfied with the kind over our trusts, banks, and generalworld for so many years .... It is not industries; that there will be governmentpleasant to give up that dream of violent corporations operating and managing nottriumph. We are sensitive about it." only the Port of New York and Muscle

This man advocated a different strategy Shoals, but many other developments.than revolution. He said in the same There is a chance here for young mendiscussion: mot only to keep the liberal groups in-

"Our tong-time aim is the abolition of formed about the dirty work going onthe profit system for private use. Our and times and ways to prevent it, butstrategy is to make and take every op- also to look forward to careers of useful-portunity to prove that it works. We hess in executive positions, making themust force our experts on agriculture, government control over industry moretrusts, coal, power, subways, housing, adequate, pioneering in a field of essen-milk, etc., to tell us correctly which the tial importance .... "next steps are, and then take them and In these same writings this man whoidentify ourselves with their success." advocated the operation of the dam at

He urged as a first step toward nn- Muscle Shoals by a government COl'porK-tionallsmof allindustriesthat Socialists tion coined phrases which I believehadconcentrate on the key industries,par- never previously been applied in this

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country. This avowed adviser on the areS. must bow to its will. _ueh a zitn-Socialist technique to obtain control of atlon is a dangerous thing in a democ-the Federal Government then introduced racy. I can think of only one more seri-into our language the phrases _'power ous threat than that, which is the pro-authority" and for the first time spoke posal of Mr. Ickes that all regional au-of the word so well known now as "'yard- thorlties be placed under control of astick." political appointee, the Secretary of the

Now who is this seer whose words of Interior.1927 an([ 1929 have so prophetically It seems to me that instead of creatingcome true? Who is this lecturer who more valley authorities the proper Jobsaid that "one man with his eyes, ears, and of Congress today is to go into re-exami-wits about him inside the Department," nation of the merits of the Teuuesaee"speaking of the Interior, "can do more "Valley A_tthority, to clip its wings whereto perfect the technique of a control over it oversteps the bounds of congressionalindustry than a hundred men outside?" intent, and bring this vast sprawling

He is more tllan' a key figure in the agency to heel, responsive to the wishesPower Division in the Department of the of Congress. It should be made to pay"Interior in charge of research and plans, its way and it should be converted intoThe man who followed his own advice is a real flood-control project.none other than H. S. Raushenbush, once If there is any doubt in your mindsbarred from the payroll of the Depart- as to the direction in which the authori-ment of the Interior by a vote of the tartan road leads, I recommend as "must"House of Representatives because of the reading a new and profound book called,remarks I have now quoted. The Road to the Serfdom, which appears

Obviously the Tennessee Valley Au- in condensed form in the April Readers'thority was the first step in the direction Digest. It contains the observations oftoward total control of industry by gov- how we have defeated the forces of theerumeut, act only regulation but actual Fascist states while many sincere andownership and operation, earnest people in this country and Great

Britain have unwittingly accepted inBefore the Tennessee Valley Authority thinly disguised form some of the basic

usurped the electric utility field in that ideologies of those stat_. Between thebasin the rates and services of the local lines of every sentence one sees "thecompanies were controlled by duly elect- technique of propaganda of David Lil-ed representatives of the people through ienthal and other apologists for thetheir public service commission. The authoritarian state. I'm sure that Mr.electric industry as in the case of most Lllientha[ would hotly and sincerely denypublic utilities, like the telephone, avoid such intent. '[hat is how far we haveduplication of investment and increases gone down the road of acceptance ofefficiency and service, while decreasing these alien ideals _f government.cost under conditions of monopoly. Inrecognition of this fact the accepted prin- The contrast between the Tennesseeciple has been that in return for the Valley Authority method of determining

what is best for the citizen without con-privileges of monopoly the utility sur-renders to the public agency the final sultation with the affected interests andcontrol over its rates. This condition democratic methods of the Army. engi-has been very satisfactory in view of the neers in program planning is familiarrecord which shows that the national to every member of the Commerce Corn-average cost of electricity has decreased mitres o[ the Sen'ate. You all know howevery year in the last 50 with one yesr's district engineers call public meetingsexception--1918. When Tennessee Val- for discussion and planning of river-Icy Authority took over, however, it ob- control programs. Right here in Wash-tained monopoly, but as a Federal ageucy ington in recent weeks, we have seen therefused to submit to the regulation and Army engineers after public hearingscontrol by state public service commis- abandon the projectof a seriesof damestone. "Fhis is a practical example of on the Potomac River because of thehow Tennessee Valley Authority enjoys protest of the a_ected citizens. Thethe advantages of a private concern and Army engineers represent a method inthe advantages of a government agency the highest traditions of democracy onat one and the same time. It is able to the march. The Tennessee Valley An-sell power at an artificially low rate with- thority method is in keeping with de-out regard to interest or taxes, mocracy in retreat.

Already its impact has been felt in the The subcommittee will now stand inpolitics" in the State of Tennessee. As recess until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.

years go on it is inevitable that its politi- (Thereupon at 12:10 p. m. Thursday,cal power shall never grow less. The April 26, 1945, the subcommittee re-time will come when members of Con- cessed until 10 o'clock the followinggross who hoped to be elected from its morning.)

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E_pIoyees ol th¢ _a_m Power _ Light C_wan_ Lore M. As_'rEditor, FaA,_CES MILLER DORIS M. ATKINS

GEOItOIA_NEAUSTIN

VOL. IX JULY, 1945 _o. 1 C.B. AYcoc_:, Jx.N. A. BaANCH

M_IZ_E B_OW

A Dangerous Detour DoT CAMP

THE United States has been helping fight a world war A.D. CAB_IGHA_Lto crush a form of state socialism labeled Nazism S_xK W. CAusa-rwhich destroys the freedom and dignity of the indlvid- CoRx B. COOK

uaL While fighting this war to crush a vicious political llovN_r Cookphilosophy abroad, we have been actually laying the foun- Ro_r C. COOKdation for its counterpart at home. Edwin Vennard ofthe Middle West Service Compally, turns the spotlight H_L_t DAXLof fact on this contradictory situation and says: Do_m D_Nm

"There is a bill in Congress to create the Missouri R.C. DuBos_Valley Authority (MVA). MVA is modeled after TVA, MILm_EUM. E_tVINonly it is ten times as large. TVA Is the type of planned GLENN GREENI_economy referred to in the "Road to Serfdom.'" J.C. HXLL

"In Germany this sort of planned economy Is called ll_z,_x Mooaz HE_ta_znational socialism or Nazism. DOROTHY HILL

"If the MVA bill passes, it is almost certain that a Kx_E N. HOWA_pending bill to create nine TVA's covering the wholecountry will also pass. They will establish the planned HILbRED HIJ_CHINSeconomy of national socialism in the electric light and RUT/_ KNOTTpower business, and incidentally, TVA is In 29 other R.S. MAR_nXbusinesses. Local and states' rights are largely dis- H.D. MCDONALDcarded with the establishment of these Federal authorl- A_x _[AcK_t'_o_ties. To stop the spread of the TVA Road to Serfdom _IXL_ McLz,_vo_we must correct an erroneous public impression: J.S. M_rcm, F

"i. TVA is SUl_Posed to control floods, and yet TVA, EClZAS_-rH J. Moom_with its high combination dams, has permanently floodedwith reservoirsmore acres than were ever temporarily PAULINE _IOOREflooded by the biggest flood in history. _[ARGAR_T_[ORRISO_-_

"2, TVA is publicized as a financial success, and yet H_ssm Mo_TVA pays practicallyno interest(lessthan one-tenth of _V.I_._|URRAYone per cent) on the $800,000,000 of the people's money CO_A_ NICHOLSCongress has given it. Let TVA pay the market price on MA_OA_r NORTONthe money it is using and let it pay the taxes equivalent DOT PABKERto those paid by electric companies, alad TVA would have EVE_ Px_l_lg"to double its electric rates to break even,

"The fact is, TVA uses flood control and navigation MAlay S, PF_UESas a pretext to put the government into the power busi- DOROTr_Ypl_RRyness. Broadly speaking, there are two general methods Su_ PETTITfor developing America's rivers: Ar_c_ prr.r.wZ

"'1, The TVA method which involves the planned MRS, M. R, POINDEX-_,_economy. PA'rx-_POSTON

"2. The Army Engineers Bureau of Reclamation CL_. Rxo_Smethod. Do_is Sco_ox_

"One principaldifferencebetween them relatesto the M_ S_rr_manner in which the electric power is used. To preservethe integrity of the primary purpose for which a dam is W. C, SXtXTHbuilt by government, Congress should stipulatethat: Ru_H S_H_SO_

"'i.Electric power should be secondary and Incidental. OLIVE STRANGE"2. In all cases where flood control and power are corn- Louise SWAIM

bined In the same dam, there should be uncontrolled G_o_oz T_OK_m"sluices (holes with no gates) at a predetermined level. J_ TAYr_

"3. The power should be sold at wholesale rates with- DELA_¢_ TURLINQTONout discrimination, near the dam site, with all savings H.L. Wb_ll_passed on, under government regulation, to the public. RUTH Wx_-l'l$

"Under this plan the people derive all the benefits ofsound river development and avoid taking a big step B_ervz Loxs YOU_'¢along the Road to Ser£dom."

II

Take the case of John Smith, average body can work and earn and live in peaceAmerican: and comfort when this war is done.

For over three years now, he's been For a country can't he/p being, as abuying War Bonds. Putting away a good whole, just what its people are individu-eh, nk of his earnings, regularly, ally!

He's accumulating money. If enough John Smiths are sound_

Now suppose everybody in the Payroll their country's Rot to be!Plan does what John Smith is doing. The kind of future that America willSuppose you multiply John Smith by have--that you and your family will26 r_illi_n, have--is in your hands.

What do you get? Right now, you have a grip on a u_n-

Whywyou get a whole country that's der/u/future. Don't let loose of it for ajust like John Smith! A solid, strong, second.healthy, pro_gerousAmericawhereevery- Hang onto your War Bondsl