The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-03
POWER IS SOUGHT
 FOR RURAL AREA
Electric Line Proposed As Experiment In Cham
 bers County
(State Capital Bureau)

z MONTGOMERY, Ala, June 2.-Pe- i titions of Alabama Power company for
 extension of its distribution lines to 2 eeveral rural communities were heard
 By the Alabama public service commis-
 sion this afternoon. This rural cleo .tFic service was declared to be in the
 nature of an experiment, five points in
 Chambers county, Gardendale in Jef-
 ferson and Eclectic in Elmore having
 been selected.
 Edward A. O'Neal, president of the Alabama farm bureau federation, and
 Professor Nichols of the Auburn ex-
 tension service, appeared in favor of
 the projects, the matter of granting
 which was taken under advisement by
 the commission.
 Another petition of the power com -pany heard today sought permission to build a distribution line from a point on it's Carbon ll-Brilliant line 12h
 miles to serve Winfield and Guin. The commission also heard and took 9nder advisement the petitions of the
 Birmingham Electric company, seeking
 to make certain changes and abandon
 a portion of it's line on the old Tide ,--rater system.
 The petitions were supported by or dinances from the city of Birmingham ] approving the desired changes. They were taken under advisement. Cotton Case Set
 Another case was heard involving regulations governing concentration of : cotton. When the commission some T time ago ordered railroads to grant cot ton concentration privileges, it did not ! at the time provide uniform regulations ! governing the concentration of cotton 2 and regulations prescribed by the vari- E ous railroads have been so diverse that s the commission, upon request, has gone ls into the matter with a formal hearing. < This matter of cotton concentration { regulations, together with a petition filed by carriers seeking certain modi-
 fications of the commissions order in the cotton concentration case, will be heard jointly June 17.
 The petition of the Alabama Sand and Gravel company against the Louis vile and Nashville railroad, involving 1. rates on gravel from Montgomery to 1 points between Montgomery and Bir- | mingham was heard and taken under z advisement. The commission began hearing, which will be concluded tomor- i row, of two cases brought by the if American Panel and Veneer company, !, one involving rates on logs from cer- .g tain Seaboard Air Line stations to 1, Montgomery. the other the rate on logs ' from all Atlantic Coast Line stations
 10 Montgomery.
 Dogs Rabid-Six dog heads were ex-
 Examined for rabies ta the state labora- ntory today, four of which showed that asthe animals were infected with the dis ssease. One of the heads was from High wlgnd Home, the dog having bitten the aschild of A. J. Cato. The other three Apositiye heads were from E. R. Car Rn1on, Vredenburg; w. V. Hampton, Vida, and w. B. Fleming, Montgom- <eEy. A head from Dr. R. D. Reynolds, 1Ozark, was negative and a sixth head Efrom Dr. w. A. Blair, Brooklyn, was <received decomposed and could not be ssexamined.
 . Fair Buildings PIanned-Announce ement was made by the board of direc- s.tors of the state fair association today .sOf the appointment of a special com emittee which will direct the construc- afion of the buildings necessary for the
 state exhibition in Montgomery next
 fall. This committee is composed of l11. c. Cardinal as chairman, w. A. OEss w. w. OOC anu 4ucO
 hIeyer. The committee will plan the Building and supervise the construction sAxOrk
 q Disbursements Heavy - Disburse-
 ments of the state treasury for May, s1924, exceeded receipts for the month 1by approximately $16O,O0O, according ato figures today from State Treasurer
 Eeorge W. Ellis. The treasurer's fig
 nres showed further that disbursements flor the fiscal year throughout the s9nonth of May have exceeded receipts sby nearly a hundred thousand dollars.
 From October 1, 1923, to May 31, 1924,
 receipts were $17, 7,446, ,O86.9O, while for sthe same period disbursements were
 $17, ,542 2,311.1S. For comparison with Hast years figures, receipts for the same eight months in 1922-23 were h$14, ,3S6, ,337.26 and disbursements for
 the same period $14,557, ,16968p
 New Director On JOb-J. R. Shar-
 man, newly selected state director of
 physical education, reported to State
 Superintendent of Education John w
 Abercrombie for duty today.