The Coolidge examiner., 1934-12-21


talking point.
Much publicity has been given the
bills for the first month of service
after the city og Tupelo. Miss. be-
gan buying electricity wholesale
from the IVA 90 March /. 1884.
Among the examples cited were that
OF Reed Bros. who paid S2l025 for
6.5s0 kllowatt hours In January.
and. under the new rate we're able
10 buy 1870 kilowatt- hours Ia
march for si853s: the McIorau
Ice Cream company. who used near
~ - per cent more electricity IN
March than Ia January. yct paid n
bin approximately SO less In
March: and the Tupelo Cotton Mln.
which paid si.s4640 in March FOR
- per cent more current than II
paid S3.iSl-13 FOR In January.
ke,s Lish, Bills Please.
Residential customers were pleased
with similar slaShes In their bills.
According 10 Dr. Arthur +. Nor.
gan. engineer. college president and
educator. who IS the chairman OF
the board OF three directors appoint
ed to manage the IVA projects. the
rates are considered sufficiently
low 10 constitute an economically
feasible and desirable project when.
ever the demand Is such that the
market Is present which viii abb
sorb such large quantities over the
hours Of the day.
Therein lies the success or failure
OF iva: and therein lies the an.
swer 20 what relation the publicly
owned power and light plant viii
bear 10 the privately operated cen
iral station company ot the fu-
ture. The market viii have 10 be
found or created.
Before cheap power can mean
anything. and before Il can attract
any consumers 10 the area In large
numbers. erosion OF the soil by food
must be checked and farms must
be fertilized
Preparing the fertilizer plants at
Muscle Shoals and elsewhere. 20
supply the farmer with fertilizer
that he can afford. 10 rejuvenate bis
soil to a point where II win begin
10 produce, are forces under the a..
rection OF DR.. Harcourt A. Morgan
tno relation 20 the other Doctor
M0rganl. who Is a co-ordInator OF
agriculture and industry on the
IVA directorate. The third mem
Der is the youthful David f. LII
enthaI, who IS power director OF
the project. He Is a writer. a legal
authority on public utilities. and
a former member OF the Wisconsin
power commission.
important Questions
What they are going 70 do about
the harm that may come 10 other
sections OF the country If large
Industries and home-folks are per
suaded 10 move in masses into the
IVA territory, the directors haven't
explained. Also the question arises.
viii the government attempt TO build
up the loads at the other hydro-eiec-
tric projects in the same manner7
The Columbia river project alone.
when completed, viii have a ca
paclty more than f0ur-ifths that OF
the total OF all the hydro-electric
stations in the country two years
ago. The combined completed ca
pacity OF the Tennessee. Boulder
Dam. Columbia river and St Law
renee river projects viii be nearly
100 per cent Of the entire nations
1892 electrica, output. both steam
and hydro.
There are more than S17000,0O0.-
600 invested in privately-owned
electric station companies in the
Unixs< states. They have millions
of stockholders. How these will
be affected by government competi-
ton with private industry will de.
pend largely on the success or fail
ure OF the IVA.
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