The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1951-02-01

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would like for them to know tfaalx
service would be restored to-
every home in town just as so0us
as humanity possible-a nd Ia e
hopes this can be done by the
end of the week.
Mr.. East said current is being
worked section by section and
the reason why one home wilE
have current and another maEi
not is due to the fact that tfzesy
are on different circuit or trans
former.
He is expecting additional ousT--
side crews to come in, and help
with the work.
High Voltage Crews
2 crews who have been engag-
ed in building the high voltage
plant at Kosciusko were called En-
pm the emergency and are helpGmg,
restore electric service in HOLINESS
county. Others have come froaaR
Louisiana.
The work is being expedited lsg
short wave radio from the dis
trict MPL office in Duant.
Telephone Outlook
The telephone. outlook for fise
county is very bright considering
the extent of the damage.
The entire 12-mile line frons
Durant to Lexington is on iaae
ground at this writing. Practical
ly all of the poles are broken. Taas
entire line will have to be me-
built. The same is true for Hfze
entire district.
According to j. H. Fleming,
manager of the Greenwood dig
trict which includes all of HOLMES
county, the Durant-LexingtnR
line is expected to be rebuilt Big
Thursday of this week wExiese
will restore limited long distance
telephone service to LexingsHrs
and T hula and surrounding
areas.
Mr.. Fleming accompanied by I.
F.. Ulmer, district traffic mann
ager, both of Greenwood paid &
visit to The Advertiser office to-
day and m ade the foregoing
statement.
H. H. Padgett, district pIanE
manager, and Fred Downing
district engineer. also of Green
wood, are in Durant directing faAe
gigantic reconstruction job un-
derway in this whole section
Mr.. Fleming
Manager Fleming said truck
loads of materials are coming ssa
hourly by rail and motor ex-
press to do the job of restoring
telephone service to every sub
scriber as soon as possible. There
are q two-men telephone repsar-
crews each with trucks and lsS
construction crews each of five
men or more now here working
on reconstruction.
Over 100 telephones were plac-
ed back into operation today
Monday in Lexington but theres
are still about 600 out. 1t is hoped
to clean the city phones up THIS
week or by the first part of nexS
week.
Rural lines will be worked ~
quickly as possible, Mr.. Fleming
said. Watch the FEBRUARY 9th edi-
ton of this paper for a later
statement from Mr.. Fleming IN
regard to the telephone sitGation-
Schools Closed
Schools are expected to resume
shortly-as soon as power can be
restored. "a
In Lexington it is hoped tos
have wer restored t o tn e
schools Tuesday, February 9TH
School has been out here since
February list.
| Other Towns
Electric service is expected tc
be restored to West. PlckenSv
Goodman and Tchula by the lat
ter part of the week also.
| Telephone service in n csc
communities is also expected To-
be back to near-normal by thar
time.
RuY0l Areas
II may be as long as ten days
before electric service can be re-
stored to some rural areas Ia
! Holmes county, Mr.. Taylor saio--
{ Mrs. Elizabeth Sullivan of San
itorium visited her aunt MRS