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PAGE SIX
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Defense Rites Held Monday County Schools
ounty 'For Bishop
Grava(t Make Fifty
Items Needed Estimated to Cost Around $3,000 and
Finance Committee Makes Plans to Raise Funds;
Citizens Asked to Lend All Help Possible
This l'nortliug a warulilW, V. as l,!- I. O[lh'u and Maintenance c -
leased by lhesi(tent Roosevelt Om~ penses.
the east coast was vulm.rab'e to 2. l']qnipn,ent of emergen(.y First
Aid N~athm;~ in Charles Tow
Shepherdstowl) and Harpers Ferry.
This will include sheets, pillow
( as, s, pilh)ws, sterilizers, bedside.
tabh s, etc.
3. First Aid Kits, standard for
equi/)pi.g a|llt)ulatwes an(1 hospital
units.
4. lnsiglms aml identification
car(b; for all civilian defense work-
{'FS,
5. l,huerg(,n y fire equipn~ent for
air fade warde,s and volunteer fire-
nlen.
ft. First Aid supplie.~ for teach-
in~ such as st)finds, bandages, (,Ix'.
These items figure abvern-
)ne.t r('l)())'t~ show that the typi-
cal workin,o' man fed his familyI
for $430 last year, compared to the
$540 )'equiz'ed in 1929 and $688 in
1920.
The 2:} cents (hat food eoMs
take from t.he income dollar to'day
is the smallest sharo in 2.(') years
of ~zovel'n)nent recor~l
-V
Farmers Should Plan For::
Storage of Wheat on Farm
l;eeause the decentralizat,ion of
vital nupplies is in)partant in war-
time, t:he Agricultural Adjustment
A,qministration wheal loan pro-
g'ram has become increasin~'ly im-
petulant with thousands of farmers
~torin~' wheat on the farm, It. S.
Vande~wort, chairman of t,he State
AAA Committee, announ::es.
Wheat stored in ]arR'e warehous-
es aL centralized l)UTn(s makes an
ideal tara'et fro" forei,gn a~'ents be
aim their prod'rams of arson.
Farm storage, it is e::plahmd, is
:m eff(,~.t.ive barrier against v~hoh -
sale sa,botaR'e of the na, tion's
wheat supply.
Because wheat stored on the i
farm t;hrouffhout the country will[
greatly ham:per any or~zanized '
'prolzram, of (testruetion, the AAAi
is en:.:ouragi))~' farmers who se-'ure !
a wheat loan to ~,to)'e the wheat
on thc farm.
th)w to Regisier
ar)~plieant's home pr,eeinct exe(,u.
Absentees
~,l the details of sucia ,mail v.otin, .'.
O'Brien said inq,uiries were .he-
The Secret:try ))f State': (>file,' ing received by ('on#:re~smen, par-
i)) Charles(on sl)eal:in~ lhrou~'h t,y cha:ir)nen and othe)'s n~ well {tt
(~hiof Clerk Pitt O'Brien said that his own ottice.
absentee voters can rezister fo, V
}voting' this year, m~(ier t,he perm- Mr. Earl Site~, employed al the
lanen,I re~istratio)) law by appliea- Glenn I, Ma],tin Aircraft plant,
[tion to the clerk of the County near F:a]t, inmre, )'e(urued to work
[(:cur) oi" l.he (,ounty in which he on .Mon(hty, after h:tvln~, heen on
)claims a ri zht to vote. Application sick h,ave :tt his he)me on Wesl
;forms will not l)(, available, how- (~on,4')'ess siree fo" t wee<.
iieve)', until after April 1.
[ l!n:ler the new a})sentee voting'
prncedure included in theIf)41 'wt,
no~resdient citizens ~nust make
apq)]icatio)) for one of the forms
to the clerk of the c:)unly in which
he resides.
'l'h~. e]e)'k, if he eon-i(le).s th(,
applicant ell, o.'ible, will send to him
an ap,plication form ,to be prope)'ly
filled out and returned.
When thai is done, a re a'ist)'a-
ti,)n card is sent to the aPl)lieant
)rid t,his is filled ou.t, returned an(!
filed by the emmty clerk.
FEBRUARY 20,
I. H.
REAl, ESTATE
INSLrRANC
1 11 East Washingtott
.pp Thomas Jeffersonl
Phone 47-J.
Charles Town W.
All Kinds of
Fire Insurance.
Insurance of Now
Houses For
Farm Bureau Insurance
I I
Insure COOl)eratively for I)(dio'hohler control of your
surance i)rotvclion needs, services and eosts.
JOHN T. MORRISSEY
Y SA M U I".1, ST. I)IIONI,; 166-J. CII.k.RLES TOWN, W.
Representing
Farm Bureau Insurance Companies
Home Office---Columbus, Ohio
Farm Slorage Necessary
"T~here is a definite need for
decentralization of wheat supplies
because of the posMbility of sabo-
tage. lack of adequate storag'e,
and tr:msparta'tion limitations,"
Mr. Vandervort states. "Wheat
farmers shouht investigate their
local situations, and make definite
plans for farm storag'e Of all new
whe'~:t crops." i
Materials for buildin~ addition-
al sto.ra~'e may be difficult to ob-
tain, and it is exl~ected the trans-
portation problem will be espec-
ially complex because of heavy
movements of war supplies. It
may be imnoss,ible for the rail-
roads to furnish enough cars to
m:ave grain at harvest time, and
wa,rehouse and elevator facilities
will probably be filled to capaci y
witch reserve sto.cl; was instituted by the Commission in 1936 ou
its own motion. The frst heating in the proceeding was held in the City of Charles-
tan on November 24, 1936. The next hearing was held in Charles Tgwn on June 22,
19a8. The last hearing was held in the City of Charleston on February 29, 1940.
Numerous complaints we)e nmde at the hea~.ing held in Charles Town with re-
spect to the service rendered by the Jefferson County Telephone Company and the
equipment u~d by the company in tendering service. It was pointed out by a num
ber of the company's subscribers that its equipment was old. inadequate, and in need
of repair. These witnesses insisted that the eompmw be required to rehabilitate and
modernize 4ts te!ephone system and the Commission undmtook to have this clone. The
company represented that to completely rehabilitate and modernize its plant would
(:,)st at least $79,000.
The Commission's accountants were directed to make an examination of the
accounting records of the company, which it did, and its report shows tha the con".-
pany's investment in its telephone property was $212,885 as of December 31, 1935.
The Commi.~sion directed its engineering department to take an inventory and to make
an appraisal of the company's property, which it did, and its report shows that it
estimated the reproduction cost of the company's property to be $231,035, new and
$186,531 depreciated as of December 31, 1935.
The annual report of the Jefferson County Telephone Company for the year
1940, filed wi(h this ~Commission, shows that the investment in its prope~ y was
$211,407.85 as of December 31, 1940. During the intervening period, the corn
retired certain old property and constructed new property in about the same amoun'ta,
which accounts for the fact that the investment in its property changed little be-
tween December 1, 1935, and December 31, 1940.
The company's report for 1940 also shows that its net income for that year
from its public utility business was $8,028.11.
The Commission's engineers found the cmnpany's l~roperty to be in 81 per
cent condition or depreciated 19 per cent from age and u,~e. " The Commission's en-
gineers,
of course, took the property the company had and estimated the cost of re-.
producing that same property and used the same method in depreciating it. They
did not, of course, make an estimate of what it would cost 'to replace this prope~ Y
with new materials and moden~ equipment. By applying the deprec:ation of 19 oer
cent found by the engineers to the company's inve~tmen~ in its property as of De.:
cember 31, 1940. the result is $171,241, which represents the company's investment in
its property depreciated.
On June 24, 1940, the Commirsion entered an order authorizing the Jefferson
County Telephone Company to put into effect the rates the Central Electric and Tele-
phone Company is now charging, upo.n the condition tha.~ the rates should not become
effective until its plant had been rehabilitated and modernized, ~he estimated cost of
which was approximately $79,000. The improvemen~ts were ~iot comploted until ,after
the p~operty was sold and transferred to the Central Electric and Telephone Corn"
pany, which accounts forthe fact that the rates were not put into effect by the
ferson County Telephone Company.
Since the subscribers of the company were demanding that it modernize it~
plaat and equipment it was necessary for the Commission to permit the company tt~
make some change in its rates. The company's station rates appem to be as high
or higher tha~ the rates charged by other teleph(me companies for similar service~
and its toll rates appear to be lower than the rates charged by other telephone coin-
panies for similar service, therefore the Commission permitted the Jefferson County~
Telephone Company to file a tariff stating an increase in its charges for toll
At the Same time the Commission remfired the company to eliminate entirely the ex-
isting charges of fifty cents per month and twenty-fi~e cents per month on'hand
and desk set telephones.
~As hereinbefore stated, the company's net revenue for the year 1940
~8.028.7I, which is less than five per cent on $171,241, the lowest amour~t :found
this proceeding as representing the value of .the company's property as of December
31, 1940. The Commission, therefore, could not require the company to make an
penditure of $79,000 with~)ut pmmitting it to increase in some way ~ts revenues.
There has been some complain,t about the station rates in Harpers Ferry an
Shepherd~{own being the same as those in effect in Charles Town and it has
suggested that the station rates in Charles Town should have been increased
instead of the toll charge. However, that is a matter for future consideration.
The Commission is ad~dsed that practically all of the new equipment has
installed by the company and that improvements have been made in its other
erty, eLther by additions or replacements. The Commission has n~t received
complaints about the service, therefore we presume that it has been improved.
It is difficult to set out in a teter all of the changes made in the
rates and in its equipment. However, we have endeavored to give the
changes and the rea~o.ns therefm'.
After ,these rates have been in effect a reasonable length of time, the
mission will make a further investigation to determine whether they produce
revenue than the company is reasonably entitled to receive and whether
should be made in the rates by increasing the station rate in certain sections
reducing .the toll charge.
Very truly !routs,
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, :
M. F. WRIGHT, JR
. Acting Secrotat y.