The Lampasas Record (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 15, 1938 Page: 2 of 8
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Baby Chicks
FIRST fall hatch will come off
Monday, Sept. 19th
Light Breeds ............ 6 cents
Heavy Breeds .............,.......................... 7 cents
We can supply your needs in whatever breed
you want.
Your Business Always Appreciated.
SNELL’S HATCHERY
Rural Phone No. 61R4 On the Georgetown Road.
FLOUR—
B. 4k W., the finest flour
j, milled, at special price*.
24-lb. Sk............_.67c
48-Ib. Sk.............$1.29
SHORTENING—
4-lb. carton ...........43c
y- _——_____
MACARONI or
SPAGHETTI
3 reg. pkgs................8c
SEE OUR BIG CIRCULAR
FOR THE BIGGEST BAR-
GAINS IN LAMPASAS.
SALMON—
Fancy Pink,
Tall Can ................10c
MOSES
RED S WHIFF
FOOD STORE
SAFETY PROGRAM OVER
RADIO FOR 13 WEEKS
As part of the state-wide campaign
to reduce the number of motor vehicle
accidents, the State Highway Depart-
ment is cooperating with the Depart-
ment of Public Safety and the Com-
mercial Credit Company of Baltimore,
Maryland and its 180 affiliated branch-
es, in sponsoring and fostering thir-
teen dramatic episodes portraying the
very things that are happening oh our
highways. These programs are broad-
cast each Sunday morning from the
- ■ - -- —* -» - _____________________________
TOTiowuig stations.
WFAA-WBAP, Dalas-Ft. Worth,
9:20 to 9:35.
WOAI, San Antonio, 9:15 to 9:30.
KPRO, Holston, 9:15 to 9:30.
i Each of these radio programs pre-
sents a different approach to traffic
control and contributory causes to
accidents on our highways. The pro-
grams, which were Inaugurated on
September 4, 1938, will run consecu-
tively for thirteen weeks.
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“Leto’s” for. the Gums
Do your gums itch, burn or cause
you discomfort? Druggists will return
your money if the first bottle of
“BETO’S” fails to satisfy.
(4) MACKEY'S DRUGS
Miss Iris Higgins returned Tues-
day to her home in Archer City after
visiting since Saturday with her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Tom Higgins.
Mrs. Higgins and son, John Tom, spent
last week with her and accompanied
here here Saturday. .
PERMANENTS ,
Get your next permanent at MAU-
RINE’S BEAUTY BOX. Prices |1.00
and up. Rear of Barnett's Jewelry
Store. Phone 60. - (Itc)
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I • BRIGGS NEWS •
Tile Briggs public school opened
i Monday luurulug, Sjpt. 12, in the au-
ditorium with a large number of pu- ■
1 pits and parents present. Nupt. Don I
Johns made a short talk. He attended I
' the State University the past summer i
; and received his Master of Arts degree I
with a major in education and minor i
I in economics. He also bolds the Bach-
, elor of Arts degree from Southwestern
University. After the teachers and
pupils went to their respective rooms
the Parent-Teacher Association met
and elected the following officers:
Mrs. G. M. Dillingham, president;
Mrs. O. R. Perkins, vice-president;
Mrs. 8. R.‘ Dillingham, treasurer; Mrs.
E. B. Goodwin, secretary; Mrs. Horace
I Clinkscales, chairman of program
committee; Supt. Don Johns, chair-
man of finance committee; Mrs. J. it
Smith and Mrs. Bessie Green, mem-
bership committee.
Rev. Geo. Brown of Jjampasas filled
his regular appointment at the Bap-
tist church Saturday night, Sunday at
II a. m. and Sunday night. After ser-
vices Saturday night the memlters sur-
prised Rev. and Mrs. Brown with a
pounding.
G. W. Johns and Frank Shaw of
Georgetown were Friday night guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Don Johns.
The Briggs gin, under the manage-
ment of S. R. Dillingham, has the new
machinery installed and can take cars
of all the cotton.
Miss Patsy Bibles returned to her
home in Marble Falls Thursday after
visiting in the home of her aunt and
uncle, Mr. and Mrs- L. 8. Skaggs.
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Taylor nave an- '
nounced the marriage of their daugh-
ter, Miss Christine, to Mr. Melvin
Glenn of Georgetown. The marriage
was performed by Rev. Lovett in Ber-
tram August 27. The young couple
will make their home in Georgetown.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Morris and Mr.
and Mrs. Edgar Gillum spent a few
days at the Inks Dam fishing.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dillingham and
daughter, Miss Rayma, were business
visitors in Burnet and Lampasas Sat-
urday.
Misses Elaine Dillingham and Dor-
thy Nell Pulliam of this place and
Edsel Lee of Alice were Sunday din-
ner guests of Mrs. Annie Pulliam and
son, Eugene.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Sylvester and
children, Aiene, Billie Fern and Dur-
wood, of Brawley, Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Sylvester and children, Eula Lea and
Ronald, and Mrs. J. D. Sylvester of
Harper and Mrs. Newt Sylvester and
daughters of Hamilton were week end
guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Grisham,
Mr. and Mrs. Alvie Grey and Mr. and
Mrs. V'yron Grisham.
Miss Clara and W. (X.. Dillingham
Jr. went Tuesday to Austin where W.
C. will enter Draughons Business Col-
lege.
Mrs. Elbert Davis of Winters, Mrs.
Cassie Hefley of lawn and Darrell
Cravey of Hamilton arc visiting in
the home of Miss Minnie and John
Patterson.
H. A. Layne Jr. left Sunday for
Shreveport where he will attend
SUDUOKt ""
Mrs. T. C. Cloud is visiting relatives
in Lampasas this week.
GUARANTEED TREATMENT
FDR TENDER STOMACH
n
Adla Tablets bring quick relief from
an acid stomach, pains between meals,
indigestion and heartburn due to excess
acidity. If not your money refunded.
Ables Drug Co. (2)
THE LAMPASAS RECORD, SEPTEMBER 15, 193S
ery.
| Want to buy. mU or trade. Call 4C paras.
A Municipal Light Plant
that we
he states
26.00
300.00
(Paid Adv.)
$37,928.00
Total .....
3,000.00
3,840.00
Per Year
$ 900.00
after a
friends
Mr. and Mrs. Don Fitch of Waco
spent Sunday night and Monday here
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. R.
Fitch.
Annual power bill
Distribution system
Annual pymt. on principal 2,750.00
ness proposition?
If we do not get the grant, as be-
fore stated, our gross profit will be,
under my figures, $13,950.00 and if the
Texas Power & Light Go. holds 40%
of the business they will retain $22,-
012.00 and we will lose $8,062.00.
On page 38 of his report he makes
his recommendations and I submit them
to you as follows:
“FIRST; In the event the City of
Lampasas decides to operate a muni-
cipal system, THAT IT MAKE EVEBY
EFFORT TO ACQUIRE THE DIS-
TRIBUTION of the privately owned
company and by serving all of the
customers in the city, the utmost sav-----
ing can be made.
SECOND: That a rate schedule be
adopted that'will pass the saving on
to the various classes of consumers on
an equitable basis.
THIRD: That reductions be made in
electrical rates rather than in reduction
of tax rates.
FOUBTH: That should a contract be
entered into with any transmission
system for wholesale power, such con-
tract should, of course, provide for
continuous service, and should also
provide definite pre-determined liqui-
dated damages for any failure in such
continuous service.’*
It seems to me that anyone who has
an open mind will read his recommen-
dation and see that his whole plan is
based on our acquiring the plant of
the Texa^ Power & Light Co. AND
THAT WE NOT ENTEB INTO THE
BUSINESS UNLESS WE CAN DO SO.
> He clearly says that we should make
, every effort to acquire the distribution (
system and that it is impossible to de- .
termine the saving by serving a portion /
of the consumers.
He further says that we should adopt
a rate schedule that would pass the
saving on to the consumer and that we
should reduce the rates rather than
the taxes. To one who has studied the
management and financial condition of
our city, his reasons for this are clear.
If we keep rates up and apply the
' money on taxes, we will relieve the
non-resident tax payers of any burden
and place it all on our citizens who
are light users. I am-going to write an
article on tax vs. revenue later, but
just want to say that if they are rev- {
enue bonds our resident citizens pay
it all; if they are tax bonds the non-
resident property owners, including
the railroads, utilities, telegraph com-
panies and all other foreign corpora-
tions pay their part.
His last recommendation is that we
should have a contract with the C.B.A. I
that would provide for continuous
Service and also definite pre-determined
liquidated damage. This has been my
contention from the beginning and up
to this date no one in authority from
0.B.A. has even intimated that they
would agree to this contract. And
when their “high-pressure” man made
his talk here a few nights ago and I
asked him that question, he waved it
aside and made no statement as to
what they would do.
I am giving you this analysis for
your consideration and hoping that you.
will sincerely study it and vote for
what you believe to be the best for J
Lampasas as a whole.
Respectfully, I
Roy L. WallUjwWW
You understand that the foregoing
figures do not take into consideration
the purchase of cars, tools or other
appliances, advertising and numerous
miscellaneous expenses.
Under my figures you will see that
with the $55,030.60 gross and $37,928.00
expense with the grant, we will have
a paper profit of $17,102.60 and if the
Texas Power A Light Co. holds 40%
of its business they will receive $22,-
012.00 which will make a loss to the
city of $4,909.49 per year.
History shows that in a large per
pent of competing plants the utility
holds at least 46 to 60% of the busi-
ness, and in some instances more.
What do you think of this as a busi-
dAcatiuBE
I DM Hulph. su«to« 1» gye gpecUlh,t
water ar leed. Drink more Water hot Lampasas, at the Moore Hotel,
days increases egg production. Sulpho every TUESDAY. Eyes Tested —
frees fowls of lice, mites, fleas, blue- , Glasses Fitted. See Dr. Cathey
bugs. Useful in spraying nests, roosts and Bee Better.
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and pants. Trial size costs so little. I p
■ SMITH’S DRUG STORE, Lam I
(5c) A Record Want-Ad Gets Results.
1,200.00
480.00
960.00
$320.00 $3,840.00”
He says it will be necessary for con-
sumers to pay the cost of connection
but makes no estimate of this cost.
The consumer or the city will have to
pay it. It will cost about $6 to $10 per
consumer.
Now I want you to bear in mind
that you have a $100,000.00 distribu-
tion system to be operated, cared for
and maintained and approximately 776
customers to be serviced.
The total is, if you will note, $3,-
840.00.
On page 36 he sets up that it will
cost us $33,190.00 to operate the dis-
tribution system by purchase of power
without aPWA grant; and
“Purchasing Power with a PWA Grant
RUBBER STAMPS
The Lampasas Record will take
your order for Rubber Stamps at
very low prices. Give us your order
Instead of the traveling salesman (tf)
Total ...... $30,040.00”
$23,200.00 of this amount will go out
of Lampasas. Will not be spent here.
It might be well to call your atten-
tion here to the fact that if we buy
the Texas Power & Light Co. plant
* the PWA will not give us any money
or lend us any money. We must secure
the funds from other sources. On the
other hand, if we build a competitive .
system then the PWA will give us 45%
and lend us the other 66%. Our Gov-
ernment tells us that it is bent on a
plan of DESTRUCTION and unless
we are willing to aid them in destroy-
ing the property values of the Texas
Power & Light Co. they will not as-
sist us in a financial way. My opinion
has always been that government
should be one of protection of prop-
erty rights rather than the destruction
of property rights. What do you think?
President Roosevelt said to Mexico:
“You have a right to take private
property, but in doing so you must pay
full value of the property taken. And
if you do not, it might be cause for
war.” He evidently thinks more of
property rights in Mexico than Mr.
Ickes thinks of property rights in
Texas.
He sets up on this annual expense,
$19,350.00 fpr power from the C.R.A.,
but to this day we have never received,
under the signature of anyone of au-
thority, any definite rate the C.B.A.
Board will charge us for this power.
You know and I know that our rates
from the C.R.A. Board will be based
on the opinion of political appointees
and will be governed greatly by the
necessary funds to be raised to pay
the C.R.A. Board and the numerous
employees their salaries and unlimited
traveling expenses.
Now let’s analyze the only part of
his expense set up that we, as average
citizens and businessmen, can have a
definite idea on.
It is a joke to think of operating a
plant with a $75.00 manager. In my
opinion, it takes at least a $200.00
man. -
We should have at least two line-
men who will cost around $150.00 each.
One assistant and meter reader would
cost $126.00. We may be able to secure
a clerk to handle the office records at
$80.00
We must have one truck and one
car or pick-up and the two will cost
about $100.00 a month. His other esti-
mate of expense are along the same
line. .
He makes no provision for loss on
bad debts and at least 2% should be
charged for this.
He makes no provision for liability
insurance and no provision for adver-
tising.
His estimate is based on 100% users
from the beginning and does not take
into consideration the fact
may be months, and even years, in
getting complete connection.
At page 36 of his report
that our gross expense, under his fig-
ures, $30,040.00 if we get the grant
from the PWA, and it might be well
to remark in passing, that we have no
assurance that we will ever get this
grant, so if you do not, then operating
~ tne system, under his report, will cost
us $33,190.00.
He says our profit, with the grant,
is $24,990.60; our profit, without the
grant, is $21,840.60.*
In my figures, based on the expense
set up I have outlined above, and in
which I have made no allowance for
advertising, as I do not know what
this will be, and have provided $368.00
for liability insurance, and that is an
estimate, are as follows:
Operating with PWA Grant
Annual power bill ........—$19,350.00 -
Payment on principal ............ 2,750.00
Average annual interest ....... 1,100.00
$19,360.00 Maintenance A obsolescence 11,738.00
Bring us your Custom Hatching,
no cents ]>er egg Snell’s Hatch-
(5c)
Average annual interest 1,100.00
Maintenance and
obsolencence
Operation ........
The City of Lampasas, through its
City Council, employed William G.
Morrison, Engineer, of Waco, to make
a complete survey on what a municipal
plant would cost and to give us a
recommendation as to what we should
do in reference thereto. This report
was delivered to the Mayor on or about
the 23rd day of August. I have waited
patiently for the Mayor to have thia
report published ■ so that our entire
citizenship could read and see for
themselves just what the report con-
tained, but to this date this has not
been done.
In view of this fact I will attempt,
in my humble way, to give to you an
analysis of this report and just what
it means. The report contained 38
pages and sets up the following prop-
ositions :
1. The approximate figures on the
amount of consumption of electrical
energy and expected revenue from a
plant.
2. The power demand.
3. The power {sources, which in-
cludes (a) a power plant for generat-
ing our own current, and (b) the
purchase of courrent from the Lower
Colorado River Authority, and closes
with his recommendation as to what
we should do before-putting in a plant
and the kind of contract we should
have if we purchase from the GJLA.
While his report shows that if we
put in our own generating plant, in-
cluding a stand-by reserve, we could
generate our own power cheaper than
it could be purchased from the C.R.A.
As no question has been submitted for
us to vote upon the construction of a
‘generating plant, I Mil not take this
into consideration in my analysis of
his report.
Our Mayor stated in his article that
Mr. Morrison gave the figures of $68,-
920.66 for the 1937 Texas Power A
Light Oo. income. Mr. Morrison, no-
where that I have been able to find in
his report, makes any statement as to
what the 1937 income was. He states
bis survey that. Erased on the infor-
mation secured by him, the income
would be $58,920.56 under the old
rates, and this is an estimate.
At page 32 he maps out a proposed
distribution system and I might say in
passing, that in the event a duplicate
system is put in in Lampasas we will
have very few, if any, streets and al-
leys that are not completely covered
with wires and poles.
And at page 33 he-estimates the cost
of $98,648.00 for a complete distribu-
tion system, and of course, I have no
way of knowing just how close to cor-
rect these figures are, but presume they
are in the neighborhood of right.
At page 34 he set up the cost of op-
erating the distribution system and I
submit his copy of this from the report
in order that you may see fully just
what kind of service you will receive.
Said estimate is as follows:
Per month
“Manager ................$ 76.00
Maintenance man and
meter reader ........ 100.00
Truck or car expense 40.00
Office clerk_____________ 80.00
One-half of postage
and stationery
Mrs Lula Little returned Sunday J^lore Profit In Poultry |
to her home in San Ant unto *-«’ - 1
several (Jays’ visit here with
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Pharr, E. M. The Lampasas Record (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 15, 1938, newspaper, September 15, 1938; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1214655/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lampasas Public Library.