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The Harper Herald + +
Friday, March 7, 1980
Harper, Texas
Churches of Harper
Extend A Cordial Invitation
And Welcome To Everyone!
ST. JAMES LUTHERAN
CHURCH
J. W. Mielke, Pastor
ST. ANTHONY’S
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Rev. A. A. Gitter, Pastor
Sunday:
Sunday School at 9:30 a.m.
Worship at 10:30 a.m.
First Wednesday of month:
Church Council
Second Sunday of month:
Luther League Youth
Group
Second Wednesday of
month:
Junior Lutherans Child-
ren’s Group
Third Thursday of month:
St. James ALCW meeting
A cordial welcome is ex-
tended to all.
FIRST PENTECOSTAL
CHURCH
Carlos B. Parker, Pastor
Sunday:
10:00 a.m. Sunday School
11:00 a.m. Morning
Worship
2:00 p.m. Evangelistic
Service
Wednesday:
7:30 p.m. Bible Study
Everyone is Welcome.
HARPER METHODIST
CHURCH
David Klingler, Pastor
Morning Worship:
11:00 a.m. each Sunday
A cordial welcome to all.
HARPER AREA
CHARISMATIC PRAYER
GROUPS
+Andy Kramer Ranch
House,
Kerrville Road, Harper
Sunday:
Sunday School, 10:00 a.m.
Morning Wor step, 11:00
a.m.
Evening Worship, 7:30
p.m.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
10:30
Mondays, 7:30 p.m.
For information call 864-
4512
Sunday Worship:
a.m.
Women meet every third
Thursday at 2:30 p.m.
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issued or renewed after July 1,1979: If deposits mature
in more than one year, the minimum penalty will be 6
months’ loss of interest. If the deposit matures in one
year or less, the minimum penalty will’be 3 months’ loss
of interest.
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NORMAN J. DIETEL, Owner, Publisher & Editor
Paul Lang at Hill Crest Station, authorized
representative for The Harper Herald in Harper.
Phone 864-4088
P.O. Box 116 — Harper, Texas 78631
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Haem an J. Dlefel
“The seventh day is the
Sabbath rest, a day for
sacred assembly.”
Sunday, March 9:
Mass at 8 awl *t 9:30 a.m.
School of religion for
children and high school
youth.
Workshop on Vocations,
Sacred Heart Church, Com-
fort, from 2 te 4 p.m.
All who are interested,
welcome. One car will leave
from the church at 1 p.m.
Wednesday night:
7:30 p.m. Mass, followed
by the adult religion class.
Subject: Baptism. Everyone
welcome, youth also.
You are always welcome
in a Catholic church. Walk
in any time. Attend any ser-
vice.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
J. C. Turner, Paster
Mrs. Beanie Setnbritzky,
Music Director
THE CURRENT DRY
SPELL does not appeal to
farmers and ranchers who
need rain, moisture in the
ground. For the month of
January, I recorded 0.57 of
an inch of rain; for Feb-
ruary only 0.59 and none for
the first five days of March.
There has been no rain or
recordable moisture in the
past three weeks, since Feb.
16.
—Range & Field—
AVERAGE RAINFALL for
the month of January is 1.37
inches, for February 1.64,
for March 1.63. (These fig-
ures were compiled for the
period of 1877 thru 1973.)
April’s average is 3.12 and
May 3.32. We hope the days,
ahead will bring us some
rain. It appears that the
winds from the Pacific
Ocean dump all moisture
west of the Rockies and
leave nothing for this part of
the country. Some awesome
rain storms, floods, mud
slides, engulfed portions of
the Pacific coast in recent
weeks, causing much dam-
age and destruction, loss of
lives, homes, property. Per-
haps we should feel “lucky”
and fortunate that that kind
of catastrophe has not oc-
curred here. While a dry
spell, a drouth, is undesired,
it is by far less the evil as
compared to serious floods
and similar disasters. So, let
it rain when it will, even if it
looks like most fields in the
county will not make much,
or any, of small grain crops
this year.
POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Harper Herald has
been authorized to announce
the following candidates for
the office indicated, subject
to the May Primary elec-
tion.
JOE MIKE EGAN
Republican candidate for
the office of District Attor-
ney, 21st Judicial District,
Texas.
Pol. Adv. paid for by Joe
Mike Egan, 4750 Goat Creek
Road, Kerrville, Texas
78028.
ROBERT R. BARTON
For re-election, office of
District Judge, 216th Judic-
ial District, Texas, subject
to Republican Primary,
May 3,1980.
Pol. Adv. paid for by
Judge Bob Barton, 604 Over-
hill Drive, Kerrville, Texas
78028.
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1980
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—Range & Field—
ANDREW MILLER, indus-
trious restauranteur and
motel proprietor, who has
lived thru about the most
difficult days anyone ever
experienced in this com-
munity, said it would rain on
or after March 20, or at least
by March 24. March 20 is the
beginning of spring; New
Moon is March 16 and first
quarter of the Moon is
March 23. Let’s see if An-
drew, an experienced wea-
ther prevaricator, procrasti-
nator, or predictor, might be
100 percent, completely
right! We’ll see!
—Range & Field—
MILLER SUGGESTED and
recommended that if you
want to grow tomatoes,
plant them on top of hills,
around here, are where
there is plenty of limestone
rock and limestone soil. He
also said that cucumbers,
okra, bell peppers, did good
on limestone soil. Andrew’s
brother, Warren, who suc-
cumbed some months ago,
who lived also in the
Schulze’s Garten area where
the family grew up on the
old dairy industry place,
was an avid gardener. He
had limestone soil where he
successfully grew all kinds
of vegetables. Last summer,
before his demise, he
brought in a bucket of toma-
toes, some of which were
very large, as much as six
inches in diameter.
—Range & Field—
WARREN MUST HAVE
HAD a premonition for he is
said to have related to his
brother that that bucket of
tomatoes, etc., might be his
“last pickin’.” It was! War-
ren has since passed on to
the great beyond. He had
suffered a heart ailment
years ago and after that was
advised to do much walking,
which he accomplished
daily. He also participated
in the annual “Walk Fests”
around here and / or else-
where. I know, because I
walked with Warren on the
first such walk fests here, 14
miles, past Bear Mountain,
from Turner Hall past Car-
riage Hills, etc. Warren was
a great guy, as is his brother
Andrew! They could tell you
lots of interesting stories,
some of which Andrew
might yet still help put into
print!
—Range & Field—
ELECTRIC SERVICE CUS-
TOMERS here continue to
complain about the high cost
of the fuel and commodity
adjustments. One such per-
son is a 75-year-old lady who
now resides alone in the
Cross Mountain subdivision
after the demise of her hus-
band, and after they had
moved from out-of-state to
the Willow City area and
some years ago finally pur-
chased a home in Fred-
ericksburg. She called me
one day this week after re-
ceiving her electric utilities
bill which was for $19.99 for
the electric current and over
$66.00 for the add-on fees,
more than 3 times as
much.
She is one of those (and
there are many) on a fixed-
income and the additional
fuel adjustment, or what-
ever, is certainly not helpful
to her wherewithal to pur-
chase food and other
necessities in life! She sug-
gested we employ a lawyer,
or several attorneys, and
present a resolution con-
demning the fuel add-on,
commodities adjustment,
etc., ask for a rebate which
we supposedly were grants
ed, or told we “might” get,
years ago. I reminded her
that back in 1972 or 1973
when Coastal States and Lo-
vaca were granted the rate
increases by the Texas R.R.
Commission, by-passing the
contracts that had legally
been made, that a friend of
mine, formerly an engineer
(now retired) with Houston
gas and / or electric utilities
firm, said that it would be
useless to fight, since those
big companies had “worlds
of lawyers” to present and
argue their case, or cases.
—Range & Field-
THAT ADVICE APPEARS
to have been very correct. .
. after these seven or eight
years. We are paying and
paying, and some men are
getting richer and richer,
and fatter and fatter! While
poor old ladies, widowers,
incapacitated, unable to
work and earn bigger
salaries, are no doubt
getting thinner, more wor-
ried, more troubled with not
only higher electric utility
bills, but trying to stay
abreast of this thing known •
as inflation!
—Range & Field—
WHETHER AN ORGANI-
ZATION, such as this dear
old lady suggested, would
prevail, or do any good, is
doubtful! The lawyers
representing the firms, in
question, are powerful and
they have plenty of the
wherewithal or can get it, to
subdue any protests from a
few old ladies or citizen
customers around in the
trade territory! Compare
this to what has been re-
ported where one of the
execs gets an annual salary
of a mere several hundred
thousand per year, plus
fringe benefits, plus a tre-
mendous surge in stocks. We
merely ask: where is the
justification, the justice?
Why the big add-on here, not
in other Texas cities? If
anyone can help, let’s get
with it and make right
•things right!
—N.J.D.—
(Continued from
last week)
RATING THE PUC
AN A-MINUS
FROM WALL STREET,
A D-MINUS
FROM CONSUMERS
From The Texas Observer
July 1979
By Jack Hopper and
Eric Hartman
The tilt toward the utilities
was already in evidence,
even if somewhat obscurely,
in that first Southwestern
Bell rate case in 1976. The
PUC’s main reason for
being is to set fair rates, and
in that case it settled — or at
least seemed to settle — on
the procedure it would
follow. Broadly speaking,
rate regulation is a matter
of deciding: (1) how much a
firm has invested to render
the regulated service (the
rate base); and (2) how high
charges for the service have
to be to cover the company’s
costs and give its investors a
fair return on the capital
they have provided. The
PUC defined the utility’s
rate base as the actual,
“historic cost” of acquiring
its property and investment
capital instead of deriving a
fictitious “fair value” from
projections of what it would
cost to replace them in the
future. But by choosing the
actual-cost method, the PUC
apo gave an . unimpeded
view of another emerging
policy — allowing high earn-
ings for large utilities. For
even though the $57 million
rate increase granted to'
Southwestern Bell was just
one-sixth of the amount re-
quested, the rate of return —
nearly 13 percent on com-
mon stock — was higher
than almost any state had
granted to any telephone
utility before; indeed, the
rate set by the PUC was one
of the highest any of Ameri-
can Telephone & Tele-
graph’s subsidiaries had
ever earned.
3EJE
The PUC’s decisions in
subsequent telephone cases
haven’t been quite so gen-
erous, but rates of return
awarded to the large, pri-
vately owned electric utili-
ties of Texas — just 11 of
which account for about 70
percent of the state’s elec-
trical generating capacity —
have consistently been
among the highest in the
nation. Ten of the 11 had
earnings above the national
average of 11.8 percent in
1978, based on profit data
from 100 of the biggest elec-
trics in the U.S. (The one
that reported below-average
earnings was Gulf States
Utilities, but the Louisiana
Public Service Commission,
not the PUC of Texas, was to
blame for that.)
The irony of these PUC-
authorized profit levels can
be appreciated by recalling
one of the key arguments for
creating the agency in 1975.
A state utility commission
was needed, argued the
Texas Public Interest Re-
search Group in a 1974 re-
port, because “the profit-
ability of Texas electric
companies is exorbitantly
higher than the national
average. It is the residential
customers who are pro-
viding excessively high
profit margins ... the aver-
age annual electric bill in
Texas would be reduced
from $195 to $151 (if) Texas
electric companies (were)
making a rate of profit in
line with the rest of the
industry.” Despite the ad-
vent of PUC regulation, of
course, electric bills have
shot up, not declined, while
the commission has done its
best to keep profits for
Texas electrics in the top
rank nationally.
The PUC has made a
practice of granting most
electrics a nominal return of
13.8 percent on common
stock — which amounts to
an actual rate of 15 percent.
The actual rate is higher be-
cause of the way the PUC
treats the phenomenon of
“phantom taxes.” These are
corporate income tax pay-
ments that utilities are al-
lowed by the Internal Reve-
nue Service to put off almost
indefinitely. The PUC lets
the utilities count these
taxes, they may never pay
as a current cost of service;
the companies are per-
mitted not only to bill custo-
mers for such phantom
taxes, but also to collect a
profit on this “operating ex-
pense” they appear to have
incurred on paper.
(To be continued)
WORLD DAY OF
PRAYER MARCH 7
A World Day of Prayer
will be held on Friday,
March 7, at 2 p.m. at the
First Pentacostal Church in
Harper.
Local churches in the
community will participate
in the program with Rev. A.
A. Gitter as the speaker.
Everyone is welcome to
attend.
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helpful but not required.
Retirees looking for a sec-
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apply. Regardless of ex-
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