The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 12, 1961 Page: 2 of 22
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FVA Announces
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>• from U.S. WIATHER BUREAU Cubans ASK Asylum Abilene, Texas, Wednesday Morning. July 12.1961 7
3-A
‘Centennial Rate’
By STANLEY MEISLER ’jor areas of Tennessee Alabama
WASHINGTON I API— The Ten- Mississippi, and Kentucky, and
nessee Valley Authority an-
nounced a new lower price for
electricity Tuesday and labeled it
the "Norris centennial rate "
smaller areas of North Carolina.
Virginia, and Georgia In all.
80,000 square miles are covered.
At a White House ceremony. A wholesaler of electricity. TVA
TVA directors said the new rate generates and transmits power to
—if adopted by the agency s local 150 locally owned power systems'
distributors— would cut electric . .
costs by 8 per cent or more for which then sell the electricity to
home farm, and commercial users the area's 1 5 million customers
in the 7 Southern states served The rates are set in agreements
by the government agency, between the local power systems
The rate was named in honor and the TVA.
of the late Sen. George W. Norris. In Tuesdays announcement
R-Neb. Tuesday is the 100th anni- TVA informed the local systems
versary of his birth that they could sell electricity at
Three times during his career the new “Norris centennial rate
. a Morris bill creating TVA was . T
• approved bv Congress President Two distributors, the Decatur,
Calvin Coolidge vetoed the first Ala., municipal system and the
President Herbert Hoover vetoed Alcorn County Electric Power As
Rut President Frank, sociation in northern Mississippi.
lin D Roosevelt signed the third already have decided to use the 8g THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Honolulu, cloudy
“This new low rate." the TVA new rate.
directors said “will provide a The directors presented figures Atlanta.rain
further incentive to the widest to show what the new rate would:Bismares, ciou 3
possible use of electricity as en- mean to a family now using 500
visioned by Sen. Norris to lighten kilowatt hours of electricity a
the labors of farmers and house-month. Under the old rate sched- Ast
wives, giving greater comfort to ule, the monthly cost would be
home life both on the farm and anywhere from $5.10 to $6.90 a
in the city.” r__.2., C "
More than 30 members of Con- family lived,
gress joined the TVA directors
and President Kennedy in the
month, depending on where the
ARM
In Jamaica Harbor Lubbock Legislator
Takes Senate Oath
KINGSTON. Jamaica (AP) A-
60-foot launch holding 42 Cubans AUSTIN (AP) - Sen Preston
was towed into Montego Bay Tues- Smith of-Lubbock Tuesday took
day. The Cubans asked for asy- the oath as president pro tempore
lum, and police took them into of the Senate
protective custody Smith was sworn in as third
| The Cubans—28 men. 6 women man in ne for the governorship-
and 8 children—said ‘they came during a brief Senate meeting
from Camaguey. Police seized re- prior to the joint session with the
volvers, hand grenades and hun- House to hear Gov Price Danie,
dreds of rounds of ammunition speak.
from the launch. ‘ The Lubbock businessman was
elected in a secret caucus out of
a field of seven eligible candi-
Each body cell is capable of go-
ing through 2,000 to 5,000 different
chemical reactions.
White House ceremonies honoring
Norris
FORECAST
For Deytime Wednesday
Figures Show High Temperatures Expected
FORECAST FOR TODAY
JACK EDWARDS, DDS
Announc es the opening of his office
for the practice of
GENERAL DENTISTRY
AT
UPSET
STOMACH?
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balance fast
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artworks,
all progra
a program
By
BEST 8
Hour tries
night whic
for the av
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which new
trip so th
TEMPERATURES ELSEWHERE
High Low Pr. Indianapolis, cloudy
73 63 .39 Jacksonville, cloudy
Lake Superior was discovered
1623 by a Frenchman name
ule.
2073 Cedar
Phone OR 4-1368
OFFICE HOURS: 8 a.m. to 12 a.m.; 1 p.m. to 5 p.m
Home: 1126 No. 21st
OR 4-5835
New 100-tablet
bottle, only 83e
Boston, cloudy
Buffalo, cloudy
Cincinnati, cloudy
Cleveland, cloudy
Denver, rain
Des Moines, cloudy
Detroit, clear
The ’Norris centennial rate" Fairbanks, cloudy
would drop the lowest possible Fort Worth, clear
cost to $4.50 a month. i-----------------
84
86 69
The directors said the average
Kennedy said he hoped the TVA
would thrive and prosper He cost of TVA power to home own
called it a boon to the United ers and farmers in the TVA are
is just under one cent a kilowatt
States and an example of Ameri-
can cooperative enterprise to the hour, while the national averag
whole world
TVA — a huge, pioneering river
basin development — serves ma-
2 2 cents They said the
rate could drop the TVA averag
still lower.
27 Juneau, cloudy 60 5
.01 Kansas City, cloudy 81 6
.01 Los Angeles, clear 89 6
. Memphis, cloudy 83 6
. Miami, clear 87 8
. Milwaukee cloudy 86 5
.05 Mpls. St Paul, cloudy 78 6
. New Orleans, cloudy 80 7
. New York, cloudy
. Omaha, cloudy
M— Missing. •
89
84
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 12, 1961, newspaper, July 12, 1961; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1672005/m1/2/: accessed July 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.