Cedar Hill Chronicle (Cedar Hill, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 2, 1978 Page: 2 of 22
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Cedar Hill
Lodge No. 1380
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CEDAR HILL
LODGE NO. 1380,
A.F. & A.M., conducts
stated communication
first Thursday of each
month at 7:30 p.iri.
Study Club meets sec-
ond, third and fourth
Thursdays of each
month at 7:30 p,n>.
Visiti: g breathren wel-
Butch Chauvin, W.M.
Vaughn Pogi:e, Sec.
I lee I it necessary, on
behalf of Texas Power &
Light Company, to
respond to the January
12 letter of city council-
man Frank Tidwell to
clear up possible mis-
conceptions and to
answer some questions
raised in his letter.
First, let me say,
Texas Power & Light
was not anxious to
return to the City Council
of Cedar Hill and the
Public Utility Commis-
sion to aks for additional
rate relief. In the 66 year
history of the company,
TP&L has found it neces-
sary to ask for rate in-
creases only five times,
while asking for and
receiving eight general
and four specific rate de-
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LARRY'S
AUTO PARTS
219 C TOWER
SHOPPING CENTER
291-4626
Faith Bible Church
1808 W. Camp Wisdom
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Dallas
"And we proclaim Him (Christ), admonishing every
man and Teaching every man with all wisdom, that we
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Colossians 1 :28
FRED C. CAMPBELL, Pastor
SERVICES:
9:30 A.M. ..... Bible Study Classes
10:.10 A.M. ... Morning Worship
0:30 I' M. Body Lite Fellowship- .
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Life Insurance
for Todays
Homeowners
1 have a term life plan to
help your family keep your
home, free and clear, if your
mortgage outlives you.
Call me for details.
CLIFF HYMAN
Tower Shopping Center
291-7139
STATE FARM
INSURANCE
State Farm Life Insurance Company
Home Office: Bloomington, Illinois
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P.O. Box 159, 6I0 Cedar Street, Cedar Hill 75104
COVERING SCENIC CEDAR HILL -
TOWER CITY OF THE SOUTHWEST
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Royce Brown.......................................Publisher
Lee Johnston............................................Editor
Judy Hulsey ......................................Production
Manager
Peggy Taylor..................... Advertising
Director
Published every Thursday at Cedar Hill. Texas 75104
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creases.
The times have
changed drastically and
the costs of doing
business have risen tre-
mendously in the past
five years. When TP&L
asked for a rate increase
in December, 1976, the
company asked for an
amount sufficient to
meet its needs through
mid-1979. The amount
granted, however, was
only 43 percent of that
requested, making it
necessary to return
earlier for additional
rate relief.
Texas Power & Light
Company has a legal
obligation to serve its
customers under terms
of the franchise issued
by the City of Cedar Hill.
We must be able to serve
those customers now and
in the future as well. We
must also plan for
growth, the addition of
customers. We do not
have the option, as do
non-regulated busine-
sses, of putting off pro-
duction or constructing
new plants and facilities
to serve those
customers, if we are to
meet our legal obliga-
tions.
In order to provide
that service, it is neces-
sary for Texas Power &
Light to secure hundreds
of millions of dollars,
either through
borrowing or through the
sale of stocks and bonds.
To attract the investors
and the necessary funds,
we must have a suffi-
cient return from the
billings to our
customers.
The customer's rate is
based on th cost of
serving that particular
customer. That total cost
of service involves many
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things. It includes pay-
ment of interest on
borrowed money,
dividends to
stockholders and bond-
holders, depreciation (or
the payment of the prin-
cipal amount of
borrowed funds),
employee wages,
operation and main-
tenance costs associated
with facilities and equip-
ment used to provide ser-
vice to customers, taxes
on company properties,
and retained earnings
which are used for con-
struction and other
needs and offsetting,
somewhat, the need to
borrow.
Providing electric
service is not unlike the
purchase and operation
of a home. A homeowner
normally puts down a
certain amount of
equity. Then he borrows
an amount to cover
the remainder of the cost
of the home. He then
pays interest on that
borrowed money for the
privilege of borrowing.
Other costs incurred in-
clude taxes and the cost
of day-to-day operation
such as cleaning,
utilities, repair,
occasional painting, and
when the family grows,
perhaps the addition of a
new room.
An electric utility
provides equity for new
facilities from retained
earnings and from the
sale of common stock. It
borrows the additional
amount to finance the
construction and must
pay interest on that
borrowed money, as well
as dividends to the stock-
holders. And the
company must also pay
taxes. Also there are the
costs of day-to-day op-
NO COURTESY
As a former editor of
The Chronicle and a long
time Cedar Hill resident.
I share with you the
desire to promote local
businesses and have
always made an effort to
shop Cedar Hill when-
ever possible even to
paying more for
products because the
service was better here.
But, I find that this is
not always the case any-
more.
Friday morning I had
an experience that really
leaves me feeling
"Phoey on hometown
spirit." I went to the
local lumber yard to pick
up a 26 by 32 piece of
window glass. I was
carrying a heafty, 26
pound, 13 month old and
leading a two year old.
Three salesmen were
standing in the cashiers
booth, but none made
any effort to help me get
to my car that was
parked across the street
and down the road, due
to the lack of parking
space.
Maybe it’s because
I've never been a
womens libber, but I’m
not used to this lack of
courtesy. I have three
sons and if I ever hear of
them being this callous
in allowing a woman to
carry window glass,
even if it was plastic, and
a child at the same time,
they’ll really get it from
Mama.
It may be a bit farther
drive but at DeFords in
Duncanville, my
packages are put in my
car and you can bet that
next time that's where
I'll spend my money.
The local grocery
stores are always ac-
commodating and make
every effort to be
friendly and helpful, but
some of the other stores
could take time to
evaluate their service.
A big store or bank in a
big town doesn't have to
be accommodating but a
small town has to depend
on the same customers
for years and cant
expect new people all the
eration.
Texas Power & Light
is now meeting the grea-
test challenge in its his-
tory, that of switching
from the use of expen-
sive and increasingly
scarce natural gas and
oil to the less costly and
more readily available
fuels such as lignite coal
and nuclear. This
requires construction of
new plants to utilize
these fuels, and as
anyone who has built a
home recently knows,
construction costs have
risen rapidly in the past
few years.
Construction of these
plants, itself, is evidence
the company is working
to keep the cost of ser-
vice to our customers as
low as possible. Use of
lignite coal has saved
customers millions of
dollars in fuel costs over
the past five years. In
the year ended
September 30, 1977,
alone, TP&L customers
paid $87 million less in
fuel costs than they
would have if the com-
pany had continued to
use gas for 100 percent of
its generation. As the
conversion program
continues, these cost
benefits will increase.
Mr. Tidwell cites the
error of cost calculation
regarding construction
of the Comanche Peak
nuclear facilities. The
cost of the plant was
estimated at $800 million
in 1972, two years before
construction began. We
don't have any practi-
cing prophets on the
staff and our planners
had no way of knowing
the ultimate affect of
rising inflation and the
frequent and costly
changes in construction
dictated by the Nuclear
Regulatory Commis-
sion. Despite the rise in
time * consruction cost; elec-
I want to support local ! ^ produced at
businesses but I will
spend my hard earned
money where I get the
best treatment.
This is not a blanket
rap of the whole local
business community but
a suggestion that the
owners of local business
survey their employees
and find out what kind of
service their customers
are getting.
Thanks for your time
and space,
Peggy Mobley
Comanche Peak will still
be competitive with
other fuels when the first
generating unit goes into
service in 1981.
Mr. Tidwell seems to
have some problem with
TP&L being a "profit-
oriented" business. If a
business isn't "profit-or-
iented" it doesn't stay in
business long. A
business is supported by
the pricing of its product.
(See POWER, page 3)
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We have completed
three full months of the
current Fiscal Year and
within the Budget
formally adopted by the
City Council at the
beginning of the year.
It is my pleasure to
inform you, the people,
that we are proud of the
fact that we have only
spent 23 percent of our
budgeted funds for the 25
percent of the time used
up...and we have
collected 30 percent of
budgeted income.
With these figures
being facts, I guess one
could claim success with
our economics...but,
unless we can get on with
the street and drainage
programs, we will wind
up behind the eight ball
for the rest of the fiscal
year.
These are the frustra-
tions of city
operation...one day it
looks good and then we
open our eyes. One day
we see progress, and
then we open our eyes.
One day we feel good
about the activity...then
we wake up. But one big
day of real good success
makes it all worthwhile.
Even with the
advancing costs of
equipment and
materials, we are still
within the budget for our
first three months, and
this alone is an accom-
plishment. Maybe we
just might make the
year.
One good taxpaying
type citizen told me
recently that if the city
din't spend so much
money for employees,
taxes wouldn’t be so
high...and in the same
breath wanted some pat-
ching work done in his
driveway...so, let me
give you the facts about
“the money spent for
employees’’-up to the
end of the first quarter of
the fiscal year, we only
spent 19 percent of our
budgeted funds for
salaries.
So, let us reason to-
gether...is 19 percent too
much money for 25 per-
cent of the year??? You
answer it for yourself.
I will not get involved
in the dispute about, "the
city has too many
employees," because
See FACT, page 31
Cedar
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Ministers
Reflect...
Malcolm Scoggins
Pastor
Central Baptist Church
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But Have We Returned Unto God
Amos 4:6 “And I also have given you cleaness of
teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your
places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the
Lord.”
From Amos we learn that when God sends reproving
providences upon us, it is a clear call to every one of us
to repent and return unto God who waits to be gracious
to us.
When Isreal was reproved, they did not return unto
God; they didn’t want to listen to God’s prophet. Why?
They were God’s chosen people; they had the temple of
the Lord among them; they were the seed of Abraham -
they didn’t need to return unto God!
Today, too many of us rest in our church member-
ship - we go a little, we serve a little, we pray a little, we
read the Bible a little.
Therefore, God says, “I have given you want of
bread in all places.” Have we had famines? Have we'
had depressions? Have we had inflation? Have wp
looked for much, and, lo, it came to little? Yes! But
have we returned unto God?
I have withholden the rain from you, And I caused it
to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon
another city.” Have we had dry weather? Have wee
had hail? Have we had floods? Have we had storms?
Yes! But have we returned unto God? . ,
Therefore today, let us heed the words of Amos; let
us return unto God; and let us “humble ourselves
under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt us in
due time.”
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First Baptist
602 Belt Line
Glenn W. Hayden, Pastor
Church of Christ :
332 Cedar Street
Alvis A. Bryan, Minister
Central Baptist
Highway 67
Rev. Malcolm Scoggins, Pastor
Cedar Heights Baptist
East Beit Line Road
Rev. Don Childress, Pastor
Assembly of God
Straus Road
Rev. Carroll Teeter, Pastor
Melody Baptist/;
Texas Street ' y~< >"
Barry Hosford, Pastor F . < !-!
Grace Community
Church
White Hall School
Donald R Murry, Pastor
First United Methodist C
Faith Bible Church
1808 W Camp Wisdom, Dallas
Fred C. Campbell, Pastor
Harrington A Roberts. X X
Rev. Robert A. Greaves, Pastor y - .
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Johnston, Lee. Cedar Hill Chronicle (Cedar Hill, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 2, 1978, newspaper, February 2, 1978; Cedar Hill, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth568778/m1/2/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Zula B. Wylie Memorial Library.