MORE POWER TO YOU
This is a Carolina Country scene in Touchstone Energy territory. If you know where it is, send your answer by Feb. 8 with your name, address, phone number and the name of your electric cooperative. By e-mail:
where@carolinacountry.com
Or by mail:
Where in Carolina Country? P.O. Box 27306 Raleigh, NC 27611
The winner, chosen at random and announced in our March issue, will receive $25.
January
January winner The January photo showed the remains of the so-called Confederate Laboratory at the intersection of Confederate, Laboratory and South Fork roads in Lincoln County. The site later held one of the Rhyne cotton mills. The laboratory made medicines for use during the Civil War and was burned by Union soldiers. Wade Carpenter Jr. told us the laboratory was operated under Dr. A.S. Piggot from 1863–1865. The $25 winner chosen at random from all the correct ones was Cameron Beam of Cherryville.
Former Carolina Country editor dies
Be counted in the 2010 Census
Richard A. Pence, former editor of The Carolina Farmer (now Carolina Country magazine), died Nov. 25 in Fairfax, Va. He was 77. Pence grew up in South Dakota, served in the U.S. Navy and graduated from South Dakota State University. He moved to Raleigh in 1958 and became assistant publications editor in North Carolina State University’s School of Agriculture. After six years at Carolina Country, he moved to Washington, D.C., to become editor of the “Rural Electric Newsletter” for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. In 1985 he was editor of “The Next Greatest Thing,” an award-winning photo history of the first 50 years of rural electrification in the United States. During his career with NRECA, Pence also served as editor of Rural Electrification Magazine and as head of the association’s publications department. He spent the latter part of his career at NRECA as a communications consultant specializing in assisting local electric cooperatives with pressing public and member relations problems, including threats of sellouts. For the past several years he wrote a monthly column featuring historical flashbacks for RE Magazine. He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Ellyn (Hutto) Pence, a native of Jackson, Miss., their three children, Todd of Fairfax, Va.; Robert of Raleigh, N.C.; and Laura Pence Larson; son-inlaw Matthew Larson of Allenspark, Colo.; and two grandchildren, Molly Bellou Larson and Calvin Pence Larson.
The 2010 U.S. Census that will take place this spring is a basic tool of democracy, required by the U.S. Constitution, that takes a national headcount every 10 years. Census counts are used to determine the number of congressional seats for each state, the shape of legislative and local government districts, and how more than $400 billion in federal funds is distributed annually to communities across the country. All populations, including recent immigrants, minorities, college students living off-campus and rural residents, will be counted. Census questionnaires will be mailed or delivered to about 130 million households across America in midMarch. People are asked to return their completed 10-question census forms in March and April. Census takers are sworn to confidentiality. The U.S. Better Business Bureau advises people to ask census takers for their identification. They are required to wear badges and will carry handheld devices, a Census Bureau canvas bag and a confidentiality notice. People will not be asked for financial information. For information about the 2010 Census, go to www.2010census.gov. All personal information is kept confidential by law.
10 FEBRUARY 2010 Carolina Country