A cable television company representative told Adams County Supervisors Monday that cable rates were going up and recent reception problems are out of the company’s hands.

Bobby McCool, general manager of Cable One, addressed supervisors on the company’s premium channel rate increase effective Feb. 1.

&uot;The rates will go up $1 per premium channel,&uot; McCool said. Noting that premium channels are those outside the 49 channel basic cable package.

Movies channels like HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, and The Movie Channel will each be $1 more per channel, he said. Costs to customers go up when operating costs go up, McCool said. The current 49 basic cable channels were increased to $28.95 per month in May 1999. McCool said any additional increases to basic cable would be decided around the same time this year.

McCool told supervisors that continuing cable reception problems are out of Cable One’s control.

&uot;We are 100 miles away from the nearest television station as the crow flies,&uot; McCool said. &uot;Unless the television stations up their power, we won’t receive strong signals.&uot;

Any decision to increase that power at the nearest television stations is based on pure economics, he said.

&uot;They base their decisions on ad revenues. If their advertisers are happy, they’re not concerned with Natchez, Mississippi,&uot; McCool said.

In other action the board:

— Approved International Paper’s request to refinance $1.7 million in Adams County Solid Waste Disposal Revenue Bonds on Monday. IP hopes to increase profitability by refinancing the purchase of 14 acres of landfill on its property at Carthage Point.

— Tentatively appointed Supervisor Darryl Grennell to the Southwest Mississippi Planning and Development District Board of Directors pending the approval of board attorney Marion Smith. Supervisor Virginia Salmon, Supervisor Sammy Cauthen and County Road Manager Russell Dorris are three of the four Adams County representatives on the planning commission. Smith said he will check with the state Attorney General’s office for an opinion regarding any legal conflict in Grennell’s appointment.