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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1945)
Monday, October' 11945 THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, OREGON Page Six Section B More Farmers to Get Electric Power Soon Ml ; : Ptaciical applicaiion of elcclronics in ill is automatic dishwasher. Experimental model operated by Gole Idle. Wcsiinghouse engine er, is fororunnor of a now device in which the housewife will place dishes, glassware and silver, and then simply press a button. The machino then sprays dishes, washes them, rinses thorn twice, cleans and drains itself automatically, and then shuts off. End of War Assures Priorities End Socffi The dreams of many farmers in this area for electrifica tion of their farms may be realized sooner than they had imagined only a few months ago. With the conclusion of the war and consequent release of many materials which had been Under priorities expected shortly, the power companies and projects of the nations will be able probably to begin much sooner that process of extending the electric lines to farms which have not previ ously had such service. Many Usses Diversity of uses of electricity on the furm has bnen consider nble. Where it formerly was used mostly for lights and for pump ing or at most for turning smaller machinery, the last few years has Seen its use in preparing and curing seeds for market; for heat ing and lighting livestock and poultry sheds and incubators and for scores of other uses. The scores of farmers which have not pioviously been served with electricity because of the scarcity of materials may look forward soon in the Grande Rondo volley to extension of lines which will bring them into the electrical fold, according to Ray mond Gray, manager of the Grande Rondo division of the Eastern Oregon Light and Power Electronic to Offer Handy, But Costly Gadget for Post War Use By S. BURTON HEATH NEW YORK (NKA) Just around the corner is the age of electronics. It won't he long now until that marvel of electrical science which has contributed so heavily to defeating nazis and Japs can be turned toward your home. You have heard much about what electronics can do for you. You may have built up high hopes. This seems to be the ideal time for a word of warning. It is tliis: Electronics can do tilings so wonderful that electronically controlled gadgets seem to pos sess human brains. Kleetronirs could make your home so com fortable, your home-work so easy, that the maid problem would disappear. But unless you are wealthy you probably won't have that sort of electronically - operated home within your lifetime. Your children may see it. On a stunt basis there seems to 15-46 Taxes To Be Due Soon In Union County Valuation This Year Lower Than For Last In anolhrr s i x weeks or s l!H.r)-'l(i taxes will be due mid payable in Union enmity. Lee Reynolds, county assessor, has announced the total lax val uation this year for all properly is $17,HI5..rilti, which is slightlv i less than the assessed valuation of all taxable properly last yrar. when it was fixed at $l7.H7.ri.iti:i. Total taxes levied tor all un poses in this eoiinly ihis year w ill be $!)li-l.fi75.IIH. I -iM year the Hu me was slinlillv higher, .-;i;ii, -1II.7U. One of the greatest ilrereasrs was in the school taxes of Klgin, where the rale (hopped (roiiiiU.l last year to 7!l this year. This was due to several eonsMliil.itnins. which brought oilier disliicts inlo the Elgin district. La Grande Listed as One of Safest f or Traffic in State La Grande, for the thud year, is listed as one of the satesl Ini traffic in the state according to its size, it was staled by Clyde C. Lund, chief of police. La Grande, listed as a "H" city, one having a population ot 111. Olid or less, was lop city in I lie state again this year, with no . traffic fatalities within the city, ''Lurid staled. Most of tin- traffic accidents involved parking maneuvoi s, and nlm'oM half occurred on Satur days and Sundays. Columbia llaxin Project to Show Model Irrication COULKK DAM. WASH. (UP Six pre-dcveloplilellt larms will be established on the l.UHii.tMHi rro Columbia basin project in giinlh cnstei n Wa. hington. The lai n Will be designed to demon 8tt)0 ir'igatlnn methods and ijave thi way for more efficient $ use of land. They will be placed In ieiii$ ntative are.is on v;m ous types of soil. be almost nothing that electronics can not do. T h e electric eye, opening a door or turning on a water fountain; the electric ear, opening a garage door when your horn (or one of the same fre quency) is sounded; radar. These are familiar applications already. Magic Eye Popular science writers have evoked the picture of a house wife busy in her kitchen. The doorbell rings. She looks up at n screen to see whether it is the neighbor coming with a cup to borrow sugar, the insurance man coming to collect premiums, a vhite-beartled youth selling mag azines to pay his way through college and there'll be such even in the postwar world or a tramp who, having discovered there is no wood-pile and the lawn already has been mown, is asking for the chance to earn a crust of bread and a glass of waler. If it's a friend, Milady turns on her own televisor so that the call er can see her, and tells her to open the door and come in. If it's an undesired caller she just keeps quiet or, if he "is loo persistent, tells him to go away. It is possible to cook a pound of roast in two seconds. 11 is possible to have an electric eye lorn on the lights when you en ter a room and turn them off when you leave. It is possible, every tune you light a match for a cigaret, to have an electric eye start a fan to blow out the match for you. Several experts agree that, though it would be tricky, it is possible to devise an electronic setup so that when Daddy comes home from the (i:14 and enters his aulomatieally-opening front door, loud speakers would an nounce softly in every room in t he house: "Hi, Mother here I am. Hot, tired and hungry. Where are my slippers? How about a drink? What's for dinner?" Electronics Now The end of the war finds you already living in an electronic home, if you only knew it. Every electric light bulb is an electronic tube. Your radio is an electronic device. So is your-sun-tan lamp, your home movie projector. Af ter the war all of these will be better than ever. Hut those stunt gadgets? For get them, for years to come. To roast your prime ribs in two seconds would require a $!)I,(M() range that would be 13 feet long, five feet deep, seven and a half feet high and would use 150,1100 watts of current. The electric fan probably would blow out your match be fore your cigaret was lighted. In stead of slaying on until you left the room, your lights might go out when somebody else entered. And so it goes. company. 40 More Already, the company has 208 miles of distribution and trans mission lines and has about 650 farm service customers, which is nearly 40 more than at this tlmo last year. With.' seven miles more line built in the last year or so, 25 more farms were added to the system, which operates in Union, Aliccl, Elgin, Imbler, North Pow der, Cove, Summcrvillc and Per ry, and in the vicinities of these (owns as well as at La Grande. 50 Miles There are plans for construct ing 50 miles of line to supply 0 percent of the ,175 farms left which do not have electric ser vice. This will be. made possible through the release of materials and manpower. The . company has 3,894 resi dential customers in the county and 4,818 meters. At present there are 22 em ployes of the La Grande division. Average length of their employ ment there is 14 years. 1944-45 aiioraitia Dec. 20 Navy training unit, one of three in the state, has been allotted to La Grande . . . Wal lowa county grand jury compos ed entirely of women was empan eled in Enterprise . . . Glenn Wag ner was elected king of La Grande chapter of Royal Arch Masons. . Dec. 21 C. E. Millering was installed worshipful master of La Grande lodge No. 41, A. F. and A. M. . . . Mrs. W. M. Pearson was re-elected president of the W. S. C. of the First Methodist church. Dec. 22 Mrs. Walter Apple was elected president of the Jol ly 600' club. Dec. 23 Lii Grande hoopsters beat Ontario 32-29. Dee. 28 La Grande's basket ball team won a 35-34 victory over Nyssa. January, 1945 Jan. 1 Loora Sue Pierson was the first baby to be born in La Grande in the new year. She was born in St. Joseph's hospital at 3:42 a.m. new years day. Jan. 3 Herbert J. Spcckhai't took office as the new Union county commissioner. He rc- r Stub w-r. mvm wmm na.ii a&aatvagh! " -.-.i... ..... . -ii-l. . .. . 1 k'K.!ic,lpuiH : SKqiNMaWMUfeM-i "Kill lidWBJ&tftfj-ps I- .':.J -T rv-i -'-WW.'" r- - ' 1.-.-A "e AN EXAMPLE OF THE USES to which electricity can be put in rural areas is to be found in this modern dairy farm, the Enkay dairy, farm operated by K. W. Sicgrist, two miles south and west of Summervillo. About 25 to 30 cows are milked here and the milking is done with machines. Separators, grain choppers, wood saws, the cold storage plant, shop machinery and other farm equipment is also operated by electricity. In the farm home itself, electricity is used for cooking, lighting, refrigeration, and for operatng fans, mixers, iron, washer, radio and other devices. Sicgrist. with a crew of four or five men, operates 840 acres here. In the picture are shown the lounging sheds, dairy barn and silos, hog barn and horse barn. placed W. C. Condit ... La Grande cagers won easily from North Powder, 42-20. Jan. 4 Jear.ette Isabelle Bcne fiel was appointed director of nurses at Grande Rondc hospital , . . Sgt. Earl Hopkins of Imbler received a presidential citation for his participation in the baipan in vasion. . Jan. 5 College enrollment was up 56 percent for the winter period . . . Rainfall deficiency marked the valley weather for 1944, with only 10.61 or 2.47 be low, average . . . D. E. Richards was honored on retirement as head of the experimental farm. Jan. 5 Mrs. Anton Freisinger was honored as Oregon's out standing bond saleswoman .' . . Baker nosed out La Grande -Id to 34 in basketball game. Jan. 9 Mearns T. Gates ad dressed the local junior cham ber of commerce. He is national president . .. . Little Miss Cosner of Summerville, daughter of Otto N. Cosner, was trying to find her dog which had gone astray. Or she wanted to know if he was dad so she could re place him . . . Aria Larie Lan nian was married to Howard Bingaman. Jan, 10 Mrs. T. B. Lumsden was re-elected chairman of the Union county Red Cross chap trr . . , Capt. John Ferris and Lt. Jack Lee Riggs, former La G r a n d o classmates, met and spent Christinas together in Cal cutta. Jan. 1 1 Registration at the , college continued to mount . . . : EIso Putnam, 8, was shot aeci- dentlly in the leg by his brother, I Larry, 13. His injury was not : serious . . . ! Jan. 12 Union county war I bond sales beat the quota by 67 percent . . . Roben J. Maaske was invited to lecture three 1 wczks in the summer at Chicago ! university. I Jan. 13 Rainfall of the last I four days had brought the rain ! for the month to 1.83 inches, 1.80 ; more than in January, 1944 . . . i Half a dozen cars parked near 1 the high school during the band concert were looted the night be fore . . . H. G. Avery was ap pointed superintendent of the ex- perinient station . . . Jan. 15 Four boys were held ion charges of ransacking aulos ' . . . Cpl. Sirney MoNcill was dec ' orated with the gold medal and purple heart. j Jan. 18 Clayton Fox was elec I ted president of the South Forty i'club . . . Christmas seal sales ' in the county were $2,508 , . . Mrs. Frank German was re-elec-j ted president of the northsid? club . . . Edgar F. Willcock, gro- cer, died. I Jan. 19 Rev. Mark Talney ex pressed opposition to peace time , military conscription, training. Jan. 23 County quota for the March of Dimes .wNas set at $3, 500 . . . Rev. Arthur J. Stanley was re-elected chairman of Boy ' Scouts district and troop com- 1 mitteemcn ... (Continued in Section C) We're Awaiting the Day We Cais Deliver Yon a ew CHRYSLER or PLYMOUTH Mnlnr Overhauling; Ignition Kep.-iirs l.ulii ieatiun Service liiillety I'liairjinn Stop at Our Nobilgas Mobiloi! Station to ha your rar Whterproofcd in the meantime let us keep your present car in good run ning condition Those Ivvi fine automobiles will probably bo delivered in limited quantities at the start of production, but as the full mo mentum is reached there will be cars for everyone. Therefore, it is advisable to keep your ear runninjr smoothly to serve your motoring need. Ve can help you by providintr expert mechanical service now and at all future times. We are the Union and Wallowa County Dealers for MACK TRUCKS Mok Truck pmriuction is now in hiffh Hear. Seme are available now and restric tions will I lifted entirely IKjccmlX'i'. fllAHDCLTHDN MDTDD2 . il;inw and Third I'hone 5T iet 7 MS... OUR NINTH IN OREGON AND UNION COUNTY Is Particularly Important to Us Being Able to 0!er You the New SHELL GA and PREMIUM GA S0LINE Makes it a Double Pleasure! Serving the oil and gasoline needs of I'nion county motorists, farmers and industrialists has been our job fin nine years. Today we tire pleased that we can continue that job with products which are finer and mole economical than ever. War-time im provements in quality and octane ratine- of Shell Casoline and Premium Casolinc today give motorists t,he hijrh quality product which they have been promised for the post-war. Shell Lubricants and (laxolihc are Sold by These I'nion County Shell Dealers RAY'S SHKI.I. SKKVIl'K IUKSI.AX1) (JARAGK H VK l'0 ; R ;K Second Adams, I, a Cuncle 111:, Adams, Lit (irandc l''cjn (JKTTI.NIiS-l.YM'H MOTOK ( O. 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