IN PORTLAND
L. E. Dick went to Portland Tues
day to look into the possibility of
acquiring a wartime job. Since gas
and oil rationing have placed lim
itations on deliveries to the point
where Edwin, Jr. can handle both
office and delivery operations, the
senior Dick decided he would try
to boost the war effort in one of
the war industries.
SNOW, MUD HINDER TRAVEL
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Burnside
were in town Tuesday from their
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ranch in the Hardman section. This
was their first triip out since
Christmas due to road conditiions
which deep snow and mud have
made next to impassable.
RETURN HOME
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Rice returned
to their Morrow county home Sun
day after spending the winter at
Junction City. They report a pleas
ant winter in the upper Willamette
valley, both are well and glad to
get home.
Not everybody with a doli
to spare can shoot a' gun
straight but everybody can
shoot straight to the bank and
buy War Bonds. Bay your
10 every pay day.
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One of a series of twelve advertisements
about the men who manage PP&L
business in Oregon and Washington
ARTHUR STUART ".Art", DEMPSIE (right), District Manager
at Astoria since 1929, just finished his 24th year with PP&L. Art
joined the company after World War I, in which he served as
Corporal in 834th Aero Squadron. Beginning job was with the old
Astoria street railway system. Art next spent a year in the Portland
oBce, then four years as manager at Seaside before returning to the
Astoria district. The Dempsie family includes an adopted daughter,
also a nephew they reared, who now is a U. S. Army Sergeant.
(Photographer found Art with PP&L plant operator Cliff Cloutts, checking i condenser pump bearing)
Fishing, lumbering, dairying, shipping are among the important industries served by
PP&L in the Astoria district. Combined with the wheat, fruit, manufacturing and
similar diversified industries of 11 other districts, PP&L is able to give every cus
tomer the benefits of an efficient, rugged system that gives good service and big
value, year in and year out. Because PP&L serves a complete cross-section of the
great Columbia Basin, users all over the system have their electric service pro
tected against local adversities, and through the years have found the benefits of
business-managed system operation refected consistently in lower and lower rates.
O Being one of the twelve PP&L District Man
agers isn't the biggest job in Clatsop County.
But it's an important job to you, and to us, and
it's a lot of hard work for Art Dempsie.
None of our District Managers got there by the
"Amos 'n' Andy" route. In fact the 12 PP&L dis
trict managers have accumulated, altogether, 295
years of experience with this company alone!
Some of them started in, as Art did, in one
of the operating departments, some of them in
construction, climbing poles and handling "hot"
wires in spite of rain, wind, sunstroke-weather,
and icy roads.
Then, after a few years of working through
other departments, somebody picked them out
to sit at a desk and run things in their Districts.
The desk comes last not first. The boss who
floes the picking came up the hard way himself.
And it's the same in every business-managed
power company and railroad and telephone sys
tem in the whole United States. You don't just
get yourself appointed to this kind of job.
This on-the-ground experience working up
from .the bottom is one big reason why the
public utility services of this country lead all
other nations for efficient operation.
Another big reason for PP&L's fine service
record is that expert advice and help from other
districts and from the system's headquarters staff
is ready in a moment to help every district in its
technical problems. Only through a fully-developed
system organization are such advantages to be had.
These are big reasons, too, why 90,000 customers
of PP&L last year were able to use 570,000,000
KWH of electricity why PP&L's average rate
for residence service is 43 below national average.
YOUXI DUSIUESS-HAZ121GED POWER STSTEII