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Jesse E. Kirk Was
Native of Heppner
Word has been received in Hepp
ner of the death of a former resi
dent, Jesse Edward Kirk, who pass
ed away March 13 at Orting, Wash.
He was born in Heppner, Feb. 22,
1885, and made his home here until
1908 when he moved to Amity. He
later moved to Orting where he
was custodian of the Orting high
school for 25 years.
He is survived by his wife, Pearl,
three daughters, Mrs. Edna Brown
of Parkland, Mrs. Dorothy Baker
of Seattle and Beatrice Kirk; five
sons.Major Frank J. Kirk and Char
les E. Kirk, S2c, both in the South
Pacific; Pfc Chester Kirk in the
of Ft. Lewis, and Robert E. Kirk
European theater: Arthur W. Kirk
of Lakewodd, Wash.; and 16 grand
children; two sisters, Mrs. Margaret
Smith of Portland, and Mrs. Millie
O'Rourke of Baker, and one bro
ther, William M. Kirk of Belling
ham, Wash. There are two half sis
ters, Mrs. Ann Steward of Wolf
Creek, Ore., and Mrs. Pearl Burch
of Dayton, Ore.
Mr. Kirk was past noble grand of
Orting-lodge No. 63, I. O. 0. F. and
a member of the Woodmen of the
World.
ON BOOT LEAVE
Bob Runnion S 2c arrived Sun
day San Diego where he has com
pleted his boot training." He will
leave Sunday for San Diego for
advanced training. His mother, Mrs.
Pearl Runnion, and grandmother,
Mrs. Mae Smith, both of Douglas,
Wyo. came Saturday to spend the
week here with him. The ladies
visited Heppner last spring when
Bob graduated from high school.
ON DELAYED ORDERS
Ph .M 2c Scott McMurdo spent
Sunday with his parents, Dr. and
Mrs A. D. McMurdo, on a return
trip from Chicago to his base at
Astoria.
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"PP&L ha?? stood for progress
in our community for 35 years"
says John Vaughan, Superintendent,
the Pendleton City Water Department
"You bet I remember when PP&L came to
Pendleton! It was in 1910, the same year
Vaughan Electric, my former electrical wiring
and supply business, was established. In fact,
PP&L and I were next-door neighbors then..
That was also the first year of the famous
Pendleton Round-Up.
"From the time we first had electricity in
Pendleton until shortly before PP&L came
here, we only had lighting service during the
night-time hours. It was certainly an accom
plishment when we got 'round-the-clock
electric service.
"But that was only the beginning of many
Denefits to be followed up by PP&L during
the 35 years it has been a citizen of Pendleton.
Pacific Power & Light Company immediately
started to build up the territory by extend
ing its electric lines to Reith, Helix, Pilot
Rock, and other communities surrounding
Pendleton.
'A'- r or fact, FPfrT, '"v-
new development that has come along. It
means a lot to this community to have such'
an up-and-coming organization out boosting
for progress."
John Vaughan came to Umatilla County with his parents,
Clark County, Washington, pioneers, in 1883. The
family's first home in Pendleton is still standing. Mr.
Vaughan's first job was fireman at the steam generating
plant of the Pendleton Electric Light & Power Company,
source of the city's first electric service, where he later
became an operator. He was also driver for Pendleton's
early-day, horse-drawn fire equipment.
Mr. Vaughan estimates that his firm probably wired
75 of the buildings in' Pendleton from 1910 to 1937,
and as PP&L built lines into the surrounding country, he
also did wiring jobs there. He wired Pendleton's first
electrically-operated grain elevator (now Collins Flout
Mill) about five or six years after PP&L came to Pendle
ton. Since 1937, when he sold his interests in Vaughan
Electric, he has been Pendleton City Water Superintend
ent The business he established still operates under its
original name.
One of the first electric ranges in Pendleton was
installed in the Vaughan home. Today they have an all
electric home with range, water heater, refrigerator and
all the small appliances. PP&L's continued rate reduc
tions hr.ve made it possible for them to add new electric
a?v r s year after year, without increasing their
electric bill.
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Pacific Powep &. T toft Company
35 YEARS OF ELECTRICAL PROGRESS
1910
Uriah lamp replica
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log man light perkwh.
PF&L glrct cottomed
feat kwfa pf doQac
1920
Electric cooking being
popularized by Pacific
Power ft Light Com
pany. Era of electric
water heating on way.
1930
The whole electric in
dustry promotes effi
cient food saving and
health protection with (
electric refrigeration. '
1940
The development of
fluorescent lighting of
fers new improved op
portunities for "Better
Light Better Sight".
1945
Television ready foe
post-war homes. Great
advances in the science
of electronics await
peacetime use.
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