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Students Display
Talent in First
Speech Festival
(Contributed)
On last Friday, afternoon and
evening, the Morrow county speech
festival was held at Lexington, with
students from Boardman, Lexing
ton, lone and Heppner participat
ing. At 2:30, three panels were con
ducted simultaneously with Miss
Barbara Lever, H. G. Holcomb and
George Linn as moderators. Panel
mem.be were Aloha Painter, Mari
lyn Holcomb, Louis Carlson and
Gene Rietmann of lone; Audrey
Wilson, Melvin Carlson and Ed
ward McClellen of Boardman; Majo
Marquardt, Wanda Grant, Louise
Hunt and Estelle Ledbetter of Lex
ington; Marylou Ferguson, Marian
Miller, Edda Mae Thorpe and Bob
Van Schoiaek of Heppner.
Grade school pupils taking part
in the poetry reading were Ingrid
Herman, Shirley Peck, Bob Ben
nett, Charles Buchanan, Ronald
Baker and Franklyn Messenger.
In the extemporaneous speaking
section, Rena June Messenger of
Lexington spoke on "U. S. Postwar
Housing Needs;' Alton Yarnell of
lone on "Voting Procedure in
World Peace Council;" Joe French
of Heppner on "The United Mine
Workers and Their Demands", and
Ed McClellen of Boardman on "The
Softcoal Mine Striker."
In the evening the Boardman
high school gave Linsday's "The
Congo" as a chorale production
with these students reading: Hoyt
Brown, Norman Nelson, Reba Fal
coner, Rozella Meinen, Gerald See
ber, Mildred Miller, Fay Anderson
and Grady Beaver.
Lexington students, Robert Mc
Loughlin, Audrey Majeske, Rena
June Messenger and Louise Hunt
gave poetry readings.
lone high school gave "The Boor"
by Anton Tchekov with the fol
lowing cast: Eunice Peterson, Alton
Yarnell, Tom Doherty, Matt Doher
ty and Gaylord Salter.
Heppner high school cast consist
ing of Ramona McDaniel, Shirley
Wilkinson, Carolyn Bauman, Colleen
Miller, Don Du Bois, Gladwin Hud
son and Morgan Connor gave "The
Man from Heppner." Edda Mae
Thorpe was announcer, and Lavina
Sunquist was in charge of proper-
ties.
Much of the credit for a success
ful day goes to Mrs. Bethel Taylor
the Lexington school and the mo
thers. Students had charge of reg
istration and ushering. The mothers
were hostesses at a delicious din
ner. Everyone hereby says "thank
you" to Lexington.
CARD OF THANKS
We take this means of thanking
our friends for their many acts of
kindness, their expressions of sym
pathy, ,and for the beautiful floral
offerings to the memory of our be
loved Marie Christina.
Ralph Ledbetter and daughter
P. C. Peterson and family
Vernon Christopherson
Louis Ball and family
I'se Reformed My
Eating Habits
I'se been a
man eating
life, but the
other day I
stopped in at
the Victory
Cafe and now
I'se reform
ed. 1 didn't
f imire food
could taste
so ffood or
look so tem-
ntin' those
Sunday Din
ners, 'speoai-
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Boy and
Betty
Iieuallen
Proprietors
lone, Ore.
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"Pacific Power & Light meets
all our service emergencies"
says F. H. Laighton, Realtor in Seaside, Oregon
And those emergencies are really some
thing. Not only do we have severe winter
storms that keep the PP&L boys on their
toes, but we have other problems peculiar
to vacation spots.
"Seaside's permanent population is about
5500, but during the summer months it
becomes Oregon's second largest city, with
a population of 35,000 to 50,000. PP&L must,
and does, maintain facilities capable of
handling this tremendous seasonal peak.
"I remember Seaside as it was 59 years
ago, when I moved here with my parents.
It was a vacation spot then, but there were
only a few scattered houses and limited
hotel accommodations. Two to three hun
dred vacationists made a record season, and
most of them brought tents and spent the
entire summer.
"Seaside's early electric system would
get over-loaded with only a few hundred
vacationists in town. Lights would often
burn only a cherry red, interruptions were
frequent, and oil lamps were standard equip
ment in every household.
"Ever since PP&L took over here, the
company has been a great factor in the
steady growth of Seaside, anticipating our
electrical needs and supplying dependable
service under all kinds of conditions."
Mr. Laighton, a native of Astoria, has been a resident of
Seaside since 1886. His first job was in the old Logan mill
where a steam engine drove the dynamo supplying
Seaside's first electric service available at first to only
a limited number of business houses.
After leaving the mill, he drove a horse-drawn stag
between Seaside and Arch Cape, the 28 miles constituting;
a davti-to-dark trip. With no roads, the route was down
the sandy beach, and departure time depended on the tide.
While driving stage, Mr. Laighton became convinced of
the development possibilities of the coast communities,
and in 1908 entered the real estate business. He has taken
an important part in the development of both Seaside and
Cannon Beach. He served as postmaster at Seaside for a
total of 19 years, and served eight years on the city
council, including one year as mayor.
3 5 YEARS OF ELECTRICAL PROGRESS
1910
Mazua .amp re
places carbon bulb,
giving more light per
kwh.PP&Lgivesyou
more kwh per dollar.
1920 Electric cook
ingbeing popularized
by Pacific Power &
Light. Electric water
heating era on way.
1930 Whole electric
industry promotes
food saving, health
protection, with elec
trical refrigeration.
1940 Development of
fluorescent lighting
offers new opportun
ities for "Better
Light-Better Sight".
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1945 Television ready
for postwar homes.
Great advances in
science of electronics
await peacetime nse.
Pacific Power & Light Company
Your Business-Managed Power System
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