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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1945)
Irrigon Girl Wins Spelling Contest An old fashioned spelling bee was held at lone school the after noon of Friday. May 4, with most of the schools in Morrow county participating. Each school entered one contes tant from grades six, seven and eight. The winners in each grade entered a grand contest to deter, mine the best oral speller in the county. The following pupils entered the contests: Grade six Patty Healy, Heppner, winner; George Russell, Irrigon; Carol Jackson, Lexington and De light Biddle, lone. Grade Seven Nellie Howell, Heppner, winner; Joan Clate. Irri gon; June Steagall, Lexington and Lola Ann McCabe, lone. Eighth Grade Ester Warner, Ir rigon, winner; Gary Couture, Hep pner; Diane Burrell, Lexington and Fayne Ely, lone. Ester Warner of Irrigon, winner of the eighth grade contest, was al so the winner of the grand final contest. Mrs. Lucy Rodgers, county school superintendent, pronounced the words and the teachers from the various schools acted as judges. A good time was had by all and many expressed the desire to have more such get-to-gethers in the future. - MOVES TO LAKEVIEW According to the Sherman Coun ty Journal Merle Becket has been transferred from the Sherman coun ty branch of the First National bank of Portland to the Lakeview branch where he will be assistant manager. Becket, native Heppner boy, got his first bank training in the First National bank here, later going to Wallowa where he was manager .for several years. He has been manager of the Moro bank for two years. He will take up his duties at Lakeview at the end of his vacation. Heppner Gazette Times, May 10, 1945 5 CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank everyone for the . beautiful flowers and cards sent me during my illness. Hazel Benge. Dance Willows Grange Hall IONE OREGON Saturday Evening May h GOOD MUSIC by lone Cardinals Supper Served Admission 50c, Tax 10c, Total 60c Everybody Welcome I'se Reformed My Eating Habits Tse 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 figure food could taste so good or look so tem ptin those Sunday Din ners, 'special ly. Y-mmm. Roy and Betty Lieuallen Proprietors lone, Ore. 2f "PP&L vmg us more and more for our money" says J. A. Shupe, Northern Pacific Locomotive Engineer of Pasco, Wash. lg ' VJ' m & W If Kearly 30 years ago, we bought one of the very first electric ranges in Pasco. It was so marvelous that the man who sold it to us asked for a picture of our kitchen. Of course, it was1 nothing like the modern elec tric kitchen we have today but eight of our friends went out and bought electric ranges when they learned from us how easy it was to cook with electricity. "That was just a few years after PP&L came to Pasco in 1910. Since then we have added just about everything there is in the way of household electric equipment. And PP&L has been cutting the price of elec tricity faster than we have been adding new appliances, so that today service for pur all-electric home costs us only b?.if t- e amount we once paid to use our electric range and a few lights." J. A. Shupe, veteran railroad engineer, came to Pasco from Kansas in 1904 to take a job as a fire cleaner in the Pasco Northern Pacific roundhouse. He became successively a fireman on a switch-yard engine, freight engineer, and passenger engineer and now pilots one of the big Class A-3 passenger locomotives between Pasco and Spokane. Mr. Shupe recalls the many advances in railroad ing since he first went to work for Northern Pacific. Trains are bigger, faster, safer; tracks are twice as heavy; and steel construction has replaced wood to make the cars bigger and stronger. The first locomotive Mr, Shupe drove had an oil head lamp and oil lamps in the cars. Now electric ity not only lights the trains, but operates the b'cc!: signals and handles many a difficult job that v.z.:d to he done manually. 5 YEARS OF ELECTRICAL" PROGRESS 1910 Mazda lamp re placet carbon bulb, giving more light per kwh. PP&L gives yon more kwh per dollar. 1920 Electric cook ing being 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". 1945 Television ready for postwar homes. Great advances in science of electronics await peacetime use. PACIFIC POWER & LIGHT COMPANY Your Business -Managed Power System The Victory Cafe