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6 Heppner Gazette Times, February 28, 1946 MRS. FERGUSON HOSTESS TO PAST MATRONS CLUB Mrs. E. O. Ferguson was hostess Monday evening to the Past Mat rons club of Ruth Chapter No. 32, Order of the Eastern Star. Present were Mrs. Emma Evans, Mrs. Frank S. Parker, Mrs. Loyal Parker, Mrs. Charles Vaughn, Mrs. Claud Gra ham, Mrs. John Wightman, Mrs. W. O. Dix, Mrs. J. O. Turner, Mrs. R. L. Benge, Mrs Earl Blake and Mrs. H. D. McCurdy. Mrs. Graham won honors in bridge and Mrs. Blake was the suc cessful finder in the treasure hunt. Refreshments were served. Next meeting of the group will be at the home of Mrs. J. O. Turner. HERE FOR HEALY FUNERAL Out of town people attending the Michael Healy funeral besides Mrs. Healy were Mr. and Mrs. Richard Holmboe, Beaverton; Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Rands and two children, Boardman; J. Michael Healy, Port land; Mr. and Mrs. William P. Hea ly and two chi'dren, Portland; Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Gronquist, Her miston; Mr. and Mrs. Dan Buffing ton, Portland:; Cecelia, Marie and Billy Healy, Portland; Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hughes and daughter Dul cena, Pendleton, and Mr. and Mrs. Francis Healy, Pendleton. Mrs. He aly and Mrs. Buffington were guests at the home of their brother Joe Hughes, and the W. J. Hughes family were guests of Mr. and S. J. Devine. Working Circle . - Continued frc Page 5 or far removed from existing op erations, is divided into many small holdings. For this reason and be cause of its location t is nt equal ly available to all sawmills. Some mills, due to the absence of private timber tributary to their operations or the urgent need for additional supplies, have reached outside the Working Circle and bought private timber which with the advent of better trucks and roads it has be come possible to transport long dis tances for manufacture. This out side supply available in past years has now almost disappeared due to similar pressures in the other working circles, leaving the pre sently uncontrolled timber within the Working Circle an important key to the life of the various mills operating there. Ed note: Due to the length of this article it will be continued over to next week. Don t Blame our Dealer if You Can't Get GE Appliances and Radios Ifs not the dealer's fault. We don't think its our fault. Maybe it's nobody's fault. But here's what happened: Here's how fast G. L and its affiliated companies were making and shipping things for you: OCT. NOV. DEC. On hand Dec 31,1945 irons 60,440 67,564 85,968 2H days production CLOCKS 181,998 '177681 256,030 2 day' production REFRIGERATORS 12,755 17,577 28,432. 4 day.' production WASHERS , 3,068 I 4,672 6,874 4 day.' pfodudtea RANGES 3,056 8,973 8,996 3 days' production RADIOS a 85 5,129 9,401 H days' production : ' . ' " ..... TOACTCDQ ' " - ' QIO " O XOVO made because produc- I 1 El7 OlA Ll90V (ton was inadequate to providt - samples for dealers). Out of the 2,485, 138 appliances manufactured in 1944 and 1945, General Electric shipped 98. After the war ended, we weren't abb ax to get back into production of some appliances as soon as we had hoped, and production rates weren't as high as we had hoped. A number of unfore seen tilings like material shortages mado the job harder. But there were only 120 days be tween V-J-Day and December 31, 1945, and in those 120 days we partly recon verted our factories from war to peace time goods and got production started. During the year we turned out 2,313,791 electrical appliances. We shipped these appliances out practically as fast as made so fast that at the end of the year more than 98 per cent of those we'd built since reconversion began were out of our factories. Most of them were in the hands of users. Then, on J anuary 15, 1946, our plants were closed by the strike. Not a single electric home appliance has been built or assembled there since. And, because our warehouses are practically empty, your dealer won't be able to obtain any more until we can get back to making them. We want to get back to producing as fast as possible. The manufacturing organization is set up; the machines are ready, waiting to be set in motion. These factors will help us to do an even faster job then we did in the ; months before the strike. 1 But we can't pick up production quite where we left off. Production lines are too complicated for that. A great many things have been dislocated by the strike. When the strike is over, and the refrigerators and toasters and radial you've been waiting for begin to come off the lines again, we'll get them into hands of our dealers just as fast as we can. They'll be competitive in price. They'll be General Electric quality. So, please don't be impatient with your dealeror with us.
