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 . -
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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.