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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1941 THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON. OREGON THREE modeling the front of their home in wick came over with her mother, Mrs. PROPOSED ORDINANCE OF THE side and outside. H. O. Thompson is Fred Sands Sunday for a visit. CITY OF HERMISTON doing the work. Shirley and Joyce McFarland spent By Mrs. Glena Ostrom Mrs. Hannah Robinson of Portland, the week-end in Boardman with their who visited her brother, Al Stephens grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. AN ORDINANCE granting to Paci fic Power & Light Company, a Mrs. William Switzler returned to and family, returned to her home with McFarland. corporation, and to its successors her home here last Thursday and another brother and sister-in-law, Mr. Francis Pattee attended the fair in and assigns, a non-exclusive license spent until Tuesday, when she went and Mrs. Jeff Stephens Friday. They Boardman Saturday then remained to and franchise for a period of twen to Portland to be near her husband. came here to attend the funeral of visit with her grandparents, Mr. and ty (20) years to construct, main Bill Switzler, who is in a hospital their sister, Mrs. Cora Newcomb, in Mrs. J. Olson till Sunday. , tain and operate in and on the there. Mrs. Bagley, a friend, accom- Pendleton Thursday. Others going to the fair were Mrs. present and future streets, alleys, Mr. and Mrs. Al Stephens were panieid her here. E. McKenzie and daughter, Jean, Ann bridges, and public places of the Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Byrnes are re- taken to Yakima Saturday by Mrs. Marry Sherlock, Mr. and Mrs. Wil City of Hermiston, electric light William Switzler and Mrs. Bagley, and power lines and appurtenances where they remained to spend some liam Kik. M. Williams, general superin- for the purpose of supplying elec time with their son, Alfred, Jr., and tricity and electric service to the family. Mrs. Switzler and Mrs. Bag- i tendent of the Oregon division of the City of Hermiston, the inhabitants Union Pacific railroad was here Sat ley returned Sunday. thereof and others, subject to the Mrs. Glenn Ostrom and son, Gary urday. P. T. McCarthy, superintend terms and conditions and to the Dean, Mrs. Ray Brandon and daugh ent and Mr. Hibbard, train master, making of the payments specified ters and Leta Myers spent Friday af were here Sunday. in the ordinance. ternoon in Kennewick where the for Deer hunters going out for the mer visited her sister and family, Mr. first day to try their luck were: John THE CITY OF HERMISTON and Mrs. Don Harryman and the lat Mustard, Harry Rodenbough, Bob Mc Compare These Features I ter visited with her aunt, Mrs. Bob Kenzie, Pete Farley, Harry Gram DOES ORDAIN AS Myers. Gordon and Gerald Harryman mer, Ervin Chapman, Herbert • new DOUBLE i. F. CIRCUIT. FOLLOWS: j returned with them to spend the Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. George Gives you four times the I | week-end with their grandparents, Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Don McBride, sensitivity, amazing selec Section I. The city of Hermiston, 8 | Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Byrnes. Mrs. Os Ursel Hiatt, Milo McFarland, Lyle tivity and power. trom and son, Mrs. Byrnes and and Vivien Brown and Glenn Ostrom. hereinalter caled the City, aoes nere- • BUILT-IN SUPER AERIAL sYs- oy grant to Pacific Power & Light | daughter. Joan, took the boys back John Msutard brought in the first TEM. Greater efficiency on to their home Sunday and spent the deer. The party composed of McFar company, a corporation, and to its both Standard and Short- successors and assigns, hereinafter day visiting. land, the Brown’s and Ostrom brought called the Grantee, a license and Wave reception. The Ladies’ Aid. Catholic Altar So- in the next three. • COMPLETE ELECTRIC PUSH- franchise for the period of twenty | city. Garden Club, Pocahontas and BUTTON OPERATION. 9 Push- Mr. and Mrs. Ursel Hiatt return Eastern Star were joint hosts Friday ed Thursday from Bend where they tau? years from and after the effect Buttons for station tuning evening for a teachers’ reception held had spent since Sunday while Mr. Hi ive date of this ordinance, to con- | and band switching. Any struct, maintain and operate in and in the Masonic reception room. A att atended the Fire Chiefs’ conven button turns radio on. on the present and future streets, al large crowd attended. • SEPARATE BASS AND TREBLE tion. leys, bridges and public places of the Acting Mayor Llewellyn Brownell CONTROLS. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond McNabb City, electric light and power lines, | introduced the principal, Harold Re- MANY OTHER NEW PEA- and children, Diane and Freddie and with all the necessary or desirable ap gele, who in turn introduced the TURES, including Concert teachers and school board members. Mrs. John Wurster drove to Mabton, purtenances, for the purpose of sup- | Grand Speaker. American Rev. John K. Walpole also gave a Washington, Sunday to visit friends. plying electricity and electric service and Foreign Reception. Mrs. Wurster remained to spend a to the City and the inhabitants there- j talk. Beautiful Walnut cabinet. week. of, and to persons and corporations j The following program was given Philco, for 1942, brings you the Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Keefer have beyond the limits of the City, subject | after which refreshments were serv PHILCO to the terms and conditions and to the ! world's greatest radio values! ed: violin solo, Frances Chapman, purchased a new 1942 Plymouth. 380X Mrs. Ervin Chapman is again able making of the payments hereinafter j New inventions . . . exquisite vocal trio, Juanita Brown, Edyth Ann Spencer and Norman Williams: to be up after an illness of three specified. new beauty . . . glorious new Section 2. The license and fran reading, Roberta Lane; vocal duet, weeks. tone . . . sensational new radio Tans Muriel Butcher spent Tuesday in chise hereby granted shall not be ex Ann Mary Sherlock and Frances enjoyment, priced within every Chapman: vocal trio, Ann Mary Sher Pendleton visiting at the home of her ; clusive; and the City expressly re Liberal Trade-Ins one's reach. See this and many lock, Frances and Ruth Pattee, read parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Butcher. serves the right, at any time during ther outstanding values now! Mrs. Jess Goff and daughter, Bet-the term of the license or franchise ing, Mrs. Thomas Eller, accordion so lo, Orion Wattenburg; reading, Nor ty, drove to La Grande Sunday where hereby granted, to grant licenses or I ry! Quantity Limited! Betty remained to attend E. O. C. E. franchises for such purpose to other man Williams. ‘Grandma’ McMartin had her cous persons or corporations, as well as the Mr. and Mrs. Pat Pattee left Fri tig week day for a business trip to Montana. ins, Mr. and Mrs. James Green wis- right in its own name as a municipal Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Blakely of The iting her from Menominee, Wisconsin, ity to use said streets and public pla Dalles visited his mother, Mrs. Jen over the week-end. They are making ces for such purposes, in the event nie Blakely Saturday. They were ac a tour of the states, expecting to end that the City shall hereafter decide to companied home by their small daugh in Florida where they will spend the engage in the business of supplying electricity and electric service for mu ter, Jennie Mae, who has spent the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kennedy and nicipal or other uses. If, during the past three months at the home of her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. E. Mc daughters, Mary Margaret and Agnes term hereof, the City shall decide to Section 3. The locations and meth and son, Don, motored to La Grande engage in such business, and shall ods of installation and maintenance of any manner arising out of the con Kenzie. struction, maintenance, or operation Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Carlyle drove Sunday where Mary Margaret will elect to acquire by condemnation or all poles, wires, fixtures, underground 'of any property of the Grantee in or otherwise the property used by the conduits, and appurtenances shall be to Pendleton Sunday to visit Car attend E. O. C. E. The Ladies’ Aid held a meeting in Grantee in furnishing electric service subject at all times to reasonable reg on any street, alley or highway with lyle’s nephew. Woodrow Harold at the church Tuesday afternoon. After hereunder, no value or damages of ulation by the Council of the City, or in the City of Hermiston. Camp Pendleton. Hermiston, Oregon Section 8. The Grantee shall pay Mrs. Floyd Willingham and son, the regular meeting a party was held any kind shall be claimed by or al by such committee of the Council or Larry, visietd at the Elmore McKen for Mrs. Del Jackson, the day being lowed to the Grantee on account of the such official of the City as may be to the City on or before the 20th day her birthday. Mrs. Jackson was given unexpired term of the license or designated by the Council: and all of the month following the close of zie home Sunday. each calendar quarterly period during franchise hereby granted. Mrs. Ben Van Patten of Kenne- a lovely gift. such poles, wires, fixtures, under the term hereof, beginning with the ground conduits and appurtenances calendar quarter ending December 31, shall be so constructed and maintained 1941, a fee or charge equivalent to as to interfere as little as practicable two per cent (2%) of the Grantee’s with street or other traffic. All of gross receipts during the preceding sueh poles, wires, fixtures, under calendar quarter from electric service ground conduits, and appurtenances furnished by the Grantee within the shall be installed and at all times corporate limits of the City, other maintained by the Grantee in safe or than such receipts from service to the der and condition and in accordance United States of America or any with good electric practice, and the agency thereof. The amounts so pay 1 Grantee, at its own cost and expense, able by the Grantee shall be in lieu shall promptly repair all streets, al of all other license, occupation, fran leys, bridges and public places in any chise or excise taxes or charges which way disturbed by the Grantee, and might otherwise be levied or collected I shall restore the same to as good con by the City in respect of the use or dition as the same were in prior to ' exercise of the license or franchise the doing of any work thereon or granted hereby. The Grantee shall therein by the Grantee. The Grantee keep proper books of account, and j shall comply with all lawful present shall make verified quarterly reports I and future charter provisions, ordi- to the Recorder, within 20 days fol | nances, rules, or regulations of the lowing the close of each calendar City relating to the use or improve quarter, which shall contain accurate ment of the streets, alleys, bridges statements in summarized form of the and public places of the City. Grantee’s gross receipts from electric Section 4. The service to be furn service furnished by it within the Ci ished hereunder by the Grantee shall ty, and such other information con be continuous and shall be adequate cerning the Grantee’s said business as for the requirements of the City and the City through its Council or Re its inhabitants, subject to accidents, corder may from time to time request interferences or interruptions beyond I of the Grantee. the reasonable control of the Grantee, Section 9. This ordinance shall be and shall be furnished under such in full force and effect from and af reasonable rules and regulations as ter the expiration of thirty (301 days the Grantee may make from time to after the date of its final passage by time for the proper conduct of its bus the Council and its approval by the iness. Such service and all rates and Mayor of the City, but shall become charges therefor, and all rules and null and void unless within thirty regulations pertaining thereto or to (30) days after such effective date the making of necessary and proper the Grantee shall file in the office of extensions of service, shall be subject the Recorder the Grantee's unquali at all times to any rules, regulations fied written acceptance hereof and of and orders lawfully prescribed by the all the terms, conditions, restrictions Public Utilities Commissioner of Ore and obligations to be complied with or gon, or by any other authority having performed by it hereunder. jurisdiction in the premises. Section 10. If the Grantee shall Section 5. When necessary, in or fail to perform or comply with any of der to permit any duly authorized per the obligations and requirements im son to move any building or other posed by this ordinance, after the structure across or along any street, receipt of written notice from the alley, bridge or public place within City of Hermiston specifying the re the City, the Grantee shall temporari spect in which the Grantee is deemed ly raise or remove its wires, fixtures to be in default hereunder, and de and appurtenances upon such streets, manding that such default be reme- alleys, bridges or public places, upon died within a reasonable time to be reasonable notice in advance from the fixed in such notice, the right and Recorder of the City, and at such franchise granted hereby may be ter time and in such manner as may be minated and annulled by the Council necessary reasonably to accommodate of the City of Hermiston, after rea such moving, consistently with the sonable opportunity for the Grantee maintenance of proper service to the to be heard and appropriate determi Grantee's customers; provided, how nation with respect to such alleged ever, that the cost to the Grantee of I default. The foregoing is a proposed ordi such temporary raising or removal, and of any interruption of the Gran- i nance being considered by the City tee’s service to its customers caused Council of the City of Hermiston thereby, shall first be paid or satis Anyone interested may discuss the factorily secured to the Grantee by same with the City Council at any the owner or mover of such building regular meeting up to and including the meeting of November 7, 1941. or other structure. CHARLES TAYLOR. Recorder Section 6. The City shall have the of the City of Hermiston, Ore . right, without payment or charge therefor, to attach its fire alarm or (Sept. 25-Oct. 2) police signal wires to the poles of the Grantee, but at its own risk and only 53 20 WH) in accordance with good electrical practice. Such fire alarm or police signal wires shall be subject to inter- 1 ^OüLoí ference by the Grantee only when TRADE I and to the extent necessary for the proper construction, maintenance, op- ME) »ration or repair of the Grantee's poles, wires, fixtures, conduits, and appurtenances. Section 7. The Grantee hereby BLOW agrees and covenants to indemnify and save harmless the City of Her- YOUR OWN HORN I miston and the officers thereof In The Advertising Columns j against and from any and all claims, | and all damages, cost and expense to OF THIS NEWSPAPER which it or they may be subjected by reason of any acts or neglects of the HERMISTON HERALD Grantee, its agents or servants, in | NEWS 96 a new ' 1942 I PH ILCO RadioSpecia- $89.85 EASY L. A. MOORE Furnisher of Homes A. W. Behrman Jeweler COMING! Burnham a Burnham FRI.-SAT., SEPT. 26-27 DISPLAY syyyyyyyyyvyvvyyvvvyyyvvvyvk Newest weights and patterns shown in the full piece by a Cromwell Tailor’s Special Representative. 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