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THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1944.
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Bu Margaret Thorpe
Mrs. Florence Barlow passed away
Monday morning at her home at the
age of 69. Funeral services will be
held Wednesday afternoon at the
Community church at 2:00 o’clock,
with Robert Berger of The Dalles of
ficiating. Mrs. Barlow has been in
poor health for some time.
The basket social held Saturday
night following the show was a great
success. After lunch dancing was
enjoyed.
Lyle Tannehill, Cook 3d class, sur
prised his parents Sunday morning
I by coming home on a leave from the
Navy. He has given two very inter
esting talks at school on the different
places he has visited. This is the
first time he has been home since he
went into the Navy nearly two years
ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Root spent Sunday
visiting their daughter-in-law at Ath
ena.
The shower for Mrs. Lilly is post
poned until Friday. February 4, at
the Tannehill home due to the funeral
Wednesday.
Mrs. Earl Briggs spent the week,
end in Portland visiting her sister.
A dance will be held after the show
Saturday night for the infantile par
alysis benefit. There will be a small
charge to go towards tht fund.
AFFORD TO BUY AN
h EXTRA WAR BOND !
A
HAT WOULD a wounded soldier
Especially when all you’re asked to do
War Bond?”
He might remind you that he couldn’t
“afford” to go to war! But he went,
and now he’s making more sacrifices
... for you. No wonder he expects you
to do something that will help him!
see if you can’t swing at least an extra
$100 ... or $200 ... or $300 ... or even
$500 for extra War Bonds. You’ll find
that you can . . . and it’s no sacrifice,
either, for War Bonds are the best in
vestment in the world today !
IRRIGON NEWS ITEMS
is to buy an extra $100 War Bond this
of you if he could hear you
W think
say: “I can’t afford to buy an extra month. So check over your budget . . .
Loan BACK THE ATTACK! La
This message by—
Hermiston Laundry & Dry Cleaners
Ry Mre. Grace Shaun
Toby Griffin finished the George
Russell well and is now drilling one
for Roy Minnick.
Wm. Moore of Hermiston is visit
ing his son Sinice and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Steagall and
family were in Pendleton Friday
evening.
Ollie Corriel, who has been head
guard at the Western Extension Ir
rigation dam, turned over the job to
C. W. Grim and Mr. Scarlett, and he
is working now in the Columbia Cafe.
The dam will not be guarded after
February 1st.
The Rev. E. R. Schneider, Mrs.
Schneider and children, Mr. and Mrs.
Emery Bedwell. Mrs. Lillie Warner
and Mr. Debere attended the Pente
costal church in Stanfield Friday
evening.
The Presbyterian Aid Society met
Thursday in the church basement and
YOUR PROTECTION is our JOB!
You never really know the value of adequate automobile
insurance until “after the accident”.
If an accident strikes, your Farmers policy* goes swiftly and
surely to work—assumes your financial loss—protects your
interests.
Safeguard your auto and
without insurance.
your possessions.
Don’t drive
ROY DUNCAN, AGENT
Phone Stanfield 722
FARMERS AUTOMOBILE
«^INSURANCE Eachang.
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worked on a quilt.
The Walter Gridders and Mrs. Sud-
darth, Mr. Lynn, the H. H. Whipples
and Mrs. J. A. Shoun were Hermiston
visitors Friday.
The R. R. company is widening the
roadbed between Umatilla and Irri
gon.
Ora Thompson’s cousins, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Thompson, left for North
Dakota Friday. They came west by
California visiting down there before
coming here.
The Rev. Debruer and sister were
in Irrigon Friday.
Corp. George Steagall arrived from
a Wisconsin Camp Thursday. Dave
Steagall took him to Heppner on his
way to Spray. He is in the Engineers
division.
Mrs. Betty Leonard, who has been
ill here, was taken to Pendleton for
medical care.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bedwell of
Ontario are visiting relatives in Irri
gon.
Grandma Peterson is reported as
slightly improved.
Howard Gollyhorn’s house looks
very nice from the road. It looks like
most of the framework is up and
some of the siding, etc., is on.
Mrs. C. W. Acock and son Charles.
Jr., were Hermiston visitors Tuesday.
Mrs. Lillie Dasch died January 15
at her home in Gibbon. She came to
Oregon when a small child with her
parents, Steve and Charlott James, to
Helix. She was married to Harry
Sayer in 1897. He died in 1934. She
is survived by four children, Della Me
Bean, Gibbon, Martha Goodson, Kan
sas City, Mo., Cora Minnick of Irri
gon and W. R. Sayer of LaGrande.
She later married Lee C. Dasch, who
proceeded her in death. Besides her
children, she was survived by five
brothers and three sisters. She spent
most of the last six years with her
daughter, Mrs. Roy Minnick. The
funeral was held in Pendleton Janua
ry 19th with lots of flowers presented
and a large crowd attending the fun
eral.
FOURTH LEADER
MEETINGS SET
H. C. Seymour, State 4-H Club
leader and Miss Helen Cowgill, assis
tant stateleader, will be in Umatilla *
county February 2, 3 and 4. to con
duct a series of local leader training
meetings, announces Myrtle Carter,
home demonstration agent. These are
planned to aid 4-H leaders in subject
matters and in timely problems per
taining to the 4-H work. The Home
Economics work is now being organ
ized for the 1943-44 season with 43
clubs having a membership of 600,
now active throughout the county.
The leaders meetings will be held
as follows:
February 2—East End, Pleasant
View, Community hall, at 7:30 p. m.
February 3—West End, Hermiston
U. S. O. building, 7:30 p. m.
February 4—Pilot Rock, Library,
at 1:30 p. m.
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PP&L AVERAGE RESIDENTIAL RATE
U. S. COST OF LIVING
5525
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1940
1942
ALL OF US felt the pressure of rising prices last
year. The overall cost-of-living went up another
1940.
4 points—now stands 23% above
1941
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on going down in price. In
1943, we received an average of only 2.03 cents
a kilowatt-hour for residential service—the low
est in our history.
BUT ELECTRICITY kept
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19% LESS THAN 1940. That is how our 1943 aver
age household rate compared with the pre-war
figure. While other prices were going up, the
price of electricity went down!
44% LESS than the national average! Our average
household rate is just about half the U. S. na
tional average. PP&L has been in the front ranks
of the low-rate parade for years.
TAXES UP 38%
We’re proud of the fact that in 1943 PP&L met fully the electric
service needs of our 91,365 customers in the two great states
of Washington and Oregon.
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OUR TAXES IN 1943 reached an all-time high of
$1,313,000. We paid bach to the public, in the
form of taxes, almost as much as was paid to
all the men and women who have invested their
money in the development of this business.
UNCLE SAM GOT $726,000, or more than 55%. of
these taxes. This money, along with the Federal
taxes paid by you and your neighbors, goes to
help meet the urgent needs of a nation at war.
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THIS $1,313,000 tax bill was more than one-third
greater than we were called upon to pay in 1940 —
which makes the 19% drop in the average price
of electricity all the more significant.
17% CENTS out of every dollar we take in now
goes for taxes—yet we're selling electricity at
the lowest price in the 33 years we've been build
ing up this business enterprise. PPAL's low fates
were not achieved at public expense!
We’re proud of the 743 men and women of the PP&L organiza
tion who managed to keep your electric service running smooth
ly and dependably throughout 1943 in spite of wartime problems.
We're proud of the 112 PP&L men and women who are away
in the service of their country—and we pledge ourselves to keep
right on working and fighting to preserve for them at home the
freedom and opportunity they are fighting for overseas.
P acific P ower
& L ight C ompany
Your Businuss-Managud Powr System
REMEMBER— any
waste in war is a crime. Even though electricity is cheap, use i wisely.