THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1944
STANFIELD NEWS
By Mr». Rote Htdrick
Stanfield schools opened September
5, and are in full swing with approxi
mately 75 in the high school and 200
in the grades. Glenn T. Norton is
boys’ coach and just about all the boys
have turned out for football. He also
teaches social economics, physics and
biology, and home relations. The
Student Body has purchased a safe
for their money and records. An ed
ucational movie is offered each Thurs
day afternoon at 2:30 p. m. through-
out the year with the usual Thursday
night movie also. Miss Ruth Read of
Enterprise is the only new teacher
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THE HERMISTON HERALD. HERMISTON. OREGON
and has the fourth grade. She and
Miss Barbara Wood are domiciled in
the Roy Duncan cottage near the
teacherage. A reception for all the
teachers will be given Friday night,
September 22, at the gym. and every
body is invited to renew their ac
quaintance. The faculty comprises of
Glenn T. Norton, superintendent.
Mrs. Quade from Pendleton. Mrs. Sue
W aid. Mrs. Emil Zivney. Mrs. Ray
Harmon who has band in addition to
seventh grade. Wiley Hewitt, eighth
grade. Mrs. Olive Hendry sixth. Miss
Wood, fifth. Miss Read, Mrs. Nadean
Campbell. Mrs. Leora Heyden, Mrs.
Bessie Chapin in the lower grades.
Mrs. Alfred Lantz, formerly Patri
cia Richards, was honored with a
shower in the church parlors on Sep
tember 8th. Hostesses were Mesdames
Greathouse. Gillanders, Reeves and
Daughtrey. Miss Neva Hedrick. Mrs.
Paul Baker, Mrs. Don Childs, all
served. Mrs. Sherman Chapin pre
sented the following program num
bers: a trio comprised of Misses Neva
and Alice Hedrick and Miss Berniece
Hughes, singing two numbers. “Thine
Alone” and “Music When the Soft
Voices Die”, Miss Phyllis Sires play
ing for them; a fun number portrayed
by Pin-up Girls, illustrated some ba
by’s essentials.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Duncan. Mr. and
Mrs. Don Childs. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert
Smith and their families were featur
ing a trip to Celilo Falls Sunday
when their bus had motor trouble and
they were cowed back to Stanfield to
enjoy their picnic lunch at the attrac
tive lawn of the Smith home.
Mrs. Bud Evans and Barbara Kaye
and Billie Brown have returned from
a week’s visit with relatives in parts
of Idaho.
The Ladies Aid postponed their reg
ular meeting this Thursday because
of folks wishing to attend the Round
Up. The next meeting will be Sep
tember 28 with Mrs. Eugene Knotts
as hostess. The Aid is divided with
Mrs. Greathouse and Mrs. Reeves as
captains in a march of dimes contest.
Josephine Grubaugn. relief operator
from The Dalles, is here to relieve N.
D. Bard, local U. P. agent for two
weeks. Mr. Bard as mayor is detain
ed here on business but will leave next
week for his mines at Baker.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Schultz and
daughter have moved into the Behme
cottage recently vacated by the Ed
Emerson family. The Emersons have
moved into the Bard house recently
vacated by Cecil Williams and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Sikes and child
ren have left the farm and moved to
a new house recently purchased in
Hermiston. Their new daughter has
been named Elizabeth Ann.
Mrs. Frankie Lane and Miss Marie
are moving this week to Pendleton
where Frankie will be employed at the
Golden West Creamery.
Mrs. Gilbert Evenson is a patient
at St. Anthony’s hospital following a
major operation.
Mrs. Loren Miller is in attendance
at a business school in Spokane this
week for the interest of the Defense
Housing project.
Wm. Hogeland and wife have moved
their house to their own lots on Coe
Avenue near the schoolhouse.
Miss Sadie Grant of Portland is a
houseguest, of Mr. and Mrs. R. F.
Evans until after the Round Up.
W. R. McGraw, having spent the
summer here at the home of his son.
R. B. McGraw, returned to his home
at Niobrara. Neb., Monday.
Alida and Virginia Picanso return
ed home Saturday night from their
Kansas and Michigan visit with rela
tives.
Vivian Lietzel has resigned her job
in Portland and is visiting her moth
er, Mrs. Toni, prior to leaving for
O. S. C. where she will take a medical
Mrs. J. F. Rueber is visiting rela
technician course.
tives in Portland.
Lester Murray is somewhere in
France and was recently promoted to
Tech. Corporal.
DO YOUR PART,
Don Refvem is in attendance at a
navigation school in Hondo. Texas.
TO PREVENT
Tommy Loughary has completed an
armament course at Loughary Field
near Denver. He entered the service
a year ago and is in the air corps.
B b Potenski from the Albina ship
yards and Henry Potenski are visit
ing ther mother. Nanny Potenski and
sister Ruby Waltz.
Miss Patricia Knotts returned home
Saturday night from Enterprise.
One match, one cigarette,
Mrs. Rose Hedrick returned Friday
one careless act means 100
night from a 3500 mile trip in six
patient years to replace a
burned out Oregon forest!
states east and south, and visited all
OREGON wood is a cri
her brothers and sisters, and found
tical material of war, filling
them well and doing well. She hopes
1200 military uses — BE
the patrons didn’t miss the news any
CAREFUL!
more than she did.
The high school Student Body elect
KEEP
ed the following officers for 1944-45:
OREGON
Herman Ebsen, president; John Ros-
hack. vice president; Berniece Hughes
GREEN
ASSOCIATION
secretary; Marian Siebel, treasurer;
SALEM. ORE.
Howard Mansker, sergeant at arms.
The high school students are using all
new modern text books.
FOREST
FIRES
AND, SPEAKING OF TAXES
The Nebraska PUD took in more than $7,000,000 of revenue
last year, and paid only $352,000 “in lieu of taxes.” PP&L, doing
about the same volume of business with the same amount of
property, paid nearly four times as much —$1,313,000—in taxes!
The ordinary taxpayer, of course, made up the loss in Nebraska.
The fact is that if the Nebraska PUD didn't get a free ride
on the backs of the taxpayers it would have to scratch gravel
to meet the interest on its bonds.
THESE ARE FACTS—NOT CAMPAIGN PROMISES
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WHAT'S GOING Oil
IN NEBRASKA ?
Nebraska has been held up to you as the shining example of a
state-wide Super-PUD — exactly such a Super-PUD as the
organisers of Referendum 25 are now promoting in the state
of Washington and are planning in Oregon.
The Nebraska PUD is the biggest and oldest in the country.
It is a $48,000,000 experiment. Let’s see from its own reports
how much it has actually accomplished !
It has a practical monopoly in 64 counties. It furnishes elec
tricity to 95,000 customers. It is free from control by any
governmental body, State or Federal. It issues its bonds without
a vote of the people—and the people who buy electricity from
it had no vote or choice when the PUD decided to take over
their local power service.
It has absolute authority to fix its own electric rates. It buys
power at wholesale from a government-financed "Hydro Pool”
at only two-tenths of a cent per kilowatt-hour more than public
agencies pay for Grand Coulee-Bonneville power. And it is
immune from three-fourths of the taxes paid by Pacific Power
& Light Company.
Nobody can say the Nebraska PUD is hampered by any
restrictions. That is what makes it the perfect pattern for the
Super-PUD that would be introduced to the Northwest under
Referendum 25 in Washington.
NOW, AFTER 5 YEARS, LET'S LOOK AT THE RESULTS!
Everybody is interested in rates. If a PUD cannot deliver lower
rates, with all of its tax subsidies and special privileges, there
is every reason to vote against it.
In Nebraska, the Super-PUD is charging an average of four
cents per KWH for residential and rural electricity— just
TWICE AS MUCH as PP&L customers pay — four cents
against two cents!
And then when you deduct the taxes paid by PP&L and by
the Nebraska PUD, so as to get at the actual net rates, the
difference is even greater — 3.8 cents per KWH in Nebraska
and only 1.68 cents on the PP&L system.
These facts are taken from a 101-page sales-talk recently pub
lished by the Nebraska Super-PUD to promote the sale of a new
issue of $41,533,000 of so-called “revenue” bonds—the same kind
of bonds that would be issued by PUDs in Washington under
Referendum 25.
What kind of bonds are they? Nebraska people, the same as
Washington and Oregon people, have been promised by PUD
promoters that they are a special new kind of bonds that can’t
ever cost anybody anything. That is political bunk.
But when the PUDs settle down to real business in the bond
market, you find them pointing out in black type that the PUD
pledges all of its revenues as security for the interest and prin
cipal of these “free-for-nothing” bonds. If these payments are
not met on the dot, the bondholders are handed the right to step
in and take over the PUD property.
As Amos reminded Andy, "The big print gives it to you and
the little print takes it away!”
WHAT ABOUT LABOR?
The Nebraska Super-PUD says to its bond-buyers in this reveal
ing 101-page document:
“The District has taken the position, in accordance with the express
policy of most other public agencies, that as a public agency it
could not and would not execute customary agreements with
organized labor .... The District has no contracts outstanding with
any organized labor union.”
This is a Super-PUD’s private labor platform after it geta
control of the situation. It is not the kind of talk you hear from
any PUD speechmaker before election.
WHO PROMOTED NEBRASKA'S PUD?
Behind the scenes of all the big-money PUD promotions and
bond issues, whether in Nebraska or Washington or Oregon,
you find some of the same financial middlemen and professional
“negotiators” going from one state to another and “advising”
the local boys how to revise state laws, how to stage election
campaigns, how to issue bonds, how to suck the eggs and hide
the shells.
The bigger the bond issues the higher the middlemen’s com
missions and the louder they cheer for PUDs. After the cleanup
in Nebraska, which yielded the promoters more than three-
quarters of a million dollars, they moved in on Washington and
Oregon where the PUD laws and Referendum 25 were made
to order for them.
It is a far cry from the original principle of public power to
the new public power racket in the form of Super-PUDs. Public
ownership, if it means anything, ought to mean public Ce rol
of public money and a public hand on the management. It
doesn’t mean that under these new schemes.
The great majority of believers in so-called “public power”
are people who do not even suspect that Get-Rich-Quick
Wallingfords are pulling the PUD election-strings along with
the faithful and familiar PUD evangelists.
To every conscientious citizen we believe these PROVABLE
FACTS about the oldest and largest PUD experiment in the
country — the Nebraska Super-PUD — will be welcome. They
are facts that would never be learned by citizens of all the com
munities we serve unless ws published them.
Pacific Power & Light Company