.. ,, |®eeemwMSWPe®ee»: I; wStyJiredofnTuMwi. ;; ;:Th,.i,.pWrd..ndji»*i«™«..»^t.;! Please Phone Your News To ;; ! >or8,,iP H,m’ ,he ho]Y luhe of Be h,e* I ! \ 0800 ::hem. May the spirit of that long ago time< j Or send it to 1! be with you this Christmas. ; THE OMAHA GUIDE -- T/vTT.riTiSFX 2420 Grant^st.. \ /JUSTICE / EQUALITY HEW TO THE UHE \ f EQUAL OPPORTUNE Vol. 30 No. 41 Friday, December 21, lf56 «=^--- — --—-—- - -- --- —1- -- - I OPPD Board Names New Assistant General Managers Two new assisant general man agers of the Omaha Public Power District were appointed by the Board of Directors of the utility on December 13. The directors named Dewey G. Baker 'assistant general manager in charge of sales, employee re lations and rural operations, and Karl M. Joens assistant general manager in charge of public re lations, advertising and public in formation. The appointments become ef fective January 1, 1957. Mr. Baker, who began his career with the utility in 1925 as an of fice boy. received five promotions DEWEY G. BAKER in various clerical positions in | the first three years, and in 192b became statistician in the Execu tive Office. Following 13 years in this post, be was promoted to assistant to the vice president in 1941. In 1950 he was named executive as sistant, and on April 1, 1953, was appointed assistant to General Manager Frank J. Moylan. Throughout the years, he has been closely associated with a number of electrical and civic or ganizations. He is a former mem ber of the Edison Electric Insti tute Statistical Committee, a dir ector of the Nebraska Electrical Council, and a member and past director of the YMCA and the Red Cross. Mr. Joens has been advertising and public information manager KARL M. JOENS of the utility. He will succeed Assistant General Manager Glen A- Walker, who retires from ac tive service January 1. Mr. Jones served as account ex ecutive of Allen & Reynolds Ad vertising Agency for the Nebraska Power and OPPD from 1944 to 1992. He came with the Power District in 1992. He is a past officer and director past director and chairman of the of the Omaha advertising Club; Public Relations Committee of United Community Services; and, present chairman of the Advertis ing and Promotion Committee of the Omaha Industrial Foundation. Vernon Brown Vernon Brown, age 7 years, Route 6 Florence Station, passed away Saturday December 15th. Vernon is survived by his father, Thomas M. Brown, mother, Mrs. Ruby Veland, stepfather, Mr. Samuel Veland, four sisters, Ni lan, Nancy, Diana, Carla, brother. Samuel, of Omaha, grandmother, Mrs, June Coleman Robinson, Los Angeles, California, three aunts, Mrs. Celestine White, Mrs. Fannie Hodges, Miss Mercedes Turner, three uncles, Mr, LeRoy Turner, Mrs. Dave Turner, Mr. Isaac Turner, of Otpaha and other relatives. Funeral services were held eleven o'clock Wednesday morn ing December 19th from the Shar ron Seventh Day Adventist Church with Elder G. H. Taylor officiating assisted by Rev. Z. W. Williams.. Burial was at Forest Lawn Ceme tery with arrangements by Thom as Funeral Home. OPPD Ends First 10 Years of Operation The Board of Directors’ meeting on December 13 marked the com pletion of 10 years of operation for the Omaha Public Power Dis trict. OPPD was formed on De cember 2, 1946. General Manager F. J. Moylan, in reviewing the decade at the Board meeting, commented on the following points: _Total cost of plant has gone from $37,685,000 in 1946 to $119,509,000 last November 30, an increase of 217 per cent. —Generating capacity increaseu from 116.000 kilowatts in 1946 to 290.000 KW in operation, plus 220,000 KW under con struction. —The average number of cus tomers in the past 12 months was 111,300, up 29,500 or 36 per cent over the average for the year ended November 30, 1946. —Kilowatt hour sales in the past year amounted t o 1,175,000,000, an increase of 97 per cent over the ten-year ago total. —Average annual use per resi dential customer went from 1,469 kilowatt hours in 1946 to 3,355 in 1956, a gain of 128 per cent. Mr. Moylan pointed out that two years after OPPD took over, it made a general rate reduction of 13%. He added: “No rate; have ever been increased during Ihe 10 years in spite of the fact that the unit cost of fuel, which accounts for more than 40% of our total operating costs, in creased by 48%; and wage rates, which account for more than 30% of our operating costs, increased approximately 70%.” The directors also named Jack L. Wilkins superintendent of pow er stations to succeed Charles F. Turner, who is to retire January 1, Mr. Wilkins, who began work with the Power District in 194D, has been assistant superintendent of power stations since July, 1955. If you find goods are not mov ing as fast as you'd like, there is something you can do about it: advertise smartly. No one religious sect has all the answers and all the keys to the Kingdom. I TO OUR MANY READERS AND OUR ADVERTISING SPACE USERS: We Extend Our Heartfelt Christmas Greeting -| It Is folks like you who have kept THE OMAHA GUIDE Going for the past 30 years. C. C. Galloway, Publisher . M --»«• Carroll A. Stephey Carroll Ann Stephey, thirteen months, 1712 Willis Avenue, ex pired Sunday morning December 16th at a local hospital. Carroll Ann is survived