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Preston Citizen

Location

Preston, Idaho, United States of America

Date

Apr 14, 1949

Page

3

Veterans Club of Power Inducts 52 New Members

Utah Power and Light reports 52 new veterans inducted into its Veterans Club last week, increasing total membership to 505. The induction occurred at the annual party in Salt Lake City, with 123 employees honored this year including 71 receiving diamond year pins.

Utah Power & Light Up&l Salt Lake City Hotel Utan George. M. Gadsby The Power Company Veteran’s Club

Farm Welders On Increase In Farm Maintenance

A Westinghouse dealer notes rising use of electric welders on farms for repair and construction. Farmers increasingly rely on metal, with welding cutting parts stock, saving time and enabling hard surfacing of wear prone parts like cultivator shovels and harrow dies to extend service life.

Ken Westinghouse Westinghhouse -Dealer Itas

Farm welders boost efficiency with do it yourself adaptations

A Westinghouse dealer notes welders on farms become multi tool devices for cutting metals drilling holes and repairing bolts. Farmers can build custom equipment from scrap parts and even braze aluminum and other metals using a carbon arc torch. In 1947 motor vehicle accidents killed 7 300 farm residents and 64 percent of farm fatalities involved workers over 45.

Westinghouse

Electric Motors Save Farm Work

Westinghouse tests show a quarter horsepower electric motor can match a farm hand in a day by pumping water, corn, milk, and livestock chores. Ken Porter of Ken's Electric Co. notes automated operations, remote controls, and proper motor sizing boost farm productivity and cut costs.

Westinghouse Electric Corporation Ken’s Kenneth Porter Porter

Oxford Enters Little International at Idaho Campus

Richard Fisher of Oxford is among entrants in the University of Idaho College of Agriculture annual Little International on April 23. The event showcases agricultural contests and prize awards for students in the School of Agriculture with Fisher a freshman majoring in animal husbandry and living at the LDS house. An annual tally notes about 7,000 farm home deaths occur each year.

Department “of Agriculture University ‘of Idaho School of Agriculture Richard" Fisher Oxford LDS House

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