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Show POWER & LIGHT RATES REDUCED ON APRIL 1 Residential and farm customers custom-ers of the Utah Power & Light Company began April first receiving re-ceiving benefits of the new cheap electric service rate ordered last December. Reductions affect customers in Utah and Idaho and bring the average home rate to about 3 cents per kilowatt hour, compared compar-ed with a national average of 4.43 cents per kilowatt hour. The new schedule for all domestic do-mestic consumers in the territory mentioned is as follows: For the first eleven kilowatt hours in any month 90 cents (minimum charge). For each of the next twenty-five twenty-five kilowatt hours, 5 cents. For each of the next 164 kilowatt kil-owatt hours, 2.5 cents. For each additional kilowatt hour 1.5 cents. The charge based upon the number of rooms has been eliminated. elimin-ated. The reduction to home and farm customers is part of the $350,000 saving ordered by the public service commission to become be-come effective during the year. The savings affecting all classes class-es of power users will bring total to-tal reductions since December 1933 to approximately $850,000. |