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Show U. P. and L. RECEIVES OUTSTANDING AWARD Utah Power & Light company has won the Edison Electric Institute In-stitute "George A. Hughes award" for being the nations outstanding outstand-ing utility in the promotion of domestic electric cooking. This announcement was made Saturday by R. H. Ashworth, company vice president following follow-ing h isreturn from the institute's insti-tute's annual sales conference in Chicago where the award was presented. The award itself consists of an elaborate two-foot gold trophy surmounted by a sculptured figure. fig-ure. Handles consist of two additional addi-tional figures and the trophy is appropriately engraved. A $250 prize check from the Hotpoint Inc., originators of the award, accompanied the trophy. Mr. Ashworth said Utah Power won the award in competition vith utilities over the nation on its record of cooperating with dealers in the connecting of 9,001 new domestic electric ranges on its system during 1948. "This means that six new electric ranges rang-es were connected for every lOO houses in our territory," he said. Mr. Ashworth added that over 65,000 electric ranges are in use in 131,679 electric homes in the territory. George A. Hughes, now deceased, deceas-ed, president of Hotpoint, Inc., who shortly after the turn of the century invented the first practical prac-tical electric range, inaugurated the award. Utah Power & Light won it once before, in 1936. |
