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Show Gordon Lee, Jack Walters, and Melvin Anderson of American Fork are among 22 players on the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university Freshman football team to receive football sweaters in a student assembly. Though predicted to finish in the cellar because of graduates last year, the "Y" team scored several upsets and finished the season with a good standing and nearly the same team that they will have for next year. In keeping with B. Y. U. colors, white letters were used with the sweaters which were blue. Armis Ashby of American Fork has been pledged a member of Gold Y, lower classmen service fraternity at Brigham Young university. The fraternity is honorary and was organized at B. Y. U. in 1935. It is designed to promote the faster fellowship and student activities on the university campus. It has as special duties the lighting of the huge block "Y" on the mountain overlooking the school, and sponsoring sponsor-ing rallies, contests and meets. Membership in Gold Y is based on activity and leadership, and the organization strive to select only active ac-tive students of good scholastic standing. Taxes Go Up Rates Down Report U. P. & L. Taxes of Utah Power & Light companies continued upward and rates downward in 1939 adding ever-increasing ever-increasing perplexities and burdens to the cost of conducting business, it was outlined in the Company's annual report mailed to stockholders. stockhold-ers. The report disclosed rate reductions reduc-tions resulted in savings of almost $300,000 to home, farm and commercial com-mercial customers and tax contributions contri-butions for support of schools and government at an all time peak of $2,261,000. tax item alone, according to the report, is equivalent to $6200 a day for every day of the year, including in-cluding Sundays and holidays. Total payroll of the combined companies for operation, maintenance mainten-ance and construction was $3,534,811, giving employment throughout the year to an average of 2400 men and women. After adjustment to give effect to the 1939 rate reductions, the report re-port explained, a comparison of the cost of 100 kilowatt hours per month (the company average) for residential residen-tial and farm use recently issued by the Federal Power Commission would show only six states with lower average bills than in the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho territory. One of the features of the report is a chart showing that the annual an-nual use of residential electric service serv-ice of the Company has almost tripled since 1925 and the average cost per kilowatt hour has dropped more than 50 percent from 6.99 cents to 3.46 cents. The report disclosed total operating oper-ating revenues of the Company and its subsidiaries in 1939 for electric, steam heat and transportation services serv-ices reached an all time high of $13,526,574; an increase of seven percent over the $12,643,946 in 1938. Owing to increased cost of fuel for steam generation due to severe drouth during 1939, increased taxes and higher labor costs for the production pro-duction and distribution of increasing increas-ing quantities of electricity, operating oper-ating and maintenance expenses showed a-rise of $830,000 over 1938. Net income was $1,406,529, an increase in-crease of $99,947 over the previous year. In his annual letter to stockholders, stockhold-ers, George M. Gadsby, president, stated the total electricity generated gener-ated and purchased during the year was the largest of record. More than half of the increase In kilowatt kilo-watt hours in 1939 over 1938 is accounted ac-counted for by greater activity in the mining industry. He asserted residential and farm use continued the increase which has proceeded steadily for several 1116 kilowatt hours per year 72 kilowatt hours over 1938 ' An analysis of the total amount paid governmental bodies in taxes hows that during 1930 and 1939 the Company paid or set agi payment for the support of: Schols .... National G"- 1939 $849,000 $130000 454,000 234,000 397,000 222,000 $2,261,000 $G81i000 |