Abilene High School - Flashlight Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

1 Tl s? A lv c ,X l C g J I Y.5x This service flag in the Wlcst Texas Utilities showroom is a tribute to the companyis 17 employees now in the armed forces. Posing with the flag are two long-time YVTUersflVlarvin Mayfield tleftl and Kate McNabb fright High school students are Billy Bob Lewis, Lou Brock, and John Crutchfield. FOBTY-SEVEN men from this compgny, mgny' of whom once gttended Abilene High School, now gre in the ngtion's grmed forces. We're proud of those men. And we're doing our best to help equip them gnd trgin them to Win the fight for Democrgcy . . . the Ameri- cgn wgy of living of which gll the Axis ngtions gre envious. lt's our job to provide light gnd power for trgining cgmps, for industries, gnd for home gnd business. lt's pgrt of our job, too, to pgy tgxes which buy the plgnes, the tgnks, the ships, gnd the guns so bgdly needed by our fighting men. All this We gre doing. Americg's electric compgnies todgy gre furnishing power Where it's needed, when it's needed. Last year they paid S5l0,000,- 000 in taxesga lot of money. Enough to equip 2.1 1" 00,000 sol- diersg build 9,273 pursuit planesg or 1,522 flying fortresses. ltlll help maintain the schools, build highways-and help pay off the enormous wartime debt when the victory is won. f. f . YES? Egflitglgwill Q ron t vuevowt Page 157