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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.
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