Page 18 - JUSOUEHANNA TIMES Cracker and five varieties of cookies--Lemon Cremes, Se N88 Girt Scout Cookie Time taking period of the sale will aX <r “) or end January 24. ok A NN Orders will be delivered aN Nn fr i So by the girls to their ART Scouts start customers starting March TONG be : 2nd, and should not be paid IAN WN I ’ e Cees i (2 od | cookie sale for until they are delivered. x \| £4 A new product is being S| he Girl Scouts of the Penn introduced this year-an Eng- — NAR a Laurel Council began lish Breakfast Tea. This is in Y 9! I taking orders for the annual addition to a Sesame Crisp bi Cookie Sale on Saturday, W The order- January 10. IY Ally I \ | \) /! dy L ov Wingy, Oxfords (chocolate and van- illa cremes,) Scot-Teas, Mints, and Savannahs. All seven items are priced at $1.25 per family-size box. The $1.25 per box is divided as follows: S2¢ for cost of cookies; 14c to the troop for the girls’ use in their troop program; “ac for administrative costs; and S8%c to the council to provide summer camping and year-round program for girls. Troops use their proceeds throughout the year for service to their community, for week-end troop camp- ing, for troop program expenses, or for a troop trip. Through proceeds from the Cookie Sale, the Council provides necessary services for year-round troop pro- gram, such as leader train- BUT WHAT IS A KILOWATT HOUR? It is a measure of how much electricity you use. Kilo means “one thousand.” Therefore, a kilowatt is 1,000 watts. A kilowatt hour is 1,000 watts of electricity used in one hour. It is measured by your electric meter. Here are just a few: family’s dishes! WHAT WILL IT DO? A kilowatt hour (less than 4 cents worth of electricity) can do many things. e Light ten 100-watt bulbs for one hour! e Or, run your frost-free refrigerator-freezer for more than three hours! e Or, bring you an entire Super Bowl game on your TV! e Or, operate a dishwasher to wash and dry two loads of the What can 3%¢ buy today? One kilowatt-hour of electricity, that’s what! All four of these items can be accomplished with a total of 4 kilowatt hours or a cost of about 15 cents. And, believe it or not, the price PP&L'’s average residential customers pay for electricity today is almost the same as it was 25 years ago. In 1951 it was 3.69¢ . . . today it is about 3.75¢ — and that includes your fuel adjustment charge and Pa. Tax Surcharge. THEN WHY IS MY BILL SO HIGH? Twenty five years ago, if you were an average residential customer, you used about 150 kilowatt hours of electricity per month. Today, if you're an average residential customer you use about 500 kilowatt hours per month . . . more than three times as much. An inventory of all the electrical ap- pliance and entertainment items you've accumulated over the years quickly tells the story. Yes, rates have changed, too. During the 1950s and 60s PP&L had been able to make several rate reductions. Starting in 1970 however, rates began to rise . . . primarily due to rising fuel costs and inflation. The point is, when you're talking electricity, 3% cents still buys a lot. A Public Service Message From O Pal January 14, 1976 ing, publications and direct service to troops. Also, the Council provides year-round camp programs for 20,000 girl members on its seven Council-owned camp sites which total 830 acres valued at more than $2,000,000. Annual camp maintenance and capital improvements at the camps total approximately $100,000 through the Cookie Sale. In addition, the Coun- cil annually grants more than $13,000 for camper- ships as financial help for girls te attend either day or resident camp. Mrs. Paul Hay, Maytown, is Donegal District Chair- man for the cockie sale. MYO and JCs to hold dance On Saturday, January 17, ‘the MYO and Jaycees will sponser a dance featuring the ‘‘Rawhide’’ group at the Legion building in May- town. There will be food and drinks. The dance begins at 7 and lasts until 10. All are invited. There will be a donation at the door. : ~g Cross-Country Cessna Pilot Education gets your business off the ground. You can't beat a company car for convenient cross-town business trips. But you need more efficient on-demand transportation for your intercity, cross-country business calls. Cessna airplanes help America’s business energy go further. And Cessna Pilot Education is preparing more and more business- men to take advantage of faster speeds, shorter travel routes, and the thousands more destinations that Cessna airplanes offer. We can help you get your business off the ground. With a $5.00 introductory flight. Cessna PILOT CENTER Discover Flying Rumber one in pilot education for some very down-to-earth reasons. Smith Aviation E-town Marietta Airport Marietta, Pa. Phone 653-8787
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