The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 111, Ed. 1 Friday, October 21, 1955 Page: 3 of 16
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Friday, October 21,1955
Power Demand
Surges Ahead
In County
A milestone In the surfing
growth of the Gulf Coast area was
observed when Houston Lighting
and Power CO. connected the
400,000th customer meter to Its
electric service linos.
For some time the company had
been maintaining e careful check
of Its new customer connections,
currently running slightly over
10,000 per year, as the 400,000th
customer connection approached
The distinction fell to Bruce W.
Bros, his wife Mary Louise and
their daughters Sharon and Val-
erie, age* 1 end 2, os they mved
into their new home at 3103 Thorn-
wood Drive In Pasadena's new
Tanglebrtar Subdivision.
In a brief ceremony at the Bros
home, the surprised Mrs. Bros was
presented an orchid corsage and
a gleaming new electric range by
a group or light company officials
headed by W. A. Parish, president,
and W. J. Alcklen, executive vice
president In charge of operations.
Parish pointed out that from
the earliest beglnlng of electric
service in the Gulf Coast area In
1U2, it took 83 years, until 1934,
for the company to Install its 100,-
000th customer meter. Eleven years
elapsed before, the 200,000th met-
er was set in IMA Then the boom-
ing growth of the Gulf Coast area
took over, and the company con-
nected its 300,000th customer, five
years later, In 1080. Connection of
an additional 100,000 customers, to
bring today's total to 400,000 has
token Just five years. Parish also
told Mr. and Mrs. Bros that If they
used the system-wide average for
the company's residential custom-
ers of 241 kilowatt hours per
month, their average monthly elec-
tric cost would b* 28 54. os com-
pared with a cost of $8.22 for this
same amount of service when the
100,000th customer was connected
In 1014.
Bros, S3, is a native of Pitts-
burgh, Pennsylvania, and a veteran
who served as gunner’s mate on
an ammunition ship in the Pacific
during World War tt In 1*44, while
Still in service and stationed at
Erie, Pennsylvania he married the
former Miss Mary Louise Jones of
that city. After release from serv-
ice in 1044 he began work as a
laborer with the Orasselli Che-
micals Department of the Du Pont
Co., during which time he also at-
tended night school at the Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh. He is being
transferred to this area from East
Chicago, Indiana, as warehouse su-
pervisor Tor hie company at ita
plant near La Porte.
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moons for putting In the psy-
chic spade bid in the second round;
to Invite some voluntary action
tram Ms partner at a low level,
and to inhibit a spade lead against
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1 Bast Intended hia double of
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not play the ace, South could go
right up with the heart king.
Then, with that trick home, he
could knock out the diamond king
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 111, Ed. 1 Friday, October 21, 1955, newspaper, October 21, 1955; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1101166/m1/3/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.