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Evening star., 1942-09-13

army Of boys and girls the school
| organization requires more than
3,l00 teachers. School officers have
been busy this summer seeking new
teachers to replace those who have
been granted military leave to en-
gage in war service. The transfer
of many Government bureaus from
Washington to other cities has
caused a number Of teachers to
resign. These losses, in addition to
the regular summer turnover due
to designations, retirements and
leaves for study, i'll health and
maternity purposes, have presented
major problem of administration,
Serious Personnel Problem.
Thus far school officers have been
reasonably successful in securing
competent teachers to fill regular
teaching positions; but it has be-
come more and more difficult to
secure teachers of special subjects
in the vocational schools and in
the shops and laboratories of the
senior and Junior high schools. Men
specially prepared to teach physi-
cal training are hard to find.
The most serious personnel prob
lem has been the loss of a large
number of engineers and custodians
throughout the school system. This
has been due not only to the selec-
tive draft, but to the hiring of en-
| gineerS away from the schools into
| commercial establishments, apart
ment houses and Government
buildings where salaries offered are
considerably higher than those pro-
Vlded in the pay schedule of the
public schools. AS this situation
will grow worse while the war con-
tinues, officers in charge are very
much concerned. Competent heat
ing engineers for our larger steam
plants are very scarce.
1t is a prodigious undertaking to
provide all Of the thousands of
school children each new year with
an adequate supply of necessary
books, paper and instructional ma
terials. War priorities are making it
extremely difficult to obtain equip
ment, lumber, tools and hundreds of
kinds OF materials needed in. The
shops and laboratories of the high
schools and vocational schools. All
manufacturers are requiring 60 days
or more to fill orders.
Requisitions Made Early.
acquisitions covering needs for
opening the schools in September
were prepared last April or May.
These problems of procurement
place unusual responsibilities on the
Office of Business Affairs of the
public schools. Many materials can
not be purchased because of the war
demands, and increased costs often
cause appropriated funds to run
short of the needs. Thus the situa-
tion is far from being propitious, es-
pecially when our estimates of guam
titles of supplies needed sometimes
Evening star., 1942-09-13
Star Staff Photos.

pleted in one semester. The reg
istration period begins September IT
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Evening star., 1942-09-13
Broodcusters Needed,
School Head Declares

The unprecedented and sudden
demand for trained employees in the
field of broadcasting is creating OPP
portunities for talented and ambi-
tious young people. according to
Miss Alice Keith, director of the
National Academy of Broadcasting.
Many war workers already have
started to take advantage OF the
broadcasting vacancies, she said, by
enrolling in the school at 1866 Irving
street NV. Special short courses
are being offered. as we'll as the
usual l0-week and years courses.
Evening star., 1942-09-13

the first year that the law school
will open on the approved list of the
American Bar Association. Two new
faculty members, Robert D. L'Heu-
reux and Barnard T. Welsh, have
been appointed this year, and the
school library will be headed by Miss
Mary G. Barlow, a law graduate
with special training in law library
administration, it was announced.
Presenting three and four year
courses, the National University
school of law will open on the
system of four terms, with the two
year prelegal training entrance re-
Evening star., 1942-09-13
Hoycock
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pect per unit is uncertain because
some of the units provide only one
bedroom, some two bedrooms, and
some three bedrooms. Officers in
the schools are trying to find a
reasonable formula.
Facing Uncertainties.
This summer school enumerators
have listed the areas where new
schools are being projected in the
Southeast and North east sections of
the city and surveys are under way
to ascertain the distribution of chill
dren by ages in the new housing
areas. Children from to II
are counted. Thus, in addition to
the number of children who will
soon be candidates for the kinder
garten and the first grade, we shall
also have reasonable basis for
estimating the number to enter
junior and senior high schools.
Thus, in spite of all the studying
that has been done to ascertain
facts, We open our schools this
month facing many uncertainties
For instance, we do not know how
many boys and girls enrolled in the
high schools and vocational schools
last year have gone to work and
will not appear this September. We
do not know how many non-resi-
dent pupils who have been in our
schools will be enrolled this year in
the Maryland and Virginia schools
because of the gasoline and rubber
situation
We do not know how many boys
and girls enrolled last year have
left the city since last June with
parents transferred to Government
work in other sections of the coun-
try. We do not know how many
families who have come to the city
during the vacation period have
brought with them new children for
our schools.
Unexpected Increases.
Unexpected population increases
present special difficulties in plan
ming for new classes each year
More than $4,000 boys and girls
must be organized into classes in
ITS school buildings and must be
graded so as to accommodate salts
factorily all pupils according to
grade status. In buildings already
operating at capacity, if pupils can
not be transferred to nearby build
ings, new classes may be organized
only by placing classes on part
time or by staggering the hours OF
| attendance.
1 In Junior and senior high schools
where there are many elective sub
jects, it is especially difficult tc
adjust large numbers of newcomers
after the organization has been
completed for September. Usually
the shop and laboratory classes al
ready have been organized at Ca
pacity because of the dictates Of
economy as to teacher-cost
| For the instruction of this vast
Montana oil and mining journal., 1942-03-28
Treble Production of
Montana Says Davies

is and you
ou O
require drilling
materials"
1--WE provide priOriies for necessary materials"
prOductiOn?"
treble production effective aid North
situation"
"That Davies Our operators working
In materially help the Pacific Northwest"
funds competent operators"
a conversation
A.
ethy lead.
Of
a
OF oil 0n Tuesday evening
Montana oil and mining journal., 1942-03-28
John Schuyler Is
Materials Man
In DenUer office

The Office Of Petroleum Co-ordi.
nator announced that John B. Schuy-
Ter, materials specialist, has opened q
materials division In the. District
office at Denver, Colo, to aid Rocky
Mountain oil operators in obtaining
priority ratings.
Mr.. Schuyler win have headquarters
in the office Of Michael j. Foley, d.
rector in charge Of District 4, q. S.
National Bank building, Denver.
He began his career as a materials
specialist In 1912, when he joined the
OIL Well Supply Co. as a field sales
man stationed in Casper, Wyo. Three
years later he went with the National
Supply Co., with which he served in
various posts until he became district
manager Of sales and engineering in
1920.
Later, Mr.. Schuyler moved to Cali
fornia and served with a number Of
organizations. He was sales manager
and vice president of the Baash- Ross
Tool Co, and, later, manager Of the
tubular department OF the American
Pipe 81 Steel Corp.
He joined the staff Of the Office Of
Petroleum Co-ordinator in January
1912.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1942-03-28
WASHINGTON
ASKS MONTANA
FOR FUEL OIL

Seattle homes are cold and industrial
institutions are curtailed as a result
Of a shortage Of fuel oil on Puget
Sound, according TO information re-
ceived by the Montana oil trade this
week as Washington buyers combed
Montana and Wyoming for supplies Of
fuel OIL Every Montana refiner was
this week asked to ship all his fuel
oil westward to washington. where the
government is rationing the insuffi-
cinet supplies.
The shortage Of fuel oil In the Pa
cific Northwest results from lack Of
storage supplies, lack Of pipelines or
other means Of obtaining fuel oil other
than by tankers. Tankers have been
diverted from the coast route to take
oil supplies TO Australia and to replace
tankers lost in the submarine war ON
the Atlantic coast. There is no sub
marine campaign on the Pacific coast
at the present time but the blow Is
expected soon, at which time Puget
Sound win be almost entirely cut off
from supplies Of critically needed fuel
oil.
Meantime. the OPA plans to an
nounce card rationfng system for
gasoline In washington and Oregon 70
replace the present 20 percent nmita-
tion on deliveries within six weeks.
Cards win be issued on q time-period
basis to prevent boarding.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1942-03-28

Kevins pattern well struck oil thil
week, fortunately saving bushes foi
the War Production Board which es-
tablished by a crap game technique
that the southeast corner OF 40 acres
is the pattern for all drilling in Kevin
field The pattern well is the Agen-
Goeddertz No. 20, in Sc NWi SW3 23-
35-3W, north Of Kevin. It found the
Madison lime contact at 17l1-17l7 with
enough oil that the crew took out
nine bailers, indicating a fluid level
of 200 feet or more. It was immediate
~ treated with 500 gallons OF Keyin
acid and is now testing.
Berry ct al-Fee No. 1, Sc SW4 SCI
22-35-lW, is cleaning out after shoot
ing with 10 quarts of nitro glycerin
,at 1888 feet, in the stray sand
Big West-State No. 1, c Sci GA
4W. on the east edge Of the Cut Bank
field, west of Kevin, resumed work this
week, with the return Of George Engle,
Big West superintendent. This well had
a good showing of 80 gravity oil in
a break in the Madison lime, after
having had a 1000, ,0O0-foot flow OF gas
in the Cut Bank sand. It is to be
true sand and Just below the sand is
lime that responds well to acid.
Big West drilled two good gas wells
IN this midway area and now has them
connected onto its Kevin line, ade-
quately supplying both its field oper-
ations and its refinery.
Coolidge e. Coolidge State A No. TO-
SW NWl NE3 36-36-2W, is drilling at
1900, due to get the Sunburst sand
at 1882.
Nepstad ct aI-HelgersOn No. 9, Sc
SEA SCI 28-35-1W, set 200 feet Of g.
inch pipe and is drilling at 680
r. G. Parents Maud Davis No. /,
c SCI SCI 3-36-3W, has tools cement
ed off at 1900 and Parent re-cemented
at 1920 this week, to make sure that
they would not drop in on him Drill
ing is resuming today. This well is
southwest Of the Holbrook discovery
well and is checking slightly higher.
Peterson g. SOrensOn- Govt. No. /,
SW NWa SEA 1S-35-3W, is drilling at
2050 feet with 1900 feet Of open hole
This is remarkable since other wells
on the top Of the rimrock, where this
Is located, found great flows Of water
In the Eagle sand. This well has had
no water and it appears that produc-
ton string can be set above the lime,
expected at 24O0. Mel Toles, using
arge Fort Worth spudder, is the con-
,ractor.
RimrOck-Schmidt No. 8, CNL sws
NW7 29-35-3W, is pumping 10 barrels
If oil and 30 barrels Of water. This is
customary for new wells in the Rim
-ock pool. The water Is frequently ex-
lausted by continued pumping.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1942-03-28
SUPERIOR PETE
Is ENTRANT In
NORTH MONTANA

1t became known this week that
Superior Petroleum Co. Of California
has entered north Montana for the
first time in recent weeks, taking some
leases on the edge Of The Texas Co. s
55,O00-acre lease block north Of Du-
puyer. Superior Is an active operator
in wyoming as well as in California,
It's home state 1t Is not related to
the Kevin operator of the same name.
Superior Petroleum Is listed among
the largest and most successful Of
California Independents. The company
is said to have taken some ''hold-out"
leases, paying cash bonuses which The
Texas Co. could not pay, since the
amounts were in excess Of that paid
all other landowners In the area.
The Texas Co. has total Of 5000
acres In the district and announce
ment was made last week by H. A.
Stewart, Rocky Mountain division
chief, Of plans to drill from three to
five wells in an effort to locate the
south extension Of the sandstone
known as the Cut Bank sand which
was laid down on the western flanks
of the SweetgrasS Arch in the early
Cretaceous period. The prospecting re-
suits from the geological work Of John
Blixt, a graduate Of the Montana
School Of Mines, who devoted two
years to a study Of the trend Of the
Cut Bank sandstone.
The wells win be drilled with rotary
tools, with plans to core all possible
producing formations to q depth Of
$500 feet. At least one
Continued ON Page F1ve)
Montana oil and mining journal., 1942-03-28
QUESTIONABLE
TO PRODUCERS
TO THE OIL AND GAS PRODUCERS
OF MONTANA:

Do oil and gas producers of Mon
tana need their own organization. and
are you agreeable to help organize
one?
Montana's producing areas are dis
tant from other producing areas and
are located largely along the Canadian
border so our problems are peculiar
to us and different from those of any
other state. yet no organization exists
In Montana today through which the
oil and gas producers as such, can
voice their sentiments.
A Montana oil and gas producers
organization should be independent OF
and in no way subordinate to any re-
gional or national organization. It
should be representative of and. II
possible, all inclusive Of all oil and
gas producing interests in the state OF
Montana as the interest Of all such
are parallel. Such an organization
would be an aid to us in meeting our
Montana problems as such. At the
same time It will not prevent our CO.
operating with or opposing the pro-
gram Of any regional or national group
in accordance with the dictates of our
own interests.
AAAA1 va bAAAAN1b bAgAA oAlOAtA NOAArAog Ca
clusively of members Of the oil and
gas producing fraternity and. wherever
advisable, TO cooperate with other or
ganizations Of the industry when and
wherever they are pursuing common
objective
We suggest that this organization
should be made up OF all the producers
Of oil and gas In Montana, major and
.fsaer
interest should have only one vote;
that membership fees should be nomi-
nal to cover minimum organization
expense only; that all Off
GERS should serve without pay and that
no one should be permitted TO be an
officer who is holding any state office.
Job. or appointment.
1t is suggested that the organization
be named Montana Oil and Gas Pro-
ducers Association" and that it have
for its objective the promotion and
protection by all legal means of the
welfare Of the oil and gas producing
in Montana; that the organ
zation work for the adoption OF ways
and means to facilitate our cooper
alton with state and federal agencies
n the war effort in order to eliminate
red tape, to protect our interests In
he matter Of fixing and allocating
production quotas. and to secure bene-
icial and remedial legislation, designed
% reduce taxes where possible and
improve the economic status Of the
)roducer generally.
We want to find out II enough pro-
lucers favor the above program to
calling meeting TO organize
o we are sending this letter TO every :
,roducer In the state with a postal ,
ard enclosed for reply. VIII you mark
he card in accordance with your views
whether you are for or against the
orming Of such an organization and,
7 you favor 1t, whether you win at !
end a meeting 10 be called within
he next 30 days, at Shelby, for the
urpose Of organizing along the above
nes
j. w. JOHNSON
z. B. COOLIDGE l
LON CRUMLEY 9
r. c. JEFFRIES {
JACK EGAN c
Montana oil and mining journal., 1942-03-28


II a majority Of producers want such
an organization. II the organization Is
formed. it will take immediate steps
TO bring pressure to bear on the proper
war agencies TO secure ALLEGATION OF
materials for several hundred wells,
will ask for modification OF or exemp-
tion from the spacing regulations and
possibly ask for federal funds TO fl
nance the drilling Of wells which will
be put OH production only as the oil
is needed to supply Washington, Brit
ish Columbia and Alaska
The meeting learned that Canada
IS now calling for a half million bar
rels OF oil. needed to carry on Its war
enterprise. which Gil cannot be sup
piled unless the government win relax
rules made TO regulate Mid-continent
fields where problems are dssimilar
The Office Of Petroleum Co-ordinator
was declared by speakers 10 be en-
tirely friendly but that the War Pro-
dpcticn Board Is responsible for the
drastic regulations. aimed at conserv-
ing steel
The organization committee is com
posed Of James w. johnson Of Shelby;
E. B. Coolidge, Great Falls: r. c.
Jeffries, Cut Bank. and Jack Egan,
Kevin. The organization Is to have
nominal dues with no paid executives.
The sponsors state that unless pro-
ducers win present a united front. by
favorable expression on the question
naire they win not attempt TO carry
on, since there has already been far
too much confusion owing to the lack
OF coordination among the producers.
At the Shelby meeting there we're
three guest speakers, A. B. Cobb.
chairman CT the OH Conservation
Board; r. p. Jackson. secretary of the
board, and o. I. DeSchon, publisher
OF the Montana oil & Mining Journal.
who spoke on various phases OF the
situation. DeSchon. the first speaker.
described the relation of Montana to
the probable combat area when the
United States meets the japanese. He
declared that Seattle Is the jumping
off point in an offensive against Japan.
Since it Is the closest American city
TO Tokyo, via the Aleutian islands.
Whereas San Francisco Is $3.50 miles
from Tokyo. via Pearl Harb0r. Seattle
Is but 1900 miles from Tokyo, via
Dutch Harbor. Inasmuch as japanese
strategy Is one OF offensive action. he
declared 1t Is probable that subma-
rines will shortly appear in Pacific
waters TO halt movement of supplies,
of petroleum, to Puget
Sound, British Columbia and Alaska.
The state of Washington used more
han 414O00,0O0 gallons Of gasoline in
94l and Oregon used nearly 0O,0OO.-
700 gallons during the same year With
he Pacific war front 1900 miles away.
hese two states are today virtually
without petroleum supplies, with a
lrastic shortage Of fuel oil, he declared.
wing to diversion of tankers-the only
means OF transporting quantities Of oil
o Washington and Oregon.
If Montana win but present the pic
ure before the proper agencies in
modified spacing ar
Continued on Page F1ve)
Montana oil and mining journal., 1942-03-28

Protests of individual producers
against the pattern of the center OF
the west line of 40 acres in Cut Bank
field met only with the reply of the
OPC that the only alternative is to
make application for an exception.
Thus far, no Cut Bank or other Mon
tana operator has been able to get
approval of a location which Is an
exception to the pattern laid down by
the War Production Board, viz: the
location of the first well spudded after
Dec %, 1941 The Cut Bank pattern
well thus established is an odd loca-
tion that cannot be used in the eco
nomic development of the field.
AS a result of this fact, there was
only one new location this week. OPP
orators are making no preparations to
do any further drilling, until the OPC
awakens to the fallacious ruling. 1t
will not be long, producers say, until
the field production will begin to sag,
owing to lack of flush production.
The one new location announced
this week is Santa Rita-Miller No. @,
G NW7 SEA 29-33-5W, which is to be
drilled when one of the two drilling
Santa Rita wells are completed.
The field had but seven strings Of
tools working, in the midst Of ideal
drilling weather, this week. Three wells
were completed, all of them started
before the new rules were established.
Castle Pardee- Tribal 1893 No. 2, SWl
NW4 NWa 30-32-5W, swabbed 1872 bar
rels in the first "a hours. 1t is being
shot with ITO quarts of nitro glycerin
to increase production. Completion
data follows: 7-inch pipe cemented at
Continued on Page Four)
Montana oil and mining journal., 1942-03-28
TARRANT WILL
DRILL TEST ON
MIDWAY DOME

Roy Tarrant. Cut Bank Independent
operator announced this week that
he is preparing to drill test on Mid
way structure, southeast Of Conrad
Pondera county, starting within the
next few weeks. on a block Of 5000
acres taken by E. Byers Emrick, pc
troleum geologist, and associates.
Earlier announcement of plans for
a test were made by Emrick but not
until the lease block was completed
could the name Of the operator be
announced. All the critical outstand-
ing leases have now been secured and
the drilling Of the well viii proceed.
Tarrant announced that he expects
production at the top of the Madison
lime or In one Of the first breaks"
IN the lime but should this fail, he
viii continue on to the Devonian
where oil was found in an off-structure
test north Of Conrad In the old Dry
Forks well The total depth Of a De-
vonian test viii be little more than
the average well In Cut Bank field.
Midway structure is one Of the few
that has been checked by geophysical
methods It was first worked by geo.
physics for Midwest Refining Co. Cnow
which arranged with Con-
tractor b. E. Adams for the drilling Of
q well, but could not get lease block,
so dropped its leases. Later, Heiland
Research Co Of Denver, made sur
vey Of the structure with seismograph.
The two surveys checked, according
10 Emrick, discoverer Of the fold. They
however, that Of the several
wells drilled east and south Of Conrad,
none was on Midway fold. Midway Is
% named because 1t Is midway be-
tween Pondera and Bannatyne fields.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1942-03-28
CUT BANK HITS
PEAK OF $4,000
BARRELS ADAY

Cut Bank field reached an ALL
time peak Of pipeline runs during
the week ended March 20 with a
daily average Of 1900 barrels.
This is believed IN part due to
running oil that has been in field
storage. However, the first % days
Of the month show an average pro-
duction in the state Of upward Of
$4,000 barrels per day, also an all
time record. An excess over the
OPC allowable win result unless
runs are curtailed during the last
few days Of the month. With the
Texaco refinery at Sunburst shut
down. March Is expected 10 show q
production far greater than refin-
cry demand.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1942-03-28
BACK FROM VACATION

George Engle, manager Of Big west
Oil Co.. returned this week from a
months vacation In California. While
absorbing the famous southern sun
shine he avoided contact with the oil
industry in an effort to get com
plete rest. However, he was informed
that California producers and refiners
are unable to move their products,
owing 10 the tanker shortage.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1942-03-28
PATTERN WELL
IN KEVIN IS
OIL PRODUCER

The Journal received this week
\ birthday card a 21st anniver-
sary present, from "Slim" Parent
Of Sunburst. II is an enlargement
Of a snapshot of his H0IbrOOk dis
c0Very well in the new West Sun
burst pool, showing the well flow
ing to the height Of the mast on
his drilling machine. II Is neatly
framed, ready for a place on one
Of the walls Of the Journals new
office.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1942-03-28
CUT BANK Is
STYMIED YET BY
WPB PATTERN

Denver, Colo, March rs, 1912.
r p. Jackson, Secretary,
on Conservation Board,
Great Falls, Mont.
Director Of Production in wash
ingtOn wired today: Reference Cut
Bank field, MOntana-Regret that
we cannot designate southwest cor
ner location, Castle No. 2, as es-
tabIishing pattern. Operator should
file application on Form PA A for
fieId-wide development program"
Please notify all concerned.
M. j. FOLEY,
Director of Production
District 4.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1942-03-28
0iI-GaS Producers Are
Asked to Join in United
Effort to Help Win War

oil producers
aiding United
porites which nhibi extensive drilling
Arkansas State press., 1942-04-17

Davis Mildred
Stewart h s
found romance in
her senior year.
! believe the love
bug bites her
very hard l
wonder will Vivi-
an Robinson ever
find a boy friend
she can handle
without the aid
Of friends