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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-04-10

Have you heard the one about the
air raid warden who took advantage
Of the girl who was so dumb she
didn't know anything about artificial
respirationf
TOolie Bill says his girl friend is so
dumb she thinks a pile driver is
surgical instrument.
The engineer asked her if she was
doing anything that evening and she
said she wasn't and so he took her out
and sure enough, she wasn't.
A chemist says that the first alcohol
was distilled in Arabia, which may
explain those nights
president Quits Coffee" is a news
story. If my wife never stayed home,
and had to make coffee out of old
dried out coffee grounds, I think I'd
quit it too. (signed) B. DeForest.
Along western highway is a bill
board plugging Smith Brothers Cough
Drops with this catch line: "Take
One to Bed with You"
Across the bottom of the board some
local wag has written: CT wouldn't
sleep with either one of 'emi"
Sally: "what wartime occupation are
you pursuingi"
Polly: "Well, right now it's a second
lieutenant"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-04-10
Where Oil Men Are Gentlemen

The greatest leasing campaign in
the history of the Montana oil in
dustry is in progress in this state at
the present time and while Mon
tanans are astOnished at the &C
comphshments of high-pressure leas-
ing, the professional Midcontinent
lease men engaged in this campaign
are little less surprised at the
"ethies" of Montana oil men.
81 have been leasing for fifteen
years and this is the first time ]
ever saw two majors working side
by side, taking care not to infringe
on one another's lease blocks" said
one veteran lease man.
In the Midcontinent and in Cali
fornia, oil leasing is "dog eat dog"
There is no such thing as "ethics"
or gentleman's agreement. In Mon
tana, an operator reveals to his
neighbors that he is going to lease
a certain district and the others
are expected to stay out.
So these newcomers to Montana
have difficulty understanding why
man having a partial block of
leases viii reveal his plan to neigh
Dor oil companies: "neighbor"-
"rivaP in this country. In Montana,
oil companies exchange maps and
geological information, because of
mutual profit to be derived there
from. Not so in other territories
where it is part of the game to steal
information and capitalize it.
The reason is that there is plenty
of room for everyone in Montana.
There are fully 100 well-defined
structures in Montana which are
waiting for an operator to drill
them to an adequate depth to find
a probable oil producing horizon.
Carter Oil company and The Texas
company have already taken acreage
totaling hundreds of thousands of
acres, and they haven't begun to
scratch the surface. What appears
to be a pell-men rush for lease
blocks is actually a well planned
effort to FIND MORE OIL. There
is a desperate need for oil for mill.
tary purposes in the Northwest
particularly for the Alaska highway
and for the military in interior Alas
ka, together with the tremendous
demand for aviation training in the
prairie provinces of Canada.
After Carter and The Texas com
pany get all the potential oil lane
they can drill in the next five
years, there viii still be plenty Of
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-04-10
Dovies Wunts
Federal Looms
For Wildcats
Continued from Page u

tConunued from Page u
as security to the RFC for loan
70 be paid back over sufficient term
Of years, providing the advance is to
be used in the exploration for new
fields
Our discussions with Senator o.
Mahony have indicated that the com
mittee did not have in mind that I'M
proven acreage should of itself be
deemed adequate security. Rather
it is their thought that good presently
producing oil property must, in general,
he the security to which the govern
ment should look for repayment of
its loans. Their point is that the
government, in contrast with that of
the banks, is in a position to make a
loan for a longer period of time This
seems TO us entirely reasonable.
am informed that the RFC has
already withdrawn its prior ruling re-
quiring that commercial banks partici-
pate to the extent of so percent in its
ordinary commercial loans. This would
seem to clear the way for a practical
approach to the problem of providing
long time loans for financing explora-
ton activities by those oil operators
who are able to provide securi'v which
YOU deem adequate. Where ueh Sc
eurity consists of proven oil-producing
properties, obviously the amount, per
iod, and rate of repayment of any loans
must necessarily be predicated upon
a scientific estimate of the oil reserves
beneath the properties which are of
fered as security and the rate of their
withdrawal We presume, of course,
that examinations and reports upon
collateral viii be made by your own
examiners. 1t may be, however, that
we can be of some assistance to YOU
in your consideration and analysis of
such reports and we shall be happy to
do SO.
Sincerely yours,
Ralph x. Davies,
Deputy Petroleum Adm.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-04-10

equally promising land left for
others. 1t follows that there is no
reason why any one company should
"crash" the play of another COM
pany and thereby delay or block
development. Montana wants more
oil fields and more oil-not higher
bonuses or rentals for leases, which
are the natural result of competi-
ton in leasing.
In the show window of The Mon
tana Oil g. Mining Journal in Great
Falls is an exhibition of bottles of
oil from each and every discovery
lined with these bottles, a ribbon
from each one extending to Mon
tana state map, showing the location
of each discovery. There must be
forty or more bottles of oil, each
of which are a pretty good indica-
tion that there is more oil where
these samples came from" Yet of
these two-score discoveries only SIX
have been followed up to the ex-
tent that oil fields have been de-
veloped.
Each such discovery, were it in
the Midcontinent, would be followed
by an intensive drilling campaign,
with or without geology and with or
without geophysies. Here is where
Mideontinent thinking differs with
old-fashioned Montana thinking. We
recall how a trusted representative
of a major company told us that
Pondera was definitely disproven
by that smattering of oil" in the
discovery well. There was three
million cubic feet of gas spraying
about three barrels of oil day. To
the Midcontinent oil man that would
have, meant at least drilling cam
paign, if not an oil field. To the
Montanan it was evidence of dismal
failure. Of course, not all Montanans
subscribe to such theories, among
them w. M. Fulton who recognized
the significance Of the showing and
brought in Pondera oil field.
A similar situation was found at
Cut Bank where the Drumhellers
brought in a well making gas and
spraying oil. A couple of promoters
sold some investors on the idea that
this showing promised them great
wealth; they drilled a commercial
well, while the rest of the industry
refused to believe it. Even that
conclusive well stood idle for {
year or two before Roy Tarrani
finally arrived on the scene ant
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-04-10
STATE OF THE
NATIONS INDUSTRY

A simple summary of economic con-
ditions at the beginning of the present
year is contained in the March New
England Letter of the First National
Bank Of Boston It points out:
1. Three fourths of the war effort
this year viii be devoted to finished
weapons as against one-half during
1912.
?. War goods are accommodating for
lack of adequate shipping facilities.
3. Production of civilian necessities
viii be allowed to resume until these
goods can be moved.
4. Productivity of labor has de
creased, owing to increasing proper
ton of new and unframed workers,
high labor turnover, absenteeism and
shortages Of materials and good equip
ment.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-04-10

brought in a second commercial
well. 1t was not until then that
Montanans saw that a pool had
been discovered. Even then, few
realized that it was a potential
100,000-acre oil and gas field.
We believe that there are MORE
potential Pondera oil fields and
Cut Bank oil fields in Montana, as
proven by the scores of oil showings
in the widely scattered, shallow
drilling of the past 20 years. We
have no idea that they will be recog-
nized and developed by our native
Montanans, most of whom have all
they can handle.
We are certain that the coming
program viii bring new discoveries
with resultant opportunity to all who
are fortunate enough to understand
the Montana situation. Such under
standing covers something of the
history of oil development and
knowledge of areas where oil has
been found, also an understanding
of the market, present and future.
Possibly barring the Peace River
SOuAtAy3 up nCdA INC AldShd hiSiA-
way, l would rather find an oil
field in Montana than in any other
spot in the world" said one veteran
Midcontinent oil man, in discussing
this situation, as an example of
the outside viewpoint.
We believe that he is not the only
one who shares this realization of
the Northwest situation. We know
that many wells will be drilled in
an effort to find more oil and that
this prospecting viii be Serious
that is, intended to find oil for
immediate use and not to block out
reserves to be held for the future.
That means, in turn, that wells viii
be drilled with the idea of com
plete test-not stopping in the shall
low Cretaceous beds or in the Jur-
assic or at the top of the lime,
but in the Devonian, 0rdovician
and possibly the Cambrian forma-
tions which underlie the "big lime
of Montana.
With these developments will come
opportunities which we believe will
prove profitable to those who real
ize the portent of coming events
Among those to profit viii be mem
bers of our organization who have
been buying lands and royalties
over the years. We invite others tC
join us in our program of royalty
purchases based on the coming drill
ing campaign.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-04-10

Did you hear the one about the
little moron who walked by a store
window and saw a model with nothing
On7
He walked by a little later and she
had a little more on.
"HOw do you spend your incomei"
"About 5000 for shelter, 3O9o for
clothing, 400 for food and 2O9o for
taxes"
"But that adds up to 1909"
Don't 1 know it,"
What is better than a slap on the
baekl
A WAC on the chest.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-04-10
Forbid Money
To Impose New
SEC Regulations

The recent hearing held by SEC rep
resentatives in Tulsa stirred up congress
to the point of limiting appropriations
of the Securities & Exchange commits
sion, in order to head off further regu-
lations. Russell B. Brown, counsel Of
IPAA, reports the matter as follows:
Representative Disney Of Okla
homa, offered an amendment TO the
appropriations bill which was
adopted by the House, forbidding
the use Of any Of the funds so APP
propriated, to make effective the
proposed regulations s. 8 and 10,
which had been suggested by the
Securities Exchange commission,
making effective certain regula-
tions on the listing Of petroleum
royalties. This should settle what
has been a rather controversial
subject.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-04-10
Sincerely yours,
Ralph K. Davies,
Deputy Petroleum Adm.
TRUCKERS ON THE SPOT

Montana oil truckers are "on the
spot" The ODT demands that they
carry capacity loads, under severe
federal penalty. The Montana state
load limit rules forbid load limits
beyond 800 to 400 pounds per inch
width of tire, during the spring thaw.
Governor Sam Ford has taken the
matter up with the ODT.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-04-10
Sc PosTPoNEs HEARnGa

Hearing Of the SEC action to re-
woke the dealer registration of Patrick
A. Trap of Butte has again been
postponed, this time until April 10.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-26
ChurIes Schrock Is
Awarded Medal

CAMP SANTA ANITA. Calf, Especially
"A Good Conduct Medal was awarded
this week to S/Sgt. Charles L. Schrock
of Goodman, Mississippi, by Command
ing General B. w. Simpson of the West
Coast Ordnance Training Center.
In addition to the medal Sgt. Schrock
is authorized to wear the Good Conduct
Ribbon. These awards are made to
soldiers whose performance Of duty has
been faithful and efficient and the con-
duct meritorious.
Awards are made to soldiers who have
completed three years of peacetime or
one year of service while the United
States is at war.
Sgt. Schrock was recommended for
this award by his company commander
and the award was approved by the
Commanding General.
Before entering the armed services
Sgt. Schrock was employed by The
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. He
attended Holmes Junior College. His
mother, Mrs. W. +. Schrock resides at
Goodman, Miss.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-26
FColored Committee Is
Named In ~PuIpwood
Cutting Campaign

A committe of colored leaders in
Holmes county has been appointed to
work among the colored landowners of
the county in an effort to increase the
cutting of %pulpwood here.
This is part of a nation wide move
ment to increase the production of
.pulpwood two and one-half million
cords in order to have enough to meet
the nations war needs.
The good colored citizens of Holmes
county who have pulpwood on their
lands to sell are asked to plan now
to cut and sell it in the next few weeks.
You will be placing money in your
pockets and at the same time helping
in the war effort because more pulp
wood must be cut in order to meet the
nations needs.
b. II. Cooper, colored county agent
heads the committee composed Of Boy
Stringer, Of Goodman; Rufus Hooper. OF
Pickens; r. r. Green, Walter Smith, and
Walter Johnson, of Lexington.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-26
Mrs. Hattie Stevens
Passes Al Hospital

Friends and relatives Of Mrs. Hattie
L. Stevens were grieved to learn of her
death at the Community Hospital in
lexington.
She was born and reared in Yazoo
county, but had spent fifty-two years
ut her home near Ebenczer in Holmes
ounty. In u few days she would have
cen So years old.
Besides her husband, C. H. Stevens,
the following children survive: Mrs. H.
NJ. Jordan, Lexington; Mrs. P. B. Mar
shall, Long Lane, Missouri; Mrs. Corrine
II. Peaster, Eden; Mrs. f. C. Worrell.
Tehula; James A Rogers, Paducah, KY;
Mrs. +. G.. Dupree, Jackson; Albert e.
Rogers, Highland Park, Mich.
There are twenty-eight grandchildren.
sixteen great-grandchildren, and one
great-great grandchild, who survive and
the following step-children: Mrs. w. v.
Frost. Lexington; j. p. Rogers, Month
cello, Ark; Mrs. Susie Stewart, Lexing-
ton; c. C. Rogers, Detroit, Mich; w.
II. Stevens. Texarkana, Ark: c. r.
Stevens, Athens, Texas.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-26
Holmes Farmers Asked
10 Cut PuIpwood
FOR War Effort
Committee Named To
Plan Increased
Production Here

Holmes county farmers are asked and
urged to cooperate in the campaign to
increase the production of pulpwood in
the nation two and one-half million
cords in order TO help alleviate the
shortage that now exists.
Farmers over the nation are being
asked to devote at least three extra
days this fall to cutting pulpwood in
order to supply the needs of our armed
forces. Allies and essential civilian
needs. These needs are estimated at
thirteen million cords of pulpwood in
1913. This will go into f%iberboard boxes
and paper containers to ship food, shells,
gun parts and supplies of all kinds to
our troops on the far flung battle fronts
Of the world.
pulpwood campaign a local Holmes
county committee has been formed to
plan Holmes county's part in the cam
paign which opens this month in the
pulpwood producing states of the nation.
This committee is composed of County
FEfut L. W.. 1dISOu, 6SSjsbdu Souht
Agent w. r. Thompson, E. E. Huffstat-
Ter, Il. J. Ross, Lonnie Boatwright, and
W. f.. Word, all of Lexington, and Tom
Sweet of Tchula, and G. w. Davis, of
Durant.
Farmers are asked to thin out their
overcrowded stands of trees. They are
urged to use selective cutting, leaving
the best trees to build up a crop of
trees. They are urged never to clear
cut their land.
Limby, forked and Scared trees, low
grade hardwoods and all h~ardwoods ex-
cept oak, dogwood and hickory, are
marketable as %pulpwood in Mississippi.
Trees are Mississippi's largest cash
crop next to cotton and Holmes farm
ers are urged to take advantage of the
nations need for %pulpwood by cutting
now overcrowded acreage and at the
same time perform a vitality needed SER
vice in the nations war effort.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-26
Battery B Boys Now
At Comp Pickett

Holmes county citizens will be in
tcrested to know that the 31st Division
Of the U. s. Army has been assigned
to Camp Pickett. Va, OF completion Of
maneuvers in Louisiana and Texas this
wssk.
Many Holmes county boys are in this
outfit as members of Battery B and
other companies in the Hath Field
Artillery in the 3lst. The majority of
boys who went in service with Battery
B originally three years e this Novem-
Der have been transferred to other units
throughout the United States n over
seas.
Members of Battery B who have not
received furloughs in the past six
months are expected to receive 10 days
in the next few weeks and several of
the boys are already at home.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-26
". P. Hommett Injured
In Fall Tuesday Niqht

Hon. W. P. Hammett, representative
of Holmes county in the state legis-
%lature, suffered a badly injured knee
cap Tuesday night in a fall from the
stairs in the courthouse at Lexington.
Mr.. Hammett was at the courthouse
hearing the election, returns from over
the county and had started home. He
missed the bottom step of the stairs
thinking he was on the ground floor and
fell with his weight on his knee.
He is now in the Jackson Infirmary
and is resting as comfortably as could
be expected.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-26
Hines County Men
In The Service
~
Nicholas KIonuris
EnIists In Navy

Nicholas Klonaris, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Dimond Klonaris, Of Lexington, has en-
listed in the u. S. Navy and is now sta
toned at Pensacola, Florida. He is II
years old.
Letters to his parents indicate he
likes the navy very much and is eager
for action.
Mr.. Klonaris is the proprietor Of the
Welcome Inn Cafe in Lexington and we'll
known throughout the county. They
have another son, Jimmy, VINO is also
in the Navy. He has been stationed in
Australia but lately has beer on sea
duty. The many friends of both of
these fine boys wish them well.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-26

Waller

Walter l.. Murtagh, of Pickens, was
elected sheriff of Holmes county Tues
day, August 24th, in the runoff of the
Democratic Primary election. Mr..
Murtagh polIed 1919 votes to l,079 for
his opponent, Walter L. Ellis, a margin
of 440 votes. This was Mr.. Murtagh's
first bid for a county office. He has
been marshal and tax collector of Pick
ems for 12 years.
Thomas l.. Bailey carried Holmes
county by 542 votes in the governors
race scoring 1879 votes to- 1887 for
Mike Conner, his opponent. Mr.. Con-
ner carried Holmes county in the first
primary by five votes tallying 900 votes
to 904 for Bailey. Murphree received
461 and Franklin 421 here in the first.
There were 1886 votes cast in the
first primary in the governors race in
Holmes and this vote dropped off only
slightly in the runoff total of 2,616 a
margin of only 70 votes. The number
of absentee votes cast in the first by
men in the armed services easily &C.
counted for the lesser margin.
For Lieutenant-Governor H | m e $
county gave Fielding Wright 1878 votes
to tbs for his opponent, John L%umpkin'
In the race for state superintendent
Of education J. S. Vandiver, incumbent,
received 1868 to 1,027 for Martin Riley
his opponent, in Holmes county.
All of the other county offices were
decided in the first primary election in
Holmes county.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-26
Major RED" Groy
Home On Leuye

Major Malcolm "Red" Gray has re-
turned to his station at Fort Benning,
Ca, after a leave spent in Lexington
with his mother, Mrs. l. S. Gray.
Malcolm has been in the army for
six years and was promoted to the rank
Of major six months ago. For the past
two years he has been in the West
Indies and has enjoyed extensive
assignments overseas.
For tho next few weeks Major Gray
will be in II basic school at Benning.
Mrs. Gray has another son, Staff Sgt,
Robert Gray, in the service in Australia
He has been in the service for a year
and for the past two months has been
in Australia.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-26
County Schools List
Opening Dates

Miss Dorothy .McBee, superintendent
of education, Holmes county, announces
the white schools of Holmes county will
open on the following dates:
Lexington City Schools-Sept. 10th.
Acona Consolidated Sc~hool-Sept. 10th
Bethesda Consolidated School-Sept
10th.
Ebenezer Consolidated School-Sept
10th.
Durant City Schools-Sept. 18th.
C~enterville Consolidated School-Sept
9th.
oxbure Consolidated School-Sept
9th.
truger Consolidated School Sept. 9th
Emory Consolidated Sehool-Sept. 9th
Goodman Consolidated school Sept
1st.
Tchula Consolidated School-Sept. 9Th
West Consolidated School-Sept. 9Th
Pickens Consolidated School-Sept
3rd.
Holmes A. H. S. and Junior College
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-26
Ensign Swim Koib
Writes From GibruIter

Ensign Gwin Kolb, USN, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Roy Kolb, of Durant, recently
visited Gibraltar and wrote an interest
ing descriptive letter home from which
we quote:
have climbed to the top of Gibraltar
and have looked at two continents. II
was q magnificent sight, ever grander,
l think, than the sight from the Empire
State. On one side was Spain-a brown
landscape dotted by clusters of white
and yellow villages, and beyond, the
somber peaks of lavender mountains
cris-crossing n another in their steady
march into the distance. That was
Spain, land Of b%ullfights and Franco
and starvation; that was Spain, land of
i~nternment for US Americans who ven
tured across the border. l looked to
the other side and had my breath swept
away by the exquisite beauty Of tho
shore Of the Mediterranean directly be-
meath me. First there was a sheer drop
of over a thousand feet, down, down, to
where the rock flattened out; and I
could see a narrow leaden ribbon Of .
highway curving around the edge Of the
Rock and bearing upon its grey surface
the slowly moving ant-like shapes Of
British ~lorries. Across the road was the
beach, a delicate white lace fringing
. canopy Of blue water-as blue as the
eyes Of the English soldiers who were
splashing in it in boyish glee, forget
ting that they were at war and remem-
bering only that it was a Sunday, and
the sky was clear and the day was warm.
When l raised my eyes and peered be-
yond the blue horizon, l saw Africa,
brooding and purple, lying in the water
like a great, lazy sea monster.
The whole spectacle was worth the
long climb and the weary jogging down
again. Narrow asphalt roads, cut from
the grey rock. wind about Gibraltar and
afford the only means of walking to
the top. The sides of the mountain
(for that is what it is, really) are
checker-boarded out into blocks of green
(grass and a small hardy kind of tree
that somehow clings ~ the rock and
live), and blocks of white enormous
concrete watersheds ,hich catch rain
Continued Pase2)
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-26
Holmes Man Invited
TO Luncheon Honoring
English Expert

e. Watson Jones, farmer and agri-
cultural leader of Shropshire County,
England, will visit the Delta Experiment
Station, S~toneville, oil Monday, August
20. and will be the guest of Delta Coun-
Gil at a luncheon in Greenville Monday
noon.
Mr.. Jones has been very active in the
National Farmers Union of England and
is a member of the Farm Wage Labor
Board for his County. He is expected to
connect in some detail on the master
food production program of England.
Invited to the luncheon include: J. r,
Thomas, Cruger.