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Evening star., 1943-07-25

A USTRALIA'S wild horses, unused to
ony service. take O little time-ond
"eentIng TO get used to service in
Uncle SONS Army. GentIine is the mild
term American soldiers prefer to use for
the old western style Of bronco busting
thot comes first in the boot troinin9
these horses receive otter being rounded
up on the open ronees Of the AustroIion
frontier. Accustomed to the woys Of
working for living, the horses. no
longer wild. then progress in their Army
troinine to quoIify for service in the
peck ortiIery, for supply tronsport in
rough country ond for other duty. These
pictures show how the broneos ore pro-
cessed at O remount depot ond finish
up, if they con take it, os dependable
Army horsefIesh.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-09-04
Discovery Well
At PendrOy Is
On Pump Test

A pump test was begun this week on
the discovery well on Pendroy struc-
ture, newly discovered pool northwest
Of Pondera oil field, to determine
whether to keep the present well as
producer or continue on down to the
objective Devonian horizon. Partners
in the enterprise are said to be divided
in opinion. !. W. Taylor is inclined TO
shut off present production and con
tinue the Devonian test. His partners,
Jarvis Brothers & Marcel, are inclined
to move over and start a second well
immediately, the second well to 90 to
She DevOnian
Veterans in the industry point out
that II the Goggins well is kept, il win
be the first Montana discovery OH well
that was commercial. The discovery wen
at Kelvin was rated at 20 barrels but
never produced in commercial guam
titles The discovery well at Pondera
made barrels Of oil per day and com
luercial amounts Of gas but was never
produced as an oil well. The Cut Bank
fcontinued on Page a
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-09-04
Crude Price Is
Noae IN Lap of
The President

Advices from Washington this week
were that the administration is pre-
pairing to again turn down the plea
of the oil industry for an increase in
the price Of crude oil. Economic stabi-
hzer Vinson intends TO have q de-
cision out before congress returns on
Sept. IA and it is believed that it win
be negative The oil industry Is urging
the president to intervene before con-
gress meets, hoping that the situation
can be remedied without going through
battle in congress. Congress viii pass
legislation increasing the ceiling prices
on petroleum and petroleum products,
proponents of the bill having found
adequate support, but there is danger
Of presidential vetoe unless the presi-
dent can be convinced in advance.
To that end a number Of Montanans
have written and wired the president,
urging him to intervene in the oPA-
PAW controversy over oil prices.
The Lamp, Standard Oil Co. IN. J.)
CONTINUED on Page n
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-09-04
Brady Test Has
Showing of Oil
InSunburst Sand

Awo4Raw NFonAauo ,gfldoa4 1c.n+ad
$50 r,,,.. s~o~. 49, 60 ,,.a,'ss;n~
.a,.r.4.s .,,a..;.~ % i, az. -, r.
: rss r.~as s...v'sn,,,. S.ks.,,n a11 =.
az p-a,s ,,oss. nat.sa. ~ 49,. -. -
$3.50 ~. p~~s.. = - 80 = go
go A. = - - = : -
Tsu .s'~..,- - :, :. :. A.. s...A.4
.ans go - sr;,,;.a . - -
8 a. 81, ss.s..s;,-s zsaas.as 49, 1900
~. o-s4 - - -. -
- :. s.~.sSe - !.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-09-04
Stevenson Stexrts
Second Wen on
Arch Apex Block

Another test Of Arch Apex structure,
in the Sweetgrass Hills near the Ca
madam border, Is being drilled by l.
G. stevenson's new company, A-A Oil
Corporation, ON the Parsell ranch. Lo-
eation is NV Nw14 NEM 4-S6N-3E. It
was spudded ON Aug. 81 and Is drilling
at $50 feet Footage is $50 south Of
north and gao feet west Of east line.
This eompamy's No. well, drilled last
year, struck large flow of gas in the
Bow Island horizon and because Of
the gas flow the drillers were unable
10 reach the objective Madison lime
horizon.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-09-04
DeUOniar Test
0ss Rams
Casing OF 200

R. @. Tarrant's Devonian test on Mid
way structure, east of Conrad in Pom
dera county, is today shut down at
270O feet, ready to run easing to shut
off Madison lime water before drilling
into the Madison Devonian contact, ex-
pected at around 2720 feet.
The Devonian is believed to be $50
feet thick and at the base is the
untested Devonian- Ordovician contact
which in the Midcontinent carries the,
famous Wilcox sand. A drilling depth
of s17O feet--slightly deeper than Cut
Bank wells-wfll thus test Midway
formations down TO the Ordovician.
The Tarrant-Wood deep test had oil
in the sunburst sand and showing Of
oil and water at the Madison lime con-
tact. As the well was intended as a
Devonian test, these formations were
cased off. Seven-inch pipe is now being
hauled 90 the well.
A bad fishing job held up compile
ton Of Tarrant's Richardson No. l, In
lconttnusd on Page 81
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-09-04
CUT BANK OIL LEASE BRINGS S238 Per
ACRE AT AUCTION OF INDIAN LANDS
Casper Man Gets Two and
British-American Gets One
Lease In Spirited Bidding


Tuesday $24O
held
took the all of the Bacee nde
pendent the majors dropping long before the auconee
dropped
Oil the third of the
while California bid in
O. the
fc0nthus on Pasen
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-09-04
DAILY PRODUCTION
MONT. -WYO. COLO.
WEEK ENDED AUG. 28

MONTANA
Cut Bank ..-..-.--........--.-.-...-..-... 1870
Kevin-Sunburst ---.....--.-..........-...... 677s
Border -.-..-....-.-.----......-........ so
Cat Greek -..--.-.-...--.........-.......... s24
Dry Creek -..-....-..--.........-.-.....-.... 80
Elk Basin ...-.-.....--.....-......-.....- 100
Pondera -......-.--....---..-...........-.. GIL
All Others .-...--.-...........-....-..... 100
TOTAL MONTANA .....-....-..... 2S64e
WYOMING
Big Muddy 1850
Garland .-..-.........-...-........-.... 1000
Lance Creek .-.....-......-.....--..-...... 2O336
tconttnusd on Page 81
Kodiak mirror., 1943-11-06

giant canvas tarps from Mud Mountain Dam and worked un- der tents on this runway job.
 There was the Alaska Rail- road Cut off, an Engineer job to bring the coast shipping closer to the remote interior, to take out the steep grades and snow- bound passes of winter railroad ing The Engineers set up their t1ansits on glacier with only the fading trall of Mike SuIh- vans 1896 mule freigt line over the mountain to follow. Now the civilian contractor, Engineer troops, and civilian workers DO nt with pride to an Amy Navy "E" for this job that blasted through the mountains beneath gl&clers and snow beds
 There was the winter job near Fairbanks in the heart of Alaska, where 60 and 70 degree below zero winters weren't easy. Bull dozer blades sheltered like glass and truck springs were snapplng after 16 hours in that weather and no lubricating oil on the market would perform along with the thermometer. It took steam drilling to melt the per manently frozen earth befor3 the Engineers could get the cats to working on it.
 There was, of course, Umnak, where construction equipment was shipped for months under the red-herring name of "Blair Packing Company" and where the Engineers slept with mud for pillow and lived in packing crates until they could get the airfield in use. When the En- gineer officer and civilian sur vey party went in, late in l94l, the wind was sometimes too high for work and with no more advance bases ahead, Umnak was pretty close to Japan, but morale was high. Morale was high all through the muddy construction history of Umnak, where the fiIst steel mat run ways in the Aleutlans were put down in time to help with the defense of Dutch Harbor. Alaska still talks of Umnak's land-based planes, frightening to the Jap invasion fleet bound for the Dutch Harbor Naval Stat on
 There was the Andreanof Ar mada, a motley collection of
 (continued on page 6)
Kodiak mirror., 1943-11-06
Engineers Make History At Alaska Bases

(This is the first of 5 articles dealing with the construc ion ot installations in Alaska. The next 4 articles will deal with people whose war job is concerned Tn this work
 Headquarters, Alaska Defense Command: This is $300,000, 900 story that cannot even yet be written, the story of the Army Engineer fertilization of Alaska, where the outposts of defense grew into theater of operations offenses.
 By the time the complete story of the names and locations of the Alaskan installations can be given out g nerally for public and one time enemy alike, the Engineers will doubtless have l built a new volume of construc- tion history.
 The beginning of this story briefly, is August 1940, when the Seattle District of the U. S. Army Engineers began a swift move from peacetime operations into national defense by initiat ing the building of two air bases, Annette Island and Yakutat. Into the Tongass National For est of mountained, maTshy Southeast Alaska, through mus- keg formation of matted vege- tation, roots, and moss 3 to 20 feet deep, the Engineers carved !down and laid out Annette Island There is more to any air base than merely a runway, from troop housing and a chapel to electrical and plumbing sys- tems and from payrolls of civil ian construction workers to shipping up the supplies. So skillfully was Annette done that the Ar Corps recommended to the War Department that the Engineers be entrusted with all Air Force construction.
 Then there was Yakutat, no simple runway job, either. With l20 to 160 inches of annual rain, with abundant snow, often a foot in 24 hours, with the drag lines o o.oerating on timber mats to keep from miring down, paw ing was no easy task. But the concrete runways hal to go down. To keep the concrete mix from being ruined before it could set in place for an air base, the Engineers brought up two
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-09-08
CHAPTER FIVE

but IT'S wife's job to make
a home for her husband. I hate
wives who just sit around and lei
their husbands support them. with,
out lifting finger" commentct
Susan.
"Of course n wife should make
n home for her husband" Brcnda
agreed. "But not at the sacrifice OF
everything else" She slowed dow,
the car and shifted the air. Doesn't
that wood smoke smell wonderful
Someone's burning leaves. Every
time ] smell that particular odor il
fills me with a strange sort of nos.
talgia, makes me thinI; of hog-l;i!l,
ing time out at the Leigh place. Of
apples, and early talk of Thanks.
giving
II wis. you'd stick to the sub,
ject.' said Susan. II mean about
me and Bill and Alicia"
What else is there for me tc
say?"
"You Light give me some ad.
vice. Although you've never mar.
ried, you have been around more
than I have. And didn't you try
your hand at lOvelorn column
when you first went to New
York;"
Brenda laughed. IT was asked to
pinch hit for the regular column
mist, yes. But only for a short time.
Not long enough, darling, to give
you that sort of advice" She hest
tated n moment, and then said. 81
can tell You this, though-and
maybe you'll slap my face for it
But here goes. honestly think Bill
Potter would stay around home a
lot more if you tried looking more
like Alicia and a little less like
Cinderella in the cinder stage" She
saw Susan start to speak, but
wouldn't let her. "And I'm certain
Bill would sit up and take notice
If he thought you were attractive
to other men"
But l don't want to be attrac-
tive to other men," Susan cried.
bill knows" Brenda went on,
that he can trust any man with
you. What you ought to do, Susan,
is go to a beauty parlor.'
Susan collapsed against the
back of the car seat, and Brenda
taking another quick look at her,
was sorry she had been so plain
spoken. But maybe it was Just
what Susan needed. Neither girl
spoke for some time, not until
Brenda was steering her car into
the lane that led up to the old
Leigh house.
f; Sometimes" Susan said pa
thetically. Il feel that Bits glad
he can get Adam North to take his
place at one of my dinners, or at
bridge. AS he did the other night
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SYNOPSIS

ADAM NORTH. young bachelor who
recently converted am old I.inyiiI,
buggy factory into 4 war plant hc-
comes 'iill-m" standby rnr ,hc
towns party givcrs. among them
SUSAN POTTER. whose husband Fiji
has lately been breaking cvcnin,.
dates to negotiate a real estnts
denl with e''''e
ALICIA CARTER. n willy. flIrtc;ious
widow. Adam. unknowingly, is loved
by his secretary.
RUTH MOOREHOUSE. who nj prcec,,
In having difficulty dissua,iing Tho
affections OF '"'
JACK VlNTON, mechanic in tho
plant. Adam. not being aware of
Ruths feelings. is just becoming in
trigucd with
BRENDA LEIGH. who Is now enioy-
ing an extended vacation in Linvilic
which she left several years ago Ia
launch a journalistic career in New
York City.
YESTERDAY: Brenda and Susan drive
To the country FOR Il picnic lunch. f.,
route. Susan comments that hnr NUS
band. Bill. is pIyini. too LITTLE atirn-
non To her and too much To AIiria
Carter. lr"nda urges her Ia spend
more time and effort on her auIrar-
nrc ami give up her unr"asiu;: dirt.
chasing III their bungalow home.
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was supposed to be influenza and
then it broke out into smallpox.
Two hundred other people went to
bed with it until the unvaccinated
community had become vacci-
mated. Then IL all died down.
Two Vaccinations
These instances are enough to
show that smallpox is still around
and that we all need protection.
Have your child vaccinated any
time before the end of the first
year and again at about six years.
III you can't remember whether
you have been vaccinatcd or not,
so and do it today.
In n group OF students at the
Manhattan State College, those
who have had one vaccination
showed 20 per cent more inn
munlty than those who had none.
Only ten American states re-
quire compulsory vaccinations.
Our record OF 10000 cases of
smallpox year is an uncnviablc
one compared to the average of
IL cases year in Canada, where
vaccination is compulsory.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
l.. f. b.: My daughter had an
attack of rheumatic fever i'm 1910.
followed by some damage TO her
hcart. Since then she has had two
more attacks Of rheumatic fever.
would change of climate pre-
vent recurrence of these At
lacks? Would Florida be a suit
able climate?
Answer: Removal TO a warm
climate would certainly he helm
ful. Florida is all right, or the
dry desert climate of Arizona, or
New Mexico.
~. \. H.: Ny baby is one year
oid, but still has no teeth. Do you
think they will come in?
Answer: The first central teeth
should come in about the fifth to
eighth month, the ones to the side
ny the tenth month. Some varia-
ton occurs under normal circum-
stances, but delay beyond n year
indicates some unfavur:ble consti-
tutional condition. An X-ray of
the jaw would show if the germs
of the teeth are present. \ thor
ough physical examination, in
Guiding blood tests, is indicated.
j. W.: What is the meaning Of
first degree and second degree
burns? Which is the more scri-
Gus?
Answer: Burns arc classified on
the basis of how deep they go,
how much skin and UNDERLYING
tissue they destroy. The more
they destroy the more serious they
are, so a second degree burn il
more serious than a first degree
burn.
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4|l:l y! ! i: > x AE2AA82lI,
WaTkINS E. uIRiGHT i

Anyway. he's always supses,in,
tnat l call Adam. almost throwing
us at each other"
"Of course" said Brenda "And
since Adam likes your cooking ana
never thinks of you as an alIurino
female, the two of Won inst yo
along, safe and secure and a little
dull"
susan was again silent. She lust
sat. limp and unhappy. ana
watched Brenda park the car near
q wide. leaf-strewn porch.
Il loathe women who are DELHI
eraleiy alluring," she said present
~. They're so obvious"
And yet" said Brenda, smiling.
men go for them" She STONED
The car and faced Susan. "Why moi
have Il try mt it. anyway"
At being allurins?"
Eyes"
But I'm not the type. Brenda. >"
Don't be silly" said Brenda
I'll take you in hand tomorrow
not a day later and see wnat can
he done"
You mean you're going-to
make me OVER"
Something like that, yes. You
need just the right shade Of lin
suck, something done To yoiIr
hair--au,l some of those soft. dainty
orsandic things you used to wear.
Remember"
"Ycs. but"
Ell adorcd you because YOU
were dainty and feminine and cool
and desirable. You've got To- be
that way again"
That was when ! was 49," said
Susan. I'm 80 nov. ana that
makes biz difference"
Listen. $usar Potter" said
Brenda. AN artist has said that
the thirtics are the years when a
woman is at her best" Snc ulmrcH
out of the car. Now let's force.
all about that. darling. and cool,
cur meal. I'm starved"
Tins hungry. too" said Susan.
Something in the autumn air does
things to appetites."
Right And for the rest of thc
day you and 1 are going to lie kids
again."
Susan followed Brenda to the
front door-Stood while she I'M
locked it. She was experiencing n
strange conglomeration of emo
tons. Some were oddly exciting, as
though she faced something big
and thrilling - and some were
strangely fear-fillcd. as though she
faced a crisis in her life and might
not pull through.
The fun of cooking the meal out
in the ancient kitchen, with its
huge fireplace and great wood
burning cookstove, and then eating
the meal lifted Susan's spirits. She
hustled about happily, thoroughly
and completely at home. And Brcn-
da, watching her, marveled at how
quickly a culinary atmosphere
made Susan forget all her worries
about Bill and Alicia.
When the dishes were all done,
they went over the house.
Il wish it wcrn't so big" said
Brenda. I'D really love to live out
here part of each year. but it big
ness Scares me. I'd feel lost"
"You could close up part of it."
said Susan. Live in the lower part.
turning that smaller parlor into a
bedroom, you know. putting a
bathroom downstairs"
mot a bad idea. Only I don't
want to spend too much money"
Susan eyed her. you could
bring your husband out here with
you. Men like big houses and hav-
ing room to do gardening, and
things like that"
"But I haven't any husband"
said Brenda.
II know, but you .;ill one Of these
days. You can't st ~ single forever
a girl aS lovely "a. pGlI ...a"
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Thanks" said Brenda. Men
are tnnny, though. They get ideas
ABOUT women who go i'm for ca
reers or get fairly good salaries.
Most men are afraid of women
iike that, feel a hesitancy about
asking them to marry them. You
know-the wife making salary
as large as the husband"
'But you could stop working
a'ter you marry. Then the man
wouldn't feel uncomfortable. You
could just keep up your writing,
and let the job GO"
Yes. L could" agreed Brenda.
lhetl she laughed and said, "Au
that's lacking now is the man."
Surely there must be plenty Of
men in New York who want to
marry you" said Susan. "A girl
with your looks ought to have her
pick of them"
AlaS, Susan, my sweet. New
YORK is full of feminine slalnor
a.. and men know they can have
their pick"
They went upstairs to the room
IN which i3rcn,la's Grandmother
Leigh had spent so much of her
Tine. They stood i'm the center
after raising the shades, and looked
about them.
can almost see Grandmother
Sitling there in the little sewing
rocker said Brenda. "Rcmember
IN L.,
glasses Il twinkle in her eyes,"
Yes" said Susan. 81 remember
also now ! used to envy your hav-
my her for Il grandmother. | never
saw either Of mine. because they
died before l was born"
Brenda walked over to the old
fashioned bureau ami stood looking
at 4 tinted photograph in a carved.
oval frame.
IhatS the way you should wear
your hair," she said suddenly.
Susan joined her. Like Grand :
mother Leigh has hers la that bic
ture?" she asked.
Yes. Cooled and piled high ON
your head" Brenda turned and
studied Susan for n moment. "Sit
down here and let me see what
can do"
Susan did so, and Brenda began
experimenting
There! she said, when Susan's
whcat-colored hair was ARRANGED
IN the manner in which Grandmoth-
err Leigh had worn hers. You look
lovelyi"
Susan pecred at her reflection
and was pleased. TT certainly
changes me. doesn't it?"
And for the better" said Brcn-
ga. Shc got out her lipstick and
vanity case. and did more things
TO Susan'S lips and checks. She
even touched the eyebrows n bit
with her pencil. This done. she sud-
denly took the jade earrings from
her own cars and placed them in
Susans. I've never seen a more
alluring female" she exclaimed.
standing back to admire.
Susan was SpccChlcsS as she took
another look at her reflection. She
just sat there staring. Then. after
several attempts. she found her
voice.
Il do look n little like Helen
Hayes. don't I? she said.
Only taller, and much prettier."
DO you suppose Bill would like
me this way?"
He'd he crazy if he didn't"
Il think I'll try it tonight" said
Susan, her eyes shining. "I'll 20
home. fix him a wonderful dinner
then put on something cool and
dainty, and" She looked at Bren-
da eagerly. May I keep he ear
rings. just for tonight ?"
For always" said Brenda. "They
are yours-tO Susan from Brenda,
with best wishes for luck,"
90 II. tn nix So said Susan,
Thanks lott"
TO go COnunued)
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and nifty years apo and has proved
itself over and over again. 1t has
caused a disease OF the most
hidcous aspect almost to disap-
pear from the earth. And vet the
carelessness of man has allowed
this wonderful weapon to fall into
neglect and / believe we have n
larger unvaccinatcd community
against smallpox on our hands
than we have had FOR n hundred
years.
Only cranks and crack-pots do
rot believe in smallpox vaccina-
ton. The challenge of Oslcr still
holds good. He told an anti-yac-
cinationist that he would take ten
OF his unvaccinatcd fellow con-
verts and ten vaccinatcd doctors
into a smallpox ward and let
them mingle with the patients.
Then in week when nine of the
unvaccinated had come down with
the disease, he would nurse them
tenderly, take care that the two
or three who went blind were
placed in an institution, and would
read the service of the burial of
the dead over the one or two who
died. and would pay their widows
thousand dollars apiece for any
one of the vaccinatcd doctors
similarly exposed who came down
with the disease.
lnfrcquent Tragedy
Smallpox has not appeared very
frequently in our world in the
last few years, but just frequently
enough to show that it is only
sleeping, not dead. Where these
diseases hide out during the long
peri dis when they can get no
foothold, l do rot know, but it
is certainly n fact that they do.
Last fall we were informed bv
our newspapers that in q small
town on the Atlantic Coast an
epidemic of smallpox had broken
out and the authorities were 90
ing to quarantine. Well, you can't
quarantine against smallpox, that
has been thoroughly proved. The
epidemic was not controlled until
all the unvaccinatcd people in the
neighhorhood had been vacci-
mated.
A few years ago in Oskaloosa,
Iowa, man came down with what
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-09-08

was supposed to be influenza and
then it broke out into smallpox.
Two hundred other people went to
bed with it until the unvaccinated
community had become vacci-
mated. Then IL all died down.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-09-08

North Carolina now ranks IL in
poultry production j n the Unite d
states and is i'm q tic for second
pace in the eastern states. The in
Suu$try is rated al more than 80 mil
lion dollars. .x.t,nlk
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-09-08

DR.. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-09-08
Dy LOGAN CLENDENING. ND

AT PRESENT believe vac
cination against smallpox is more
neglected than that OF any meth
DDS of acquired immunity at our
command. Here WAS the first
great triumph of man over the
malignancy of Nature. so far ms
that malignancy took the form of
disease. 1t was begun hundred