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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-11
ALASkA BRIEFS


 Edward V. Davis, city attorney will represent the city of Anchor age at the airlines hearing to be held in Washington on October 29. 1 Olaf Hjelm, oldtime rancher, was found dead in his cabin on Second Street, Anchorage. , Three hundred and ninety-four passengers left Anchorage to board the steamer Columbia at Seward for passage south.
 Under-age auto drivers are to be rounded up at Fairbanks. A crab line for vacuum packing crab meat will be installed by the Reliance Shrimp Company at Wrangell The move will result in the employment of about 20 more persons.
 Mrs. Mary Finger, 30, resident of Alaska about 39 years, wife of the well-known river boat captain, died recently at Fairbanks. Nine brownies and 10 black bears were taken by Petersburg hunting party. All kills were on Admiralty Island.
 TaXicab drivers are organizing at Kodiak and will set up regulations i for the business. | Ben Kraft, merchant at Kodiak, recently flew south to be one of the fans at the world series. 1 MT. and Mrs. William Cashen are the parents of baby girl born at Fairbanks October 6. The father is former resident of Douglas and is on the faculty of the University of Alaska.
 
 Mrs. Emily Hull Hansen, who came to Alaska in 1926, first as a teach CT at Kluckwan then in the Forty Mile district, died recently at Fair banks.
 The Eska coal mine strike, which lasted 21 days, has been settled and the men have returned to work. Arnold H Moeller, rent examiner from Des Moines, Iowa, has arrived at Fairbanks, to be associated with the OPA in a similar capacity as in the States.
 Mrs. Minna Coughlin, information specialist from the Juneau office of the OPA, has arrived in Anchorage after covering communities in the Bristol Bay and Goodnews Bay areas, Fairbanks, Nome, Holy Cross, Bethel, Aniak and Kuskokwim sections.
 Frank A. Dye, 47, telephone cable splicer for the Anchorage electrical department died in the hospital at Anchorage following an operation. Owing to the great demand for milk at Anchorage, especially for children and others ordered on special diets, rationing may soon be effective.
 Attorney Hugh J. Delaney is at Anchorage to take charge of the en- forcement division of the OPA. Fifty foot vice streets are being planned by the Ketchikan City Council.
 Capt. Gordon G. MacLane, former district Coast Guard Commanding officer at Ketchikan, and Anne Herald Henderson, were recently married at Ketchikan and immed- lately left on a honeymoon trip to New York City.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

WARDS-Ameriea's largest
retailer Of popular priced furs.
Wards reputation for quality is
your assurance OF finest style.
beauty, workmanship and value.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

San Francisco, where Mai.
Oskin is stationed with the
Fourth Air Force.
Palms and cathedral Candida
bra holding lighted tapers, deco
rated ST. PaurS Cathedral when
Miss Clara Elizabeth Tones,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Earle
Archibald Tones OF Piccadllly
road. spoke her marriage vows
10 Robert Dwight Weed. son of
MIR. and Mrs. Clarence Weed OF
Concord avenue. The Rev. Fred
eFiek w. DorSt performed the
wedding ceremony.
The bride wore a gown of
white brocaded taffeta FASH
toned on princess lines. A fin
gcr-tip veil fell from her
pearl-studded tiara and she car
ried white orchid and prayer
book.
Miss Helen Joyce Tones, sis
ter of the bride, was maid of
honor. She wore a jonquil yell
low marquisette gown and car
ried yellow roses and blue
cerHfeweFs in an arm bouquet.
Charles GullickSon was best
man. The ushers were John r.
Walsh, Carl LIGHT and Joseph
Simonds.
Mrs. Tones looked charming
in crystal pink crepe street.
length dress and a small black
chapeau topped with pink rose
buds.
Mrs. Weed wore a sea blue
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

John ]. Cruice of Fairfield
avenue and the bridegroom
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Clyde IT. Oskin of Bethlehem,
Pa.
The lovely bride spoke her
vows in a white faille gown
with heirloom DucheSSe lace
trimming. Her double TERED,
finger-tip length veil was caught
TO "A bonnet of DuCheSse lace.
Miss Jean LaJoie was maid
of honor and Miss MaFyloH
OSkin, sister of the bridegroom,
was bridesmaid. Both attend
ants wore white tissue taffeta
dresses fashioned with a sweet
heart necklineS, three-quarter-
length sleeves. and very full
skirts.
Their headdresseS were halos
of pink and white carnations,
and they carried colonial -bou-
quets of the same blooms.
The bridegroom's father was
the best man. The guests were
seated by Robert Kelley Jr.
Mrs. Cruice chose a cham
pagne pink afternoon dress,
matching hat and an orchid cor
sage bouquet.
Mr.. Oskins dress was of gray
crepe, and her hat WAS nGMhitE
straw. Purple orchids comprised
her corsage bouquet.
A wedding breakfast was
served at the Detroit Athletic
Club.
Mai. and Mrs. Oskin left for
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20
Mlew s0sat,oiittey,-

HUGH COLLINS DAILY JR born April 26 TO 1t, and
Mrs Hugh Daily (Margaret Meurer).
THOMAS VINCENT CLIFF born May to Mr., and
Mrs Frank " Cliff Virginia Lenore Conway.
STEVEN ALLAN FISHMAN E. born May to Mr.. and
Mrs Ira l. -FsAmaa Margaret -LGtz4,
JOEL ALAN CASMAN,,. born May to Mr.. and Mrs,
William Casnan Beatrice Glieberman}
SUSIE SLOANE FORD born May IA TO Petty Officer
and Mrs Frederick Sloane Ford Ir Nancy Brier4--
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

TWO fashionable weddings took place in the north end this
i weekend. Miss Jerry Cruice and Maj. Donald Oskn,
SAAF married Saturday morning in the paror of the
University of Detroit faculty building.
And at Up. in ST. Paups Cathedral Miss Clara Eliza
beth Tones became the bride of Robert Dwight Weed
The Rev. Thomas j. Moore ofcated at the Cruice
Oskn nuptals The bride the daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20
Halls Move
To Biloxi
preston Sweet photo

ENSIGN AND MRS. OWEN
II EDEN HALL. who were
married May u in Bushnell
Congregational c hurch, are
making their home in Biloxi,
Miss. where he is stationed. He
is the son of Mrs. Frank L. Hall
and the late Mr.. Hall.
For her wedding the former
Betty c arlyne Wroughton,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles c. Wroughton. chose
gown of white slipper satin
made with a sealleped neekiine,
fitted bodice and hooped skirt,
Her three TERED illusion veil fell
from corded satin Juliet cap.
She carried a shower bouquet
of white roses, gardenias and
stepanotiS. with satin StreamerS
to which were attached lilies OF
the valley.
Helen Wroughton was her
sisters maid of honor. She wore
Alice blue chiffon with matching
tiara. Rhea Horst and Barbara
Hall, sister of the bridegroom.
were bridesmaids wearing pas
tel pink and blue chiffon. They
all carried colonial bouquets of
pink roses and shasta daisies.
Ensign Allan Russell was best
man fhe usherS were 1t. Ray
mond Fouikrod Jr. and 1t, Ed
win II. Blakely.
A reception was given at
Dearborn Inn.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20
Msddiuqs Feature Msek in M1,thsnd

three4piece navy blue suit, blue
hat with touches of white piqus
trimming, and white accesso-
ries. She wore a white orchid
corsage bouquet pinned to her
coat lapel.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

crepe afternoon dress and a
black hat with blue trimming.
A reception was held at Dear
born Country Club.
Mr.. and Mrs. Weed left on a
wedding trip TO northern Mich
igan. Mrs. Weed Travelled in
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20
Valparaiso Guild
To Hold BreakfasK

THE DETROIT chapter Of
Valparaiso Guild will have a
breakfast at 1890 a. m. Thurs
day at the Trinity Lutheran
Church parish house at Gratiot
and Rivard streets.
Mrs. Ted A. Behnke is chair.
man. Hostesses will be:
MESDAMES
Calvin Gauss Otto Rosenbusch
Theodore RtchtoI Edwin Kleinachmidt
Harry EbeIline Archibald MCKAY
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20
American Ort
Meets Wednesdd

THE WOMEN'S AMERICAN
ORT will hold its annua
luncheon in the Michigan room
of the Statler Wednesday at
1890 p. m. Mrs. Edward B.
GreSser, past national president,
will be the speaker.
A musical program will be
presented by Miss Wyn Garden.
coloratura oprano, accom-
panied by Miss Betty Kowalsky.
pianist.
Mrs. William Grain is taking
reservations.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20
Mizrachi Group
Lunch Thursday

THE YOUNG WOMENS
MIZRACHI will have a lunch
con at the Wiltshire Hotel on
Thursday at l p. m. to install
new officers.
They are mesdames:
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20
Catholic Group
To Seat Officers

THE INITIAL general meet
ing of the newly chartered
Court Ave Maria 1875, Catholic
Daughters of America, will take
place Monday at 7.30 p. m. at
the League of Catholic Women
Activities Building.
Officers will be installed. Mrs.
John J. Shada, regent. will pre-
side and Mrs. Harry w. Sheri-
dan, state regent. will speak.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-02-17

The most powerful n words In
American industrial life today!
They form "a aDmusen meeting
ground WHICH bEan1s together IN .
(MontaBa Representatives i'm ses-
sion at Helena Thursday approved
Montana's Joining the Interstate on
Compact.l ffs 10 ytass5r8s
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-02-17
General Pet
Reported AS
Lease Taker

Though there has been no Off
cial confirmation, B. E. Van Orsdale
of Denver, who recently filed on
$4,000 acres in a 50-mile stretch
along the Rocky mountain front In
Lewis and Clark and Teton coun-
ties, is reported 10 have been acting
in behalf of General Petroleum cor
poration, producing subsidiary of
the Socony-Vacuum Oil company.
General Pet has been looking the
area over for approximately two
years and has very extensive hold
ings of leases on fee lands, In addi-
ton 10 the government acreage re-
Gently filed upon.
Repeatedly, the company looks
upon these lease acquisitions as
somewhat In the nature of
shooting" option, giving 1t access
to the leased areas for the purpose
of seismographing, following which
determination of possible drilling
program is exposed to be made.
Developments will be watched
with extreme interest, since all
drilling in the area, based upon sur
face structural indications rather
than upon seismograph findings,
has not resulted in the finding of
commercial production.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-02-17


have had oil, but didn't get it.
A little more than five miles
northwest of Kelvin, this well
checked higher than had been ex-
pected, getting nothing at the con-
tact, at 1916, getting show of gas
at 1857, and getting only show Of
oil at 1878. Acidized with 500 gal
Ions, it began making mater only.
In the same section of the field,
approximately three-quarters of a
mile southwest of the Pacific-W
ern well, ]. Bland Catlett apparent
ly got a good well in his first ven
ture in the area, in SW SW NV
9-35N-3W. Drilled to 1885, this well
had no feet of oil in the hole from
the Ellis Madison contact at 1884,
was acidized with 500 gallons and
is testing.
Up on the high rimrock approx
mately two miles southwest of these
wells. c. NJ. WriRhter-AutZ No. 5,
c NE NE Sc 13-35N4W, has been
acidized and is testing after getting
"a show of oil and water at the Ellis
Madison contact, at 1884.
Imperial Craig Gauss No. 4, NV
NV NV 1S-35N-1W, recently drilled
to 1925 after getting good show
ing at 1924, was acidized during the
week with 1000 gallons and re-
sponded by swabbing IS barrels the
first "a hours.
The Texas company also made a
35-barrel initial producer out of its
Howling ALI, previously completed,
by plugging back from 1865 to 1852
and shooting with 20 quarts. The
oil tested seven percent water. Top
of the Madison I'm this well was 1916.
One dry hole was recorded, Han
ah-Porter- Murrils No. l, c SW NE
NV 22-32N-1W, plugging and
abandoning after getting sulphur
water at 1880 Top of the Madison
was ITO.
illustrative of the wide-open
spaces in this field, it is approx
mately q miles from the Hannah
Porter well, in the extreme south
eastern portion, to the Pacific
Western well completed this week
in the extreme northwestern sec
ton.
A new location this week in
very interesting territory Is c. III.
Shoemaker ocksprung No l, c
Continued on Page ~
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-02-17
Unions Willow
Creek Wildcat
Drilling, 600

Union Oil company has spudded
in it's projected deep test on the
Willow Creek anticline west of
Choteau, on the Yeager farm in Sc
SW Sc 21-24N-6W, and has made
hole with rotary tools past $50 feet.
This well Is extremely interest
ing for several reasons, one being
that it was located following seismo-
graph survey. which picked spot
several miles east of the high" as
indicated by surface folding.
Another Is that IL Is mapped by
the U:S.G.S. as being on the same
contour as the main producing sec
ton of the Cut Bank field.
And still another is that it is
scheduled to test all possible pro-
ducing horizons, above the granite
With weather permitting and no
bad luck intervening, 1t is expected
to test several possible pay horizons
within the next 30 days.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-02-17
Carter Passes
$500 In Test
on Fox-Lutller

After topping the Colorado shale
at COLO and the Mowry at 7700, Car
ter Oil company is drilling past
$500 feet in its wildcat on Fox-Lsu-
ther dome, southern Montana.
1t is believed TO have several hun
dred feet to go to reach the top of
the Madison lime, and If carried 10
the basement rocks, repeatedly its
original objective, may become the
deepest well ever drilled in the
state.
Location is in 14-6S-19E, about 10
miles northwest of Ohio Oil COM
pany's Dry Creek field, and along
the same general line of folding.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-02-17
DEEP TEST NEAR BORDER
QUITS I'M DEv0NIAN

Hopes that Canadian operators
would bring in Devonian produc-
ton Immediately adjacent to the
Montana Alberta border have been
dimmed somewhat by failure only
a few miles north of the boundary
and northwest of the Cut Bank
field. The failure was Pacific Oil &
Refining company's Twin River No.
8, now abandoning at sos, 154 feet
in the Devoniarl- While the well
showed no water in the Devonian,
oil shows found were confined to
stains, with the formation too
tight to yield either oil or gas
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-02-17
One Producer
Is Completed
In Cut Bank

One producer that swabbed
48 barrels the first "a hours
after shooting was the weeks
highIight In the Cut Bank field,
with one location made.
The producer was Texaco's No.
8 Aronson, in c S1h NE 2s-35N-6W
Main pay was from 1896 to 5000.
The new location was by Carter,
its No. 5 Halvorson In c SW Sc
24-34N-6W. Thirteen other wells in
Continued on Page y
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-02-17
NOR ORD WORKING OVER
TWO GAGE DOME WELLS

The Northern Ordnance Company
is continuing efforts 10 make com
mercial producers out of two wells
completed early In 1914 In the Gage
Dome field near Roundup.
Northern Ordnafce-L. T. Morris
BIZ is installing pumping unit after
shooting with ITO quarts of solidi-
fled nitro and cleaning out TO 6173.
This well Is In 13-0N-26E.
Northern Ord ma n C G Overend
QuinnelI No. /, I'm m22-9N-26E, was
shot with 20 uuaY&s OF solidified
nitro from COOS 20 6016, and Ia now
drilling up bailer full of cement
at 5970.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-02-17
BETTER ROAD MAY LINK
TWO NORTH Oil FIELDS

SHELBY-A new oil field road
may be constructed west of Kelvin,
10 connect with the Santa Rita road
north of Cut Bank. The proposed
road would be constructed In CO.
operation with Glacier county.
Toole county commissioners and
Wayne Gibson, county surveyor.
this week have been viewing a pos
sible site for the road. A conference
has been held with Glacier county
commissioners on this matter, and
il is believed because the new road
would benefit both counties and ex-
pedite oil field traffic. II may be
built in the near future.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-02-17
FULTON PET. WELL May
WIDEN p()NDERA FIELD

With the prospect II may extend
the producing area OF the Pondera
oil field slightly TO the west, Full
ton Petroleum corporation this
week made 3wnaGaen Coz len No. z
Jones asa SxN SW fzsw NE fT2s77.
9Azf arM Iii moving oRi <ahie tools
ssasfpaa IL d ds5le 1aAFF saassHa thsaes
quarters uf . frlfIe northwest Of the
field discovery well.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-02-17
Well I'm Elk
Basin Flows
0l5 Barrels

One of the best compilations
In many weeks I'm the Montana
portion of the Elk Basin field is
Carter on company's Henders
SON Unit No. 4, NE SW NE 81
9S-2SE.
Drilled to total depth of 5114, and
with the Tensleep topped at 4916,
this well flowed 915 barrels of oil
the first "a hours.
There are six other drilling wells
in the field, all on leases of the
Carter Oil company or the Standard
CONTINUED on Page ~
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-02-17
DriIIers DEFY Sab-zero Cold
To Make Hole i'm North Fields

Those who the home falling the job
might have had something think about during the week
had they possessed the stamina visit the floors of approximately
drilling the KevinSunburst Cut Bank fields
drIers and tool kept making hole "a hours
1ie temperatures that sumped far 20 below
f@b Rank dozen wells kept making hole while
" ing up, completed and location made for
another. Sas
In Kelvin st five wells reported making hole during
the week dozen competitions and with two locations
report operations each of the fields
items below
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-02-17


wholesome, working agreement the
bulk of this nations $4,000, DOC, 900
oil and gas industry.
Here are the words which have
changed the course Of an industry:
ssThe purpose of this Com
pact In 10 conserve oil and gas
by the prevention of physical
waste, thereof, from amy cause"
There is the heart and soul of the
Interstate Oil Compact.
There is the creed, the constitu-
ton, the vital influence which has
proved itself one of the greatest
single forces In natural resource
conservation on the American bust
ness horizon
These words, the industry's guide
for the past 10 years, stand as a re-
markable example of the workable
ty and the wisdom of States Rights.
In these years this states agree
ment for producing oil and gas
two of natures exhaustible and ir-
replaceable necessities--ha bridged
three years of history's most cata-
clvsrnic war, has successfully wealth
cred threatened era of flush pro
duction, and has given the world
an emphatic example of what gov
ernmental units can do when they
band together for the common good.
The Interstate Oil Compact Is a
peoples agency.
1t lis not an agency with power to
rule and regulate, to order and COM
pei.
It is an active, voluntarily i'm
q. -.
through its very nature found need
for an interconnected clearing house
to keep 1t working to its own best
advantage and to safeguard the pub
lie interest.
Oil Is produced in Is of the 4S
states. Many of these have their
own types of laws affecting ex-
ploration, drilling, well spacing,
production and marketing.
A decade ago the best oil minds of
the great central West saw In this
babel of confusion and conflicting
Oil laws danger Because Of the
deadening divergence of regulations,
men and materials were pulling and
hauling against one another Those
who set out to remedy this fault
had one chief aim and that was the
production OF petroleum and gas in
amounts sufficient to serve man
kind and to insure the most advan
tageous flow from given reservoir
Out of this muddle the Interstate
Oil Compact was born.
Foreralnner of the epic 81 words
was discovery of the flush pools
from 1925 through 1891, such as the
East Texas and the Oklahoma CITY
pools, the Yates and the Seminole
fields. The oil marts of the worlc
were glutted with am avalanche
of petroleum produced in many In
stances without regard to efficient
producing methods. Wells flowec
wildly without restraint
The Oil States Advisory Commit
tee and the Petroleum Code, under
the NRA, were only temporary
stopgaps. Over-productIon In the
sense that many wells and some
times entire pools were producing
inefficient1y still was problem
very much out of hand In midwin
ter of 103435.
Continued on Page 81
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-02-17
Northwestern Section of North
Field Has Puzzling Completion

Pacific Western on Corporations No 5, government permit
NV 935N-3W northwesterly well drilling the
field completed this week well that should
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-02-17
Article Explains Basic. Purpose
OF II. s. Oil Compact Commission

Because both Wyoming and Montana considering le
aton empowering adherence the Interstate Oil Compact
mission the following explanation of the Compact its purpose
from the issue of he Link publication of the Carter Oil
Company deemed of sufficient interest to warrant publication
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-22
Nice Policemen.
Nice People

men, women and children afoot and
in automobiles who jammed almost
every block in Detroit, there was no
serious disorder.
Not a single arrest uoas made for
rowdyisn1 or disorderly conduct.
And not one dollars property
damage pas reported to the police.
In contrast to the riots and the
looting and the severe disorder in
several big American cities, the be-
havior of Detroiters was unbeliev-
ably sedate and lawful.
What's the answer? 1t is twofold
Detroit cele brants Were in a
friendly mood Uith no chips on their
shoulders, and Detroit police Dere
uniformly tolerant and understand
ing and sympathetic.
1t was splendid working rela-
tionship between citizens and police
men. Such relationship should
continue always.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-22

DoLICEMEN so frequently are the
u butt of public annoyance that it
is a matter of real pleasure to write
nice things about them from time to
time.
This is one of the times. It con-
Germs Detroit's Victory celebration
last week.
There was one of the most spon-
taneous outbursts of mass enthusi-
asm in the city's history.
Instantaneously with President
Truman's peace proclamation the
whole community exploded into
hysterical action.
No need to remind you of the re-
sultant high jinks. The demonstra
tion was city-wide and continued well
into the early hours of the following
morning.
But in spite of the frenzied re-
lease Of long pent.up emotions, in
spite Of the hundreds of thousands of
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-22
Brain Game

Give yourself 10 Tor zach correct answer
through question stu. 40 for the remaining
two questions Any score IS or higher IL
excellent.
1-You know Of course that the
portrait of George Washing
ton appears on one dollar
bill and that of Abraham
Lincoln on a five dollar bill.
Do YOU know (a) the name
of the man whose portrait
appears on two dollar bill?
fbl a ten dollar bill?
2-If a person unknown 10 you
was described as erudite, he
would he: (a) ignorant; tb)
fond Of a good time; tc)
scholarly.
st is fortunate that one is
not called on often TO give
diamond wedding anniver-
sary present How many
years of marriage would this
represent?
before the advent Of the
automobile. what was the
fastest means Of locomotion
guided by man?
5-True or false: ta) Dawn OF
Liberation" is a new volume
Of speeches by Winston
Churchill. (b) Pierre Laval
was recently welcomed back
10 Paris as a hero.
6-The new movie called Cap
tain Eddie" is the life story
J Of what man. 10
7-Research on the atomic bomb
is said TO have cost 81 ,00O,-
100000. At the rate the Il. S.
is spending money 10 wage
war how long would this
amount of money last2
S-To what famous American
should the following quota
tion be attributed: Caesar
had his Brutus. Charles the
First his Cromwell, and
George the Third may profit
by their example. II this be
treason. make the most of
it,
(Answers on opposite page)