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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1951)
& mm/ ' COMING BACK / MONDAY "So long, Joe—see you Monday.” Sure, you take It for granted that you II be bacK on the job bright and early Monday morning. Always have been—well, ’most always There was the time on a picnic when you fell off a rock and sprained rour ankle—and ch, yes, the auto accident that put your arm in a sling for a couple of weeks; but nothing really too serious. Don’t count on it! Every year 32,000 workers arc killed, over 2,300,000 injured k| ojf-the-job accidents. That’s almost double the number of deaths caused by accidei)t4 on the job. It’s great to have fun. Relax and enjoy yourself over the week end, holiday or vaca tion. But remember—somewhere during every two-day holiday, 175 workers will be accidentally killed and 15,000 injured, many maimed for life. One of these could b» you. A large part of these casualties will be caused by traffic accidents, but drowning ld*s, firearms, poisons, burns and other accidents will help to swell the total. HAND DIPPED Chocolates & Fudge Made in Eugene SUGAR PLUM 63 K. Broadway your charms wear a new OF CALIFORNIA swimsuit » ^from fetiaaduMUf, .10 K. Hr<l\\ V. i’ll. 5-.K)12 I’d Like to Know... You may have heard that a suit has been filed by the Antitrust Division in Washington to break up Standard of California as well as six other West Coast oil companies. Many people have writ ten us protesting this action, have asked per tinent questions. We be lieve these questions should be answered for everyone. We take this way of doing so. If you have a question, write: “I’d Like to Know’’ 225 Bush Street, San Francisco 20 “Why should you be in aH parts of the oil business?” Mrs. Henry Lincoln, housewife in Boise, Idaho, asks: “Doyou have to be in all parts of the oil business? Whydon’tyou just produce or refine, and give other com \ panies a chance to do the transporting, selling, etc?" . -- ~ . Why all parts? Example: in Oregon, severe winters used to delay fuel oil deliv eries. Here was a need. To meet the need, Standard looked to the undeveloped Rangely oil field, 600 miles away in Colorado. mwy ■ ur-uf* Getting crude out of new wells, refining it, delivering it to users -called fora fully integrated operation. to move the oil, standard laid a 182-mile line to Salt Lake City—crossing Uinta Mts. at 9,560 feet. Here— A new refinery wan built.To keep costs down, it had to run steadily . . . have con stant flow of product. So— Another pipe line wa« built into the Northwest to de liver refined products. . . plentiful in any weather. A1 OIL WIU. flfi 45*_,Mi I TRANSPORTATION flUINC ITATMN tiV/7 A. We now serve this area well. To do the job Standard needed all its size, integrat ed skills and capital. A certain minority in U. S. feels big companies should be broken up—though these companies have helped keep the nation strong. The U. S. was thankful for big companies in the last two world wars . . . and is now, in these critical times. This is a big country with big problems. To meet them it needs large and small companies. We’ll continue doing a good big job for you and the nation. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA • plans ahead to serve you better