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They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo DlMWIDOV DOES A Bi& BUQN AhtV TIME HIS MISSUS KEEPS HIM WAIT ING TWO MINUTES OR SO- But when the galosh is on the other foot wifey is supposed to stick it out and like it. ig Oil Industry Began in ennsylvania on Aug. 27, 1859 Editor's note: Th netroleutn In. try, which began with the dis tery of the first successful oil 1 on A nr. 27, 1849, is currently rking its 100th anniversary. Fol Inr is the first of two dispatches eribing what oil has meant to nation and the world during its It century as a source of energy and what it is likely to mean In years ahead. I 5LYDE H. FARNSWORTH UPI Correspondent jfew York (UPD - A century jp a retired railroad conduc f drilled an oil well in west jp Pennsylvania and an in istry destined to shape the fljrse of history was born, pil had been known centu es before. Noah calked the with a form of petroleum Jled pitch gathered from pages in Mesopotamia. Job Us of a rock which poured tt "rivers of oil." jBut it wasn't until Edwin L. cake was hired by the Penn Jvania Rock Oil Co. to in stigate the firm's Titusville, t, property that this energy s unleashed and its com trcial potential tapped. In the America of 1 9 5 9 I nearly all heavy work is done by machines lubricated and. in most cases, powered by petroleum products Big Day in 1859 The big day in the indus try's history was Aug. 27 1859. After numerous delays and financial difficulties the Drake well reached into . a rock crevice at a depth of 69 Vz feet. It was a Sunday afternoon Orders had been received to abandon the project, already dubbed "Drake's Folly." The disheartened Drake's chief driller, William A. (Uncle Billy) Smith, peered into the well. It was just possible The long shot paid off. Within a few feet, according to industry chroniclers, a dark green liquid bubbled and frothed. With a crude bailer Smith lifted several gallons of oil to the surface and the era was born. The early years of the in dustry ran parallel to the transformation o f America ' v::'r?w' r , hjm i u t .,,,. - ; - j" t' ' ' ' ' ''-! i ' t-JI 1 ( ' ' -if HARK CAUGHT AT LA JOLLA Skindivers Don Ide, La Jolla music teacher, and Joe Turner, 24, (right) low nine-foot hammerhead shark killed off La Jolla bores in California. Ide said the shark circled them for 5 minutes before he killed the fish with a spear. r Accentuate... nefihe:rflavor" Fmmilyf 7 Lniquerid unusual ingredients combine to Sadd fine flavor to everyday food. Try your hand at the delightfully i 1 different recipes fea- 31 - .1 A I. tured in me Augusr Family Weekly Cook book pages. I A Regular Weekly Feature of Your ' from a nation of small farms and workshops to a land of spreading cities and mush rooming industrial empires. Oil helped power the trans formation. It also supplied kerosene which replaced dwindling supplies of whale oil in the pre-Edison lamps. Scramble for Lands. Speculation m a r ke d the early years of the industry. The Titusville discovery touch ed off a scramble for oil lands that rivaled the gold rush. Fortunes were made and lost. Crude oil prices ran as high as $20 a barrel and as low as 10 cents. Today crude oil averages $3.25 a barrenl. Incidentally, Drake, who had been so right about oil in the earth, turned to spec ulation. Incidentally, Drake, who had zeen so right about ol in the earth turned to specula tion as an oil land promoter on Wall street and did every thing wrong The wife of the man who founded an industry now worth billions had to take in boarders and do sewing to make ends meet. Most of the early drilling was confined to New York and Pennsylvania. Historians tell us wells were drilled on hunches, with the advice of spiritualistic mediums and dowsers, or just by sailing an old hat into the air and "spud ding in" where it happened to land. Important Dates Here are some of the other important dates in the growth of the industry: -1861, first year of the Civil War: The first ship to carry a cargo of oil cleared Phila delphia for London. -1863: John D. Rockefeller invested in a new refinery in his home town of Cleveland, Ohio. -1865: Last year of the Civil War: the first pipeline was built to transport oil. -1876: Oil went west and was discovered in California. -1890: The Sherman Anti trust Act led to reorganization of the Rockefeller interests into "a number of holding com panies. -1893: Charles E. Duryea built a horseless carriage by attaching, a one-cylinder gaso line engine to an ordinary buggy. This opened up the gasoline era at a time when kerosene was starting to lose markets because of the com ing of electricity. -1901: The Lucas Well at Spindleton, Tex., spewed 75, 000 to 100,000 barrels of oil into the air each day and opened up the fabulous East Texas oil field. -1903: Orville Wright took off in a box kite powered by a gasoline engine at Kitty Hawk, N.C. -1914-1918, World War I: oil was used to fuel tanks, trucks and planes of mecha nized warfare for the first time. -1939-45: By World War II, there was no question about the importance of oil. It sup plied gasoline and lubricants for vehicles, was the principal ingredient of synthetic rub ber and plastics and even sup plied ingredients for healing salves and other medicines. (Next: The Second Century.) Family Council Murial S. She is hurting herself with this affair. Naomi T. This is my first and last fling. Muriel S. I am a married woman with grown children and I am trying tp help a very nice woman with whom I have become friendly in my place of business. Naomi is an attractive wom an in her early 40s. She has never been married, but re cently has become involved with one of the married men in our office. . Everyone has been talking about this affair and I decided to take the bull by the horns and let her know. Fortunately, Naomi didn't slap me for my interference but was ready to cry on my shoulder. She says she is in love with this man and she doesn't care about anything else. I can understand her feelings, but I think she is do ing herself so much damage. She has ruined her reputation and probably her career al ready. Naomi T. This affair has been my first fling at happi ness and in all probability it is my last. I don't care what comes of it and I won't let anything stand in my way. I led a terribly sheltered girlhood and was dominated by my mother and older sis ter. They ruined my life by making me feel that I was an ugly duckling. They were both extremely attractive. After my sister married I took care of my invalid moth er until her death. I waited on her hand and foot and had no time for myself. I never went out socially until after her death. The Council: We are en tirely in favor of Naomi's having happiness. But why only a fling? Why not not lasting happiness instead of a last fling? The "happiness" Naomi claims she now enjoys with this man is more than likely one-tenth fleeting pleasure and nine-tenths illusion. If she is honest with herself and tries to explore her own feel ings seriously, she'll find that behind her bravado is a hurt and frightened woman. She cannot possibly be sure of the sincerity of the man's feelings and she must have serious worries about her future. A woman like Naomi, who has felt slighted and left out of things all her life, may for a moment enjoy the attention she is getting. She'd rather be talked about in an unpleas ant way than be ignored. But the talk will die down, just leavmg an unpleasant after taste together with the tat ters of a phony romance. If Naomi would recognize that she, herself, is somewhat to blame for her past unhap piness she might set herself on the road toward true hap piness. The cases of really wicked older sisters and moth ers are rare. It is very un likely that this mother and sister wanted Naomi to lead a sad, lonely existence and probably . they didn't think she was quite so ugly as she believed she was. But even if things were as bad as she claims, Naomi was not held prisoner. If she had made an effort to reach for a larger life she undoubtedly would have gotten it. Naomi ought to throw out her self-pity with her illusions and pull herself out of her present ugly plight. She can fill her life with real friend ship and love if she looks for exactly that and not com pensation for inadequacy or past unhappiness. (Copyright 1959. General Features Corp.) Large Packers Lose To Small Business Chicago-4CPD-While the de cline in livestock slaughtering at Chicago's famous stock yards has received national publicity, another important change has taken place there almost unnoticed. Figures compiled by the Union Stock Yards and Tran sit Co. show that the large packer has also lost his domi nant position in the purchas ing field. Such packers as Armour, Swift and Wilson have been replaced by the many "small" independents, whose combin ed total of livestock purchases last year amounted to 63.6 per cent of the market. In 1949, the combined pur chases of the Chicago inde pendents totaled only 431,350 head, compared with 724,976 in 1958, when a total of 1,139,- 472 head were sold to all Chi cago packers. While total cattle purchases increased in the last decade by only 2.1 per cent, the inde pendents' share of the market nas jumpea t per cent, ac-1 cording to the figures. Apartment House Remains Are Found Washington-Science Serv-ice)-On a desolate New Mex ico desert stands the re mains of a huge 1,000-year-old apartment house. When originally erected the great stone edifice covered more than an acre in the midst of a green valley. The building contained 80 three-story apartments, with rooms averaging 11 by 13 feet. Each of the units were "outside apartments" and housed a family averaging five persons. Tnere were 120 rooms on the ground floor used as workshops, storage and util ity rooms, and places for re ligious gatherings. The apartment house, re markably advanced for its time, was described here by Neil M. Judd, anthropologist at the U. S. National Mu- MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Wednesday, Aug. 1 9, 1 959 .3 seum. A detailed account of the massive house, as well as of many artifacts and other objects such as animal bones, found in the ruins, has been published by the Smithson- ian Institution. LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE TO CREDITORS No. 10600 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR JACK SON COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ERNEST L. HOLBROOK. deceased NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the above court has aDDointed the undersigned administratrix with the will annexed of the estate of ERNEST L. HOLBROOK, deceased. All persons having claims aeainst said estate are hereby required to present the same with proper voucners wumn six montns irom this date at the offices of Frohn mayer, Lowry, Hogan & Deathe rage. Cooley Theatre Building, Medford, Oregon. Dated and first published this 12 day of August, 1959. VIRGINIA HOLBROOK, Administratrix PROBATE NO. 10588 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR JACK SON COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN CHRISTIAN S. WE ILLS, de ceased. Notice is hereby given that by an Order of the above entitled Court dated July 28, 1959. Edith W. Braley was appointed executrix of the above estate and all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified to present the same to said executrix at the of fices of her attorneys, Farrell & Blackhurst. 230 Franklin Building. Medford. Oregon, properly verified as provided by law and with in six months from the date hereof. Dated and first published July 29, 1959. Edith W. Braley Executrix Farrell & Blackhurst Attorneys for Executrix NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby eiven that I have been appointed by the Circuit Uourt of the btate ot Oregon for Jackson County, Administrator with Will annexed of the Estate of Hat tie B. Dickson, deceased, and have qualified. All persons having claims against the estate of said decedent are hereby notified to present them with proper vouchers duly verified to me at my office in Room 321, Medical Center Building, in Med ford, Oregon, within six months from the date of this notice. Dated and first published August 19th, 1959. RONALD L. 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