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Show Oil Industry Closes Observance Of Special Occasion During Oil Progress Week, Oct. 1 through 19 the oil Industry made Its annual report to the American people, this year with emphasis on the specific theme I of quality and value of petrol eum products, ine slogan is "With Today's Gasoline, You're Driving a Bargain." Over the past five years, drilling drill-ing and production costs have i risen, line pipe up 68, casing j up 5Gr,i, field machinery 25Kc, I yet keen competition among the 1 many oil companies has kept ttv price of gasoline way down and , sent the quality way up. While gasoline prices have in-creased in-creased only 2k cents, exclusive of direct taxes, since 1952 the direct taxes have increased, so for every dollar you spend on gasoline, an additional 40 cents goes to state and federal governments. gov-ernments. As a matter of information today's to-day's regular gasoline is about equal to the premium gasoline of five years ago, and today's premium prem-ium gasoline nears the quality , of World War II aviation fuel. In connection with Oil Progress Week activities In Cedar City, distributors dis-tributors are grateful to TC-TV for the showing of the film entitled en-titled the American Frontier, and " for the fine Judging of service station window displays by f Whitney Jensen and Von Way-man. Way-man. First prize award went to Tom -L. Holyoak, Phillips 66 dealer; second prize to Ivan B. Orton, Conoco dealer, and third prize to J. F. McCarthy, Utoco dealer. Honorable mention went to Hunt Oil Company, Wllford H. Day. Bert Ashman, Trl-State Motors and Art Tylei. I |