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Show Willard Pease to Sell Gas SALT LAKE CITY, Utah Willard Pease Oil and Gas Company, (OTC 2.125, 2.50) Grand Junction, Colorado, announced the signing of contracts for the sale of natural gas to Northwest Pipeline Corporation of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Western Slop Gas Company of Denver, Colorado, a subsidiary of the Public Service Company of Colorado. Initial daily sales are est- - Kiddie Products Notes Sales AVON, Mass-Kid- die Prod- ucts. Inc. (OTC 3.125, 3.625) reported sales for the first three months of 1976 of $2,111,412 compared to $1,813,411 for the similar period last year. Net income was $38,560 compared to $34,654 for the first three months of 1975. Earnings per share, based on the average number of shares outstanding in each period (451,000 in both 1976 and 1975), were $.09 for the first three months of 1976 and $.08 for the similar period last year. The First Years program, begun more than three years ago, has been completed. The company has now undertaken an active nationwide cam- imated to be 10.0 million cubic feet per day, with deliveries expected to commence by Prices reOctober, 1976. ceived are the maximum presently allowed by the Federal Power Commission and contain provisions for future price redeterminations and BTU value adjustments. Company president Willard H. Pease said the agreements followed several years of separate negotiations. Contracts call for delivery of natural gas from the company's wells in the Cisco Springs area of Grand County in Eastern Utah, and Lower Horse Draw Field in Rio Blanco County, Colorado. Photographs Continued from page 10 vestiturc only means trouble for both consumers and inhe said. Several vestors, trillion dollars in investment are needed in the next few years to maintain jobs for the nation's population. Rather than worry themselves about the six ppreent unemployed, I think politicians ought to concern themselves with keeping the other 94 percent ployed, em- "'he said. paign of advertising and proHeadline: Vedco Wah Wah motion which supports brand Mines identification and the sale of existing and new products. Status: Bankrupt. On the first day of the American summer, David Brinkley wrote in the Saturday Review , the sun strikes the easternmost shore of Maine at 3:42 a.m., and not until hours and ten minutes later does it set over the twenty-fou- r westernmost Aleutian island in Alaska. Across these 4,839 miles it lights and warms the largest body of free people remaining on earth, a fact both pleasing and frightening pleasing because we are still free; frightening because most of our fellow passengers on this plant are not. This summer, only 19 percent of the people on earth live in what we would call freedom, and this small number get smaller all the time. In the last year, about 2 million people a day lost their freedom. Of the few still free, Americans are about Surely we are members of a species in one-fourt- h. danger. How well the man writes and how true are his words. I host an evening drive-tim- e radio talk show in Salt Lake City. Its amazing to me how many people have called in the last few years and stated that in their opinion we are living in a dictatorship. My God how naive! As long as you can phone up a radio station and say that we are living under a dictatorship then you have a pretty good idea that we arent. I dont take most of the ideas of the far right very seriously, but I do remember a quote in one of their books. Treason never prospers. Whats the reason? For when it prospers none dare call it treason. When we have a real ! dictatorship, their aint no one who will dare criticize it Ive spent time in Russia and Poland and Czechoslovakia Ive seen and Hungary and Romania and Bulgaria. government control. And Ill guarantee you that whatever in the hell is going on in this country, it is not a dictatorship. Dont the people who scream that they are being suppressed ever stop to wonder why they still have the right to criticise? No sir, I cant buy a lot of the garbage I hear. Despite our shortcomings, this is still the largest free country in the world. Im not sure why it is so but Id suspect its because of the size, the location, and the oceans. Some people would say that God took a special liking to this country and that explains why things have gone so well. According to this theory He throws a Teton dam disaster at us from time to time but by and large, he stacks the deck in our favor. I find this belief to be embarrassingly self centered. Hard for me to take it seriously. Due to the angle that sun light hits this earth, there simply has to be some areas that grow food more easily than others. Aren't you glad that sheer good luck landed you in one of them? Even good old God fearing capitalism would have a considerably more difficult time growing enough food in the Soviet Union. They simply started their country a little too far to the north. We have been more lucky. Ours is a large country. Food grows easily her and we have resources in abundance. And the oceans have forced most the world to leave us alone. Freedom appears to be a delicate flower. The climate and soil apparently must remain perfect for it to survive. In India the flower lived for twenty-nin- e years but it was choked by the weeds of poverty and starvation. I was first in Calcutta some ten years ago. I've been there since and not much has changed. People sleeping and eating and defecating and dying in the streets. At night I walked the dark city and watched the hollow eyes stare through their flickering candles. Freedom of speech has no meaning to a man who is watching his children get weak with malnutrition. He wants food and a job and a place to live. If the communists can deliver it then a communist he will be. Why is that so hard for us to understand? As we sit here 200 years after our grandparents started this thing, the simple truth is that we are still a free people. I want to feel proud but I'm more inclined to feel thankful. Its a pretty damn good country. The Supreme Court just said that even private schools cant discriminate on the basis of race . . . and thats another step in the right direction. And Viking II will be landing on Mars in a few days. Its possible that for the first time in the history of this earth, we could have some actual proof of some kind of life on another planet. Not bad, America Happy Birthday. Im lucky to be a it. part of The Prince Column by John Prince Partner, Prince, Ianglieinrich & Greer. |