Show MAJOR Oil PEOPLE EARN PROFITS AGAIN By WILLIAM I VOIGHT JR Associated Press Staff Writer TULSA Okla OkIa May 11 P iT Oil companies operating in the area are making a profit some of them for the first time in a year reports to the Associated Press re revealed revealed re- re toda today Only those major com companies panics which do not have headquarters here or whose spokesmen could not be reached are arc missing from the list of those once more making money the survey showed Companies reporting are arc Continental Continental Continental Contin Contin- Oil on company compan of Ponca City Consolidated Oil on corporation Sinclair rie-Sinclair Barnsdall Oil corporation corporation corpora- corpora tion lion Petroleum corporation corpora tion Skelly Oil company Phillips Petroleum company of Bartlesville and the Indian Territory Illuminating Illuminat IllumInat- ing Oil company also of Bartlesville one of the Cities Service group Without exception these companies attributed the improved condition to the recent advances in prices of crude oil and refined products and lessons in economy taught by the lean months of the thc past |