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Show COME TO THE DIAMOND FOR A GOOD TIME POOL TABLES FISHER'S AND HAMM'S PEER ON TAP FINEST IN TOWN 499 MAIN STREET Who gets tDne momey Standard ttakes Sun? Ceoda and rvicat Crude oil was a big item. Wear and tear, depreci- New construction, such from paper clips to pro- To supplement our own ation and upkeep cost aa refinery facilities, to fessional services cost production we bought $157,834,000. Part of it make more and better us $324,743,000. It was $135,600,000 worth an will replace worn-out fa- products, cost $145,- spent with thousands of important sum to crude cilities, but millions went 000,000. This helped firms, large and small, oil producers. to workmen, technicians, meet builders' payrolls. Exploration to replace Employees' wages for Taxes paid by Standard 112,000 shareholders' oil our customers use is time worked took $163,- to U. S., states, coun- profits came from what a vital operation. Our 947,000 of our income, ties and cities amounted was left. They received atepped-up search for Another $43,000,000 to $106,300,000 enough about 50 on each new oil reserves cost went for employee bene- to buy plenty of fire dollar's worth of stock. $79,000,000 in 1953. fits for Standard Oilers, trucks, schools, bridges. Total: $86,020,000. Bpg7"",. "W, '""f Your picture belongs here, too. Because most of the F; ' $1,156,757,000 Standard Oil Company of California f f Wli took in last year ended up with you the public. ' Whether one of the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of checks Standard wrote last year was sent I 1 1 to you, or spent with you, or helped make possible I , If better gasoline and oil for your car, you and practi- 1 f if cally everyone else in the West benefited. Thousands ' fj of merchants and professional people in hundreds of x 7u , - T towns profited from the pay checks Standard Oilers . H spent. Our tax payments helped finance schools for f 1; , f your children, parks for vacationers, and bridges for I ;'. ; 1 r motorists. Carpenters, steehnen, lumberjacks bene- : I from acuitie8 we built and the maintenance ' " I work we id- fita to8ether: 1953 was a good . . Jfe jN year for Standard because so many of you thought nm jwi i our Products well made and worth bujing. And by ll W- I making Jt a good year for Ufl yu made it a good I -i i iu iyiLr.ydF hYw,vS,l year for many others. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA - f '? : I-v ' - I iii. f " f,, J - ' v-sr 1 Piim urn Y j Hi Mom! ' I'm in Frisco! "I was sitting in the living room reading read-ing a magazine . . . Dad was watching the boxing match on TV . . ." "Then the phone rang, and it was BILL... yes... BILL ...calling from San Francisco." "...said he'd be home in three more weeks... home, and for keeps!" 'There are no words to describe what that meant to me... and no price tag can measure the value of the call!" . . . on of many reasons why w work so hard to kp telephone service good and, through research, ro make it even better in years to come. ON THE HIGKVWTM COPPER GATE BEER PARLOR 54 Main Street Telephone 290 BEST KEER ON TAP ALL POPULAR BRANDS OF BEER IN BOTTLES AND CANS HOT DOGS AND COFFEE Jack Nicholls, Prop. |