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Show March 14, 1969 OIL Page 5 & MINING JOURNAL Inventer Sends 3 Letters to Hughes LAS VEGAS The problem? How to get a message to Howard Hughes. One man's answer? It pays to ad- ersley, as well as Robert Maheu, have In their possession, but as yet we have reason to believe Is und- vertise. elivered." The letter from Gov. Rampton said, "Scientists have not fully committed themselves to Just- helm's processes to remove oil from oil shales In Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, but that "It Is entirely within the realm of possi- Clarence L Tusthelm, president of Justheim Petroleum Co. of Salt Lake City, faced with the frustrating experience of trying to get In to see Howard Hughes, has tried a full-paadvertisement In a local newspaper addressed directly to the recluse billionaire who Is believed to live at the top floor of the Deseret Inn here. ge bility. Evaluate Bold, Black Headlines "I have had a number of Individuals evaluate for me as well as they are able, the proposed In bold, black headlines the min- ing firm president addressed his "Open letter to Howard Hughes," PRESIDENT OF JUSTHEIM PETROLEUM, Clarence I. Justheim, looks over proof of first of three Sunday advertisements he placed in Las Vegas newspaper. His open letters to Howard Hughes seek to interest the mystery billionaire in a unique method of extracting oil from oil shale, using a nuclear reactor instead of an atomic explosion. Gila in Merger current price of silver Is about (Continued from Page One) $2 per ounce. The Dally News quoted Morrl- -. worked said. "Though it has been son extent nor as saying his corporation Is since 1910, neither the the richness of the deposits was presently In contact with Howard suspected. Hughes Enterprises of Las Yegas As comparison to date, about with regard to turning over full op$37 million has been taken out of eration oftheBlackDiamondSllver the Tombstone properties. The Mine. - ' Justheim process, and while none of them will commit themselves fully to say that It Is practical,, all of them have expressed the thought that it is entirely within the realm of possibility that such a system could be perfected and might well revolutionize the whole petroleum Industry," the gover- then reproduced a letter sent to Hughes from Governor Calvin L. Rampton of Utah suggesting producing oil from shale with a nuclear reactor in Utah. "Dear Mr. Hughes," Justhelm's Sunday advertisement said. "It Is most Important that your read this letter. We have tried for more than 16 months to get you to see and evaluate a most ingenious idea ...producing oil from the oil shale in situ (lii place) using a nuclear reactor as a source of heat no nor's letter stated. "Mr. Hughes," Justhelms ad ended, "You could well be In on a project with potentials of up tc $3 trillion and your fame would skyrocket, not by cheap publicity blast. "The following is a letter that we believe your aide, Howard Eck- - but by the broad protection of an MIT man's patented Idea." Oil Firm Gets Shale Claims DALLAS, Tex. Atlantic Richfield Co. announced it has acquired an undivided 30 per cent Interest in 16,138 acres of oil-shreserves In the Plceance Creek Basin of Western Colorado and an option on 8,562 acres in Utah's Co. (Ohio) and Cleveland --Cliffs Parachute Creek In WesternColo-rad- ROBERT M. PHELPS, Phone 484-855- ale 0. WASHINGTON WESTERN STEEL SERVICE CENTER COMPLETE WAREHOUSE SERVICE All Types & Sizes of STRUCTURAL STEH. SHOTS REINFORCING S1HL -- ES OFFICES Crandall Bldg. PLANTS -- 651 West 17th So. Salt Lake City, Utah '"patmeccrtai 328-054- 1 STHL COHPAHY Sttuc&cuxl Steel" ALSO FABRICATORS OF PLATE AND RHNFORCING STEH. STEEL ERECTION A RIGGING STEEL Building the WEST with WESTERN Two of three In- 1956. He has served with the U.S. the California Department of Fish terior Department nominees for Geological Survey and the Bureau assistant secretaryships are well of Mines. He was a graduate instructor at the University of Utah. acquainted with Utah. Charles H. Meacham, 43, of Nominated for the position of mineral for Alaska, a Utah State UnJuneau, assistant secretary He was graduated and Game. from Utah State University with a degree In wildlife management. Dr. Leslie L. Glasgow, 54, of Baton Rouge, La., was named to resources Is Hollis M. Dole, 54, iversity graduate, was nominated be assistant secretary for fish and Portland, Ore., a University of to be commissioner of fish and wildlife, parks and marine reswildlife. ources. Utah graduate. Meacham has been director of Hlckel earlier named Mitchell Dole has been director of the International Fisheries for the Mellch of Salt Lake City to serve Oregon State Department of Ge- State of Alaska since 1956. He as Interior Department solicitor. and Mineral Resources since has also served as a biologist for ology Carbon Railway Gets New Chief M. Spalding -- QtiHM f ed Interior Nominees Know Utah . Box 687 - Salt Lake City, Utah PHONE led so-cal- so-call- 1 BARS-PLAT- ves oil-sha- Manager 550 WEST 17th SOUTH P. & o. Iron Co. Each of the three firms sold The process Involves the retora 10 per cent Interest in the ting of mined oil shale to recover venture to Arco. Under the new the crude product. arrangement, Atlantic Richfield Atlantic Richfield will operate becomes the operator. venture under the name Colony the Uintah Basin. In essence, the agreement Development Operation. It has also acquired a like inAtlantic Richfield acquiring terest In the technology and fac- part of venture le The reserves Colony Developilities of the Colony group of com- and the right to use the ment Co., an agency-oTOSCOj Cleveland-Clif- fs and Standard Oil, panies, the firm announced. TOSCO process. The TOSCO process was worked (Ohio) wUl have no further The Colony group Includes Oil Oil out Standard at plant and mine facilities at Shale Corp. (TOSCO), lnl-vol- CHICAGO BRIDGE IRON CO. Process Toon has been el- ected president of Carbon County Railway Co., Salt Lake City, succeeding the late C.C. Parsons. The railroad hauls coal from the United States Steel Corp. mine at Columbia, Carbon County, to Columbia Junction nearDragerton. A resident of Mt. Lebanon, Pa., and a graduate of the Massachu- -, setts Institute of Technology, Toon is president of Ohio Barge Line, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa., and Warrior His office Is in Plttsburgn. He Is a trustee of the Ohio Valley Improvement Association, Cincinnati, a director of the Am- erican Wind Symphony Orchestra, Gulf Navigation Co., Mobile, Pittsburgh, and a director of the Ala. He has been a director of National Waterways Conference, Carbon County Railway since 1965. Washington, D.C. & TOM CROWN Welding & Machine Complete WELDING SERVICE GAS PIPELINE WELDING Portable Shop Woldiog Anytime . . . Anywhere HOUSEHOLD REPAIRS Clothes Line Poles - Swing Febrkatkn 7146 HIGHLAND DRIVE PHONE 277-082- 6 Resource Meet FORT COLLINS, Colo. A four-da- y workshop designed to Improve the communication efforts of natural resource management agencies will be held March 31 - April 4 at Colorado State university. Major emphasis of the course will be on the use of mass media, especially television. |