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Show March 14. 1969 OIL & MINING JOURNAL Page 8 Stock Oil Quotations. Mining Approximatederived from sources as accurate, not guaranteed, but This information lieved to be correct. be-- regarded Compiled as of Friday, March 14, 1969 BANK & FINANCIAL COMPANY STOCKS LOW PRICED MINING, OIL & URANIUM STOCKS Mineral & Gem Society Urges the Naming Of National Rock ST. LOUIS, Mo. Why doesnt this rock? have a national country is the question being asked by That the St Louis Mineral and Gem Society, which is advocating a national rock andor national mineral. The societys argument in behalf of the rock includes: The United States is blessed richly by the mineral kingdom The rock kingdom comes first as it is basic to the plant and animal king- doms. Rocks and minerals give the earth its form without which man would have no place to stand and work. Rocks furnish building material for home, factory and farm machinery, chemicals, fertilizers, constituents of food and medicines and contain all the elements, atoms and molecules in the crust of the earth. The United States was founded upon a rock when the Pilgrim Fathers stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock Dec. 21, 1620. The first act of the first astronaut on the moon will be to examine and on the nature of the rocks. report |