OCR Text |
Show Communities of Entire Nation Join In Observance of Oil Program Yeek For the eighth consecutive year, the American Oil Industry is holding open house during October, Oc-tober, reporting to the people on its operations and progress. Oil Progress Week, sponsored by the Oil Industry Information Committee of the American Petroleum Pe-troleum Institute, is being held during the current week, Oct. 9 through 15. During these seven days thousands of dealers, jobbers, job-bers, refiners, transporters, and producers are sponsoring community commu-nity activities designed to acquaint ac-quaint millions of Americans with their oil industry. Distributors, both wholesale and retail, of this area, are actively ac-tively cooperating in the pr6-gram pr6-gram with emphasis on local programs pro-grams to spread information to the people of this area. Of particular interest this year will be the Hollywood fWm, "Barrel "Bar-rel Number One," a dramatic documentary featuring the processes pro-cesses involved in the production, produc-tion, processing, and distribution of a barrel of oil, as seen through the eyes of a field geologist, a pipejiner, a refinery superintendent, superinten-dent, and other workers. The purpose of Oil Progress Week is to afford the people of the oil industry an opportunity to give their neighbors' in the communities where they live and do business an accounting of their stewardship of a vitally important im-portant industry. Many Activities This accounting will be rendered ren-dered In many different ways. There will be speeches at business busi-ness and civic luncheons, dinners, din-ners, and other gatherings. There will be special radio and TV pro-grams', pro-grams', exhibits, displays, parades, pa-rades, fairs, and speciaj newspaper news-paper coverage. Proclamations by governors and mayors will stress the signiflcnnce of the observance. observ-ance. Contributions made by America's 42,000 Oil businesses and 200,000 service stations to American progress will also be emphasized in leaflets, pamphlets, pamph-lets, booklets, bulletins, editorials, editor-ials, special magazine articles, billboards, window displays and other media. Oil companies this year have designated some 200 of their employees' em-ployees' to organize Oil Progress Week. These men have worked in well over a thousand communities commu-nities to help ensure successful observance and to obtain valuable val-uable experience themselves. Dealers to Help In addition, an estimated 10,000 dealers throughout the country will help bring the story of oil to American citizens. This will be done by means ranging from beauty contests and fashion shows to the mailing of millions of letters and booklets stressing oil's theme of progress and service ser-vice to the country. There will be (Continued on Back Page) OIL WEEK (Continued from Front Page) hundreds of oU employee meetings meet-ings as well as open houses' and plant tours for community groups, teachers and students and other organizations. Activities this year have been arranged on a hometown basis. They will be sponsored by local Oil Industry Information Committees Com-mittees local townsmen reporting re-porting to their friends', neighbors, neigh-bors, and customers, with whom thev share civic trust and respon- slbility. In designating Oil Progress Week, oil men and companies hope to contribute information not generally known Information Infor-mation showing how one segment seg-ment of free, competitive, pro-vate pro-vate enterprise contributes to the nation's s'oclaj and economic progress. |