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Show 4 Millard County Chronicld Delta, Ut., Thurs., Oct. 14,1948 "Oil Progress Day" Recalls Industry's "Pot Still" Days p One day some ninety-od- d years ago a tall, ed canal boat man named Samuel M. Kier was stirring a sticky, brew in an iron kettle which squatted on a stove in the cellar of a shack just outside the city limits of Pittsburgh. The mess on the stove , was a sample of Kier's Rock Oil,' a patent medicine in which Sam had invested heavily but which tasted so vile that few people would buy it. Kier was trying to salvage his investment by seeing what would happen if he ran the unsavory stuff through a primi-tive still. As the petroleum began to boil vigorously, Kier slapped a home-made "worm" on top of the kettle. A dribble of colorless liquid ran out of the still. He touched a match to it and the liquid burned slowly. Inspired, he put some of it in an empty whale oil lamp. The lamp glowed brighter than it ever had beforel That was how Sam Kier dis-covered kerosene and became America's first petroleum refiner. The petroleum industry, which is paying tribute to Sam Kier, to all of his successors and to the pio-neering spirit of the American people as a whole during the ob-servance of "Oil Progress Day" on October 14, has come a fabulously long way since those ante-bellu- m stead of a transport system con--'; sisting of a few rickety wagons' and canal boats, the oil companies ' have a remarkable system of 150,000 miles of pipelines, plus large fleets of ocean-goin- g tankers, , inland-waterw- ay tankers, barges, railway tank cars ani tank trucks. Instead of peddling tUeir products in five gallon tin cans, oil men now include thousands of whole- - sale distributors, and operate a quarter million modern, clean and efficient service stations. Today, oil and natural gas sup-- ' ply almost half of this nation's ' heat and power requirements. From crude oil comes a grand total of more than 1,200 useful products products which every-one uses almost every day of his life. i "Oil Progress Day" is being ob- - ' served this week. Members of the industry will report such things as the above to citizens of the ' communities in which they oper- - ate. Oil men are making that re-p-to call the attention of their i friends, customers and neighbors-t-the fact that they operate in the American tradition of free, competitive enterprise. As a result ' they are doing an outstanding job in their efforts to contribute to America's progress and well- - i being. They are, in fact, echoing Sam Kier's cry: "We're making j progress." I years. Instead of a handful of strug-gling companies, the industry now consists of 34,000 competitive firms. Instead of one well that brought in by Colonel E. L. Drake at Titus-vill- e, Pa., in the summer of 1859 oil companies have drilled around 1,200,000 wells and oil is produced in 25 states. Some 428,000 of these wells are producing oil today. In- - ' " OASIS Mrs. La Veda Bishop Mr. and Mrs. Wash Roundy went to Salt Lake City last Thursday, and returned home Sunday. Mrs. Betsy Skeem and Mrs. Ela-ine Knight and small son, Harold, went to Salt Lake last Thursday. Mrs. Knight attended fear... Institute. They returned home sJ? Conference visitors to Salt Lt. were Bishop and Mrs. Peter H Peterson, Peter A. Peterson Zona Hawley. The Petersons ak visited in Ogden with Mr. and Mr. L. A. Peterson and family. Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Bishop and son James from Cedar City snpm the week end with their Mr. and Mrs. Clark Bishop S is remaining this week to look a-fter the family while Mr. and MrV Clark are In Salt Lake City The Millard County Chronicle Published Every Thursday at Delta, Utah By CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Owned by Frank S. Beckwith and Frank Beckwith Frank Beckwith Editor Frank S. Beckwith, Business Manager Entered as second class matter at the Postoffice at Delta, Utah, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879 than one-eigh- of 1 of their deposits were lost. In the last five years not one FDIC-insure- d bank has closed, and not one depositor has lost ia cent. BANKING... To create the Federal Deposit In-surance corporation in 1933 after the worst bank panic the U. S. ever had, the government put up $289 million. Since then the FD1C has. become rich from the annual dues (one-twelf- of 1 of total deposits) of its 13.482 members, and piled up a reserve of more than $1 billion. A year ago, FDIC started paying off the government loan in installments.. Last week, after making the final payment, FDIC chairman Maple T. Harl said: "Everybody should follow (our) example and pay off their debt now." Not ev-erybody had the money, but, thanks to FDIC, everybody's bank accounts were safer than ever be-fore. In 1933 alone, when 16,000 U. 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Mill ' C0M OVtR OH THB Mf SUfiW BROCK SIJK.w I Enjoy the whiskey that's '! 86 PROOF 63 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CORPORATION; NEW YORK. NEW YORK ""' " " ' ;i BROWSING ALONG THE UTAH TRAIL i W.v9 J) ti I i i ,v, ' ') 1 ' I " hj - I . s ' , I 1 ? - " ... I - 4 , w . - I . 1 y ' : - c-"-- . U would he interesting to know what this man is thinking about. Apparently he is not enjoying this situation, caused by a poor stretch of Utah highway. But unlike other unfortunate motorists, he may be in a position to do something about Utah's highways. For he is . Bracken Lee, Republican candidate for governor. the dikes cost him $8,972 worth of fluorspar, but of course, that is only a drop in the bucket of the production of his and Scott's mine. Comes next year, I think the City of Delta should do something about those three. They could cut down the size of the stream they let those men play with; they could hire an irrigator for them so that he would be the one to blame; or. even better present to each of the three men a shovel in a formal ceremony in front of the City Hall, complete with speeches, band play-ing and photographs of this major accomplishment. Duck hunters are complaining of too much water around these parts and they do not like the extra ponds that are built within the city limits where all. kinds of shooting is bared, with the exception of shooting the bull. If, when you shoot at it it swears it is another hunter. Toots. she burned them up. At this writing she is still go-ing barefooted, but with cold wea-ther coming on there is little ques tion but that she will be decently shod before the snow flies. There is no question but that the Ashby building is a wighty fine edifice and one worthy of our town, etc. But that is no reason for Orran to go all forwal on us and start wearing a coat. He is looking like a business executive what with full suit, toe, shave and shine, and all he lacks is a cigar. Dot Starley has earned her gold button aas a super salesman and did it this summer while working in the hardware department at Stevens. One day Rufe Clark walk-ed in and wanted a water heater. Dot was all boned up on the sales points and went into her song and dance. She ended up with the state menit that went "Mr. Clark, it will pay for itself in six months." Rufe pondered the deal a mom-ent and then said, "I'll take three. That way I can make them pay for themselves in two months, be-cause I like to make my woney fast." It is not reported whether Rufe has the three all hooked up and and making money handover fist, or whether the deal fell through. That I must check on. Well, I must break off and go watch the guys and all their start leaving town, be-cause as of Monday there were people taking to the hills get-ting a spot to put a tent so they wouldn't be too crowded at the last minute and have to make two story tents in the usual camping spots. Chatter Box Dear Suzy, I must be getting old and for-getful because last week I forgot all about the Wildlife's annual dance at Van's Hall. Maybe the Wildlife is happy that I did be: cause if you say anything about it you must keep fingers crossed and many of those who attended, the following day, should have pepper put on their tongues for what they have said about it. Getting the straight of the affair that night woulddrive an attorney making a nuts. The only answer he would be able to get from those attending, when he questioned them on what they did at the dance would be, "I don't remember." And still that is just as well for all too, because if many of them could remember what they did, they would be staying home hiding in some dark nook to keep the world from learning of their shame. The deer would suffer from not having the hunters chasing them around and helping them get a little exercise (the deer and the hunter both). It would increase our deer population until they would have to have ia six months open season to keep them in check. And all of the stores would be out of Dr. Miles Nervine tablets. Anyway the Wildlife held the dance and as usual it was just as well attended as in the past, if not more so, and they cut "Down the Old Pirte Tree" 18 times that night for firewood and now there are no more pine trees for hunt-ers to lean on while they overcome a slight attack of nausea and gid-diness. The stellar irrigating trio, Stap-le- Starley and Hunsaker, closed the watering season is a blaze of glory Monday. Their efforts in the past had been mild attempts com-pared to their latest all-hig- h in road flooding, basement fillings and general ponding. Trying to chase down the one to blame is like pinning ia political candidate down, they all pass the buck. Clay started off with the watering, and Ava then called Bud and told him to tell Bill that the water was coming and Bud forgot to tell Bill, so the water just ran as it pleased. Orlin, generally the innocent one in these irrigating triumphs was fiddling about at his service sta-tion and didn't want the water in the first place but he got it any-way. Usually after irrigating the three lots in that area, they give the road a goodly stream and have run it down the road to the Brook-law- n Creamery. This time they did even better. They got it to Mercer corner and had Bus all worried be-cause he thought a pipe had burst in the basement. Not only that, but this time they got it across the road and Doc Black worked all night diking his property with a nice amount of fluorspar. Doc says Blythe Taggart has joined the ranks of big game enthusiasts, too. Of course, she is starting small, like the guy who cut off his dog's tail a little at a time so the dog would get used to it, and so Blythe started on mice. It seems she had a few pets about the home that were becoming a little annoying to her so she bought a gallon or so of some highly recommended mouse poison. On retiring for the night she liberally sprinkled this poison aro-und so the mice could have their fill. The next morning she got up and looked about for mice stiff and belly up, but found none. She was greatly dissappointed in her poison and pulled on one shoe thinking of what she was going to say to those who had told her it was great stuff. She had a little i trouble with the other shoe and wondered if her shoes had shrunk Tipping it upside down Blythe rol-led out a mouse, but did not live up to her name as she was in no blithe frame of mind at that time. Decent burial was given the crit-ter. But Blythe was not in the mood to wear the shoes again so |