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EL RENO (ORLA.) DAILY TRIBUNE
DEATH TOLL IN
OILFIELD LOW
Industry Now Concerned
With Safety
MONDAY, JULY 13, 193(
OKLAHOMA CITY, (7P>—Men still
must die that oil may be brought
from the earth’s depths to run
automobiles and ships at sea and
the giant wheels of industry—but
the oil trade toils to reduce this
toll.
What tilts vast, billion dollar in-
dustry has done to lessen the haz-
ards of probing the mile-deep sands
for crude oil car be glimpsed In the
list oi safeguards thrown up in the
flush Oklahoma City mansion field.
By rights, this field-what with its
backyard drilling, its tall derricks
over shadowing squat bungalows,
and a batters' of high pressure boil-
ers right outside one's boudoir-
should be one of the most danger-
ous fields in the world.
Actually—many an oil man will
over—it is one of the safest.
Time was when the industry con-
cerned ‘tselT but little with safety.
Oil had a way of turning up in
remote places, far fom hospital
facilities.
Furthermore, oil didn’t seem to
hide itself at such remote levels as
6.500 feet. I
Things Have Changed
In those days, a man threw up a
stout, stubby derick, spudded in.
fiddled away for a couple of thous-
and feet or less, and before he
knew it. there was oil spouting over
tiie top of the ig.
But things have changed Great
depths, tremendous rock pressure,
high steel derricks, and the fact ol>
After 72 Hours Unbroken Work
ROAD OVER AUSTRIAN MOUNTAINS FINANCED BY ITALY
Rural Housewives Learn
New Mel hods
has been found in back yards,
(hanged all this In and around
Jahoma City.
A well gashing 40.000.000 cubic
feet of highly inflammable gas and
30 000 barrels of oil a day a hop,
skip and tump away from the kit-
chen stove could cause a lot of
damage it if ever caught fire.
Furthermore, there were huge
boilers, as lethal as a big bertha if
they exploded.
So Oklahoma City officials with
the help ol the oil companies, set
out to protect the lives of those
who lived next to the derrick floors,
as well as those of men who worked
in the field.
Regulations more stringent that
the industry has ever known before
•ire enforced by a platoon of in.
specters
Field la I 'nig nr
Tilts flush field Is the only one in
the county, for example, where a
• holler fireman must have an en-
gineer’s license to operate a boiler.
In other fields, even a roughneck
may run a boiler or a fireman may
slip away from his boilers to help
on tire derrick floor. Not so here.
Tiie fireman sticks by his charges
every minute The boilers are sub-
jected to rigid surveillance by In-
spectors. Safety valves are tested,
connections are checked for leaks,
and many a boiler which might sat-
isfy the driller is thrown out as un-
safe.
Therefore, an engineer rarely is
hurt by flying plate from an ex-
ploding boiler—a not unusual ac-
cident in mast fields.
Every tank battery in Oklahoma
City’s field mast be fenced to keep
off cigaret smoking trespassers
No tank may hold more than 2-
000 barrels of oil. no battery of them
more than 15.000 Everv tank must
be fitted with connections leading
to a storage shed, where chemicals
can be mixed hurriedly and pump-
ed back Into the tanks If fire comes
Star at* Halt Work
When thunderclouds gather and
lightning clap* it* warning crews
shut down producing wells Other-
wise. gas roaring front rlaer pipes
might be Ignited Even drilling wells
quit.
Every well must have three mast-
er gates, with which the flow of
gas-borne oil may W regulated.
Thus. If the oil sand battering the
ate at tremendous pressure, cuts
»ut the connection, another gate
can be brought into use
Even so late as a half-dozen
' cars ago. when great gas pressure
vas found in the south Oklahomn
City field, it was common for a
well, equipped with a single master
rate, to go wild as sand ripped
through the connections
And often a spark, probable
struck by flying sand In the out-
'a*hlng gas touched off a spec-
tacular fire, and the crew on the
floor lost its eyebrows—if not life—
and expert firefighters were brought
In nt great expense to snuff out
these man-made infernoes.
There are numerous other rrgu
lations. Frame buildings must be
lept 25 feet from drilling wells,
boilers and tanks
Firemen prowl through the forest
of derricks tanks and boilers to see
that refuse la kept cleared awav
It still la no gay debutante's
forty out there tn that forest of
steel, but Its quite a bit removed
from the not-ao-dlstaut past whea
one could send the most Inslstant
life insurance agent on his wav bv
saving:
"I work In the oil fields "
Edison Halts Hla Intensive
A FTER waiting for a whole day
O the news photographer tele-
phoned hla office from tbe Edison
laboratory at West Orange, N. 4.,
and told his editor that be could
not get a picture of tbe Inventor.
"He's in the middle of some ex
perfment, and won't let me aboot
him,’’ he said.
’’Well, you’ll either shoot tbe Old
man,” hie editor said, "or your Job's
shot, believe me!”
He either got hla picture or lost
his Job It was the old code of
“get the picture or turn your police
card in" Tbe young man was
desperate—be needed that Job. And
be returned to his watch outside
the laboratory hoping for the break
be felt would never come. After
another 12 hours, he saw Edison
come out of tbe door. A moment
later be was bark. Tbe photog-
rapher dared not stop him and be
feil that be bad loat hla only
chance.
Back at his desk, Edison sent for
•>ne of bis weary assistants.
What’s that kid doing out there?"
ie asked. The assffktnt told him
'hat the pbotogrnpirar had been
sent to get a picture and dared not
Research to Do a Kindness
go back without it. "You’ve been
on this work for ri2 hours now. Mr.
Edlaon," be said, “and 1 felt sure
you would'nt want to be bothered.”
"No?” tbe Inventor asked. "Well,
show him In and tell him to burry.
Tell him too that I'm not going to
dress up for him—I'm too busy.
Hurry up now.”
The picture was taken—taken
Just aa the Inventor looked after
enough work to kill several ordi-
nary men—his face marked and hla
eyes drawn with fatigue but with
his gallant spirit fresh and un-
daunted aa ever. The picture was
never uaed. A war broke out and
the photographer got back to hla
office to find it front page news.
It is tn tbe hope of dlecoverlng
some one to follow in the footsteps
of Edison that The Thomas Alva
Edison Foundation Is establishing
Ita "living memorial" to the great
Inventor. This will take tho form
of 100 Edison Scholars each year,
who will be given the scientific and
techi leal training needed to bring
out th-»lr latent talents and develop
their n he rent aptitude for tnveu-
tion.
SENTIMENT HAVES HEM.
STANTON. O (U.0>- An old bell
In the Stanton school will con-
tinue to summon pupils to the class-
loom* despite the protests of citi-
zens who said the peal disturbed
their rest. The school board sided
with another group of residents
who nrrued that the bell should be
kept for "sentimental reason* ’
BOOSTER REWARDED
PORT CLINTON. O.,- <U F>— For
years. Jake Lorenaen. state liquor
store manager ha* been a booster
for the Chicago White Box. Louis
Comiskev. club owner, heard of Lo-
reneen and sent ltlm a baseball ear-
ring autographs of every team
Jnember.
f f ROW KILLER CROWNED
TRAVERSE CITY. Mlrh.. flj.ffi-
The title of champion crow shoot-
er of this section of Michigan was
bestowed on I eo Lang thorn, state
poller trooper, m the result of a
contest Mfpe • - fy* Bnd sp^,.
nien’s club H> killed |7» Mrd*
PRINTER ON ROAD AT 102 AND
WANTS 10 YEARS MORE TOIL
SAN FRANC18CO-(U R)—Colonel
James B. Handcook, 102, claiming
to b^ the oldest if not the last of
the old-time profession of Itln-
eiant printers, has Just reached
San Francisco after a Jump from
his last working place at Salt
Lake City.
When he has worked all he wants
to at San Francisco, lie says he
will move on to Sawtelle or Yount-
villc and then to Seattle, where,
true lo the old-time ethics of the
profession, he is always assured
of temporary work as a "tramp”
printer.
Colonel Handcock’s title Is as
genuine as the bullet In his leg
which he has carried ever since
Gettysburg.
Born in Scotland, he served for
several years with the British army
In India. Then he enme to the
United States and became a Jour-
neyman printer on the Boston
Transcript. That continued until
the Civil war His military train-
ing and patriotism called him into
active service then. He fought
throughout the war. rising to the
rank of colonel.
With the close of the war. Hand-
cock returned to his trade as an
itinerant printer
He seemed always sure of a Job
and always sure of travel When
modern mechanization produced
the automobile. Hnndcock bought
one and continued as an Itinerant
printer ”de luxe
One of the hardest moments of
his life came recently when he
fell ill at Salt Lake City, and
physicians insisted lie would have
to quit driving the car. However
it has not prevented him from
continuing his travels.
He seldom slava in a place more
than 10 days, and turns his job
ever (o the next printer who
_ comes ulong. provided the younger
; man suits him.
— nuunv/ Hnndcock Insists he Is known in
INIITRPn IN L'AI I ,,nou*h printing offices now all
I1N.IUKMJ IN PALL over the United States to be sure
_ . _ —— of certain work for the mnninrier
Porter Kearney. 30-vear-old nr- of the 10 years he has given him-
gro, 506 Norm Admire avenue, j Nlf to live,
whose right ankle was broken when
he fell 25 ieet into a canyon near
“Did you ever try selling your
garden products; to tiie public in
Jars rather than in the fresh
state,?" Miss Harvey Thompson,
have learned it in home demon-
stration agpnt, asks rural house-
wives. Farm women in many states
are finding that canning, as they
have learned it in home deman-
stratlon clubs, may be a source
of cash income as well as a means
of supplying tiie family with good
things for the coming winter.
Miss Martha MePheters. nutri-
tion specialist of Oklahoma A. and
M. college extension service, sug-
gests that recipes she has released
in previous weeks in the "veg-
etables for dessert" movement be
utilized by Oklahoma women who
are interested in supplementing
their income this spring. Many
urban housewives who are unable
to get fruits since tiie crop was
ruined by late freezes would wel-
come tbe opportunity to buy Jars
of the various vegetable preserves
and conserves.
Figures Obtained
Some recent figures have Just
come In about the profitable cann-
ing by women in Wyoming. Flor-
ida. and Mississippi. For example,
two Wyoming women, trained
through their home demonstration
club, make a regular business of
canning food for ranchers. A home
demonstration exchange in Orange
county. Florida, reports benefitt-
ing over 50 families by last year's
business in canned food. Jellies.
Jams, and other products. In Oad-
sden county home demonstration
women filled an order for 5.500
quarts of lady-finger peas, butter
beans, and vegetable mixture, all
of the highest quality. They also
sold about 4.500 quarts of var-
ious canned products to three lo-
cal stores.
Miss MePheters. says that among
the success secrets In these cases
include scientific canning methods,
standard pack, uniform quality and
study of customer needs.
Relish Recipe Given
Here’s another one of Miss Me-
Pheters relish recipes which she
recommends very highly to be
served with meat on a chilly
winter night. It is called beet rel-
ish.
One quart of chopped, cooked
beets; one-halt cup grated horse-
radish; one teaspoon salt; one-
half cup sugar; cider vinegar.
Mix beets, horseradish, sugar
and salt Park in sterilized Jars.
Cover with vinegar and seal.
HEALTH PROGRAM
IN STATE MAPPED
The highest road in Europe, over the Grossgloc nen Alps, built by Austria with money provided by
Italy, according tq disclosures at Geneva. Vn* road sometimes reaching a height of 9,000 feet above
sea level, taps the territory north of Dolomites. This region has hitherto been inaccessible from the
•outh and served as a natural defense for AustHa. The road is macadam and parking places are situ-
ated at strategic points. I Acme Photoj
WASHINGTON. — (At—1Die pub-
lic health service has announced
that federal aid for Oklahoma';
public health service under the1
social security act will total $185,-
101 for the fiscal year which start-
ed July 1.
The state program will be ad-
ministered by state officials under!
the general supervision of the sut
geon general.
Oklahoma’s share of the national
total of $8,881,859 was allocated on
this basis; population. $99,122;,
special health problems. $9,800; per-
sonnel training. $18,749; genojtl’
financial needs. $57,230.
Public Records
Civil Suit
B. C. Smith vs. Henry Girard.
I Suit for recovery on promissory
I note filed in district court.
Warranty Deed ei
James Arthur Bell to Gertrude ’(
Gentry. Block 2, Lincoln Acres,
sub-division of SW 5-12n-7w.
Mrs. Harry W. Hammack, 920
South Barker avenue, is reported
convalescing from a few days’ ill-
ness at her home.
TRAINER SAYS BLOODHOUNDS
LAVS DOUBLE EGG
---------- KINGFISHER. — of) — A h«n
ARE SENSITIVE AS CHILDREN
_______ two complete shells, one within the
other
LOCAL BRIEFS
Mrs Clyde Maxe.v. son. Kendall.
Mrs. J. 8. Palmer and daughter.
Betty Jo, have returned from sev-
eral days sojourn in New Orleans.
La., and Dallas. Texas.
Mr and Mrs. L. E. Orandjeati
and her niece. Darlene Wharton
of Oklahoma City were guests Sun-
day afternoon of Mr. Orandjean's
sister. Mrs. H D. Godwin, and Mr.
Godwin. 115 North Hoff avenue.
be trained like children. Most peo- "You really should be able to let
pie think the dogs are natural-born the dogs smell a piece of clothes o>
man-hunters, but the fact is less the man being hunted or •the bed
than half of them ever can be he has slept in, or even a cash re-
taught to follow a trail. gister he has robbed." Ball said.
The secret of a good bloodhound "But even that isn’t necessary for
is the shape of Its nose, if long 8 good bloodhound. He can strike
and narrow, the dog’s scent nerve 8 * rail from a footprint."
Is unusually sensitive, explains Boll The captain started training dogs
And for all their persistence on the In his boyhood His uncle, Ben Ball,
hunt, they are not vicious, and sel- had the most famous pack in the
dom attack their prey. Ozark mountains years ago Once
The best dogs will get a man he trailed the James boy*. Uncle
cornered, then stand off and bay Ben gave his nephew a puffand told
him." Ball declares. hlm how 10 tra*n it. The boy start-
Ball is trainer and handler of |,d bv Elding behind trees and let-
dogs at the state prison farm here. the pup find him. The trails
Convict trusties, called dog ser- must ^ pas-v at first, or the dog
grants.” are detailed to help him.! ge*"s discoursed.
Tiie dogs and their handlers are ‘ Red ' a lean dog with a long
continually In demand throughout n0,e an<* 8 burnished ret coat, is
the state for trailing murderers. B8,1‘8 Present favorite, "the smart-
Mbtara and jail-breakers. When est °* tbe Angola pnek." he calls
convicts escape from the prison 111,11
farm into tiie surrounding Tunica
hills, ’tie dogs arc lndispcnslble
For ne hunt, they arc usually
chained in pairs with their hand-
lers following on horseback, for if
the trail Is "hot,' the dogs set a fast
pace, with their nases skimming the
ground and their long ears flopping
to thetr patter.
Bloodhounds have been Ball's
I liielong interest. Nothing is sweet-
ler music, he savs. than the sound
of a dog as he hits a trait and races
10 to 12 miles an hour at full bay.
The perfect trail is one left Just
after a rain and the worst Is one ’
made Just before a rain. But a real 1
dog will not be stopped. He needs
TYPEWRITERS AND
ADDING MACHINES
New and Reconditioned
SALE — RENTALS — REPAIRS!
HENRY BEHNE
Typewriter Drp’l. Phone 184
COOL
FAST
AUTOMATIC
ECONOMICAL
ACCURATE
BEAUTIFUL
MODERN GAS RANGES!
A MODERN GAS RANGE MAKES
THE KITCHEN COOLER BECAUSE
(1) Heavy insulation keeps the oven
heat inside where it belongs.
(2) The new type simmer burners do
most of the cooking, with very low
• heat!
OKLAHOMA NATURAL
GAS COMPANY
Ucms Ha*to.|
Mrs. Florence Thompson
(above), sheriff ol Daviess coun-
ty, Ky„ who will spring the trap
when Rainey Bethea. 2J year old
slayer of an elderly woman, will
be hanged at Owensboro, Ky., on
July 31. Mrs. Thompson is tha
mother of lour children.
EL RENO NEGRO
Bridgeport late Saturday, was
MONKEYS SNARL TRAFFIC
WARREN. O —(U P)—This city's
ported recovering today at the lrafRc J«n» ol the year was
El Reno sanitarium. caused by two monkeys. Dolly and
Kearney was a member of a pic-: M,ckev The>' w^aped from the
nic party at the time of the accl- c*rnlV(*1 *rol,nd«. 'warn a small
dent, it was said Hi* ankle has I I,v‘'r *nd /llmbed a In the
been placed In a ca.it downtown district. The crowd which
---assembled blocked traffic for near-
Mrs Mary France* Martin and lv twt> hours.
*on, Charles Frank. 1003 South ----—
Barker avenue, have returned from
a 10-dav vUlt with relatives and
friends In Enid and Hennessey.
ROYAL
NOW PLAYING
Gene Stratton-I'orter’s
Famous novel .. .America's own
love story... read and loved hy
the nation ... spring* to vivid
llfo!
“THE
HARVESTER”
ADDED: SHORTS and NEWS
Adm. 10, and I5r
STARTING WEDNESDAY
"Girl of the Ozark*”
EMPRESS
NOW SHOWING
The Vampire Woman!
• * . Maryw. hypnotic daughter
of a fanta-tie rather... wieldrr
of a xtrange power over women
and men!
“DRACULA’S
DAUGHTER”
SIIE GIVES YOU THAT
WEIRD FEELING
with
OTTO KRUGER
GLORIA HOLDEN
ADDED—
’’MICKEY MOUSE'
and
'TIIE KING'S JESTER"
Adm. 10c and 15c
Miss Anna Blggert of Oklahomn
City was the guest Sunday of her
brother. J. E Blggert, Mrs. Big-
gort and children 200 North Hoff
avenue.
Mrs. Lon Booth, daughters. Betty
and Cnrilon, 912 West Wade street.
r.nd the former's sister, Mrs W A
Curtis, of Tucutncnrl. N. M . spent
the week-end In Oklahoma City
with another sister. Mrs. Greer
Schilling, and Mr Schilling.
Criterion
NOR PLAYING
She made her blood-stained
uniform the Red Radge of eour
age of the Red Cross Nurse!
They have done it again! The
producer* of "The Story of
lout* Pasteur" bring another
gallant and famous life-storv
mirarulously to the screen!
KAY FRANCIS
a* FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
In
“THE WHITE
ANGEL”
The brave story of the immortal
herolnr whose nurse's elouk..
blackened with the smoke of
battlefields ... became the spot -
Ie** symbol of sacrifice of the
'Women in White '
with
IAN HUNTER
DONALD WOODS NIGEL
BRUCE. DONALD CRISP,
HENRY O'NEIL. BILLY
MAUCH
Directed by William Dietrrlr
Presented by Warner Bros.
A First National Picture
•SIIORTS
"Perfect Set Up”
"Pop Kye"
"Metro New*"
Wednesday Only
“EDUCATING
FATHER”
with
The Jonea Family
“BARNUM WAS
RIGHT”
The one and only P. T. Ilurnum is alleged lo have said many
things that never found their way into our copy-hooks .
things to which few of us would wish to subscribe. But he
uttered a profound truth when he said: “If you don’t advertise
your business, the sheriff will.”
Firms which intend to stay in business, that is, firms which
deal directly with the public, must advertise. By the same token,
it is a sign that they mean-to stay in business when they do
advertise. For they are offering, through advertisements, the
values in their stores.
You, the customer, will decide whether or not they ARE
values. If they are not, it is “just too had" for the firm that •
claimed they were. Don’t you see, therefore, that no merchant
can afford to misrepresent himself or his goods in print? Adver-
tising merely magnifies a misrepresentation—brings the fatal
day nearer.
Naturally, then, you can trust the advertisements in this
paper. You can believe that the stores signing those advertise-
ments want your trade, and are willing to earn it—with honest
values and fair treatment. Read the advertisements. Patronize
the advertisers. It is to vour selfish interest to do so.
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