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Dallas Boy Scouts
Return From Camp
Boy Scouts of Dallas Troop 281
are home again after a week at
Camp Acahela, in the Poconos.
Merit badges were earned .during
the camping experience, and Robert
Van Horn was admitted to the
Order of the Arrow.
On the transportation commit-
tee were Jack Yaple, Niles White,
W. E. McQuilkin, Cubmaster; Leslie
Barstow, assistant scoutmaster; and
Committee chairman Percy Love,
who furnished a truck for the
dunnage.
Leslie Barstow, Jr., in handing
in the information on the present
camping trip, recollected that on a
similar trip last year W. E. Mec-
Quilkin got bit in the ear by a
starry-nosed shrew, identifying the
wound and its author by descrip-
tions of the puncture furnished
by the fascinated scouts.
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The Wyoming County News, one
of the Keeler group of newspapers
with headquarters at Wyalusing,
last week sent one of its reporters
to the Arthur Bennett farm at
Sonestown, Sullivan county, to
cover the drilling operations started
there in April by the California
Company, a subsidiary of Standard
Oil.
His story published in last week's
news, follows:
A visit to the derrick location,
fires the imagination, for the oper-
ation on the hillside of the Arthur
Bennett farm, some three mile
south of Sonestown, are serious,
It is not entirely a flight of fancy
to visualize what would happen to
the placid countryside if oil were
hit tomorrow.
it is a big industry, prospector’s
chance, that the petroleum com-
pany is taking in Sullivan County,
but a chance reduced to a .satis-
factory mathematical ratio, and
one supported by geological and
modern seismographic reports of
its subterranean survey experts.
One of the men on the job said
they would go 15,000 feet if neces-
sary, then hold a conference and
probably go deeper. Some say that
a similar well is in the projected
plan if the present drilling fails
to produce.
As to the depth when they may
hit deposits, one of the drillers ob-
served, “it’s just like playing a
game of poker. You never know
at what depth you will hit oil or
gas.” 3
Drilling Three Months
The drilling on the Bennett farm
is nothing the like of which has
ever been seen here before. Early
county, years ago, were much more
antiquated methods and the result-
ant bore holes were comparatively
shallow. Such depths as the Cali-
fornia Company intends to go at
Sonestown would have been impos-
sible a generation ago. Conse-
quently, employing latest modern
techniques for discovery, new finds
are quite within the realm of possi-
bility. :
Drilling on the hillside on the
Bennett farm started in April and
since. has gone on almost constant-
ly on a round the clock basis, with
five men employed on each eight
hour shift, seven days a week. The
derrick at the site is 150 feet from
uppermost tip to base and with
capital investment of probably well
over a quarter million dollars.
Actual drilling is being done by
Noble drilling Corporation, Tulsa,
Okla., which is employed by the
California Company. The latter is
a subsidiary of Standard Oil.
A. F. Hanson, of Jacquin, Texas,
is the driller -in charge of the day
shift and the geologist on the pro-
ject is Nelson Esque, a graduate
of Oklahoma U,
The rotodrill used bores a hole
nine and seven-eights inches ‘in
diameter and is powered by three
385 horsepower Deisel engines. The
drill is supported by a pulley which
weighs 6,000 pounds. There is
another big Deisel attached to a
dynamo to produce electricity for
the project. A set of complicated
controls is hooked up to the cas-
ing head to control subterranean
pressures in case of a strike.
Noises “of the drill and motors
can be heard for miles and the
whole business can be spotted
from Wright's View, on Sonestown
mountain, from where, on a clear
night, the criss-cross of electric
lights gives an illusion of a sum-
Stan-Lite
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FRIDAY and SATURDAY
DOUBLE FEATURE
“Return of Jesse
James”
with John Ireland and
Ann Dvorak
“l Shot Billy The Kid”
Plus Cartoon
SUNDAY and MONDAY
fGurtain Call At
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with Donald O’Conner and
Gale Storm
Also Sports and Cartoons
TUESDAY
DOUBLE FEATURE
“Partners In Time”
with Lum & Abner
“Military Academy”
with Stanley Clements
Plus Cartoon
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY
“The Plunderers”
with Rod Cameron and
Ilona Massey
Added Joe Mc Doakes and
Cartoon
(Adults, 60c; Children 12 to 16,
25c; Children under 12 admit-
ted free).
The Sullivan Review stated that.
attempts to find gas or oil in this |
motors and equipment represents a_
mer carnival in progress.
The only time the motors on the
derrick platform cease their din is
when, after drilling an additional
30 feet, they are halted to add a
section of pipe, or to put on a fresh
bit. A diamond bit is used. Until
recently, going through what the
men on the job termed “shale”,
daily progress averaged about 100
feet, but lately much harder form-
ations are being penetrated, the
going being much tougher and
slower.
Previous Exploration
Search for oil bearing rocks by
the California Company was begun
in this area several years ago, using
the method of the now familiar
shallow depth bore holes which
dot great portions of the county.
In this method, an explosive is set
off in the shallow hole and the
artificially-induced sound waves
recorded by an instrument known
as a seismograph. Different rates
of speed in the transmission of
these sound waves are used to
recognize different strata and its
subterranean contours. '
Developed less than 20 years ago,
this mapping of underground strata
is known in the petroleum industry
as ‘geophysical prospecting.” Many
of the existing producing areas of
the country would have remained
undiscovered without the aid . of
the method.
Southern and western parts of
Sullivan county are now pretty
well mapped by its use. Additional
valuable information is being cur-
rently brought to light in the La-
porte township area where several
shallow depth drills have been at
work in recent weeks.
Oil and Gas Leases
The California Company has
under lease, for potential if
oil or gas is hit, tens of thousands
of acres in Sullivan county which
it took up from landowners mostly
in 1949 and 1950. Practically the
entire area for miles surrounding
the drilling operations is under
lease. Most of Elkland township,
and large sections of Laporte and
Forks townships, are also under
lease.
The leases issued are typical “oil
and gas” contracts. They give the
landowner, as royalty, a one-eighth
Interest in the market value of
the oil or gas at the casing head
and guarantee that. the drilling
company will . pay ‘damages on
buildings, crops and improvement
occasioned by removal of the min-
eral or drilling operations. They
embody a safeguard to existing
houses or other buildings, providing
that no well shall be drilled within
200 feet.
Leases are for a “primary term”
often years during which the com-
pany retains mineral rights by the
payments of a ten cents per
acre rental per year, if no oil is
produced within the primary term,
If oil or gas is being removed from
the property, the lease goes on the
royalty basis instead and may con-
tinue this way as long as oil or
gas is produced. :
A ‘provision in the paper gives free
gas or oil from the property for :
heating and lighting existing dwell-
Ings on the premises.
Venture Momentous
That the operation in progress is
serious and of weighty conse-
quence, goes without saying. None-
theless, it is still prospecting and
should be regarded as such. Petro-
leum industries annually set aside
fixed sums for such exploration and
discovery. This is undoubtedly the
kind of money financing the ven-
ture in Sullivan county.
Oil Drilling Operations Hit
Tough Strata At 8,700 Feet
Wyoming County News Reporter
Visits Operations At Sonestown
Lehman
Mrs. Gordon Dawe,
Phone 362-R-10
Miss Mary Lou Elston is spend-
ing a week in Berwick with her
aunt, Mrs. Kenneth Terry.
Mr. and Mrs. William Carichner,
Daniel and Thomas Elston visited
S. A. Arthur Carichner at Bain-
bridge, Md., recently. '
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Neely, Ridge,
Pa., were recent guests of Mrs.
Alice Elston.
Mrs. May Terry of Irvington, N.J.,
is visiting her son, Kenneth Terry
in Berwick. Enroute she visited
Mrs. Edith Johnson, Mrs. Della
Parrish of Idetown and Mrs. Alice
Elston of Lehman,
Walter Chamberlain, Donald Per-
rego, Pvt. Leonard Ide and Walter
Elston spent several days recently
in Atlantic City.
Mrs. Kenneth Terry and Ruth
Terry were Friday guests of Mrs.
Alice Elston.
Mrs. A. M. Major and Dorothy
have returned after spending the
weekend in Canada.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mandeville
and family of Palmyra spent Thurs-
day with Mrs. Alice Elston.
W.S.C.S. met at the Methodist
Church Wednesday: hostesses were
Mrs. A. M. Major, Mrs. William
Major, Mrs. Elizabeth Ide, Mrs. A,
B. Simms and Mrs. Glenn Johnson,
Harvey's Lake
By Mrs. Albert Armitage
Telephone H. L. 4531
Mrs. Kate Shultz is staying with
Mrs. Mae Underwood this week,
while Rev. Ruth Underwood is at
Sky Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Kitchen and
daughter of Weatherly spent sever-
al days last week ,with Amos Kit-
chen. Mr. Kitchen has been con-
fined to his home for sometime
but was able to go to Mountain
Springs to fish on Friday with
Glenn and Mrs. Garvin Smith and
Gary to visit Mr, and Mrs. Arthur
Kitchen. He caught four nice
trout.
Noxen
By Mrs. Earl Beahm
Phone H. L. 4495
Robert Keiper, son of Chester
Keiper, is spending a thirty day
furlough with his father.
A party was held at James Pat-
ton’s Friday night in honor of
Bruce Suttly Jr., who has just re-
turned from Korea for a thirty day
furlough.
‘A fair will be held by the fire-
men on the ball diamond August
15 to August 18; a block party will
be sponsored by the ladies auxiliary
in front of Crispell’s Friday night,
August 17; a home coming will be
held on the ball diamond August
19 with dinner served at the Fire
Hall by the Ladies Auxiliary, and
a band concert at night.
Mrs. William Keiper is getting
along nicely after her operation.
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Major are
building a nice ranch type house
on the corner next to Albert Ruff.
Marcus is doing the work himself.
Those attending the Trucksville
Fair Saturday night were Mrs. Earl
Crispell, Mr, and Mrs. Francis Lord,
and Mrs. Earl Beahm.
The Methodists have decided to
put on an addition to their church.
Conservation estimates are that
at completion of present drilling,
the California company will have
expanded at least a half million dol-
lars, or perhaps closer to a million.
The chances of its paying off have
been carefully weighed. As one man
on the job said, “they don’t spend
that kind of money if they aren’t
pretty sure.”
Prudence dictates that one should
be content to observe operations
while keeping the fingers crossed.
and well-being. ®
PHONE 278
how would you like to live
in the “good old days”?
Back in grandfathers time, during the final quarter of
the last century, things were quite different. There were
no movies, no airplanes, no automobiles, few bathrooms;
practically no efficient electrical appliances. If you con-
tracted diabetes or pernicious anemia, your days were
numbered. Your blood just
former, “to water” in the latter.
There was little protection against virulent epidemics.
Smallpox vaccine was the only biological on the market.
When diphtheria or typhoid ravaged a community, there
was nothing to do but wait it out in hope and dread.
Yes, a return to the “good old days’
among other things, the sacrifice of the major portion of
the contribution of medicine and pharmacy to your health
HALL'S PHARMACY
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SHAVERTOWN
Beaumont
By Mrs. William A, Austin
Phone H. L. 3424
The Town Team topped Noxen
7-4 last week. The July 29th game
will be played at Shavertown.
Billy Johnson, son of the Warren
Johnsons, is a patient at General
Hospital due to a relapse. caused
by pneumonia.
Mrs. Jane Parks has had Lois
Ryman and Marian Weiss of East
Dallas as her guests for the past
week. g
During his furlough from Fort
Sill, Okla., Pvt. Laurence Sherman,
son of Mrs. Florence Meeker Fetch-
ko, was married to Mrs. Muriel Eus-
tice Barber of Tunkhannock.
The Ryman Family Reunion will
be held Saturday at Traver’s Park.
If you are interested in the clan
and don’t receive a notification,
won't you be there for the pow-
wow just the same?
Mrs. Nellie Bigelow is ill at the
home of her son, Harry.
Check the date for the Union
Church Sunday School Picnic at
Wolfe's Park, Sweet Valley.
Mrs. Alpha Dymond was hostess
to the Ladies’ Aid at its annual
picnic on Thursday.
Have you received your tax no-
tice? Take advantage of the two
per cent discount and see Myrtle
Martin, tax collector, before Aug-
ust 31.
The school improvement goes
ahead rapidly with Claude Crispell
doing the work on the roof drain-
age and Gay-Murray doing the
work on the toilets for the grade
building which now will rank as
one of the best in this region.
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