Oil executive lauds state conservation as industry milestone
Hines H. Baker president of Humble Oil and Refining Company told the American Petroleum Institute meeting that oil and gas conservation is the industry’s greatest achievement. He urged retention and strengthening of state regulation as Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Arkansas oilmen heard forecasts on atomic energy and future generating plants. Baker cautioned that despite progress conservation remains a challenge and predicted continued cooperation between enterprise and regulation to recover more underground oil and gas.
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Humble Oil and Refining Company
Senate
Small Business Committee
Baker
American Petroleum Institute
Texas
New Mexico
Louisiana
Arkansas
University of Chicago
T. R. Hogness
Institute of Radiobiology and Biophysics
America
Pioneer US Oilman Dies at Wichita Falls
Ed Peterson a pioneer oilman whose ventures began in Pennsylvania and spread through Ohio West Virginia and the Southwest died at his Wichita Falls home after five weeks of injuries from a fall Doctors cited a stroke as the cause He was nearly 74 and spent most of his career in oil development in North Texas since moving there in 1917 following earlier work in Spindletop Beaumont and Eastern ventures.
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Wichita Falls
Ed Peterson
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Ohio
West Virginia
Peterson
Eastern Ventures
Beaumont
North
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Burnet Piano Students to Give Recital Friday
Burnet piano students of Mrs. E. O. Bone will present a recital in the High School Auditorium Friday at 7 30 p m.
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Burnet
E. O. Bone
Workers Strike Hits Houston Compress Plants
Six hundred CIO laborers from Food Tobacco Agricultural and Allied Workers Local 75 began a strike at midnight Thursday across five Houston compress plants. They demand a $1 hourly minimum wage, paid vacations and other benefits, opposing the 83 cent minimum in effect.
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Houston
Houston Compress
CIO Compress
Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and
Allied Workers of America, Local 75
Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Company
Terminal Warehouse Company
Southern Warehous Corporation
Port City Compress and Warehouse Company
Warehouse Collapses in Giddings Injuring Workers
The Walthers Feed Store warehouse in Giddings owned by Paul Urban collapsed Wednesday afternoon as workers loaded feed from a car. No further injuries or details given in readable text.
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Giddings
Walthers Feed Store
Paul Urban
UT contest crowns Miss Freshman hopefuls at State
The University of Texas hosts a co ed Freshman contest tied to the film Mother is a Freshman. Three finalists Betty Jean Cook Mary Ester Haskell and Pat Cater perform Friday night for a $100 prize and a chance at a national photo contest in New York with a Hollywood trip possible next summer. Loretta Van Johnson Rudy Vallee and Barbara Lawrence star in the film.
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University of Texas
New York
Hollywood
Betty Jean Cook
Austin
Mary Ester Haskell
Pat Cater
Baytown
Loretta
van Johnson
Rudy Vallee
Barbara Lawrence
Miss Francis
Kay
Stranger
Eleanore Sellars
Chalice
Mrs. Sellars
Texas Audiences Shown Ready For Legit Stage Tour
Dudley Early notes a $30 000 gross for Maurice Evans production Man and Superman in Texas towns. Reval films one nighters Feb 14 week in Houston San Antonio Austin Fort Worth Dallas. Indicates Texas theatergoers are eager for touring shows despite limited Broadway access.
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Texas
Maurice Evans
Houston
San Antonio
Austin
Fort Worth
Dallas
Air Research Centers Proposed To Expand Wind Tunnels
Chairman Vinson unveils a bill to build up to 13 large high speed wind tunnels and an air engineering development center. The plan would authorize 306.6 million dollars for projects and create research labs and wind tunnel facilities at 13 colleges or universities, with Langley and Carderock as primary sites.
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D-Ga
House
Armed Services Committee
Langley Aeronautical Laboratory
Langley Air Force Base
Virginia
David W. Taylor Model Basin
Carderock
Cener
Air Force Scientists Begin High Altitude Flight Research
At Randolph Air Force Base School of Aviation Medicine a team of scientists started studies on high altitude flight aboard a B50 Superfortress in San Antonio. The craft is a sister ship to Lady Luck II, which completed a nonstop round the world flight last week.
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San Antonio
Randolph Air Force Base School of Aviation Medicine
Lady Luck
New Paint Turns Heat and Cold Into Light for Seeable Images
A phosphor paint turns heat and cold into visible light that can be photographed by ordinary cameras. Applied to objects from hot plates to ice, it shows warm and cool regions as yellow versus light, enabling in dark viewing and industrial heat mapping. The Epoxide team Urbach N R Pearlman Staud of Eastman Kodak describe it, with potential uses in films, imaging, and device diagnostics.
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New York
Optical Society of America
Franz Urvach
Nelson R. N
Donald Pearlman
Eastman Kodak Company Research Laboratories
Rochester
N. Y
Cyril J. Staud
Urbach
Hogan
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