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-Hardin Tribune-Herald, Thursday, December 24, 1953
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The county courthouses at
Baker, Clrcle.Columbus, Conrad,
Cut Bank, Forsyth, Glasgow,
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BROWN'S OIL & GAS want
you to wish everyone a very
MERRY CHRISTMAS
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Merry Christmas. I V U
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Christmas again,
and may its basic meaning
mark your Holiday!
MILES & ULMER CO.
ELMER SLATTERY
HARVEY BARNETT
ERNIE WIECHMAN
ALEX FRICKEL
JOE HANKS
Glendive, Hardin, Lewistown,
Miles City, Poplar, Red Lodge,
Roundup, Sidney, Wolf Point,
and perhaps others, are slated
for a series of public hearings
on oil and gas production that
may last through the spring of
1954. Chambers of Commerce
will, no doubt, make arrange
ments to handle the crowds.
Farmers, ranchers, business
men, oil royalty owners and the
public in general are expected
to attend from miles around
and take part in these public
meetings; this, for the reason
that the end result of each
hearing will have solid impact
on the local economy.
Billings, Great Falls and Hel
ena have been the principal
sources of news concerning the
oil and gas activities of Mon
tana since the discovery of the
Wiliston Basin in July, 1951.
These cities have seen the fi
nal hearings and the promul
gation of general rules and
regulations concerning produc
tion practices for the oil com
panies operating in Montana.
Some fourteen hearings have
been held.
Now, under the law, the five
man Oil Commission will sit as
JAMES BARRIGAN
JUNE PAINTER
MAY COLE
HAROLD BETTS
JOHN FELLER
a court in the various court
houses of the oil-producing
counties. Oil Company geolo
gists and engineers will be
sworn as witnesses and ques
tioned under oath as to oil and
gas reserves and extraction
methods.
Ken Byerly, publisher of Lew
istown and Glendive, will pre
side as chairman of the Com
mission. Ernie Anderson of Cut
Bank and Joe Frerich of Pop
lar, both farmers and imple
ment dealers, complete the lay
members of the Commission.
Tom Barnes, Shell Oil Com
pany employee, and Don Hage
man, independent producer,
both from Billings, are the oil
industry members of the Com
mission.
John Marchi, attorney for the
Commission, and a representa
tive from the attorney general’s
office, will question witnesses
and otherwise see to the inter
est of the people in general.
The state's technical advisors
are Alec Crowell and Mark Aut
ry, petroleum engineers and ge
ologists.
Back in the old days (Mon
tana has had oil for forty
years), it was not customary
for the state government or the
people at large to have much
to say about the way oil and
gas was produced in Montana.
Only one public hearing was
held from 1917 to the creation
of the present Oil and Gas
Conservation Commission by
Chapter 238 of the 1953 Legis
lature.
The state has found that in
taking advantage of scientific
advances in modern-day oil and
gas production, time and cau
tion must be utilized. The Mon
tana Commission has proceeded
with utmost caution in the set
ting of the stage for produc
tion practices at the county
level.
After considerable difficulty
concerning the location of its
operating headquarters, the
Commission is now set up at
the state Capitol in Helena
with engineers, geologists and
agents at both Billings and
Shelby. Broad operating rules
have been adopted and are ef
fective January 1, 1954.
These broad rules, however,
are very general in nature and
every controlled field in the
state must have individual rules
tailored to fit its own particular
or specific problems. There are
presently twenty-three of these
control fields located in thir
teen counties. A public hearing
must be held on each of these
twenty-three controlled fields
after bottom hole pressure and
other tests are made to deter
mine the type of energy lifting
the oil and gas out of the res
ervoirs. As matters now stand,
only twelve of the twenty-three
fields will have bottom hole
pressure tests run each May and
October, although the other
eleven fields will have gas-oil
ratio and water-oil ratio tests
run.
To the Oil and Gas Conser
vation Commission, conserva
tion means maximum ultimate
recovery and minimum waste.
It means getting the most out
of Montana’s reservoirs of pet
roleum and making the most
efficient use of what is pro
JIM DURKIN
EMIL KIRSCHENMAN
WALT KUNAU
JEAN HOLMES
CLIFF WITTMIER
County Agent's
Column
By H. M. Kilpatrick
The Extension Service in Big
Horn county has completed one
phase of its program in assist
ing farm families test milk
cows. As a new year draws
close, our efforts will be renew
ed on the second phase which
is Vaccination of both dairy
and beef heifer calves. Our ef
forts are paying you dividends
because the percentage of cat
tle with brucellosis is slowly
decreasing.
We humans vaccinate our
selves for small pox and today
you rarely hear of it. The same
could be true of brucellosis in
dairy animals.
Seventy-five per cent of our
farmers reported to the bureau
of census that they owned
dairy cows or cows used for
dairy purposes. The county
agent would like to have all of
these families share a letter
sent to members of the Mon
tana Dairy Herd Improvement
association by J. O. Tretsven,
state supervisor of the associa
tion, which follows:
“The inception of Christmas
occurred in a stable nearly 2,000
years ago. It was not like the
modern dairy barns of today
but it did offer protection to
Joseph, Mary and the Christ
Child in the emergency. It is
significant that out of the
manger in the stable has come
the Christian teaching as to a
better way of life—Peace and
Good Will Toward Men.
“The dairy farmers through
out the nation will spend a
large portion of Christmas Day
in their stables caring for
their cows—‘The Foster Mother
of the Human Race.’ While the
Christian teaching is directed
primarily toward one’s respon
sibility to his God, his neigh
bors, his family and himself,
nevertheless, the very principles
duced. That is now the law.
Back in the ‘old days’ oilmen
had not yet learned to train,
discipline and analyze oil. When
a new field was discovered, they
swarmed to the site and each
tried tc extract more oil from
the earth faster than his
neighbor. When it ceased to
flow or respond to the pump,
they abandoned the wells and
moved on to new fields, leav
ing a great deal of oil lost for
ever in the ground.
The wild gushers that sent
oil flying high over fields years
ago are no more. Today, con
trol devices are installed in the
early stages of drilling a well
to prevent blowouts. From start
to finish, production operations
are designed to prevent waste
(underground as well as on the
surface) when oil is found.
Since the ‘old days’, geologists
and petroleum engineers have
learned a great deal about the
behavior of gas, oil and water
underground. They have learned
a great deal about the tremend
ous pressures under which oil,
gas and water exist deep down
in the earth, and how enorm
ously important these pressures
are in the everyday production
of oil fields. (Bygone methods
of producing oil usually resulted
in rapid exhaustion of reser
voir energy.) They have learn
ed about the accumulation of
oil in porous strata, and, so
enlightened, have obtained oil
from places where their prede
cessors would have left it lodg
ed. And as they have learned,
they have created scientific
means to study the characteris
tics of an oil field after it is
brought in.
This knowledge and these
means of analyzing a specific
field permit oilmen to predict
something of the condtions
they will have to deal with and
enable them to plan their oper
ations accordingly. Advance
planning greatly increases effi
cient recovery of the oil from
the earth. With modern engin
eering methods, production of
more than 80 per cent of the
available oil is expected in new
controlled fields.
In direct contrast to the hasty
depletion of many oil fields in
the ‘old days’, the productive
life of a field can now be reck
oned in dacades, because of
modern conservation practices.
YIMTIDE
JOY
A Friendly Wish
in this
Holiday Season
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INUMD SERVICE STATION
BILL and LAWRENCE
of Christianity also make for
better dairy husbandry in the
stable because a dairyman
should love God’s creations
such as the dairy cow. Other
things being equal, it is the
dairyman who has developed
that kindly attitude toward his
animals and who has learned
the importance of handling
them gently not only gets the
greatest satisfaction out of his
dairy work but also the great
est profit. Furthermore, the
dairyman who realizes his great
responsibility in producing
‘milk’, the finest and most nu
tritious food known for infants
and adults, will ever strive to
keep it wholesome and pala
table.
“A few minutes of meditation
throughout the Holiday season
as to the true significance of
the Christmas celebration and
its bearing upon us as individ
uals and our work will not be
amiss.”
Ground Observer
Schedule
Sunday, Dec. 27—
8 to 10 a.m., Vaughn Inskecp.
10 to 12 noon, John Sloan.
12 to 2 p.m., Bobby Fitch.
2 to 4 p.m., Dennis Lent.
6 to 8 p.m. R. J. McLain, Roger
Nordquist.
8 to 10 p.m., Claude Ilamlin, Ora
Hamlin.
Monday, Dec. 28—
12 to 2 a.m., Carl Boheman.
4 to 6 a.m., Father Callan.
8 to 10 a.m., Mrs. K. W. Kapptie.
10 to 12 noon, A. M. Jacobson.
12 to 2 p.m., Howard Wagner.
2 to 4 p.m., Arthur Carr.
4 to 6 p.m., H. B. McDonald.
6 to 8 p.m., Harold Stanton, Laurel
Hammond.
8 to 10 p.m.. Sam Cunningham, Helen
Cunningham.
10 ot 12 p.m., Mr. & Mrs. Jens Kal
berg.
Tuesday, Dec. 29—
12 to 2 a.m., Joe Lammers.
4 to 6 a.m., W. R. Fife.
6 to 8 a.m., Walter Brekke.
8 to 10 a.m., Ernestine Rader.
12 to 2 p.m., Phyllis Kreiger.
2 to 4 p.m., Ada Huston, Wes Huston.
4 to 6 p.m., Mrs. Fred Parlier.
6 to 8 p.m., Mr. & Mrs. Bill Faber
8 to 10 p.m., Pat Brazier, Eugene
Kirschenmann.
10 to 12 p.m., Mr. & Mrs. Dan Zeiler
Wednesday, Dec. 30—
4 to 6 a.m., Leroy Mason.
(. to 8 a.m., John Bullis.
3 to 10 a.m., Leone Dygcrt.
10 to 12 noon, Mrs. Frank Dornberger
12 to 2 p.m., Kay Michael.
2 to 4 p.m., Regina Lind.
4 to 6 p.m., Edwin Jacobson, Alice
Jacobson.
6 to 8 p.m., Cornelius Roush, Tra
Huynie.
8 to 10 p.m., Ethel Inskeep, Mervin
Klug.
10 to 12 p.m., Mr. & Mrs. Glenn
Leavitt.
Thursday. Dec. 31—
12 to 2 a.m., Frank Rowland, Allan
Goller.
4 to 6 a.m.. Rev. If. Butler
6 to 8 a.m., Chris Klundt.
10 to 12 a.m., Buelah Doane.
12 to 2 p.m., Mary Breen.
2 to 4 p.m., Mrs. Amber Cook, Mrs
Chet Raup.
4 to 6 p.m., Dorothy Pawlitschek, Mrs
Doris Young.
6 to 8 p.m.. Guy Van Cleve, Dt*lori«
Dysart.
8 to 10 p.m..Joe Hanks.
10 to 12 p.m., Richard Fox.
Friday, Jan. 1—
4 to 6 a.m., Mr. & Mrs. Ray Criswell
(> to 8 a.m., Mr. & Mrs. Chas. Egnew
• 0 to 12 noon, Ralph Peck.
12 to 2 p.m., Delmer Lautt.
2 to 4 p.m., Mrs. Bill Smith.
4 to 6 p.m., Mrs. Chet Butler.
6 to 8 p.m., B. A. Zimmerman, Ruth
Zimmerman.
8 to 10 p.m., Jean Bond. Alma Kifer.
10 to 12 p.m., Leo Colstad.
Saturday, Jan. 2—
6 to 8 a.m., Estelle Evenson.
12 to 2 p.m., Joan Egnew, Carroll
Birkland.
J y^yf^an^O'iiy
earth,pea^e
to men of Good Will
May the ideep meanings
®r 11 of the first Christmas
J M * fL / bless your home.
HARDIN AUTO CO.
HANK BILL C. DOLORES MIKE
STAN CARL KAY VIC
JOHN AL BILL F. 5? N
BUDDY GILL OREN JIM
HARDIN
BOWLING NOTES
YEARLING LEAGUE
Dec. 14. W L
Lobby Lounge 2014 38 18
Rudy’s Buick 2044 35 21
Hardin Market -2133 34 22
Hollyette’s 2047 34 / 21 /i
Four Aces 1896 21 3j>
Martin’s . 1927 i'A 50/,
High game—Eva Zeiler, 186.
High series—Jerry Dysart, 453.
YEARLING LEAGUE
W L
Lobby Lounge 1985 40/ \9/
Hardin Market 1946 37 23
Rudy’s Buick 1942 36/ 23/
Hollyette’s - - 1923 35/ 24/
Four Aces Z 1834 23 37
Martin's 1776 11/il l /i 50 Zi
High game—Ann Bylund, 202.
High series—C. Hammer, 444.
BIG HORN LEAGUE
Dec. 18.
Roy Chambers Co. 794 739 727-2260
Chuckwagon Case . 761 763 813—2336
Rudy’s Buick —727 790 693—2210
Becker Bar . 780 832 784-2396
Leavitt’s Cleaners 754 785 50,—2344
Hill Tavern . 769 700 771—2240
High series—Yugo Nayematsu. 554.
High game, Yugo Nayematsu—2ls.
BIG HORN LEAGUE
Dec. 18.
Becker Bar —9ll 731 837—2497
Leavitt's Cleaners 770 807 761—2338
2 to 4 p.m., Wilma Kunau.
4 to 6 p.m., Eddie Buckner.
6 to 8 p.m., Zilda Buckner.
8 to 10 p.m., Harold Nordwall
10 to 12 p.m., K. R. Buckner.
| Season’s Greetings
} with B^^
| all through the Holidays.
i FARMERS UNION ASSOCIAITON
Hill Tavern 698 782 807-2287
Chuckwagon Case 752 760 820-2332
Rudy’s Bucik 827 759 761 2338
Roy Chambers Co. 715 707 756-2178
High series—H. Freeman, 569.
High game—H. Freeman. 232.
LODGE GRASS LEAGUE
W L Av.
Sand Creek 25 |5 711
George’s Food 22 18 717
i, K A. - - 20 20 696
Don’s Farm 20 20 680
Lodge Grass Llec. 20 20 664
Farmers Union — ]9 21 704
Ludrick I.umber 22 6/3
Pat’s Cash Grocery 16 24 660
BOTS SOTS
Hardin Auto — JB/0 45 15
r.amhlrs 1877 34 26
Sky Vu— 1922 33/, 26/,
Big Horn Bank 1767 31 29
Rocket Olds 1671 20 40
Harriet 1802_1 o'/S 44},
High game—Lent, 192.
High series—Gookin. 434.
NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS
FERRELL SAWMILL
Rough and Finished Lumber
Rough $75 per M
Dried & finished S9O per M
Sawdust and fire wood —
reasonable.
East of Hardin, South of Big
Horn Bridge.