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Mobil Oil Ad Data Are Questioned
WASHINGTON (AP) - While the Mobile Oil Corp. asserts in nationwide television advertising that only one in 60 oil wells have installed the system, figures show results at least 36 times better.
The data, which appear to dispute Mobil's claim, were obtained from the American Petroleum Institute and from several major oil companies. It is the nation's third largest oil company.
J. A. Gillespie, a Mobil spokesman, said his company would stand by the validity of the ad and said the one in 60 figure was a figure accepted figure used by the entire industry.
The television spot is one of a series of energy crisis ads produced by the major oil companies to try to explain energy shortages and high prices.
Mobil's television spot shows a man walking through a desert-like area while an unseen announcer reads five sentences of copy:
"Here's what drilling for oil is like. It's like digging a lot of holes in the ground, throwing a lot of money into each hole and hoping some of the holes become oil wells and throw money back. About one hole in 60 actually pays off. Last year Mobil moulded holes into holes in the ground. Drilling for oil is a very risky way to make money."
American Petroleum Institute figures show that of all new exploratory and production wells drilled worldwide last year, 61.2 per cent struck oil or natural gas. Of the five wells produced, five wells was productive -36 times better than the one-in-60 figure in the Mohali ad
The television spot was created for Mobl by the Dole Dane Bermbach advertising agency.
executive who handles Mobl's account, said the one-in-60 figure came from a publication of the American Petroleum Institute.
An API spokesman, J. Spier Collins, said the one-in-60 figure referred to as a narrow bridge was "unreliable."
"The figure is way off if you're talking about all well drilled worldwide," Collins said. "Where the one-in-60 figure applies is only for wild drilling in the United States in brand new fields where there are no proven oil or gas reserves."
Asked why the Mobil ad did not make clear that the one-in-40 figure applied only to one segment of oil drilling, McCarthy said he hadn't felt it was necessary.
'Most people would assume we're talking about exploratory wells since we have the
Exploratory drilling, sometimes called wildcatting, is searching for oil or gas in new untied areas. Production drilling is done in wells where reserves have been proven.
picture of the man walking around looking for something," she said. "We couldn't explain what an exploratory well is because the public wouldn't understand it."
Checks with the public records of major oil companies showed that their success rate at wildcatting was considerably better than one in 60 or 1.6 per cent.
Standard Oil of California, the nation's fifth largest oil company, drilled 33 wildcatt wells in the United States last year and five in Argentina. The company's success rate, Worldwide, standard*
wildcat success rate was close to 17 per cent.
In 1973, the Exxon Corp., the world's largest oil company, drilled 161 wildcat wells and 23 were commercial successes for a 14.3 per cent success rate.
API's one-in-60 figure covers the entire petroleum industry, including the smaller, independent companies which do most of their operations and whose success rate therefore is lower.
Mobil's figures show that 51 exploratory wells were drilled and nine of them produced for a 21.4 per cent or better one-in-five success rate.
By their own figures, the success rates of the major companies, even in the high-risk wildcatting field, is far better than one-in-60.
Senate Hears Clinton Proposal
By JOHN PIKE
Kansas Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON—Arguing a need for improved access to Clinton Reservoir and local inability to finance the necessary improvements, proponents of the Clinton Parkway presented their case here in the federal funding of the proposed road project.
Speaking for the Douglas county commissioners, commission chairman Walter Cragen told the Water Resources subcommittee of the Senate Public Works Committee that the new Clinton Reservoir "nearly inaccessible" without the parkway.
million cost of the four-lane road was the equivalent of the entire Douglas County road construction budget for the next 5 to 7 years. Therefore the parkway could not be built unless the federal government provided a major part of the funds.
Ben, Bob Dole, R-Kan., spoke in behalf of his bill to contribute 70 per cent of the cost—up to $8 million—from federal sources to the 4.5-mile road, which would extend from the intersection of 32rd and Iowa streets west to the reservoir.
However, Cragen said, the projected $5-6
Dole criticized the Water Resources Act, under which the construction of the reservoir has been financed, for providing water for recreation, and also providing money for access roads.
Lawrence mayor Jack Rose, who with City Commissioner Percy represents the city in a committee of subcommittees that the city and county were totally in favor of the parkway's contour.
The only opposition to Dole's bill expressed at the hearing came from Brig. Gen. James Kelly, Army deputy director of civil engineers, who objected to the provision of the bill authorizing the Army to construct the parkway.
Rock Music Dying, Directors Say
Kelly told the subcommittee that the Army shouldn't be called on to use its funds to construct the road. He said, however, that the Army didn't object to the parkway and said he did so and said the Corps of Engineers had already offered all necessary rights of way.
By JANHYATT Korean Staff Reporter
Lawrence radio program directors agree that tastes in music are changing. Country and Western, jazz and classical music are all played. They also influence and hard rock is dying out.
"More people are listening to more jazz more often," Gary Shivers, program director of KANU, said recently. He said that two dozen new or revived jazz record releases are producing more jazz records than ever and they were selling more copies of each.
Schmidt said he thought the change in pop music content the past five years paralleled the shift in how young people listen.
Mike Schmidt, program director of KLW-FM, said hard rock was dying because people "are tired of getting their music on." Many are listening to and not have it pounded at them."
in the late '60s and early '70s everybody wanted to "try everything." he said.
Rock music is assimilating into other types of music, Schmidt said.
Hard rock was part of that attitude, Schmidt said.
The musicians are better now, Schmidt laid,
and musicians are using bluestrass and
vibriss.
Sivers said he thought changing tastes followed changes in the music being written. He said that in jazz there were a few artists who had been trained whose skills were imitated and expanded by others.
As an example, Shihler mentioned Miles Davis, who in 1969 began using electric guitars, pianos and several keyboard instruments and formed a larger group. Members of the group that recorded the album,"in a Silent Way," with Davis in
County commissioners Art Heck and I. J. Stoneback told the subcommittee that Douglas County couldn't afford to pay half the cost.
The Kansas delegation was questioned by subcommittee members about the justification for a federal cost-sharing rate of 70 per cent, rather than the standard 50-50
Stoneback said the combination of Kansas' 5 per cent property tax lid and the nation's 10 per cent rate of inflation made a difference. He said the county by the road impossible.
Knife Jiefer, manager of Kief's Records and Stereo, 711 W. 23rd St., said increased sales of classical music recordings began four years ago and the trend was He said movie soundtracks were the main cause of renewed interest in classical music.
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IT'S TIME TO REFORM CAMPAIGN FINANCING
John W. Gardner, Chairman Common Cause Former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
"Wouldn't it be if you didn't have to take a single dime from anybody?" said Senator Philip Hart of Michigan. He had in mind the uncomfortable, sometimes detached stance that political candidates have when they go up-hill in hand-to-hand.
The costs of political campaigns have gone sky-high. And monied special interests are always glad to meet those costs in behalf of the candidate. The inevitable scandal, scandal and public mistrust of the political process.
Today in most districts and states, candidates can't run for public office unless they are rich, or unless they are willing to put themselves under obligation to sources minds. That isn't the kind of country we started out to be.
There are honest contributors who give out of conviction, and there are honest politicians who don't repay gifts with political favors. But let's face it: most large corporations view the intent to buy influence, buy votes, buy politicians.
Here are some of the necessary ingredients of reform
1. There must be low ceilings on individual or committed
3) There be full public disclosure of all gifts and expenditures. One of the most powerful forces for charity is public disclosure.
The first principle of free self-government is accountability of government to the people. Accountability are the reasons the citizens enforce our rights and ensure ability. But if the winning candidate feels that his first bid is the big campaign donors, public accountability is destroyed.
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4) There must be an independent enforcement commission with subpoena powers and the power to go to court. It is shocking but true that no federal campaign ever had ever been seriously enforced by the Justice Department.
Many are now beginning to see that there is one further necessary ingredient if we are to have a responsible and competitive political system—namely, an element of public financing in campaigns.
No candidate in the primaries will receive any federal matched funds unless he or she has demonstrated the ability to name private gifts up to a specific threshold. If no individual receives a历数 candidates or candidates with no constituency.
Money for campaigns need not come totally and exclusively from public funds. The bill recently debated in the Senate permits a role for money from private sources, although it places a ceiling on the size of gifts; it encourages small, private contributions by providing that they are added up to $100 each with public funds at the primary level.
There is much more to do. And the time to it is now. The American people are tired of being billed and manipulated its time to give this country back to its people. We need a common Cause, 2030 M ST N.W., Washington D.C. 20036.
There are legitimate questions as to the mechanics of public financing, but these questions can be dealt with. The real question is whether we intend to put behind us the costs associated with designing financing in which money can buy political outcomes.
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