$50 Million Industry Brings Wealth To Many In South
Jackson, Miss.—(U.P.)—Few persons think of Mississippi as an on state.
However, in the short 12 and a half years since the discovery of the first well in Mississippi, the industry has grown to a $50,000,000 a year business. In addition, 5,000 residents of this "poor state" are employed directly in the oil and gas industry.
Court Told Of Practical Jokes
San Rafael, Calif. — (U.P.)—The "humorless Dennises," alternate victims of a booby-trapped toilet seat and a hoax bomb, once had their home besieged by a fully-armed riot squads of military and civilian police, court testimony showed today.
The colonel retaliated by tossing a ticking mechanism under her bed, yelling "Bomb!" and then howling with laughter when she ran frantically out of the house.
The case of Mrs. Dorothy Dennis, 50, vs. Col. Ira Dennis (Ret.) attracted attention recently when Mrs. Dennis testified she once booby-trapped a toilet seat to explode under her husband "as a sort of joke."
Both have accused the other of possessing no "sense of humor."
Yesterday Maj. John C. Ivey, former provost marshall at Sixth Army headquarters, testified by affidavit that on the night of Dec. 1, 1950 he was alerted by Sausalito police that Dennis had barricaded himself in his home and was threatening to shoot his wife.
Ivey set forth post haste—accompanied by one colonel, one major, one captain, one sergeant, one corporal, several privates, two military sedans and an ambulance.
The squad carried gas masks, riot guns. .45 caliber pistols and tear gas grenades.
Upon arrival at the colonel's home, Ivey's affidavit said, the army men found a big roving force of civilian police "running around with drawn weapons."
After studying the situation 20 minutes and receiving a report that Dennis was inside the house brandishing a high-caliber rifle, Ivey and his men steeled themselves and went in after the colonel, and they found him—sleeping soundly in bed in paiamas.
An affidavit taken at the time from Mrs. Dennis and introduced as testimony said it was she who had sent out the distress call after the colonel kicked her, swore at her and beat on the locked door of her bedroom until his blows bent the lock bolt. Then he apparently went to bed. she said.
Dennis testified that he had been subjected to intense humiliation by being placed under psychiatric observation at an army hospital as a result of the episode.
Ushers Needed For Plays
Nancy Morsbach, college sophomore, requests anyone who can usher for either "The Lady's Not for Burning" or the lab theater plays to contact her immediately at 415.
RED MAEDCHEN — These two North Korean girls are members of the Communist party that accompanies the Red truce delegation to talks with the United Nations mediators at Pamunjom, North Korea. One at right is an army nurse.
The thing which sent farmers on worn-out land and small town dreamers alike to dancing delirious jigs began in 1939 when a college geology student persuaded drillers to test an area he had marked out.
They earn more than $15,000,000 a year. The industry has four processing plants at Yazoo City, Laurel, Brookhaven and Natchez.
Mississippi had had producing gas wells before but the first producing oil well was brought in on Aug. 29, 1939. There followed a wild scramble for oil leases and at one time in 1940 there were as many as 68 geophysical crews in the state in one month. In less than four months the acreage under lease was doubled to 7,000,000 acres.
Then, with a rapid decline in the number of producers brought in, the industry sobered up and settled down to systematic exploration. The years 1941 and 1942 were discouraging but in 1943 the jinx was broken.
The Brookhaven field was discovered in March of that year and that precipitated the discovery of field after field until in 1944, 72 wildcats were drilled and nine new fields were discovered—a record of only eight wildcats for each new field.
Today, more than 80 independent operators and 18 major companies are active in Mississippi and the state contains more than 1,600 producing wells. In 1950, 38,230,695 bars of oil were produced in addition to immense quantities of natural gas.
Another trail-blazing project is under way this year, Gulf Refining company's seismic survey of 800,-000 acres in costal waters is expected to be the forerunner to Mississippi's first off-shore well.
The state's legislators already are talking about new roads and schools which they hope to pay for from revenue which would come from the off-shore field.
Dean George B. Smith, of the School of Education, will attend the fourth annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education in Chicago today through Saturday.
Smith To Attend Meeting
Thursday, Feb. 21, 1952
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The drug has a technical name of some 20 syllables, but its developers, scientists, of Smith, Kline & French, Philadelphia, call it "aptrol" for short.
Drs. Gelvin and McGavick have reported that the patients first administered the appetite killing drug were attending the obesity clinic at Welfare Island. Overweight persons with diabetes or those with heart conditions were not used in the trials.
First clinical trials with the new drug have been reported by two New York physicians—Dr. E. Philip Gelvin and Dr. Thomas H. McGavick. The patients treated were at the city's Welfare Island dispensary unit.
BRITISH MYSTERY PLANE—Photographed for first time is the Gloster GA 5, powered by two Armstrong Siddley jets. It is a radar-equipped, all-weather, day and night long-range Delta fighter, claimed by the RAF to be the only plane of its kind. It is better qualified than any other fighter to destroy atom bombers. Its speed, range, armament and radar gear are secret. Its unusual shape answers a design problem for aircraft traveling at sonic speeds.
New York—(U.P.)—Medical science today has a new drug that will help you maintain that reducing diet.
Science Offers Dieting Drug
The drug still is in the experimental stage, but preliminary trials indicate that it may have real value as an appetite killer for those fat men and women who try to stay on a 1,000-calorie diet—about 1,000 calories below a normal count.
All told, 65 patients—two males and 63 females-participated in the study.
Significantly, the new compound caused few bad side reactions, a problem encountered heretofore with other appetite killing drugs. Those drugs usually reduced the appetite, but in most cases they caused sickness and discomfort to the patient.
Drs. Gelvin and McGavick, making their official report in the New York State Journal of Medicine, said the study showed that the rate of weight loss was "four times as fast in those receiving aptol as compared with those receiving a placebo."
KU Democrats Elect Officers
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Ohio Uses Airplanes To Count Its Deer
The Young Democrats elected Bob Walker, college senior, as president for 1952-33 Monday.
While the U. S. Census Bureau counts the nation's noses each 10 years, the Ohio wildlife division surveys the state's deer population each year, by air.
Cleveland, Ohio —(U.P.)— Taking a census of deer is a much tougher job than counting humans and it's done more frequently, too.
Don Hopson, Martha Ann Truman, third year law; Camilla Klien, Carol Ann Aiken, Bob Walker, and Bernard Rooney, college freshmen, plan to attend an executive council for Young Democrats Saturday in Topeka.
killed. Twelve northeastern Ohio counties have been selected for the 1952 census.
Walker will preside over a cabinet including Dan Hopson, second year law, and Cecil Witt, college freshman, vice-presidents; Carol Ann Aiken, college sophomore, treasurer; Connie McNergay, college sophomore, secretary; and Bill Limesay, first year law, and Carol Ann Aiken, Kansas Collegiate Council representatives.
The state wants to know whether herds are moving, staying in one place, multiplying, dying, or being killed.
The group heard Camilla Klien, national committee woman for the Young Democrats, describe plans for the annual Washington day dance, to be held Friday at the Hotel Javhawk. Topeka
The survey will be made from airplanes flying at about 300 feet.
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