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...They Drill Like the Rest...
This headquarters announcement, following the appointment of Lt. Donald W. Fraser, USNR, as Drill Officer here, outlines plans for the annual spring inspection routine. In the first review, more than 900 undergraduate trainees will be led through the ceremonies on Soldiers Field by their student officers in the mid-afternoon, after which they will go on liberty in preparation for the Unit dance to be held that night...
...Farmer P. L. Peterson, 59, had a record year. He hired a man (at $7 a day); paid $1,000 to have his combining done; paid $1,000 in old seed loans, $800 in back taxes, $400 in income taxes; bought a seed drill, a wind charger, a secondhand Ford, an electric cream separator, a washing machine, an electric iron and a radio; surfaced the road leading up to the highway. He still had money left to buy war bonds and plunk in the bank...
...months the Carter Oil Co., subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, had been drilling for oil in the middle of Farmer R. F. Cottingham's corn and cotton fields in McClain County, Oklahoma. Now, as the drill bit touched 10,620 ft., the drillers had brought in the gun perforator to shoot 60 half-inch cartridges through the heavy steel casing. They were testing the famed Wilcox sand that, at a much shallower level (from 5,000-6,000 ft.), had turned the great Oklahoma City Field into a bonanza 15 years before...
...Bubbling." At 2 a.m. on Monday there was a wisp of gas and a roughneck snapped "Fires out!" The drill motors and the engines of the watchers' automobiles were silenced; greasy mud began to slop out of the two-inch tube onto the derrick floor. All night long the Cottingham belched and spluttered, while roustabouts scraped the mud into testing tanks...