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There was oil around Polecat Bench all right: the Wyoming-Montana Elk Basin Field, that was first opened up by Ohio Oil in 1915, has produced some oil and gas every year since. Oldtimers say the gassers used to "roar so damn much you couldn't talk to your wife in bed without yelling." But Nettie never struck enough to keep body & soul together: in 1935, hounded by creditors, she gave up and disappeared from Elk Basin.* No one knows what became of her, but if she could see her homestead today she would feel like shooting herself with...
...Ohio Oil, the big U.S. oil companies swarmed over Polecat Bench. Last August Phillips Petroleum and Standard of Indiana's Stanolind paid the U.S. Government $1.407,500 for drilling rights on 262½acres of Federal land in Elk Basin-the highest price ever bid for the privilege of putting a drill bit into the ground. Last month Carter Oil, subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, bought out Denver's Minnelusa Oil Corp., the original discoverer of the Tensleep sands...
...news at Elk Basin last week was Harold Ickes. The Basin's swelling stream of oil has been pinched down to 14,000 bbl. a day for lack of adequate pipelines. The lines were approved by WPB, but frantically opposed by local truckers. Last week Oil Czar Ickes stepped into the fracas, recommended immediate construction of two new pipelines (one to Billings and Laurel refineries in Montana, the other to connect with Stanolind's big line to Salt Lake). When the new lines are pushed through next year, Nettie's homestead will really begin...
...confused with California's Elk Hills Field...
...week he got the Board to order the trial of a c.o. for incompetence. The accused: Edward O. Schweitzer, science teacher at Ada Merritt Junior High, 35-year-old Scoutmaster and Y.M.C.A. club leader of Coral Gables. Heavyset, aggressive Terry, a veteran of World War I, American Legionnaire, Mason, Elk and lawyer, argued that Schweitzer, who has been teaching for more than a decade, has "unfitted himself as a teacher by his beliefs" about pacifism...