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Mississippi Mud. Heidelberg, a dirt-poor whistle stop (pop. 615) in the red-clay hills of Jasper County, Mississippi, is the proud site of the largest gusher east of the Mississippi River. With nine derricks sticking up through its cow-dunged streets (one derrick is in the yard of its red-brick schoolhouse), and a tent town of oilmen and their families on its outskirts, Heidelberg is a major oil field-thanks to Gulf Refining's Lewis-Morrison No. 1. Lewis-Morrison produced 2,500 bbl. in a choked-down 24-hr, run last week, and the roughnecks around...
Last week Jasper County farmers like T. D. Lewis, who used to think $1 to $5 an acre was fair enough, were haughtily turning down $5,000 an acre for their land.* In the nearby county seat of Paulding, the tiny brick courthouse bulged with lawyers wrestling with the legal tangles that resulted when the old frame courthouse burned down in 1932 and most of the county's land records went with it. Oilmen, betting that Mississippi would become a major oil-producing state, excitedly pointed out that Heidelberg's oil sands are 200 ft. thick...
...STEPHENSON Jasper, Mich...
...absinthe-minded mashing ("So saying, he bent and kissed the soft fullness of her breast. . . . 'Jasper, you're a beast, I'm happy to say,' she murmured dreamily...
...till the viceregal flag broke out over the palace dome was the public aware that Field Marshal Lord Wavell had mounted the golden throne. Within jasper-columned Durbar Hall, he had taken the three great oaths: 1) the oath of allegiance to King-Emperor George VI; 2) the oath as Governor-General of British India; 3) the oath of Viceroy representing the Crown to the autonomous Indian States. In that nine-minute ceremony, he had also attained a sumptuous $10,000,000 palace; a job paying in salary and expenses about $280,000 a year; the top appointive post...