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...TIME, Sept. 15). The mayors are to be guests of the French Republic, to see the International Colonial & Overseas Exposition in Paris (TIME, May 11) and take a whirlwind junket through France. Entrusted to the mayors by the U. S. exposition committee was a bust of the late Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick, carved from a beam of the original White House, to be placed in the Paris Hotel de Ville...
Founder Shafer scarcely knew what had happened before he had an organization on his hands (now numbering about 1,000 with additional Lofts in Boston, Syracuse & Detroit). Membership requirement: proof of bonafide pumping, plus a life-membership fee of $5. Some of the members: the late Myron T. Herrick, Will H. Hays (who had to put his weekly 10? wage in the Sunday School collection box at Sullivan, Ind.); Author Arthur Pound; Harold Cunningham, onetime master of S.S. Leviathan, and his successor, Albert Randall; Managing Editor Kenneth C. Hogate of the Wall Street Journal, Colyumist Robert Hobart ("Bob") Davis, Artist...
Heroes of this and many another well fire were the famed Kinley brothers of Tulsa-Myron, 35, and Floyd, 28-professional wild well tamers. Day after the Gladewater holocaust they flew to the scene of the disaster, began directing men in asbestos suits to clear away the derrick wreckage, kept white hot by the billowing flames. After the preliminary work, during which Brother Myron broke his leg, a sloping track of steel pipe was pushed to the well's mouth. Hobbling around on crutches. Brother Myron helped Brother Floyd load an insulated barrel with 70 quarts of nitroglycerine...
...Kinleys, Myron, the elder, is the most famed. He has put out 50 oil well fires, has had his eyebrows singed often but has never been injured before. They learned about shooting wells from their father, who in 1913 saw the first blazing well ever extinguished by nitroglycerine, at the Midway field, Calif...
Last week's job was not the first the brothers had done for the Sinclair company. They put out the Stamper No. 3 fire on the outskirts of Oklahoma City two years ago (TIME, Oct. 21, 1929). Brother Myron has been summoned to blow out fires in Brazil, Argentina. Venezuela, Mexico, Rumania but either failed to arrive in time or, as in Rumania, was balked by red tape. Both are married, have children. When not snuffing wells, they run the M. M. Kinley Co. (air compressor operators, well surveyors...