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First thing he did was appoint Ralph K. Davies, of Standard Oil Co. of California, as Deputy Petroleum Coordinator, a job reported last week to have gone to Texan Alvin J. Wirtz. Oilmen, who like and respect Davies, drew one small breath of relief...
...Oilmen, already harried by a shortage of tankers, had another blow last week. Their favorite enemy, Harold L. Ickes, already Federal Oil Administrator, became Petroleum Coordinator for National Defense. The man they had damned as "imbued with an inordinate ambition ... to dictate the course of the industry" got the power to do just that. Cried a Tulsa pessimist: "Ickes is captain of our souls. My day is absolutely ruined...
...oilmen were glad at least that they had a boss with authority. Reason: the growing transportation problem. Ickes himself, in a characteristic grab at the headlines, had forecast "Gasless Sundays, Dim 'White Ways' " last week, preventable only "if we had means of transportation, or if facilities were developed...
Ickes' deputy in charge of Petroleum Coordinating, the man for oilmen to see, will be Texan Alvin J. ("Senator") Wirtz, who is no Donald Duck and should help make up for Ickes' personal unpopularity in the oil fields. Last week the deputy-to-be was in Texas, running White-House-backed Lyndon Baines Johnson's campaign (against Pass-the-Biscuits-Pappy O'Daniel, Martin Dies, et al.) for the Senate...
...Oilmen also hope to run a new through line from Texas and Louisiana all the way to New York. They are ready to put up $75,000,000 for the job, and claim they could finish it in six to nine months-if they can get the steel...