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Once the Hotel Rancho Las Cruces, it is now a private club with a list of eminent patrons. Dwight Eisenhower was there recently as the guest of Charles Jones, president of the Richfield Oil Co. W. Alton Jones, executive-committee chairman of Cities Service Co., was on his way to meet Ike there when he died in the plane crash at Idlewild with $62,690 in his pockets...
Died. W. (for William) Alton Jones, 70, chairman of the executive committee of Cities Service Co. and board chairman of Richfield Oil Co., a Missouri farmer's son who rose from a janitor's job to become one of the nation's wealthiest executives, guided Cities Service out of a pre-Depression debt of $500 million to its present billion-dollar assets by a policy of worldwide expansion, won national gratitude for pushing through the World War II construction of the Big and Little Inch pipelines; in the Idlewild jet crash...
...Richfield Oil Corp. and some associated companies are drilling, more for information than for oil, in support of surface geology that suggests the North has oil. Cost: about $500,000. The cold is not a handicap; winter, in fact, is the essential condition for northern drilling because it freezes supply trails...
BIGGEST ALASKAN OIL WELL was brought in by Standard Oil Co. (Calif.) on Kenai Peninsula, 40 miles south of Anchorage. New well, largest of four being jointly developed by Standard and Richfield Oil Corp., has capacity of 1,300 bbl. daily...
...area to stake millions on electronically corroborated hunches that underneath the permafrost lies one of the world's greatest oil pools. The rush has even pushed into the remote Arctic Archipelago, where at least ten companies have asked for exploration permits. Companies with household names such as Richfield are planning to explore places with exotic names such as Graham Island. And the northern halves of British Columbia and Alberta, though far south of last week's discovery site, have in the last year produced big gas wells that make the whole region one of the world...