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Seven years ago Goodnight sold his ranch and buffaloes to Joseph Irving Staley of Wichita Falls, Tex. Mr. Staley made a fortune in oil, reached out into ranching, banking, aviation. Depression has pinched him. Ready cash is precious. The proposed buffalo hunt might realize $75,000. Besides, except in zoos and National Parks, kept buffaloes are an expensive nuisance...
...Alexander Hellwig, 42, of St. Francis Hospital, Wichita, Kan. doubted that theory. He had noted as had others that a diet low in iodine, high in calcium produced the most pronounced goiters. He believed there must be a positive cause for goitrous enlargement of the thyroid, probably calcium...
...from wells in Kansas. Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. The gas is piped and sold to local companies in some 175 Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri communities. Most of these, including the distributors in such important centres as the two Kansas Cities, St. Joseph, Joplin, Leavenworth, Atchison, Topeka and Wichita, are also owned by Cities Service Gas Co. Governor Woodring contends that the wholesale rate of gas sold to Kansas City Gas Co. is 10¢ too high at the present rate of 40¢ per 1,000-cu. ft., that lower commodity prices all around should find reflection in lower rates, that...
Crude Oil seeped down to new price levels, selling as low as 10? a barrel, with top prices at 22?. Frightened oilmen launched a producers' strike. In Wichita. Kan. independent operators voted to close down about 22,000 wells, declared that prices were under cost of production. In the Oklahoma City field 13 companies with a potential output of more than 2,000,000 barrels daily followed suit...
...Forgan was founded by Frank Kell, then president of Wichita Falls & Northwestern. The road had banking connections with Chicago's famed Forgan family, in whose honor the town was named...