Standard Oil of Calif. Will Ship Kenai
Oil To Seward Until Pipeline Warranted
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Oil to be
produced from a Kenai Peninsula
well will be trucked to Seward
and stored for later trans-ship
ment to the States by tanker, the
Standard Oil Co. of California
announced Monday.
The company made the an
nouncement in a statement which
they said was being issued “to
clarify the status of these opera
tions” and to correct published
statements that “have not been
wholly accurate.”
Standard said the Swanson Ri
ver Unit No. 1 well was being
placed on production for a sus
tained test.
That was the discovery well on
the Kenai Peninsula.
The well was completed Sept.
29, 1957. The company said then
it was flowing at the rate of 900
barrels of oil per day from the
perforated interval 11,150 feet
to 11,215 feet. The well has been
shut in since.
Standard said about other pro
duction tests on Swanson River
units “it is planned to again shut
in th£ wells while further devel
opment and exploration is un
dertaken in other parts of the
Swanson River Unit and the de
velopment of sufficient produc
tion to justify the construction of
a pipeline to move the oil to
tidewater.”
The company also said that
drilling is presently under way
on the Swanson River No. 3 well
which is located approximately
one and one quarter miles south
east from the discovery well, and
three-quarters of a mile from
Swanson River Unit No. 2. Pres
ent depth of No. 3 is 11,209 feet.
The No. 2 well was drilled to
a# depth of 12,046 feet and en
countered the same zone which
was found productive in the first
well, the company said. No. 2 well
has not yet been tested for pro
duction. These tests are planned
when suitable equipment is avail
able, Standard said.
The Deep Creek Unit No. 1 well
was drilled to a total depth of
14,221 feet, tested and abandoned
as a dry hole. Further plans for
exploration in the Deep Creek
unit are being studied, the an
nouncement said. v
Drew Pearson
Sues News-Miner
For Libel
FAIRBANKS, t/P) — Drew Pear
son, nationally-syndicated Wash
ington columnist, Monday filed a
$176,000 libel suit against the
Fairbanks Publishing Co. and
C. W. Snedden, publisher of the
Fairbanks News-Miner.
The action was based on an ed
itorial which appeared in the pa
per July 8, 1958. The action filed
in Fourth District Federal Court
claimed references contained in
the editorial were “false, scan
dalous, defamatory and libelous.”
Pearson asked $150,000 in ex
emplary and punitive damages
and $26,000 in compensatory 'dam
ages, plus court costs.
In the suit, Pearson also took
exception to remarks made in an
other editorial about him which
appeared in the paper Aug. 15,
1956.
Plane Hits Sand, Crashes,
On Chirikof Island
KODIAK, W) — Six men es
caped injury Friday when their
plane cracked up on the beach of
Chirikof Island while ferrying
beef between the island and An
chorage.
Reports indicated the plane hit
a patch of sand on the beach and
toppled over. The craft, a B-14,
was owned by Errol Enterprises
of Anchorage.
The Nome River Bridge at
Mile 13 on Highway 97 is now
under repair, and the road will be
closed for several days. It is pos
sible Jthat a detour can pass pas
senger cars, but doubtful if trucks
can pass.
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Air Force Grounds
Its C123s To
Correct Fuel Failure
DAYTON, Ohio, iffl — The Air
Force has grounded all of its 230
C123 troop-cargo planes similar
to one that crashed in Idaho and
killed 19 persons Thursday night.
The grounding order was an
nounced today by the Air .Ma
teriel Command at Wright-Pat
terson Air Force Base near Day
ton.
A spokesman for the AMC said
the planes since October 8 had
been in the process of being
worked on to correct a possible
malfunction of the fuel system.
He emphasized that it was not
known whether the crash near
Payette, Idaho, was due to a
poorly operating fuel system.
The Air Force on October 8
issued a technical order to cor
rect a certain function of the
fuel system of the C123s, and the
work was to be completed by Oc
tober 16, the AMC spokesman
said. He did not know whether
the plane that crashed had been
worked on yet. From a third to
half of the planes had been
worked on by the time of the
crash, he added.
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City Council Plans
Regulation Voting Booth
The City Council meeting on
Monday evening discussed the
following matters:
Nome is to have nice new
standard voting booths for the
General Election next month, ac
cording to the City Council, and
will continue to have only one
polling place, instead of the con
templated two districts.
The Chief of Police is now using
the new red City Patrol Car,
which arrived on the last boat.
Home inspections for wiring
and fire is continuing, it was re
ported at the meeting.
Clerks for the General Elec
tion will be Bjorgne Reader and
Elma Glavinovich. Judges will be
Edith Arnold, Loretta W&ldhelm
and Albm Poison.
City Council granted permis
sion for the city warehouse to be i
used for detention of loose dogs. I
Western Electric Co.'
Lauds CAP Here
For Rescue Work
The Western Electric Co. ex
pressed their appreciation to the
CAP here for their work in locat
ing the downed plane last week
with three Western Electric em
ployees. The letter, addressed to
Floryn Rhode, stated in part:
“Such devotion to service is rare,
and I wish it were possible to
personally explain to each one our
appreciation for his part in the
search. As for the rescued men,
words cannot express the depths
of their gratitude. Too, I am sure
that the various families involved
are most grateful. In keeping
them informed as to the progress
of the search, anxiety nat
urally mounted, and when the
men were rescued the relief of
these people could not be meas
ured in words.”
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out 40 degrees and eliminate
awkward movements associated
with getting in and out of cars.
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free as arising from a chair to
welcome a guest.
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