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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
THURS., DEC. 17, 1942
Dark .Jwhining
by Helen Topping Miller
CIIAI'TER VII:I,.
Synopsis
Gary Tallman, a young petroleum
engineer; on his way to a joh in -Mex-
'gets as far es'Texas; where he. is
given a ride by :Ilona Lee Mason.
They have an accident, and Gary is
seriously injured. ltlona Lee take:;
him to her hone, Mae he finds two
reasons for not going on to lexica--
Mona Lee's daughter, Adelaide, and
evidence of oil on. the Mason ranch.
Harvey Mason, Mona Leo's husband,
is determined to put down a well, The
arrangements are nearly made when
Mason learns that his son-in-law,
Oliver Kimball; Inas made it neeeisary
for -hint to lay a pipe line from the
neighboring • town in order to get.
water for power..More trouble turns
up in the form of Gary's friend, Bill
Grant, who goes to a dance -with Gary
and .Adelaide.
W. N. U. PB.A.T1'J.RES
truck bogged down in the black
earth and there,it stayed for two
days, while a ozen inert sweated
and shoveled and swore, trying• to get
it,out, But not till a wind. blew and
the soil cloned would it stir— and by.
that unto 'three other heavily loaded
trucks` had piled u,p behindit—with
the lifting hoist at the tail end of
the procession.
Adelaide climbed to the top ,of a
fence post and sat there, with a rain-
coat buttoned to her chin, thrilled
and gloating. "This is fun," she
told Gary. "And look .he's painted
everything. Bright blue' It looks
better now, doesn't it?"
"Depends" frowned Gary, "on
what's under the paint."
"You're bound to be a gloom,
aren't you, darling?"
"I'm a petroletun engineer -- 1
'hope.' Where's. your blond friend,
Bill?"
'Yllt, bat he's your friend—don't
you remember?? He's in Houston
success for Gary,The dance was not -a conspicuousnoty "
. 7Io had, at the l
i • "Had a letter from him, did you?"
last minute, rashly spent most of his Gary was being nasty and enjoying
money for a white suit and some it'
shoes; he had escorted Adelaide— "No, 11 'wasn't a letter. It was a
looking crisp and smart and alto- telegram. Look savage some more
gether adorable in a pale yellow -I like to shiver."
dance frock and little gold slippers. "I've plenty to be savage about."
"You look • like a daffodil," he ad- "Mother signed some papers,"
mired her,
"Well, thank goodness for a disc
corning man," she sighed,- spreading
her wide fluff of slclrt carefully.
"Dad just told me I looked like fifty
Pounds of butter." gagiit
Thera was a little too Hatch of Bill g' soanelte d had to un
at the dance, doubtedly, because an ads well was a
Gary danced with Adelaide once,
rather awkwardly because of his
lame arae, and Bill cut in before they
had gone twice around the. floor.
"Better sit dawn fellow," he ad
vised fraternally. "Yon look all in."
Gary went out on the terrace and
sulkily smoked one cigarette after
another.`
After a while he went back and
leaned against the wall, and pres-
ently Adelaide swooped upon him
and slid her arm through his,
"Where on earth have you been?"
site demanded, "You are the most
illusive date I ever load. Colne along
and dance, Soleness,"
So he danced with her, and Bill
cut in immediately, whereupon Gary
found his aloof post again and parked
there for what seemed hours. Ado_ 'happily, "You can even taste it in
'aide and Bill had disappeared, and the eoffee," she complained,
AdeIaicle said. "I don't know what
they were, but Dad was inacl, and
when Mother tried to talk to him he
told her to shut np."
Gary walked away, thoughtful and
uneasy. So Harvey Mason was lnort-
cash proposition.
But at last,. on Saturday; the great
casing went down and gray cement
poured in; in a rolling stream, and
Gary helped Adelaide up to the
detxick floor and held her while she
looked 'down.
"When they get enough concrete
down there, they'll put this wooden
block on top of it. And then they'll
force water down there under enor-
mous pressure' 1111 it drives the block
down and the cement up, behind the
pipe till it seals the sides of the well.
Monday they'll start drilling," Gary
said.
The great boilers roared; and the
'tot oil smoke from the burners . rode
the north wind and . seeped into the
house, and Mona Lee sniffed it un -
the band was plowing through "Good
Night Ladies," when they came back;
She was airy and' difficult all the
way home and Gary said very little
until they were at the door and Slime,
sleepy and sulky, had driven the car
back to the garage. Then Gary said
"Tastes like .money to me," Har-
vey said. Ho was more affable now
that the slush pit was dug.
Roughnecks with steel tongs per-
ched precariously high in the deioick,
and when a length of drill pipe came
"Thanks very much for a pleasant riding up, they grappled and held it,
evening." screwing it on to the length that had
Gazy lay awake fora long time gone down before. `Ten the black
, kelly joint rade up and was Coupled
staring into the dark and consider- ko the pipe—and the whole went
ing the exquisite pleasure it ovoid be down, the swivel clanked into place
to flatten Bill Grant's viking profile be,
the rotary turned as the draw
into some particularly viscous oil Igen grunted and whined --=and deep -
field mud. And then he slept wearily' er and deeper into the earth sank the
and woke to find that it was raining. ,hungry bits.
Harvey was 11100050 at • breakfast, ! At the ,, top of the derrick the
growling the ram and the de-
lays.
"There won't be 'any, delays,"
Gary assured him: "I'11 keep the
gang working,"
Gary had seen the banker came out
in his car and walk around over the
lace, looking over the dotriick and.
the .water line, his eyes as cold and.
noncommittal 12S a 00ilnle ofhis own.
dnnos,
And that night Harvey was irrita-
ble al: supper, wanting•, to know why
they had to have steak every night
when hash was plenty good enough
for 'limn.
"I wish we'd never heard about
il," Mona Loa sighed,
Theo
came a morning, when t
sizzle slacked a little, and II
he
` TIME TABLE
Trains will arrive at and depart
.from Clinton as follows:
Toronto and • Goderich Division
"Going East, depart 6.43 a.m.
•Going. East, depart 3.05 p.m.
sGoing West, depart . 11.50 a.m.
Going West, depart 10.35 p.m.
London and Clinton Div.
Owning North, arrive 11.15 a.m.
Going South, leave' . , .,3.10 pan.
wrong?
"Something
"Nope—just changing bits. 'Want
to see what they're getting out now?
Don't comclose, Wane too you'll' get all
muddy,"
Ile crouched over' the slush pit and
brought up a handful t 1 of gray; drip-
ping debris in his palm. "Feel that?
announced that 411x_ drills weve 'would m That's rack `e•tnr 1 ' '1
oe c, 01 men call
on that day. '. it. Down below • they'll hit chalk,
perhaps - limestone, maybe, Then
if we're lucky, there will be yellow-
ish'rock with streaks •bf sand and oil
in it—ansa then we're down. Hickey's
going to change bits now. Have to
keep grinding them all the time."
"Poor old earth I wonder if it
hurts."
"No groans yet. But sometimes
the earth •hates the drill and blows
it out—and then for weeks you live
with trouble. You get a blowout on
a well—a crater at the top and the
sides cave in and the gas roars out
like soinething out of hell I I've seen
one blowout."
"How do they know the drill's
going straight down? Suppose it
wobbled around and went crooked
and maybe ended up away over on old
mean Harper's place."
"Nat likely—not that much. But
a variation of a quarter -inch here at
"Pretty muddy but there yet, to
move heavy machinery in," • Gary re-
minded hint.
"Hickey says he can make it."
"Hickey!" Gary exclaimed. "You
didn't hire Hickey?"
"Sure I hired him. Got the ,best
price out of him."
"But --his .'outfit's in bad shape!
That's why he made you a low price
—because his stuff is no good." Did
you take a 1oo1c at Hickey's bits?
They hadn't been sharpened in
months when I saw them."
"He'll have 'em sharpened ---I saw
to that"
Gary went out heavily. Hickey
Would move on the job and, unless
extraordinary luck was with them,
grief would move on with' him, It
began that afternoon, wizen• the first
of the• tremendous trucks appeared.
In the middle of the'pasture, the
the surface can widen till it g
.pretty big attlt0 bottem.of the th
thousand foot• hole. I've seen W
put down that hit the casing on of
wells, three hundred' feet; away:''
21 wish we could get over on Har -
pear's place 1 wish we'd bore
straight through bis.house the
mean old thing!"
"Seen your 'sister lately?"
gets
ree-
ells
Iter
"They were coming out Sunday—
and then Dad' was still angry so
Mother phoned; Grace not to Come.
She didn't want Dad and Oliver to
get into a fight." She knocked on the
fence post with her clenched knuck-
les. I'm stiff. Help' me down I
think I'm tired of this oil well. I
think S treed . a maple fudge sundae;
Let's get this mud off and go to
tomtit."
"Can't ,clo it. I'm a workingman.
Your father expects ,nae to stay
around. When anything happens, it
happens quick, on a job like this.
Good-bye, idle woman."
"Good -by, Mud -dauber. Let ins
know when you' get oil, will you?"
"I won't need• to let you 'mow.
You'll hear the gang yell all the way
to town." -
Seven 11tln1deecl feet, and still
hickey's draw gear groaned, and
the cables 'held, and the rotary
turned. Hickey grinned his tooth-
less malicious_ ,grin whenever . Gary
was around, But Mason had an-
nounced that Gary Tallman was his
field superintendent, and there was
nothing for Hickey to do but listen
when Gary spoke.
The sun grew hot and Hickey shut
down his gear .'often to oil up. But
nights were still cool, and the steamy
Inlet drifted over the slush pit, where
water, warned by friction, spewed
out endlessly,bringing- up from the.
earth the grit of the drill. But still
the rotary turned and the bits went
down and hickey kept on grinning.
Eight hundred feet and a steamy
morning, and Gary looked tip to see
a hairy figure leaning against the
tool box. A roughneck eased his
itching nose with the back of his
fist, and spat. "Yonder's old Hugh-
ey," he said. "We're going to get
oil,"
Gary walked over to, tate old roan.
!`Hello, Mr. Gothergill, Come out
to see us bring in this dry hole?"
"I smelled ,her." 01d Hughey
scl'atehed himself in several places,
"I can smell a drill ten miles off.
What you got over yonder in that
pit?
"Rock euttikgs. Lime, mostly."
"Yeah, I know. And you can drill
her to Chiny and all you'll git is
line and salt water. I been following
oil all over this country for fifty
years. 'reckon Harvey Mason is
ficin' to lose about ever'thing he's
got on this here wildcat."
"I guess he's not worrying,"
At dusk old. Hughey disappeared,
after borrowing another quarter.
But the next day, early, he was there
again and Hickey growled when he
saw. him, "Mason had ought to . run
that old bpm off," he grumbled.
"lie's bad luck,"
But old ilughey only sat quietly
under a tree, taking out luis plug to-
bacco now and then to whittle on it.
Gary, feeling vaguely sorry for the
old man, begged a couple of slices
of bread and a chicken leg from
Marie for Hughey. Hughey accept-
ed them .with :lofty,graco, but 'Gary
diel not linger.
Gary had heard voices in the Ma-
son living ` room -voices raised a
little too loudly; Harvey's voice—
and another that he knew belonged
to Oliver Kimball.
He went back,' intending not 'to in-
trude:'unless he should, be summoned,
but in the back hall Mona Lee caught
at his sleeve and drew him aside,
"it's Oliver," she whispered, pale
with a desperate kind of excitement,
"Xie came ant and brought some big
oil man with hhn. They're arguing
in there, and Harvey'sbeginning to
gat n1ad. I listened upstairs. I
want ,you to go in, Gary. Inn going
to speak to Harvey."
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Request Farmers to
Cut Fnelwood
Farmers cut the bulk of the
9,000 006. cords of wood produced an-
nually in Canada. This, year, ac-
cording to information received' by
W. Iiarold McPhillips, Regional prices
and supply representive, ,Wartime
Prices and Trade Board, name num-
bers of farmers do nat propose to cut
fuelwood, and a shortage next winter
is foreseen.
In an effect to maintain supplies,
provincial authorites have been ask-
ed
sked by Donald Gordon, chairman of
the Prices Board, to approach their
municipalities :mor a complete survey
of the situation. If municipalities
undertake theresponsibility of en-
suring supplies; they have Mr. Gerd.,
on's assurance that banks would be
approached to provide credit asre-
quired for cutting operations.,
And It's Still
A "Merry Christmas"
Like most customs which become
popular and deep-rooted because they
satisfy a sound need, the idea of wish-
ing' friends and acquaintances, a
"Merry Christmasand a Haply New
Year" goes on, war. or peace.
Christmas' cards, for instance, a de
cidedly Old Country idea which be-
came, in pate -war days, a world wide
custom. were :first popularized a hun-
dred years ago in- England by .Sir
Henry Cole, The great vogue of
Christmas calve with Ohaales Dickens
who probably did more than any tnor
tal to spread the thought in this
world of "Peace on earth and, goodwill
tbwarcls 111e1I". Dickens did it in a
truly. English style; with plum pudd-
ings and all the trio -innings.
There will be few frills on the Eng-
lish Christmas. dinner menu this year.
Food rationing will see to that; but
there will be good cheer, and bright„
er war news in the Island Fortress,
thank heavens. And in the midst of all.
the rationing, paper and printing• in-
cluded, it is an interesting fact that.
Britain has stuck to her 100 -years old
tradition of Cheistptas cards. Sir And-
rew Duncan, British Minister of. Sup-
ply announced a while ago a special
allotment of paper for the making
of greeting cards, with the statement
that: Greeting cards are essential to
the over effort. People are living un-
der a great strain, and many. of them
are unable to Collect their thoughts
and express their feelings in a letter,
but in a tray of greeting cards with
sentiments already printed on them,
they find words which exactly ex-
press what they feel in their hearts."
In Canada the same facts hold true
-except that we are not so short of
paper.
Thousands, yes, hundreds of thou-
sands of people have .loved away
from their families and friends, lien
arnc� women into the maned forces,
workers into over industries,—yet in
their homes and camps and boarding unknown since the pioneer days. Pam -
hones this Christmas there will be fly labour will have to assume a
greetings and best wishes from the greater share of the work. Machinery
people they think most of. We quite on hand will have to have its use pro
agree with Sir Andrew Duncan. Greet- longed by timely overhaul and repair.
ing cards are one, of the things that Tractors and other equipment may be
bind us together. We intend to send of increased service it used co-oper-
out a lot of them ,ourselves, and, in- atively or hired out to neighbours,
cidentally, we hope to get a lot of Prodection costs may be lowered
them, from our friends, through an increase in yields per acre
QUEEN ELIZABETH INSPECTS
GAS MASK DURING ROYAL VISIT
TO U. S. TROOPS- The Queen -Con-
sort of George VI inspecting thegas
mask of an American soldier during
their Majesties' visit to the U S,
troops in N. Lifland.The soldier `is
Lieut, Jewett A. Dix, of Fort Laud-
;erdale, Florida:
How`*TO REDUCE FARM
CROP PRODUCTION COSTS
(Experimental Farm News)
Unless production costs are cane -
fully controlled, the present increase
mit farm revenue may result hi no
increase in profits, says II. D. Mite:
cheil, Field Husbandry Division, Cen-
tral Experimental Farm, Ottawa.
Farm operations will have to be thor-
oughly planned in view of the current
shortage of farm labour and new
farm machinery.
Labour is going to be the most im-
portant factor in the cost of produc-
ing farm crops, and every possible
means should be adopted to overcome
the present shortage, and keep down
the cost. Neighbourly cooperation
still has to be exercised to an extent
brought about by the use of improv-
ed varieties and cleaner seed. Weed
and plant disease control will increase
yields. Producing the greatest pos-
sible volume of hone grown feed will
reduce feed costs, insure an adequate
supply, and save time and expense in
purchasing feeds. Improvement of
pastures by reseeding and fertiliza-
tion will lower costs, increase produc-
tion during the summer season, and
put cattle in better condition for the
winter season.
DO CHRISTMAS .MAILING EARLY
Early Christmas mailing is urged
as a patriotic duty. The postoffice ser-
vice is preparing for the most hectic
rush in its history and an anneal is
made to the public for utmost co-op.
enation. It is stated that mail for lo-
cal delivery should be posted before
December 20—the earlier the better•—
and that proportionate 'allowance
should be made for mit-of-town mail.
It is not only that a record volume of
mail is expected but wartime condi-
tions present handicaps in the hand-
ling and transportation of mails,
ue
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DON'T MISS YOUR NAME!
The Plan in A Nutshell
Each week there will appear in an
advertisement on this page, the name
and address of someone residing in
Clinton or district. ;
WATKIN'S
Service Station
Huron St. Phone 18
Sunoco Products
Goodrich Batteries
Lubrication. A -Z
areamsnamsermaaram
rommeemmotozatar
Brucefield Garage
WM. IL DALRYMPLE
Sunoco, Gas—oil—Grease
General Repairs to All Makes
of Cars, Acetylene and Electric
Welding, Machinist, and Mill-
wright.
Phone Clinton 618r4
Brucefield, Ont.
Mrs L. Beatty, Varna.
H.1+. BERRY
Groceries, Dry Goods
Boots and Shoes, Hard-
ware, Paints and Oils
Flour and Feed, Etc.
Phones
Seaforth Clinton
23.6559 23-618.;•
Brucefield, Ont.
SUTTER & PERDUE
' Hardware
Plumbing and Hating
)eal Here and Take
your change in
War Savings Stamps
Phone 147w Albert St.
i
r
Simply locate your name, clip out the
advertisement and present it to The
• Clinton News -Record Office, and you
will receive.
'A War Savings Stanip ,H nee
R. V. IRWIN
Dry Goods
i'lT0nlen's and Children's
Ready -to -Wear
Phone 96 —. Victoria Street
When you buy here you
can take your change in
War Savings Stamps
REG. BALL
Shell Service Station
Gas and Oil
Your present car may have to
last a long time. Have us lubri-
cate and inspect it at regular
intervals and keep it roiling.
Phone 5 No. 8 Highway
J'OE MCCULLY & CO.
General Merchants
Sunoco Gas and Oils
Seaforth Clinton
al -BOH dl -diff
Brucefield, Ont.
JERVIS' EGGS
Will Win Your Favour
TRY THEM FOR
Wholesome Flavour
R. L. JERVIS
a.
THE KOZY GRILL
Clinton Ontario
"Not just a place to Eat
Bat a place to eat An-
other."
Meals—Lunches—
Sandwiches
Serve By Saving
We sell War Saving Stamps
B. F. Thrower
With so much low testing bar-
ley in this section, barely test-
ing high brings a nice premium.
Bring in samples of your bar-
ley. If the test is high,' I am
sure Not will find the price I am
offering interesting,
FRED O. FORD
Grain and Seed Phone 123w
Buy War Saving Stamps and
WAR SAVING CERTIFICATES
Regularly