Arctic Oil Pure; Like Diesel;
Used As Fuel Right From Ground
“The crude oil at Umiat is pro
duced from relatively shallow
wells, completed for the most part
in the permafrost,” the Navy De
partment declared. “It is of such a
composition that it may be used
to fuel diesel engines just as it
comes out of the ground. Two ex
isting wells in the field are con
sidered to be almost immediately
capable of accomplishing the pro
duction envisioned by this bill. It
is estimated that their combined
productive capability during the
five years that production would be
authorized by this bill could ap
proximate a total of 500,000 bar- !
rels.
“Commercial drilling on nearby
lands outside the reserve is under
stood to be scheduled to begin af
NORTH STAR NURSE
SEES TUNDRA TIMES;
NOW IN STATES
Mildred Keaton, widely known
tip and down the coast of Alaska
as a nurse, was a visitor in the
Tundra Times office recently. She
traveled for many years on the
original North Star, supply ship for
the Bureau of Indian Affairs, with
a medical team giving treatment
to the natives all along the coastal
villages.
Miss Keaton is now working at
Convalescent Nursing Home in
Snohomish, Washington. Another
former Alaskan, Mary Smith,
formerly Mary Lieb of Point Hope,
is also working at the nursing
home. She was a visitor during
July in Fairbanks and Kotzebue.
ter the autumn freeze-up of 1963.
At present, all fuel requirements
for such drilling and related oil
field development must either be
air-lifted into Umiat from Fair
banks, a distance of 450 miles, or
barged in from Norman Wells in
Canada, a thousand miles away.
In all cases, the present cost of
fuel oil at Umiat ranges from
ninety-three cents to one dollar and
thirty cents per gallon, with the
total cost for fuel oil required to
drill an oil well estimated at one
hundred thousand dollars per well.”
The Interior Department put the
cost this way: “It appears that al
though a barrel of oil sells for $3
in Anchorage, it will cost in excess
of $35 in Umiat.”
The Navy contemplates that the
sales-purchase contract to be bid
on the Umiat crude oil would pro
vide that the purchaser take title
to the oil below the surface in ex
isting wells and therefore be re
sponsible for all production costs.
Under such circumstances, the bill
would not involve the expenditure
of any additional appropriated
funds, but rather would increase
government revenues by the
amount of the bid purchase price.
The Interior Department's re
port suggested that the legislation
be amended to include an addition
al limitation as to time of the
authorization “to make explicit that
the authority would exist only until
such time as petroleum supplies
are available from other sources at
a price comparable to the price of
petroleum supplies produced and
made available under the bill.”
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HOMESICK LETTER
FROM ALASKA MAN
Sgt. John Starr
R A 19601154
Co. 'B' 1st Bat. 35th Inf.
APO-25 San Francisco, California
August 20, 1963
Dear Sirs:
I will like very much for your
office to send me a paper, but first
I will send 15c plus whatever it
will cost for air mail for a sample
copy. Being away from home for
quite a while, I'm getting kind of
homesick and I would like to hear
what goes on at home.
I'm in the army and stationed in
Hawaii. I’ve been here for almost
two years and got one more left.
Then I'm going to try to get sta
tioned up there for a while.
Thank you very much.
Homesick,
John Starr
State Attacks
Job Problem
In Five Ways
A five pronged effort to secure
Alaskan jobs for Alaskans has been
announced by Gov. William A.
Egan.
The effort will be carried on by
five statewide sub-committees of
the state Advisory Committee for
State Manpower Development and
Training headed by Gil Johnson,
state labor commissioner.
In announcing the effort, Gov.
Egan said. “I believe this group
can perform one of the most im
portant functions of any committee
we have ever had.
“If we do not do something about
occupational training of our own
people we will be falling down on
a job that is important to all Alas
ka. This is the first statewide con
certed effort in this field,” the Gov
ernor said.
[ The five sub-committee s assigned
| by Chairman Johnson are:
TRAINING PROJECTS — Chair
man. Ferrall Campbell, Operating
Engineers Local 302, Juneau: F. D.
Chiei, RCA Service Company. An
chorage; J. A. Kornfeind. Electrical
Workers Local 1547. Fairbanks;
William Woodfin, State Vocational
Education Director. Anchorage.
LOCAL WORKERS — Chairman.
Dwayne Carlson, Carpenters Local
347, Fairbanks; Charles Feather
stone. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Juneau; Joe McGill. Dillingham;
John Nusunginya, Barrow.
YOUTH—Chairman, Henry Bry
ant. Sitka Independent School Dis- j
trict: William E. Davis, Alaska
Methodist University, Anchorage;
Joseph Fiala, U. S. Bureau of Ap- j
prenticeship and Training, Anchor
age; James Simpson, Ketchikan
Community College; Lew Williams
Jr.. Petersburg Press; William
Woodwin, Anchorage.
(Continued on Page 5)
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Congress Gets Reasons For
Private Use Of Navy Oil
The Defense and Interior Depart
ments and the Office of Emergency
Planning have reported favorably
to the Senate and House Armed 1
Services Committee on legislation j
to authorize the Secretary of the
Navy to sell until January 1, 1969, |
crude oil from the Hmiat Field in
northern Alaska in order to make
local fuel available for use in oil
and gas exploration in adjacent I
areas.
Introduced in May by Senator j
Bartlett, with co-sponsorship by |
Senator Gruening, and by Repre
sentative Rivers, the bills permit [
oil from two wells in Naval Petro
leum Reserve No. 4 to be available
only to companies having oil and
gas exploration contracts with the
federal government to be used on
machines and equipment, for drill
ing and for heating.
“In recent Years geologists have
come to believe that the Arctic
slopes are rich in great resources
of oil and natural gas,” Senator
Bartlett stated in introducing the
measure. “Oil companies are explor
ing and developing these federal
lands, and hopes are expressed that
before too many years a producing
field will be a reality in the Arctic.”
That the OEP holds the same be
lief was apparent in the communi
cations sent to the House and Sen
ate committees by Director Edward
A. McDermott in which he said:
“The sale of oil for such purpose
would make only a slight reduction
in the Umiat Field’s total reserves
and might contribute to the dis
covery and development of reserves
in the general area.”
The Navy Department, reporting
in behalf of the Defense Depart
ment. estimated that less than one
percent of the oil in the 6.000-acre
field within the 23 million-eci'e re
serve would be used.
CHAPLAIN WARNS OF
CREEPING DANGERS
By |
Chaplain (Capt.) John J. Graisy
(Reprinted from the Buffalo
of Fort Greely)
A man in San Francisco got I
suspicious when he listened to two
painters inside a high tank giggling
for 15 minutes without stopping.
“Nothing could be that funny,”
he concluded and called another
man who was nearby.
The one he signaled to, a super- j
intendent for a chlorine company, |
clambered into the tank only to j
discover the painters reeling about, j
The combination of heat and paint
fumes afected them like laughing
gas. Then he giggled himself.
An ambulance was summoned i
and all three men were taken to
the hospital where they were
treated for gas poisoning.
The most dangerous of poisons, 1
whether physical or spiritual, are I
the ones that creep upon us un
noticed.
Use the eyes the Lord gave you f
and the brain He has entrusted to I
you to locate and render harmless
all dangers to the individual, the
community or the eternal welfare j
of yourself and other men.
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Stating that a “conservatively
reasonable” estimate of the present
Director of Naval Petroleum and
Oil Shale Reserves places at 50
milion barrels the recoverable oil
in the Umiat Field, the Navy report
said that competent petroleum en
gineers have made estimates rang
ing from 30 million to 122 million
barrels.
The SEABEES in 1945, during
Navy exploration of Naval Petro
leum Reserve No. 4, discovered the
Umiat Field, estimated to be as
much as 6.000 acres in size. Eight
successful wells were drilled in the
field before exploration was sus
pended in 1954.
Fishermen Have
Good Season In
North Gulf Area
The longest and most productive
odd-year season of salmon fishing
in Prince William Sound ended
Aug. 19 with a total catch of 6.3
million fish.
It was estimated by the Alaska
Department of Fish and Game that
another 2.4 million salmon escaped
to streams to reproduce their kind.
Pink salmon composed 5.2 million
of the caught fish, and 1.8 million
of those that escaped. One million
of the caught fish and one-half
million of those that escaped were
chum salmon, it was reported.
In addition. 45.000 red salmon, of
a total run of 110.000 fish, were
taken from the Coghill River. This
fishery was first developed by the
j Department in 1961. Fishermen
\ were not allowed to take red sal
mon from the Eshamy District,
j where a poor run was predicted.
I The great run of pink and chum
salmon in the Prince William
Sound area was predicted prior to
the season by the Department. This
predicting service was started in
1960.
The big run contrasted sharply
with the small catch of salmon this
summer in the Bristol Bay area,
which has been declared an eco
nomic disaster area because salmon
Eailed to show this season.
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