Higher Gasoline Prices Forecast For This Year Some Sort of Control Would Be Big Boon To Industry and Federal Government May Step Ip, Babson Says In Discussing Return To Better Conditions By ROGER W. BABSON (Copyright, 1934, Publisher* Fi iincial Bureau) Babson Park Mass., May 4.—Condi tions iii the oil industry today present ;l striking contrast to those of a year ;*,) Last May crudeo il production w;l s running wild; crude oil prices near all time lows; producers w ,. r e piling up big losses daily; oil se curities were severely depressed. In tin* short space of 12 months the pic ture has completely changed. Produ®. non is now fairly well in hand; crude nil prices ares irm; oil companies are making good profits; and oil Securi tas are again in demand. A Unique ndustry As readers know oil is found in huge pools which extend for mile* underground. These pools are tapped by hundreds of wells which are own ed by a number of Individuals or companies. The oil in each pool is the common property of all well-owners. Naturally, unless some type of control is exercised, each producer attempts to outstrip his neighbor and get a higget shares tom the pool. This has two very bad effects. First, it im mediately creates over-production of crude oil with a resultant decline m prices; and second, when the wells jit- allowed to run too fast the pres sure m the pool is reduced and mil lions of barrels of oil, which other wise could be recovered, arel ost. Back in pre-depression days, pro duction was controlled through volun tary proration agreements among the operators. Wliilep rices wereh igh and demand for petroleum products brisk, the majority of producers respectea their quota agreements. Wlith the coming of hard times and the dire reed for cash, many producers vio lated their quotas. This was a pro gressive malady which quickly spread throughout the entire industry. In late 1931, production ran wild and crude prices crumbled to the lowest point on record. The industry tem porarily stabilized in the fall of 1932, but last spring production again got out of hnd pushing the industry back into chaos. Production Control Necessary The fundamental purpose of the Na tional Recovery Act of last June was to give the Federal government power to control production, wages and prices in certain industries. Oil was a shining example of an Industry which needed powerful centralized regulation. After years of instabill Relieves Headache Due To Constipation “Thedford’s Black-Draught has been used in my family for years,” writes Mrs. J. A. Hightower, of Carthage, Texas. “I take it for sick headache that comes from consti pation. When I feel a headache coming on, I take a dose of Black- Draught. It acts and my head gets easy. 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Based on a caref^ dlit' it ‘ St ir- Adml ">s‘ra.-Yc*e U ‘ foi thJ V CrUde oil Production suoia for the entire nation. This allowable now stands at 2.366.200 barrets pel day Production today i s very close to this maximum. in T tht r oii ar V h r e im P or tant factors out Th f * ‘T today which stan * the a ? d m ° St s, S n iflcant ls the Ightenlng of production control m Texas where the chief trouble has previously existed. Several new taws and recent court decisions have mads he control in Texas fields stronger today than ever before. Federal con trol under the oil code, however, has received several set-backs. The legal ity of certain phases of the cooe awaits a final decision before the supreme Court. Because it is so es sential to hold down production, i feel that sooner or later some Fed eral control method will be found which the Supreme Court win up hold. Strike Would Boost “Gas” Prices The second factor is the tnrear of labor difficulties. This would be un fortunate. Wells would have to me capped over. Many of these would have to go “on the pump” to start producing again. This would increase production costs. A strike in the in dustry at present would, however, solve the production problem once and for all. For this reason I feel that a strike would prove bullish on oil se curities. From a comparative stand point labor in the oil fields has al ways been treated well. But .because the consumer would eventually pay the cost of the strike many times over, I believe the government will do everything in its power to prevent oil labor troubles, and that any serious strike at this time is unlikely. The third big factor in the outlook today is the possibility of refinery control. Theoretically, if production at the well could be strictly governed there would be no need for refinery control, owever, at the present time there are about 600,000,000 barrels of petroleum, or about 350,000,000 bar rels of crude oil, In storage in this country. Roughly, this supply is suf ficient to meet consumption require ments in the United States for six months. So while production is being cut down, oil companies are refining crude taken out of storage. As a re sult, gasoline stocks on hand have re cently been at theh ighest level in the history of the industry. Gasoline tank wagon prices have .been tempor arily weak, but they should soon re cover if a refinery control law were placed on the books. Earnings Now Excellent Meanwhile the price of crude oil ls sensitively reflecting the better pro duction situation. The average month ly price per parrel is now around sl, compared witfh a low of 42 cents in the summer of 1963. Crude actually drop ped to less than 10 cents per barrel during the depression. Due to current higher crudep rices oil companies* profits in thel ast half of 1933 were more than sufficient in most cases to offset the big losses of the first half of the year. Actually the situation is so strong that the major companies are active in bidding for prperties and are conducting “wildcat” operations in territories that have been idle for years. In fact, prices and earnings were so satisfactory that an average of 2u leading oil stocks in February of this year sold 11 per cent above their 1933 peak while the industrial averages broke their 1933 top by less than one per cent. Several oil stocks have re cently made all time highs while eight have gone into new high ground ror the recovery periodd uring the lasi month. Not only are holders of oil eternities benefiting from improved security quotations but their income has been substantially augmented. Os 25 leading companies, 14 have increas ed, resumed or inaugurated dividends in the> ast six months. This is the best record of any major group or companies. Outlook ence managements, as well as stock traders, evidently believe that the oil 1 industry, is now definitely working back into prosperity. The near-term outlook for the leading oil stocks k* especially attractive. It seems to me, however that the oil companies as well as the utilities railroads packing companies dairy companies and com munication companies will'eventually be publicly owned. Accordingly I am not hazarding a forecast at this time on the very long-term outlook for on securities. Business as estimated by the Bab sonchart though still 21 per cent m low normal is now 25 per cent above ay car ago. NUMBER OF LOCAL STUDENESAT WAKE Summer School at Baptist College Draws Many From City, County (Special to The Daily Dispatch) Wake Forest, May 4.—A check up of the alumni files at Wake Forest College preliminary to the celebration this month of her 100th birthday shows that Vance county had 11 stu dents enrolled in the last Wake Forest Meredith summer school held at Wake Forest. These students are J. H. Bunn, Ji-., Henderson; R. W. Bunn, Henderson , Mrs. J. R. Carroll, Middleburg; Grace Gooch, Dabney; William Massenburg, Henderson; Lola Maynard, Henderson, J, R. " Nixon, Henderson; Mary Eliza beth Tunstall, Henderson; Mrs. F. B. Woody, Henderson; and Ruby E. Mc- Cann, Dabney. The school will open this summer on une 11, the six-week session end ing July 20 and the nine-week session August 10. The college will continue its co-op erative policy of allowing students certain considerations in deferrmg payment of part fees. There will he no tuition charges to any group of students this summer, the only cost required by the college beieng an en trance fee of $22.50 for nine-week stu dents and sls for six-week students. Courses of instruction will be offered which lead to the Bachelor-s and Master’s degrees and to all types of North Carolina teachers’ certificates. HENDERSON, (N. CJ DAILY DISPATCH, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1934 1 TOBACCO PUNTING NOT YETSTARTED Hardly Time for Much, But Ground Must Be Pre pared for Setting With the time at hand for trans planting of tobacco from seedbeds to the growing fields, very little of that has been done as yet in Vance county. Actually, no transplanting has been done that has been reported here. Lateness of the spring and continu ed cool weather has been the cause of the delay. There have been a few spring days but no protracted warm season that would permit or activity on a major scale on farms. Frequent heavy rains up to a week or ten days ago furnished abundant moisture, but ground that had been plowed at intervals has since become so hardened as to make it unsuited for transplanting of tobacco in many instances, and much plowing will yet have to be done before the young plants are set The weather has been so cool that fires in homes and business places have continued to be necessary and farmers have gotten behind in start ing all of their crops. Tobacco plant-beds have developed to the point where there is every indi cation of an abundance of plants be ing available for the reduced acreage that will ibe planted this year. Nearly all growers have signed the reduction contracts with the Federal govern ment, and that means the acreage wfH be around 30 per cent less in this county than the general average for the past three yeaers. So that there will hardly be any scarcity of plans for the year’s crop. By hard work and a lot of it, grow ers will probably be able to overcome the effects of the late sprmg, provid ed the weather from this time on is favorable for work and for the growth of the young plants, once they have been set in the fields. hnaiMriai Sermon on That Day; Leßoy Martin Finals Speaker On Next Friday Commencement exercises at Epsom high school, a stone’s throw over the county line in Franklin county, will begin next Sunday afternoon with the baccalaureate sermon at the school auditorium at 3 o’clock by Rev. R. L. Randolph, of Franklinton. The full commencement program was an nounced today by Prof. Julius A. Woodward, principal. On Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock a music recital will be given. The class day exercises and the re citation and declamation contests will be held next Thursday evening at 8 o’clock, also in the school auditorium, where all of the exercises will be held. The commencement address will be delivered by Leßoy Martin, of Raleigh secretary of the State School Commis sion, at 11 o’clock Friday morning of next week, May 11. The address will be followed by the presentation of dip lomas, medals, prizes and awards. The commencement play, a comedy, will be given Friday evening of next week. It will be entitled, “Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick.” AROUND TOWN . Court Still Idle. — Again today there was no session of recorder’s court, no cases being set for trial. No Deeds or Marriages.— Yesterday saw no marriage licenses issued and no real estate deeds filedw ith the register of deeds, the records showed today. No Appointment Yet.—No appoint ment to the postmastership at Kitt rell has been made as yet, nor has an eligible list been certified from the civil service examination recently held here. Just when some action may be expected is not known here. Pay Is Delayed. Although the school term is ending, teachers will not get their pay checks just now. but Will have to wait two or three weeks until the State furnishes the money, since some of it is being obtained from the Federal government. Truck Not Moved.—Although re moval of one of the firetrucks from the fire house to the eastern aide oi the railroad, has been authored by the City Council as a temporary mat ter, the truck has not yet been movetr, and Chief Shepherd thinks it will be some weeks yet before it will be nec essary to make the transfer because of the advance of the paving crews on Garnett street. Committeemen In Rural Schools To Be Named Monday One committeeman in each district served by the five consolidated schools of the county is to be named by the Vance Board of Education at the board's regular monthly meeting next Monday, according to a decision reached by th eboard at its last reg ular meeting the first Monday in April. Each school has a local com mittee of three, and one is named each year byb the county education board. Other than that, it is expected the Monday meeting of the board will be largely of a routine nature. MRS. S.T. ADAMS IS CLAUD DY DEAIH Funeral at Holiness Church Saturday, With Burial at Rock Bridge Mrs. S. T. Adams, 74, died at 9 o’clock Thursday evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sam Par rish, after being in failing health sev eral years and being confined to her bed for the past three months. Death was caused by a complication of dis eases. Funeral services will be held from the Holiness church at South Hender son, of which she had been a mem ber 20 years, tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, with the pastor, Rev. E. G. Parrott, in charge. Interment will follow in Rock Bridge cemetery. Surviving are the following Chil dren. E. R. Adams, M. W. Adams, Mrs. W. H. Johnson, Mrs. Lela Glenn, 'Mrs. Sam Parrish and Mrs. Ervin Kelly, all of this city or county, and one brother, Zeb Turner, of Wake county, and two sistres, Mrs. Lula Parrott, of Durham county, and Mrs. ®. M. Adams, of Wake county. Her husband has been dead 18i years. Mrs. Adams was a native of Wake county, and was born in 1860. Active pallbearers for the funeral were announced as follows: Ed White Ernest Hoyle, Charlie Catlett, I. G. Hedgepeth, Walter Dloyd and John Hicks. In addition to her immediate chil dren, 34 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren also survive. Five Girls and Six Boys In Speaking Competition At Central School Declamation and recitation contests for boys and girls of the seventh grade of Central school will be held in the school auditorium tonight in exercises that promise a program quite different from that of former years. The speakings will be heard, the judges will render their decision and the- medals will be presented all at tonight’s exercises. Hitherto the medals have been presented at the high school graduating exercises, but not so this year. “Grandfather’s Clock” and “Mid the Hills of Carolina” will be sung by the seventh grade pupils, after which the readings bby the girls will be held. The seventh grade girls will then sing “last Night,” to be followed by the declamations by the boys. The judges will retire to make up their decision and announcements will follow. Mrs. S T. Peace will present the Board of Education Medal to the win ning Kiri, and Dr. L. W. Gerringger pastor of the First Mlethodist Protes tant church, will present the D. Y. Cooper Medal to the boy who is de clared the winner. The, whole class will sing “Farewell to Central.” Marshals for the evening will be 'Jaiie Newell, chief, Dorothy Brinkley, /Esther Mitchell, Elsie Fuller, Berl Oser. 200,000 Acres In Burned Territory in Two Counties (Continued from Page One.) have turned in the Stone Mountain fire. Refugees from the latter section said the fire "swept in suddenly: One man, an invalid, barely escaped with his life when friends carried him out of the path of the fire. Hundreds of volunteers fought to check the firel ast night, but none of the three major blazes was entirely under control early today. More than 100 Elkin residents joined the forces combatting the Stone Mountain con flagration. George P. Dowling Dies Os Injuries (Continued from Page One.) wife and their daughter were patients in Maria Parham hospital here follow ing the wreck. News of his death came today in a telegram received by Mrs. C. H. Lewin, registered nurse who attended them during their ill ness here, and who made the trip home with them and remained there a week or more. The wreck which occurred a mile or two south of Kittrell, proved fatal to Mrs. George Beaumeister and Mrs. 'George Breslin, sisters, of State Is land, N. Y., one of whom lived only a few hours and the other passing away before, the next morning. They were traveling southward in a coupe, which caught fire and was destroyed on the hgihway. The mayor and his family were traveling northward. Several weeks after the tragedy, suit was brought by the husbands of INSECT POWDER the two women against the mayor and the Philadelphia department store company of Strawbridge & Clothier, for whom he worked. An aggregate of SIOO,OOO is sought in the litigation which has not yet been brought to trial, but which is expected to be tried in Wake Superior Court at Raleigh. Mayor Dowling’s death is the third to result from the collision, one of the worst ever to occur on a highway near this city. U. S. Chamber Criticizes Varied Aspects of Laws Os This Administration (Continued from Page one.) committee that looked into anti-trust and price aspects of the NRA. It was expected to be unfavorable, outp übli cation was withheld. Senator Clark, Democrat, Missouri was at the time proposing a Trade Commission investigation into other price ranges in the lumber code. His resolution had to wait. On top was more debeate on easing corporate bankruptcy proceedings. Simmering, too, was agitation for mandatory silver price help. And many eyes were on a luncheon engagement between President Roose velt and two of his original “brani trust” advisors —Raymond Moley and Charles W. Taussig. New Theories and New Plans are being developed in half a dozen countries ~ in the effort to restore national prosperity. There is still only one sure way, however, to enduring PERSON AL prosperity: to spend less thah you earn and to put the balance to work earning interest. The Citizens Bank and Trust Company is helping many hun dreds of business men, farmers, wage earners and others in this section of the State to follow this plan successfully. Let us work with and for YOU. . Citizens Bank & Trust Company HENDERSON, N. C. 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