04/13/2011

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Folks,
 
Today is our bowling day so I am getting this out a bit earlier today. Last week on my 3rd game, the strikes just kept coming. I ended up with my highest game ever of 211. One would almost think it’s the results of the Fasting diet I am on!
 
Gary
 
 
 
Condolence to the John Allard Family
From Marie Iverson Staub (60): Seattle, WA
 

Gary,

 

I would like to add my condolences to the family of John Allard. Betty was in my class of 1960. It was nice to see her at the reunion in May.

Marie Iverson (Staub)

Marie, Carol and Larry were in my class (65) until they transferred to Bottineau. Gary
 
 
 
Mary Eurich Knutson’s (62) horse story
Reply from Sharon Zorn Gerdes (62): Windsor, CO
 

Mary, I loved the story about your dad and the horses and you driving. What awesome memories. And what an awesome dad and mom you had. I can almost taste the cakes we would make when I came up, and the frosting made from just sugar and milk. And they were made in that old wood stove. Miss those times. sharon gerdes
 
 
 
 
Juice Fasting
Reply from Trish Larson Wild (73): FORT COLLINS, CO
 
Hi Gary,

I just returned from my audition for “America’s Favorite Trail Horse”. Our audition went pretty well, but not exactly without a hitch. Who can tell exactly what they’re looking for in a reality TV show anyway, but it was a great experience meeting the other contestants and seeing Monty Roberts’ Flags Up Farm in Solvang. It’s a fancy pants kind of place, with manicured drives, a race track, and the Taj Mahal of horse stalls. I loved every minute! I won’t find out if made the cut for a few weeks, but I’ll keep you posted.

After the audition some great friends joined me and we had a blast riding all three of my horses on the beach. I finally got Maggie to go into the surf which was a pretty big accomplishment. Just when I thought everything was going great, we got hit by a big wave right in the face. She took it well – I got drenched. Great fun!

We were at Montana de Oro, one of the prettiest beaches I’ve ever seen, just south of Morrow Bay, just north of Santa Barbara. We camped with the horses at a place called Rancho De Osos, and had a great 4 hour ride there this morning.

I met a number of nice folks at the audition and got invitations to come and ride at several locations and ranches around the great state of California. I have lots of plans for more rides in this area – including up to the Hollywood sign in Burbank. I’ll be hanging out with my friends here in Altadena (near Pasadena) until I hear if we make the audition cut. If not, we’ll head north to Oregon, if we make the cut, I’ll be heading to Texas for filming the TV segments.

I’ll keep you posted!

By the way, if any of your readers are interested in more specific instructions for safe and healthy juice fasting, I’d be happy to send a personal email that I wrote for a friend of mine who then lost 10 pounds in a week. Any of your blog fans can feel free to contact me directly. I have enjoyed the benefits of several fasts, and have helped several friends to complete the process with great benefits. I wish I had known about this excellent cleansing and weight loss method about 25 years ago!

Persons with severe diabetes, active cancer treatment, or other severe illness should not perform an unsupervised fast.

Almost everyone else can benefit from juice fasting. There are for instance, many reports of Arthritis cures, improvements in digestion, relief of allergies, and increased energy. Personally, I’ve never felt so healthy, and food has never tasted so good. My relationship with food was completely transformed in so many postiive ways…

How are you feeling now by the way? Are you back on regular food yet? Did you quit the diet cokes?

Having a Blast in Wonderful California,
Trish Wild, RN, PhD
Trish,
 
First off we wish you all the luck in the “America’s Favorite Trail Horse” cut. It will be assume if you are selected. Being the talented creative person that you are, I know you did well in the audition. We will keep our fingers crossed.
 
Today is day 10 of my liquid fast. This morning I was down 12 pounds. I have 4 lbs to go to make my goal. I will break this fast when I achieve my goal in a few days. I have cut back on diet cokes, but I can not give up the only vise I have!! – lol. I will say that once you are into this diet, most of the time you do not feel hungry. When I get a hunger pain, I just drink more juice and it goes away.
 
Trish, I will never be as fit, trim and limber as you though.
 
Gary
 
Trish Larson Wild with LA TV reporter
 
 
 
Posted by Larry Hackman (66): Bismarck, ND

60th anniversary of oil

Oil discovery near Tioga was April 4, 1951

 

March 31, 2011
 

By ELOISE OGDEN – Regional Editor (eogden@minotdailynews.com)

, Minot Daily News

 

 

 

TIOGA Sixty years ago on Monday was a big day in oil development history in North Dakota.

 

That was the day on Wednesday, April 4, 1951, when oil was discovered south of Tioga, touching off an oil boom.

 

“Now It’s Official! Oil Found At Tioga” read the banner headline on The Minot Daily News’ in the next day, April 5, 1951, edition.

 

The Minot Daily News was the first daily newspaper in the state to advise its readers of the significance of the developments at Tioga and to report the probability that an oil well had been obtained, according to an early April 1951 edition of the newspaper.

 

An official of the Amerada Petroleum Co. at Tulsa, Okla., drillers of the well, reported: “Crude oil of ‘high gravity’ flowed from the Iverson test well No. 1 south of Tioga at an average rate of nearly 18 barrels per hour in a 17-hour period ending at 6 a.m. today (April 5, 1951).

 

Up until that time, the Tioga test well had been considered a “tight hole” by Amerada Petroleum Co., which means little or no information on findings were officially released, the newspaper said.

 

“Now, however, there are rumors that the company will go ‘whole hog’ and announce the ‘bringing in’ of a new oil field. If so, North Dakota would become the 26th oil producing state in the nation,” The Minot Daily News reported.

 

Amerada officials in Tulsa said if the further testing of the well continues to produce encouraging results, other test wells probably would be drilled in the area. Previously, Amerada officials at Tulsa denied that any oil of consequence had been recovered.

 

The Tioga well was reportedly down more than 11,000 feet. Two other previous drilling attempts in the southeast corner of Williams County produced nothing. One previous well was drilled to 4,642 feet and another was sunk to 10,281 feet, according to the 1951 newspaper.

 

Oil search was not new in North Dakota. According to The Minot Daily News files, the first test well reportedly drilled in the state was in Adams County in 1922. A year later, a well was sunk to near 4,000 feet in the Des Lacs area.

 

R.G. Fuller, production superintendent on the Amerada Petroleum Co.’s Iverson well south of Tioga, said, “It’s quite an honor, of course, to bring in the first well, in a state that hasn’t had any production before.”

 

Wilson Laird, state geologist from Grand Forks, who visited the Tioga well, said the oil flow there “looks quite promising.” Laird, state geologist from 1941-1969, is credited with the foresight oil would one day be discovered in the Williston Basin.

 

On April 6, 1951, The Minot Daily News, an evening paper for many years until 1985, reported the oil from Tioga would be on its way to market very soon.

 

With the announcement of the oil discovery near their town, businessmen in Tioga decided they better “get moving” if the city was going to assume its rightful place in oil development. They started making plans including for a new hotel.

 

Clarence Iverson, the Tioga farmer on whose land the well was drilled, was taking the possibility of becoming rich pretty much in stride, according to a reporter for The Minot Daily News shortly after the oil discovery announcement.

 

Bill Shemorry, a photographer with the Williston Press-Graphic, took the famous photo of the Iverson discovery well. According to his accounts, he had to rush to Minot that night of April 4, 1951, to use The Minot Daily News’ darkroom to develop his negatives and then have Northwest Photoengravers in Minot make the printing plates which were used at that time to reproduce photos in the newspapers.

 

Bakken in 1951

 

Nearly 60 years ago and only a few months after the discovery well, on Sept. 8, 1951, The Minot Daily News reported Amerada brought in Bakken No. 1 well at a site three miles northeast of Tioga.

 

The well had a number of significant facts, the newspaper reported, including:

 

The new discovery was in a different formation.

 

It ruled out the possibility the state’s discovery well, Clarence Iverson No. 1, 12 miles south of the Bakken well, had been a “lucky find” in an isolated “puddle” of oil.

 

It widened the known producing area of the huge Williston Basin.

 

Excitement was at a high fever over the Bakken No. 1 announcement, but two of the most calm people in the area were the Bakken brothers, Henry and Harry, on whose land the oil was discovered. They were more concerned about harvesting their crop, The Minot Daily News reported.

 

Today, a monument marks the site where oil was first discovered in N.D. by Amerada Petroleum Corp. (now Hess Corp.) on April 4, 1951.

 

And today, the newest oil boom is well under way in the Bakken in the Tioga area and other areas of western N.D.

 
The first well location, Tioga.