Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)

Record Details:

Title:
Broadcasting Telecasting
Date:
Oct-Dec 1957
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Broadcasting Publications Inc.
Volume:
Broadcasting Telecasting
Leaf #:
0001265
Language:
English
Subjects:
radio and television periodical, Broadcasting -- United States -- Periodicals
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Recorded Sound Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 08, 2024
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Jim Reeves was manning one of Mobil's drilling-rig-to-shore radios in Sabine Pass, Texas, when Hurricane Audrey barreled in. He flashed orders to the men on the Gulf: "Lash down equipment! Abandon drilling platforms!" Then Reeves could have left. He didn't. He stayed to help others. All night long, as the hurricane mounted and rising waters threatened to maroon him, he carried or led dazed and frightened youngsters and adults to safety. Just as he was about to call it a night, he got a call for help from a grandmother cut off with her two small granddaughters. Floodwaters already swirled above floor level of their onestory home. Screaming winds hurled heavy branches and bits of debris through the air. Power lines snapped like whips. Reeves plunged into water up to his waist to fight his way to the stricken house. He tied the little girls together. Then, cradling them in one arm, and supporting the grandmother with the other, he struggled back to safety. Jim Reeves typified oilmen throughout that storm-swept area. And the story has been the same before, in tornadoes, flash-floods and blizzards. Knowing how to battle disaster gets built into oilmen. In finding, producing and moving oil, they learn how to cope with nature in her trickiest moods. And, they have the heart. Mobil OCONY MOBIL OIL CO., INC. Leader in lubrication for 91 years Broadcasting December 9, 1957 • Page 97