ZIPPO DEAL: One of our readers spotted a Zippo lighter on TV
recently as part of the wheeling and dealing on an old game show
from the 1960s and 70s.

Roxanne Andress writes: “I was watching an old episode of ‘Let’s
Make a Deal’ on the Game Show Network recently. One of the prizes
on the show was a Zippo lighter described as ‘manufactured in
Bradford, Pennsylvania.’ “

Many of you will recall how the host of the show, Monty Hall,
selected people from the audience to participate in the various
“deals” he offered, many involving cash or merchandise. Often, the
contestant was asked to choose between a deal he’d already proposed
or the unknown deal behind the curtain on stage that could be worth
a lot more – or not.

Roxanne said the contestant she saw recently chose to take the
lighter instead of what was behind “Curtain No. 2.”

What did she pass up? A “brand new” ,4,000 Chevy Vega!

“This woman did get ,1,000 and the lighter,” Roxanne tells
us.

Sounds like she chose wisely.

MUSIC MOUNTAIN: We ran across this item in the Mar. 17, 1938,
Era, recently:

“The Minard Run Oil Co. yesterday drilled in the sixth gusher
oil well in the Music Mountain section, just four days after the
Niagara Oil Corp. struck the fifth gusher. Each firm now has three
gushers.

“Potential flow of the oil was estimated timed at 20-minute
intervals. Working with the well head equipped with a ‘lubricator,’
drillers let three or four flows into the pipeline and managed to
make four feet of hole without releasing any more oil. Present
depth of the well was reported as 1,722 feet.”

The story continues: “Although drillers on the well of E.A.
Williams and John W. Becker, located just across a property line
from the Minard Run well, were able to drill only one foot, to
1,732 feet, the estimated daily production of 3,000,000 cubic feet
of gas was increased to an output said to be conservatively
estimated at between 5,000,000 and 7,000,000 cubic feet per
day.

“…Promise of a pumping a well capable of yielding 35 or more
barrels of oil daily was noted … with almost 800 feet of oil
standing in the well, the total depth of which was reported to be
1,797 feet.”