THE TITUSVILLE HERALD, Titusville, Pa.

, Thursday, August 24,2000 - PACfE 3

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These deeds were recorded 201 N. Franklin St. • 827-8218 Call 827-7176
recently in the Crawford County
Courthouse. Let the simple pleasures of life be yours.
•Samuel J. and Cindy L. DISCOUNT WAU
Hancock to Darlene Smith, COVERINGS &
$45,000, property in First Ward,
Titusville. BORDERS
•Matthew A. and Jonathan N. All Double Rolls $8.00
Athey to George J. and Beth Ann CcmtrySVIcttxim
Vukmer, $30,000, property on All Bolts, Borders $5.00
Route 20082 in Athens Township. Collectibles • Candles
•Clear Lake Lumber Inc. to Linens & Lace
Calvin E. Webber, $19,000, proper- Framed Prints • Tiffany Lamps
ty on North Road, Sparta Kitchen Accessories • Stoneware
Township. 214 W. Central Ave., Titusville PA 120 W. Central Ave •
•William R. and Laura A. Byler 814-827-2825 Owner: Jerry Bowling
to Andrew and Esther Kuhns,
$14,335, property on Route 797,
Sparta Township.
•Eric S. and Jennifer Ann
Henry to Samuel E. Gonzales and
To Place Your
Christina M. Prather, $68,000,
property on Gresham-
Dempseytown Road, Oil Creek
Call 827-3634
Township. •>¥'•'.•
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•Elizabeth A. Hughes to Lance
E. and Megan E. Titus, $33,000,
property on Spruce Street.
•Ross R. and Shirley A. Casella
to Griffin-Bossard Realty Limited
Partnership $10,000, property on
trttufortl f>>. 1
•DRAKE WELL 2000' - Drake Well Museum Curator Susan Beates and Briton Lewis, a sum- Route 8, Oil Creek Township.
mer intern from Clarion University, display the original script which was used at the well dur-
ing Dave Garroway's "Today" show telecast on Aug. 27,1959. The script and an audio tape of the
•Harold D. and Rexford L.
Beckwith, co-executors of the Crawford
estate of Jassamine J. Beckwith, to
show are among the exhibits at the museum this weekend for Drake Well 2000.
(Heral'd photo by Jon Sherman)
Paul A. Lukach and Andrew
Kolvek, $26,500, property on Route FAIR 5
'8, Oil Creek township.
August 19-26th;

Drake Well 2000

•Linda B. Whaley, administra-
tor of the estate of Rose T. Rt. 77 just E. of Meadviife
Burgeson: Linda B. Whaley and
Roy E. Whaley, Patricia A. Nellis, Today's Events, Thurs., Aug. 24th
Rosemarie M. Schneider and

Set - Capsule
Albert Schneider to Linda B. and 9:00 am Animal Judging Continues
Roy E. Whaley, $21,000, property 10:00 am FFA Project Books Judging
on West Spruce Street. 10:30 am FFA Pleasure Horse Judging
•Crete H. Evans by Charles T. 12:00 noon Harness Racing
Evans III, Grete Leson Miller and 3:30 pm Selection - Open Dairy Show
Resa Jill Martin, Brittany J. 6:00 pm 4-H Swine Demonstration also 4-H Dairy Goats Demo.
7:00 pm

Or No Capsule
by Jon Sherman
Although the time capsule
apparently hasn't been found,
this weekend's Drake Well 2000
events will go on as planned.
Starting at noon Saturday
and running through 4 p.m.
Sunday, a wide variety of activi-
ties will take place at the site of
the world's first commercially
successful oil well.
With the world looking on,
thanks to the "Today" show, a
time capsule containing artifacts
commemorating the 100th
anniversary of the well was
buried Aug. 27,1959.
A plaque placed over the cap-
sule directed that the container
be exhumed and opened on Aug.
27, 2000.
A committee was formed and
ambitious activities planned last
winter, but it was determined
that the capsule was not where
it was supposed to be.
Practically everything from
sophisticated archaeology
devices to divining rods was
used - to no avail.
Although no official word has
been received from the Pa.
Historical and Museum
Commission, which adminis-
trates Drake Well
Barbara Zolli, site adminis-
trator, commented this week,
"We haven't found the time cap-
sule, but we haven't given up
hope."
Digging at one promising site
seems to only have yielded a
large rock with metal particles
in it.
In preparation for the week-
end, Drake Well Museum is
preparing some special displays.
Some copies of the items in the
time capsule will be available for
viewing.
Susan Beates, museum cura-
tor, points to two recent acquisi-
tions. John Kaufman of Oil City,
who in 1959 was superintendent
of schools for that city, made a
reel-to-reel tape recording from
his television of the audio por-
tion of the "Today" telecast.
The tape is something of a
time capsule in itself. The tape
has all the program's commer-
cials, the weather reports and
news breaks.
This weekend, the tape will
be played on the museum's over-
head sound system.
On the tape, "Today" host
Dave Garroway reads from a let-
ter written for the occasion by
President Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
In it, Eisenhower refers to
himself as a Texas native who
grew up in Kansas and in 1959
was a resident of Pennsylvania.
Garroway also interviews Pa.
Gov. David L. Lawrence, who
speaks about the importance of
oil to the state, especially royal-
ties from its oil land holdings
which were used to develop
parks in the Commonwealth,
"so no Pennsylvanian would
ever be more than 25. miles
from a state park."
Lawrence was asked by
Garroway about the
future of the
state's oil
industry,
specifically
if oil
would
still be a
viable Pennsylvania
industry in 2000, when the time
capsule was to be re-opened.
The governor expressed opti-
mism. In 1959, according to
Lawrence's figures, there were
about 2.7 billion barrels of oil
remaining in the ground, "and
that doesn't take into account oil
that remains to be discovered,"
Lawrence replied.
Then, Garroway and
Lawrence began loading items
into the time capsule.
As each item was announced,
there was a dull "chunk" sound
Martin, Brooke K. Martin, Andrew N.T.PA. Regional National Tractor Pull
8:00 pm 4-H Dairy Cheese Yield Auction
S. Martin and Tyler C. Martin, $1,
property on bank of Oil Creek,
Hydetown. Friday's Events, August 25th
9:00 am Junior Dairy Contest
as it was dropped into the metal 11:30 am Harness Racing
container. Have you seen 1:00 pm Horse Demonstration
One contribution was an Horse.PullingContest ..j,^..,.,,,..,..,. ...
audio tape of the "Today" show *"" FR\Star Farmer Contest
running right up to the time it 5:00 pm 4-H^ritrFPA19larRet Livestock Sale t ™
'. 6:00 pm Dairy'Princess "•-• ':— ••' - — !.*J&&
Garroway's next interviewee "WWW 7:00 pm Pony Pulling
was US Postmaster General 8:00 pm LORETTA LYNN and GEORGE JONES
Arthur Summerville, who was in
town to oversee the Drake Well
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commemorative stamp and first- com
Children 12 and under FREE
day cover.
Gate (per person) $3; Craw. Co. 4-H & FFA Members Free
Summerville said 1.25 million
stamps had been prepared, and
he estimated that 1 million can-
cellations had been made in
Titusville on Aug. 27, 1959.
After Summerville, the show
moved to Frank Blair, "Today's"
newscaster back in New York,
for the headlines. Blair started
to tell of the "Tumultuous"
welcome President
Eisenhower was receiv-
ing on his state visit to
Bonn, Germany, his
first visit there since
World War II ended in
1945.
That's all Blair got
to 'say, because the
show abruptly
returned to
Garroway at
Titusville.
Another
recent addi-
tion to the
Drake Well
collection was the
original "teleprompter" script for
the Titusville "Today" show
broadcast.
Mary E. Kerr Stephens of
Meadville, RD 1, donated the
script, which looks like a large
roll of paper towels
. In those pre-computer days,
the script was written on letters
large enough for the performer
to see and slowly rolled by hand.
Mrs. Stephens said the script
was given to her son, Roger, at
the close of the Aug. 27, 1959,
broadcast.
Back by popular demand, it's National City's Red "Tag

Schedule Announced
Here is the latest schedule of events for this
weekend's "Drake Well 2000" celebration:
Saturday
All Day - Gas Up and display of antique engines.
11 a.m. - Living history presentations by Cynthia
Andes as Mrs. Colonel Drake and Bill Stumpf as
Gib Morgan; ragtime concert, pianist Amy Seybert.
Noon - Lecture on Boomtowns, Roxanne
Hitchcock; Good for Nuthin' string band.
1 p.m. - Lecture on the History of Drake's Well,
Margo Mong; Road Apple.
2 p.m. - Lecture on History of Drake Well
Museum, Susan Beates; living history presenta-
tions by Cynthia Andes as Mrs. Colonel Drake and
Bill Stumpf as Gib Morgan.
3 p.m. - Lecture and piano concert, Carl Olson;
Meadville gospel group.
4 p.m. - Lecture on E.C. Bell and Drake Well
Museum, Steve Karns; Clarion County Dulcimer
Club.
5 p.m. - Drake Day movie; Good for Nuthin'
string band.
•6 p.m. - Living history presentations with oil
field stories by Dennis Murray and Steve Karns as
Josiah Winger.
7 p.m. - As Time Goes By.
7:45 p.m. - Black powder demonstration.
8:30 p.m. - Nitroglycerine show.
Sunday
All Day - Antique Car Show.
Noon - Shade Tree Pickers.
1 p.m. - Magic lantern Show, Rick Martyna, Mike
Henderson, Missy Pasciolla, Sarah Parker and
Joseph Janidlo; living history presentation by Bill
Stumpf as Gib Morgan and Steve Karns as Josiah
Winger.
2 p.m. - Lecture on the Harmony Society's oil
interests in Tidioute, Dave Sonney; Shade Tree
Pickers; hula hoop contest.
3 p.m. - Magic lantern Show, repeat of 1 p.m.
show.
3:30 p.m. - Hula hoop contest awards.
4 p.m. - Closing ceremonies.
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