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j thursday july lotn 1950 the acton free press acton ontario pape pjvp your gas is one of those things people take for granted they just turn on the burner there it is yet behind that familiar quiet blue flame scientists engineers technici ans and machines are at work doing the kinds of jobs that are so important maintaining a constant dependable supply of natural gas if you would trace back the gas lines from your water heater range or gas furnace youll find that they all go back tb your gas meter from your gas meter the line goes underground as do lines from other houses in your neighborhood they connect to a gas main laid under the streets of the entire community these gas main are fed their gas supply from a regulating station where engines and automatic machines control the gas flow according to the changing demand your community regulating stat ion is connected to a transmission pipeline which may go underground over or under water depending on the geo graphical contour of the country these transmission lines are as much as 2000 miles in length wim many pumping stations manned by engineers and technicians the pur pose of the pumping station is to increase the pressure of the gas to boost it along to the next operation it might be another pyjmping station or it could be one of the under ground storage areas where natural gas is stored in vast caverns or sand beds from which all gas had been pre- viously exhausted at the otherend of the transmission pipeline is the natural gas well holes are drilled in the ground thousands of feet deep to tap the stores of natural gas in the earth next time you turn on the gas remember between you and the gas well there are miles of pipeline many machines skilled engineers technicians and workers back ed by physicists chemists and geologists as well as your local distribution system but all you see is the depend able clean silent blue f lamer next week natural gas for better living 1 united suburban gas co ltd acton for information call georgetown tr 73921 a united cas jvj