The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
PIFELINES ; GAS TANKS The experiences yetserdyof the Mobile Oil Corporation and the Humble Oil Company seem to lend credence to the saying that bad luck comes in pairs. ,'ore than 170-families were forced from their homes last night near Houston when a Gasoline Storage tank overflowed at Humble Oil's Aldine station in north Harris county. The gas line was switched to another tank and the overflow was conatined in a safety wall. Residents returned to their homes about midnight. Yesterday, the operator of a front-end loader dug into a Mobil Oil pipeline on the edge of Arlington and releasing crudd oil at the rate of 750-gallons a minute. Nore than a hunrdred residents were avcuated from their Iomes for awhile because of the dangerous fumes. And x as a safety precaution power to the
homes and pilot lights were cut off.
Then order restore
the people returned to their homes about 4:00 o'clock.