Jack Crichton To Be Speaker At API Meeting Here Thursday. Jack A. Crichton of Dallas, president of Oil and Gas Property Management Inc. and who aided in getting the first oil grant ever given by Yemen will be guest speaker Thursday at a dinner meeting of the East Texas chapter of the American Petroleum Institute The dinner-meeting will be held at the Community House at 7 p m following an informal reception starting at 5:30 p m at the American Legion Hall according to Sam Cox API chapter chairman Mr. Crichton is scheduled to deliver an address on the foreign production of oil and its effect on the oil industry In this country Mr. Cox said A native of Louisiana Mr. Crichton was graduated from Texas A&M with a petroleum engineering degree. He took his master's degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a minor in geology. He served with the armed services from 1941 to 1948 and then associated himself with DeGolyer and McNaughton at Dallas as a petroleum geologist and engineer. He was named a vice president of that firm in 1950 but one year later he resigned to help organize the San Juan Oil Co. of which he was vice president and director. In 1952 Oil and Gas Property Management Inc. of Dallas and New York City was organized with Mr. Crichton as president and director. He also is a vice president of Empire Trust Co. in New York. He recently returned from Yemen where he and several other American oil men completed the first oil exploration and development grants ever made by that country. Late last fall the Yemeni prime minister Ibn Abrahim and Mr. Crichton were scheduled to visit Kilgore. At the last minute due to the developing Suez Canal crisis Ibn Abrahim was recalled home for consultations
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