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February, March and April25 Years Ago Vehicle ticket printers, Reformulated Gasoline for Clark(Feb 27) The 12th Soul Train Music Awards: Puff Daddy 1998 (Spring/April WPMN)County, moving the gasoline collection point, Indexingand Whitney Houston won.Elegant keynote Lady Margaretthe gas tax, and new SIC codes were a few of the issues1998 (Mar 1) Yasmina Rezas French stage comedy Art, Thatcher was on the cover.and changes for marketers. starring Alan Alda, Victor Garber and Alfred Molina opened President Gerry RichardsonUT: (JH) Election year jitters kept gas tax offat Royale Theater, NYC; it ran for 600 performances.exclaimed that the rain maylegislative agenda, a UST upgrade deadline(Mar 15) Revival of John Kander and Fred Ebbs Cabaret, have poured on the parade atwas rapidly approaching, and ticket printersstarring Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson, opened the WPMA Scholarship Openrequired on all trucks with meters were topat Club Expo Theater, NYC; it ran for 2,377 performances Golf Tournament, but the sunitems for Utah Marketers to take note of. and won four Tony Awards.SPRING 1998 WPMN Cover Clipshined brightly within theWA: Charlie Brown proclaimed huge successes(Mar 23) The 70th Academy Awards: confines of the MGM.for Marketers on Fuel Tax Evasion/Tax at theTitanic won best picture, Jack ED Gerry Tedrow (GT) Rack, Underground Storage Tank Law Nicholson won best actor for As Good Attendance was up 15%Reauthorization and Wet-fueling. LeadedAs It Gets, and Helen Hunt won best over last year. Gerry gaveRacing Fuel Taxation, MTCA Cleanup Tax Credits and billssupporting actor for the same movie.a short list of past keynotewere killed when time for compromises ran out. 1998 (Apr 5) NFL Draft: Tennessee quarterback Peyton speakers since 1973, point- WMI: David Leo explained some insuranceManning was the Indianapolis Colt's first pick.ing out that the WPMA continued to have fine speakers.basics, jargon and acronyms like PPO and HMO. (Apr 22) The 33rd Academy of Country Music awarded Petro Pete: 1998 (Feb 4) Founder of Microsoft andGarth Brooks, Trish Yearwood and George Strait. I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. Computer Scientist Bill Gates got a pie thrown(Apr 27) Rock for the Rainforest benefit concert was held at (GI) USTs required leak in his face in Brussels, Belgium. Carnegie Hall, NYC; performers included: Sting, Elton John, detection. Existing UST (Feb 5) Figure skaters Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya HardingJames Taylor, Madonna, Billy Joel, Joe Cocker, Emmylou requirements were similar totalked on FOX (recorded Dec 22nd). Harris, Roberta Flack, Wynonna Judd, and Tsidii Le Loka.those for new tanks and pip- Following a ruling by a federal judge denying a request ing and must follow monthly from environmentalists and Native Americans seeking to50monitoring methods. block the sale of the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve,Years AgoID: Vicki Patterson (VP) wrote the PTA wasthe U.S. Department of Energy formally transferred1973 [FEBpushing forth legislation structured to punishownership of the reserve to Occidental PetroleumIntermountain the retailer for the crimes committed by theCorporation. Occidental purchased a 78 percent interestOil Marketers minor in the purchases or theft of tobacco.in the field for $3.65 billion. Chevron Corporation heldNews (IOMN)] MT: (RA) Transportation tidbits: Did youthe remaining 22 percent. Elk Hills contained 450 millionPresident Lowe know? MT has nearly 70,000 miles of publicbarrels (72,000,000m3) of proven oil reserves; however,Ashton (LA) of roads and a population density less thanofficials from Occidental believed the reserve mightAshton Oil & 10% of the national average. Each Montanancontain one billion barrels of recoverable reserves.Transportation paid an average of $181 in state fuel taxes in(Feb 6) Washington NationalCo in Heber 1996, $70 more than the nations average of $111. EvenAirport was renamed RonaldCity, UT,with one of the nations highest gas taxes, MT raisesReagan National Airport. The angle only a small portion of what is required to support our(Feb 7) XVIII Winter from which vast highway system. MT is larger than seven northeastOlympic Games opened we view states, yet has only 2.5% of the combined populationin Nagano, Japan. things makes aFEB 1973 IOMN Cover Clip of those states. The distance by highway between Yaak(Feb 12) Semiconductorbig difference. and Alzada is greater than the distance between ChicagoPioneer and CEO of Intel,Lord Chesterfield once pointed out that a horse looks and Washington DC. MTs transportation system servesAndrew Grove unveiled Intel's first graphic chip, i740. pretty much like a horse from ground level, but when you as a crucial bridge in the nations transportation system.(Feb 17) The USA Womens Ice Hockey Team beat Canadaclimb up in a loft and look at one from the top, a horse Flathead Country has the most public road mileage ofand won the first Olympic Gold medal. looks a good deal like a violin. The ability to change a point any county in MT with 2,735 miles.(Feb 20) American world champion Tara Lipinski won anof viewto get a fresh look at things, is the mark of NM Everett McGehee (EM): Bill HB-485 wouldOlympic figure skating gold medal ahead of teammategood managers and supervisors. This is particularly true require NM Marketers to purchase a licenseMichelle Kwan at the Nagano Winter Games. in judging those who work under them. People change each year by the amount of gasoline they The only person who behaves sensibly', said George purchased; it was put off for another year by(Feb 20) The United Nations Security Council voted to Bernard Shaw, 'is my tailor. He takes new measurements the Speaker of the HouseEverett emphasized that themore than double the amount of oil Iraq could exportevery time he sees me, all the rest go on with their old bill will appear again next year and that NM membersunder the UN Oil-for-Food Program. The Securitymeasurements.A new look may surprise you. Visualize needed to talk to their representatives now about thisCouncils vote increased the amount Iraq could exportthe man or woman in a more challenging situation. What very discriminatory piece of legislation.from $2.14 billion to $5.26 billion over six months. Iraqcounts is not what they were capable of yesterday, but NV: (PK) The next NV convention and trademaintained that it only had the capability to export up towhat they can do for the business today and tomorrow. show was being held at the Primm Resort in$4 billion over a six-month period.Good managers dont wait for someone else to discover Primm NV, formerly Stateline NV, in May. (Feb 22) The XVIII Winter Olympic Games closed and hire away their talented people.in Nagano, Japan.54 www.wpma.com / Post WPMAEXPO 2023"