According to my recent conversation with the obituary column editor of Oil City's Newspaper, "The Derrick", the cost to publish an obituary of any length in $ 42.00. This policy was instituted as of May 1997. An out-of-state subscription to the paper is $ 180.00 per year. The paper does not maintain micro-filmed copies of the paper for public viewing and suggests using the Oil City Library for viewing and copying articles from previous issues. -- Jim Walton 2696 Edgehill Rd. Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44106 fs332@cleveland.freenet.edu