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BARTLESVILLE -- Word that 500 jobs would be lost flew across Phillips Petroleum's small hometown Thursday, casting uncertainty in a place that bears Phillips' mark on most everything.
At her gift shop just off Frank Phillips Blvd., Frances Summers accepted a delivery of goods uneasily.
"It scares me to death," she said of news that Ultramar Diamond Shamrock and Phillips' Bartlesville-based North American oil refining and marketing business will merge and set up operations in San Antonio.
At the city's museum and arts center, Carol Ross Wofford worried how the change might affect culture and philanthropy in a city where Phillips gives much. "It's really been a hometown company," she said.
At City Hall, City Manager Richard Gertson met with the city's finance expert and predicted the move would throw a "glitch" into consumer spending. "But we're not expecting anything...