The Stephens County Times (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 13, 1955 Page: 1 of 6
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BUSHY TAILS. BEWARE!- • 't the squirrel season recently
opened in L.iv. t. no- County, Ohio, Mr an<l Mrs David Walker,
^ 'ronton, wit. eniv liii.iv with their shotguns, being in the
" • 'I He I 01 an.! she is 70. They have
"Hjnhfl -i j.' bv ; ,. r : n vin yeai,- He has a new 16-guuge
shotgun an.! I.- I I no, both single shots.
War II Horrors New Cub Pack,
Shown Members No. 60 Organized
Of Lions Club At North Ward
M.-Idl.. ! -
r. • . club
day with },
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Tlu- pi.-ti
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II.-.I troops
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the (inni'.i: -f tn
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nutrition that the;,
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of these vviis .-Ikiv
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skir .. d I-'.- • :
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tin Pack. No. 'io, sponsion*,2 by
N.. r h Ward Mothers Hub,
11. i! .I I nil I 'aek tor B: eck
Iti;:'-. was oicatiued October I'.,
has been am:. .11 need by Jody
d Jack -M. i I'il, repiesen-
"1 Noith District Scout
•eii (.'III ISt.-IISiill, local I '..minis
I"; 1 .ibbing assisted in tile
.ill; /.at nihil I stapes lor this- pack,
iii.irac-;.': v.ili b.. (Jimie Gra
. t-aeh.-i ,n th,. Xonh Ward
ami hi.- w 1ill b.- assisted bv
U.-v-ei., M. A. Smith is
>it«<t:'■e tin Mothers Club
■ . . li'-. Wingo s. iiitr as
man in th.- Pack Committee,
.t..-, a. - :ting turn ait M. J.
".. and l.a M. Alexander.
'■.I M..il,. rs a;. Mis. II. li.
bb.-i. -Mis. i:.a. i Thompson, Mis.
•I liordelon arid Dorothy Ann
ust Cub Pack
-. tin);- I'or the
w
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About th.- .a Iv t.!, a- a". .-: til..:
v. -IV not of hoi i.iif v* II' ! il", ■ of
A : • !H III '.t Ir ill inc. ..i
"tig Klse:ii>..\l ••! .
Linda Bunger
Named To Girl's
State *56 Staff
Mi-- I. nd.t l: . ilancii;. . of
Mi. and Mi.- W M Ilia... . •
re,Veil a lett• ; M .ri.lav fro : !JI .i
fonnrun Girls thai • lifts ' b« ■ n
jvtr«tmiii<'ii<l<Ml ami - - !' < i to
a- a h. r of thf * S| * ak«-i
nf th - JlmiM- <•! K'-pi • .- nta 1 ■'«<■'< }
for th** "t ixil i> .state
n«*xl ;*uirmur.
Th- local gni wus\oiu> of - -ht
junior counselor.* 11 (hti i, h * * slut*-
to serve at the 10 day
urxt. stuieinei at he T<\as .State
?>< hool f r thi1
Attending the meeting th,- .past
Sif ;lar.' i* under th«k o ship
tht* Oi eekem uiu'' faoas Club, Lin
da -■ ;• id there as -'an: chan
n art of t''e Natiotiaiest I'.nty. The
annua} rls ^itate nseetinir. v\iu*n-
loch hool p-H-ls an- taught the
finidam.-utal - anrl v...ikmu th<-
fjos i-i mn.-lit bv a.fia! p-ac-a-. 1-
siiotisond by tit.* Auiertcan Legion
A uxil iai y.
Ralph Ball Is New
Station Owner
l:.ii(i!l null. !,>.•■.'her of tile
Ki-.-.-k'Tti idyi- police foi.-e. mc.-iitly
ptucha.-d the T.-m..o Sen ,.e St ,
-it. d >-t ■'• VV. a V. ■
it u as aiinouneed ej ,|y Tuesda ,.
Hall plans on th.-
police force, «.,iK air t!le,e a! i;a:ht
and it was stati-d the ionn.-: * n.-r,
.1. P. Darnell, "ill continue to help
manage the serviee .Sation.
.- a.,d I,a, I,;- V. ill be Tuesday.
Oct obi-j Is hi the North Ward
S !."ol aiiilitoi iuin at 7:.'ai p. 111.
all.:: th,- boys 'will receive theii
la i.e. t I.a-'i1 . > and ca i ds. They
a|U t .*;.■! l li.ee! le^ulaily oil the
.second Tuesday night each month,
t ha: : • -r aieaibei s of Cub Pack
To. a iv S , TiOffii-ld,
i .'-' a. I., a ... Clossian.l,
Uoiaa.: lioid.-Ion, P, .leu Hudlowe.
l a " U h -a. A, thill- N'utt, Richard
I' .. . 1 .a.-y VV i1ko.
I I.. 1 1 A 1. .Mender.
P- . : a Mclatii-.-, Lydell liauster.
la a an li:.! -it. I 'harlie Halt. Tom •
I on a on. Dennis Irinsey, Kay
li-iil.la -ion. Nathan Thon:pson.
3 4-H Members
To Attend State
Fair At Weekend
T« mni\e Lou Lehoir, J imniie
Wngiit.. ami lfobb\ Knight will
: ; -en: Stephens County at the
• - *. • ■ i'i .i a; Majias Fri<iayf Satur-
'I..'. and Sunday oi this v\ppk, ae
''i>\ dtitiT to extejisjon agents l oill
.)* ,. • Cunnmjrh'am and Bryan
. will accompany the
'A • • >np.
T<- . • y, Lou will be pre.s«-nted
'if Stair i ajj Awaid ot Honor at
a I'Mi-uii barajuf.-t at tie.- Adoiphus
Hoi''! <m l-'riday ni^rht. Mr. and
Mi . [c ::. il. I^enOll, paielits uf
i" ' I- a and Torn Joyce Cun-
ha ;• . H( rne f.) e in o ii>: t ra t i o n
I Ara'-.'it will also be quests of the
; Slate Fair at th - banquet.
T'ne Stat.- Faii A ward of Honor
is special recogrtition. by the State
I'.i-r ot Texas for (.-ne 4-H Club
| i «.. arid one l H Club girl from
|ea.«:ii x*,ensjon district and for one
1 ituii- Farmer and one Future
I Home make, t rom each Vocational
Am a. Reeonls were judged in dis
ti t * eojupetition in May for this
a .aid. Tonanye I.ou has been ask
• j b> the state \ H office to give
> the iespor.se for all I H members
at the banquet.
a- VVrJfrht. s"U of Mr. and
(Tit? B'tepltntB Oloatttg Eimw
Home Operated "THE FAMILY PAPER IN BRECKENRIDGE AND STEPHENS COUNTY"
i'OP.
BRECKEXRIDGE, (STEPHENS COUNTY), TEXAS
STEPHENS COUNTV TIMES THURSDAY, OCT, 13, L055
NUMBER 41
Refugees Cause Housing Shortage
MtECK STUDENTS III GERMAMY
TELL OF THEIR EXPERIENCES
Letters leeeiv.'d the last of the
wek by Mr and .Mrs. I'. M. Faulk-
ner from their tv in daughters,
Roberta and Uotfene, who are in
(iermaiiy lor a year of study on
Fulbiitrht Scholarships, indieate
thai both have arrived at their
utiivi rsit.es and at present are
staying in the home.s of (iei mail
famliies.
IioReri's letter was writtend Sat-
urday, (k-|ohei I. just after her
at rival m Muhie.h i\ hei e she will
sludy at tlu I'ni'.eisity of Munich
phvsieul ehemisti v.
, letter was mailed
.thei from Heidel-
is majorin-j; in bio-
the University ol'
oil arrival in
r at the sta-
said. "awav
•li
Mis J. I'. Wnjilit and Hobby
K11,i: 1!t. . ■ a of Mi and Mrs. A. K.
Kiaahl, aill present their demon
j a-t ai ion, "The Right Hull) for the
I; ::ia 1'ia.e" .it tegular intervals
on l-'iuiay, Sa'uiday, and Sunday.
:ii the I ii booth in the Agricul-
tural lliuiuing on the Fair (.rounds.
.In. am and Bobby ha'..- been ask
ed to take pail, in the demonatra
''.ion schedule ranee they won the
aisii i.-i contest in April and placed
ii'oaith in state competition with
-■theii d.'iaoii.-; i ation. Counti, Agri
'liiimal Agent Bryan Swaim has
■ trained the team in this winning
i|< .i .iii-'i'ii'ioii with tile help of
i ad-lit i.-aders in the eounty.
in the fit-Id ol
v. hile Robei ta
on Mondav. i h
berg where sh
chem>try at
Heidelberg.
Rogene stated that
Munich a girl hiet h.
tion and in Cierman
-a,- go." She continued in the let
iter. "And away we went. \ ou
| can't imagine the feeling it gi-.es
to .suddenly be whisked off with
some people I didn't know and who
don't speak English in a strange
place. Now however I have recov-
I i'i ed. They are very nice. The man
; wears knickers and a cute Baravian
i coat. His wife is also nice and
speaks absolutely no English. As
I far as I can make out they have
two sons and two daughters, all
who live away from home.
"The family lives about five
flights up ill an apartment and the
kitchen is the only warm room, so
they stay in there. My loom i.- nice,
large and roomy with plenty of
closet space."
Roberta Willi Refugees
Roberta begins her l.-ttei with
"I am now in Heide.b.-rjr wiith my
family It is beautiful here and the
family is Very- nice. The house
overlook- tile Neckni river and
: from tile window ot' my room I
.can s.-e sailboats .--ailing up and
down it. The family consists of fir.
and Mrs. Weber and their twenty
year old son, Hans Christian, who
is called Christian. 1 am staying
in Christian's room while he is
away working. He is studying en
; gineering and must spend a year
as a sort o! an apprentice. So he
is winking off on.- month of that
year now b .-fore his school starts
in November.
"They are refugees from the
Russian zone They formerly lived
in "Dresden which was 80 per cent
! destroyed during one night of the
i war. ,They were very well off at
I the time but during that oik- 'night
they lost everything but the clothes
which they had on. They have
shown me pictures of the city of
Diesden before and al ter the bomb
ing and it is quite sad to think
about such a beautiful city and
beautiful churches and museums
had to he destroyed. Then they
i canto to Heidelberg to live. Now
■ they have an apartment with three
; rooms and a kitchen, but no bath.
"Ilr. Weber is a lawyer with his
office in Maoerhlim which is not
] far away . He must be making pret-
good now for Mrs. Well, r has just
• returned front a ta o month vaca-
tion in England and Christian (the
son) has just returned front a tour
•if Egypt and C.reece. Now he want-
Mis. Wi her to go to th.- I.'. S. next
spring.
Hears About War
"To get to the university 1 have
only to walk dow n a flight of steps,
; cross the street, take a ferry across
the river for in pfennig I about
li'ac) and walk a few blocks.
'"The first night 1 was here (Fri-
day) a Mr. and Mrs. Schulz came
Breck Service Man
Is Awarded Check
Marine I'fc. Robert .1. Guhl of
702 N. Parks. Breckein idge, receiv-
ed a bank draft September I) while
serving at Marine Corps Recruit
Depot in San Diego, Calif. I.t. Col.
Robert H. Venn, commanding of-
ficer of the 2nd Recruit Training
Battalion, made the presentation.
The check, amount not stated,
along with a promotion to I'fc.. is
awarded to the outstanding recruit
of a platoon by the Leatherneck
Magazine.
Guhl is undergoing individual
combat training at Camp I'endle-
ton. Calif.
Before entering the service in
June I!1 a a he was graduated from
Bieckenridg.- Hi'_'h School.
ov er for a visit. They are. also ref-
ugees from Dresden. He was an
officer in the German army and
was in an American prison camp
when he heard over the American
radio that a very successful bomb-
ing of Dresden had taken place and
that it was almost completely
wiped out. He told me 'You can
not imagine how I felt, having a
wife and baby boy there and not
knowing what had happened to
them.'
Rash Of Wrecks
Investigated Here
The local Texas highway patrol-
men. Sheriff's offices aiul city
patrolmen investigated a rash of
wrecks which hospitalized four vic-
tims over the weekend and Monday.
Hospitalized were Mr. and Mrs.
Barrett of Artesia. New Mexico.
Bolivar Champan, and a Negro
irom Dallas, Willie Fair, who later
was transferred to a Dallas hos-
pital from the local hospital. Mr.
Chapman was a passenger of the
Barrett automobile and was driving
when the accident occured.
According to the highway pa-
trol, Chapman went to sleep, cross-
ed over on the wrong side of the
highway and crashed into a parked
oil truck. The accident happened
about ii a. in.Sunday east of Brack-
en ridge near the Highway Barn.
The trunk driver was unharmed.
The accident involving three Ne-
groes happened Saturday afternoon
on the highway south of Brecken-
i idge at the Gunsight road curve,
where the car overturned when a
tire blew out. Fair was the only-
occupant of the car to lie hospital-
ized.
Considerable damage was report-
ed to all vehicles involved.
Sheriff Chase Booth investigated
a wreck Monday afternoon oil East
Walker, where a collision occurred
at the intersection near the High-
way Barn. Drivers of the cars
were Winnie Nell Muilinax and
Finis Herring, both of Brecken-
lidge. Damage to the Herring ear
was considered light.
Damages were estimated at .slot)
to the car of Wayne Forbiss and
th,- 1 Da a Ford driven by Euctt
Lively, both of Breckenridge.- fol-
lowing" a collision Saturday after-
noon at -lain at he intersection of
Payne and West Fourth St. For-
biss was driving .. 'al Ford.
Wells Bantau. City Patrolman,
investigated the accident.
MANY WORKERS APPOINTED TO
MAKE CHEST DRIVE SUCCESS
Campaign Will
Open Oct. 17 i
At Breakfast
MIDGET SUB JOINS THE NAVY—The U.S. Navy's first midget submarine, the X-I, steams
across Long Island Sound toward the submarine base at New London, Conn. The tiny five-man sub
—50 feet long and seven feet in diameter—was built by Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. in a
hangar at Farmingdale, L.I. It was designed to test, harbor defense installations in American coastal
ports. Standing top-side on the 25-tori craft is William Rand, engineer o[ the company that built the
ship. The tiny craft is powered by diesel engines and batteries.
Sheriff's Dept.
Adds Night Patrol
On 30 Day Trial
The Stephens County sheriff's
department is now taking part in a
nine county night patroi for a
thirty day period it was learned
' Wednesday,
The program opened on Sunday-
night. October and Sheriff Chase
Booth stated that a patrol car
! cruises nightly a designated area
| throughout the night in the county-
starting about 9 p. in. and ending
! at dawn.
Counties agreeing to tile plan
j are Taylor, Eastland. Callahan,
j Shackelford. Jones. Nolan. Run-
i nels and C'oleman.
Booth continued that a meeting
of sheriffs and their deputies from
the counties were invited to a
j meeting in Abilene on Tuesday
i evening but that local officers were
: unable to attend.
At the meeting it was pointed
| out that the night patrol will per-
form the added duties "above and
1 beyond their regularly assigned
duties," and that none of the nine
; counties has gained authorization
from commissioners courts to hire
j additional deputies for the night
[ patrol.
Prime purpose of the patrol is
to aid in preventive law enforce-
ment, but it is also expected to cut
sharply the number of cattle thefts
land burglaries that have been re-
i ported over the area.
Breckenridge To Welcome Air Flight j
Here For 25 Minutes On October 13
Breckeni idge will he "in- of the I liodi' :-'.
stops for the ' mass flight of civil! Tin- tourists will he welcomed
aircraft which will wing its way \ and served refreshments.
over T.-xas in the Seventh Annual I Tile tour will officially start at:
Alt Texas Air Tour. ; Temple, October 8 and will make
The planes will arrive in ISrecK | -'i.S stops during the week long!
enridge at 9:".r> o'clock on the j Ilig-ht.
morning of October 1", and will i Governor Allan Shivers has pro- |
leave at 10:20 o'clock. j claimed the week of October Sj
George Jordan said Saturday j through la as "Aviation and Air
they will be met by the Chamber of j Tour Week in Texas." The early
Commerce aviation committee. ( arrival of the tour in tkullas on
members of the Civil Air Patrol. October 1H will allow participation
and county and city officials, and ' in the celebration of "Aviation
fcli others wUhir>4 to jcin tbesi Day" at t&e State Fair ii Tejtoi.
T
h
TWIN iNJUNS They re rarely out of action—one left, the
other right so Wally" Bock rubj the great Cleveland relief
^I'.rh^r^ Don Mossi. .'eft, nd g.av_r&i4fleski, iiflmHaacq1^■.
One Completion
Made 3 Wildcat
Wells Located
Three new wildcats and wildcat
entry project have been announced
for Stephens County.
J. E. Connaliy, et al. of Abilene
No. 1 J. R. Coody was spotted two
miles southwest of Caddo as a
wildcat.
Having a proposed depth of 4.250
feet with rotary, it spots 990 feet
from the south and west lines of
Section 2, Block ti. T&P Survey.
W. J. Rhodes, Breckenridge, filed
application to re enter No. 4 .1. H.
Bollins, abandoned wildcat 14
miles southeast of Breckenridge.
Site is 330 feet from the north and
west lines of the southeast quarter
in Section 54. Block 5, T&P Survey.
The project was originally drilled
and plu.gged in 1940 by Gulf Oil
Corp. Rhodes is to attempt com
pletion in a sand zone at 2.(iS0 feet.
Potential was taken at J. W.
Hastings, et all, of Wichita Falls
No. I Addie E. Hamil, Section (:i.
Block 8. T&P Survey. Drilled one
mile northwest of Breckenridge, it
has been placed in ' the regular
field.
Daily potential was 12.M0 barrels
of 40 gravity oil and 50 per cent
water. It is pumping from 20 per-
forations al .'1,221-2() feet, treated
with 1,000 gallons of acid. Casing
is set at .'{,289 feet and the hole
bottomed at 3.295 feet.
George Blackei by. et al, iT Wich-
ita Falls No. 2-C L. C. Link. Sec-
tion 70. Block 4, T&r Survey, was
completed in the regular field five
miles southeast of Caddo.
Da'ly potential was 17.78 barrels
of 40 gravity oil. It is pumping
from an open hole at 1,792 to 1.820
feet.
T « Wildcats
Deeper of tWO HOW wildcats Mll-
nounced for Stephens County will
he .1. CI,-iv Higjit, trustee, of Dal-
las No. 2 II. N\ B. To He.
Location is eight miles north of
Eastland. LSOO feet from tile north
and 549 feet from the west lines of
Section -158, SP Survey. Proposed
depth I- 3,200 feet with rotary.
One mile southwest of Frankell,
Fletcher Oil and Gas Drilling
Corp. of Dalas staked No. 1 H. A.
Langford as a 2,400 foot rotary-
wildcat.
site is 200 feet I'ror
and 1.987 feet from Lhi
of Section 65, Block li
vey.
Jim Lee Drilling- Co., Inc.
Lubbock staked No. 7 Rickels Es
tale as a 4,500 foot rotary project
three miles north of Ivan in the
Rickels (Second Conglomerate)
Field.
Location spots 2,450 feet from
the north and 330 feet, t'rofti the
west lines of Section 7. SP Survey.
COUNTY OPENS EIGHT NEW
OIL FIELDS SINCE JANUARY
With th.e observance of Oil Pro- It was Leo Vescnmier Jr.
gross Week, October 9-15, by all! las No. I Minnie Jeter Li
industries and businesses connect-1 Baker Survey. During th.
if
industry,
backbone
this area,
le first of
the county has -gained eight
discovery wells.
f-V wildcat closely watched 14
miles northwest of Breckenridge
opened a new Mississippian area.
i d in any way to the oi
which has long been the
of Stephens County and
it is noted that since tl
1955
I 1
am
T. V.
-hour
•is of
Breckenridge this month. Octo-
i ber 17 the opening day, w ill join
thousands of other cities over the
: Dili ted States to raise a Commim-
i ity Chest budget, a movement to
combine what would otherwise Pi
I eleven other funds campaigns into
i one united effort.
| This year W. W. Rogers ha.;
| been appointed campaign chairman.
! Today he announces the personnel
| and assignments of the commiL-
t. es and asks concerted action from
; the first in order to wind up worit
■ quickly. The goal lias been set at
I 815.000, considered a small sum
to support so many activities, a.n-1
i full co-operation of all who will
i contribute is asked to make thti
| campaign quickly successful.
The eleven agencies that make
up the Breckenridge Community
Chest budget are: tile Y. M. P. A.".
: Boy Scouts. Girl Scouts, Public Li-
Ihrary. L nderprivileged Children's
• Fund, Emergency Charities, Teer.
j ''auteeii, Goodfellows. Youth Ac-
tivities, Stephens County T. B. As-
sociation, and Gonzales Warm
! Springs Foundation.
Kickoff Brcakfasl
potential it flowed 174
oil from 4,47(i 82 feet.
Phariss (Conglomerate) Field
was opened 10 miles northeast of
Breckenridge. Cannon Drilling Co.
et al. off Abilene re-entered and
1 at 2,571
ha
Roger
committees
this job on
mittoes and
ask.-d to be
hi
9>ZW£ln G!
HOBBY ANDERSON
Senior Carrier
Boy Tells Of
Newspaper Job
the north
west lines
T&P Sur-
of
McNaHen Is Named
Best Musician Of
Year In BHS Band
Mike McN'allen. Breckenridge
High School senior, has been
named as best musician of the
Buckaroo Band for the year ac-
cording to announcement made
Friday by Alton Roan, band di-
rector.
Mike is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. G. .1. McN'allen. He plays
the trombone and this is his
fifth year to be a member of the
senior band having joined the
group while still in the eighth
grade. He has been a member of
tile BHS stage band for the past
four years.
At the Brovvnwood stage
festivals held each spring
has been named for three years
to the All-State Stage Band.
Thi* year he is serving as vice
president of the stage group
here.
Senior carrier boy of the Breck-
enridge American young salesmen
is Bobby Anderson, fourteen year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. j
(Andy) Anderson.
Bobby has been carrying a paper j
route for approximately four years
and at present time has over 100 |
customers on his route. He has an I
older brother, Jimmy Anderson, i
now/in the Navy stationed in San
Diego, who was a carrier sales-i
man also while still in school here. ;
Bobby, a freshman in Brecken-
| ridge High School, is a member of;
| the Buckaroo Band and vice presi- ;
dent of his hon'mooni, that of Mrs.
I Nell Gates. He is a member of the
Walker Street Church of Christ.
He states that with the money-
lie has made over the years from
his paper sales lie has purchased
clarinet, a bicycle, a typewriter and
has his own spending money. While ;
working as a salesman he has been j
i able to accompany other newsboys
on trips to Carlsbad. New Mexico,
deepened a hole plugged a
l.-et. The No. I li. C. Thompson,
Section 10, Block 4, T&P Survey,
the Marble Falls Conglomerate
strike had a daily flowing poten-
tial of 140 barrels ol' oil from '1.023-
29 feet.
Can iron Drilling Co. No. 2 11. C.
Thompson, Section 10. opened
St l awn Sand production in the
same field. Daily flowing potential
was 191 barrels of oil from 2,304-08
feet.
Mississippian Pay
Eight miles southeast of Wood-
son in northwestern Stephens, a
Mississippian strike was complet-
ed. It was Warren Petroleum
Corp., oil division, No. I W. I).
Boyd, Sarah Blythe Survey. The
well flowed 254 barrels dailv from
4,287-90 feet.
Warren completed No. I Wade
Boyd, A. C. McDonald Survey, as
a northeast offset to the Missis-
sippian strike. It was dually- com-
| pleted.
; As a Caddo discovery, it. had a
| daily potential of 108 barrels of
joil. flowing from 3,548-58, feet.
Daily flowing potential from tin
Mississippian was 102 barrels from
j 1,282 to 4,301 feet.
New Field Pay-
Upper Conglomerate pay was
| opened in the ties pool last Febru-
I ary. That strike was Lloyd II.
! Smith. Inc.. and M&S Driling Co.
I of Houston No. 5 G. 11. lies, Sec-
: tion 2. MEP&P Survey. The well
' flowed Pi-", barrels of oil daily
j from 3,999 to 4,005 feet
i Davis, Key & Gannon of Abilene
| completed No. 2 Walker Estate
Section 1051. TE&L Survey, as :
Marble Falls Conglomerate strik.
14 miles noitheast of Breckenridge.. | v-
Daily flowing potential was 80 bar-
rels of oil from 3,888-90 feet.
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Former Resident
Given Promotion
Information has been received
from the Fourth Army Headquar-
ters in San Antonio that Dr. Wood-
row W. Jones, son of Mrs. Allen
h
ppointed numerous
in order to complete
a fast schedule. Corn-
volunteer workers are
present at the kickoff
ikfnst October 17 at the Y. M.
C. A. at 7 a. m. where the program
will be presented to each worker,
and cards issued to each block cap-
lain and workers.
Those appointed have been allot-
ed blocks which, are numbered on
a large map to be placed in tl'. s
Community Chest office arranged
in the building between the Texas
Electric Service Co. and the Rtmh
Hotel.
Those appointed and territories
are as follows:
Block Vi.. I—Bill Roase, Jack
Merrill, Dale Hitchcock. Lee Guy.
Block No. 2 Sid Bowers. M. M.
Machen. IL W. Webb.
Block No. 3—Herb McCrokle,
Pill Black. Earnest Maxwell,** Bell
Dean. Jr.. Howard Swanson.
Block No. 1 -D. W. Thurmon, A.
I'.. Rowe. Ira Wing... Billie Creagh.
Block Nor. a—Charles Summer,
Fisher Miller, Mrs. Blister Walker,
Mrs. Norman Brewer.
Block No. 0 Gene I'atti. Nor-
man Brewer, Charles llagler. James
D. Griffin.
Block No. 7—Larry Boyles, Bill
Wilson, Dewitt Hoxvvorth, Mrs.
Arlene Harvy.
Block No. 8—Hooks Lemmoii.-:.
Hask.-ll Key, Jimniie Trammcll.
Block No. 9—Tom Ward, Winter
Wood, C. 0. Wiggins, Henry Dan-
ner.
A c.-ntral or "big gifts" com-
mittee has been appointed compos-
ed of R. 1. McArron, tsadore Cohen
and Lester Clark.
Workers in special areas are:
Btirch Hotel, John Flatters and
Dale Wilson; court house, frvi.t
Lewis and Joe Beatty; city hall,
Joe Hauna; schools, John \V. Cul-
■II; j.ost office. Garth Bills.*
R. E. Dye Company. Charlie Fox,
Boss Mfg. Company, Charles
! Wende; Lone Star Plants, Jack Fi-
zer; Texas Pipe Line Company,
J. H. Bates: Waren Pet. Company,
jr. W. Wulfjen: highway depari-
! meiit, John Bmimnn and Dea r
, Munsell: industrial, Blake John-
son Jr.. Bernard Clogg. Jim Wil-
jkerson;; ministers and employees,
I Rev. J. D. Hatch; hospitals an i
San Antonio and the-state fail-
Dallas.
According
man it take:
lectors. Mrs. C. W. Wulfjen, Tor.)
| Jones of Breckenridge, has been ] SeeleV, Dr. Edwin Goodall.
promoted to the rank of Lt. Col. as! Lawyers, Ross Elliott: wometia
i a chaplain in the U. S. Army Re- j clubs. Mrs. Edwin Pace, Mrs. D. R,
; serve. iCrowell:. porch light campaiga.
Dr. Jones is pastor of the First Mrs. Jim Wilkerson and Mrs. Jodia
Christian Church in Beaumont, Baker.
I where he lias served for almost i —— o— -—-——
i eight years. During World War II Quality printing in a minimum
'I he was a chaplain in the armed time, phone 10.
Mother's Letter Tells of Surgery
A letter has been received from i fifteen doctors with him with Di.
to the young
from one to two hours
III itrttt'l iiicia i ci.oi v cu iikiii |
Mrs. Charles Wilemon. former j William P. Longmire as head sur
resident, f.iving the j geon."
delicate heart opera- | ^]1(. continued that the boy
business- j Breckenridge
wo hours i details ot the
vvu:
band
Mik.
each day to get his paper:
liver then! and it takes approxi-
mately four hours to collect. "As
a whole my customers are good and
I've never had anyone on my route
who I had serious trouble pleasing,"
Bobby stated.
and de- tion'her son, Michael Joe Wilemon, I i;ut f, oin under the right arm
age four and a half years, under-
Co. Cancer Group
Plan Public Study
went at the UCLA Medical Center
in Los Angeles, Calif. Concluding
that Michael was discharged on
Tuesday, October 4.
Mr. and. Mrs. J. S. Sanders of
Breckenridge are grandparents to
Mrs. Wilemon, who was named lurid a half
"Queen FoV a Day" on the nation- completely
wide Jack Bailey TV show, after
she requested as her wish a baby-
sitter to stay with her three other
icioss the front to the left arm and
the chest was lifted up so that
they might cut into the heart and
sew up a hole in it. two inches ill
diameter, that was in the wall be-
| tvveeir ■ the two top chambers of
j the heart. IShe added that for sev en
minutes his heart was
'shut off."
It was after "12 noon when lie
was brought out of the operation,
room and he remained in critical
condition for three days when he
began, to improve. On the sixth
day he was up riding a tricycle
until one of the nurses caught him.
The mother concluded her letter
The "Stephens County Cancer j children so that she might be with
Society under the guidance of Mrs. | Michael while he underwent sur-
fap Stoker, is planning an extern- gery.
iiv-e education program on cancer In the letter Mrs. Wilemon says.
'"or the benil't of every person in ["After being admitted to the hos
Breckenridge and Stephens County, j pital on the 18th Michael was taken
The Stephens County Cancer I to the operating room on the morn j by stating that the heart murmur,
Society is not in the local Com- j ing. of the 20th where he was put which specialists estimated . would
minity Chest this year at the re-jto sleep and then packed in plastic ' cut his life expectancy in half
quest of the American Cancer So j ice;" bags until his body temper- were it not stopped, was first dis-
ciety who requests educational ! ature dtoppetl to about 20 degrees. | covered when he was six week . oI<t
work by local Cancer Society I'uiU. : During the operation tiers wer. by a Breckenridge doctor.
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