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SWEETWATER, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 1955
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Savings And Loan Association Two Business Procirlont
Names Officers And Directors Sessions Top * reSIUeiH
Tom H. Kassner, superintendent
of the U.S. Gypsum Co., of Sweet-
water, was named to the board of
directors of the Sweetwater Fede-
ral Savings and Loan Association
at the annual shareholder's meet-
ing, held January 19.
Other officers and directors
named were C. E. Mays Jr., presi-
dent; J. N. Dulaney. vice presi-
dent; Evelyn Lohmann, secretary-
treasurer and board members W
R. Potter, Rigdon Edwards and
Kassner.
The Association, formed in 1934,
has shown a steady growth during
the past 20 years, and has recently
moved into new quarters, 115 E.
Third Street. Dulaney has been on
the board of director's since the
organization of the firm on Oct 19
1934.
Assets now total more than
$1,000,000. On the statement of con-
dition on Dec. 30, 1954, the follow-
ing assets and liabilities were re-
ported :
Assets
First mortgage real
estate loans SI,102,539.01 |
Cash on hand in bank . 162,584.111
Furniture, fixtures and
equipment 1.250.13
Stock in Federal Home
Loan Bank 18.500.f0 I
Government Bonds .... 150.000 00
Deposit with Federal
Home Loan Bank 100.000.00
Total $1,534,873.25
Liabilities
Member Share
Accounts $1,407,389.92
Trust Fund of Borrow-
ers for Texas and In-
surance 1,138.94 |
Dividends (six months
ending Dec. 31, 1954) 20,401.64
Specific reserves 150.00
General Reserves:
Federal insurance
$63,026.87
Contingencies
23.600.WJ
Undivided Profits
19.165.88
105,792.75
Total $1,534,873.25
TOM H. KASSNER
OIL
By Allen Baker
No. 1 Joe Morris well, which
gives promise of opening a new
oil field two and a half miles east
of Claytonville, is having a battle
with extremely high gas pressure.
It is reported that gas pressure
builds up so that oil cannot get
into the tubing.
The field is reported to be a
strong Cisco sand prospect.
Rhea and Reynolds'No. 1 Char-
lie Brashear well at Claytonville
is reported drilling below 4,500
feet .It is expected to reach the
pay zone level within a week.
No. 8 Evelyn, S. Cox oil test has
been located in section 90. block
22, T&P survey, on the west side
of Lake Trammell by Union Oil
Co. of California and B. A. Duffy. I
Location is 660 feet from the south j
and east lines.
Judge From Snyder
Will Preside Here
In Mauiey's Absence
Judge Sterling Williams, of Sny-
der, district judge of the 132nd Ju-
dicial District, will preside during
criminal week of 32nd District
Court, which will open here Mon-
day, in the absence of Judge A.
S. Mauzey, who has been confined
with illness for two weeks.
Criminal court week, originally
scheduled for Jan. 17, was post-
poned due to the illness of Judge
Mauzey, and Judge Williams was
contacted to preside in his place
during the coming week.
Indictmc-nts returned by the No-
lan County Grand Jury in early
January are expected to be heard
during the week, and thp Martin
County cases, ti ^ here
on change of venue, are also on
tile docket.
The Martin County cases open-
ed here before Christmas, but were
postponed due to Ihe holidays.
District Clerk Mis. Pearl Wood-
ruff stated that she knew of noth-
ing definite concerning cases to be
heard, whether the Martin Coun-
ty cases or local criminal cases
would be heard first. The sheriff's
office has sent out notices for jur-
ors, who are to report Monday
morning.
District civic cases, including
the Mary Joanna Conners damage
suit, which was postponed due to
Judge Mauzey's illness, after it had
been underway only two days, will
be scheduled at a latter date.
Jaycee Slate
The two main business sessions j
| of the Junior Chamber of Com-1
merce tri-regional convention be-
I ing held here will highlight Sun- j
I day's activities.
! The first meeting is scheduled !
for 9 a. m. at the Texas Theatre I
I and the concluding event of the
] convention will be the business
i meeting which will begin at 2 p. m.
at the National Guard Armory.
Other items on the schedule to-
day are a wake-up and breakfast
from 7 a. m. to 8 a, m.; a morn-
ing devotional at 8:30 at the Texas
Theatre; and a luncheon at the
Armory starting at 12 noon.
Among the business to be taken
up will be the election of three
state regional vice-presidents —
one from each region represented
at the meeting here. Also the site
for the summer convention will be
selected.
Registration continued through-
out the day Saturday and a dance
was to have been held Saturday
night. A golf tournament was in
progress at the Lake Sweetwater
course for Jaycee divoters.
Two items are slated for the
wives Sunday. Other than attend-
ing the devotional and luncheon
with their husbands, the ladies
have been invited to a coffee at
9:30 a. m. in the Peacock Room
of the Blue Bonnet Hotel and a
bridge and canasta party at the
Armory at 2 p. m.
s Special Message
On Far East Slated Monday
Civilians
Evacuating
Tachen Isles
Two Indiana Men
Suspects In (heck
Forging A! Roscoe
Capture of two Indiana men near
Sonora. wanted in cci.ic. (ion with
forged checks and passing er bad
checks in Sonora, and iheir result-
ant photographs in a San Angelo
newspaper, led to the identification
of a man believed to have forged
a check in Roscoe several days
before.
Paul L. Miller and Charles
Young, both of Indiana, were cap-
tured on a ranch near Sonora after
a manhunt of several days. Their
photographs appeared in an edi-
tion of the San Angelo Standard
Times last week, and a sharp-eyed
employe at the Hugo Zetzman ser-
vice station spotted Miller as the
person believed to have passed a
cheek on the Zetzman station ear-
lier in the month.
The check was made out to Paul
L. Miller and signed with the name
of Alvin Smith, prominent Roscoe
farmer.
TAIPEI, Formosa, Jan. 22—UP—
! The Chinese Nationalists have
begun the evacuation of 8,000
civilians from the Tachen Islands,
possibly as the first step in
i abandoning the island outposts, in
■ the face of a Communist invasion
threat, it was reported Saturday.
Unconfirmed reports in
I Nationalist newspapers on Formosa
j said the Communists had concen-
| trated 1,000 warships and junks
along an 80-mile stretch of the Red-
held mainland facing Tachen, 200
| miles north of this island bastion.
Nationalist intelligence reports
were reported to have said that
the Reds were prepared for an
invasion of the northernmost island
j outpost of Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-Shek's defense line. The Reds
earlier this week invaded Yikiang-
I shan, only eight miles from
| Tachen.
The evacuation report could not
be confirmed in official sources,
i but reliable quarters in Formosa
have reported that the Tachens will
i be abandoned because they are
indefensible without United States
air and sea power.
Three American aircraft carriers
j plowed eastward from Manila
Saturday toward the Formosa area
for "exercises." Naval sources
disclosed Friday that the 33,100-ton
; Essex. Kearsarge and Yorktown,
fitted to carry 100 planes each, had
sailed for Formosan waters.
r, g*p*c8 military assistance
i advisjry cH'.f Maj. Gen. Willia •
! C. Cnase warned Saturday thai
j "hundreds of thousands" of Com-
' munists were in positions on the
i mainland and nearby islands to
i assault the Tachens.
An uneasy lull had settled over
the beleaguered island group
Saturday where 10,000 of Chiang's
troops waited to be evacuated or
I lace a Red invasion.
The Nationalist air force was
I reported to have sent fighter-
bombers out again Saturday to
\ rake Red shipping up and down a
1300-mile long stretch of the South
! China coast.
The American advisors on
[Tachen were reported Friday to
! have left the islands. Unofficial
reports Saturday said the National-
j ists were evacuating wives of mili-
tary personnel, nurses, and civilian
workers.
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GETTING READY—Tents are erected on Tachen Island, strategic Nationalist Chinese defense base
chain, in preparation for reinforcements from Formosa to withstand an expected Communist attack.
Dimly seen, arrow, is a Red-held island which may be the springboard for any Communist offensive
against T chen. (NEA Telephoto)
US Officials Warn
Cf Trip To China
In the north Dora oil field, No. |
19-Boyd has been staked by Skellv I
Oil Co. as an Ellenburger test.
Loaction is 2,245 feet from the j
north and 1.501 feet from the east I
line of section 58, block 20, T&P
survey.
Report on the recently com- I
pleted No. 1 P. A. Smith well,
north-east of Roscoe has been j
filed with the Railroad Commis-
sion. The well is located in sec-
tion 34. block 23, T&P survey. j
A daily potential of 282.51 bar- I
rels of 44 gravity oil was reported.
Flow was through quarter-inch
choke with 1.025 pounds pressure
on casing and 500 pounds on tub-
ing.
Flow was from 160 perforations
at 6,116-56 feet. Well was treated
with 3,000 gallons of acid. Gas-oil
ratio was 875 to 1.
PROCLAMATION
Whereas, the right to cast the ballot to choose city,
state and national officials, to voice an opinion on laws
of the country is a God-given and a constitutionally
guaranteed right, and
Whereas, it is the civic duty of every adult male and
female of this city and this country to exercise that
right on all occasions that may arise, and
Whereas, January 31, 1955 is the final date for all
persons of voting age in the state of Texas to obtain a
poll tax or a poll tax exemption,
I. Don W. Smith, Mayor of Sweetwater, do hereby
proclaim the week of January 24-31, as "Pay Your Poll
Tax Week," and do hereby urge all persons to obtain
their poll tax on their exemption, in order that they
may, at any time during the year 1955, be able to ex-
ercise their right to vote. I also do hereby urge every
person to adopt during the coming week, as his slogan,
"Don't Be Lax, Pay Your Poll Tax."
Don W. Smith
Mayor, City of Sweetwater.
Gas Handling School
At Seaboard Offices
| Oil offices for the Seaboard dis-
! trict here on the fourth floor of
the Doscher building have been
converted temporarily into a "na-
Itural gas handling school" part of
I each day.
| A University of Texas Extension
| Course is being held for two weeks
I closing Wednesday. Manager Sam
illunt is host to the school and M.
Simmons of Odessa is instructor.
All of the various model instru-
ments and machinery that are
used in handling natural gas are
set up for use in the course.
Various problems that might
arise with natural gas, as an inci-
dental to oil production, are dis-
cussed.
Attending the school are eleven
from Seaboard, three from Skelly
and one from Stanolind Oil and
Gas Production offices here.
Seaboard Oil Co. lias completed )
R. H. Jordan A-2 well in the EA
Cambrian field.
A-3 Jordan was drilling Satur- j
day below 3,055 feet in lime and j
shale.
A second pay was established j
last week in the Sanford Fry field
between Hylton and Wingate In
norhtwest Runnels County.
The pay zone was in Gardner
sand at G. W. Strake No. 1 Lucy
C. Bryan, L. Forsythe survey No.
450. It gauged 128.26 barrels per
day through 16/64ths-inch choke
per day plus 21.84 per cent water
from 4,977 feet. Gas-oil ratio was j
2,160-1. It is an offset to 4,500-foot
Fry sand production.
Hunt Oil Co. and Gulf Oil Corp-
oration set a now drilling depth
record for Texas last week with
18,625 feet depth In a wildcat test
in Pecos County. The Ellenbur-
ger, deepest in Texas so far, was
topped at 18,400 feet—three times
the depth in east Nolan County.
Oil formations get deeper each
See OIL, Page 3.
TEST—A Navy Regulus guided missile, built by Chance Vought Aircraft Corp., is launched from port-
able carrier on flight deck of the aircraft carrier Hancock during test operations somewhere in the
Pacific. Two Jato (jet-assisted-takeoff) bottles help give missile flying speed as it leaves launcher.
Expended bottles drop off after short distance and missile's jet engine powers "bird" on its high-
speed flight. Regulus is a surface-to-surface missile, guided by remote-control radio and capable of
being launched from submarines, surface ships or land sites. US NAVY PHOTO FROM (NEA Tele-
photo)
WASHI NGTON, Jan. 22 — UP—
GovevjsmK.'.-t and congressional
sources w;;rued Saturday that fanir
ilies o! 17 Americans imprisoned
in China will fall into a Red propa-
ganda trap if they accept the Com-
munist invitation to visit their kin.
"Even if they 'the families)
found them bleeding from every
pore," said Sen. Karl E. Mundt
(R-S. D.i, "the Communists could
tell them, 'you've got to say the
\ boys are in good shape or we'll
i hang your son.'"
Other key senators echoed
j Mundt's view. Sen. Alexander Wi
i ley (R-Wis'.) termed the Red invi-
i tation "another example of the Red
1 racket of holding hostages and re-
quiring payments, either in phony
' praise or in money and eo-opera-
tion."
Trap Baited Two Ways
The State Department, reluctant
to ban the proposed trips to Red
China, warned that the Communist
propaganda trap had been baited
two ways: To capitalize on the
visits, if they materalize; and to
blast this government as brutal and
arbitrary if it would not authorize
the trips.
The department, which has a
final say-so on such matters, had
not decided finally whether to lift
its long-standing ban on travel to
Communist China and to issue the
necessary travel permits.
It frankly was hoping families
of the imprisoned 15 Air Force men
and two civilians would decide on
their own, not to go. Department
spokesman Henry Suydam conced-
ed Friday that the families face
a "harrowing dilemma."
Offers were mounting meantime
Mrs. McMillan's
Father Succumbs
. W. S. Henderson, age 76, of Lub-
I bock and formerly of Roscoe, and
father of Mrs. Vernon McMillan of
Sweetwater, died in a Lubbock hos-
pital Saturday afternoon about 2
o'clock following a short illness.
Funeral services will be conduc-
ted at 10 o'clock Monday morning
at the McDonald Funeral Chapel
in Lubbock with interment in the
Sweetwater cemetery at 2 p. m.
Monday.
Survivors Include one son. R M.
Henderson; six daughters; Mrs. W.
N. Noble, Mrs. I?. B. Torrenee,
Mrs. M. A. Williford and Mrs. Ral-
ph R. Cahill, all of Lubbock; Mrs.
H. G. Ferguson of Littlefield; and
Mrs. Vernon McMillan of Sweet-
water. Two sisters, Mrs. Luke Rat-
liff of Holland, Ga.. and Mrs. Her-
bert Marshall of California.
Man Fined $122.40
On Charges Of DWI
Clark P. Gillespie 01 Iowa Park
Texas, was fined $122.40 on charges
of driving while intoxicated by
County Judge Lea Boothe Saturday
morning. Charges were filed by
Highway Patrolman Herman Seale,
who made the arrest Friday night.
Cecil Smith of Sweetwater was
fined $65 and costs by Judge
Boothe for driving while his opera-
tor's license was suspended. Charg-
es were filed by Seale,
. to help arrange and pay for travel
I of those decided to make the trip.
1A number of kin had announced
! they were interested.
I The American Red Cross an-
| nounced it would assist "in any
| appropriate way," including finan-
l cial aid. in arranging the trips. A ;
| New York industrialist named
i George W. Scrimshaw announced
j he was ready to assist personally
! in financing the travel.
Rep. Kenneth B. Keating (R-N.
i Y.) who said he was drafting a bill
; to pay ail travel expenses, rejeet-
j ed criticism of his plan and said
i he will go ahead with it.
"We will lose in the propaganda
j battle if we put obstacles in the!
path of their going," Keating told
j a reporter. "The best way to sal
! v age the bad propaganda situation
I is by showing that we're big
j enough to help our American citi-
| zens get over there."
Funeral Services
Held For Infant Son
Of F. E. Murrays
Simple rites for Jesse Eugene
Murray, infant son of Mr. and
Mrs. F. E. (Eugene) Murray of
1000 West Arizona, were held at
3 p. m. Saturday at the Highland
Baptist Chapel with the Rev. Ken-
neth Aufill officiating. Interment
in Slater's Chapel Cemetery at
Nolan was directed by Patterson
Funeral Home.
The infant was a little more
than 36 hours old at death, having
been born shortly before 9 a. m.
on Thursday. Death occurred at
10 p. m. Friday in Sweetwater
Hospital.
Surviving are the parents, the
father being an employe of Sweet-
water Cotton Oil Company; a sis-
ter, Gladys; the maternal grand-
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Oliv-
er of Sweetwater: the paternal
grandparents, Otto Murray of
Sweetwater and Mrs. Ida V. Swit-
zer of Snyder.
FOR MALE RESIDENT
Lifetime Earning Capacity
Here Averages $167,000
NEW YORK, (Special to the
Reporter I Jan. 22—The lifetime
learning capactiy of the average
male resident of Sweetwater has
reached new heights.
Based 011 current conditions of
employment, of national productiv-
i ity, of education and of life span,
; the average local man starting out
to earn a living now has a pros-
pective lifetime income of $167,000.
1 This projection into the future is
based on data compiled by the
Census Bureau as reflected in the
current earnings of local residents.
1 At present these earnings are run-
ning 12 percent above those re-
ceived generally throughout the
United States, and 28 percent over
those in the West South Central
States. „.
1 The $167,000 Uiat fhe average
Sweetwater worker stands to col-
lect for his years of toil is much
more than the expectations of
workers elsewhere in the United
I States, who will get $150,000. In
1 the West South Central States, men
i will receive $130,500 on the ave-
| rage.
the economic value of man in
1 the United States, taking into ac-
| count the effects of inflation, has
I more than doubled since the be-
ginning of World War II, accord-
j ing to the Census Bureau. It is at-
I tributed to the growth of opportu-
! nity, the rise in the educational
j level and the improved skill of
1 the working population.
Education is a principal factor,
usually, in determining a man's
j earning capactiy. An elementary
| school diploma will raise prospec-
! tive lifetime income some 66 per-
i cent over the amount going to
those with five years of schooling.
A high school diploma rates a third
! mote in income than an elemen-
I tary school one. College graduates
stand to receive two-thirds more
! than high school grads. according
to the report.
The last census showed a good
educational level for residents of
Sweetwater. The median years of
schooling among adults locally
; came to 10.3 years. This was more
j than was attained in the United
States a whole, 9.3 years. In the
I West South Central States the me-
dian was 8.8 years. Since that time
there has been an improvement.
I due largely to w ar veterans return-
ing to school under the GI bill.
ClRCLINS the SQUARE
"Please stop my 'for rent' ad,
people are driving me wild," is a
very common expression after one
of our advertisers placed a little
"for rent" ad in the Reporter . . .
You, too. can rent, buy, sell, or
what have you, with one of these
little inexpensive salesmen. Call
4678 and ask for the classified de-
partment.
Two youngsters were bragging
about which one of their uncles was
the faster on the draw with a pis-
1 tol. "My uncle is the quickest
shootin' cowboy in West Texas."
The other jeered: "Yeah, but my
uncle is faster. He shoots his gun
even before he gets it out of th?
; holster!" "What's his name?"
1 "They call him 'Two-toed Pete."
Mdntyre Well Hits Pay
In Canyon Sand Saturday
Trouble, like babies, grow o. v*
| by nursing.
When Mrs. Neva Palmer and
Mrs. F. C. Shillingburg have their
mid-morning coffee at a local soda
fountain usually they each take
along a piece of cake . . . soon they
may take their own coffee and
| merely ask for cups.
! The No. 1 H. W. Mclntyre well
of Sinclair Oil and Gas Co. north
of Sweetwater Saturday afternoon
i found the Canyon Sand pay at
! 5,200 feet.
Testing in 35 feet of the sand
operators recovered 640 feet of
oil and no water. Gas reaching
surface in 20 minutes and bottom
hole pressure was 1875 pounds.
According to officials the well
will make a good producer.
In a test Friday night oil and
gas-cut mud and about 1000 feet
of gas and no water were recov-
ered in a 12 foot section of the
sand. Top of the sand was found
at 5,160 feet.
Operators were preparing to
drill ahead to the Ellenburger
which is expected at. about 6.700
feet and if nothing is found there
they will return to the Canyon
Sand and produce. If oil is found
in the Ellenburger in sufficient
quantities the well will become a
; dual-producer.
Welcome to Sweetwater—Mr. and
Mrs. Leo Marster. new owners of
the Blue Bonnet Hotel, and Miss
Charlotte Anderson, manager of
the hotel . . . also Sammy DaMom-
mio. new owner of the Town and
Country cafe at the Airport.
Circling the Square is in receipt
of the following notice . . . "before
local merchants go too far with
their criticism about those who buy
merchandise elsewhere, it might be
well for them to sorta look around
in their own back yards first,".,.
Ike May Ask
For Definite
Defense Line
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—UP—
President Eisenhower will ask
congress at noon Monday to
approve a definite U.S. defense line
in the Far East in what may set
the stage for a war-or-peace show-
down with Red China.
A White House announcement
Saturday said Mr. Eisenhower will
submit a special message that
"will clarify the purposes and
application of United States policy
in relation to the security of
Formosa and ask for the support
thereof by the congress."
Those sparse words, high admin-
j istration officials said, represented
| a hardening of American policy
i toward the Communists in the face
of intensified encroachment on Na-
tionalist China's island territories.
Definite Line May Be Drawn
Though doubts were voiced that
! Mr. Eisenhower will seek to estab-
lish publicly in his message a
specific defense line, several con-
j gressmen reported a "definite" line
: would be drawn.
Overstepping of that line in the
embattled Formosan area by Red
China would invite retaliation by
U.S. sea and air forces in support
of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek.
There was a welter of conflicting
reports about what the message
would contain, specifically whether
it would draw a defense perimet^p-
around the Nationalist bastion of
Formosa and the nearby Pesca-
dores Islands.
Committed to Defense
The President and Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles already
have said this country must defend
Formosa and the Pescadores. But
some informed administration
sources said not to discount the
possibility that the Nationalist-held
islands of Quemoy and Matsu
would be included within the de-
fense line.
Quemoy is almost within eye-
sight of the Red Chinese port of
Amoy. It is regarded as vital to
the defense of Formosa should the
Reds attempt an invasion. Matsu
is farther north.
A congressional source said he
did not believe Quemoy and Matsu
would be included in the defense
area.
It is fairly certain that the
Tachen Islands, some 200 miles
north of Formosa and under at-
tack by Red Chinese, will not be
included. As one administration
source put it: "We would not spend
one man, one Chinese Nationalist,
one bullet, to defend a rocky bunch
of crags which are of no impor-
tance."
Fires First Barrel
The President's special message
is regarded as the firing of the
first barrel in a two-barreled at-
tempt to restore "peace and sta-
bility" to the Far East.
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