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Albany continues to be the mec-
ca for hosts of oil men and most of
them believe the county has the
brightest prospects for paying oil
production that it has had since it
haS been on the oil map. Some
very good deep producing wells are
proving very satisfactory and
some long time operators are look-
ing for even better things in the
near future. Strange faces are a
common sight and when they are
not all cattle buyers, as was the
case in the early days of the coun-
ty.
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The Shackelford County Leader
Old Vol. 34, No. 23—New Vol. 8, No. 13
Albany, Texas, Mar. 28, 1946
With Albany in this limelight
with the oil industry, we could cer-
tainly be greatly benefitted if there
were only some manner of getting
housing facilities in the town. This
is retarding the growth of Albany
more than all other tthings togeth-
er, and every effort possible to get
relief, should be continued until re-
sults are obtained. This city is
certainly not patronizing black
markets in the manner going on in
most other places, as evidenced by
the lack of construction in town...
No city, town or village has less
building going on than right here,
and no other reason could be offer-
ed than the lack of black market
operations. For the lumber dealers
will tell you frankly, that is about
the- only method of securing
enough materials to complete any
sort of a building, for either home
or business.
Light showers over West Texas
during the week have been highly
beneficial in some areas, reported-
ly on the Plains where grain crops
received more moisture than in
this immediate sector. However,
there was much relief here inas-
much as the showers replaced high
winds which were so detrimental
to grain crops and early ppring
gardens. Greatest need of the
hour is for a real downpour which
will put out stock water and fill
the hundreds of new tanks built
during the past year. Farmers and
ranchers have taken advantage of
government aid to get dams built
during recent years and would like
to see a rain that would fill these
new lakes and tanks.
Have you bought that new car
teg yet? If not better hurry for
the time is fast growing to a close,
when you can keep the car on the'
streets and highways without the
1946 license plate. After next
Monday you will be subject to a
penalty if caught driving the car
without the current plate.
We still have a few more copies
of the service men and women's
edition of the Leader published last
December and those who wish to
get copies can get them by calling
at the office. If you need more
copies in order to complete your
scrap book better get them while
they are still available.
Uumerous citizens of Albany
have come to us during the week
to inquire who is guilty of vandal-
ism in Albany, believeing that the
reference in this column la3t week
to such practices, was evidence of
our knowledge of their identity,
and that perhaps we had names of
the guilty youths. But we had no
such intention—merely to bring
parents to the realization that
their children could be involved,
but not necessarily to any individ-
ual. Anyone can go about town
and see evidence of such actions
and general talk proves there is
something wrong. There is always
a cause back of everything good,
or bad, and it behooves parents of
the youth of Albany to find and re-
move the cause and our youngsters
will have a better opportunity to
make good citizens of the future.
Shackelford county is still short
on the Red Cross funds drive and
• there must be many who have not
yet contributed their annual offer-
ing to this worthy cause. Many of
our boys are still in foreign coun-
tries and they must have some
recreation and aid lhat the govern-
ment does not provide. Only
through the Red Cross can this be
done and it is such gifts as we,
here in this county, make to this
fund that carries a little touch of
home life to the boys. Make your
gift at once, as the campaign closes
early next week. The banks of
both Albany and Moran will accept
and credit your gift.
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IN NEW MEXICO.
Glenn Leech and Bill Couger
were business visitors in Las
Vegas, N. M., over the week-end.
Texans Eat Steak
On the Range At
Home, in Club
(Editor's note: The following!
column, taken from a recent issue j
of the Fort Worth Press, will be of;
interest to readers of the Leader
because of its reference to local
citizens. The writer, Mrs. Mary
Whatley Clarke, is the wife of Joe j
A. Clarke, former Albany banker, ^
but now vice president of the Fort
Worth National Bank.)
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Two Georges from West Texas
were visitors here last week, en-
joying a good steak at the Fort
Worth Club. One was big, jovial
George Callihan, drilling contract-
or from Abilene. The other was
small, wiry George DeLafosse,
friendly ranchman from Shackel-
ford and Stephens counties. Both
made good headway with their
steaks and reminisced over their
initiation to the cow country.
DeLafosse whose French grand-
parents settled in Texas many
years ago, was a country banker,
farmer and mule trader in Corsi-
cana when he decided to go west
in 1914 and try the ranching game.
He said the roads were so rough
and uncertain then that he dared
not make the trip in his Hupmo-
bile, so had it shipped out on the
train. Of French descent, and
East Texas trader that he was, he
learned quickly in the cow country
and before many years had himself
and little family well established.
His wife is the former Leta Rob-
ert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Had-
ley Robert, well known pioneer
ranch people of Shackelford coun-
ty.
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DeLAFOSSE is the owner of
Lake DeLafosse, which covers
more than 140 acres on his rancn.
Phillips Petroleum Company dam-
med Dry Branch Creek and created
a reservoir whose waters are used
to operate their Ibex plant.
DeLafosse and his friends have
the use of the lake, which is full of
good fish and is a popular summer
resort. When George isn't chasing
top quality Herefords, you'll find
him perched on the lake dam with
a fishing pole in his hands. And
friends and neighbors are often re-
cipients of DeLafosse fish, fresh
from the lake which George likes
to share with them.
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BIG GEORGE CALLIHAN
started out learning the oil busi-
ness at 17 years of age back in
West Virginia where he was born.
He married in his teens and came
to Texas. He has known success
m a big way but takes it in his
stride. He is never happier than
when drilling a wildcat well some-
where in West Texas, and has drill-
ed many such wells during his
years of experience.
With a long cigar in his mouth,
his eyes shaded by a soft brim hat,
one sees him about the well as reg-
ularly as the drilling crew. When
something goes wrong he can take
over, and doesn't hesitate to do so.
There's nothing about oil that he
doesn't know.
He loves to entertain friends
with broiled steaks at the well. If
a cowboy is around who knows
how to cook steak just so, he lets
him take over. This was the case
last year when friends visited a
wildcat well near Spur, Texas,
where the road to the well led
through miles of shinnery and coy-
otes sneaked away through the un-
derbrush.
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ERIC SWENSON volunteered to
cook the steak on this occasion and
takes such pride in his are that he
brings pecan wood from his ranch
on the Clear Fork of the Brazos
for such occasions. Swenson says
embers from pecan wood fires, give
steak a flavor that can't be obtain-
ed otherwise.
A long trench was dug in the
sand hill, and the pecan wood was
burned to a bed of red hot coals. ;
Two short joints of oil well casing j
were rolled up on either side of the i
pit and covered with a piece of iron 1
netting. The result was a perfect j
barbecue pit. The meat couldn't |
have been better, and with vege- j
table salad and sliced onions, along j
with black coffee made in a big '
pot, was a meal fit for any king. j
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IT'S ..FUNNY about these two :
Georges, and all the other Georges, ]
Toms, Dicks and Harrys from the j
cow country. Steak is what they i
Out of Uniform
Former Albany Man
Critically Injured
Louis Edwin Taylor, son of Mrs.
J. F. Taylor, who spent nearly
three years in the Army Air Force
as a mechanic and engine expert,
was recently released from service
and has returned to work with his
former employers, the Halliburton
Oil company. He left here Tues-
day after a visit with his mother,
to assume his duties with the com-
pany in Shreveport, La.
Three Albany Youths
Enlist in Navy
Three youths of Albany who vol-
unteered for service in the Navy
took their final examinations in
Dallas last Friday and left there
Saturday night for San Diego,
Calif., to enter training. Included
were Bill Moore, only son of Mr.
and Mi's. Joe Davis Moore; D.
Richard Harris, only son of Mr.
and Mrs. Dan R. Harris of Ibex;
and John Earl Herod, son of Mr.
and Mrs. H. L. Herod.
James Herslee Box, of the Rock-
hill community, was sent to Dallas
Wednesday for induction, nnswee-
ing the call through the draft
board for the county quota.
Regional Round-Up
By Pat Flynn
GEORGE DEAN of Hamlin,
Texas, refused to enroll in Texas
Tech at Lubbock recently unless
his horse could have board and
room. The agricultural depart-
ment came to the rescue and now
both are students.
COLORADO CITY voters go to
the polls April 2 to vote on a $325,-
000 bond issue to expand l£>cal wa-
ter and sewage systems and install
a new bridge over Lone Wolf
Creek.
ABILENE. TEXAS, residents
are excited over two former resi-
dents being listed as Nazi agents,
following an expose in Germany.
Carl A. Sonnen and his clerk,
Gunter Langkam were listed.
Sonnen recently moved to Browns-
ville; no one knows where Lang-
kam is residing.
DALLAS hotels have advised
reservations are scarce. Those
wanting accommodations for the
next annual Texas-Oklahoma foot-
ball game had better secure them
pronto. New Year's Eve for 1946
has almost been reserved solid.
ROMNEY, TEXAS, sportsmen
have launched a new conservation
of game program. More than 400
coons have been trapped off of a
40,000 acre reserve where wild
turkey will be installed.
BAIRD businessman are sick and
tired of OPA interference. Sixteen
months ago they launched a cam-
paign for a food locker building but
the government initial bureau halt-
ed progress. It was revived last
week.
HASKELL high school paid $100
for a Vultee BT-13-a airplane to
use in instructions.
COLORADO CITY now has 675
REA consumers with 240 others
being supplied before shortage of
funds halted expansion.
MIDLAND reports Delbert
Downing is chairman of the -Boy
Scouts roundup to be held here
April 12-13, preceding the Bluff
Trail Council roundup slated for
BIG SPRING .... More than 600
students and 25 teachers here have
taken the tuberculosis patch tests
within the past two weeks.
THE LAMESA chamber of com-
(Continued on last page!
Mrs. D. E. Rogers ,was called to
Amhert early this week to attend
the bedside of her brother, F. C.
Broyle, of Sudan, who is confined
in a hospital there. He was criti-
cally injured in a truck accident
three weeks ago in Kansas and
was recently brought as far as
Amherst where he is reported not
doing so well.
A brother, Wynn Broyles, of
Breckenridge, left Sunday to at-
tend the injured man and Mrs.
Rogers left here Tuesday to join
other members of the family.
Mr. and Mrs. Broyles are well
known in Shackelford county and
have many friends here who will
regret to learn of his misfortune.
Mrs. Broyles is a sister to Mrs. E.
D. Hale, who recently left here to
make her home in Walnut Springs.
New Civic Club Will
Pay Cash for Slogan
Would you like to win $5.00?
The Albany Doilar-a-Year Civic
Club is sponsoring a contest, to
find a slogan wh-.ch best expresses
the aims and purposes of the club.
Some of the purposes are to work
for the general good of Albany,
promote cleanliness and sanitation,
beauty and recreational facilities.
To help in every way possible to
make Albany a better town in
which to live.
The contest is open to all citi-
zens of Albany, including school
children, beginning with the fifth
grade and through high school.
Slogan is limited to eight words.
Entries must be in by 8 p. m. April
9th.
Write slogan cn piece of paper
with your name on the back, place
in box at Sanders Drug Store. In
case of a tie, pri?, - will be divided.
Birthday Observed
At Camp Fire Picnic
A group of Camp Fire girls cele-
brated the anniversary of the or-
ganization last week with a picnic
at the Boy Scout hut Thursday
evening. Games were played and a
weiner roast and picnic supper
rounded out an enjoyable time for
those who attended.
Those present were Mary Gail
Pate, Mary Lee Brothers, Norma
Jane Crownover, Patricia Anne
Sazama, Joyce Ann Sowell, Mary
Porter, Mara Ann Cauble, Pamela
Jean Godwin, Elizabeth Ann Clay-
ton, Pati'icia Sue Askew, Margie
Bernstein, Erlane Hawkins, Joann
Shook, Leda Rich, Mildred Jo
Posey, Jean Jones, Peggy Mober-
ley, Ann Matthews, Betty June and
Mary Helen Lasater, Alice and
Margaret Wylie, Shirley Donnell,
Betty Adams, Shirley Moody, Mrs.
Adams and Mrs. Wylie.
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VISITING HUSB AND
Mrs. Richard Kiene is spending
this week in Hot Springs, Ark.,
with her husband, Corporal Kiene.
Greater Activity in
Wildcat Drilling
Throughout County
Shallow and wildcats drilling in
the Sedwick shallow pool area and
northeast of Albany, attracted at-
tention this week. R. S. Miesse
No. 1, Bertram A. Elliott, Elliott
home ranch in northwest quarter
section 46, BOH.,' a mile east of
Sedwick, is drilling the Hope sand
at approximately 666 feet, the first
shallow test on the lease. Mr.
Miesse has drilled several wildcat
tests in Callahan and Shackelford
counties the past year and this is
his first well east of Sedwick.
Kittery Oil Co. No. 1-A, Beulah
Casey Talley, has topped the Hope
sand showing oil at 866 feet and is
preparing to run casing and test
the sand. This is the southeast
extension of the Diamond ranch
pool where four nice wells have
been completed in the Hope sand
within the past year, making ini-
tial production on pump of from 25
to 60 barrels daily from the 877
foot level. No. 1-A is located in
west corner of TE&L. survey No.
581, and Kittery has Tannehill
sand production on southeast side
of the survey.
AAlied Oil Co. Inc., No. 1, L. A.
Sanders, is making flow test.s, and
still looks good for 500 barrels or
better daily, flowing from Ellen-
berger 4535 to 4541 feet. Pipe line
connection is being rigged.
Roark-Hooker-Douglas No. 1-A,
Ace Hickman in northeast of
southwest quarter section 16, LAL,
is drilling below 2600 feet on the
first test southwest of Pan Oil Co.
No. 1, Hudson-Hickman.
Discharges Recorded
In Local Office
Fort Griffin Native
Buried Here Sunday
Funeral service for Mrs. Mary
Elizabeth Cox, a native of Fort
Griffin who died Saturday night at
10:30 at her home, was held at the
Church of Christ in Albany Sunday
afternoon. S. L. Williams, minis-
ter of the Albany Church of Christ,
conducted the rites and burial was
in the local cemetery.
Mrs. Cox was born May 30, 1872,
at old Fort Griffin. She was mar- |
ried to J. N. Cox Nov. 12, 1889. ,
They were the parents of eleven (
children, seven of whom survive, j
Twenty-two grandchildren also
survive.
Her four sons are J. H. Cox,
Pocasset, Okla.; Dewey L. Cox,.
Morenci, Ariz.; J. N. Cox, Fort
Griffin; Bill Cox, Wichita Falls.
Daughters are Mrs. Lula Stipe,
Wichita Falls; Mrs. Gertrude
Andes, Asher, Okla.; and Mrs,
Charlotte Newcomb, Fort Griffin.
Two sisters are Mrs. J. M. Shelton
and Mrs. F. E. Tuton.
Mrs. Cox united with the Church
of Christ about 1897, and kept
faith with her church until the end.
Pallbearers were all grandsons ex-
cept one great nephew who assist-
ed.
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T ay lor Children Here
To Visit with Mother
Vernon B. Irwin, Sl/c, 3-16-46.
Camp Wallace, 2 yrs. 10 mos. 10
da.
Pfc. John E. Carter, 3-15-48,
Fort Leavenworth, Kan. APT rib-
bon, 2 yrs. 8 mos. 17 da.
F/O Raymond E. Taylor, (term-
inal leave) 4-12-46, Fort Sam
Houston, Asiatic-Pacific campaign
medal.
Sgt. Jonn L. Pettit, 3-17-46,
Camp Caffee, Ark. AST ribbon.
2 yrs. 8 mos. 2 da.
Charles Lewis Brooks Sl/'c,
Route 2, Lueders, 3-13-46, Norman.
Okla. Pacific theatre, 18 mos.
overseas.
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HERE FROM NEWCASTLE
Mrs. R. J. Johnson and daughter,
Mrs. A. A. Maris, and Mrs. George
R. Whiteley, all of Newcastle, vis-
ited here Sunday in the home of J.
C. Woolfolk and family. Mrs.
Johnson is a sister of Mr. Wool-
folk,
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GOES TO GRAND PRAIRIE
Miss Myrtle Smalley left Wed-
nesday for a visit at Grand Prairie
where she will be the guest of her
cousin, Mrs. C. C. Dowdy.
Mrs. J. F. Taylor had three sons
and four daughters home over the
week-end for visits, all leaving this
week to return to their homes or
work. Visitors included three sons
and four daughters.
Lt. and Mrs. Richard Taylor left
Tuesday for Tuscon, Ariz., to visit
her parents before he reports back
to San Diego, Calif., April 4, for
duty after leave from the USMC.
Flight Officer Raymond Taylor,
now on terminal leave, and his
wife returned to Dallas where she
made her home while he was over-
seas. They were accompanied by
Mrs. I. M. Jolly who was returning
to her home in Shreveport, La.;
and also Edwin Taylor, who left
for Shreveport.
Others here were Mrs. W. C.
Thomas and family of Throckmor-
ton, and Miss Betty Jo Taylor,
student at NTSC at Denton.
Albany Veterans
Enroll at Tech
CC Members Hear
Reports on Civic
Plans for Albany
Chamber of commerce members
at the weekly luncheon meeting
last Saturday heard reports on
progress of civic projects which
were sponsored by the chamber
and planned for development
through cooperation of several oth-
er agencies of the city.
The organization of a Dollar-a-
Year Civic club was reported by
Mrs. P. H. Williams who heads the
new group. Purpose and aim of
the new club were outlined and a
membership of all citizens of the
town would be solicited, she report-
ed. MeYnbership includes the pay-
ment of one dollar per year and the
chief aim is the beautification of
Albany.
In addition to the dollar dues,
Graham Webb suggested that each
member could give one day's work
each year and boost the accom-
plishments of the club. Due to the
labor shortage, he termed this as-
possibly the best method to get
best results out of the organiza-
tion.
Reports were also made by com-
mittee members who attended a
called meeting of the City Council
to ask for cooperation in building
a swimming pool for the city. The
council promised to study the mat-
ter and give due consideration at a
later date when the regular month-
ly meeting is held in April.
Visitors at the luncheon meeting
were Mrs. Reynolds of Dallas, and
Mrs. Eddleman of California, both
natives^ of Albany, who were
guests of their niece, Mrs. J.
Carter King Sr.
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LUBBOCK.—Of the more than
one thousand veterans enrolled in
Texas Technological College this
semester, the following three are
from Albany:
Russell C. Hammack, sophomore
accounting major, son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. C. Hammack; Arthur L.
Suther, sophomore animal hus-
bandry major; and John Henry
Palm, sophomore agriculture eco-
nomics major, son of Mrs. May
Palm.
Palm attended Tech before en-
tering the armed forces.
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HAS MINOR SURGERY
Mrs. Aubrey Adams of Stamford
who had minor surgery on her foot
this week in a Fort Worth hospit-
al, is reported doing nicely. She is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lynn
Pate of Albany.
MOVE TO WALNUT SPRINGS
Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Hale left Sat-
urday for Walnut Springs where
they will make their home. Mr.
Hale has purchased a. machine shop
there and will operate the business.
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FORT WORTH VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Ezell spent
the week-end in Fort Worth as
guests of their daughter, Mrs. J.
W. Bass, and Mr. Bass.
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HERE FROM SAN ANTONIO
Mrs. Floyd M. Johnson was in
Abilene Wenesday to meet her
mother who came here from San
Antonio for a visit in the Johnson
home.
FROM FORT WORTH
Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Connell of
Fort Worth were week-end visitors
here in the home of her mother, !
Mrs. G. C. Kijng, and other rela-
tives.
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VISITING IN COLEMAN
Miss Dorothy Williams is spend-
ing the week in Coleman and Burk-
ett visiting relatives and friends.
District court opened here Mon-
day morning and one of the largest
crowds seen here in many years
for court, appeared in answer to a
summons for possible jury service.
The case of an ex-policeman of
Abilene, Jimmie Ferguson, charg-
ed with murder in connection with
the death of Conley Ellis there last
fall, was dismissed by Judge J. R.
Black, on motion of District At-
torney T. E. Hayden, who reported
the state did not have sufficient
evidence for conviction.
W. J. Caskey, charged in con-
nection with the same case, will be
tried here in a special term of
court set for May 6. Absence of
both state and defense witnesses
was given as reason for postpone-
ment.
Grand jurors who made investi-
gations on the opening day of
court, were to continue their delib-
erations Thursday. Making up the
juiy were G. P. Crutchfield, fore-
man, Tom Price, secretary, E. M.
Weir, L. L. Walker, Oran Dennis,
W. L. English, E. E. Hudman, I. M.
Chism, John H. Diller, Byron Elli-
ott, Dane Griff is and W. O. Weath-
ers.
Ex-Marines to Meet
In Abilene Monday
All Ex-Marines in this area are
cordially invited to attend a meet-
ing in the City Hall, Abilene, Tex-
as, at 7:30 p. m., Monday, 1 April,
1946.
This meeting is for the purpose
of forming a detachment of the
Marine Corps League. The League
is both a civic and a social organi-
zation and was incorporated by an
act of Congress in 1937.
Full details may be obtained at
the U. S. Marine Corps Recruiting
Station, room 10, post office build-
ing, Abilene.
FROM CALIFORNIA
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Kopp of
Long Beach, Calif., visited friends
in Albany and Moran this week
and were also going on to Graham
and Fort Worth to visit relatives.
They are former residents of this
county and were enjoying their
first visit here in many years.
CALLED TO AMARILLO
Mrs. Proctor K. Clarke who had
recently returned home from Ama-
rillo, was called back Tuesay to be
has been critically ill for several
at the bedside of her mother who
months.
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