The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 4, 1960 Page: 1 of 8
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BIG LAKE, REAGAN COUNTY, TEXAS, AUGUST 4, 1960
NUMBER 31
latest Oil News
In Big Lake Area ...
By JAMES C. WATSON
Written Specially For The
Big Lake Wildcat
Kewanee Oil Oompany No.
1 Stiles, Cerftrai Reagan
County wildcat, has been
•completed as a gas and dis-
tillate discovery in both the
Ellenburger and "the Fussel-
man.
The Ellenburger, producing
from open hole at 10,441-10,-
557 feet, flnaled for a calcu-
lated absolute open flow po-
tential of 4,300,000 cubic feet
of gas and 349.59 barrels Of
58.3 degree distillate per day.
The gas-liqtfid ratio was 12,-
300-1.
The Fusselman finaled for
a calculated absolute open
flow potential of 22,300,000
cubic feet of gas and 952.35
barrels of 58.6 degree distil-
late, flowing from perfora-
tions at 10,373-10,383 feet.
The gas-liquid ratio was 23,-
100-1.
The discovery also had good
shows in the 8pra berry at
6,576-6,602 feet.
It Is 3 1/2 miles soutbwest
of Fusselman and Ellenburger
production in the Stiles (mul-
tipay) field. 10 miles north
and slightly west of Big Lake
and six miles southeast of
Stiles.
Tank battery construction
is complete at the well site
and operator expects to make
pipeline connections within a
few weeks.
The dual producer is 660
feet from north and 1,980
feet from west lines of sec-
tion 1,209, block C. D&SE sur-
vey.
G. C. Henson of Dallas and
Reagan Rancher Has
Fatal Heart Attack
Funeral services for Joseph
Sanford Elliott. 56, prominent
Reagan County rancher and
race horse owner and breeder,
were held Wednesday after-
noon at the First Methodist
Church in Big Take. Former
pastor Rev. O. F. Kattner of
Fredericksburg conducted the
service, assisted by the pres-
ent pastor, Rev. Vernon Per-
ry, and Rev. W. D. Leonard,
Presbyterian minister. Burial
followed in the family plot in
the Stiles Cemetery with Ma-
sonic graveside rites directed
by the Big Lake lodge.
Mr. Elliott was in Ruldoso,
N M at the time of his death
which occurred about 1:15 a
m. (CST> Sunday, July 31, In
a Ruldoso hospital. He be-
came til while attending the
races Saturday afternoon,
shortly after his horse, Rea-
gan Bar, came in third in the
eighth race. With him were
Mrs. Elliott and a daughter,
Mrs. Bill Arnett and her two
sons, Billy Hal and Joe Bass.
Mr. Elliott, a son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Elliott,
was bom Feb. 26, 1904, in
Mason County, and grew up
in and around Brady Most of
his life was spent In the
ranching industry Coming to
Reagan County in 1921, he
worked for the McIntosh
Ranch, the Bar S and the
Belcher Ranch.
He married Miss Arlisse
Belcher, daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. James Belcher,
on Dec. 25. 1926.
Survivors Include his wife;
three daughters, Mrs J. D.
Armstrong, Mrs. O. A. Jame-
son and Mrs Arnett, all of
Big Lake; three sisters, Mrs.
thrt's n ran
RRC Authorizes Midkiff
Water Flood Program
Car-Train Collision Ozona Rites Held
Fatal To Two Women For Mrs. Linfhicum
The death of two Fort
Stockton women In a collision
of
Official sanction for the
$4,000,000 Midkiff Unit of the
! Spraberry Trend water flood
j program has been announced
by the Railroad Commission
of Texas.
Funeral services for Mrs. E. ^ „____
. (Gene) Linthicum, 59.1, *** 25,568.4-acre project is
their car and a train last prominent Barnhart woman, J” Southeast Midland and
Friday evening was the first ■ were held Tuesday morning N(^^ca1st' .Vpton Countles
fatalities to mar Reagan ! in Ozona at the First Metho-1 ™s isi th® second jwater
County’s 1960 traffic record, dist with burial in the Ozona ood Pr°J®ct authorized for
Mrs. Joe M. Montgomery, 77, | Cemetery. ithe, Spraberry Trend - the
and her daughter, Mrs. Con- Mrs. Linthicum was killed '*[orlds arg?s^ °. 1100 from
oly Brooks, 34, were both kill- instantly at 11:10 8unday “!e standpoint of area cover-
ed instantly. Mrs. Frank Fulk, morning in a car-train colli-1 ed_ „ . _ , , „
sion just east of Barnhart at! tint was the Aidwell
53, another daughter of the
older woman, lies in a critical
condition in a San Angelo
hospital after receiving first
aid in Reagan Memorial Hos-
pital
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The accident occurred at a ; Mills, was the former Miss VI-
point just inside Reagan ivlan Cooper.
County where Highway 67 Survivors include her hus-
crosses a Santa Fe spur line ^and; a daughter, Mrs. Jack
to the Benedum Field.
Unit in the Northwest Reagan
County section of the four-
county, 480,000-acre petro-
leum reservoir.
The commission approved
that program in April. Pre-
liminary work on that 15,776-
acre spread, with 110 produc-
ing wells, has been started by
Baggett"of Ozona; a"son,"Lad j Southland Royalty Company,
a crossing on private prop-
erty. She was en route to
church.
Mrs. Linthicum, who was
born Nov. 23, 1901 at Valley
Joint funeral services for
Grade School Sets
Registration Date
Little Leaguers Lose
First District Game
Mrs. Montgomery and
Brooks were conducted
day afternoon at the
Christian Church in
Stockton, and burial was
i the East Hills Cemetery
Mrs.
Enrollment in the Big Lake Reagan County Little Lea-
Elementary School will begin gue play ended last Thursday that clty
on Monday, Aug. 22, and last night when the all-stars lost _
through Wednesday, Aug. 24.! to Ozona, 8-2, in the first!
it has been announced by, round district game. They had 0jg Iq|(Q Firemen
Linthicum of Barnhart; her
mother, Mrs. Myrtle Cooper
gun_ j of Valley Mills; and five
First srandchildren, four brothers
j. and two sisters. Mrs. H. A.
in i Hartgrove of Big Lake is a
sister-in-law.
associates will drill a Spra-
berry Trend Area well. No 11 NUa Turneli of Blg^Lake, Mrs
Phillips-Wendell, 20 miles
northwest of Big Lake in Rea-
L. J. Mllburn of Brady and
jMrs. T. C. Weldon of Grand
I View, Calif.; one brother, Ivan
gan County.
The project, scheduled to, 011011 of Lubbock; and eight
drill to 7.200 feet, is 1,320 feet 8randchlldren- Shelly- Davld
from .south and east lines of;and Jadle Armstrong; Glenda
section 20, block E. HE&WT June' Tooter and Cec11 Jame‘
json; and Billy Hal and Joe
survey.
Sohio Petroleum Company Bass A™11- a11 of B1e Lake.
of Midland filed application
to drill two Shannon (San
Andres) field wells 25 miles
southwest of Big Lake in
Crockett County.
No. 1-C J. M. Shannon Es-
tate is 980 feet from north
and 667 feet from west lines
of section 24, block Q, MK&T
survey. It is scheduled to be
drilled to 2,500 feet.
No. 1 William A. Graham
and others is 330 feet from
most southerly south line and
330 feet from west lines of
section 23, block Q,
Serving as pallbearers were
P. H. Coates, Warner Lear,
Riley Branch and Sam Chum-
ley, all of Big Lake; and Earl
Cope of Eldorado, Mac Mc-
Reynolds of Sierra Blanca, J.
B. Parker of Ozona and Clay-
ton Tolliver of Sonora.
Respirator Unit Given
Hospital By Auxiliary
.Principal Ralph Havenhill. j earlier defeated Rankin and
The hours will be from 9:00 Midkiff in the area playoffs. I New Officers
Ozona defeated Crane, 6-4,
last Friday night to qualify
for regional play which opens
tonight in Wichita Falls.
In the Big Lake-Ozona
game last week, Ishmael Ra-
mos was the losing pitcher.
He was relieved in the top of
the sixth inning, with one
out, by Vernon Buchanan.
The local Little Leaguers
made 2 runs, 3 hits and 4 er-
rors.
Joe Garcia was the winning
pitcher for the visitors who
had 8 runs, 9 hits and 1 error.
Dub Scrivner relieved Garcia
in the bottom of the fifth in-
ning.
Ozona’s Milton Colquitt hit
Of Bankers Committee'?h0™ runst and a double ln
! „ „ „ , l four times at bat.
H. B. Rees, president of the,____
Big Lake State Bank, has
been appointed chairman of Recent newcomers to Rea-
the committee on Constitu- \ gan County are Mr. and Mrs.
a. m. to 12 noon, and from
1:00 p. m. to 4:00 p. m.
Pupils in the first five
grades may register on any of
these three days, Mr. Haven-
hill stated. He explained that
the pupils will not have the
privilege of teacher selection,
but will be assigned as is seen
fit by those in charge.
The principal calls atten-
I tion to the fact that all chil-
dren enrolling as first graders
must bring their birth certi-
; ficates. To be eligible they
must have reached their sixth
birthday before Sept. 1.
Rees Named Chairman
Pallbearers were Tom Har-
ris and Max Schneemann,
both of Ozona; Clyde Parry,
Bode Owens, Fred Elkins and
Louis L. Farr, III, all of Barn-
hart; E. J. Compton of Texon
and Theron Weatherby of Big
Tommy Bryan was named Lake,
president of the Big Lake
Volunteer Fire Department in
a recent election of officers.
He succeeds James L. Proffitt.
Benton Weeks was elected
vice president, and C. R.
Shannon will serve as secre-
tary-treasurer of the group.
Fire Chief Charles Byrd,
Charles Preston and George
Davis recently attended a
fireman’s school held at A&M
College.
Local Grid Coaches
At Coaching School
Drennon Daves, Reagan
County High School head
football coach, and Ken Wil-
liamson, assistant coach, left
Sunday for Dallas to attend
the twenty-eighth annual
and
The Bennett Intermittent
MK&T Postine Pressure machine or
survey. It, too, is contracted to resPtration unit, which the
bottom at 2,500 feet. j Women’s Auxiliary of the
Kewanee Oil Company No.! Peaf?an Memorial Hospital
1 Shannon, Crockett County Pur®hased, was demonstrated
venture, 18 miles south of Big and Presented to the hospital
Lake and three miles north of Tuesday n’ght before mem-
the North Todd field, has ’
been plugged and abandoned
at a total depth of 9,280 feet.
It was 660 feet from north
and 330 feet from west lines
of section 102, block 10, EL&-
RR survey.
BTA Oil Producers of Mid-
land is recovering load after
fracturing No. 6 Zulette,
Spraberry Trend Area opera-
tion, 14 miles northwest of
Big Lake with 40,000 gallons.
bers of the auxiliary
hospital staff.
This therapy apparatus is
designed for both acute and
chronic respiratory patients
suffering from heart attacks,
asthma, pneumonia, bronchi-
tis, poliomyelitis, barbituate
poisoning, post operative re-
covery, etc.
It comes equipped with the
automatic cycling device
which breathes for the pa-
The project was drilled tojtient, shuts off the inhaling
6,830 feet and plugged back to or exhaling action as the pa-
6,808 feet and 5 1/2-inch tient responds or resumes the
casing set at 6,802 feet. Oper-1 regular respiration if a mo-
ator perforated the casing
opposite the Spraberry be-
tween 5,911 and 6,793 feet and
then fractured the forma-
tion.
The venture is 660 feet from
north and 8,996 feet from
east lines of section 2, W. W.
Pittman survey.
BIG LAKE HD CLUB
PLANS FAMILY NIGHT
Friday night, August 5, has
been set as family night for
the members of the Big Lake
Home Demonstration Club
and their families. It will be
held at the Girls Club begin-
ning at 8:00 o’clock.
mentary relapse occurs. On
other models this automatic
cycling action is performed
manually by doctors or nurses
| according to experience and
judgment. The unit may be
attached to the hospital’s 2,-
200 lb. oxygen tanks and be-
come portable or plugged in-
to the oxygen manifolds
which are installed in the 21
newer rooms of the hospital.
The purchase of this ther-
apy apparatus which cost $593
was made by or Women’s
Auxiliary or “Pink Ladies”
coffee bar maintained by
faithful and devoted members
of the organization.
tion and By-Laws of the Tex- i Wesley B. Kimmell and three
as Bankers Association for I children who are living at the, Texas coaching school.
1960-61. I El Paso Natural Gas Com- Football practice for the
Rees was named to the post j pany’s Midkiff camp. They, Reagan County Owls is sched-
by the unanimous approval moved here from Opal, Wyo., j uled to start August 15, an
of the association’s adminis-! and had formerly lived for their first game for Sept. 2 n
trative council. j six years at Jal, N. M. I Rankin. _________
Members of the committee j
include E. G. Miller, president
of the First State Bank of
Columbus; D. L. Pieratt, pres-
ident of the Commercial Na-
tional Bank of Beeville; H. D.
Cherry, president of the First
State Bank of Caldwell; E. B.
Tinker, president of the Citi- i
zens National Bank of Hills-
boro; W. B. Russell, president
of the State Bank of DeKalb
and C. B. Johnson, president
of the Parker Square State
Bank of Wichita Falls.
Everett Home Has
Blaze Sunday Night
Fire and smoke damage
from a blaze at the J. N.
(Lefty) Everett home at 605
Plaza last Sunday night was
VOTERS - ATTENTION
(In this issue of the Wildcat there appears the full text of the
Constitutional Amendments to be voted on at the upcoming
General Election (Nov. 8). So that you may be fully informed,
we urge that you read each proposed measure in its entirety,
and study all of them carefully before you go to the polls to
cast your vote.)
A brief digest of the four proposed constitutional amend-
ments follows:
NUMBER ONE ON THE BALLOT (HJR 39)—Authorizes
the Legislature to create hospital districts co-extensive with
Lamar County, Hidalgo County, and County Commissioners
Precinct No. 4 of Comanche County, and sets forth certain
powers, duties and limitations.
NUMBER TWO ON THE BALLOT <SJR 6)—Increases the
maximum permissible interest rate on bonds hereafter issued
by the Veterans’ Land Board to three and one-half per cent.
NUMBER THREE ON THE BALLOT (HJR 3)—This bill is
what is known as the “Annual Salary Bill" for legislators. It
provides for an annual salary of not to exceed $4,800 for each
estimated to be about $125, j 2egisla.t0r, and a per diem allowance of not to exceed $12 a
according to Fir^ Marshal j day for first 120 days of each regular session and for 30
' days of each special session as maximum compensation for
members of the Legislature. Also it limits the regular session
to 140 days.
NUMBER FOUR ON THE BALLOT (HJR 6)—Authorizes
the Legislature to classify loans and lenders, license and reg-
ulate lenders, define interest, fix maximum rates of interest,
and provide for a maximum rate of interest of ten per cent
per annum in the absence of legislation setting maximum
rates of interest; provides that the rate of interest shall not
exceed six per cent per annum in contracts where no interest
rate is agreed upon; provides for the right of appeal and trial
de novo in the event of cancellation of or refusal to grant any
permit.
Charles Preston. The blaze
which started in the air con-
ditioner motor, was said to
have been caused by an over-
loaded electrical circuit.
The local fire department
answered a call Monday night
to a grass fire at a sub-sta-
tion northeast of Barnhart.
The Big Lake firemen have
responded to a number of
calls to help put out grass
fires in this area during the
past few weeks.
Pony League Champs
Play In San Angelo
Reagan County Pony Lea-
gue champs, Davis-Cheatham,
were scheduled to meet the
San Angelo Police Assn, team
in the first round of the Dis-
trict 3 Junior Teenage Base-
ball Tournament in San An-
gelo last night. The winner of
this game will play Snyder
tonight at 8:30.
The tournament will end
Friday night, and the winner
will advance to the state meet
in Victoria Aug. 10-13.
Container Installed
For Library Books
For the convenience of pa-
trons of the Reagan County
Library who wish to return
books at time when the libra-
ry is not open, a receptacle
has been placed along the
sidewalk adjoining the libra-
ry. The container, similar to
an ordinary mail box, will
bear a sign that it is for the
purpose of receiving returned
books.
The library is open five
days a week, Monday through
Friday, from 9:00 to 11:00 in
the morning, and from 2:00
until 5:00 in the afternoon.
Big Lake Teachers
Attend Workshop
A number of
the local school
tended an area
unit operator.
Humble Oil & Refining
Company is operator for the
Midkiff unit which includes
144 wells.
As of Monday, 95.73 per
cent of the working interest,
divided among 45 operators,
and 96.1 per cent of the more
than 800 surface, royalty and
mineral owners had signed
contracts approving the flood.
Humble—as the unit oper-
ator—is scheduled to start
handling all unit properties
September 1. Preliminary
work, to be completed within
a year, is underway for drill-
ing input wells and water
source holes,, laying water
lines, building compressor
plantss and the. numerous
other activities. ,
It is estimated, that this
secondary recovery project—
as now planned—will recover
29,000,000 barrels of oil above
primary recovery methods.
Sohio Petroleum Company,
operating from Midland, is
awaiting RRC approval of its
61,440-acre Driver Unit.
The official hearing of that
project was held in Austin
several weeks ago. The Sohio
flood is expected to be the
largest such operation in the
world.
It laps into all four counties
in the Spraberry Trend—with
the larger portions being in
Southwest Glasscock County
and Northwest Reagan Coun-
ty and smaller segments in
Southeast Midland and
Northeast Upton.
Sponsors of the Driver Unit
estimate their operation will
increase the crude oil yield
from both the upper and low-
er Spraberry sand by an aver-
age of 2,240 barrels per acre,
or a total of 138,250,000 bar-
rels of oil.
Engineers estimate the av-
erage additional field recov-
ery—if water flood methods
are extended to the full
| spread of the field—will run
around 750 barrels per acre,
or a total of 360,000,000 bar-
rels of oil.
The Southland Royalty
at_ j Company Aidwell Unit is
to cost approxi-
I
teachers
system
invitational scheduled
Sloop Method reading work-
shop held last week in Eldo-
rado.
They included Ralph Hav-
enhill, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Horton, Mrs. Fred Spinks,
Mrs. John Wade, Mrs. John E.
Hollmer, Mrs. Ben Feather -
ston, Mrs. Prentiss Garrett,!
Mrs. Olive Rackley, Mrs. Tom
Wilson, Mrs. W. C. Williams,
Mrs. L. L. Colvin, Mrs. T. H.
Nunn, Mrs. C. L. Morrow and
Mrs. Vern Davis.
Attending a reading con-
ference held at Sul Ross State
College on Monday of this
week were Supt. Ben Feather-
ston, Principals Havenhill
and Horton, and Mesdames
Morrow and Spinks.
mately $2,500,000 and bring
an added recovery of 19,000,-
000 barrels of oil.
Nine other unit proposals
for the Trend are in various
stages of preparing to file ap-
plications with the state reg-
ulatory body for approval.
It is anticipated several of
them will reach that point
before the end of this year.
HIGHWAY TRAFFIC
DEATHS
IN REAGAN COUNTY
1957 ................ 7
1958 ................ 2
1959 ................ 1
1960, To Date ........2
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