The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 80, Ed. 1 Monday, December 22, 1975 Page: 1 of 10
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Vol. 39 -
No. 80
FIFTEEN CENTS
(Tax Included)
Kermit, Winkler County, Texas 79745
Monday, December 22,1975
In Thursday Collision
Two Residents
Are Injured
A Kermit man and woman
are both reported to have
apparently received slight
injuries in a two-car collision
in Kermit late Thursday
afternoon.
Injured in the mishap were
Trammell Ervin Clary, 28, of
319 North Ash and Mrs. Lana
McCormick Watson, 28, of
Kermit.
Police officers were
summoned to the accident
scene at the intersection of
State Highways 302 and 18
about 5:10 p.m. Thursday.
Upon arriving at the scene
of the collision, investigating
officers reported finding a
1975 Chevrolet El Camino,
which was driven by Clary
and 1973 Buick, which had
been driven by Mrs. Watson.
Both vehicles had been
traveling north on Highway
18 and, according to
the officers’ report, the
Watson car had apparently
stopped and was struck from
behind by the Clary vehicle,
which was also traveling on
Highway 18.
Both Mrs. Watson and
Clary were rushed by a unit
of the City-County
Emergency Service from the
accident scene to Memorial
Hospital emergency room.
Clary was admitted to the
hospital for treatment, but
Mrs. Watson was not
admitted.
Clary was dismissed from
the hospital Saturday.
Driving while intoxicated
charges have been filed
against Clary, officers said.
Damage to the Watson car
was reported to be very heavy
and the Clary El Camino is
said to be a total loss.
Friday Afternoon
Ratliff Indicted
By Grand Jury
The Winkler County Grand returned the indictments at apprehended at 619 South
Jury, meeting in special 1:40 p.m. Hickory in Kermit.
session Friday in Kermit, Ratliff was charged with Kermit Police officers
returned a two-count shooting, robbing and raping reported that B. J. Elliott
indictment against Gerald Lee Mrs. B. J. Elliott, a Kermit notified them at 12:19 a.m.
Ratliff, 23, of Kermit and housewife, in the early on Dec. 11 that his wife had
formerly of Wink. morning hours of December been shot in their home.
The Grand Jury indicted n. Upon arriving at the
Ratliff for aggravated The victim identified residence on West Highway
robbery, a first degree felony, Ratliff as the man who forced 302, officers found that Mrs.
and aggravated rape, also a his way int0 her home on (Elliott had been shot in the
West Highway 302 in Kermit upper right arm with a small
She
THURSDAY COLLISION
A Kermit man and woman received apparent slight injuries in a two-vehicle
collision Thursday afternoon at the intersection of State Highways 302 and 18. Lana M.
Watson, 28, of Kermit was the driver of the 1973 Buick (above) andTrammell Ervin Clary,
28, of 319 N. Ash was the driver of the 1975 Chevrolet El Camino shown below. The Clary
auto is reported to have struck the Watson car from behind. (Staff Photo)
Ellenburger
Wildcat Staked
Gifford, Mitchell &
Wisenbaker of Midland have
announced location for a
22,5 00-foot Ellenburger
wildcat in extreme Northwest
Winkler County. It is No. 1
Comanche Unit.
Drillsite is 1,980 feet from
south and east lines of section
13, block C-23, PSL survey,
3% miles north - of the
one-well Cheyenne
(Fusselman) gas field and
three miles north of the same
operators’ No. 1 Yellow
Wolfe and No. 1 Black Kettle,
active wildcats.
No. 1 Black Kettle is
waiting on cement after
9-5/8-inch casing was set at
13,550 feet.
No. 1 Yellow Wolf is
drilling below 11,260 feet in
lime and shale.
Skelly Oil Co. filed
application to drill No. 2-9-18
University as a 15,750-foot
wildcat and 7/8-mile
northeast outpost to the
Wolfcamp gas pay opener in
the War-Wink, South field of
Ward County.
Location is 1,320 feet,
from south and west lines off
section 9, block 18, ULS,"
nine miles northwest off
Pyote, ^
It also is 3/4 mile northeast!
of the one-well War-Wink,
East (Cherry Canyon) field.
Skelly completed its No.
2-10-18 University in 1974 as
the Wolfcamp opener, for 2.3
million cubic feet of gas,per
day, through perforations at
11,866-12,908 feet.
Texland Petroleum Inc., of
Fort Worth has staked site for
its No. 1 Evelyn Linebery in
the Keystone (Colby) field of
Winkler County.
Location is 330 feet from
south and 2,310 feet from
west lines of section 18,
block 74, PSL survey, eight
miles northwest of Kermit.
Contract depth is 3,350
feet.
Board Discusses New
Ambulance, EMT Class
Woman At Wor
Discussion topics during a
special called session
Thursday afternoon of the
City-County Emergency
Service Board centered
around the possibility of
obtaining a new ambulance in
Winkler County and also the
possibility of having an
ambulance attendants but,
due to methods being utilized
in operating ambulance
services outside the major
metropolitan areas, the
colleges are not able to serve
everyone needing the
training.
Members of the board then
Emergency Medical requested that Chief Bartley
Technician (EMT) training contact local hospital officials
WOMAN AT WORK
Mrs. Oscar (Stella) Juarez is a clerk at Bob’s Superette. She
has been employed at the grocery store for the past five
months. She has been a resident of Kermit for 11 years and
she and her husband are the parents of two children:
nine-year-old Mimi, and Oscar Jr., age three. (Staff Photo)
course here.
The special meeting took
place in the Council
Chambers of Kermit City Hall
at 2 p.m. Tuesday and was
called to order by
Commissioner C. Weldon
Wright, who then turned it
over to Kermit Chief of
Police Melvin Bartley.
Bartley introduced two
representatives of the
Permian Basin • Regional
Planning Commission, Dean
Williams and Andy Anderson.
Williams is the PBRPC
Emergency Medical Service
director. -
Williams explained to the
board that no instructors
from the Midland-Odessa area
are now available to conduct
an EMT training class in
Winkler County, but he
explained how it may be
possible for an EMT class to
be conducted here utilizing
local personnel.
“We can hold a school here
if qualified personnel are
available.. .such as a
registered nurse instructing
under the supervision of a
physician,” Williams said.
Anderson then pointed
out that the purpose of EMT
training for ambulance
attendants is to enable them
to “be able to do something
for the patient other than just
bring them to a hospital.”
It was also explained that
the orginial plan was for area
colleges to provide all
necessary training for
and the medical staff about
conducting an EMT training
class here
estimated to cost about
$19,000. The estimated cost
for Wink or Winkler County
to get one was said to be
$9,624.
Prior to adjourning the
meeting it was pointed out
that a definite decision needs
to be made “as soon as
possible” regarding the
ambulance.
Attending the meeting
were Commissioners Henry
Jones and Wright, City
The PBRPC officials added Councilmen Glen Williamson
that “We are going to make Fred Pearson, City
first degree felony.
District Attorney Calvin
Wesch presented the case to
the Grand Jury, which went
into session at 9 a.m. and
Court
To Meet
Tuesday
The agenda for a meeting
of the Winkler County
Commissioners Court has
been released by the office of
County Judge E. C. Locklear.
The meeting is to be held
Tuesday, Dec. 23, at 9:30
a.m. in the commissioners
courtroom of the courthouse.
Items listed on the agenda
for the meeting include:
Call to order.
Business from the floor.
Open bids on Plat Cabinet
for maps and plats and accept
or reject.
Authorize advertising for
bids for fuel for 1976.
Pass minute authorizing
reimbursement of Revenue
Sharing fund for purchase of
fire siren.
Review and approve
reports of elected officials.
Review and pay bills due
by County.
Adjourn.
City Offices
To Close
Offices of City Hall
are to be closed
Thursday and Friday,
Dec. 25 and 26. The
trash collection schedule
will also be changed
during the holidays.
. Trash collection in the
area of the city normally
covered on Thursday will
be picked up on
Wednesday and normal
collection times will
resume Friday.
every effort to obtain EMT
training for you.”
“Emergency Medical
Technician training is not
required now.. .but it
probably will be in the not
too far distant future. . .and
we need to be looking at it
now,” Bartley added.
EMT training consists of a
minimum of 80 classroom
hours and than a minimum of
40 hours of observation in six
different areas in a hospital.
The PBRPC officials
indicated that they will know
by June of 1976, if funding
for EMT training in Winkler
County can be obtained.
In discussing the present
ambulance situation in Wink,
it was pointed out that the
only ambulance now being
used there is a 1958 Edsel
stationwagon, which is being
operated by members of
Wink Volunteer Fire
Department.
The PBRPC officials stated
that 13 ambulances are now
budgeted for the immediate
area and that 12 are already
committed to area
communities. The possibility
remains for Wink or Winkler
County to obtain the one
remaining ambulance for one
half of its cost.
Manager W. G. (Jerry)
Haynes, Police Chief Bartley,
Mrs. James Lipham, Sheriff
Jerry Bell, Williams,
Anderson and Phil Parks.
Joint
Banquet
Planned
In a brief announcement,
Kermit Chamber of
Commerce President Jack
Crouse and Jaycee President
Tony Gonzales today
announced that the Kermit
Jaycees and Kermit Chamber
of Commerce will hold a joint
annual banquet.
The two organizations have
always held seperate banquets
in the past.
The joint banquet is
scheduled to be held Monday,
Jan. 12, at 7:30 p.m. at
Kermit Community Center.
The guest speaker will be
Dr. James Blakely, noted
humorist from Wharton.
Tickets will be $7.50 each
and may be reserved through
the Kermit Chamber office.
Reservations may be made at
and shot and robbed her caliber bullet. She was
before forcing her to drive immediately taken to
into the oil field west of Memorial Hospital in Kermit
Kermit, where she said he by Kermit Police Sgt. Carroll
raped her. Richards for treatment.
Four witnesses presented Mrs. Elliott told officers
testimony to the Grand Jury, that a man came to her home
They were Winkler County about 11 p.m., kicked open
Sheriff Jerry D. Bell, the front door and shot her as
Assistant Kermit Police Chief he came throught the
David Norwood, Mrs. Elliott doorway,
and Mrs. Vernon (Judy) The man then robbed her
Underwood, sister of the
accused man.
Ratliff was arrested less
than 24 hours after the
incident took place and was
arraigned before Peace Justice
C. O. Jones of Kermit. He
was denied bond and was forced to
placed in Winkler County jail, Kermit.
where he is now being held. The assailant got out of
He was taken into custody Mrs. Elliott’s car in the
at 10:33 p.m. Dec. 11 by vicinity of Hendricks and
Sheriff Bell and Assistant Sycamore Streets in Kermit.
Kermit Police Chief Mrs. Elliott then drove home
Norwood. He was (see GRAND JURY, Page 8)
Council Holds
Brief Meeting
of $341 and forced her into
her car and made her drive
the car to an isolated oil field
lease on Highway 302 west of
Kermit where he assaulted
her.
Mrs. Elliott was then
drive back into
Kermit City Council met in
regular session Friday
afternoon and held one of
the shortest meetings of the
year before adjourning and
hosting the annual city
employees Christmas party.
Mayor Pro Tern Fred
Pearson called the meeting to
order and the first item to
come before the council was
a proposal by Charles
Richardson of 412 Oaklawn.
He proposed alloting 10 feet
from the back of his lot to
the city for an easement into
Block 3 of Walton Addition
plus paying the city $300 for
the adjacent Lot 14 of the
block.
After a very brief Jones,
discussion, the Council voted Shadowens, Wright and
unanimously in favor of the Pearson, City Manager W. G.
motion by Councilman (Jerry) Haynes, Police Chief
Charles Wright to accept the Melvin Bartley, City Attorney
proposal. Lee, ^rs- James Lipham,
The final item to be Street Superintendent Curtis
brought to the attention of Roberson, and Phil Parks.
the Council was the proposed
city ordinance prohibiting
parking along Campbell
Street between Avenue C and
Avenue D.
City Attorney John R. Lee
presented ordinance 361 and
the Council voted
unanimously to adopt the
ordinance on a motion of
Councilman Charles
Shadownens.
The ordinance states,
“There shall be no parking
along East Campbell Street
between Avenue C and
Avenue D” on weekdays
from 7:30 p.m. until 4:30
p.m.
Attending the meeting
were Councilmen Bettye
Glen Williamson,
A “modular” type the office at 112 N. Poplar or
ambulance full equipped is by calling 915/586-2507.
MAKE^.,^ DONATION
The Kermit Wade Yates Veterans of Foreign Wars Post Auxiliary presented its annual
donation to the Kermit Volunteer Fire Department last week. Shown above presenting the
donation are secretary Mrs. Cecil Payne (left) and treasurer Mrs. Jim Grundy. Receiving the
donation are (left to right) Kermit Volunteer Fire Department Campaign Chairman
Fred Pearson, President Calvin Dunlop, first Assistant Fire Chief Roy Geske and Sheriff
Leon Mitchell. (Staff Photo)
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