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Refugio Timely Remarks
Vg*L. V.—No.45
AND REFUGIO COUNTY NEWS
REFUGIO, REFUGIO COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1933
$2 a Year
BONNIE VIEW OIL
FIND NAS PROMISE
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
TRAINING BEGINS SEPT. 4
George E. Smith Sells Interest
in Greta Field to Morgan &
Halff and Floboots Oil Cor-
poration—Drilling Active,
The principal oil news of the
past week is the amount of ac-
tivity in the Bonnie View sec-
tion of this county, where many
leases are changing hands and
speculation runs high. Although
no actual oil has been discovered
in this section, the locality is
said by geologists to have about
everything.
The Texas Company’s No. 1
Rooke is the first test to be
drilled in the new play. It is in
the Juan Miguel Aldrete survey
and on the structure. Using this
6,000-acre Rooke lease as a cen-
ter, the old Pearson-Dixon No.
1 Jurica in section 37, two and
a half miles east of the east edge
bf the Rooke, had a good oil
show at 3,700 feet plus. Three
miles south of the Pearson,Dix
on, the Blanco Creek Oil Com
pany’s No. 1 Damaan, in section
16, almost had a gas blowout,
and cored an oil bearing sand
around 4,200 feet. Recently this
well was taken over by Beasley
of Corpus Christi, and showed
oil at 4,200 feet when it was be-
ing cleaned out. East of these,
the old Woodsboro Oil & Gas
Company’s No. 1 Peck got three
feet of saturated oil sand.
The reported sale of George
E. Smith’s interest in the Greta
field has been confirmed. The
consideration is said to have
been $1,000,000. His half inter-
est in the field was purchased by
Morgan & Halff of San Antonio
and his half interest in 1,320
acres of close-in leases was pur-
chased by the Floboots Oil Com-
pany, headed by O. R. Sea-
graves. Mr. Smith got $250,000
cash in the deal and the balance
is to be paid out of oil produc-
tion, it is said.
Also during the last week the
Humble Oil & Refining Com-
pany increased its holding in the
Greta area to the extent of sev-
eral hundred acres of additional
leases. This company purchased
the lease on 752 acres of Welder
ranch northwest of production
in the Greta area and lying to
the west of the Atkins & O’Neill
block on the Welder ranch.
Humble is understood to have
paid $200 an acre cash for the
lease and to have made certain
drilling obligations which have
not been announced.
At the beginning of the pres-
ent week 10 producers in the
Greta field, all on small choke,
are credited with a daily aver-
age production of slightly more
than 8,300 barrels. On open
flow it is considered likely the
wells could make 50 to 100 per
cent more oil than they are now
permitted to produce, but opera-
tors have agreed to hold their
wells down to a maximum flow
of 900 barrels. Several wells in
the field are pinched to below
this amount because of the dan-
ger of salt water encroachment.
Drilling activity continues
brisk, with the extent of the
field yet undefined.
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FIRE AT KAY GIN CALLS
OUT THE DEPARTMENT
The gong will sound at the
Bobcats’ field next Monday aft-
ernoon, September 4, at 5:30 p.
m. to mark the beginning of the
ong grind to prepare Refugio
High School Bobcats for their
initial bow of the football season
on September 22. Coach Wed-
dington will be on hand to dis-
tribute equipment to the squad
on Monday, so that Tuesday aft-
ernoon everything will be in
readiness for the thump of the
pigskin. The first few days will
be devoted largely to calisthen-
ics and other work designed to
get the athletes in shape for real
work on September 11, when
school opens.
Coach Weddington has called
a meeting for tonight, Septem-
ber 1, at 7:30 o’clock, for all
men going out for the Bobcat
team this year. There are im-
portant matters to be discussed
and taken up at this meeting
and it is urged that all men be
present. This meeting will be
held in the study hall of the
new High School building.
For the last two weeks sev-
eral backfield men have been out
with the coach practicing kick-
ing and passing, getting in con-
dition and learning the kicking
and forward pass technique.
Material for the tackling dum-
my was received last Wednes-
day and is now being made, so
that it will be ready for use next
Tuesday afternoon. The tack-
ling dummy will be a great help,
as it is almost impossible to do
all live tackling—the opportun
ity for injury is too great. In
juries during the pre-season
training and conditioning hurts
a team more than any other
thing and it is hoped that this
will be greatly eliminated this
year. A defensive charging slec
is being built and will be ready
for use during the first week of
practice. This will be of great
help to the line.
The following men have made
known that they expect to be
ready for practice not later than
September 11: Will Tom Mills,
captain-elect; Herbert Lynch,
Robert Ausburn, John Falloure
James R. West, Jr., Paul
O’Brien, Clarence West, Lee
Prescott, Jim Bailey, Thomas
Wayne Coates, W. H. Weston,
Richard Carpenter, Lyman Mc-
Cord, Bob Lee Lynd, H. Har-
rington, L. Harrington, Thomas
Heard, Harvy Babb, Protcor Ev-
ans, Charles Jarvis, Joe Jenkins,
J. B. Isley, Howell Montgomery
and Bob Skeen.
It is hoped that by next Fri
day a complete schedule will be
ready for the press. The fol
lowing towns will more th’an
likely be on our schedule this
fall: La Ward, Beeville, Goliac
Odem, Georgewest, Three Riv
ers, Port Lavaca, Sinton, Rock
port and Orange Grove.
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Complete County Election Returns
❖
—❖
Place—
Repeal
For Ag.
Beer
For Ag.
Bonds
For Ag.
Home Rule
For Ag.
Homestead
For Ag.
Refugio _______________-
249
21
262
19
221
44
215
45
233
42
Woodsboro _______—
73
14
78
8
60
23
68
11
66
15
Tivoli -..................
52
15
53
14
46
17
44
15
59
rr
Austwell ______________
21
22
18
24
33
5
23
10
31
8
Maudlowe ________
8
—
8
____
____
____
____
• ____
____
____
Bay side ______________L
22
18
19
19
24
8
21
14
34
6
Oaks ____________________
12
4
11
4
6
8
4
7
10
4
Bonnie View________
34
34
2
21
14
26
8
31
3
Morrowville ________
12
2
12
2
10
4
11
1
11
2
Totals____________
483
114
495
164
411
159
446
111
475
87
MRS. E. U. GYLLENBAND
DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS
lii
Fire, originating when gaso-
line from a nearby pump ignited,
for a time threatened the Kay
in Friday night between 9 and
10 o’clock.
Jr A. C. Martin, an employe at
the gin, was filling his automo-
bile with the gasoline which
caught from a lighted lantern.
A strong wind spread the flames
rapidly, and were burning at the
side wall of the gin, when Mr.
Martin succeeded in getting
them under control with a fire
extinguisher.
The fire department answered
the alarm, but the fire was
about out by the time it arrived.
Mr. Martin received severe
burns about the arms and hands
when his shirt sleeves, which
were wet with gasoline, caught
fire. He saved himself by tear-
ing off his shirt.
JOYCE MARIE CORGEY IS
PHOTO CONTEST WINNER
After a prolonged illness, Mrs.
E. U. Gyllenband passed away
on Wednesday night, August 23,
at 9:50 o’clock, at the family
home in Tivoli.
Mrs. Gyllenband was born on
August 11, 1862, having cele-
brated her 71st birthday anni-
versary only two weeks ago. She
came to Tivoli some 40 years
ago with her husband, Prof. E.
U. Gyllenband, who preceded
her in death 11 years ago; as
did one son and one daughter,
four years ago.
Mrs. Gyllenband is survived
by three daughters, Mrs. Oscar
Pagel of Tivoli, Mrs. J. B. Tate
of Houston and Mrs. Wilrod of
San Francisco, Cal., and four
sons, Oscar of Los Angeles,
Cal., and Ed, Curt and Sidney,
all of Tivoli, and seven grand-
children.
Funeral arrangements were
in charge of the Ryan Under-
taking establishment of Victo-
ria, interment being in the Ti-
voli Cemetery at 12:30 o’clock
PEOPLE ASKED TO CLEAR
WAY WHEN ALARM GIVEN
To the People of Refugio:
Again the Fire Department of
this city is having to call atten-
tion to the people about follow-
ing the fire truck when there is
an alarm given.
It would prove helpful to the
fire department, and other such
interested persons of Refugio, if
those inclined to rush out on
the streets when an alarm is
given, would please and kindly
remain out of the way. The
past few alarms we have had,
the department, in attempting
to hurry to your home, has been
delayed a number of unneces-
sary periods on account of the
unreasonable and dangerous pa-
rade of nothing but sightseers.
The fire department, as
whole or part, can take care of
all fires that start, and when
persons foul the truck they are
endangering the lives of our
boys, as well as causing much
unnecessary and uncalled-for
delay.
The telephone company also
Little Miss Joyce Marie Cor-
gey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Corgey, was awarded the
first prize in the baby photo-
graph contest conducted recent-
ly by Hamilton’s Studios of Cor-
pus Christi. The prize is a 11x14
oil finished portrait in frame.
Second prize, an 8x10 portrait,
went to little Miss Mary Tur-
man, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John M. Turman, and third
prize, also an 8x10 portrait, to
little Miss Pat Murphy Piehl,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lean-
der Piehl of Woodsboro.
The selections were made by
three Corpus Christi judges, the
same persons who judged en-
trants in a similar contest re-
cently held in Corpus Christi.
They are Mrs. Harriett Sizer of
the Fred Roberts Memorial Hos-
pital; Dr. C. P. Jasperson, child
specialist, with offices in the
Nixon building, and Sidney
Kring, popular secretary-mana-
ger of the Corpus Christi Cham-
ber of Commerce.
Pictures of all babies entered
will appear in The Timely Re-
marks First Baby Annual, to be
published September 15.
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L. L. WATERS INJURED
IN AUTO WRECK SUNDAY
REFUGIO CO. VOTES
4T01 FOR REPEAL
Relief Bonds, 3.2 Beer and Other
Constitutional Amendments
Carry by Large Majorities.
Many Apply for Licenses.
Sunday noon, with the Rev. Von would appreciate your co-opera-
Tourney, retired Lutheran min-[tion by not calling in to ask
ister, conducting the services.
Their many friends in Tivoli
extend their heartfelt sympathy
to the family in their sorrow.
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SMALL BOY IS BURNED
WHEN GAS IS IGNITED
John Gilbert, 13, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. S. Gilbert, was se-
riously burned about the face
and arms Saturday morning,
while playing near the end of an
open water pipe.
Water was being forced
through the pipe line with nat-
ural gas, it is said, and one of
several neighborhood children
playing near the open end of the
pipe struck a match without
knowing of the presence of the
gas.
Young Gilbert was the only
ohe injured. He was taken to
the Woodsboro Hospital for
treatment.
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WORKER’S FOOT BROKEN
BY CHAIN TONGS FALL
C. P. & L. COMPANY SIGNS
RE-EMPLOYMENT CODE
%_
“5p
Central Power and Light
Company has signed the presi-
dent’s re-employment agree-
ment and certificate of compli-
ance as approved by the N. R.
A. under the temporary code for
the electric light and power in-
dustry, it was announced today
by James C. Kenedy, president
of the company.
Each local manager through-
out the company’s territory will
immediately file a signed certifi-
cate of compliance with his lo-
cal postmaster. Terms of the
agreement will be put into ef-
fect as rapidly as changes in
personnel and hours can be ac-
complished.
Within the next few days the
Central Power and Light Com-
pany will sign the president’s
re-employment agreement ap-
plying to departments other
than electric, it was stated at
the company’s general office.
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APPLICATIONS TO WED.
Jose M. Lopez and Miss Pabla
Sandoval, both of Woodsboro.
Miguel Rodriguez and Miss
Francisca Rios, both of Refugio.
Manuel Bosquez and Miss
Clemencia Guargardo, both of
Tivoli.
Lupe Maldondo and Miss Jua-
nita Elizaldo, both of Refugio.
Ernest Grebe, employe of the
Rutherford Drilling Company,
received a broken right foot Sat-
urday afternoon while working
on a well in the Greta oil field.
The injured man was standing
near the rotary when a pair of
chain tongs weighing 75 pounds
slipped from the drill stem and
fell across his foot, breaking it
three inches below the ankle.
He is in the Woodsboro Hos-
pital.
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RAINFALL IN REFUGIO
AMOUNTS TO 1.4 INCHES
where the fire is located, for it
will be impossible for the opera-
tor to respond.
Your co-operation will be jus-
tified and more than appre-
ciated.
A. H. BAILEY, Chief.
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LEG IS BROKEN WHILE
LOADING PIPE AT CORPUS
L. L. Waters was seriously in-
jured at 12:25 o’clock last Sun-
day night when his automobile
hit a concrete bridge while driv-
along the Robstown road one-
half mile west of Corpus Christi.
The accident was caused by
the front wheel of the car strik
ing a large stick of wood, which
was lying across the highway,
causing the car to run into the
bridge, turning it over twice.
Mr. Waters remained under
the wreck until passing motor-
ists extricated him. He was
taken to a Corpus Christi hospi-
tal where his wounds were
found to consist of two deep
gashes across the head and face
and body bruises. He returned
to Refugio Tuesday afternoon.
The automobile was badly
wrecked.
J. C. Mills of this city, truck
driver for Younger Bros., re-
ceived a broken left leg while
loading pipe at the docks in Cor-
pus Christi last Saturday night.
The accident happened when
a trailor bolster kicked off, let-
ting the pipe fall on his leg. He
was knocked from the wharf in-
to the channel, which is more
than 30 feet deep. He was res-
cued from the channel byfellow-
workmen, the injured member
making it impossible for him to
swim.
He was treated at a Corpus
Christi Hospital.
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DANCE AT WOODSBORO
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 6TH
S. W. BELL TELEPHONE CO.
SIGNS N. R. A. AGREEMENT
Rainfall here Tuesday and
Wednesday of this week totaled
1.4 inches. The first downpour
came Tuesday morning between
11 and 12 o’clock, amounting to
.7 inch. Then between 2 and
4:30 Tuesday afternoon a .6
inch rain brought the total for
the day up to 1.1 inches. A .3
inch rain fell Wednesday.
Heavy showers were reported
to have fallen in all parts of Re-
fugio County.
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Card of Thanks.
We take this means of thank-
ing all our friends and neibhfors
for their sympathy and kindness
during the last illness and
death of our father, Frank L.
Thomas; also for the beautiful
floral offerings.
Rafe Thomas,
Mrs. Grace Dellahoussaye.
Lee Chatham and his Lamar
Hotel (Houston) Orchestra
have been engaged for a dance at
the Woodsboro Auditorium on
Wednesday evening, September
6. This musical organization is
said to be of the highest order.
Rui McBride, torch singer,
an added feature, is expected to
add considerable spice to the
evening’s amusement.
The dance is expected to be
largely attended, owing to the
fact it is the last before many
young folks leave for school.
Woodsboro dances get a good
attendance from this section.
The dance floor is of the best
and good music is always pro-
vided.
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MEN NEEDED FOR THE
UNITED STATES NAVY
The U. S. Navy desires to en-
list a number of desirable men
between 17 and 25 years of age,
who are of good moral charac-
ter and can furnish good refer-
ences and have completed at
least the ninth grade of school
and are able to comply with the
physical standards which are re-
quired by the Navy.
Young men who are interest-
ed in a naval career and believe
they possess the necessary qual-
ifications are invited to present
themselves or write to the Navy
Recruiting Station.
A copy of the president’s re-
employment agreement as modi-
fied for the Bell Telephone Com-
panies and accepted by N. R. A.
officials, was submitted to the
postmaster today by George R.
Tait, district manager, for the
Southwestern Bell Telephone
Company.
Details of the code filed here
were made public in Washington
August 11, at the time of its ac-
ceptance by the National Recov-
ery Administration.
“The company,” said Mr. Tait,
“will comply not only with the
letter but the spirit of the agree-
ment.”
Complete estimates of the ef-
fect of the code on the opera-
tions of the company locally are
not available as yet.
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BOY BITTEN BY RATTLER
WHILE DRIVING UP COWS
Refugio County voted four to
one for the repeal of the Eight-
eenth Amendment at last Sat-
urday’s election. The four State
constitutional amendments also
carried by equally large majori-
ties.
Only 21 votes were registered
against repeal in the Refugio
dox, the total count being 249
for to 21 against, while only 19
votes were cast against the le-
galization of 3.2 per cent beer,
the total on this amendment be-
ing 262 for to 19 against.
A table found elsewhere on
this page gives the county vote
in detail.
The office of County Judge
James A. Steele is being be-
seiged this week by persons
seeking State licenses to sell 3.2
beer and light wines, which were
legalized in last Saturday’s elec-
tion. They were told, however,
that applications could not be
accepted before September 2,
with legal sale to begin not ear-
lier than September 15 Many
have already applied for federal
license, it is said.
Under a law passed by the last
Legislature to apply if and when
beer was legalized the sale of
the beverage will not become le-
gal until September 15 and the
time may be deferred still later,
according to news reaching here
from Austin.
This news states that the gov-
ernor does not believe that the
law passed in anticipation of the
legalization of beer is constitu-
tional, but that another law
must be passed. This cannot be
done until the Legislature meets
again, and the governor has in-
diacted that she will call a spe-
cial session of the lawmaking
body after the returns of Sat-
urday’s election are officially
canvassed on September 11.
Should a new law be passed it
probably will be as an emergen-
cy measure, so it can become ef-
fective immediately. Otherwise
there will be a delay of several
months unless the present law
is recognized in the meantime,
which probably will be the case.
Another hitch proposed by
the governor is an increase in
the beer license fees as fixed in
the anticipatory law, which she
regards as too low. The fees,
however, are no less than those
charged in other States. The
governor, therefore, must be
simply figuring on beer as a
source of more revenue and may
seek to have higher fees1 im-
posed for the retirement of the
State relief bonds that are to be
issued.
Bennie Coats, 12-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Coats of
this city, was bitten by a rattle
snake last Thursday morning
while driving milk cows to a pas-
ture near his home. He had
just closed the pasture gate and
started back down the cow trail
when he said he felt a pain in
his right leg. He thought that
a bush had scratched him, but
as he looked around he saw a
rattlesnake strike at him again,
missing him the second time.
The lad was so frightened he
ran all the way to his home, be-
ing almost unconscious from ex-
haustion when he arrived.
He was taken to Woodsboro
Hospital for treatment, where it
is said his condition is not se-
rious.
SIGNS OF PROSPERITY.
We have an up-to-date sign
painter in Refugio, who has just
finished the signs on Frick-Reid
Supply House. He also handles
electric signs and Neon. Call
109 or 60. Located around the
corner from Zarsky Lumber
Company. —adv.
FINISHES DECORATING
J. T. VANCE, JR., HOME
R. P. Lamb, painter and dec-
B. P. Lamb, painter and dec-
orator, has completed the new
home of Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
Vance, Jr. The interior work is
said to be among the most beau-
tiful in this section, with living
room and dining room blended
in five colors, eight-color border
blend, bedrooms stippled in
warm colors, and kitchen finish-
ed in four shades of green. Mr.
Lamb this week commenced re-
decorating the home of Joe W.
Sneed, manager of the Refugio
Luber Company.
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SMALL FIRE AT ABSTON
HOME SATURDAY A. M.
The Fire Department was call-
ed to the home of Dick Abston
early Saturday morning to ex-
tinguish a fire caused by a short
circuit in an electric refrigera-
tor. Unable to locate the blaze
in the smoke-filled house, Mr.
Abston chopped a hole in the
roof with an ax, thinking maybe
the fire was in the attic. Fire-
men, equipped with gas masks,
located the fire in the refrigera-
tor. A damaged motor and the
hole in the roof was the only
damage.
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