The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, October 19, 1956 Page: 2 of 24
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SEE US FOR ALL YOUR INSURANCE
NEEDS.
Leonard Insurance Agency
MEMBER NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION
MEMBER TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
BIBLE THOUGHT
Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity. —Psalm 51:2
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ANOTHER OIL WEEK
THERE is not a person in Nocona who should not join
in tribute this week to Oil Progress week, a week set aside
to pay tribute to the men and women who, directly or in-
directly, are keeping the wheels of tlie world oiled that the
world might continue to move forward in its quest for
modernity. Of all of the world’s products, barring no
•thers, oil is the greatest, for without oil there could be no
others, no foodstuff, no clothing, no homes, no schools, no
churches, no farming implements, no nothing.
Some time ago a former Montague county businessman
who is no longer in business, was approached to spend a
few dollars to promote Oil Progress week. His refusal re-
ply was this: “Oil means nothing to me.” What he over-
looked was that most, if not all, of the business he was do-
ing in this county was directly, or indirectly, due to the oil
industry. Perhaps if he had recognized this fact he might
still be in business.
Oil is a gigantic contributing element to all business
not only in Nocona but in every city, town and hamlet in
America and all the world. For any one to say in this,
county or country that “Oil means nothing to me” is down-
right silly. Every one of us in business in Nocona and
Montague county and the whole country are in business
-only because of oil.
America is today a nation on wheels, but how would
those wheels turn or be made without oil? How would
the motors which turn those wheels operate without oil?
There is nothing that any one of us does in our daily lives
that does not depend upon oil because everything that we
touch that is man-made could not have been made without
oil. No machine that manufactures can operate without
lubrication, and oil is the only known lubrication.
Late October has been set aside to pay tribute to this
greatest industry, but Oil weeks seldom produce proper
recognition of the men who really bring the oil out of the
ground to the surface to flow to refineries and on to auto-
mobile motors and all other types of manufacturing machin-
ery, plus billions upon billions of gallons of gasoline to keep
America’s motor vehicles, airplanes, trains and farm imple-
ments on the move. Credit fcr all this is generally giver,
to the major oil companies, but the major oil companies
could not be in business without the men in the field, many
of whom are Noconans.
> No oil company Could operate without its roughnecks in
the field. They are the ones who suffer the heat and the
cold to keep America’s wheels in motion in industry, in
agriculture, in education and religion and for pleasure.
They are the real backbone of everything that is America,
and were it not for their loyalty to their jobs and their de-
termination to do their job well, many wheels in foreign
countries would not be turning. The News salutes _them
this Oil Progress week.
And we salute the companies, too. During the last
couple of decades prices of most commodities have doubled
or tripled, but the price of oil and gasoline have risen
only a fraction compared with the increased cost of a loaf
of bread or a pound of butter, or a man’s suit or a woman’s
dress, or automobiles.
Too many Americans look upon oil operators as multi-
millionaires, which some are and many are not. Too many
Americans do not know the inside story of oil, the hard-
ships the ups and downs, the worries and the uncertainties
of drilling a well . Some “hit,” but many do not. An out-
standing example of these uncertainties occured not many
years ago in neighboring Louisiana, where, at Plaquemines
Parish, drillers drilled and drilled to an unpredented depth
of 22,570 feet to prove there is oil at such a distance under
the surface.
Why did they keep drilling- For money? No, for pos-
terity. Ninety nine out of a hundred drillers would never
have gone that deep to get what turned out to be 500 barrel^
a day compared with more than eight million barrels a day
that is used by the American people. It took more than
a year to drill the Plaquemines Parish well, but geological
tests continued to show that there was oil in that vicinity.
The drillers and the roughnecks were working in Louisiana
for more than money; they were working to create some-
thing new and they created it. These are the kind of
atories which are being written every day in America’s oil
fields to make it possible for Mr. and Mrs. America to
drive up to a filling station and say with the wave of hand:
“Fill 'er up.” America owes the oil industry more than
America can ever pay it. There is not enough money to
pay for what makes the greatest country in the world tick.
A VOTE FOR AMERICA
AMERICA’S thanks are due to the voters of Lake City,
Florida, for overwhelmingly voting down a proposal that
Lake City join the comparatively few American communi-
ties which sponsor community operation of electrical power
stations in competition with free enterprise.
The pro and con argument concerning loCally-con-
tbolled electrical companies has been holly debated for many
years, but the fact remains that every time a community
goes into competition with free enterprise the community
contributes to the socialistic or communistic way and fur-
ther departs from the American way.
In Lake City, as in so many other American communi-
ties, the election was hotly contested. City officials argued
that a municipally-controlled power plant would pay no taxes
and therefore would be a good money-maker. What they
failed to tell the voters was that fdr every town that es-
capes Such taxes, the people of America, including those
•f that town, must pay more. Opponents of the election
argued that city-owned electrical utilities are not in keeping
with the American way, and they are not.
For good reason, the general manager of the taxpaying
utility involved hailed the election as “A resounding endorse-
ment of the American free enterprise system.” It is more
than that. It is a resounding endorsement that only un-
der the American way can America continue to exist as a
fiee and independent nation.
days last week. tors Saturday morning
Bonnell Griffin of Duncan vis- I Mr. and Mrs. Gaston and
ited her parents, and other rela-1 Riech of Saint Jo visited
fives here Saturday. Ada Groves and Mrs. Clara I
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Holt and son Sunday afternoon.
visited relatives in Nocona Thurs- Mr. and Mrs. Boydstun
dav. (children of Lawton visited
Mrs. Tummy Hightower was a and Mrs. L. F. Wray Sunday
patient in the hospital in Nocona I Mr. and Mrs. Liland Weath
last week. of Sand Springs moved here
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Roark and • week for their son Walter to
Max Weatherly were weekend , tend school. He is a senior °
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Wea-I Lightning struck the telenh
therly and family. line at Fleetwood Sunday even
Mrs. J. W. Harrison and Mrs. and injured Olen Weatherly i
Maud Stewart were Nocona visi- was talking on the phone * ’
NOCONA NEWS, NOCONA, TEXAS, OCT. 19, 195S
THE NOCONA NEWS
Published every Friday at The Nocona News publishing office,
117 East Oak St.. Nocona, Montague county, Texas
MR. AND MRS ROWLAND R. PETERS, PUBLISHERS
■Btered as second class matter at the postoffice at Nocona, Texas
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879
■ubscription rates payable in advance: Montague and surrounding
counties, 1 year, $2 50; other points. 1 year, $4.00
Performance-proved in a history-making test
on the ALCAN Highway to Alaska
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Stere! NewTask-Force 57 Chevrolet Trucks I
NEW CHEVROLETS ARRIVE HERE THIS WEEK
Longer, lower “in motion” emphasis on design of Chevrolet’s
three series of passenger cars for 1957 is evident in this view of
the new Bel Air sport coupe Along with the exciting exterior and
interior styling, a higher performance peak an J marked mechan-
ical advances are among features. The new models are now on
display at Matheson Chevrolet.
WEEKLY SERMONETTE
By James Keller
NO SHORT CUT
A prominent businessman who was enrolling his son in a well-
known university shook his head dubiously when he began to examine
the institution’s catalogue of studies. “Does my son have to take
all these courses?” he asked the deam. “Can't you make it shorter?
He wants to get out quickly.”
“Certainly he can take a shorter course,” replied the dean. “But
it all depends on what he wants to make of himself. When God
wants to make an oak He takes twenty years, but He only takes two I
months to make a squash.”
Short cuts attract all of us. And of course we are free to take
the easy way out. But just as oaks do not grow overnight, neither
do the mind and character. We shall have to live for all eternity as
we form ourselves here.
“He that is patient, is governed with much wisdom: but he
that is impatient, exalteth his folly.” Proverbs 14:29)
Pray for the patience to develop the best God has put in pou!
Terral, Okla.
Mews
Mrs. Iota Gaddy and Mrs. L. G.
Hightower were Wichita Falls
visitors Wednesday.
R. L. Andrews was a business
visitor in Oklahoma City Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Millard Anderson
and Mark were Wichita Falls
visitors Friday.
I. C. McGennis was a business
visitor in Waurika Tuesday night.
Mrs. Roy Palmer of Grandfield
was a Wednesday night guest of
Mrs. Ima Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Robertson
and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Duncan
left Friday for Abilene, Texas,
where they will be employed the
next few months.
Mrs. E. L. Rodgers and Mrs.
J. P. Pealor were in Wichita Falls
Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gamble of
Healdton visited relatives here
last week.
Loyd Jackson was ill several
The Alcan Highway is the road where trucks grow old before
their time. The road where gravel endlessly sledgehammers the
life out of trucks. Where a fog of superfine dust chokes engines,
and vicious ruts subject chassis to months of wear in a few
hundred miles.
Six new ’57 Chevrolet trucks, representing light-, medium-
and heavy-duty models and heavily loaded with cargo, roared
north from Dawson Creek, B, C„ through 1,520 miles of moun-
tains and mire, rain and hail to Fairbanks, Alaska. Running
around the clock, they made this tortuous trip—normally a
72-hour run-in leu than 45 hours. The fleet made normal stops
along the way, and maintained safe and legal speeds. As a special
test during the run, two of the trucks went the entire distance
without once having their engines stopped!
It’s all down in the AAA record book. And more besides!
Never before has a new truck been so thoroughly proved. Come
in and see how well these new Alcan champs measure up to
your job.
FIMT WITH THE MOST MODERN FEATURES!
New 283-cubic-inch Talkmatter VB deliver* 160 high-torque horse-
6000 ret ^rtro J”* 5000’ 7000 On<‘ 8000' °p,i0n°l
6000. . •x*rq <0*t Honepower range* up to 210 In Chevrolet**
complete line-up of modem V8 and 6 truck engine*.
Revolutionary Powermatic Tran*mi**lon - exclusive with Ch.vml.r
hauling, I* an extra-cost option In Serie* 5000 and 6000 and all
Seriw modol^at'orfT1* ‘ »Hy‘,ra'M0,’C ’’ ln 3000 ond 4000
>enei moaen at extra cost.
appearance. Thor* are throe different and distinctive styling
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reported by the Cameo Carrier, with Thriftmaster 6 and extra-cost Overdrive.
STATE FAIR OE TEXAS
NOW thru OCT. 21 - DALLAS
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Nocona, Phono 444 113 East Elm Toxa*
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The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, October 19, 1956, newspaper, October 19, 1956; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1206192/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.