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Friday, July 11,1940
Kermit, Winkler County,
Volume 6; Number 17
John
Says
Second Six-Weeks
June Defense Bond
♦
Sales Swell Total
His Waterloo
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Their Best
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HONOR ROLL
of
Grand Affair
in-
ar-
was
in-
Quiz
Scout Finance Drive Successful
shot with 400 quarts of nitro.
MARRIAGE licenses
Tide Water’s No. 2 Campbell,
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sec-
Miss
Three Firemen To
Represent Kermit
At Defense School
Scout Activities
For First 6-Weeks
Above Average
County Library
Gets Literature
From Britian
Mag. Picnic
At Ft. Stockton
Great Success
Texas Beauty Wins
National Acclaim
Defense
Bond
Magnolia-Walton
Test Drills Ahead
The Winkler County News
THE KERMIT SUN — THE WINK TIMES-HERALD
Three Wells Make
Good Oil Showing
One New Location
Staked In County
Atlantic-
a
Frank Wharton9 s
Suit For Orchestra
Accepted by NTSTC
was
was
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sharmasson and
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Polk spent the
4th in Pecos.
969 Wells Drilled
In West Texas In
Six Months Period
Mr. and Mrs. “Happy” Underwood
are in town a few days this week
visiting with friends. They are for-
mer Kermit residents.
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Hughes have
been transferred to Midland. He will
begin work there Wednesday, where
he is employed by the Maignolia
Oil Company.
3400 feet in lime, is completed for
183 barrels of oil per day after being
tion 18, block 3, was the only new
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Kotorola Outlines
Plans For Football
Squad During Year
CITY TO FINISH PAVING PROJECT
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Bids For Black
Top To Be Let
Saturday Morning
Mrs. Cleo Rook is visiting in the
home of her sister Mrs. J. L. Slau-
jighter this week.
Coach A. E. (Bull) Kotrola was the
speaker at the Lons luncheon Thurs-
day noon, and gave his version of
football prospects for the coming
year. In his opinion Kermit will
have a fighting squad for the season,
if spring training was any indica-
tion.
Kotrola regards P'ecos as the dan-
ger team of the district, and expects
to see Fort Stockton and McCamey
somewhat improved over last year.
Wink, with seven first string men
back in the lineup, is likely to be
one of the strong teams of the dis-
trict, according to Kotorola.
Lester Dollison, former resident of
Kermit, was a visitor at the meet-
ing and demonstrated his ability at
remembering names.
Plans are still pending in regard
to the holding of a home-town car-
nival, under the auspices of the
Lions sometime in the near future.
Shell Oil Company’s No. 1 Sealy-
Smith Foundation, proposed 11,000
foot test 2 y2 miles northwest of
Monahans, in the northeast part of
Ward county, spudded to 108 feet
in red beds and is running 15% inch
casing. A rotary derrick was started
on Wednesday.
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According to Emory Spangler, chair- (
man of the local Boy Scout finonce
committee, three-fourths of the des- .
ignated quota to finance Scouting ,
in the Kermit area was collected
Tuesday during the annual drive.
This will continue for the next two
weeks.
The committee got under way at
a kick-off preakfast in the Blue-
bonnet cafe at 9:00 Tuesday. Ciom-
mitteemen were B. F. Meek, Elie
location staked in Winkler
during the past week. This well is
Car “Borrower” Is
Charged With Theft
ed
year and
ments in
has been
training.
Marvin Hall, fire insurance com-
missioner, Austin, stressed the im-
portance of every Texas community
having trained firemen in the fire’
department to secure the maximum
efficiency in fire fighting. In his
letter to Mayor Wilson and the City
Commissioners this week, Mr. Hall
said that the present National Em-
ergency makes it even more import-
ant. A special course in fire defense
in keeping with the National De-'
fense plans has been 'added to the
regular service this year, and an in-
teresting and constructive program
worked out.
in the Bas.hara area.
Tide Water owns undrilled east, Lam, G. E. Thompson, Emory Spang-
south and west offsets. ler, and Jack Hodges, Scout field
the Scouting program here.”
Field executive Hodges has been
working with the Kermit Scout offi-
cials and Scouts in this drive and
other scouting activities for several
weeks. In tribute of the fine help
he has contributed to the local
troop, Mr. Spangler remarked this
week that he “could not ask for a
hiore industrious and cheerful co-
worker. He has done every possible
ding he could to help us.”
If reports are anything like authen-
tic Hitler and his storm troops are
not going over so big in their march
through Russia. From indication
we are led to believe that Stalin was
not asleep all the time that Hitlfer
thought that he had the wool pulled
over is eyes. Just what is to be the
outcome of te present engagement
on tie eastern battle front is not
known, but anything that is dene
is to our advantage.
Americans, although they do not
have tco much sympathy to offer
for communism, feel that it is to.the
Busses will run only where there is
sufficient cause for their routeing.
During the past six weeks there
has been an average daily attend-
ance of 225.
The student work program for eli-
gible students will be continued, it
was announced. Great improvement
to the campus has been made the
past sx weeks.
“We hope that there will be as
great an enthusiasm shown in the
forthcoming program as in the past
six weeks,” Mr. Meek said. “We
feel sure that the students will find
the varied program as interesting.”
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Magnolia’s No. 20 State-Walton, one
st ‘uoponpojd 4iurjayi jo Qsaa apui
drilling ahead at 637.1 feet in lime.
A core from 5951-59 recovered five
feet of dolomite showing oil and
water and core from 6239-53 receiv-
ed 12 % feet of lime with poor poro-
sity and showing oil.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Garner and
children left Tuesday for Austin and.
Fredricksburg on a vacation.
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executive.
The quota for Scout up-keep for
Winkler County it set at $600 a year.
Sustaining . contributions Tuesday
amounted to $418. “Everyone we
approached was interested and
willing to help. We didn’t encounter
trouble anywhere,” Mr. Spangler
stated, adding, “We would like to
express our thanks to the citizens
who contributed so enthusiastically
and displayed so much interest fr
Ward County Deep
Test Gets Started
have the space to tell you just how
it tastes. All I can say is that I wish
I had enough to go around so that
all of you could get a bite.)
Lbster Ward was jailed early Thurs-
day morning in the Winkler county
courthouse by Sheriff Ellis Summers
on charges of.the/t < forgery.
SheA’f Summers arrived in Ker-
mit Thursday morning from Paul’s
Valley, Okla., where the youth had
been arrested with the car he had
borrowed “for about 30 minutes to
cake my girl home” on June 26 in
Wink.
Ward has also been charged with
several forgeries in both Wink and
Kermit.
Bond for the young man had not
been set yesterday at noon.
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The Magnolia crowd really did
things up brown at their annual pic-
nic in Fort Stockton last Friday-
July Fourth. This affair has been
quite interesting and entertaining
in years past, but undoubtedly this
year beat them all. Everything was
just as a person would want it if
they were in charge.
The big barbecue dinner went off
without a hitch, and it was one
of those barbecues where everything
was just right. I know that every-
thing that I did was thoroughly en-
joyed and I never heard an adverse
comment from anyone of the more
than fifteen hundred persons that
were on hand to enjoy th eday.
I’m ready for more such occasions.
The City of Kermit realizing that
the local fire department has rece-
ived much training from this an-
nual training school, this year ap-
propriated $150.00 to send three re-
presentatives from Kermit. The City
of Wink also signified its intention
of sending representatives to the
school at a meeting Monday night
with the Kermit Fire Department.
At a meeting last week the Ker-
mit department selected Leon Speer
Fred Pearson and Gene Crutcher
as its representatives to this years
school. Since its organization the
Kermit Department has never miss-
sending representatives each
one of the best depart-
this section of the state
the result of this yearly
Just One More
There is just one more chapter to
Ole Johns story about his chicken
ranch. This week we find that these
chickens are eight weeks old and
ready for the frying pan. As yet
we haven’t tried them so can’t tell
you how good they are going to be.
So we will let it go this time by
saying that we really saw fhat that
Purina chow—and strict attention
—will do for chickens. Next week
we can tell you if they taste any
better than other chicen.
(I51- S. As we go to press we get
a surprise from the “devils” in the
shop. This afternoon, after those
words above were writen, they stole
a chicken and had it butchered and
fried. I’ve had a taste but do not
Every week the Winkler County
Library receives bulletins from Brit-
ain, up-to-date and authentic, an-
nounces Mrs. Fred Wright, librarian.
These bulletins were mailed from
New York through the British Lib-
rary of Information. They are print-
ed by the service to enable other
posts throughout the world to re-
ceive from London and from other
British sources a regular service of
information, by cable and mail, in-
tended to give an intimate knowled-
ge of Britian’s fighting forces, of the
Empire’s war effort and of the im-
pact of the war upon the daily lives
of its peoples.
The major speeches broadcast by
British officials and leaders are
printed in their original texts in
these bulletins. Latest bulletin from
the Library in New York has re-
printed P'rime Minister Winston
Churchill’s scathing address on
Freedom’s Cause, together with the
text of the Allied Resolution ad-
dress. r
Mrs. Wright urges that the citizens :
of Winkler' County who want the
most minute details of Britian’s
war effort take advantage of these
bulletins. They cannot be taken
from the library.
Mr. Earl Stanley Mills and _____
Elizabeth Rives, on Saturday, July
The completion of present streets
that been curbed and caliched is
now practically assured by Kermit
day morning it was voted to com-
city officials. At a meeting Wednes-
plete the streets and prepare them
for the black topping.
Just what will be done with other
streets that have been signed up
for paving has not yet been deter-
mined. It is thought that they will
probably have to wait until the
Works Projects Administration
again allots funds for local work.
But because of the necessity of
conserving the work that has al-
ready been done, the city, with the
assistance of the county, expects to
go ahead and complete all blocks
that are nearly ready to receive the
conserving seal coat of black top-
ping.
Work is expected to begin again
next Monday, and a small crew of
men will complete all that has to
be done toward getting these streets
in readiness.
Bids are to be received until Sat-
urday morning at 10 o’clock for a
factory bids are received, a contract
contract on black-topping. If satis-
will be let and the tipping will be
put on during the summer before
cold weather interferes.
A joint meeting of city and coun-
ty officials is to be held on Satur-
day at which time plans for the
payment and financing of the pro-
ject.
Q. What is a U. S. Defense Savings
Bond?
A. This Bond is proof that you
have loaned money to the United
States Government for national de-
fense. Your Bond bears interest at
the rate of 2.9 percent a year, if
held to maturity (ten years).
Q. Why should I ,juy Defense
Bonds?
A. Because money talks. To dic-
tators it speaks defiance. To friends
of freedom, it says, “Here’s my
hand!”
NOTE — To purchase Defense
Bonds and Stamps, go to the near-
est post office or bank, or write for
information to the Treasurer of the
United States, Washington, D. C.
Ruth Tilley of Shamrock,
Texas, freshman beauty at
Texas State College for Women
during the last school term,
was recently selected by Look
Magazine as one of the most
beautiful college girls of Amer-
ica in 1941.
During the first 25 weeks of 1941,
up to June 28, a total of 969 wells
were drilled in the West Texas ris-
trict, including 9 new discoveries, 68'
dry holes, and 892 oil wells. This is
an average of 38.8 wells per week.
Winkler county came in for her
share of these new wells, as activity
in this section continued on the up-
ward trend. The wells completed in
the county since January 1, accord-
ing to Lockwood’s oil report, are:
Bashara area, 1; Halley area, 2;
Hendrick area, 7; Kermit area, 7;
changes in bus routes are expected. Keystone area, 18; O’Brien area, 25
(in Winkler and Ward counties);
Scarborough, 1.
A number of new locations have
been made in the different areas of
Winkler county that are now near-
ing the pay, but they are not
eluded inthe above summary.
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Over four thousand dollars was add-
ed to Winkler county’s sales of de-
fense bonds and savings stamps
during the month of June, accord-
ing to reports from the postoffice
at Wink and Kermit.
Kermit’s total sales of defense
bonds during the month was $1,-
387.50, icr a total maturity value of
$1,850. Local stamp sales were
$171.85.
The Wink postoffice bond sales
amounted to $1,481.25, with a' ma-
turity value of $1,975.00. Stamp
sales there were $39.60.
Added to the total maturity value
of defense bonds sold prior to June
1, the county shows a purchase of
$14,390 as the maturity value of all
defense bonds sold in the county
to. date.
The stamp sales swell this total
to near the fifteen thousand mark.
To date the sale of bonds and
stamps, at maturity value, is $14,-
846.05.
The defense bond committees of
both Wink and Kermit have been
very active in their work toward the
promotion of the sales of these two
government issues, and their efforts
have been quite well rewarded.
Those composing the Kermit com-
mittee are Mrs. Ed Birtciel, Dan P'.
English, Don Tracy, B. F. Meek,
G. E. Thompson, and Mrs. Ruth S.
Marion, and E. E. Spangler, local
chairman of Kermit.
Wink’s committee is composed of
Paul E. Jette, Mrs. Elizabeth Kay-
ser, P. W. Harvey, Dean A. Blake-
ney, Lee Johnson, Lane Newbert,.
local chairman of Wink.
Judge G. E. Gilliam is chairman
of the county-wide committee.
This week assistant Scoutmaster
Frank Harlan summarized the
summer Scouting activities for the
first six weeks of the summer pro-
gram to be above average.
An average of 30 local Scouts have
attended each weekly meeting, and
a number of awards have been made
in the course of the semester.
Attaining second class ranking as
Scouts during the period were Ro-
bert Walker, Wesley Weatherby,
Dewey Mitchell and James Russell.
W. C. Stokes and Lavoy Hinkle
have been awarded first class pins.
Leonard Bradford, Jack Gibson and
Edwin Loflin have become Life
Scouts.
During the past six weeks merit
badges have been won by Bradford
in Physical Development, Public
Health, and Pioneering; Gibson in
First Aid, Physical Development,
and Pioneering; and Loflin in Pub-
lic Health, First Aid, Physical
Development and Pioneering.
The total enrollment in the Ker-
mit chapter is now 43 Boy Scouts.
In their last weekly meeting, the
Scouts were presented with their
Charter for the Kermit High School
chapter, granting the troop per-
mission to operate as Boy Scouts
of America for the next year.
Three wells in Winkler county, com-
pleted last week for good producers,
are included in this week’s report
of West Texas oil activities. These
wells are:
Ralph Lowe’s No. 2
Zachary, section 24, block 3. At
total depth of 3290 feet the well was
shot with 560 quarts of nitro and is
completed, flowing 387 barrels of oil
in 14 hours.
The Texas Company’s No. 2 Seth
Campbell, section 23, block 3, was
shot with 450 quarts of nitro from
3108 to 3290, and is flowing 65 to 70
barrels of oil per day while cleaning
out.
Sam Weiner’s No. 8 Jenkins, sec-
tion 12, block 77, at a total depth of
5.
Mr. Charlie Shipley and Miss
Alta Fay Jackson, on Friday, July
5.
Frank Wharton, sophomore at
North Texas State Teacher’s Col-
lege, Denton, has had his “Suite for
Orchestra” accepted by the NTSTC
Symphony for public performance
this fall. It is in the hands of ar-
rangers this summer.
Frank, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. K.
Wharton, has frequently included
his compositions on the programs of
his own concerts, but this will be
the first to be performed by other
artists.
The “Suite” was begun during his
summer vacation last year and com-
pleted at college this spring. The
composition is largely a descriptive
one of Carlsbad Caverns.
Three Kermit fireboys from Ker-
mit and two from.Wink will attend
the 12th Annual Firemen’s Train-
best interests of the world for them inS School to be held at A. & M.
to wage a winning battle against College at College Station, on July 20
nazi forces. Nearly everyone hopes to 25 inclusive,
that Hitler will meet his Waterloo
with his invasion of Russia. Rus-
sians know that they are fighting
a force that is worse than commu-
nism and are dying for their cause.
Surely we cannot feel that commu-
nism is nearly so bad as nazism
when those of communistic trend
take such an attitude.
It can only be hoped that Russia
will cripple the nazi forces, if they
are not able to anihilate them, and
that out of the entire affair will
rise a form of government that will
give the people of the world a bet-
ted place in which to live and raise
their families.
Since the News announced their
price reduction of $1.00 per year for
subscriptions in Winkler county, we
have had a fine response and a
number of names have been added
to the list. To date this list
eludes the following:
Hord Studio, Kermit.
W. C. Driver, Kermit.
Mack Perdue, Kermit.
Dutch Froelish, Kermit.
C. T. Brashears, Wink.
N. W. Madison, Kermit.
Mrs. Joseph Best, Wink.
Kermit Theatre, Kermit.
Leon Dillon, Kermit.
C. B. Mills, Kermit.
H. B. Usry, Kermit.
L. R. Tarver, Kermit.
Miss Irene Ellis, Kermit.
W. O. Hunt, Kermit.
Mrs. T. O. Hoffman, Kermit.
J. R. Teague, Kermit.
Johnny Raines, Kermit.
V. G. Davis, Kermit.
Ed Birtciel, Kermit.
A. R. Lawrence, Kermit.
Steve Mason, Wnk.
A. L. Grigsby, Kermi.
Clyde Bone, Kermit.
S. C. Peters, Jacksonville, Ore.
Toby Crispin, Kermit.
G. E. Gilliam, Kermit.
T. H. Herrin,
W. O. Bower, Kermit.
O. L. Shirley, Kermit.
W. L. Champion, Kermit.
Winkler Co. Library, Kermit.
W. R. Montgomery, Kermit.
E. V. Watson, Kermit, Kermit.
Walter Seales, Kermit.
J. W. Morris, Kermit.
George Dinnie, Belle Plains, low.
Jack Williams, Sundown.
FfiODBWsll
AMERICA I
Program Announced
_____ &
Announcement of the second semes-
ter of the summer activity program
of Kermit schools were made this
week from the office of B. F. Meek,
superintendent.
For the second six weeks begin-
ning Monday a number of changes
have been made, notably in the
teaching schedule.
Chiral work under the direction
cf J. C. Wilson, will take the place
of last six weeks’ band instruction
under the supervision of H. H. Cope-
land. Mr. Meek states that it is
1 hoped that the interest in choral
music will equal that shown in in-
strumental music the past semes-
ter.
Scouting will continue, led by
Scoutmaster J. R. Kimbriei, who
will replace assistant Scoutmaster
Frank Harlan. Feature of Scouting
activities will be a number of over-
night hikes.
Gymnasium activities will be sar-
ried on in much the same manner
as in the first semester, with only
changes in the coaching personnel.
Mr. Kimbriel will have charge of
the boys phy<=i^l education in high
school and H ______ Barham in the
grade school. Miss Lillian Ayres
will assume charge of the girls in
high school and Mrs. E. G. Blun-
dell and Miss Bonnie Ruth Nance
of those in grade school.
In the grade school music depart-
ment Miss Emma Lee Smith will
replace Miss Irene Ellis and in the
art division Mrs. Willie Mae Thomp-
son will take the place vacated for
the next six weeks by Miss Lucille
Spruill.
Russell Day will conduct journal-
ism and public relation activities.
Make-up work in shorthand and
typing will be offered under the
instruction of Miss Grace Fomby.
Miss Emma Kosarek, regular li-
brarian, will take over the library
for the reminder of the summer.
Miss Alberta Sturgeon has had
charge of it for the past six weeks.
The primary unit will be presided
over by Miss Lois Miller, assisted
by Miss Jean Langston.
Mr. J. W. Morris will be general
supervisor of the entire program,
while G. E. Thompson, who filled
the office last semester, will attend
Texas University during the next
six weeks.
Transportation for students will
be arranged in accordance with the
present school schedule. Some
people during the day.
enjoyed the atmosphere
creek and lake, while special
tertainment events during the
added to the pleasures of
crowd.
The barbecue at noon was
ranged and served by the Odessa
Chuck Wagon Gang, and was en-
joyed by everyone. There was for
all and plates were well filled and
platable.
Taken from every angle this
greatest party in the- history of the
group who have attended Permian
affairs.
The three members of Kermit’s
city commission are determined that
black-topping shall be placed on
the streets of Kermit before the
summer is out in order to protect
the caliche base that has been put
down by the city, county and WPA.
They are pulling all strings right
now in their efforts toward this end,
and it is almost certain to bet that
they will get the job done.
This effort on the part of our
public officials is to be commended.
When the WPA withdrew all aid in
favor of defense projects, it looked
like we might lose this part of the
project, and probably a great part
of the work that had already been
done. Action to change this status
seems not only the proper thing to
do, but almost the necessary thing.
The commission, as well as county
officials, are to be praised for their
efforts along this line without a
bit of quibbling.
More than fifteen hundred persons
who were on -.hand at Rooney Park
in Fort Stockton last Friday to
help the Magnolia employees cele-
brate the Fourth of July had one
grand time. Bill Reneau, who had
charge of the arrangements, had a
program planned that filled the
bill. Pecos county and Fort Stock-
ton officials aided in taking care of
traffic as the vast crowd gathered.
The program was so arranged
that everyone could entertain them-
selves at their favorite pastime.
Tables were~ arranged for various
games, and* refreshments were on
hand for the kiddies and grown-up
throughout the entire day.
Swimming was diversion that was
enjoyed by the greater part of the
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