The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 20, 1952 Page: 1 of 4
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LAND
and Tarsuc. A boa
11 take him south from,!,
a Baghdad, the iaPrf,
r Nights, and on t<?
id Ur of the Chaldee?&-
r of Abraham's youtk
inspection of the af
1 developments " ii
1 the lower Tigri|
river valley, Doct
1 fly to Jerusaleii
tas been invited to
F the American Schc
Research. This wj
:al point for a fej
excursions to tli
nts of interest in th
: our Saviour grej
le will then take hif
ir a visit to the pj
other ancient ruii
Nile Valley, One
sints of the trip wl|
to the top of Motiil
mount where Mose
i Ten Commandment
ke will then board
'..exington, via Rom«|
I New York.
e brother of GeorgS^J
.spermont, Mrs. E. L.
hiladelphia, and Mrs. ^
in, now in Rule, but ,
to London. He • is
of A. C. Hecht, neafc
and Miss Bertha
Mrs. Annie Cttmersj
The Friendliest City in the Friendliest State
VOL. LV—NO. 27
No.
ASPF.RMONT, STONEWALL COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1952
PRICE: FIVE CENTS
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STAR
DUST
By YE-HOODI
The weather in these here
parts still continues to hold the
spotlight.
o—o
Knowing what they call people
who prophesy weather in Texas,
I am not going to let my con-
stituents put me in that class.
o—o
I did find out when we going
t.o got a "sure-miff" rain, though.
o—o
The man on the corner in the
next block says not to be caught
out without your umbershoot in
May. Is that good enough, Os-
car??
o—o
Did you notice anything pe-
culiar in the hotel block last
week. I did.
o v
Had me worried and old in-
quisitive me—I dun into the situ-
ation.
o—o
Come to 1'ind out -Trammel 1
had a ease of "whispering-itis."
t 0—0
* Hear tell this is the first time
in many a moon that anyone
got to say a word around him.
o—o
j Lloyd Massey's down at Lins-
yiiiy's place now. Dori't lei
what happened other than he
says NOW that his car won't run
on anything but Magnolia.
o—o
Toot your own horn, Lloyd!
o—o
SALLY SAGE says: I read
recently where some educator
predicted that the world would
some day be run by women.
Thank goodness. Can you pic-
ture a mother sending her son
to war?
o—o
t-o SALLY: I thought
the women was already run-
ning the world.
o—o
Abyssinia.
Give to the Red Cross!
Rev. Gulps to Speak
At Baptist Church
A, spokesman for the pulpit
committee has announced that
Rev. Evetts "Tex" Ciilp will
occupy the pulpit at the First
Baptist Church for both services
|Q.ext Sunday.
Reverend Culp, who is now
living in Fort Worth, was for-
"merly pastor at Royalty, Texas.
At one time, he was Sunday
school superintendent at the
Second Baptist Church in Hous-
ton.
? He is a graduate of Baylor
University.
The local congregation has ex-
tended a most cordial invitation
to the public to attend these
services.
Give to the Bed Crew!
Phone Meeting Is
Held at Peacock
• A meeting of the Cap Rock
Telephone Company was held in
Peacock last Friday night, with
a large group of people from the
Peacock area in attendance.
The manager of the telephone
company was present and dis-
cussed plans of the company for
telephone service in most parts
of StonewaJl County.
Contracts will be let to the
contractors and contractors will
have the poles erected in a
minimum of 150 days after the
contracts are let out, it. has been
reported.
Farmers and ranchers may
sign up for telephone service any
time—from now until the wires
are strung, it was learned. If the
poles are erected by your place
you can still sign up any time
until the wires are put up. After
the wires are strung on ilv
poles, the farmer or rancher
may still apply and get the
phone but there would be a de-
lay. The late applications woukj
have to be sent to Washington
for approval and the new con-
tracts let for actual instal-
lation of the phone.
Th >se interested should put
up their deposit at this time,
and fill out the application.
It was learned that the phone
company will have a map in the
office of County Agent Thurman
Kennedy in Aspermont, showing
• vvhfvv)' the phone lines y,be
run.
Give to the Red Cross!
School Library Gets
Needed Remodeling
The library of Asperm >nt
High School has undergone a
much-needed revision, through
the efforts of Superintendent
Clark.
With the purchase of new
books, they were catalogued ac-
cording to the ,correct method,
and placed on the shelves where
thev are available to the student
body each period.
Student librarians keep the
library each period. Alice Long.
Don .Smith, Billy Jack Mc-
Gough.' Joe Lynn Foster. Bar-
bara Sparks, Bob Rutherford,
Sue Belle Massev and Dorothy
Mae Clark serve under the di-
rection and supervision of Mrs.
John P. Ward, who spends two
of her periods each day in the
library.
No definite check has been
made as to the number of books
which have been read. However
!n the eighth grade alone, 185
'•ooks' have been read by 30
students within a period of three
weeks.
Both the students and teachers
are erateful to the School Board
and Mr. Clark for fulfilling their
wish. That wish was that they
have good books to read and
that those same good books be
kept in a systematic way.
Give to the Red Cross!
Attend church Sunday.
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HARLEY SADLER
Harley Sadler Out
Foi; Senate Post
v s,idler <-f -\bilcne has
authorized The Star to announce
his candidacy for the Texas
Senate from the' new 24th Sen-
atorial D'sjirict, which comprises
Stonewall, Dickens, Garza, Kent
Borden, Scurry, Fisher, Shackel-
ford, Jones, Howard. Mitchell,
Nolan and Taylor counties.
Tht present district is now
represented by Senator Pat Bul-
lock of Colorado City. Senator
Bullock has announced that he
will not be a candidate for re-
election.
Harley Sadler was raised in
this District, and has served in
the Texas Legislature for four
terms, three consecutive terms
from the 117th District, com-
prising Mitchell, Fisher and No-
lan counties; and at the present
time is a member of the Legis-
lature from the 1.16th District—
Taylor County.
In announcing his candidacy,
Mr. Sadler made the following
statement: Since Senator Pat
Bullock of Colorado City made
his announcement that he would
definitey not be a candidate for
re-election, hundreds of voters
from the new 24th Senatorial
District have contacted me by-
personal visits, ■ phone :calls,
Tetters, cards and petitions,', urg-
ing that 1 make the 'race; fort the'
Stale Senate. I deeply 'appreci-
ate these solicitations',' many of
them coming from voters who
did net suppibrt me when I
sought this place, in 1948. After
giving the matter Serious thought
and due cojVsi'dciVtipn, I havtj de-
cided to enter the race.
During my eight years of ser-
vice in the Low^r House, no
member had a more perfect at-
tendance record, nor gave more
diligent effort to the work than
myself, both on the floor of the
House and in the Committee
work as well.
I served on major commit-
tees, either as chairman, vice-
chairman, or as a member, on
the following committees:
Two terms on Appropriations
committee; two terms on Reve-
See SADLER, back page
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COLLEGE INSTALLATION—Installation of the newly created College of Household Arts and
Sciences along with dedication of its new home will highlight the traditional Redbud Festi-
val at Texas State College for Women. The new college Is an expansion of the old department
of home economics. Formal installation cercm nles will begin at noon March 27. A staff of
seven specialists has already begun a program of research In textiles, detergencies, foods, nu
trltioa and household equipment and ftiraWtfafs.
I DeSoto to Drill
Offset for City
Oil fields in Stonewall County
this week gained three new
producers.
Locations for five projects,
incuding one wildcat, were an-
nounced. ,
On the daily potential test,
Continentel Oil Company's No. 1'
E. H. Viertel in Section 125 of
Block D, H. and T.C. Survey,
flowed 1711.9 barrels of 42.7
gravity oil.
It is a Canyon Reef producer
in the Aspermont Lake. Field,
located one and one-half miles
southwest of Agpe'rmont.
No. 1 Viertel .was completed
on a one-inch choke with 75
pounds of flowing pressure on
he casing and 175 pounds of
tubing. pressure. It is producing
from 56 perforations at 4920-34
feet. Operator set casing set
casing at 4966 feet. Total depth
••/as 4967 feet, plugged back to
'•957 feet. Ratio of the oil and
;as was 608 to 1.
City to Get Offset
DeS .to Oil Company of Dal-
as No. I City of Aspermont- is
i lie drilled to 5000 feet with
rotary in the Asperm"';! Lake
Field.
Drillsite is approximately three
•niles southwest of Aspermont,
iOO feet from the south and 467
feet from the east lines of See-
em 129 in Block D of the H. and
T.C. Survey.
Location has been amended
for Continental Oil Company's
No 4-A Flossie E, Scoggins, an
Aspermont Lake Canyon Reef
Tield try.
New site is three miles south-
east of Aspermont, 6C0 feet from
the south and 1650 feet from the
west lines of Section 124, Block
D of H. and T.C. Survey. Con-
tract depth is 5200 feet with ro-
tary.
Katz Field Gets Two
In the Katz Field, located near
'he Stonewall, King and Knox
County lines, Sid Katz of San
Antonio completed two wells on
'he Sto.newall side.
Location is eight miles west
;f O'Brien.
Katz No. 5 S. S. Dozier, in the
R. Campbell Survey 50, on the
daily potential test gauged
?02,0'4 barrels of 37 gravity oil
p'us 26 per cent water. ..
■Completion was on :18-G.4ths
inch choke with . 350 pounds of
oressure on the casing and 120
sounds of pressure on the tub-
•n'g. It is producing from 160
perforations at .5080-5100 feet
with the casing set at 5144 feet.
The well was drilled,Jo a to-
tal depth of 5155 feet, then
plugged back to 5127 feet. Ra-
tio of the oil and gas was 261
'o 1.
No. 3 DorJer Flows 274
Katz No. 3 IT. D. Dozier in
the R. Campbell Survey, during
the 24-hour test, flowed 274 52
barrels of 39.8 gravity oil on a
20-64ths inch choke. Packer
was set on the casing and tubing
oressure was 100 pounds.
The well is producing from
128 perforations at 5105-11 and
5130-39 feet. Having a gas, oil
ratio of 243 to 1, operator set
rasing in the well at 5185 feet.
Total depth was 5200 feet,
pluggwd back to 516# feet.
In that same field, and on the
Stonewall side, Deep Rock Oil
Corporation of Tulsa, Okla., has
staked location for the No. 6-D
C. B. Long.
Drillsite for the 5200-foot ro
tary try is 1500 feet from the
south line and 1761 feet from the
'•ast line beine the river, in the
•T. O E'istis Sar—ev, 4-46R. Site
1261 foot west of the No. 2-0
L mfi,
Over on the King Countv side
of l!v> field. Deep Ro^k No 3-D
C B. Lone in .1 G. Eustis Sur-
vo" A 468, is a new oiler.
Da'lv potential was 130 86
ly.rre's .f 31! 5 grnrntv oil Ills
Hernnlnt; perforations at
~a77.n1 m n.ne-ntor sot cms
isij? at 5172 fe.-i while total
depth was 5173 Vet.
To Run Casing
Operator at last report was
preparing to run easfnR at Co-
lumbian Fuel Corporation No. 1
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BAND CLINIC HELD SATURDAY;
IS ACCLAIMED BIG SUCCESS
See OIL NEWS on back page
JO«N BEN SHEPPERD
Shepperd to Speak
To Spur C. of (I
Secretary of Stale- John Ben
Shepoerd <>t Giadewater will
he the-main rpc^kcr at the ari-
■mat banquet of the Spur. C'ham-
) 1 .*r 'if Commerce in Spur at 8
o'clock Friday night, March 21,
Grady L. Elder, manager, an-
nounced this week.
Shepperd ha- been Secretiiry
•■f State since February of 1950,
when he was appointed by Gov.
Allan Shivers, Prior to that he
was a practicing East Texas at-
torney during which time he
was president of the Gregg
County Bar Association.
As Secretary of State. Shep-
perd performs many official du-
ties for Governor Shivers, in ad-
dition to directing, as the ad-
ministrator and legal supervisor
the five major divisions in his
department.
Shepperd is former president
of the United States Junior
Chamber of Commerce and has
directed several citizenship and
Americanism projects for the
State Bar and the American Le-
gion. .
Ilis most widely acclaimed
•iti/enship project, why Demo-
cracy is better .than communism
—was the Gladewater Plan,
which he originated several
•ears ago.
Shepperd is one of the most
popular, speakers., in the State
today... Hei'is 36 years old- When
vounger he was selected- the out-
standing young man of his home
town on several occasions, and
three times was named one of
the outstanding young men of
the State.
Give to the Kcd Cross!
John Porker Tours
John Deere Plant
John Parker, who is associated
with his brother, J. D. Parker in
the Parker Implement Company,
has just returned from a week
spent at the John Deere factory
:n Moline, III.
Mr. Parker drove to Dallas
an:! joined 62 other John Deere
dealers from the state, who went
by pullman for a week's ex-
paid trip as guests of the John
Deere equipment manufacturing
company.
Mr. Parker stated that he
thoroughly enjoyed the trip,
and gained many now ideas that
will help him to better serve his
many patrons,
He stated that on their tour
through the plants, they learned
first hand how each machine
wa put together, from raw ma
anal to the finished product.
Give to the Red Cross!
Lloyd Mossey Now
At Linsley's Station
Lloyd Massey is now as-
>*,on.-l"d with th." Linsley Ser-
vice Station.
Mr. Massev. ,vbo has recently
boon with Joplin Conoco Sen/ice
here in Aspermont, has until this
change, been dispensing Conoco
products for the past three
years,
Mr. Massey invites all of his
old fricndu to pay him a visit
at his new location.
County Band Director C. D.
Whitaker has asked The Star to
'hank all those who made the
aand clinic, held last Saturday,
uch an outstanding, success.
Mr. Whiraker stated that there
were 101 students- registering
for the all-day program and
that the entire procedure was
conducted with precision and
iming.
Mark William; uf O'Donnell.
,.ii, Grantham oi Winters, Jerry
. ioilman of Midland, and Miss
Hetty Hoffman >f Rot an were
Ie visiting band leaders. Jerry
'ioffman had charge of the
clinic.
Mr. Whitaker stated th it the
• n. of $150.00 was raised by !
'!•<• sale of membership cards and
• her form:-.; and --it <■' this $60
,vas used for music for the
•.inie.
It wa.1 learned that Director
V,.'h!taker's arrangement for the
■ on;;, "Onward. Christian Sol-
diers." made such an • utstandirig
h:t with students and visiting
Characters Selected
For One-Act Ploy
Characters f i/r Asperm',ait's
entry in t b e Intersehoiastie
League "~-<^iet play contest
have been ehisen, according to
Mrs. John P Ward, director for
Aspermont.
The play- -"The Blue Teapot"
-is a rural comedy, and stresses
the value of congenial home
life. Ralph Griffith and Shi;
ley Metcalf play the parts of Pa
and Ma—a charming farm couple.
Gerald Thornton has the role of
Jimmy, their ward, and Zellre
Ellison is Cynthia, Jimmy's
fiance.
.The cast will give several open
practices so that those interested
may ;u:e this delighful play.
Give to the Red Cross!
Mrs. F. M Perry visited her
daughter and husband, Mr. and
Mrs. C C Cochran, in Sonera,
Texas, he t week. Mrs. Cochran
and children returned home with
her mother.
leaders that he was asked to
have the arrangement copy-
righted.
The Stonewall County Band
took part in activities at the
barbecue at Jayton Tuesday
night and drew a round of ap-
plause from those i.n attendance.
The band will leave today
(Thursday) for Waurika, Oka.,
to take part in a contest in that
city. J
Give to the Red Cross!
Methodist Revival
To Start Sunday
Rev. A L. Mitchell and mem
bers of the First Methodist
Church are rapidly completing
plans for the pre-Easter revival,
which will begin Sunday, March
23 and continue through March
30.
Rev. Walaee J. Shelton, pas-
tar of the First Methodist
Church of Olney, is to be the
visiting speaker, and Lloyd San-
ders of Dublin will be in charge
of song services.
Service; are to be held twice
daily at 7 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Coffee and doughnuts will be
served prior to the morning
service
Th'jr.M->Uc 1 • extended a cor-
dial 'mvnaYion to attend.
Give to the Red Cross!
Al! Texas Counties
Now Disaster Areas
All Texas counties are now
i under designation as ci is aster
I areas by proclamation of the
I ti.S. Department of Agriculture.
The action qualifies farmers
who have suffered crop losses
and who are unable to obtain
credit elsewhere for loans from
tht Farmers Home Administra-
tion to put in 1952 crops. An-
nouncement of the designation
was made at Dallas, head-
quarters of the Farm Home Ad
ministration by L. J. Cappleman,
state director.
Bad weather in 1951 reduced
See DISASTER, on back page
OUR DEMOCRACY- byM.t
3EGINNER1S LUCK.
— it's an old phrase for. the fortune that sometimes
favors a new hand in a game.
And in cur democrao; with its freedom or opportunity,
BEGINNER'S LUCK IS GOOD. BLrr LUCK ALONE WONY WIN
IN TMET LONG RUN FOR. THE aE&INNER. OR. THE OLD HAND.
tha.t calls for mar.p work amd thrift- application to
the job (n hand and provision for. tomorrow,through
like insurance anp savings.
&eyond that, making the MOST OF *THE BREAKS* TAKES
INITIATIVE, PLANNING AND ATTKNTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT
or SK.H-LS.
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Welch, Lowell C. The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 20, 1952, newspaper, March 20, 1952; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth127445/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stonewall County Library.