The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 7, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 12, 1936 Page: 3 of 22
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I COOL WINDS
AND RAINFALL
ARE FORECAST
536 Deaths Chalked
Up to Wave; Crop
Damage Estimated
At $300000000
•Copyright 1936 by The AP.)
CHICAGO. July 11.—The end of
the heat wave was sighted Saturday
and millions cheered.
Cool weather should begin to
•weep eastward from the northwest
Saturday night.
Forecaster J. R. Lloyd ol the
Chicago weather bureau said the
torrid blanket which has spread
death to humans and growing things
over the northern half of the na-
tion from the Rockies east would
be dispelled in the northwest by1
rain Saturday night.
Grain Prices Plunge
Weary farmers felt encouraged
that some of their crops would b<
saved.
On the Chicago board of trade
the weather forecaster's prediction
caused a stampeding loss in corn
and wheat. The former fell four
cents and the price was down seven
cents a bushel from Saturday's
high. The price of wheat collapsec
five cents a bushel the limit al
ioweo under trading rules.
Cooler air trom the Pacific will
bring showers and ''near normaJ
temperatures” into the Dakota:.
Uo.vd said then move slowly east-
ward to reach the eastern half of
drought and heat stricken middle
America by Monday night.
The middle west has suffered
from record breaking high tem;>era-
> tUies for nine consecutive days and
for practically three weeks from
„ lack of ample precipitation.
536 Persons Dead
Early this week the terrific heat
also embraced tne remainder oi the (
northern half of the nation trom
the Rockv Mountains to the Atlantic
aeaboard. several days alter it
■ descended with all its devastating
force on the midwest.
Forecaster Lloyd did not say
whether relief irom the torndity
* would affect the nation east of
; Indiana after Monday following a
course similar to the heat wave
The heat and drought to date
hM|B caused at least 536 deaths and
erftp damage estimated in excess oi
$300.001)000.
"Definite indications of a breakup
in the heat in the northwest are
seen was Forecaster Lloyd's news
**A new mass ol cool air from the
northern Pacilic is moving over the
north Rocky Mountain region — !
Idaho. Montana and Wyoming. !
causing showers and cooler weather
in that section.
"It Is expected to spread east over
the Dakotas northwest Minnesota
western Nebraska and extreme'
northwest Kansas by Sunday night
tormg siiowers and cooler tempera- ;
times with it."
Some Crop* to Be Saved
Lower Missouri. Illinois and In-
diana will be the last of the north
central region to receive the cooler
weather expected to reach there by
Monday night. Lloyd said
The immediate sharp break n
prices at the nation's major grain
markets upon receipt of the psedic-
tion of the end ol the heat and
drought reflected the importance ol
the weather forecast
It meant more much more than
the probable ending almost at once
of the wholesale slaughter of hu-
mans by the heat and of livestock
by drought and torridity.
Sensitive barometers of crop con-
ditions in the gre.it food-producing
middle west—the bread basket ol the
nation—the market's reaction in-
dicated traders believed much of
the forthcoming corn crop would be
ttvad by rain and cooler weather. I
Citrus Association
Names New Officers
SAN BENITO. July 11. (*»>— I
Charles E Barber has been re-
elected president of the San Benito
Citrus Association with E Stewart
as vice president and Charles F Hud-
son. Jr. secretary-treasurer. They
were named by directors who were
elected Friday night by members of
the association at a meeting in the
Methodist church The directors met
after the membership meeting.
W*nk C. Williams of Los Fres-
nos was elected a new director Hold-
over directors include E I Burklin.
C. E. Hudson Jr. Charles E Barber
and Mr Holland of Rio Hondo.
The association is looking forward
to a good year with four vears of
auccc^ful opention behind it. it was
announced. It packs through the
Stuart Place Citrus Association plant
at Harlingen along with associations
from Santa Rosa. Combes Stuart
I Place* tod La Feria
Speakers included President Harry
H. Banker of the Brownsville as-
sociation. A T. Potts of the Stuart
Place association. G. E. Vance of the
Combes association; W. E. Allen.
Stuart Place plant manager; M L
Ross association field representa-
tive: Jack Hauer general manager t
Of the Rio Grande Valley Citrus Ex- <
change and James Harter who gave j
a financial report on the operations i
of the packing plant.
Two Vessels Due
To Dock Sunday
Two ships will be in the Port of
Brownsville. Sunday representing
the Mooremack and NewTex lines
according to Philen. Miller and com-
panv. agents.
The Commercial Guide out of
Baltimore the largest Mooremack
wesse] operating in Gulf waters is
expected to arrive early Sunday
morning. She will discharge cargo
•1) day Sunday.
The Tex a; Ruiger a NewTex ves-
sel out of New York Is expected to
arrive in port late Sunday evening.
DENTIST ATTENDS CLINIC
SAN BENITO. Julv 11.—Dr. John
K. Kirby dentist left Saturdav for
Dallas where he will attend a clinic i
' to be conducted by the Genera! Elec-
trie X-ray Corporation. He will re-
turn about Wednesday.
TASK COMPLETED DREDGE HEADS OUT TO OPEN SEA ||
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After being the cynosure of attention for months as she steadily cut through 16 miles of earth to bring
the sea to Brownsville the Dredge Orleans made an almost unnoticed exit down the maritime highway
it helped create. The Orleans drawn by a tug. is pictured above as she headed out of the turning basin
into the channel this week. She is going to Galveston for reconditioning.
Wildcatting Holds
Major Interest In
Valley Oil Sections
♦ Special to The Herald)
McALLEN. July 11. — Wildcats
scattered over three counties of the
Valley oil area provided a variety
of interest during the past week
and promised considerably greater
interest during the next two weeks
Starr county as usual headed the
Valley's wildcatttng activity a new
6.000-foot hole being scheduled to
start soon in east central Starr an-
other awaiting orders below 5.400
feet and one in the southern part
of the county being abandoned this
weekend. Hidalgo county wildcat-
ting was at a standstill and a high-
ly important ceep hole in Willacy
county continued its steady prog-
ress.
Most interesting wildcat showing
during the past week was Larkins
<fc Warr's No. 1 Kelsey-Bass two
miles northwest of the Barbaeoas J
pool in south central Starr. The test
cored high-pressure gas sand In the
Conroe (Vegua) at 5 282-5324 feet
and broken sandy shale at 5324-42
feet with the best showing at 5.296-
5.324 feet. The well blew out of
control for several hours as drill-
er;. were preparing to carry the
hole a little deeper but the gas was
brought under control and the hole
was drilled through shale to 5.453
feet. It is standing awaiting orders
at the present time. At 5. 00 feet
the hole was taken over by F. iDee*
Davenport of the Double'd Oil Co
of Mission and carried to its pres-
ent cepth.
The new deep wildcat for eaNtem
Starr will be Davenport-SSick
Urschel's No. l Slick Estate in the
Davenport Ranch area. The derrick
is complete and drillers are rigging
up vuui spuatung tentatively set for
I next week. Location is based on
i sub-surface exploration work r.i
Burton McCollum of the McCollum
Exploration CO.. Houston whose
work uncovered the Mercedes deep
fjeld and the Mestenas deep area
in eastern and central Hidalgo
! county.
In southern Starr. Porter Ev>ns
et al’s No. 1 Starr County Catti-
Co. Share 60. nine miles south of
the Barbacoas pool is dry and
i abandoned at total depth of 3.210
feet. Drillers cored 16 sands most
of which were salt water sands
although one showed for a sizeable
1 ga&ser at 1.758-66 feet.
About two miles west of the Ev-
^ans No l Starr County Cattle Co .
E. e Graham. Mission contractor
will start moving in immediately
for tne Porter Evans et al’s No. 1
H. F. Ferry located in the center
of Lot 3 of the Evans Subd of the
Ferry lands in Por. 86 and 87. Ca-
margo Jurisdiction southern Starr.
Locat on is in Por. 86 This hole
will go to 3.200 or 3.500 feet and
is located only a short distance
north of the Rio Grande river.
A half-mile south of Rio Grande'
City Joseph F. Anderson’s No. 1
yf^5UUTe' 15 oonn£ hi shale below
2100 feet on a 3.500-foot contract.
In Hidalgo county little wildcat
activity was recorded during the
week.
In western Hidalgo two miles east
of the Samfordyce field. Davie L
Smith Oil Co. No. l Fairbanks A
Young is shut down in shale at
I. 880 feet
to southern Hidalgo Helen K
Maxwe»s No. 1 Hidalgo County
Water Dist. No. 2 is still pumping
resh water from sand at 63S-660
teet in an effort to exhaust the
water and recover oil from the
sand.
One of the most interesting and
important wildcats in the Valiev
area Shell Petroleum Corp. No. l
Land * Livestock Co
northwestern Willacy county is re-
ported drilling in shale below 6760
teet or. a 91200-foot contract.
north end of *7.
Camargo Jurisdiction Starr Co
John H Clopton « al’s No. 3 Kel-
*bout four miles north of
rp^nrH!fh*'av 4 18 dnlhnff at 540
-eet on a shallow wildcat the third
n that area.
field extension
IS IN PROSPECT
| MISSION July li. —Outstanding
SlSZTJi dnIlln« activity in the
proven sections of the Valiev the
the1 M rcmpletion of
5?* first flowing well in the Rio
field °* 5011 them Starr
! weT in !h!r^pectiv* new extension
JSLJJ GjprTa fiel of north-
St^fl and 8 resumption of
Ejjljf* £ the Samf°rdyce field of
Hidalgo-Starr counties.
In the Rio Grande Citv field
Rr°?Jct0n *’as extcnded 400 feet i
to the east when Moss & Ba.ss
4 nSvi8^ ln thcif No 1 Frank Dovno.!
n°T5heast of discovery as
Producer^The well gauged
two and a half barrels hourly on
quarter-inch tubing choke from
^nd at 1.412-22 fit with tubSS
working pressure of 75 pounds and
closed-in casing pressure of 200
pound*. No new locatiors haw been
announced for this lease
A north offset to the Moss &
Bass well is Fech Oil Co. No. B-l
Frank Doyno. The test i* now drill-
ing below 1060 feet in shale
In the Guerra field of north-
western Starr. Sun Oil Company is
waiting on cement in Us No. A-11 M
Guerra & Sons. The well cored the
Guerra field sand at 2.280-87 feet
and has 7-inch O. D. casing set and
cemented atop the sand Produc-
tion tels will follow drilling of plugs
within a few days.
The Samfordyce area recorded
another outpost well as dry hole
this week but saw a number of
tests started. A northern edge well
almost blew out after drillers cored
what appeared to be a dry sand but
a blowout preventer saved a costly
rig.
Northwestern limits of the field
were apparently more definitely
marked with Sun Oil Co No. 1
Garcia Land & Cattle Co. plugged
ard abandoned as a dry hole. The
test cored the field sand at 2.788-99
feet as oil sand since it showed a
good color and carried a good odor.
Nine drill stem tests recovered only
considerable mud and Schlumberger
electrical survey showed a very
tight sand which would not produce.
About 4.200 feet northwest of dis-
covers'. Skelly Oil Co. No. 10 Sea-
bury et al. is shut down at 70 feet
for lack of water after spudding
late this week.
Porter & Pickers et al’s No B-3
Garcia Land & Cattle Co 9 000
feet northwest of discovery has
completed derrick and is rigging up
to start operations immediately.
Two figs of Henshaw Bros are
shut a own awaiting permits for the
Henshaw Bros. No. 1 Yturria and
the Henshaw Bros. No. 1 F. B
Guerra.
On the north edge of the Sam-
fordyce area. J. T. Barlows No. 1
Marta Flores de Chapa is plugging
back to 2.450 feet to sidetrack and
core both the Wheeler and Barlow
sands around 2.850 and 2950 feet.
The Samfordyce sand will also be
cored.
About 5500 feet north of dis-
covery. Harrison & Danvers’ No. 1
Uvaldo Willalon. cored what was
thought to be a dry sand at 2801-09
feet but the well nearly blew out
Wednesday night as coring was
being continued. The .sand will ap-
parently make dry gas under heavy
pressure. Drillers are coring in hard
shale at 2.840 feet.
The field's northeast outpost.
Dean Bros. No 2 Mrs Lula George
is drilling in shale past 860 feet.
A r.ew northeast outpost well for
the Mercedes field of eastern Hi-
dalgo county was assured late this
week as Union Sulphur company an-
nounced location for the No. 10
American-Rio Grande about three
miles northeast of discovery and
Member Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation
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State
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BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS
PACKAGE STORE
MEN TO MEET
State Liquor Board Officials
To Be Heard At
Harlingen
(Special to The Herald!
HARLINGEN. July 11—Wine beer
and liquor dealers of the four Val-
ley counties will have an oppor-
tunity Sunday to hear Chairman
Benson of the State Liquor Control
Board and Administrator C. R
Miller discuss relatioaships between
the retail liquor trade and the state
board.
The occasion will be in the form
of a dinner to be held at the Mad-
ison hotel in Harlingen at 1 o'clock
Sunday afternoon.
The state liquor monopoly amend-
ment to be passed on by voters in
the November general election is
expected to come up for discussion
Jack Calvin president of the
Valley Liquor Dealers’ Association
and circulation manager of ihe
Harlingen Valley Star will preside
at the meeting.
Cop Kills Man
TAYLOR. July 11. (jpi—.An un-
identified man was shot three times
and killed here Friday night by
Police Chief Ned Fails
The shooting occurred during a
struggle. A cocked 32 caliber pistol
wa> found beside the man’s bodv.
Fails was called out of a drug-
store and the affray followed. A
man accompanying the unknown
victim of the police chief's bullets
fled.
Townsendites Elect
<Special to The Herald!
HARLINGEN. July 11. — Semi-
annual election of officers was held
Friday night by the Harlingen
l'ownsend Club which re-elected J.
I Courtev. attorney as its presi-
dent A. C Moody was elected vice
president with Mrs. J. I. Coursev
secretary-treasurer; and J E Tope.
A. N. Bollinger W. O Hicks Mrs.
M L Eg old. D B Wilkinson. Wil-
liam Me Mullins and J. C. Rogers
members of the advisory board.
4 500 feet northeast of production.
Derrick is being built
Union's No. 7 America n-Rio
Grande is standing and awaiting
orders after recementing liner at
7.595 feet the total depth.
Unior.'s No. 8 American-Rlo
Grande one and a quarter miles
north of discovery is setting and
cementing 5-inch O D. casing in
sidetracked hole around 7450 feet.
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