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Kermit, Winkler County, Texas
Friday, July 12,1946
VOL. 10—NO. 18
NEWS
FLASHES
Juvenile Court
In North-Central Winkler County
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Stormy Weather
Puts Blackout
On Kermit
Presented Lot
For Meeting Place
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T. G. Hendrick,
West Texas
Pioneer, Dies
Dr. Paul Caudill
Baptist Hour
Speaker Sunday
Lions Club Install
Officers at Ladies’
Night Program
Mrs. F. H. Wright,
County Librarian,
Returns to Duties
Thomason Remains
At Washington Post
County Clerk’s Office
Handling Huge
Deed of Trust
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Starnes & Work
Purchase Courthouse
Service Station
Sharp C- Barnes No. 1-DS Crum
Td Test Silurian Formation
L.F. Bilbo, 70,
Passes Away
Wednesday
School Building
Program Ahead
Of Schedule
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Oil Fraternity
Centering Interest
On New Tests
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M. L. Cunningham
Sells Courthouse
BY JAMES C. WATSON,
Staff Writer for The News.
The Winkler County News
An Institution Promoting The Interests of Winkler C ounty
(Member Associated Press)
and part of the cash were
covered.
Philip Cook underwent appen-
dectomy at the local hospital last
week.
Absentee Voting
Under Way
In Winkler County
Voting in the July Democratic
primary is under way in Winkler
County, with thirty ballots be-
ing mailed out from the County
Clerk’s office, and some of them
already being returned.
Absentee voting opened Sunday,
July 7, and closes Saturday, July
20, and absentee ballots must be
returned to the Clerk’s office by
that date, or mailed with post-
marks not later than midnight,
July 20.
Supt. Melton Attends
School Conference
S. M. Melton, superintendent of
Kermit schools, is attending the
annual conference of Southwest-
ern School Administrators this
week in El Paso. He led a panel
discussion Thursday morning on
“School Resources."
The meeting opened Thursday
morning and will close at noon
Saturday, and is being sponeored
by the El Paso School of Mines.
Attending are school administra-
tors from West Texas and New
Mexico. Meetings are being held
at the School of Mines and Hotel
Cortez.
Cites Regulations On Gl
Vote In Coming Election
O. O. Whitten, Winkler County*?------------------------------
seats will range from one
yard line to the other.
H. K. Starnes and Percy Work,
both of Hobbs, N.M., have pur-
chased the Courthouse Service
Station and assumed management
of the station this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Starnes have three
children, and Mr. and Mrs. Work
have two children. Starnes has
been in the filling station busi-
ness in Hobbs, and Work has been
an oil well driller.
June 30 that he has had to alter
plans to be in the district before
the July primaries.
“I felt that my constituents,”
Thomas wrote, "would prefer my
staying here on the job and
thereby serving their interests and
those of the nation rather than
leaving my post in this critical
time.”
nounced this week the sale of
his Courthouse Service Station to
H. K. Starnes and Percy Work
of Hobbs, N.M., and he and his
family are leaving for a vacation
trip before deciding where to
make their home.
The Cunningham family is leav-
ing because of the ill health of
Mrs. Cunningham. They will make
a leisurely trip to Oregon for
about thirty days, and then will
settle somewhere in South Texas
or on the coast.
Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham have
been active in the First Baptist
Church, and he has been an area
executive in Boy Scout work.
R. E. Thomason, United States
Representative from the Sixteenth
District, this week wrote The
Winkler County News, stating
State Democratic Chairman Local Youth
Is Sentenced in
that the situation in Washington
has changed so decidedly since Service Station
“If the good people of Winkler
County shall elect me County At-
torney, I assure them that the
office will be handled fair and
impartially and open to each and
every individual in the county
alike, for, after all, the court-
house belongs to the people, more
specifically, the taxpayers of the
county.
“Thanks,
L. F. Bilbo, 70, passed
Wednesday evening at the local
hospital after a long illness. Mr.
Bilbo was a native Texan, being
born in Crockett in 185,
Funeral services will be con-
ducted by the Rev. Strauss Atkin-
son, pastor of the First Baptist
Church, at the Maples Funeral
Chapel Friday at 4 p.m., with
internment in the Kermit Ceme-
tery.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
L. F. Bilbo, and sons, Chester
and Troy Weldon Bilbo, both Ker-
mit residents and employed at
D. S. & R. Company.
embers of the loe»\ V. I W.
Post this week are jubilant over
the gift of a 50-foot lot for the
site of their new building, and
work already has begun on the
project.
The lot was presented to the
local post by W. L. McCutchen of
Denver, Colo., and is located adja-
cent to the County Barn. Clyde
Barton, of Elliot-Waldron Ab-
stract Company, is being given
credit by VFW members for his
work in contacting Mr. McCutchen
and helping secure the gift.
The local post has announced
that construction of the 40x80-
foot building has begun and
speedy completion of the building
is expected.
Installation of officers of the
Kermit Lions club was featured
here Thursday night with Ladies
Night and a buffet supper at the
school cafeteria. The Rev. Fulton
Moore, pastor of Kermit Meth-
odist church, who has been acting
president of the club since the
death of W. R. Cook, conducted
the installation ceremony.
Fred Pearson is the in-coming
president; the Rev. Strauss At-
kinson, pastor of the First Bap-
tist church, is first vice president.
Clyde Bone is second vice presi-
dent; W. C. Hancock is third vice
president; Joe Morris is Lion
tamer, W. D. Cameron, secretary-
treasurer, and Roy Carter was
re-insta'led as tail twister.
Also installed were three new
directors, including Charlie Green,
G. E. Thompson, and Don Tracy.
W. T. Hair Makes
Statement to Voters
Of Winkler County
Attorney W. T. Hair, candidate
for the County Attorney post in
the coming election Saturday, July
27, makes, the following state-
ment to the people of Winkler
County:
“To the Citizens and Voters of
Winkler County, Texas:
“I hope to contact in person
as many of the voters prior to
the election on the 27th of this
month as possible, but I am very
busy taking care of affairs, both
in my office and in the court-
house, and I do earnestly solicit
your vote and support. I am
running on my own record for
the office of County Attorney.
"For the ensuing two years,
confronted with the important
matters as now is and will be,
your County Commissioners will
need a County Attorney with ex-
perience and a knowledge of the
law to guide them more than
ever before.
“During the years 1939, 1940
and the first portion of 1941, your
County Commissioners employed
me as a lawyer to handle the
important legal matters of the
county. The last half of the year
1941, all of 1942, Winkler County
was almost a dead issue, and
needed no County Attorney; the
last four months of the year 1942
the office was closed, but th’e
Salary was paid.
“I opened the office on the first
day of January, 1943, and han-
dled all legal matters of the
County through the years 1943 and
1944, with no assistance, and in
the midst of a boom with numer-
ous legal matters to be handled,
leaving the office the last day
of December, 1944.
“As reference, I refer you ’to
the County Commissioners, and
other officers in the courthouse to
find out on whom they have de-
pended for guidance in legal mat-
ters of importance since the first
part of 1939, and down through
the years following. In order to
render proper legal service, a
lawyer must know something
about the law applicable to the
matters under investigation, and
A record-breaking instrument is
in the process this week of be-
ing recorded in the office of J. W.
Eisenwine, County and District
Clerk.
The bulky 349-page volume is a
deed of trust for approximately
$36,000,000 from El Paso Natural
Gas Company to Manufacturers
Trust Company and Frederick E.
Lober, trustees.
The record will cost $1 per typed
page in the court records. Joyce
Williams has the job of typing
the deed, and Mrs. Mary Ellis
will check-read the completed
work.
Eisenwine stated that instru-
ments of about 300 pages have
previously been recorded in the
office, but this is the longest such
document yet to be filed.
AUSTIN, Texas, July 12.—The
University of Texas Board of Re-
gents is expected to consider to-
day the state’s negro education
problems. Report of a joint com-
mittee of Texas A. & M. and
Texas University officials is re-
ported to be ready for submis-
sion.
M. L. Cunningham has
WASHINS,QN, July 1L—Go.
ernment economists all but give
up hopes for a balanced budget
for this fiscal year. Despite
President Truman’s late yester-
day announcement that govern-
ment expenditures will be re-
duced, officials close to fiscal mat-
ters said they fai to see how
two to three billions dollars can
be lopped off. That is the prob-
able difference between income
and outgo in the new fiscal year,
now twelve days old.
Stormy weather late Wednesday
afternoon brought plenty of
thunder and lightning, with only
a trace of rain, but “blew out”
the electric power lines serving
the city of Kermit and the entire
town was blacked out that night
and part of Thursday morning.
Since the city water system op-
erates chiefly on electric power,
very little water was available
during the entire time.
Reports were that the trouble
was caused when lightning knock-
ed down two light poles of the
Community Public Service Co.
between Pecos and Barstow, and
that a local crew worked all
Wednesday night to re-set the
poles and connect the lines, and
when this was completed a break
in the lines occured between
Kermit and Wink, causing fur-
ther delay.
While various losses were re-
ported because of lack of re-
frigeration and power during the
night and morning, power was
restored in time to avert what
could have been losses running
into staggering figures.
Claude Darel Stephens, 16, who
had been charged with three lo-
cal burglaries, was tried in juve-
nile court Friday of last week
and sentenced to the state train-
ing school in Gatesville Stephens
and his younger brother, Jerry
Doyal, 15, were arrested Tuesday
night of last week, after Justrite
Jewelry had been entered the
night before, and approximately
$600 in merchandise, mostly wrist
watches, was reported missing.
The younger Stephens boy was
paroled in juvenile court and
given to the custody of his father.
Claude Darel, evidence in his trial
developed, had recently been pa-
roled on several burglary charges
in California. *
Sheriff F. E. Summers is to
leave Friday to take Claude Darel
to Gatesville.
The youths admitted entering
Kermit Pharmacy and taking
about $65 in cash, and a few
nights later entering Best Drug
Store, where $3 was missing from
the cash register, as well as sev-
eral cartons of cigarettes, and also
admitted the jewelry store bur-
glary. Most of the missing articles
Reports this week are that work
is running ahead of schedule on
the new school building. Pouring
of concrete floors was completed
Thursday of this week, and the
basement has been formed and is
to be poured during the coming
week.
Steve Neely, secretary-treas-
urer of the Kermit Independent
School Board, stated contract has
been let for the additions to the
stadium, and when completed,
Samuel K. Wasaff
Seeks Post on Court
Of Civil Appeals
Samuel K. Wasaff, candidate for
the Court of Civil Appeals, mar-
ried, has three children; has been
at the bar thirty years, holds an
A.B. and Law degree, and comes
from a family of attorneys.
A veteran of World War I;
former captain, Judge Advocate
General’s Department; served di-
rectly under the Judge Advocate
General’s Department in the
Branch Assignment Group; sub-
sequently assigned as Assistant
Judge Advocate, Eighth Corps
Area; Assistant Judge Advocate
and Acting Judge Advocate of the
90th Division prior to the division
being called in World War II.
After discharge in World War I,
Wasaff organized and became
president of the Retail Clerks’
Union in Ranger, Texas.
Dr. R. Paul Caudill, Baptist
Hour speaker for next Sunday
morning, July 14, will discuss the
subject, "Christian Strategy for
World Conquest,” the Rev. Strauss
Atkinson, pastor of the Kermit
First Baptist Church, announced
this week.
Dr. Caudill, pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Memphis,
Tenn., leaves on an extensive
tour of foreign mission fields
soon after his Baptist Hour en-
gagement, the Rev. Mr. Atkinson
announced.
The Baptist Hour is broadcast
over an independent network
which carries the Methodist and
Presbyterian Hours at other sea-
sons, and may be heard in this
area over the following radio sta-
tions: KGNC, Amarillo, 7:30 a.m.;
WFAA, Dallas, 7:30 a.m.; WOAI,
San Antonio, 7:30 a.m.; and KCRS,
Midland.
being by me duly sworn, upon
oath says:
“He is more than 21 years of
age, a citizen of the United
States, has resided in this state
one year next preceding this
election and the last six months
at House Number................on..........
Street, .................... in voting pre-
cinct number.......................... in the
County of.........................., State of
Texas; that he is now, or was
within eighteen (18) months im-
mediately prior to this date, a
member of the Armed Forces of
the United States or the Armed
, Forces Reserve of the United
States, or a branch or part
thereof, r of the United States
Maritime Service, or of the United
Sates Merchant Marine; and he
is not a member of the regular
establishment of the United
States Army, Navy, or Marine
Corps; and is exempt from pay-
ment of poll tax under the
amendment of the Constitution
of the State of Texas, adopted
the 25th of August, A. D., 1945;
“Subscribed and sworn to be
fore me this ........................ day of
............................, 194.........”
T. G. Hendrick, widely known
and beloved philanthropist who
amassed part of his vast fortune
from holdings in Winkler County,
died at his home in Abilene Mon-
day, July 8, after nine days of
serious illness. Funeral services
were held Tuesday afternoon at 5
o’clock. His body was laid to rest
on the lawn of Hendrick Home
for Children, the home for de-
pendent children which he and
Mrs. Hendrick built and endowed
seven years ago.
In 1917, Mr. Hendrick acquired
a 36,000-acre ranch in Winkler
County which he later leased for
toil development. It was on this
ranch that the first major pro-
duction of oil in the Permian
Basin was discovered, opening one
of the world’s largest petroleum
reserves. The city of Wink sprang
up in the center of the ranch,
with the rapidly growing city of
Kermit just outside the Hendrick
ranch.
In December, 1938, Hendrick
sold the entire ranch in fee to the
American-Maracaibo Oil Com-
pany. Approximately 100 oil wells
went with the land and the pur-
chase price was reported to be
from $2,500,000 to $4,000,000.
Reports are that Hendrick had
arranged for the greater portion
of his fortune to be used for
benefit of the needy, the depend-
ent and the sick.
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.)
DALLAS, Texas, July 12.—Five
candidates for Governor will be
on hand to testify here today
when Federal Communications
Commission opens hearing on a
protest made by Candidate Homer
Rainey over radio time allotted
him by the Texas Quality Net-
work.
Rainey, Attorney General Sel-
lers, Railroad Commissioner Beau-
ford Jester, Lt. Gov. John Lee
Smith and Caso March, all can-
didates, said they would be pres-
ent at the hearing.
Rainey charges unfairness when
TQN limited overall time for
broadcasts and gave each can-
didate equal time.
Democratic chairman, has re-
ceived the following letter from
Harry L. Seay, chairman Demo-
cratic State Executive Commit-
tee, concerning the voting rights
of returning soldiers:
“We have had many requests
for information with reference to
the voting, both at the ballot box
and by absentee ballot, of mem-
bers discharged by the armed
forces. We have also been asked
by the ex-servicemen themselves
to aid them in preventing im-
posters voting in the primary.
Col. Laurence R. Melton, veteran
of both World Wars and past
national commander of the D.A.V.,
has suggested to us that affi-
davits be made out by all ex-
servicemen.
“Some weeks ago the Attorney
General of Texas at the instance
of a subcommittee of the Demo-
cratic State Executive Committee
and an inquiry by the County
Attorney of Travis County, ren-
dered a very exhaustive opinion
on the subject. He held in ef-
fect that the constitutional
amendment adopted on Aug'. 25,
1945, required very little red tape.
It was his opinion that a mem-
ber of the armed forces who had
been out of service less than
eighteen months and who was a
qualified voter in all other re-
spects could vote without present-
ing his discharge or a photostatic
copy of it. He described a form
of an affidavit to meet the sit-
uation. An affidavit containing the
suggested provisions has been pre-
PPpared by this office and is here-
with enclosed:
“Before me the undersigned
authority on this day personally
NANKING, China, July 12 —
Gen. George Marshall resumed ac-
tive peace negotiations today as
dispatches from North China re-
ported heavy Communist attacks
against government positions in
Hopei and Shantung provinces.
General Marshall visited Gen-
eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek after
conferring yesterday with Com-
munist G. Chou En-Lai. Specu-
lation said new peace proposals
were forthcoming.
An effort is to be made to de-
velop production from the Silur-
ian on the southeast side of the
Keystone field in North-Central
Winkler County.
If such is accomplished, it will
give the area in which the project
is located flowing commercial pro-
duction from the Holt, lower Per-
mian; the Devonian, the Silurian
and the Ellenburger.
The new prospector is to be
J. R. Sharp and R. C. Barnes
No. 1-DS M. E. Crum, and it is
located 660 feet from south and
810 feet from east lines of south-
east quarter of southwest quarter
of section 7, block B-2, psi sur-
vey.
Drilling to around 8,300 feet is
to get started at once.
This development is in an area
where a number of wells which
have been completed from the
Ellenburger at around 9,900 feet
to about 10,000 feet, have drilled
through indications of good pro-
duction in the Silurian—but none
of them have tried to complete
from that formation.
Some of the Ellenburger wells
have also shown for profitable
production from the Devonian,
and a short distance east of the
Sharp and Barnes location there
is flowing production from the
Devonian.
The oil industry knows definitely
that many locations on the south
and east sides of the Keystone
field will produce good oil from
all four zones listed above, and
as time goes on, more and more
wells will be drilled to recover
the oil from all of those forma-
tions.
The first zone in the Tubb-
Permian, tested in Hunt Oil Com-
pany and others No. 1 Hill, South-
east Winkler County wildcat,
about eight miles southeast of
Kermit, showed salt water with a
slight trace of oil.
That section was at 6,185-6,220
feet. The water table in the for-
mation is at about 6,235 feet.
At last report the operator
was preparing to perforate the
casing at 6,160-70 feet, and test
there—and then follow up by
doing the same in the horizon
at 6,100-20 feet.
Both these sections showed good
signs of porosity and oil stains
in cores and drillstem tests run
on the zones, and indicated pos-
sibilities of production without
Water.
Whether or not the explora-
tion is to be developed into an
oil well and a discovery from the
lower Permian formation, should
be determined by the first of
next week.
Stanolind Oil & Gas Company
and Westbrook-Thompson No.
35-A Hendrick, extra deep wildcat
in West-Central Winkler County,
about four miles west of Ker-
mit, in section 33, block 26, psi
survey, had progressed below 12,-
949 feet in lime and shale in the
Simpson, middle Ordovician, and
was continuing to make hole
without any signs of oil or gas
being encountered, according to
operators’ reports.
A new exploration, on the out-
side of the proven area from
production from the Devonian, on
the east side of the Keystone
field, is to be drilled by Gulf Oil
Corporation as its No. 96-K Key-
stone Cattle Company.
It will be 660 feet from west
and north lines of section 13, block
B-2, psl survey, and is 1,320 feet
due south of the discovery well
for Devonian production in that '
region.
Mrs. Fred Hard Wright, librar-
ian for Winkler County Library,
returned early Wednesday morn-
ing from a month’s vacation trip,
during which she visited her
brother and his wife, Capt. W. Y.
Buck, and made an extensive
train tour of the States.
Going from Kermit to Dallas,
Mrs. Wright went to Denver,
Colo., and Portland, Ore., then
to Captain Buck’s home in Rich-
mond, Wash., where his military
police detail guards the atomic
bomb plant.
Captain and Mrs. Buck” ac-
companied Mrs. Wright on the
greater part of the trip, which
included Grand Coulee Dam, Seat-
tle, Wash.; Pendleton, Ore.; Los
Angeles, Calif., and many other
points in the West and North-
west.
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