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Friday, May 3, 1946
Kermit, Winkler County, Texas
VOL. 10—NO. 8
Lead Kermit Bank Into its Third Year
Two More Wildcat Explorations
Kermit State Bank
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Celebrates Second Birthday
Wednesday May 1
School Board
Alters Plans
Youth Assessed 10
Years in Rape Case
WET WASH—Kermit Washa-
teria. Block northwest Texhoma.
Stanolind 35-A
Hendrick Nears
Devonian Horizon
Kermit Oilers Blast Odessa, 7-3, to Open
Oil Belt League Season Last Sunday;
Take on Fast-Stepping Jal Club Here
Lions Resume
Weekly Meetings
High School Honor
Students Listed
STEAM at the Kermit Washa-
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are to be on the site here by
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fairs, I will at all times seek
the counsel of the citizens on any
matter concerning the welfare of
the county as a whole. I believe
the people should feel free to at-
STEAM at the Kermit Washa-
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STEAM at the Kermit Washa-
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BY JAMES C. WATSON,
Staff Writer of The News.
Locations for a wildcat to 6,500 |
feet in Southeast Winkler Coun- |
ty, about eleven miles southeast i
Under their administration the
local bank has exceeded all other
banks in the state which opened
during the same period.
Banner Creamery
Opens Sales Branch
Here This Week
SUNDAY’S SCHEDULE.
Jal at Kermit.
Seagraves at Levelland.
Sundown at Seminole.
Post at Odessa.
CLEAN and Quiet. — Kermit
Washateria. Phone 347.
RENT CONTROL DIRECTOR
TO ATTEND DISTRICT MEET.
C. J. Lockhart, Area Rent Di-
rector for this district, will not
be in Kermit next week. He will
attend a district meeting of rent
control directors in Amarillo May
5 to 8.
Oil Belt Baseball
League
LAST SUNDAY’S RESULTS.
Odessa 3, Kermit 7.
Post 1, Jal 3.
Levelland 11, Sundown 19.
Seagraves 18, Seminole 3.
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its share of firsts in the band' w
STANDINGS.
Team— W.
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Jal................ 1
Seagraves ......... 1
Sundown .......... 1
Odessa ............ 0
Levelland ......... 0
Post ,.............. 0
Seminole .......... 0
East-Central Winkler County
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ration in East-Central Winkler,
approximately one mile north of
nearest production on north side
of the Wheeler field, have been
reported during the last week—
and drilling has started on each
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Rapid Growth
Reflects Prosperity
Of Winkler County
The Winkler County News
An Institution Promoting The Interests of Winkler County
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Council that they had been
awarded the Camp Honor
Ribbon for the best all-round
camp at the round-up.
Condemnation Body
To Make Report
To Court Saturday
Condemnation hearing on cer-
tain sections of the Kermit-An-
drews highway is to be held
Saturday morning at 10 o’clock
in the county court room, accord-
ing to J. B. Salmon, county judge.
Jury of review includes C. H
Moore, Roy Owens, and Cecil
Atwood.
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 3.—Dras-
tic curtailment of the nation’s
railroad service was ordered today
as President Truman voiced open
alarm at the acute situation cre-
ated by the prolonged soft coal
strike.
The rail order clamps a ban on
virtually all freight shipments
except food, fuel, paper and ink
and directs 25 per cent cut in
passenger service on coal-burn-
ing railroads. Three fourths of the
nation’s passenger mileage relies
on coal. Curtailed services will
go into effect a week from to-
day (Friday).
L C. (Bill) Jarman |
Seeks Commissioner I
Post From Precinct 1 I
I. C. (Bill) Jarman, Magnolia !
employee and resident* of Kermit I
the last ten years, Wednesday |
authorized The News to announce I
his candidacy for County Com- I
missioner from Precinct 1.
“In announcing for this office,
I do so with the full realization
that an officeholder is the vested
servant of all the people,” Jar-
man stated in an interview, “and,
if elected to represent the people
of Precinct 1 in the county’s af-
two out of four, and Ed Durrett,
Kermit first-sacker, followed with
a neat .400 chalked up with two
out of five.
Odessa’s center fielder, Bos-
tick, thrilled spectators and kept
the Oilers’ score down by out-
standing fielding in his section of
the garden.
Kermit’s final count was glaned
from a total of six hits. Odessa
garnered nine. Four errors were
marked against the Oilers and
three were called against the vis-
itors.
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Mr. and Mrs. Tom Moorehead
are vacationing in Tulsa, Okla.,
with Mrs. Moorehead’s sister and
plan to visit their son, Jack
Moorehead and his wife, who are
attending'school in Denver, Colo.
and choral jamboree held here
Friday and Saturday when hun-
dreds of high school students
competed for honors in twenty-
three Class B and Class C bands,
The crowd which witnessed the
final marching contest in Walton
Field Saturday night was said
to have been one of the largest
ever assembled in Kermit. Schools
from Big Spring west and from
the southern part of New Mex-
ico participated in the contests.
Kermit band, under the direc-
tion of G. T. Gilligan, placed in
first division Saturday night in
the marching contests, and also in
the same division in concert play-
ing.
H. D. Carroll, resident of Ker-
mit since 1936, this week assumed
management of the new Banner
Creamery sales department in the
200 block of East Austin Street.
Carroll is a veteran of two years’
service in the Army Transport
Service, Marine Division, and
spent fifteen months in the Pa-
cific. He received his discharge
last November.
The station was opened Tues-
day of this week, and the com-
pany will retail ice, milk (both
pasteurized and homogenized),
Eskimo pies and a full line of
Banner products.
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tend any and all meetings of |
the Commissioners Court in or- I
der to familiarize themselves with
the county’s business. We are I
on the threshold of an era of
unprecedented progress and op-
portunity and I propose to see
to it that we take full advantage
of all things offered for the bet-
terment of the county and its
people,” he stated.
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Paris Tailors Under
New Management
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Burkett, for-
merly of Gatesville, have pur-
chased Paris Tailors, and as-
sumed active management of the
plant Monday. Mr. and Mrs.
Burkett have been in the tailor-
ing business for twenty years.
They have three children. Dick
Burkett is to be associated with
his parents in operating the shop;
another son, Donald, is in the
Navy, and their daughter, Mrs. S.
D. Favor, resides in Houston.
William L. Cathey
In Basic Training
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 2.
—Pvt. William D. Cathey, son of
M. and Mrs. William L. Cathey
of Kermit, Texas, is now in
training at the AAF Military
Training Center in San Antonio,
Texas, where thousands of Air
Corps basic trainees are under-
going a rigid six-weeks basic
training course designed to fit
them for further specialized Air
Corps instruction.
Kermit High Band Twenty Housing
Wins Many Honors Units to Be Ready
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G. P. Mitchell, left, has served
as president of Kermit State
Bank since its organization in
1944, and Nolan Watson, right
has been active vice-president.
Commissioners Buy
Road Machinery
County Commissioners in called
session Tuesday morning bought
a rotary road sweeper from the
Plains Machinery Company, and
a caterpillar motor grader from
Tri-State Equipment Company,
according to J. B. Salmon, Coun-
ty Judge.
The sweeper has been shipped
and is due to arrive here this
week, while delivery of the
grader to be sometime in Oc-
tober.
local Scouts
word from
Members of Kermit Independ-
ent School Board in session Tues-
day, April 30, approved certain
changes in the or. - ms for
the new cafeteria and field house,
according to an announcement
by J. B. Walton, secretary of the
board.
The cafeteria is to be adjacent
to the east end of the north wing
of the new building, and the
field house will be left on its
present location. First plans were
to erect the cafeteria where the
field house now stands.
The builejng of the cafeteria
on the new building, officials
stated, was decided upun in order
that school children will have
eating facilities available without
ever having to be out in the
weather.
Members of the board present
included Elie E. Lam, president;
Clyde Bone, Steve Neely, R. R.
Mitchell, Jack Kennedy, H. A.
Coulter and Walton.
Ralph Lowe of Midland No. 1 1
Sealy-Smith Foundation, 660 feet I
from south, and west lines of sec- i
tion 71, block A, G&MMB&A I
survey, is the Southwest Winkler I
prospector. It is two and one- I
half miles west of the closest I
production from the middle Per- I
mian in the north Monahans field, I
and is between that producing I
area and the Emperor-Holt field. I
The wildcat had started drilling I
and had made hole below 450 I
feet at last report. |
The scheduled destination of I
6,500 feet for the exploration is I
calculated to take it through the I
Colby, San Andres, Holt and Tubb I
zones of the Permian, and the I
test may be carried into the I
Clear Fork, lower Permian. |
The Texas Company No. 1-G I
G. C. Fraser, 2,004 feet from east I
and 664 feet from south lines of |
southeast quarter of section 9, I
block 46, TP survey, one mile I
north of the closest production I
on the north side of the Wheeler I
field, in East-Central Winkler I
County, is contracted to drill to I
9,000 feet, to test for pay in the I
Devonian in the upper producing I
horizon in that region. I
Closest wells to the new ex- I
ploration produce from the Ellen- I
burger, and it may be decided to I
carry the new Texaco exploration I
to that formation, which likely I
would come in around 10,600 I
feet. |
Stanolind Oil & Gas Company I
and Westbrook-Thompson No. 1
35-A Hendrick, four miles west I
of Kermit, and in southeast cor- !
ner of section 33, block 26, psi |
survey, had progressed under 10,-
866 feet in shale, and was drilling
ahead.
The project has encountered
geological formations which indi- |
cates that it should drill into the I
Devonian lime and chert some-
time soon.
That formation carries oil and
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banking circles was drawn to the
local bank since it had surpassed
any other bank in the state which
had opened during the same pe-
riod with the same capital and
surplus and also had exceeded
others which had begun opera-
tion with more than $30,000.
With deposits more than dou-
bled during the past year and
entire county just entering the
greatest development era in its
history, officials of Kermit State
Bank are confident its success
will be even more outstanding in
years to come than it has been
for the two years it has been in
existence.
G. P. Mitchell, pioneer rancher
and cattleman of Winkler County,
has been president of the bank
since its organization. Nolan
Watson is active vice-president,
and other officers include J. Con-
rad Dugan, vice-president; M. H.
McWhirter, vice-president; J. W.
Smith, cashier, and George H.
Mitchell, assistant cashier. Direc-
tors include O. O. Whitten, Ken-
neth Burrows and Clyde Barton.
Employed personnel include Es-
ter Taylor, teller, and A. E.
Smith, Darita Cox, Kathleen Wat-
son, Pansy Mallow and Beverly
Hester, bookkeepers.
Spare Stamp No. 49
Good For 5 Pounds
Of Sugar Till Sept. 1
Spare Stamp No. 49 is good
for five pounds of sugar,
OPA officials announced
Wednesday. The stamp is
valid until Sept. 1.
Spare Stamp No. 9 may be
used to purchase five pounds
of sugar strictly for canning.
All previous stamps are in-
valid, officials said.
Twenty-nine Boy Scouts of
Kermit Troops 66 and 166 at-
tended the annual spring Buffalo
Trail Round-up held in Big
Spring last week end. The Scouts
made the trip from here to the
camp Thursday in a school bus
and returned home Saturday.
The local group was under the
supervision of Frank Stark, scout-
master of Troop 166, and M. Q.
Burns, assistant scoutmaster. Ap-
proximately 750 Boy Scouts at-
tended the round-up and were
guests of Big Spring business-
men at a barbecue feed Saturday
afternoon.
The next camp is scheduled
to be held in the Davis Moun-
tains June 3 to 8.
The Kermit Oilers slammed out
a 7-to-3 win over Odessa in the
opening game here Sunday after-
noon of a double round-robin
schedule of the Oil Belt League.
In their first time up, Odessa
scored one, but the Oilers closed
the first with three trips across
home plate and remained in com-
mand throughout the game.
Second game of the season, to
be played here Sunday after-
noon, promises to be a thriller
when the local team meets Jal,
who took a 3-to-l victory over
Post last week end. With two
winning teams scheduled for this
contest, an even larger crowd
than turned out last Sunday is
expected to be on hand this week
end.
In the Odessa-Kermit game,
Manager Peden started the locals
on the three-run spree in the
first when he stole .home from
third and then two hits, a walk
and an error resulted in the re-
maining two scores of the first.
Two dashes across home plate
in the second, one in the third
and one in the seventh tallied
Kermit’s seven count. Odessa
scored one in the first, and two
in the eighth.
Rube Hall started on the mound
for Kermit and Earl (Lefty) Da-
vis finished the hurling which
kept the visitors on the low side
of the score.
Bill Keen, Odessa, led the hit-
ting field with three out of four.
Peden batted an even .500 with
Students of Kermit school mak-
ing the A and B honor rolls for
the last six-weeks period have
been announced by school of-
ficials.
Students with a grade of not
less than A included: Janie Belle
Morgette, Dora Lou Williams,
Theresa Maples, Joe Cannon, B.
J. Sparks, Jo Nell Westerman,
Winnie Sue Mallow, Judy Wat-
son, Peggy Stovall, Betty Boone,
Charlene Cummings, Lou Ellen
Reneau, Mary Lou Breazeale, Yo-
landa Scroggins, Maurine Fraser
and. Billy Kennard.
Honor roll for students with
grades not less than B included:
Conrad Shelton, Carolyn Melton,
Eva Jean Hixson, Elmer Six,
Greta Lou Craig, Orville Elliott,
James Lipham, Paul Stevens,
Alma Gene Rhodes, W. R. Disch,
Weldon Baird, Wayne McClin-
tock, Robert Talley, Erwin Dav-
lin, Glendell Chauncey, Dorothy
Taylor, Jess Ann Estill, Joyce
Grigsby, Betty Lou Sandefer,
Betty Lou Horner, Rubilee Moore,
Babe Jett, Margaret Hornsby,
Frank Ellis Summers, Wanda Mc-
Clellan, Pete Wilson, Pat Munn,
Wanda Madison, Wanda Lipham,
Marlene Noegal, Rosa Lee Hill,
Irma Lee Williams, Ferrel Dean
Vinson, Leon Barnes, John Sto-
vall, David Talley, Marilyn
Mitchell, Barbara McDaniels and
Sylvia Holmes.
Troy Ollen Wilson, 19, Wednes-
day was sentenced to ten years
in the penitentiary in District
Ceurt in Pecos oi a chacge of
rape, according to Sheriff F. E.
Summers, Winkler County, who
attended the trial.
Sheriff Summers stated that
Wilson had been charged with
rape of a 13-year-old girl on the
night of Oct. 25, 1945, and had
been indicted by a grand jury
here in February. The case was
transferred to Reeves County
court and was called Wednesday.
The youth plead not guilty.
Summers also stated the jury
was out less than an hour before
returning the verdict. Attorneys
for the defendant were W. T.
Hair, Kermit, and Murray Howze
of Monahans.
Regular weekly luncheon meet-
ings of Kermit Lions Club were
resumed Thursday of this week
when the group met in the Odd
Fellows Hall on Austin Street.
Present plans, Oscar Maples,
chaiman of the special arrange-
ments committee, said, are to
meet at the hall. Mrs. Levi Kruse,
who served the Thursday lunch-
eon, has agreed to prepare and
serve meals each Thursday.
Annual luncheon honoring
members of the senior class of
Kermit High School is to be held
next week. Nominating commit-
tee for the election of new of-
ficers also is to report next week,
and action on this report is to
be taken two weeks later.
Members of the nominating
committee, all ex-presidents, are
Elie E. Lam, chairman; M. H.
Alberts, Tommy Thompson, Ken-
neth Burrows, Ben Meek and G.
C. Olsen.
LOS ANGELES, May 3—Pub-
lic transportation in this metrop-
olis is paralyzed early today
when about four thousand motor-
men, conductors, drivers and
maintenance men went out on
strike for higher wages.
Union officials said there
would be no picketing and the
men were told to go home and
stay there to avoid violence.
The prosperity and develop-
ment of the area it serves is re-
flected in the outstanding growth
of Kermit State Bank which ob-
served it? second birthday anni-
versary Wednesday, May 1, with
deposits at more than $3,400,000,
and capital accounts in excess of
$60,000, When the doors of the
institution were first opened on
May 1, 1944, it had a total cap-
ital and surplus of only $30,000.
Loan volume has double twice
during the past year and the
bank has purchased $700,000 in
bonds from Winkler County for
construction of the Kermit-An-
drews Highway, and $300,000 in
bonds from Kermit Independent
School District which were re-
cently voted for a new building
and improvements.
When Kermit State Bank was
chartered and opened for busi-
ness, it was the first bank ever
to be organized in Winkler Coun-
ty, and its growth has been of
particular interest, not only in
this area, but throughout the
state.
Deposits at the close of the
first year had soared to what was
then the amazing total of $1,642,-
000. Considerable interest in
Chamber of Cocmerce manager.
Indications now are that the units
will be ready for occupancy with-
in ten days or two weeks.
The apartments are to be re-
paired, and made liveable and
furniture is to be moved in as
soon as possible.
Local contractors and laborers
are restoring the units as re-
quired by Federal Public Housing
Authority.
WASHINGTON, MAY 3—A
bill to provide premium payments
of 30 cents per bushel on all corn
and wheat sold by farmers be-
tween January 1, 1945 and April
18, 1946, has been introduced by
Representative Robertson, North
Dakota Republican.
- Bills to permit farmers to sell
to anyone for 30-cent premium
was introduced in both Senate
and House.
Kermit Scouts Win
Honor Ribbon
At Big Spring Meet
M. L. Cunningham, Scout
executive, announced at
Courteous Service — Kermit
Washateria. Phone 347.
Drilling in
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May
3.—Prison officers battled through
a hail of bullets within a cell
block at Alcatraz Federal Prison
today in a bloody fight to corner
a convict group led by six of
the nation’s most desperate crim-
inals. Warden J. A. Johnston
named the six ringleaders, who,
he said, seized arms and shot sev-
eral officers the convicts had
held for more than seven hours
as hostages in a desperate, un-
successful break for freedom. Ten
hostages were rescued, all but one
injured, three critically. Guard
Harold Stites was killed, appar-
ently machine-gunned from close
range. List of injured was placed
at fourteen with more possible as
gunfire continued into the sec-
ond day.
Convicts who took hostages “in
a plot to make a mass escape,”
included Miran Edgar Thompson,
29, serving ninety-nine years for
kidnaping and life for murder of
a policeman at Amarillo, Texas.
Thompson was sent to Alcatraz
from Leavenworth in October,
1945, with a record of eight es-
capes. The convicts overpowered
a guard to seize the gun galleries.
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