The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, May 19, 1944 Page: 4 of 6
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THE DENISON PRESS
FRIDAY, MAY 19,
1944
Katy Payroll In
'43 Totaled Sum
Of $33,706,579
Katy payrolls for the year
1943 amOtfltied to the huge sum
if $33,706^9, or more tfiaiv-J&e
total operating revenues of we now on the Gulf Oil company
company in 1940, an(f • aver- block east of Colbert which was
Deep Test Well
Will Be Drilled
East of Colbert
A second Bryan county wildcat
oil test appeared to be an imme
diate prospect with the heat
brc number of employes on the
monlthly payrolls was 14,434, or
approximately twice the number
assembled for the oil company by
Durant .men two years ago.
Seismograph crtiwti are now
in 1940 payrolls, as shiwn by, making tests which will deter-
figures recently released by | mine a location to be made by
Matthew S. Sloan, chairman of;Atlantic Refining company, which
the board and president. Other with Gulf and anotjher major
Ihege sums Kvere spent for ma-( company, will drill a de<ep test in
terials and supples connected the block.
with tJhe system-wide improve-
ment program, the toltal expendi-
tures for maintenance of way
ttnd structures and the mainte-
nance of equipment totaling
$28,684,747.
All Katy communities bene-
fitted to some exfterfl from *hese
expenditure* but the chief benfe-
fiaries naturally were the cities
where the railroad's ^hops are
located and the division points
through which other important
disburse<merttfe connected with
the operation of Ithe company are
made. Shop operations we^e con-
tinuous and employment Svas at
the maximum.
"Replacement of locomotives
and cars with new equipment is
veryl difficult when not impossi-
ble,' said President Sloan, in corfi-
menting on the company's ex-
pensive rehabilitation program,
"so we (have followed the plan
of rebuilding and Repairing our
equipment, each locomotive, car
or oflher piece of equipment,
wl^n it emerges from the shop,
being the same as new."
Total expenditures by the
Katy during 1943 at its locomo-
tive shops at Parsions, Kans., and
Waco, Texas, and its car shops
at DENISON, Texas, and Sedalia,
Mo., were $15,447,435. Of this
$2,652,718 was for wages, and
t!b remaining $2,794,717 for
material, after deducction of
value of materials salvaged from
equipmest under repair,
Largest single expenditure at
a shop point during thp year,
$1,910,846, was at the car shops
in DENISON. Parsons locomo-
tive $iop was second, with $1,-
843,02[1„ while expenditures at
Bellmead locomotive shop at
Waco totalled $997,486, and at
Sedalia car shop, $696,082.
Parsons had the largest labor
bill, $1,172,349, while Waco was
fl cond, $595,149; DENISON
*468,734, and Sedalia, $416,486
h}}\ *ivided: Dallas.—The election of Na-
S5 i tluin Adams, Dallas banker and
$670,672 : Wa<>o, $402,337 and rd degree Mason, as president
• „ j oi thje board of trustees of the
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for
The new development came as
somewhat a surprise since Atlan
tic has just completed assembling
a larg,3 lease block across 12 sec-
tions north of the Gulf block,
and it was assumed that the first
test would be made in the Atlan-
tic' block.
Some lease play and heavy
buying of close in royalty have
bqen utvdei^way in the Gulf block
the last few daiys. with prices
for mineral ranging from $215 an
acre well aiway from the pro-
jected test t0| as (high as $100 *an
acre close in.
The present Gulf block com-
prises leases in sections 15, 16,
17, 20, 21 and 22 in township 8
south, range 8 east, but is be-
ing somewhalt enlarged.
•Prospects today were that Mag-
nolia Petroleum company would
be ready to start its Durant wild-
cat test, recently located, in a
Week or ten days. The test is to
be drilled by. Olson Drilling
company whidh today was tearing
down a rig from a t completed
well in the Aylesworth, Marshall
county, field.
The Olson rig will be used to
drill the Bryan county test, No.
1 Oklahoma State in sw ne nw
of 617-9, less than one mile from
the southeast corner of Durant.
A work order has been issued
for the Durant test) and the ma-
chinery is to be moved here im-
mediately Kvith ttye probability
the well will be spudded in with-
in the next (ten lays.
Deep Rock oil company and
Sinclair Prairie, who hold the
offset 1,eases to the test location
are participating in the drilling.
MA AND PA BATSON CELE-
BRATE 64TH ANNIVERSARY
AFTER 64 YEARS of married
life, Ma Battson (writes her
grandson in foreign waters
Ifhat she hopes he "will find a
woman who will look as good
across the table after 64 years
of married life as your grand-
father thinks o^ your grand-
ma." Good wishing that, in
thes e days when there are too
many separations. The Dent
son couple, who have spent
more than a third of a cen-
tury here helping the worthy
nc^sdy, are receiving the con-
gratulations of their friends.
They have been married 64
years the 15th of this month.
Registration at NTSC June 1
Denton, Texas. — Summer
School registration will he held
at Nortfi Texas State on Thurs-
day, June 1, with class work get-
ting underway June 2.
Classes will be in session for
an hour and a half five days a
week with no school scheduled
for Mondays.
'ihe State average of $li4.30,
which—by the way—was an in-
crease of $2.88 over the preced-
ing year. The oil ndustry also
aided in retiring outstanding
bonds in tha school district, and
in one instance, oil's part of the
cost was slightly over $64 per
student.
Even if a county does not have
oi! production withiln its bor-
ders, its school children bene,fit
from the school taxes paid by
Taxas oil for, out of the State
apportionment of $37j3B6.C75 in
1943, almost $10,000,000 was
paid by oil and, of the $8,300,-
000 for rural aid, $2,075,000
came from the oil industry.
SPEAKS AT INSURANCE MEET
7'
HERBERT A. HEDGES, presi-
dent of the National Associa-
tion of Life Underwriters, who
will be one of the main speak-
ers at tibe meeting of insur-
ance men in Dallas June 12-14.
Adams Elected
Head Hospital
Crippled Ones
Oil Industry
Educates One
In Four, Tex.
Taxes paid by the Texas oil
industry meet the cost of educat-
ing one out of every four school
children in Texas, according to
a survey jus|t completed by the
Texas Mid-Continent Oil & Gas
Association.
Total cost of operating the
Stage's public schools in 1943
was $96,086,675, of wfiich the
petroleum industry paid $22,421,-
262 in direct taxes, not include
ing the gasoline tax, which is paid
by the motorist but collected for
the governimehlb by the oil in-
dustry.
Theqe are numerous independ-
ent school districts in which oil
is paying the bulk of the taxes
—i'ni two instances, a full 90 per
cent last year; and in 14 others
(including one entire coulnty), oil
paid more /than 80| per cent.
Where oil foots the chief part
of the school bill, thp expense per
pupil ruins much higher than in
tihe State as a whole. Taking 10
such districts, (including one
entire county), the average per
pupil was $173.38, compared to
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The Lingo-Leeper Co.
PHONE 47
"Good Lumber Since 1872"
210 SO. AUSTIN
When to tfiese figures are add-
ed the wages paid employes in
thp stores department and in
train and yard service, who han-
dle and transport materials to
and from the shops, and the tax
payment on the railroad's shops
and other properties, the im-
portance of the Katy to the^e
communities is obvious.
'An average of 232 persons
were employed montihly at the
Katy's car shop in DENISON
throughout 1943. As at other
points over tihe railroad, their
wa/ges, $468,734, flowed largely
into business channels through
their personal purchases. Work
turned out included construction
or repair of 2,062 freight and
company serviqe units and 589
passenger cars,.
Number 4f employes jn the
Katy locomotive shop at Parsons
averaged 543 monthly and they
drew an average of $97,695.75
per month, in wages. The year's
accomplishments there (included
(heavy or classified repays to 157
Katy-owned engines and light re-
pairs to numerous olther pieces of
equipment. Cost of the classi-
fied repairs to the 157 Katy en
gises was divided: labor, $762,-
295, and materials, $564,279 less
salvage cnedit of $103,746 for
materials removed.
In addition, tihe {Parsons loco-
"moUive shop's motor car section
repaired 428 units of motorized
rail equipment, shop trucks and
(track machines during 1943,
and also converted six m^lw
Chrysler sedans into inspection
cars for use on tihe rails by dis-
trict superintendents.
Monthly payrolls at Bellmead
shop, Waco, carried an average
of 281 namps throughout 1943,
Mr. Sloan announced. Work
completed included heavy repairs
to 100 Katy engines. The labor
bill was $595,149 and for ma-
terials $402,337.
The average of 196 employes
at thje Katy's car shop alt Se-
dalia per month last year made
classified repairs to 57 Katy pas-
senger train cars. Total expen-
ditures of $696,082, divided:
$416,486 for labor and $279,598
for materials. In addition to pas-
senger cars, 22 caboose cars and
43 modprn outfit cars for use as
living quarters for construction
forces were constructed on
frames of freight and stock cars
Crippled Children was announced
here today. He has been serv-
ing as treasurer of the board for
several years.
Otiher officers elected were
W. A. Browning, third vice presi-
dent, and Ernest R. Tennant,
treasurer. Holding ov^r in office
are Judge Hiram F. Lively, first
vice president; John L. De-
Giazier, second vice president;
and Ash/er Mintz, secretary.
In his new office, Mr. Adams
will take a leading part in the
hospital's seventh annual me-
morial services to be held Sun-
day afternoon, May 14, at 3.15
p. m., on the (hospital lahvn, in
honor of deceased men and wom-
en who have left bequests in
their wills to the institution's en-
dowment fund. The commemo
rative address will be delivered
by U. S. District) Judge William
fflawley Atwell. The program will
be broadcast over statewide ra-
dio hookup. Others on the pro-
gram Kwill be Judgje Lively, Mr
Bi owning, Claude L. Austin,
Grand Master of Masons in Tex-
as, and the Hella Temple Quar
tet.
In addition to the officers list-
ed above, members of the hos-
pital's board of trustees are Gal-
loway Calhoun,, Tyler; W. Stevo
Cooke, Fort Worth; William Eif
ler, San Antonio; Frank C.
Jones, Houston; William G.
Lyons, Galveston,; Judge Jamen
W. McClendon, Austin; Dr. F. P
Miller, El Paso; William H.
Dels, E. B. Germany, James C,
Jones, George R. Jordan, Clifton
Linz, Dr. Davis Spangler and
Judge Towne Young, Dallas.
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JMIMUTB MAN
Heavy boulders in the bottom
of river beds have been known
to be raised to the surface and
floated downstream by ice whidh
has formed around them.
that had been retired from «erv-
ice. ,j
Classified repairs also were
made at Sedalia last year to
three revenue freight cars and
nine company-ownell service cars.
Light impairs also were made at
Sedalia to 296 freight cars be-
longing to the Katy and to Other
railroads and 28 Katy service
cars.
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Anderson, LeRoy M. The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, May 19, 1944, newspaper, May 19, 1944; Denison, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth328669/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.