The Bay City News (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 1, 1956 Page: 1 of 8
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1956
BAY CITY, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS
VOLUME 11 NUMBER 20
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6,000 EXPECTED TO VOTE TUESDAY
Mr. Gus Drilling At 6,000
Feet Off Matagorda Co.
DYAL AT HELM IN ALVIN TILT
MUK MOVES
TO TAILBACK
TO FILL SAP
Mendez Goes To
Right- Half As
Acosta Is Out
Bay City will be going into Dis-
trict 12-AAA fotball play Friday
night in Alvin against a rough and
determined lot of Yellow jackets.
Billy Dyal will be at the helm as
the Black Cat starting quarter-
back for the first time this year.
Regular signal caller Ben Muniz
had to be switched to left half to
fill the gap left by the injured
Gilbert Acosta.
Left Half Romeo Mendez will
go in at right half. Fullback will
be Larry Huitt. With the excep-
tion of these changes, the Black
Cat starting line-up will be the
same one that scrapped it out with
St. Thomas of Houston last week.
Acosta, Bay City's fastest man,
had an old ankle injury aggravat-
ed in the second quarter of the St.
Thomas game after sparking his
team to its lone touchdown.
Coach Don Haley said Monday
that Acosta is probably out for the
rest o'f the season along with Jim
Knost and Frank Baten.
Knost and Baten turned in their
uniforms last week after being
sidelined with injuries.
Sophomore Joe Collida has been
brought up from Coach Sam Mag-
litto's "B" team to fill the gap at
left half on the second string.
Salter C'jnbiaered
The coaches also are pondering
promoting Quarterback Sonny Sal-
ter to the regular Black Cat team.
The injury-riddled Cats will be
going up against , an Alvin team
that has been beaten three times
by powerful opponents. West Co-
lumbia, Deer Park, and El Campo
are all teams to be reckoned with
in the state play-offs.
Scores in those three games
were West Columbia 20, Alvin 19;
Deer Park 34, Alvin 7, and El
Campo 45,- Alvin C.
In addition to these three losses,
the Yellowjackets were tied, 19-
19, by French High.
Alvin victories came over Whar-
ton, 6-0, LaPorte, 6-0, and Boling,
12-0.
Th-t gives Coach C. B. Roland's
men three wins, three losses, and
one Lie. Bay City has won four
and lost two. The Black Cats' two
defeats came in their last two
game.
Champions of the Felines were
West Columbia, 13-0, and St.
(See "ALVIN TILT," Page 5)
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E-x-t-r-a copies of THE BAY
CITY NEWS may be purchased at
nine key spots in Bay City:
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MR. GUS DRILLING AHEAD—Mr. Gus, the G. C.
Glasscock Drilling Company'3 mobile offshore drilling
platform, is now drilling Atlantic Refining Company's
State Tract 527 six and one-half miles offshore from
Matagorda in 27-foot water of the Gulf of Mexico. The
rig is shown here as it drilled an earlier well for Atlantic.
The Glasscock supply vessel, the Barbara Storm, is tied
up to the rig in the picture.
BLACK (ATS PICKED TO BEAT
ALVIN YELLOWJACKETS, 20-12
'We'll Win If We Don't Fumble';
Paris Smith's Guess Close Last Week
By BOB STEWART
Editor
Bay City fans aren't giving up
on the Black Cats just because
they dropped two hard games in
a row.
The armchair quarterbacks say
Muniz & Company will gain back
their winning ways against Alvin
thei-e Friday, 20-12.
Scores ranged all the way from
35-28 to 14-7.
Most fans pointed out that Bay
City was playing too real power-
houses in West Columbia and St.
Thomas and that the Cats made
both games close.
Others were a bit more hesitant
in choosing the Cats over Alvin.
"We'll win if we don't fumble
like we did in the St. Thomas
game," they said.
Paris Smith came closest to
guessing the true Bay City-St.
Thomas score last week in this
feature. His pick was St. Thomas,
13-7. Actual score was St. Thomas,
7-C.
This week's guesses;
GRACE CAIN—"Bay City 21,
Alvin 7. Bay City shouldn't have
any trouble with Alvin but they
won't run up the score,"
CECIL MILLS—"Bay City 18,
Alvin 6. Just a guess."
ROY GROSS—"Bay City 35, Al-
vin 28. I haven't seen Alvin play,
but we should take them if we
don't fumble like in the St. Tho-
mas game."
(See "CATS PICKED," Page 5)
Hurley's Style
Clinic Slated
Monday Night
A style clinic for career girls
will be presented at Hurley's Mon-
day night at 7:30 o'clock.
Mrs. J. C. Brewer, buyer for the
store, added that although the
clinic is primarily for career wo-
men, "a very special invitation is
extended to all the ladies in Bay
City."
New shapes and colors will be
unveiled, showing to advantage the
new era in fashion for women in
sizes from eight to 20 and half-
sizes.
"The looks are being carefully
chosen 'for customer appeal and to
help each individual to become
more fashion wise," Mrs. Brewer
said.
The styles chosen will be taken
from Hurley's regular stock of
nationally adverstised brands such
as L' Aiglon, Charles Dickey, R.
and K., Jerry Gilden, Leslie Fay,
Nelly Don, and many others.
Women registering at the style
clinic will be eligible for a door
prize of a Nelly Don dress.
NEWS ads speak to tnousands.
TIDEWATER IS
TESTING NO. I
ESTELLA MACY
Pheasant Wildcat
Flows Half Oil
And Half Water
Mr. Gus, the fabulous deepwa-
ter drilling platform, is reported
drilling around 6,000 feet this week
in 27 feet of water in the Gulf of
Mexico off Matagorda Beach.
The C. G. Glasscock Drilling
Company mobile rig is drilling this
one for the Atlantic Refining Com-
pany on State Tract 527. This
watery wildc:«t has only about
1,000 feet more to go so it should
be "down" in the next few days.
Meanwhile, the Tidewater Oil
Company is testing its North Col-
legeport Field venture, No. 1
Estella Macy, and has staked
another on the Hans J. Nelson
lease in the R. Lawder Survey, A-
351, Section 22, of the Texas Rice
Development Company Subdivi-
Tidewater Oil Company dually
completed its confirmation well
and found new pay in the new
North Collegeport. Field, called
No. 1 Estella Macy, for 92 bar-
rels of 38.8-gravity oil daily on a
6/64-inch choke from perfora-
tions at 8,162-65 feet, tubing
pressure 1,425 pounds, gas-oil
ratio 855-1, plus 2,500,000 cubic
feet of dry gas daily on a 10/64-
inch choke from perforations at
9,035-55 feet, tubing pressure
4,200 pounds.
sion, 660 feet from the north line
and 660 feet from the east line of
the lease, to go 9,700 feet.
More late Matagorda County
drill reports, field-by-field, area-
by-arca:
TIDEHAVEN —C. B. Webster
has erected derrick for his No. 1
L. C. Cornelius, Et Al, Unit 1. and
is preparing to rig it up.
M1DFIELD — Union Producing
Company's No. 1 A. H. Wadsworth,
which was temporarily abandoned
last year, has been plugged and
abandoned at the total depth of
9.898 feet.
SOUTHEAST COLLEGEPORT
>—Texas Company's No. 1 Pierce
Estate was plugged and abandon-
ed at 6,140 feet.
SOUTHEAST BLESSING—Ar-
go Oil Company's No. 1 V. C. Mur-
phy, et al, is drilling around 11,-
000 feet. . . A report is that this
wildcat has not had any commerci-
al shows. . . It has only 500 feet
to go.
PHEASANT — Michel T. Hal-
bouty's No. 1 L. S. McDonald is
producing 26 barrels daily of fluid
containing 50 per cent oil and 50
per cent water.
(See "MR. GUS," Page 8)
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AND MISS YOUR COPY,
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OUR CITY CIRCULATION
MANAGER AT
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Matagorda County Likely To Go
For Eisenhower And Nixon Again
Over 6,000 Matagorda Countians are expected to trek to the polls Tuesday to exercise
their democratic right and vote for the man o f their choice in national, state, district,
county, and precinct elections.
Arousing most interest in the county is the presidential election to be decided between.
Incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai E. Stevenson.
Although normally a Democratic county, Matagorda County is expected to go along
with Mr. Eisenhower and his run-
WHERE TO VOTE TUESDAY
Precinct
Community
Place
Voters
1-A
Bay City
Service Center
1,576
1-B
Bay City
Courthouse
1,905
2
Matagorda
Methodist Church
146
3
Palacios
City Hall
1,167
4
Blessing
Community House
185
5
Van Vleck
School House
328
6
Sargent
Glaze Store
134
7
Collegeport
Mopac House
65
8
Markham
School House
230
9
Pledger
School House
115
10
Caney
Jones' Store
40
11
Wadsworth
Scout Hall
103
12
Citrus Grove
School House
21
13
Ashby
School House
17
14
Prairie Center
School House
43
15
El Maton
S.P.J.S.T. Hall
91
16
Midfield
School House
72
17
Clemville
Community Center
50
18
Buckeye
Buckeye Store
29
20
Cedar Lane
Estill's Store
160
TOTAL VOTERS — 6,477
AS A FREE CITIZEN YOU MAY
VOTE ANY WAY YOU PLEASE
You May Vote Straight Or Split Ticket;
Whatever Preference It Will Be Counted
As a Texan and free American
citizen, you can vote any way you
please.
Some people are trying to raise
legal technicalities about the bal-
lot, and to tell you that unless you
vote in a certain way your ballot
will not bo counted.
That is simply not true.
Your knowledge of our system
of government tells you truly that
the purpose of an election is to
give you the opportunity to ex-
press yourself.
That's your right and your
privilege as a citizen o'f the United
States of America, s
You can vote the Deiauoiatic
ticket straight.
You can vote the Republican
ticket straight.
Or you can split your ticket.
Your Ballot Will Be Counted
Any way you vote, your ballot
will be counted.
The law that governs the way
for you to vote is simple and
clear.
Whatever your preference may
be, your ballot will be counted.
SCOUTS, JAYCEES:
'VOTE TUESDAY'
Some time Saturday you will
find on your front door knob a
Liberty Bell hanger urging you
to go to the polls Tuesday.
Distributed throughout the
county by the Boy Scout organi-
zation under the supervision of
the Bay City Junior Chamber of
Commerce, these hangers list the
fundamentals of our way of gov-
ernment.
"Read every word on these
hangera and get out and v<jtc
Tuesday," Charles Roberta, pres-
ident of the Bay City Jayceefi,
said. "A vote in the general elec-
tion is more than a privilege, it
is an obligation for the freedom
we take for granted," he said.
If your voting- precinct does not
have voting machines, and if you
want to vote for Eisenhower and
Nixon on a split ticket, for ex-
ample, this is what you do.
Run a line through the names of
Stevenson and Kefauver in the
Democratic column and leave the
names of Eisenhower and Nixon
in the Republican column.
Then mark out or leave the other
column and candidates according
to your choice.
Run Line Through Ike, Dick
Or, to vote a split ticket 'for
Stevenson and Kefauver, run a
line through the names of Eisen-
hower and Nixon in the Republi-
can column and leave the name of
Stevenson and Kefauver in the
Democratic column.
Then mark the other part of the
ballot as you choose.
You may also vote for Eisen-
hower and Nixon by writing their
names in the Democratic column,
and marking out the names o'f
Stevenson and Kefauver, if you
desire.
-A ballot so marked will be count-
ed: Attorney-General's Opinion No.
V-1531.
Of course, the reverse is true:
You may vote for Stevenson and
Kefauver on a split ticket by writ-
ing their names in the Republican
column and marking out the names
of Eisenhower-Nixon.
May Misspell Names
If you write in the names of your
candidates, the law says that your
ballot will be counted, even though
your spelling may not be exactly
correct. The law says:
"The last name of the candidates
is sufficient, and the names do not
need to be spelled correctly, if the
intention of the voter can be as-
certained from the , names as they
are written on the ballot. For in-
stance. . . a vote for 'Izenhower
and Nixen' should be counted for
Dwight David Eisenhower and
Richard M. Nixon." (Attorney
General's Opinion No. V-1531.)
Patronize NEWS advertisers
ning mate, Richard M. Nixon.
The county went for Eisenhower
by a two-to-one margin in 1952
when a record 6,232 votes were
cast, 4,130 'for Ike. Defeated in that
election were Mr. Stevenson and
John J. Sparkman, Democratic
vice-presidential nominee.
This year Estes Kefauver is tho
former Illinois governor's mate for
veep.
Split Ballot Possible
Voters who wish to cast their
ballot for Ike and still fill all 29
checking blanks will have to vote
a split ballot since the Republican
Party has only four candidates on
its ticket in Matagorda County.
This may be done by scratching:
out the names of Stevenson and'
Kefauver in the Democratic column
and checking the names of Ike and
Nixon in the Republican section.
Latest figures show the Repub-
lican candidates for president and
vice-presidcRt still ahead in the
national survey polls hut with their
lead declining.
An overwhelmingly Demo
state with the exception of the
presidential vote, most other Tex-
as Demo candidates are considered
shoo-ins.
Other Candidates Listed
Only other junior party candi-
dates having Republican opponents
on the Matagorda County ballot
are Price Daniel, candidate for
governor; (Will Wilson, candidate
for attorney general, and John C.
White, candidate for state com-
missioner of agriculture.
Their Republican foes are. Wil-
liam R. Bryant 'for governor, Leo
N. Duran for attorney general,
and Samuel F. Singleton for state
commissioner of agriculture.
The Constitution Party has rep-
resented in its column T. Coleman
Andrews and Thomas H. Wcrdel
for the nation's chief offices, Fred
T. Spanglcr for congressman-afr-
large, John R. Anthony for as-
sociate justice, Supreme Court,
Place 2, Joseph iM. Ruramler for
railroad commissioner, E. G. tirown
for comptroller of public accounts,
and Bard A. Logan for state trea-
surer.
Write-in candidate for governor
is W. Lee O'Daniel, 'former gover-
nor and senator defeated in t,h«
primary election.
County, District Choices
County and district Democratic
choices are Clark W. Thompson,
representative of the 9th congres-
sional district, John Huebner for
state representative.
Thurman G'upton for district
judge 23rd judicial district, G. P.
Hardy Jr. for district judge 130th
judicial district, R. A. Bassett foi»
district attorney.
•T. R. (Jack) Cole for county
sheriff, James H. Selkirk for
county tax assessor-collector, Fred
(See "ELECTION," Page 8)
PASTRY SALE
ELECTION DAY
The women of the McCrosky
Home Demonstration Club will
have a cake and pic sale election
day (Tuesday) at the bandstand
on the courthouse square. Cof-
fee also will be on sale.
Mrs. Nina A. Erixon, reporter,
said all kinds of pies and cakes
will be on sale ranging from
$1.50 one-layer specials to the
giant $3 creations.
The booth will open at 8:30
o'clock in the morning and will
close at 3 o'clock that afternoon
or when the pics and cakes run
out.
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Stewart, Bob. The Bay City News (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 1, 1956, newspaper, November 1, 1956; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth428452/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.