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VOLUME XUI
BIG LAKE, REAGAN COUNTY, TEXAS (7GMS), MAY 25, 1967
Single Copy — 10c
NUMBER 21
Annual Golf Tourney
Here This Weekend
Latest Oil News
In Big Lake Area...
By JAMES C. WATSON
Written Specially for the
Big Lake Wildcat
W. T. Cox
Buried Tuesday
Funeral services for Willie
Thomas (Uncle Bill) Cox, 80,
were held Tuesday morning
in First Methodist Church.
Three new producers and ; He died at 5:17 a.m. Sunday,
locations for four flankers to May 21 following a year of
proven areas have been re- i illness in the local hospital
ported in Reagan County. { from results of a stroke. The
John L. Cox of Midland has Rev- Jim Eastham of Bethel
completed No. 14-N Rocker B, Baptist Church officiated, and
12 miles northeast of Big Lake
■for a daily potential of 237
barrels of 39-gravity oil flow-
ing from perforations at 6,614
-730 feet and 6,147-6,340 feet
60,000 gallons of fluid. Yield
was on a 16-64-inch choke
with gas-oil ratio of 1,020-1.
Wellsite is 1,320 feet from
south and east lines of sec-
tion 93, block 1, T&P survey.
The completion extends the
Bpraberry Trend Area 1/2
mile southeast.
Continental Oil Co. has
potentialed No. 2 Merchant
Estate In Reagan as a new
well In the Calvin multipay
field, 12 miles north of Stiles.
It flowed through a 23-64-
Inch choke at the dally rate
of 261 barrels of 39.4-gravity
oil with gas-oil ratio of 2,632-
1. The crude came from per-
forations between 7,723 and
8.L6& feet which were acidized
with 600 gallons and fractured
with 120,000 gallons of fluid
mixed with 360,000 pounds of
sand.
The operation is 1,320 feet
from north and east lines of
section 18, block A, L&SV sur-
vey, 1/2 mile south of the
most northwesterly Dean pro-
ducer in the field.
The southern sector of the
Spraberry Trend Area in Rea-
gan was extended 7/8 mile
southwest by Sam Boren of
Midland with completion of
No. 1-B Young, four miles
southeast of Big Lake.
Yield was from perforations
between 5,231 and 6,231 feet
at the rate of 44 barrels of 41-
gravity oil per day on the
pump. The pay section was
acidized with 3,000 gallons
and fractured with 80,000 gal-
lons of fluid and 160,000
pounds of sand. Gas-oil ratio
was 1,705-1.
The well is 1,045 feet from
north and 1,666 feet from
west lines of A. L. Brigance
survey 1. '
Continental Oil Co. No. 4
Merchant Estate has been
scheduled as a 1/2-mile west
flanker to Dean production in
the Calvin multipay field.
Located 12 miles north of
Stiles, it is 1,320 feet from
south and west lines of sec-
tion 12, block A, T&OB sur-
survey. Proposed goal is 8,400
feet.
Cox has planned three RATLIFF HAS TOP
operations eight miles north- PROJECT IN SHOP WORK
east of Big Lake. All are in James Ratliff’s mahogany
block 1, T<ScP survey and each cedar chest took the grand
has a contract depth of 7,000 j prize In the annual display of |
feet. j projects by the Reagan Coun- !
No. 4-P Rocker B, is a mite ty High School shop class last <
northeast of production, 1,320 Thursday.
Other winners and their
burial was in Glenrest Cem-
etery.
He was born Nov. 25, 1886 in
Sommerville, Tenn. and came
to Texas while a teenager,
settling in Blooniburg, Cass
County. He followed the oil-
field work until retirement.
Starting as a roughneck on
wooden derricks in Pine Is-
land, La. From Louisana, Ark-
ansas to Central and West
Texas and Oklahoma, he fol-
lowed the oil booms, settling
in this area in 1925 as a rotary
and cable tool driller with
Cushing Refinery. He was a
member of the Roughnecks
Club which met in Midland
about every two years. Since
retirement he was Rawleigh
Products dealer in this area,
active for about seven years.
He was married to the for-
mer Pauline Meaders McKin-
ney of Ballinger and Rankin
Jan. 24, 1931, and the couple
have made their home in Big
Lake.
Survivors include the wife,
a daughter, Mrs. A. D. Henson
of Oklahoma City, Okla.; a
son, Thomas Leo Cox of
Shreveport, La., six grand-
children, 2 great grandsons
and one great granddaughter.
Pallbearers were Earl Reed,
Rankin; Kay Conatser, T. L.
Reed, Tony Reese, Rocky Bur-
nett and Chill Holt. Honorary
pallbearers were O. P. Mc-
Adams, A. W. Billingsley, S. E.
Stout, Jr., Gordon Roach,
W. E. Barnes, W. T. Mills, Sam
Chumley, Elmo Loftin and
W. D. Hudson.
Fig Lake Golf Association’s
17th annual invitational golf
tournament will get underway
Saturday with qualifying
rounds and an 18-hole A-B-C-
D low ball partnership. Sun-
day’s individual play will con-
sist of two nine-hole matches
and one nine-hole round of
medal play.
Golfers qualifying for the
championship flight and
medalist must play 18 holes on
the Big Lake course Saturday.
Other flights may send or call
in a score before 5:00 p. m.
Saturday if they can not play
here that day. The $15.00 en-
trance fee includes the Satur-
day low ball event, so most
golfers are expected to play
both days.
Prizes for the flight winners
are sets of four Wilson Staff
woods; nd for flight runners-
up, sets of three Wilson Staff
woods. Consolation bracket
! winners will receive golf bags
I and consolation runners-up
I golf balls.
R. L. McKinney is the
Greens Committee chairman
; in charge of arrangements for
! the tournament. The club
house phone is 884-2633.
Jerry Davis of Big Lake is
the defending champion and
will be here to defend his title.
Other winners in recent years
have been David Porter of An-
drews in 1965, H. O. Allen of
Big Lake in 1964, and A. C.
Hamil, former local golfer
who now resides in Monahans,
in 1963.
1 A barbecue supper will be
held Saturday evening for all
club members and their fam-
ilies and all visiting golfers
and their families.
During the two-day tourna-
ment the Big Lake Women’s
1 Golf Association will sell
sandwiches, lunches, coffee
and cold drinks for the con-
venience of those attending.
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P. H. Coates Named
To Boys Ranch Board
P. H. Coates of Big Lake was
one of the new directors
named last Saturday at the
annual board meeting of West
Texas Boys Ranch. New direc-
tors and officers were instal-
led.
Dennis Q. Lilly was elected
president. He succeeds Joe
Vander Stucken of Sonora.
Other officers elected were
Harvey Hartgiove, first vice-
president and treasurer; and
Pat Bunnell, secretary.
Wagon Bosses announced
for the 1967 Round-Up includ-
ed Bill Schneemann of Big
Lake.
feet from south and east lines
of section 129.
No. 11-P Rocker B, a mile
projects were as follows:
Advanced Woodworking
north, is 1,320 feet from north class - 1st, Willie Watkins, j
Register For Summer
Reading Program
The Summer Reading Pro-
gram for grade school child-
ren opens for registration
Thursday, June 1. Mrs. Brown
Hayes, Reagan County librar-
ian extends a welcome to all
children of the community to
take advantage of reading
facilities of the library and
enroll in the program.
The program requires that
12 books at the students grade
level be read during the three
summer months. Registration
begins Thursday, June 1, and
continues. Library hours for
the summer have changed to
remain open Monday through
Friday, 9-11 a.m. and 2-5 p.m.
Sponsored by the State Lib-
rary, local enrollment in the
program usually runs to about
250 students, many of these,
and their parents, becoming
acquainted with services of-
fered by the library during
the summer months.
Mrs. Hayes and Mrs. Ellis
Mills, a member of Twentieth
Century Club which estab-
lished the library, attended
the State Workshop in San
Angelo this week held for
three West Texas districts.
and east lines of section 143.
No. 10-P Rocker B, 1 1/2
red gum gun case; 2nd, Steve
Matthews, red cherry gun
mile north, is 1,320 feet from caf* ^d- To^r Jameaon’ 2
south and east lines of section end ta^les 1 coffee table.
130 Woodworking Class — 1st,
_ ■ Gary Miles, red cherry gun
case; 2nd, Phil Farr, red cher- ;
Mrs. Abe Gross left Tuesday ry king size headboard for
for a few days at Pecos visl- bed; 3rd, Johnny Storey,
ting her sister and family, Mr. maple cedar chest,
and Mrs. J. W. Jones. She ac- General Shop — 1st, Har-
companied her son Dude that ville Settle, maple cedar chest;
far on his trip to El Paso 2nd, James Watson, red gum
where he goes to work for bookcase; 3rd, Mike Dolan,
Burger Chef In that city. I maple coffee table.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Kruse and family, former
residents of Big Lake who
have lived In Tripoli, Libya
the past two years, are ex-
pected In Winters today to
visit their parents. Kruse was
employed by Interairdril Lib-
ya, Ltd. and it is uncertain
that they will return for over-
seas work in that area again.
Their children are Hilda 13.
Martha 11, Dennis 8, and
Brenda 7 years old.
Big Lake Victim of
Freak Thunderclouds
A sudden hailstorm from
the southwest startled citizens
ol Eig Lake apparently within
a seven mile radius about
5:45 p.m. last Saturday. Then
within about forty-five min-
ute interval, as wary people
watched, two unpredictable
clouds collided overhead, i
causing a sudden downpour! i.;®!
with wind velocity reachingj !l 1
80 to 90 miles per hour.
One inch and .70 rainfall!
was recorded.
In the second freak occur-
ence the sky suddenly dark-
ened to limit visibility to ten
feet, according to reports
from the many caught in the
open.
Hailstones ranging from the
size of a man’s thumb to golf
ball fell solidly without a drop
of moisture in the first start-
ling deluge. Many watched as
the cloud on the northwest
was pushed by ferocious winds
back into the cloud traveling
slowly from the southwest to
cause tornado-like atmos-
pheric conditions.
A quick estimate on pro-
perty damage is impossible,
as uncertainty exists on hail-
stone damage or damage
strong winds and rainstorms.
Many glassed light openings
in homes and businesses suf-
fered extensive water dam-
age from the force of moist-
ure blown. Most noticable of
fences blown down are Var-
ner’s Coiffures at Main and
7th Street and Dr. Royce
Whitefield on 12th Street a-
cross from high school, be-
cause of heavier traffic in
those directions.
Extensive damage to trees
and shrubs was evidenced by
debris on lawns and street
and those proud of this spring
fruit crop have felt keen dis-
appointment at the loss. C. W.
(Eutch) Wade who after re-
tirement started a hobby of
growing fruit trees, had a
bumper crop this first year of
full development in the orch-
ard. A full 90 per cent loss
was surveyed, however he fig-
ures to salvage a few bushels
for his personal use.
Damage to gardens resulted
chiefly in corn and tomatos
with most of those vegetables
able to be salvaged. Most gar-
deners considered the needed
rain beneficial to more than
offset a vegetable or fruit loss.
Beneficial rains fell north-
west as far as home of Theron
Weatherby’s ranch about 14
miles out, a .10 inch fell. John
Patterson, .07, on northwest;
Val Gorhmert about an inch
to inch and a half. Gohniert
reported Big Jim draw as
holding a lot of water but not
running. P. H. Coates report-
ed his draw on the ranch as
full as he’d ever seen it. He
received 2.10 inches In one
gauge and undertermined in
another as hailstones broke
the gauge at the ranchhouse.
Rain extended barely to the
Big Lake area on the south.
The Big Lake, a mile south-
west of the city, that is. It ap-
parently moved across town
to hit the R. Ferguson ranch
with about 1.50 near head-
quarters.
In looking over damage
around town many were im-
pressed by the sight of a com-
pletely uprooted large weep-
ing willow tree on the lawn of
the Thomas Lee Holland res-
idence at 1100 Tenth Street.
Scott Fields Named
CHS Valedictorian
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Scott Fields
Valedictorian
Pam Daugherty
Salutatorian
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Local Tennis Tourney Linda Brandon Weds
Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Harvey
returned this week from a
week end in Rising Star where
they visited Mr. Harvey’s par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Har-
vey and his brother and sister
and families. They also saw
Mrs. Harvey's brother of Cross
Plains as the sister-in-law Is
a surgical patient In Com-
anche Hospital. While there
Scott Fields, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Floyd Fields of Midkiff,
was named valedictorian of
Reagan County High School’s
1567 graduating class at com-
mencement exercises held last
Sunday evening in the high
... scl1001 auditorium. He had a
ilHWiiHMni FIS! four-year average of 96.22.
This honor entitles him to a
_ _ scholarship from any state
supported college or univer-
sity.
Pam Daugherty, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John Daugh-
erty of Big Lake, took saluta-
tory honors with a 95.65 four-
year average. This honor is
|t good for a scholarship at a
number of church-related col-
leges and universities.
Completing the list of the
top ten graduates were Lois
Carter, 95.45; Phil Duesing,
95.18; Bill Hodge, 94.23; Billie
Poage, 94.07; Carmen Jacobo,
, p . . _ i . .( 93.94; Alicia Halliburton, 93.-
•s exciting Success Joe Eddington May 19 Vivian Morrow. 92.25; and
' Eddie Burkett, 91.94.
Last week proved to be very | Miss Linda Kay Brandon Scott Fields’high school ac-
excitlng for the local tennis was married to Elzie Joe Ed- tivities included membership
enthusiasts as well as a few dington in Church of Christ m the National Honor Society
from Rankin The Annual; ceremony Friday, May 19, in three years, serving as vice-
Reagan County Tennis Tour-j the chapel of US Army Post, president his senior year. He
nament sponsored by the ; Ft. Polk, La. was band president and elect-
junior Racket Club proved to Parents of the couple are ed Band King his senior year;
o! J n,^XCiiirlg. J11 ,^l1! Mr- and Mrs- L- J- Brandon of Annual Staff two years; voted
Big Lake and Mr. and Mrs. Most Likely To Succeed this
Elzie Eddington of Gaines- year and represented his
ville, Texas. school in regional competition
Attendants for the cere- in Lubbock in Prose Reading,
mony were the bride’s mother He plans to attend the Uni-
and the serviceman’s superior versity of Texas in Austin,
officer, Capt. Warren. Miss Daugherty was Cheer-
Plans for a wedding May 27 leader two years, a member of
u-ere disrupted by the bride- the National Honor Society
groom’s prospective assign- two years and served as re-
ment to a technical school porter this year; was presi-
immediately following basic dent of the Future Teachers
training ending this week. Association; a member of the
Direct transportation to the Student Council serving as re-
new assignment at Ft. Sill, cording secretary her senior
Okla. meant a change in date year; elected class favorite
with Miss Brandon missing freshman and senior years;
her graduation ceremony a member of the Annual Staff
from Reagan County High three years; RCHS band mem-
School Sunday evening. | ber, serving as a historian and
The bridegroom is a gradu-j a secretary; tennis winnar
ate of Gainesville High School *our years; elected as Miss
and has lived in Big Lake the | RCHS Basketball Sweetheart
past two years working in the j and D A R- Good Citizen her
as a lot of fun. Three local
tennis players proved to be
true champions when they
captured two championship
titles.
Donald Young led the men’s
division when he won the
men’s singles and then team-
ed up with Coach Bird to win
the men’s doubles. Pam
Daugherty took home two
trophies when she won the
Senior Girls Singles and then
teamed up with Mary Tatum
to win the women’s doubles.
Mary Tatum also took home
two trophies with a cham-
pionship in women’s singles
and women’s doubles.
Champions and the run-
ners-up in each division are
as follows: Senior Boys Dou-
bles: Stacy - Browning, Ran-
kin, over Larry Crowder and
Joe Clark, El Paso Natural
Gas Camp; Senior Boy’s Sin-
gles to be decided between
Mike Dolan and Ray Solomon,
Big Lake; Senior Girls’ Dou-
bles between Day-Day, Ran-
kin, and Bird-Poage, Big Lake,
to be played this Friday. Sen-
ior Girls’ Singles: Pam
Daugherty over Debbie Day;
Men’s Singles: Donald Young
over Phil Haynes; Men’s
Doubles: James Bird-Donald
Young over Dub Day-Bryan
Ed mins ton, Rankin; Women’s
Singles: Mary Tatum over
Janice Foster, Big Lake. Wo-
men’s Doubles: Pam Daugh-
erty-Mary Tatum over Millie
Turner-Marsha Profitt.
Junior Boys’ Singles: Bill
Dolan over Tony Clemmer.
Boys’ Doubles: Rodney Hooker
-Tony Clemmer over Bill
Routh - Bill Dolan. Junior
Girl’s Singles: Sue Dolan over
Diane Day, Rankin. Junior
Girl’s Doubles: Missy Bird-
Jeanine Neill, Big Lake, over
Dennisa Day-Sharon Helms,
Rankin.
The mixed doubles In the
Open Division was the divi-
sion with the most entries.
There were 25 teams of dou-
bles in this event. The four
teams winning down to the
semi-finals were Joe Clark-
Mary Tatum, James Bird-
Ginger Bird, Dub E>ay-Debbie
Day, Phil Haynes - Pam
Daugherty. Coming out on top
to meet In the finals will be
Joe Clark and Mary Tatum
against Dub Day and Debbie
Day. This match will be play-
ed at a later date.
Appreciation has to be ex-
they gathered green beans tended to the many people
and dew berries for the deep making this tournament pos-
freezer at home. sible. Phil Haynes and Mary
oilfield here.
Mrs. Eddington is in Gain-
esville with her parents-in-
law, awaiting her husband’s
assignment and housing to
establish a new home.
senior year. She plans to at-
tend the University of Texas
in Austin.
The annual Ralph O’Bryan
athletic award went to Eddie
Burkett for his outstanding
activities in golf, football, bas-
ketball and track during his
high school years.
Other graduates receiving
The Rev. Joe Ray and Mrs.
Ray attend the annual South-
west Texas Conference of , ___.___,
Mettodtot Churcto convening J Wedn Mternoon Dupll-
in San Antonio May 31 - June ' . nlllK
4. It Is the annual conference
meeting where ministers re-
ceive new appointments.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Daniels
are official delegates to the
cate Bridge Club Scholarship
Award; Dick Miller, Twenti-
eth Century Club Scholarship
Award; and Bill Hodge,
Teachers and Ex-Students
Scholarship Award. Scott
MethodlsT'ctiurch6"^”^ als0 recelved the John
- -----the outstanding senior band
Tatum acted as Tournament i student-
Directors and gave freely of! A Certificate of Achieve-
their time to see that the j nient received by Phil Duesing
games were running smoothly, j from the United States De-
Janice Foster served on the j partment of the Navy was
bracket committee and saw | read by Robert Magruder,
fhat the brackets were in | high school principal. Duesing
place each day. Dub Day of i has been accepted as a mid-
Rankin did a fine job on the
engraving of the trophies.
Thanks also must go to our
1th grade court sweepers, Bill
Dolan, Cheryl McKinney,
Denna Puckett and Shryl
Schneemann. These young-
sters volunteered to prepare
the courts for the tourna-
ment. And of course no tour-
nament could be a success
shipman in the Navy R. O. T.
C. at the school of his choice.
He will attend the University
of Notre Dame under this pro-
gram.
Dr. C. W. Tarter of Abilene,
chairman of the Department
of Education of McMurry Col-
lege addressed the 54 mem-
bers of the graduating class
and a large gathering of rela-
without all the many people j tives and friends who filled
in Big Lake and Rankin who the auditorium almost to ca-
gave of their time and energy pacity.
to participate. A reception given by the
Dub Day of Rankin Is going' First Methodist Church W. S.
to sponsor a similar tennis C. S. in the Homemaking Cot-
tournament in Rankin during tage following the graduation
August and urges all tennis exercises, honored the gradu-
enthusiasts in Reagan County ates, their relatives, school
to be getting ready. i faculty and friends.
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