The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 8, 1940 Page: 1 of 8
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Day
1940
:ansas Pass
ARANSAS PASS, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JXB. A 1940
'
Bids to
M in
iruary
roijld Begin
ipril or ■
le.
the Aransas
id channel will
the U. S. Engi-
lveston around
local sources were
reek.
! for dredging the
^lateral to the Intra-
erway would be
tin 30 days there-
work commenc-
ite April or early
(estimated here.
>f title or warranty
the right of way
le Harbor Island
to the U. S.
?and from the City
to the govern-
to be com-
the next few days.
that the city
luired to furnish
deed to certain
erty that will be
le dredging work,
ant. has allocated
$37,000 for the
»ning the channel
depth of 6 feet
of 200 feet.
Service
it Week
church service ob-
Scout Week will be
First Presbyterian
o’clock Sunday af-
11. scout exe-
mnced. Boy Scout
February 8 to 14, is
red generally thru
States.
>gram arranged for
ire a talk by a
ius Christi on the
luting, a candle-
lony and a court of
fangements for this
I were made by J. K.
A. Scrivner and
klloz in cooperation
M. Davis, Presbyter-
and friends of
rere urged by scout
attend the service.
Frozen Palm frees can
. Be Saved by Quick Work
Bexley & Warren£
Plan Open House
Friday, Saturday
Two-day Celebra-
tion for Newly-
Remodeled Store.
Open house to the people of
this sectiqp. will be held by
Moreland (Preacher) Bexley and
Richard (Dick) Warren Friday
and Saturday, at their recently
remodeled Bexley & Warren IGA
grocery and market in down-
town Aransas Pass.
The proprietors, both of them
natives of Aransas Pass and
graduates of local schools, have
extended a cordial invitation to
everyone in this area to come in you do this, you’U'find that the
and inspect the store and note j palm will, within a few days,
Mrs. William Snyder
Outlines Plan for
Saving Palms.
“If you will act now, you can
save at least 90 per cent of the
palm trees nearly killed by the
cold weather,” Mrs. William
Snyder declared this week. “But
you must act at once and not
wait.” ,
Mrs. Snyder recommended the
following procedure, a method
she has used before and found
highly effective: first look into
the center of the palm and find
out if the bud is froaen; if it is
brown, take a saw and cut direc-
tly across the trunk about five
inches below the bud; then ex-
amine the pulpy center; if this
center is still brown, cut off an-
other section of the trunk, con-
tinuing until you find pure white
center pulp.
“Make sure that you have
reached pure white center pulp,”
Mrs. Snyder (emphasized. “If
Commissioi Cuts
February Flow of
Field Producers
Per Well Allowables
Cut in Half by
Proratiop Order.
South Extension of 7
f if*Made by RicHar
the exceptional savings offered
in the grocery and meat lines.
There will be souvenirs for the
children and a special Kre-Mel
demonstration. Unusual bar-
gains in all departments of the
Store will be offered during the
two-day celebration.
Remodeling
Bexley 3c Warren grocery store
has been extensively remodeled
for the occasion. Included in
the changes are: re-arrangement
of the cashier’s counter and mov-
ing it to the north side of the
store, installation of a new, large
vegetable rack for the display of
fresh fruits and vegetables, the
addition of more shelf space, re-
modeling of the meat market and
general re-painting and decora-
tion throughout the store.
Bexley tc Warren grocery is an
independent cooperating mem-
ber of the Independent Grocers
Alliance of America, an associa-
tion of independent merchants
boasting a membership of thou-
sands of retail grocers operating
in about 42 states of the union.
These independent retail groc-
ers, in conjunction with their al-
lied wholesalers, maintain their
own buying'offices in practical-
ly all producing markets.
begin sending out new growth.'
If anyone is confused by the
above directions Mrs. Snyder
said that she would be glad to
show anyone how to save their
i palms if they would call on her.
“Don’t make the .mistake of
thinking that your palms arc all
right if the branches still appear
to be green part of the way out.
Be sure to examine the center
bud. If the bud. is frozen you
must cut off the trunk as soon as
possible,” said Mrs. Snyder in
conclusion.
Mrs. Snyder has been a leader
in the local movement towards
beautification of the city thru
the planting of palms.
Girl Found
Living In
Woods Here
A cut of 50 per cent in the per-
well allowables of producers in
the Aransas Pass field of San
Patricio and Aransas counties
was made effective op February
1, according to the pro ration or-
der of the Texas Railroad Com-
mission released over the week
end.
The December 1 proration or-
der, the first previous to that of
February 1, listed an acreage
factor of 4.2 (actually 4.2 barrels
per acre for the area upon which
the well is drilled), and a per-
well allowable of 42 barrels. The
February order, cut the acreage
factor to 2.1 and the per-well al-
lowable to 21 barrels.
Total production over the
month’s period was cut only
about 27 per cent, operators said,
since the Saturday fmd Sunday
shutdowns were lifted, permit-
ting a full month’s run. The
daily over-all allowable for the
field, however, was cut from
17.948 barrels in December to
9.422 barrels for February. On
this basis a full months run for
February would give a total of
273.238 barrels, ai compared
with 376,908 barrels for the same
period with Saturday and Sun-
day shutdowns for 'February if
the December ordfr had been
continued.
A total of 243 wel Is, five more
than in December, were listed as
producers. Most wells were giv*
en 42 barrels daily as the top al-
lowable on 10 acres. Several
wells, including the Atlantic
Carlisle, ‘Bay Tex Tabor and
Kenedy Sc Young, were given 53
barrels, having been drilled on
15 acres.
Graham Will Drill ! Over 4,mo
WiMeit Sacking 1 P«v Poll Tax
North Extension
immittee
for Contest
pis M. Davis, Superin-
ilk and Pete Heslep
| named as a commit-
essays submitted in
Auxiliary essay con-
ling to Mrs. Jay
chairman of the es-
which closes on
is open to all high
lents. An essay of
1,000 words on the
fits of Democracy,’
the competition.
r in addition to
$2,000 offered in
contest open to all.
»n, local v sponsors
Two More Blocks
of City Streets
Opened in Week
the caliche base street, acc
While offers of adoption and
assistance poured in, juvenile of-
ficers at Corpus Christi studied
this week the problem of a 13-
year-old orphan girl ‘waif oi the
woods,” found by an Aransas
Pass oil field worker living in
‘the woods near here.
Wise far^ beyond her 13 years,
the girl told a story of wandering
across a half-dozen states and
across Texas to Corpus Christi in
search of a foster brother, Geo.
Tucker, last heard from working
in the oil fields near here. The
story of her wanderings began
at Des Moines, Iowa, and ended
i when she asked for work on an
j oil drilling Tig in the field here.
J Asked where she lived the girl
pointed out a clearing in a near-
by grove of live oaks where she
had gathered wood and started a
fire. The oil worker took her
home to his wife and called ju-
venile officers.
She told of hitch-hiking, of
nights spent in empty tourist
courts, in alleys and in the
ing , woods, of wanderings such as
• ji those of John Steinbeck's home-
the WPA. This less-
engineers said, a'I Juvenile officers in Dallas,
eather surface where the girl lived with adop-
Business Houses
Seek Remedy for
Wanton Breakage
Plate Glass, Signs
Are Damaged in
Recent Weeks.
Two more blocks of city streets
between Houston and Whitney,
on McClung were opened and
topped with caliche during the
week as the $25,000 WPA-city
street and drainage project was
in its third month here. It was
the eighth block of city streets
topped with caliche.
Scheduled to begin this week
was the oil and; shell treating of
cording
to Harry Watts, project super in
tendent for
would assure,
permanent, all-w
that would require the minimum
upkeep.
Four more blocks of caliche
this
and
topping were to be begun
week, between Goodnight
Spencer on Houston, beginning
back of the grade school.
the b
ldow
Newbury’s bulldog
three weeks ago, is
after being almost
death______Mrs. W. A.
at her annual job of
tickets for the St.
_ dance_the stand
being tom down from
up—_____carpenters
elves and display cas-
new jewelry store.-
f men walking around
Hanke’s Bakery,
little signs used by
ank when busy,
Please”_____men
Churph trim-
palms around the
ay night_anoth-
window broken,
on South Commercial
dreds of birds living
kmeyer’s palms lead
life when the school
every evening with
(are
these
her
_ like
walking
from Mi*. E. W.
“we are flying at
away above the
_>le being practical-
away by the high
WCTU WILL MEET '
The Rev. J. Thomas Brown,
pastor of the -First Christian
Church, will speak Friday after-
noon at 3 o’clock before the Wo-
man’s Christian Temperance Un-
ion meeting to be held in the
home of Mrs. N. D. Sanford.
Visitors were welcomed by
Mrs. Sanford.
ted parents before moving to Des
Moines, were notified, but no
disposition has yet been made of
the case. The young miss doesn’t
care about going back to Dallas,
but she is weary of her wand-
ering and would like to finish
school, “like other children.”
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Dolan had
as Sunday dinner guests Mrs.
Lois LaSalle and brother, Bob
Merritt, of Ingleside.
Business houses of the city
sought means this week to com-
bat a series of apparently wanton
breaking of plate glass windows
and signs.
Broken during the week was a
plate glass display window in
Fields Lumber Company plumb-
ing repair shop and damage to
the electrical display sign of C.
P. & L. above their office en-
trance in the downtown area.
Also reported were occasional
raids on street light globes and
bulbs.
Nothing was reported missing
from the Fields plumbing shop
although a great hole was left in
the glass, apparently made by a
brick.
Officers meanwhile were on
the lookout for those respon-
sible.
Location Staked,
Rip: Will be Moved
in Soon.
Location has been staked on
the line between lots 1 and 2 in
block 19 and preparations are
being made by Tom Graham to
bring in rig and materials for a
wildcat test approximately one
and one-half miles north of pro-
duction in the Aransas Pass
field, W. A. Scrivner revealed to-
day.
The test will be drilled in a
block which includes about 1,000
acres, assembled by Harry Tray-
lor of San Antonio and other in-
terests. It is scheduled to go to
7,500 feet or deeper, if conditions
warrant.
Tom Graham will use the rig
now working in block 48 of the
McCampbell, near the cross-
roads. The rig will be moved as
soon as that well is completed,
it was reported.EL.
New Gym Work to
be Delayed For
Street Project
Project Will Begin
After Street
Program Completed
Work on the new $26,000 gym-
nasium for the Aransas Pass
schools will probably not begin
for at least two months, H. T.
Faulk, superintendent of schools
announced, following a confer-
ence with WPA officials from
state headquarters. The WPA
recently announced an appro-
priation of $13,168, approximat-
ely one-half of the total cost of
the project, for the demolition of
the Panther Den and for the
construction of a new gymna-
sium.
Officials of the WPA thought
it best to complete the street and
drainage project now under way
before beginning any new work,
Faulk said. This street work is
expected to be completed around
April 1 or shortly thereafter.
The gymnasium would be com-
pleted and ready for use some-
time in August, according to the
superintendent.
A total of 4690 poll taxes, an
all-time high, were paid by
San Patricio residents before
January 31 deadline. M. W.
Williams, tax collector and as-
sessor, reported this week.
This was 590 more than the
1939 record of 4.100.
Williams stated that the fin-
al count revealed that 105 ex-
emptions had been made, rais-
ing the total voting strength to
4795. not including old-age ex-
emptions.
• In some instances checks,
which were received after the
midnight deadline, were re-
turned. it was reported.
Declarations For
Office Enliven
Political Scene
# *
Four county officers
Make Announce-
ments this Week.
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Hutson re-
turned Tuesday from a week end
spent in San Antonio.
Former Resident Writes of\
“Grandaddy” Cold of *9?
vnen me sent
of the Welfc
a busy woman tl
local lady taking
it, tied to a leash
Cold? S. P. Panton, one time
editor of the Aransas Harbor
Herald and now a resident of
San Francisco, remembers the
grand daddy cold spell of
them all, the winter of 1996
to 1697. He describes this ter-
rific winter in a letter received
by The Progress this
“Is it not 1
old timers,
January J5,
to mention the freeze
winter of 1896-97?
“A cold norther - blew the
*<-ltgdylnfy'*nd
of th
>t strange that your
, recalling previous
as recounted i|f The
forgot
in the
pestilence might ensue, and
over 300 cart loads dtf them
were taken away.
“Corpus Christi Bay was like-
wise so cold that the flipper* of
the big turtle* stiffened and
they drifted ashore
Citizens found them
along the beach, turned
over, and picketed
until they could be
Attorney Here is
Bar Group Officer
W. B. Moss, Sinton attorney
and former county judge, was
elected president of the San
Patricio County Bar Association
at a meeting held last week. J.
G. Cook of Sinton was elected
vice president and William E.
Nicholas of Aransas Pass was
re-elected secretary-treasurer.
The annual banquet of the as-
sociation was set for the next
regular meeting, Monday night,
February 19, at Sinton.
Continue Efforts
to Cap Wild Well
Wild well fighters worked fev-
erishly this week to cap the No.
1 St. Charles Co., Aransas ooun
MRS. PATTERSON ILL
Mrs. V. T. Patterson, who has
been seriously ill in a Corpus
Christi hospital for several days,
was reported this morning to be
some better.
Shop Here
Bexley k Warren Grocery:
Sugar, 10 pounds__
Shortening, 4 pounds_
Pork Shoulder Roast,
— 33c
lb____15c
K. It G. Grocery:
Spuds, 10 pounds
Pop Corn, pound
Meats, pound
*s rood Store:
Oxydol, giant size
Puro Pork Sausage, pound 10c
Razor Blades, 2 pkgs. ■■■■
Houghton's Pood Store:
Coffee, Admiration, pound 22c
dozen ....... ...15c
Spinach, No. 2 can . 9c
*
ty wildcat which blew out of
control January 27 from a total
depth of 9335 feet. After burn-
ing for more than a week, the
blazing well was extinguished
eariy Friday morning.
The well continued to make
some oil and amber distillate by
“heads,” and threw mud and
muck over a wide area. The No.
1 St. Charles Co., has been de-
signated as the discovery well of
a field named St. Charles.
The San Patricio county politi-
cal Mannerheim line took on a
new aspect this week as the first
political siege guns spoke in the
form of declarations locally.
Four incumbents made their for-
mal statements of candidacy for
re-election in tHe Democratic
Primary on July 27, 1940.
Listed this week, as the dead-
line for poll tax payments passed
were: M. W. Williams, tax col-
lector and assessor; H. M. Jack-
son, county clerk; J. L. Hamil-
ton, district clerk; and C, Burtt
Potter, county attorney. ThFIr
formal statements appear else-
where in this issue of The Pro-
gress.
Meanwhile prospective candi-
dates conned the fattest poll tax
list ever recorded in San Patri-
cio. seeking to gain some idea of
voting strength and in which di-
rection it might lean. This and
other considerations had slowed
up announcements, but general
declarations for office were ex-
pected to pour .in during the
coming week.
No opposition for main county
offices has yet appeared. Re-
ports from various sections of the
county indicated that soma oppo-
sition might appear, but nothing
official had yet been announced
Liens Will Open
Milk Fund Drive
Neal Bigelow was appointed
chairman of the Lions Club Milk
Fund Committee, at tha regular
--ragu
of the club held Wed-
He will choose his as-
Relief Donations
For Finland Still
Stand at $89.50
to the Finnish
Aransas Pass
the fourth
or relief of
Contributions
Relief Fund by Ara
stood at $89:50' during
week of the drivfe fc
non-combatant civilians pushed
from their homes by the war in
Finland.
All donations should be made
to the Finnish Relief Fund, in
care of The Progress.
The list of contributions fol-
lows:
L T. Ayna____________110.00
"Program Subscriber” 10.06
Mas. L. I* flplm-------- 1J0
Dr. P. M. Dark__________ IM
Hugh Laa _:______ 5.00
A. Wayne Brown---1.00
Balia Brawn__ L00
Ca.___IN
W. A. Scrivner (x)___50.00
_ agree# M0
(x)—Mac|* Tftrect before Pro-
gress
it at TCU
arrived home Fri-
meeting
nesday.
sistants in a drive soon to begin
for the raising of funds to ouy
milk for underprivileged chil-
dren.
The public was asked to con-
tribute as liberally as they were
able to the fund. Milk bottles
will be distributed in the down
town area to receive contribu-
tions for this cause.
Two Other Oilers
Complete Oee Hew
Location is Made
Fourteen Rigs Are
at Work in Various
Parts of Field.
The Aransas Pam field’s west
edge had another producer
the recently-discovered 7300
zone, two other eompletlons
made in proven limits and
location recorded during a weak
of steady drilling activity.
Extending the 7300 sand ap-
proximately three-quarters miles
southward, Richardson Petro-
leum Co. No. 1 Mills, on the Una
between lots 1 and 2 in block
106, was flowing to storage at
the rate of approximately 111
barrels daily through a three-
sixteenths-inch choke tram per-
forations info the 7300 sand. The
well was deepened from around
7190, where it was formerly a
producer, to the 7300. Total
depth is 7634 feet '
Richardson immediately made
preparations to work over tha
No. L Cotter A Ayres directly
across the Ingleside highway. In-
dications were that following
the successful completion of
these wells, Richardson might
again enter the field as a
Texas Atlas Petroleum Ccx.
1 McPherson, et al., on the |
between tracts 5 and 6 in
207 of the Burton St Dm ____
west city farm tracts, was flow-
ing to storage ungauged from
perforations at around 7111 to
7115 feet in five and one-half-
inch casing set to 7489 feat
Pressures were 1800 pound* on
the casing and 1075 pound* on
the tubing.
Manahan Oil Co. No. 6 Car-
lock, on the line between lots 1
and 2 in block 7, was flowing to
storage ungauged from perfora-
tions around 7131 to 7142 faot.
Pressures were 2100 pounds on
the casing and 700 pounds on.
the tubing through a three-six-
teenths-inch choke.
LOCATION
After almost a year of inacti-
vity, L. L. Smith skidded their
idle rig on the Cavitt lease acrom
Avenue B and spudded the No. 1,
Nelson, on the line between lota
12 and 13 in block 4 on the south
end. _ m
.DRILLING ACTIVITY
Abbott Sc Traxler’s offset to
their Harris discovery well, th*
No. 1 Jean McCampbell Davis,
on the line between lots 6 and 7
in block 109, was making *
squeeze job in the 7300 sand fol-
lowing a showing of salt water J
with gas. Casing is set to 7901
feet.
Also on the west edge, Just
north of Highway 35. Tom Gra-
ham Oil Co. No. 1 Jean Davis,
on the line between lots 5 and 9
in block 48 of the McCampbell
subdivision, made a squeeze job
after perforating at 7326 to 731ft £
feet and wete preparing to
(Continued on page eight)
Heard
Mrs- Wm. Snyder
after being instrumental
planting of more than 1400 palm*
in Aransas Pam, she can’t
saying that
ental in the
They Say
t just
with-
MONROE SPRIEGEL: A few
more street lights might pre-
vent some of the wanton
breakage of plate glass win-
dows such as occurred at our
plumbing office Monday night.
LAIGH C. PARKER, airlines
executive: Haphazard adver-
tising frequently is a poor in-
vestment. Regularity and con-
sistency of insertions are the
secret of any protracted ad-
vertising campaign.
J. A. SHOBE: Gregory has an
auditorium, ’ Ingleside two,
Aransas Pam non*, except for
the small band practice house.
stand by and see them die
out doing something______Aurelia
Stanzel,
dancer
night, declaring t
watching a five-ring
-
“Little Old New
showing at the Rialto
---------Mr. and
To
York.
Sunday and
Mrs. C. H.
tice
after seeing the Spanish
Argentinita on Tuesday
that it wm lik*
>g circus,
watching her feet costume^
hands and face-there’s noth-
ing wrong with the voice* of
May Keepers’ rabbit hounds.
When little Billy Ed Yeager’s
aunt wanted him to give her a
hug, he very firmly refused, ex-
plaining “I don't do that in
lie”_Junior King just roc
received advance rating of Y<
man First Clam on the S3 Daria,
making the advancement In
about 4 years rather than the us-
ual six______Jf F. L. Clendenlng
can’t remember his new grand-
daughter’s name, he can look *1
the brand of a material in his
store: “Sharon”_that a good
many people didn’t like it at all
that the Cavalcade of Texas
didn’t even mention Aransm
Pam, Port Aransm or this coast
country.
Henry Wind saying |Wedne*-
day that he wm suffemik from
his first earache sincUH till
about 6
V
it never fail*—If
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