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The Winkler County News
Published Weekly—Read RmUy
(Member Associated Pfess)
Vol. 29 — No. 31
5 Cents per Copy
Kermit, Winkler County, Texas
Friday, December 4, 1964
Thousands Watch Christmas Parade
Gas Plant Engine
Damaged in Blaze
BY LELAND BOYD ceiling and was ignited by the
Staff Writer engine’s exhaust, Phillips said.
A generator engine’s oil filter A sump pump in the engine’s pres-
cap blew off, hot lube oil sprayed sure lubrication system con-
upward and ignited, and a roaring tinued to pick up oil and sling it
fire developed at 2 a.m., Thurs- out, feeding the fire,
day, at Sid Richardson Gasoline The metal surrounding the en-
Plant located some 10 miles gine was soon heated enough to
northeast of Kermit. One worker re-ignite the oil after workers
suffered burns on his hands and extinguished it the first time. The
was checked later at a Kermit oil re-ignited several times after
doctor’s office, according to plant workers had the flames out.
manager Wilbur Phillips. Kermit firemen, called to help
Damage from the fire, confined with the blaze, were stymied
to the plant's generator room, when the distributor system on
was expected to total $4,000 or t>heir 1952 truck gave
more, Phillips said. trouble and stalled the unit about
Ben Smith, who joined other halfway to the fire,
workers in fighting the fire with Another truck was dispatched
foam and powder fire extinguish- to the scene. Efforts to bring the
ers, suffered the burn. It was fire under control were not hamp-
not considered serious. ered by the truck’s being out of
In addition to the damage to the commission, because water was
engine and the building, the plant not used to control the fire at
was forced to shut down for some first, Phillips said,
eight hours. Shutting down the--—
plant and trying to extinguish the
fire in darkness gave plant work-
ers plenty of trouble, Phillips
said.
The fire developed in the
plant’s electricity generating
room when the oU pressure cap were checked
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The oil was sprayed toward the a rash of accidents in Ker*
3 Are Hurt
In Accidents
Books Available
At Sun Office
mit Tuesday afternoon and even-
ing.
Admitted to the hospital for
treatment of a leg injury was
Manuel Garcia of Pecos. Garcia
was identified as driver of a car
involved in an accident at the
The Sun has received another intersection of Bryan and Elm
shipment oi v .%: h streets Tuesday av p.m.
Is Passed and The Warren Re- Garcia remained in the hospital
port. Wednesday for observation. Of-
Persons who ordered either of ficials said his condition was
these books and have not picked satisfactory,
up their copies yet may do so
at The Sun office.
Garcia’s car was totally de-
molished, according to Kermit
There is also a limited supply police investigators,
of extra copies of both of these Mrs. Patsy Ruth Wright of
books for persons who did not 909 Robinson Street and her
order them in advance but would daughter, Charla, 7, were also
like to purchase one now. These checked following the same ac-
books will be sold on a first- cident. They were released after
come, first-served basis. emergency treatment of injuries.
The Warren Report sells for The car in which the Wrights
$1.50 and The Torch Is Passed were passengers sustained $500
costs $2 each. in damage, police said.
The Sun has also made special other accidents were free of
arrangements with The Associa- personal injuries, according to
ted Press to sell a new book, officers.
The World In 1964— History
As We Lived It.
They were the following:
Cars driven by Michael E.
2 New Buildings
Started in City
During Month
Two new structures were un-
dertaken in Kermit during No-
vember, one a residential build-
ing and the other a commercial
structure. The information was
obtained from a survey of the
City of Kermit building permits
issued by the tax office.
In addition to the two new con-
struction projects, 13 remodel-
ing or alteration permits were
obtained.
Total value of construction
started during the month amount-
ed to $33,686, the permits
showed.
Oasis Builders was listed as
owner of one of the new buildings,
a frame and brick veneer resi-
dence located at 901 East Dallas
Street. It is valued at $17,600.
Roy L. Moore was owner of
the other new structure started.
Located at 1015 Bellaire, the
brick building will be used for
commercial purposes. Cope
Brown Lumber Co. was listed as
contractor and the project was
valued at $10,500.
Alteration permits issued dur-
ing the month include the follow-
ing:
Armando Navarro, 247 North
Hickory, addition of abedroomto
his house, $600.
Frank Harris, Wink Highway,
repair fire damage.
J. T. Kinard, 451 North Oak
Street, add bedroom and dining
room to house, $1,000.
L. W. Dixon, 127 North Maple
Street, add bedroom to house,
$1,000.
H. D. Grogan, Grogan Mold
Co., 104 West Sweetwater, re-
model showroom, $1,000.
H. R. West, 201 South Main
Street, add carport to house,
$136.
Hardy McClary, 206 North Ave-
nue B, add utility room, $800.
Bill Pence, 606 North Avenue
A, add den, $150.
E. E. Williams, 622 North Mul-
berry Street, moving and alter-
ing building, $250.
Rex Spival, 440 North Ash
Street, add carport, $150.
Cal W. Renfro, 720 North Ave-
nue B, add den, $150.
O. L. Myers, 238 Bert Street,
add storage room $100.
English Estate and Julian R.
Hoisager, 123 North Ash Street,
sheetrock building and add cab-
inet shop, $250.
DA-Elect Puts On No Airs
Kermit Keeps Tradition
Of Old West,Say sNugent
This new book will include Barron of 600 Underwood Street
news stories of the last year and Fred R. Garcia of 127 South
plus many, many AP photos, in- Spruce collided at the intersec.
eluding a number of them in full tion of Elm and Bryan Streets
color. The book will be available at 2:58 p.m. Damage to both
in January and will include events cars amounted to some $900,
of the full year, including the police said.
month of December.
Orders are now being taken
Cars driven by Eldeen John-
son of 401 North Poplar Street
for this book and gift certificates and Ruby Smith of 275 Van Street
are available for persons wishing collided at 5:05 p.m. in the 200
to give this excellent book as. block 0f Van Street. Damage to
a Christmas gift. The book sells both cars amounted to$40, police
for $3 per copy. You may order said.
one by sending in a check for A Car belonging to R. H. Comp-
$3 to The Sun, Drawer A, Ker- ton rolled from his driveway col-
mit or by coming in to the office., nding with a car driven by Larry
Jones at 6:05 p.m. Tuesday.
Snelson Visits
Winkler County
W. E. (Pete) Snelson, State
Senator-elect for the 29th Dis-
trict, toured Winkler County
Tuesday, expressing his person-
al thanks and appreciation to the
voters.
While in Winkler County, Snel-
son attended the luncheon meeting
of the Wink Lions Club, visited
schools, businesses and the
County Court House.
Snelson announced that he plans
to visit Winkler County monthly.
BY ED ANDERSON
Staff Writer
There's no put-on about the
109th District's Attorney-elect,
Don Nugent. ‘ ‘If I have any nat-
ural talent I have yet to recog-
nize it,” he says. "You take
math. I have flunked about every
course I have ever taken in it
including algebra and geometry.
I would like to say Abraham Lin-
coin or something else noble in-
spired me to be a lawyer, but
the truth is the study of law
appealed to me because it didn’t
require math.”
The 38-year-old native of Iowa
Park, Texas, will take over here
Jan. 1 as District Attorney for
Andrews, Crane and Winkler
counties, the result ofaMayl964
primary and a June 6 run-off. He
was unopposed in the November
general election.
When Nugent was a child his
family moved to a farm in
southern Oklahoma. “It was dur-
ing the Great Depression of the
1930’s and if you have ever
worked on a dryland farm in
Oklahoma you know what a de-
pression is,” the attorney said.
Discovery of oil, the Wasson
Pool in the Denver City area,
drew Nugent’s father in 1938.
“We were sort of pioneers in
that town,” Nugent said. “My
father became the first janitor
of the high school there. My love
for oil towns has remained since
those days. Oil towns preserve
the Old West as no others. It
was a tradition in the old V.'j'St
that a man was taken at face
value and held innocent, so to
speak, until proven otherwise.
Kermit is like that today. The
past of a man is not questioned.
It is his performance today that
counts. It places a man on his
honor.”
The District Attorney • elect
served in the Navy in World War
II, the Pacific Theater including
Okinawa. “I did not know exactly
what I wanted to do after the war,
but I did return to the oil country.
I worked out of Odessa in the
fields. My wife encouraged me to
take a pre-law course at Texas
Tech in Lubbock. Our daughter
Gloria, now 14, was an infant.
We went on to Austin and I got
my law degree in the University
of Texas. I became secretary in
the Court of Criminal Appeals at
Austin. Here I saw an array of the
state’s best known lawyers per-
form. Their dedication to law im-
pressed me. It wasn’t the money.
It has occurred to me that if
money is the principal aim of a
lawyer he may acquire it, but he
is not likely to have peace of
mind. If you don’t have peace of
mind you get ill. It is logic: I
had rather be poor and healthy
than rich and sick.”
For a year Nugent was an inves-
tigator for the State Secur-
ities Board. He chose Gatesville
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LINDA LIKES HER DADDY'S LAW OFFICE — Linda
Nugent, 8, was quite willing Wednesday to have her picture
taken in the office of her father, Don Nugent, Kermit’s Dis-
trict Attorney-elect. There are two more Nugent youngsters,
Gloria, 14 and Jay Kenneth, 6. Starting Jan. 1, Nugent will
direct the prosecution of indicted in the 109th District
of Winkler, Andrews and Crane Counties._
A panel of 45 Winkler County
residents has been summoned for
possible duty as petit jurors in
109th District Court. The panel
members have been instructed to
report to the District Courtroom
on the third floor of the County
Courthouse at 9:30a.m. Tuesday,
Dec. 8.
The panel includes names of
41 Kermit residents and four
persons from Wink.
Those listed on the panel from
Kermit include the following:
Benny Bob Brumlow, Mrs. K.
E. Burrows, James W. Cabbell,
G. G. Ledbetter, W. C. McGee,
Carter Magendie, Thurman Mar-
tin, R. D. Maxwell, Frank Med-
ford, Herman M. Nix, Doyle Nutt,
Mrs. H. E. Odom, Roy L. Peden,
Student Council Float
Wins First Place Prize
Thousands of Kermit young-
sters with their apparently not
too unwilling parents in tow,
lined city streets Tuesday aft-
ernoon to watch the annual Christ-
mas parade.
The parade, with 28 units, was
the largest ever staged in the
city to open the holiday season.
Named winners of cash prizes
for floats were Kermit High
School Student Council, first
place; and Epsilon Sigma Alpha
Sorority, Iota DeltaChapter, sec-
ond place. Receiving honorable
mention were the Tumbleweed
Theta Rho Club and Beta Sigma
Phi Sorority, Exemplar Chapter,
floats.
Contest judges included J. W.
Blocker and Mrs. J. W. Cronen-
berg of Jal, N. M., and Mrs.
Billie Miller and Sande Miller,
both of Odessa. Miss Sande Mil-
ler is a former Miss West Texas.
Leading the parade was a color
guard of Boy Scouts with Parade
Marshal Melvin Bartley, chief
of police, following. County Judge
W. E. Cook and Kermit Mayor
G. L. (Jerry) McGuire also rode
in a lead car. Members of the
Kermit Chamber of Commerce
Roughneck Club, who served as
parade organizers, also took
part.
However, all the bands and
floats and marching units were
secondary to the star attraction
as the thousands of youngsters
shouted mightily at the sight of
their welcome visitor . . . Santa
Claus.
The jolly fellow dressed in his
red suit came into the city riding
atop a bright red fire truck,
waving to the children all along
the parade route.
Police Department Officials
said crowds filled the streets
from the starting point on Olive
and Austin Streets all the way to
Walton Stadium where the affair
broke up. In many places crowds
were sitting upon cars and trucks
in order to get high enough to
see over the mass of people stand-
ing before them.
Other parade participants in-
cluded the following:
Wink Wildcat Band, Cub Scout
Packs, BUI Campbell's 1923 Mod-
el T, Comanche Archers, Grace
Temple Baptist Church, Brum-
low's Flying Service, First Na-
tional Bank, Kermit Junior High
School Band, Girl Scout Troop 5,
Girl Scout Troop 16, Junior Girl
Scouts and Brownies, Kermit
Fire Department, Belvue Baptist
Church, Junior GA, B&B Car
Parts, Kermit Downtown Lions
Club, Kermit High School K Band,
Senoritas de las Rosas of Odessa
College, Beta Sigma Phi, Lamb-
da Alpha Chapter, the Kermit
Saddle Club and the Winkler Coun-
ty Sheriff's Department.
With Police Chief Melvin Bart-
ley leading the way as parade
marshal, along with several
members of the Chamber's
Roughneck Club, the parade wUl
proceed east on Austin street
from Its point of formation on
Olive Street to Poplar Street.
At this point the marchers wUl
turn south and continue to Walton
Stadium where the parade wUl
disband.
Christmas lights will be turned
on in downtown Kermit tonight for
the first time and the holiday sea-
son wUl be officially under way
here.
Panel Called
For Duty Next Week
Mystery Scheduled
As Class Production
M. C. Partin, C. H. Phillips,
James Sedberry, G. E. Smead,
Elton Smith, Shirley V, Smith,
John J. Stanley, Carter B. Stew-
art Arthur W. Davis, E. D. De-
ment, T. L. Dinwiddie, Albert L.
Dixon, Billy O. Dodd, Larry Fer-
nandes, Mary C. Foster, B. J.
Fugate, Alvin Garrison, J. L.
Germany, C. W. Gold, Purdy S.
Hays, Pat Haygood, W. E. Hen-
rich, Lloyd Hill, LUlie L Hop-
kins, T. R. Heustis, Mary Lou
Robinson, Vernie Marie Allen
and James C. Barnett.
Those from Wink called for
duty include:
Joe West, Mrs. C. M. Wilson,
B. C. Weathermon and Mary
Reid.
The Junior Class of Kermit
High School is to present a play,
Who Dun' It, Saturday at 8 p.m.,
at High School Auditorium.
The play, a mystery-comedy,
is to be produced by a cast of 10
players with a number of sup-
porting prop men and arrange-
ments caretakers.
Leading role is played by Judd
Graves, who is a wealthy writer
of mystery books and stories,
identified as Alexander Arling-
ton.
The story: Arlington is mur-
dered, secures permission of the
archangel (Rex Mann) and two les-
ser angels (Glenda Crawford and
Donna Stanley) to enter heaven.
However, he is disturbed because
he was unable to remember or
find out who murdered him. By
special dispensation, he is per-
mitted to return to the world, to
see if he can discover who mur-
dered him — to relive his last
day.
In his investigation he finds
that all of his associates have
motives to kill him —including
his fiancee (Martha Spinks), sec-
retary (Diane Grogan), a nephew
(Marc King), his butler (Dennis
Elam), and his maid (Georgia
Potter).
Others with possible motives
for desiring his death are a foot-
ball great (Pinky Floyd) and a
hoodlum's glamorous girl
(Sharyn Moore).
Faculty director, Paul Wil-
moth, High School drama in-
structor, has torn out the final
pages of the play to hide the out-
come. The students, as it is
planned, will receive the last
pages to find out the outcome
only with enough advance time
to learn the parts.
Others involved in production
of the play are Jimmy Seward,
student director; Keith Ander-
son, stage manager: Betsy Bur-
nett, business manager, and nu-
merous class members who have
prepared the set and will operate
the stage.
Admission for adults is $1.
Student tickets cost 50 cents.
Tickets may be purchased from
members of the class or at the
door.
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CHRISTMAS PARADE WINNERS — Float at left,prepared
by Kermit High School Student Council, won first place in
Tuesday’s Christmas Parade. Pictured below is the second
place winner, Iota Delta Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha
Sorority. In the center is everyone’s winner, that jolly fellow
himself, Santa Claus. (Staff Photo)
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Sclair, Dave. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, December 4, 1964, newspaper, December 4, 1964; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth810027/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Winkler County Library.