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Deadline
For Texas
Auto Safety
Stickers
Is April 15
The Winkler County News
Published Twice Weekly—Head Daily
(Member Associated Press)
Vol. 24—No. 2
Classified Ads on Page 4
Kermit, Winkler County, Texas
Weather
High Low Pr.
Thursday, March 31, 87 48
Friday, April 1............78 39
Saturday, April 2 .-..61 39 .22
Sunday, April 3, ________69 30
Monday, April 4
(7 a.m.)...................51 38
Monday, April 4, 1960
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BY RAY MARTIN
Then, to quote Maud Green,
there were big boys with little
dogs and little boys with big
dogs and big boys with big
dogs and little boys with little
dogs. They were everywhere,
all over the fire station. Be-
cause it was “Operation Vac-
cination” day for Kermit pets.
Cinderella Louise Durfindorff,
our Dachshund, was there to
get her shot and was frankly
amazed to find that there are
so many dogs in Kermit. For
that matter, she hasn’t known
there were that many dogs in
all of Texas because her ac-
quaintance with dogs since she
left her mother’s shelter in Big
Spring has been confined to
those she has seen through the
backyard fence — the near-
hjulldog back of us and the
fjomewhat Collie that lives the
other direction. And then there
is the Boston that chases the
car every time we go out on
The street. Except for those
Jflfor which we are thankful)
three dogs, they have never
been particularly neighborly
there have been few dogs in
Cindy Lu’s six-months-old life.
In fact, Cindy hasn’t quite
decided what she is, except
that she is something that de-
mands—and gets—the best that
Martin Manor has to offer.
There are times, we believe,
when she must think we are
the dogs and she the human.
Nevertheless, her excitement
over finding that the. canine
population is so great served to
occupy her attention while the
Doctor did his work, and she
was never aware of the needle.
But there was the big black
dog that was just behind us in
the line. He found nothing in-
tc-'-'sting in all the fellow dogs
he*sav/ there, and he let out a
whoop when the needle hit him
that could have been heard in
the next county. Apparently
he had been through all this be-
fore and found it most dis-
tasteful.
And there was the little
5-year-old lad who had brought
fpis prize hound to have the
mutt shot. It was hard to tell
whether the lad or the dog suf-
fered more in the process. Ob-
viously both were deeply pain-
fid by the operation, and neith-
er, apparently, could see the
slightest need for this vaccin-
ation business.
Funny what people do for
their pets. Come to think of
it, by the time a dog is a year
old, you’ve got a considerable
investment in him, what with
the original cost, the registra-
tion papers, the shots for rabies
and distemper, and the collar,
not to mention a considerable
sum invested in food.
Bigger
Bite Seen.
In County
Uncle Sam will be collecting
considerably more money in the
form of personal income taxes
from Winkler County residents
this year than he did last.
Based on their 1959 earnings,
compared with those in 1958,
it is expected that they will be
turning over some $159,000
more than they did last April
15, when local payments came
to an estimated $3,177,000. In-
cluded in these totals are the
sums already taken through
withholding taxes.
The figures, which are un-
official, take into account the
report of the Internal Revenue
Service for the State of Texas
as a whole, as well as total
earnings and income groupings
locally.
Returns from Winkler County
represent 0.17 per cent of the
amount collected in individual
taxes throughout the state as
a whole.
When all the payments are
in, by the middle of this month,
the Government expects that
the receipts will be about $3.4
billion greater than the previ-
ous year’s yield from personal
taxes.
A commensurate share of this
increase will be paid by local
residents, whose gross income
in 1959 was 5 per cent higher,
on the average, than it was in
1958.
This means a tax payment
(Continued on Page 7)
Choate, Melton Sweep
School Board Election
ELBY CHOATE
. . . Tops ticket
D. R.
(SLIM) MELTON
. Close second
Stores to Observe 6
Holidays This Year
Kermit business houses will
close for six holidays during
1960, including New Year’s Day
1961, it was announced Satur-
day following a meeting Thurs-
day of the Chamber of Com-
merce Merchants’ Retail Trade
Promotion Committee, headed
by L. G. Edwards.
The stores will close on Mon-
days when holidays fall on Sun-
day, it was decided.
Closing days will be:
Memorial Day, Monday, May
30.
Independence Day, Monday,
July 4.
Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 5.
There have been lots of pets
of one kind or another during
the more than a quarter of a
century since that Sunday morn-
ing in the mid-depression days
when the missus and I ex-
changed our “I do’s.”
1*T
CWI
•iminate ancestry that was
ohr first pet. We lived in a
l^iuse that was on the edge of
aristocracy, and up the street
was one of those big, colonial
homes with the tall pillars. But
it was another kind * of pillow
that caused us considerable
trouble. Seems the lady of that
big house put out some nice,
fluffy feather pillows one morn-
ing to sun.
The mutt that we had adopt-
ed (and he, in turn had adopt-
ed us) went visiting, wander-
ing into the big-home section.
He spied the pillows and for the
next half hour or so played
a nice little game of his own.
He “play-liked” the pillows
were vicious animals that he
had captured and had to shake
Vp breath out of.
'As I said, they were big
pillows — and, well, there were
white feathers floating in our
neighborhood for the next 1C
days or so, and the big colonial
house had the only pure white
lawn in the town. Folks must
have thought it was some new
kind of grass.
There were other dogs, some
of which managed to like our
mode of life and stayed with
us, others that saw greener dog
pastures just beyond and wan-
dered on. Of course, after a
while there was always the
excuse that our daughter need-
ed a dog. Children have done
more to encourage an other-
wise timid man to bring home
a flea hound than any other in-
stitution. Many a dog can
thank a father’s desire to pro-
439 Pets Vaccinated
During 2-Day Drive
Kermit has 439 pets — most
ly dogs — that should be im-
mune from rabies for a year,
thanks to a mass vaccination
program staged here last week.
That’s the number of pets that
visited the fire station last Wed-
nesday and Thursday after-
noons to get their shots and
City licenses.
As a result of the vaccin-
ation program participating
Boy Scout units are some $80
better off; 40 cents of the $2.50
vaccination fee charged by Dr.
Scott Reynolds for his services
was given to the Scouts.
World War I
Vets to Meet
Veterans of World War I
Post 2002 are to meet at the
Community Center tonight
(Monday) for their April meet-
ing, Lyndon Webb, Veterans’
officer here, announced Satur-
day. The meeting will start
at 7:30 o’clock.
Further discussion of the new
pension plan which goes into
effect July 1 will be the princi-
pal business of the meeting,
Webb said.
Dr. Reynolds, who operates
an animal hospital in Andrews,
has agreed to return to Kermit
e-r r" Wednesday afternoon,
from 1 to 4 o’clock to vaccinate
pets and to treat small ani-
mals. Fee, however, for vac-
cination will be $3, 50 cents
higher than the fee charged
during last week’s mass innoc-
ulation program. City dog li-
cense fee is $1.25 additional.
He will continue to maintain a
temporary shop in the fire sta-
tion for his Wednesday visits
to Kermit.
The interest in the vaccin-
ation program was strength-
ened late in March when a cat
which had bitten or scratched
three Kermit children was
found to be rabid. All three
of the children are undergoing
rabies treatment.
Dr. Harper Peddicord, City
Health Officer, and City Sani-
tarian Gene Burnett urge all
owners of pets to have them
vaccinated. This applies to
cats as well as dogs, they ex-
plained, and both cats and dogs
should have the immunization
shots. Fee is the same for all
Thanksgiving Day, Thursday,
Nov.- 24.
Christmas Day, Sunday, Dec.
25, (closed Monday, Dec. 26).
New Year’s Day, Sunday,
Jan. 1 (closed on Monday,
Jan. 2).
Store hours also were discuss-
ed, but no action was taken and
operating hours were left to the
discretion of the various oper-
ators. The committee also de-
cided to promote sale of the
new 50-state flags, and will urge
each business house to display
its flag on appropriate days, it
was decided. John Read
will meet with the American
Legion and work out a schedule
for flag displays.
Christmas retail trade promo-
tion also was discussed, but
plans will be worked out later,
it was decided. The committee
also will sponsor “Crazy Days”
again this year.
The committee will meet
again April 28 at 9:30, it was
announced.
Members of. the committee,
in addition to Edwards, are
Sam Cates, Leo Hobson, D. O.
Gray, Elmo Glass, Max Eckels,
Gus Mueller, Joe Arledge, G.
E. Smead, Verne Curry, J. P.
Bewley, George Reich, Frank!
Knight, Johnny Garza, Kenneth
Sweet, E. A. Stodghill, Gordon
Cooper, Verne Jackson, A. C.
Williams, F. L. Ledbetter, Mc-
Kinley Spruill, John T. Read
Jr., Durwood Haddock and Bill
Ware.
1,416 Cast
Ballots to
SetRecord
With an all-time record of
I, 416 ballots cast, voters in
Kermit Independent School Dis-
trict named Elby Choate and
D. R. (Slim) Melton to places
on the School Board in last
Saturday’s election.
They succeed Louis G. Ed-
wards, an appliance and gift
store owner, and Elmo H. Glass,
owner of a men’s store. Glass
and Edwards were up for re-
election and Glass is president
of the board.
Choate, superintendent for a
construction firm, polled 745
votes and Melton, an oil firm
employee, got 744 votes.
C. W. Wright, another con-
struction man, ran third with
650 votes. Edwards received 335
votes and Glass polled 294
votes.
Despite rain, wind and blow-
ing dust, turnout for Saturday’s
election, held at the Junior
High School Library, was the
greatest in the history of the
school. Previous record was
700 ballots cast five years ago.
Hold-over members of the
School Board are Gilbert Phil-
lips, vice-president; D. L.
Handlin, secretary; R. L. Clark,
J. M. Waddell and W. A. An-
derson.
Voters here go> to the
polls again tomorrow (Tues-
day) to name two City Council-
men and a Mayor with six can-
didates entered in the Council
race and two seeking the job
of Mayor.
Voting will be done at the
City Hall with the polls to open
at 8 o’clock and closing at 7
p.m.
Those seeking Council posi-
tions are:
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CENSUS-TAKERS AT WORK—All census tak-
ers and their director line up for formal photograph
before going out to start enumerating. From left to
right are Mrs. J. T. Carr, Mrs. G. T. Gilligan, Mrs. O.
L. Batchelor, Mrs. H. W. Froelich, Mrs. Dennis B riles,
15,000 to 20,000 Total Expected
Roy Peden, Eva
J ames D. Sharp,
Mrs. E. F. Davis, Director Mrs.
Morris, Mrs. Fred Miracle, Mrs.
Mrs. Bob Fagg, Mrs. Calvin Stevens, Mrs. Charles
Dennis, Mrs. Keith Huiatt and Mrs. Curtis Allen.
(News Staff Photo)
I960 Census-Taking Off to Brisk Start
Nose-counting of Winkler
County residents is on in full
swing, and Mrs. Roy Peden,
director of the census here, says
many homes were visited dur-
ing the first two days of enu-
Texaco Completes Kermit Well
For Gasser in 10,000-Foot Sand
BY JAMES C. WATSON
News Oil Writer
Texaco, Inc., No. 32 Seth
Campbell has been completed
as a McKee sand gas discovery
in the Kermit, South (multi-
pay) field in Central Winkler
County.
Operator finaled the strike for
animals, and cats also should La calculated, absolute open flow
have City licenses I potential of 600,000 cubic feet
SNOOPY GETS SHOT—This is Snoopy, a dog of varied ancestry, taking the
needle in Wednesday and Thursday’s rabies vaccination drive here. Watching—
and sharing the mutt’s pain—is 5-year-old Timothy Victor Weaver, son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. W. Weaver, who owns Snoopy, rescued from the dog pound. Applying the
needle is Dr. Scott Reynolds, who vaccinated 439 pets during the campaign. (News
of gas per day, through perfor-
ations from 9,946 to 10,042 feet.
Gas-liquid ratio was 10,300-1.
Pay was fractured with 15,000
gallons.
Location is 1,800 feet from
south and 1,300 feet from east
lines of section 22, block B-3,
psl’ survey and three miles
east of Kermit.
Texaco No. 29 Seth Campbell,
project two miles northeast of
Kermit and one mile orthwest
of No. 32 Seth Campbell, was
testing in the Ellenburger on
last report.
The project swabbed and
flowed 38 barrels of load oil,
six barrels of acid water and
132 barrels of new oil in nine
hours, from open hole section
at 10,618-10,628 feet in the El-
lenburger. The zone was treat-
ed with 250 gallons of acid.
This project has indicated
production in the McKee sec-
tion from pay behind casing
perforations from 9,899 to 9,998
feet.
Location is 1,800 feet from
north and east lines of section
23, block B-3, psl survey.
Skeily Oil Company No. 166
S. M. Plailey has been com-
pleted as a dual well in the
Emperor (Ellenburger and De-
vonian) field in Central Wink-
ler County, five miles south of
Kermit.
From the Ellenburger, it fi-
naled for a calculated, abso-
lute open flow potential of
8,100,000 cubic feet of gas per
Postal Clerk’s
Position Open
United States Civil Service
Commission for the Eighth
Region, which includes Texas,
has announced applications are
being accepted for a substitute
clerk-carrier in the Kermit Post
Office, H. L. Almond, Post-
master, says. Entrance salary
will be $2 per hour.
Applications must be filed
with the Regional office, 1114
Commerce Street, Dallas 2, not
later than April 11. Applicants
should file Form T^o. 5000-AB
day, through perforations from
11,330 to 11,362 feet. Gas-liquid
ratio was 82,600-1, with gravity
of the liquid 56.9 degrees.
From the Devonian, it finaled
for a calculated, asolute open
flow potential of 32,100,000 cubic
feet of gas per day, through
perforations from 9,132 to 9,284
feet. Gas-liquid ratio was 143,-
200-1. Gravity of the liquid
was 55.8 degrees.
Location is 1,430 feet from
north and 660 feet from east
lines of section 6, block B-ll,
psl survey.
Texaco, Inc. will re-enter an
old dry hole in the Wheeler,
Northwest (multipay) area and
attempt completion in the Wolf-
camp.
The East Winkler County
project is No. 1 Waddell Broth-
ers, 1,980 feet from north and
east lines of section 5, block
B-7, psl survey, 15 miles
east of Kermit.
Zodiac Oil & Gas Company
No. 3 Venmar has been com-
pleted as the third well in a
recently opened west extension
area to the Hendrick field in
Central Winkler County.
On 24-hour potential test, the
well pumped 72.52 barrels of 29.5-
gravity oil, plus 75 per cent
water, through perforatiosns
from 2,947 to 2,954 feet, after
a 2,000-gallon acid treatment.
Wellsite is 2,310 feet from
north and 1,650 feet from east
lines of section 31r block 26, psl
Buffalo Petroleum Corpora- 3-Y Belli QRGt
tion No. 1 Sealy-Smith Foun-
dation, re-enetered project in
Southwest Winkler County, has
started pumping operations.
During the first 20 hours of
testing on the pump, the wild-
cat returned 33 barrels of new
oil and 127 barrels of water,
through upper Clear Fork, per-
forations from 5,570 to
feet.
Originally drilled by Sunray
Mid-Continent Oil Company to
10,890 feet and plugged, the
project is one mile northwest
of the one-weli Paladin pool, 15
miles southeast of Kermit and
660 feet from south and east
merating Friday and Saturday.
Advance estimates show be-
tween 15,000 and 20,000 persons
will be counted in this county
with 18,000 as the most likely
figure.
The enumerators, all 13 of
them, armed with their enu-
merator portfolios, began call-
ing on homes bright and early
Friday and continued their call-
ing through Saturday. They will
not work on Sundays unless
someone calls to request a Sun-
day visit, Mrs. Peden said.
Attempt is being made to get
all the information on the first
call. Persons who are not at
home when the enumerators
call will find a note pinned to
their front door telling them
that the census taker has called
and giving the approximate
time of a call-back.
Only two such call-backs are
to be made. If no one is at
home the third time around, the
enumerator will leave special
forms with the request that the
information be supplied and
mailed to the district office.
Residents are asked NOT to
mail the forms which they have
received in the mail. They are
to be filled out and kept for the
enumerator when she calls.
Mrs. Peden explained that it is
not practical to mail in all the
reports since one household in
every four counted is requested
to answer special questions re-
garding income, etc. “If we
had the people mail in their re-
ports instead of keeping them
for the enumerators it would
be impossible to get these one-
in-four counts made,” she ex-
plained.
Each enumerator will have
no more than 500 housing units
to call on, Mrs. Peden says,
and with “good luck we might
be finished by April 15.”
Jaycees Plan
Plans for an installation ban-
quet and dance were aired last
Wednesday night, March 30, at
a meeting of Kermit Junior
Chamber of Commerce in Com-
munity room of Permian Sav-
ings and Loan Association.
Bill Ware, chairman of ban-
5, 630 jquet committee, reported tenta-
tive plans call for installation
banquet and dance sometime
in May.
Also discussed during the
meeting, which was attended
by 16 Jaycees, were plans for
attending the Texas State Jay-
cee meeting in Houston, April
The census takers will be easy
to identify. Each census-taker
will wear a red, white and blue
identification card on her lapel.
This card bears the seal of the
Department of Commerce and
the words, “Census Enumerat-
or, Official Credential” are
printed across its face. Per-
sons purporting to be census
takers who do not have this
identification card should be re-
ported immediately to the local
census office.
Census takers will be further
identified by the portfolio con-
taining their supplies. The port-
folio is brown and bears the
legend, “1960 Census of the
United States,” printed in green
ink. In the portfolio, the cen-
sus taker carries her supplies
of report forms, maps, pencils
and other tools of the trade.
Geraldine Miracle is field re-
viewer, and she or Mrs. Peden
will make the special calls to
homes requesting visits out-
side regular calling hours of the
enumerators. District super-
visor is J. Glenn Bixler, El
Paso.
“We certainly hope that all
householders will have their ad-
vance forms ready,” Mrs. Pe-
den says, These were sent out
by mail some time ago. The
advance form contains the sev-
en i population and six housing
questions which are asked of
all persons. Its use is expected
to speed up the field canvass
and provide more accurate sta-
tistics. (.
Mrs. Peden says that people
here have been “most co-op-
erative,” adding, “Most of them
whom we contacted in the early
period of the census were more
than glad to give the informa-
tion to the enumerators. We
deeply appreciate this co-oper-
ation.”
She pointed out again that all
information about individuals
and homes furnished to the Cen-
sus Bureau is held in absolute
confidence under Federal law.
It is used' only to provide sum-
mary figures such as totals,
averages and percentages. The
information about individuals
cannot be furnished to any oth-
er than sworn census employes
and thus cannot be used for
investigation, taxation or regu-
lation.
Enumerators in this county, in
addition to Mrs. Peden and
Mrs. Miracle, arfe Clara Batch-
elor, Mary Carr, Virginia Daw-
son, Gretchen Froelich, Mary
Fagg, Eva Morris, Bettie Den-
nis, LaNere Gilligan, Norma
Sharp, Gladys Huiatt, Gen-
evieve Stevens, and Marie Al-
len.
In Loving County, which is
also in this area, the enumer-
ator is Dorothy Davis.
Kermit’s Play Wins
Second; Ector First
Ector High School’s perform-
ance of “Humulus” won for it
first-place honors Thursday at
the Interscholastic League One-
Act Play contest conducted at
Kermit High School Auditor-
ium.
Kermit’s presentation of “Rec-
ognition Scene from Anastasia”
placed second.
Named to the all-star cast
and also as best actress was
Sandra Martin of Kermit. Oth-
ers named to all-star cast were
Sandra Croom of Ector and
Betty Bryan of Andrews.
Boys named to cast included
Larry Edge as best actor, Jer-
ry Byford of Ector and Douglas
Nixon, Ector. #
Kermit’s cast included Miss
Martin, Camilla Carr and Don
Horne. Mrs. Mary Brown di-
rected.
Winners of this contest will
take part in an area contest,
then regional and finally state
contest, according to Neal B.
Dihman, local contest director.
Roach, superintendent of
schools at Andrews was direct-
or general. , •
Mrs. Doris Pyle’s cast from
Ector High included Sandra
Croom, Kerry Armstrong, Jer-
ry Byford, Douglas Nixon, Mar-
liria Barnett, James Hicks,
Gayle Converse, Pam Hatfield,
Oleta Holder and Shirley
Hunt.
Brownfield High School pre-
sented “The Long Stay Cut
Short,” featuring Leenell Ches-
shir, Elbert Landers and Ann
Copeland; “The Decision” was
Pecos High School’s entry. Star-
ring were Todd Pearson, Gil-
lene Pflugger, Truman Bowers,
Kate Scott, Kay Daniels, Mary
Spence and Carol Ann Guess.
Dixie Franklin, Marvilyn Rus-
sell, Carolyn Ray and Sarah
Jane Martin took roles in
“Overtones,” as presented., in
the contest by Monahans High
School. Andrews High’ School’s
“The Flattering Word,” wa§
played by Nickie Pike, Lynda
Hendrick, Betty Bryan, Sahdee
Tidwell and Larry Edge.
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