The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 103, Ed. 1 Monday, April 30, 1962 Page: 1 of 14
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The Winkler County News
Published Twice Weekly—Head Daily
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Totol 1962 rainfall ....................2.28
Vol. 26—No. 103
Classified Ads on Page 4
Kermit, Winkler County, Texas
14 Pages in Two Sections'.
Monday, April 30* 1962
HONOR SOCIETY INITIATES — Nine Kermit
High School seniors and juniors were inducted into the
KHS chapter of the National Honor Society Sunday
afternoon. Shown during a practice are (left to right)
Richard Campbell, president, and new members Roy
Drake, Richard Etheredge, Barbara Matthews, Anita
Holmans, Judy Bragg, Linda Franklin, Roi Sue Fisher,
Marie Alexander and Joan Graves. (News Staff Photo)
Extensive Street Repair
Programs Set for Summer
Work on streets and roads
■%hroughout Kermit and Wink-
ler County will be started in
the near future by both the
jgCity of Kermit and Winkler
Bounty with the total cost es-
timated at over $100,000.
Bidding on work to be per-
formed for the county will
close May 14 while city proj-
County Library,
Hospital Bids to
Be Let Tuesday
Winkler County Commission-
ers will open bids for the gen-
eral construction work on Wink-
ler County Memorial Hospital
and Winkler County Public Li-
brary Tuesday afternoon in the
«mnty courtroom.
Winkler County Judge W. E.
Cook said a large number of
|rms ’are expected to submit
flps on the two projects. Firms
can bid on either of the jobs
or both of them, he added.
Last week, Commissioners
opened bids on the electrical
and mechanical portions of the
projects. He reported the Court
took the bids on those aspects
of the work separately in order
to allow general contractors to
include the low bidders in their
planning.
Judge Cook said this method
of letting the contract had not
been tried in the County previ-
ously, but was recommended
by Homer Pace, the County’s
architect from the Midland
firm of Pierce, Norris, Pace As-
sociates. “We feel this will re-
sult in getting us the best job
at the lowest possible cost,”
Judge Cook said.
Funds for constructing a new
wing at the hospital and also
the library, plus extensive ren-
ovations to the interior of the
buildings, were provided last
year in a special county bond
election. Voters approved a
$300,000 bond issue to finance
the hospital work and $10,000
for the library project.
Republican County
Meeting Set May 12
Kermit Elam will be the
featured speaker at the Repub-
lican County Convention Satur-
day, May 12, in the county
courtroom, according to Allen
Kuykendall, co-chairman of
the county organization..
Elam, a Gulf Oil Corporation
employe, is a former school
teacher and a navy veteran.
Kuykendall said the main
item of business on the agenda
for the meeting will be electing
two delegates to the state con-
vention at Fort Worth Sept. 8.
ects are still in the final
stages of planning. Contracts
on the paving and rebuild-
ing work to be performed in
Kermit by the city probably
will be ready for bidding
sometime next month.
The city’s projects, which
include an extensive program
of rebuilding streets in the
Walton Addition, are expect-
ed to cost between $80-$85,000,
according to City Manager
Howard Willingham. Much of
the work has been provided
for, fund-wise, through the $1
million bond issue voted by
Kermit residents for capital
improvements last year.
Projects planned by the
County include work in both
Kermit and Wink and on
County roads.
Winkler County Judge W.
E. Cook said engineers work-
ing for the County have esti-
mated the total work will
probably cost in the neighbor-
hood of $20-$25,000. Some sec-
tions of seal coating will be
done by the County in their
work program, but the great-
est extent of the endeavor
will be in penetration coat.
One area to be sealcoated
in Kermit is Avenue D in Pre-
cinct 3. The seal coat will be
applied from State Highway
302 to State Highway 115. The
County is doing the work on
the street as a swap for the
payments due the city on the
cost of the preparation of the
master plan for Kermit, ac-
cording to Judge Cook and
Willingham. Also in Precinct
3, a block of paving on San
Antonio Street from Avenue
H to East Avenue will be per-
formed by the County. The
street was cut through last
fall in order to provide an-
other access road to Purple
Sage School. The new butane
Owen Brings Senate
Campaign to Kermit
Frank Owen III of El Paso
today (Monday) authorized The
News to announce his candi-
dacy for re-election to the office
of State Senator from the 29th
Senatorial District, subject to
the action of the Democratic
Primary May 5.
The El Paso native has been
a member of the State Legis-
lature for the past 12 years,
of which eight years have been
spent in the Senate. He is an
attorney, having obtained his
law degree from the Universi-
ty of Texas and completed pre-
law work at Texas Western.
He also has farming and ranch-
ing interests.
FRANK OWEN I
. . campaigns in
city
Speaking of his campaign,
Owen said, “I am in the wind-
up of a vigorous campaign, hav-
ing visited all over the district
almost continuously in the last
few weeks.
“I was happy to be back in
Kermit last week visiting with
all my old friends and making
a number of new ones. I have
found every place I go people
are extremely interested in
maintaining the leadership we
have had in the Senate from
this district and they realize
the importance of the seniority
which has been built up by
their Senator.
“It is my opinion that in view
of the certainty that we will
have a new Lieutenant Govern-
or and many other new faces
in high offices of the State that
it is even more important to
this district that we have a
seasoned veteran Senator.”
Owen is presently serving as
chairman of the Senate Oil and
Gas Committee for the second
consecutive term and is expect-
ed to be re-appointed to this
position in the next session of
the Senate. The committee,
Owen explained, is one of the
most vital to the welfare of the
Permian Basin area that exists
in the Legislature.
The Senator is married and
has six children, ranging in age
from 4 to 14 years. He is active
in numerous civic organizations
and is a veteran of World War
II. Owen is on the official board
of the St. Mark’s Methodist
Church in El Paso and has
taught a Sunday School class
for almost 15 years.
route connection, located east
of Robinson Airport on High-
way 302, will also be paved.
In Precinct 1, a six-block
stretch of street from High-
way 18 beyond Ash Street,
will be paved. In addition,
Commissioners have ap-
proved plans for streets and
the parking lot around the
County Barn on Highway 18 to
be paved. One portion of the
area, where the water trucks
fill, will be covered with a
concrete slab to preventwash-
ing. One other block on Dal-
las Avenue between Tornillo
and Pine Streets, will also be
surfaced by the County.
In Precinct 2, County Judge
Cook said there are nine blocks
which are to receive a pene-
tration coat. The official said
that of the nine blocks, six are
new ones and three were not
completed last year and there-
fore are included in this project.
County work in Precinct 4
includes paving of fourblocks.
One block is located on Waco
Street between Pine and Tor-
nillo Streets, three blocks are
located on San Antonio Street
from Tornillo to LocustStreets
and the other block is on Olive
Street from Austin to San An-
tonio Streets.
Willingham said the Walton
Addition program will be
the single largest item, in the
city’s proposed work plan. In
the area, a number of
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Absentee Voting in May
Election Closes Tuesday
Officials Explain
Registering Rules
Absentee voting in the May 5 primary elections will
close Tuesday and by late Friday County Clerk Fred V.
Adams reported approximately 50 absentee ballots had
been cast.
Adams said persons needing to vote absentee must
apply for a ballot and have it executed and notarized be-
fore midnight Tuesday in order for the ballot to be
counted.
“We will attempt to see that every person who must
vote ahead of time because he
Slack Announces
For Re-election
To House Seat
Richard C. Slack of Pecos
today (Monday) authorized The
News to announce his candidacy
for the office of State Repre-
sentative from the 73rd District,
subject to the action of the
Democratic primary, May 5.
Slack, married and the father
of three children, has served in
the House since 1953. Prior to
that time he was Reeves Coun-
ty Judge for four years. He is
a practicing attorney and also
has interests in farming.
In announcing-his candidacy,
the Representative said, “I feel
my knowledge of the problems
of West Texas and my expert
enee in the State Legislature
will be beneficial to all the peo-
ple of this area.”
The Pecos native is presently
RICHARD C. SLACK
. . .House candidate
serving on the House commit-
tees for Revenue and Taxes,
Military and Veterans Affairs
and Criminal Jurisprudence. He
attended Pecos High School and
received a degree in petroleum
engineering from Texas A & M
College. He earned his law de-
gree at St. Mary’s College in
San Antonio.
will not be in the county on
election day has the opportuni-
ty,” the Clerk said, “but the
time limits set by law are exact
and there is no room for lee-
way.”
Both Republican and Demo-
cratic absentee voting is carried
out in the Clerk’s office in the
courthouse.
While the advance voting was
well under way late last week,
questions concerning the moving
of residents from one precinct
in the county to another popped
up causing officials in the Tax
Assessor-Collector’s office and
the two parties to examine the
voting laws closely.
Democratic County Chairman
S. E. (Gene) Burnett reported
that according to the law a
person moving from one pre-
cinct to anoher within the same
county since obtaining his .poll
tax receipt has only through to-
day (Monday) in which to reg-
ister his new address with the
office of the Tax Assessor.
Burnett pointed out that the
law pertaining to changed resi-
dences became applicable to
this county when it passed the
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Sample Ballots
Are Reprinted
Sample copies of the Demo-
cratic and Republican Party
primary ballots to be used in
the May 5 election, are print-
ed on inside pages of The
News as a public service to
county residents.
The ballots are not printed
actual size.
Officials of the two parties
have indicated that because
of the length of the ballots,
county residents may wish to
examine the samples careful-
ly to familiarize themselves
with the names of the candi-
dates before voting time.
County Candidates
Report on Expenses
Good Shows Told
In Deep Wildcats
BY JAMES C. WATSON
New Oil Writer
Testing on two Winkler County deep wildcat opera-
tions was continuing late last week after operators reported
good oil and gas shows in both ventures.
Superior Oil Company’s No. 1 G. P. Mitchell, eight
miles southeast of Kermit, three miles northeast of the
Southeast Kermit (Waddell) field and 660 feet from south
and west lines of section 4, block B-10, psl survey, sur-
faced gas in 10 minutes at the
County Clerk Fred V. Adams
reported late Friday that all
Winkler County candidates had
filed the required report of their
campaign expenses through
April 27.
State law requires the report
and a final report, to be com-
pleted no later than May 25,
must list all expenses, gifts to
their campaign and debts in-
curred in the contest for elec-
tion.
State law requires that a pre-
liminary report of expenses be
filed by April 27 and another
report, listing complete ex-
penses, must be filed no later
than May 13.
County candidates must file
with the County Clerk while
those running for State or Dis-
trict offices must file with the
Secretary of State.
Those filing reports of their
expenses include the following:
For County Commissioner,
Precinct 4 — Oscar Carr,
$259.94; T. G. (Gordon) Wood-
ard, $736.46; R. E. (Bob) Leese,
$317.55.
County Commissioner, Pre-
cinct 2 — R. Brad Leek, $246.13;
J. A. (Marble) Scogin, $222.74;
A1 Smith, $213.56.
County Judge — W. E. Cook,
<j>251.05.
County Treasurer — L. R.
(Jake) Tarver, $216.10.
County Clerk — Fred V. Ad-
ams, $233.10.
District Clerk — Mrs. Marion
Ellis, $£16.10. i;
rate of 168,000 cfm during a
test at 9,989-10,028 feet, accord-
ing to a report last week.
Eighteen barrels of 30-gravity
oil were also tanked in one
hour.
The operator reported drilling
was continuing below 10,107
feet with the project scheduled
for 13,000 feet.
Pan American Petroleum
Company reported it was drill-
ing below 10,532 feet on a 15,-
000-foot Ellenburger contract on
its No. 1-C Hendrick Operating
Area. The company indicated
it had tested shows of oil, gas
and sulphur water in the Bone
Spring.
The wildcat is located six
miles west of Kermit, % mile
west of the shallow Hendrick
. field and 1,830 feet from north
Justice of the Peace, ffeclms ®^0 ^rom east lines of
1, 3 and 4 — Jeff Worley, $95.90
Justice of the Peace, Precinct
2 — A. Onion. Dennis, $78.90.
Constable, Precincts 1, 3 and
4 — Jimmy L. Chick, $262.42;
Y. E. Kerr, $113.35; W. L.
(Puny) Etheredge, $124.74; and
S. C. (Cab) Callaway, $166.19.
Safe Driving Road-E-0
Is Scheduled During Week
Kermit teenagers who have
drivers’ licenses will have the
opportunity this week to show
off their driving skill and also
their knowledge of driving
rules when Kermit Jaycees
hold a teenage safe-driving
road-e-o.
Bill Litton, chairman of the
project for the local club, said
teenagers entering the event
will take a written test Wed-
nesday afternoon, May 2, and
then compete in the driving
part of the exam Saturday,
May 5.
Plaques will be awarded t,o
local winners and they will
then proceed to regional com-
petition. Eventual result could
give a Kermit boy or girl
an all-expense paid trip to
Washington, D. C., and a
chance to compete for college
scholarships in the national
road-e-o, Litton said.
Application blanks can be
obtained from Litton, driver
education teachers or assist-
ant principal Johnny Roberts
at Kermit High School. “We
are hoping for a large field
of contestants,” the chairman
said. He added that the driv-
ing part of the test will be
conducted on the Chamber of
Commerce parking lot on
West Austin Street.
Any teenager who is un-
married, has a driver’s li-
cense and has not been con-
victed of a traffic violation
can take part. There is no
entry fee. Cars for use in the
driving portion of the two-
phase test will be provided
for the contestants, Litton
said. Entrants cannot use
their own cars.
Judges for the contest will
be local and area law enforce-
ment officials, Jaycees and
other civic leaders.
“The club has conducted
this program in past years,”
Litton added, “but it has not
been attempted here during
the last few years. We are
anxious to make this a regu-
lar part of our program for
youth once again,” he added.
section 30, block 26, psl survey.
Perry R. Bass of Fort Worth
has completed No. 2-C J. B.
Walton as a Devonian well in
the Keystone field of Winkler
County.
It rated a calculated daily
flow of 625,000 cubic feet of dry
gas from open hole at 8,095-
8.200 feet.
Seven-inch casing is set at
8,095 feet.
It is in section 3, block B-2,
psl survey.
Kermit Oil Company has com-
pleted No. 5 W. A. McCutchen
in the Keystone (Colby) field
of Winkler County.
It pumped 92.43 barrels of 36-
gravity oil, plus 68 per cent
water, daily from perforations
at 3,110-3,486 feet, which had
been acidized with 400 gallons
and fractured with 21,000 gal-
lons. Gas-oil ratio was 1,901-1.
The 5%-irich casing is set
3,555 feet, the total depth.
The well is 660 feet from
west and 1,320 feet from north
lines of section 15, block B-2,
psl survey.
Socony Mobil Oil Company,
Inc., has completed No. 33
StatejWalton as a flowing Colby
sand well in Winkler County’s
Keystone field.
It rated 81.12 barrels of 37.2-
gravity oil, plus 25 per cent
water daily through a 22-64-inch
choke and perforations at 2,953-
3,141 feet, after acidizing with
1.200 gallons. G^s-oil ratio was
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SAN ANGELO STREET
. . . in County paving plan
SOUTH AVENUE B AND RIDGEWOOD
.. . streets in bad condition
WEST BRYAN STREET
... to be rebuilt by City
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Williams, Nev H. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 103, Ed. 1 Monday, April 30, 1962, newspaper, April 30, 1962; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth920660/m1/1/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Winkler County Library.