Winnsboro News (Newspaper) - June 22, 1961, Winnsboro, Texas * P. 0. Box 8066 68 1* MISS LOUISE KNOLLE is the State's Dairy Princess and she suggests that Texans breeze through summer with fresh n' ready dairy The year 1961 marks the Silver Anniversary of our nation's annual June salute to dairying and its many and the fifth year that Winnsboro has paid special attention to this year with a special issue and a big feed for dairymen at City Park AT 7:30 CITY 270 Winnsboro dairymen to be honored at dinner The people of Winnsboro today looked back on another year of progress in and prepared to honor this area's more than 270 dairymen with an appreciation dinner The big dinner will be staged at 7:30 p.m. at the City Park auditorium Shannon E. TOWN TALK By Howard Rosser IN SOUTH TEXAS this ad GOING OUT OF Then below in smaller of then in very small tired of the whole t t t CHAPLAIN PAUL stationed with the Armed Forces in the Aleutian will receive The News thanks to his M. Bobbins of Route 1, who came in this morning to subscribe for Chaplain Robins will be in Alaska for a and is having a good-natured feud dad over the comparative sizes and merits of Texas and the 50th t t t MRS. DORA The correspondent from the Wylie was one of the winners in the contest of a magazine published for newspaper This is one of the rules she in doubt about the meaning of a consult a good Select the word most appropriate to the Employ only words in general and approved This month's rule is scrambled like dan ear fo a Try it for t t t JACK 23, of is new assistant to Otho Gipe and Buford Folmar at the SCS is a and has graduated from Texas A&M t t t 8, daughter of and Mrs. Ben F. is spending three days with grandpapa Dr. Ben We met the other day on the and this blue-eyed little a fourth is so well-mannered and sweet it's no wonder grandpapa is proud of t t t THE YARDMAN and Gardner stopped by on his way from Ft. Sill lo San Antonio on his way out of he The bearded well up in riding an old bicycle with box attached for garden tools said he had traveled all over TOWN Page 2) Large selection of Fine Budget Western who presently is serving his eleventh year as area dairy specialist for the extension services of Texas A&M will be the main speaker for the informal Merchants will be host to the with Mayor E. L. giving the welcoming address and acting as master of and Kelsie M. Wood County District Clerk and a giving the Entertainment will be furnished by Mr. Thurman Gay Polk and Area dairymen and their wives have been entended personal invitations to attend the unique given in their honor and in recognition of this thriving In the fifth annual News dairying continued County Court petit jurors are announced List of petit jurors for Wood County Court will include the Winnsboro - Robert A. Pat Allic A. W. Charles F. Mrs. P. H. R. A. Mrs. John W. Finney and Mrs. Mattie Yantis - Bud Mrs. Clint C. J. D. Mrs. Mary R. Leigh and Mrs. Lillie It. Route 1 - J. P. Alba - Jodie Quitman routes - Gordon Williams and J. M. Cancer Crusade goal exceeded in Wood County All of the community workers in the Wood County April crusade for American Cancer Society have reported and the sum total collected is The goal for Wood county was set at The chairmen of and their are as Mrs. Aline Allen 40; Mrs. Elbert Mrs. Ross Mat Mrs. E. A. 15; Mrs. James Judge Lone Mrs. Paul Professor Tillman Green Professor W. Rev. CI if Mrs. James and Forest Hill Wilma CATTLEMEN HEAR CROUCH SPEAK AT QUITMAN MEET E. K. superintendent of the pasture experimental station of was speaker ^t the Wood County Beef Association meeting Wednesday at the R. E. A. Hall in His subject and Cons of Crossbreeding Beef Cattle in in dairying is the dominant Increased use of bulk larger herds and more milk production are C. A. Edwards funeral services set for today Funeral services for Charles A. 75, native of Pleasant Grove community and resident of Winnsboro for many will be held at 2 p.m. today at the First Baptist Church Rev. W. B. will officiate at the final Mr. Edwards had been a member of the First Baptist Church here for 56 years and was a leader in church He had served the church as a deacon for many years and was serving in that capacity at the time of his He died at his home Tuesday afternoon of a heart attack after an active morning during which he visited The son of William Edwards and Fannie Green he was born August 14, 1885, in the Pleasant Grove Wood Mr. Edwards had lived in the Winnsboro area all his life except for 13 years spent in He was a merchant until his retirement five years On October 24, 1909, he was married to the former Miss Lena who survives The couple observed their Golden Wedding anniversary in 1959. Three Ray Edwards and Robert both of and Mrs. Harry M. England of also Other survivors are two Mrs. R. McCrary and Mrs. Lizzie and a half Euless Burial will be in Lee Cemetery under the auspices of Edwards Funeral Pallbearers will be Buford Fern Malvin Ed A. D. Williams and Jesse local Serving Leading Produce Agricultural Section and Four County Oil She Volume 54-Number 32 Wood Thursday June 22, 1961 IOc A COPY Two Pages A WILDCAT AND THE FIRST DEEP PAY IN SCHOOL New Smackover lime strike made 5 miles northeast of Winnsboro A new Smackover lime strike five miles northeast of Winnsboro was announced It is the first deep pay completion south of Cypress Creek and in the Winnsboro School Located about two miles from the nearest production in the rich New Hope it opens up a new gas The No. 1 A. D. being drilled by Amigos Oil & struck pay sand at 12,365 Company spokesman A. L. said that gas flow has been strong and the company is hopeful of making a good Should production pan out as hoped Amigos will build a plant on the Roberts lease to handle the Located in the M. Oliphant the new area was originally leased by Pan American Oil who farmed out the operation to Max Amigos took over the operation from All three companies hold an Preliminary drilling on the well was done by M. J. Delaney who moved off the location last Amigos Oil & Gas resumed drilling this spring and struck pay sand at 12,365 The well was drilled to a depth of 12,500 A jinxed it continues to plague its Water broke in from the producing lime during final swabbing operations this past week and has not yet been brought under An earlier cement job in which a squeeze tool was lost brought the water under control only Unless this last venture is the rig will have to be moved back on and another trip into the hole in order to save Oil was discovered at a shallower depth but Amigos does not plan a dual completion of the should water ruin the gas the company probable will make an oil producer from the Dawsey The No. 1 A. D. Roberts is slightly north of the Whitaker No. 1 B. B. Rhoades another Smackover try drilling at below 10,000 Pan American Petroleum Corporation had its third major Smackover producer in the West Yantis field south of the community It is the company's No. 1 Marr - Bristol - in extreme northern Wood County which was brought in Thursday afternoon and staged a second and larger production show Thursday night following Information from a Pan source indicated the casing had been perforated in two sections totaling 33 One was between 12,832-42 feet and the other between 12,852-80 The initial flow Thursday afternoon through a 24/64-inch choke was placed at 2,325,000 feet a day with 550 pounds of tubing The well was then acidized and reopened Thursday night through a 14/64-inch Gas production was placed at 3,610,-000 feet a day and flowing sure at 3,377 In view of its latest the company is expected to start a new soon on one of two locations staked recently in the West Yantis One is in extreme northern Wood the other in extreme southern Hopkins Reports that Gulf Oil Company had abandoned its No. 1 H. C. Vanderslice test 2J/i miles west of Pickton as a dry hole were heard Five-day rainfall boosts crops The Winnsboro area has enjoyed five days of rain and with a total of 2.74 inches rain falling the period beginning ' last according to Mrs. Claudine Woodard at Farmers The steady soaking rains helped replenish stock revive pastures and meadows and brightened the prospects for the produce Measurements of rainfall exceeded the Winnsboro total in many other parts of the particularly to the south of town where the Stout and East Point Communities and others received a couple of nice showers SUMMER BASEBALL NEWS PAST WEEK'S RESULTS PeeWee League Jackets 12, Wasps 7 Wasps 16, Bees 15 Team Standings Won Wasps Bees 1 Yellow Jackets Little League Giants 13, Cardinals 0 Sox 7, Pickton 3 Team Standings Lost 3 2 1 lier in the cumbers are starting to flow in Rains tipped the prospects for the local with squash the summer produce being bringing and cucumbers from beneficial to Squash and to Some tomatoes are f Giants Sox Braves Cardinals Pickton Won 5 5 4 1 0 Lost 1 1 1 4 6 Pony League Pirates 16, McCulloch 0 Girls League Robins 16, Ponies 2 Kittens 17, Ponies 16 Team Standings Won Lost Kittens 3 0 Robins 2 1 Ponies 0 4 Rains have hampered play in all with two Little League and three Pony League games being rained Games will be made up at later Camp Deer Run opens for season WOOD COUNTY veteran Winnsboro lias quite a reputation for catching even when others come home empty He hit a jackpot Wednesday afternoon at haven when he hooked these three largemouth bass on an underwater in about 12 feet of Together the three weighed 15:�4 Fifty youthful campers registered at the opening of the third year at Camp Deer church youth camp in the southeast of Winnsboro and south of The capip was opened Sunday under the direction of Lehman Hall of Mr. Lehman also is coach at Columbia Christian College in His assistant is Jimmy Arnold of The camp this year will have eight new assembly hall and a new swimming pool which is just being The pool is of the municipal The camp also has a recreation two central bath houses with privacy and dining room and kitchen to meet health The four sessions of the camp are just about full for the and it looks like a good year for Camp Deer the directors The other three sessions at the 118-acre sponsored by the Church of begin July 2, July 16 and July 30. Youth will register on the afternoon on opening and will go home on Friday mornings of the following The camp is for youth ages 10 to 19. Activities will be directed by Christian with Bible hymn als and sermons by visiting Sports will include badminton and Registration heavy for free youth art classes Registration began Wednesday afternoon for the Winnsboro Folk Arts series of summer classes for area Fourteen youth registered in the first 30 minutes after registration Classes will begin June 28, and will be taught by members of the Instruction will be free and is open to all area students will be required to purchase materials with which to Open house and an exhibition of work will be held to end the 8-weeks series of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd of Kingsville were week end guests of his Mrs. Sam Mr. and Mrs. H. B. have returned from where they visited with their son and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Glean BIT OF EXCITEMENT - Mr. and Mrs. R. ran into a bit of excitement while vacationing at Lake Washington in Mississippi in the form of this 45 pound blue Caught with ou a the fish was played by Mr. Swanner it was theu hauled into the boat with bis hands while Mrs. kept the boat ou Onlookers were expecting the fish to the boat and several fishermen were standing by for possible rescue Two young boys are shown the big JOIN THE U. S. NAVY - and sons of Mi. aud Mrs. T. G. are shown here being swoni the They are now undergoing recruit iv Sau and both enlisted under the high school graduate training program in the aviation field graduated from Pickton High School and from Winnsboro High Classes of Carl W. Duggan of the recruiting iu Tyler signed them being and melons are expected on the market about next according to Jack a Farmers welcomed the moisture as writing a finish to a relatively dry season and putting the countryside in good shape for the approaching summer It cut down the fire danger in the forested areas for a Five cows stolen from Hornbuckle pasture June 13 | Five head of cattle were stolen i from the Horace Hornbuckle ture a mile south of grove Tuesday June 13, he Only two have been ' The cattle rustlers stole the animals by driving up to the Hornbuckle chute and loading them into a Two of the cows somehow got loose and Mr. Hornbuckle found them near the The three cows missing include one black 750-pound springing a 6~)0-pound red polled cow and a motley faced red cow weighing about 800 A reward has been offered for information leading to the return of the three Mrs. Alexander's funeral services at Clearwater Funeral services for Mrs. Candis Elizabeth 81, long time resident of the were hold at two o'clock Friday June 16, in Clearwater Baptist Church with Rev. George Rev. Arthur Musselwhite and Rev. Ray Tatum Burial was in Clearwater Cemetery under the direction of Mrs. Alexander died June 14, in Winnsboro Born Oct. 1, 1879 in Mrs. Alexander had lived in and near the Clearwater Community for 60 On 5, 1900 she was married to J. Alexander who died March 25, 1955. Three children also preceded their Survivors include one C. P. Alexander of a Jim B. Alexander of Grand seven 10 great grandchildren and four great Mrs. Alexander was a member ol Clearwater Baptist Pallbearers were Buck John D. Theu Troy Wayne Sparks and Van Pulpit supplies told for 1st Baptist Church Pulpit supplies for the First Baptist Church the next two Sundays have been announced by the W. B. Dr. Emerson professor at East Texas Baptist will preach at both services June 25. while the pastor is in Port Dr. Jimmy Secretary of the Christian Life Commission for Texas Baptists with headquarters in will bring both messages July 2. while the pastor is Sunday School Week at Glorieta Baptist Assembly in Attendance at the services of the church so far this month arc considerably above that of the past two years in which has been the hardest mouth of the year i according to past for the Thus Sunday School arte n d a n c e throughout the month above the 300 has staved The Hill family reunion will be held at Dallas this coming June 25. Records - aa speeds ia the and most popular Western
