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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1948
Page
14
Laredo May 31 The rise in crude to 261 a barrel and intensified exploration push Webb County toward its brightest oil outlook in a decade. 51 wells were drilled in the first four months of 1948 with about half becoming producers as gear shortages hamper operations.
The Federal Power Commission approved a 1,840 mile Trans-Continental Gas Pipeline from the Gulf coast to New York City. Estimated cost 151 to 180 million dollars. Capacity 325 million daily in summer and 340 million in winter. Start up expected fall 1950 with conditions on underground storage study and final financing plan.
Cities Service Oil Co reports five Oklahoma wells averaged 335 barrels daily. A Hughes County gas well Smith B-1 opened 1 100 000 cu ft gas. Lea County New Mexico State S-1 produced 888 barrels. Eichman A-13 Kansas 497 barrels. Smith D-4 Barton County Kansas 182 barrels. Dowd No 2 Isabella County Michigan 54 barrels. Berry No 1 Wise County Texas 50 barrels.
California oil production surges as daily averages top 948 500 barrels in mid May surpassing January peaks. Texas remains first with the nation’s highest output while California sets multiple weekly records. First quarter output averages exceed 933 000 barrels daily, up over four percent from last year.
In Pueblo Colorado a neighbor, a former circus performer, watches young Alice Schultz perform on a backyard fence and a nearby tree. The 10 year old girl progresses to tougher tricks under mentorship, becoming one of the country’s youngest tight wire walkers and in demand for traveling shows across western states this summer.
The survey will publish in July by Leslie Brooks & Associates in Tulsa. It lists oil men among 300 309 attendees at the International Petroleum Exposition, excluding non oil men women children and repeats by industry divisions.
Alba Texas oilman B B Orr reported oil flow since Saturday in a re drilled well at the city limits. After drilling to 6500 feet in 1943 he plugged back to 4048 feet and swabbed May 20 21. He estimates a 150 barrel a day production by railroad commission test.
A Gulf Oil Co. party including executives and newsmen flew 900 miles from Houston to Tampa to observe a flying wiggle stick. The device, a magnatometer, is suspended from a plane and can cover a larger oil prospecting area than previous methods.
President Truman and top defense chiefs urged that peace requires strength and readiness. In remarks at Arlington Cemetery the President emphasized that peace abroad must be backed by force if necessary. Navy Secretary Sullivan and General Bradley echoed calls for a strong nation ready to wage peace as it wages war. General Devers urged draft measures while noting Army enlistments have saturated.
Damages from a windstorm at Smoky Hill Air Force Base near Salina Kansas were estimated at 150000. General Leslie G Mulzer said two C 47 transports were demolished and five B 29s damaged while no buildings suffered harm and no personnel were injured.
Milton Buckhaults, veteran navigator of 32 missions over Germany, bought a surplus B-17 for 300 dollars and brought it to Coulter Field in Bryan Texas where thousands of schoolchildren visit daily. The bomber rests behind a picket fence, its crew names faded, serving as a local war shrine and teaching aid for area students.
Seoul May 31 Chairman Syngman Rhee told Korea's first elected assembly he hopes American forces stay until the new government can arm itself. General Hodge praised the assembly as Koreans celebrate a sovereign government taking shape amid Communist terror.
Funeral services for Mrs Josie Ellen Crawford 76 were held in Plainview with Rev A C Hamilton officiating She died last night at a daughter’s home Mrs Buck Rogers She came to Plainview in 1906 Survivors include five children Clyde Crawford Long Beach NM Crawford Rogers Plainview J W Crawford Barnett Mrs Goldston Roswell
Yang Mei a 20 year old fasting girl at Chungking Municipal Hospital has not eaten for 20 days and keeps five peanuts with her. She clutches the peanuts with fear yet refuses to eat or surrender them. Doctors are mystified by the ritual and offer no explanation.
County Judge C. E. Hill and four commissioners will appear before the State Highway Commission in Austin to push farm to market roads for Dallam County. Citizens recently approved a $700,000 bond issue to fund roughly 100 miles of new roads.
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