Oil Firms Sued Over Salt Water Pollution of Two Rivers
Attorney General Price Daniel filed a class suit against 28 oil companies and 22 individuals in 126th district court seeking an injunction to stop saltwater pollution of the Guadalupe and San Marcos rivers. The action names Magnolia Petroleum, Georgia-Tex Oil, Tex-American, Phillips Oil and Gas, Allied Oil, Tex-Mass Petroleum and others. The suit cites complaints from Gonzales Victoria and court officials and notes plans to inject saltwater in Durst Creek unless systems are completed by July 1.
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Austin
Guadalupe
San Marcos
Price Daniel
Daniel
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Georgia-Tex Oil Company
Tex-American Oil Company
Phillip Oil and Gas Company
Allied Oil Company
Tex-Mass Petroleum Company
George W. Cox
Howard Dodgen
The
Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
H. E. Faubion
State Board of Health and the Game
Luling Cuero
Attorney General’s Department
Game Commission
Health Department
Darst Creek
Burnell Waldrop
Waldrop
Durst Creek
Gas Injection Plan for Cowden in West Texas
Fort Worth dispatch reports Stanolind Oil and Gas and 12 cooperating firms plan a 20 year gas injection program in the North Cowden field to boost oil recovery by about 50 percent. The program uses Cities Service natural gasoline plant output and injects residue gas into 75 wells in the Grayburg limestone, with full operation due mid 1950 and expected to extend the field’s life by about eight years.
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Fort Worth
G. H. Card
Stanolind Oil and Gas Company
North Cowden
Card
Cities Service Oil Company Natural Gasoline
West Texas
Ector
Andrews Big
Railroad Commission of Texas
Cities
Gravyburg
Stanolind
The
Texas Company
Sun Oil
Sinclair Prairie Oil
Atlantic Refining
Cities Service
Tidewater Associated Oil Company
D-K-M Company
Continental Oil
Kiska Oil
Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation
Amerada Petroleum Corporation
Ohio Oil
Texas Gulf Producing Company
Edson Petroleum
Phillips Petroleum
Acme Oil and Royalty and
Sunray Oil Corporation
Midland oil man fined for hot oil violations in Texas
Ralph Lowe a 43 year old from Midland was fined 24 400 on 61 counts under the Connally hot oil act after being found guilty in a Dawson County case heard by Judge Joe Dooley The fines total the second largest in the US Northern District of Texas The case involved four leases with excess production to cover others and the court noted most Texas oil moves interstate via pipelines.
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Fort Worth
U.P
District of Texas
West Texas
Ralph Lowe
Midland
Joe Dooley
Dawson County
US Dist. Atty
Frank Potter
Lowe
French whaling ships operate off Gaboon coast
Four former German whaling ships, acquired by France after the war, are active off the Gaboon coast near Pointe-Noire in Equatorial Africa. The last prewar expedition returned about 1,000 whales, highlighting resumed whaling activity in the region.
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Pointe-Noire
French Equatorial Africa
France
Gaboon
Mexico travel improving says AAA survey
The American Automobile Association reports improving travel conditions in Mexico with motorists noting prices no higher than expected and favorable views of hospitality and accommodations. A check of about 100 motorists returning from Mexico shows 55 percent praise road conditions, 76 percent rate hotel stays as good, and hospitality ratings with 59 percent calling it very good.
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Washington
American Automobile Association
Mexico
AAA
Laredo
Texas
Mexico City
Dogs Help Show Heart Disease Causes in Dogs
Chicago report from June 24 notes American Heart Association researchers fed cholesterol and thiouracil to dogs to induce arterial hardening, while control dogs with cholesterol or thiouracil alone did not develop the disease. Researchers discuss radiocardiography using radioactive sodium to trace heart blood flow.
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Chicago
American Heart Association
Alfred Steiner
Goldwater Memorial Hospital
New York
Myron Prinzmetal
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Los Angeles
Humble Plans Second Test Off Louisiana Coast
Humble Oil Co announces abandoning the first offshore test from its $1.2 million platform in 50 feet of Gulf water off Grand Isle Jefferson Parish. It will drill another test at the same site in a sidetracked hole.
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New Orleans
Humble Oil Co
Gulf of Mexico
Grand Isle
Jefferson Parish
Czechs Apply for German Citizenship During Occupation
More than 350000 Czechs applied for German citizenship during the occupation according to the interior ministry. Charges will be brought against them based on information and documents held by the ministry.
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Prague
Ministry of Interior
Texas Ohio line for gas pending approval
Texas Gas Transmission Corporation seeks FPC authorization to build a 26 inch 840 mile gas pipeline from Texas to Ohio costing about 73.5 million dollars. Construction would begin within 60 days of approval. First gas deliveries could start December 1949 with full quantities by spring 1950.
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Washington
U.P
Texas Gas Transmission Corporation
Federal Power Commission Authority
Texas
Ohio
FPC
Memphis and
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Middletown
Police Chief Gets Private Line After Long Public Circuit
Swansea Massachusetts Police Chief Arthur Ormsbee finally receives a private phone line after years of handling official business on a 10 party circuit. News-Globe Want Ads Get Results.
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Swansea
Mass
Arthur Ormsbee
News-Globe
Gladewater Oilman Buys Large South Texas Ranch
Gladewater oilman and rancher T. W. Lee announced the purchase of Arrowhead Ranch in Hidalgo and Starr counties for about $2,000,000. The 57,000 acre property includes most of the 70,000 acre holdings organized around 1900 by the late Judge Jim Wells, with sellers based in McAllen and Mission.
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Mcallen
T. W. Lee
Gladewater
Arrowhead Ranch
Hidalgo
Starr Counties
Elmer C. Bentsen
Lloyd M. Bentsen
McAllen and
Mission
Jim Wells
Kazan Worker Wins Prize for Killing Wolves by Air Drop
C M Gorbunov a Kazan factory worker received over 60000 rubles in prizes and goods after shooting 214 wolves from an airplane. He signaled the pilot to fly lower on a trip and killed nine wolves then bagged the rest on subsequent flights.
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Moscow
C. M. Gorbunov
Gorbunov
Kazan
Radios in Britain Surpass Eleven Million Licenses
The General Post Office reports over 11,200,000 radio receiving licenses in force in Britain and 49,200 television licenses.
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London
Britain
General Post Office
Lawton Dealer Offers Harvest Time Car Deals
Lawton Oklahoma dealer markets used 1949 cars with no down payment citing farmers with good bill paying records. Customers urged to come in and pay when harvest is in, reflecting barter timing.
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Lawton
Okla
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Bennett's Shoe Repair
Pia
Pias
Southwestern Sell Telephone CO
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Amarillo Army Airfield
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War Assets Administration
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