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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1945
Page
6
Field activity climbs back toward pre Christmas levels after a holiday slowdown. Ten new locations were added in the seven day period, with five in Gray County and four in Gray, plus thirteen completions overall including Moore County.
The War Production Board announced expansion plans to raise carbon black output by about 175 million pounds annually in the Pampa area and other regions. The effort follows recent tire production increases to meet heavy military demand.
G. H. Short leads Phillips Petroleum’s new large scale facilities in Texas for pilot plant development and synthetic rubber testing. The Bartlesville labs focus on basic research while the Texas site supports war material production and fuel testing aboard a sky lab aircraft under Army Air Forces contract.
The Fort Worth FHA office insured 6 600 000 in 1944 loans covering Amarillo and Northwest Texas. Nationally FHA insured loans totaled 894 000 000. District director is E T Stearn of Fort Worth with Charles A Wolflin as valuator. Title 6 volume led by War housing totaling 5 875 000 locally and 46 200 000 nationally. Losses remain under one percent and mortgage insurance funds exceed 97 000 000 for potential future losses.
The Texas Private Pilots Association will meet in Austin to draft a bill proposing state regulation of aviation. Former Sen. Earl Lovelady says plan calls for a separate state aviation commission and a tax on aviation gasoline to fund regulation and airport development.
A new fighter group, previously stationed at Bruning, Nebraska, has moved to Dalhart Army Air Field. It falls under the 72nd Fighter Wing and Second Air Force, with HQ in Colorado Springs. Col. Loring F. Stetson Jr. commands the unit, which includes combat veterans to train newer members.
Amarillo firemen responded to two alarms on Saturday morning. At 7:30 a vent pipe caused a small fire at H. & H. Cleaners 121 West Fifth. At 10:37 a.m. an electric iron started a fire at 605 Lincoln. Damages were slight in both incidents. The Big Inch oil line from Texas to the East Coast runs on over 100000 horsepower in electric motors.
U P reports weekly U.S. crude oil production averaged 4,689,615 barrels per day, down 25,000 from last week. Kansas falls from 271,100 to 229,000 barrels daily, while Texas rises to 2,120,300 barrels. California, Illinois, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma gain. others small.
Dunigan Brothers filed in Hutchinson County on Lu ginbuhl No 6 330 feet from north and west lines of northeast quarter section 4 block 3 TW&NG survey three miles southwest of Stinnett. Continental Oil Co filed in Carson County on Burnett A 8 330 feet from north and west lines of section 116 block 5 IGN survey twelve miles southeast of Borger. Four oil wells and five gas wells tested. Gray County fields show multiple tests including 122 to 138 barrels and 62 500 for a gas well.
Ten Texas women joined 15 cadet nurses at McCloskey General Hospital to train six months for service with the Army Navy and civilian hospitals. The group includes two from Oklahoma and one each from Arizona New Mexico and West Virginia. Dorothy Brightman of Clovis New Mexico is named among the cadets.
The Theta Rho Girls Club of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows invites girls aged 12 to 18 and their parents to a meeting on January 18. The event is at the Odd Fellows Hall located at 312 East Fifth. Advisor is Miss Annabell Gowdy.
The OPA filed injunction suits against ten Los Angeles area operators for adding red ink to regular gasoline and selling it as high octane fuel. District enforcement attorney H Eugene Breitenbuch says more than 2 500 California stations engage in illicit practices.
A railroad commission year end report shows Texas oil wells completed in 1944 at 3,592, up from 2,381 in 1943. Gas completions reached 346 versus 197 in 1943. Wildcat activity totaled 182 oil wells and 39 gas wells with 844 dry holes, while plugs totaled 3,256 compared with 2,755 the year before.
District 1 extension service meeting brings county home and farm agents to Amarillo on Tuesday January 9 for a full day session at the Herring Hotel from 10 o clock. Dr. I P Trotter director of the Texas Extension Service will visit. Knox Parr District 1 agent will preside as speeches address farm production needs price support policy and 1945 acreage and production goals and conservation of materials.
Fort Worth reported union leader O A Knight criticized the House Committee on Un American Activities as contemptuous of the popular will. He denounced the "Southern Bourbon Northern Tory bloc" and urged against feeding hatred and racial strife in a time of national danger. He cited Rep Martin Dies of Orange as repudiated in his district.
Dr Richard J. Gonzalez of Humble Oil told the Houston Geological Club that Texas oil production, now at record levels, will drop about 25 percent in the postwar period. He noted Texas supplied nearly 90 percent of the added crude for the war, making the decline here sharper than elsewhere.
Harvey O Connor, veteran newspaper man, was named publicity director and editor of the International Oil Worker set to begin publication February 1. Previously labor editor of Seattle Union Record, he authored Mellons Millions Steel Dictator and The Astors.
Industry adds 10000 dollars to the Schoch process research fund at the University of Texas as six companies including Houston Oxygen, Burdett Oxygen, Southern Oxygen, Balbach, Whitmore Oxygen, and Pacific Oxygen back the three year enlarged budget for developing new products from natural gas through Dr. E P Schoch’s electrical discharge method.
In 1866 the newspaper carried advertisements seeking volunteers for marine service. The notices urge enlistment, describe duties, pay, and terms, and call for candidates from eligible applicants.
Tulsa reports the crude price controversy ties Washington debates to a brisk U S drilling push. Industry aims to reach a 27 000 well goal with incentives and a 35 cent per barrel price ceiling rise while production stays above 4 700 000 barrels daily. Prospects expand to Alabama Mississippi Montana Wyoming Colorado Utah and beyond in 1945 as new fields are sought.
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