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Newspaper
Andrews County News
Location
Andrews, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1966
Page
4
Odessa High Mustangs finish fourth in the Odessa Invitational Cage Tournament. Andrews falls to Odessa 69-60 in third place after a tight fourth quarter. Bobby Smith leads Andrews with 24 points. Mike Jones scores 16 for Odessa.
Oak Farms holds first place in the Oil Wives league after a three point win over Simmons Furniture. Speedway Grocery beat J. M. Cake Shop. Nadine MecCubbins and Stacy Harrell tied high game at 144 while Nadine topped series with 406. Sim mons Furn. claimed high team game 439 and Oak Farms led with 1677 in team series.
Wright Well Service holds first place in the Mixed Up bowling league. They won four points from Day's Drive In, with top individual games by James Wright and Joyce Townsend at 234 and 232. Lid die McCrary and Bob Baker led the series with 622 and 605 as Wright Well Service posted the high team score of 813 and season total 2314.
The Andrews Sports Center relocates to 113 NW Ave C from 109 W Broadway. Owner Wayne Carroway invites the public to visit the new quarters this week.
Santa Claus will be at the Sears Roebuck store tonight from 6 to 9 p.m. Children are encouraged to visit and see Santa. The event includes two turkeys to be given away.
The Moose Lodge hosts its annual Christmas dance on December 16 from 8 p.m. to midnight at the lodge hall. Jay Worth will provide music for the event.
Odessa AAAA Broncos defeated the Andrews Mustang 67 to 59 as Dale Connally scored 21 points 15 from fouls and Gene Johnson grabbed 26 rebounds. Bobby Smith led Andrews with 19 points while Mike Jones added 17 and Beilue 11. JV and B team results follow with Andrews dominating early then holding on late. Coach Jerry Reynolds prepares for the Kermit B tournament.
Lipham's Gulf Service leads the Country Doubles bowling league after a 4 point split with Garrison Furniture. Wheeler Buick swept W. A. B. Inc. Hometown Appliance defeated Leach Company Realtors. Andrews Sinclair beat Mobil Oil Corp. Phillips Snappy Service and United Meter split four points. Claudine McCormick and Ted Sallee posted high games 200 and 210. Claudine and Phil Butler led with 459 and 576 in the series. Lips Snappy Service had high team game 823 and Andrews Sinclair led the team series with 2333.
Three Tuesday and Wednesday wrecks involved fixed objects. Ruth Spruill, 16, was hospitalized with facial lacerations after her car struck a parked Otis Engineering Corp truck in the 300 block SE Second. Roy Don Parrish, 18, jumped a curb onto a utility pole causing hot wire sparks but was uninjured. Ellen Bennett’s car veered and struck a tire fence with no injuries reported. Patrolman Manning and Patrolman Mueller investigated.
Shackelford Co. sits atop the Oil Bowling league standings as leader with strong scores. Homer Wood bowled the high game at 260 while Morris Ivy led with 669 in series. Mann Oil and Gas claimed top team honors with a 1053 game and 3006 series.
The First Baptist Church Children Choir in Chil dren will present a Christmas program on Sunday at 7 30 p m featuring Beginners Primary and Junior choirs with selections including Shepherd Went to Bethlehem Glory To God In The Highest and Do You Hear What I Hear The sanctuary choir performs its annual Christmas Cantata on Sunday Dec 18 led by Rev Carl Gris som and directors Mrs Don Gilliland Mrs Bob Speegle and Gil Cockreham
Emergencies treated at Permian General Hospital this week included several injuries. Chad Smith fell from a tree and was released. Karen Barber cut her chin. Floyd John Sullivan injured his left foot. Kenneth Henderson hurt his right foot in an industrial accident. Ted Clifton injured his left wrist chest and spine in another industrial accident. Danny Selman sustained a right arm injury. Janice Allbritton was treated for abrasions on the right shoulder following a car accident.
The 16th century geographer Gerald Mercator proposed a southern continent to prevent the world from toppling into the stars. Captain James Cook in the 1770s proved otherwise by charting Australia's coasts, per National Geographic.
The article describes soaking pine cores or wood chips in chemical solutions to produce orange blue purple red and emerald green flames. It lists calcium chloride copper chloride potassium chloride strontium nitrate lithium chloride and copper sulfate as color agents and outlines soaking times drying steps and a rainbow burning log made from rolled newspaper soaked in copper sulfate and rock salt.
Adobe Oil Co of Midland will re-enter Gulf University in the Fullerton Clear Fork pool of Andrews and attempt to complete it from 7 200 feet. The project is a 4 933 foot dry hole 1 980 feet from north and west lines of section 11 block 13 University Lands 11 miles NW of Andrews. It was plugged in August 194 ].
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