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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1963
Page
3
Miss Celia Conwell high school physical education teacher and girls basketball coach spoke to the Amity Club on physical fitness. She led the group in exercises set to music. Mrs Pete Guthrie introduced her. Hostesses were Mrs H D Moore and Mrs Linton Campbell.
Homecoming and memorial services will be held at Postoak on the third Sunday May 19. A basket lunch will be served at the Baptist Church. The cemetery program is scheduled for 2 o clock.
Salt water fishermen may find themselves far from shore with an empty bait bucket. Use a belly strip from a medium weight fish, cut a rough triangle and slice toward the tail to create wing-like indents to aid trolling. Sew with half-stitches to ease trolling pressure, and avoid spinning bait.
Forestburg residents share weekend visits from relatives and friends traveling from Wichita Falls San Antonio Portland Dallas Fort Worth Bowie Greenwood Rosston Fort Worth and other Texas locales. Notable guests include Bill Miller of Portland for a funeral in Sanger and Margarette Hudspeth of Dallas.
The Cemetery Association will meet Saturday afternoon May 11 at 2 o'clock in the home of Mrs Arnold Reeder to elect officers for the next year. Decoration will be Sunday May 12. Numerous local families visit relatives and attend Decoration at Pleasant Valley.
The Bowie area hosted district IV 4-H contests with Red Ribbon and Blue Ribbon awards in public speaking poultry safety and home economics. Participants included Mike Milburn Kyle Nichols and Larry Miller Roger and Steven Hamilton Freddie Williams Richard McMillion and others from Bowie Nocona Forestburg and Joys 4-H clubs. The nineteen county Extension District IV shows keen competition across all events.
Mr and Mrs J C Cox hosted on Sunday and were joined by Mr and Mrs R E Cox for a Sunday afternoon visit Lavern Scott stationed at Fort Riley Kansas spent the weekend with his parents Mr and Mrs Laland Scott
Mrs. C. 4 Postoak Moreland and the Skaggs family hosted Guy Roland of Lubbock Saturday. Buck Skaggs and Mary Skaggs welcomed Jack Adams of Duncan Oklahoma and Jess Leek's Sunday visitors were Lawrence Hucabee of Wichita Falls. Ira Hart hosted Cliff Evans of Wichita Falls Friday. Maude Williamson and Buck attended her sister's 60th wedding near Fort Worth and Maude Williamson hosted Busy Bee Quilting Club. Rev Don Barnett spoke at the Silver Hill Cemetery Decoration program.
A Mell Oil Properties Dallas opened Vidle oil production eight miles southwest of Bowie in the Newport pool with dual completion of No 1 Leon Daube to flow 150 barrels of 45.6 gravity oil daily plus 13 percent water through 16 64 inch choke and perforations at 6 629 to 6 699 feet. Gas oil ratio 1552 1. The well completed earlier this year produced 248 barrels of 39.8 gravity oil daily through 24 64 inch choke and perforations at 5 768 to 5 780 feet with gas oil ratio 1216 1. M E Tolleson Dallas operator for Claud Ayers Associates staked a south offset to No 1 Volkman discovery well of Valentine Bluff Strawn pool as No 1 Sledge Volkman a 5650 foot test 467 feet from southeast and southwest lines of J Mc Adams survey A 456. Longhorn Production Company Dallas will drill No 3 John Turner a 6900 foot test 2000 feet north of No 2 John Turner pay opener of the two well Northeast Eanes Atoka conglomerate pool six miles southwest of Bowie. A Mell Oil set 2 inch casing at 5400 feet in hole bottomed at 6062 feet for completion attempt in No 1 F L Edgin Isaac Garner survey A 287 three miles south of Bowie and 2 miles northeast of production in the Eanes conglomerate pool.
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