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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1959
Page
6
Bronte students return to class Monday as Mrs. Maxine Brumley joins the third grade. She hails from Cleburne and is a Howard Payne College alumna with one year of teaching at Clint. Principal C B Barbee adjusts assignments and schedules with the full faculty expected by Monday.
Atlantic Pipeline Co operates a Bronte south pump station moving between 47 000 and 48 000 barrels of crude daily. The line gathers oil from West Texas fields to Port Arthur terminal. Allen Sherrod is district foreman, Brown Freeman oversees gathering. Floyd Crank is station chief. Other staff include Nealy Makey Fred Hughes and Johnny Haynes. Built in 1928 the pipeline has shipped millions to coast refiners.
Bronze Longhorn Club schedules 6 p m gathering at the school building to map work for the local stadium and other tasks before the football season. President Clark Glenn says the early meet lets members attend church services afterward. Coach Bob Howard will brief quarterbackers on upcoming projects for the Longhorns.
Local lifeguard Joe Don Wilkins will direct a Labor Day Water Show at the pool. Beginners practice at 9 30 am, intermediates and advanced at 10 30 am, divers at 11 30 am. Final rehearsal on Thursday Sept 8 at 7 pm.
Alvin E wing Bell 67 died of a heart attack and was buried at Fairview Cemetery after funeral services at Kickapoo Baptist Church Bronte led by Rev R W Blackmon. He was born Oct 15 1891 and survived by his wife Myrtle and five sons with military service in World War I and a Silver Star citation.
Lone Star Producing Co operates a Fort Chadbourne recycling plant in the oil field. Since March 1953 the facility employs 28 people and processes 30 million cubic feet of natural gas daily with about 1500 barrels of liquid production. The plant, built in 1952 by Gasoline Plant Construction Co., yields butane iso-butane iso-pentane and natural gasoline shipped across the United States. F D Ford is superintendent. W M Miller is assistant. G E Caskey and Odell Hipp hold posts. Most staff reside at/near the plant or Bronte and nearby towns.
Oil has shaped Coke County development over the past 13 years aiding improvements that residents would not otherwise enjoy at this time.
Norman R. Wink Kiker Bronte drug store owner was chosen Tuesday to head Coke County Memorial Hospital in Robert Lee succeeding Kenneth Bradberry who resigns to study for an IRS post. Kiker resigns from the hospital board to take the new duties and Mrs. Kiker will keep operating the Central Drug in Bronte.
Humble Main Operator in the Bronte region leads in leases across Bronte North Bronte and Fort Chadbourne Fields. The company has produced 35,265,667 barrels at $2 to $3 per barrel, totaling 75 to 100 million dollars. They employ 41 pumpers and maintenance workers across two field camps, plan to close the Bronte camp this fall, and operate a re pressuring plant with four staffers.
Richard Wayne Rees son of Mr and Mrs Wade Rees telephoned home to say he is okay and back to normal in the Old Faithful area near Yellowstone Park where he works for the Yellowstone Park Company. He is about 36 miles from the disaster zone and noted the earthquakes broke a water main at the Old Faithful Inn. He plans to return next summer, is a Texas Tech junior, and will be assistant supervisor at Gordon Hall next fall. He is an Eagle Scout from Bronte Troop 52.
Here Sunday and Monday for a visit with their uncle, J. S. Adair, and Mrs. Adair were Mrs. C. W. McCarthy of Rosenburg, Mrs. Emmitt Taylor and Lorna, Mrs. Joe Pollizzie and Diana, and Mrs. Nancy Anderson, all of Houston.
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