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Newspaper
Jal Flare
Location
Jal, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1940
Page
1
The report by postmaster Helen Childers notes 1939 stamp sales rose to $6,919.08 from $6,646.25 in 1938, while money orders fell from $6,859.50 to $6,387.30. Fees increased from $1,544.74 to $1,563.32 as mail volume grows.
Stuart Long notes Jal's newest Colonel Malcolm Madera promoted by Governor Miles. An anonymous shooter fired at his plane, hole-filled after landing, likely inseason. The column hints another Colonel may join, while Mayor McAllister parades a typographic Major error and aims for general rank.
The President's Birthday Bar will be held January 27 in the high school gymnasium with Helen Childers as chairman. She has not secured a band yet but has contacted several. Allan Jarred has moved to Lubbock for a new job.
W S Cates of the Herschback Drilling Company died after a line shaft caught his trousers on a Texaco well south of Jal New Mexico. He was mangled but alive briefly as crew members tried to shut off the machine. Funeral services were held in Forman Arkansas. He lived at the Worth Hotel in Hobbs and had worked for Herschback for several months.
About 200 El Paso Natural Gas Company workers aided a new gasoline plant project while twenty students joined classes. Names include Ray Collier Melba Collier Lenora Collier and several Hare Berry Simms Reed and Rencher from El Paso Mangum Artesia Tucson Eunice Lubbock and other communities. Tilden Seeley left school to move with family to Lubbock.
Billy Carson and Frank Franchini of Jal will enter the A. A. U. Golden Gloves boxing tournament in Hobbs beginning January 22. They will form a Jal team sponsored by Burl Howell. Mr and Mrs W. S. Taylor moved back to Jal from Uvalde where they had relocated last fall.
The occupation tax totaling 1712 dollars is being collected citywide. Chief of Police Jewel Owens oversees the collection and liquor licenses add 800 dollars for two city liquor stores. Citizens are urged to arrange payment to fund the city program.
A complaint is filed against Bob Jones, driver of a Bill Williams Truck of Wink, for parking a truck in a dangerous position on the highway three and a half miles north of Jal without signal lights. Elmer Turner, deputy sheriff, placed lighted flares ahead and behind the stalled vehicle to warn approaching motorists.
The Jal Speakers Club meets Thursday night at the Community Church. Dr Boyd Nibling served as master of ceremonies at the last meeting where several talks were given and an enjoyable dinner was held.
Leased activity for the Jal area totals six new locations in the week ending January 6, as per the New Mexico Oil Scouts. Three wells completed, nine wells drilling, six locations among sixteen in Lea County. 1940 totals show Lea County with 405 oil wells, nine gas wells and 18 dry holes. New locations include Anderson and Prich No. 5 Stuart and Anderson and Prich No. 12 with precise drill site offsets.
The American Legion Post will be reorganized at a meeting scheduled for next Thursday January 18 at 7 30 p m in the Monterrey Hotel. Fowler Hair urged all eligible members to attend as the post, inactive for some time, seeks a full reorganization amid renewed interest.
Health officials in Jal report three illness cases last week were chickenpox not smallpox. Dr O E Puckett district health officer plans to vaccinate today in schools for all unvaccinated children or those with failed prior vaccination. Quarantine on the initial smallpox cases has been lifted. Local business notes include relocations of St Perkins with El Paso Natural Gas and transfers of Doyie Edge and Phillips Company staff to Goldsmith.
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