Monahans Pool Opens With Beauty Show May 30
The Monahans swimming pool, a $12,000 municipal project, will formally open Thursday May 30 from 7 30 to 10 30 p m with a bathing beauty revue and water carnival. The event is sponsored by the Monahans Volunteer Fire Department and the Chamber of Commerce with coaches Cundiff and Hanscom guiding this summer’s pool program. Life guards will be on duty, a wading pool added later, and the facility sits on a five acre tract near the business district. A Miss Monahans will be chosen for local beauty contests, and entry prices are twenty five cents.
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Monahans
Monahans Volunteer Fire Department
Cundiff
Hanscom
Monahans Chamber of Commerce
Bates
Wizard of Oil tells of West Texas oil discovery legend
The article chronicles Seymour Ernest Jacobson Cox in Big Spring 1919 pursuing a dream of a line of derricks across West Texas. It notes Cox’s magnetism, his claims of “Black God” land, and Nat Shick’s late shift as the McDowell well neared 2,560 feet without yet producing oil.
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Joe Pickle
West Texas
Permian
Big Spring
Cox
Feds
West Texas A
Nat Shick
Mr. Cox
McDowell
Basin Convention To Be Big Affair In Odessa
Plans for the Permian Basin Association Convention set for June 21 and 22 in Odessa are nearly complete. Jerry Debenport announces committees are finalizing details while the Odessa Chamber of Commerce prepares sidelights and a barbecue entertainment package. J. L. Greene and Wilburn Page have met with locals to perfect the program featuring notable industry figures and an old-time talk fest for several thousand attendees.
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Odessa
Permian Basin Association
Jerry Debenport
Pogram
Odessa Chamber of Commerce
J. L. Greene
Midland
Wilburn Page
Prominent Local Barker Leads Nationwide Barbecue Plan
John Marks, a well known regional figure, heads a nationwide visitors group for a large barbecue. He arranged purchase of prize fat stock from recent stock shows and has them in fattening for the event.
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John Marks
Fidads Regular Meeting and Local Notices
Fidads lodge in Jal with weekly Monday sessions at 7 30 p m led by Noble Grand J R Wilson and secretary M L Dooley. Also notices include sale of a 1935 four door Chevrolet master and housing and convention planning led by George W Elliott with regional association leaders Greene Thompson Oberholtzer Bryant and Page listed as officers or managers in West Texas oil resource development efforts.
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J. R. Wilson
Noble
M. L. Dooley
Permian Basin Association
Greene
West Texas
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Phillips Camp
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H. B. Spence
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Texaco
Jimmie Lewallen
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Phill
Phillips 66
Jay Haynes
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