Gas Hike Bids Radar Zoning Topics At City Council Session
City Council Monday night postponed a decision on Pioneer Natural Gas Company requests for monthly gas-rate adjustments. Charles Fulkerson and Rupert Austin explained the plan is a pass through to gas suppliers, not a revenue move, with the current structure largely unchanged.
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PNG
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Fulkerson
Pioneer
Lone Star Gas
Oil Information Month In Lamesa Highlights Water Flooding
Norman Ross of Kewanee Oil Company spoke to two civic groups in Lamesa about water flooding in the Welch Field. He said 92 percent of Welch production comes from water flooding and that the method is the most successful secondary recovery, with 10-15 barrels of water per barrel of oil.
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Chamber of Commerce
Norman Ross
West Texas
Kewanee Oil Company
Lamesa
Odessa
Ross
Welch Unit
Texas A&M
Welch
Kiwanis Club
Travis King
Austral Oil
King
Dawson County Tractor Pulling Contest thrills Saturday crowd
The first Dawson County Tractor Pulling Contest drew 22 entries with prizes in several weight classes. Durwood Blagraves led 12 000 pound super stock with a full track pull, ahead of Ronnie Wilson in second and others in close competition. The event, sponsored by the Lamesa Noon Lions Club, wrapped with multiple strong pulls and a note of future coverage.
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Lamesa Noon Lions Club
Durwood Blagraves
Farmall
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Ronnie Wilson
John Deere
Blagraves
Bob Howard
Ronnie Huddle
O.F Davis
Lions Club
Wilson
Durwood Blagrave
Stephen Henry
Dan Harp grows potatoes in county demonstration plot
Dawson County farmer Dan Harp reports his two year county demonstration plot yielded around 200 sacks of potatoes last year and will likely exceed that this year from a three quarter acre patch. He planted May 2 and expects sales at five dollars per sack field runs.
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Dawson County
Plains
Weldon Farm
School Board OKs policy changes and building trades project
The school board approved amendments to suspension and expulsion policies, rules on married and pregnant students, and a temporary disability leave policy. A tennis program survey was authorized, and Pritchard Abbott valuation engineers got a two year contract tabled for next meeting. A vocational building trades project to construct a house for Carl Spears was approved with school manpower and tools provided.
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Chastain
Lamesa Tennis Association
Glen White
Dallas Woods
Billy Smith
Art Bizzell
Terry Pipkin
Malcom Gerald
Pritchard and
Abbott
Newman
Carl Spears
Spears
Simmons
Lamesa Schools Dismiss Early for Pecos Game
Lamesa districts will dismiss elementary at 2 p.m. and other schools at 2 30 p.m. Friday to allow travel to Pecos for the football game. Buses run on the early schedule and the high school pep rally is at 11 25 a.m. as the Golden Tornadoes prepare to meet the Pecos Eagles.
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Pecos
Golden Tornadoes
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