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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1960
Page
2
Police report nine juvenile arrests since June amid weekend street stops on Lubbock streets from 1 am to 6 am. Officials say parents may face fines up to 200 dollars for curfew violations as officers describe youths riding around or attending parties.
In Lea County New Mexico the Austral No 1 State project was preparing to perforate the Pennsylvanian layer between 10 and 12 206 feet Thursday while a drillstem test in the Devonian produced 3200 feet of brackish water after one hour. Other wells include Roden No 1 Sinclair State at 10 792 feet and Sun No A Watson swabbing for oil.
A Lubbock man Woodrow Leonard Griffin 1903 E 16th St was fined 50 dollars and costs after three trials for theft of chewing tobacco at Farrs Super Market May 14. Antonio Perez Moreno was found innocent of intoxicants charge and Parchero Benitez faced theft over 50 with five days in jail for bicycle theft. G R Tawater was fined 25 dollars and costs for a check law violation.
In Carrizozo area lava beds, Juan Baca and Mike Gonzales claim an 18 foot rattlesnake was killed. The skin measured 16 feet 7 inches after head and rattles were removed. Local editor Vic Lamb verified photos but cautioned the yarn has grown with retellings.
A regional real estate development company broadens its portfolio by integrating banking related services, consumer ventures, and recreation-oriented subsidiaries. The move signals organizational restructuring and diversification across real estate, finance, and leisure sectors.
The Lubbock County project progresses with a swab operation to treat perforations in the Clear Fork at a depth from 5,547 to 5,595 feet. About 8,500 gallons of acid were used in the treatment. Location is four miles west of Lubbock.
Fragmentary record notes tubing pressure around six hundred pounds and a gas to oil ratio near six seventy two. Mentions a county metadata line and a correction from eleven thousand three hundred ninety eight to eleven, with references to drill depth at eighty feet in anhydrite.
A Louisiana petition asks for a rehearing by mail after a Supreme Court ruling weeks ago. The case centers on federal government held escrow revenue and several points of contention. A separate note mentions a hydro plant near Gujrat Pakistan will power tube wells to reclaim water-logged land.
An old fragment promotes CAMPHO PHENIQUE for immediate treatment of fever blisters and cold sores. It urges keeping a bottle in the medicine chest and using at the first sign to stop symptoms quickly.
The Rev Allan Polson 22 will conduct a weekend revival at Ridgecrest Assembly of God Church 48th St and College Ave closing Youth Activities Week started Monday He preaches 730 pm today at Mackenzie State Park after a 6 pm wiener roast and vesper service Saturday and 945 am to 1230 pm and 730 pm to 930 pm Sunday at the church He studied at Southwestern Bible Institute Waxahachie and is evangelist for the week chaired by Mrs Lee Turner.
Swabbing operations continued Thursday at Ohio Oil Co No 11 Wallace in Kent County. Fourteen barrels of lead oil were recovered as the well was swabbed dry. The Strawn intervals from 6456 to 6505 feet were treated with mud acid and regular acid plus 98 barrels of flush oil. The lead oil was swabbed back. Location on the Wallace ranch five miles west of Jayton with a south offset to the Jayton West Strawn Pool. In the same county Fletcher Oil and Gas No 1 A Morrison, 15 miles northwest of Clairemont, was plugged and abandoned at 6812 feet.
Australia's Labor Party and the Opposition in Parliament vow to shake up Canberra by pledging to put more ginger under the Government this year, signaling a fresh political push and reform agenda.
The USDA reports a 20 percent drop in the 1960 spring pig crop in Texas. There were 136000 spring farrowing sows producing an estimated 938000 pigs. Farmers plan to farrow 126000 sows this fall, five percent under last year, with fall pigs ready for slaughter in spring 1961.
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