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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1960
Page
6
Oil industry notes report Howard County wildcat No 1 with 9 000 foot test through Pennsylvanian in north Howard near Big Spring. Fossil exploration includes Dawson Gaines and Andrews county wells with Devonian perforations and new depth projections in Ellenburger.
Light snow and flurries expected today in the northern Appalachians central and lower Lakes region and far northern Rockies. Rain showers in the Pacific Northwest and middle Gulf coast. Rest of nation mostly fair with warming in the southern plains and middle Mississippi Valley through the Ohio Valley to the cooler Atlantic states. Little temperature change elsewhere.
Thirty-eight new members were named to the Lubbock Christian College Advisory and Development Board. Appointees include residents from West Texas New Mexico and Colorado. Notable names include Doyle Kelly R D Jones Sr R B Baker and Jimmie Lee among others. Ernest R Pigg of Colorado Springs Colorado also joined.
Ninety one band students from seven towns including Ralls Hale Center New Deal Petersburg Idalou Lockney and Floydada attend the Floydada High School Invitational Band Clinic under visiting directors. Four contest selections and extra music will be rehearsed all day ending with a 7 p.m. public concert in the high school auditorium.
Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Co reports central Stonewall County wildcat No. 15 I. S. McMillian near Aspermont and Frankirk produced 167 barrels of oil in 17 hours with water and gas oil ratio, estimated 24 hour potential 235.75 barrels of 40 grade oil. Discovery offset by Waggoner Estate to test Flat Top 147 field at 3,500 feet.
Juvenile officers arranged a reunion for a former Japanese war bride and her two year old son taken on a hitchhike journey by his father Paul Lewis 27 jailed in Eunice on a vagrancy charge The child George near age three had been in juvenile officer Pat Thames Hobbs custody The mother who lives in Los Angeles will fly to reunite with the boy
Gov Price Daniel requested the Texas Historical Survey Committee to start plans for a monument at the grave in Franklin honoring Walter Williams, the last Civil War veteran.
Ralph Lowe of Midland tests the Delaware wildcat No. 1 at 3 636 to 666 feet, after coring 3 638 to 666 feet yielding 23 feet of Delaware sand and shale with traces of stain and fluorescence. Earlier zone test at 3 605 to 638 feet produced oil and gas, with 800 feet of fluid recovered and flow pressures up to 240 pounds. Chambers and Kennedy of Midland set 54 inch casing at 6 289 feet in No. 2 Delhi Taylor Abo prospect, testing while drilling, with Abo field east extension 11 miles southeast of Artesia in east Eddy County.
Alamo Corp plans a 4100 foot wildcat No 1 W J Long to test Glorieta Section nine miles northwest of Post with lines described. Yoakum Sun Oil reports San Andres core shows at No 1 James D Pharr four miles northwest of Plains and one mile west of Plains San Andres production. Hockley Honolulu Oil to drill Ellwood Estate No 37 A in North Smyer field to 10100 feet, six miles north of Smyer.
A bus carrying 39 destitute peasants to Brasília collided with a truck near Rio de Janeiro. Ten people died including a 3 year old, twenty were injured. Police said the driver fled and had evidence of intoxication.
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