Widespread oil leasing heats Texas Panhandle region
A surge of wildcat oil exploration sweeps Deaf Smith Oldham Palmer and Castro counties with brokers from Midland Amarillo Wichita Falls Dallas and Fort Worth. Major companies including Cities Service Texas Mid-Continent and Gulf Oil check the area as bonuses rise from 1.00 to 2.50 per acre and ranches like Moser and Rall are leased or pursued.
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Deaf
Smith
Oldham
Palmer
Castro Counties
Texas Panhandle
Honolulu Oil Corporation
Signal Oil & Gas Company
Underwood
Central
Deaf Smith County
California
Allen Zook
Moser
Northswest
E. G. Rall
Deat Smith
Oldham Counties
Cities Service Oil Company
the Texas Company
Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation
Superior Oil Company
Gulf Oil Corporation
Rimar Brothers
Wardrobe Problems Course Offered Here This Summer
A free summer class in Personal and Family Wardrobe Problems will be held twice weekly in June and July for women in the community. Miss Gert rude Watson teaches in June and Mrs. Carrie Lee Bishop in July at Senior High, room 325, 2 to 4 p.m. each session with full access to sewing facilities. Students may learn garment making, styling, fabric selection, or restyling and may spend as much time on projects as desired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Watson
Carrie Lee Bishop
Lubbock
Watson
Miss Bishop
Dusting Pioneer Pop Breaks Winged Age Barrier
Harlingen staffer profiles 59 year old Frank Albert Bloss known as Pop the dusting pilot. He claims dusting suits mature pilots and recounts 36 years flying with 12 000 hours plus teaching 1 200 pilots. Bloss started in 1914 and served as a WW II Army flight instructor before continuing to fly into later years.
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Claude Ramsey
United Press
Harlingen
Pop
Vic Carlson
Curtiss Aircraft Factory
Buffalo
N. Y
Frank Albert Bloss
Pool Attendance Rises At Mackenzie Park Pool
A total of 639 visitors have used the Municipal swimming pool in Mackenzie state park since opening 10 days ago. Park Supt A C Stump Hamilton said swimming classes start Monday and are expected to boost attendance. Classes run in June with age groups 12 and over 9 to 10 a m 6 to 8 10 to 11 a m and 9 to 11 1 to 12 noon. Red Cross rules will guide operation.
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South Plains
Mackenzie State Park
Park Dept
A. C. ‘Stump
Hamilton
Red Cross Ute Regula
Houston Traffic Manager for Western Union Dies in Houston
A Houston traffic manager for Western Union collapsed at work and died. He previously served in Maysville Oklahoma and Dallas as a division traffic supervisor and had held the Houston post since 1935. The widow survives and an inquest is planned.
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Houston
May
Germany
Western Union
Ther
Maysville
Okla
Dallas
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Nal, Sun
Panhandle
Ceylon
Ave. Q
MJM Corporation
Robert E. Maxey
Spikes-Sellers-Jenkins Furniture Company
Atcheson and Atkinson
Ually
Lake Charles
Oklahoma
Charles Lindbergh
Will Rogers
Cuero
Texas
U.S
Pacific
United States
Essex
Palm Beach
Broadway
America
Egeys
Am Nayr
Ae Rian
Perry
Hanshan
M. Peal
19Th St
G. G. Porter, 0
L J. Laut
T W Baker
Lechatcan
Dial
E. S. Davidson
Osteopathic Institution
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