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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1960
Page
4
Walter Harrison Smith, 47, of 2274 48th Street, was jailed in Lubbock County on a $5,000 bond after being charged with assault with intent to murder. The incident involved a city man and prompted a crime report in the Friday Morning edition.
Oil and gas activity in Texas reports Humble Oil hitting free oil in two drillstem tests at the No. 1 B Louis B. Conrad wildcat in southeastern Borden County near Gail. First test yielded 190 feet oil and 800 feet gas cut water from 7,958 to 8,10 feet with oil flow. second test produced 350 feet oil and 75 feet oil cut mud plus 50 feet mud from 8,033 to 8,085 feet with gas emergence in 14 minutes. Exploration continues below 8,162 feet as of last Thursday.
The report details multiple wildcat and exploration tests across Eddy and Chaves counties, including Hockley Texas No. 1 Bean, Lubbock areas, and San Andres fields. It notes depths, locations, and test results such as Dickinson and Wolfcamp findings, along with gas flow rates and crude responses from various operators.
A fragmented OCR shows locations and completions with multiple names and parcels. It references Abilene Andrews Midland Farms David and Inez Fasker and various parcel notes, numbers, sections, and percentages, presented in a jumbled, hard to parse format.
UPI reports Hurricane Donna battered the Florida Keys with winds around 110 mph. Official estimates put death toll at 13 or 14 and property damage near 390 million dollars. Officials say Donna is the most destructive Florida hurricane on record, surpassing prior storms with around 75 million in losses.
In St. Louis children are donating their teeth to aid research by the United States Public Health Service. Dr Louis Reiss leads the teething program to measure strontium-90 in teeth across age groups. The project aims to relate radiation levels in bones and teeth to cancer incidence over a decade.
The First Methodist church in Buenos Aires known as the American church received a long delayed mission to install a fire hose pipe. Rev Robert L Sehager of Canton Missouri confirmed a 1914 document approving the request, though the church later showed loss of interest.
Roosevelt High School senior Mike Harts from Lubbock is a finalist in the National Merit Scholarship contest after ranking sixth among 444 Texas finalists in a nationwide test. About 20 500 Texas students participated, with roughly 50 060 expected in finals. tests covered math science reading and vocabulary. He is student council president senior class president and a standout basketball player.
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