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Newspaper
Monahans News
Location
Monahans, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1939
Page
3
A. W. Akewes and family host Mr. Akewes parents and sister from Meeb Utah in Wickett. Numerous local relatives travel and visit, including Mrs. Rouse recovering in Monahans hospital after a Wickett fall, and exchanges with families from Gruham Cisco Shreveport Lubbock Pampa Overton Pecos Andrew S Van Eman and Geowana.
Ed Wre spends part of the week from his vacation in Arizona. Betty Jo Polk, daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Polk, is spending time away as well.
Mickey Rooney stars in The Hardys Ride High with Ann Rutherford and the returning Hardy clan including Lewis Stone Cecilia Parke and Fay Holden. The feature plays Sunday and Monday at the Palace Theatre. Also listed is a Ward County Texas notice filing of dairy trademarks by O D Dillingham.
A 1939 district document notes words inside an oval reading Milk Iea Cream Tee Butter Produce Cream ery and a slogan Oma Ft tastes better. It describes signs in Banner orange with Ultramarine Blue background and white letters, and includes a county seal and official signatures.
The report lists wildcat locations in Pecos and Yoakum counties with Gulf No 119 Estes located 1 654 feet from the northeast corner and 330 feet from the northwest line of section 38 34 H and T C Gulf No 125 Hutchins 330 feet from the south and 2 318 feet from the specified reference. Ward county locations follow with Gulf No. 119 Estes and Gulf No. 125 Hutchins noted and distances given.
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Polk left Thursday for a two week visit in New Orleans Louisiana. Wir. and Mrs. C. Price attended the Sal Ose College graduation exercises at Alpine. Their daughter Margaret, one of the graduates, returned home with them.
Thelma Williams and Jane Amis co hosted a dance at the Williams home in Cesa Bonita addition last Pinareda evening. Guests were served refreshments and included Ernestine Scrimshire Maxine Cassey Kitty Gallaway Jane Warner Dorothy Stoneback and others from Handlay Texas plus Pat Gallaway Junior Anderson Bill Parker Clyde Garner Ed Coe Bob Motley Thomas Cor Harold Jackson Glen Whitk Woodrow Boone Cecil Seale C J Seale Jack Stewart Rankin Bobbie Blodgett and Robert Owens.
A garbled schedule lists Kermit group travel for a Winder rodeo with stops in Mentone Carlsbad Lovington Hobbs Eunice and other Texas towns. The caravan includes the Kermit High School band and visits Fort Stockton Barstow Wink and Odessa with times noted for June 4 through June 9.
Locations in eleven West Texas counties last week listed 28 oil tests including three wildcats, plus 28 field tests and three other tests in a prior week. Yearly totals rose to 635 field test sites and 62 wildcat sites. Ector County led with six field-test locations. Howard and Winkler had two, others had one.
The document notes Reese and Pittman No. 2 Texas Cotton Industries locate 330 feet from the northeast and northwest lines of the lease in section 35-1-H& TC, describing the southeast half of the northwest half of the southwest quadrant. Western Well Service Co. No. 10 Lackland is 150 feet from the northwest line of section 632- H&TC and 30 feet northeast of the Peens river.
Clyde H. Garner of Lago Petroleum in Maracaibo Venezuela writes he follows Monahans High School progress with interest and faults local band judges for robbing Monahans bands at El Paso and Odessa. He notes drilling at 9850 feet in South America planned to reach beyond 10099 feet. He sees little Nazi propaganda appeal in Venezuela.
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