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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1952
Page
4
The Air Force authorized Convair to disclose the bomber’s wingspan of 206 feet, length of 171 feet, and height to tail of 50 feet. The plane is nine feet longer and 3 feet 3 inches taller than the B 36, then the largest Air Force aircraft.
Gen. Mark W. Clark met with President Syngman Rhee in Pusan to confirm no pullback of troops from front lines and continued martial law enforcement in the Republic of Korea. Rhee arrested 12 assemblymen as part of a claimed Communist plot. Clark and Van Fleet pressed for no charges against front-line divisions. In New York, John Dewey, 92, dies after hip injury, famed for “Learning by Doing” and child-centered education. funeral in New York Wednesday.
Eva Hood, 38, of 2201 W Third, sustained minor head and shoulder injuries in a two car rear end collision at Kermit Hwy and aith street. She rode as a passenger in Herbert Allmond’s car, struck by Alex Boehm’s northbound vehicle. Boehm, a 24 year old Odessa truck driver, received a ticket for failure to grant right of way.
Registration for Odessa College summer courses continues through Monday with late registration on Tuesday. Night classes start 7 p.m. Monday in room 106, with courses including typing, physics, shorthand, bookkeeping, government and business machines, and a daytime chemistry class added 2 to 5 p.m.
In Carlsbad New Mexico on June 2 three Texans led the rodeo. Harry Tompkins of Dublin earned all round champion honors. Toots Mansfield of Big Spring won calf roping and Bill Rush of El Paso took steer wrestling.
Karl Wunderlich a 24 year old worker with a long police record was convicted of breaking into a sausage stand in Germany. Police experts testified his teeth matched bite marks found on an end of salami in the shop and he was sentenced to four years in jail.
Texas Railroad Commission announced operating rules for Robertson Lower Clear Fork field in Gaines County after a May 8 hearing at Samedan Oil Corp request. Rules specify 467-1320-foot well spacing, 100-foot minimum well distance, one well per 40 acres, 20000-1 gas oil ratio, 40-acre units with 10-acre tolerance, and allocation formulas 75 percent acreage 25 percent well. Surface casing must extend to the surface or 10 feet below top of red beds. Wait times 12 and 24 hours, 500-pound tests. Oil string 1800-pound pipe through gas sand, pump tests, 24 and 48-hour waits. Tubing limits and production caps set per well and method of production.
Natural gas has been discovered in Nova Scotia after an exploratory well blew in. The strike spurs speculation of possible oil finds in the untapped Atlantic province, with Canada’s oil and gas boom centered in Alberta and Saskatchewan and gas already produced in Ontario.
Oklahoma State Corporation Commission reduced the June oil allowable by about 10 percent. June's limit was set at 489 521 barrels per day, though officials say actual production will be lower. The decision followed a recommendation by Walker T. Pound, state conservation officer.
The Permian Basin Chapter of the Frank Phillips Men’s Club hosts an informal dance at 9 p.m. Friday in the Scharbauer Hotel Midland with Dean Baker’s band. Tickets cost $2 per couple for members or guests, available at Phillips Odessa reception or from Gerald Tucker Midland. Tucker urges members to bring guests.
A 38 page report mailed to attendees covers the second annual Permian Basin NGAA meeting in Odessa. It includes four technical papers, a transcript of Texas Secretary John Ben Sheppard, winning papers from operating kinks contests, and pictures, graphs and diagrams of talks. W L Phillips chaired the program. William F Love is NGAA executive secretary.
Austin reports RRC hearings set for June 13 to decide discovery allowable rights and new field designations for Penn Well 3 Starr and Hayden Well 1 Wilson. Parties include George and Wrather Oil Co Bass and Vessels Lebus Brothers Allar Co Young George Proctor to operate waterflooding at Goetz lease Wichita County.
National Safety Council tallies show 443 traffic deaths by Monday for the Memorial Day weekend with 289 auto fatalities and 34 in Ohio. California leads with 48 deaths, including 10 drownings and 31 auto deaths as reports trickle in from beaches and parks nationwide.
France moves against the Communist Party as police seize documents and arrest party boss Jacques Duclos. Premier Pinay signals a showdown while aims to curb Reds amid fears of internal upheaval and halted Soviet influence.
A locomotive boiler exploded in the mountains near Santiago. The blast killed the engineer and fireman aboard the locomotive and a woman and her two small daughters in a nearby house. The freight train was moving through a mountainous sector between Concepcion and Santiago. Parts of the boiler struck the house, killing the woman and children.
In La Paz on June 2, Bolivia assigned a 10 member commission a 120 day mandate to draft a plan to nationalize the three large tin mines controlled by Patino and Ara Magna interests. The move follows the April revolution that brought Victor Paz Estenssoro to the presidency and signals a measured government stance pending U.S. recognition.
A 38 year old man in San Antonio fired twice at the moon in his front yard after an alcohol fueled dispute. Neighbors called police and Patrolman Bob Benton booked him for unlawfully discharging firearms in the city limits.
At El Centro Naval Air Station six tons of lead and cement dropped from 2360 feet tested a huge nylon parachute. Officials say smaller chutes or clusters may be more practical, despite the umbrella like 200 foot diameter canopy.
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