Senate clash over tidelands plan fuels veto fight
Senate backers accuse administration of strong arm tactics to gain leases on Gulf tidelands amid Truman veto fight. Long says disclosure could win votes. Chapman notes plan exists but not approved. McCarran orders hearings. Holland accuses preemptive grabs. plan says exploratory and within property act.
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Washington
Russell B. Long
D-La
Truman
Gulf of Mexico
Oscar Chapman
Pat McCarran
Dnev
Senate Judiciary Committee
Chapman
Jess Larson
James P. McGranery
Senate
Mr. Truman
Spessard L. Holland
D-Fla
Long
Larson
Congress
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act
Odessa Firms Granted Domestic Charters
Five Odessa area firms received domestic charters last week per Secretary of State Jack Ross. Barbee's Inc. of Odessa and four Midland firms Barbee's Inc Midland Northwest Corp Midland Transportation Co Merchants Land Company Inc and Ben Rodgers & Co Inc were incorporated with varying charter lengths and paid capital.
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American Austin Bureau
Austin
Odessa - Area
Jack Ross
Odessa
Midland
Barbee’s Inc
M. L. Rogers
Martha Lois Barbee
J. S. Barbee
Midland Northwest Corp
NPV
M. C. Andrews, Jr
Thomas C. Hart
Alma L. Andrews
Midland Transportation Co
Raymond Thomson, Jr
William T. Acklen
Merchants Land Company, Inc
R. B .Ogburn
S. C. Riley
Jack Huff
Ben Rodgers & Co., Inc
Ben Rodgers
Eula Pearl Rodgers
Pearl Robertson
New Mexico Leases Bring High Bidding
Shell Oil Company bid 485 482.85 dollars for a 242.74 acre tract in Lea County. The 2000 dollar per acre price set a New Mexico record as sixty one tracts sold for 1 121 478 14 dollars. The previous high was 1 005 267 dollars four years earlier.
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Santa FE
N. M
State Land Office
Shell Oil Company
Bagley Pool
Lea County
New Mexico
Shell
Instrument Men Here Discussion Of Control Gear
Thirty six members and guests of the Permian Basin Section of the Instrument Society of America attended the June dinner meeting at Cathay House. David W. McCoy of Jalfor El Paso Natural Gas Co spoke on automatic control instrumentation, outlining on off control and proportional types with reset and derivative, plus temperature and lag factors. The next meeting is set for July 8 with location to be announced.
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Permian Basin
The
Instrument Society of America
Cathay House
David W. McCoy
Jal
el Paso Natural Gas Co
Noble Brown
Shell Oil Co
Notrees
Winton Rochelle
Foxworo Co
Odessa
McCoy
Penrose seeks high allowable at Texas oil well in Ector County
Neville G. Penrose Inc asks for a special 200 bar rel per day calendar limit for TXL Well 1 in Wheeler Ellenburger Field. R. S. Anderson cites tests over 17 days showing water loading with choke under 23 64 inch. Stanolind opposes, saying normal field operations and work overs suffice. Well produced 400 to 500 barrels daily after initial low output. calendar day average 182 barrels.
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American Austin Bureau
Austin
Wheeler Ellenburger
Ector County
Neville G. Penrose, Inc
Texas Railroad Commission
R. S. Anderson
Penrose
Anderson
Stanolind Oil and Gas Co
Oil companies win acreage and field designations in Texas
The Railroad Commission approves oil applications including Texas Co in Fulshear Clodine Land Fort Bend County and AllenHoliday Pennsylvanian in Scurry County McAlester Fuel Co in Allen Well A11 Scurry County Texas Co Fuller Southeast 7100 foot Strawn in Scurry County Tom B Medders Hutchinson Well 1 Callahan County Phillips Petroleum in TXL Andres in Ector County Stanolind in Cogdell West Strawn in Scurry County Crossett 3000foot Clearfork for Hobbs C Well 1 Crane County.
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Austin
Railroad Commission
Texas Co
Fulshear
Fort Bend
McAlester Fuel Co
Allen Well
Scurry County
Fuller
Strawn
Tom B. Medders
Discovery
Baird Ellenburger
Hutchinson
Callahan County
Phillips Petroleum Co
TXL
San Andres
Ector County
Stanolind Oil and Gas Co
Cogdell West Strawn
Cunningham
Texas
Crossett
Hobbs
Crane County
Crude Production Declines in Week
Tulsa report shows domestic crude and lease condensate output for the week ended June 7 averaged 6,106,400 barrels daily, down 218,525 from May 3 due to a labor strike. Texas fell to 2,698,650 barrels, Oklahoma to 526,300, and other states including Arkansas Kansas and Colorado also posted declines.
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Tulsa
Okla
Oil and Gas Journal
Journal Sav T Hese
Texas
Arkansas
Colorado
Eastern
Kansas
Kentucky
Mississippi
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Utah
Eight Area Counties Share Thirteen Oil Well Completions
Completion reports show 13 oil wells in eight Odessa area counties with Midland, Andrews, Kent, and other counties posting new producers. Wells include Ector Phillips No. 40 Embar in Goldsmith Clear Fork and Stanolind No. 2 Midland Farms J in Midland Farms Field with varied gravities and gas oil ratios. Several locations list plans to drill or start by June 20 seven miles northwest of Tokio, detailing depths, tubing pressures, and fracture treatments.
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Odessa
Midland
Andrews
Kent
Ector
Dawson
Gaines
Hockley
Loving
Ector County
Phillips
Odessa Area
Yoakum
Howard
Pecos
Sterling
Terry
Andrews Superior No. 1 University 11
University Lands Survey
Tennessee Production Co
J. E. Wright
Prentice Field
J. H. Gibson
Final steel wage settlement offer rejected by union
Negotiating committee of six major steel firms submits a final proposal to end the wage case with a 16 cent hourly raise plus fringe benefits totaling about 24.6 cents per hour and an annual direct cost around 400 million dollars. The plan keeps union membership voluntary and sets a June 30 1954 contract end with a June 30 1953 reopen option.
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New York
United Steelworkers of America
CIO
Union
John A. Stephens
U. S. Steel Co
Bethlehem Steel
Inland Steel
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Bethlehem
Inland
Jones and Laughlin
Republic
U. S. Steel
U. S. Steel and Republic
Air Force Family From Union Lake Tops Local News
Mrs. Margaret Terreault of Union Lake Michigan mother of eight children has four sons serving in the Air Force. Two younger sons Arthur age 15 and Edwin age 13 await reaching enlistment age.
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Union Lake
Mich
Margaret Terreault
Air Force
Arthur
Edwin
Ring recovered after 48 years in Fulton garden
Mrs. Abner Roper of Fulton Kentucky aged 67 retrieved a gold ring lost for 48 years. Her husband located the ring in their garden where it disappeared shortly after the couple wed.
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Fulton, Ky
Abner Roper
Windy winds snap flight times from Illinois airport
Strong gusts battered Urbana and toppled rumors as a plane departed the University of Illinois airport for Chicago. The trip arrived 39 minutes later, well under the usual 55 minute duration without a tail wind.
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Urbana
Ill
Ilinois
University of Illinois
Chicago
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East
Dial
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Pho
Leach and
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Snowhite Bakery
Big Bill Bangert
Queensboro Bridge
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Dollarhide Clear Fork
Dawson Powder Oils, Inc
Classen
Mungerville Pen
Gaines Burdell Oil Co
Riley “C
West Seminole
Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Co. No
J. H. Silvey
Leveland
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McFarlin
Cogdell
Chapman and
Magnolia
Judkins
Tex
Harvey
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J. W. Driver
Tex Harvey
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Rufus W. Foster
Parochial
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Terry Stanolind
Myrtle M. Edwards
Wellman
Brownfield
Stephens
Ben Moreell
Jones and Laughlin Steel
Charles M. White
Republic Steel
Call Dixon
Peerless Pui, Osscriputor
Dixon
Oil Field Salvage Co
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West Seventeenth Street
San Angelo
C. E. Davis
Mount Vernon
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