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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1958
Page
2
Pecos city workers completed a 100 hour test on a southeast lease site water well pumping 500 gallons per minute from 173 feet. The new well adds about 720000 gallons daily, bringing the city well field to 22 producing wells, per Water Superintendent John Oglesby. The second well this year follows a February installation.
In Lovington New Mexico four Hobbs girls join contestants from Lovington Jal Eunice and Tatum to vie for the maid of cotton title at the Lea County Cotton Festival. The winner advances to the New Mexico Maid of Cotton contest at Ruidoso with a style show closing the event Saturday night.
Services were set for 3:30 p m Friday at St Pauls Methodist Church for William Ruswell Hill 64 an Odessa oilfield worker killed Wednesday on the David Inez Faskin Lease 15 miles southeast of Andrews Rev A Ferguson to officiate burial in Sunset Memorial Gardens Rix Funeral Home in charge Hill a 17 year Odessa resident a Free Will Baptist Church member and World War I veteran was struck and run over by a heavy oil truck when a wench chain broke and the tank being loaded toppled the truck Pallbearers named Raymond Roy Rex Bremond Sid and Betha Owens.
Deputies investigated the theft of an $800 air compressor from a rig near Notrees. B. D. Hedrick of Robert M. Bass Drilling Company Kilgore reported the loss on Thursday. The compressor was likely taken from the Thompson lease four miles south of Notrees around midweek last week while crews moved the rig to Sweetwater.
Three Kermit men injured in a head-on crash near Kermit on Standard Ave were reported improving and in satisfactory condition. Victims Phil Handlin 19 Charles Cowley 26 and Frank Marshall suffered fractures cuts and abrasions. Marshall’s car pulled around a truck and hit Handlin’s vehicle with Cowley trapped in the wreck.
C F Lyles exalted ruler of Elks Lodge No 1630 in Odessa urged citizens to display flags on Flag Day in unity against communist menace. He highlighted the Show Your Colors program tying to June 14 1777 adoption of the Stars and Stripes and announced flag ceremonies at 645 p m Sunday at the Odessa Pecos Elks lodges with about 75 Odessa Elks expected. Midland ceremony open to the public.
A feeble, error ridden ad touts a home fat reducing potion using Barcentrate and grape fruit juice with claims to rapidly slim inches. It promises dramatic results in a single bottle and hints at widespread easy weight loss without evidence or safety details.
Richard Adams of Indiana University showed that archaeology can aid criminal cases by identifying bones in freshly killed meat as venison. His work helped convict a doer poacher, illustrating the field's broader applications beyond ancient artifacts.
Fort Worth Texas reports that Frank D. Crawley a 66 year old farmer with a history of multiple divorces faced a new cruelty claim from wife number five Mrs Katie Crawley. The District Judge Harold Craik heard the petition at 16 a m. Crawley previously married three and four wives who accused him of insatiable sexual desires and sailorlike behavior.
Three Odessa High School Future Business Leaders of America members Hughly Foreman Kay Kirby and Dottie Hinnant will leave Odessa Friday for Fort Worth to board a bus to St Louis Missouri. They will represent Odessa and Texas at a four day meet returning Thursday accompanied by Julia Riges applied science teacher sponsor.
Pyote Air Force Base awarded a contract for 27 housing units with a low bid of 300000 from Gyler-Harwell Company of Lampasas. Construction starts when materials are on site for a mass production operation. Major Grant Wilson notes full deployment of the radar warning station will follow sufficient personnel arrival.
Tom Meacham, ex Monahans Chamber of Commerce president and local businessman, was appointed to replace Steve Cullum on the Monahans-Wickett School board after Cullum resigned for out-of-town business. The board named the new Cleveland Brockman School in northeast Monahans in honor of late C Dominoe Brockman, a longtime resident.
The prison newspaper The Eye Opener reports former FBI head for Oklahoma D. A. Bryce entering the governor's race as a Democrat. The remark stirs interest at the state penitentiary, with the newspaper noting the candidacy will be greeted with serious thought.
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