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Eats, Drinks, Fun Planned For Fiesta Party—-The R. R. Wants Oil Field PicturesZimmerla Drilled in Borneo, India, RussiaiBut Whizbang Beat Anything He’s Eoer SeenBy THE ROVING REPORTERCharlcjs T. Zimmerla has fallowed cable tools Into Sumatra, India, Borneo, Burma, Russia, Old Mexico and a dozen states In the U, S„ tut he found the moat excitement In- the Whizbang, Okla., field in 1921.Mr. Zimmerla, a peace-loving mau who never had a quarrel with, a fellow driller, tooldresser or roughneck, was held up four times in one week at Whizbang,•'All the boys can teil you jjhaf they used to carry $23 in a special pocket or Rurse to keep the hijacker from getting'madind beating him upr-that's an old ioke. bnt it was actually true at Whtebang. Pec-.' pie WW. afraid nof. to carry money, because'..they wc?e afrajd tiicy’dplstol-whippcd If tl;,ey hod none, and many a man was plstol-whlp-ped at Whizbang,” Mr. Zimmerla said.Drilled In BorneoMr. Zimmerla,started out In the oil business as a‘tooldresser at Cygnet, Ohio, in 1889, and that makes him a 60-year veteran in the game. He dressed tools for thrre years and started drilling; in. 1893 at Cygnet, H°. left for West Virginia In 1893,. where he drilled several wells.In 1895, Mr. Zimmerla went to Sumatra to drill for the British-American. In 1890, he put down wet’s In 'Borneo, within earshot of the screqqhing jungles. In 1887, he drill-Cd iii Burma- In 1899. he ploaeered.' See Tj ■ -
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Pampa News
Pampa, Texas, US
Wed, May 17, 1939
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