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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1978
Page
6
The listing shows a block of prime time and late night programs across networks including game shows, talk shows, comedies, soaps, and daytime repeats. Notable entries include Wheel of Fortune, The Price is Right, Sesame Street, The Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Mork and Mindy, and Sanford and Son with mixed sports and news segments.
A dense afternoon TV lineup lists soap operas general hospital doctors and more from noon to four. It includes days of our lives as the world turns all my children one life to live guiding light and edge of night along with game shows and classic cartoons Brand titles include Blondie Knows Best Charlie Bubbles Hap py BirtHday Wanda June Sanford and Son Merv Griffin Banana Splits and The Flintstones.
Tom Longboat, an Onondaga from the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ontario, won a horse race over 12 miles and the 25 mile Boston Marathon in 1907 in record time. In 1912 he set a 15 mile distance record that still stands.
Reports detail Shell Oil Co test well one mile west of Barstow in Ward County and multiple new wells in Winkler and Reeves counties. New Midland No. 5 Little Wolf well shows 34 barrels daily with 133 barrels water, while Waymon W. Buchanan’s San Antonio No 11 Young wells produced oil and water after acidizing and fracturing. Gulf Oil Corp No 1 Lois McDaniel completed in Ward County with 13 barrels daily and 42.4 degree oil, re-entry of McDaniel Gas Unit.
Gulf Oil Corp announces a 30 000 foot wildcat in Pecos County about 25 miles southeast of Fort Stockton. If successful it would be the deepest hole drilled in Texas, with the world record at 31 411 feet in Oklahoma. The No 21 Emma Lou unit and related wells detail multiple perforations, acid treatments, and production figures across several fields including Ellenburger, Puckett West Bend, and Gomez pools, with depths ranging near 10 700 to 18 124 feet and notable gas and oil potential.
Robert Wilkinson named manager of Wacker’s Store at 1002 Eddy in Pecos. A Pecos native, he’s worked 15 years with G.F. Wacker Stores and relocated from Carlsbad to assume the Pecos post on March 17. The Southern Baptist family plans vary with new stock aims and a larger merchandise selection.
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