Hunger and cold gauge time in Little America
An editor note introduces a four part report tracing Antarctica exploration and a U S Navy sponsored modern expedition. The piece highlights Antarctic scale, constant daylight in summer, extreme cold and hunger, plus ice mass implications for sea level and land rise, with meteorological records and ancient climate shifts noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little America
Antarctica
South Pole
Antarctic
U.S
Earth
Soviet Union
Vostok
Australia
Arctic
Pacific
Polar
Pole
Sahara
Pacific Ocean
South Pacific
James Cook
Cook
Nathaniel Palmer
Connecticut
Hero
John Davis
Barstow and Pecos Seniors Join National Honor Society
Barstow and Pecos High School seniors earned National Honor Society membership. Willman and Hernandez are Barstow and Pecos students, with Willman the son of Carl and unnamed mother and Hernandez the son of Manuel and Barstow residents. The bulletin also notes Kite Day events at Barstow Elementary March 1 with 41 participants, prize winners, and related school and community notices including bridge clubs and local election developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Willman
Manuel Hernandez
Pecos High School
Willman
Carl Willman
Hernandez
Barstow
Holly Smith
Tony Flores
Norma Garcia
Carolyn Koenning
Robby Abila
Maria Franco
Rebecca Koenning
Margaret Pineda
Tommy Strain
Roxanne Pena
Tony Fleener
Susie Flores
Strain
Toyah News Roundup Highlights Baby Shower and Local Events
Sunday events at Toyah School honored Mrs. Louisia Sanchez McPherson with gifts recorded in a blue baby book. A Toyah Home Demonstration Club fried chicken lunch drew 20 guests, while booster club members heard slides from Perth Australia. Community members share family updates from Toyah to El Paso and Ruidoso New Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kelma Northcutt
Bridge Club
Barstow
John Burkholder
W. L. Fuller
Forrest Walker
Pecos
Walter Burkholder
Charles Dyer
Bob Faulkner
Frances Manuel
Marion Russell
Iva Wadley
A. L. Young
Edith Mellvain
Louisia Sanchez McPherson
Fred Sanchez
A.L. Gibson
Bertha Sanchez
Bryan Boatman
Tom Cargill
Coy Perkins
Don Gass
Toyah Home Demonstration Club
Toyah
A. L. Gibson
el Paso
Lynn Gibson
Dave Thomason
Toyah Booster Club
Frank Lichnovsky
Perth
Australia
United States
Humble Oil completes several Ellenburger wells in Ward and Winkler counties
Humble Oil and Refining Co reports multiple completions in Ward and Winkler counties following Ellenburger and Devonian zone drilling. Notable results include 3.8 million cubic feet of gas and 122 barrels of oil from the Devonian No 1 Mary W Evans, with additional tests in the Ellenburger yielding substantial gas, condensate, and lead-water production. Tests show high daily gas rates and significant perforation depths, with multiple locations and depths listed in section and PSL survey blocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humble Oil & Refining Co
Mary W. Evans
Ellenburger
Ward County
Pyote
H&tc
Mobil Oil Corp
H&tc Survey
Humble Arco
Winkler County
Wildcat
Kermit
Evetts
Silurian
Haley
Fusselman
Reeves County
Atlantic Richfield Co
Worsham
Barstow
Oil and gas activity in West Texas and Reeves County fields
Oil operators report several deep tests and discoveries in Winkler and Ward counties. Evetts and Barstow area wells show Silurian Ellenburger and Fusselman gas flows with multi-stage testing, perforations, and acidizing results. Gulf Oil lines up 1967 projects in Reeves County including Barkley-Dean and Worsham Bayer outposts and Pennsylvanian opal pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barstow
Gulf Oil Corp
Barkley-Dean
Atoka
Worsham- Bayer
Reeves County
Culf
Reese
Cleveland
Also Mentioned on This Page
Robert Letts Jones
Copley News Service
Los Angeles
New York
National Geographic Society
Jane Sullivan
North Pecos
Iis
Ruby Fay Newton
Jamie Armando Hinojos
Nidia Flores
Terry Barrera
Norma Herrera
Teresa Martinez
Texas Public Schools
J.H. Freeland
Beatrice Nunez
Patricia Gresham
Ernest Felts
Dallas
Maude Witt
Chester Armstrong
Canasta Club
Belle Brown
Virginia Allen
Betty Jo
Good
Gladys Singleton
Alma Williams
Gloria Woods
Pauline Turnbow
Fay LeBaron
Allgoods
Jack Allgood
Jackie
Rusty
John B. Allgood Jr
CES School
Gladys Burkholder
Visitation
Eula Echols
Home Endowment
OES
Fort Stockton
Jean Faulkenberry
Dist
Aileen Houston
Order of Eastern Star
Arlington
Bennie Longbine
David
Kimberly Denise
Lubbock
Vernon Alldredge
Lynn Webb
Roy Williams
Benny Abila
Elias Franco
Abram Flores
Arlington, Tex
Arlington Stadium
Seven Seas Amusement Park
Texas
Six Flags
Hollis Pollard
Arlington Park Corp
Pollard
Hughes Bay
Charles Wilkes
U.S. Navy
Wilkes
Dumont d'Urville
Adelie
James Ross
New Zealand
Ross Sea
McMurdo Sound
Amundsen
Scott
Shackleton
Byrd
Courage
Discovery
Cmdr
Robert Falcon Scott
Royal Navy
Ross Ice Shelf
Ernest H. Shackleton
Roald Amundsen
Galveston
Tex
University of Texas Medical Branch
Earl B. Dawson
Dawson
Capt
Endurance
Weddell Sea
South Georgia
Adm
Higinio Salinas
Joe
Sanchez
Sierra Blanca
Ruidoso
N. M
Booster Club
Humble
Wardwell
By Gordon Bankston
AV AG
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