Water Flooding to Tap New Oil Wealth in Two Nebraska Fields
Pan American Petroleum Corp announces plans for water flooding and potential unitization at Sloss and Harrisburg fields in western Nebraska. Participating companies include Magnolia Petroleum, Skelly Oil, British American, and others. Engineering studies suggest royalty and working-interest income will rise, production will increase, and the decline rate will slow after flood peak. The program fits a wider trend toward secondary recovery in the Denver Julesburg Basin and could boost local tax revenues and economic stability. Additional fields in the region are already water-flooded or planned, with Enders and Willard cited as examples of production recovery and growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casper
Wyo
Sloss
Harrisburg
Nebraska
Pan ‘American Petrolleum Corp
Pan American
Magnolia Petroleum Co
Joy Service’ Co
E. A. _Obering
Texas- Adams Oil Co
Empire Drilling Co
Phillips Petroleum Co
Diversitled Oil &,Mining Corp
Tri-State Exploration Co
Edners
Denver- Julesburg
Enders
Denver
Julesburg
Kimball
Potter
Long
Wedene
Little Beavery East
Plum Bush Creek
U. S
Regional Oil Hike Is Seen
Denver reports E E Monteith Jr vice president Republic National Bank Dallas says Rocky Mountain oil production will rise from 878000 bpd in 1957 to 959000 by 1962 63 with a peak then a decline to about 900000 bpd by 1967. He predicts rising regional demand and eventual imports by 1972.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Rocky Mountain
E. E. Monteith, Jr
Republic National Bank
Dallas
Texas
Monteith
API
Rocky Mountain District
Rocky Mountain States
Rockies
U. S
Oil and Gas Wildcat Drilling Moves Near Potter and Regions
Oil and Gas News reports Petroleum Inc plans a wildcat test about three miles north of Potter on Paul Aude land, with two dry holes previously drilled. The No. 1 Aude location lies in 2015-52, near existing oil production to the southeast. Weather delays hindered a move-in, while Ohio Oil Co advances Miller-Spearow No. 1 in the Spearow Field. Chandler-Simpson has abandoned Miller No. 1 and Nagen gast No. 1 in nearby Farr and Northwest extensions. New drilling locations across Morrill, Kimball, Banner, and Richardson counties include Snethen No. 1-A, Wolsey No. 1, Hascall No. 2, Braugr No. 1, Stout No. 1, Murray No. 1, Daly No. 1, Mount No. 1, Wendell No. 1, and more, with wildcats and several extending to Sterling, Padroni, and surrounding fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio Oil Co
Spearow
Morrill County
Chandler-Simpson Oil Co
Denver
Farr
Northwest
Raymond Oil Co
Schaffert No
Cnw
Lindberg
Ray Horton
John Peters
Snethen
Richardson County
Skelly Oil, Co
Wolsey
Kingball County
Allchin
A wiSpell: Oil Co
Hascall
Davis Oil Co
Braugr
Banner County
Wildcat
Warrior Oil Co
Stout
Kimball County
Allchin Field
Lake Oil & Gas Co
Murray No
Durham Field
O’donnell & Edmondson
Daly
Colorado Southern Petroleum Corp
Mount No
Baumgartner Oil Co
Wendell No. 1
Logan County
Colo
W. C. McBride, Inc
Coronado Co
Padroni
Scaggs
Sala Clark
van Gundy
Center NW
Sterling
United States Smelting, Refining and Mining
Henderson
Shell Qil.,Co
L. C. Hoxie
Center
Keyfield
Nursing Home Fund Drive Final Report Set
A final report on the Memorial Hospital nursing home addition fund drive will be Tuesday noon in the hospital directors room. Sidney Dalton and Lodgepole leaders are expected to finalize results and return unpledged names. Ira Steward directs, organizing clean-up teams to reach rural donors. weather has hindered progress. The steering committee aims for about $70,000 more, with about $230,000 available from prior funds and federal aid programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memorial Hospital
Sidney
Dalton
Lodgepole
Ira
Large Damage Suit Is Settled Out Of Court
Dorothy M. Hewitt of Sidney sued Everette L. Javins in District Court seeking 160837.78 dollars for injuries from a December 5 1956 car crash two and a half miles east of Sidney. The dismissal ordains the case be settled out of court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy M. Hewitt
Sidney
Everette L. Javins
Lincoln Sowers Group to visit Sidney Nebraska leaders
More than sixty Lincoln business and civic leaders join the Lincoln Sowers Group on a three year return visit to Sidney. The tour spans 25 Nebraska communities with dinners in Cozad Sidney Bayard Ogallala Gothenburg and street demonstrations in other towns. Notables include Governor Victor Anderson and numerous local business leaders from Leon Adelson to A. Hyde.
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Lincoln
Sidney
Lincoln Sowers
Sowers
Nebraska
J. W. Wheeler
Fort Sidney Motor Hotel
C of C
Sidney Chamber of Commerce
Cozad
Bayard
Ogallala
Gothenburg
Leon Adelson
Leon’s Food Mart
Fred Aldrich
Continental National Bank
Victor Anderson
L. J. Bible
Ayre, Swanson & Associates, Inc
Pat. Burt
Record Breaking Wheat Crop Could Boost Jobs and Trade
The Agriculture Department forecasts a winter wheat harvest 25 percent larger than last year and the fourth largest on record. A surplus could require more labor and machinery for harvest, transport, and storage, increasing jobs for custom crews, truckers, railroad workers, and market workers as government storage and price supports absorb about 200 million extra bushels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agricultural Department
Soil Bank
Agriculture Department
$100000 Armory Risk If Guard Unit Disappears
Sidney faces a potential new $100,000 National Guard Armory but lacks a Guard company to use it. Maj. Gen. Guy N. Henninger, Nebraska adjutant general, warned 150 Guard officers that proposed federal cuts reducing Guard strength from 425,000 to 360,000 could jeopardize the Nebraska and Iowa 34th Division. He said reductions from 27 to 21 divisions may prompt the 34th to be among first eliminated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney
Nebraska
Iowa
National Guard
Guy N. Henninger
Henninger
National Guard Assn
Lincoln
Washington
Free Tickets To Fox Theatre Offer In Telegraph Ads
Telegraph invites readers to find their names in the want ad page to receive free tickets to Fox Theatre productions. Names appearing in Monday listings grant access the following days. Wednesday names allow midweek shows. Friday papers offer weekend show access. Also promotes cheap want ads for renters, buyers, jobs or employees by calling 5555.
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Telegraph
Fox Theatre
Fox
The
Sidney Beauties To Represent Two States In Press Contest
Sidney's Carolyn McGirr and Reba Kinne will represent Kansas and Nebraska in the Miss Press Photographer national contest in Minneapolis in June. McGirr won Miss Kansas Press Photographer at Wichita and attends Municipal University of Wichita. Kinne, a Nebraska finalist, is a junior at the University of Nebraska and was named one of six Cornhusker beauty queens last year. Both will receive all expenses paid trips, accompanied by their mothers.
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Sidney
Carolyn McGirr
Reba Kinne
Kansas
Nebraska
Minneapolis
Miss McGirr
Dean McGirr
Wichita
Municipal University of Wichita
Miss Kinng
Walter Kinng
Wich
Munity
United States
Mickey Sharkness
Miss Kinne
University of Nebraska
Cornhusker
Cadet Corps
State
Miss Kansas Press
Linda Mintken Wins Top Talent Honors
Linda Mintken daughter of Mr and Mrs Lloyd Mintken of Sidney won a first prize talent award of 200 dollars at the Miss Nebraska contest in Lincoln on Saturday Miss Mintken competed as Miss Fort Sidney of 1958 Sherry Johnson of Omaha was crowned Miss Nebraska Suleal Thompson of Lincoln was runner up
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linda Mintken
Lloyd Mintken
Sidney
Nebraska
Lincoln
Miss Mintken
Fort Sidney
Sherry Johnson
Omaha
Suleal Thompson
Wet West Nebraska Swamps Fields. Wheat Prospects Grow
A moisture packed rain and heavy wet snow drenched western Nebraska over the weekend halting spring field work. Farmers note improved 1958 winter wheat prospects at 20 to 25 million bushels while soggy soil delays planting. Route snow impeded travel but temperatures stayed above freezing. Local lawns, shrubs, and streets show damage from thaw cycles and moisture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Nebraska Panhandle
Sidney
Armed Forces Day Open House Planned at Sioux Depot
Sioux Ordnance Depot will hold an Armed Forces Day Open House on Sunday May 18 announcing the event to maximize attendance. Project chairman Jack Le Rutherford leads a team of military and civilian officials arranging tours movies and exhibits that have drawn crowds in prior years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux Ordnance Depot
Public Information Office
Armed Forces
Fantain
Jack LE. Rutherford
Brule Man George Hendershot Dies at Reptile Ranch
George Hendershot 54 operator of the Reptile Ranch on Route 30 west of Brule died at his home after a heart ailment. He had been hospitalized here recently and death came suddenly at the ranch setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brule
George Hendershot
Grain price shows wheat at 182 dollars per bushel
Local elevator sources quote Wheat at 182 dollars per bushel today underscoring grain market activity and pricing signals for farmers and traders.
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Cheyenne County
leBaron Goodwin
H. A. Anderson
Oil-Gas News
North Potter
Nursing Home
Lincoln Group
Lowe R. Folsom
Nebraska Central Building & Loan Assn
Harold Frappia
Korsmeyer Electric Supply Co
Albert Hall
Nebraska Farmer
John Hallett
Hallett Brothers
Frank Harrington
Harrington Companies
W. E. Hartman
Hartman Tire Co
John Hedge
Western Newspaper Union
Giles Henkle
Henkle
Central Electric & Gas Co
Jim Honstedt
Cornhusker Hotel
A. L. Hyde
the Midwest Life Insurance Co
Norris Jesse
Wythers Package Store
Joe Kruse
Sperry & Hutchinson Co
Ken Lawson
Lincoln Telephone & Telegraph Co
Jack Losink
Magee's
Joe Luchsing
Sidney Beauties
Little Spring
West
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