Oil Field Drilling Log Flags Multiple Wells in Texas Counties
The report lists several drilling plans and activity across Kent Fisher Scurry Mitchell Howard Howard counties. It notes A V Jones & Sons of Albany and others preparing Nos 1 Fowler and No 1 Ruby Cave wells with depths around 4 3 to 4 6 thousand feet. Also Katz company and Foy & Ransdell report tests in Rotan and Rotan area. Gulf Oil and Atlantic Refining report wells near Camp Springs Ira and Rotan with depths around 3 1/2 to 5 500 feet and no shows in some. Multiple locations include sections near Jayton Rotan and Forsan with coordinates and line references.
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A. V. Jones
H&tc
Katz
Company of Abilene
Ida B. Montgomery
Rotan
H&t C Survey
Atlantic Refining Company
Kent County
H&tc Survey
Foy & Ransdell
Abilene
Wills M. Dean
Flippen
Fisher County
Hope
Scurry County
Camp Springs
Gulf Oil Corporation
Shirley Roberts
Mitchell County
Anderson
Midland
Thornton
Clear Fork
T-I-N
T&p
Westbrook
Sharon Ridge
Scurry
Creslenn Oil Company of
Dallas
Hardee
Ira
HTC Survey
G. B. McNallen and Company
Big Spring
Howard - Glasscock Field
Howard County
Forsan
H. R. Gray
W&nw Survey
Okay School Fund Boost
The State Board of Education approved a study on a proposal to enlarge the permanent school fund by selling municipal bonds. The plan would replace them with corporate bonds yielding up to 5 percent more, though current law prohibits selling municipal bonds. Board member Paul Haas cited potential multimillion dollar gains for the fund.
Snyder High Wins District IL Literary Meet
Snyder High School won the district Inter scholastic League literary meet with 161 points, ending Sweetwater’s seven year run. Mary Bowlin and Brenda Boyd led girls events with multiple firsts. Jim Moore and Roy Hanson led boys. Numerous top placers across Speech, Drama, Spelling, and Writing are noted.
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Sweetwater
Snyder High School
Snyder
Colorado City
Lakeview
Lamesa
Brownfield
Bob Taylor
Mary Bowlin
Brenda Boyd
Jim Moore
Roy Hanson
Millison Smyth
Betty Pinkerton
Elden Tipping
Dwain Butler
Diana Ator
Rita Harless
Billy Streety
Bobby Covey
Bus Plunge Kills Seven In Feather River Canyon Crash
A Reno to San Francisco Greyhound slid on a rain slick highway, crashed through a guard rail, and tumbled 120 feet into the canyon. More than twenty aboard screamed as seven died and 18 were injured. the driver among the dead.
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Oroville
Calif
Greyhound
Reno
No. 404
Sacramento
Howard Hyatt
San Francisco
Oroville Medical Center
Hyatt
Browning and Anderson Win In School Board Race
In Snyder and surrounding districts four school boards held elections Saturday. Browning and Anderson won Snyder posts with 370 and 281 votes respectively out of 629 total ballots. The piece also covers Helmleigh Fluvanna Ira and crash scenes near Oroville with survivor quotes.
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Browning
Anderson
J. L
Broadway
Hermleigh
Hollis Ward
Cecil Hall
Helmleigh
James Ince
Edwin Kuss
Carmen Hobbs
Glenn Tate
Rains Move East as Texas Skies Clear Overnight
The Associated Press reports warmer weather spreading east over Texas after heavy rainfall. East Texas saw the latest downpours and slick highways with eight fatalities. by afternoon only Texarkana still had rain. Forecasters predicted a mild, sunny Sunday with many areas grateful for the moisture. rainfall totals include Lexington 3.16 inches and Madisonville 3.08 with numerous other towns recording over an inch.
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Associated Press
Texas
San Augustine
Texarkana
Central
Lexington
Madisonville
Center
Douglass
Chireno
Bryan Area
Redland
College Station
Nacogdoches
Rusk and
Groveton
Holger
Conroe
Maud
Lufkin
Riverside
Rockland
Bronson
Dime Box
Naples and Recklaw
Caldwell
Concord
Mexia
Valley Junction
New Summerfield
Warrenton
Jacksonville
Hagansport
Tyler
Washington
DeKalb
Gladewater
Jefferson
Longview
Whitehouse
College Discussion Set On Junior District Proposal
Dr. Marvin Baker of South Plains College Level land arrives Tuesday night to join a public meeting at Snyder High School auditorium. The session outlines a plan for a two county public junior college district including Scurry and Fisher Counties. Petitions to seek authority would be ready for submission to the state board if Austin approves, leading to an election in the proposed district.
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Sierra
Sacramento
Mary Fritts
Portola
Marvin Baker
South Plains College
Levelland
State Board
Austin
Tank Aids In Capture Of Escapee
In Nacogdoches Texas a heavily armed mental hospital escapee Ellis Whittaker 49 surrendered after a National Guard tank crewed by officers surrounded the woods where he hid Whittaker had shot a Deputy and two bloodhounds and surrendered when the tank moved in He was taken to Nacogdoches as police sought to end a manhunt authorized by Governor Connally
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Nacogdoches
Tex
National Guard
Ellis Whittaker
John Connally
Here
Whittaker
Ray Smithhardt
Adj
Thomas Bishop
Overdoses of heroin kill addicts in Houston case
Federal officials linked a multi million dollar heroin smuggling ring to a series of overdose deaths in Houston. Three alleged members are indicted as shipments of almost pure heroin flowed from Mexico, with addicts often receiving 2 to 5 percent strength injections rather than the 20 to 25 percent mixtures. At least a dozen deaths are suspected. 22 pounds of heroin were seized on November 7, with an estimated street value of 45 million dollars. A Monterrey Mexico woman and a New York ex convict were sentenced in federal court after being nabbed with the narcotic.
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Houston
Monterrey
Mexico
New York
Italian Network Sets Weekly Movie Cap on Two Channels
Rome reports Italy's state television network will show no more than one motion picture weekly on each channel. The rule aims to appease cinema owners who threatened a nationwide shutdown.
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Rome
API
Italy
Polaris Pact With Britain Signed By Rusk In Washington
Secretary of State Dean Rusk signed a Polaris missile sales pact with Britain in Washington, with British Ambassador Gore present. The deal covers up to 100 missiles, submarines, and warheads as part of NATO’s planned nuclear forces amid talks with France and NATO on multilateral defense.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
Britain
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
France
United States
Rusk
Sir David Ormsty Gore
State Department
Kennedy
Harold Macmillan
Nassau
Berlin
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
North Atlantic Treaty Organization Council
Maccmillan
NATO
Mediterranean
Big Welcome Planned For Lopez Mateos
Mexico plans a huge turnout to greet traveling president Adolfo Lopez Mateos on his return home from a European tour. Officials say hundreds of thousands will be on hand as public offices close at 10 a.m and state governors federal officials Congress members and diplomats gather at the airport. Air force planes will meet the jet from France Holland Poland Yugoslavia and Germany.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Adolfo Lopez Mateos
Lopez Mateos
Five Nations
Diplomatic Corps
Air Force
France
Holland
Poland
Yugoslavia
Germany
Bomb Found Near Mt Royal Tower In Montreal
Police removed a powerful bomb from the foot of a Mt Royal transmitting tower in Montreal and dismantled it minutes before detonation. The device bore the word Liberte and the FLQ initials, and the group has threatened retaliation against CFCF TV over nightly broadcasts of God Save the Queen.
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Montreal
Mt. Royal
Leo Plouffe
Liberte
FLQ
Front de
Mississippi Gulf Coast Hit by Tornadoes and Waterspouts
Twisters struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast injuring several and causing significant property damage. The Pass Christian Yacht Club suffered a torn roof and porch damage as a waterspout moved inland. At Pascagoula the Longfellow House resort saw lodging ruined and tourists harmed. Rain stretched from Virginia to Texas with Mobile recording 1.83 inches in six hours.
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Mo Wes
Mississpp Gulf Coast
Pass Christian Yacht Club
Mississippi Sound
Longfellow House
Pascacgoula
Virginias
Texas
Mobile
Ala
Pacific Northwest
Rockies
Pacific Coast
Arizona
Dakotas
Great Lakes
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West Point
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Snyder Area Oil
Snyder High
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Donna Overby
Glenn Ward
Ollie Peek
Stuart Long
Mary Faver
Susie Knock
Carol Young
Dorothy Rasson
Lana Brown
Ann Robinson
J. L. Browning
Buster Anderson
C. C. Terry
John W. O'Banion Jr
Jack Lawrence
West Flementary
City Hall
Fast Elementary
Terry
East Flementary
Fast
Gene L. Dulaney
Thomas F. Hartley
William J. Schiebel
Lee D. Stone
Robert H. Hargrove Jr
Bo J. Weaver
Albert Ray Martin
Pluvanna
Fluvanna
J Dp Patterson
Bill Stansell
Patterson
Stansell
Glenn Toombs
James Beaver
Henry Landrum
Eugene Smith
Howard Sterling
Harold Holladay
Marvin Sorrells
Ion. Sterling
Johnny Weir
W. R. Sterling Jr
Houston Kimbrell
Dr. Baker
By John M. Hightower
Polaris
Fred Kizer
Buford Browning
Anita Holt
Miss Holt
Future Homemakers of America
Mississippi
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