Wildcat oil tests in Scurry and surrounding counties
Multiple drill prospects in West and Northeast Scurry County and nearby areas outline 5,500 to 7,200 foot wildcat wells by Intex Oil Sun Oil Gulf Oil Stoltz Medders and Fox Ransdell. Prospects include Noodle Creek Rotan Rough Draw and Flippen formations with recent test data and casing plans.
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Intex Oil Company
Sun Oil Company
J. W. Nichols
Wolfcamp
Thomas & Saxon Drilling Company
Abilene
F. J. Frazier
Stonewall County
Wildcat
Rotan
H&tc
Stonewall-Fisher County
Tom B. Medders
Wichita Falls
J. F. Cox
Fisher County
Noodle Creek
H&tc Survey
Fox & Ransdell
Charles G. Hogsett
Upper Hope
Lone Hope
Atlantic Refining Company
Father Finds Youths Body Near Bluff After Crash
In Paducah Texas a 18 year old Ed ward McIntire died from a head injury after his car skidded on a glazed farm road and plunged over a 30 foot bluff. His father Hershal McIntire found the body at daybreak near the wrecked car. The crash likely occurred around midnight and the youth had been missing since Friday night.
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Paducah
Tex
Buck Johnson
Edward McIntire
Hershal Mcelntire
Childress
Justice of the Peace
Young Melntire
Merchants To Meet Monday in Snyder Chamber Conference Room
The Snyder Chamber of Commerce Merchants Committee will launch its 1963 program Monday night. Harold Bennett, 1962 chairman, calls a 7:30 pm meeting in the Chamber conference room. All Snyder area merchants are urged to attend and be represented. New officers will be elected and a work program mapped.
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Snyder Chamber of Commerce Merchants Committee
Harold Bennett
Chamber of Commerce
Snyder
Temp Dips to Single Digits in Snyder Area
The Snyder area saw a low of 5 degrees Saturday morning, two degrees above last week’s low. Clouds moved south by afternoon. clearing night skies could lead to even colder readings.
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Snyder
Novis N Rodgers Rites Set Today
Funeral services are set for 3 o clock this afternoon for Novis N Rodgers 52 found dead early Saturday on a Kent County ranch road. He was a cutting and quarter horse judge and longtime Midland area rancher with ties to Snyder and Fort Worth. Survivors include his wife daughter mother and siblings. Pallbearers listed.
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Novis N. Rodgers
Kent County
Rodgers
Billy Wayne Williams
Polar
Williams
Grape Creek
Fluvanna
Fort Worth
Garza County
Amarillo
Hugh Koren
Lubbock
Dan Rodgers
Midland
Weldon Johnson
B. L. McKinley, Jr
Jimmy Randall
Jack Burrow
Aubrey Stokes
Phil Bouchier
Bryan J. Williams
Japan warns of potential Red China nuclear devices
Japan's Defense Agency chief says information indicates China may possess two to four nuclear devices and could test one this year. Experts doubt rapid weaponization, noting lack of missiles and Soviet aid. The topic was raised at the US Japan security talks.
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Tokyo
Japan
Defense Agency
Red China
Yomiuri
Red Chinese
Kenjiro Shiga
Japan Security Consultative Committee
Shiga
Red
China
Washington
Soviet Union
Satomi Hakamada
Peking
Hakamada
Texas Faces Worse Winter Storm Than Week Ago
A major winter storm spread snow and freezing rain across most of Texas. Brownsville warned of a Sunday dawn freeze to 32 in mid Valley and 22 at Rio Grande City. lows near 28 coast and 22 inland. Lone Star Gas cut industrial gas by 50 percent in Central Texas and similar zones. Farmers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley prepared as 30 mile winds and frost threats loomed.
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Associated Press
Texas
Rio Grande Valley
Weather Bureau
Brownsville
mid-Valley
Rio Grande City
Panhandle
Lone Star Gas Co
Central
West Texas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Arctic Circle
Bryan
Waco
San Angelo
Dumas
Dalhart
Perryton
Amarillo
Borger
Muleshoe
South Plains
North Central
South Central
Louisiana
el Paso
West
North Texas
Panel Plans Final Offer In Strike
New York AP update says a presidential board led by Sen. Wayne Morse will present a final settlement proposal to longshoremen and waterfront employers. The mediation plan could be accepted or rejected, with Congress ready to act if talks fail by Sunday midnight amid a 28 day strike.
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NEW York
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Kennedy
Frankie Avalon Weds In Saturday Rites
Singer Frankie Avalon and Kay Deibel exchanged wedding vows in a private ceremony at St. Charles church in North Hollywood. About 50 guests, mainly teenage fans, gathered outside. Rev. John Cooley officiated. The couple planned a honeymoon in Acapulco Mexico.
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North Hollywood
Calif
Frankie Avalon
Kay Deibel
St. Charles Roman Catholic Church
John Cooley
Acapulco
Mexico
Grenade Attack Targets Saigon Hotel as War Ties Rise
In Saigon, a grenade was thrown at an American officers hotel amid escalating Viet Cong activity. Guerrillas raided Tan Thong killing seven civil guards and capturing weapons. U.S. forces conducted a large search operation near Trang Bang, with seven helicopters hit and one pilot wounded.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Eric G. Wheeler
Tan Thong
Wheeler
South Viet Nam National Liberation Front Radio
Trang Bang
Tay Ninh
Bids Sought For CRMWD Pipeline Project
The Colorado River Municipal Water District seeks bids on a 51.5 mile pipeline linking Lake J B Thomas in Scurry County with Sun Oil’s Jameson Field terminal in Coke County. Plans by Freese Nichols release details for 21 and 24 inch mains and 18 inch remainder with reinforced concrete steel cylinder pipe.
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Colorado River Municipal Water District
Lake J. B. Thomas
Scurry County
Sun Oil Company
Jameson Field
Coke County
Sun
CRMWD
Colorado River
Freese & Nichols
Fort Worth
Danciger
East 4Th
Big Spring
Kennedy Stronger In Texas As Poll Shows Kennedy Lead
The Texas Poll finds President Kennedy favored over three top Republicans Rockefeller Goldwater and Romney by over six percent yet none exceed 25 percent in Texas voters. Approval of Kennedy’s job performance sits at 71 percent up 9 points since last September. The poll notes potential party shifts and notes the figures reflect Texans who could vote if poll tax requirements are met by end of January. See Kennedy, Page 3.
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Kennedy
Texas
Nelson Rockefeller
Barry Goldwater
George Romney
Richard Nixon
John Kennedy
Goldwater
Rockefeller
Romney
Romo
O Rockefeller
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Dale
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Joe
Snyder Area Oil
Marine
Pfc
Jack Moon
Saginaw
Mich
Eva
Santa Ana
Waco Temple
Vernon, Childress
Sweetwater
Dallas
Lone Star
Graf
Malcolm W. Browne
The
Texas Poll
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Mennedy
Republican Party
GOP
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