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Dedicated To The Welfare Of Sweetwater And Surrounding Area
57th Year Number 286
Yoshida Quits
As Japanese
Trime Minister
TOKYO, Dec. 7—UP—P r i m e
Minister Shigeru Yoshida resigned
unexpectedly Tuesday, ending a po-
litical life that dominated Japajl in
its transition from a war-crushed
nation to a stronghold against
communism.
Yoshida, 76, one of the United
^tates' strongest advocates in the
T^'ar East, stepped out of the gov-
ernment shortly before the Diet
(parliament) was certain to have
cast a no-confidence vote against
him.
Observers speculated that Ichiro
Hatoyama, who was purged by
Gen. Douglas MacArthur in 1946
as an "ultra-nationalist," will suc-
ceed Yoshida.
Hatoyama emerged from post-
war political obscurity only two
weeks ago to head the newly-
Rrmed Conservative Democrat
party, which drew away many dis-
sidents from'Yoshida's own Liber-
al party.
Although the Conservative Dem-
ocrats drew up a platform urging
study of increased trade with Red
China, political observers do not
(Authorities in Washington said
they did not believe a change in
government would have any basic
effect on Japanese-American rela-
tions, though some difficulties may
Jte met.
(These authorities said they be-
lieved the Japanese people know
their welfare depends to a great
degree on economic and political
co-operation with the United
States).
Full LeaMd Unltad Preu Wire Bervlc#
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1954
Nil Tatephoto flarrlM
Price Daily 5c, Sunday lOo
fl tWI/.n IIIIIU ...
OFF-SEASON—Off-season tornadoes roared across western Georgia and into Eastern Alabama Sun-
day leaving one dead and 47 injured in their wake. Alabama National Guardsmen, ordered out by
Gov. Persons to prevent looting, keep watch over ruins in Wellington, Ala., one of the hardest hit
towns. (NEA TELEPHOTO)
Roosevelt Regime Is Blamed
For Attack On Pearl Harbor
OIL
ROUND-UP
By ALLEN BAKER
Oil interest is running high in the
*j eetwater area as the year 1954
iiraws to a close.
~ Some royalty around the Petty
well is reported to have sold for
$500 an acre in recent days.
Rumors about the C. E. Boyd
wildcat well have been accompan-
ied by royalty and selling and
more seismograph work.
In the field just northeast of
Roscoe, the Cooper well's big strike
in the soft lime Canyon reef is also
causing some leasing and other
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—UP—
Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel,
self styled "scapegoat" of the
Pearl Harbor disaster, charged
Tuesday that the Roosevelt admin-
istration deliberately provoked the
Japanese attack that plunged the
United States into World War II
just 13 years ago.
The retired naval officer, who
was commander-in-chief of the Pa-
cific fleet on the "day that will live
in infamy," also said that top of-
ficials of the War and Navy De-
partments withheld from Hawaiian
commanders intelligence reports,
including intercepted Japanese
messages, that clearly indicated
the attack was coming.
Had this information been passed
along to him, even on the eve of
Kimmel's side of the great naval Kimmel made public a letter
debacle and events leading up to which Fleet Adm. William F.
it was published by the magazine! (Hull1 Halsey wrote to him on July
U. S. News & World Report in the 20, 1953.
form of copyrighted excerpts from
a forthcoming book, "Admiral Kim-
mel's Story." The book will be pub-
lished in January by the Henry
Regnery Co. of Chicago.
U. S. News & World Report last
week harf ublished another and
sharply c. cting version of the
Pearl Har,. • disaster in a copy-
righted z 'cle by retired Navy
Capt. T. " Kittredge.
Claims Information Withheld
Kittredj ^ naval historian, said
no impo. t information "was
ever withheld" from Kimmel and
Short. He also said that it was a
"fantastic misrepresentation" to
suggest that the late President
Roosevelt deliberately Invited the
attack to provide this country with
deals.
1 Sun Oil Company which has spent
millions drilling in Nolan County
may have found a new field like
some of the better Snyder pays;
lime will tell.
No. 1 C. B. Johnston oil test one
mile north of Eskota, is a joint
project of Union Oil Company of
California and Great Western
Drilling Co. of Midland.
The 5,800-foot test is located on
a 395-acre lease. Drilling site is 660
^>-et from the north and west lines
of 23-20-T&P.
It is 1 7-8 miles west of the Pan-
American No. 1 Oates test, wildcat
failure abandoned Aug. 8 at 6.003
feet in the Cambrian.
Cambrian sand was topped at
5,935 feet, minus datum point of
3,995 feet.
the attack, Kimmel said, the U. S.
warships which were to be trapped ■ an excuse to enter the war.
and destroyed or crippled in the . ,
harbor might have put out to sea INADEQUATE DEFENSES
to intercept the Japanese raiding 1
force before it struck.
'Can't Excuse Washington'
"I cannot excuse those in au-
thority in Washington for "hat
th^v Aid." .s«i4ot$:immel. 'V my
book, they must answer on the uay
of judgment like any other crim
inal."
Kimmel and the late Maj. Gen.
Walter C. Short, then Army com-
mander in Hawaii, were removed
from their commands in January,
1912, after a special commission
headed by former Supreme Court
Justice Owen Roberts held them
primarily responsible for the suc-
cess of the sneak Japanese attack.
Halsey told Kimmel that "you
and Short were the greatest mili-
tary martyrs this country has ever
produced. . . and your treatment
was outrageous. . . you were left
holding the bag for something you
did not know and could not con-
trol."
Kimmel did not specifically list
the Washington officials he consid-
ers responsible for PPearl Harbor.
But his book bristled with direct
or implied indictments of the late
President Roosevelt, the late Sec-
retary of War Henry L. Stimson,
the late Secretary of Navy Frank
Knox, Gen. George C. Marshall,
army chief of staff in World War
II, and Adm. Harold R. Stark, chief
of naval operations at the time of
the attack.
Hawaii Is Wide Open
F of Atom Bomb Attack
UN Resolution Demands
Release Of US Prisoners
Spy Charges
In Violation
Of Peace Pact
More Individual
Attention, Longer
School Terms Urged
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y„
Dec. 7 —UP— The United
States and its Korean war al-
lies present to the United Na-
tions Tuesday a resolution
demanding that Red China
release immediately 11 U. S.
airmen jailed on trumped-up
"spy" charges in violation of
the armistice agreement.
Informed sources said the reso-
lution will charge the Chinese
Communists with violating the Ko
The individual child is not get-
ting enough attention and school-
men need to think of a longer
school term.
These are the two major points
brought out by Dr. Willis A. Sut-
ton, noted Alanta educator and
speaker, at the Monday night meet-
ing of the Oil Belt Association of
Schoolmasters and School Boards
at the East Ridge School cafeteria.
Dr. Sutton emphasized that the
individual especially the exception-
al child did not get enough atten-
tion. He expressed his belief that
the budget and other details of a
rean truce by jailing bona fide war ; should be handled by men
prisoners. It will also call for con- trajned jn tha, field and that the
demnation of all such violations.
These sources said the resolution
will instruct Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold to negotiate
with Peiping for release of the
prisoners and report on his nego-
tiations to the General Assembly
by Dec. 31.
The resolution will bypass usual
debate in committee and go direct-
ly to the full assembly Wednesday
as an "urgent and important
item."
This information was made
known amid these developments:
1. Secretary of State John Fos-
ter Dulles called a press confer-
ence in Washington for further dis-
cussion about the plight of the im-
prisoned Americans.
2. Diplomats in Washington were
said to feel that an overwhelm
kyo said U. S. forces in Asia are
principals and superintendents
should use their training in indi- j
vidual guidance.
"No one is unimportant," Dr. :
Sutton said. He stressed that gen-j
uine scholarship should be de- j
veloped, and that the schools
should train young men and women
to become well adjusted, useful
citizens.
"Family life is the strength of
the nation," he said and told the
school men that the home should
teach good family life, and if it
failed, the school must do so.
In connection with the longer
term, Dr. Sutton said that we
should not waste the three sum-
mer months. He said that stu-
dents would be given more time
at other holidays, but should at-
tend school a minimum of 2401
days.
Dr. C.
RELEASED—Squadron Leader Andrew R. McKenzie, Royal Cana-
dian Air Force, crossed the border into Hongkong from Red China
Sunday after being held as a POW for two years. His brother-in-
law, Wing Commander Donald Skene, representing the Canadian
government, was on hand to greet the flyer as he returned to free-
dom. (NEA RADIOPHOTO)
Bold Bandit Holds Up
Bank In North Texas
ROYSE CITY, Tex.. Dec. 7 —) blocks posted on all roads leading
UP— A man with a .45 robbed the 1 out of Royse City. Van Cleave said
Citizens State Bank Tuesday with the bandit was driving a white late
such precision that the bank presi- model car but he never got close
dent, who came in while the rob- enough to see the tag number or
E. Yarbrough. president | bery was in progress, thought he j whether it was a two-door or four-
organization j was a visiting banker. door car.
schools,"preseifte^Dr. Sutton Mre' | C' B- Irwin' vlce President of the 1 Irwin said *«? ™s\3m*}}
George Sweeny, member of the i bank, said the loss probably would i Shaw were working inside the teli-
Abilene school board, aqd seer©-! be between $4,000 tend $5..000, butlers' cage
City Well No. 8
Al Lake Trammell
Begins Tank Flow
City of Sweetwater No. 8 well on
the east side of Lake Trammell
began flowing into the tanks Mon-
day afternoon about 3 p. m., indi-
cating that it is about a 150-bar-
rel well in 24 hours through small
choke.
Swabbing the well started Sun-
day afternoon and the well was
1 flowing before sundown.
The upper Canyon Sand was
tested in this well and found good.
It is not being used at this time, the
production coming from the lower
; Canyon.
The upper sand is reported hav-
ing "shown up good" in city wells
j No. 6, 7 and 8.
The L. W. Loss well north of! Potential test of this latest Row-
White Flat is reported plugged and , an a . f?Pc w . IS ' an"
abandoned. i no.unt ? „
Union and Duffey arc completing
7 Evelyn S. Cox on the west
90, at
| the foot of the high hills west of
| Lake Trammell.
TXL-K, is now working on its sev-! Reliable reports on the No. 7 Cox
enth well, counting the twin wells. I we" were ,hat " «'as "owing ^
.1. D. Wrather is expected to get
started on drilling operations in the
Blackwell-Hylton area before the
iftid of the year, according to re-
ports.
British American Oil Production ' *?• , „
Co., which began development of | ®£"erOf( tjj® Section
its quarter section in the EA multi-
PEARL HARBOR, T.H.. Dee. 7
—UP—A sneak atom bomb attack
on Pearl Harbor today would be a
milk run for enemy bombardiers,
who would find Hawaii a bigger
sitting duck target than it was 13
years ago when the imperial Jap-
anese navy struck.
Army, Navy and Air Force offi-
cers reluctantly concede that it
would be practically impossible to
halt an A-bomb attack, which in
seconds would wreak a thousand
times more havoc than the Japa-
nese managed in half a days
pounding.
The only anti-aircraft on Oahu
arrived two months ago with the
-[BjlBt) jpB-jpe siqx 'UOISIAIQ MISS
ion and ships' guns are the only
anti-aircraft defense in the terri-
tory.
No Interceptor Alert
There is no jet interceptor squad-
ron working a round-the-clock alert
to check unidentified aircraft. Ra :
dar defenses have leaks that would
permit a fast, high-flying bomber j
to deliver a mighty hit-run attack
without being seen or heard.
The Air Force has no intercep-
tors stationed here. Marine. Navy
and National Guard jets merely
hold "practice" scrambles with
outmoded jets incapable of com-
peting with the latest enemy
planes.
Hawaii has only one Army divi-
sion—the 25th—and a Marine task
force is stationed at Kaneohe.
There were two divisions stationed
here in 1941.
once dominated by the same im-
perial Japanese navy that leveled
Hawaii's bases.
Military officials say it would be
impossible for an enemy naval
force to reach undetected the same
position 200 miles north of Oahu
from which the Japanese carrier
force of 36 ships launched its at
tack. They say our far-flung out-
posts and advance bases would
easily thwart such a move.
However, those in charge of Ha-
waii's defense admit that snorkel
submarines could reach the same
position undetected and launch
atom rockets with deadly aim and
devastating effect.
"ready to go" if hostilities break
out again. They said they did not
believe action would be limited to
the Korean battlefield if the war
is resumed ov Communist truce
violations.
iir,'!?11'i™h'.!?/ 1 nfmlor! Vi tary of the Texas Board of School couij not sav for sU|e untji a check
tion steering committee voted late | A„nriaHnn gave flie invocation y cnecx
Monday, 10-2, over Russian objec- R „ut'c&son of Hamlin, vice- had been made'
!.1n^nn n(^^1n;,Uonf0rTmn'i "t and P™id^ °f the, schoolmaster or- " "'as the second bank robbery
ganization, introduced special \ in the Dallas area in two days,
guests.
The Newman High School A Cap-
pell a Choir, under the direction of
Miss Dorothy Moore, presented a
selection of music after dinner.
cussion of the prisoners' plight and
bring it before the world parlia-
ment for unlimited debate.
Russia and Communist Czechslo-
vakia opposed elimination of com-
mittee debate.
Blackwell Station
Is Burglarized
Burglary of the Sanders Service
Station in Blackwell Sunday night
is being investigated by the sher-
iff's department.
Entry was made by back win-
dows. The prowlers took between
$5 and $6. it was reported to the
officers.
Little Girl, Facing Sudden
Death, Has Early Christmas
is
DALLAS, Dec. 7 — UP—A four-
year-old girl who has an early date
with death played happily under a
Christmas tree Tuesday, hoping
Santa Claus will bring her a cow-
girl dress, if she lives long enough.
The girl, Anita Rae Bartlett, is
stricken with cancer, which has
spread to her lungs.
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C.
Bartlett have made no plans for
an early Christmas. They hope she
will live long enough to observe
Allow time for delivery
Of o gift that's Al-plus,
You can't lug giant cartons
On the crosstown bus!
WEATHER
■We No. 1-K well found heavy El-
; barrels an hour.
No. 6 well is to be drilled next.
This newest Cox well, 21st for
! Mrs. Cox at Lake Trammell, gives
! Alva H. Hutehins an offset on the
east of Roscoe started with the W. j '°<>se i"*1 west of Lake
i Rnaimi. u'uii lac* in cnn. < Tiammcll within the next few
lenburger production on its test
from 5,964-6,0008 feet.
The growing oil field just nor th-
ai. Beaver well last summer in sec- , .
tion 35, block 23. T&P survey. This j nl°n"1^ „ ,. ... .
first of the four wells was six No. 6 Cox well would be a second
Hutehins offset.
Reports, unconfirmed, are that
the Cox well west of the Lake is
not only good in the Canyon Sand
but In the upper Canyon sand.
Sixty-eight oil wells in Lake
TrameH's several fields represent
a total of more than 68 miles of
large casing pipe going straight
down into the ground to the oil for-
mations.
miles west of Sweetwater, two
and a half miles west of the Row-
an & Hope Strawn reef field and
northeast of Roscoe by about a
tijilc and a half.
A 24-hour radar watch is main- .
tained, but the screen is leaky, j Christmas at the regular time.
Even il an enemy plane were de- i Last May, doctors removed a
tected, there is little Hawaii could j tumor almost as large as her head
do against an attack but duck and 1,0m Anita Rae s side. They said
pray ' s'le Probably wouldn t live more
Rear Area Supply Dump than six months.
Pearl Harbor, which was a front I Danced At Birthday
| there are a few packages beneath
! it.
I Anita Rae spends much of her
playing time around the tree. She
plays at wrapping and unwrapping
packages, and with her many toys. |
Her parents, who have long since | SWEETWATER — Temperat-
exhausted their savings for med-1 ture, high 68 degrees; low, 42 de-
ical treatments, although they|grees; Barometric pressure, 30.16.
know all they can do is postpone ! falling slightly. Relative humidity,
the girl's death, are resigned to the : 25 per cent, steady. Instrument
fact she will die. | reading, clear to partly cloudy,
But Anita Rae still has hope. | slightly cooler.
That's why she wants a cowgirl WEST TEXAS — Considerable
costume, although doctors say she cloudiness Tuesday night. Wed-
won't live to see much of the wide : nesday partly cloudy and
open Texas ranges. i cooler.
No. 1 Charlie Boyd well east of
Lake Sweetwater was reported
drilling slowly ahead this week at
around 3,200 feet depth.
No. 1 Bugg well of Ashland Drill
ing Company, south of Lake Sweet-
water in section 93 was reported at
about 5,580 feet. Tests In an uniden-
tified sand around 5,100 feet have
been completed.
Warren Petroleum Corp. No. 1
Maude E. Preslar test north of Hyl-
ton is to be finished with cable
tools, rotary rig having been mov-
ed off. This test has developed sev-
eral oil shows but had had con-
siderable trouble.
No. 1 Criswell test northwest of
See OIL Page 8
American Legion
To Meet1 Tonight
There will be a regular business I
meeting of the McDonald-IIagar
Post 109 of the American Legion,
in the Legion Hut in the City Park i
at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday Dec. 7.
There wfll be an election of Ex-
ecutive Committee member, and
Adjutant to finish out the unexpir-
ed terms.
Plans arc to be made for the
annual Christmas party of the post.
Refreshments will be served.
line Navy strongpoint in the Pa-
cific war. is now a rear area sup-
ply dump and refueling station, ri -
pending upon its advance bases I •!'
protection.
By an odd quirk, these advance
bases are now located in areas
Funeral Today
For Snyder Man
Who Died Here
Funeral services were to be held
at 3 p m., Tuesday at the 25th
Street Church of Christ in Snyder
i for Joe S. Griffin, 71, of Route 1,
, Snyder, who died at 3:15 a. m.
; Monday in Sweetwater Hospital.
; Griffin, a patient in the hospital
since Nov. 25, was the father of
two Sweetwater women, Mrs. A.
B.Corley and Mrs. A. H. Morton.
A retired farmer, Mr. Griffin
had lived In the Snyder area since
1921.
His survivors include his wife,
whom he married in Gteenville in
1907; four daughters, the two in
Sweetwater, Mrs. Albert Corley of
San Antonio, and Nannie Griffin
of Snyder.
Bui by Aug. 9. when the little
girl observed her fourth birthday,
Anita Rae was lively enough to
dance and sing for more than 50
guests who had heard about her
ailment and her peppiness. She
sang a little ditty that goes: "Big
brown eyes and a cute little figger.
stand back, boys, 'til I get a little
bigger."
Since that time, she has had
many X-ray treatments to slow the
spread of cancer in her lungs. She
isn't as carefree—nor as peppy—
and her weight has dropped to
about 30 pounds.
This week, she went to the hos-
The Oak Lawn National Bank of
Dallas was robbed of S3.600 Mon-
day by a six-foot bandit wearing
an overcoat and a tie who never
showed his gun.
The bandit who robbed the Royse
City bank — Royse City is about
30 miles northeast of Dallas — was
wearing a cowboy hat. a light tan
suede jacket, blue jeans and a
checkered shirt. He was only about
five feet, seven inches tall.
Joe Van Cleave, president of the
Royse City bank, chased the bandit
for several miles in his automobile
but never was able to catch him.
The bandit outran him on the road
leading to Quinlan.
The highway patrol ordered road
Boyd 'Mystery' Well
Continues As Source
01 Much Speculation
at the bank when the
j man came in. Irwin stepped over
to wait on him.
"He stuck a plastic bag under
the bars and said 'Fill it up,' "
Irwin said. "I looked up and saw
the barrel of his gun. I put all the
money in the drawer in the bag.
"He came around inside the
cages and asked if there weren't
more money in the vault. I told
him 'yes' and he told me to get
it.
"Just then Mr. Van Cleave came
in and asked me if that was a
banker in the cage with me. I told
him 'yes.' The bandit ducked down
where Mr. Van Cleave couldn't see
him clearly and Mr. Van Cleave
went on into his office.
"1 got him the money out of the
vault. Then he went to Mr. Van
Cleave's office and told him to
come to. He told us to go with him
to the back door of the bank.
"We unlocked it for him and he
told us to go back in the bank. He
went out and got in his car and
Mr. Van Cleave sprinted through
the bank and out the front door to
his car," Irwin said.
Van Cleave said the bandit was
very calm.
"I walked in the door while the
robbery was already in progress."
he said, "but I didn't notice any-
thing unusual. I went over and
turned on some Christmas tree
lights, then walked back into my
office and started opening some
mail.
GIGGLING GRANDMA
Canyon Reef Weil
Near Roscoe Seen
As Good Discovery
4 Additional Dead Doss Kin
Checked For Arsenic Signs
ANNISTON. Ala.. Dec. 7 —UPP—
The disinterred bodies of four more
of Mrs. Nannie Doss' relatives
were checked Tuesday for possible
signs of arsenic that she confessed
she used to kill four of her five
husbands.
The bodies of Frank Harrelson,
the giggling grandmother's second
husband; Mrs. Dovie Weaver, her
pital to have about a pint of fluid i sister; and Robert Lee Higgins, her
drained from around the stomach I step-grandson who died when only
area. She now knows that she is two months old were checked for
gravely ill. | the deadly poison.
But she is able to play quite a ] At Lexington. N.C., investigators
lot with the many toys she re-
ceived on her birthday, when her
illness received national attention.
Hope for Regular Christmas
Her parents, and her grand-
mother. Mrs. William Barbee. said
Tuesday they hoped to have Christ-
mas at the usual time.
However, to be sure she would
enjoy some of the Christmas sea
son, they took the precaution of
buying a small Christmas tree ear
checked for poison in the disinter-
red remains of Mrs. Sarah Eliza-
beth Lanning, one of Mrs. Doss's
five mothers in-law.
In the North Carolina phase of
the investigation, arsenic was
found in the bodies of her mother,
Mrs. Ixniisc Hazel and her third
husband, Frank Lanning. Mrs.
Doss, who is being held in jail at
Tulsa, Okla., was charged with the
murder of Mrs. Hazel Monday
ly. It has been decorated and while an order was being obtained
to exhume the body of Lanning's
mother, Mrs. Sarah E. Lanning.
Warrants charging Mrs. Doss
with murder in the deaths of her
mother and third husband already
had been issued by Davidson coun-
ty authorities in North Carolina.
The only other murder charge
against Mrs. Doss was
death of husband No. 4,
L Morton, at Emporia, Kan.
The Higgins baby died in Ala-
bama in 1945. the same year that
Mrs. Doss admitted killing Har-
relson.
Ernest Harrelson, a brother of
the victim, said when the Higgins
No. 1 C. E. Boyd well of Hunt
Oil Company—six miles north of
the R. R. Petty reef well and about
five miles south of Lake Sweet-
water—was reported drilling ahead
this week.
No information has been re-
leased but oil men rather general-
turning | ly believe that Hunt Oil Company
has a well in the reef somewhere
between 5,000 and 6,000 feet.
Quiet rumors are that it is simi-
lar to the Petty reef well and that
Hunt is drilling ahead to hunt the
Cambrian.
The Jack Boyd well "mystery" j Sun Oil Company's No. 1 E. M.
has created much interest here and Cooper well which struck the Can-
in Abilene but Hunt Oil Company ; yon reef some 327 feet higher than
is releasing no information what- pay formations in the well on the
ever. E. Grady Long place northeast of
Oil on the rig and in the slush ; Roscoe was drilling below 6,200
pit last week might have been ex- feet Tuesday morning.
plained by use of oil "unstick" a Sunday this well tested 165 feet
tool. i of Canyon Reef—from 5.787 to 5,952
What the well has found is pure-1 feet—finding it all flourescent and
ly speculation but it is of intense I oil pay much of the distance. Gas
interest because it is located on the was so strong that the well was
more or less straight line of Cam-, shut in but oil was to surface in
brian wells along the fence line : two hours. It was not known how
from the Petty ranch south of No- j much of the soft reef was effec-
for the I lan for six miles. ! tive pay formation.
Richard I Some oil men say that the Cam-: This reef is just west of the
brian trend "has to bend some-, Strawn reef found at a lower level,
where" to the east to go over the
North Dora field which is 12 miles
north and four miles east of the j
Petty ranch.
But some geulogists say it |
doesn't "have" to do anything.
It is called the Canyon limestone
; reef, the "Goens" or the upper
i Strawn.
Details of the well will not be
| known for some time but this is
! considered an exceptionally good
infant died he asked his brother's ; North Dora and White Flat may be j well and some oil deals have been
wife what was wrong with the
baby.
"I don't really know but that
baby toddling around just might
have gotten aholO of some rat
poison," he quoted Mrs. Doss as
saying.
She didn't explain, he said, how
a two-months-old infant could "tod-
dle around."
on a different subterranean ridge happening around Roscoe rather
in the system from Fort Chad- j rapidly since Saturday, according
bourne field north : to reports.
The Hunt well on the Boyd place j This is one of four wells in the
could have found the Ellenburger, I area but apparently is a "jut-out"
one of the several reefs in this of the formation from the south-
country or the Cambrian — or it west, with indications that there
could have found nothing. Oil may be more of the pay toward
scouts generally believe that it has Roscoe. in the opinion of some roy-
found some kind of pay. I alty buyers.
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 286, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 7, 1954, newspaper, December 7, 1954; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth284304/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.