The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 1951 Page: 1 of 12
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Drilling to Start Friday on Sand Flat Well
Summer Recreation Planned
TERIALS
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Lion Directors
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Put Up $400
To Help ,Hoot'
Tentative ^Ians for a
complete summer recrea-
tion program here were
announced this week by Hulin
“Hoot" Smith, assistant high
school coach, who has been ao-
pointed by the school board t*-
direct the program.
Monday night, the board of di-
rectors of the local Lions Club
unanimously okayed, subject to
approval by the club membership,
the expenditure of $100 for the
recreation program. The money put
up by the Lions carries the stipu-
lation that the recreation funds
can only be spent for permanent
fixtures.
Tentative plans which are now
being drawn up by Smith include
a variety of team sports both dur-
ing the day and at night. Already
listed as activities are softball,
tumbling, and volleyball.
“Girls as well as boys will be
. urged to participate in the summer
recreation program,” Smith said,,
adding that all churches and other
organizations in the town are
urged to sponsor and organize
teams for both junior and senior
age groups. “If interest is high and
enough teams are organized,
league play in various sports will
be organized,” he said.
The summer recreation program
is to start shortly after school lots
out in June and continue all sum-
mer.
r Projects which have tentatively
been ear marked for the expendi-
ture of the Lions Club money in-
clude completing the lighting ar-
rangement on the softball diamond,
leveling of the field, and the pur-
chase of tumbling mats.
Named by the Lions on a com-
mittee to supervise expenditure of
the $400 and to work in coopera-
tion with Smith were Fred Bufka,
chairman, Herbert Clower, Neil
Harle, and BH1 Whitehead.
Grand Saline Boxers Fight
Like Veterans, Take Second
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All Over
Town
Luck will be riding with Grand
Saline on the Sand Flat well
scheduled to break ground this
Friday. The combination of J. M.
DUPREE AND SON and F. R.
JACKSON with ALTON COATS
as contractor hasn’t failed as of
yet. Their last four ventures have
resulted in producers.
Meeting J. M. DUPREE Wed-
nesday was a real treat for the
editor. Although living in 'Wood
County, DUPREE has more faith
in the potentials and future out-
look for Van Zandt County than
95 per cet of us living right here
in Grand Saline. Through our as-
sociation with DUPREE in his
SandJBSt venture, perhaps we of
Saline will pick up some
[ of his dynamic energy, rcsourcc-
I fulness, and above all his faith in
the future of our town and county.
Editorially, The Sun has deplor-
ed the lack of cooperation which
the general citizenship of Grand
Saline has given the Chamber of
Commerce. Of all our groups in
the city, one group which is really
ready to cooperate with the chamb-
er are the teachers. Thirty-five
out of 4a teachers, including the
tu eolle* tor-assessor, have joined
th« chamber. Incidentally, o u »
teachers have also made fine co -
Sons to the polio and Red
T»Si.»C»nf,omfcTox».
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ahn*' in the >uU>'___
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Grand Saline’s first year boxing
team fought like veterans last
week at the boxing tournament
held ir. Commerce as they won
second place against 10 other teams
and captured the light heavy
weight championship.
Robert Camper, 168 pounds, won
New Football Coach
Pleased with Faculties;
Product of T.C.U.
Shirley F. Anderson, new head
coach of Grand Saline High School,
was in Grand Saline last Saturday
checking on football equipment and
making plans for spring training.
Anderson was elected coach at
a called meeting of the School
Board onJ|aj^b27, and he
now oi^iallyaM^ted the
tion^Pe expects fAatart s
traiVng Monday, At^BU>. am
_ #4 K i nuuat'- ui |
the light heavy title. He and O. E.
Clem, Jr., also of Grand Saline,
fought their way into the finals,
but Clem gave the championship
to Camper as he was suffering
from a bruised kidney^
unable to^SBSy} th^mal Inf
Kiwk Out
fought hi!
a knock
Campt
finals Wj
KTlkt
line a
Smith at?
nament.
follows:
Keith
imper
^vay into the
It in 20 sec-
[ighters fn&MGrand Sa-
leh- coach, n&n “Hoot”
ided the Commerce turn
Un-ir records were as
picker of the State Highway
fan Zandt County soon and
5,500 Foot Test Staked Out
On H. A. Godwin 36 Acre Tract
Driltfop of the much anticipated oil well in the
Sand Flat area is scheduled to be^in this Friday,
unless unforeseen difficulties arise.
ree and Son of Mineola announced to
gday morning that they expect to
set up th</r demlk Friday, located 330 feet in the
southwest corner of the H. A. Godwin 36 acre tract
P* Henderson survey in the Sand Flat com-
munity.
Approximate drilling depth of the well will be
5,500 feet, Dupree said, with the entire Woodbine and luli-CItrkivilk
sections to be thoroughly tested. The well Is U* bo sunk to the Buds
lime, base of the Woodhmc structure.
A large drilling rig, iheluding a 126/rfht derriek, will drill the wild-
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nails
engineer,
divisii
ipi'ces, and other metal collected on a short run.
John Nations, director of the equipment division, the screws 1 •l'k'nn,'r well drilled by J.. B. Gjg'fnanv and Sons several years ago.
This pa"t week, royalty ini>Ko immediate vicinity of where the well
| is to be drilled has been Tilling ns high as $100 an acre, and leasee
l have been running up to $80 an acre.
, In “n exclusive interview with The Sim Wednesday. Dupree said that
he has had his eve on the Sand Flat area for the past 12 years. "Unless
drilling difficulties arise,” Dupree said, “within a week’s time I expert
i to have a pretty good idea of what we have."
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DutCn n ki nuuavr w, i . —
Lufkin mflPmool where he let- ^avy boX{'d hl*
tCred, In football there under Coach * , linals, where he lost in a close
Abe Martin, now at TCU,
For the past, three years Ander-
son has been line coach at Quanah
High School. Mrs. Anderson, who
has also’ been teaching in Quanah,
will join Anderson here in Grand
Saline after the end of the present
school term.
Grand Saline Musicians
To Present Concert
Grand Saline’s annual spring
band concert will be held next
Friday. April 20, beginning at 8
p. m. in the elementary school
auditorium.
Admission will be 50 cents for
adults and 25 cents for children.
According to Mrs. Wylie Thomas
of the Band Boosters Club, pro-
ceeds are to be used to charter a
bus to- take the band to the musical
festival to held in Carthage on
April 26.
Tuesday night the Band Boosters
met and approved purchase of
$1,000 of new uniforms. Two new
flags, an American flag and a
school flag, and drapes for the
band hall were also authorized by
the club.
According to Mrs. Thomas,
money is on hand now to finance
purchase of the flags and drapes,
but the $1,000 for the uniforms will
have to be raised next year.
split decision.
Heavy weight Jimmy Barron, I
205 pounds, lost his bout in the .... ..... ,>r-u r-i
semi-finals. — | 2,0.10 lum.MIAL Pi Nf TIKES—Electric magnets at the rear .of
' 'he nail picker s-^n above collect loose metal objects. The magnets
1 rophy Received are activated by a large generator in the bed of the truck and are
The Commerce tournament strong enough to pick up a manhole cover. In this pile of strap metal
rharked- the end of the boxing sea- I clone .here arc over 2,00(1 potential flats,
son for Grand Saline high school, i
The 18-inch high trophy won sy n | j . r»f nrr •
;.p;tneg„ “S tt I School s One Act Play
school trophy case.
First place winner in the tour-
nament was Avery. Other runner-
up praticipating teams included
Pittsburg, Daingerfield, Sulphur
Springs, Greenville, and Denton.
Salt Plant to Shut Down
For Lack of Orders
Due to lack of orders, the Klecr
mine and refining plant here of
Morton Salt Co. will be shut down
this Thursday and Friday with
work to start again next Monday,
it was announced late Tuesday by
U. R. Pyle, plant manager.
In commenting on the shut down,
Pyle said that the Kleer plant has
been more fortunate than other
plants of Morton Salt Co. over the
nation which for the past several
weeks have only been working four
days a week.
District, Now Up for Regional
Water Rates to Go Up
In May to Finance Bonds
The city council Tuesday night
approved an anticipated 75 cent
a month increase in water rates for
Grand Saline citizens to finance
the water and sewer revenue bond
issue passed April 3. The new
rates will show up on the May
bills.
(Water rates within the city
limits were raised from $1 to $1.75,
and rates outside the city limits
from $2 to $2.75. The sewer rate
of 75 cents a month was not
changed.
In other business conducted at
Tuesday’s meeting, Woodrow Jos-
lin, new councilman, was sworn
into office.
On a motion by Clinton Kirby,
seconded by ©r» J* A. Mitchell,
the council unanimously approved
the following resolution, honoring
George Bell, last year’s incumbent
councilman, who was defeated for
re-election:
■WHEREAS: Mr. G. L. Bell, hu“
served the City for a term of 22
years as Councilman, Mayor, Mayor
Protem, and street commissioner,
and served as committeeman on
various committees,
AND WHEREAS, was qualified
during his long term as official of
the City has given of his time and
put forth every effort towards im-
proving the City, using economy,
good judgement, and believed in
good Government for the Citizens
of Grand Saline, and was untiring
in his efforts to improve all phases
of the City.
AND WHEREAS, during his
term connected with the City, many
improvements have been made,
which he had a great part in pro-
moting and seeing them completed,
which was for the general well-
fare of the citizens of the City.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLV-
ED bv the City Council in session
this the 10th day of April 11*51.
being the regular meeting, that a
vote of thanks be extended to him
for his untiring services during
his long term of office, and be it
further reaolved thut the prese.it
City Council regrets to loose his
service.
The Grand Saline Hie-h School
one-act play, “Sur’nv's Child,”
won first place in 1 h' rrca m»et
of Region Four h'-M ir Commerce
last Saturday night, beating out
Gilmer and Royce City.
Individual honors w re awarded
to Dorothy Jane S’ eggs, Wilson
Cozby, and Thelma Stephens. In
the all-star cast selected by a
panel of three judges, the title of
best actress went to Miss Skaggs;
best actor to Cozby; and second
high honor in the girls’ division to
Miss Stephens.
Other members of the Grand
Saline cast we’-« Jan Roberson
Chnrles Moore, and Don Vickery.
Directing the play was Mrs. T. J.
Hines.
Going to Kilgore
This Saturday the Grand Saline
play will be presented in Kilgore
at the Regional meet and if the [
local play wins there, then it will
be entered the following week in
the state meet tj be held in Aus-
tin.
In the district and county spring ’
meets held last week end, Grand I
Saline made a clean sweep in the
number sense competition, win-
ning both first places. Betty Lu
Fletcher won first mid Marshall I
Morris third in the district meet,
and Joy Hawkins and Tommie Nell
Bratton first and second respec-
tively in the county meet.
Other Grand Saline winners
were as follows:
Extemporaneous speech: Doro-
thy Allen, first, and Doris Carroll,
second, in the girls’ division, and
Marshall Morris, third in the boys’
class.
Girls' junior softbnll team, first.
Girls’ senior softball team, third.
Boys’ junior softball, second.
Junior High declamation, girls'
division, Betty Jane Fail, first.
Girls' junior baseball, first.
Girls’ senior baseball, third.
Volleyball Today
Volleyball competition in t h «•
district meet is to be decided to-
day in Canton. Results of the en-
tire meet will not ha known for
several days until the entries in
the ready writing contest have
been judged.
Well in Sand Flat
Will Highlight Life
Ambition of Joe Box
This Wednesday's announce-
ment that an oil well will In-
drilled in the Sand Flat com-
munity was the culmination of
over eight months* work day
j and night on the pari of Joe
I liox, well know n and 'amiliar
figure in Ihe Grand Saline area.
Box has been respnn .ilile lor
assembling all Ihe leases anil
developing Ihe block in which
the well will be drilled, lie has
traveled over 30,000 miles get-
ting the paper work lined lip so
it would be possible for J. M.
Dupree and Son to make the
wildcat attempt.
Completion of a well in the
Sand Flat area will make a life
time ambition rome true, says
Box, who adds that he has been
interested in Sand Flat as a
potential oil field for over 20
years.
Box, who is a long lime resi-
dent of both Sand Flat and
Tyler, has been in the oil busi-
ness since 1936. Approximate!'
20 leases, all on small tracts,
had to he obtained for the Sand
Flat venture. Box estimates that
over 60 people at the present,
time hold royally in the blink
where Ihe well is going down.
stated thnt he thinks it
possible that they will encounter
production in *• • »-f11 the sub-Clarks-
ville and the Woodbine, and added
that he has a lot of faith in Van
Zandt nnd Kaufman Counties de-
veloping into large oil producing
counties within the next few year*.
\ ssoeint' d wth .?, M. Dupri-e
and Sou in tie* Sand Flat venture
is F. !1 I arks.>n of Longview. Con-
tmotor fur the well is Alton Con's
of (iladi-water.
I'Upn •' a well known wildcat
ml ii’an, has been in tile oil busi-
i’i ss for |lw past 38 years. He and
Jaekso-i have been associated to-
gether ui their last four operations
m wliieb they bit production all
four times.
lb- tour producing wells include
one west of Mineola in the Jon
Carr tract, the Pine Mills field,
one W II east of the Pine Mills field,
and one well west of the Pine
Mills field.
In explaining his faith in Van
Zandt County as holding muck
potentiality us an oil producing
area, Dupree pointed out that ia
Wood County over 200 wells wern
drilled before a producer waa
brought in.
In additi >n to Dupree and Son,
other lease holders in the general
area where the well is going down
include E. B. Germany and Sons,
Humble Oil Co., Reagan nd Car-
raway, Delta Gulf, and 'Wencher
Estate.
Smith, Burges Given Good
Majority in School Vote
Red Cross Contributions
Climb Upwards to $575
,I^ate Wednesday afternoon $575
had been turned over to E. P.
Friedline as Grand Saline’s con-
tribution to the 1951 Red Cross
drive.
Approximately one half of the
business houses in the city have
yet to report, Friedline said.
Miners of Morton Salt Co. made
their donation PM* per cent tM.i
week with each of the 26 miners
giving $2. A little inter »2(K* was
contributed by above ground em-
ployees, Friedline said.
Two new school board members
were swept into office for three
year terms here last Saturday a
Johnnie Smith of the Clark com-
munity and L. H. Burges of tie
Jor.es community defeated in
eumbents Collin Presswood and
Alf Roberson.
Smith led the balloting with
188 votes, closely followed by Bur-
ges with 186. Roberson received
114 and Presswood 106. One write
in vote was cast for Gene Carroll.
Itoard Officers
Mondny night ut a regular meet
ing at the hoard, trustee commis-
sions were given to Smith and
Burges. In a re-organization of the
board, C. A. Mayfield was elected
president; Owen Kuykendall, vice
president, and Marion Quinn, re-
elected sec rotary-treasurer. All
were elected to office unopposed.
In other business conducted at
the meeting, superintendent Guy
0. Pryor reported that since the
recent raise in luneli prices, tin-
school cafeteria was Just shout
breaking even. However, he re-
Dr. Mortimer Brown
To Speak Next Thursday
At Study Club Meeting
Dr. Mortimer Brown, president
of the Texas State Teachers As-
sociation, will be gu-’st speaker
next Thursday evening, April 19,
at an open meeting of the Grand
Saline Study Club to be hold rt
the Methmlist Church, beginning
at 8 p m.
Acot riling to Mrs. dandle Snii’h,
club reporter, the general public
is invited to heat Dr. Brown who
has chosen as bis subject, "Youth
Conservation.”
Dr. Brown has a long and dis-
tinguished career in tho Texas
public «,i.hool system. Formerly
superintendent at Tyler, he will
leave this summer to accept the
position of school superintendent
in El i’aso.
ported a drop in student p.irtici
pation in the cafeteria since th >
raise. The average daily partici-
pation for the month of February
was 350, while during March the
average was 239.
Serving of free lunches was
described by Pryor as one reason
for the cafeteria having trouble
making ends meet. He reported
that this year 4,253 free lunches
lwtvc been served to pupils.
Teacher Training
A $loo expenditure for a teach-
er in-service training program for
next year was approved by th"
trustees with Pryor instructed to "I
make arrangements for the pro , pastor, children wilt be in
giim. Gland Saline and \ an arc charge of tho opening exerAswa
to jointly sponsor the program with „ Sunday SchwM
winch will be conducted under the Mpfrtatrtll|#lrtt p|.yi„K ^
1! I'iuno, and ,u». leading the ainr
ing. In the morning's service, t
children's choir will sing.
A special sermon st the morn-
ing service, illut rated by rhetp-
istry, will be delivered for th*
benefit of children.
Children to Conduct
Church Services Sunday
A special service, with children
in charge, will be held Sunday
morning at the Nuzarene Church
here.
According to Rev. J. W. Mo-
I'nivi-rsity and the University
Texas.
Included in the program will Ir
an evaluation of the two school-
by staff members of the two uni
versltles.
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Harle, Neil. The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 1951, newspaper, April 12, 1951; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1003901/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.