Stamford American and The Stamford Leader (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 14, 1954 Page: 3 of 16
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1Vtoh«r 14. 10', 4
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Mrs. Dave Walker of Stamford Pierian Club,
Featured in October Issue of State Magazine
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~Mrs. Dave Walker, member of
ihe Pierian Club, was one of
the women featured in the Con
servation department of the Oe
tober issue "The Texas Clubwo
man." official organ of the Texas
Federation of Women’s Clubs.
Mrs. Walker is chairman ul
Water and Soil Conservation un-
der the Conservation department
of Texas Federation of Women s
Clubs Kudora Hawkins of Abi
lene is department chairman.
A message to‘club women of
Texas through the official maga
/ine from Mrs. Walker said, in
part: “God, who made the soil,
has the right to demand that
people living by the bounty' of
His creation majvojhc bexi—Ltsa-
of aTT hafiifal resources t»e It
soil, water or quite another thing
Israel had some strict rules giv-
en her by God through rMoses
about the right cultivation and
care of the soil That was Canaan
and of course this is America,
yet God's creative rights and laws
are universal"'
Nine points in encouraging club
Mrs.
$2.3 Million Dollars a Day Being Spent
For Texas Oil Exploration, Development
STAMFORD AMERICAN -
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Will Be
On ‘This Is the Life’ TV Program
and Soil Conservation
Walker recommends.
A picture of Mrs. Walker ac-
companies the message.
Other phases of conservation,
covered by the conservation pro-
gram of which Miss Hawkins is
department head, were included I drilling,
in this conservation issue of the4 cr.ertrttrp
magazine arid included were spe
Hal stress, on the forests
drilling makes clear
that Texans haye in
All the gold and silver mined in from
the United States in a year would 1 stake
pay only aboqt one and one-half > "depletion'’ provision in the fed-
months of the Texas petroleum eral income tax law which encour»
industry’s drilling bill. | ages oil men and other investors
As Texas oil and gas operators , *" r.sk their money In the face
headed toward a record yeaf In ^ great losxe,s from dry holes.
they appeared to be i Some 41,000 Texans are employ
rqa.mti.Hf r> ■■nn„. a.y ed in the drilling operations. Ti e
in the search for new fields and "ages of men workings on Ttgs
and I the development of those already,hi service units have been
recreation division and minerals
and wildlife division, conserva-
tion of human resources and pc
troleum conservation.
Smiths Likt*
Stamford
found, according to Texas Mid- j calculated at more than $180 mil-
Continent Oil and Gas Associai i ,ion a y«»r. Labor costs are <■*-
ion. (Annual U. S. gold and silver1, timated to hr- about one fifth of
ore yields ru aboul $112 million, I u wells cost.
according to 1950 estimates.) ; Farmers, ranchers and other
When (he final third of the! ‘“"downers ri’<jme from the op
yew’s • ntf bam "begarr.-Twuui. drll-
MRS. DAVF WALKER
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For Gay Spring Beauty
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HOLLAND BULBS now!
Tulips. Daffodils. Hyacinths, ate.
women of Texas in intelligent
concern and in stimulating < om
munity wide interest are present
ed by Mrs. Walker in her phase
of the conservation problem.
"Let’s be first rate citizens who
have the esteem of our area and
have the type of enlightened- t~ IoML_Cpddjjlacs and
interest that compels us to take
an effective interest in Water,
Dr and Mrs. V. L. Smith of
Dallas and Mr. and Mrs Bonner
Smith of Jewett spent Tuesday
through Friday of last week in
-Stamford, stopping at the Inn
Mr. and Mrs. Smith came to at
tend to oil business but Dr. and
Mrs. Smith came for the ride and
to eat at Nat’s.
While here, Doctor Smith pur |
chased a new Cadillac from Tad
percent ahead of the 1953 rate for
the same period. If this were kept
I up to year’s end, it would mean
! a total of more than 20,000 holes
| for 1&54 The 1953 record: 18,383.
Fears were voiced at the Aug
I ust hearing ol the Texas Rail-
J load commission (where state
| production allowables are decid-
ed) that the ojierators may be
(hilling themselves into an econ-
omic hole. Statewide, the operat-
~ face a record bill for drill
the 000 foot wells have cost nearly
the $300,000. (In early September a
Reeves County wildcat passed the
18,500 foot mark, a new depUt
report! for Texes- over 3 and ode
half miles deep.)
Ami what are the odds which
the industry facts for'such out
lays of cash? Of the 1K:;.*18 wells
drilled in Texas !n 1953 37 per *
cent were dry, but this included
the development wells which
were drilled in the vicinity of
producers.
The Railroad Commission re-
ported that 1.383 of these wells
were "wildcats" wells drilled in
territory or into new rock
I-ong enthusiastic folic,wers of cast programs. i
"This is, the LLf^,” Roy Rogers,I Widely known fbr their splen
King of the Cowboys," and his]
wife Dale, will now appear on I
tiie show Itself. They will be
-een in the special anniversary]
episode Which will be telecast
Sunday, Oc t. 17 at 4:30 over I
KRBCTV
did work in stressing the impor
tance of Christianty and Its
teachings Roy and Dale speak
with heartfelt sincerity of the
success of “This is ..the Life”
in reaching info the homes and
hearts of millions of people to
It won t he the root in , tootin ., show the way to leading a Chriat-
.„ ........... m„ Kln.nl
, ors face a
McGhee Motor Co. This makes! (osts wTiile at the same
one Olds-j thejr jn,.,)me is_ curtailed
meet
Twin Sons Die
Twin Sons, bom prematurely
to Mr. and Mrs Jose Camacho of
l Divine, died at the Stamford Sani
I tarium.
The babies were born Oct. 10. ]
One lived for Two clays and the ]
other lived ten hours longer. One j
child weighed two pounds, three!
ounce* and the other two pounds.'
I four and a half ounces. They ]
were named Francesc o and Diego ]
mobile that has been purchase !j lfmables arp trimmed to
fronv the Stamford firm since*j |-(.duced dc'mand figures,
the Smiths have been coming to i „ . _
Stamford. L 'lit f, f SaW „
. . I than 151.000 oil and gas wells on
I nevei miss a chance to come Hailroad Commission schedules,
to Stamford and sleep in the Presi j a „ajn (jf 5 200 thp flm t)I
dent’s Room at the Inn and eat i «-Par
the wonderful food at Nat’s."
Smith said.
acreages, i ne oiacc™r»r—r-** - a >
self is one of the largest land !
owners. Operators have paid the,
j state more than $40 rnttlTon ini
; lease and bonus money for th‘‘!
j "tidelands” tracts alone. Before
il.e last award of offshore leases
<s6me $32 million in December.1
1953), the state* had already ic* .
ceived nearly $U>0 million from
leases and bonuses.
Each new drilling venture un
i leashed a fresh flow of money1
timet *n*° ’he state's economic blood"
stream. For example, the
"fmdnh’nxjlcf Wesf favorite. but
lather a mild manneied Roy and
Tttfe wife, both of-who have he
come known as sincere and do
voted lea<U*rs of the growing
Christian colony in Hollywood.
Keen weekly on 230 television
stations across the United States
and in Canada, Hawaii and Ai
aska. ••This is the Life" is one
life
Mrs. George S. Wright and son,
Bobhy. of St. Petersburg, Fla.,
spent last week here with her
mother Mrs E B Kinard. and
other relative's. Bobby observed
his first birthday while they were
here Mrs Wright is the former
as al
Eager Feed Mill
cam
f paign to f ind oil in the tidelands I
has meant millions of dollars in
’ contracts for shipyards in the,
more ©range Port Arthur and Beau
j mont area. One yard at Drang1
I reported employment up 80 per,
' ?n*. The <• ((.Tutors arc spending
j from one third to a million do!-
Many segments of the Texas! jars apiece on platforms for deep!
economy are affected by the dri!-* water drilling that must with ,
ling operations themselves, to: stand Gulf hurricanes. Drilling]
j say nothing of the benefits that j tenders -snips that warehouse’
i tome from production. | ,-upplies and rm«l pumping equip
A son Robert Lvnn Whitt was The Association points out that ment-cost from $1 million" to
born’lo Mrand Mri John Hay’ I "il ?««»• »»»■•»
Whitt of Albany at the Siam - 1x1 an'‘ ’he depletion allow , Thp seismograph 1 exploration
ford Sanitarium on Oct. 12. j “ruTs are 1^rPe important factors j. Which precedes the drilling op
. -_-"■_«* ---I , in determining the amount of ex- PraUon ijself is a $60 million a
| A daughter. Rita Gayle Juarez, ploring the operators are able to vear ifem for thp stau. s oH hunt.
» Polyandry is the form of mar-j was born to Mr. and Mrs. Tony! undertake. - jng operations
riage in whkh a woman has i Juarez of Stamford at the Siam i A glimpse at some of the dol-
more than one husband. 1 ford Sanitarium Oct. ~9?-----Har activity in Texas which stems
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YOU'RE WELCOME
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Grand Opening Saturday
Costs vary on wells in different
parts of Texas according to dep-
I ths and difficulties encountered.
I Deejier drilling generally is re
l quired in West Texas than in
’ North or Central Texas. West
| Texas operators have spent $95,-
000 .on 6.500 foot welts, while 12.-
D. HAssen. Stamford merchant,]
is expeettsi to he able to leave1
the hospital by Thursday morn
ing He has been receiving treat-
ment for a heart ailment.
OCTOBER 16
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Craig, Roy M. Stamford American and The Stamford Leader (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 14, 1954, newspaper, October 14, 1954; Stamford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1035292/m1/3/?q=%22~1~1%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stamford Carnegie Library.