The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 17, 1953 Page: 14 of 18
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Mr and Mrs. M McMillan, m Vai
nt'll
Panola County
Oil & Gas
Information
THE PANOLA WATCHMAN
SEPT. 17, IMS f
l '>rt Worth - ( attJt* ami calf prices broke sharply at
oil oia mm' market centers Monday as the season’s largest
offering, nearly 150,000 cattle, arrived (irassers. fat cows
and - "ckera suffered the biggest declines.
Hi. downward swing of prices followed the sharp
riM <>f the previous week when virtual starvation runs of
livestock brought about by the Labor Day holiday had
lifted prices sharply in all categories.
Su-|.* nsi„n of Ihe drouth disas of S23 to $24 iLots of lard in those
: feed program in manv coun packing sows). Some sows up to
! <-. iast week helped crystalize the «00 pounds sell to $22.50 or better
'dunking of mam cattle owners Sheep and lambs active and ful
that it was time to put some cat
tie in I he hank
Many well informed people in
the livestock and packing business
arc anxiously watching the percent
ag< of sfaughtei of cows and hei
lets and expressing concern They
led that no real inroads have been
made into the big numbers of eat
tie and that on tlie basis of present
slaughter figures, the cattle popu-
lation is still rising z
l> steady at Fort Worth Monday
Advances of last week were held
in the strong trade Fat lambs $15
to $18 lower grades $8 to $15
Stoc ker and feeder lambs cashed at
Slo to $15 Slaughter yearlings
sold from $10 to $13 Old wethers
drew SO to $7 Slaughter ewes sold
from $5 to $8 Many sheep and
eattle men . :e anxiously awaiting
developments on wheat held pas
hires Looks like* lots of wheat
State PM A Bo-- Claude Met an ; net up but grazing will do
, > . . .. . — . . . .! • . / « a 1 tumrl .. it n l...t La..- ms.... I» _______
gave a lair indication of the change
of climate in PM A and Ihe Depart
nient of Agriculture generally with
the statement last week on the
drouth disaster program He said
"This is a disaster program, not
one aimed at giving people some
cheap feed '* Met an says what he
thinks every time, as many of the
member s of the livestock industry
know from past experience Such
Jr;-nk expressions are entirely new
to government programs
At Fort Worth Monday good and
choice ted cattle were scarce, sell
ing from $18 to $21.50. with plain
and medium giavsers largely from
$10 to $15 50. and some dairy hreds
down to $8 Fat cows $9 to SI 1 50
canners and cutters S6to $9.50
me high yielding brahmas and
Western cutters at the higher fig
uie Bulls drew S8 to $12
Good and choice fat calves $13
to $17 lew heavies $17 50 Plain
and medium butchers sin to $13
culls $7 to S10 Stocker steer cal
ves mostly $10 to $16 50 lew S17
25 Stocker steers and yearlings
$10 to $15 50 Replacement cows
$8 to $12
Time changes everything Iaing
i sod and discussed a» the scour
ge of the pork industry - lard is
now a hero’ Seems the hungry
tk'rmans under »he Communist
i de really lovr th* Ian) th*- I'm
• I State* ix giving them l SDA
I a asked bids cm around 15 mil
I •», more pounds I.at«- purchase
a* near 16 cents per pound highest
in 'iimi' time lor lard They do say |
th* h; -t Gees ans dare death in
t'-i*uii to get a couple of pound*- ■
of pure lard.
Hogs climbed 75 cent* at Fort
V ” Monday Topped at $28
Sows again selling at season s high
pend on whether more rains come
*>r n*)t ibis month There could lie
lots of stock fed in the wheat belt
HUMBLE TO AGAIN AIR
SOUTHWEST GRID GAMES
Humble Oil and Refining Co.
•'ill broadcast five kickoff games
for Southwest Conference teams
Saturday over a network of nearly
•id radio stations
All of the games will be inter
ectional Texas A and M will
meet Kentucky at Lexington: Bay-
'<*r face* California at Berkley.
Rice meets Florida in Houston: T.
c !' olays Kansas in Ft Worth
and Texas battles I S U. in Bat-
on Rouge. In another game to be
broadcast. Texas Tech meets West
Texas State m Lubbock
Airtime for the Texas Teeh-
West Texas State. Texas A and
M. - Kentucky, Rice-Flonda and
( ( v rvan.sas games will be
f p m Bay lor California will be at
2 30 p in and Texas - L S U w ill
*• at 8 05 p in
Delray News
MRS. ALTON PARKER
Mr and Mrs I) L Nicholson of
Greggfon announce the arrival ol
* sor: Terry Frank He was bom
Friday September 4th at Gregg
Memorial flo-pifal He weighed 8
12 pounds.
Mr- Jack McJimpsev ..nd Dee
Lee of l.aTex visited Mrs Tra«y
Parker Tuesday aftermion
Mrs Susie llall of Canton and
Mr- Tealte Parker of Mt F.nter-
prise had dinrer and spent Ihe af
ternoon with Mr and Mrs Alton
Parke* Wednesday
Mrs Angus Copeland and Iva
4gfe*riMn*ni
From where I sit... 6y Joe Marsh
Cream Whips Main Street
Traffic
Big truffle jam in front of the
••It'*» tael merit thought every-
body in the county mas coming
In u> hut The t larmn. hut they
»*n n't.
seem* a ' gallon can fell off
Wbitay Fiahcr’a truck, spilling
crewm a.t over the -treet Ov.r cop
or. duty. Tiny Field# halted traf-
fic mi Whlttf could pick up the
can. Tiny wa» about in wave the
ear* on when a kitten ran *>ut
and * Carted lapping up the cream
Wei traffi- piled up t»ut Tiny
paid no tired Light ihanged
zreer three time* After the kit-
t* r> had eno .gh, Tiny waved the
traffh through.
I rum m here I «it. thi« m am fa«t
a 'Tmv demonstration of th*
may poiple in our town are.
Ihcv'rr usually pretty ronaider-
ate-and tolerant If one of **r
neighbor* prefer- a good gla*« of
tree* to hi- friend '» rnlfre at din-
nertime it • ju-t eaeh to hi- own
teste and everything » ' -m.u.th aa
cream' betneen them.
fox 'keuf.
I' '1 f f t*A ffrrwen fn rnAnfom
descendentw whti held a liig family reunion and general
get-to-gether at Davis City Park on Sunday a week ago.
There were so many in attendance that just a “handful”
of those present could Ret in the picture.
—Watchman Staff Photo
Mac were in Tyler Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs Richard Harrison
accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Com
er Parker of Carthage visited Mr
and Mrs. Frank Wills of Shrove
port Sunday.
Mrs Dave Sullivan and Mrs
Rachel Milam and Chuck spent Fri
day with Mrs. Wilson Strong.
Those from here attending the
Longview district Seminar Wed
nesday were Mmes. Joe Screws.
Willie Copeland. Angus Copeland.
Jessie Brewster. John Tom Ross.
Watley Strong. J. R. Posey. Grover
Gerrard. Neal Henigan. Miss Iva
Mae Copeland. Rev. and Mrs
George Loden and Mrs James
Copeland.
Visiting in the home of Mr. and
Mrs Jessie Brcwslcr and ihe James
Brewster family Sunday were Mr
and Mrs F'orrest Abernathy o!
Dallas, Sidney Abernathy of
Rusk, Mr and Mrs Ben Sealey of
Pine Hill.
Mr and Mrs. John D. Harris and !
children of Carthage visited ihe
Alton Park; rs Sunday afternoon
Mr. and Mrs. J. R Posey and j
children visited his sister. Mr. and
Mrs Z S. Dickson, and family m
Kilgoic Sunday.
Mrs K. H Mitchel has returned 1
home from Houston where she had
been xpcndii g a few days with her
1 daughter. Mrs J W Starks who
has been ill.
Mrs. John Tom Ross visited in
! I.ongview Monday .
Johnnie McMillan spent Ihe
weekend with his grandparents.
Mi and Mrs. \\ C McMillan at-
tended the singing at Reeves Sun
day
Mr and Mi- Herman Yarborou
gh have moved back home from
Spnnghill where Mr Yarborough
was employed.
Mrs Bill Pitts visited relatives i
in Houston Wednesday
Mr. and Mrs W T Field have
moved from Shreveport here and
left Sunday for a two weeks vaca-
tion in Sacramento, Calif
Mrs W H Crawford and Gale.
Mr and Mrs W T. Field and baby
spent Saturday with their sister
and aunt, Mrs I). I. Nicholson, and
family in Greggton.
Mr and Mrs Marvin Brannon <d
Gary visited their daughter and
.son-in-law. Mr and Mrs Doyle
Gentry. Sunday afternoon.
feet out of the southwest cor-
ner of 147 acre tract, Henry Harp-
er survey as u6.500-footer.- If is
reportedly set up on a 320-acre
unit to test the Pettit, or for a sin
glc completion.
PANOLA COUNTY sight for a well in ihe Elysian
Hole was being made below 2, Melds area Southeast Harrison
060 feet at a Frederickburg lime | * ounty. It is the Natural Gas and
test in Panola County, south of Gil Corp., No. 1 America Woodley.
Waskom heing drilled by Caddo John Findley survey, northwest of
oil Co . of Shreveport at No 1 E. C. Elysian Fields townsitc. Complo-
Tilley, Jane Tharpe survey. The *10,1 "as being tried in Ihe Page
well is in the Bethany field and is /on(‘ a* 6.157 62 feet and in the
contracted to 2,450 feet. A north Travis Peak at 6.326 32 feet The
outpost in the Carthage field the well ,s established on a 640-acre
Coats Drilling Co . No I Vera l,n,t for that purpose, sources said
Black. F. G. Timmons survey, was The same firm's No. 1 J. D Furrh.
testing the Page zone at 6,120-30 Findley survey; a south offset test
teet showing gas The well is also was drilling at about 4.600 tcet.
1953 Calendar Refills and Calen-
dar Stands now in stock at Panola
Watchman.
.nil to have mdu-ated some oil in
a lower zone.
ELYSIAN FIELDS AREA
One mile northeast of the Natural
(las and Oil No 1 Woodley. W. C.
F'ra/el of Shreveport was moving in
Dual completion was reported in tools for his No. 1 Prince Mobley,
Executive Council
Of Carthage FHA
Makes Year's Plans
Carthage Senior High Home
maker Executive Council met
Thursday morning. August 27, in
the Homemaking Department to
make plan* for ihe coming year.
Following the meeting, officers
were hostesses to a Coke party for
40 girls who did a Home Experien-
ce during the summer months. Af-
ter refreshments, the girls attend-
ing reported on work they had
done for summer credit.
The entire FHA Chapter will
have its first meeting Monday,
September 21, in ihe High School
auditorium. A local membership of
125 is anticipated
Come in today!
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piolit |« r deal. \\ • i a:i afford to give lar-l>elt* : than-
average trade-in allowance-.
) on gd more nen inr f.,r ymir money. Mercury
price- -lai I tielow -oni* model- ,»( low-priced car*.
V’t you get luxury lealnre- unmal* lied mi « ar- i o-iing
lar more ilia.i Mereuri ’ full even -jve on optional
po*er feature- Up |>, 22' hi [tower 'leering' \nd
only Mercury in it- . la— offer- mu a 1-w .iv jw.wi-r
seal that adjU'l- up and dow n a- w ell a- Ism 1 and lorlli.
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Clements, U. O. The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 17, 1953, newspaper, September 17, 1953; Carthage, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1055106/m1/14/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sammy Brown Library.