The El Campo Citizen (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, August 28, 1936 Page: 1 of 10
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COUN
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ABELL, STANCLIFF
YOUNG COMMUNISTS FIGHT BEHIND A BARRICADE
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able value of the, Texas (ompuy .
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5 made no definite plans along this
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-Home Demonstrators
duction on drill stem tests .Am
January 1.. and
Mr. Dill ran far in the lead in
but lacked a
trailer, .
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Places visited will be some points
Follow Lead of Sulphur Expert
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Sunday fug n-t 30. at 1130 a.
at St? puilip. Hall
Come and locations
and the latter total
was accepted
easion WW b •appreciated,
««. has been found. Eber-
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He will assume’ his naw dirties
eldest*! to a suit 1* court, or <
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ad court costa.
county holdine
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ing made as of that date
The Texas Company’s Pier .
at Five Corners showed, for
NECK AND NECK IN
CONSTABLE’S RACE
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TAX VALUE SET
AT $66,000 FOR
pressure was 50 pounds.
In a test made earlier, an
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W. J Galbreath of Wharton has
Issued a call for a meeting of tar-
payers In the Wharton county
courthouse next Monday. August
S1, at8pm.torthe purpose of
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the July «primary,
majority.
IN TRUCK MISHAP
NEAR EL CAMPO
The Borden test was sunk to a
total depth of 7992 feet.
Program Is Held By
Cooperative School
DEATH CLAIMS
MRS. ANDERSEN
Young Spanish Communists crouched behind a barricade of stones in one of the streets of Barcelona
during actual fighting. Note all the shops in background with shutters down.
| A. Klepper of Hollister, Cal.,
obtained a patent on a process
making beer from them.
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A Mh ken dinner will be served
J. T. Shannon, for severalL*rs
a game warden gins the errville
district in West Texas, has been
El Campo Municipal Band Wins
AMertd-rmmnaTimninm"
1 ! Tuesday at 5512-62 feet.
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but went into the soul, to the
heart. Something told you. some-
thing moved with you inwardly.
You stop to eat, the mind flies
tr, thousands of miles to east,
and if flying, you cannot you,
the- music orchestra just plays
trio of marl,. ‘Kollne, Kollne, na
piekue legis rorrne—as fata neor-
gana apears to you, the old home,
the free nation in an independent
Republic, leaving the state hymn,
Kde domoc nujt—nad tartan se
blyaka,’ 2uue
"Eversbody waa satisfied with
the excellent mustapived by the
CamDo munictpal band at the
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the value of oil leases and wells
in the county, Mr. Griffith" con-
fined his testimony mainly to the
Pure Oil Company’s holdings near
Louise.
In fixing .the assessed value on
the Texas Company property, the
court was guided by the testimony
m abandoned Sam Shult No. 1 to new
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He stopped and helped the truck
driver to replace the trailer wheel.
The jack slipped from the wheel,
piontng his hand beneath a weight
of several tons.
The truck driver attempted in
State Taxpayers’ -
Body Is Planned
line.
Claude B. Dill Renominated
In Commissioner’s Precinct No.
2, Claude’ B DHL was renominated
over G. N. Carmichael by a mar-
gin of more than 100 votes, on
t-basis of;unofficial returns.
near Louise, when he attempted
to plas.tke part of a good samari-
tan toward a truck driver hauling
a drill boller.
According to Mr. Hicks, he was
returning from Victoria when: he
was flagged 'by the truck driver,
who - requested help in replacing
a wheel which had come off the
an accident
tnik," official organ of the
grand lodge of Texas. car-
LN* August nineteenth, is-
i article giving high praise
m Campo municipal band
I musie rendered at the re-
huadfennial /grand -lodge
glnBast Breuard.
article follows:
1 does not keep himself
w brd alone—but also by
respectively, man .lives also
And when we write about
kl enjoyments, we cannot
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City and School District Plan
Campaign to Collect Back Taxes -
443 other races were decided in
’^Te first primary.
One of the closest precinct ..
elections ever held in Whar-
-ton county developed last . *
week between Constable । ..
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Perry Stanclif. seeking re- I
election, and Night Watch-]
man Walter Abell.
Unofficial returns gave
Mr. Abell a majority of two
votes, but the outcome of
the election awaited the of-
ficiaf count of the White
Man’s Union Primary asso-
" elation. which was to be held
either Thursday or Friday
Both Mr. Stanclif and Mr. Abell
are highly popular in El Campo.
Pickett’s Ridge ‘field ■ and. ml! i
other assets of the compuns
Wharton county at $66,000
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tul enjoyments of
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IRA HICKS LOSES
HAND IN EFFORT
TO AID STRANGER
within * few days. He succeeds
the late H. A Craig, who waa
game warden In this section' for
a number of year*.
John Henley, about 49 years of
age, a workman employed by the
Houston Pipe Line Company, wabs
fatally injured Tuesday afternoon
when he attempted to leap from
a moving truck to retrieve his
hat.
The acciaent occurred about a
mile east of El Campo, on the
highway leading to Houston,
Henley and several companios,
members of a pipe line crew which
has been stationed fLCampo
for two or three weeks, had start-
ed from El Campo to Wharton.
They stopped at a restaurant east
of town, and had resumed their
journey when Henley’s hat blew
off.
According to’other members of
the crew, Henley requested the
driver to stop and. the latter pull-
ed over to the side of the road.
Before the truck came to a stand-
still, however, Henley started to
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Texas Crusader-Cockburn’s Fee
Number 1 Shows as a Producer
set preparatory to making a pro-
caran cahua duction test after the cement hard-
and Louise '"lens. Storage is being provided.
Leasing and royalty activities in
the Magnet area have been wide-
spread, in reCent weeks.
Intense interest prevails in th*
outcome of a second wildcat test,
the Continental Oil Company’s No,
1 Weakley. drilling at below 4500
e The tw.o men are good personal
I friends.
Although! there had been some
talk that a recount of the votes
would be sought by one candi-
date or the other, both Mr. Stan
cliff and Mr. Abell said they had
MILLIONAIRE’S SON FIGHTS
A saber duel was fought be-
tween John Erdelyi, son* of the
lord lieutenant of Pest Country,
in Germany, and Lajos Lang, son
of a millionaire. Both combatants
received several wounds. It is
believed that the cause of the
clash was a woman.
aector of orchestra played- our
characteristic, thriHing marches
and waltzes ’ as they ought to be
CATHOLIC LADIES WILL
SERVE CHICKEN DINNER
Praise from Czech Newspaper New Game Warden
....... . To Serve County
Mrs. Mabel Marie Margaret An-
> dersen of Danevang passed away
i last Thursday, August 20. at the
Methodist hospital in Houston
after a comparatively short illness.
played. " ”
Known songs of Knoch marches
did not penetrate only the nerves bracing Wharton Cqunty.
2e veston, defeating former District
5 . Attorney Horace Soule.
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265322 At last another outlet for
ETCprunes has been found. Eber-
hose around the wrist to lessen
the1 flow of blood. Then he asked
Mr. Hicks if he could make it to
El Campo.
The injured man drove his car
With one hand, arriving weak from
loss of blood and shock.
Dr. E. A. Weinheimer amputated
the arm at the wrist.
Mr.’ Hicks was resting well
Thursday at his home here. . Nu-
merous friends called to offer their
sympathy.
The assessed valuation of the
Pure Oil Company’s holdings was
almost trebled, the court fixing
the 1936 total at $660,000. This
covers all the company’s Wharton
county asset* as of January 1, in-
cluding 1700 acres of proved oil
lands, on which 22 producing wells
were located, together with wild-
cat acreage.
County Commissioner Clarence
Ellwood stated that the court is
following approved methods of
valuation based on depth of the
wells, thickness and saturation
percentage of the sand and other
factors used by oil companies tn
purchasing holdings from one an-
other.
“Although we know now that
the Texas Company’s holdings at
Pickett’s Ridge and elsewhere on
the Pierce estate are enormously
valuable, we were compelled un-.
der the law to restrict ourselves
to the known value on January 1,”
he explamed.
“The assessed value of Texas
Company holdings -unquestionably
will be Increased very greatly
next year.”
Wedneaday the court heard tes-
tlmony as to the value of the Du
val Sulphur Company’s Wharton
h favorable to cotton, and many
Only 44) ft et of walerandmud
' showed in thistest. The gas
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was finaladag
Assistant County Home Demon-
stration Agent Della A. Pfuger
stated;
"The object of these tours is to
acquaint the public with the work
that has been done by the boys’
and girls’ 4-H dubs and the
| womans home demonstration clubs
Cotton Ginnings
•The tours will be of interest to
all anil should be a great" help te
many You ate llinxite4, to at-
tern! ak of the tours and urged
to attand at least one."
sulphur company’s property.
Dr. Ebey testified that as ot
January 1, the estimated recover-
able oil in sight at Pickett’s RIge
was 660.000 barrels. As of June
1, he added, the estimated total
had risen far into the millions of
barrels.
The Texas Company’s own ex-
perts fixed the estimated total as
of January 1 at 690,000 barrels.
hole, prepared to move this rig
and the rig from its recently-
Grocery and Market PIPE LINER DIES
To Chnge Ownership
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ry a full line of fresh and cured
meats and dressed ■ poultry. . .
Mr. Brantley is thoroughly ex-
perienced in this field.
-Glen Johnson has purchased
Mr. Herrmann’s interest in the
grocery at the same, location. He
will be associated with Lonnie
Glaze in. the conduct of this busi-
ness.
Mr. Herrmann will be associated
with C C. Tew, formerly of Swift
& Company, in the conduct of the
packing plant located in El Campo
on Highway 71.
leap to the ground. He fell un-
She was the daughter of Mr. and der the rear wheel,, which pass-
The Wharton .comity inj
• loners' court, sitting as j
of equalization, this. w--i 1e
expert testimony and m.d
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With at least ten feet of
saturated oil sand, the well
is regardled in nil cireles ascer-
tain to beoome a good producer.
The Cockburu test lies approxi-
mately three miles southeast of
the nearest produrtion pt Withers.
Whether it 'proves to be the
discovery well of a new pool or a
lonc-ranen exfension,of the With-
ers pool, its importance looms
by the court.
Attorneys for the Texas and
Pure Oil companies were heard
by the "court.
Pure Oil’s Assessment Hiked
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portant decisions rezanl e t-
values of oil holdings of it I x
as Company and the Pie i;
The only county or preciet Ira Hicks, El Campo welder, suf-
races at stake were in the El fered the loss of his left hand
Campo constable’s preeinet and Wednesday night in
Commissioner’s Precinct No. 2.
By DONALD M. DUSON
City Attorney
A determined campaign will be
made this fall for the collection
of delinquent taxes due the city
and school district. Both the city
and school district have instructed
their attorneys to make every ef-
fort to clean up the delinquent
tax lists as far as posible, and
to file uit to enforce collection
where payment.is not made volun-
tartly. -
Wherever taxes have been, as-
■eased ' against real property,
whether it be homestead property
or otherwise, the taxing agency
is given a first lien upon the
property on which the taxes are
levied and assessed. By filing
suit in the district court. th* tax-
ing agency can foreclose this llea
and have the property sold by
the-aherif to satisfy the amount
of the taxes, penalty. interest and
When ’the court'assessed a gross the home,
value of about $104,000,000 on the
let the eathol. Ladies’ Auxiliary
serve yon a'deliemnus chicken dih-
net-.AI drations for this ' oc-
- along Rjchmond, Road. Hunger-
Although the court had employed ; ford Bonus. Glen Flora. Crescent
Gordon Griffith, a geologist, to and pierce,
give expert testimony regarding1 '
, . American automobiles ar*, rap-
Everyone is cordially to bring idly increasing iu number in Bel.
his friend- out to dinner. . gium.
Mrs. Mads Andersen of Danevang.
well known members of that com-
munity.
Mrs. Mabel Andersen was born
September Ado 1894, at Homer,
Nebraska. The same year her
parents decided to move to Tex-
as and located in the prosperous
Danevang community. Thus at
an early age, the deceased made-
her home in this party of the
country. Her Christian life and
training began in Homer, Nebraska,
where she was baptized on Oc-
tober 2, 1894. by the Rev. P. Jep-
sen. She was confirmed in the
Lutheran, faith in the Ansgar
Church of Danevang on April 3.
1910, during the pastorate of the
Rev. S. H. Madsen. She had been
a member of this churoh ever
since.
Her departure has caused the
blight of sorrow to fall upon her
family and many relatives and
friends. She is survived by one
son, Mads Clarence Andersen.. and
her parents, and eleven broth-
ers and sisters.
To Tour the County •IMi een
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Wednesday morning reached 196"
ales a gain of 1059 bales during
Te past seven days.
Weather conditions continued to
• field to be opened in Wharton
, , - The—Wharton County home cunt s .not counting the Lakeview ’
a pig producer January „ 1 denionstrators and e o-u petatore gas field: lf „ should turn out
court assessed./the Fil" Cov afe sponsoring three a hievem ni to be an exten sion of the Withers
acreage as wildcat or unp /N ? tours thrnughout Wharton Counts field, the latter wiii assume im-
' acreage, at 50 cents per acre - , , " ; ... _ .
The first tour leaves fhe court: portance as on" of the major pro-
Next year this territory will -use in Wharton at 1/2 p.m. during areas along the Texas gulf
on the tax rolls as proved a' 1 das. august 28 T, v iiniti coast
a ts i.-d win be lawson and into < TH depth, corresponds closely
All of the Texas Company's I T). serond rour leaves t26 with the producing level. at With-
OOb-aere block on the Piere ‘ . .., house . in wharton at i a . ers.
tate, now conceded to be worg -m wednesdas September el casing on the new well is being
many millions, of dollars, was as TL- ylaces; visited win bo El
sessed at 50 cents per acre with iiipo, Danevang.
the exception of 160 acres at Pick. Tprainv ew
ett’s Ridge. _ ' , . .
The thiratour leaves the court-
The 160-acre block was assess- -hnuse ■ in Wharton at a.m.. Fri-
es-a8, proved acreage. dus. September 4. Ech person
The assessment included thr i kindly asked to" bring his lunch.
rigs, casing and all other- physi- as lunch wil be spread at Bonus.
.cal assets of the company.
van to release Mr. Hicks’ hand,
which was held fast by the brake
drum of the wheel. Finally, in
desperation, he started the truck
and hauled it forward.
Mr. Hicks’ hand was shredded
from fingertips to1 wrist. The
truck driver wrapped a rubber
The Democratic primary runoff
- held over the state was marked
. by an overwhelming victory on the
part of Col. Ernest O, Thompson,
chairman of the Texas railroad
commission, who was opposed by
Frank Morris of Dallas.
This race had been enlivened by
sensational charges and counter-
charges and given a dramatic
touch by the spectacle of Railroad
Commissioner Lon A. Smith act-
ively campaigning against Col.
Thompson,, and Commissioner C.
V. Terrell taking the hustings to
plead the chairman’s cause.
Commissioner of Agriculture J.
E. McDonald was victorious in his
race against George B. Terrell of
Alto.
The veteran Tom Blanton of
Abilene, for years a storm center
in the national lower,house, was
deferred for congress by Judge
Clyde Garrett of Eastland. Rep.
McFarlane of Wichita Falls', out-
spoken foe of utility interests, was
reeleoted over d Gossett. Mayor
Opcar Holcombe of Houston was
decisively defeated by Albert
Thomas, young Houston attorney,
in the Harris county congression-
al runoff.
Thomas H. Cody, Houston law-
yer and member of a distinguish-
ed Texas family, was chosen to
fill the forthcoming vacancy' on
the court of civil appeals at Gal-
Four, producing wels wereh farmers are counting upon a good
cated at Pickett’s Ridge onfn lop crop.
uary 1. 1936. the assessmrt i ; —-----------
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during the past-year. Work done
given by Dr. Ebey of the Texas by thesa clubs includes yard im-
Gulf Sulphur Company during thelprovements. garden planning, and
recent hearing which culminated developfng and general repairs of
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FIFTH POOL IN WHARTON COUNTY
OR EXTENSION OF WITHERS SEEN
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A major new oil strike in the Magnet area of Whar-
feet in shale. This well is lo-
cated about two miles northwest
of the Texas Crusader-Cockburn's
discovery well.
Visitor* Trek to Scene
News that the Magnet area
boasted a wildcat producer
brought a big influx of visitors,
many of whom were oil scouts,
while others were farmers, ranch-
men and Wharton business men.
The rd to the new well was
thronged with cars.
In Wharton: merchants were
elated. The opinion was express-
ed that the town and county will
benefit greatly from the new strike.
Although the Magnet develop-
ment held the spotlight, two new
tests projected for the Blue Basin
area also aroused interest among
oil men
The Pure Oil Company, •aban-
doning its Borden No. 1 as a dry
e
transferred to the district em-
TEXAS COMPANY ton Cnunt, retted excitemeit this V eek mong Texas
I Texas ( rusader-( ockburn's No. ! Fee at Magnet,
ome ten miles south of Wharton, showed 1280 feet of 26
gravity pipe-line oil on a ten-minute drili tem test made-
A. H.‘ Brantley has purchased i
the interest of Paul Herrmann in ]
the Sanitary Market. He will car--
Where taxes have been levied
against personal property, and
these taxes are delinquent, the tax
collector may enforce the collec-
tion of these delinquent taxes by
the seizure and sale of any per-
sonal property belonging to the
delinquent tax payer, whether the
property seized be I the property
against which the delinquent taxes
were levied, or not.
Danger of Seizure
Since the taxing agency of th*
■state i* given such broad powers
of enforcement in the collection
of their delinquent taxes. it be-
hoove* the delinquent tax payer
to make every effort to pay up
hi* delinquent taxes voluntariiy,.c.s
rather than to have the property * ,.
soid at public sale to satisty th* - • 3
amout at the delinquent taste, 18
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on will have a
If the plan* of
The Cooperative Church School,
sponsored by the First Methodist
and- Presbyterian churches. - closed
Wednesday evening with a pro-
gram at the First Methodist
Church. There were courses for
beginner, primary, junior and in-
termediate- boys and girls’ and
children representing six denomi-
nations worked and' played hap-
pily, together.
The large audience Wednesday
evening expressed appreciation of
the exhibit of note ‘books and
many types of hand work, as well
as of the program. There were
expressions of appreciation of the
faithfulness of the efficient work-
ers who came daily and made
possible the carrying on of th*
school.
The following worked in the
various department*:
Beginner department, Mrs. M. T.
Wehrman. Mrs. Alberta Smith,
Mrs. H. E Otell, Mrs. B. L. Pei-
per, Miss Barbara Isaacson, Miss
Rachel Bari; primary department,
Mrs. E E. Morri*, Mrs. J. L.
Hinds, Mias Ryan, Mrs. A. W.
DeGuire, and Mrs. John Beery:
junior department, Mrs. J. G.
Watt Mrs. V H Mill, and Rev
A W. DeGuire; intermediate de-
partment. Mrs. P. C. Owen. Mrs.
J. P. Henderson, Miss Jewell
York: hand work with juniors
and intermediates, Mrs. Clyde N.
Wheeler. Mrs Roy Redwine, and
Clyde Wheeler.
Those who gave as much as a
day to the school were Miss
Georgia . Fothergill, Mise Leota-
Myatt; Mrs. J. R Otell The Rev.
John Ke Beorz directed t ashooL
ed over his head and body, frac-
turing his skull and, inflicting
other injuries. He died about an
hour later.
The body was shipped toCaruth-
ersville, Mo., by the Triska Fu-
neral ■ Home, at the request of
Henley’s mother.
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Company. The. 19:6 total ot cotton gid-.
The court set the asse-- .| > . nings at El Campo seven gins
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