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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
• Sunday Morning, April 16, 19%
ildcat Staked Location Made Deep Blackwell Test
lear Bradshaw
By HARRY HOLT
The first oil activity for southern
Taylor county is promised with lo-
cation of a wildcat two miles north-
west of Bradshaw.
The well, Brown-Hancock Oil
company and E. J. Koough of Dal-
las No. 1 R. H. Middleton, is locat-
ed 660 feet out of northwest corner
of 83-acre tract, section 3. Wm. F
Sparks survey No. 509, and is to be
drilled 3,100 feet with spudder.
There are about 4,000 acres in the
lease block and Humble Oil & Re-
fining company own offsetting acre-
age. Drilling contractors ere moving
In on the location.
Another Taylor county wildcat,
the R. B. Farris A A. P Carr No. 1
Mattie E Antilley, eight miles east
of Abilene, was drilling at 400 feet.
The well is 2,310 feet from west line
and 990 feet from south line of the
146-acre tract section 44. BAL sur-
Humble No. 1 Nolte, wildcat north-
west of View, block 121, Guadalupe
County School land, was dry and
abandoned at 3,530 feet. Water was
encountered in lime from 3,520 to
3,530 feet.
Northern Ordnance No. 1 Toombs,
section 13. block 9, S&P survey.
wildcat four miles south of Blair
Taylor county, was drilling below
2,800 feet.
W. H. Rogers Jr. Trustee, No. 1
Cade, wildcat 2 1-2 miles north-
east of Tye, section 12. block 12,
T&P survey, was abandoned at 3.-
855 feet.
The Northern Ordnance corpora-
tion has made locations for two
more wells five miles northeast of
Rotan in Fisher county. The No. 3
Geo. T. McBeth is located 6M feet
out of southeast corner of 160-acre
tract, section 181, block 2, HATC
survey. The No. 1 May W. Will-
banks, is 660 feet out of southeast
corner of southwest quarter of sec-
tion 181, block 2, HATC survey.
South of Novice in Coleman coun-
ty, the Hunter A Hunter No. C-1
Williams, section 14. block 2. HATC
survey, was drilling at 2,060 feet.
The Hunter A Hunter No. 1 Bird-
well. section 24. TANO survey, was
drilling at 2.920 feet
Stephens county has gained an-
other wildcat test in the S. Caprito
of Post No. 1 Clarence Compton,
12 miles east of Moran Location is
600 feet from north line and 1,980
feet from the east line of section
53, OAL survey.
For Wimberly
East Offset
An offset well on the east fringe
Shows in Ellenburger
TEXAS LEADS IN PRODUCTION
OF NEEDED SYNTHETIC RUBBER
By JOHN B. BREWER
SAN ANGELO, April 15—Pros-
pects of the development of the
most northeasterly Ordovician pro-
duction to the Permian Basin, to
. ,__, . , . Coke county two miles southwest
of the Wimberly field. Jones county, of Blackwell, by Warren Petroleum
will be drilled by Joe Josephson of Co. of Tulsa No. 1 M. W. Fowler,
Dallas The well. No. 1 W. L But- topped West Texes oll develop-
ler, is 330 feet out of southwest cor- ments this week.
ner of 80-acre tract, G. W. Winters
survey A-1076, and offsets two pro-
ducers
Plugs are to be drilled to the
John P Byram No. 2 Alexander
Trust estate, aast offset to the dis-
covery well in a new field to east-
ern Jones county. Casing was cem-
ented after the Bluff Creek pay was
tapped at 1,631 feet. Three feet of
pay wes taken end on baller teat,
the well made half a baller of live
oil every seven minutes. Location
is to section 3, block 14, TAP sur-
vey.
In the Hardy field, rtg was mov-
ed to the southwest offset to the
discovery well, the No. 3 Hardy, 330
feet from south line and 1,623 feet
from east line of the Hardy tract.
The south offset, Great Lakes No. 1
Braden, flowed 168 barrels of oil
from the Canyon sand through 14-
64 inch choke on official test
8 C Herring No. 1 J. D. Wink-
les, wildcat two mUes north of Nu-
gent, section 3, CAM survey, was
dry at 1.775 feet.
W. H. Rogers Jr., Trustee, No 1
J. J. Steele et al, wildcat eight
miles northwest of Anson, block
334, Harrison county school land,
was abandoned at 3,039 feet. 1
Plugs were to be drilled from
51-2 inch casing cemented at
6,388 feet after a Jeep survey
confirmed a saturated section
from 6,390 to 8,414 feet that
had been shown by cores. To-
tal depth was 6,425. The Ellen-
burger was entered at 6,392
feet, 4221 feet below sea level.
The test is an east offset to
Warren's (formerly Wm. F. Morgan
of Houston) No. 1 J. B. Craft, two-
year-old Coke county discovery pro-
ducer from the Cisco at 3,821-28
feet, and is in the O NW NW 275-
1A-H&TC.
Second producer in the Owego
pool, Pecos county's fifth Ellen-
burger producing area,- was indi-
cated by Shell No. 1 Atlantic, east
offset to Bryce McCandless' dis-
covery, in recovering porous, oil
stained lime in coring to 4,040 feet.
Its Ellenburger top, 4,006 feet, 1,618
feet below sea level, was only 10
feet lower than in the pool opener.
About four miles southwest of
the Owego strike, J. D. Atkins and
J. Silas Pittman of Port Stockton
No. 1 B. C. Shera, 330 from the
south, 3,083 feet from the east line
of section 10-110-TCRR.
Humble spotted No. 1 State Na-
tional bank of El Paso, trustee, pro-
posed 6,500-foot wildcat, on its W.
W. Turney block C NE NE 7-140-
T&StL, six miles southeast of the
Heiner Ellenburger field.
Phillips No. 1 Ada C. Price, Pecos
wildcat C SW SW 11-101-TCRR,
35 miles southeast of Fort Stock-
entering West Texas last year, Rich-
field Oil Corp of Loe Angeles took
a 12,160-acre block in eastern Mid-
land county and western Glasscock
county from York & Harper of
Midland, who retained a quarter
out of each section. Richfield as-
sumed an obligation to drill a test
before the end of the year.
M. D. Bryant of San Angelo and
associates prepared to start the
first pt probably several scheduled
shallow tests in western Torn Green
county to supplement geophysical
data on which to base location for
an Ellenburger wildcat. The first
operation will be No. 1 M. 1 Pul-
liam estate C BE NW 12-4---TC,
seven miles west of San Angelo.
Amerada No. 4-A Nathan W.
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LEGEND Fee TEAS
A RUBBER PLANTS
• CARBON BLACK PLANTS
DALLAS, April 15 - Texas’ petro-
leum industry has put the Lone
Star state at the top of the na-
tion’s $750,000,000 synthetic rubber
program, the Texas Mid-Continent
Oil and Gas Association said today
The Fain A McGaha No. 1 Rex
Smith, wildcat southwest of Hawley,
section 3, block 17. TAP survey, was
abandoned at 3,966 feet.
New Indria Quicksilver Mining
company of Fort Worth No. 1 E.
L. Kelso, wildcat between the Red-
din and Wimberly fields, Jones
county, section 25, block 17. TAP 004 feet, had reached 15,255 in un-
survey, was drilling at 3,080 feet. announced forinatlon.
G. H. Brodie, Trustee, of Hous- Stanolind-Shell No. 1 w. D Blue
ton No. 1 Derrick, wildcat three 1 estate, half mile south extension
miles northwest of Noodle, section to the Wheeler Ellenburger field in
58, block 18, TAP survey, was drill-
ing at 2,412 feet.
Lewis Oil company No 3 Sayles,
section 45, block 20, TAP survey,
was drilling at 1.800 feet.
The Humble No. 1 Schornick,
wildcat 10 miles northeast of Abi-
lene and in Jones county, was
spudded. The well is in southwest
ton, which recently eclipsed the
former world's depth record of 15,-
• • •
ton No.
eastern Winkler county, drilled to
sulphur water and was to plug back
from 10,710 feet. Stanolind staked
No. 1-C R. A. Wheeler C SE NW
12-B7-psl, 11-4 miles northwest of
No. 1 Blue, the pool opener.
Shell end Cities Service staked
No. 1 Texas Pacific Land Trust
(TXL), scheduled 11,000-foot wild-
S; 119,168,000 pounds or about 8
per cent is to be Neoprene; 58,688,-
000 pounds or about 3 per cent is
to be. Butyl, and 54,880,000 pounds
or nearly 1 per cent is to be Buna-
N.
In addition, large quantities of
rubber-like plastics made by pri-
vate industries are supplying in-
creasing. Important needs.
Buna-S, the dominant product in
the rubber program, is made from
two hydrocarbons, butadiene and
styrene. Butadiene is made either
from alcohol as its feed stock or
cat in western Ector county, C SE
SE 7-4-1s-T&P, 3 3-4 miles north-
quarter, section 7, BAL, survey.
In the Wimberly pool, the Mara-,— =-----
caibo OU & Exploration company east of the nearest producer in the
No. S, McCoy is drilling at 1,725
feet
in a statement accompanied bya
* map showing the /relative parts
played by the seven areas chosen
by the government to carry out the
rubber program.
Before the war, the natural rub-
ber industry centered around Ak-
ron, Ohio. The decentralization of
the industry comes about by_ the
construction of new plants in the
areas which produce the raw mater-
ials from which synthetic rubber is
made. The Ohio area now ranks
second to Texas.
The Texas synthetic rubber pro-
gram represents an investment by
the government and private com-
panies of close to 8350.000,000 This
sum is for the construction of sev-
enteen plants. Eleven of them con-
vert petroleum products Into the
base stocks from which synthetic up in the national program, have
rubber is made. The other six plants a combined annual capacity of 202,-
“manufacture the raw rubber from 200 tons of which Texas’ two plants
the base stocks and process It for produce 101.000 tons, or 49.7 per
crude petroleum or refinery gases.
Butadiene is made in twenty-four
plants in the United States and in
one in Canada Their total rated
yearly capacity is 688,300 tons. Eight
of these butadiene plants are in
Texas. Their capacity is 244,000 tons
which is 35.45 per cent of the to-
tal. .
Styrene, the other component of
Coleman Sergeant
Home from Pacific
COLEMAN, April 16 —(Spl)- s.
Sgt. Jesse B. Walker, Marine air
corp flight mechanic, is home on
30-day furlough after 19 months in___
the South Pacific He is at thel Midland,
home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs
Wheeler Ellenburger pool.
Richardson & Bass No. 10-E J.
B. Walton, quarter mile south ex-
tension to the Keystone Ellenbur-
ger field. C NW SE 1-B3-psl, logged
more, pay in drilling to 9,800 feet,
Ten-year commercial leases on
between 10.000 and 12,000 acres in
Hickman became the 28th com-
pleted well in the Barnhart Ellen-
burger field in southeastern Reagan
county and the fifth off University
of Texas land by rating 8m143 bar-
rels of 44.6 gravity oil dally. This
exceeds dthe previous record po-
tential by 3,242 barrels. The well
is in the northeast quarter of
HE&WT survey 4.
Gulf No 43-0 W. N. Waddell and
others, Ellenburger strike amid Per-
mian wells in the northeast part
of the Sand Hills district in western
Crane five miles northeast of the
Sand Hills Ellenburger field,
swabbed three barrels of oil hour-
ly in natural testing through per-
forations in 51-3 inch casing from
5,800-35 feet. It is in the C NE
SW 20-B26-psl.
National Refining Co. No. 1 E.
W. Cope and others, southwestern
Dawson county wildcat C NW NW
20-36-4n-T&P, recovered 3,700 feet
of salt water on a drillstem test
from 4,600 to 4.838 feet, the total
depth, and shutdown for orders.
J. B. Hawley Jr. (Northern Ord-
nance) staked / No. 1 Allison in
southwestern Howard county 3,630
from the north, 1,488 feet from the
east line of section 6-33-1s-T&P,
13-4 miles north of the Moore
(Harding) field.
Sun Oil Co. started No. 1 F. E.
Gardner, slated 4,750-foot wildcat
In north centre! Andrews county,
800 feet out of the northeast cor-
ner of a 280-acre lease in section
17-A35-psl, two miles northeast of
Signal No. 1 M. M. Fisher, San
Andres lime strike.
Continental No. 1-A Dr. E. H.
Jones, northwestern Gaines county
wildcat C SW SE NW 22-A7-psl,
ran a liner from the 7-inch casing
seat at 11,177 feet to 12,222, the
total depth, for perforating oppo-
site promising zones.
Seaboard and Texas Pacific start-
ed No. 1 Nairn, proposed 5,500-foot
test In Lubbock county C SE NE
46-A-John H. Gibson, 11-3 miles
north and slightly west of the Lub-
HSU Founders
Day Service Is
Set for Tuesday
Miss Thelma Andrews, past pres-
ident of ths Ex-Students associa-
tion and librarian of ths school
will make the principal address at
the annual Founders’ Day service
of Hardin-Simmons university et
9:45 a. in Tuesday in Behrens cha-
pel.
The day’s activities will include
tolling of the university bell in
memory of students, and faculty
who have died, and the procession-
al from the chapel to the triangle
following the chapel service. At the
triangle flowers will be placed on
the graves of Robert C. Simmons,
son of the man for whom the
school was originally named; Dr. J.
D. Sandefer, president of HSU for
34 years; and Dr. O. O. Pope, farm-
er president.
The chapel service also will in-
clude singing of the Hardin-Sim-
mons Anthem, led by Dean E. Ed-
win Young, and reading of the
scripture by Ewell Bone, a Hardin-
Simmons graduate and educational
director of the First Baptist church.
Leroy Jennings president Of the
Ex-Students association, is to pre-
side. Mrs. Mary Paxton Pender, sec-
retary of the association, will as-
sist and have charge of the pro-
cession.
Weekly report of the Abilene real
estate board included 18 improved
properties at $83,950, averaging $4,-
664; seven lots at 81.775. averaging
$253 and nine loans of 825,000 with
an average of $2,666.
bock field, opened over two years
ago by L. C. Harrison and others
No. 1 W. G. Nairn.
Knox County Elects
School Trustees
MUNDAY, April 15 —(AD— W
• Bradley, Olle Ilsengand and J. E
Cure bare been elected county
school trustees at large.
Results of elections in independ-
ent school districts follow: Munday
— John Ed Jones and J. E Reeves:
Knox City - P. P McBeth, A. M.
Armstrong and B M. Parmer; Trus-
cott — Carl Haynie and John Black;
Goree — Parks Norris and Homer
Howard.
Common school district trustees
elected were: Benjamin — J. F.
Creek — T. H. Jones; Rhineland -
Louis Homer; Union Grove — r. D.
Reeves; Brock — MR Moon,
W Montandon and Calvin Stone:
Washburn — Glenn Elliott; Sunset
— C. L McAfee, Clyde Yost and
John P. Jones; Vera — Alton Robi-
son, Bill Townsend and S. E. All-
bright; Gilliland — E A. BurgQs
and Joe Cade. —
COLDS
THE AIR
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only as directed. Demand
PENETRO NOSE DROPS
All White
Now you can get
them at Ackers! 0
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Shown at left— 0
with 19-8"
Cuban heels
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ton and Crane counties were bought
by the General American Oil Co.
of Dallas from Mrs. Hal C. Peck of
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nity.
Sergeant Walker isn't talking
about his experiences He wears a
presidential citation ribbon, and
two campaign ribbons He Is to re-
port st San Diego. May 8, two years
from the day he joined the Marinas.
In its first large purchase since
snoni INE HAIR
MDKULINEtonic
LANGE BOTTLE-25
Buna-S rubber. is also a petroleum
product Eight styrene plants, set Guides Mailman
use in tires, tubes and thousands cent.
The synthetic program sets up
sixteen plants which convert buta-
In terms of employment, the syn- diene and styrene into raw Buna-S,
thetic rubber program in Texas which is processed into innumer-
means steady jobs for about 7,640 able articles ready for use. These
skilled workers The annual payroll sixteen plants have a total annual
will approximate $18,000,000. I capacity of 823.200 tons. Five of
The government’s synthetic rub-1 these plants are in Texas. Their
34.7 per cent. Another large plant,
capacity totals 285.600 tons or about
21.7 per cent Another large plant,
scheduled to be built at Waco, will
of other finished articles.
SALT LAKE CITY, April 15.—(P)
— Toby," a collie, moved a mile
away, but he still makes the rounds
with the mail carrier
Patrons know when the mailman
is coming because "Toby" is in the
lead. As s pup, he began to fol-
low the carrier six years ago. Later
his owners moved to another neigh-
borhoood, but each day “Tooby” is
on a corner waiting when the mail-
man starts out.
PITTSBURGH PAINTS
WALLPAPER
MIRRORS
GLASS Of ALL KINDS
SWINNEY
Glass & Paint
1166 No. 2nd. Ph. 9129
ber program calls for an estimated
production of 1,.946,336,000 (billion)
pounds during 1944. Of this amount.
1.713.800.000 pounds m more than
88 per cent is to be GR-S or Buna-
strengthen Texas’ position as a pro-
ducer of synthetic rubber goods.
Methodists Planning
Farmer Gets Last.
Encampment in June Laugh at Expense of
MERKEL, April is - Methodist ... n < 1
Highway Patrolmen
Intermediate Encampment for the
Abliene district will be held at Buf-
falo Gap June 19-23, according to
the Rev. Dallas D. Denison, local
pastor and director of the encamp-
ment.---------
The Rev. C. W Parminter, Roby
pastor, is business manager for the
encampment, and Tennie Severton
educational director for St. Pauli
N church, Abilene, la helping to make
Mana. Instructors include the Rev
J. E. Harrell Hamlin pastor; Mrs.
Cal C. Wright, Abilene, and Mrs
D. D. Denison. Merkel, who will
direct music st all events.
Between 300 and 350 children, 13
to 15 inclusive, are expected to at-
tend. Last year 178 attended the
samp
District Superintendent Cal C.
Wright, Abilene, will preach the first
three nights of the encampment,
and the Reverend Harrell will
preach at the consecration service
final night of the encampment
Ballinger Man Now
First Lieutenant
BALLINGER, April 1( —(Spl)-
First Lt. John Y. Pearce, M. C.,
has gone to Carlisle Barracks, Pa.
following a leave home given him
after being commissioned
Lieutenant Pearce is a son of Mr
and Mrs. F. M. Pearoe and did his
CROSS PLAINS. April 16 —“Hap-
py" Mason came creaking Into
Cross Plains Tuesday in an old
buggy driven by a horse 32 years
of age, the vehicle toppling with
cases of eggs, which he reluctantly
sold at 22 cents a dozen
"I picked up the old abandoned
buggy after my car was taken
away,” "Happy” said, "and I bought
the old horse, for $18 from a hide
dealer. He s 22, but gets over the
road."
“Happy” Mason claims initials of
R w. He’s a large, portly fellow,
full of wit and humor, and fre-
quently engages in repartee about
his out-of-date driving equipment,
which he seems much to enjoy.
He farms three miles from town
on the Coleman road The grocer
where "Happy" was shopping told
a true joke on him, much to the
hearty laughs of "Happy."
He said "Happy" came to Cross
Plains In his old Model T without
up-to-date license The highway
patrol got him. "Happy" talked
them out of it, but the patrolmen
warned him not to be seen again
on Cross Plains streets with the
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and IN THE AIR...
KIDS ARE BUSY EVERY HOUR
Their Commando Tactics
Demand That They Wear
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Outfit your youngsters with the best shoes...
Weather-Birds or Diamond Brands Mode of
fine quality materials over foot-formed
lasts to assure lasting fit... Built with extra
reinforcements in vital hidden parts
for longer wear. Wise parents
demand hidden value for
less cost in the long run. 1
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$4'8
Model T unleu he had tags.
"Happy" told them. "I’ll be right
back here tomorrow like 1 am" The
patrolmen said, "Yes, and well get
you"
The next day “Happy" drove in
with his Model T The patrolmen
were there to grab him But. lo and
behold, they saw ‘twas no use:
“Happy” was driving a mule to
■ la,a
sale
Internship at Wesley Memorial hos-
pttal. Chicago. He is to be at Car-
lisle six weeks, end from there will
go to Battery General hospital, _____
Rome, Ga., for anoCher six weeks, his Model T.
After that he will be given a per- Patrolmen looked wiser. Happy
manent assignment. I guffawed.
MR
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