The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 1937 Page: 1 of 8
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Vol. 30. No. 18 SEMINOLE, GAINE8 COUNTY, TEXAS. THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1987. $1.00 Per Year
To Vote oo Waterworks
Issue Monday, July 19
The City Commission of Semi-
nole at their regular semi-month-
ly meeting this week passed an
order calling an election to be
held Monday, July 19, on the
proposed water system for Sem-
inole.
Elsewhere in this issue of The
Sentinel will be found the legal
notice for such an election. It is
proposed if said voters favor
such to issue $10,000 in regular
tax bonds, to run not more than
30 years, and to bear 5 per cent
annual interest In connection
an amount of $24,000 will also be
issued in revenue bonds, the last
named amount to be paid for out
of revenues derived from the wa-
ter system, and are not to be
paid for through taxation on
property.
W. A. Cox has been selected
to serve as presiding judge of
this election, R. P. Kelly as as-
sistant, with Miss Nuel Mitchell
and Mrs. H. N. Stone clerks.
The County Court rdom, in the
court house will be used as the
only voting place for such elec-
tion.
Only legally qualified voters
who. own taxable property and
who have rendered the same for
taxation shall be qualified to vote.
If a poll tax was not paid at the
usual time, before Jan. 31, 1937,
you will not be eligible to vote.
The regulpj* laws for holding an
election will govern.
In this, as in any other bond
election, each voter should study
and acquaint themselves with
the issue to be voted upon.
It is presumed by many that if
Seminole is to take its rightful
place in the development of this
section that now is the time for
this improvement. Since it is an
assured fact that oil is here, it is
only reasonable to expect a sub-
stantial growth. It is up to the
present citizenship of Seminole
to decide by their votes whether
or not they will do their part in
giving to themselves this advan-
tage and providing a necessity
that is fundamental in the foun-
dation of any worthwhile city.
Mrs. Glen Stark left Thurs-
day for Dallas and Teague, where
she will enjoy an extended visit.
Mrs. C. C. Cothes and Miss
Nuel Mitchell left Thursday
morning for Ruidosa to spend
the doming month.
Seminole 4-H Girls Studied
Hemming at Last Meeting
The Seminole 4-H girlsonet at
2:30 Thursday afternoon in the
office of the County Home De-
monstration agent, Miss Velma
Anderson, who gave a demon-
stration on making hems. We
learned to make a blind hem,
slip stitch hem, and catch hem.
Miss Anderson also explained
the making of a hem with bind-
ing. "There are four different
hems for hemming,” said the de-
monstrator.
There were six members and
two visitors present.
The next meeting will be held
in the Court Room at 2:30 Thurs-
day afternoon, July 8, at which
time Mrs. Blakemore will meet
with us. Let us see how many
can be present Visitors and
new members are always wel-
come. Reporer.
Northwest Area Gets
Another Test Well
Another wildcat test for the ac-
tive northwestern Gaines county
area, opened by the Carter-Conti-
nental Oil Company No. 1 Was-
son was reported Monday when
Amerada Petroleum Corporation
located its No. 1 Armstrong, 660
feet from the north and west
lines of section 456, block G,
CCSD&RGNG survey.
The test is located on one of
three adjoining sections held by
Amerada on which the lease ex-
piration date is Aug. 13. The
other sections are 494, block G,
CCSD&RGNG survey, and 66,
block AX, psl survey.
The Amerada No. 1 Armstrong
is four miles due west of the
same company’s No. 1 Matthews,
which topped the anhydrite at
2,070 feet, only four feet lower
than the Carter-Continental dis-
covery well after allowance for
the difference in elevation. The
No. 1 Matthews is one and one-
quarter miles southwest of the
Carter-Continental No.l Wasson.
The Amerada No. 1 Armstrong
also is approximately four miles
northeastof Continental Oil Com-
pany No 1 Jones, located in sec-
tion 22, block 7, psl survey, which
Monday was reaming hole at
4,683 feet in lime and reported to
be running high. Total depth is
4,690 feet, in lime.
Amerada’s new test is the
tenth for northwestern Gaines
county, in addition to the Carter-
Continental producer. The show-
ing of the discovery well, with
other tests running favorable to
it structurally, is expected to
lead to the extending of the Hum-
ble pipe line to that area and
perhaps on northward into Yoa-
kum and Cochran Counties with-
in the near future
On its last 24-hour test. Car-
ter-Continental No. 1 Wasson
flowed 333 barrels of oil through
casing and tubing, with 6,650,000
cubic feet of gas. The flow was
through %-inch choke on 2H-
inch tubing and 3-inch outlet
between tubing and casing.
Home Demonstration Council
Meeting Was Held June 26
“A delegate’s first and most
important job at Short Course is
to be a delegate —attend every
meeting of the association, take
notes on the program, partici-
pate in disenssion and represent
the clubs of her county/’ Miss
Velma Anderson, Home Demon-
stration agent, informed club
representatives in a council meet-
ing held in her office on June 26
at 2:30 p. m.
The things required to consti-
tute a good delegate to Short
Course were read and discussed.
It was decided that club mem-
bers would sell show tickets to
raise funds for sending delegates
to Short Course. Other subjects
of discussion were the H. D.
Club dress contest, plans for the
County Pair, and the Ball jar
contest.
Those present were Mrs. J.A.
Winn and Mrs. Nathan Bagley,
Prairieview; Mrs. Karl Hughes
and Miss Velma Wescott. Pair-
view - Cedar point; Mrs. L. H.
Blakemore and Mrs. Dennis
Knight. Seminole; rnd Mrs. Reb
Blanchard, Council reporter.
Council Repo * ter.
For Sale—Wheat— W.M. Rich-
ards.
Wentz Makes Another
Location South of Seminole
Spudder has been moved to a
new location in southern Gaines,
Wentz Oil Corporation No. 1-B
P. W. Dalinont. Surface pipe
will be set with spudder in the
test, which is located 660 feet
from the west line of section 7,
block A-22, public school land.
It is three-quarters of a mile
southeast of the same company’s
No. 1 Dalmont in section 5,
which is now drilliog below 4900
feet in hard lime, and about two
miles southwestof Landreth No.
1 Kirk, first producer in the
county. ___
Will Spend Next Two
Months in New York
Mrs. W B. Austin and Miss
Doll Birdwell expect to leave
Saturday of this week for Chica-
go, where they will spend a few
days, then they will go to New
York City, where they expect to
remain for six weeks.
Mrs. Austin in commenting
on this trip, states that she is go-
ing for the recreationai value,
that she hopes her health will be
benefitted by the change Miss
Birdwell willenter Columbia Un-
iversity for her second summer
term at that institution, having
attended there the past summer
doing work toward a degree from
Columbia
Home Demonstration Kent's
Column
Miss Velma Anderson, Agt
“I am making on my contest
dress now and my slip is already
completed,” said Nellie Brooks,
eleven year old wardrobe demon-
strator for Cedar Point 4-H club.
Nellie has provided storage space
for clothing at a small expense
by having her family build in a
closet 28x42 inches of 1x12 inch
boards. Inside the closet has
been made dirt and fly proof by
lining it with paste board boxes.
Both Nellie and her sister, Lelia,
are working on attractive hat
and shoe racks. Nellie will be
ready to enter the 4-H Club con-
test July 24 with all the goals of
a demonstrator completed, while
Lelia will have the cooperator’s
goal completed.
"I am glad to have the privi-
lege and responsibility of being
a demonstrator,” stated Mrs. R.
M. E Hughes, recently elected
wardrobe demonstrator for Fair-
view-Cedar Point club to the de-
monstration agent. Mrs. Hughes
typifies a cooperator who keeps
up with her work in such a way
that it is easy to change over to
being a demonstrator. This year
she has been keeping clothing
accounts, has made two hat
racks and purchased two others
has made a belt rack, a shoe rack,
and a large wooden sewing box
for holding materiels, threads,
and patterns. The shoe rack is
particularly interesting. It is a
double deck shoe rack 21 inches
long, 18 inches high and 10 inches
wide. Four small stitches were
used to make two racks, one a-
bove the other. Each rack con-
sists of a rod for the heels to
catch over and one for the toes to
rest on. The "double deck” idea
conserves apace in her clothes
closet. Mrs. Hughes has had
her pattern rechecked and is
now using it to make her con-
test dreas and slip.
5,390 Claims for Old-Age
Benefits Filed as of Jane 1
El Paso, Texas, June 30.—>The
Social Security Board announced
today that 5,390 claims for lump-
sum and death payments had
been filed with the Bureau of
Federal Old-Age Benefits, aa of
June 1. These claims were re-
ceived from each of 48 states and
from the District of Columbia.
None had been received from A-
laska and Hawaii on that date.
The report, issued by F. J.
McCarthy, Jr.', manage** of the
El Paso field office of the Social
Security Board, showed that
New York, with 776, and Penn-
sylvania, with 610, lead all states
in the number of claims filed In
the southwestern region, 127
claims had been filed in Texas,
52 in Louisiana, and four in New
Mexico.
Only 43 claims had been disal-
lowed for payment out of all of
those filed, according to the re-
port.
‘ There has been little delay in
the payment of claims,” Mc-
Carthy stated. "The average
length of time for payment of
lump-sum benefits to eligible em-
ployees at age 65 after receipt of
the claim is approximately three
weeks. However, payments to
estates of eligible wage earners
take about one waek longer.”
This difference in length of
time, it was explained, is due to
the necessary variation in pro-
cedures. A life claim, it was
pointed out, involves little more
than checking the name and ac-
count number and establishing
the age of the claimant and wa-
ges received. In the case of a
death claim, State laws relating
to priorities and exemptions, if
funeral and last illness expenses
have not been paid, must also be
considered. In addition, there
is a considerable variation of pro-
cedure depending on whether or
not a will has been probated and
who files the claim.
"Until January 1, 1942, the on-
ly claims that are payable are
those involving lump sum and
death payments, amounting to
3XA per cent of total wages re-
ceived from covered employ-
ment,” McCarthy continued
"After that date, the major pro-
gram of monthly benefits to qual-
ified workers in commerce and
iudustry will begin. Benefits
are based on wages received for
services in covered employment
from the beginning of the year
1937 to age 65, and the wage re-
cord in the worker’s social se-
curity account will be used in
determining benefits. Posses-
sion of an account number, there-
fore, is essential in the mainte-
nance of proper wage records.”
Gaines County Members Attend
4-H Girls Lamesa Encampment
Several members from Gaines
county attended the 4-H Girls
clubs encampment at Lamssa on
June 29 and 30. There were
sixty or seventv in attendance
at the meetings, which were
held in the American Legion
Hall.
We went to the swimming
pool and went in swimming.' We
also went on a shopping tour
while there All the girls re-
ported a very good time and
were sorry that the rest of the
girls could not be there.
Reporter.
Special Committee to Consider
•West Texas Veterans Hospital
Washington, D. C.—Hearings
by a Special Committee on the
need for a General Medical and
Surgical Veterans Hospital for
West Texas may be expected
within the next few weeks, ac-
cording to Congressman George
Mahon, who has recently confer-
red with Colonel George E Ijams
of the Veterans Administration,
who is a member of the Special
Committee appointed by Gene-
ral Frank T. Hines, Administra-
tor of the Veterans Administra-
tion, to make a general study of
the need for additional Veterans
Hospital facilities. The West
Texas-Panhandle section is one
of the two areas in the United
designated by the Administrator
to be given particular considera-
tion.
As originally appointed, the
committee consisted of Dr.Thom-
as Parran, Jr., Surgeon General
of the United States Public
Health Service and Chairman of
the Special Committee, General
George H. Wood, Special Repre-
sentative of the Administrator on
National Homes for Veterans,
and Colonel George E. Ijams,
Assistant Administrator of the
Veterans Administration, but Dr.
Parran was unable to serve. Rear
Admiral P. S. Rossitor, Surgeon
General of the United States Na-
vy, has been asked to serve as
Chairman, but his acoeptance of
the assignment had uot been giv-
en last week. As soon as the
Committee is completed, open
hearings will be held to consider
the needs fot new hospitals.
Mahon stated that he expected
to appear before the Committee
and urge favorable recommen-
dation for the West Texas Hos-
pital He has a bill pending in
this Congress which authorizes
an appropriation for a hospital
to be erected in the Fifth Amer-
ican Legion district, comprising
all of West Texas. Bills with
more limited restrictions as to
location have been introduced by
Congressman Marvin Jones of
Amarillo, Congressman Ewing
Thomas of El Paso, and Con-
gressman Clyde Garrett of East-
land.
Mahon pointed out the neces-
sity for cooperation of all West
Texas areas in the effort to se-
cure a favorable recommenda-
tion from the Veterans Adminis-
tration at this time, stating that
competition between individual
cities could easily detract from
the weight of argument for the
Veterans Hospital for all West
Texas. He stated that the ap-
pointment of the Special Com-
mittee with designation of West
Texas for special consideration
was more definite encourage-
ment than had heretofore been
given by the Veterans Adminis-
tration.
Palace to Show Braddock-
Lewis Championship Fight
The management of the Palace
Theatre today announced that
arrangements have been made to
bring to the theatre goers of this
territory the championship bat-
tle between Braddock and Lewis
The picture contains slow and
regular motion of every thrill
and highlight, blow by blow,
round by round. This great pic-
ture will be shown at the Palaoe
soon. Watch for dates.
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Stone, Harry N. The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 1937, newspaper, July 1, 1937; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth518853/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gaines County Library.