The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, March 21, 1958 Page: 1 of 6
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VOLUME XXXIII
BIG LAKE. REAGAN COUNTY, TEXAS, MAKATI 21, 1958
NUMBER IS
Blind Shops Caravan
Will Be Here Monday
Latest Oil News
In Big Lake Area ...
By JAMES C. WATSON
Written Specially For The
Biff Lake Wildcat
Humble Oil it Refining
Company No, 1-B TXL has
been completed as a gas well
in the Spraberry Trend
(Clear Forki field In North-
west Reagan County.
It finaled for a calculated,
absolute open flow potential
of 0,000 cubic feet of gas dally,
through casing perforations
from 6,285 to 6,309 feet.
Location is 660 feet from
north and east l!n“s of sec-
tion 25. block 37, T-5-S, T&P
survey.
John I. Moore of Midland
and San Angelo and Duncan
Drilling Company of Big
Spring Have abandoned No
1-D Shannon Estate, North
Crockett County wildcat at
2,147 feet In dry San Andres
dolomite.
It was 22 miles northwest
of Oeona and 330 feet from
north and 2,310 feet from east
lines of section 10, block A.
ELAtRR survey.
Former Red Prisoner
Will Be Here Sunday
Miss Sara E Perkins, regis-
tered nurse who was held In
a Communist prison camp In
China for four and one-half
years, will speak here Sunday
MISS SARA E. PERKINS
morning at 11:00 at the First
I resbyterlan Church. The
public Is Invited to attend.
Miss Perkins, a Presbyteri-
an missionary nurse In China
for more than 30 years, was
superintendent of nurses at
The Texas Blind Shops Ca-
ravan, featuring Items made
by Texas blind workmen, will
arrive in Big Lake on Monday
morning, March 24. at 8:30
under the sponsorship of the
Reagan County Lions Club
The supply truck will be
parked at the rear of the
West Texns Utilities office,
and a pickup, with the vari-
ous items, will be parked
along side of the bank build-
ing. A door-to-door sales
drive will be conducted by
Lions Club members from
9:00 until 10:30
These blind-made products
Include Ironing board covers
nnd pad combinations, top
quality corn brooms, door
mats and mops.
E O. Nevills is chairman of
the Blind Caravan broom
sale, and other committeemen
Include George Morehead. W
D. Hudson. Harry Logan and
Richard Sprtngstun.
Composing the sales teams
are:
Mississippi Street — Joe
Caudle, T. M. Bennett, Blan
Benton, M. G. Carlisle, George
Lawton.
Observe 62nd Wedding Anniversary
Jaycee Cage Tourney
Started Last Night
MR. AND MRS. J. 0. COULTER
Lions' Ladies Night
Slated For April 17
Cullen Akin of Odessa will
be the guest speaker of the
Reagan County Lions Club's
Ladles Night which has beenlinR ln many
set for April 17, It has been United States
announced by Aubrey Ed-
wards. chairman of this an-
nual event. The place will be
announced later, he said Mr.
Akin is manager of Wm.
Cameron St Co at Odessa He
is a past president of the
Toast Masters Club In that
city, and is regarded as a very
able speaker.
Election of officers will be
held at Lions Club meeting
on March 27.
Mr and Mrs. J D Coulter,
former Big Lake couple now
making their home at the wo sons
Baptist Memorials Geriatrics ar.d Mrs David N Coulter of
Hospital In San Angelo, ob- Muleshoe and Mr and Mrs.
served their 62nd wedding P ul Coulter of Water Val-
Callfornia Street — Richard anniversary on Monday of ley; four daughters and their
*h» ho*nitni in i inh.i.n | Sprlngstun, Joe Daugherty, this week Mrs Coulter ob- husbands. Mr and Mrs. Earl
Ih, ChfL, Communist* wT D"*' "T* “i M a, ub. M,
the city. She tuO pre.l-1““ -
ously served in the same ca- Morehead, Tommy Hayes, Bob 1957
Stolen Car Recovered
'lere By City Officers
A 1955 Chevrolet, belonging
to Hein Chevrolet Co of Fred-
ericksburg, was recovered ln
Big Lake Wednesday by the
local police department, it
was learned from Earl Clark,
city patrolman Btolen Mon-
day night at Fredericksburg,
the car was left abandoned
here without the keys and
with the doors locked No
damage had been done to It.
but the license tags had been
changed One tag was from
one county and the other
from another county
No one has been appre-
hended, but when Mr Hein
and the Oillesple County
sheriff came yesterday to
claim the car, they stated
that they had several sus-
pects, Mr Clark said
Mr Clark also reported
that an attempted burglary
at the pool hall was made
parity in a Peking hospital |Hinkelman. Lewis
Since her return from Henry Schooler „
China in the fall of 1955, Depot Street — W W
Miss Perkins has been speak- Munni Rau, Jacobg_ Ben
parts of the;Featherston R
telling of her
Hayden, Mr. and Mrs. Coulter were
married March 17, 1896. ln
Mayfield. Ky . and have lived
In Texas since 1908
experience. She has made a
documentary film, "Prisoner
Triumphant", which tells of
those years ln the
prison.
E. Rogers,
Wendell Parker.
Plaza 8treet — John Holt,
Tommy Bullard, J M Sup-
pington, John Goodwin, C. I.
Chinese AShcraft
Maryland Street — BUI
Chili
Big Lake P-TA Holds
Election Of Officers
Her first acquaintance with olasscock 8now
China came when she taught Holt 0wtn Carnes, Bobby
music at the Shanghai Amer- Rees
lean School which prepared; p*nnsylvanU Street-Clar-
American children for Amer- ence borrow, BUI Turk, Mike
Election of officers was
held by the Big L ^ke Grade-
Parent - Teacher Association
on Thursday evening of last
week when Father's Night
.ss.rrs,!**' n?ht bTi' r:z
rear door of the building
when they made their rounds
during the night. It was sup-
posed that the glass was
broken with an empty bottle
that was on the ground near
by Mr Clark said that the
prowler was apparently
frightened away, as the offi-
cers found no one ln the al-
ley.
Another burglary attempt
In Big Lake has been report-
ed Fred Walker, owner of the
Highland Cafe, said that he
was awakened about 1:30
Friday morning by some one
trying to gain entrance in the
storeroom of the cafe Mr
Walker described the Intru-
der as about 19 years old Up-
on being discovered, he fled
and Joined a person waiting
in a car
Big Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
P Wllemun of Littlefield and
Mr and Mrs Paul Mauldin of
Berger, and several other
relatives.
lean colleges After two years Werst Joe ^r(ns Earj chries-1 was observed ln a meeting
In China, Miss Perkins enter
ed the Nurses’ Training
School of Peking Union Med-
ical College to prepare herself
to be a medical missionary.
8he returned to the United
ATTENDS FUNERAL
Mrs. Marcus Tooke Is ex-
pected home this week end
from Topeka, Kansas where States ,or a briet Pcrlod when
she had been to attend the shp graduated, and then went
funeral of a sister-In-law, ^ack to China in 1926 as a
Mrs. Lloyd Wlms of West Vir-
ginia, held yesterday after-
noon. Mrs Tooke went In
company with relatives from
San Angelo, a brother-in-law
and sister, Mr and Mrs Leon
Romans, and another sister,
Mrs. Larue Walls. The moth-
er, who also lives ln San An-
gelo. had gone earlier to be
with her son.
FREE THEATRE
TICKETS
Each week The Big Lake
Wildcat, In cooperation
with the Rialto and
Shooting Star Drive-In
Theatres, will give to
regular mall subscribers,
two tickets to each
theatre.
This week's tickets go to
Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Edwards
To See
Tal Joey"
Showing at the Rialto
Sun. - Mon. - Tims.
and to
Mr. and Mr*. Edgar
Long ley
To See
“All Mine To Give" and
"Action of the Tiger"
at the 8hootlng Star
San. - Mon. - Tue*.
(Tickets Qood For This
Attraction Only*
You must be on The
Wildcat Subscription
List to receive Free
Tickets—Subscribe Now!
(Tear out and present at
the Theatre Box Office i
missionary of the Board of
Foreign MLsslons of the Pres-
byterian Church, U S A Un-
til World War II Interrupted
her work, she was In charge
of the nurses' training school
and had supervision of the
nurses In the Presbyterian
mission hospital In Peking
Being held as a war hostage
was not a completely new ex-
perience for Miss Perkins,
however. During World War
II, she spent some time In a
Japanese Internment camp,
but was repatriated In 1943
In 1946 she returned to China
to continue her work In Pe-
king
Miss Perkins now lives with
her sister. Miss Gertrude Per-
kins. in Charleston. South
Carolina
Film industry And
< | Theatres To Sponsor
'58 Awards Telecast
TV's greatest spectacular
from Hollywood will be tele-
cast over the NBC network
man. held In the cafeteria Rev T
Montana Street - J, D M Bennett gave the invoca-j
Poage, J O Lusby, Roy Vann, Bon: Mrs Olive Rackley’ fifth
C M Jenkins, Alton Oreen, grade presented a skit; and
led In group)
Jim Williams. ;Jlm Williams
Utah Street —• George Dav- singing
Is, E. T. Stiles, Don Still, Bill Taking part in the skit,
Friend, Don Johnson. "Does the Church, Home,
Ohio Street — A B Hayes, School and Community Ful-
BUly Boyd, Rudy Winchester, fill Its Responsibility to Its
Jack Olvlas, Robert Magrud- Youth," were Sharon Berry,
er j reader, Cheryl Ann Bolton.
Bank Corner — R. L. Me- representing youth; Linda
Kinney. Harry Logan, Roy Esparaza, the home: Rora
Johnson. Wilson Loftin. j Colvin, the church; Wilbur
Stock Clerks — Dan Walker, Coldlron, the school; and
James Proffitt, W D. Hudson. Brownie Fisher, the commun-
Ralph Havenhlll, E O Nevills ity
—- j Mrs M O Carlisle
Nina Oale and Marie Pettit,. named president; Mrs John
W W. Munn Is the retiring
president.
Room count went to Mrs C
L. Morrow’s first grade
The hospitality committee
served pie and coffee to a
large group Spring flowers)
and shamrocks were used as
decoration on the refresh-
ment table.
Several members of the lo-
cal unit plan to attend the
■prlng conference to be held
in Sonora next Monday and
Tuesday Mrs W W Munn.
Mrs Brown Hayes, Mrs M
O Carlisle, Mrs John Good-
v In and Mrs BUI Snow plan
to go for the Monday night
meeting and remain over for
Tuesday's session Mrs Blan
Fenton, Mrs Brown Fisher,
Mrs Joe Caudle, and possibly
others, plan to attend on
was Tuesday
daughters of Mr and Mrs J Ooodwln, vice president; Mrs
B Pettit, Jr. of Rankin, were Blan Benton, secretary; and Um*a.A>Li|| fnmmiHff
guests last week end ln the Mrs Joe Caudle, treasurer n*' c”MHUn NUmmiliec
home of their grandmother, These officers will be install-
Mrs J B Pettit, Sr , ed In the May meeting Mrs 1
Continues Its Study
The Big Lake Jaycees’ Com-
munity Basketball Tourna-
ment got underway last eve-
ning in the Junior high school
gymnasium with eight teams
participating First round
games were completed, and
play will be resumed tonight
at six o'clock on the same
court The finals will be play-
ed tomorrow night in the
high school gymnasium, be-
ginning at six o'clock Play
will continue until each
team has placed, from first
to eighth
Admission has been set at
50 cents for adults and 25
cents for students
The proceeds will be used
by the Jaycees In currying out
their teen-age projects of the
year.
Below Is listed each team’s
roster:
Team 1 Red Harrison.
Don Young. Bill Green, James
Matlock, Roy Johnson, R L
McKinney. Wayne Wade,
James Barnes, John Merrick.
Richard Sprlngstun, B A
Davis
Team 2 — James Nossent,
Jim Matthews, Frank Sandel,
J D Poage, Tommy Rees, Bill
Glasscock, Pepper Owens, Leo
Coldlron, A C, Hamli, Dick
Compton
Team 3 — Don Still, Carl
Humphreys, Ralph Havenhlll,
Richard EBtes, C. R Graham,
Joe Barnes, Bill Chrane, Mor-
ris Tillman, Bobby Rees, Roy
Williams
Team 4 — Dick Seals, Har-
old Gardner, Stacy Bee knell.
Claude Kilpatrick, BUI 8hack,
Bobby Pepper, Buck Schaible,
Floy Vann. Red Splller, Itsy
McKinney, W A Mow
Team 5 Butch Stout,
Rusty Culp. Roy Edwards,
Dick Wynne, George More
head, Wendell Parker, David
Miller, Tom Mlskell, Bill
Schneemann, Steve Ether-
idge
Team 6 — John Sehlagal,
Bill Zachary, Wayne Davis,
Dobbs Herrman, L D 8cott,
Charley Scott, Morris Askew,
Tommy Bullard, Harry Logan.
Billy Wright
Team 7 Ralph Kessler,
Jack Olvlns, 1-awrence Clif-
ton, PeeWee Poynor, Boyd
j Reece, Robert Phillips, Car-
j roll Watkins, Fleet Hulsey,
are to be named, It was learn- j Cecil Robertson, Harold
ed from Blan Benton, city ; Gardner, Sr., Kenny Muliln,
secretary Two othero have Team 8 Jerry Ross. Jack
written ln for absentee bal-; Corbell, Jack Rice, D R
lot* Absentee voting may j Smith, Dwain Carr. Keith Ay-
contlnue through Friday, I cock, Billy Boyd. Charley Bird.
March 28 I James Bird, R A Sisco
Local Teacher Given
Scholarship Grant
So For City Election
Gets Eleven Absentees
To date 11 absentee vote*
have been cast In the munici-
pal election, on April 1, In
which a mayor and two aider-
men for the City of Big Lake
Seniors To Present
Play Monday Night
Carl E Humphreys, biology
teacher In Reagan County
"The School Program” was nigh School, has received a
the subject of the local Hale scholarship grant to the Unl-
Alkln Committee's second verslty of Texas where he will
study when It met Monday
night at the high school audi-
torium building There were
about 15 present besides the
nine committeemen.
Participating ln the dtseux-
"June Dawn", a three-act known to Mr Nelson and also #ions with the committee1
comedy, written by Dorothy to Andrew Craig, chairman of wrre the elementary school
Evans and John Ware, will be the board of education When principal and representatives
presented by the senior class the movie star and various fr0m each grade Junior high
of Reagan County High members arrive there Is no school principal and a science
8chool on Monday evening, end to the unusual events
March 24, In the high school, which follow in rapid succes-
Wednesday evening. March auditorium, beginning at 8:00 slon
26 This year's 1958 Academy o'clock Admission to this Margaret Carter Is cast In j
Awards will be sponsored by two-hour comedy has been the role of Ann Nelson; Lou
the motion picture Industry set at SI 00 for adult*. 50 Wright a* Mrs Nelson; Pat'
and the theatres throughout cent* for students and 25 Busby as Taffy Brown; Bar-
the United States {cents for children :bara Luxon as Betsy Craig;!
teacher. and high achool
principal and a science teach-
! er
The public Is Invited to at-
tend the meeting next Mon-
1. day night when the study
topic will be "Teacher 8up-
! piy
CARL HUMPHREYS
the greatest show ever put on
TV There will be no Inter-
ruptions and no commercials
continue his study of science
This telecast promises to be{ "June Dawn" ts a hilarious. Tommy Rees as Hank Bur .
, yet warm and understanding, roughs, James Whitehead a* 1 J Compton is chairman lh(i comlnf ^hool term Re-
comedy of American youth John Nelson, Carole Cauble of tocal committee Other cently re-elected to his pres*
Ann Nelson, whose father lajas Melissa Clark. David Ste-!member* include Supt C O
during the one and a half | acting principal of the high! wart as L M Stoddard, Tom McKinney, James Laird. J L
hour program Plan new to school. Invites a motion pic-j my Link as Sparky Reagan. Werst, Jr, R L McKinney. H
see this great show sponsored, ture company to film some of {Bill Loftin a* Andrew Craig;
In this area by your local jits scenes on location at the and Susan Dean as Gloria
theatres j local high achool All this un-1 Vance
L Adams. Mrs M H Boone,
Mrs W W Munn and Mrs
Dtch McReavy
ent teaching post, Mr.
Humphreys will be given a
leave of absence
The scholarship la sponsor-
ed by The National Science
Foundation which has madej to Austin
grants to 17 universities over
the country The purpose ln
granting these scholarships
Is in keeping with the na-
tion's policy to promote basic
research and education In
science
Mr Humphreys, who has
been In the local school sys-
tem five years, holds a bache-
lor of science degree In wild
life management from Texas
A AM, and a master's degree
In education from Sul Ross
College In addition, he has
had six hours of advanced
study at the University of
Texas. He Is a member of
both the local Jaycees and
Lions Club organizations
Concerning this scholar-
ship, Mr Humphreys staled
that he plans first to Improve
his background In mathema-
tics and physics, and then get
off as much work as possible
toward a master's degree In
zoology while at the univer-
sity.
Mrs Humphreys and chil-
dren, Casey and Carla, will
accompany Mr Humphreys
Wm •
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Werst, J. L., Jr. The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, March 21, 1958, newspaper, March 21, 1958; Big Lake, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth658826/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Reagan County Library.