The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 1966 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME XLI
BIG LAKE, REAGAN COUNTY, TEXAS (76932), APRIL 21, 1966
Single Copy — 10c
NUMBER 16
Latest Oil News
In Big Lake Area
By JAMES C. WATSON
Written Specially for the
Big Lake Wildcat
Locations for 12 new opera-!
tlons have been reported for
Reagan County. All those
ventures are stepouts to prov- '
en producing areas.
Tri-Service Drilling Co. of
Midland and associates have
scheduled six 8,000-foot oper- j
ations about 20 miles north of
Big Lake.
All are in S. W. SutnhenJ
survey 16, abstract 432, and
are on the edge of the proven
area for production in the
Spraberry, Dean and Wolf- j
camp.
No. 21 Rocker B, 1.320 feet |
from the most westerly east
and the most westerly north
lines of the survey is 5/8
mile east and slightly north
of the nearest well.
No. 22 Rocker B, 3/4 mile
east and slightly north of
production, is 660 feet west of
the most northerly northeast
corner of the survey, thence
4,400 feet east of the drillsite.
No. 25 Rocker B, 1.300 feet
from the most easterly south
line and 3,500 feet from the
mast easterly east line of the
survey is 7/8 mile northeast
of the proven sector.
No. 26 Rocker B, 1 1/2 miles
northeast of production, is
1.100 feet from the most east-
erly north line and 3,500 feet
from the most easterly east
lines of the survey.
No. 27 Rocker B, 1,100 feet
from the most easterly north
line and the same distance
from the most easterly east
line is a 1 5/8-mile northeast
flanker.
No. 28 Rocker B spots 1.300
feet from the most easterly
south line and the same dis-
tance from the most easterly
east line of the survey. It is
1 1/8 mile from a producer.
Jake L. Hamon of Midland
has staked locations for four
out-posts to the five-well west
sector of the Calvin 'Dean
sand) area, 14 miles north-
west of Stiles.
All operations are in section
196. block 2, T & P survey and
are contracted to 8,400 feet to
permit testing the Spraberry,
Dean and Wolfcamp.
No. 1 Boyles is a 1,320 feet
from north and west lines of
the section, 1/2 mile east of
the nearest well.
No. 2 Boyles, a mile east and
the same distance northwest
of production, spots 1,320 feet
from north and east lines of
the section.
No. 3 Boyles, 5/8 mite
northwest of the proven area,
is 1,320 feet from south and
east lines of the section.
No. 4 Boyles, 1,320 feet from
south and west lines of the
section, is a 3/4-mile south-
east flanker.
Union Texas Petroleum, a
division of Allied Chemical
Corp. has scheduled two out-
posts to the proven area in
the Calvin (Dean sand) area,
about 16 miles northeast of
Stiles.
No. 11 Holt, projected to
8.100 feet, is 1,320 feet from
south and east lines of sec-
tion 112, block 2, T & P sur-
vey, a mile southeast of the
nearest well on the east side
of the field.
No. 1-112 Holt, 1,320 feet
ffrom south and west lines
of the same section, block
and survey, 3/4 mile south-
east of production, is con-
contracted to 8,500 feet.
McGrath & Smith of Mid-
land No. 1 Sugg, 20 miles
north of Big Lake in Reagan
County, has been completed
from the Dean and Wolfcamp.
It yielded 235.98 barrels of
39.6-gravity oil, plus a small
quantity of water in 24 hours,
flowing through a 16-64-inch
choke with gas-oil ratio of
809-1 from a series of perfor-
ations extending from 7,139
to 7,702 feet.
That horizon had been
... Tommy Miller Gets ShToS.!
Eagle Scout Award
Tommy Miller 18, son of
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Miller, re-
ceived the exalted rank of
Eagle Scout Monday night.
In ceremony conducted by
Jim Stevens, District Execu-
tive of Concho Valley Council,
Boy Scouts of America, the
highest rank to be conferred
took place before members of
Boy Scout Troop 58 and a
good turnout of parents of
troop members. A Court of
Permit Office May Be | 'Doc' Dodson Cited
In Lifesaving Action
In response to a recent re-
quest to the Texas Highway
Department by Senator Dor-
sey B. Hardeman concerning
a permit office in Big Lake,
he has received the following
letter in reply from D. C.
Greer, State Highway Engi-
neer.
The letter reads:
“A study of the establish-
ment of a permit office in
Big Lake which was initiated
by your recent request has
been completed and the fol-
lowing action is proposed,
"Since there is approximat-
Ilonor included many other ely 500 permits per month
awards given all ranks of issued by permit offices in
Scouts. i this general area to Big Lake 1
Tommy Miller
In scouting since he was
eleven years old, Miller has
earned considerably more
than the required 12 merit
badges. He is a member of the
Order of the Arrow, Brother-
based movers, it appears that
there is a need for a permit
office closer to Big Lake.
However, we do not feel that
this number of permits is of
sufficient volume to justify
the leasing of office space
hood rank and presently
__serves as Chapter Chief. Re- j an<^ the employment of addi-
i quired merit badges earned j tional personnel for the pur-
I earlier included Citizenship I pose of issuing permits in
| of the Home, Nation and j Bis Lake alone. At present
Community, Nature, Public j the Department has no fac-
! Health, Safety, Camping, j ilities at Big Lake. It would
USS Valley Forge. April 11: | Cooking, Lifesaving and be our proposal that a per-
Machinist Mate Third Class swimming. He is a junior stu- ’ mit office be established in
Robert H. Storey, USN, son of dent of Reagan County High Barnhart since we have the
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Storey of j school and has been active in ! necessary facilities and em-
— i * *1 g0if an(j football until a leg *“ 1 ’lf° “f
and back injury prevented
, activity in these sports this
ment in the Vietnam combat j year
zone with the Seventh Fleet; Tommy joins a small group
aboard the amphibious as- 0f Eagie scouts earning the . .
—----... usg valley awar(i within Troop 58. The and a permit office is estab-
Boy Scout movement in Rea- j lished in Barnhart, at least
gan County has operated 26 it will better serve locally
consecutive years under spon- based movers of heavy equlp-
Storey Serves On
USS Valley Forge
Big Lake, Texas, has returned
to Long Beach, California
from a seven-month deploy-
sault carrier
Forge.
During its deployment, Val-
ley Forge participated in six
major combat operations in
Vietnam. She functioned as
a hospital ship, conducted
vertical envelopment opera-
tions and acted as a refuel-
ing and resupply station for
of the service.
Vertical envelopment is a
maneuver conducted by
launching helicopters carry-
ing combat ready Marines
during amphibious warfare
ar.d dropping them behind
coastal defenses.
ployees to handle permits at
this location.
“If you consider that this
proposal is satisfactory, we
will proceed on this basis.”
If the proposal is adopted
sorship of Reagan County
Lions Club.
A project is now underway
to list these Eagle Scouts on a
ment. As is stands now these
movers have to drive to Ozona
where the nearest permit of-
fice is located and often have
Absentee Voting
Starts For Primary
Absentee voting for the
Reagan County Democratic
Primary election May 7 start-
Order Your Office Supplies ed this week and up until
From The Big I.ake Wildcat Wednesday afternoon no one
__had actually voted, although
several applications were re-
I stimulated with a fracture of fgjygd py mail
80.000 gallons of fluid and, Absentee voting continues
160.000 pounds of sand. Loca- through Mav 3
tion is 1,320 feet from north ! _’_
and west lines of section 165,
block 2, T & P survey.
Cities Service Oil Co. No.
4-A Barbee, South Glasscock
County project, 28 miles
northeast of Big Lake, has
been completed as a location
northeast extension to the
three-well Barbee (Wichita-
Albany) pool.
It is the first producer in
the reservoir for Glasscock
County. The location is 1,300
feet from west and 1,500 feet
from south lines of section 3,
GB & CHG survey.
On the 24-hour potential it
pumped 83 barrels of 38.7-
gravity oil and no water from
perforations at 6,718-21 feet
and at 6,763-95 feet, with gas-
oil ratio of 714-1. Those zones
had been stimulated with a
total of 17,000 gallons of acid.
Cowper Brothers of Big
Spring will try to complete a
producer from the Dean and
upper Wolfcamp at No. 1-137
Sugg, a marginal producer
and the only well in the
Seven D (Wolfcamp) area of
Reagan County, 18 miles
north of Big Lake.
It is planned to plug back
from present bottom of 7,145
feet to 6,992 feet and test the
higher sections through per-
forations. The location is
660 feet from north and east
lines of section 137, block 2, i
T & P survey.
It is a mile northeast of a1
recently completed long ex-!
tension to the Calvin (Dean J
sand) pool and 1 3/8 miles j
northeast of the closest pro-1
duction in the Spraberry
Trend Area.
plaque to be erected at the to spend half a day to all day
Boy Scout headquarters In the just getting a permit.
County-City Park. -■
_ | THE WESTERN COMPANY
I OPEN HOUSE APRIL 28
The Western Company,
Wire Line Division, will hold
Open House next Thursday,
April 28, and extends an invi-
tation to the public of Reagan
County to visit its new head-
quarters. Jack White, office
manager, and Charles Sim-
mons of Fort Worth, Western
Company vice-president in
charge of Wire Line, will act
as hosts.
Location is on the Garden
City Highway on the right,
going north, and visiting
James E. "Doc” Dodson of
Midland, son-in-law of Mr.
and Mrs. D. K. McMullan
became the 186th Texan to
be cited by the American Red j
Cross for Lifesaving action.
The certificate of merit, the.
highest individual citation,
was presented this week by
Joe Arrington, Chairman of
Midland County Chapter,
American Red Cross, before
a meeting of the Midland
Independent School District
board of trustees.
Reason for the citation
happened almost a year ago,
June 12, 1965. Dodson was
first on the scene at a grind-
ing two-car collision in Mid-
land. In one of the cars he
found 18 year old Sally Hick-
man bleeding profusely from
neck wounds. He immediately
applied pressure to the jugu-
lar vein and stopped bleeding.
Then he applied a compress,
holding it on the wound dur-
ing an ambulance ride to a
Midland hospital.
Later, Dr. Durwood N. Clad-
er, who performed surgery
on Miss Hickman after her
arrival at the hospital, said
Dodson was “Materially res-
ponsible for saving this pa-
tient’s life.” The girl has since
fully recovered.
| It was Miss Hickman's par-
: ents, Mr. and Mrs. Vaden
j Hickman of Midland that
sought some means of recog-
I nizing Dodson for his deed.
| His work as trainer for
Midland High School athletic
| department and being first on
l the scene proved a lifesaving
action for Miss Hickman.
Approval for the certificate
came after the Red Cross
National Awards Committee
in Washington, D. C. consid-
ered eyewitness and physician
statements on the merit
of the lifesaving action.
Little League Spring
Try-cuts Scheduled
Order your Rubber Stamps *ours ar,e 5 until 8 °’c,ock in
from The Big Lake Wildcat. Ithe evening
BERNIECF. ATTENDS
BEAUTICIAN’S CLINIC
Mrs. Eerniece Shafer, own-
er and beautician in Ber-
niece’s Beauty Center, went in
Monday for the School of In-
| structicn sponsored by the
Beauty Salon Guild of San
Angelo. Audie and Joyce
Smith, leading hair stylists of
i San Antonio, gave instruction
Sunday and Monday in the
art of cutting, hair styling
and arranging in the latest
fashion.
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Hospital Open House
Seeks Office Visitors
An Open House planned
Sunday May 8 will give the
public opportunity to become
acquainted with the office
staff and those clerks who
serve in a business capacity
for patients.
Other than the doctor, the
business office is the first
to greet a new patient and
last to bid them goodbye, for
it is one of the jobs of the
office to enter and dismiss
every patient. This includes
assigning a room, getting
pertinent information for the
patient’s record, and making
arrangements for payment of
care, essential to the function
of an efficient business.
The “payment of care”
duty would be very simple if
a hospital could operate on a
cash basis. This, however is
not applicable to most pat-
ients so the need of filling
out endless forms in order to
receive payment from insur-
ance companies becomes nec-
cessary. Other forms must be
filled such as reports to the
American Hospital Associa-
tion. Texas Hospital Associa-
tion, and the Public Health
Department from which the
Reagan Memorial Hospital
obtains it’s license to operate.
Of course, in any business,
and a hospital is a business,
the office also looks to the
customer or patient for pay-
ment. This involves sending
statements each month and
involves other methods of
collection at intervals. The
office also prepares a monthly
i board report which includes
an income and cost analysis
as well as a statistical analy-
sis A copy of these is given
each board member, the
county judge and the county
auditor.
Other essential duties is
that the business office keeps
and files all hospital records
and functions as a library
for such records. Copies of
these are furnished, upon the
proper authorization, to doc-
tors, insurance companies,
attorneys and patients.
During Open House JoAnn
Stout and Glenda Jameson
will answer queries pertaining
to function of the office
staff.
Spring try-outs for Reagan
County Little League teams
will be held next Monday and
Tuesday at the Little League
Field from 5:00 until 6:00 p.
m., according to Joe Barnes,
Little League president. The
player auction will be held
Tuesday night at 7:30 p. m. at
the Big Lake Elementary
School.
Little League teams begin
workouts April 28 and con-
tinue through May 4. The
opening games will be played
Thursday evening, May 5,
with the first game getting
underway at 6:00 p. m.
An 18 game schedule has
been drawn up and League
play ends July 4.
A general meeting for all
parents and workers has been
set for Tuesday, May 3, at 8:00
p. m. at the Elementary
School at which any questions
concerning Little League will
be answered.
Minor League play will get
underway Tuesday, May 10,
and a tentative starting date
of May 23 has been set in the
Senior Division.
Little League teams are the
same as last year with the
Cardinals sponsored by the
Big Lake State Bank, the
Cubs by Peoples Drug, the
Dodgers by Big Lake Trans-
lator System, and the Giants
by the Methodist Men.
Eligibility and application
blanks were to be given out
at the Elementary School
this week for boys intending
to try out for Little League
to take home and have their
parents sign them.
Always Boost For A Better
Big Lake!
Big Lake Boys In
Viet Nam Service
Gerd W (Stick) Hamlett
and Rusty Glidewell are both
serving in Viet Nam as mem-
! bers of thp US Army. Hamlett
i is with the 125th Signal Bat-
| talion, arriving about six
weeks ago and Rusty is in
army transportation service,
according to George Hamlett.
j Both boys have been in ser-
j vice since last summer and
Hamlett followed shortly aft-
! er Glidewell in a special
i training class in Honolulu,
1 never being at the same place
at the same time.
Another Big Lake service-
man, Bobby Storey, has just
returned from seven months
cruise which included action
off the coast of Viet Nam.
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Childs Sets District
Record In Shot Put
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'HATE TO HOLD UP THE TROUT
SEASON, BUT SPRING CLEAN-UP.....”
Don Childs, the Reagan
County Owls’ senior weight
man, set a new district record
in the shot put last Saturday
at the district meet in Ozona
when he heaved the shot 54
feet, 8 3/4 inches. This broke
the old record of 53 feet, 3/8
inch, set last year by Gary
Pagan of Ozona.
Childs also took third in the
discus throw.
In the high jump, Richard
(Bum) McReavy, Owl senior,
and Mike Wuest of Sonora
tied for first place at the
height of 5 feet, 8 inches.
Tommy Busby of the Owls
took fourth place in the high
jump.
McReavy also took second
place in the 880 yard run.
Busbee tied for sixth place in
the pole vault. Ellis Cemental
of Big Lake was sixth in the
mile run.
Owl senior John Dolan was
second in the 220 yard dash
and fifth in the 440 yard
dash. Bobby Joe Knight, Owl
junior, was third in the 100
yard dash and fifth in the
220.
The Owl 440-yard relay
team composed of Childs,
Knight, Stanley Anderson
and Eddie Burkett took fifth
place; and the Owl mile relay
team also came in fifth.
Team totals in the district
meet included Sonora 117 1/2,
Ozona 106, Rankin 83 1/2, El-
dorado 77 1/2, Big Lake 64 1/2,
Junction 39, Iraan 7, and Me-
nard and Sanderson failed to
score.
All first and second place
winners in district will com-
pete in regional at Lubbock
this week end.
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Werst, J. L., Jr. The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 1966, newspaper, April 21, 1966; Big Lake, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth659905/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Reagan County Library.