The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1963 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME XXXVIII
BIG LAKE, REAGAN COUNTY, TEXAS, AUGUST 8. 1963
NUMBER 32
Junior Rodeo Slated
For Next Week End
The Carrs Leaving
Soon For Midland
Billy Carr, a resident of
Reagan County all of his 42
years, will soon be leaving for
Midland to open an office in
the Midland Oil It Gas Build-
ing and to begin his duties as
Latest Oil News i School Registration
In Big Lake Area ... Set For Aug. 26-30
By JAMES C. WATSON
Written Specially For The
Big Lake Wildcat
Skelly Oil Company com-
pleted No. 1-Y Texas as a
new producer in the Price
Registration in the schools
of the Reagan County Inde-
pendent School District is
slated for the last week in
August, it has been an-
nounced by the principals of
the various schools. Official
(Grayburg i pool, 2 1/2 miles opening for the 1963-64 term
southeast of Big Lake. I is scheduled for Tuesday,
On the 24-hour potential it Sept. 3.
pumped 77 barrels of 34.2- In g^oo!, seniors will
gravity oil, and no water register on Monday, August
from perforations between 26, it has been announced
2,339 and 2,430 feet, after principal R- W
by
_______. ...... Magruder.
treating with 125 gallons of juniors will register on Tues-
with day, sophomores on Wednes-
1 day, and freshmen on Thurs-
day.
_ . i All new students entering
*1 the local school system for
the first time are urged to
, have their transcripts when
1 day.
Families
who live out of
acid and fracturing
20,000 gallons.
The location is 330 feet
from north and west lines of
section 2, block 49,
sity survey.
BTA Oil Producers of Mid-
land potentialed No. 1 Noel, if 1WYRs1hlp
eight miles north of Big Lake, they rcglster lf posslble
as a stepout from production In junior high school,
in the Central Reagan Coun- Principal Frank Horton
ty sector of the Spraberry sta,ed Ibat the sixth grade
Trend Area would register on Monday,
It pumped 213 barrels of seventh grade on Tuesday,
39.8-gravity oil, per day, plus and el&hth grade on Wednes-
73 per cent water from per-
forations between 5.588 and
7,126 feet, which had been town and have students in
fractured with 100,000 gal- j more than one grade may
Ions. j register all of them on the
The location is 1.320 feet same day in both high school
from north and east lines of ( and junior high,
section 6, block 10, University Registration in the Big
survey. ! Lake Elementary School will
In East Upton County, 7 1/2 also begin on Monday, Aug-
miles northwest of the Bene- j ust 26, and continue through
dum gasoline plants. Humble Wednesday, it has been
Oil Si Refining Company No. I learned from Principal Ralph
2-B X. B Cox, Jr., slated 12,- Havenhill. Pupils, grades one
000-foot wildcat, was coring through five, may register
below 11,895 feet. It probably during any of these three
is in or near the top of the days regardless of their clas-
Ellenburger. ■ sification. First graders are
This prospector already required to have their birth
i Big Lake’s new rodeo arena
| on the northeast side of town
is expected to be in readiness
to take care of the Seventh
Annual Reagan County Jun-
ior Rodeo slated for Friday
and Saturday, August 16-17.'
There will be performances
each night at 7:30 including
such events as calf roping,
ribbon roping, hair pulling,
bull riding, barrel races, pole
bending, flag races, goat
sacking and boot scramble, i
Contestants will be divided
into three age groups, sub-1
junior, 12 and under; junior,
13-15; and senior, 16-18.
Trophies will be given in
each event.
The rodeo queen will be
announced next week. She
will lead the parade that will
kickoff the two-day event at
E:C0 o’clock Friday afternoon
This annual rodeo is under
Softball Tourney 1$
Slated For Saturday
Rites Held Friday
For Harold Cosson
Funeral services for Harold
Lee Cosson, 39, a Big Lake
resident for the past 10 years,
were held last Friday after-
noon at the First Baptist
Church. Burial followed in
Glen Rest Cemetery.
Mr. Cosson died last Thurs-
day afternoon in Clinic Hos-
pital at San Angelo following
a brief illness. He had been a
patient in the local hospital
before going to San Angelo
six days prior to his death.
land agent and oil field sup-! He was born Aug. 6, 1923 in
ervisor for the University of Teague. He was a welder, and
Pecos All-Stars Are
LL Tourney Champs
The Pecos Little League
All-Stars took a 7-2 victory
over the Haskell All-Stars
last Saturday night to win
the championship of the
Sectional I Tournament held
I Big Lake's annual Women’s
Softball Tournament will get
underway Saturday morning,
1 Aug. 10, when the local Lak-
ettes play the Ozona team at
10:30 on the Little League
field. Seven teams are enter-
ed in this meet which is be-
ing sponsored by the Big
Lake merchants.
The winner of the 10:30
SL^ST aft St r
cipating in the sSte touma- Little ^gue field, and the
ment this week end in El los,f °f 11)6 gam?
Campo, competing against! Play coDnsolatiTon at
13:00 on the Pony League
Billy Carr
came to Big Lake from Cole-
man.
Survivors Include his wife,
tw*o daughters, Lee Ann Cos-
son of Big Lake and Mrs.
Texas. A member of the Uni-
versity lands staff for seven
years, Carr served as gauger
and assistant agent under E.
G. Compton, and has been
the joint sponsorship of the named to succeed Mr Comp- John Bowers, Jr. of Coleman;
Reagan County 4-H Club and ton whose retirement be- three sons, Brad Cosson of
the Reagan County Sheriff’s comes effective Aug. 31. Big Lake, Travis Cosson of
Posse. Director of the two- A son of John O. Carr and Hobbs, N. M. and Jerry Cos-
day affair will be Riley the late Mrs. Carr, pioneer son of Austin; three step-
Branch. Bill Farr will serve Reagan County ranch people, sons, Charles Paluda of Big
as junior director. he graduated from Reagan Lake, Paul Paluda of Mona-
Other officials and helpers: County High School, and at- hans and Bill Paluda of Dov-
tended A&M College During er. Del.; one brother and
World War II, he was sta- three sisters.
■ the other three sectional
1 champions in the state.
The Big Spring All-Stars
won the consolation final
with a 2-1 victory over Taho-
ka.
field.
The other two first rounds
will be in progress at the
same time, Ballinger and
Grandfalls playing at 12:00
has shown as a possible dis- j certificates upon their en-
covery from the Fusselman rollment. Hours will be from
in a drillstem test between 6:00 to 12:00 a. m. and 1:00
11,484 and 11,563 feet. (to 4:00 p. m.
judges, Max Schneemann
and Bill Schneemann; an-
nouncers, John R. Daugherty
and R. E. Rogers; time keep-
ers, L. L. Farr, III, Jack Ham,
John Pearson, Dobbs Herr-
mann and Hubert Hodge;
clowns, Topper Bilberry and
Tommy Owhns; rodeo secre-
tary, E. O. Nevills; office
clerks, Mrs. Bill Arnett, J. D.
Poage and Richard Spring-
stun; | on the
Gate, P. H. Coates, chair- Hospital
man, and Stanley Turner, A.
B Hayes, L. L. Colvin, Pres-
tidge Kane, Henry Settle, L.
M McCoy and Shorty Kiser;
concession stands, 4-H Clubs
—Mrs. W. L. Kiser, Gregory
Powell and R. B Ferguson,
Jr.; livestock chutes, G. A.
i Jameson, chairman, and J. D.
Armstrong, Herb Wood.
Charles Springstun, Tootney
Orr, Bill Dolan, Johnny Mc-
Mullan and Kenny McMul-
tioned with the Air Force at
Goodfellow Field at San An-
gelo.
He married the former Miss
Florene (Chingi Whaley, and
in 1948, they opened the
Mustang Motel which they
owned and operated for five
Mrs. Cleon Nunnally's
Mother Dies Sunday
Pecos All-Stars defeated I on the Little League field,
Tahoka, 9-0, in their opening! and McCamey and Robert
game, and in their second Lee at 12:00 on the Pony
over! League field.
Winner of the Ballinger-
Grand falls game and the
winner of the McCamey-
Robert Lee game will play at
3:00 on the Little League
field, and the losers at 4:30
on the Pony League field.
Consolation finals are set
at 7:00 o’clock, and the
championship finals at 8:00
of them | o’clock, both to be played on
forth for the Little League field.
The concession stand will
be open during all the games.
First, second and third
place trophies, as well as best
game they won, 7-4,
Coleman.
Other Little League All-
Stars entered in the tourna-
ment were Carson County,
Levelland and Abilene Dixie.
The tournament attracted
a good attendance, both lo-
cally and from out of town.
It vdas estimated that there
were 300 or more visiting
fans here, many
driving back and
the games.
LOCAL CHURCH BEGINS
i REVIVAL LAST SUNDAY
Mrs. E. L. Nowlin of San
Antonio, the mother of Mrs.
years. He has served on the pleon Nunnally, died sudden
Big Lake City Council, and
A revival was started last sportsmanship trophy, will be
Sunday at the Full Gospel given. An all - tournament
Reagan Memorial
board Both have
been active members of the
First Methodist Church.
Mr. and Mrs Carr have
sold their attractive brick
home at 409 Ninth St. to Mr.
and Mrs. Lacy Way, Texon
ly Sunday night as she sat
down to enjoy the evening
meal. Funeral services were
held Tuesday morning at the
Roy Akers Funeral Home ac-
cording to word received by
friends here, and burial fol-
lowed in San Antonio.
Dr. and Mrs. Nunnally and
their sons left soon after re-
lan; parade, R. E. Rogers;1 -------
and publicity, J L. Werst, Jr 1 MRS. I). K. McMULLAN
and Ralph Havenhill. j ANGELO HOSPITAL
Emergency illness requir-
There will be a dance each
night at 10:00 at the Country! mg
Club with Johnny Dutton’s1 caused
Western Swing Band fur-
nishing the music. John H.
Holt is chairman, and he will
be assisted by Blan Benton.
A 1 1/2-hour investigation Mr Havenhill stated that
on that horizon surfaced gas ( ^ is urgent that all pupils in
at the daily rate of 2,100,000 ( elementary school be re-
cubic feet and recovered 496 gistered on these specified
feet of 51.5-gravity conden- dates, but if it is impossible
sate and 120 feet of conden-, ^0 ^ they will be enrolled
sate-cut drilling mud. | iater.
Initial shutin bottomhole ____
pressure was 5,138 pounds in,
one hour Flowing pmwe, Gardener of the Week
was between 321 and 488
pounds. Final shutin pres-1 The H B Mann home at
sure, after three hours and g10 piaza bears the Gardener
eight minutes, was 5,110 0f the Week sign this week,
pounds. I The large well-manicured
This wildcat earlier had i front lawn with its attractive
surfaced gas in what might; shrubs and blooming oxalis
be developed into commercial aqded beauty to the land-
production from the Bend, scape. in the back yard, were' end guests of Mr. and Mrs.
sand during a drillstem test: noted about 20 or 30 rose Gregory Powell. The children
at 10,284-317 feet. | bushes in full bloom, and also were the company of Mr. and
It is adjacent to Spraberry cannas in bloom. There were Mrs. James Carter and their
sand production in the Bene- \ also plants of fern. The children, and John Tracy was
dum sector of the Spraberry Manns who have fruit trees1 a guest of David Werst. They
Trend Area and is 660 feet in their back yard, had just1 came at this time to attend
from north and west lines of finished gathering 10 bushels! the Little League Section 1
section 9, block A, CCSD&-1 of peaches from two trees. ! play-offs.
RGNG survey. I-----—
ranch couple.
Mr Carr said that his new celving ^ caJ1 had not
duties will Include overseeing returned by early Wednesday
of all surface leasing in over afternoon.
2,000.000 acres of University Mrs- Nunnally was the only
of Texas lands in 19 West ,
been a
Texas counties.
Ii
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Tracy
and children, John, Debbie,
Elaine and Ken were week
the care of a specialist
Mrs. D. K McMullan
to be taken to the Shannon
Hospital early Tuesday of
last week. She was accom-
panied by Mrs Elizabeth
C’Bryan of Austin also, in
addition to D K. and daugh-
ter Gayle as Mrs O’Bryan
and Shane were ranch
guests.
Mrs. O'Bryan remained in
San Angelo with Mrs. Mc-
Mullan through Sunday be-
fore returning to Austin.
No definite plans for re-
lease of the patient is made
I at this time as she may re-
j quire further medical atten-
i tion.
HD CLUB OBSERVES
RELIGIOUS PROGRAM
The Big Lake Home Dem-
onstration Club observed a
“Spiritual Life’’ program last
Friday afternoon at the Girls
Club with Mrs. O. P. McAdams
as hostess. The Rev. Bob G.
Fulmer of the First Baptist
Church was guest speaker.
Members responded to roll
call by quoting their favorite
Bible verses.
Mrs. V. B. Duncan, club
president, presided. Others
present were two visitors,
Mrs. Wm. P. Coleman of
Shrewsbury, Mass., and Mrs.
Deloris George of Brown-
wood; and Mesdames W. E.
George, George Peters, W. L.
Coleman, I. N. Riley, Jack
Barber, W. T. Cox, W. L Ki-
ser and Richard E. Brazile, as
members.
The Younger Set
This is the last of the series of children’s pic-
tures which have been appearing in this paper.
Pictured, upper left, are Alan and Scott Stearns,
sons of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Stearns; bottom left,
Susie, Sherry and Leslie Blake, children of Mr.
and Mrs. Gene Blake; and upper right, Joe and
Maggie Reynolds, son and daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Alfred Reynolds.
child of the couple.
. Her father has
semi-invalid from a stroke
which he suffered about a
year ago but apparently her
mother’s death resulted with
no previous knowledge of a
serious physical condition.
Local Man's Brother
Dies In California
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A.
Shafer have returned from
Keokuk, Iowa to which place
they had been called follow-
ing the death of his brother,
Clifford Roosevelt Shafer, 56,
of Los Angeles, Calif. The
■ brother, a patient in a Veter-
ans Administration Hospital
in Los Angeles, died July 25
following heart surgery.
His body was taken to his
native town of Keokuk where
funeral services were held on
Thursday, Aug. 1. Graveside
military rites were conduct-
i ed.
Before going to California
where he was engaged in the
real estate business, he had
lived in Chicago where he
had been a plant manager
for Borden Company. He was
a Baptist, a member of the
Masonic Lodge, of the Elks
Lodge, and also the Veterans
of Foreign Wars. A veteran of
World War II, he served in
the Navy.
Surviving are his wife and
a stepdaughter of Los An-
geles; his father, Charles A.
Shafer, Sr. of Keokuk, a for-
mer Big Lake resident; and
two brothers other than the
one in Big Lake, one sister,
one step-sister and one step-
brother.
Tabernacle, located on West
Highway 67, it has been an-
nounced by the pastor, Mrs.
Dora Tyson. It will continue
through this week and may-
be longer she stated. At pres-
ent Mrs. Tyson is doing the
preaching, and visiting min-
isters are expected to be here
to assist in the services.
Services will be held each
evening beginning at 7:30,
1 and special music is planned
for each evening. A cordial
invitation is extended to
| everyone in the community
1 and members of other con- Tuesday for a vacation on
1 gregations are especially in- the coast and a visit with
, vited. relatives in El Campo, Texas.
team will be selected.
To date the Lakettes have
stacked up an enviable rec-
ord of 13-2 this season. Parti-
cipating in the tournament
will be Waynette Dolan,
Zelma Routh, Mary Tatum,
Jerry Willmon, Elnora Cham-
berlain, Marilyn McReavy,
Pat Chambers, Janice Foster,
Carolyn Howard and Carolyn
Martin Coaches are Joe Ta-
tum and Asa Jacobs.
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. (Pat)
Hallmark and daughters left
Cauble Is Selected
As C. Of C. Manager
E. G. Cauble, Jr., longtime
Reagan County resident, was
1 appointed manager of the
' Big Lake Chamber of Com-
merce last Monday evening
by the Chamber Board at its
monthly meeting at the
Steak House.
Mr. Cauble, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. G. Cauble, Sr.,
| longtime ranchers of the
' county, was bom in what is
; now* known as Floyd County,
| Texas, and with his parents
| moved to Reagan County in
I 1919. He graduated from the
| old Stiles High School and in
| 1933 earned a B. S. degree
from Texas Tech, Lubbock.
He did graduate work at
Texas A&M, Wyoming Uni-
Ruy In Big Lake!
E. G. Cauble, Jr.
versity and the Graduate
School of the Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D.
C.
From 1935 to 1945 he was
Vocational Agriculture in-
structor in Reagan County
High School, and from 1945
to 1955 he was a wool mar-
keting specialist with the
United States Department of
Agriculture in Boston, Mass.,
Denver, Colorado and Wash-
ington, D. C. Since 1955 he
has ranched in Reagan
County.
Mr. Cauble is the immedi-
ate past president of the
Texas Sheep and Goat Rais-
ers’ Association, and is chair-
man of the National Wool
Growers Wool Improvement
Committee. Currently he is a
member, among other things,
of the Board of Directors of
the American Sheep Pro-
ducers Council, of the Wool
Advisory Committee of the
A. S. P. C. and of the Nation-
al Wool Growers’ Lamb Im-
port Committee.
The new Chamber man-
ager is married to the former
Evelyn Gregory of Howard
County, and they have one
child, a daughter, Carol Jean,
who is a dietetics intern of
the Milwaukee County Hos-
pital System, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.
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Werst, J. L., Jr. The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1963, newspaper, August 8, 1963; Big Lake, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth660181/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Reagan County Library.