The Wood County Record (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 49, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 6, 1951 Page: 1 of 11
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he Wood County Record
21ST YEAR — NUMBER 49
TWFNTY YEARS OF SERVICE IN WOOD. SMITH AND VAN ZANDT COUNTIES
MINEOLA. TEXAS, TUESDAY MARCH 6, 1954
TWELVE PAGES TODAY
SMOKESTACKS
*Don 9t Sell East Texas Short
Dallas Banker Declares
R. L. “Bob” Thornton, chairman of the board of the
Mercantile Bank of Dallas, told the Tyler Chamber of
Commerce membership last week that the Southwest was
one of the three key areas where industry would move
in the next decade. “Industry is on the move now, and
towns had better go after it while it is on the move,
because there will be a settling off period later. The
next ten or twenty years will see a vast development
of industrial activity in East Texas as a result of the
Lone Star plant at Dangerfield. East Texans should not
sell East Texas short.” Thornton went on to say “Towns
who are awake to opportunity will grow to be cities.
But the citizens must plow money, and big money, back
into community efforts to make a. city grow.”
Quitman Man Found
Shot to Death Saturday
DeuPree Well Opens
New Wood County Area
Wiliam Wright Rainwater, 40,
of Quitman was found dead in
a tourist cabin in Longview Sat-
urday morning. He had been
shot once through the heart and
a .38-calibre pistol was found
lying beside him on the bed.
-The* doctor who examined his
body said he had been dead
seven or eight hours. He was
found by a Negro maid em-
ployed by the tourist courts.
Longview and Gregg County
officers at first suspected foul
play, but later decided it was
125 Head Cattle
Up Be Shown in
May 16th Event
An estimated 125 head of cattle
may be entered in the Fifth
Annual Sabine Dairy Show to
be held in Mineola on May 16
under the sponsorship of the
Mineola Chamber of Commerce,
according to Lester Cole, agri-
cultural chairman of the local
chamber.
The Mineola show has grown
each year since its origin in
947. when 35 animals were
** ited. Last year exhibitors
ten counties entered 105
o be judged by Joe W.
y, the nation’s top judge,
cultural leaders attribute
f the development of the
industry in this area to
abine Dairy Show. Con-
mprovement in tlie qual-
ity of dairy cattle has been ob-
served by these leaders.
Interest in the Grade-A dairy
industry is becoming greater
each year. Ten Grade-A dair-
ies are in operation in the
Mineola area at the present
time. Four new dairies are un-
der construction, Cole said.
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D. A. Landers left Sat-
urday morning for Los Angeles,
Calif., to visit her daughter,
Mrs. Ronald Notestine, and
family.
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Mr .and Mrs. Bob Douglas
rnd family of Dallas spent the
week-end in Mineola.
suicide. Rainwater was known
to have had a heart ailment
and had been told by his phy-
sician not to do heavy work. A
neatly written “suicide note”
was found in the room, and
officers at first thought it was
the writing of a woman. Writ-
ten on a pink slip of paper, it
was addressed to his sister and
signed “William.” It told her
that she would never see him
alive again.
The bullet passed through
his body from a slight angle,
and officers recovered it from
the mattress.
Raiinwater and two other
men, one from Quitman and
one from Mineola, had gone
to Longview to pick up pay
checks from the oil firm they
worked for, and they had rented
the tourist cabin in the Quit-
man man’s name. One of them,
however, had gone home that
night. Officers exonerated both
from any blame.
Rainwater was a native of
Quitman and had lived there
all his life.
He is survived by his wife.
Mrs. Jewel Rainwater, and a
son. Edward, both of Quitman:
nd four sisters, Mrs. G. D. Mc-
Intosh of Quitman, Mrs. A. T.
Kenneman of Fort Worth, Mrs.
Leonard Forrester of Houston,
and Ivliss Eunice Rainwater of
Austin.
J. M. DeuPree, Mineola in-
dependent oil operator, was be-
ing credited with the discovery
of another Wood County oil
field following recovery of a
good grade of oil in a drill stem
test at the DeuPree & Morris
Palmer No. 1 D. Slayton, wild-
cat test about a mile west of
the Pine Mills Field in the S,
Holman Survey. The drill stem
test, completed at about 2 o’-
clock last Friday morning, re-
covered 1,380 feet of oil and
95 feet of mud in fifteen min-
utes at 4,968-75 feet in the sub-
Clarksville. Bottomhole shut-in
pressure was 1,950 pounds and
three-eighths inch choke was
used.
Gravity of the oil was placed
at 28 degrees.
Those who remained for the
outcome of the drill stem test
Friday morning saw oil sprayed
almost to the top of the der-
rick. There was a steady stream
of visitors at the well all day
Saturday and Sunday.
The test topped the second
sub-Clarksville section at 4,965
and drilled into it three feet
before coring. A ten-foot core
taken last Thursday afternoon
recovered seven feet of satu-
ration. The drill stem test fol-
' lovred the core.
Original plans of the operator
called for testing both the sub-
Clarksville and the Woodbine,
and following the test, drilling
was resumed, and the well went
out of the sand at 5,000 feet.
By Monday morning the well
was nearing the Woodbine, ex-
pected at about 5,525 feet, but
no official report was available
when the Record went to press.
If no production is found in
the Woodbine it will be com-
pleted as a sub-Clarksville dis-
covery.
Located on a Phillips Petrol-
eum farm-out more than a mile
west of the Pine Mills Field
and about a half mile west of
the No. 1 J. H. Moore, a recent
failure, the well is believed to
have cut a fault which runs
north and south. Some spec-
ulation has it that the fault
will parallel the Pine Mills field
fault, but most observers pre-
dict it will run at a slight angle
to the Pine Mills Field. Trad-
ing, so far, has been limited,
but prices of $500 and $600 an
acre for royalty were quoted
following the Friday morning
test.
Mr. DeuPree was optimistic
over the possibilities of opening
a good field. He has contend-
ed for some time in the face
of considerable opposition that
production would be found to
the west of the Pine Mills field.
In the still growing Pine
Mills Field Superior Oil Com-
pany has started the No. 11
D. V Waggoner, 753 feet north-
east of the No 6 in the Gilli-
land Survey
Former Mineola
Druggist Killed
In Auto Accident
Wednesday Is
! ^ w
I Super Value Day
jin Local Stores
Wednesday is Super Value
j Day in Mineola.
Twenty-two local merchants
| are offering a wide variety of
merchandise savings to shoppers
| in Mineola on that day. Prices.
| which range down below re-
! placement costs, are believed
i low enough to attract people
from a wide area, and approx-
imately 5.000 copies of this issue
of the Record have been circu-
| lated to spread the bargain
j news.
Super Value Specials are list-
ed on pages six and seven
1 of this issue.
A former Mineolan. Harvey
Vivian. 51, Gilmer pharmacist,
was killed in an automobile ac-
cident ten miles southeast of
Gilmer Friday.
The accident occurred near
Seven Pines on the Gilmer-
Longview highway when his car
went out of control and ran
into a ditch.
Vivian worked at Shivers’
Pharmacy here about a year
ago. He had worked in several
East Texas drug stores. He was
a native of Gilmer and funeral
services were held there Satur-
day.
Surviving are his wife. Mrs.
Bernice Vivian of Longview, a
I step-daughter, Margaret Hop-
j kins of Longview, and a daugh-
ter. Mrs. Morrine Martin of San
Diego, Calif.
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DOUBLE PNEUMONIA
Johnny Johnson is in the
Texas & Pacific Hospital in
Marshall with double pneumo-
nia. He was reported resting
well Monday.
Former Sheriff
J. 0. Puckett
Buried Sunday
Former Sheriff J. O. Puckett,
51, died of a heart attack Fri-
day morning at his home in
Tyler, where he had been living
for the last two years. Funeral
services were held Sunday after-
noon at 2:30 at the First Bap-
tist Church in Quitman. The
Rev. C. L. Vermillion of Houston
officiated.
Mr. Puckett served two terms
as sheriff of Wood Coynty
where he had lived all of his
life until he moved to Tyler to
become game warden. Before
holding public office he was
in business in Quitman.
At the time of his death he
lived at 1024 South Donnybrook
in Tyler.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Era Puckett, two sons, James
and Joe Puckett, both of Tyler;
three daughters, Mrs. Henry
Lipscomb, Jr., of Tyler. Mrs.
Gaston Paul Cain of Quitman
and Miss Patsy Puckett of Ty-
ler; two brothers. H. V. Fuckett
| end Grady Puckett, both of
Mineola; one sister, Mrs. Grover
Rhodes of Mineola; and three
grandchildren.
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?-ix Candidates
for Municipal
Offices In Quitman
Six candidates have filed for
city office in Quitman, one for
mayor, two for a vacancy on the
council, two for re-election to
the council ond one re-election
as city marshal.
Mayor Russell Cathey is the
only candidate for mayor. He
recently resigned as alderman
to fill Joe Moseley’s unexpired
term as mayor.
W. T. iTonibo) Blackwell and
Conrad Duke have filed for
Russell’s unexpired term on the
council.
W. C. Jackson, Sr., and M. T.
Shamburger, have filed for re-
election as aldermen. Joe Mc-
Cain has filed for re-election as
city marshal. April 2 is elec-
tion day.
Style Show at
Country Club on
Monday. Mar. 12
A spring and summer fashion
show, sponsored by Collins’,
will be staged at the Mineola
Country Club Monday evening,
March 12, at 7:30 o’clock. No
admission will be charged, and
the public is invited, according
to announcement this week.
This well be the third fash-
ion show sponsored by Collin’s.
Local models will be used.
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Mineola Stores
Feature Confort
In Summer Months
The most completely .air-
conditioned retail shopping cen-
ter in East Texas is a title that
Mineola may earn in the near
future, according to a leading
air conditioning distributor.
Mineola already has more re-
frigerated cooling units than
any town in its population size
in Texas, he said.
Commercial structures which
will be completely air condi-
tioned this summer include four
apparel stores ,two jewelry
stores, three cafes, two grocery
stores, and one automotive ag-
ency. Community buildings
having air conditioning are the
First National Bank, the Select
Theatre, First Methodist Church
Central Christian Church and
the First Baptist Church. Sev-
eral additional buildings in Min-
eola may install air condition-
ing before summer if current
plans are carried out.
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LEGION CHILI SUPPER
The American Legion chili
supper, postponed several weeks
I ago because of bad weather,
1 will be held Friday night at
7 o’clock at the legion hall in
West Mineola, according to an
announcement by Oddis Lam-
inack, post commander. All war
veterans, regardless of whether
they are Legionnaires are not,
are invited to the free feed.
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Carraway, R. H., Jr. The Wood County Record (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 49, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 6, 1951, newspaper, March 6, 1951; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth757593/m1/1/?q=pine+mills: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.