Falfurrias Facts (Falfurrias, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 1944 Page: 1 of 4
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Complete Coverage Of The Falfurrias Trade Territory
Dairying, Cattle, Citrus, Truck, Cotton, Peanuts
FALFURRIAS FACTS
ESTABLISHED IN 1906—BROOKS COUNTY S ONLY NEWSPAPER
VOLUME XXXVIII
FALFURRIAS, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUG. 24, 1944
NUMBER 13
Pearl Taylor New
Home Dejnonstrat’n
Agent In Brooks
New Agent To Succeed Aletha
Barrett, Resigned; Comes
To Falfurrias From Edin-
burg; On Duty September 1
Announcement was made this
week bv Miss Bennie Campbell,
d'strict home demonstration ascent,
at A fit M College, that Miss Pearl
Taylor will succeed Mi s A'etha
Barrett as Brooks county home
demonstration agent.
Miss Taylor will assume her du-
ties here September 1. Miss Bar-
rett res gned her position as local
agent last week and returned to
her home in Trenton, Texas.
Miss Taylor comes to Falfurrias
from Edinburg. She is a graduate
Falfurrias Center Of Intensified Oil Comradeship in iJew Guinea
Campaign; Seven Proven Fields Listed
Die 31 jrgan Named
Uni 5I War Chest
Leader For Brooks
Sun Oil Company To Provo Up
Newjy Discovered Sullivan
Field; Scott & Hopper Re-
ports 100 Bble. Completion
B-'V'k-: County remained the cen-
ter of oil wildoattlng along the
South Texas border this week as
Sun Oil Co. prepared to spud in
two doer te. ts In an effort to prove
m its recent Vicksburg 8and strike
eight rn les east of Falfurrias.
M'lterialr are being moved in for
Sun No. 2 Fullivan, in Loma Blanca
Grant, and Sun No. 3 Sullivan, in
El Tu p Grant. The No. 2 is a mile
and a half ‘outhwest of Dan RulH-jtcna,
ing on contractor.
Humble No. 5 Scott and Hopper.
Scott and Hopper Field ot south-
ern Brooks County, Is producing
about 100 barrels of oil dally.
Flow was through 1 B-inch choke
with 650 pounds working pressure.
Oas-oil ratio was 870 to 1. There
was 3 per cent water with the flow.
The hole was drilled to 6941 feet,
then ^plugged back Work was be-
ing commenced on No. 6 1320 feet
west of No. 4.
Sun No. B-l C. Boedeker, in Sur-
vey 16, is drilling below 5.272 feet.
Standard of Texas No. A-24 Mes-
in the Alta Me a F.eld of
v?e FUld discovery at Sun No. 1 i southern Brooks County, is a di-
of Texas State College for Women j tion.
Sullivan. No. 3 is about a quarte-
mile southwest of discovery. Sun’:
fourth test in the area. No. 4 Sv.l-
l van, in El Tule Grant, is a loca-
rectior.al hole, drilling at 1.496 feet
to ki:l off flow In No. 23 Mestena.
which blew out, took fire, bridged
over, and is still making gas and
sulphur water.
and has taught home economics In j Standard of Texas No. 4 Garcia, j Shell No. 2 Guaranty, north of the I
the Edinburg Junior College for a : in la encantada Grant, a deep ex-j Kelsey field, set 1031-inch'surface
number of years. ( ploratory hole near the Ke sey Field | casing at 2007 feet and drilled |
During the past summer she has
been employed as Emergency War
Food Assistant with the Extension
Service, supervising food produc-
tion and preservation in Rockwall \livan, wildcat near the Dan Sullivan
county. Fie’i. The 10.000-foot test is walt-
of southern Brooks County, is drill- i ahead.
Ing i»elow 7,950 feet. Sun 6 Cage, three and one-half
Roads are being built to Humble miles north of the Scott and Hop-
Oil and Refining Co. No. 1 D. Sul- per f eld, was la t reported cor-
ing near 6000 feet. Texas 1 McGill,
23 mi’es southwest of Encino, was
shut down for water well after drill-
ing to 5392 feet.
Texaco has abandoned No. 1 Las-
ater, in Loma Blanca grant of
Brooks, at total depth of 6 850 feet,
after running electric log to total
depth.
Argo O 1 Corp will dr ill Its No t
Ruflno Garcia on a 75-acre lease in
j Lot 3, Block 3. Copita Farm and
A letter from Mrs. George Ver-; Group base of the Air Transport Garden Tracts, in Duval County,
non Holmes at Gonzales gives us j Command at Fairfax Field, Kansas j eight miles northwest of Falfurrias.
news of Lt. Col. Holmes who Is now ! City. Kans. 1 Location is 495 feet from the west
in France attached to General r t c James Maupin is now i line. 660 from the east and south
Bradley’s headquarters. Lt. Col. j aboard a dbtroyer and lt at sea lines of the lease, and contract'
Holmes has been made Chief of Somewhere n the Pacific theatre, depth is 6,500 feet.
Operations under 0-4 <3upplyh'of action and it is believed hv hi;1 Sun Oil Co. No. 39 Praxedis On-
One of his dut es is the distribution J family that he has seen action In ! rles Seeligson Field of southern Jim
of blood plasma to the various two batt'es, although Jam?c has not! Wells County, is rigging up. and rig
WITH BROOKS COUNTY MEN
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Campaign To Gat Under Way
In Octobar To Raisa Quota
Of $3,341; Radio Program
Set For August 2$
R D Morgan this week was nam-
ed Brooks county chairman for the
coming United War Chest cam
paign In Texas which opens here
October 10 end continues through
November 11.
Brooks county has been assigned
a quota of $3,341 as compared with
a 1943 quota of $3,078 At the com-
p'etion of last year’s campa gn. lt
was revealed that the county had
gone over the top with a total of
$3,526
Chairman Morgan is expected to
complete setting up his organiza-
tion for the local drive within the
next few weeks.
On Monday. August 28, from 9:30
to 10 P. M„ the United War Chest
of Texas will present over all Tex-
as radio networks one of the year’s
most outstanding war programs.
The program Is titled “The Tex-
an’s Share in the War” and will
cons’st almost entirely of Inter-
views with Texas fighting men
abroad. Thus for the first time since
the invasion. Texans on the home-
front will hear the voices of their
sons, husbands, brothers and
friends talking direct from Nor-
mandy and other battlefronts.
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H1GH ABOVE the jungle of New Guinea, American nurae Lt. “Woodie” A.
Ray, of Jefferton, Georgia, lights a cifarett* for one of the Australian caaualtiet
during the flight from the front lino back to a bate hospital. American nurtee
take great pride in doing tbit work and the Australian boy* think the world of
the nurses who not only act at nurse, air hoatesa and "mother" to them, hut
taka a keen interest in where their charge* lived before the war and what
they want to do when it’t ail over.
Draft Board Calls
For DSS Forms
fighting fronts. Lt. Col. Holmes is of
the opinion that many of the
French towns will never be rebuilt
in as much as they now are mere
was being moved to the No 36. No.
38 is drilling below 4.536 feet.
The No. 3 A. T. Canales, Canales
Oiristmas Soldier Mail
been permitted to tell them defin
itely. S 1 c Maupin expresses his
thanks for receiving the Facts.
Ropeiio Benavides Is w'th the ! F ot southern Jim Wells county,
rubble. He has found the adult in- ; Army Ground Forces at th“ replace- produced 178 barrels of oil on 24-
habitants aged and tired but most mfn‘‘ depot at Ft. Meade, Mar - hour test' 67 barrels of oil through
of the children healthy. land. 7-64 inch choke In nine hours; and
Second Lt. Mauro R. Garcia is ' pfc. Guadalupe Contreras of *n ^ hours on ,a-inch choke, made
■with a replacement depot and is Camp Be vie was at home on a 1,1 barrels of oil.
stationed at Ft. Ord, California. ! 3-c’ay pass this past week He is with The No 4 A. T. Canales, in south-
Pricr to this move, he was with a j the infantry and recently was vextern Kleberg County, is drilling
cavalry remount squadron station- | awarded th? Expert Infantryman's at 6.960 feet. In the Seeligson Field,
ed at Camp Polk, La. j Badge at Camp Bowie. He has been Humble No. 31 King Panch Cabeza
Pvt. Pedro Martinez has complet- in the service for two years. 1bel°w 2-05° ieet •
ed basic training in infantry at, Pvt. Eliezar Guerra is stationed a* ™e Texas Co. No. 5 Tijer na. Tt-
Camn Blandine Fla Infantrv Re-! Camp Robinson, Arkansas. He has Phna Fie d of southern Jim Wells
placement Center and has been i been there for four months and Is County, is drilling below 6.37s feet
retained ,t the training Center as I training w th the Infantry. and the N. 8 Tijerina Is coring at,
an instructor to help out succeed - 1 Pvt. Win. B. Wright is stationed ^.043 fe^t. No. 12 Tnerina is a lo-
ing groups of trainees through the ‘ at Camp Kohner. Sacramento. H“ cation.
course. He is married to the for is with the 3181st Signal Service Magnolia Petroleum Co. No. 65
mer Celestina Pena of this city and | Eattalian. He writes “Ours is the Seelipson, completed in Zone 19 -
before going into the service was' front line job of getting telephone, _ Seeligson F eld, produced 166.37 bar-
employed by E. J. Rupp. | telegraph, and radio communica- rels of 38.9 gravity oil through 9-
Pfc. Camilo Perez and Rodolfo,1™: to d visions and higher. We 64-inch choke on 24-hour potential
Lopez are stationed at Greensboro,! work out of a corps of Field Army. test. Perforations, with 13 shots.
N Carolina j We set up permanent telephone were at 6,020 G3 feet, and total
Pvt. Prentls Keener, son of Mr.,ard ^^Pf, cen£ra! off.ice« and de£th feet
and Mi E L Keener Falfurrias ' switching strtions. String high ten- Humble Oil and Refining Co. has
s'er.s cover lin^s install r'^ate*- taked location for two new wells
installations and every rha.e of in Kleberg County, where it corn-
ground communications deluding pleted two wells the first of the
motorized messenger, foot me&sen- ■ week.
ger, and last, but by no means least. The new wells are the No. 32 and
the glorious Signal Corps Pigeon. 33 King Ranch Cabeza in the Soe-
• Thev are stubborn as Army mules lig: n Field, four m les northeast
but much faster).’’ Pvt. Wright is of Premont. Completions a’e the No
a nephew of Postmaster and Mr-. 43 King Ranch Paso Anrho. Strat-
T. R. Bennett. ton Field, and the No. 30 King
A letter from R. T. Moore S 2 c Ranch Cabeza. in the Seeligson
lets us know that he is still station- i Field.
ed at St. Louis. Missouri. We quote The No. 32 King Ranch Cabeza is
“I guess I am what you might term 1 1.320 feet north of No. 31 and in
a Fresh Water Salt. I have been on line with No. 31 and No. 29, and is
the Mississippi R ver for two weeks due to start about Sept. 1 on a 6,-
and in the Navy three months and 900-foot test. The 33 King Ranch
the only boat I have been aboard | Cabeza is 1,320 feet east of the 31
Save strong string and box ma-
terial and start to plan shopping,’
Pc-ttnaster T. R. Bennett-advised
Falfurrias residents in announce'ng
the rules for mailing Christmas
gifts for Army and Navy personnel
overseas.
This year the Christmas mailing
period for both Army and Navy
overseas forces is the same - - Sep-
tember 15 to October 15. After Octo-
ber 15 no gift pare"! may be mailed
to a soldier without the presenta-
tion cf a written request from h'm.
More care must be taken in wrap-
ping and packing parcels secure'v
and addressing them clearly rnd
correctly, Postmaster Bennett said
If the gifts are to be protected
in tran. it they must ‘be packed in
DSS Forms 42-B. mailed to the
following registrants. hav*» not yet
been returned If these Forms have
been lost or mislaid, new ones can
he secured at the Local Board Of-
fice. The local board Is making an
effort to have these Forms placed
la the files nl. these registrant* as
ivery could have been made if the
address had been shown on the in-_____________________
sde wTapper. Senders are advised their reclass!ficat'ons will be made
to write the address of the sender on the most current Information
and addresses inside the packagej jn the flies.
as well as outside. Jose Alfredo Benavides, Ouada-
Among the more Important rules I lupe Cantu Ricardo Cantu. Ray H.
for Christmas mailings to the arm -1 Deason, Marcelo Flores, Antonio M.
ed forces overseas are as follows: I Garcia, Fidel Oarcia, Alfredo G.
The parcel must not exceed five Garza, Cosme Oarza Maximlan
pounds, and must not be more than Oarza. Miguel Oarza, Andres Oon-
15 Inches in length or 36 Inches in ralez. Eusebio Oonzalez, Florentine
length and girth combined. It M Oonzalez Kenneth Grissom,
should be marked ‘Christmas par-' Manuel Guzman, Rh.vdon Webo
cel’ so that lt may be given special Hudson. Henry H. Hester. R chard
attention to assure its arrival be-
fore December 25.
Not more than one parcel may be
mailed in any one week to the same
member of the armed forces by or
has been awarded the Good Con
duct Medal for having honorablv
served one year of active Federal
Mil'tary Service with exemplary be-
havior. effiency and fidelity while
the U. £. is at war. Pvt. Keener is
stationed at the 33rd Ferrying
Now I’ostsil
Serviep
A sharp increase in the volume
of first class mail during the past
six months reflects a substantial
Increase in population of the city
and has created a critical s tuation
In dispatching, due to a shortage! is a pleasure craft on the ole’ Miss- I and in line with N03. 30 and 31. It
of clerical help in the local post, issippi—but I may get plenty salt [ is to start about Sept 20.
office and in the railway postal ser- before I get any more sand”. R. T. - -----------xxx--
vice. ! is getting a 96-hour pass next week Rooms Anarfmanfc
Postmaster T. R. Bennett this, and plans to spend it in San An- c _uucill»
week announced that effective I tonio with Mr.;. Moore and son, oOllght r OF I CRCherS
Monday, Amrust 21. mall will be re- Robin. j —--
ceived and dl ratched from the post i Of interest to their many friend
boxes made of metal, wood, solid:. . ... . .. __,
fiberboard, or strong double-faced iln ^It of the same mailer.
corregated fiberboard, reinforced Perishable goods, such as fruits
w ith strong gummed paper tape or and vegetables that may spoil, are
tied with strong twin. If both prohibited. Intoxicants, inflamma-
tape and strong tw ne are used, rr, ble materials such as matches or
much the better. If the rfuter wrap- lighter fluids, po sons, and anything
Der is crushed - - and this is likely that may damage other mail al o
to happen - - the loss of content a e yrohiolted. Gifts enclosed In
mr“ hr prevented if fiberboard box- g’ass should be substantially pecked ' Patricio Rnmos.
rs arc wraoped in heavy paper. to avoid breakage Sharp instru- j _ xxx
Many parcels which families and nent , such as razors and knives \f»»v Ohtnin
mends sent to men and women must have their edges and points ^ 1 ' ,
overseas last year could not be del- protected so that they cannot cut j IiUITlb6r I’OF KsSPIltial
ivered i>ecause they were crushed through the coverings and injure ointonnn/*p TTwp
in transit with gift and the out- postal personnel or damage other wiammiaiiic v .r
side wrapper became seperated. Del- i packages.
Cash Jackson, Russell B. Klump,
Andres Vasquez Medina. Eugenio
Moreno, Raul Muftoz, Fidel Perez,
Genaro Perez, Luis Ramirez, Ray-
naldo O. Ramirez, Elmer Rupp,
Ambroslo Vorgas. Patricio Villar-
real. Wm. B. Wl'son, and Earl
Wright.
The following men already have
been listed and are cited again:
Paulino Alaniz. Fidenc o Garza,
Paulo B. Oarcia. Felipe Garcia,
Pablo Lopez. Jose Angel Martinez,
Raul Martinez, Noe Ramoa and
Premont Schools To
Open September 11
Supt. Robert A. Allan Jr. earlier
th s week announced that the Pre-
mont Public Schools will open for
the 1944-45 school term on Monday,
September 11, at which time regis-
tration will be conducted and text-
books issued.
Public Encouraged
To lise V-Mail
office up to 9:30 P. M. every dav
of the week, includ ng Sunday.
here is news of Capt. Louis Franke.
who has been with the army in
He appealed to the public to pre- Trinidad, British West Indies. He
pare first class mail early and drop has been transferred to the U. S.
lt into the shute at the post office, j and is stationed at McClelland
rather than depositing it in the de- i Field, near Sacramento. Calif. Mrs.
La Gloria School
To Open September 4
pot mail box which is designed pri
marily for emergency purposes.
Mail deposited at the post office
is marhine canceled and bundled
according to route while that de-
Franke and daughter are now
California with h'.m.
A S R J. Falfenburg is now sta-
tioned in' San Antonio, according
♦o information received at this of-
positeri nt the dppot must be hand flee.
canceled and than routed by the Mis. R A McMullin gives us the
night railway clerks who hpve onlv | fo’lowlng article which she flipped
a limited t me for sorting mail. Thls from a newspaper and we are tak-
sometimes results in misdirected or , ng the liberty of reprinting it.
lost mai. SURE I’M HOMESICK, BUT—
All users of first class mail orlvll- Fhore Lines ‘S^ai-ee Magazine*,
eges are invited and urged to ob-1 Island X. Somewhere ln the Paclfir: j week that J T Wright, Alice oil
serve the new night post office pick- Sure, I’m homesick, but I am .'•'field contra^or. had rented the
up hours and avail themselves of Seabee serving Uncle Sam outsidf chamber of '•ommerce cottage on
this service. Congestion of the depot the continental limits of the United i Rice street. The rental agreement
mailing service has betome critical ( CwiHnoed on Page 1) ',-eoters the next several months.
Supt. II. Lee Clifton this week ap-
pealed for ais stance in placing in
coming teachers ln rooms and
apartments.
With Falfurrias schools sehedul
ed to open September 4. members
of the faculty already are begin-
ing to arrive in the city. It was
pointed out that teachers who are
unable to find quarters here vill
have no rlternative but to re. ign
their position, leaving the local
schools in a cr tical situation.
Contractor Rents
C. Of C. Cottage
Announcement was made this! Total 1.36 Inches
pealing for an Increased use of
standard V-Mail blanks which can
be handled ln limited cargo space.
Classes are scheduled to begin ini
all schools on Tue dav. September |f'ls,rlbuttns \-Mall blanks fr 0
j2 (charge to encourage their use but
all post offices are now restr’eted
as to quantity availible. However
ample supplies arc availcblc at the
office of Falfurrias Facts
Farmers who buy lumber in
Brooks county are now entitled to
j buy small amounts of lumber for es-
j sential ma ntenance and repair of
Implements and farm service build-
- lngs by simply signing an applica-
Due to the tremendous volume i tion at the lumber yard, according
of correspondence handled, the to Clyde H Rupp, chairman of the
United 8tates postal service is ap- : Brooks County Agricultural Conser-
vation Committee.
Three hundred board feet is the
largest amount that can be obtain-
ed from the dealer without f rst get-
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MTMonda>01SepteSm?^^Wfor0?he ^ ^,0r*a Starts
1944-45 school term, lt was announ-! Deep Watcr Test
ced this week by Principal J. P ___
I £lie!i’er' will meet on I Texas Wat^r Well Inc _ workmen
Monday with the board of trustees . g-arlirr this week began a special
; to c^plete fnal arrangements and , dppp watfr wel, te8t for the Lo
ion Tue day the school busses will Qjor»a Corn, which will attemp to
i folio wthelr usual routes to gather nbtain frpsh water at levels between
students for enrollment, aasses are 2-300 onrt 2 500 feet.
. scheduled to begin cn Wednesday. | nt „ loc„pd north.
' . . west corner of the p'nnt yard. It
SnOWerS This Week has set surface pipe and is drilling
below 500 feet. The hole will be
\0*i inches.
Intermittent showers during th» , , 1L ,
past week totaled 1.86 inches are damaged, the break in the pro-
according to readings taken here.' dry 6pell Is wloomed gener-
Although sbtne cotton and peanuts ally.
ting a farmers’ lumber certificate,
Mr. Rupp said.
Any farmer who needs more than
300 board beet of lumi>er should ap-
ply to the local County AAA office
for a certificate for essential main-
tenance and repair use and for newr
construction (other than residen-
ces) where the cost Is not more than
$1,000 per farm calendar :,ear. Th?
committee also will issue certificat-
es for lumber needed for emergen-
cies. For construction which must
be approved by the War Production
Board, the ACA committee receives
farmers’ applications and makes
recommendations but does not Is-
sue certificates.
Farmers' lumber certificates rank
as “certified and rated” orders, with
ratings as high as any assigned to
non-military users. Rupp stated.
Dealers can use the rating when
they place orders “in fact”, “these
ratings offer tfie on’y opportunity
to keep enough lumber in the coun-
ty to meet our essential far:.-;
need*’
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