The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 56, Ed. 1 Monday, October 12, 1959 Page: 5 of 10
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Martin Manner -- judge Denies
Gibson’s Suit
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press” really means. It
means freedom to tell to the
people the news without censor-
ship. It doesn’t mean snoop-
ing, second-story work or scan-
dalizing. It means just what
it says: Freedom to tell the
public what is happening, be-
lieving that the public, once it
knows the news, is quite
capable of making up its own
mind. It means an informed
public.
J. C. Penney once told me
that freedom of the press is
known only in democracies.
“Somehow,” this great old fel-
low said, “freedom of the press
and democracy seem to go hand
in hand; without one you can’t
have the other.”
That’s why American News-
paper Week will have for its
®eme: “Freedom’s Textbook.”
The free press is a textbook to
the people.
Many More ...
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but we have been pleased with
the wonderful reponse we have
received in this drive to elim-
inate traffic violations. The
public wants to see the reck-
less driver stopped and our
streets and highways made as
safe as possible. We appreci-
ate this fine co-operation.”
That the drive is succeeding
is shown by • the fact that Ker-
mitians receiving tickets are
fewer than at the start of the
drive, and that some Of the
tickets given are to out-of-town
folk who ignore stop signs and
traffic lights.
District Judge O. L. Parrish,
Ballinger, late last week hand-
ed down a decision favoring the
defendant in an injunction suit
brought by Dr. Joseph V. Gib-
son against Dr. Charles F.
Campbell et al. By handing
down a decision favoring the
defendants, the judge was ac-
cepting the recommendations
of a jury which heard the case
last month in District Court
here.
In seeking the injunction, Dr.
Gibson had sought to prevent
the operation of a business oth-
er than a doctor’s clinic on lot
7, block 6, replat of the Me-
morial Park Addition in Kermit.
In his formal decision, Judge
Parrish said: “ . . . the Court,
having considered the verdict
(of the jury) and such other ad-
ditional considerations and find-
ings as were authorized by law
. . . that judgment should be
rendered as follows for the de-
fendants:
“It is therefore ordered, ad-
judged and decreed that plain-
tiff Joseph V. Gibson take
nothing as against the defend-
ants, Charles F. Campbell and
Curtis Simpson, or either of
them. .
He ordered that all costs in
the hearing “be . . . taxed
against plaintiff ...”
The firm of Finley, Dickie
and Scogin represented the
plaintiff while John R. Lee, A.
R. Archer Jr. and John Banks
represented the defense.
‘K-25’
CUFF LINKS—When somebody gives
Tommy Thompson a present, he doesn’t believe in
putting it on a shelf. At the recent Homecoming
Football game, Don Baimer, representing the Ex-
Students’ group, gave Thompson a pair of cuff-links
and a tie bar with the emblem “K” and “25” outlined,
signifying Thompson’s 25 years with the Kermit
schools. They also gave Mrs. Thompson a bracelet
with the same emmblem. (News Staff Photo)
Test Drilling
At 11,216 Feet
BY JAMES C. WATSON
News Oil Writer
Chambers & Kennedy and
Gulf Oil Corporation were dig-
ging below 11,216 feet in lime
and shale in No. 1 Sealy-Smith
Foundation, Southeast Winkler
County wildcat.
Slated for a 13,700-foot bot-
tom, it is 660 feet from north
and east lines of section 29,
block A, G&MMB&A survey, 14
miles southeast of Kermit.
G. D. Putnam of Midland and
associates will drill No. 1-D
Willie to 8,100' feet to try to
complete from the Wolfcamp
in the East Winkler County por-
tion of the Wheeler (multipay)
field.
It is six miles southwest of
Notrees and 660 feet from north
and east lines of section 19,
block B-7, psl survey.
Skelly Oil Company No. 5-A
Campbell has been completed
in the South Kermit (Devonian)
field in Central Winkler County.
On 24-hour potential test, the
new oiler flowed 377 barrels of
35-gravity oil, through a 28-64-
inch choke and perforations
from 8,386 to 8,398 feet, after
a 500-gallon acid treatment.
Location Is 1,910 feet from
north and 1,980 feet from west
lines of section 29, block B-3,
psl survey.
Pan American Petroleum
Corporation No. 6 Hendrick-
Weeks is a new well in the Hen-
drick field.
Operator finaled the oiler for
a daily pumping potential of 84
Thanks...
for your wonderful
patronage through the years.
.. .and Best Wishes
to the Hugh Millingtons who
have purchased Mack's and
will operate it in the future.
JHacL
o^ce
Job Broker Tries to Talk
Men From Accepting Jobs
barrels of 29.3-gravity oil, plus
20 per cent water, through per-
forations at 2,912-2,944 feet, aft-
er a 1,000-gallon acid treatment.
Location is 990 feet from
south and east lines of section
40, block B-5, psl survey.
Texaco, Inc., No. I-DC State,
wildcat in North Ward County,
was preparing to squeeze off
perforations from 6,704 to 6,720
feet after flowing sulphur wa-
ter.
Location is 1,980 feet from
south and 660 feet from west
lines of section 3, block 18, Uni-
versity Lands survey.
Texaco No. 1-DS State, an-
other project in the same area,
was testing in thq Delaware
section through perforations in
casing from 5,063 to 5,079 feet.
The last gauge reported was
3,000,000 cubic feet of gas per
day.
Location is 660 feet from
north and east lines of section
8, block 18, University Lands
survey.
Hospital Notes
The following persons have
been admitted to Winkler Coun-
ty Memorial Hospital since
Wednesday.
From Kermit — W. D. Al-
dridge, B. J. Alexander, James
Alvin Bass, O. W. Johnson,
Mrs. T. J. Brooks, Norval Giles,
Orvil Lee Wood Jr., Mrs. N. H.
Dunn, Donna Lynn Harkrider,
Jack Pomeroy, Kenneth Baxter
Jones, Mrs. W. D. Fields, Mrs.
E. P. Kirkpatrick, Mrs. W. T.
Wilson and Franklin Julius
Ricketson.
From Jal, N. M. — J. D.
Fendley, Kathy Cockerhan,. D.
L. Stillwell, Mrs. J. S. Davis,
Mrs. E. J. Muncrief, J. L. Cole,
Mrs. P. N. Randolph, R. E.
Carr, Mrs. C. R. Kelley, A G.
Blackmon, Bryant Mitchell,
Deborah Murray, Daniel Mur-
ray and Kenneth Jay Nutt.
Earline Milo, Wink; Mrs. A.
D. Barnett, Wichita Falls; Mrs.
H. L. Kerby, Oil Center, N. M.;
Mrs. E. L. Myers, Wickett;
Mrs. C. C. Harding, Monahans;
W. H. Cribbs Jr., Odessa; Mrs.
R. O. Yeates, Midland; Leroy
Idlebird, Monahans; and M. L.
Moore, Notrees.
THE WINKLER COUNTY NEWS, Kermit, Texas
Monday, October 12, 1959 Page 5—-Sec. I
Valley Grows Square Trees
PANAMA CITY, Panama —| Their unusual shape is be-
T ,, -n thieved to be due to some freak
In the Panama Canal Zone of
„ of nature, probably the result
Central America is the va ey ^ certain chemicals in the soil,
of square trees.” The trees in The trees are the only ones in
this strange valley, a type of the world having square trunks,
cottonwood tree, have square Even the rings in the trees are/
trunks instead of round ones. | square. [
Look for this emblem when you
buy insurance, it’s your sign of
dependability.
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MCDONALDS
HOUSTON, (AP)—Job broker
Jack Enen doesn’t high pres-
sure applicants into taking high
paying foreign oil field positions
he seeks to fill. He tries to
talk them out of it first.
“We make it sound as rough
as we can and it is hard,”
Enen says. He recruits skilled
employes to work in far-off
lands with exotic sounding
names for a Dutch drilling
firm.
“We try to give them all of
the bad points — of which
there are many. Then we
point out one or two good
things,” Enen said.
Those who sign with Enen
agree to spend two years in
which they may have to put
up with limited living conveni-
ences, social isolation, un-
friendly natives, separation
from their families and bore-
dom.
* They will work on rigs in
Iran, Kuwait, Nigeria, Libya,
i§
Mack's Restaurant
is under
new management
We have purchased
Mack’s Restaurant
and extend a cordial
invitation to dine with us
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh L. Millington
Jerry and Jonny Millington
Enjoy courteous, friendly service
and the finest foods at
Mask's Restaurant
ft
Dine Out
October
is
National
Restaurant
Month!
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Italian Somaliland or other oil
producing outposts.
“Then we remind them that
they will have a steady job and
will probably save some mon-
ey,” he said.
A drilling rig manager on
such foreign duty gets up to
$14,000 a year plus an allow-
ance to cover the difference
in cost of living. Drilling su-
perintendents draw base pay of
$12,000 and tool pusher or rig
foreman $10,000.
Drillers, truck and diesel me-
chanics and mud men get about
$8,000, Enen says.
But, the main thing about for-
eign work is that the salary is
tax free after 510 days out of
the states, he added.
Enen advertises for job appli-
cants frequently in newspapers
and trade magazines. The re-
sponse is heavy.
“I screen them very careful-
ly,” he said. “These people
have got to be qualified to get
off that plane and get up on
that derrick and take over that
job/’
He tries to discourage family
men from taking jobs where
their families would not be per-
mitted to accompany them.
And he encourages them to
take their hobbies — “anything
to help them entertain them-
selves.”
“No alcoholic beverages are
allowed on an installation,”
Enen says.
“What they do to fight off
boredom depends on the indi-
vidual. You could be bored
here for two years if you want-
ed to be.”
Last year Enen advertised in
a Houston newspaper for a ma-
terials man and got 65 replies
from applicants including po-
licemen and waiters.
But he says the reply that
takes the cake came from an
ad placed in a Kansas news-
paper for a cable tool driller.
“It was from an 18-year-old
girl who said she didn’t have
willing to learn.”
Drs. Leach
and Smith
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Cub Training
Course Planned
Basic training courses for
Cub leaders in the Kermit area
have been announced by the
district Boy Scout headquarters.
The school will be held at the
Boy Scout Hut.
The courses will be taught
Oct. 26, Nov. 2 and Nov. 16
with Jimmy Stephen, district
Boy Scout Executive, Andrews,
as the teacher.
An appeal has been sounded
for more mothers and fathers,
Cubmasters and Scoutmasters
for this work in the Kermit
area. All who will aid in this
work are asked to attend the
training courses.
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Martin, Ray. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 56, Ed. 1 Monday, October 12, 1959, newspaper, October 12, 1959; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth886149/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Winkler County Library.