Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 4

4A 'CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER Feb' 27 1968 Business Bent OIL NEWS OIL HORIZONS i 3 Gas Discovery Applications Filed Unproven Area Test Slated Independents Set Pearsall Anticline Drilling Operation HOUSTON A group rt independent oil operators In association with Houston Royalty Co will test me of the major unproven prospects still remaining at depths of less than 10000 feet on the Texas Gulf Coast Under test will be the Cow Creek reef of the Pearsall anticline in Frio County which is the equivalent rt the better known James limestone In East Texas and Northwest Louisiana Participating will be Dellwood Oil Co Houston Edwin Cox Dallas independent oil operator Southern Union Producing Co Dallas and William Haynes independent oil operator Houston Cox will be operator for the group- Houston Royalty Co spent two years in geological research and In acquiring the 5500 acres in the lease Mock -Drilling operations will commence abort Inarch 1 and will take approximately six weeks This will be tiie first deep wildcat to test the major closure on this structure since 1935 when Amerada drilled on the northwest flank rt this closure to the Sligo with negative results The wildcat well will be drilled to 9800 feet WEATHER Considerable cloudiness in forecast for the Great Lakes region and the Ohio and Tennessee valleys Tuesday with a few snow flurries in the upper Mississippi Valley Elsewhere the skies will be clear to partly cloudy (APWirephotoMap) Rural Electric Meeting Is Told Needs To Double TEXAS GETS WARM TASTE OF SPRING By The Associated Proas It was a great day Monday for golfers fishermen or just plain sun-lovers And more of the same was forecart for Tuesday in Texas with an increase in cloudiness in most sections The one exception to the sundecked Texas scene was Laredo where a little drizzle dripped from a cloudy sky above the Rfo Grande Cool weather lingered in the East Monday out mild with widespread sunshine prevailed in the western two-thirds the nation snow fell in the upper middle Mississippi WEATHER DATA niRNISHRD BY lamgaretura tail IS hour! tomparature tail II hours Prt-Ipjtalton 24 houn Hiding al 4 pm Sears Appointee Barron of Midland has been appointed soft line merchandise manager at Sean Roebuck Co 1311 Leopard according to Sears Manager Wiggins A native rt Waco he joined Sears as a salesman in 1953 and advanced to soft Hne merchandise wiRMger in Midland in 1968 Barron his wife Joy Ann and two children Ray Jr and Lissa live at 4026 Kevin Motel Manager Donald Martin a former resident rt France Switaeriand ami Mexico has been appointed sales manager rt Emerald Cove Hotel 1102 Shoreline Martin was trained at the Scr-bonne in Paris and the International School in Geneva Swits-erland Before moving to Dallas in 1158 he managed the Hotel Taxqueno ii Taxco Mexico He decided to make Corpus Christ! his home 1)4 years ago after an assignment here for Sage Investment Co He is a director in the Corpus Christ! Restaurant Association and has been active on the Amigos de Mexico committee the Hemis-Fair committee and the Corpus Christ! Sparklers Award Burrow branch manager in Corpus Christ! for Burroughs Corp has announced that Gil Teegardin rt Portland has been named to the Legion rt Honor for 1967 the highest marketing recognition Burroughs manufactures sells and services a broad range of data handling equipment including small office machines electromechanical and electronic ac-couting systems and electronic data processing systems ranging up to supercomputer size FIX BROKEN DENTURES AT HOME IN MINUTES Aaaatap saw Qoifc-Ki rtpaira hrekaa plataa Ulaiaanwka aad reglaaas taalh likaaawFaatlCaayUuaBlNsapsriM tools aaadad Ns aostlr distal bills WarkaavaqrtfmorysariMMirbatk Aaeapt as aabalitataa alarajra ask for niwsvKK- Only $20 down wU get you up to $50 off ona riedrich attending the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association annual meeting Smith said that rural electric utility plants in use at the end rt the 16-year-period will represent an investment rt $13 billion as compared with the $5 billion that was invested by 1165 Sen Ralph Yarborough told the group earlier the economic crisis of rural America is one rt the prime problems of the cities "You cannot neglect the rural areas and expect the elites to be quiet and peaceful and the senator said He described the nation as "now waking up to the fact that we'll be a strong country only as long as we have a strong agricultural economy a strong rural Yarborough praised the rural electric cooperatives for helping rebuild rural economy He said "I feme some people who've been fighting REA for 30 years will quit trying to kill it because power is the bedrock of a good rural In a general session Monday the association presented awards to five rural electrifies tion experts for volunteer work in South Vietnam The honorees were George Ross Jr Panola-Harrison Cooperative Marshall Texas William Peabody Wheatbelt Public Power District Sidney Neb Bailey Lisenbee district manager Cumberland Electric Association Martin SD Martin Moody La Creek Cooperative Martin SD and Richards Grand rt DeWild Grant Reck-ert and Associates Rock Rapids Iowa The newly elected general manager of the NRECA Robert Partridge said he la convinced the rural-urban crisis "has its' roots and Its ultimate solution In rural America "The millions rt rural people who have fled to the cities are the basic reason urban America is in trouble" Partridge said "llils migratory trend is robbing our rural areas rt many of our best young people and it is adding to the problems rt the cities with each passing Project Set At Nederland Sun Terminal BEAUMONT Sun Oil Company has started a $275000 program to expand its shipping top minal at Nederland Texas and to reduce by 50 per cent the loading time rt Its tankers there When complete! next September the enlarged facilities at Sun Terminal will permit the movement rt more refined petroleum products throughout the Gulf Coast and Southwest from the Sunoco refinery at Marcus Hook Pa 1 New equipment including a 36-inch pipeline and an Increase of 35000 barrels an hour in pumping capacity will raise the tinker crude oil biding rate to 45000 barrels an hour It is estimated that this loading time by five hours for a 30000-ton tanker or eight hours for He --vesselof 50000 tons jSZmih The storage area at the top minal for packaged refined products will Increase by more than 25 per cent Sun Terminal located on the Neches River just outride rt Beaumont is unique among Sunoco Installations At this location production transportation manufacturing and marketing activities are carried out Bide by aide temperatures moat of rt Light and Vriley Hlghtst -wait lor Albany NY Albuqinrqua Aihavllla Atlanta Bllllnai Birmingham Bismarck buningtan VI Caipar Cliarl salon IC CHartMtan Chorlotts NC Chicago Cincinnati Cltvtland Columbia Olita Dmvor Dm MoImi Detroit Duluth Fargo Groat mil Miami Saadi MHwaukaa Mlmaap Ih-SI Naw Of Nona Now York North Ptatto Oklahoma City Omaha Portland Or S' By VONDA DAVIS CaUer-Tlmet OD Editor Application for three gas dis-coveries was filed with the Texas Railroad Commission yesterday Jackson County claimed two and Victoria one Elsewhere in South Texas jim Hogg and Starr Counties gained the only two drilling per-j mlts Issued both wildcats BROOKS Humble has completed the S95-D McGill Brothers it: Brooks '-County Kelsey Field 95- miles 'northeast of Santa Elena for a daily flow of 142 barrels of 416 gravity oil plus 50 barrels of water Gas-oil ratio wqa 986-1 The tubingless completion produces from perforations at 5488-92 feet Flowing casing pressure on 1875 choke was 600 pounds 5 JACKSON Crown Central Petr ole urn fCorp found a new sand in the Appling Field on workover 10 miles east of Point Comfort State Tract 225 off Jackson County Carancahua Bay Well No 1 State Tract 225 was gauged for an absolute open flow of f4 million cubic feet of 9 Wildcats Completed" -Last Week AUSTIN Eight of the nine wildcat gas wells drilled during the part week were In the two San Antonio districts the Texas Railroad Commission reported Saturday The other -was in the Kilgore district That raised the total of wildcat gas wells for the year to 67 compared to 89 a year ago Only 4wo wildcat oil wells were drilled one each in the Midland and Wichita Falls district raising the yearly total to 38 'one more than a year ago The San Antonio wildcat gas wells Included six in District and two in District 1 The commission said 67 oil wens and 40 gas wells were completed during the past week raising the totals for the year respectively to 729 and 333 -That means oil well completions Hare lagging by 304 from a year (ago and gas wells by 110 The commission said 145 wells were plugged during the week including 34 dry holes Boeing Announces Record Sales Year 1 SEATTLE III The Boelni Monday reported recon earnings and year-end i backlog in 1967 and envisioned better year in 1968 Sales totaled $288 billion with the previous high rt billion in 1966 an increase more than $500 million 1 Net earnings rt $839 million were 10 per cent higher than the $761 million in 1966 and topped earlier record $783 million kin 1965 Earnings rt $410 share last year were slightly bellow the $413 in 1966 because rt the greater number of shares outstanding SHIP NEWS NkIwi Sablnt Towing and Tramgorta-Won CiL from Ballon Aa to Oil Dock 4 marly rat Virginia Trader Thibodeaux and Co to Poarl Harbor Hawaii Ntrdta (Swodlih) Boyd-GampM) and jCo to Maelli Ala La MUhinra (Panamanian! Hamtn and LTMamann to Now Or loom La I ZSnkaren Maru No 1 (Jagandol bBovd-Compksll Co to Kawaiald Japan Nopal Prognu (Norwegian) Richard CBuna and Go to Houston Town Sun Sun Oil Co to Ingtosldp and no 1 1 a- jnurcDi nooK rOa In Part rsakumo Laggon (Ghanaian Cargo 4 Gulfdaar Pontiac Dock Gulfpanthor OH Dock I la Part Tranachamplaln Oil Dock 7 rt Trinity Southwntorn No 1 I Breland (Swnrihh) Producin' Hnt Bunker Oil Dock 4 or 7 The CoMns Oil Dock 4 or 7 Btovotor pBlomquist Is To Full Vice i a a DALLAS HI The power requirements rt rural America will make it necessary for cooperative electric systems to more than double their capacities within the next 15 years Rural Electric leaders from throughout the country were told Monday Smith Rural Electric statewide manager for Kentucky indicated that the number rt rural electric consumers will increase from 20 million to more than 33 million during that period Speaking to more than 60110 SUMMARY US W1ATH1S BURBAU THE MOON 1M Qtr FuH LortGtr Fab 21 March? March 14 March 21 Moonrlss 4:51 sm Mramst 4:01 pm BOATING CONDITIONS INLAND BAYS AND LAKE CORPUS CHRISTI -Waters will be smooth this morning becoming choppy -in the afternoon Water temperature at Port Aransas is 63 degrees Midland Mlnsral Willi 49 70 70 10 71 71 70 49 71 71 41 71 ALAfKAN 34' 15 47 50 14 41 45 10 41 19 15 15 10 -11 40 PrMldto tan Angola San Antonia Tytor Taaartai Victoria Ml WIcMto Falls Wink IMIlMM a Junaau 50 HAWAIIAN Hmalulu 79 CANADIAN Calgary 51 Edmamon OSOSDEGBGMOOOp4S Montreal 14 19 at 34 Wlnnlpm Voncouvar SI PAN AMERICAN Acapulco Balboa 90 Rirmuda ooo ooosooo osgaoM Bogota 40 UMUNI Or novuna oororrrroroorrorrr9IV Hormoalllo RRRORORRRORRRORiN Klnmtan 04 Maxloa City 77 Menlarrey It Nouau 70 Ian Juan PR 17 Tiguctaalpa II Vnm Crui 07 Cullcan Mamttan 77 01 PORRIDN CITIRI Amilardam oooooooooooatootoi Ankara A thins 17 I -4 14 -7 14 14 71 74 14 45 15 59 71 41 a 41 10 a 41 41 M1I 17 59 41 55 41 41 a 45 a a 15 MMM44 14 DuMIh Hang Kong Uaben London Madrid Nlci Oato Solid 59 MsckMnt 14 Sydnay 75 Tokyo 41 Tunis RgRRRORRRRggRRiRdadORigggaaaRgaggstf Vlanna Warsaw II SOUTH AMERICA a 79 Ruanaa Aires RAARRRARgRaARAtRMRpR9gARad7! Unto aaPORARRGAA AORRARggRAAIRARARgRRARsM IgPRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRi RORRRRRRRRRRRRRlTS MiMiaat VO MlMIMUl gagjggggggg 01 44 29 i 44 1 14 1 a 40 41 IS SO SS 10 71 40 41 IS 44 17 If PoU 17 71 44 "0 72 10 24 1 aoaOSOOOMSOOOOSObir Raleigh fR lapla City 49 30 19 city oaoogoosojoo49 nano 49 Richmond 41 St Louta 3 St Patanhurg-Tamga 44 Salt Laka City SS San Dtoga 41 San Franchca tltOOOOasoaTS St SH Mart BOOOORRGOaM Saattto 19 Shrampart SO 10 St 44 40 T'ucaan OS SO Washington Wichita Monday's law -11 at Nawport Vt High 91 at Palm Iprlnga Colli TBXAft CITIM gas a day with gas-condensate ratio of 52165-1 and liquid gravity of 606 degrees Flow pressure on 5-64-inch choke was 3090 pounds and shut-in pressure was 3218 pounds The well produces from per orations at 8307-22 feet in the proposed Segment 2 Peterson Humble has a discovery sand on workover hi the Wert Ranch Field 15 miles east-southeast of Vanderbilt The No 83-F Mrs Toney was gauged for a dally flow of 58 million cubic feet of gas Gas-condensate ratio was 31500-1 and liquid gravity- was 627 degrees Flow pressure on 664-inch choke was 2378 po and shut-in pressure was 3357 pounds Production is from perforations at 703264 feet in the proposed 7 030-foot reservoir JIM HOGG Price Drilling Co Alice plans immediate drilling of a 4000-foot Jim Hogg County wildcat 245 miles southwest of Hebbron-ville Location of the B-2 Marrs McLean Estate is 2356 feet from the south Hne and 2200 feet from the east line of HAGNRR Survey 19 A-184 STARR Wilson McAllen will be operator for a 7050-foot Starr County wildcat located two miles southwest of Arkansas City The No 2 Longoria and others scales 467 feet from the north line and 1467 feet from the east line of Survey 286 A-723 VICTORIA Royis Ward Houston onera-tnr has finaled the No 1 Hancock in a new sand for an absolute open flow of three million cubic feet of dry gas a day The Victoria County new field pay produces from perforations Rt 4595-99 feet in the proposed McFaddin Northwest 4600-foot sand Flow pressure on 664-inch choke was 1549 pounds and shut-in pressure was 1579 pound Bottomed at 5010 feet the discovery is located in Francisco Ramon Survey A-95 five miles west rt Bloomington Minerals Used At High Rates By Americans NEW YORK Ifl The United States has used more minerals in the part 30 years than the rest of the world did in all recorded history the director rt the US Bureau rt Mines arid Monday Not only that but this mineral consumption will double by 1980 the director Dr Walter Hibbard Jr told a news conference Hibbard said the country must speed up its technology and put more emphasis on training mineral engineers Trained people he said can find ways to mine and use low grande ores develop new sources rt supply' such as-the ocean create substitute materials for those in short supply and reclaim minerals for repeated use Hearing on Transfer Of 79 Wells Slated AUSTIN (IB The Texas Railroad Commission has scheduled March 26 meeting to consider request to transfer 79 oil wells from the East Texas Field to a separate field to be known as the Harvey Field In Rusk County The transfer application was made by ran Gibson Drilling Co Noe Oil Account LAN Drilling Co and Ralph Massad Promoted President BLOMQUIST JR given new Jab BARRON named te Sean poet DONALD MARTIN new sales manager Industrialist Dies HANOVER Pa II) Lawrence Sheppard 70 nationally known shoe industry executive and harness hone breeder died Monday Sheppard was board chairman rt Hanover Shoe Co Inc and its retail division Sheppard and Myen Inc DAILY OIL REPORTS Now Locations and War Its rare $1000 Par Manta Plat aad CamplatlaRS Photo Cort rt SBC Farias OIL AND GAS REPORTING SERVICE A load rasa it daas ast cast It pan TUS-6513 PO Bn 2645 croft Inc TU2-9254 air conditioner Last 5 i Days 2 70 AFL-CIO Okay May Be Given In Both Parties AUSTIN Brown president rt the Texas AFL-CIO said Monday that for the first time the state AFL-CIO may endorse both Democratic and Republican candidates in the May 4 primaries Brown said the Committee On Political Education (COPE) has invited all statewide candidates of both parties to its convention March end 2 in Galveston "Members rt labor unions In Texas we have found belong to both parties and we feel we have an obligation to take a look at the candidates of Brown said in a statement Brown pointed out that Republican candidates are promising hot primary contests In Houston Dallas and San Antonio he said San Antonio one of the officers of the local AFL-CIO la a candidate for county commissioner in the Republican primary" Zale To Acquire Firm Operating 27 Stores NEW YORK III -Zale Corp has agreed to acquire Gray Mercantile Corp of Memphis Tenn the two firms said Monday The agreement is based on an exchange rt stock The 27 Graber Stores operated by Gray in five Southeastern states will operate in conjunction with 120 department stores Zale with headquarters In Dallas is a retail jewelry chain Dlls is the only tima of yoarwhenyoucanbuy a brand-new 1967 Friedrich room air conditioner at a OieounL iweriLor Savo uplo $50 nowon the aavinf-ost" air-conditioner you can buy a your Friedrich can pay lor itself in tower operating costs Seoul today Bwiinuw wDRMMlVaie Allca Alplna Amortlla toagsttgpa Austin Braumnnt-Port Arthur Brownsvllto Chlldraas Collagt Hatton CORPUS CHRISTI Cotullo Dalhart Dallas Dal Rto El Paso Fort Worth Galvastan Houston Junction Larodo Longview Lubbrck Lufkin McAlltn goooooooooooooooi OOdDOOOOORGROI 00000009(f Alcoa Develops New Lighter Cheaper Can NEW YORK ID Aluminum Co of America said Monday it has developed a lighter less ex pensive aluminum can than those currently produced Alcoa said the 12-ounce-capacity cans weigh about 30 per cent less than current all-aluminum cans and "appreciably than tin-free steel cans Shocking to Sharks JOHANNESBURG (AP) -South African scientists have developed an electric device which they say will cause sharks to have Involuntary muscle contractions forcing them to swim away from bathing beaches whether they want to or not Student on List Richard Leonard of Christ! a freshman at East as State University in Commerce was named to the dean's Ust for superior grades during the fall semester WIRE ROPE Drilllnp Unit Sat rfllna Splicing Witt Svnthoiic Manilla Rapa Fmingg Sllnc Chaekw wnand Spllca or SWAGGED PRESSED SLEEVES WarghoiMlno Win Rapa to Dtttr buton Bearden Company 7720 Bgartaa Dr Carpag Ckrtirt Tasai 24 Hoar Sarvka TVMIS6 TU24IH DESK CHAIR FILING CABINET TYPEWRITER ADDING MACHINE Rent A Complete TRADE-IN I ACCEPTED Harry Blomquist Jr has been elected vice president production tor Coastal States Gas Producing Co He has been the assistant vice president in charge rt the produc-rtion and drilling activities for Sthe past year jj Blomquist was associated with pTexaco Inc in various engi-jneering capacities for 14 years prior to joining Coastal His last assignment with Texaco was as engineer In charge rt the drill-Ung and production engineering activities for some 1200 producing oil and gas wells in Harvey district He has a BS degree in Engineering from the Uni-uversity of Texas Blomquist is inactive In the Society rt Petroleum Engineers and Is a licensed engineer a tore iSkoirky UNIVERSAL FLAPPIR TANK BALL Aisuroo part act SMt-anda Onnayonct avas costly wator No guide arm or lilt wko to comdo Ovor 0 million now In uso Fita all convantisnal flush viIvh Gat Karky it hordwaro atarsi and plumbing dtpartmonto or writo UmUIOIIU Cl Waad It CHcago UL IHK DON RUCKER "Wtore Service Comes FirttM 614 PORT HANK SNYDER Central Of flee Equipment Co 219 Sfoplai TIM-4403 Factory Avthorind Salat A Service (a I.