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Marshall News Messenger SECTION Sunday, May 3, 1981 record oil, gas drilling ijjijqiown 'HOUSTON (API Ed McGhee savs there nro unknown fnrtnr land and for 1 years offshore," he said. 1 "Utilization rates have run 99 and 100 percent for months. Under such conditions, about the Only thing that can be said is that demand exceeds supply. By how much? No one knows. Nor can anyone say how fast the accumulated backlog is building or disappearing." i.

-l McGhee said the picture is clearer on the supply side with the domestic rig fleet totaling about 4,600 and expanding at a rate of about three a day. ''This figure includes all rigs, land and offshore, large rigs and small. It also includes the average, of one rig per day moving into the United States, from Canada. By way of comparison, the U.S. fleet stood a year ago at about It should reach 5,200 by end." McGhee said that earlier estimates about 200 rigs would in the continuing record level surge for domestic oil and gag emigrate trom lanaaa to me umiea states Decause ot new actions by the -Canadian governraenl now appear to" be overly conservative.

He said the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Con- -tractors reports 189 units already have 'departed or are defuftely scheduled to leave and that the total continues to climb. mining uyeruuuns. The executive vice president of the International Association of Drilling Contractors says the biggest question mark is the exact tiemand for drilling rigs. "United States activity has been rig-limited almost a year on actor citett (oWillrolOl MNB employee selected to Alpha Chi on ETBC 13 P.561 tV9'J .79 Albuquerque mi.osT 0 2.59 .81 83 '111 Atlanta Boston 1.99I 1 99 .89 89 rfl.39 t49 1.89KM f3 Chicago J59 .79 A Marshall National Bank employee was recently selected for membership In Alpha Chi on East Texas Baptist College campus. Marshall National Bank President John Kno enter recognized Edie Taylor of Hallsville during a recent bank employee meeting, expressing appreciation for "a fine Job" at the bank.

Miss Taylor is a senior at ETBC, majoring In business administration. She has worked at the bank since June I960, in bookkeeping and as a relief teller. She graduated from El Campo High School and moved to Hallsville in 1979. The daughter of the Rev. and Mrs.

John R. Taylor, she is active in Phi Beta lambda business organization, serving as treasurer this year. Miss Taylor is also active in the Baptist Student Union and First Baptist Church ofHaUsville. To become a member of Alphi Chi, a student's grades must be in the top 10 percent of the college junior-senior level. The administration of the school votes to the membership based on achievement and scholastic ability.

1.99 1 9' -8 79 Oallas 1.8ffl -( 1 89 VII 2.59. 0 .79 79 Detroit -1 7 M9 1 1.99 2U( 97 .85 Los Angeles MoPac safety awarded WASHINGTON The Missouri Pacific Railroad won the E.H. Harriman silver medal for employee safety among major railroads in 1980 here recently, while two 50 percent MoPac-owned terminal switching lines took the gold and silver employee safety medals in their category. Missouri Pacific posted the second best safety record among railroads with 20 million or more employee work iwurs in I960 -MoPac had won a third-place bronze safety medal in each of the previous three years. Finishing first in employee safety among major railroads was the Santa Fe Railway while the Southern Railway finished third.

James Missouri Pacific president, accepted the award. He was accompanied by Caarles S. Baldwin, general superintendent-rules and safety, and by eight employees who contributed to the railroad's safety program. The Houston Belt Terminal Railway repeated as gold t1.59.-H -7 I 8'. toi.9a .77 81 Miami EDIE TAYLOR -10 1 Vnrb 1.591 1 ')9 -8 2.39 V')9 .87 89 Philadelphia MmM9 2.3a 2 3' -1 1 J9 89 Allied tiancshares OKs merger Providence Salt Lake 2.25 9 .84 77 I 1.79 M7 .41.85 .651 83 Seattle SUGAR FRANKFURTERS EGGS Allied Bancshares Inc.

recently agreed to merge with Peoples State Bank of Marshall but final action on the agreement is still pending. Shareholders of Live Oak State Bank will receive 90,340 Allied shares for all outstanding Live Oak shares. Mesquite Bancshares shareholders will receive a total of 178,000 Allied shares for all outstanding Mesquite shares. In addition, Allied will retire preferred stock and bank debt. Allied Bancshares, Inc.

is associated with 26 bank subsidiaries in the upper Gulf Coast and Eastern regions of Texas and currently is involved in the approval process for affiliation with 10 Texas banks. HOUSTON Management of AUied Bancshares Inc. has agreed in principle to a plan for the merger of two banks Into Allied. The First National Bank of mesquite the only subsidiary of Mesquite Bancshares and Live Oak State Bank of Rock-port-Fulton will merge with Allied, pending final action by the banks' shareholders and regulatory authorities. The announcements weremade jointly by Gerald H.

Smith, president and chief executive officer of Allied and Live Oak State Bank President Larry C. Boone and Henry H. Kyle, chairman of the Board of Mesquite Bancshares. bale na not available Local Brookshire's employees -Composite Index of Leading Economic Indicators awarded pins at annual meeting County reports $206 million in gross sales for end of '80 Ltonomn A tivity V)h7 100 safety among terminal switching lines while the Alton Southern Railway, an East St Louis carrier 'won the bronze medal. The er medal in this category went the Kansas City Terminal Railway.

The E.H. Harriman Memorial Awards Institute was initiated In 1913 by the late Mary W. Harriman in memory of her huhnnH Seven local DiulariiA flfwArv A aim. 25-year pin while Gerald Shields and Ethel Hobden received 15-. year awards.

Margie AdUnt was cited for 10 years and Dickey Harrison, Buddy McFadden and Wanda Hiett were given awards for five years of service. The meeting was attended by some 1,200 Brookshire's employees from Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas districts. A similar meeting for employees from four other Texas districts is also held each year in Tyler. high note. "The numbers speak for themselves, he sa id.

142 138 134 ployees were among 53 people who received service pin awards at the company's employee meeting here Sunday at the Shreveport Civic Theatre. James Gibson was awarded a I outlets had a total of $59,589,441 and Gregg County recorded $830,618,754 for the fourth quarter. Total gross sales figures for 1980 in Texas reached $281.8 billion, compared to gross sales for 1979 of $213.8 billion. State Comptroller Bob Bullock said most Texas companies closed out 1980 on an economic Baby dies of untreated leukemia 130 Bullock said the expanding Texas business picture was also partly responsible for the rapid increase in reporting outlets. He said the figure was up by nearly from the third quarter to II Harrison County reported $206 million in gross sales for the final quarter of 1980, according to a recent news release from the state Comptroller's of flee.

Some $1 billion of the $89.8 billion total for the state was recorded in the Longview-Marshall Standard Metropolitan Area 4,421 outlets. The Tyler SMSA reported 8734,000 in gross sales while Texarkana had $231,000 for the final quarter. Gross sales in Cass County amounted to $58,048,921, compared to $29,528,645 in Marion County. Upshur County's reporting 126 AMJJASONDJFM 1980 1981 RENTALS Doily Wwkly Monthly Furnished Condot and Executive Hornet GOLF (36 Holes) TENNIS BOATING STABLES To TollfTM 1.800-252 4434 Century 21 Don Crawford (512)263 2177 the Christ Holy Sanctified Church of America, a religious group that believed God would heal the little girl. The child was taken to the emergency room of Moss Regional Hospital in Lake Charles at 3:45 p.m.

April 1 and was pronounced dead about 30 minutes later, a hospital spokesman said. The hnsnital'i records show that "for all nractical Sales, Services, Rentals SAVIN COPIERS 607 Pinecrest Drive West DALLAS (API A 2-year-old leukemia victim who had lived in hiding with her mother since a Dallas judge ordered her parents to seek medical treatment for her has died in Lake Charles, authorities said. Luisa Pendleton, whose parents said they objected to medical treatment because they believed God would cure their daughter, died April 6 at the Moss Regional Hospital in Lake Charles, apparently from leukemia. A month-long search for the girl ended Wednesday when Louisiana law enforcement of- ficials discovered her death certificate and contacted the Dallas County titer's office, purposes, the child was dead upon arrival," he IndcX flSCS. saw.

Anri2 y-juvnHejuagetftg-temoia. A key barometer of the nation's future economic health rose steeply in March, the fifth major indication of economic strengths in. less than two weeks, the Commerce Department reported last week. The 1.4 percent rise in the index was the biggest since September. Luisa's ailment was diagnosed by doctors at the Children's Medical Center in Dallas after the Pendletons took her there in January because she was weak and had swollen hands.

Several days later, however, the Pendletons withdrew thardaughter fromjhe hospital and refuted further treatment for her. In a court hearing that followed, doctors sab) the girl's condition was so severe that she would die in ajnatter of weeks If she went untreated. Outside, members of the Pendletons' church picketed and accused judge Penfold of violating the couple's religious freedoms. Assistant District Attorney Carey Arey said "roe prosecutor's office is conducting an In- into the parents' actions and will submit the results of the inquiry to prosecutors In -Lake Charles. The Pendletons resisted all attempts to obtain medical treatment for their daughter.

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(Loop 28 1 an abortion would be to obtain an order from a probate judge authorizing a doctor to perform the abortion. Rep. Bill Ceverha, R-Dallas, the sponsor, is a long-time opponent of abortion but said his purpose in introducing the bill was not to curtail "It gets parents back into the process at a very traumatic time in a young lady's life so they will be able to console and help her. This is a very small step to bring a measure of sanity to an insane process," Ceverha said. Ms.

Glossbrenner presented a hypothetical case in which a teenage couple, both intent on going to college and getting married some day, find the girl has become pregnant AUSTIN, Texas (AP) The Texas House voted Friday to require unmarried girls under 18 to obtain their parents' consent before getting abortions. Representatives sent the bill to the Senate, 114-28, after debate in which Rep. Ernestine Gloasbrenner, D-Alice, emotionally predicted it would lead to coathanger abortions in cheap motel rooms. Under the bill, a doctoncould be sent to jail for a year, slapped with a 12,000 fine and lose his license to practice medicine for a year if he failed to obtain the required consent forms before performing an abortion. The only way a girl could avoid telling her parents she needed il notes BUREAU 7- ceptions when needed to utiliie contiguous tolerance acreage; and an allowable based on 100 percent acreage.

The hearing will be held at the commission offices in Austia public hearing at 9 a.m. May 12 on an application hy Blocker Exploration Co. tor adoption of temporary field rules in the Prairie Lake, Southwest (Rodessa B) Field in Anderson County. Proposed rules would provide for well spacing; 320-acre proration units, with 10 percent tolerance and maximum diagonal of 6,000 feet; and 100 percent acreage allocation. The hearing will be held at the commission offices In Austin.

The commission will hold public hearing at 9 a.m. May 13 on an application by Darid Wilson Oil Properties for a capacity waterflood lease allowable in the East Texas Field in Rusk County. Wilson is seeking the allowable for the WJL McCord Lease, RRC No. 08149 and McCord Lease, RRC No, 08595. The hearing will be held at the commission offices in Austia The commission will hold a public bearing at 9 a.m.

May 13 on an application by General American Oil Co. for temporary field rules in the Chapel Kill, Northeast (Travis Peak) Field in Smith County. Proposed rules provide for M0-IX foot well spacing; 80 acre proration units, with provisions for up to 40-acre tolerance for the last well drilled; maximum diagonal of 3,250 feet, with ex- -4- AUSTIN The Railroad Commission wiU hold a public hearing at 9 a.m. May 8 on an application by Grace Petroleum Corp. for an exception to the maximum diagonal rule in the Garrison, North (Pettit, Lower) and Garrison (Travis Peak) Fields in Shelby County.

Grace is seeking the exception for the No. 1 Emmit Stockman well Because of the unusual shape of the leases to be included In the proposed Grace-Stockman pooled unit, it will have a maximum diagonal of 10,500 feet. The hearing will be held in the commission offices in Austin. Th commission will hold a The commission has approved an application by Enserch Exploration Inc. for a density exception permit in the Whelan (Travis Peak Prorated) Field in Harrison County.

Enserch was granted the exception to drill fteli No. 3 in the J.T. George Lease, which contains 00.27 acre of land located li miles northwest of Harietoa. "1.