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OUT ON A—
LIMB
by Bo McLeod
I’ve been out to the lil’
league park a time or two this
season and I have a problem:
How do you go about hoop
ing it up for a team without
getting a nasty look, ugly re
mark or, worse yet, a painful
enlarged lip from a supporter
of the other team ?
You hollar Hooray! if one
player gets a hit, and you’ve
cheered because the pitcher
has made a mistake, Aou yell
out when a fielder makes a
good catch, and you’re making
fun of a youngster who hit
the ball the fielder caught.
You can’t cheer one side
without discriminating again
st the other, and the Supreme
Court isn’t the only one that
that says discrimination is
dangerous. There’s also the
court of parents on the side.
They don’t use legal phrases
or terminology ’but they have
away of getting a point over.
It’s mighty hard to watch a
baseball game without saying
anything, but that seems to
be the only surely safe way
—o—
had the pleasure of
hearing Buddy Herrington
stroke a piano at this week s
meeting of the Lions club, and
it was easy to see—and hear
—why he was selected for the
Honors School program.
Buddy plays the thing bet
ter than I do, I guess, aitho I
refuse to officially concede
until all the returns are in. I
means 1 , it still hasn’t been es
tablished whether he can play
that challenging number One-
Finger Plunk-i Plunk any faster
or wilder, but this is an aca
demic point and I’ll pass away
from it.
When a lad can master an
instrument the way Buddy
navigates the piano, it shows
that he had some pretty fair
instruction an d encourage
ment. The person who ought
to know Buddy himself —-
says Mrs. Yank Roberts and
Hunter B. Parker are the ones
who helped him the most.
Well, as 1 much talent as the
young man has, there’s plenty
of “credits” to go around.
It won’t surprise me one
day to “tune in” and catch an
appearance by Buddy on The
Grand Ole’ Opry, maybe play
' ing those real classy ditties
like Bully uv the Town, Great
Speckle Bird and I Saw Esau
Kissin’ Kate. That’s the big
gest music league I know oi,
and I hope Buddy makes it.
—o—
don’t see why the brass
hats and big wheels had to go
all the way to Hawaii to hold
a meeting to find out that
things are in a pretty big mess
on that side of the world.
They could have found out
just as much by watching the
daily news, and by reading the
n ew spapers.
’ The same thine struck the
oil well project that cripples
many newspapers: poor circu
latlt would be my luck, if they
were to drill for oil any where
close by, thev’d come up with
a pocket of Vitalis.
Sen. Goldwater finally won
the California primary, I reck
on. Unless they change it a
gain, that is.
All this work and effort to
<ret to be the man to lose to
Johnson in November.
Jlnnalfiomrille Nmd
Single Copies: Ten Cents Official Organ of County of Seminole and City of Donalsonville, Georgia $3.00 a Year in Advance
VOLUME XLVI
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CALIFORNIA and Mrs. Carl J. Patterson
have departed their home here to set up residence in
San Jose, California- The couple has been active in the
religious life of the community since moving here in 1929
and here Collie Hill, left, chairman of the board of dea
cons of the First Baptist Church, presents them with a
silver tray from the church. The Patersons have purchas
ed a home in San Jose where their son John Patterson
and his family live. Newspics
Seminole’s rain recorder makes move
to golden west and Sunny California
IT’S NOT that he’s trying to run away from work, It’s just
a matter of moving to be near his son and family, but
C. J. Patterson, who has been Seminole's weather observer
and rain recorder for years, left Monday for Sunny California.
Patterson leaves a county
that has already had 34.94
inches of its 52 inch annual
rainfall, and moves to San
Jose, where there “is never
more than 11 to 15 inches of
'ain in a year.” When he gets
there, he’s going to do “as lit
tle as I can get by with,” and
re will not be measuring rain
except on his private gauge.
Patterson has been keeping
one of the most complete sets
of rainfall records since he
started officially for the U. S.
Weather Bureau, 17 years ago.
For 45 years he has been a
‘farm reporter” for the De
partment of Commerce. Now
he figures he’s earned a little
retirement, and he is right-
Last week, a weather bu
reau official from Atlanta
came down and transferred
Patterson’s trusty rain gauge
to the home of R. P. Arm
strong who will take over the
task. No successor has been
named for Patterson’s farm
reporter post.
Patterson’s dedication to
and complete rainfall and
weather records started when
he was a small boy. He started
keeping a diary and says he
can look back now and tell you
what the weather was nearly
70 years ago, as well as other
news of the day.
His service to the weather
bureau and commerce depart
ment has been without pay,
except for an award now and
then, and an official handbook
each year which contains de
tailed information he and oth
er volunteer reporters’ send in.
Patterson left Alabama near
ly 35 years ago. He and Mrs.
Patterson and son John, now
DONALSONVILLE (GA.) NEWS
a member of the faculty of
Santa Clara University near
San Francisco, moved to a 250-
acre farm a few miles south
of Donalsonville. 95 acres
were cleared land, and Patter
son used two fulltime tenant
families and extra hired help
to drive six mules, and he fi
nally cleared up to 210 acres.
He raised cows hogs, cotton,
com and peanuts, and recalls
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TOPNOTCH LUNCHROOM—One way to rate the quali
ty of an eating place is by whether people go there
to eat. Jakin Elementary School’s lunchroom passed this
test so well they received a citation from the State De
partment of Education. The gold star award meant that
97 percent of the student body ate in the lunchroom every
day during the test period. Shown admiring the certifi
cate are, left to right, Mrs. Bronnie Glass, Principal Mal
com Freeman, and Mrs-. T. G. Pace, supervisor.
THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1964
First effort to discover oil on Gibson
property a failure, well abandoned
THE FIRST effort to discover oil on the property of J. B.
Gibson and Woodrow Gibson on the Hebrew road, seven
miles south of Donalsonville has been abandoned.
Loss of circulation in the
drilling process was the cause
of the failure, according to a
report given by C. E. (Jack)
Prince, director of the opera
tion. Efforts were made to re
store the circulation but they
failed. If!
(In such a drilling operation
fluid, water and mud, usually,
is pumped into the drill. As
it is forced into the bottom of
the hole, its purpose is to
bring the cuttings of dirt,
rocks, etc., which the bit hits,
to the surface and thereby
leave an opening. In this case,
the fluid did not return to the
surface but was lost some
where between the top and
bottom of the hole.)
Prince says he and his as
sociates will now “take time to
review the situation” and he
would not indicate what the
next step will be. He says he
knows nothing definite about
where or when a second well
will be attempted, if such an
attempt is to be made.
“A lot of people are inter
ested in the project, and we
are issuing the report in order
to inform them of the develop
ments so far,” he said.
The complete report:
The following is an account
in chronological order of the
drilling program of the C. E.
“Jack” Prince No. 1 Gibson in
Land Lot 170, Land District
No. 14, Seminole County, Ga.:
The well was drilled with a
jack knife derrick, Wilson
Draw Work type rig, by the
B and N Drilling Company of
Laurel, Mississippi. The pro-
jected depth was 7000 feet to
test the Rhodessa formation
of the Glen Rose section of the
lower Cretaceous 1 age.
Drilling equipment was
moved in on May 27, and rig
ged up on the above location.
On May 28, a 12-inch hole was
started to set 8 5-8” surface
pipe. Circulation was lost at
an approximate depth of 100
feet, and was not regained al
though drilling was resumed
to a depth of 285 feet.
On May 29, an attempt was
made to run the surface pipe
but the pipe stuck at a depth
of 80 feet. The pipe was pull
ed and an attempt to condition
the hole with heavy drilling
mud was initiated.
On May 30, three truck
loads of sawdust were mixed
with 100 sacks of drilling mud
in an effort to restore circula
tion. Also ten sacks of lime
were added. The hole was
conditioned for several hours,
after which the attempt to run
the surface casing was suc
cessful. The 8 5-8” casing
was run to a depth of 195 feet
and was cemented with 100
sacks of cement by Dowell
Chemical Company. Drilling
was suspended for a period of
thirty hours to allow the ce
ment to set up.
On June 1, drilling was re
sumed and circulation was re
stored. At a depth of 346 feet
the compressor on the drilling
rig went out and drilling was
stopped until a new compress
or could be installed. Drilling
was resumed at 8:00 p.m. and
at a depth of 376 feet Circu
lation was lost again-
Heavy mud mixed with saw
dust and cement was made up
and pumped into the hole for
a period of twelve hours. Cir
culation was not restored and
a large hole was developing
beneath the sub structure, in
dicating that the surface pipe
was not holding. This created
a danger of losing the entire
rig.
At 10i:00 a.m. on June 1,
after consultation with Paul
Newton the owner of B and N
Drilling Company, the writer
recommended that all drilling
operation be ceased and the
hole abandoned. It is the opin
ion of the undersigned that
any further drilling and at
tempts at regaining circula
tion would be futile and would
hazard the loss or at least
great damage to th< drilling
rig.
The report was signed by
Allen W. Stewart, geologist.
Dr. and Mrs. Robert J.
Starling, Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
Clarke and Mr. and Mrs. Jabo
King left Saturday for a ten
days’ visit to New York and
the World’s Fair-
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