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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 ■ ■< i v WiJii jWKMHgtBfc sHHSBe 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 (continued on back page) I F Ki' I $ EL 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- NUMBER 6