December 20, 1970

SLANTS

Our Business Office says that popular Producer calendars are on order but haven’t arrived from the printer as yet... “We expect them any day, and they will be distributed as soon as they arrive,” the business office spokesman added... The prep basketball season is about to ring down the curtain on the 1970 half of the current action... Area basketball coaches including Seminole high’s Boyd Linduff and J. B. Flatt being happy with their victories in Friday night ventures... Mayor Waldo Lilly being kidded about his Santa Claus letter in ‘40 Years Ago’... But the mayor says his current letter would ask for a prosperous operation for the city government this coming year and those ahead under its soon-to-beinstalled city manager operation... Currently the mayor says he and the council are interviewing the top applicants for the post... They hope to have a decision in the very near future... Jim Drake being humorous at lunch Saturday...

A Seminole practicing physician and owner of the Parrish clinic, Dr. Jack Parrish has been elected chairman of the Canadian Valley District, Boy Scouts of America. District Scout Executive Don Wood of Shawnee announced.

Election was held recently at a dinner program in Shawnee. Volunteer leaders in the district advanced the local physician to the post. Long active in the scouting movement, Dr. Parrish, for the past two years has served as district health and safety chairman.

He will hold the district chairmanship during 1971, a position that makes the No. 1 volunteer scouter in the district. He will direct scouting activities in all phases of scouting.

What will the drill bit find in the NW of SE 26-9-6 when it reaches 4,073 feet — only 100 feet north of the Fixico No. 1 which came in a gusher July 16, 1926?

The answer may be known even before this is in print. Jonco Drilling Company’s rig has been going down for the past week and late Friday was only 15 feet from the Wilcox sand, the sand which produced the 6,120 barrels of oil per day from the Fixico No. 1 in 1926.

Jonco is drilling the well for Dr. George Adams of Tulsa, who has numerous oil interests in The Greater Seminole Area. Charles Johnston, geologist on the well says the objective is the Second Wilcox, the sand from which many of the Seminole field wells got top production in the late 1920s and the 1930s.

The original Fixico No. 1 was drilled by 0. D. Strothers, who died while the well was being drilled, with Bob Garland the driller and Independent Oil and Gas Company the operator. Phillips Petroleum became owners of the Fixico No. 1 in 1930 when the Phillips Company purchased Independent.

Although the Fixico No. 1 was not the first well brought in within the area which later became The Greater Seminole Field, it was the well which kicked off the Big Boom and brought drilling rigs by the dozens into the area.

The Seminole Junior Varsity Brave basketball team came from behind and whipped the Holdenville “B” team here Friday night 50-45, in a game played in Seminole’s high school gym. The Braves under Coach J. B. Flatt have yet to lose this year having defeated Henryettta last week.

Chris Clark was Seminole’s high point man when he bucketed 16 points on the Seminole board. Nine of his points came in the final period when Seminole was in their catch-up battle. Earl Dunagen, followed with a 12-point production while Kenning Brooking hit 9, and Chez Evans was next with 8. Also scoring for Seminole were John Randolph with 3 points and Keith Upton with 2.