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Page 6/The Battalion/Thursday, September 15, 1988
2 men indicted
in abduction,
murder case
DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas County
grand jury indicted two men in con
nection with the abduction-slayings
of a Dallas-area woman and her 3-
year-old son and is expected to con
sider charges against another.
George David Cooke, 25, of Ste-
phenville and Juan Jackson, 24, of
Dallas, were indicted on aggravated
kidnapping charges Tuesday in the
abduction of Evelynn Banks and her
son Andre.
The bodies of Banks, 34, and the
child were found last month in a
southern Oklahoma pasture. Both
had been shot repeatedly in the
head.
Genaro Camacho Jr., 34, a con
victed drug trafficker from Duncan
ville, was indicted in June on aggra
vated kidnapping charges in the
case.
Police suspect that Camacho led
four men into Banks’ residence in
Pleasant Grove on May 20. Police say
the attack may have been drug re
lated.
The grand jury also is expected to
consider kidnapping charges against
a 26-year-old man. The suspect was
arrested in Alabama last week and is
being held without bail in the Dallas
County Lew Sterrett Justice Center.
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Oil magazine catalogs industry record
“It’s sort of the oil industry’s Guinness Book . . . Fin
very much interested in the curiosity and the oddball.
While penetration rates and footage distances are in
credible, they don’t grip the imagination. ”
— Mike Killalea,
editor of Drilling Magazine
HOUSTON (AP) — In an indus
try perceived as brash and swagger
ing, an oil business trade journal has
assembled a book of records and
trivia that chronicles many of the de
velopments that give the “oil bid-
ness” its unique colorful character.
Drilling Magazine, updating a list
it first ran five years ago, is giving its
20,000 readers — primarily well-site
operators — some targets to shoot
for and records to brag about.
“It’s sort of the oil industry’s
Guinness Book,” says editor Mike
Killalea, who put together the com
pilation that appears in the current
issue of the bi-monthly magazine.
“I’m very much interested in the cu
riosity and the oddball. While pen
etration rates and footage distances
are incredible, they don’t grip the
imagination.”
So besides records like the deep
est, first and most productive wells,
the magazine’s list includes such
items as how the term “derrick” got
its name, where the first dry hole
was drilled and the strangest well
blowout.
The U.S. oil industry is generally
given a birth year of 1859 with the
discovery of crude in Venango
County, Pa., on land owned by the
Watson & Brewer Lumber Co. The
well generally is known as the Drake
Discovery Well, so named for Edwin
Drake, president of Seneca Oil of
New Haven, Conn., the well owner.
But w'hafs less well-known is the
First dry hole, in neighboring War
ren County, Pa. It also carries the
distinction of the world’s second oil
well, started four days after the
Drake Well. More dubious, however,
it’s the first well in which oil tools got
stuck.
Magazine editors also have de
cided the strangest well blowout oc
curred in April 1, 1984, in Texas’
Palo Pinto County, when the Milch-
ell Lease No. 1 well blew and was
shut quickly as a safety precaution.
The next day, however, an explosion
two miles away was blamed on the
closed well. Apparently pressure
built up and traveled along a layer of
rock and salt 250 feet underground
until surfacing two miles away.
The term “derrick” is named after
a famous English hangman who skil
lfully practiced his trade around
1600. He was so notorious that his
name was applied to anything that
was hoisted or lifted. Ant
derrick is the structuretk
in and out ot the hole.
New entries to the recor
elude the following:
• The deepest watei-
discovery in the Gulf of
13.600-fooi hole in 3,560li
ter 55 miles east of the\
River delta.
• 1 he deepest water-dJ
ling in the world: a 7,520:*
di died in the Gulf of Mode j§
1987 1 he hole reached
before the drillship was n a
16. 1988.
• Most productive da 1
Bertha,” a 17Vi-inch
tured by Houston-based gl
drilled 18,016 feet in 16a:l
North Sea w ells with no :J
tween wells. The bit, use:4
and this year, made more®
the North Sea than anvotr.®
hit. And its mark of goictJI
more than 30,000 cubicfcrS
could make it the mosiimK
single dt ill bit of all time.
The Student Chapter
THE
AGGIE
CLUB
The Aggie Clul
Student Chaptt
is holding it's first
membership meeting of the school yeai
All students are invited to
attend. Scheduled to speak are
Arno Krebbs, President of the Aggie Club,
and Coach Jackie Sherrill.
Come and renew your membership oi
come join and get involved.
Thurs., Sept. 15,1988
8:00 P.M.
G. Rollie White
Coliseum