Word: joes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rising at dawn one brisk November morning, Joe York, a middle-aged dairy farmer in Scurry County, Tex., shoved aside his patched blue jeans and scuffed working boots and put on his fanciest rancher's garb. Until then, the biggest day in Joe York's life had been a calf-roping contest in which he won $150. Now he was after a far bigger prize...
...corner of his 286-acre farm, Joe joined a crowd of several hundred oil scouts, brokers, geologists and gawking neighbors around the tin-hatted crew working the rig on a 128-ft. oil derrick. As Joe and they watched, there was a cough and a sputter; then a stream of oil shot out 30 ft. and poured into the mud sump pit. Joe York rubbed his hands in the oil, smelled it and smiled. "I guess I won't have to go back to milking those Jersey cows," he said. The oil scouts took but one look...
...Canyon Reef. The Joe York No. i well last week was important not only to Joe York, his wife and four children, who would soon be getting an estimated $10,000 to $15,000 a month for life from the royalties of it and other wells. It had also proved up another big area in Scurry County's incredible Canyon Reef oilfield, where movie stars and other hopeful wildcatters had been prospecting for months (TIME, Oct. 10). To oilmen it looked as if the Scurry pool was the biggest since the East Texas field came in in 1930. Estimates...
Outside of buying such necessities, most of Scurry County's new-rich were living much as before and saving their money. As Joe York's neighbor, Arthur ("Booger Red") Townsend put it: "A man don't need no million dollars, all he needs is some comfortable circumstances...
...Crimson led, 5 to 0, at the end of the first period. After ten minutes of sloppy play, Harvard scored the first two of its five goals with in half a minute when good passes were popped in the Joe Kittredge and sophomore Carl Timpson of the third line...