X22—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, April 15, DM elk city, oklahoma Gas makes a town b00m... 43y TIM BONEE 'Associated Press Writer .$ ELK CITY, Okla. (AP) —ln this second-time boom town perched on the rim of the high plains, there's a place for anyone who wants to work but not everyone who comes to work can :find a place to live. The natural gas boom in Elk City is largely hidden from :inotorists passing through on Interstate 40, the old Route 66. :The forest of derricks that marked earlier boom times is gone due to an Oklahoma lair limiting drillers to one deep gas well :per 640 acres. But the figures still add up to "boom town." February's sales tax collections were 24 percent higher than February 1980, and the town's three banks and three savings and loans have estimated assets of more than $2OO million 'about $20,000 for each man, woman and child in this town of 10,000. The 1980 census shows a 29.7 percent growth rate in the .19705. Townspeople think it was more. Nearly a quarter of the 'lB2 telephone directory Yellow Pages is listings for companies in the oil and gas business. Elk City first struck it rich on oil in the '4os and 'sos. Five years ago another wave of prosperity rolled over the town, located 110 miles from Oklahoma City, when oilmen began drilling for gas locked deep in the Greater Anadarko Basin. Experts estimate the entire basin holds about 88 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas in deep zones below 15,000 feet. Shallow zones may contain an additional 30 trillion cubic feet or More. The boom has brought money and people to Elk City, but it personalize Eggs and Molds Free ,thesefiNDYME,,/ 128 W. College Ave. a [IA BELLEFONTE: OPEN 24 HOURS Mon. thru Sat. • 10 A.M. ttl 6 P.M. Sunday STATE COLLEGE North Atherton St. OPEN 24 HOURS Mon. thru Sat. • 10 A.M. tile P.M. Sunday has also brought trouble, as growth threatens to outstrip the town's capacity to provide essential services like housing. Drilling foreman Jerry Grace, 31, supervises two rigs 15 miles north of town. If a man gets off the bus in Elk City, dead' broke and unskilled, Grace says he'll put him to work that afternoon, at $lO an hour. With an annual 50 percent turnover in roughnecks, Grace's operation is hungry for men. But some who come to work must turn around and leave for want of shelter. Garry Dickson, 29, and his wife, Shirley, 27, drove into Elk City one recent rainy day from Grenada, Miss., their worldly goods piled in the back of a pickup truck. Dickson, a welding assistant who has been out of work for four months, had been offered a job building a nearby pipeline. The Dicksons had been on the road three days, searching the highways of western Oklahoma for a place to stay. "We found some little motels, one room, no phones, no ice buckets just a bed, a bathroom and a TV. And they wanted $2O a night. That's the cheapest we could find," the travel weary Dickson said. "If I don't get something here I'm going home. We've got three more days and we'll be broke. The only thing I can do is go home." Houses are for sale in Elk City and low-rent apartments are available for those below the income ceiling. But for people like Dickson too poor to buy and too rich for subsidized housing settling in Elk City can be a nightmare. Growth "has put pressure on us to work harder at planning," said Mayor Larry Wade, who doubles as publisher of the local newspaper. Our P's mean low prices t 4 .1... • • 41) incKiv. llll , SAVE 25' 40E FARAD KILN DRIED Souhtern Yams 2lbs. 88c SWEET-EATING Pineapples 1b. 29 0 FULL OF JUICE Sunkist Lemons 'PICK OF THE ORCHARD' Mclntosh Apples FRESH, CRISP Escarole or Endive LARGE . STALK Pascal Celery FLORIDA YELLOW Sweet Corn FLORIST SHOP OUALITY•SUPERMARKET PRICES Beautiful Easter Plants! CHICKEN BREAST QUARTERS. MEAT LOAF. TURKEY 10 3 / 4 -11 1 / 2 09 c Swanson T.V. Dinners . oz.pkgs.lif ANN PAGE FROZEN Nandi Whip 2 5-oz.lloo pkgs. 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KING Associated Press Writer VAN HORN, Texas (AP) If this town's dreams had come true, motorists crossing West Texas on Interstate 10 would be startled by a giant agricultural-industrial metropolis rising from the arid Trans-Pecos prairies. Instead of a dusty town that looks like little more than a good place to stop for a chicken-fried steak, they would see wine vineyards, feedlots, factories, and one of the busiest airports in the world, with huge jetliners taking off and landing as fast as air controllers could clear the skyways. A few residents still believe this will someday be one of the world's great cities: New York, Paris, Rome, Tokyo -- and Van Horn. "This is all going to be in the garden one day," says M.J. Mitchell, a retired Ford dealer, past president of the Van Horn Chaniber of Commerce, and one of the town's foremost dreamers. "This is going to be Imperial Valley No. 2." Other citizens share Mitchell's hopes, but not his optimism. His dreams seem to have bypassed Van Horn, much as the interstate, forsaking the old main highway's route through the center of the town, skirted around its southern edge. Only drivers who take the Broadway Street exit ever seen Durham's Barber Shop, the Sage Theater or Van Horn's 17 motels. Most residents make no bones about the fact that Van Horn is a small town where the main attraction on Saturday night is the church social or a pitcher of beer and a game of pool at the Highway Bar. All that changes in Mitchell's vision. After all, he is the man =====l thThimlrliT'rrlri!fti.l Vb. 129 pkg. 449 . lb. I I-lb. 1149 pkg. 1-Ib. 4 79 pkg. 1-Ib. 449 pkg. I 2.1 b. 1299 pkg. ‘f 12-az 469 pkg. 2 39 lb. 12.0z.4 89 pkg. 1 1b. 89 ° Ham Cappicola DOMESTIC Swiss Cheese.. Our O's mean high / BONELESS BEEF BOTTOM Round Roast COUNTRY OR ITALIAN, HOT OR MILD 3.LBS. OR MORE Giordano Sausage BLUEBIRD FULLY COOKED Boneless Ham 'SMOKED, FULLY (SPECIAL TRIM) Cooked Hams. P S O H RTN Ib. 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