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SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER • 1969 Copied from an Original at the History Center, Diboll, Texas Copied from an original at The History Center, Diboll, Texas. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER • 1969 Copied from an original at The History Center, Diboll, Texas. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 Copied from an original at The History Center, Diboll, Texas. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 MACHINERY DIVISION Sales and Service Offices ATLANTA GEORGIA SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 5190 Antelope Lane 5318 Eggers Drive LINE Stone Mountain, Georgia Fremont, California OCTOBER, 1969 Phone: 404-939-3119 Phone: 415-793-3911 Number 5 BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA 2500 ~arker Lane TULSA, OKLAHOMA P. 0. Box 444 1302 Petroleum Club Bldg. Phone: 805-327-3563 Phone: 918-587-7171 Published to promote friendship and good will with its customers and friends and to advance the interest of its products by the BALTIMORE, MARYLAND P. 0 . Box 7 WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS LUFKIN FOUNDRY AND MACHINE COMPANY, LUFKIN, TEXAS Timonium, Maryland 727 Oil & Gas Bldg. Virginia R. Allen, Editor Phone: 301-666-9120 P. 0. Box 2465 ~ Carolyn Curtis, Ass't, Editor Phone: 817-322-1967 (! ( I (Q CASPER, WYOMING I 00 Warehouse Road WEST DALLAS DIVISION ISSUE P. 0 . Box 1849 WILLISTON, NORTH DAKOTA Phone: 307-234-5346 P. O. Box 1232 Phone: 701-572-6770 CRYSTAL LAKE, ILLINOIS ANOTHER LOST COLONY OF CAROLINA-Fred T. Morgan . 4 18 Grant Street Phone: 815-459-4033 LUFKIN OVERSUS CORP. S.A. SNAPSHOTS BY LUFKIN CAMERAMEN . 8 CLEVELAND, OHIO Anaco, Venezuela 226 Suburban-West Bldg. Estado Anzoategui 20800 Center Ridge Rd . Apartado 46 LUFKIN INSTALLATIONS . ...... 10 Phone: 216-331-5722 MOG Phone: 2-4405 DALLAS, TEXAS RED ARROW FREIGHT LINES-VERSATILITY AND 800 Vaughn Building Maracaibo, Estado Zulia, Venezuela Phone: 214-748-5127 EFFICIENCY-Carolyn Curtis .. ... .. 12 Apartado 1144 DENVER, COLORADO Phone: 3132 1138 Lincoln Tower Bldg. MORE SNAPSHOTS . ... 15 Phone: 303-222-9589 Bogota, Colombia Calle 92 No. 21-40 GREAT BEND, KANSAS Phone: 361-303 LET'S LAUGH ... 19 North Main Street P. 0. Box 82 TRIPOLI, LIBYA Phone: 316-793-5622 COVER: Transparency by William Hamilton, long Beach, Calif. P. O. Box 800 OPPOSITE . PAGE: Kezar lake, Maine Phone: 34874 HOBBS, NEW MEXICO - Eric M. Sanford Photo, Manchester, N.H. P. 0 . Box 97 123 W. Gold EXECUTIVE OFFICES & FACTORY Phone: 505-393-5211 Lufkin, Texas 75901 P. 0. Box 849 HOUSTON, TEXAS Phone: 713-634-4421 1108 C & I Life Bldg. Phone: 713-222-0108 C. D. Richards, Vice President KILGORE, TEXAS and Sales Manager P. 0 . Box 871 GEARS FOR TRAILERS Phone: 214-984-3875 OIL FIELD INDUSTRY AND FOR EVERY PUMPING UNITS SHIP PROPULSION HAULING NEED LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA P. 0. Box I 353 OCS Phone: 318-234-2846 TRAILER DIVISION LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 5959 South Alameda Phone: 213-585-1201 Sales and Service Offices NATCHEZ, MISSISSIPPI P. 0. Box 804 ATLANTA, GEORGIA KANSAS CITY, KANSAS OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA Phone: 601-445-4691 1313 Sylvan Road, S. W. 5263 Merriam Drive 1315 West Reno Phone: 404-755-6681 Merriam, Kansas P. 0 . Box 82596 NEW YORK, NEW YORK Phone: 913.262-2202 Phone: 405-236-3617 350 fifth Avenue 3904 Empire State Building BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA Phone: 212-695-4745 3700 10th Ave., North SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS Phone: 205-592-8164 LUBBOCK, TEXAS 3343 Roosevelt Ave. ODESSA, TEXAS 709 Slaton Hwy. Phone: 512-924-5117 1020 West 2nd St. P. 0 . Box 188 P. 0 . Box 1632 DALLAS, TEXAS Phone: 806-747-1631 SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA Phone: 915-337-8649 635 fort Worth Ave. U. S. Highway 80, East Phone: 214-742-2471 P. 0 . Box 5473, Bossier City OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE Phone: 3.18-746-4636 600 S.E. 29th St. 1947 E. Brooks Road HOUSTON, TEXAS P. 0 . Box 95205 P. 0 . Box I 6485 2815 Navigation Blvd. EXECUTIVE OFFICES Phone: 405-632-2366 Phone: 901-397-9382 Phone: CApitol 5-024 I & FACTORY PAMPA, TEXAS Lufkin, Texas 75901 P. 0 . Box 2212 P. 0 . Box 848 JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI Phone: 806-665-4120 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA Phone: 713-634-4421 Highway 80 East 1835 West Bank Expressway C. W. Alexander, Vice-President PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA P. 0 . Box 10935 Harvey, Louisiana Marshall Dailey, Fleet Sales Suite 101 Phone: 601-948-0602 Phone: 504-362-7575 Jim Horn, Mgr.-Branches 201 Penn Center Blvd. Phone: 412-241-5131 Copied from an original at The History Center, Diboll, Texas. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 BEYOND the round mortuary building is the home of the resident archeologist in the background. Right: VISITORS look through peepholes and push buttons to illuminate exposed burials in the mortuary structure, while others go up and down the steps to the restored temple. Another LOST By FRED T. MORGAN NOTHER "Lost Colony" mystery of North A Carolina is slowly unraveling beside listless Little River at Town Creek Indian Mound State Historic Site near Mt. Gilead in the southern edge of the Uwharrie Mountains in south central Tar­ heelia. While it doe not yet possess the historical glamor and romance of the famous Sir Walter Raleigh colony of the Carolina coast, its signifi­ cance in archeological circles reverberates through­ out the USA. Here to this 53-acre site come nationally promi­ nent archeologists, laymen and sightseers to marvel at the culture of this remarkable race of people who occupied the surrounding country for 100 years beginning around 1550. It is one of very few authentically restored ON VIEW at Town Creek Indian Mound State Historic Site are ancient Indian artifacts. Indian Mound ceremonial centers in the nation. 4 Copied from an original at The History Center, Diboll, Texas. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 MANY excava ted buria ls are on display insid e the mortuary. · COLONY of CAROLINA ... Other mound-culture Indian ceremonial centers are probably never will pry loose from the bones, known, but few are restored o painstakingly as barrenness and isolation of these spirit-haunted Town Creek. river hills-humpy remnants of one of the oldest From a tour through the excellent museum and mountain chains in North America. the portion of restoration completed, the visitor Where did these people come from and why? understands how these intelligent, Creek-culture Why was this watered, fertile, game-filled valley Indians were drawn from numerous villages within unpeopled to start with? What influenced and a SO-mile radius to this small, pallisaded enclosure developed their strange and specialized customs? where they ceremoniously conducted all major Why did they so abruptly abandon their rich and social events, tribal rituals and settled all matters desirable location after about three generation ? of religion and politics. It was the place where When the moon hangs high over the Uwharries TALWA, the symbolic soul of their tribe, dwelt and the cries of the night birds and animals come and was holy ground. from the forested slopes, one almost expects the While much is known about these Muskogean­ ghosts of these primitive Americans to chant and speaking Indians who settled in a four-county area war whoop and tomp dance around a campfire along the upper Pee Dee River Valley, and more before the Square Ground inside the stockade. is being gleaned from year to year, there remains Illustrations depict such activity. an intriguing element of mystery spiced with some Behind them, these stalwart Redmen left what elusive facts which the diggers and investigators archeologists call a clear record, which is under 5 Copied from an original at The History Center, Diboll, Texas. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 THIS close-up of an unearthed skeleton shows a string of beads and gorge! around the neck. Left: THE mortuary building and the restored temple atop the mound are seen from the north guard tower in the stockade. continuous excavation, and the site is being re­ men, producing an abundance of distinguished stored according to the findings. items of everyday use from stone, shell, bone, clay, Re earchers from the Research Laboratories of wood and leather. Evidence indicates they flour­ Anthropology of the University of North Carolina ished here in the paradisial setting prior to the at Chapel Hill say population pressure and militant abrupt demise. movements in the lower southeastern USA caused Finally around 1650, pressure created by popu­ these Muskogean people to flee from the trouble- lation shifts brought invaders in overwhelming pots and settle in villages along the Pee Dee. The numbers and the Town Creek people were slain, women cultivated fields of tobacco, corn, bean imprisoned and absorbed, with a portion fleeing and squash, while the men hunted and fi shed and to Georgia to join the Creek Confederacy. occasionally went pillaging among their nearest The last Indians to live at Town Creek were enemy neighbors to keep prospective invaders at descendants of the Siouan tribes believed driven bay. out of the area by the Muskogeans many genera­ Here at Town Creek they built their ceremonial tions before. center, the focal point being a Square Ground­ Early white settlers found numerous pottery four rectangular sheds in the center of a plaza. fragments and artifacts and recognized the temple In the middle of the field stood a tall goal post as an Indian-built structure. Farmers plowed and capped with the skull of an animal. On the west, planted around it, leaving it virtually intact. Relic they toted ha kets of clay to form a large mound collectors and vandals dug random holes in it. The for the major temple. The plaza was surrounded first scientific excavation began in 1937 when the by a series of religious and mortuary structures. site became a public project after its acquisition Priests dwelt therein and were in charge of all by the state through donation and subsequent pur­ ceremonies.
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