Warren Petroleum's Bill & Jane Carlile

Here's what I recall off the top of my head. I believe we moved to Monument in 1944. We moved to Kansas in 1955. Tom and Vera Dingler were our next door neighbors, along with sons Lyman, Joe, and Kenneth.

There were two Mapp families, one man's name was Tom. Jack and Mamie Whitaker and two sons, Bob and Jerry, I think.

There were the Hammer's, son named Jack who was killed in a motorcycle accident, and another son named Ronny who was the neighborhood bully until Mom made me fight back and his Mom had to pull me off him. No more Bully. 

The boss at the Warren plant was named Mashburn, who had a son that won an Olympic medal. (Lyman Dingler could outrun this Olympic runner, but did not participate in sports).

There was a Tom Watson.

There was a family named Locke, a son named ? and a daughter named Janetta.

There were the Clark's, with a daughter named Jody and another daughter named?

There was a Cajun family named Dickerson who had a daughter named Yvonne. She was a polio victim.

Another family was named Little and they had two sons I think, one was named Lyman, orange red hair and covered with freckles.

Adjacent to the camp was a ranch owned by the Bird family. I think he was named Chelsea or something like that. They had four sons, Brady, Billy, Raymond Lee, and Robert Croy. The latter two were called Nucker and Poodlenucker--why, I don't know.

Mattie Howard deer hunted every year and always got a deer, even one year when she could not leave camp because of a new baby. A deer got its antlers stuck in a bush near the camp and she cut its throat.

There was an Indian family named Montgomery.

Jimmy and Tuffy Cooper ran the local gas station and were champion rodeo men. Tuffy, I believe, was World Champion All-around Cowboy one year.

Uncle Virgil and Aunt Anna Carlile lived there with their son Virgil Charles. Grandpa Carlile died while visiting them there.

Coach Gaines coached the Monument athletic teams and a married couple named Hudson were teachers in Junior High. All three were graduates of what then was Oklahoma A & M, now Oklahoma State University. All three were from Stilwell, Oklahoma.

I think there was another Tom Mapp who ran the only grocery store around. 

Jane & Bill Carlile

18 Jan 2008 Email

Aloha!

I was four years old when we moved to Monument and moved away at age 15 in 1955.

Question: Do you remember the workers strike (Date to be announced)?

I do remember the worker's strike, but not in any detail. I do know there were workers who crossed the picket line and at the very least were called scabs.

Memories of things that happened at Warren.

No one wore facial hair at the plant in those days but one guy, Jack Whitaker I think, decided to grow a mustache. The other workers told him he better shave that thing off. He didn't, and they took him down and pulled part of it out with a pair of pliers--he shaved the rest off.

There was a young boy named Gordon ?? who was messing around near a waste pit that contained sulpher and other obnoxious liquids and smells. The smells knocked him out and he fell in and nearly died.

Another family was named Utterback. It was either Utterback or Mashburn who was the supertintendent of the plant.

The Mashburn boy that won an Olympic medal was named J.W.

The Locke's kids were named Wendell (Sp?) and Janetta.

The Hudgins were teachers and Mrs. Hudgins was quick to twist a kid's ear and she made it hurt!

The nearest plant to Warren was the Amerada plant. The road back then went straight from the Warren Plant for 1 mile and then made a 90 degree right turn and the Amerada Plant was straight ahead on the right about a quarter mile or so up. We used to ride our bikes there to buy cokes and Dr. Peppers and we always put the salt tablets in them that the men used to prevent dehydration. 

Dad and I saw what we thought was a UFO land in the field near that 90 degree corner one night. I've often wondered with the oil situation like it is if the Warren Plant ever started back up again.

This was the second report of what was thought to be a UFO in the area. Children living in the area, also reported seeing what they thought was a UFO.

That's about all I recall at the moment. Maybe I'll recall more if I look at the web site and it triggers a memory or two.

Aloha nui loa!

Bill