Pauline was an original donor to the Globe of the Great Southwest Theater and was instrumental in creating the Midland-Odessa Symphony Orchestra. After completing college, Pauline set up one-room school houses on neighboring ranches to teach children of all ages. In the 1940s and 1950s, she helped build schools for Native American children in Oregon, New Mexico and Colorado. Thanks in part to a lengthy drought, the number of farms in Ector County had declined to 55 in 1920, compared to 84 in 1910. The first commercially viable oil well in the Permian Basin, the W.H. Abrams No. 1, begins producing in Mitchell County on July 16.
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