Why did Miss Ellie not want them to drill on Section 40?

[Snarky Oracle!]

Yes, she didn't want the land compromised by oil drilling.

But could she have had another reason -- a secret and potentially more scandalous one?

And did Margaret Hunter send more to Southfork in the '50s than just her son, Ray Krebbs? And did Wes Parmalee say something about this to Ellie in the living room during the barbecue just before disappearing from Texas forever??

 

[tommie]

something-something nazi treasure

 

[Jock Ewing Fan]

Yes, she didn't want the land compromised by oil drilling.

But could she have had another reason -- a secret and potentially more scandalous one?

And did Margaret Hunter send more to Southfork in the '50s than just her son, Ray Krebbs? And did Wes Parmalee say something about this to Ellie in the living room during the barbecue just before disappearing from Texas forever??

Now that could have made for a good storyline

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

something-something nazi treasure

Well, everyone else was doin' it..... Aren't the Ewings good enough to collude with der Fuehrer??

"Okay, which one of you bitches is my daddy...??"

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

I always figured it was either something like this or else there was a series of miniature Ewings and Southworths running around in small underground tunnels in that section and Ellie didn't want to harm them

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

She just wanted to preserve the land, she didn't have any ulterior motive at all.

She just wanted to honour her Father's stipulation that section 40 was not to be drilled on, even though it did contain a large source of oil on that section.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I think her massive dildo collection was buried out there. Or maybe Jock's... Texas does not want to know.

 

[Jon Ewing Jr.]

I never quite understood how it lined up with Dallas the Early Years. Remember the land that was supposed to go to Digger, but he sold back to Jock for 1000 dollars? Remember he found that oil floating on the ground when he went chasing that rabbit? Was that suposed to be Section 40?

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I never quite understood how it lined up with Dallas the Early Years. Remember the land that was supposed to go to Digger, but he sold back to Jock for 1000 dollars? Remember he found that oil floating on the ground when he went chasing that rabbit? Was that suposed to be Section 40?

It's been so long since I've seen it...

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

I never quite understood how it lined up with Dallas the Early Years. Remember the land that was supposed to go to Digger, but he sold back to Jock for 1000 dollars? Remember he found that oil floating on the ground when he went chasing that rabbit? Was that suposed to be Section 40?

I haven't watched The Early Years in years so can't remember if that section was section forty or not.

It's certainly highly likely that it was section forty.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

It seems like any wealth-based, dynastic saga from the last half of the twentieth century must have its backstory rub shoulders with the Third Reich at some point. Unmitigated evil, buried treasure, Hitlerian mistresses, etc. It's just gotta happen.

I always see the four '80s nighttime soaps as existing in more-or-less the same universe. So if Blake Carrington is busy trying to hide the Nazi treasure he acquired from his father, and Jacqueline Perrault had buried her share of the same treasure under the Tuscany Valley vineyards (along with all the Strontium-90 from those H-bomb projects -- or whatever the hell they used), why wouldn't Jock Ewing have stashed his share of that Nazi treasure in the attic of Southfork -- which prim Miss Ellie later demanded be relocated out under Section 40 because it just "seems more proper" and "no one would ever look there"...?

"I screwed up and told Paramalee what's buried out here..."

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

Maybe that's were Wes Parmalee disappeared to. Perhaps there's a secret underground bunker on section forty and he's living in it. Miss Ellie could've sneaked away every now and again to see him. Maybe he was Jock Ewing all along.

 

[Jon Ewing Jr.]

When JR was struggling to stay afloat at the end of the dream season they could have made it so dire that he started plotting ways to open the spigot up again out there.

 

[Jock Ewing Fan]

When JR was struggling to stay afloat at the end of the dream season they could have made it so dire that he started plotting ways to open the spigot up again out there.

That might have been interesting, a better storyline than what we saw. in the final 11-14 seasons

 

[Jimmy Todd]

Miss Ellie's father was friends with LBJ to whom he owed some favors. LBJ called in this favor by asking to use that section for one night in late November in the 1960s. He wanted Mr. Southworth to make sure no one came near that section for that evening. The next morning he stopped by to see Southworth and told him that the other favors are paid off if he made sure never to have that section disturbed. LBJ also strongly implied that drilling or excavating that land would be the biggest mistake of Southworth's life. He then told SW that the two of them would never see or speak to each other again,gave a lascivious glance at a young Miss Ellie and left.
SW later told his daughter never to let Jock or anyone drill on that parcel of land. He wouldn't say why, but the expression on his face has haunted Miss Ellie for the rest of her life.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

Section 40 is the Southfork equivalent to the Roswell incident and that's all I'm prepared to say.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Miss Ellie's father was friends with LBJ to whom he owed some favors. LBJ called in this favor by asking to use that section for one night in late November in the 1960s. He wanted Mr. Southworth to make sure no one came near that section for that evening. The next morning he stopped by to see Southworth and told him that the other favors are paid off if he made sure never to have that section disturbed. LBJ also strongly implied that drilling or excavating that land would be the biggest mistake of Southworth's life. He then told SW that the two of them would never see or speak to each other again,gave a lascivious glance at a young Miss Ellie and left.
SW later told his daughter never to let Jock or anyone drill on that parcel of land. He wouldn't say why, but the expression on his face has haunted Miss Ellie for the rest of her life.

Yes, I wanted nuDALLAS to explain what happened to Braddock and Braddock Road and Braddock County. Ideally, it was a tiny new county carved out in 1948 after Jock helped LBJ with that "little Box 13" incident, with a timeline of 50 years when Braddock County would revert, and be re-absorbed in, to Collin County.

Oddly enough, Cidre never addressed it at all.


Southfork, before it was hit by that twister a couple of months after Bobby brought Pam home: