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VOLUME XII
FEATURING THE OIL NEWS
LEVELLAND, HOCKLEY COUNTY, TEXAS
Sunday, .May 18, 1952
PRICE 10c PER COPY
NUMBER 1
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Requests Coining
For Entry Blanks
In Junior Rodeo
Entry blank requests for the
Levelland Junior Rodeo June 5-
7 already are “pouring in,” rodeo
officials announced Friday.
Meanwhile, members of the
Lcvelland Junior Chamber of
Commerce have everything set
for the opening Monday of the
“Rodeo Beard and Whisker Per-
iod,” which is to continue through
the rodeo-
Male citizens of Levelland not
purchasing a $2 shaving permit
will be expected to grow full
beards, goatees, moustaches, or
other face adornments to help
provide atmosphere for the three-
day rodeo. The beards and whis-
krs will be judgd at the end of
the period and prizes awarded in
three divisions, according to Bob
Johnson, Jaycee committee chair-
man. ,
Mayor Lamar G- West this week
officially proclaimed May 19 thru
June 7 as “Rodeo Beard and
Whisker Period.”
Proceeds rom the sale of shav-
ing permits and fines are to be
turned over by the Jaycees to the
Hockley County Youth Center
fund. An arrangement also is be-
ing made whereby club women
sponsoring the youth center will
sell rodeo program advertising
for the benefit of the project.
The rodeo activities are to be-
gin at 4 p. m. Thursday, June 5,
with a downtown parade in which
will be high school bands, sher-
iffs posses,and business and club
floats. Co-chairmen of the par-
ade are George C. Price of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce
and Lindsey Dycus of the Sher-
iffs Posse.
Rodeo performances will be
held Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day nights and Saturday after
noon at the rodeo arena south of
town, Performing contestants
will be 19 years of age and under.
"Goat” Mayo of Petrolia is to
furnish the stock for calf roping,
calf belling, flag race, cutting
horse contest, bareback bronc rid-
ing, bull riding and barrel race.
A. C. Fletcher, Gage, Okla., rodeo
clown, has been booked, and ef-
forts are being made to schedule
specialty acts, such as the Anz
Brothers, trick ropers.
Tommy Standifer has been se-
lected as one of the judges of the
cutting horse contest, and other
judges are being secured, rodeo
officials said.
A feature of the “rodeo week-
end" will be a dance at the rodeo
clubhouse at the conclusion of
each night's performance. Music
will be furnished by Hank Har-
ral and his Palomino Cowhands.
Alton Davis, a new member of
Levelland Rodeo Association, Inc.,
is one of the directors of this
city’s first junior rodeo. He has
had considerable experience help-
ing with the Post Junior Rodeo.
IPPA Banquet to Be
^Held Next Thursday
___Charlton H. Lyons of Shreve-
port, La.7 and Russell B. Brown
of Ardmore. Okla., will be princi-
pal speakers at 8 p. m. Thursday
at a banquet in Lubbock for mem-
bers of the Independent Petrole-
um Association of America. The
banquet is to be held at the Hotel
Lubbock.
Bishop Craddock of Sundown is
a district official of the IPAA.
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GETTING SOMEWHERE FAST . . . Shown above is the progress of work on Hotel
Levelland, after just one week of labor sine? excavation was started. The $150,000
building is expected to be completed by Christmas and contractor Earl Martin has hope-
ful lypredicted that Level landers will be able to eat Christmas dinner in the modern
Chief of Police, Corporation Judge Seek
Reduction In Moving Traffic Violations
dining room.
(Staff Photo)
District 7 VFW Convention
Being Held at Seagraves
Representatives from Level-
land post are among the approx-
imately 200 Veterans of Foreign
Wars members attending the
District 7 convention in Seagrav-
es this weekend.
Events on the program include
CodjewRitestoBe
HeldatWhiteface
Final rites for Leslie Ralph
Cadjew, 51, of i09 Austin street
who died, of a heart attack at a „_v_n
cafe in Whiff.ee at 12:10 p. m. $ th«
Tuesday were to be held at the
Whiteface First Baptist church
Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Rev. Leo Davis, pastor of the
Whiteface church, will officiate
with burial at Bixby, Okla., ac-
cording to the George C. Price
Funeral home.
Brownfield Schedules
Rodeo Square Dance
An old-time rodeo square dance
will be held at the Veterans Hall
in Brownfield Wednesday night,
May 21, to set the stage for that
city’s fifth annual rodeo opening
the following day.
The square dance is being spon-
sored by the Circle and Square
Dance club of Brownfield, and
visitors arc invited, it is an-
nounced.
a smoker for delegates from 2 to
4 p. m. Saturday, a tea for mem-
bers of the VFW auxiliary at the
community building during the
same hours, and a dance, open to
the public, at the Palace Roller
Rink Saturday night.
Sunday’s events feature a mem-
orial service at 9 a. m., a business
session and election of district of-
ficers starting at 10 a. m. and a
luncheon at the community build-
ing at noon.
John Lee1 Smith of Lubbock,
former lieutenant governor, will
be the principal speaker at the
address, opep
T>e af l p. m.
Sunday to conclude the two-day
program.
Seagraves Post 8575, of which
Thad Patterson is commander, is
host for the conventibn.
Deadline Nearing on
Formal Statements
Political candidates are re-
minded that their formal
statements to the voters
should be turned in for publi-
cation in next Thursday’s
Hockley County Herald. By
reaching the office in time for
Thursday’s Herald, the state-
ments will be published free
of charge. Those published af-
ter that date will be charged
for at the regular classified
rate.
Members of the editorial
staff 'of the Herald and Sun-
News will be glad to assist
candidates in preparing their
statements for publication, but .
request that they iwp by ttVf'
office not later than Tuesday
it they desire this assistance.
REED IN A U8TIN
W. L. Reed, assistant superin-
tendent of the Levelland schools,
is in Austin to attend a hearing
panel of district chairmen and
other school executives, being held
Saturday and Sunday. Reed is
hearing panel chairman of District
4 of the Texas State Teachers As-
sociation.
TRAINING COURSE
Mrs. Jewell Robinson, Hockley
county home demonstration agent,
will conduct a training course tor
HD club foods leaders in her home
at 2 p. m. Friday, May 30.
Seven Smyer Seniors Are to
Receive Diplomas on May 20
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Whitdface Graduation
To Be Thursday Night
Eighteen Whiteface High school
seniors are to receive diplomas
at graduation exercises Thursday
night in the high school auditori-
um. Dr. James P- Comottc, pres-
ident of West Texas State college,
at Canyon, will t»e the speaker.
Baccalaureate services arc to be
held at * air. (Sunday jn the
high .schoor ioSftbrldfn; with Ar-
thur B. Watkins, personnel man-
ager of Dunlap's in Lubbock, as
the speaker.
VB8 OPENS MONDAY
A vacation Bible school, open to
all children and young people of
the community, will begin Monday
at the Whitharral Methodist
church and continue through Fri-
day, May 23, Rev. Welbournc
Sharp, paator, announces. Classes
will be held from 8:30 a. m. until
11 a/>nt.
TO ADDRESS SENIORS
Col. C. C. McFarland, acting
wing commander of the 3500th
Pilot Training Wing at Reese Air
Force base, will make the com-
mencement address at graduation
exercises May 20 for the Level-
land High school senior class.
Baccalaureate services for the
Smyer High school graduating
class of 1952 will be held at 8:30
p. m. Sunday in the school audi-
torium, with Rev. C. A. Norcross,
pastor of the Smyer Methodist
church delivering the sermon.
Graduation exercises will be
held Tuesday night, May 20, in
the auditorium. Dr. M. Norval
Young, minister of the Broadway
Church of^Jhrist in Lubbock, will
be the speaker.
Following are the programs
for the two events:
Baccalaui iate
Processiona., Jane Willis.
Hymn: "Come Thou Almighty
King,” audience.
Invocation: Harvey Pruitt, min-
ister Smyer Church of Christ.
Hymn: “An Evening Prayer,”
Mrs. Rex Willis.
Sermon: Rev. Norcross.
Hymn: “Take Time to Be Holy,”
quartet (A. H. Cook, L. J. Sims,
C. E. Stroope, Darla Jordan).
Announcements: Perry Moring,
J superintendent of schools.
Recessional: Jane Willis.
Commencement
Processional: Jeanette Cook.
Invocation: Wayland Edwards.
Salutatory address: Melvin Kiz-
cr. .
“Life Is a Song,’’ girls’ chorus
and Mrs. E. Roy Nichols.
Valedictory address: Donna Jor-
dan. i
Duet: “Humoresque,” Jane Wil-
lis and Jeanette Cook.
Introduction of speaker: Supt.
Moring.
Address: Dr. Young.
Commenement song: Girls’ cho-
rus, accompanied by Mrs. Nichols.
Presentation of diplomas and a-
wards: Supt. Moring.
“The End of a Perfect Day,”
girls’ chorus, accompanied by Mrs.
Nichols.
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Benediction: Dr. Young.
Recessional: Jeanette Cook.
Members of this year’s gradu-
ating class are: Melvin Kizer, pre-
sident; James Franklin, vice pre-
sident; Donna Jordan, secretary-
treasurer; Ronnie Allen, Harold
Corder, Lillie. Miller and Emma
Jo Bellew.
The cultivated varieties of edi-
ble banana do not usually produce
fertile seed.
14 at Whitharral
Receive Diplomas
WHITHARRAL, (Spl.) — Four-
teen Whitharral High school grad-
uates received diplomas Friday
night at exercises in the First Bap-
tist church auditorium.
This year’s graduates are Mary
Christian, June Hoelscher, Thel
ma Jones, Bobby Grant, Dale
Hewitt, Doyle Hewitt, Dyphine
Collins, Glendell Taylor, Glcnna
Taylor, Donnie Simpson, Bill
Gage, Henry Taylor, Nedra Hawks
and Wayde Streety.
The seniors, accompanied by
Supt. and Mrs. CheGtes Borders
and Mrs. Buster Hawks and Mrs.
Harvey Hoelscher, room mothers,
are on their annual class trip to
Colorado Springs. Colo.
JUNK CAR RACES
Junk car races, sponsored again
this year by the Levelland Junior
Chamber of Commerce, are to be-
gin Saturday night, June 14, and
continue into September. The rac-
es will be held every Saturday
night at the rodeo arena.
11 Cities Setting
Up Water Group
Definite steps were taken Wed-
nesday afternoon in Amarillo to
create a permanent district or-
ganization to represent Levelland
and the 10 other cities comprising
the Canadian River Project Water
Users Association. Members of the
exeutive committee met with Rec-
lamation Bureau officials to dis-
cuss future plans for the project.
E. K. Hufstedler, chairman
of the local affairs committee of
the executive committee, was au-
thorized to contact a legal firm
to serve as counsel for the 11 cities.
The Reclamation Bureau also
was requested to secure informa-
tion about ci'eation of a water
district under the laws of the
State of Texas, with the district
having the authority to sign a
contract with the federal govern-
pient for construction of a dam
across the Canadian River.
When requirements for the wa-
ter district organization have been
ascertained, the executive commit-
tee will meet with representatives
of the cooperating cities to form
the permanent organization.
Amounts of acre - feet of waer
requested annua^y by the 11 cities
follows:
Borger, 45,000; Lamesa, 9,500;
Amarillo, 45,000; Levelland, 9,000:
Littlefield, 3.000; Lubbock, 58,500;
O’Donnell, '1,350; Pampa, 25,800;
Plainview, 5,000; Slaton, 2,240;
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CLUB MEETING 8ET
The next meeting of the Pettit
Home Demonstration club will be
held at 2:30 p. m. Thursdajy May
22 in the home of Mrs. D. N.
Powell. •!
RE8IGNS . . . Charles G.
Hickman, assistant Hockley
county agent since March of
1950, has resigned effective
June 1. He has purchased a
stock farm near Commerce
and will raise beef cattle.
The launching of an extensive
campaign to reduce reckless driv-
ing in Levelland and protect the
city's fine traffic injury record
was announced this week by
Chief of Police Ray Hardin and
Corporation Court Judge J. E.
Baty.
The necessity of the campaign
was dictated by an abundance oi
auto accidents on main city thor-
oughfares and an increasing a-
mount of traffic tines for reckless
driving, according to Chief Hardin.
Acting “before it’s too late,” the
police chief said this week: “The
fact that we have a fine record
of no traffic deaths and tew in-
juries during the past two years
is commendable, but must be at-
tributed to two things. First, we
gratefully acknowledge the im-
portant part that citizens of Lev-
clland have played in keeping
down the list of injuries and in
keeping the city without a traffic
death in two years. However, in
view of the amount of accidents
that have occurred within the city
and in view of the number of
traffic deaths that have occurred
during the same period of time
within three or four miles of our
city limits, we must also acknowl-
edge that we have been lucky.
Just hoping to continue being
lucky won’t get the job done.”
Thg first step in the campaign
was announced by Judge Baty
who is preparing an individual
file on every city resident charged
with a moving traffic violation.
Heretofore, Baty has always sent
a copy of the violation to the State
Department of Public Safety at
Austin but did not keep an up-to-
the-minute file on local drivers.
“We generally noted when any
SBC at our drivers received four or
' five tickets,” Judge Baty said, “but
since we didn’t keep a regular file
wa, often didn’t realize that one
particular driver might have been
fined seven or eight times.”
Judge Baty said that the local
police department docs not revoke
licenses. “We leave that to offic-
ials at Austin, that’s why wc send
them these reports,” he said.
However, in conjunction with
the safety Campaign being launch-
ed, Baty announced that he will
send a letter to Austin officials
asking them to check a certain in-
dividual's driving record whenev-
er any local citizen gets at least
three tickets for moving traffic
violations. This step, according to
Baty, is in an effort to remind the
officials that it’s time someone
checked up on the offender. "They
have so many drivers to keep tab
on,’’ Baty told a Sun-News report-
er, “that they no doubt often ov-
erlook a certain record. But these
same ones who are continually
being fined in Leveiiand are prob-
Wcsl- Elementary 4-H
Club Holds Meeting
Members of the West Element-
ary 4-H club were taught how to
set the table at a meeting Tues-
day afternoon in the West Elemen-
tary school building.
Next meeting of the club will
be in June, dale of which was not
announced.
ably driving the same way in oth-
er towns. If the judge there sends
in a record also, then Austin may
have on file a report of 15 or 20
violations on these boys who have
been picked up six or eight timet
in Lcvelland.”
Asked why the sudden cam-
paign. when only four traffic in-
juries have been recorded in Lev-
clland this year, Chief Hardin
had an answer ready. “It’s not a
sodden campaign. It’s a job wc
continually try to keep working
at. But all you have to do is take
.one look at tffat chart (he pointed
to the chart in his office record-
ing accidents which have been in-
vestigated) and you’ll see the rea-
son we’re worried. Look at Avenue
H. We've got stop signs and red
lights all over that street at near-
ly every intersection and the chart
shows 12 accidents on that street
since Jan. 1. When the signs are
no longer effective it’s time we
started using some other meth-
od.'*
Chief Hardin listed speeding,
reckless driving, running of stop
rigns and running of red lights as
particularly heavy violations in
the city. He noted that a regular
speed limit sign does not indicate
that such a speed is a safe speed
under all types of conditions. “If
you’re driving 29 miles an hour
in a 30-mile zone on a rainy,
cloudy night when the streets are
congerted with pedestrians you are
not driving safely. You are driv-
ing recklessly,” he said.
Checking Judge Baty’s day-by-
day account of tickets issued a
huge increase in reckless driving
tickets was noted. The chief alsb
pointed out a large element of the
city's populace who “evidently
think you can turn right at stop
signs without stopping.” He indi-
cated that it was a major cause
of many local accidents.
As a far-reaching part of the
campaign the chief also announc-
ed plans to publish some informa-
tive booklets which will be given
to traffic violators. He expressed
the opinion that “education of
the drivers to their duties and
responsibilities was perhaps the
key to the traffic problem.”
According to a chck of the rec-
ords the last traffic death to oc-
cur in Levelland was on Oct. 5,
1949, when a 67-year-old night
watchman was crushed to death
as a trailer carrying a search-
light broke loose from a pick-up
truck.
BAND BANQUET HELD
Dr. Raymond P. Elliotf, asso-
ciate professor of music at Texas
Tech, was principal speaker Fri-
day night at the annual Level-
land Lobo band banquet.
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ARMED FORCES DAY DISPLAY . . . This display, in the north window of Cobb's Dep-
ortment store, is provided by Sendee Battery, 132nd Field Artillery, Texas Nationol
Guord Local residents are invited to see the disploy. which will be shown until Tuesday.
dStuf f Photo)
Earl Allison spoke on “Problems
of Youth” at the Lions club meet-
ing Thursday noon in the Cactus
room of Wayne’s restaurant.
He said that the churches and
the schools are doing a good job
for the juvfeniles.
He pointed out that “wc have
juvenile problems,” and speaking
of problems, that “J. Edgar Hoov-
er, head of the Federal Bureai of
Investigation, said that children
most be kept off of the streets.”
Rev. Vincel Larsen Introduced
Officers Elected by
Senior Band Parents
Mrs. Jack Biair was elected pre-
sident of the Senior Band Per-
erits club at the flnal meeting of
the school year recently in the
Senior Band hall.
'Mrs John D. Dupre was named
first vice president; V. R. Martin,
second vice president; M. T. Lan-
ders, secretary - treasurer, and J..
T. Cook, reporter.
The new officers will take over
In September for the 1952-53
school year.
p. of C. Membership
Committee to Meet
The membership committee ol
the Levelland Chamber of Com-
merce will meet in the Chamber
of Commerce office Monday aft-
ernoon at 2:30 o’clock, according
to J. E. (Lefty) Hamilton and
Earl McDermetti co-chairmen.
OtlwSr member^ of the commit-
tee are Davis F. Founds, Bob Har-
uil, Leiuj 3e.it0f.iM" Un> Vc.daS.
the speaker.
Dr. C. G. Dunn inducted three
new members, Lee Jarmon, Wil-
lard J. (Bill) Paulette and Allison.
Golden Jones and Cragg Dar-
den, both of Anton Lions club,
were guests.
Bruce Sheppard was introduced
as a transfer member from the
Post Lions club. *
Service Battei
Going to Camp
Service Battery, 132hd Fluid Ar-
tillery, Texas National Guar^ will
leave Levelland on May 31 for iB
two weeks’ Encampment at North*
Fort Hood, Tex., Warrant Officer]
Mitchell reported Thursday.
One officer and about 30 mim
are expected to be in the Level*
land contingent attending the"
camjment from June 1 to June 15.^
Capt. Bill Cox is serving the
sence of Lt. Shirley K. Flatt, who
battery as commander in the ab-
i sattending an artillery school at
Fort Sill, Okla. Lt. Flatt will com-
plete his schooling early id July.
The warrant officers said visits
had been made to area • high
schools the past few days to tell
graduating seniors about the ad-
vantages offered through National
Guard training.,
New School Buses
Arrive This Week
Three new school buses for ttys* „
Lcvelland Independent SchooI’dife^T
trict were brought from New Bos-
ton,Tex., Thursday night by O.
W. Marcom, superintendent of
schools; Clarence Holman, bug;
foreman, R. F. Miller and Pau£
Mayes.
The new buses, which hav*
Pathfinder bodies, will i
three old buses among the
diftnet’s fleet of vehicles,
serve approximately 6i
on IS bus routes.
The buses were pu
the State Board of Education
lowing their requisition by
local school board. They were th ,
received at the state school
“pool” at New Boston for delivcin-
here. -••t'Nj
Holman, the. bus foreman and •
upervisor of transpoctation, is
completing his 13th year with the
Lcvelland school.
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Cemetery Petition
Hearing Is Monday
The Levelland City council will
hold a public hearing from 8 until
10 o’clock Monday morning on a
petition that the city take over and
maintain the Lcvelland cemetery
and levy a tax for its upkeep.
Five copies of the petition, bear-
ing a total of. 209 signatures, were
presented to the city council re-
cently. Garden clubs of the citjr
arc taking the lead in the pror
jeet.
The petition was drawn up last
January following a meeting of
city officials with other interested
persons.
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Cub Scouts to Fly
Kites mfhotest
Senate Candidate
To Speak May ,26
Cong. Lindley ‘Beckworth of
Gladcwater, candidate for the U.
S. Senate, will bring his campaign
to the Panhandle and South Plains
this week and next He is sche-
duled to speak in Levelland at
3:30 p. m. Monday, May 20.
Congressman Beckworth, who is
38 years old, has been a U. S.
Congressman for 14 years. He is
the prerent chairman of the Texas
delegation in Congress. Beckworth
served two years in the Texas
Legislature before being elected
to the U. S. Congress.
He will come here from Morton,
where he is scheduled to speak
af 4:30 o’clock, and from Level-
land will go to Brownfield for a
1:30 o’clock speaking engagement.
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Named President of
McMurry College Club
Herschel Homer was elected
president of the Senatus Romanus
club at McMurry college in Abi-
lene, at the final meeting of the
club Friday afternoon.
Homer will be a junior student
.it the college in September.
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America;..
To Elect Morn,.
New officers for the (ensu.
year are to be elected Monday
night at a/meeting of William E.
Evans Post No. 417 of the Amer-
ican legion, John Poole, comman-
1er, announces. All members arc
invited and urged to atted.
Officers were to have been elec-
ed at the May 5 meeting, but.
his important businew was pant*
M-M-.-d alter only the command*!
nd four other Legionnaires
?d up for the
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