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YOUR SUNDAY
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LEVELLAND, Hockley County, TEXAS
Sunday, October 30, 1949
Number 24
Annual Halloween Carnivals
'To Be Staged Monday Night
% Four Levelland Schools
fri&li
More than 2,400 Levelland flu-
dents and their parents are Pok-
ing forward to the annual carni-
vals which are set for Monday
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night at Senior High, Junior High,
East Elementary and West Elem-
entary schools.
Highlighting the event will be
(jj^he double coronation of the queen
and king of Senior High and the
king and queen of Junior High.
Candidates for the senior class
are Helen Starr, queen; Glenn
Clarkgon, king; Junior class, Bar-
baytf Der'agton, queen; Joe Hayes,
^*lung; sophonWe class, Ruth King,
queen; J. B. Lauderdale, king.
Junior high candidates ate, 0th
grade, Othanna Cadbcrry, queen;
gKtenneth Neal, king; eighth grade,
wLou Clarkson, queen; Sonny
Brown, king; seventh grade, Mari-
lyn Etheridge, queen; Mack Free-
man, king; sijfth grade, Jan Ho-
fackct, queen; Gene Howard
king.
The queen and king's contest
in Senior High is sponsored by
♦PMA Trucks
Buying Cotton
Seed At $46.50
throui
vided
erWlor:
The Production and Marketing
ninistration, an agent of the
is now placing trucks at gins
throughout Hockley County, pro-
vided it is agreeable with the op-
ors of the gins, to purchase
cotton seed at $46.50 per ton, J.
W. Evans, administrative officer of
PMA for the county, said Friday.
The trucks are being sent to gins
. which have not signed up with the
PMA to purchase the cotton seed.
As of Friday the Bailey Gin,
fRoundup; Pettit Co-Op gin; An-
Wtor Co-Op gin; and Hollywood
Anton, had signed up with the
administration to purchase the
seed at $46.50 per ton. The Wayne
George receiving station at Round-
up and the Pettit Co-Op gin arc
working with the administration
to purchase seed delivered there
at $46.50 per toiv
The best plan, says Evans, is
where the ginners sign up witli
®ihc administration and pay the
farmers $46.50 per ton for sead at
the gin. The gin is to receive n
draft or refund from the commis-
sion plus $1.50 per ton handling
charge and cost of necessary trans-
portation.
Lions To Hear
Air Force Officer
0 Col. George W. Partly, com-
manding officer of the Lubbock
> Air Force Base, will speak al (lie
Lions Club meeting Thursday noon
in the Caclus ItoOm of Wayne's
Restaurant.
Lt. James Humphries, public in-
formation offieer and a staff of
five or six officers will accompany
Col. Pardy here.
Kenneth Harper will introduce
Athc group and Dr. Bob Roberson
in turn introduce Lion Har-
" pfr.
Dr. Roberson, an air force re-
serve officer, is in charge of the
program.
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Home Economics
the Student Council for the pur-
pose of raising money for the an-
nual in order that the students
may purchase the book for only
$3.
The yearbook in Junior High
is also aided by the money rais-
ed from the queen and king's con-
test.
In both Junior and Senior high
schools the students were allow-
ed a vote for each penny contri-
buted to the queen and king's con-
tests
The East Elementary division
of the carnival, which will start
at 6:30 o'clock and run to 9, will
include “House of Horrors”, "Cake
Walk," "Grab Bags,” "Fish Pond,”
musical side shows, and spooks
galore, said R. H. Ranson, prin-
cipal.
East Elementary P-TA is spou-^
soring this division.
Mrs. C. Ray Jones list the var-
ious events in the West Element-
ary school by grades which is
sponsored by the West Element-
ary P-TA.
A Fishing Pond, first grade;
concession stand, second grade;
Picture show, selling of popcorn
and grab box, bubble gum, giv-
ing prizes, novel farm booth and
ring the duck’s neck, third grade.
The fourth grade warf* to have a
north window at Cobb’s Friday
and Saturday.
The fifth grade will assist the
second with their concession stand,
which includes the sale of pies
and cakes.
Plans were incomplete as to the
events of Junior High school late
Thursday, but each of the four
grades were to have at least one
booth or concession stand each.
Sponsors of the Junior High di-
vision of the show are Miss Joan
Crabtree, Mrs. Rachel Brashear
and Mrs. Roberta Sappington.
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Texas Tech President Will Speak
At Opening Of Auditorium Nov. 3
FIRST METHODIST ADDITION
A picture of the
plans of the picture drown by Alvin Cearley, architect, of
the new addition to the educotionol building and the
The
auditorium of the First Methodist Church,
shows the entire building after it is completed.
drawing
Ballots For The Election
Of PMA Committeemen
Being Moiled To Formers
Ballots for the election of com-
mitteemen who will supervise the
Production and Marketing Admin-
istration program in the county
during 1950 are now being mailed
to fanners and their wives in
Hockley County, J. W. Evans
Hockley County administrative of-
ficer said Friday.
"This is an important election
from the farmer’s standpoint,"
Evans said, “as it will determine
First Methodist
Church Building
Plans Complete
Plans for the construction of the
new educational building addition
at the-Flrst Methodist Church have
been completed, Rev Jordan
Grooms, said Friday.
The addition will provide 6,000
additional square feet of floor
space and will have a small chap-
el in it, Rev. Grooms said.
Alvin Cearley, Levelland, is the
architect for the building. The
final subscription for funds to
build the new addition will be
started Nov. 1.
Chairmen of the financial com-
mittee are L. L. Cox, R. A. Saw-
yer and C. F. Faubion.
Members of the building com-
mittee are T. E. Loran, chairman,
Joe Tunnell, Rufus Bushyhead,
Wyatt Hanks and Hugh Davis.
The sophomores staged a bake) m/iM/ki m
sale last Saturday, and their c-1 PllvHvLS MOVtD
vents Monday night will be a box
supper, a ducking board and a
dart board.
The Juniors staged a slave sale
Friday, a rummage sale at the
rear of the Davis Food' Store was
set for Saturday. Monday night’s
events include an egg throwing
and a cake walk.
A bowery party is set for the
Seniors Saturday night at 7 ;>0 o’-
clock in Lobo Gym and they will
operate a bingo game and a con-
cession stand Monday night.
W. R. Wheeler’s Levelland Lobo
band will play for the procession-
al for the double coronation for
the Queen and King candidates
along with the Junior High chorus,
which is under the direction of
Mrs. Sappington, at 9 o’clock in
the Junior High auditorium.
The program will include a lap
dance by Ann Dnpre, Joan Gar-
rison will sing, the Junior High
Chorus will sing several numbers
and the nigh school speech de-
partment will present a skit.
Durwood (llobn) Johnson will
he master of ceremonies.
Room Complete
The combination living - dining
room of the home economics de-
Opartment of Levelland high school
it now furnished, according to Mrs.
Sudie Mae Thompson.
Wit hnew and modern furniture
the room has the proper lighting
effects.
With only a few adjustments the
home economics department will
be ready in time for the open
house of the new high school
building Nov. 3.
Lions See Movie
Of Navy Life
TO LUBBOCK
Leon Nilchols, who was indicted
by a Cochran County grand jury
Wednesday for murder in the
shooting of his wife, was transfer-
red from the Hockley County jail
to Lubbock County Jail Thurs-
day morning, Sheriff Charlie Bul-
lock reports
Judge Dan Blair of Morton had
ordered Nichols held without bail.
Nichols has been held in the
Hockley jail on a charge of at-
tempted murder since the shooting
Oet. 14 of his wife at her home
hear Whiiefacc.
Mrs. Nichols died Oct.' 22 of a
bullet wound in her chest and
■was buried in the Mulcshoe Cem-
etery Tuesday afternoon.
who will serve farmers as com-
mitteemen for the ensuing year."
Persons operating a farm, land-
lords, tenants or sharecroppers,
and their wives, are eligible to
vote, Evans said.
Evans is mailing ballots to far-
mers and their wives who may
vote for the candidates listed on
tke ballot or draw a line through
the names listed and write in a
candidate of their choice for each
office listed on the ballot.
Persons who choose to vote by
mail arc asked to return the vot-
ed ballots immediately to the PMA
office, Evans said.
Persons not voting by mail may
cast votes at the following places
at the given dates.
Communities of Anton, Roundup
and Rowland may^ vote Nov. 5 at
the Daniel Drug Store.
Communities of Whitharral, Ok-
lahoma Flat and Hodges may vote
Nov. 4 at the gins.
Communities of Pep, Pettit, and
North Cobleland may vote Nov.
5 at the school house.
Communities of south Coble-
land, Sundown and Clauene may
vote Nov. 5 at the gins.
Communities of Smyer and Dean
may vote Nov. 5 at the gins.
Communities of Center and
Ropesville may vote Nov. 5 at the
gins.
Persons in the Levelland com-
munity may vote Nov. 5 at the
PMA office located in the Court
House Annex.
There will be seven delegates
elected to the county convention
which will select a three member
committee who will supervise the
local office in coordination with
the supervision of a twenty-one
member committee made up of
three elected members from each
of the seven Hockley County com-
munities.
BERRYS HAVE SON
Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Berry arc
announcing the birth of a son,
weighing 8 pounds 2 1-4 ounces
Wesdnesday in the Lubbock Mem-
orial Hospital.
Eight players have made two
World Scries hits in an Inning, and
among them is Dizzy Dean, nev-
er noted for his clouting.
WhitefaceTeam
Downs Tigers
Earl (Red) Blaik, now in his
ninth season as Army football
coach, has held the post longer
than any of his 22 predecessors.
Bad Weather
Added Misery
To Cotton Crop
A shortage of boll pullers plus
damp mornings slowed the cotton
harvest in Hockley County this
week.
Artie Forehand, county agent
estimated Friday morning that the
fog knocked fartners out of a
salf-a-day’s harvest each morn
ing lt hovered over the Levelland
area.
The recent rains, plus the fog,
has not been helpful to farmers
when it comes to grading the fib-
er, fanners say.
An estimate Friday placed the
number of boll pullers in Hockley
County at more than 8,500. Thurs-
day reports showed 35,672 bales
of cotton had been ginned. The
estimate at Friday noon was set
at 37,000 bales ginned, the county
crop has been estimated at 200,-
000 bales.
As to boll pullers, Burnett Rob-
erts, president of the Hockley
County Farm Bureau, reported
Friday that he had 53 Mexican
Nationals on their way to Level-
land. That will make a total of
187 sent here.
Fred Preslex, farm placement
representative for the Texas Em-
ployment Commission here, said
Friday that Roberts reported that
the “situation was pretty tight at
El Paso.”
A bus load of boll pullers from
Oklahoma arrived in Levelland
Friday morning, this makes a to-
tal of ten busses that have deliv-
ered workers here from that state.
Two more busses were expected to
arrive Saturday morning.
Farmers pay the fares of the
wqrkers from Oklahoma to here.
Friday, an agent for the Cooks-
Hill Stagrtine, which is moving
the workers to Levelland, an-
nounced that the fares of workers
who did not stay with the farmers
would not be charged against the
farmers. An agent of the bus com-
pany will be stationed in Level-
land Wednesday.
Presley said Friday that he had
just received word tha\ a small
town in Arkansas was preparing
to release for work elsewhere 700
Mexican Nationals. “We will do
our part to secure them for Hock-
ley County," he said.
Cities Service Company To Drill
5,200-Foot Well Into San Andres
8 Miles Southwest Of Lehman
Drilling is to be started at once lime on the southwest side of the
by Cities Service Oil Company on Levelland field,
a 5,200-foot rotary wildcat to ex- Lion Oil Company No. 1 Mas-
plore into the San Andres in Cen- ten. which ha8 shown for produc
tral Cochran County, eight miles tion and a three-quarters of j
southwest of Lehman. j mne southwest extension to the
The venture, No. 1-D F. O. Mas- 1 Levelland field, in Central Coch-
ten, will be 660 feet from south ran County, is now shutin waiting
and east Lines of labor 3, league on storage.
133 Armstrong County School I The extender flowed at the rate
Lands survey. I of 9.36 barrels of oil per hour
It is about one and one-half through a one-half inch tubing
miles northwest of the nearest choke, after treating open hole
producers from the San Andres between 4,943-5,030 feet with 6,000
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Fullback John Panelli and End
George Brodnax, new players with
the pro Detroit Lions, each were
assistant coaches at Notre Dame
and Georgia Tech, respectively,
this spring.
OneOfTrio
T ronsferred
To Oklahoma
Truman prove,Apne of three
Oklahoma men being held in the
Hockley County Jail Thursday un-
der $10,000 bond each, was moved
to Ada, Okla., Friday by officers
from Ada.
The other two men, Dewey
Grove and Gaston Hickman, re-
mained in the local jail Friday aft-
ernoon. The trio were charged
Wednesday in file court of Justice
of the Peace A. F. O’Dell with the
robixery with firearms of C. E.
Padgett at his farm home about
ten miles northwest of Levelland.
Judge O’Dell set the bonds at $10,-
000 each.
The trio were arrested about
midnight Tuesday by Sheriff
Charlie Bullock, D. B. Boone and
Deputies E. L. Ford, Floyd Hum-
phries, M. L. Holland and Leonard
Durham after guns in possession
of the men had jammed.
Truman Grove was wanted by
Oklahoma police in connection
with a highway robbery near Ada.
The sheriff, county attorney of
Ada and the neighboring attorney
were here Friday and took Tru-
man Grove under guard to Ada.
Hallowe'en Show
At Pettit Monday
Night At 7 O'clock
The Pa rent-Teachers associa-
tion and the grade school of Pet-
tit, are sponsoring a Hallowe’en
carnival, Monday night, Oct. 31, at
7 o’clock.
The proceeds from the carnival
will be used to buy new window
shades for the school building.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Heaviest player on the Univer-
sity of Arizona football squad is
tackle Larry Howard, a 225-
pounder.
gallons of acid. Gravity of the oil
was 29 degrees.
Location is three-quarters of a
mile southwest of the nearest pro-
ducers from the San Andres on
the sofRh side of the Levelland
field and 440 feet from north and
east lines of labor 12, league 132,
Carson County School lands sur-
vey.
Operator was trying to loosen
stuck drill p|pe at Stanolind Oil &
Gas Company No. 1 Grollman,
slated deep operation in the Lan-
don field of Southwest Cochran
County, 25 miles southwest of
Lehman.
As soon as the drill pipe is loos-
ened, it win driu ahead toward its
contracted depth of 12,200 feet.
The drillsite is 660 feet from
west and 407 feet from south lines
of section 4, block L, psl survey.
It is to test the Devonian.
Byerley Sparks
Western Team
Horace Byerley, former assistant
coach to Levelland, helped spark
New Mexico Western College foot-
ball team at Silver City Saturday
to overwhelm Highlands Univer-
sity 60-6. It was the Western’s
homecoming game..
The Mustangs scored in every
quarter and used their spares
through most of the second half.
Byerley passed 35 yards from his
own 35 to Joe Palmer, halfback,
who ran 35 for a score in the first
quarter.
The Senior High School Audi-
torium will be officially opened
Thursday, Nov. 3. Dr. D. M. Wig-
gins, president of Texas Techno-
logical College, will be the prind-
pel speaker.
Open house will be held in the
new auditorium from 6 to 10 p. m.
Dr. Wiggins will speak at 8 p. m.
A band concert will be given by
the Lobo band, under the direction
of W. R. Wheeler, at 7:30 and fol-
lowed by a musical number by the
Junior High Chorus under the di-
rection of Mrs. Tom Sappington.
From 6 to 8 p. m. members of
the Levelland school faculty will
be on hand to welcome visitors
and to show them through the new
building.
Members of the present Level-
land school board and former
members who have had a pert In
the building of the new building
will be on the stage with other
special guests.
The Courtesy Committee at the
Student Council will be in charge
of showing guests through the
auditorium from 6 to 8 p. bl
Members of the committee are
Clyde Walter, Mary Caroline
Mann, Leonard Harris, Dona Stev-
ens, Bonita Fortner, Elonar Lin-
coln, Jim Mac Luker, Langford
Sneed, Delmer Hightower, Don
Hands, Don Kennedy, Shannon
Rutherford, Ruth Drake, Barbara
Bowman, Bobbie Wiley and Neal
Atchison.
Supt. O. W. Marcom said Friday
that all superintendents in this
area have been invited to attend
the opening of the new auditorium,
which will seaLLMO person*.
The Senior High building, which
is in connection with the auditor-
ium, was built at an estimated cost
of $625,000.
At present there are 303 stu-
dents attending classes in the
building from the tenth through
the twelfth grades. There are
eighteen teachers employed in the
building to instruct the students.
G. C. Clapp is the high school sup-
erintendent. -S’
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Principals Attend
Austin Meeting
G. C. Clapp, Senior High princi-
pal and J. G. Nipper, Junior High
principal, attended a meeting of
the Association of Secondary Prin-
cipals at the Driskill Hotel in Aus-
tin Monday and Tuesday.
Main theme of the program was
“Life Adjustment Education.”
F. F. Wagner of Pasadena, pres-
ident of the state organization,
presided.
Tacky Party Set
For Monday Night
At First Methodist
Members of the Wedding Band
Sunday School class of the First
Methodist church are going to
have a tacky party Monday night
in the Fellowship Hall The party
is slated to start at 7:30 p. m.
There will be a prize offered to
the one that is dressed the tack-
iest.
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Quannah Couple Visit
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Page of
Quannah, visited in the homt of
Mr. and Mrs. __ Marvin Conateer
and family. Mr.’and Mrs. Conataer
were neighbors to Mr. and Mrs.
Page in McCamey.
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The earth’s whole magnetic field
is of internal origin.
The The Whiteface Antelopes
bent oul the Frenship Tigers in
Whiteface Thursday night to the
tunc of 20 to 0 in a District 4-B
contest before 400 fans.
Whiteface, heavy favorites, had
a tough time besting the scrappy
. . . ,u «.i „ I Tigers. Frenship held a 10 o 9
A picture, Life in the Navy, I , . , . .
was shown to members of lhJ ^ m -rst downs, but Wlute-
Lions Club Thursday noon in the | facf^d *?> ’™ch‘>owc,r and
„ 1 walked off with their fourth out
I of five conference games.
Halfback Oscar Power launch-
Cactus room of the Wayne’s Res-
taurant.
Warren Tabor and Frank Kis-
er were in charge of the program.
Miss Viva Ann Elliott, was in-
troduced by W. R. Wheeler, as
the Lioness of the Week.
Miss Elliott, who moved here
two years ago from Brownfield, is
junior class yell leader and presi-
dent of the Home Economics club.
Rev, Charles H. Brown, Tabor
and Kiser were told briefly the
duties and responsibilities of be-
ing a member of Lions Interna-
tional.
Guests of Dr. Bob RobersOn
were T. O. Petty and Ernest Bow-
man and R. W. Watts of A. A.
Sparkman.
ed the Antelope scoring in the
first quarter by intercepting a
Frenship pass and racing 25 yards
to a touchdown. Max Dickerson
kicked the extrn point from
placement.
Quarterback Johnny Plunkett
scored the second touchdown in|
the second quarter. Wendell Wal-
ker’s try for extra point was low.
The third Antelope score came
on Dean Reynolds three-yard
plunge in the third quarter. Dick-
erspn again converted from place-
ment. t
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Levelland High School Exes
To Observe Homecoming Nov. 4
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Plans for the 1949 annual Lev-
elland High School homecoming
to be held Friday, Nov. 4, are
moving along rapidly, Mrs. Clark
Pirtle, president of the ex-student
'ssociation, said this week.
Climaxing the program will be
a dance at Woody’s Roller Rink
Friday evening at 10 o’clock
From 7 to 8 p. m. there will be a
general assembly in the new high
school auditorium. This will be
followed by the exes attending
the Lobo-Muleshoe game at the
Lobo Stadium.
Exes who do not hold
tickets to the Lobo games may
secure a ticket for $3 which will
admit them to the game and all
Kol/flntf
are John R. Potts, vice president
and Miss Dora Grace Lindsey, act-
ing secretary.
Friday afternoon from 2 to 4
o’clock there will be a committee gj
at the new Senior High School ^
building to show visitors through
the newly constructed addition to
the Levelland schools.
From 4 to 5 o’clock Friday after-
noon the Hockley County Memor-
ial Library will hold open house.
Promptly at 5 o’clock dimmer
will be served. Mrs. J. D. Worley
will be in charge of
season .classes from 1924-34 J
which will meet in the Blue
of the Buck Horn Cafe.
Ike Johnson will heat group two
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