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BACK TO SCHOOL
This week Levelland and Hockley County youths will be re-
turning to the classroom. We of the Hockley County Herald and
The Sun-News wish for each of you students a pleasant and profitable
year. The best of faculties has been provided, and building repairs have
been made in general throughout the county this summer. Levelland
schools in particular are offering and will offer one of the finest plants in
Texas to our children. Let us do our part in cooperating with our
teachers and children in securing for our youth the best of edu-
cations—not forgetting our youngsters when we drive A
through our streets at morning, noon and night.
Check Today’s Inside Ads For Dollar Day Specials On Monday
Soil
Conservation
Set For Sept. 13
VOLUME X
Featuring The Oil News
Levelland, Hockley County, Texas
Sunday, September 3, 1950
12 PAGES TODAY
Number 16
Whiteface School
Set For Opening
Monday Morning
Whiteface Public Schools will
open their 1950-51 school year
Monday, Supt. Noah Cunningham
announced last week.
Opening exercises are scheduled
to begin promptly at 9 a. m. The
faculty will be* introduced and
general instructions will be given
students at 9:30 o’clock. The pub-
lic has been given an invitation
to attend.
Buses will leave the schools on
their return routes at 11:30 o’clock
The faculty will employ the re-
mainder of the day in preparing
for a full-day schedule Tuesday,
it was said.
School buses will have the same
r routes as last year, Cunningham
said. Buses will arrive at school
by 8:45 a. m. each day.
Bus drivers have been instruct-
ed to arrive at the schools not
earlier than 8:35 a. m. and not
later than 8:5 5a. m. Teachers will
be at the schools at 8:30 a. m.
Students have been asked to not
arrive on the grounds before 8:30
a. m.
Betwteen 8:30 a. m. dnd 9 a. m.
students already at «chool will be
asked to go to their home rooms
for study periods.
Cunningham said that during
the superintendent and high
been repaired, new football equip-
ment has beeajpeciyed ahd t x
new buses have been added to the
appool fleet.
^Several new faculty members
have been employed, including
the superintendent tand high
school principal. Veteran faculty
members as well as new ones are
looking forward to a “most suc-
cessful school year,’ ’it was said.
The P-TA, Lions club, churches.
Quarterback club and other or-
ganizations have expressed a de-
sire for a successful year, it was
announced.
Parents and friends have_ been
invited to visit the school at any
time and offer constructive critic-
ism which will be appreciated and
respected, it was said.
The faculty, as announced by
Cunningham, includes:
Mrs. Gordia Duke and Mrs.
Clarence Bounds, first grade; Mrs.
Dorothy Smith and Miss Paulene
Reid, second grade; Mrs. J. Fred
Dabnke and Mrs. O. C. Rankin,
third grade; Mrs. D. T. Richard-
son and Mrs. Troy Overman,
fourth grade; Mrs. Zula Knight
and Mrs. Lloyd Graham, fifth
grade, anil Mrs. Nathan Tubb,
sixth grade.
Also, Mrs. Herbert tLinsey and
Mrs. Orian Dennis, seventh grade;
Mrs. Bills and Mr. Books, also
junior boys' coach, eighth grade;
Miss Louise Granstaff, music and
Orian Dennis, principal.
High school: Mrs. Vern Beebe,
English; Miss Russell, homemak-
ing; Mr. Dalnke, science; Mr. Hig-
gins, agriculture; Mr. Lindsey,
band and math; Wayne Swove-
land, physical education; Mr.
Stokes, social science; Nathan
Tub, commerce and girls' coach; L. ^
S. Salser, boys’ coach; Mrs. Pic ’
James, secretary; D. L. James,
High School principal; Cunning-
ham, Superintendent, and Mrs. La-
vada Franklin, Negro teacher.
Sundown Officials Seek Bids
On Water And Sewer Projects
Sundown city officials have
asked for bids for the laying of
more than three miles of water
mains and some seven miles of
sewer lines complete with one
lift station, pumps and sewage
treatment facilities.
According to the official notice
to bidders, sealed proposals must
be received by the city commission
at Sundown not later than 2 p. m.
Sept. 21.
Copies of the plans and specifi-
cations may be secured from
Parkhill, Smith and Cooper, con-
sulting engineers at Lubbock,
upon deposit of $25.
Information for bidders, pro-
Annual Event
Whiteface Rodeo Is
Reported Big Success
Rig Set For 2 Hopper, Quarter Mile West,
And Five Miles South Of Smyer In Ropes Field
$
Building Permits
Total $1,058,770
A total of $24,700 in building
permits were issued last week,
according to rc 's in office of
City Secretary . JE Mabe.
This brings the total for the
year to $1,058,770, which is $32,-
000 over the total for 1949, but
the year is still $1,167,230 short
of 1948, the peak year in building
in this city.
Obtaining permits last week
were. Varl Martin, 3-room dwell-
ing, Lot 23, Blk. 67, OT $3,000;
L. R Griffin. 12x24 dwelling. Lot
10, Blk 1, Northside, $750; R. C.
Blair. 26x44 frame dwelling, Lt.
13. Blk 180, Southside, $1,000:
E. W. Brasch, 34x60 brick resi-
dence, Lots 5 and 6, Blk. 178.
Southside, $12,000; J. R. Joplin,
70x182 grainery. Lots 1, 2, 3, Blk.
85, OT, $8,000.
In the Ropes-Pennsylvanian
pool of Central - East Hockley
county last week the second pro-
ducer was completed and a. one-
quarter mile northwest stepout
was staked for immediate drilling.
Honolulu Oil Corporation and
Signal Oil & Gas Company No. !
Hopper, north offset to the dis-
covery, was completed for a flow-
ing potential of 2,751.68 barrels of
42-gravity oil daily. Production
was through a five-eighths inch
choke.
The pool extension is producing
from open hole between the scat
of the casing at 9,293 feet and
plugged back total depth at 9,413
feet.
The same operators have skid-
ded the rig from the No. 1 Hop-
per one-quarter mile *to the west
and slightly north, preparatory to
spudding the No. 2 Hopper.
The No. 2 Hopper will be 694
feet from south and west lines of
labor 8, league 5, Wilbarger Coun-
ty School land survey, and five
miles south of Smyer.
George P. Livermore, Inc., and
M. A. Sanders, both of Lubbock,
No. 1 B. Lindsey, extreme Cen-
tral-West Lubbock County wild-
cat, had lest original hole at 350
feet, and operators have skidded
the rig a short distance from lo-
cation.
The venture has been respudded
nnd was last reported drilling be-
low 845 feet in redbeds.
Projected depth is 10,500 feet,
which is calculated to test through
all formations down to and in-
cluding the Ellenburger.
Exact location is 660 feet from
south and east lines of section 13,
block D-6, and five miles east of
the town of Smyer, which is a-
cross the line in Hockley County.
Another wildcat in Central-
West Lubbock County, MFC Cor-
poration No. 1 Clark, was moving
in rotary material to start drilling.
Humble Oil Sc Refining Com-
pany ^o. 1 Hobgood, wildcat in
Central-North Hockley County,
was last reported drilling below
10,174 feet in granite wash.
The No. 1 Hobgood is six miles
west of the town of Anton.
Houston Oil Company of Tex-
as No. 1 Hinson and others, wild-
cat in Northeast Terry County,
was last reported drilling below
8.312 feet in lime.
This project is one mile west
of the Mound Lake-Pennsylvan-
ian pool. It is slated to be drilled
tq approximately 10,000 feet to
test the Pennsylvanian pay of that
area. v
Two offsets have been staked
for immediate drilling to the Un-
ion Oil Company No. 1 Laura
Cotten, new prolific- flowing dis-
covery located in Central Terry
County, four miles south of
Brownfield.
This new discovery has proven
213 feet of reef pay, from which
over 100-barrels hourly was flow-
ed on three different drillstem
tests.
The most recent offset is Un-
ion’s No. 1 Christova Stitt, locat-
ed one-quarter mile sduth of the
discovery, and 660 feet from east
and 1,980 feet from south lines of
section 91, block T, D&S survey
Phillips Petroleum Company
has staked a west offset to the
discovery.
It is the Phillips No. 1 Cot (on
the Laura Cotten lease) located
1,980 feet from north and east
lines of section 91, Block T, D &
W survey. g
Fines In 19 Cases Total
$229.30 In Justice Court
Nineteen fines totaling $229.30,
including cost, have been collected
in Justice of thte Peace A. F.
(Pop.) Odell’s court in the last
two weeks and turned over to the
county.
R. E. Loil'v charged August 12
with driving without an operator’s
license, pleaded guilty and was
fined $10.
Paul Odell Bragg, charged Aug-
ust 21 with parking on a highway
at night without lights, pleaded
guilty and was fined $10.
S. A. McIntosh, charged August
22 with being intoxicated on the
streets of Sundown, pleaded guilty
and was fined $17.
Ida Lee Archer, charged Aug-
ust 22 with permitting an un-
licensed operator to drive, pleaded
guilty and was fined $10.
A. C. Coleman, charged August
22 with having no commercial li-
cense, pleaded guilty and was
fined $10.
Norman Kenneth Davis, charg-
ed August 24 with speeding, was
fined $14.
Woodrow Wil$on, charged Aug-
ust 24 with having a defective
muffler on automobile, pleaded
guilty and was fined $10.
George C. Keene, charged Aug-
ust 25 with speeding, pleaded
guilty and was fined $14.
Herburt M. Stanley, charged
August 25 with having'no com-
mercial operator’s license, pleaded
guilty and was fined $10.
James C. Bindley, charged Aug-
ust 28 with speeding, pleaded
guilty and was fined $14.
Wendal Lee Royal, charged
August 28 with having no oper-
ator’s license, pleaded guilty nnd
(Continued on Page 5)
Hockley and Cochran Countians,
and a number of other West Tex-
ans, had a big time Thursday at
the Whiteface parade, barbecue,
rodeo and street dance.
About 2,500 rodeo fans witness-
ed the parade at 10 o’clock that
morning, some 1,500 attended the
combination barbecue and rodeo
and 1,000 persons turned out to
take part and watch the evening
street dance, Lee Eaton, White-
face rodeo committeeman, re-
ported early Friday morning.
Dub Garrett was general chair-
man of the 100-member White-
Each of the KW member* paid"
fifteen dollars for’membership in
the organization.
All of the money raised from
the event will be applied on the 10
acres that has been purchased as
a site on which to hold the yearly
shows.
Others on the committee were
Pick Flowers, Allen Reynolds and
Claud Drennan.
Heading the parade as color-
bearers were Flowers and Jake
Wiley.
Fred Steele and his string band,
as well as other instrumentalists,
entertained the crowd prior to the
barbecue.
Hubert Taylor was master of
ceremonies for the musicians and
handled the public address system
during the parade.
The rodeo events:
Professional, calf roping, Leon
Jones, Bula, 13; Billy Wynn,
Brownfield, 14.2; L. D. Hayes,
Dora, N. M., 14.4.
Amateur calf roping, Clinton
Imol, Floyd, N. M., 14; Bob Clunch,
Bula, 15.9; Jimmy Graham, Level-
land, 17.4.
Dally cow milking, J. D. Doran,
Lovington, N. M., 22.7; Buddy
Fort, Lovington, N. M., 27.5;
Jimmy Hayes, Dora, N. M., 31.9.
Horse riding, Junior Rushing,
Plains, riding Upset, first; Gene
McCutcheon, Dallas riding Saucer
Block, second; Bob McCargo,
Plains, riding Loco.
Junior calf ropers, none of
whom received time for their
rides included Don K. Tipton, La-
mesa; Johnny Denny, Bledsoe;
Rodney Walker, Charles Lyons,
Morris Don Flowers, Donald Ray
Reed, Robert Riddles, Billy Fred
Stegall, Harry Rauls and Ronald
Taylor, all of Whiteface.
Miss Glenny Rowe of Sundown,
who was named queen of the
rodeo prior to the show and won
first place in the sponsors con-
test which was in the form of a
clover leaf contest.
Miss Wanda Lee Wiley of
Whiteface took second with a time
of 22, and Miss Wanda Lee Gibson
of Enochs, third, 22.4.
Others in the contest were Miss
Martha Degraftenrcad of White-
face and Miss Riley Pearson of
Enochs.
John Selvey of Whiteface re-
ceived a broken collar bone when
a mule threw him. He received
bruises about the face and body.
Woody Sullivan, Sundown dep-
uty sheriff, led a group of White-
face boosters on goodwill tkips
for two days prior to the rodeo.
Lobo Reserve Ticket
Sole Deadline Sept. 9
Reserved seats for $11 Levelland
Lobo games went on sale In the
business office of the Levelland
schools Wednesday, O. R. Watkins,
business manager, announced Fri-
day ndon.
Holders of last year’s reserved
seats will be held through Sept.t
9, and after that the remainder
will go on sale on the first come,
first served basis. .
Tickets are’for thte Hereford,
Post, Morton, Slaton and Little-
field games.
Overparkings
Sfidw Hise Here
Overparking headed the list in
traffic violations last week ac-
cording to records in-Corporation
Judge W. H. Ford’s office. Fines
of $1 were assessed against the
following persons:
C. J. Feasley, Luke Nort, Mrs.
H. E. Valentine, Jim Elliot, O. C.
Smith, O. C. Herd, Mrs. Demoss,
Mrs. Rankin, Paul A. Williams,
Roy M. Davis D. R. Thompson,
Jack H. Thomas, John R. Potts
(two), Jim Sctser, E. C. Grappe
and J. W. Thompson.
Also, Bob Simpson, Tom Finley,
T. J. Grizzle, Levelland Glass &
Supply, Jimmie McDermett, V. A.
Pearcy, Audy Bert, Bert Wade.
Bill Warren, Woodrow Weaver,
Fred Collins, Kenneth Coats, J.
W. Norman, Mrs. Summers, Gene
French, J. C. Estes, R. R. Kirk-
wood, Mr. Atkinson, Leo Kesley,
Esther C. Adkins, William Ellerd
and Mrs. R. J. Walls.
Also, ..Grace Cartleman, Percy
Bailey, Cirildo Gamales, V. W.
Stephens, Bert Wade, R. H. Mus-
terman, F. B. Moore Mrs. D. M.
Hafaway, Mrs. B. G. Adams, Her-
man J. Greener, A. L. Machac,
Mrs. C. R. Melton, J. L. Turner,
Berry Harris, L. L. Halley, Geo.
(Continued on Page 5)
posal forms, specifications and
plans arc on file at'the office of
Charlotte L. Smith, city clerk at
Sundown, it was said.
The official notice was made
public last week by Mayor Jack
A. Williams of Sundown.
The principal items of work in
the water works improvement
project to be bid upon consists of
6,720 feet of 8-inch and 11,940
feet of 6-inch water mains. This
includes the necessary valves, fire
hydrants and fittings.
In the sanitary sewer improve-
ment project tthe principal items
of work to be bid upon are 1,250
feet of 12-inch, 2,180 feet of 10-
inch, 6,720 feet of 8-inch, 24,780
feet of 6-inch vitrified clay sewer
pipe and 1,530 feet of 6-inch class
100 cast iron pipe. Depths of
cuts vary from 4 to 22 feet.
This must include necessary
manholes cleanouts and branch
connections and one lift station
complete and including pumps
and sewage treatment facilities.
It must consist of concrete skim-
ming tank, earthen oxidation la-
goons and necessary piping and
valves.
Bidders, it was said, must sub-
mit a cashier’s or certified check
issued by a satisfactory bank or
company in an amount not less
than 5 per cent of the largest pos-
-iblc b«J, ^/pitted.
The successful bidder will be
asked to furnish bond on the at-
tached form in the amount of 100
per cent of the total contract
price from a reliable suretyt com-
pany.
Mon. Pecos Ducat
Sale Is Cancelled
Joe Holmes of Lubbock, will
head a group of four members
of the South Plains Officials
association, who will explain rule
changes at the Lobo Quarterbacks
meeting Monday night at 7:30
o’clock.
Bill Clark, president of the or-
ganization, made the announce-
ment Friday morning.
There wuill be no Levelland-
Pecos tickets for sale Monday
night, O. R. Watkins, business
manager of the schools said Friday
noon.
Previously it was announced
that Levelland would place 200
tickets to the Pecos game on sale,
but school officials have informed
Watkins that it was a policy only
to furnish an unreserved section
of 500 seats for visiting teams.
Levelland fans going to Pecos
will have to purchase their tickets
when they get to Pecos, it was
explained.
First "Good Will" Drive Deadline
Is Set For Thursday, September 7
Thursday will end the first period of the current Hockley County
Herald and Sun-News “Good Will’’ circulation campaign.
On that date the vote value of each subscription will decrease
about one-third. A subscription from a new subscriber is now worth
70.000 votes to the candidate, after Thursday the value will drop to
48.000 votes.
Sam Allen, local campaign manager, urges all prospective sub-
scribers to get their subscriptions in to their favorite candidates prior
to Thursday in order to ensure the added vote count.
The candidate receiving the largest number of subscriptions will
be awarded a 1950 Buick, now on display at Keeling Buick company in
Levelland; second award will be $400 in cash; third, $200, and fourth,
$100.
Prorated Votes
Mrs. E. H. May .........................................!................... 7410,000
Mrs. J. H. Caddsll ................................ 7,780.000 ^
Mrs. Elva Crank .1 /.ft30.000
Mrs.Bill Jungman 7,060,000
Mrs. Pete Bridges ........................................... 5,080400
Mrs. Maudene Smallwood . S.OOOjM^^^^
Weldon Steen ... 1.0014— tS&jfc
Glen Whltener ..............v............................................. 800,000 ' 'ASf
Mrs. R. P. Brouthertln ....... 410,000
Mrs. Christens Harris
MIh Shirley Baxter ............1|a aaa '.3
Mrs. Bob Bhaw ’*
hire. Joe Charter ... ..................
SUnley Criswell ........ .........
44 rs. Richard 44ason . ....
Richard WlUlaist .........................................................
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