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LEVELLAND, Hockley County, TEXAS
Sunday, November 27, 1949
Football Officials
Of District 4-A
Slate Meet Here
A merting of District 4-A foot-
ball officials is set for Wednesday
night at 7:30 o’clock in the Senior
High School building, Coach Tructt
Rattan said Saturday morning.
Superintendents and coaches of
the nine member schools, O’Doiy
i *ell, Littlefield, Muleshoe, Morton,
^fahoka, Slaton, Brownfield, Post
and Levelland comprise the offic-
ials to meet.
Three members of tlie league,
Sudan, Sundown and Seagraves,
which are automatically in Class
fl, but failed to receive a unani-
mous vote by the other member
schools at a recent meeting who
have necessary enrollment for
Class A schools, will receive a
Rearing for re-entering the league
Sudan is the only school that is
sure to bid for re-entrance in the
league, while Sundown and Sea-
_ graves may ask for admittance,
it was said.
Currently, the league is set for
1950 with each team playing eight
conference games and two pre-
season games for a ten game
schedule.
An all-district team is likely to
ls>e named at the meeting.
But the district set-up for the
new year is expected to claim
most of the attention.
Bales Gianed Here
Reach 130,000
Fair weather and hard work
'.w continued to push the Hockley
County cotton crop farther and
farther past all previous records
of cotton ginned.
As of Friday night it was
estimated th.-'t 130,000 bales of
cotton had been ginned In the
county.
Fred Presley, farm placement
representative for the Texas
Employment Commission here,
^ estimated Saturday morning
that about 80 per cent of the
cotton crop had been ginned as
of this week.
As of 6 p.m. Tuesday, 119.238
bales had been ginned.
The 33 gins in the county
were still running twenty-four
hours per day and the farmers
had continued their long hours
of work each day to harvest the
^ record crop.
Numbor2B
MISS JAYCEE OF '49 . Miss Donna Stevens, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Stevens was named Miss Jaycee of
'49 at the Monday night Jaycee Follies by a panel of five
out-of-town judges. Miss Stevens, a senior high school
student here, was recently named Lioness of the week.
(Staff Photo)
Guetersloh Motors
Airs Trading Post
The ‘Guetersloh Motor and
Implement Company’s Trading
Post of the Air” went out over the
air waves from station KLVT
"1230 on your dial,” this week.
The program provides a public
service to the folks of the com-
munity who wish to buy, sell or
trade with their neighbors.
The program is broadcast be-
tween 7:15 and 7:30 a.m. Monday
through Saturday. Don Daniels
conducts the program.
Persons who desire iniormalion
broadcast, may mail cards to
KLVT or stop by the company’s
office at 208 Avenue 11 and leave
the information. The listings arc
picked up daily at the office.
Civil Service Exam
For Carpenter Set
The Unite<r~Sta»es Civil Service
Commission announces an exami-
nation for the position of Carpen-
ter, salary beginning,at $1.14 per
hour.
Eemployment will be at Reese
Air Force Base, Lubbock.
Detailed information and the
necessary forms may be obtained
from the Levelland Post Office
The Director, 14th U. S. Civil Ser-
vice Region, 210 South Harwood
Street, Dallas 1, Texas, or the Ex-
ecutive Secretary, Board of U. S
Civil Service Examiners, Reese
Air Force Base.
Levelland Plant
Commences 1st
Operation Phase
The first phase- of operations at
the Levelland gasoline plant began
early this month, the plant owners
announced this week from Tulsa
Okla.
An important conservation pro-
ject in the West Texas area, the
new plant began taking casing-
head gas from the Levelland field
on November 8. The entire field
gathering system was cut in last
week. The gas is being compress-
ed, sweetened and dehydrated at
the Levelland plant, and the resi-
due gas is sold to a gas pipeline
company. The unstabilzied con-
densate is being shipped to the
Slaughter gasoline plant, 15 miles
away, to be re-run and stabilizer).
Final completion of the absorp-
tion, distillation and fractionation
sections here is scheduled for
February 1, 1950. When complet-
ed, it will have a daily capacity
of 40 million cubic feet of gas and
a maximum liquid product output
of more than 130,000 gallons daily
The plant’s owners include
Stanolind Oil and Gas Company,
which operates the plant, The
Texas Company, Magnolia Petrol-
eum Company, Mid - Continent
Petroleum Corporation, Tide Water
Associated Oil Company, Superior
Oil Company, Skelly Oil Company,
Maracaibo Oil Exploration Corp-
oration, Cobb and Watson, and
Ralph Lowe.
More than 50 men will be em-
ployed on the plant operating staff.
Mitt Dowlen has been namod plant
superintendent, and H. B. Lang-
ford, Jr.; is field project engineer.
Farm Bureau Requests Crop
Support Prices Be Increased
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Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Robinson, of
Tulsa, Oklahoma, arrived in
Levelland Thursday for a visit
with Mrs. Robinson's sister, Mrs.
Bill Ortloff and Mr. Ortloff. This
The company handles Hudson is Mr. and Mrs. Robinson's first
curs and Case tractors. visit to Levelland.
India Is Progressing In Education
Students Visiting Here Indicate
India is making rapid advance-
ments in the field of public edu-
(Skation, reports two Indian youths
who arc visiting this week end in
Levelland.
Also in the city visiting this
week with friends is Miss Garnet
M. Everley, principal of the
Methodist Mission School in Mut-
tra, India, during World War If.
The three arrived aboard the
same ship in the United States
last November. The boys arc stu-
* dents at Southwestern College.
^Winfield, Kanas, a Methodist co-
educational institution founded in
1885.
The students, Nolan Masih and
Doyal Daniel, and Miss Everley
will present a special program at
the First Methodist Church at tlie
Sunday evening service.
Miss Everley will show some
color films made in India and the
students will present a musical
reprogram with two Indian musical
instruments called israjes.
While here they are visiting
with Mr. and Mrs. Preston Mar-
com, Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Magee
and Rev. and Mrs. Jordon Grooms.
The two boys will leave Level-
land Sunday night to return to
school Monday. Mareom, who met
Masih's father while he was a
member of the armed forces in
^ndia in September, 1945, met the
Wsoys at Lubbock when they ar-
rived by train from Kansas Friday
Miss Everley will leave Monday
fQr San Antonio. She is a native
of Kansas and is on leave in the
United States now folowing a
nine-year stay in India.
, Mareom met Miss Everley in
India while on a visit to the
Methodist school at Muttra, locat-
ed about one hundred mile* south-
east Of Delhi. India.
Mareom, manager of the Pro-
duction Credit Association here in
Levelland, said the country of
India had all appeared alike until
his trip to Muttra and his chance
meeting with Miss Everley.
It seems that Mareom and some
other American soldiers had made
a special jeep trip from Delhi to
Muttra to sec the Methodist school
and visit one of the groups’ friends
who was connected with the
school.
When they arrived the friend
was absent, but Miss Everley,
though busy with the operation of
the school, volunteered to point
out the main points of interest to
the visiting soldiers.
Mareom and the students were
visiting in his office Friday after-
noon and having a gay time ex-
changing slang phrases that Mar-
com remembered from his time
spent i;i the boys’ native country.
The boys were surprised at the
many words of their native tongue
that Mareom could recall.
Daniel is seeking a master de-
gree in business education and
Masih seeks a master degree in
business and economics. They
plan to teach upon their return to
Hindustan, India, their native
home.
Daniel is married and his wife
and two children are now in
Hindustan. She is teaching there.
The boys said that they had
suffered not a bit from language
difficulties here. It seems that
both of them had studied English
from about the second grade.
The nearest thing to a free
school in Hindustan at the present
time, they said, was the mission
schools. The government is pre-
paring free schools, but at the pre-
sent time these schools only
handle students in the lower
grades.
Most of the schools, they said,
are schools that require the stu-
dents or their parents to pay di-
rectly for the education.
The Methodist school, they re-
ported, had about 300 students
when they loft there in 1948. It
is a co-cducational school.
When asked if they had found
the customs and life of the aver-
age citizen, especialy women, sur-
prisingly different from the life
in India, they replied "no."
It seems that it is now common
sight to see women working in the
offices, but not as clerks in the
stores of India. Many of the
ancient customs and bans on wo-
men are being lifted, though not
immediately. The recent abolish-
ment of the “uqtouchables” by law
is proving successful, they report.
With Time, the boys say, India
Bond Election Plans
Are Completed Here
Plans for the holding of a spec-
ial election to consider a $700,000
bond issue fdr improvements of
the present Levelland district
school plants were completed this
week.
The election is set for Saturday,
Dec. 10, at the Junior High School
| on Fifth Street. The poll will be
open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., it was
announced.
Persons who have paid poll
taxes and have rendered property
for taxation in the Levelland
School District will be eligible to
vote.
Petitions presented to the school
board this week by property own-
ers of the district requested the
special election be held.
The petitions stated that pro-
posed bonds arc not to draw more
than 3.5 per cent interest and ma-
turity should be set at twenty-two
years.
Also, stated the petitions, the
bond issue will be employed to
construct, repair, equip and pur-
chase additional sites for new
additions to the school plant.
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Peeler of
Silver City, New Mexico, arrived
in Levelland Saturday to spend
the week end with his parents
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Peeler and his
sister, Mrs. Saunders, who recently
arrived in Levelland from Japan.
They will also visit with Mrs.
Peeler’s parents, Mr. and Mrs
M. J. Bishop. Peeler is a student
in a Silver City college.
NAMED SWEETHEART . . . Miss Hattie Collier, a junior
in Levelland high school was recently chosen Future For-
mer Sweetheart by the local F.F.A, chapter. Miss Collier
will compete with other girls from over the area in Sun-
down Dec. 7 for the title of District Sweetheart.
(High School Photo)
Farm Labor Outlook
Bright For Next Year
From all reports and indications,, south for the harvest and slow-
it now appears the farm employ-
ment situation for Hockley County
next year will be even better than
this year.
The working co-operation of all
persons concerned has made the
county a bright spot in the inter-
national labpr picture.
Since Sept. 26 the local office of
the Texas Employment Commis-
sion has handled the employment
of some 9,000 workers in the coun-
ty, Fred Presley, local farm place-
ment representative for the com-
mission here, said Saturday.
Presley closed his tent office
north of the square Saturday. He
said that he would be here for a
short time Monday prior to being
transferred to some other point
in Texas.
The commission received 858
orders from cotton farmers this
fall seeking cotton pullers. Some
812 were filled by the commission
directly or indirectly, Presley re-
ports. Some of the orders were
cancelled by the farmers who se-
cured workers themselves.
Some 4,086 workers were secur-
ed this spring by the commission
for cultivation of the crops.
Next year, Prcstley said, he ex-
pects to see a working contract
witli gins whereby 1 he commission
may move about 50 crews, with
some 40 or more workers each,
into the county from the valley
for employment here until about
July 10.
After that the crews will return
ly work back to this area as the
crops arc ready for harvest.
A:; to the labor picture in the
county for another year, Presley
recently invited the Mexican Con-
sul to visit the county and sec for
himself how the agreements
reached between the United States
and Mexican governments were
being carried but by the county
farmers.
The Consul stated that he was
satisfied with the reports he had
received from the county and did
not see any need for visiting the
county.
This was a bright spot. Hockley
County is the only county in Texas
which has employed Mexican Na-
tionals not to have been investi-
gated this fall.
A number of counties have been
on the blacklist because of dis-
criminations carrier! out against
the Nationals. The Mexican gov-
ernment keeps close track of its
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Recommends Loans On Cotton Stored
In Open; Better Mexican Labor Setup
Members of the Texas farm bureau federation in
Dallas this week asked the Federal government to boost
farm price supports on basic commodities from 90 per
cent to 100 per cent of parity.
The group, in a three-day convention attended by
Hockley county farm bureau president, Burnett Roberta,
passed tne resolution after the principal convention speak-
er, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, told the federation that
prie^ supports won’t solve the problem of keeping farm
, Any prosperity brought about
j by price supports is an artificial
; prosperity and should be consider-
ed as such, Johnson declared.
The senator assured bureau
members, however, that there will
; be a governmental aid program
i for farmers as long as tariffs
which protect industry are in
effect.
Johnson also urged Texas farm-
ers to organize so that their voice
can be heard in Washington where
every other segment of the pop-
ulation is heard from through
organization.
Approximately 1,000 members
from over the state attended the
meeting in Dallas, Roberts re-
ported Friday. Mrs. Roberts ac-
companied the local president to
the convention.
There are about 200 members of
the bureau in Hockley County
The organization claims 38,000
members in the state.
, The Dallas group voted "'to
recommend that the Commodity
Credit Corporation authorize loans
on bale cotton stored on farms in
the open.
This, members pointed djut,
would be safer than loans under
the present set up where thou-
sands of bales are stored in the
open on one area of land.
The group, Roberts reports, also
voted to try and get a more satis-
factory agreement worked outrbe-
tween the Mexican government
and the United States government
on requirements for Nationals
working on Texas farms.
It was pointed out at the mcct-
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Funeral Conducted
Friday Afternoon
For Mrs. Taylor
Last rites for Mrs. Charley
Taylor, 52, who died Wednesday
night at 8:40 o'clock in her home
in Levelland, were held Friday
afternoon at 3 o’clock at the First
Baptist Church.
Rev. J. H. Wright, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, officiated.
Burial was in the Tech Memor-
ial Park Cemetery under the di-
rection of George C. Price Funeral
Home.
She had been a resident of
Hockley County for 14 years, hav-
ing moved with her family to the
Hodges community in 1935 and
j moved to Levelland a few years
ago.
Mrs. Taylor was a member of
the Baptist Church.
She had been in ill health for
about three or four months.
She is survived by her husband:
three sons, Grady, John and Bill,
all of Levelland: six daughters,
Mrs. R. H. Sangrill, Morton, Mrs.
Sanford Tipton. Mrs. H. L. Tipton,
Mrs. Spencer Tipton, Mrs. Dolphus
Veretto, and Miss Bondell Taylor,
all of Levelland.
First Showing Of New
Internationals Set
First showing of the new 1950
L-Line of International Trucks) jng that the cotton fanners had
has been announced by the E. L. to do more for the Nationals than
Banks company on the Brownfield for domestic workers this year and
highway, Levelland. The show I pay about the same price for cot-
ing will be Wednesday, Nov. 3" | ton pulling.
The public has been invited to j The Mexican Nationals had to
the "L-Day” display, which is to! be transported from the border
feature three of the eleven new here, insured and returned to tta|r
L-Line trucks. These trucks are homes at the expense of the em-
completely new and improved, a j ployers.
revolution in truck mechanism and: The group was considering
design, officials of the company action on the cotton seed disposi-
havc revealed. j tion problem when an agreement
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Astin and
children returned Friday evening
from San Angelo, where they
spent several days this week to
be with Mrs. Astin’s mother.
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Mississippian Lime Demonstrates
Production Possibilities In Cochran
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Some possibilities of production
from the Mississippian lime have
will throw off her ancient customs! been indicated at Texas Pacific
that have retarded her peopes. I Coal & Oil Company No. 5-F Lan-
Thcy speak in generations, where-
as i( is customary bore to speak
in terms of years.
As to the crops here, the boys
say ihat the cotton stalk is
“little.” They are accustomed to
large irrigated stalks.
And why did they come to the
United States, and especially
Kansas, to receive their higher
education?
Its the same old story, heard
everyday by everybody: “a friend
told me.” In India, like Level-
don, stepout from wells which are
producing from the Devonian in
the Landon-Deep field of Central
South Cochran County.
Up to now there is no produc-
tion from the Mississippian in the
Landon area.
This project is located 1,650 feet
from north and 1,579 feet from
west lines of section 13. block L,
psl survey.
Despite the fact that it is 355
feet lower on (he top of the Missis-
sippian Hum nearest explorations
land, nothing can take the place which have drilled into that tar-
ot a personal recommendation matlon, It has had some signs of
from a friend. foil and gas, while the higher pro-
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jects did not.
Texas Pacific No. 5-F Landon
ran a four hour and 25 minute
drillstem test in the top of the
Mississippian at 10,450-518 feet.
Gas showed at the surface in two
hour and 25 minutes. The gas
volume was too small to measure.
Recovery was 570 feet of heavily
gas and slightly oil cut drilling
fluid. There were no signs of
formation water. Operator drill-
ed ahead to 10,570 feet and en-
countered soft section in the lime-
stone rock. A core was to have
been started at that point.
It Is expected that if more signs
of oil and gas are shown, in that
cores, another drills tern test will ]
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THREE POUNDS AND EIGHT OUNCES ... That Is what
Miss Carol Gene Bullock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Carl
Bullock, Levelland, Route 4, weighs. Miss Corol was bom
idina the neie
Clark, Levelland. Notice the size of Miss Carol's toes os
Nov. 3 at the Edgar-Renegor Clinic. Dr. G. V. Edgar at-
Mlse Vivian
tended. Shown holding the new orrival Is
compared to the nurse's hand.
was readied between the state
PMA office and the oil mills. The
mills began handling the cotton
seed and the bureau dropped the
question.
A recommendation of a rural
road program for the building of
farm-to-highway roads was. made
by the bureau. The group sug-
gested the program might be fi-
nanced by a state tax on natural
tesources.
A resolution asking that Com-
modity Credit be authorized to
acquire storage space for com-
modities which have support
prices was also passed.
The bureau also asked for a fi-
nancial responsibility law requir-
ing car owners to pay damages
when at fault in automobile acci-
dents. a social security program
for farm workers, a constitutional
amendment authorizing special tax
districts for maintanence of county
hospitals and rigid enforcement of
grade A milk standards on all milk
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