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VOLUME X
Featuring The Oil News
Levelland, Hockley County, Texas
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If Pays Off
In Real Values
Sunday, June 18, 1950
Number 5
Twenty To Report For Jury Service
Fifteen Cases Slated For Trial
In County Court During Week
Fifteen cases have bepn set for
trial this week in County Judge
LaVern I. McCann’s court.
And twenty Hockley Countians
are to report for jury service in
connection with the cases Tues-
day morning at 10 o’clock on the
second floor of the courthouse.
Cases to be tried include the
following: State vs James Riley,
charged with a check law viola-
tion.
State vs Robert G. Hckman,
charged with driving while in-
toxicated.
State vs Royce Howard, charged
with transportation of liquor in ^
HONORS DUE SUNDAY . . Cffltb^sDo^ June 1 8, is an-
nually set aside to pay respect to FtJftiers throughout the
United States. Ministers speak on the responsibilities of
fatherhood, a few more people attend church and child-
ren visit with their parents, paying special attention to
Dad. Vicki Lynn Goebel, seven-and-one-half-manth-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Goebel of north Level-
land, is a bit young to know about Father's Day, but her
"Daddy" appears pleased with her and 4-year-old Rodney
though the meaning of the day may not be clear to them.
The Goebels moved to Levelland four months ago from
Tulsa. They are both natives of Waco. He is a junior me-
chanical engineer at the Levelland Gasoline Plant just
east of the city. ' (Staff Photo)
Illness Of Judge
Hampers Work Of
District Court
Fort W orth Delegation
To Visit Here June 21
Some 30 to 33 Fort Worth bus-
iness men will visit Levelland for
a noon luncheon and conference
with local business men on June
21, John McCrory, president of
Fines In Court
Total $266.30
Fourteen fines totaling $266.30
including cost, have been served
in Justice of the Peace A. F. (Pop)
Odell’s court during the past twe
weeks.
Shelby Baugher, charged May
31 with speeding, pleaded guilty
to the charge and was fined $14
Lester Eugene Noblitt, charged
June 1 with speeding, pleaded
guilty and was fined $14.
James Leonard, charged June ?
with driving without an opera-
tor’s license, pleaded guilty and
was fined $14.
Tom T. Williams, charged June
3 with speeding, pleaded guilty
and was fined $14.
Rufus Clayton Davis, charged
June 5 wifh running a stop light
pleaded guilty and was fined $10
Johnny Norman Crockett
charged June 5 with speeding
pleaded guilty and was fined $14
James Larken Nunlay, charged
June 5 with speeding, pleaded
guilty and was fined $14.
Leo Forrest Hutson, charged
June 7 with having no registra-
tion papers for truck in his pos-
session, pleaded guilty and was
fined $14.
George Francis Marshall, charg-
ed June 8 with speeding, pleaded
guilty and was fined $14.
Weldon Wayne Wright, charged
June 12 with speeding, pleaded
guilty and was fined $14.
W. E. Harris, charged June 14
with having no operator’s license
pleaded guilty and was fined
$14.15.
Fernando Luna, charged June 15
with petty theft, pleaded guilty
and was fined $88.15. He was re-
manded to jail.
Kenton P. Sullivan, charged
June 15 with speeding, pleaded
guilty and was fined $14.
Back charges
cently included A. J. King, charg-
ed with speeding May 29, who
pleaded guilty recently and was
fined $14.
the Levelland Chamber of Com-
merce has announced.
The visit is part of a two-day
tour which the delegation is mak-
ing to cities in west central Texas
and eastern New Mexico on June
20 and 21, McCrory said.
Notified of the visit by William
Holden, general manager of the
Fort Worth Chamber of Com-
merce, McCrory said the delega-
tion has asked that some 30 lo-
cal businessmen be their guests
for the luncheon, to be held in
Wayne’s resturant.
The Fort Worthians, according
to Mr. Holden, will be traveling
in a chartered bus and are due
to arrive in Levelland at 11:45
a. m., coming in on (State High-
way) 51. According to Mr. Holden
the delegation will consist of top-
ranking banking, manufacturing,
jobbing, wholesale, livestock,
meat packing, grain, newspapers
and other interests of the City of
Fort Worth. The tour is the first
ino this section on which
Worth business men have ever
gone in an organized group, and.
according to Mr. Holden, much
interest is in evidence about the
trip. . I
This particular tour, he pointed
out,, is rather unusual in that in
the interest of time, as well as
travel-comfort, the tour will com-
bine the best features of both
rail and bus transportation. The
tour will originate in Fort Worth,
9 p. m., Monday evening, June
19, when the Fort Worth delega-
tion boards special pullmans at-
tached to the regular Santa Fe
train movement northwest. Mem-
bers of the delegation will have
(Continued to Page 7.)
Tuesday was slated to be an-
other busy day in District Judge
Dan Blair’s 72nd court, but Judge
Blair was ’taken ill and upon a
doctor’s advice cut his court
proceedings short and returned
home and to bed.
His condition was reported
“good” but he was still away from
the bench toward the last of the
week.
Cases passed Tuesday included
H. B. Owens vs Texas Employ-
ers’ Insurance Association, com-
pensation; A. R. Little vs Super-
ior Insurance company, compen-
sation; M. G. Mayfield vs Texas
Employers’ Insurance Association
compensation; John Thompson vs
Associated Employers’ Lloyds
compensation, and Chester Taylor
vs. O. E. Johnson, damages.
The case of Marvin T. Hump-
ton vs Paul Revere life Insur-
ance Company, compensation, was
dismissed by agreement, and Fred
Reeves vs John H. Dolye et al
property, was continued by re-
quest of the plsnintiff.
In the case of Lilliemae Mc-
Crummen et al vs J. S. Sylvester
rental collections, an agreed
judgment was set with the judg-
ment pending.
In recent compensation cases
judgments handed down were in
the case of Jimmie H. Cooper vs
Texas Employers’ Insurance As-
sociation $450 with one-third
granted defense counsel, J. B.
Cotton.
In the case of J. N. Kennedy
vs Texas Employers’ Insurance
Fort] Association judgment rendered
dry area.
State vs Carl Williams, charged
with driving while* intoxicated.
State vs James Riley, charged
with a liquor law violation.
State vs D. L. Johnson of Sun-
down, chirged with driving while
intoxicated.
State vs Lowell Rading, charged
with driving while intoxicated.
State vs Belton Demons, charged
with transportation of liquor in a
dry area.
State vs Martin Cranfill, charg-
ed the possession of liquor and
an aggravated assault.
State vs W. A. (Bill) Williams,
charged with driving while in-
toxicated.
State vs A. A. Tipton and R.
F. Vaught, a point charge of liquor
law violations.
State vs Elmer Sharp, charged
with a check law violation.
State vs Gtcyd E. Grant, charg-
ed with driving while intoxicated.
State vs Elbert F. Hollis, charg-
ed with driving while intoxicated.
State vs Hardy Demons and
J. E. Crenshaw, joint charge of
possession of liquor.
Those to report for the jury
service Tuesday morning include
S. A. Lambert of Pettit, Joe A.
Frierich of Pep, E. W. Brasch of
Levelland, Paul Atchison of Lev-
elland, W. J. Brazil of Anton, M.
C. Boyd of Levelland, and E. A.
Christopher of Ropesville.
Also, Glynn Reid of Levellond,
Duff Abell of Levelland, S. R.
Robertson of Sundown, Joe Mears
of Levelland, J. F. Gerik of Pep,
Homer Morris of Levelland,'and
C. F. Reinsch of 'Anton.
Also, W. W. Jones of Ropes-
ville, Jones Palmer of Levelland,
W. O. Drake of Ropesville, J. J.
Kerby of Sundown, C. E. Boley
of Levelland and L. M. Burnett
og Levelland.
Saturday Deadline
For Entering Races
8aturdey, June 17, was the
final deadline for local and
precinct candidates to an-
nounce for office with Harry
Mann, chairman of the Hock-
ley County Democratic Ex-
Pop
Shows
ecutive committee
of Sundown
enominal Gain
HockleyCounty
Total Is 20,420
SLAMING OUT A TWO-BASE HIT ... A capacity crowd witnessed Baldv ioinej^ Sun-
down Oilers manager since 1946, in action Thursday at Sundown in tile 1 Baidy Joiner
Night" Oil Belt League game between the Oilers and the Seagraves team. The Sundown-
ers lost to the Seagraves Oilers, 9 to 6. Joiner was caught above as he batted early in the
game. Catcher Turner of the Seagraves team was all set for the ball when Joiner belt-
ed it into right field. Curtis Barrett of Lubbock is behind the plate. (Staff Photo)
$44,310 Construction Contract
Awarded For New Carver School
• ‘Phe Levelland Independent
Schodl District board of educators
worked late Thursday night.
They accepted a bid of $44,210
for the construction of a new fire-
proof Carver school, purchased 570
additibnal classroom seating units
opened bids for intra-communica-
tion systems for the Junior High
school, East and West Elementar-
ies and employed a Senior High
school physical education director
for girls and an auto mechanics
instructor.
The new Negro school building
bid went to W. O. Hampton of
Oil Production Appears Imminent
In Two New Hockley County Pools
Rosebuds in Trouble?
was $3,000 with one-third of the
amount going to defense coun-
sel, J. B. Cotton, Lubbock at-
torney.
District Judge G. V. Pardue of
the 99th district of Lubbock is
slated to hold court in Hockley
County during July, it was an-
nounced.
Lions Club Views Film
T» pfPtures furnished by the
Extension Department of college
in Searcy, Ark., were shown to
the Lions Club Thursday noon in
the Cactus Room of Wayne’s Res-
taurant ’
C. G. Brooks Seeks
Commissioner Post
C. G. Brooks has authorized
The Sun-News to announce that
he will be a candidate for com-
missioner of Precinct 1, subject
to the July 22 Democratic pri-
mary.
A resident of the county for
23 years, Brooks has farmed north
of Levelland and was formerly
a commissioner of Precinct 3. He
In regards to his candidacy
Brooks said:
71 have met a great number of
people in the county and pre-
cinct in my work as a tax deputy
during the past four years. I be-
lieve I know the kind of job they
w'HTit done and feel that my past '
experience as a commissioner
qualifies me to do this job well.
"Your support and Influence in
the coming election will .be ap-
peciated.” *■
Use of microwave circuits for
inter - company communication
purposes in increasing steadily.
Two new oil pools appear to
have been discovered in Hockley
County. Although neither has yet
developed commercial production
both have indfeated a capacity to
produce oil.
Kewanee oil Company No. 1
C. T. Pace, a wildcat in Central-
South Hockley, fs swabbing and
flowing approximately three bar-
rels of new oil per hour from
the San Andres zone.
This possible discovery is three
miles eastof production in the
Slaughter field and immediately
north of the town of Clauene.
Production is from open hole
at 5,123-51 feet. That zone had
been treated with 10,000 gallons
of acid. No water is reported
being developed.
Kewanee has an 1,800-acre
block of lpases surrounding the
discovery.
Exact location of the No. 1 Pace
is in the southwest corner of
labor 13, league 33,13aylor County
School Land survey.
In Central - North Hockley
Humble Oil and Refining Com-
pany No. 1 Hobgood has develop-
ed good shows of oil in the Clear
Fork zone of the Permian.
On a drillstem test at 6,610-40
feet, gas surfaced in two and one-
half hours, and the tool was closed
immediately. Recovery was 300
feet of mud-cut oil, with no signs
of formation water._
Operaters then deepened to 6,-
700 feet and took another drill-
stem test. "Recovery after three
hours was 2,000 feet of oil cut
drilling mud, 1,600 feet of mud
cut oil and 420 feet of salty, sul-
phur water.
The venture is drilling ahead
below 6,758 feet. It is contracted
to go to 11,000 feet to test the
possibly will not be tested for
Ellcnburger. The clear Fork zone
commercial production until the
lower zones have
tested.
The No. 1 Hobgood
(Continued to
Maybe Littie Thrip
Withers The Bloom
If your Levelland roses bud,
wither and dry up before bloom-
ing, perhaps the cause is thirp,
a minute insect which works on
cotton leafs and flowering buds
The insect, slightly grey in
color, is easily located by plac-
ing a white paper beneath the
“droopy” rose bud and stricking
the bud briskly with the open
hand. The insects, if present, will
fall on the paper.
In ease they^ are present, here
is an easy way to rid your flow-
ers of the nuisance.
Mix an ounce of arter emetic
to one pint of water and three
tablespoons of honey. Place the
fluid in a common house fly
spray and treat the bushes about
every ten days until the thrip is
under control.
The insect are also a common
nuisance in Levelland in con-
nection with other flowers. The
above test will quickly deter -
insect are present.
enry Harrison was
of Indiana Territory
Littlefield,, low bidder,• wlS'b pro-
mises to have the building com-
pleted within 110 working days.
The 570 seating units were pur-
chased from the American Desk
Manufacturing company of Tem-
ple. Prices were $9 for 17-inch
desks and $8.60 for 15-irjch desks
Miss Ruth Rogers was employ-
^.ed.ioJcaeh senior school girls
physical education another session
and E. Jeter is to teach auto
mechanics at the senior high
school another year. Both are now
attending school at North Texas
State College at Denton.
Other bidders in connection
with the Carver school building
were Paul Viaille of Levelland
$48,975.92 with 130 days, Jack
Nelson of Lubbock $51,000, Ray
Givens of Lubbock $52,300 with
180 days and Swain Construction
company of Lubbock $52,515 with
120 days
The Negro school will have four
classrooms, an office for the prin-
cipal and. rest rooms, One of the
classrooms is to be divided by
Forty Levellanders
Hear Union Official
' Curtis Fletcheq of Dallas, vice
president of the CWA division
jaajasusns
and W. A. Magers, chaplain. (Staff Photo) Brownfield attended the meeting
glass wall, the smaller room
serve as a workshop.
Architects for the building are
Alvin G. Cearley and Jos. H. Sen-
ne, Levelland architect-engineers
The building is to be erected on
some four and one-half acres of
land three blocks north and wesi
of the present Carver, school in
north Levelland.
Bids in connection with intra-
communication systems, similiat
to the present system serving the
Senior High school, were Bud
Narin of Morton $5,465, Chamber-
lain Electric company of Level-
land $6,881.50, Darwin’s Radio and
Appliance company of Levelland
$7,825.95 and West Texas Radic
company of Amarillo $7,883.
Quotations offered the board ir
Connection’ with the purchase of
seating units were from the Amer-
ican Deck Manufacturing company
of Temple, Gulf State company of
Dallas, Beckley Equipment com-
pany of Chicago and the South-
west Seating company of San An-
tonio.
Construction is now continuing
on a new South Elementary school
building, an eight-room West Ele-
mentary annex and a Senior High
school gym and shop.
The school district’s campuses
are also undergoing beautification
this summer.
The work is being carried oui
under the authorized bond issue
of last fall.
Hockley county eased slightly
ahead of a previous census esti-
mate of between 19,000 and 20,000
to mark up a count of 20,420
persons in the 1950 census.
Sundown showed a population
of 1,487— a gain of 1,287 over
an estimated count of 200 for
the city in 1940.
Mayor Jack Williams of Sun-
down estimated the 1950 figure
to be far under Sundown’s peak
population during the oil develop-
ment period. Mayor Williams said
that a count taken then would
have shown Sundown to have
something like 3,500 persons.
Even with this loss, however
Sundowners have been able to
watch a phenominal growth that
has seen the city’s' population
excede the count of a decade ago
by some 700 per cent.
This far outstrips the growth
rate of Levelland which had a
population of 3,091 in 1940 and
reported an increase to 8,333 or
a gaip of 237 per cent by 1950.
Levelland, like Sundown, is be-
lieved to have lost in population
after the decrease in area oil act-
ivity.
Of the four corporate cities in
the county, Sundown is given the
number two position. Ropesville
with 500 persons in 1940, had only
328 in the last census. Anton,
with 929, showed a marked in-
crease over the 549 listed in 1940.
Hockley county has increased
from 12,693 persons in 1940 or
some 61 per cent.
County Over Top
In Bond Sales
i
Hockley County has already
passed by $437.50 its quota of
sales in the current Independence
saving bon^S drive.
The announcement was releas-
ed last week by Z. O. Lincoln,
chairman of the county savings
bonds committee.
According to the release, the
county’s quota was Set at $14,000
and sales totaled $14,437.50 by
last week, Thk was 103.13 par
cent of Ihe quota.
Sales are to continue through
July 4. Bonds may be purchased
at the Leveland State Bank,
First National Bank of Levelland
and the Post Office.
The following is a telegram re-
ceiver by Lincoln from Natham
Adams, chairman of the advisory
committee for sales in Texas.
“Congratulations: Your county
has already exceeded its quota in
the independence savings bonds
drive. Sales report for period end-
ing last Saturday shows your
sales of series E bonds at $14,-
437.50. This Is 103.13 per cent of
your quota of $14,000. You and
your committee have marked up
a mighty find record. May I sug-
gest that you give this achieve-
ment added significance by striv-
ing to exceed your county quota
as much as possible before the
drive ends on July 4. Thanks foi
your leadership. Signed Nathan
Adams.”
Fire Protection
Line Being Laid
Laying of 4,250 feet of high
pressure fire protection line alor«
East avenue and around Elder
additions one and two was begun
by the city during the past week,
City Manager Ray Drain has an-
nounced.
Constructed of eight inch re-
claimed pipe, the project will
cost an estimated 6,000, the city
manager said.
The line will run along East
avenue from 10th to 16th street,
west to Avenue D around both
Elder addition, and the new South
Elementary school located on Av-
enue C.
Anticipated completion date fur
the project was not
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