The Sun-News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 5, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 18, 1950 Page: 2 of 8
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THE SUN-NEWS, Lavellond, Texo.
Sunday, June 18, 1950
After Progress, A Promise
One of the ironies of the 1950 federal census is the fab-
ulous gains listed for the Hockley county cities of Levellond
and Sundown since the 1940 count
Sundown, not incorporated 10 years ago, was completely
ignored and officially had a population of zero. Levelland had
a count of 3,091.
Both are given credit, particularly Levelland, for big pop-
ulation increases in the past 10 years. But had the count been
taken at the height of oil development in Hockley county, both
might have been shown as measurably larger cities.
Most citizens feel that both towns have lost several thou-
sand persons each since the quietening of the oil front. Most
of us bemoan this loss in cosh customers and individuals to
give support to our economy
The fact remains, however, that oil development and na-
ti#al increase due to our progressive agricultural community,
has left Levelland with a great number of substantial citizens.
It has outdistanced the older city of Brownfield and it is reason-
ably sure the census will also show it to be ahead of Littlefield.
We have a lot for which to be thankful. The growth of
both Levelland and Sundown has been phenominal. And on the
eve of a new decade, we are faced with at least a possibility of
another surge in area oil development
We're already anticipating the census of 1950. May our
growth and progress be as great in the next ten years os it has
been in the past.
We are about convinced that the dust of which a man is
made and to which he returneth is not gold dust.
0H Tl» Record. - '|^*A|o>ngp The Way
By G M. COMSTOCK
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A Public Responsibility . . .
The formation or an Alcoholics AnoRymous group in Lev-
elland has elicited various responses from different groups
One seems to view it as hilariously funny. Persons of this
type tell humorous stories about drunken ex-AA's Others seem
to view it with horror For them it is unthinkable that Levelland
should need such an organization
We feel neither of these attitudes is correct and are
brought on only by a lack of understanding of the situation with
which alcoholics are faced.
Alcoholism is a disease And at the stage in which Alco-
holics Anonymous takes over to help a man who has suffered
from the ravages of this disease, it is no longer the question of
whether drinking is morally corect or incorrect.
He is suffering an ailment that is as surely a disease as is
cancer, polio or T B What began as seemingly harmless use of
alcohol has turned into an animal of compulsion that the in-
dividual cannot resist through personal willpower. He is head-
ed for complete ruin
What Alcoholics Anonymous does is give this individual a
new hold on himself through a program that has proved 75 per
cent effective It places him in a position where by constant
vigilance he can cease to drink—become a sober man
But he is not cured There is no cure And he remains as
surely an alcoholic as an the day when he might have been
found dead drunk in the gutter.
He is only a sober alcoholic. One, which if he ceases his as-
sociation wtih AA is likely to find himself back in the position
of a disreputable drunk on our streets and in our jails.
This is why some have little respect for AA They see this]
small percentage who are unable to be benefitted by an organ-
ization which has done more for the inveterate inebriate than
all medical science and churches combined.
They see the persons who, for some reason have been un-
able to apply the 1 2 steps of AA—-men who are no longer mem-
bers of Alcoholics Anonymous because they automatically lose
their standing with the organization by taking one drink of
any substance which contains alcohol.
One meeting with Alcoholics Anonymous would probably
sell the average person on the soundness of the principles of
AA.
And if the citizen were to become fully aware of the neces-
sity of AA and give the organization the standing it deserves
tn this and other communities, it could well drop its anony-
mity. .....„
It is the responsibility of the public*0 see that this worthy
organization receives such a standing. For until it does, each
of us is hampering almost total rehabilitation of four million
known oJcoholics in America We are delaying the recovery of
four million of the nation's potentially good citizens from a
disease that ranks fourth among all the physical oilments
which plague humanity.
Father’s Day
Dear Dad: It has been ten years
since you went away, but some-
how I believe that out there
somewhere in the great unknown
you are still real and can under-
stand what I am writing you on
this Father’s Day.
Dad, there are a great many
things that I didn’t get around
to telling you when you were
here with me—maybe this letter
will serve a double purpose, that
of telling you what is in my heart
and awakening in the hearts of
other sons the idea of telling their
Dads what grand persons they
are while they are still here among
the living.
1 First, Dad, I want to tell you
that since you have been gone
I—-hayfijuissed your good advice
and council—it just seems there
is none otherthat could under-
stand as you did when you were
here with me. Also there are a
lot of thanks that I am due you
that somehow I put off telling
you about when we were to-
gether.
Dad, you had a lot of faith in
me. I know that I haven’t mea-
sured up to all that you expected
of me. still I am thankful for that
faith which caused me to dig in
harder to accomplish some of the
worthwhile things of life.
I don’t believe there was ever
a dad that was ever more contin-
uous and loving in the teaching of
higher ideals, friendship, mora-
By HOWARD R. SMITH
TOPEKA, KAN—We don’t need
to worry about war with Russia.
All we’ve got to do is keep on
"doing the right things”, and
continue to support the policies
that have made this country
great, and the Russian menace
lity and good fellowship than the
lessons you taught me, for this
I also want to convey to you my
deepest thanks.
Somehow the words which fell
from your lips were an inspira-
tion for me to live a beeter life.
Dad, I ,guess that most all of us
have a lot of cussidness down
inside of us, but your words dim-
med their importance and caused
me to live a better life every day.
You were more than a dad to
me. You were a councilor and a
real friend. Somehow when you
ceased to be my dad and became
my friend and talked to me as
a friend to friend all my fears
faded into insignificance to re-
turn no more forever, for this
friendship, dad, I am eternally
greatful.
Maybe if you were here with
me today you could help me again.
I am worried, dad. I don’t know
just what to do to make me feel
that I am repaying you for the
many things you did for me. I
am afraid this will be even hard-
er for me to do than it is trying
to tell you today how much I
apprieiate you.
But I’ll tell you this, dad, that
I will never be satisfied as the
days come and go without know-
ing that I hav done my level best
to be all that you wanted me
to be. 1 realize that what I do
will not be much but I am going
to make that small amount be
to your credit and out of your
memory I shall be satisfied that
I haven’t let you down but have
carried on with the best I have
to offer.
will diminish.
This is the view held by aged j
former SenatoV Arthur Capper, I
publisher of the Topeka Capi-1
tol, Capper's Farmer and House- |
hold Magazine, and owner of |
various other properties.
It was my good fortune to en-
joy an hour’s visit with him in
his ornate Office in the Daily Cap-
itol Building' this morning.
I hadn’t seen him in five years
and- wondered if he would still
remember me.
"Hello, there,” he greeted in
that expansive Kansas munner
"where you been keeping your-
self lately? Pull up a chair!”
I did.
Cut In Allotted Cotton Acreage
Is Said Likely Unless All Is Planted
It was pointed out last week
that unless Hockley County's al-
loted cotton acreage is planted
this season, the county stands a
possibjlity of loosing some cotton
acreage base in the future.
The warning was issued in a
letter from the Production and
Market \g Administration county
committee to farmers here.
This year, cotton planted will
will be penalized.
According to the letter, signed
by B. Forman, chairman; W. E.
Price, vice chairman, and Joe M.
Slatonites Present
Performance Here
More than fifty Slatonites were
here Tuesday afterhoon for a big
street show, advertising Slaton’s
big "Frontier Birthday Party"
Saturday afternoon and night.
The show, featured a tiiig:^
band, a dance team, three twi
Howard, regular member, the, ^rs of the Slaton I igei .L;y .<1, anT
farmer or his agent must be pre- I a square dance by eight members
sent when the cotton acreage'il 0f the-Slaton Square Dance club.
And found him, even as he ap- be considered cotton whether it
proaches 85, still keenly inter-
ested in current afairs and acute-
ly concerned over the spending
and tax policies of the Truman
administration.
"I never did have much faith
in Truman,” he said, and refer-
red to Truman’s record in Con-
gress as somewhat on the nega-
tive side as far as noticeable ac-'
complishments were concerned.
"None of us,” he added, "ever
had the least idea that Harry
Truman would ever be President
of the United States.”
He had profuse praise for Sen-
ator Tom Connally, with whom
he served for many years on the
important Military Affairs com-
mittee.
He also mentioned his high re-
regard for another famous Texan,
Jesse H. Jones.
“Jesse Jones and I lived in the
same hotel for quite a while, and
I got to know him pretty well,”
said the former Senator, "And
He’s a mighty fine man.”
About the national debt:
“I want to tell you now, it’s
alarming!”
He confessed frankly that he
doesn’t know where we are head-
ed,
are not curbed
comes up or docs not come up
However, it was said, if a cotton
producer over-plants his allot-
ment and it does not come up,
he will receive credit for his quota
but will not be penalized for the
excess acres planted.
measured.
Measuring of cotton acres is
slated to get underway in the
county Friday or Saturday.
If the measure acres are in
excess of the farmer’s allotment,
the farmer will receive a notice
giving 15 days to destroy the
excess acres and report to the
county office.
In the case of plowing up ex-
cess cotton acres, a charge will
If the cottonseed actually pro- be made for measuring the plowed;
duce plants and the excess acres
are not plowed up, the farmer
government like the State of Kan-
sas Is being run, we’d be in fine
shape,” he said with more than
passing pride.
"We’ve got clean politics in this
state. . . .In fact, we’ve always
had good government in Kansas.
“Why,” tye smiled, “even the
democrats up here.'. .at least
some of them. . . .are on the
right track.”
He believes it will be difficult
to defeat President Truman in
1952, but added:
“However, I think wc can work
it out.”
He thinks General Dwight G.
Eisenhower would be a great vote
getter in a presidential race, but
did not elaborate on other possi-
biliies.
up acres in the amount of $2
for one plot and $1 for each addi-
tional plot. Thus, if a farmer lias
two plots, it would cost him $3
to have his destroyed acres check-
ed.
Where the farmer thinks an
error has been made, he wfill
put up a deposit of $6 if the
field is one plot, plus $1.25 for
each additional plot. When it is
remeasured, if the farmer has not
overplanted the -• county office
will refund the deposit.
There will be no charge made
by the office for measuring the
alloted cotton acres the first
ime.
P. G. Meading, Chamber of
Commerce manager, was in charge
of the troupers.
Sammy Baugh, professional
football star and Red Whatley
will be featured in a matched
roping, a big parade, old fiddler’s
contest, Odis Echols and his Mel- -
oday Boys and the Westerner*
Square Dance Association are
holding their outdoor dance on
the streets Saturday night
The square dance organization'
covers West Texas with II,000
members.
A widower of many years Sen-
if present spending policies j ator Capper lives in Topeka's
Jayhawk Hotel, and takes his
“We’ve just got to shut that j’ meals in the hotel’s dining room,
off. . . this spending of money so bowing his white head in long
recklessly. | and silent prayer before each
“If they'd just run the federal meal.
Reports To 7th Fleet
Angus F. Henderson of Anton,
radioman third class with the
United States Navy, recently re-
ported for duty with the seventh
fleet. At the present he is station-
ed aboard the heavy cruiser USS
Toledo.
Mrs. Henderson resides at
route 2, Anton, tjer husband has
been assigned communication
duties with the fleet. *
2 Levellonders At
HSU Summer School
Two Levellanders are among
the 1,200 students attending sum-
mer school at Hardin-Simmoni
-University at Abilene.
These from here are Mrs Mary
Lou Lawlls and Mrs. Rachel C
Brashear, both are seniors.
They have enrolled for the first
six weeks of school which will
be concluded July 8, it was
announced. The second term
starts July 11. A final three
weeks term begins August 19.
Visit In Levelland
Mr. and Mrs. fra D. Sexton of
Nome are returing home after
a visit with her brother and: fam-
ily, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Wood:
Sr.
That couple up in the eighties who decided to get married
the other day were probably second childhood sweethearts.
YA--G0T SOMETHIN' TO
SWAP or SELL
Modest Proposals . . .
Railroad Commissioner Ernest 0 Thompson may not be
entirely serious about it. But his proposal that Texas put eight
more United States Senators in Washington is worth o glance
The veteran member of the tSate Railroad Commission reminds
the nation that we have the right to split Texas' into five states
whenever we are of a mind to do so. That is. we thought we had
the right; it soys 90 plainly here in the 1845 treaty by which we
entered the union But after Black Monday, who can be cer-
tain?
To inflict eight more United States Senators on the Amer-
ican people might be misunderstood. We may be bitter, but
hardly that bitter Besides, the Senate merely writes or passes
on solemn, presumably binding covenants with little countries
like the Republic of Texas; it is left to others to "interpret"
common English words and meanings in them
What this state really needs, Mr Thompson, is eight men
on the Supreme Court who believe the word of the United States
should be as good as its bonds
—Dallas News
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