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YOUR SUNDAY
NEWSPAPER
FOR LEVELLAND, SUNDOWN,
WHITEFACE AND THE
ENTIRE SECTION
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LEVELLAND, Hockley County, TEXAS
Sunday, August 28, 1949
Numfrer 15
First Bale Hockley Cotton Ginned Friday
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Cotton Farmers Hurt For Rain
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Dry land cotton in Hockley
county from Lcvclland cast to the
Lubbock county line is in bad need
for a rain, according to Hockley
County Agent Artie B. Forehand.
The cotton is burning fast ac-
cording to Forehand, who says that
a rain is already too late for sev-
eral thousand acres.
The County Agent still believes
that Hockley county will harvest
£ over 200,000 bales this year how-
ever, with 100,000 bales coming
from the 112,000 irrigated acres
planted to cotton.
Approximately 115,000 irrigated
acres were planted in cotton, but
Forehand estimates that hail has
claimed almost 3000 acres, near
Ropes and another patch near An-
ton.
From Lcvclland west to the
Cochran county line, Forehand
• believes that the 125,000 acres of
dry land cotton will average bet-
ter than a half bale to the acre,
from Levelland cast, the 127,000
acres will be hard pushed to av-
erage a third of a “bale, Forehand
says.
“Farmers to the west could use
Ray's Hatchery Moves To New
Building On Littlefield Road
Herbert Ray, who is the pro-
prietor of Ray’s Hatchery opening
Monday morning says that he
will be able to hatch and sell 200,-
000 chicks this coming season ifj
he can get the eggs.
Eight brooders with a capacity
of 750 chicks apiece arc kept
filled by two incubators with a
capacity of 60,000 eggs.
Ray plans to db some fall hatch-
ing next week, but says that fall
hatching docs not amount to any
great volume and would not. imy
a man to open up his equipment
unless he was going to be there
anyway.
The hatchery also carries a line
of Evcrlay feeds for poultry, and
buys and cleans chickens as well
as buys cream.
The new home of Ray’s llalch-
a rain to good ad vantage, but they cry is a 50x130 pumice block
arc not really hurting," Forehand _ structure, and besides an office
Community Meet
Scheduled In
Pettit School
Herald reporter Friday.
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Over 369,000 acres hove been
planted to cotton in Hockley
county. Forehand said, with only
480,000 acres under cultivation.
“This is putting all the eggs in
one basket, so to speak, but a good
bottom season form the spring
rains indicated a good cotton
year,” Forehand explains.
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Pep Schools
Open Monday
The Pep schools will open their
1949-50 year Monday morning
with a complete slate of new
teachers, Supt. H. H. Deck an-
nounced Friday morning.
A new school cafeteria will
also be opened Monday with. Miss
Theresa Jungman in charge, as-
sisted by Mrs. N. A. Fcagan.
They plan to serve 113 students
at noon daily in two shifts in the
new building.
The faculty includes P. J. Neff,
English; Mrs. Clara Pearson, high
school subjects and seventh and
eighth grade; W. M. Lowry, fifth
and sixth grade; Mrs. W. M. Lowry
third and fourth grades, and Mrs.
If. H. Deck, first and second
grades.
Supt. Deck will teach high
school mathematics..
Brazil’s area exceeds that of the
continental United States by about
250,000 square miles.
Galileo constructed his first
telescope in 1609.
and display room and living quar-
ters in the rear. Blacklc' Allen
was general contractor. '
Mr. and Mrs. Ray came to Lcv-
clland in 1917 and bought J. A.
Turrcntine’s hatchery where they
have been located since. They
arc moving the- equipment to the
new building this weekend and
plan to be ready for business
Monday morning.
The Rays came to Lcvclland
from Abilene where they did
farming and raised broilers. \
Along with their hatchery, feeds,
chickens, eggs and cream, they
will also carry stock salts and
commercial salt for water soft-
eners.
Ray estimated that he hatched
and sold 120,000 chicks this past
season, but was never operating
at more than two thirds capacity.
“We just couldn't get the eggs,” he
says.
Mrs. Ray, a former school teach-
er, is sexcr at the hatchery.
M^in qualifications for this job
are good eye sight and patience,
she explains. She has only been
at it for two seasons now, but
says that she can handle as many
400 chickens per hours. The
really top notch sexers can han-
dle as many as 700 per hour, she
says, and they get two cents a
piece for sexing the chicks.
There arc eighteen different
classifications that the sexer must
know before he can distinguish
the pullets from the roosters, and
Mrs. Ray says that where there is
any doubt they put the chick in
with the roosters.
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Half Hundred Hunt Harrassed
Hound Haughts Have Harnessed
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Doggone!
The dog’s gone.
More than half a hundred fam-
ilies were eager to have the white
Shepherd dog which the T. M,
Lawsons felt compelled to give
away this week, with more than
53 calling at the Lawson home in
the 28 hour period between the
first caller early Thursday and
11 o’clock on Friday, and numer-
ous others calling the Herald of-
fice and coming in to see about
the animal.
News spread fast of the Law-
son’s offer to give away the dog
after an announcement over KLVT
and a notice In Thursday’s issue
of the Hockley County Hgrald
"I had no idea there’d be so many
people who wanted him,” Mrs.
Lawson said.
Ted and Virginia, the youngsters
in the family, were reconciled to
parting with the dog, for they un-
derstood clearly that he was hi
danger in town. He bad a special
affinity for motor bikes, and dash
ed heedlessly into the street wtMM
one passed. The fenced backyard,
which was barrier enough whan
year-old dog, for he leaped it
with case.
Mr. and Mrs. Estcl Haught, of
Shallowatcr, whom the Lawsons
have known for years, are the
lucky owners of "Shep”—the
Sun-News nomination for the most
popular pet of all time in this area.
"We’ll get to see him often now,
anyway,” Mrs. Lawson asserted,
adding that they'd already missed
him a great deal.
The Lawson family came into
possession of the dog when Clyde
Peden, Stanolind inventory man,
left “Shep” with them for awhile.
After Peden noticed how attach-
ed the family had become to the
animal, he offered to give it to
them: an offer they accepted with
Slacrity. Ted and Virginia liter-
ally turned handsprings wh*pi they
found the dog was to be theirs
and now, rather than see the pet
injured or killed, they ere willing
(with reservations) to see him
join another family.
Among the disappointed family
groups who wee* anxious to annas
the handsome white dog were cell
em from Petersburg,
In an effort to correlate school
and community activities, I). R.
Holliday, superintendent of schools
at Pettit, announced this week that
a mass meeting will lie held Tues-
day morning at 9 o’clock jn the
school auditorium.
Forrest Weimhold, editor a lift
publisher of the Hockley County
Herald and Sun-News, will be
the principal speaker for the pro-
gram. . „
Introductions of teachers In the
Pettit school system will be a fea-
ture of the general assembly, and
an effort will be made to form
adult organizations of persons in-
terested in selected vocational’
pursuits.
It is virtually imperative that
all citizens and parents in the
Pettit community attend the meet-
ing, for it is believed that the as-
sembly will point the way for
greater community development as
well as for more effective opera-
tion of the correlative project. *
rg, Shallowatcr,
u4 Whitetee*
Stephen Shapp Is
Lions Speaker At
Thursday Luncheon
Stephen Shaap of Rotterdam,
Netherlands, a foreign exchange
college student, told members of
the Lions club Thursday noon of
his country.
Shaap said that most of the
people of this country thought
of Holland as a Country of wind-
mills and skating, but he said
that it was a land of farmers.
The land is fertile there and
dairying is stressed and most of
the cattle there are Ilolstcins, the
speaker said.
He said that only a small amount
of wheat was raised there, mpst of
it is imported from Canada,
United States and South America.
Sugar beets arc raised there but
they arc better for cattle than they
arc people, he chuckled.
“Holland has to be strong, we
have to have strong business peo-
ple to make our way, our country
is so small.” He pointed out that
that country had varied indus-
tries over the world with tobacco
interests in Connecticut.
There are no automobile fac-
tories inv that country that are
owned by the Dutch. The Ford
people have been there for some
time and the Kaiser-Frascr com-
pany has recently built a plant
there.
The area of Holland is about the
siez of the Texas Panhandle and
there are 10,000,000 people there.
There are now a number of
Czechoslovakian and Hungarian
students in Holland the speaker
said. Shaap is one of the 27,000
foreign exchange students.
O. W. Marcom introduced Shaap.
Dr. Bob Robertson was initiated
as a member of the Lions club by
Edgar Brasch.
Dr. C. G. Dunn presented
awards to Bob Ford, immediate
past president; O. R. Watkins, im-
mediate pari secretary) and C. W.
Knick, Jr., for a perfect attend-
ance from July 1, IMS to July 1,
1949. The attendance atpretd was
lata’ (n arriving.
The design of the White Bouse
is said to
State Fugitive
Is Captured
In Sundown
Lacy Wingfield, >yho was serv-
ing sentences totaling 129 years
in the state penitentiary at Hunts-
ville, and who escaped from that
Institution about ten weeks ago
was captured in an apartment
house at 4:30 o’clock Thursday
afternoon in Sundown by City
Marshall Woody Sullivan, with the
aid of Ranger Capt. Crowder and
Raymond Waters, a ranger, both
of Lubbock.
A trap had been set for Wing-
field after he had been spotted by
Fred Comp (on, former Borgcr con-
stable.
When they walked in on him,
Wingfield was unarmed and gave
no resistance. He had been in
quite a gun battle with the Borger
police force in 1946, before he was
captured, and had escaped from
the Ramsey prison farm on June
13, of this year. * -
The officers immediately carried
the man to the Lubbock county
jail, from where he will be re-
turned to Huntsville. ,
Wingfield was sentenced from
Borger in 1946 charged with a
scries of knob-knocking of safes
in that city, Amarillo and Wichita
Falls. He bad also been cha
with murder, according lo
van.
Sullivan had received a bulletin
from Huntsville tojpc on the look-
out for the desperado, who had
resisted a number of aryests.
Carraway And
Bridges Leave
For Convention
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Sheriff Charley Bullock pre-
sented special deputy sheriffs
commissions to Wm. T (Pete)
Bridges, 19th District American
Legion commander and Bumie R.
Carraway, commander of the Wm.
E. Evans post here before they
left Thursday morning for the na-
tional Legion convention in Phila-
delphia.
Hockley county’s first bole hon-
ors went to J. C, Pointer of F
ville Friday morning August 26 as
Buster’s Gin turned out
ty’s first bale qf cotton at 10:00 a.
m.
Seed cotton weighing 167S pounds
went to the gin for a 520 pound
bale. Pointer pridefully points out
that the Lubbock county bole was
a sparse 408 pound bale and gath-
ered only a day earlier.
Buster McNab is the owner of
the gin, and D. L. Craig was the
ginner. Ginning started at 9:40 a.
m. and the bale came out at 10:00
a. m. sharp.
The cotton was gathered from
approximately 45 acres, but Point-
er said that it was not picked care-
fully. and that he believes they
could have gotten the bale at least
two days earlier over the same
tract with careful pulling.
“Many of the open bolls were
under leaves and hard to tea.” he
reports, and about 25 hands were
doing the pulling.
The cotton was planted in the
latter part of April, Pointer said,
and he had a good stand on May 3.
He owns about 250 acres in cotton
this year and estimates that he will
make a half bale per acre. About
30 acres of th.........
land he
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Georgia hi-bred seed was used.
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got his first bale off of was
d cotton. Half and half
farm is 2 Vt miles
northeast of Ropes and 2V» miles
from the Lubbock county line.
Pointer is a 1935 graduate of
Ropes high school as is bis wife,
the former Marjorie Crow, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Crow.
They have tyo daughters, Janice, -
7 and Freda Bess, 3. '
■The first bale this year came in
ree days after the first bale ladt
year when F.
FIRST BALE GINNED . . . J. C. Pointer of RopJbsville brought in the first bale of cotton to
be ginned in HoCkley county this year. The 520 pound bale was ginned from T675 pounds
of seed cotton and was ginned ot Buster's Gin. Pointer is at left and on the right are Bus-
ter McNab, owner of the gin and D. L. Craig, the ginner who handled the cotton. Gnning
took twenty minutes with the bale rolling out at 10:00 a. m. Friday morning.
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Stanolind No. 2 Holt
Progressing Favorably
Both men were dressed in cow-
boy regalia ana were photograph-
ed by a Herald Sun-News photo-
grapher before they left for the
convention.
Bridges is a delegate from the
state and Carraway is a district
delegate.
The convention will gel under-
way in Philadelphia Wednesday
and will continue through Satur-
day.
President Harry S. Truman is
to be featured speaker on the
four-day program.
Rev. Jordon Grooms
Holds Borgor Meet
Rev. Jordan Grooms, pastor of
the first Methodist church has
been the cveogclist in a meeting
at the First Methodist church in
Borger.
He returned home Saturday
morning.
Despite the fact,that it found the
Devonian 978 feet low to a dis-
covery from that formation one-
quarlcr of a mile to the south,
Stanolind Oil & Gas Company No.
2 Holt, a stepout to the Landon-
Deep field in Central-South Coch-
ran County, has possibilities of
making a producer from that for-
mation. (
This venture has its best show of
oil in a drillstem test in the top of
the Devonian at 11,755-800 feet.
The tester was open for three
hours. ^
Recovery was the 2,000-foot
water blanket, 5,000 feet of free
oil and 480 feet of mud cut oil.
There were no signs of formation
water in that section.
The exploration drilled on down
to 11,830 feet, and ran another
drillstem test with the packer at
11,777 feet. The tool was open
six hours and 15 minutes.
. Recovery was the 2,000-foot
water blanket, 3240 feet of free
Oil and gas cut drilling mud, and
540 feet of sulphur water.
At the time this report was
prepared operator was running a
string of 7-inch casing. It is
probable that the pipe will be set
bottom, and the producing toru-
ination which has been penetrated
will be tested through perfora-
tions.
Interested observers think the
well has at least 70 feet of oil
bearing lime and chert in the De-
vonian above the top of the water
zone. Those persons think it has
a good chance of making an oil
well from that interval.
There is a possibility that the
development will be deepened
from the present bottom of 11,830
feet, either before or after the
section above that point is tested
for production.
This venture, located 660 feet
from south and east lines of sec-
tion 3, block L, psl survey, topped
the Devonian at 11,729 feet, to
give it a datum of minus 7,918
feet.
That made it 978 feet low to
the same company’s No. 2 Edwards
One-quarter of a mile to the
south, the discovery, and up to
now the lone producer from the
Devonian in the Landon-Deep
field.
That region also has wells pro-
ducing from the San Andres lime
of the Peimain and from a Penn-
sylvanian lime.
The field is about 17 miles south
and a little west of the town of
Morton.
Stanolind No. 1 Grollman, on
the west side of the Landon
field, and 66Q feet from west and
407 feet from south lines of sec-
tion 4, block L, psl survey, had
reached 10,375 feet in Pennsylvan-
ian lime, and will dig on until it
finds and tests the Pennsylvanian
pay zone. It may be carried on
down to find and test the Devon-
ian.
Seaboard Oil Company of Dele-
ware No. 2 E. M. Hinson, slated
10,000-foot exploration in North-
east Terry County, and one loca-
tion south of the same company’s
No. 1 Hinson, discovery for com-
mercial production from the Penn-
sylvanian to open the Mound Lake
field, had reached 6,925 feet in
Permian lime and, was boring
deeper. It is 660 feet from south
and west lines of the northwest
quarter of section 91, block 4-X,
EL&RR survey, and eight miles
northeast of Brownfield.
from 12 acres of
it took 1950 poiiBSSSB. _
to make a 5)0 pound bale.
Gresham’s bale wax auctioned
off to M. f. Guetersloh who bid
$ 1.05 ; premiums by Levelland
merchants, free ginning by Brown’s
gin and seed brought the price of
first bale to well over $«00.
Gresham had planted April 17.
Pointer, in discussing his • first
bale. sai<{ that this wm the first
year that he had planted In April,
and that he had bad to plant over
a 150 acres by his early pise ting.
He thought it was worth ^
This particular field was hurt-
ing for rain, Pointer said, and when
he finally did get a rain it had *
thrown off considerably.
Pointer has been farming this
particular land since 1944. and bad .
farmed the same land before in
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LelandH. Knight
Church Of Christ j
Revival Speaker M
Leland H. Knight of Booneville,
Ark, is preaching twice dally in
the annual summer meeting of the
Fifth Street Church of Christ,
which will continue through Wed-
nesday night, according to an an-
nouncement.
Services are being held
daily at 10:00 A.M. and 8:15 PJ
James Maupin, song director
the Fifth Street Church of Chr
is in charge of music. -- •
Devotional services ate to
conducted dally at 7-JO A.M.
KLVT by Minister Knight.
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Catalog for the seventh annual
Hockley County Fair went to the
printers this week, a fifty-two
page program carrying the rules,
regulations and premium for all
exhibits with advertisements of
local merchants.
Money from the advertisements
will go into the premium fund
which offers $1800 to^ Hockley
county exhibitors In the various
classes and departments.
General crop exhibits, individual
crop exhibltt, needlework, kitch-
en-craft, and the fall flower show
which has been combined with the
fair will feature the program.
The livestock division has been
divided into Oeveral Sections, with
pne complete division to be com-
«f exhibits from the Hock
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will be far and above any previous
attempt, fair association directors
believe.
The new fair bui)ding is rapidly
getting into shape tor the first
three day show with booths being
built daUy. The building insures
the success of the fair, for plenty
of room is made available to the
different exhibits.
Special attractions are planned
for the' two nights of the fair,
with a fireworks display scheduled
the first night and a program
by, the Lubbock Boy Scouts slated
an hour long show of Indian dances
for which they have received
statewide acclaim- _4. i
Negotiation*-*r£mhderway 'to
secure a concOtslonarie to
in and put up
rides for the visitor*.
real purpose of the
vertisc the sect
Hockley people.*!
' Schedule for the fair j
September 10, mott
close.
September 18, opening t
10.30 ia, judging-;
booths and gidinaryf
begin. 3*0 p
flower show an
gin. 8*0 pJn. ■
scheduled to test
begin.
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