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I
YOUR SUNDAY
NEWSPAPER
FOR LEVELLAND, SUNDOWN,
WHITEFACE AND THE
ENTIRE SECTION
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.VOLUME IX
10c Copy
Featuring the Oil News
LEVELLAND, Hockley County, TEXAS Sunday, May 1, 1949
Number 50
New Hotel Campaign "Kick-Off
Dinner Is Stated Monday Night
SALES
SERVICE
Intensive phases of Levelland’s
campaign to finance a new hotel
^Hvill start this Monday, May 2 at
7:45 p. m. with a •’Kick-Off” din-
ner in the Methodist church when
members of the New Hotel Exe-
cutive Committee and General
Sales Organization hold a joint
meeting to start the project.
Harry H. Mann announced,
‘‘Levelland’s New Hotel Execu-
tive Committee has dpnc a com-
mendable job of laying a good
^olid foundation for this campaign
—they met their goal of raising
half the amount required to build
our hotel.” ”The Committee will
continue to work until our list of
prospects are 100% subscribed
because we are going to exhaust
every effort to build our hotel
without a mortgage or a debt. We
have every confidence that this
can and will be accomplished
Vduring ‘New Hotel Week’, May 2
to 10,” Mann concluded.
“The question of site will be
deferred at the present time until
stockholders elect a Board of Di-
rectors to represent them. The
decision as to the exact location
will be made by the stockholders
through their duly elected repre-
sentatives. After all, the people
who put their money into this im-
♦'portant project should have some-
hing to say about the location. We
as a committee do not have the
authority to enter into agreements
which will bind the actions of
the stockholders,” the executive
committee stated when asked
where the New Hotel would be
located.
The New Hotel Committee and
\ the General Sales Organization
W has erected a large scoreboard on
the west side of the court house
square by the court house annex,
in order that the general public
may be kept informed daily of the
progress of the campaign. The
daily sales, team by team, division
by division, and day by day will
be recorded there.
^ Mayo College Exes
To Meet Saturday
In Lubbock
All Mayo college exes' who
formerly attended the Commerce
institution are invited to attend
a meeting Saturday in the Hilton
Hotel in Lubbock, according to
Bob Ford.
Registration of all Mayo exes
over the area will be at 10:00 a. m.
9 tind a banquet is scheduled for 7:00
p. m.
Homer L. Pharr of Lubbock,
former district judge, .lade the
announcement.
Atkinson Talks On
Scout Work At
Lions Meeting
Frank Atkinson, area executive
of the South Plains Council of Bay
Scouts, told of the Lions Club
Scout Troop III, which is slated
to be revived.
He said that the charter had
lapsed March 31 for Troop III, and
that the troop had been inactive
for several months.
Marvin Wheeler introduced the
speaker.
President Bob Ford appointed
W. R. Simon as chairman of the
Scout committee of the club.
Miss Jjavern Cherry, senior,
was introduced as the Lioness of
the Week by O. W. Marcom.
Miss Cherry is an honor stu-
dent, placing fifth in grade points
this year and will complete high
school May 20, in three years.
Paul Russell played a trombone
solo, “Tomorrow,” to the piano
accompaniment of Miss Eleanor
Lincoln.
Members of the cast of the Jun-
ior* High operetta gave a skit
under the direction of Mrs. Don
Raymond.
Guests were Mack Massey and
Jim Bradley, Amarillo, of Gene
Yeager; Elliott W. Adams and
Porter Giles, both of the Lubbock
Lions Club, and J. V. Vestal,
Grand Prairie of Lois H. Vestal.
Prospects Bright
For Bumper Crops
Moisture this week furthered
prospects for a bumper crop in
this area is the opinion of Artie
Forehand, Hockley county agent.
The .62 received this week
brings the years total precipita-
tion to 5.98 inches.
Records in Forehand's office
show this to be the wettest year,
thus far, on record with the ex-
ception of 1941, a bumper year.
During the first four months of
41, a total downfall of 6.47 in-
ches was recorded for the first
four months.
January moisture amounted to
3.30 inches, .37 fell in February,
a bare .13 inch in March and
2.18 in April.
I
Final Rites For Infant
Final rites for the infant son of
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Morgan of
Westwood Village, Lubbock, were
helri this week in Oklahoma.
Morgan, father of the baby, is
employed in the Levclland office
of Stanolind Oil and Gas Com-
pany.
Henry D. McMinn
Assigned To Duty
Recruit Henry D. McMinn, Jr.
son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry D.
McMinn of 1003 Austin St., Lev-
elland. Has been assigned to the
Fifth Armored Division for eight
weeks of basic training.
Before entering the Army, Mc-
Minn was employed by Ripley
Feed Store as a truck driver.
He is now assigned to Co. “D”
81st Medium Tank Bn.
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LEVELLANDER AT WORK . . . Miss Bobbie Stephenson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Stephenson of Meadow, at
her desk as secretary to Gregg Kildow, II, at Kildow Con-
struction Company office on North Avenue H. Miss
Stephenson is a graduate of Meadow High school and
has been with Kildow Construction Company for seven
weeks. (Herald-Sun-News Photo)
Lions Club Names
Copeland Head Of
Nomination Group
Wilson Copeland was named to
head the nomination committee
for officers and directors for the
Levclland Lions Club for the 1949-
50 year at a board of directors
meeting Thursday night in the
Buck Horn Blue Room.
Assisting Lion Copeland will be
Edgar Brasch and C. W. Knick.Jr.,
The nominees will be named in a
few days and the election will be
held May 19.
The board agreed to have two
complete tickets for each post
for the new year beginning July i.
Members of the board discussed
several projects now underway
including the lighting of the ten-
nis courts and the reviving of the
Lions Scout troop and decorating
of the city for July 4
Board members attending were
President Bob Ford, J. B. Reese,
first vice president; Gene Yeager,
second vice president; A. A.
Sparkman, third vice president; O.
R. Watkins, secretary-treasurer;
Lamar West, Edgar Brasch, La-
Vern I. McCann and Lois H. Ves-
tal, directors.
Post Stampede And
Rodeo Dates Are Set
A $3,500.00 purse will be offered
,• to contestants in seven divisions
of the annual Post Stampede and
Rodeo to be held May 18, 19, 20
and 21. The contests will be bronc
riding, bareback riding, calf rop-
ing, double mugging, bull riding,
cutting horse contest and a cowgirl
sponsor contest.
Stock will be provided by Bill
Lyons of Petrolia, nationally
a known rodeo stock raiser.
^ Billed as “The Most Colorful-
Fastest Show in 1he West, Staged
4 in the Biggest Arena in West Tex-
as,” the 1949 Stampede will be
featured by several specialty acts,
including a clown and a mule.
Dances will be given on the Pa-
villion on the rodeo grounds, the
nights of May 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21.
In anticipation of the rodeo, one
of the first and biggest amateur
shows staged in West Texas, the
Post and Garza County residents
will start wearing western cowboy
regalia on May 2, on which date
the downtown area will be decor-
ated with Welcome Banners.
The third week of May has been
set aside permanently as the date
for the nnnunl Post Stampede.
*
Dalton Rawlins To
Return To States
Corporal Dalton E. Rawlins, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Raw-
lins, Levelland, returned to the
United States recently for subse-
quent discharge from the United
States Air Force, it was announced
by Colonel Walter C. White, Com-
manding Officer of Nagoya Air
Force Base, Nagoya, Honshu, Ja-
pan, where Cpl. Rawlins was sta-
tioned for duty with the Fifth Air
Force, the Occupational Air Force
for Japan.
A student of Levelland High
school, Cpl. Rawlins entered the
Air Force on July 31, 1946 at San
Angelo, Texas, and following com-
pletion of basic training remained
on duty in the United States un-
til alerted for movement to the
Pacific Theater of Operations.
Arriving in Japan in November
-1946, Cpl. Rawlins was assigned
to the Far East Air Forces and
subsequently reassigned to the
6101st Air Base Group, Fifth Air
Force, ns a projectionist.
FFA Banquet’
Slated Mon
Forty-six guests received in-
vitations to a meeting of the Fu-
ture Farmers of America banquet,
to begin Monday evening at 7:30
in the high school cafeteria. Del-
mcr Hightower will direct opening
ceremonies, Warren B. Woods, vo-
catidnal agriculture instructor, said
this week.
Bennie Ilofacket will be in
charge of introductory phases;
Buddy Logsdon will summarize
FFA projects, and Eudell Hood is
programmed to discuss portions of
study engaged in by vocational
agriculture students.
Expected banquet guests are
these: T. H. Dobbs, G. C. Clapp,
R. H. Ranson, V. N. Sibley, Earl
Garrison, Paul Atchinson, Donald
Schwab, Jim Luker, Gordon Mc-
Millan, Percy Cole, LaVern Mc-
Cann, John Morton, G. M Com-
stock, C. B. Edgar, James Foy, J.
V. Davis, Forrest Weimhold, Jim
St. Clair, C. M. Phillips, Bob Ford,
Billingsley.
Others who will be guests by in-
vitation include J. W. Smith, R. H.
Hester, George S. Beasley, jr.,
Truett Rattan, Howard Lucas,
Wilburn R. Wheeler, Marvin
Wheeler, W. O. Tipton, Raymond
Cook, Clarence Holman, Horace
Byerley, O. R Watkins.
Also on the guest register are
Mr. and Mrs. Olen Hair, Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Bertciel, Mr. and Mrs.
McMurry, Rev. J. H. Wright and
Rev. Jordnn Grooms.
Dr.T. F. Boushy
Sunday Speaker At
First Baptist
Dr. Theodore F. Boushy, head of
the history department in Wayland
College of Plainview, will speak
at both the morning and evening
services Sunday at the First Bap-
tist Church.
Dr. Boushy is a native of South-
ern Lebanon, near the River Jor-
dan. His father and mother split
from the Catholic Church and or-
ganized the First Baptist Church
in that country, according to in-
formation received by Carl E.
Nance, education director of the
First Baptist Church.
His parents were won to Christ
through missionaries to that coun-
try and now that church is thriv-
ing and has a school adjacent to
it. Dr. Boushy assists in the sup-
port of it.
The visiting speaker received
his training at Oklahoma Baptist
University, University of Okla-
homa, Indiana University and
graduated from Southern Baptist
seminary.
He was instructor at Mercer
University at Macon, Ga., before
going to Wayland.
Dpi Boushy’s subjects are “The
Mission of the Church,” morning,
and “Witnessing for Christ,” ev-
ening.
Weimhold Member
Of Panel Group
Forrest Weimhold, editor and
publisher of the Sun-News is a
member of discussion panel at the
Southwestern Journalism Con-
gress being conducted at Texas
Tech. Described on the program
as highlight of the two-day Con-
gress, the panel will answer ques-
tions asked from the floor by the
students attending the meeting.
Other members of the panel in-
clude members from other fields
in journalism and each member
will attempt to answer questions
concerning his particular special-
ty. Weimhold is the representa-
tive of weekly and semi-weekly
newspapers.
Besides Weimhold, the panel
will be composed of Keen Raffer-
ty, head of the school of journa-
lism at the University of New
Mexico; Robert Whipkey, manag-
ing editor of the Big Spring Daily
Herald; Bill Donnell, city editor
of the Wichita Falls Times and N.
Dwight Allison, managing editor
of the San Antonio Light.
The congress is made up of
journalism students and faculty
members from eight universities,
Oklahoma A&M, Texas Univer-
sity, Baylor university, Southern
Methodist university, Louisiana
State university, Texas State Col-
lege For Women, and Texas Tech.
20 Applications To Drill
Filed In Levelland Area
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, Monday, May 30, 1949, is Memorial
Day, and on such day, it is altogether fitting and ap-
propriate that the Flag of the United States of Amer-
ica should, at proper times, be displayed and flown
at the front of all places of business in the Cityof Lev-
elland, Texas; and
WHEREAS, a special Memorial Service in tribute
to the Hockley County Service Men and Women who
gave their lives for their country in World Wars I and
II has been scheduled by Wm. E. Evans Post of The
American Legion, to be held in the City of Levelland,
between 9:40 and 10:00 a- m. on such day; and
WHEREAS, a special Dedication ceremony of the
new Courthouse Annex Building of Hockley County,
Texas, will be held in the City of Levelland, Texas,
on such day;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, KENNETH HARPER, May-
or of the City of Levelland, Texas, DO HEREBY
PROCLAIM: . ,< F
That the proprietors of all business places in the
City of Levelland are hereby urged to make arrange-
ments to display and fly the Flag of the United
States of America in the front of each respective place
of business in such City, during the appropriate hours
on Monday, May 30, 1949.
That between 9:45 and 10:30 A. M. on Mondav
May 30, 1949, during the Memorial Service to be held
in tribute to Hockley County Service Men and Women
of World Wars I and II who gave their lives for their
country, all Flags displayed in the City of Levelland
shall be flown at half-mast; at all other appropriate
times during such day all Flags shall be flown full
mast.
That all citizens of the City of Levelland are hereby
urged to cooperate to the fullest extent possible in the
observance and attendance of such Memorial Ser-
vices and Dedication ceremony to be held in the City
of Levelland on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30,
1949,
Given under my hand as Mayor of the City of Level-
land, Texas, this 27th day of April, 1949.
KENNETH HARPER,
Kenneth Harper, Mayor, City of Levelland, Texas.
Pat Infestation
In Hockley County
Worst In Years
Hockley County now has more
rats man ever before, declared
Buford Davidson superintendent
in charge of rodent control in the
county, Thu rs day after-
noon.
Mr. Davidson said that “a num-
ber of farmers over the county told
him that rats were worse now
than they had been in fifteen
years.”
Mr. Davidson has conducted the
program for over two years and
he continues to stress the fact that
his services are free to the public.
According to newspaper reports
over the state ending April 16,
thre were 16 cases of typhus fev-
er, caused from rats, as compared
with six on the same date last
year.
There have been no reported
cases of bubonic plague in hu-
mans, said the State Health De-
partment’s weekly bulletin, “but
the repeated finding of a plague
in rodents and fleas in West Tex-
as points toward grave danger
of human infection.”
In contacting Mr. Davidson, per-
sons may call at the health office
in the courthouse annex.
Mother Of Local
Woman Is Claimed
Word was received this week of
the death of Mrs. R. E. Hazlewood
of Uziah, California, mother of
Mrs. J. W. Rainey of Levelland.
Mrs. Hazlewood had lived in Cal-
ifornia for the past 25 years.
Survivors, in addition to Mrs.
Rainey, are Mrs. George Babcock
of Riverside, N. J., Mrs. Olen Slo-
cum of Ukiah, and a son, Rex
Hazlewood, San Francisco.
Mora* Sustains Injury
R. B. Morse, trucking contractor,
was injured in a fall Tuesday eve-
ning. Minor injuries resulting
from the accident were treated in
a local hospital, and the patient re-
leased.
Former Levelland
Boy Is Honor
Student At Tech
E. C. Gromm, Jr., of Ballinger,
formerly of Levelland and a grad-
receive special recognition along
uate of Levelland High school, will
with 177 other Tech students Sun-
day afternoon on the Tech campus.
Students of Levelland that were
listed in the Herald Thursday,
who will also receive recognition
for outstanding work are Miss Jo
Olive Mobley, Miss Irma Rae
Beaver, Bobby Simpson and Rich-
ard G. Stripling.
Captive alligators have lived 40
or 50 years without showing any
signs of aging.
ACA Educational
Program Concluded
In Levelland Meet
The concluding meeting in a
series of eight educational meet-
ings designed to explain 1950 mar-
keting quotas, was held in the dis-
trict courtroom Thursday night.
First meeting was held April 18
at Anton with 80 farmers present.
The Whitharral meeting April 19,
attracted 75 farmers, 45 farmers
attended the meeting at the Pep
school April 20. The meeting at
the Pettit school April 21, drew
55 farmers, only two farmers
were present at the Sundown
meeting April 22.
78 farmers attended the Ropes-
ville meeting April 25, 65 were
present at the Smyer school April
26, and 105 met in the County
courthouse for the Levelland
meeting April 28.
According to J. W. Evans, ACA
administrative officer conducting
the meetings, the farmers took an
interest in the program as they
could see that it would vitally af-
fect every farm and farmer In
Hockley county.
Evans explained that the pres-
ent prospects for cotton crops de-
finitely indicate that marketing
quotas will be declared by the
Secretary of Agriculture. Should
thej be declared, a national ref-
erendum of farmers will be held
either the latter part of November
or the first part of December. If
more than one-third of the farm-
ers voting disapprove the quota,
then there will be no quotas is-
sued nor will there be any loan
program. However should the Is-
sue carry by two-thids or great-
er, there will be acreage allot-
ments issued and farmers will re-
ceive a 90% of parity loan.
In connection with this program,
Evans pointed out that it is ab-
solutely necessary that every
farmer fill out a work sheet set-
ting forth his acreage of various
crops for each year since 1945. If
these reports are not on file at
the time the alottments are made,
the farmer might not be able to
get his fair share of the county
allocation.
“Records in the county office
at the present time indicate that
more than 300 farms do not have
worksheets and have made no re-
ports in the last four years,
Evans said.
FROM GRAND PRAIRIE
Rev. and Mrs. J. V. Vestal and
family of GrandPrairie are here
visiting relatives and friends.
Mobile Unit Makes 1190 X-Rays
In County Wide Chest Survey
Saturday, April 30, winds up
Hockley’s County’s 1949 free chest
X-ray survey. Other county peo-
ple are urged to taken advantage
of the free X-rays between 10 a.
m. and 2 p. m. Saturday In the
courthouse annex in Levelland.
Business picked up Wednesday
and Thursday in the health unit
office, when the total X-rays
through Thursday went to 1,190.
The report was made by Mrs. M.
C. Bolton, county health nurse,
who again reminded local people
that even if they had X-ray last
year, another is in order now.
Hockley Countains continue to
be amazed, Mrs. Bolton remarked,
at the simple procedure, which
takes about two minutes of time
and requires no undressing.
Sundown school turned all-out
for X-raya Thursday, the health
nurse reported. Supt. Billy Key
came In as the advance guard to
point out parking places for the
school buses that followed at in-
tervals.
Besides bringing in all Sundown
students 15 years of age gr over,
the Sundown high school teachers,
janitors, cafeteria workers, half
the grade school teachers and the
bus drivers reported for X-rays.
The remaining half of the grade
school teachers had their X-rays
Friday.
Levelland’s West Ward teachers
and some high school and junior
high instructors have been in for
chest surveys, Mrs. Bolton said.
Students were grought in by
classes by the teachers in charge
from Levelland school which also
provided school bus transporta-
tion. East ward teachers were
X-rayed Friday. Levelland cafe-
teria workers also received their
X-rays Friday.
The portable X-ray equipment
was brought to Hockley County
under the sponsorship of the
Hockley County Tuberculosis As
sociatlon, South Plains Health Unit
and the State Health Department.
“No matter what is shows, your
chest X-ray is a good bat, a
sound investment, cheap insurance
and a sensible Idea. Oat an X-ray
of your chest every year, or often-
er if your doctor says so,” the
sponsors advise.
The Levelland area is slated for
20 new oil projects according to
applications submitted to the Mid-
land district office of the oil and
gas division of the Railroad Com-
mission this past week. There were
twenty new locations last week.
The current report listed the
completion of 14 new producers.
This is an increase of two over
last week’s total.
Applications were filed for 13
new projects in Hockley County.
Cochran County claimed seven of
the new drillsites.
Hockley County headed the list
of completions with 10 new pro-
ducers. The Levelland field had
six of them and the Slaughter
field four.
The Cochran County side of the
Levelland field gained three newly
completed wells. The Anton-
Irish pool added one new well in
Lamb County.
Completions For Levelland Field
Hockley County
Texas Pacific No. 3 A. L. Payne,
660 feet from south and east lines
of labor 17, league 44, Rains CSL
survey flowed six hours through
a two-inch choke to make a cal-
culated 24-hour potential of 397.44
barrels of 32 gravity oil. No water
was present and the gas-oil ratio
was 392-1.
The pay section at 4,856-4,898
feet was treated with 10,000 gal-
lons of acid.
Ralph Lowe No. 1 Edgar, 440
feet from west and north lines of
lease in labor 25, league 44, Rains
CSL survey, flowed six hours
through a Vi-inch choke to pro-
duce a daily calculated potential
of 375.36 barrels of 32 gravity oil.
There was no water. Gas-oil ratio
was 507-1.
The pay zone at 4,835-4, 875 feet
was acidized with 5,000 gallons.
George P. Livermore Inc. No. 2
N. W. Willard, 510 feet from south
and west lines of lease in labor 1,
league 66, Midland CSL survey
pumped 24 hours to make an in-
itial production of 63.60 barrels of
31 gravity oil. Gas-oil ratio was
91-1. Total fluid recovered had a
shakeout of four per cent water.
The pay section between 4,807
feet and 4,236 feet was acidized
with 20,000 gallons.
McCutchin Drilling Company
No. 3 James made a 24-hour po-
tential of 284.44 barrels of 31.9
gravity oil. This was based on
the actual pumping production
during six hours. No water was
present and the gas-oil ratio was
539-1.
Location is 440 feet from east
and 1,681.8 feet from north lines
of lease in east half of labor 25,
league 66, Hareman CSL survey.
The pay zone at 4,816-4,850 feet
was treated with 8,000 gallons of
acid.
Stanolind No. 4 D. O. Knick,
440 feet from south and 660 feet
44, Rains CSL survey, pumped 24
from east lines of labor 10, league
hours to make initial production
of 104.82 barrels of 31 gravity oil.
The total fluid recovered was cut
with three per cent water. Gas-oil
ratio was 183-1.
The pay section between 4,727
feet and 4,874 feet was’ acidized
with 7,500 gallons.
Magnolia No. 5-C Magnolia-
Coble, 1,388.85 feet from south and
1,363.85 feet from east lines of
labor 13, league 67, Hardeman
CSL survey, flowed six hours
through a two-inch choke to pro-
duce a daily calculated potential
of 210.6 barrels of 25.6 gravity oil.
No water was present. Gas-oil
ratio was 422-1.
The pay zone at 4,775-4, 848
feet was treated with 19,506 gal-
lons of acid.
Completions For Slaughter Field
Hockley County
Honolulu No. 42-11-52-AK Mal-
let, 560 feet from north and west
lines of labor 11, league 52, Scurry
CSL survey, flowed six hours
through a two-inch choke to make
a calculated 24-hour potential of
264 barrels of 32.1 gravity oil. No
water was psesent. Gas-oil ratio
wm 520-1.
The pfgr section at
feet was acidized with
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