The Hockley County Herald (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1946 Page: 1 of 24
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decided upon, but
will be announced
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who are !
it call by
ity is expe
?rin ten dent
implement exhibits
ally on irrigation e
Imai or crop exhibits as desired
ty be shown, but only one en-
' mby be made in each class to
judged for prizes. Prizes of
ih and ribbons will be awarded
MRS. N. O. KREAGER—
Sheriff W. P. Gefford of
Sherman, Texas, said that he
wae confident the body of a
woman found in a well near
Sherman, Texas, was Mrs.
N. O. K reagar, 80, (above).
Mrs. Kreager had been miss-
ing from her home in Sher-
man since June 17, when she
disappeared after drawing
$9,000 from the bank. The
Sheriff said the body had
been covered heavily with
lime and then taken to the
well. (AP wirephoto)
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SECTION ONE
—Features
—Advertising
Levelland, Hockley County ”ew
County Herald
le Field As Weil
3one By Two
Number 2
—Local News
SERVING LEVELLAND AND - HOCKLEY COUNTY FOR TWENTY-ONE YEARS
Thursday, August 8, 1946
roy Fort, Toots Mansfield Match Roping Tops Sunday Event
government-financed
will take place at
mar-
took
the
10 a. m. and evening services at
league. Darwin said that Clark’s
utina or rue caitt or naval ores* 1 iu>«
2 August 1946
Dear Mr. Van Cronkhltot
Texas.
Kindest personal regards and boot wishes.l
community In the county.
■0. $11
will be for all good llve-
Rarltngon. Toxas
I an probably an
of and anyone is eligible to order one, regardless
and been in the cafe busi-
during his residence local-
day outing and
back, they report-
trip were County
Lincoln, Commis-
5, according to D.
local county agent
superintendent of
22 and Fort
Fort is now
the announcement is being
> two months before the
The ancient Egyptians used
lasooes In hunting game on the
dessert. ,
Four classes of exhibits may
» entered in the one-day show,
hey include beef cattle, dairy
vo-
into
vo-
the
Vaccination Papers
Available at Health
Unit Office Here
and es-
equipment
as pumps, pump motors
"We are asking that
the county pre-
of their goods,”
He also asks that
are interested in an ex-
by his office in the
jthree runs. ' e
Outstanding plays in the game
included homers by J. V. Mc-
Donald and S. Campbell for the
________ ______; Farmer hit a
home run, and Chick Mayfield
best exhibits by merchants
to be assembled in Hockley
according to
Sherrill. Free
be had by any mer-
"LETTER” FROM BIKINI PIG 311— Director John Van Cronk-
hits of Harlingen, Texas, "Air Day In Taxaa” celebration In-
vited the Navy’s Admiral Chester W. Nlmltz to send pig 311 of
the Bikini Atom Bomb Test to Harlingen to demonstrate Its
swimming ability at the air event September 7. In reply Van
Cronkhlte received the letter above, signed by a drawing of a
pig, and bearing the Initials "C. W. N.” (AP)
made to the veterans at the col-
lege rates—$65 per month for
single veterans and $90 for
ried ex-servicemen.
| The Hockley County Annual
livestock and Crop show, spon-
sored by the Hockley County
Board of Development, will be
held October
W. Sherrill,
and general
the show.
The show
the Hockley county fair grounds,
south of Levelland, and is open
^o any person in the county in-
■luding FFA and 4-H club mem-
Largest crowds are attending
First Baptist church revival that
have been present since the- Rev.
Franklin E. Swanner, pastor,
came here more than two years
ago. “We are having a great
county, operated a service sta-
tion
ness
ly.
J. W Epperson will
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Local Man Moves
Guard, how-
second of the
Gulf team 5-8
Fifteen South Plains beauties,
ncluding a trio of Hockley coun-
y girls, will take part in a Wal-
ace theaters-sponsored contest
lated August 2eMn Levelland’s
rodeo arena. Setting for the sev-
en-county contest, originally
planned at Tahoka, was changed
small- jate last week to the local spot.
through August 18.
All community people are cor-
dially invited to attend all three
of the daily services, Rev. Swan-
ner said.
bock, owner of the theater, cir-
- uit, asked that area people take
’ote, also, of the change in date.
Between 3,000 and 4,000 specta-
ors from all parts of the South
Plains are expected to attend the
I :ontest, which will be a two-hour
I >arade of beauties and pageant-
"1 y.’ Manager L. E. Webb of the
’ | ocal Wallace theaters said Sat-
| irday that a name band will be
' secured to furnish background
: nusic for the colorful pageant.
Winner of the beauty contest
’ will be awarded an expense-paid
----l. j vacation i n Colorado
’ Springs, Colo.; and will also be
’ given a screen test.
| Among the area beauties to
parade before the crowd on a
; milt-up boardwalk will be win-
lers of two Hockley county con-
ests—Miss Leia Paxton as “Miss
.evelland” and Miss Dorothy
)rman as "Miss Sundown” and
diss Charlene Newman of Lev-
Hand asP’Miss Hockley County.”
Other representatives will be
rom Cochran, Gaines, Andrews,
Lynn, Crosby and Hale counties.
Publicizing the pageant and
beauty contest, a caravan of ad-
vertising cars will tour the area
beginning this week.
Reason for changing the show
to the local rodeo arena was list-
ed as the lack of space in the area
theater buildings. Crowds were
turned away from every county
contest in the area, Webb said,
and a much bigger crowd is ex-
pected for the August 20 event.
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Commissioners Fish
In Hot Spring's, N. M.
Hockley county’s commissioners
court returned home Wednesday
night from a fishing trip to Hot
Springs, N. M. The five-man
fishing party had fish to eat on
-their several
brought some
ed.
Making the
Judge Z. O.
sioners G. J. Cotten, B. D. Car-
ter and Walter B. Dowell. Jim
Humphries was the fifth member
of -the group.
Comments on the size of the
fish catch by the Hockley coun-
ty men were absent. However,
they emphasized, that New Mex-
ico laws prevent selling of game
flshr and they did their own angl-
ing. ■ -
leave
Levelland this week, moving to
Siloam, Ark. There Epperson has
purchased a cafe business. He
will travel to the Arkansas town
by bus..
The new cafe owner has lived
in Levelland for the past 20
yean. He has farmed in the
--—
8e<rot t« infora you that there was a alight
arror tn the publicity I received relative to the long
••$■ In Bikini Lagoon. When you .learn that I was
actually on board a traneport far from the big bbon.
I fear you will want to retract your cordial Invitation
a “'Lnger" and save all your trans-
portation coats.
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Want-Ads bring buyer and seller
together at minimum cost.
Hockley County Annual Livestock
Aid Crop Slow to Be Held at
Lffillaid Fair Grand October 5
Vet Vocational
School Contract
Has Signatures
Hockley county’s veterans
cational school has entered
a contract with the state
cational education board for___
GI classes scheduled to open here
August 15.
Signing of the Contract took
place this week.
Veterans of the county who de-
sire the
training in the vocational school
are urged to sign applications in
the office of Sam Blair, veterans
service officer and acting co-
ordinator of the Hockley school.
The training is co-sponsored
by the government and the
Hockley county school board.
Plans are in the hands of Coun-
ty Supt. T. O. Petty and Blair.
The county board has ap-
proved Frank Lawlis as the in-
structor, and approval of the
Veterans administration and state
board of vocational education is
being awaited.
In addition to the school being
financed by the government, sub-
Large Crowds in
First Baptist
Revival Services
nment features are be-
worked out by the Hockley
nty Planning committee con-
Parents of pre-school age chil-
dren who were given
pox vaccinations during the phy-1 Wallace Blankenship of Lub-
sical examination period over|
the county have been asked to j
call by the health unit office to j
pick up vaccination certificates.
Several hundred youngsters
| were given complete physicals
[ by Dr. Frank P. Miller, head of I
the South Plains health unit I
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FROk^pALIFORNIA
Frank Bigham and Mr.
[rs. Terrell Pettit returned
orning from a vacation trip
norma. Mrn. nignam visit-
th her father, J. W Har-
Preparations of Levelland Ro
deo association for Sunday’s
championship match roping In
Texas’ largest arena are rapidly
reaching completion stages. The
afternopn show, expected to draw
sporting fans from all over the
Southwest, will get underway at
2 p. m.
Toots Mansfield, world cham-
pion calf roper, will contest Troy
Fort, New Mexico’s top roper, in
a match event of 12 calves to fea-
ture a full afternoon of enter-
tainment. Fort is the challenger.
The show will incorporate, in
addition to the spotlighted match,
exhibition steer roping, bronc
riding, bulldogging, other match
events and jackpot roping.
Fort and Mansfield, both of
whom will participate in rodeo
events at the Big Spring show
late this week, will arrive in Lev*
elland Sunday morning, Rodeo
Association President W. J. Rob-
ertson said Wednesday night.
The two professional ropers
only recently returned to their
native Texas and N. M. from per-
formances at Cheyenne, Wyo.
Mansfield, who was born at Ban-
dera, is from Rankin. Fort's
town is Lovington, N. M., and he
was bom there.
Stock for the Sunday event
reached the rodeo grounds last
weekend. None of the 40 Brah-
ma calves, Mexican steers and
wild horses has ever been roped
or ridden before. The stock is
being fed in the north pens M
the south-of-town arena.
Daily the animals are run
through the alleys into the chuted
at the south end and through the
arena to accustom them to court-
ing through the arena and wind-
ing up again at the north fof
penning. This processing, Rob-
ertson explained, eliminates some
of the cutting back of the stock
toward the chutes.
Jim Reese, a director in the
rodeo association, is in general
charge of ticket sales for the Sun-
day show. He reported Wednes-
day that requests for reserva-
tions are coming in by telephone,
wire and mail from all parts of
Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma
and Colorado.
C. T. Guseman, businessman
at Hereford, Wednesday made
, reservation by telephone for a
roping enthusiast crowd of 40 per-
sons. The only large party to re- ~
serve general admission and re-
served seats, the Guseman group
will probably set the pace foe
other large doses of reservations,
Robertson said.
Arrangements have been made
to start water trucks Saturday
to settle the dust at the rodeo
grounds. Should rain come be-
fore that time, this work will nat-
urally be eliminated. The arena
ground will be in perfect condi-
tion for the performers, rodeo as-
sociation officials pledged.
Both Fort and Mansfield are
expected to be in top form for
the match roping—an event that
has never been equalled in the
way of interest in this section.
Both World Champion Mans-
field and Challenger Fort started
their professional roping career^
at early ages—32-year-oId Mans-
field at the age of
when he was 16.
29 years of age.
Mansfield towers at six-foot,
one and a half-inch height, and
Fort stands at five feet, 11 inches.
For the Sunday match Fort
will ride Nap, a 14-year-old
roping horse that once belonged
to the late Jake McClure, and
Dunny, a recently purchased six-
year-old.
A pair of seven-year-old horses
has been selected by Mansfield—
Smokey, a blue horse that car-
ried the champion to victory in
New York City, and Dan, a
bay.
The match of champions. was
arranged in the local arena by
Robertson, who is a long-time
friend of the two professional
performers. For early publicity of
the roping here, Robertson furn-
ished interesting background
data on the headlined ropers.
Fort, he said, started out rop-
ing as a hobby, but he developed
into a natural as his skill per-
fected. He was coached early in
the game by Jake McClure, one-
time world champion calf roper.
As present world champion
calf roper, Mansfield has held that
title for five out of the last
eight years. His natural love for
roping as a sport, plus the
guidance of Juan and Tony
Salinas of Encinal, started Mans-
field on his professional career.
CHAMPS SET FOR LEVELLAND SHOW—Toots Mansfield of Rankin, pictured left, and Troy
Fort of Lovington, N. M., right are scheduled to arrive in Levelland Sunday morning, coming
here from the performances at the Big Spring Rodeo. The two ropers will vie for time in a 12-
calf match roping that will headline a full afternoon of entertainment in the local rodeo arena.
Aooearance of the two champions—World Champion Mansfield and New Mexico Champion
Fgrt__wa, arranged here by W. J. Robertson, president of the Levelland Rodeo association and
long-time friend of the two sportsmen. The rodeo association is sponsoring the match and other
events to include an exhibition rodeo program, plus other match roping and jackpot roping. The
afternoon show is carded to begin at 2 p. m.
setup, in the pre-school age
roundup in June.
In addition, the local health
,^nit has called, attention to the
tact that other pr^-schoolers I —■
should have their smallpox vac- •
cinations before the opening of Week’s
school. Immediate attention, of-
ficials said, will avoid sore arms
at the opening of school from
later injections.
The Hockley county health unit
office is located on the first floor-
of the county courthouse.
South Plains Beauty Contest Finals
To Be Held in Levelland Rodeo Arena
Gulf Boys Win
City Softball
Championship
Bill Clark’s Gulf Boys
the city softball championship
Wednesday night when they de-
feated the Texas State Guard,
15-18, in the third game of a
three, game playoff series.
The Gulf Boys won the first
game of the series Monday night,
8-12. The State
ever rallied in the
series to defeat the
Tuesday night.
Wednesday nighty game was
the best of the series and both
teams played good ball. The Gulf
Boys were ahead until the last
of the fifth when the Guard tied
the 8 p. m. prayer meetings for — ' . _
men, 1
are being well-attended.
Weekday morning services at Darwjn> president of the local
10 a. m. and evening services at __"
8:30 p. m. will continue daily feam won Monday night on errors
and lost Tuesday night on errors.
After the final wind-up Wed-
nesday night the two teams had
a watermelon feast.
Darwin stated that the con-
test for the city championship is
over, but that several more
games will be played with out-
of-town teams in the near fu-
ture.
WAA Holds Surplus
Property Sale
Approximately 152 million un-
its of surplus consumer goods,
ranging from -household -appli-
ances to fence posts, have been
disposed of in more than 140
nationally-conducted sales pro-
grams completed to date, War
Assets administration announced.
On the basis of figures re-
ceived from its 33 regional of-
fices, WAA estimated that the
goods, which cost the govern-
ment about $168,000,000, brought
an average of more than 47 per-
cent. Most of the items were in
new condition and, in some in-
stances returned full OPA prices.
In many of the sales, orders
received exceeded the quantities
of goods available by as much
as 100 percent, WAA reported.
In all the sales the complete in-
ventories were disposed of. How-
ever, WAA said, this does not
mean that surpluses of these
items no longer exist. Additional
stocks of many of these items
have been declared surplus since
the sales were conducted.
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Herald want ads pay.
I Hal, vocational agriculture teach-
ler at Sundown; Dairy Cattle Su-
perintendent Artie B, Forehand,
[vocational agriculture teacher at
[Levelland; Swine Superintendent
u. S. Bridges, vocational agridul-
Iture teacher at Anton, and Crop
^Superintendent W. Murphy Boyd,
Vocational agriculture teacher at
Whitharral
In the two cattle divisions Jer-
aeys. Milking Shorthorns, Guero-
seys and Herefords will be en-
tered. Classes to be shown for
each of these breeds are: cows
ever two years old, bulls over
two years old, cows from one to
two years old, bulls from one to
two years old, heifers under one
var old, bull calves under one
Bear old and beef calves on feed.
I The swine division will con-
■■r of Duroc Jerseys, Chester
whites, Poland Chinas, Berk-
■lires and Hampshires. Three
Mini 11, made up of boars, sows
■nd gilts, will be shown of each
■f these breeds.
■ The crop division will be sub-
divided into the following groups
varieties to be shown in each
L Best ten heads of He-
Kafir, Bonita, Martins,
Red Top, Early Com-
Heglra and Corn. 2. Best
of Alfalfa, Sweet Sudan,
Red Top and Genhan Mil-
3. Best gallon of seed of He-
Kafir, Bonita, Martins,
Red Top, Early Com-
Pinto Beans, Cream Peas,
Peas and Millet. 4.
pound of lint cotton. 5. Best
open bolls of cotton.
Women’s exhibits have not
details of
a later
meeting,” the minister said this I score- However, in the sixth
j Craddock hit a triple to put
‘ T . _ . , _ Clark’s team out in the lead
The Rev. Levi Price of Ta- -n The Texas fcuard threat_
h'®ka, evangeUst, arrived here for ene(j a in in the sixth with
the Monday evening service, as thlw TOns - a
did the Rev. Harry Miner, di-
: rector of song services. Miner is
I educational director for the First
Baptist church in Corpus Christi. Gulfe7s. “Jarnos
In additions to crowds that are j
attending the regular service, and'^Rusty Hofacket”hit ‘“triples
the Rev. Swanner reported that for the state Guard
p. m. prayer meetings for games Monday and Tues-
women and young people day night were outstanding for
ting well-attended. J their errors, according to Ted
To Every Parent, Wife And
Sweetheart of Service Men '
Of The County of Hockley
This is ■ personal appeal to you to make sure the picture of your
service man or woman is brought in tosjbe placed in the World
War II Service Book. Your loved one served, and should have
the honored place in this record of Hockley county's part in the war.
It’s up to you to see that his or her picture and write-ups are
included. He may not care much right now—but a few years
from now, he’ll be proud to be included. It will be too late then!
Bring in the picture and full information on his service for the
write-up NOW. Get blank information form at the Herald office.
Deadline For Receiving Pictures Near
Pictures and information for write-ups will be received only
a few more days. Act quickly! There is no cost to having a pic-
ture and write-up included. The picture will be returned in
good order. There is no reason for not having your loved one in-
cluded,—-every reason why you should.
Order Your Book Now!
Because of the paper shortage, the printing of the service book
will M limited to the number ordered. The book sells for $3.50,
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Weimhold, Ruth. The Hockley County Herald (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1946, newspaper, August 8, 1946; Levelland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1189338/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting South Plains College.