The Sun-News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 22, Ed. 1 Monday, October 21, 1946 Page: 1 of 24
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A FIRST OF THE WEEK
NEWSPAPER
for Levelland, Sundown
and Whiteface
Featuring complete news coverage tof
offering Merchants an opportnnltr te
reach,a Great Market—the mid-week
VOL. 7
Number 22
THE SUN-NEW
And Continuing THE LEVELLAND LEADER
_“SERVING THE FIELD IT COVERS—COVERING THE FIELD IT SERVES"
Levelland, Hockley County, Texas. Monday, October 24, 1946
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(ISO Drive In Hockley County Gets
Underway This Morning With Seven
Committees Canvassing Section
Featuring the OU New#
' Seven two-man teams began
this morning in Levelland solic-
iting the business section for
funds for the annual United Ser-
t^vice Organizations drive to raise
the $1,000 quoth assigned to
Hockley County.
Members of the Levelland
Junior Chamber of Commerce,
Rotary and Lions clubs, under
the direction of Harold B. Combs,
county chairman for the USO,
named the following teams for
the down-town drive:
H. H. Mann and H. B. John-
(Wson, H. D. McMinn and Jim St.
Clair, Ted Darwin and Wyatt
Hanks, Rev. Sam A. Thomas and
John Morton, Gene Yeager and
Lynn Rice, Leon Ranson and Roy
Simpson, and O. T. Gravitt and
Lavern I. McCann.
Plans are in case the quota is-
n’t reached by Friday night, for
members of the women’s clhbs
to arrange booths in the post of-
^fice, Levelland State Bank and
• First National Bank.
Sundown Lions club plans to
raise $200 and the Ropesville Li-
ons club are going to try to raise
$150. County Supt. T. O. Petty
will contact community leaders
in Pettit and Pep this week for
support in the drive. Anton,
Whitharral and other population
centers will probably get under-
way today or tomorrow.
P Drive reports will be announc-
ed in Thursday’s paper.
Last year's quota for the drive
was $4,609 and it was over-
subscribed, and officials of this
year’s campaign believe that it
will be easy to raise the quota
this year.
D. E. Collins, president of the
Levelland State bank, is secre-
tary of the county organization
| and will receive the funds each
' day and will in turn forward re-
ports to R. L. Thornton, state
treasurer, president of the Mer-
cantile National bank in Dallas.
The purpose of the drive is
to furnish necessary funds to
provide that “ home away from
home” for our service men in
hospitals, overseas and in train-
ing over there.
A large number of Hockley
i county boys are in all branches of
service, including the Army, Na-
vy and Marine Corps, who get
homesick and need the service.
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FORMER LEVELLAND
WOMAN WINS PRIZES
AT FAIR
Mrs. W. B. Little, Littlefield,
formerly of Levelland, won two
awards last week at the Pan-
handle-South Plains fair at Lub-
bock. She was awarded first
place for pieced quilts. She
also won second place in the pas-
tel division of the art show. Her
painting exhibit was from still
life.
Littlefield Girl
Returned After
Intensive Search
Miss Joan Boson, 19, a senior
student at North Texas State
Teachers college, Denton, and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M.
Boston, Littlefield, is spending
a vacation with parents.
Miss Boston, who has been
studying intensely at the college,
and who left North State Teach-
ers college two weeks ago and
was a subject of a wide search
by police for two days, returned
to the home of,her sister in Dal-
las last Thursday, in a very
nervous condition.
She reported to her family that
she felt she must get away from
study and started on a vacation
trip, but abandoned the idea and
went to Dallas and to the home
of her sister.
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Letsinger Opens
Gun Shop At
Couch's Jewelry
O. L. Letsinger, who has mov-
ed here from Lubbock is an-
nouncing the opening of a gun
shop, located in Couch's Jewelry
on East Houston Street.
Mr. Letsinger, who, formerly
lived in Whitharral, was dis-
charged from the Army on Aug-
ust 6, 1942, after having been
in service for twenty months.
Mr. and Mrs. Letsinger moved
to Levelland last Monday and
they are residing in the Hamill
apartments. Mr. Letsinger is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Let-
singer of Lubbock, formerly of
Whitharral.
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Mr. And Mrs. Neal
Slightly Injured In
Car Mishap At Boerne
City Marshal and Mrs. T. L.
Neal, who were enroute home
from Houston, had the misfor-
tune of their automobile collid-
ing with a San Antonio bus at
Boerne Thursday, the cause of
which was not learned.
The Neal automobile was re-
ported to be badly damaged.
Mrs. Neal sustained two brok-
en ribs and Mr. Neal a slight
head injury. They were both
hospitaltized.
Sheriff Ed Hofacket said this
morning that both Mr. and Mrs.
Neal \ad reurned home and
were getting along nicely.
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Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Dyson and
sons, Don and Jerry, spent the
week end in Amarillo, visiting
with relatives.
Jim Thomas Given
Life Sentence
In Hunt Murder
Jim Thomas, 51 year-old- con-
vict, was convicted in Sweet-
water Saturday for a third time
on a charge of murdering Dr.
Roy E. Hunt of Littlefield and
assessed a sentence of life im-
prisonment.
Thomas had stood trial twice
before on Jjhe same charges and
had received two convictions
with the death sentence.
Shortly aftc* the Sweetwater
verdict was returned, Thomas’
counsel gave notice of appeal to
District Judge A. S. Mauzey.
First trial for Thomas was in
Plalnview when a jury convicted
him, shortly after the bodies of
Dr. and Mrs. Hunt were found
multilated and bound in bed at
their residence. He was tried
only in the death of Dr. Hunt.
Thomas won a retrial because
of a jury irregularity.
The case was then tried at
Lamesa in a change of venue.
The Lamesa jury also convicted
him and attorneys for Thomas
filed motion for a new trial
which got underway in Sweet-
water last week on a change of
venue. The Sweetwater jury re-
ceived the case about midnight
Friday..
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Legion Meeting
To Be Held Tonight
The James Oliver McDonald
post of the American Legion
will hold a regular business
meeting tonight at 8 o’clock in
the local Legion hall.
Plans will be made for the
football game Saturday night in
Lobo stadium with the Charles
LeGrant Legion post at Sun
down.
James Mitchell, local post com-
mander, stated that after the
business meeting tonight, re
freshments will be served.
Players will remain after re
freshments for assignments in
the Saturday night game.
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1214 Attend Local
Sunday Schools
Sunday school attendance In
Levelland yesterday was 1,214 as
compared with 1303 for the pre-
ceding week. Thesu figures were
from five churches.
Attendance at the churches is
listed as follows:
Missionary Baptist church,
123; First Baptist church, 524:
Foursquare Gospel church, 41;
Assembly of God church, 212;
and First Methodist church, 314.
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Five Levelland
Citizens Injured
In Car Accident
Six persons were injured, five
from Levelland, none apparently
seriously pending completion of
examinations, shortly before one
o’clock Thursday morning in an
automobile accident about one'
half mile west of the railroad
from Lubbock on the Lubbock-
I^evelland highway.
Two cars were involved, State
Highway patrol officers report-
ed.
Harold Eugene Cooper, Bill
Nesmithand, H. R. Whisenhunt,
all of Levelland, and Elmer Sny-
der of Lakewood Village were
in a West Texas hospital hospit-
al, where they were brought in
a Plains Funeral Home ambu-
lance.
Hospital authorities said Coop-
er, who had a possible broken
collar bone appeared the most
seriously injured. However, X-
ray examinations were planned
for two of the others. The four
were all in one car they said.
Treated at St. Mary’s Hospital
for cuts about the face was
Wayne Cawley of Levelland,
route one, who was released af-
ter treatment. He was a passen-
ger in the car with the four who
were taken to West Texas Hos-
pital, it was reported.
A girl said to have been in the
other car involved in the acci-
dent, was treated in Lubbock Me-
morial Hospital for minor injur-
ies. Her name was not learned.
Texas Highway patrolmen
were investigating.
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KEELINGS ATTEND BUICK
MEETING IN DALLAS
Mr. and Mrs. Bishop Keeling
and family are in Dallas attend-
ing a meeting of Buick dealers.
H. H. Curtis, president, and G.
M. Hofstader, general sales man-
ager, both of the home office in
Flint, Mich., will be the speak-
ers.
Sudan Hornets Take 13*0 Victory
Over Levelland Lobos Here Friday;
Established As District 5-A Favorites
HORACE BYERLEY
Horace Byerley, who has
been assistant football coach
to Coach Gano Tubb, since the
beginning of the 1946-47 school
year, has resigned to accept
the head coaching of the An-
ton Bulldogs. Coach Byerley
attended University of Arkan-
sas and Texas Technological
College.
Roughnecks To
Play Tahoka’s
Bulldogs Friday
Sundown’s Roughnecks go into
battle against the Tahoka Bull-
dogs Friday night at 7:45 in
Roughneck Stadium. This game
will be one of Sundown’s con-
ference games for the champion-
ship of District 6-A.
The Roughnecks were idle
last Friday and should be in top
position in District 6-A, and ac-
tording to the dopesters, only
an upset can keep them from
winning the conference cham-
pionship.
On another page of this issue
of The Sun-News an announce-
ment, sponsored by merchants
of Sundown, will be found urg-
ing everyone to attend the Fri-
day night game.
Some people never forget a
favor if it’s done for you.
Farmers, Ginners And Buyers Urged
To Attend Meeting Tomorrow Night
• All farmers, ginners, bGyecg,
and everyoneTnberestetT'in cot-
Levelland Members Attend Scottish
Rite Observance Feast In Lubbock;
Dr. Oscar A. Kinchen Is Speaker
Lv^lland members of the
South Plains Scottish Rite club
attended the annual observance
feast of the Tabernacles Thurs
day night in Lubbock Hotel, with
Dr. Oscar A. Kinchen, member
of the Texas Technological Col
i lege history department, making
the principal address on “The
Ancient Mysteries as Reflected
in Free Masonry,” a subject he
has studied many years and on
which he is considered an author-
ity.
* Dr. Sam G. Dunn, Vaugn E.
Wilson, O. J. Sexton, Dr. J. T.
Hutchison, B. E. Adair, Syrian E.
Marbut, Dr. J. M. Gordon, De-
Witt Landis and Chas. A. Guy
had brief parts on the program.
According to special recogni-
tion there’were two 33rd degree
Masons, John Dalrymple and
Temple Morrow, both of Lub-
bock, and two KiOghts Com-
manders of the Court of Honor,
Dr. Jack M. Lewis of Lubbock,
and Lloyd Stark of Seminole.
The third 33rd degree Mason ,ln
this area, Tom May of Brown-
field, was absent due to illness.
Those were 135 persons attend-
ing, which Included Jack Thor-
man, Casey Cabool^ MR Bass
and Guy Swain of LetfaUand and
representatives from Brownfield,
Morton, Lorenzo, Littlefield, Sla-
ton, Sundown, O’Donnell, Ropes-
ville, Abernathy, Denver City,
Spur and Lubbock.
Visitors from outside bounda-
ries of the South Plains club
were from Oklahoma City,
Spearmen, and Wilmington, Del.
Represented were consistories
in El Paso, Dallas, Galveston,
and Austin in Texas, Guthrie and
McAlester in Oklahoma, Santa
Fe, N. M., Jacksonville, Fla.,
The Panama Canal Zone,
Indianapolis, Ind., Blsmark N. D.,
Charleston, W. Va., Danville,
111., Shreveport, La., and Denver,
Colo.
C. H. Grollman was in charge
of the banquet.
James G. Allen, dean of men
at Texas Tech, is president of
the South Plains club. Other
officers are E. D. Parker, secre-
tary, and M. J. Nelson of Slaton
and Clovis Kendrick of Brown-
field vice presidents.
The club, which Is 23 years
old, has one other observance
during the year, that of Maundy
tkBnday on the Thursday hlght
of each Easter week.
Triple A Meeting
Scheduled For
Wednesday A. M.
J. W. Evans, Hockley County
ACA supervisor, has called a
business meeting of the AAA
committee, county community
leaders and others at 9:30 o'clock
Wednesday morning in the dis-
trict court room.
Purpose of the meeting will
be to discuss problems of the
cotton producers and to see what
Hockley Countians wants prior
to the Congressional committee
hearing in Lubbock on Thurs-
day.
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C. V. Hill, Sundown, attended
the Tech-Baylor football game
in Lubbock, Saturday afternoon.
ton production are asked to be
present at a meeting Tuesday
night, October 22, at 8:30 o’clock.
The meeting, called by the
Hockley County Farm Bureau,
is for the purpose of selecting
delegates to the Congressional
Committee hearing In Lubbock
October 24. The meeting will be
held in the county court room
in Levelland.
The delegates chosen will rep-
resent the county at the Lubbock
meeting before a subcommittee
of the House agriculture commit-
tee which is seeking to obtain the
views of cotton producers on
government control measures.
Farm Bureau officials are anx-
ious that everyone be present at
the Tuesday night meeting in or-
der that the county may be well
represented at the Lubbock meet-
ing which will concern itself
with legislation which Will affect
Plains farmers.
Congressman George Mahon
announced in Lubbock last week
that the subcommittee will be
composed of eight or more con-
gressmen headed by Congress-
man Steve Pace of Georgia,
member of the House agricul-
ture committee and author of
the Pace parity bill and includ-
ing Congressman Bob Poage of
Waco, another agricultural stal-
wart in Congress. Other mem-
bers of the committee have not
yet been announced.
According to Mahon, who will
sit in on the hearing, the commit-
tee has been directed to study
and submit recommendations as
to necessary changes in the cot-
ton quota law, under which pro-
duction is controlled and acreage
allotments made.
A list of fourteen questions
touching nearly all phases of the
cotton industry and which will
come before the committee hear-
ing has been released by Mahon.
These questions will be discuss
ed and any others that the rep-
resentatives bring up.
Farm Bureau representatives
hope that the delegates from
this and other counties will be
able to give the congressmen a
first hand picture of conditions
here in this area which is consid-
ered one of the major cotton pro-
ducing areas in the nation.
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farma In Cochran and Hoeklay count If*. Ernaat Willingham, farmer, gathered «L70l
one gathering, which netted the grower $S.MS.0O. Paul Walkar and J. D. PlckdVia________
b|0 Orowere ef peaa. A. M. Hancock, Merton, buyer, and io shipping the peaa to Jenaa Canning
grown on thi
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season. Ha will fe«y dry peaa aftar the freest,
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next year's crap.
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Wilburn Wheeler
Presents Musical
Program Thursday
Wilburn Wheeler presented a
musical program at the Lions
meeting with Homer Martin as
vocalist and Miss Laura Jean
Bird well at the piano.
Martin sang “Over the Rain-
bow”, “Carolina” and “Old Lang
Syne.” Miss Birdwell played
"Deep Purple,” “Always" and
"Missouri Waltz.”
Bob Ford, third vice president,
was acting president.
Announcement was made that
Herbert C. Petree of Carrizzo
Springs, Lions International di
rector, will speak Wednesday
noon, November 6. District Gov-
ernor Frank Jordan of Brown-
field, will be introduced by G. T.
Hatton, deputy district governor,
who will in turn introduce Lion
Petree.
Committees were named for
the USO drive that got under
way this morning.
Tommy Phillips will have
charge of the program Thurs-
day at noon at the Legion Hall.
Bob Harris has been named
program chairman for Thursday,
October 31.
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New Frozen Food
Locker Plant b
To Be At Sundown
George Denton of Sundown
has announced that his store,
Denton and Son Grocery, is in-
stalling a new 300-box frozen
food locker plant in conjunction
with the grocery business.
Denton has contracted with
the Ray C. Livesay company of
Lubbock to install the new plant
and specifications call for its
completion by December 15.
The new $14,000 plant will con-
sist of a locker room to be kept
at a temperature of 0 degrees to
degrees; the chill room, to be
kept at 34 degrees; and the deep
freeze room, to be kept 10 to 20
degrees temperature.
The new plant is to be thor-
oughly insulated and it will be
one of the most modern plants in
this section.
Further information concern-
ing the plant may be found in
an ad on another page of this is-
sue of The Sun-News.
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Levelland-Sundown
B-Stringerg Clash
Coach Marvin Wheeler’s Lev-
elland B-stringers will meet the
Sundown B-string Roughnecks
Thursday night at 7:45 in Lobo
Stadium.
Levelland defeated the Sun-
down eleven several weeks ago
in Sundown, but the latter is re-
ported to have a much improved
team since then.
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The Sudan Hometa' easy 13 tf
0 victory over the Levelland
Lobos here Friday night in Lobo
Stadium in a District 5-A confer-
ence play, which probably es-
tablished the Black and Gold-clad
visitors as favorites to win the
league title.
According to the information
that has been received here,
this game was said to be the
deciding factor and Sudan will
likely take Littlefield NevT 29.
If Levelland can upset the
Wildcats here Nov. 27, then it
would place the three teams In
a tie, but then Muleshoe might
give somebody trouble.
First quarter of the contest
was on practically even terms
with the Lobos completing pass-
es from Bobby Hart to D. W. Har
kins, and three plays later Hart
passed to Harkins who l&teraled
to Bobby Blundell, the latter play
netting fourteen yards.
Sudan got started In the sec-
ond period on a drive from Lev-
elland 48-yard line in which Bal-
lard, second-string bade for the
Hornets, after advancing the ball
to the 38 on four plays and a
first down, passed to Eddins
down to the 18. Waymon Belter,
Sudan ace, carried to the two-
yard line. Levelland tightened
up, but the Hornets, with Beller
carrying the ball scored on the
fourth down from the one.
Barker’s kick for the extra point
was no good.
Sudan scored again In the
fourth quarter on a pass from
Beller to Eddins down to the
two-yard where the latter car-
ried over. Baker kicked the ex-
tra point.
In the final quarter Levelland
recovered a Sudan fumble on the
Sudan five-yard line, but the
Hornets held for downs.
Sudan stacked up twenty first
downs to Levelland’s three.
Stanley Williams went in the
game early in the second quar-
ter and played quite a defensive
game, with ball toting duties
divided between Hart, W. A.
Wise, Blundell and Pete Morris.
Levelland starters:
Harkins, left end; Kaufman,
left tackle; Haliburton, left
guard; Peeler, center; Morton,
right guard; Brown, right tackle;
Northam, right end; Morris,
quarterback; Blundell, left half
back; Hart, right halfback; Wise,
fullback.
Sudan Hornets:
Hill, left end; Wiseman, left
tackle; Martin, left guard; Bol-
ing, center; Doty, right guard;
Pope, right tackle; Baker, right-
end; Beller, quarterback; May,
left halfback; Price, right half-
back; Eddins, fullback. /
Bickham, guard; Ham, tackle;
Wright, center; Williams, back;
Pugh, back.
Sudan Substitutions: .'JMn
Howard, right guard; Max-
field, guard; Ballard, back; Tuck-
er, quarterback.
Score by quarters:
Sudan 0 6 0 7 It
Levelland 0 0 0 0
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Mown Band Tt Present Concert
Tonight At High ScM Awfitnrim
1
Members of the Sundown High
school band will present their
second fall concert tonight in
the school auditorium under the
direction of Woodrow Montgom-
ery. The concert will be free to
the public.
Program for the concert in-
cludes the Saskatchewan Over-
ture, Our Director, Washington
Post, Parade of the Republic,
American Patrol, and the United
States Field Artillery March. Al-
so on the program will be a clar-
inet quartet by Joan King, La-
Qutta Bums, Pearl Long and
Flodellan Corley. Concluding the
program will be solos by individ-
ual band members which will
be announced at the concert.
Election of officers for the
Band Boosters club wtU be held
immediately following the pro-
gram according to
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ments are: Vera Nugent,
Pirkle, George Janet,
Drew, Billy Campbell, Mary ]
Whiteside, Barbara Nugent,
Billy Ragland, cometi;
King, LaQuita Burnt,
Mar, Doris Swain, Mary
Kay Mclnturff, Deanle
Sue Beck and Shlrk£$
clarinets.
Lela Mae Trult,
Flodellan Corley,
Pearl Long, alto
Long, Doug Cortay i
Taylor.
Metvto Jo
Orman,
Wendell
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