The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 109, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 15, 1956 Page: 1 of 31
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PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 10c LIVELLANP, TEXAS Associated Pres* (AP) Four Sections—32 Pages SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1956
TRIQ ROTARY CONFERENCE OPENS TODAY
SOOAfe Expected
For Club Sessions
“WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES" — Byron
The 183rd District of Rotary International, strictly West
Texan in every respect, opens an annual district conference
here this afternoon which threatens to become international
in flavor and scope.
More than 500 Rotarians and their wives are expected
for the three-day meeting, the biggest such Rotary event
ever held in the Hockley County’s capital city.
District Goveffior and Mrs. Rigdon Edwards of Sweet-
water arrived at noon Saturday, forerunners of a major in-
vasion from 40 Rotary clubs throughout West Texas.
Other principals for the
In. LoyoIIoikI
Levelland Host for Rotary
Conference for First Time
Levelland may be a fait excited will see during their visit hens is
Seventh Annual Confer- quite different. It has a population
district (rf 11.100 (1996-57 Texas Almanac)
Rotary's
here today.
ut then, it is with ample reason,
is the first time tot the youth-
Hockley County seat to serve
as host for such a meeting.
Moet Rotarians who attend ses-
sions here during the three-day
conference may well remember
days when there wasn’t a Level-
land.
When the Hockley County Com-
missioners Court held its first
meeting in February of 1921, the
year the county was first organ-
ized, commissioners were forced
to search quite extensively in the
prairie grass for markers put down
fay surveyors of the late C. W.
Post, who laid out the plans for
Levelland as “Hockley City.”
They parked their automobiles on
the prairie and in that first session
let a contract for a two-room
courthouse and a water well for
the courthouse square.
The county clerk moved into one
room of the building, and county
records brought from Lubbock
Vvere placed in the other — and
Levelland was in business as a
county seat.
The first drygood store went into
operation in 1923 and other busi-
nesses started sprouting here and
there.
The Levelland visiting Rotarians
Ranger, 1939; Temple, 1930; Plain-
view, 1931; Mineral Wells, 1932;
area and - an area with
of oil weile, meat of them pr
ling from the San Andres forma-
tion — from which the San Andrea
Hotel draws Its name.
Although this is the first time for
Levelland to serve as host city tor
a Rotary conference, some of the
older West Texas cities have had
this privilege on several occasions.
Through the years, the conven-
tion cities have been: Amari
1926; Waco, 1927; Lubbock, 1938;
1938; Big Spring
Sweetwater, 1940; Lubbock,
Wichita Falls, 1942; Abilene,
Lubbock. 1944; Amarillo. 1946
Worth. 1947; Big Spring. 1948;
Frank Adams, 1934; Percy Cole,
1935; Bill Baldwin. 1936; Bhiford
Plainview,
rillo, 1950; Lubbock, 1951;
1952; Borger, 1953; Chil-
tan, 1954. Midland. 1955.
A conference was opt held
1945.
30 Men Have
Served Club
As President
In the years between 1938, when
the Levelland Rotary Club was
founded, and June 30, 1965, 30
men served as president of the
club. Twenty six of the 30 are still
living but only 15 of them still re-
side in Levelland and only 1? still
belong to the local club.
The four deceased former pres-
idents include Ray Watson, who
was killed in a plane crash in
Mexico last Tuesday, John Doyle,
Frank Adams and Bill Baldwin.
Former presidents of the Level-
land Rotary Club together with
the year they served and the place
of their present residence if other
than Levelland follows: f
Sam Combs, 1936; Ray .Watson.
.1939; John Doyle. 1980; Jack Mabe,
conference—including at least
t’.vo speakers of international
renown — begin arriving to-
day. j
Registration
Registration starts at 2 p.m. to-
'ay at the San Andres Hotel, head-
uarters for the three-day session.
Representatives of most clubs in
ie district will be swarming in
iy then — several of them bucking
or 100 per cent attendance by
their members.
Everything was in readiness late
Saturday and Governor Edwards
said the conference promised to
be perhaps the greatest in the
history of the district. The only
sour note Saturday was blowing
dust — something which delegates
from every one of the visiting
clubs have seen plenty of before.
Local officials were hoping for
a slackening of winds Sunday and
calm weather throughout the con-
ference period.
Work sessions and conference
oonflabs will consume most of the
time of Rotarians during their vi-
sit here, but speeches of top Ro-
tary leaders will claim the spot-
light of the conference — the high
point of the Rotary District year.
These speakers will be:
O. D. A. (OUie) Oberg of Sid-
1934-
; Bill Baldwin, 1936;
Minor, 1937, San Diego, Calif.;
Major Rogers, 1938, Buena Vista.
Calif.; Cliff Brown, 1939.
Randall Alexander, 1940, Portal-
es. New Mexico; Forrest Weim-
hold, 1941; Ray Brown, 1942,
Greenville; Davis Pounds, 1942;
John Morton, 1943; George Stall-
worth, 1944; Roy Simpscn, 1945;
Continued on page seven
New Presidents, Secretaries
Of District Clubs Announced
ational and personal
representative of Rotary President
George R. Means of Chicago at the
conference.
Phillip Love Joy of Utica, General
Secretary of Rotary International
from 1942 through 1952.
William B. (Bill) Todd of Fort
Worth, director for Rotary Inter-
national.
Lovejoy is to arrive in Lubbock
from New York by commercial
airline at 11:30 a.m. today. He will
be met there by Rotary dignitar-
ies and accompanied here.
Oberg will drive out from Fort
Worth with Todd this afternoon.
They’ll gather at a private lunch-
eon for top Rotary dignitaries at
Kirk’s restaurant on the Brown-
field Highway this afternoon, while
most Rotarians are still register-
(Continued on page seven)
Names of newly-elected presi-
dents and secretaries in each of the
40 clubs in the 183rd District of
Rotary International have been an-
nounced by Rigdon Edwards of
Sweetwater, current district gov-
ernor. They take over their new
offices on July 1.
Almost 100 pei cent attendance
is expected from this group of 80
new officers as conference dele-
gates begin arriving this morning.
Here are the president's and sec-
retaries of each club, with the
president listed first in each in-
stance.
Amarillo — Gerald C. Rhtcliff,
1511 Travis; Guyon H. Saunders,
330 Herring Hotel.
Andrews — Charles Ward, Box
FirftClub Meeting Held in 1905
Paul P. Harris F ounder of Rotary
Paul P. Harris was the founder of Rotary.
He was born in Racine, Wisconsin, on Ap-
ril 19, 1868, and when he was three years
old he was taken to Wallingford, Vermont,
to live with his paternal grandparent. The
Black River Academy at Ludlow, Vermont,
and Vermont Academy at Saxtons River pre-
pared him for his studies at the University
of Vermont, Princton University and the Un-
iversity of Iowa. Following his graduation
from the law school at the University in
1891, he determined to spend the next five
years in seeing the world and coming to
know his fellow men before settling down-
to practice law in Chicago.
He worked as a reporter on newspapers in San
Francisco and Denver, was a teacher in a Los Ange-
les business college, worked on a California fruit farm
and in a raisin-packing factory, was an actor in a
Denver stock company and a cowboy on a Colorado
ranch. Then he went to the southern part of the Unit-
ed States where he picked oranges in Louisiana and
traveled extensively as a salesman for a marble and
granite concern. He made two trips to England work-
ing on cattle boats and later traveled to Europe to
visit the granite regions of Scotland and the marble
regions of Ireland, Belgium and Italy for his com-
pany. These five years of knock-about experiences
(Continued on page four
sm
36
of Rotary
ted 1947
188; Jack Kane, Box 952.
Big Spring — James H. Fryar,
Route 1, Box 55; Wm. J. McRee,
1905 Morrison Drive.
Borger — Kimzey Davis, Box
831; Kenneth E. Schneider, Box
126.
Brownfield — Newel A. Reed,
406 West Broadway; Albert W. Tur-
ner, 407 West Main.
Canadian — Robert J. Dillman,
Box 917; Erbin L. Crowell, Box
458.
Canyon — Traitt G. Hull Jr.,
Box 689; Bill (NMI) Lee, Box 404,
West Texas Station, i
Childress — Gains E. Highsmith,
306 Avenue H Southeast; Willard
E. Williams, 306 Avenue C South-
east.
Dalhart — Kenneth G. Martin,
Box 449; R. D. (Doub Brown, 905
Peach.
Dumas — Tucker Teutsch, Box
984; Jack D. Foreman, Box 906
Floydada — Carl L. Minor Jr.;
Bill Hardin. Box 894.
Hereford — Henry N. Benson,
Box 482; Lloyd Widdifleld, 313
North Main.
Lamesa — D. L. Adcock, 312
North 14th; Joe Hansard, Box 557
Levelland — Bishop B. Keeling.
Box 1038; Hal R. Joplin, 114 12th
Street.
Littlefield — Albert Miller, 415
East 14th Street; Clarence O. Stone
Box 1306.
Lockney — Lloyd Wofford, Ed-
die Halkum.
Lubbock — Gordon Thompson.
914 Avenue J; Mack Mead, 1956
Texas Avenue.
Memphis — James T. Clayton,
Walter A. Leigon, Box 414.
Midland — J. P. Wilkinson,
1242; William R. Mann, Box
Muleshoe — D. B. Lancaster,
Box 586; B. A. Dalton, Box 971.
Odessa — H. A. Redman, Tit
West 3rd; Julius Johnson, Box 3912.
O'Donnell — Homer Hardberger,
Route 1; Truett Hodnet, Routt 2.
Pampa — Fred W. Brook, Box
1661; Roy C. Sparkman, Box 183.
(Continued on page seven)
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on back page
OF THIS SECTION
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Fort Worth, Texas
Director Rotary International
-T-
FWMKUh
Sweetwater, Texot
Governor ol 183rd District
Rig Edwards
Governor For
183rd District
Rlgdofa Bdwarda of Sweetwater, a hard-working
«Od sincere advocate of Rotary ideals to everyday
Mving, la currant governor of the 183rd District of Ro-
tary International
Edwards has guided the district through a success-
ful Rotary year during 1955-56, emphasizing the "De-
velop Our Resources” theme.
He will 10 honored along with other dignitaries
of Rotary at the district conference which starts
here today,
Edwards has been a member of the Rotary Club
of Sweetwater since 1940 and is a past president
of that dob.
Wholesale commission agent for the Magnolia Pet-
roleum Company in Sweetwater, he was born in Dun-
can, Okie'., and graduated from McMurry College in
Abilene.
■Edwards Is a director and Past President of the
West Texas Girl Scout Council and has recently
served at Vice-President of the Petroleum Market-
ers Association of Texas, Director of the West Texas
Chamber of Commerce and at the
present is on the Development
Board of McMurry College.
In Sweetwater he has been a
director of the Sweetwater Board
of City Development, Director of
the Sweetwater Municipal Hospital
and President of the Nolan Coun-
ty Tuberculosis Association. Dur-
ing World War n her served as
a flight instructor in the U. S.
Air Force.
REX WEBSTht
Lubbock/ T^UnH
Incoming Governor of IB:
of 183rd Dlitrict
(Conference Song leader)
—
Webster is Nominee
For District Governor
SAN FRANCISCO, April 14 m-
Two transports are due Saturday
from Far Eastern ports with 2,622
military man returning home after
service at stations in the orient.
They are the Gen. Mann from In-
chon and Yokohama and the Gen.
Aultman from Manila and Guam.
Rex Webster of Lubbock is the
Governor nominee for the 1956-57
the 183rd District of Rotary Inter-
national.
Webster was born in Gatesville,
Texas on May 29,1918. He received
his elementary schooling to Deni-
son and Fort Worth and was grad-
uated from Childress and received
his B.A. Degree from Texas Tech-
nological College in 1938 and his
M.A. degree in 1939.
(Tti‘';bl|hred as radio announced
program director*and commercial
manager at Radio Station KFYQf
from 1935 to 1947, except for a
three-year period when he served
as an officer on the destroyer,
USS Rhind, in the U.S. Navy.
In 1*47, he entered the advertis-
ing agency business. He is a part-
ner in the Craig and Webster Ad-
vertising Agency in Lubbock. %
April of 1955, he assumed the po-
sition of vice president and pubWe
relations director of the Great
Plains Lift Insurance Company. * ,
He is a deacon in the First Bap-
tist Church and has served a£
choir director since 1946.
He is a past director of the Lub-
bock Junior Chamber of Commqrog
He was a charter member of the*
Lubbock Symphony Orchestra
plays 9tring Bass in that orga
tion.
He was chairman of the Boarfcj
of the Lubbock- Symphony Orchetfa]
tra in 1949-50. m
He served as secretary of th|N
South Plains Chapter of the Texan-
Manufacturers Association, Direct
tor of the Lubbock County Tubefj-
culosis Association. Lubbock Cera*
bral Palsy Treatment Center,
Chairman of Red Cross Publicity*
Chairman of Boy Scout Area Pro-
motion,- and Chairman of Hear^
Fund Promotion
Webster is Immediate past pres-
ident of tf
MR
ra anf,
ganiza*
Chib a* wall as Southwe
sociation of Advertising
He is listed In Who’s W
A. Z. 1AK« ^ ^ GEORGE R. MEANS
Cleveland, Ohio ", Chicago, Illinois
Protidont Rotary International Secretary Rotary International
(See stories on A. Z. Baker and Gearga R. Means on Page Four, Section Four)
the Lubbock Advertising
Southwestern As-
Agenctea.
Who to foe
South and Southwest and waa
chosen as Lubbock's Man of the
Year in lttl.
His Rotary activities start with I
his membership to the Lubbock i
Club to 1941. He served to a var* j
lety of Committee Assignments,
was president of foe Lubbock Rot- j
anr CUto to 1*47-46, after hav
Vfod president in
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