Levelland Daily Sun-News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 320, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 6, 1967 Page: 1 of 16
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LEVELLAND, TEXAS
SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1967 PAGES 16
TEN CENTS
Levelland Attorney’s Faith In Tech’s Law School Soon To Be Justified
By Al Gardner
How long has medicare been
in effect? Can you remember?
Yes, one year as of July 1,1967.
The Bible can solve more of
your personal problems than
you might expect; read it . .
Now You Know
The governor of Arkansas
and North Dakota are the lowest
paid in the nation at $10,000 a
year. The governor of New York
SEE COFFEE PAGE 8
LUBBOCK, Tex,—Two years
of talent scouting, curriculum
preparation, student recruit-
ment and countless other de-
tails pay off Sept. 15 when the
Texas Tech School of Law—
the years-long dream at • *di-
cated I evelland attorney—be-
comes a reality.
Seventy-five law students are
expected to be on the rolls, ac-
cording to Dean Richard B. A-
mandcs, who said 63 already
have begun registering. Ac-
ceptance letters have been dis-
patched to seven other appli-
cants, leaving only five certain
openings.
“It is our goal, " the tall
slender dean said “to have the
Tech School of I.aw in the top
rank among Texas institutions
within three years. We offer
prospective law students an out-
standing faculty—well balanced
among men who have substantial
law practice and those with ex-
tensive teaching and adminis-
trative experience in a wide
variety of legal fields.’*
Amandes is confident that
growth of Tech’s first profes-
sional school and its stature in
the near future will justify the
faith of Levelland attorney Al-
vin R. Allison, recognized as
"father of the Law School.”
Allison, an alumnus and mem -
ber of the Tech Board of Dir-
ectors, devoted his own time,
talents and funds to the cam
i> ign that eventually produced
the legislative apoi-opriatlon to
implement the school.
He literally went from door
to door in a one-min r«^*»ign
to sell the idea, first to the
Board of Directors, then to the
Texas State Commission for Hi-
gher Education (predecessor of
the Coordinating Board), the le-
gislature and the public.
From the timz he was ap
pointed to the Tech Board in
1961, Allison began collecting
data to support his contention
that a law school was need at
Tech. He armed himself with
endorsements by professiqnal
groups from throughout Texas,
particularly from West Texas.
With these statements, cen-
sus data and detailed rep rts
of area legal activities and
resources, he bombarded fel-
low board members with evi-
dence of the growing need.
SEE ATTORNEY’S PAGE 8
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No. 3 Viet Casualty
Listed For Levelland
TO ATTEND TECH JOURNALISM WORKSHOP—Three Lev-
eUend girls will attend a journalism workshop at Tech Monday
for the 10th annual period of instruction and lectures that end
with J. Day on the Tech Campus. They are, left to right,
Misses Laurie Methvin, Christi Straubc and Barbara Baker.
Extending from Aug. 7 through Aug. 11, classes will be held In
the Tech Journalism building and Student Union. Co-editors of
the high school publication, The El Lobo year book will be
Laurie Methvin and Barbara Baker. Editor of the Lobo Lair
publication will be Christi Straube. (Photo by Kris Warren)
Former Sun News Reporter
To Head UPI In Venezuela
MAX JENNINGS
By RUTH W \RREN
Interviewing a man who will
soon be serving as United Press
International Chief in Venezuela
is not an easy assignment even
though he is a former graduate
of Levelland High School in
1959 and once served as a re-
porter on the Levelland Daily-
Sun News. It will give anyone
the jitters and that includes
yours truly.
All reporters will tell you
it’s never easy to write about
a fellow worker. We have all
proof-read too much. It is how-
ever, a distinct pleasure to re-
count a success story and share
in his pleasure of accomplish-
ment.
Max Jennings is a very un-
usual newsman. He has loved
journalism all his young life,
and attained success early.Only
24 when he began as Bureau
, Chief for UPI in Cheyenne, Wy.,
he is now going to Caracas as
Venezuelian News Manager
for UPI at the age of 26.
Max lost his mother at an
early age and was reared by
Mr. and Mrs. E.A. J inkins, Rt.
2, Levelland. He attended Lev-
clland High School, graduating
in 1959. He attended South
Plains College two years. At
that time the college had been
organized only one year. He
calls it a fine school and is
Official word was received
Friday afternoon by Mrs. Alan
Hendrickson that her husband
Captain Alan E. Hendrickson,
had been killed in action in Viet-
nam -in August 3, 1967 as a re-
sult of an airplane accident
The first notification she re-
eeived.on Friday at 1 a.m In-
dicated that he was m’ssing in
action but a later letter receiv-
ed at 2 p.m Friday confirmed
his death.
Opinion continues to prevail
among the survivors that this
was the accident reported in the
August 4th issue of the Sun
News, based on the assumption
it is the only Caribou plane mis-
sing within a week according
to their knowledge. The two
previous Vietnam casualties
from Levelland were Wilbur
Dean Adkisson and Clyde Mat-
hews, Jr.
Captain Hendrickson left for
Vietnam October 30, 1966 and
has been busy ever since as a
p’lot of transport planes and for
some time as an instructor. He
was based at Da Nang airport.
He had been stationed in Japrn
for four years previous to that.
His two youngest sons , David
and Gordon were bom in Ja-
P n.
Alan entered the service in
1957, taking his basic training
at San Antonio and his depth
training at Reese Air Force
Base, Lubbock, graduating
there in 1958.
He was bom Dec. 17, 1935,
in Areata, California, went to j
high school there and was gra- j
auated from Humboldt College, ,
with a degree in science.
He married Betty Gail Ste- :
wart, Lubbock, in February, j
1959 at Lubbock. The Hendrick-
sons have three sons, Randy 7,
David 6, and Gordon 4. They j
now reside at 106 Butch Street. |
Arrangements for burial are !
not yet known, as this may j
take from a week to ten day*
to determine. ' j
Survivors include Alan’s wife
Betty, three sons, Randy, David, j
Gordon; his father, Purl Hen-
drickson, Araeta, Calif.; his
mother, Mrs. BeatriceCyr,San
Francisco, Calif.; tw«*brothers,
Brad of Santa Clara, Calif.,
and Melvin, Areata, Calif.; and
his w ife’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Stewart of l evelland.
The two letters which Mrs.
SEE NO. 3 PAGE 8
Captain Alan C. Hendrickson
Levelland Makes The Big ’Time’
proud to have been one of the
early students. He finds it hard
to believe the rapid expansion
he found this year, since he
had not been back to Levelland
in some time. He served on the
staff of the Plainsman publicat-
ion at SPC and worked part time
at the Sun News for three years,
beginning in 1961.
In recalling his experiences
Max remembers the various
phases of work which included
Sports, Society and any odd job
of reporting that came along.
With a wry grin, Max recalled
how the ladies of Levelland re-
dacted when they asked for the
Society Fditor on the phone
and he answered with his gruff
voice. “Sometimes they stam-
mered considerably,” Max re-
calls.
He says his first assignments
were under Orlin Brewer, for-
mer Editor of the Sun News,
and included about everything
SEE FORMER PAGE 8
j/ ^dor ^Joday
The kind of world wc live in
tomorrow depends—not partial-
ly—but entirely upon the type
and quality of the education
of our children today.
BY FRED BEVT.RSDORF
Whatever happened on Nov.
2, 1957 and thereafter at Le-
velland, Texas continues to in-
terest space authorities and the
Air Force. For the present,
the occasions of sighting sever-
al elliptical objects often refe-
rred to as flying saucers or
Unidentified Flying Objects
(UFO), have caused a men-
tion to be made in the current
issue of "Time” magazine dat-
ed Adgust 4, 1967.
I evelland, even after 11!
years have passed, still rates
further consideration and in-
vestigation by a Colorado scie-
ntist, Piysicist Edward Con-
don, who has agreed to head an
Air Force study of CFO’s. It
seems that previous explana-
tions simply do not satisfy , so
further study will be m ide of
the Levelland incidents.
The Sun News office had been
contacted previously to send
Condon’s office all the stories
printed at that time. These sto-
ries comp-ise 47 pages of type-
written space, double-spaced
and will be mailed shortly.
Former Editor Troy Morris
often studied these matters and
Ham Operators
Set Picnic
I evelland City Pirk will be
the scene of a ham feast and
picnic all day Sunday. The spe-
cial day will kick off at 8;j0
a.m, and continue throughout the
day.
Radio Amateurs Communica-
tion Emergency Service, (RA-
CES) v111 be or hand from ail
over the country. Lunch is plan-
ned and members of the diff-
erent clubs will swap material
and discuss different aspects
of ham radios.
All citizen band radio opera-
tors and ham operators are in-
vited to attend
was firmly convinced of their
existence.
Two other sightings in the
world continue to attract Con-
don’s attention. The one is a day-
light sighting at McMinnviLle,
Oregon, on May 11, 1950 by Paul
Trent, a farmer who spotted and
photographed a saucer 20-30
feet in diameter hovering over
his field. These are among the
clearest negatives of any CFO’s
ever photographed.
The other ap rently inexpli-
cable case occured off Trinidad
Isle, Brazil, during daylight
on Jan. 16, 1958 when scienti-
fic personnel aboard a Brazil-
ian navy ship spotted a Saturn-
shaped UFO and photographed
it four times.
Levelland sightings involved
elliptical objects 200 feet long
which hovered over highways,
terrifying several motorists
and causing cars’ lights and ig-
nitions to fail.
One interesting comnentary
in the article titled “A Fresh
I oo\ at Fly ing Saucers” In
“Time” magazine noted that
Can Gustav Jung thought that
they are real only in the mind,
and correspond to a deep hu-
man need. They are an outgrow-
th of a troubled alternation si-
tuation and gradual erosion a-
inong Christians of belief in a
God who can intervene to save
man from his own folly, he
felt. Hoping for some redeem-
ing, supernatural event, said
Jung; man may have turned to
a God image; the CFO.
Naturally those who feel they
have sighted the CFO’s will
hardly agree with Mr. Jung.
Others contend that the
CFO’s could not be extra-ter-
restial objects from other pla-
nets because the distances are
too vast, that even vehicles
traveling at the speed of light
could not reach us in less than
300 to 1,000 light years. The
conclusions to that are obvious.
Whatever the outcome of Con-
don’s studies will be as he nar-
rows the field down, I fevelland
will play som? part in it.
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New Ruling Adopted
For Jr. Hi Lunch Period
Bids, resignations and ap-
pointments of new teachers, and
a new ruling on lunch periods
at the Jr. Hi campus occupied
the major portion of a special
meeting of the School Board Fri-
day morning at 7 a.m. at the
Spot Restaurant, Chester Bor-
ders, president presiding.
A bid of S4,618.00 was accept-
ed for the Building Trade pro-
gram, which was divided be-
tween the firms Lubbock Hard-
ware, Levelland Lumber, Si-
mon Lumber, and Higginbotham
Lumber Co.
The Furniture Bid went to
American Desk, represented by
Foremost Equipment Co., Tem-
ple , Texas for S16.417.
The Board went on record to
cooperate with the Chamber of
Commerce plans to host the Six
and Eight Man Coaches Clinic
to be held here in Levelland
next year, should the Small
Schools Association accept
Levelland’s invitation.
Permission was gyanted to
the Community Action Commit-
tee to continue holding its nec-
essary meetings in the Jr. High
and Carver Schools for the re-
mainder of the summer.
Resignations were accepted
from the following teachers:
Wanda Tallant, West Elemen-
tary; Connie Stoughton, Central;
Mrs. Carolyn Smith, English
Jr. High.
Mrs. Pauletta Stroup was
granted a leave of absence for
1967-68.
The following teachers were
hired for the new term: Mrs.
Helen Hamilton, Capital; Mrs.
Max Harrington, Cactus; Jim
Sadler, Mathematics and Coach
at Junior High; Mrs. Carrie
A. Childress, Speech, English
at Jr. High; Mrs.Shirley Pounds
Unassigned; Jimmy Rogers,
Building Trades, Sr. Hi.; and
Mrs. Mary L. Sawyer, West
'Elementary.
The Board took final action
on closing the Junior High cam-
pus by adopting the following
resolution: All students will re-
main on the Jr. High campus
during the lunch period, except
those who live within eight
blocks of Junior High. These
students will be allowed to go
home for lunch, only after par-
ents have given written permis-
sion to the Principal. Students
going home for lunch are not
to drive any kind of motor ve-
hicle during the lunch period.
Attention!
Aviation
Enthusiasts!
Monday night, August 7th,
is the regular meeting night
at the Spot Restaurant. Ev-
eryone interested in aviation
can expect a very enjoyable
evening. This week, door pri-
zes, films everybody likes.
The business at handisnam
ing the club. Prizes will be
awarded for that.
Yes, there are always
visiting members of area
towns present . Try and be
there, bring a friend.
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