Levelland Daily Sun-News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 11, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 24, 1966 Page: 3 of 14
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By Ruth Warren
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Btvtrly & TWorran
Beverly Warren, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Mason Polk, 414
Popular was in Levelland visit-
ing during the Easter holidays.
She and daughter Windy arriv-
ed in L evelland April 1, from
Bedford England where her hus-
band Ted is stationed at Chick-
sands AFB. Ted is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. T.C. Warren of
Route 3, levelland. Hiey are
both ex-students of Levelland
High School.
Ted is a 1963 graduate and
attended Fort Worth IBM Col-
lege before enlisting to the Air
Force in 1964. He is continu-
ing his education at Chicksands
AFB majoring in Electronics.
Hehopes to complete hiscourse
after being discharged from the
service.
He took his basic training
at San Antonio and from there
was stationed at Biloxi, Miss-
issippi for four months. He was
then assigned to Goodfellow
AFB for 8 months and from
there stationed at Bedford
(Chicksands AFB), England.
They have been there for one
year.
Beverly and Ted were mar-
ried March 6, 1964, at Santa
RosaiN.r
junto* yei
finished her high school'
American Schools of Chicago.
Beverly says, "England is
very different from the USA,
and not at all what most peo-
ple expect.” The weather is
cold and rainy all the time and
the country sides are beauti-
ful, staying green all year a-
round. This is the good side
of England, her country side.,
but her people make it so dif-
—HOW SHOWING-
this Presley
rcn o, at saiua
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her high school through
ficult for American’s to live
there."
"The people have a resent-
ment of the American people
and their way of life,” Bever-
ly says. The English .are very
slow people never hurrying for
anything and they are far be-
hind the times by American
standards. What the USA con-
siders convenience, the English
consider luxuries."
Beverly and Ted were only
recently able to get running
water into their house, and then
only cold water. The houses are
all very old and two stories
or more high, with several fam-
ilies living in each houHl*.
Very few people in England
have refrigerators, buying their
food from day to day so that
it will stay fresh. There are
separate shops for every food
item such as meat, cheese and
milk. On the Air Force Base,
there are more facilities and
the prices are much lower.
Gasoline is 60 cents a gallon
in England and at the Air Force
Base rates are 20 cents a
gallon.
Beverly says, "England is a
beautiful place in which to vi-
sit, .and,
estifg
as making a home there, af-
ter living In the USA, I had
rather not. We Americans have
much to be thankful for.”
Ted and Beverly will return
to the United States in April of
1967. .
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LEVELLAND DAILV SUN NEWS SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1944 -PACE J
, STARTS MONDAY MORNING 9 A.M.!
Dear Editor;
Not only have we been sub-
jected to an inept County Gov-
ernment, but the people of Hock-
ley County have now witnessed
the very zenith of Irresponsible
journalism in the paper of their
County seat.
Some of the ooze dripping
from the columns of the Sun-
News has not even measured
up to a half-truth -- it could
be described as having been
fabricated out of whole cloth
After blaming the Auditors
and Mr. Burnett Roberts with
just about everything from
stealing nickles off dead peoples
eyes to conspiring with little
green demons from Mars, I
am sure the Sun-News will be
reluctant to print this letter
and let the people of Hockley
County know that those people
have been persecuted for some-
thing that was solely my af-
fair. I notified the Amarillo
Globe News of the clumsy and
arbitrary manner in which the
Hockley County Commissioners
and THEIR judge have conducted
the affairs of the county. And
in as much as I am a Demo-
crat, it is rather ironical that
the Sun-News branded all the
IRATE people as far-right Re-
publicans. Reflections were
cast on their character and in-
tegrity that would have made
old Joseph Goebells blush with
shams.
Furthermore, Mr. Chester
Gray has never accompanied
me and the AmarilloGlobe News
Reporter on any trip in or a-
round Sundown or anywhere
else.v.,1 positively did not con-
tact the Sun-News not the Lub-
bock Avalanche Journal in an
effort to bring the public at-
tention to the delinquency of
the Commissioners Court. I
went directly to the Amarillo
paper, and at that time I knew
nothing whatsoever of a peti-
tion that Mr. Burnett Roberts
reportedly circulated. How-
ever, I presume it would be
his inalienable privilege to cir-
culate a petition if he so de-
sired,
The Sun-News has confirmed
the ineptness of the court by
explaining through its columns
that the court GOT TOOK in
the deal made with the audi-
tors. According to the Sun-
News, the court did not desig-
nate any given area or spec-
ific number of years to be cov-
ered in the audit, and neither
did it have the (lightest idea
as to what the audit was going
to cost. Some members of the
court are alleged to have con-
fided to close friends that the
cost of the audit was more than
double what they had GUFSSFn
it would be. The Sun-News cor-
roborated that as well. The
Sun-News paradoxically ripped
at the throats of the auditors
for hoodwinking the commis-
sioners and THEIR judge and
taking them to a cleaning while
in the same breath commend-
ing the court members as being
astitute business men.
Why doesn’t the court come
forth and explain in detail the
nature of the transaction con-
summated with the auditors?
Weren’t any minutes made of
the meeting? Why have they
chosen to remain mum about
this matter while the Sun-News
carried the ball? It is because
the members of the court can’t
conscientiously defend their ac-
tions? Is the Sun-News the sixth
member of the court?
Recently the Lubbock Ava-
lanche Journal aligned itself
with the people of the City,
when it became apparent that
the Lubbock city officials were
attending to the City’s business
in an irresponsible manner.
The Lubbock paper didn’t pat
the City officials on the back
and then in a silly and scurri-
lous manner ask the constable
why he didn’t restrain the of-
ficials if he deemed their ac-
tions wrong. That was a ra-
ther asinine suggestion for the
Sun-News to make, and we are
of the opinion that very few
opium smokers even get that
far out.
By attempting to inject parti-
san politics and personalities
into the issue, (he SOn-News
very dutifully fulfilled its as-
signed role of spreading a
smoke screen. Presumably the
Sun-News felt like it should do
something to earn its pay as the
sixth member of the court.
For a time there were dif-
ferent groups working indepen-
dently of each other •in an effort
to bring about a more efficient
county government, but there
is a strong possibility now that
ranks will be closed and all
efforts coordinated In a Civic
bi-partican manner becoming
our common cause.
Yours Truly,
O.W. Cook
Constable Prec. 2
Hockley County Texas
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SOUTH PLAINS HOSPITAL
ADMISSIONS: Mrs. Bird HeU
son, Mrs. E.H. Dosier, Mrs.
I James A. Miller and Mrs.Sally
| Starr.
DISMISSALS: Mrs. Ben Mc-
| News, Mrs. T.O. Petty and
Mrs. H.A. Cooper.
LEVELLAND CLINIC AND
HOSPITAL
ADMISSIONS: Mike Phil
lips, Roscar Brown, Miss Cla
rice Everetts, Mrs. AmoldWil
llams, Mrs. I .Z. 1 owry and Jot
Martenez.
DISMISSALS: Blake Stone,
Kevin Stone, Carolyn Jones, J.
C. Estes, Mrs. Orville Hill
James Adair and Mrs. J.N.
Poteet
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planation — we were at the meet-
ing of the Commissioner’s
Court when they cut his salary
and issued an order for the re-
turn of the car. which the county
was furnishing him.
Mr. Cook is right in one
thing, he didn’t contact us - but
one of the person’s concerned
not only contacted us once, but
as many as a half dozen times
trying to get us to publish some-
thing which was not in the sudit.
Just who contacted the Lub-
bock Avalanche we don’t know,
but they were contacted, so it
would seem there were others
besides Mr. Cook trying to get
the dirt in the paper.
We don’tknow why Mr. Cook’s
salary was cut, nor do we know
why • the county car was taken
away from him, but, under the
circumstances we can’t blame
him for being disgruntled.
And, we will tell Mr. Cook
this, if he will point out one
thing In the county audit that Is
a criminal violation we’ll be
tickled pink to make an apology
for anything we’ve said — we
know what was in the audit -
we read it, and w$ were pre-
sent when it was presented to
the Commssioner’s Court.
And, you speak of a speci-
fied time for the audit, the
two auditors were employed to
make an investigation which
covered a period of four years
— not twenty.
Of course, we can understand
why you speak harshly of the
judge and the commissioners
- and you m'ght be surprised
what they could say about you.
Would you mind telling us why
your salary was cut and the
county car taken away from you?
We’ll be glad to print that also.
The fact that the Amarillo
Globe-News came in as a howl-
ing wolf and departed as a
hound dog with his tail between
his legs is an indication of
our irresponsible journalism.
And, we might add, if we had
had anything to do with trying
to create a scandle where there
was no scandle we’d be asham-
ed to show our face.
The article which you have
written is just a continuation
of the dirty politics which has
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Charley Akin
Hoekley County
Profile
In the course of a trip to Sun-
down this past week in company
with Sheriff Weir Clem we had
occasion to visit with Charley
Akin, tax assessor and collec-
tor for the Sundown Schools.
Charley has lived in Sundown
since 1940, or some twenty-six
years, moving there fromlraan
where he had been employed b>
the Ohio Oil Co. However, on
arriving in Sundown he acquired
the building which later housed
the Johnny Jones Grocery and
opened a cafe. However, his
venture into the realm of feed-
ing folks was short, as it was in
the fall of 1940 that he was em-
ployed by the Sundown School
District as their tax collector
and assessor.
Charley stated that when he
first started working for the
schools that there was less than
150 pupils, but as the oil boom
hit the attendance mushroomed
to a one time high of 750. To
take care of this boom one of
the most elaborate school build-
ings on the South Plains was
erected.
However, as the boom died
down and leveled off, the aver-
age attendance has dropped to
375. The schools now employ
twenty-eight teachers and is
rated among one of the best
schools in this section.
Charley and wife are married
and are the parents of three
daughters, all of whom are mar-
ried.
Just a few days before the tor-
nado which devastated north
Sundown several years ago , we
were talking to Charley and he
told us, "I haven’t been in a
storm cellar in twenty years.
I have one but we have never
used it.”
Right after the tornado we met
Charley down on the street and
we asked hihi, “Did you go to
the storm cellar'.”’
‘‘I came out the back door
to look at the cloud,” said Char-
ley, "and there was the tornado
just back of the \V all ace Thea-
tre. I yelled at my wife, ‘run
for the cellar’, and then I ran.
I didn’t go down the steps, I
just jumped and landed at the
bottom. You bet I went in the
cellar.”
Charley Akin is a progress-
ive citizen and has contributed
much to the upbuilding of Sun-
down and Hockley County .
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Wall, Mike. Levelland Daily Sun-News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 11, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 24, 1966, newspaper, April 24, 1966; Levelland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1138752/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting South Plains College.