Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 231, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 14, 1976 Page: 1 of 8
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Volume 34, No. 231, Levelland, Texas, Tuesday, September 14, 1976, Fifteen Cents
Tech Schedules
Inauguation
For Mackey
Inaugural ceremonies for
Dr. Cedi Mackey, new
president of Texas Tech
University, will be con-
ducted at 2:80 p.m., Oct. 26,
in the Municipal Audi-
torium, with a reception to
follow at 4:80 p.m. in The
Museum of Texas Tech Uni-
versity.
Principal speaker for the
afternoon convocation will
be Dr. David A. Mathews, •
secretary of the U.S. De-
partment of Health, Educa-
tion and Welfare (HEW),
Washington, D.C. Dr.
Mathews is on leave from
the presidency of the Uni-
versity of Alabama to serve
as HEW secretary.
Plans for the inaguration-
convocation were announced
by Bill E. Collins of Lub-
bock, member of the Board
of Regents of Texas Tech
and general chairman of the
inauguration committee:
and Dr. Charles S. Hard-
wick, vice president for Aca-
demic Affairs at Texas Tech
and chairman of the steering
committee.
Serving with Collins on
the Regents committee for
the ceremonies are Dr. Jud-
son Williams of El Paso and
Don Workman of Lubbock.
Sub-committee chairmen
are Mrs. Jane Brandenber-
ger, director of university
news and publications, invi-
tations and programs; Dr.
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A GROUP of 65 Levelland youngsters took part in the Punt, Pass and
Kick• competition Saturday morning at Lobo Stadium. The NFL-
sanctioned event was sponsored by the Noon Lions Club and Gentry
Ford. Eighteen trophies m six different age groups were awarded.
Winners m each age group were: 8-years-old, Danny Leaks, Todd
Spears, Mike Stafford; 9-years-old, Shannon Means, James Pawley,
Cary Morrow: 10-years-old, Gregg SpruieU, Terry Van Rumbaugh,
Rob Martin; 11-years-old Darrel Phillips, Melvin Leaks, Russell
Webb: 12-years-old, Johnny Waggoner, Duane Esch, Scott Moreland;
IS-years-old, Rodney SpruieU, RusseU Vest, Bruce Rhyne. |Staff
Photo by Terry Turner\
A group of about 20
persons met at 9 a.m. today
at the Chamber of Com-
merce building to air their
views on the closing of the
Santa Fe Railroad’s agent’s
office in Levelland. Kenneth
May and Garland Sliter re-
presenting Santa Fe listened
to the views of the Chamber
of Commerce, and shippers
and receivers in Levelland
on how they will be affected
if the agent’s office is closed
here.
The pilot project concerns
three spur lines, one of them
being the Lehman-White-
face-Levelland route. The
other two routes involve
Brownfield-Seagraves and
Crosbyton-Ralls-Lorenzo.
May said that the office
was to be closed for purely
economic reasons. May said
he felt like the railroad
commission would meet in
Lubbock in the first two
weeks of October and Level-
land would be notified of the
decision.
May’s rebuttal was that
Levelland would be given a
toll free line to Lubbock and
would deal directly with the
Lubbock agent.
In an earlier meeting at
the Chat and Chew Restau-
rant the Chamber formally
agreed to oppose the moving
of the Santa Fe office.
Chamber member Ray
Thornton said. “We need to
get behind this and fight it.”
The members agreed that
moving the office and mak-
ing Lubbock a central re-
ceiving office would affect
several Levelland busines-
ses. The C-C agreed to
compose a letter to Santa Fe
expressing their opposition
on the controversial matter.
Mel Mottet, representing
Cook Memorial Hospital,
asked for the Chamber’s
support on a public opinion
poll concerning the hospital.
The survey would poll Lev-
ellanders on Cook Memorial,
what doctors they use and
general questions about
medical services available in
Levelland. The Chamber
agreed to back the hospital.
By Terry Tamer
Local Man Arrested
Anti-Trust Bill To Hold
Down Prices, Says Bentsen
Washington, D.C. — Sen-
ator Lloyd Bentsen recently
said legislation approved by
the Senate will make it pos-
sible for the Attorney Gen-
eral of Texas to roll back
prices that have been forced
up by anti-trust conspira-
cies.
”1 was pleased to vote for
this bill, which is supported
by Attorney General John
Hill of Texas. It "'its some
teeth in our nation’s anti-
trust laws and I am hopeful
that the House of Repre-
sentatives will give it swift
approval,” Bentsen said.
As an example of how an-
ti-trust actions can force
prices down, the Senator
cited the case of the anti-
biotic Tetracycline. Over a
10 year period, as the result
of lawsuits filed by the Jus-
tice Department and by the
attorneys general of in-
dividual states, the price of
Tetracycline was reduced
from $60 for 100 tablets to $3
for 100 tablets.
In addition, Bentsen said,
individual consumers re-
covered $28 million in dam-
ages with an average of $200
going to each consumer and
as much as $12,000 to one
family.
“But this was a fluke, an
accident. The damages were
recovered because the four
drug companies involved in
the Tetracycline case settled
with most of the states. And
in fact, the one state that
insisted on going to trial lost
its cases in court,” the
Senator said.
“Present anti-trust laws
are difficult, if not impos-
sible, to enforce. And this
new bill is needed to clear
away the cobwebs and put
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Researchers Try To
Harness Texas Wind
Bush land, Texas—Windy
days occur frequently
throughout the Southern
High Plains. Harnessing this
cheap and abundant re-
source to power irritation
Briscoe
Approves
Grants
AUSTIN — Governor
Dolph Briscoe has approved
three criminal justice grants
affecting the South Plains
area.
Floyd County receives a
grant of $18,706 for proba-
tion services, and the South
Plains Association of Gov-
ernments receives $19,020
for teletype equipment for
19 area law enforcement
agendas and a grant for
$18,866 for scientific «
ment for area law
The local grants
among 78 appn
ernor Briscoe
with Law Enfo
si stance Administration
(IJCAA) funds under the
Crime Control Ad of 1971.
pumps is the objective of a
new study at the USDA
Southwestern Great Plains
Research Center, Bushland,
Texas. According to Dr.
B.A. Stewart, Director, the
Center at Bushland recently
received funds from the
Energy Research and De-
velopment Administration
for the study. The research
project will be a joint effort
and approval is pending on a
cooperative agreement be-
tween the Bushland Center
and West Texas State Uni-
versity. Drs. Arland
Schneider and Nolan Clark.
USDA Agricultural Engi-
neers at Bushland, will
evaluate pumps and power
transmission equipment for
linking pumps to a wind
rotor. At the same time.
Drs. Vaughn Nelson. Bob
i Barieau. WTSU Physics
Professors, and Dr. Earl
Gilmore. Amarillo College
Professor, will study per-
formance of wind rotors.
\ The objective of the re-
search is to assemble and
test a complete irrigation
pumping system including a
wind rotor, pump, and gear
drive. Large wind rotors are
and many irrigation pumps
are available. “The chal-
Oge will be to hak them
irrigation pumping system."
Dr. Stewart said.
Research plans call for
purchasing and erecting a
wind rotor that will produce
about 50 horsepower. This
rotor will be much larger
than the present windmills
that dot the High Plains.
These small windmills used
to pump stockwater produce
about 1 horsepower from 12-
to 16-foot diameter fans.
The proposed irrigation
pumping system will have a
rotor thrt is 40 to SO feet in
diameter. The type and de-
sign of the rotor have not
been finalized, but it is an-
ticipated that the rotor will
be ready and installed by
April 1977.
It is anticipated that the
rotor will be mechanically
linked to a pump on ah
irrigation well at the Re-
search Center. Pumps to be
evaluated with the wind
rotor system are air Hit.
turbine, positive displace-
ment piston, and positive
displacement rotary type**
Drs. Nelson and Barieau.
from West Texas 8tate Uni
and Dr. Gilmore,
from Amarillo College, have
tion about the a
Textbook
Committee
To Meet
AUSTIN — The State
Textbook Committee will
meet in Austin today to
begin selecting books,
teaching systems, and re-
lated materials to be recom-
mended for the Texas adop-
tion this year.
Final selection and formal
adoption will be completed
by the State Board of Edu-
cation at its November 18
meeting in Austin. Materials
selected by the Board will be
available for use in Texas
public schools beginning
September 1, 1977.
The 15-member commit-
tee began the annual ballot-
ing process at 8:80 a.m.
today in the Texas Educa-
tion Agency board room, ISO
E. Riverside Drive.
The textbook proclama-
tion calls for new materials
in 24 high school subjects,
five elementary subjects,
and dictionaries for three
age groups. Thirty-nine na-
tional publishers have sub-
mitted books for adoption.
The State Textbook Com-
mittee will send its recom-
mended list of books and
other materials to Dr. M.L.
Brochette, Texas Commis-
sioner of Education, as soon
as its balloting is completed.
Textbooks on the list will
be reviewed by Texas Ed-
ucation Agency specialists in
the subject field, checking to
make sure each book meets
the state textbook procla-
mation requirements. Agen-
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| Farm Tour
[Will Begin
ACIR Approves Sunday For Assault
School Financing
Friday
The Hockley County
Farm Tour will begin at
8:80 a.m. Friday. Sept.
will leave from Level-
land CHy Park at 8:80
a.m. and will return to
the park for the noon
The Texas Advisory Com-
mission on Intergovernmen-
tal Relations (Texas ACIR)
recently approved recom-
mendations on public school
financing and property taxes
designed to expand equal
educational opportunities
for Texas school children
and allow many poorer
school districts to lower
their property taxes.
The Commission’s recom-
mendations would put more
state money into districts
with the lowest taxable pro-
perty values per student —
and the highest taxes. Local
school boards in those dis-
tricts then would have the
choice of (1) lowering local
taxes or (2) spending more
money on their school pro-
grams.
Prepared for considera-
■ tion by the 65th Legislature,
seven of the recommenda-
tions are directed toward
three major issues in public
school financing: (1) local
school property tax support."
(2) equalization measures,
and (8) local fiscal ability.
The other seven recommen-
dations on property taxation
deal with (1) tax adminis-
tration, (2) the tax base, and
(3) standards of valuation.
The school finance recom-
mendations anticipate addi-
tional state support for pub-
lic education and call for
continuation and improve-
ment of equalization policies
enacted during the last ses-
sion of the Texas legislature.
The recommendations on
property taxation, according
to Commission Chairman
Tom J. Vandergriff. “would
mean subtantially greater
equity and uniformity in
property taxes and more ef-
ficiency in property tax ad-
ministration.”
The bask problem
school financing,
to the Texas ACIR
detailing the
tions, “is still caused by the
wide disparities in local
schoai districts ffreel ea-
aad the ability of
districts te out-
IS would begot the
of pear districts
with additional state aid
through an improved state
equalization aid program.
Under this improved pro-
gram poor school districts
could find it possible to re-
duce property taxes and
replace the local revenue
with state funds.
In 1974-75. the 117 school
districts with the lowest per
student wealth levied ave-
rage enrichment taxes of 57
cents per $100 of taxable
value to raise revenues of
only $125 per student for
spending above the basic
state program level. In con-
trast. the 144 wealthiest
school districts in the state
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Plant To Begin
Fly Dispersals
Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico
— If program plans move
ahead as projected, the first
plane load of sterile flies
from Mexico's newly-dedi-
cated sterile screwworm fly
plant located near here
should be on their way soon
to the Baja California
Peninsula for dispersal.
“The Baja area was selec-
ted as the starting point in
Mexico for a concentrated
battle against the costly and
destructive screwworm pest
of livestock, and the area
will be expanded eventually
to eradicate the insect to the
Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in
southern Mexico,” said Dr.
M.E. Meadows, director of
the U.S. Department of Ag-
riculture’s Mission-based
screwworm facility which
supplied larvae for the new
Mexico plant.
Meadows indicated that
intensive survey work is un-
derway on the Baja penin-
sula to determine levels of
tattoo and
that may
forts also are
Garland Bell, 54, of 644
Town House Plaza, was ar-
rested and charged with ag-
gravated assault with a
deadly weapon early Sunday
morning after he fired a shot
at his wife, Alice, 48.
Bell, who is disabled, fired
a .38 caliber pistol at his wife
during a family argument.
The bullet hit Mrs. Bell on
the right wrist, penetrated
her lung and lodged in her
spine.
The shooting occurred
around 1:45 a.m. Sunday.
Mrs. Bell was taken to
Cook Memorial Hospital,
and • was transferred to
Methodist Hospital in Lub-
bock by Smith Ambulance.
She was in stable condition
as of Tuesday noon.
Mrs. Bell has been a police
dispatcher with the LPD for
seven years.
Governor Briscoe To
Address Conference
Texas Governor Dolph
Briscoe is scheduled to ad-
dress participants in the
Second Annual West Texas
Conference on State Affairs
October 12 and 13 on the
campus of Angelo State Uni-
versity.
Also speaking during the
two days of public talks and
panel discussions will be
former U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Arthur J. Goldberg,
Firemen
Answer
Calls
Levelland Fire Depart-
ment answered three calls
over the weekend.
Eighteen firemen re-
sponded to a call from Christ
United Methodist Church at
1704 College Ave. at 6:80
p.m. Sunday. Sept. 12.
There was an electrical
short in the neon sign. The
firemen found no fire.
At 10 p.m. the same day
the Fire Department re-
ceived a call from Wilford
Major of 1715 Grant. The
bile fire caused by a flooding
carburetor. The firemen
were out 15 minutes and five
call Monday. Sept. 18. at
11:20 a.m. to the dty dump
ground. The fire was caused
by i hot barrel of trash
The
Texas Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby
and Texas House Speaker
Bill Clayton. U.S. Congress-
man Omar Burleson has also
announced tentative plans to
address the conference on
Oct. 13.
The conference, spon-
sored by ASU, the San
Angelo Standard-Times and
the West Texas Chamber of
Commerce, offers oppor-
tunities to bring together
citizens and government of-
ficials for an exchange of
ideas on state government
and special problems.
Outstanding students and
faculty members from
schools and colleges in West
Texas, city and county of-
ficials and others will focus
their attention on the topic
of this year’s gathering,
“You and State Govern-
ment: Setting the Priori-
ties."
Registration for the con-
ference begins at 11 a.m. in
the physical education build-
ing followed by a caucus of
student delegates at 1 p.m.
in the lecture haH, room
101 of the Robert and Nona
Carr Education Fine Arts
Building. State Rep. Wil
helmina Deko will serve as
Ear the
m •
The ’opening assembly
starts at t p.m. with an
address by House
Clayton.
The gi
8:80 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 231, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 14, 1976, newspaper, September 14, 1976; Levelland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1139179/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting South Plains College.