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2 — LEVELLAND-HOCKLEY CO. NEWS-PRESS, Supday, March 6, 1988
Just
Rambling
With
Stephen Henry
Some people have lousy
memories - they never forget
anything.
A couple of times a year we
wish we had a later deadline.
The News-Press is finished Fri-
day nights and is printed early
Saturday mornings. As a result
Saturday afternoon events, such
as the LoboeUe playoff down in
Austin cannot be included in the
Sunday paper. Sports writer
Mitch Word is in Austin cover-
ing the playoff games and will
have a full report and photos of
the event in Wednesday’s pa-
per.
Photos from Thursday
night's game were sent by Fed-
eral Express and are included in
today’s paper.
Tuesday is Super Tuesday,
and everyone is encouraged to
go to the polls. While your vote
on the presidential candidates
will have little bearing unless
you attend the precinct conven-
tions after the polls close Tues-
day evening, your votes are es-
sential on the rest of the races,
including those for local offices.
Sample ballots for both the Re-
publican and Democratic pri-
maries are published inside to-
day’s paper.
A woman may be physically
weaker than a man, but she can
put a cap on a fruit jar so tight
he can’t take it off.
Those who spend today
boasting about the wonderful
things they will do tomorrow
probably spent yesterday doing
the same thing.
ELECTION
continued from page 1
to run for the congressional seat
being vacated by Beau Boulter,
who is running for the U.S. Sen-
ate, three Democrats and two
Republicans are seeking their
party nominations. Nancy
Garms, H. Bryan Poff, Jr., and
Mel Phillips are vying against
one another on the Democratic
ballot, and Teel Bivins and Ron
Slover are pitted against one
another on the Republican bal-
lot.
If voting in the Republican
primary, voters will have the
choice of former Levelland resi-
dent Beau Boulter, Milton E.
Fox, Wes Gilbreath, or Ned
Snead for the nomination of
United States Senator. On the
Democratic side, Lloyd Bentsen
is being challenged by Joe Sulli-
van for the same office.
The presidential slates for
both parties are varied. On the
Democratic ballot, there are 11
candidates listed, while on the
Republican ballot, there are six
candidates and a vote for un-
committed. Democratic presi-
dential hopefuls include Gary
Hart, David E. Duke, Lyndon H.
LaRouche, Jr., W.A. Williams,
Paul Simon, A1 Gore, Michael S.
Dukakis, Bruce Babbitt, Jesse
L. Jackson, Norbert G. Dennerll
Jr., and Dick Gephardt. On the
Republican ballot the candi-
dates include George Bush, Bob
Dole, Alexander M. Haig Jr.,
Jack Kemp, Pat Robertson, and
Pete du Pont.
For an advance look at a
sample ballot, turn to page 7B in
this issue.
3JQAJIAVA v*ir>n
SHOOTING--Carol Bailey shoots during the Levelland Loboette playoff game against the Dallas
Wilmer-Hutchins Lady Eagles Thursday night in Austin. Levelland beat their opponents 57-33 in
the semi-final action. Bailey scored 14 points during the game. (Staff Photo by Mitch Word)
LAWSUIT continued from page 1
right of recovery when the case
is tried to a jury on merits and
we definitely feel the reputation
of my client has been vindicat-
ed,” said Harriger minutes
after the hearing concluded
Friday afternoon.
The case is not over, howev-
er, as Harriger said both sides
will continue to take additional
depositions and discovery. He
predicted the lawsuit will be
tried in the late fall or early in
1989. ‘‘The judge has not deter-
mined how quick the case will
be set for trial,” sa|id the
attorney.
“The real issue is the sale of
seed labeled VNS (Variety Not
Stated). It is an attempt by seed
companies to eliminate VNS
labels so they can comer the
market on planting seed,” add-
ed Harriger.
‘‘I feel super. They lifted a
big weight off us. We can go
ahead and operate,” said Poage
in a telephone interview. He
admitted a temporary injunction
had nearly shut the delinters
down. ‘‘We couldn’t sell seed
and they had an injunction
against all the seed, farmers
had caught out at Opdyke Gin.
Now we can go ahead with
operations. Like I said last
week, it’s like a big barracuda
trying to eat a little goldfish.”
Harriger credited several
area farmers for their help.
‘‘Guys like Billy Jackson,
George Childress Sr., Jack Ay-
ers, Jeff Kauffman and Donny
Polk deserve a lot of credit. I’m
really grateful to those guys for
everything they’ve done...for
not knuckling under to a multi-
national corporation out of
Cleveland,” added the attorney.
SPEARS continued from page 1
He said coach Buster Leaf,
who was hired recently as a
replacement for coach Gene
Mayfield, will have a good base
to build on, thanks to Mayfield.
‘‘When we hired him (May-
field), our situation was poor, all
but women’s basketball. We
couldn’t compete hardly at all in
football. We had not had a
playoff team in a decade. Since
Mayfield, we can compete ef-
fectively in football. Two out of
the last three years, we’ve been
in the playoffs. He laid the
groundwork for a successful
program,” Spears said.
He said that even though the
TEAMS scores have shown
improvement over the years, the
Levelland students are not at
the level he would like to see
them, ‘‘but nor is any high
school in the state. We need to
demand more. Parents have to
expect more.”
Teachers and administrators
are forced to deal with problems
caused by the home environ-
ment, he said. One way Level-
land teachers are working with
parents is, -i»~4he elementary
grades, teachers contact the
parents at their homes and
discuss what they expect from
the students. In higher grades,
conferences are available to
parents who wish to talk to
teachers, Spears said.
“It’s not the lack of opportu-
nity but the lack of concern by
parents many times. I don’t
believe teachers are shirking
their responsibilities. It’s hard
to teach a kid who’s tired. The
dropout rate is the same deal.
The parents don’t realize the
importance of an education,”
Spears said.
He has lived in Levelland for
20 years and has two sons, one a
sophomore at SPC and one a
freshman at Levelland High
School.
MAJORS continued from page 1
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if he wanted to open a store
here. When he came to see me
he had already met Willie Lee
Majors at the post office. After
waiting for me for five minutes
in the lobby he told me ‘that’s
the best man you have got in the
bank, including yourself.’”
Battin said Majors is the first
man in the bank in the mornings
and usually the last man out of
the hank. ‘‘He’s a fine gentle-
man and we’re proud he’s a part
of our staff.”
“I’m real proud of my work
here. I’m real proud to work at
this bank,” said Majors. “I’ve
tried to do like the Lord said.
I’ve learned to give and take and
I’m just glad to be here. I feel
like I’ve got a few more miles to
go and I’m going to enjoy them
all and all of you.”
He said he moved to Level-
land in 1945 from Cameron in
Milam County where he was
bom and raised. “I had a
brother and sister here and I
came out to live with them,” he
said. He was 21 then. He said he
worked for Eugen(> Bird well at
the Birdwell gas station for 17
years, changing jobs only on the
advice of a doctor. He said that
change was the best he could
have made as he’s been with the
hank ever since, greeting peo-
ple, helping people, picking up
the mail, and generally being an
ambassador of good will wher-
ever he is.
He and his wife, Josephine,
have five children, Joe Majors
and family who live in Houston;
Daisy Davenport and family who
also live in Houston; Gayle
Nickens and family who live in
North Dakota; Willie Majors
and family who live in Dallas;
and Glenda Moore and family
who live in Levelland. They also
have 12 grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
While he has served the
bank since 1963, he has also
served his Lord. He is a licensed
minister and the associate min-
ister of the Morning Star Baptist
Church. He also holds services
at other churches across the
South Plains. A humble man, he
credits God with his success in
life.
Potpourri
by don watkins
«»NP
People keep telling me that
vacations are dangerous and
costly pastimes. I don’t argue
the costly, but dangerous gives
me a little problem. I tell ’em
the danger lies not in the
traveling, albeit the trucks,
drunks, grandmothers, and oth-
erwise crazy drivers on the
nation’s highways constitute a
bit of a threat. 1 tell ’em the
danger lies in the planning.
First, decisions have to be
made as to destination. I tell my
wife Gertrude we’re definitely
going to the lake areas and she
tells me we’re going to the
mounttiins. I concede a bit and
tell her okay, we’ll go to the
river country and she says okay
as long as it’s trout river country
which is mountain country. I tell
her she’s being a bit unfair and
she tells me it really doesn’t
matter, that she’s tired of
chiggers and wood ticks and
snakes that hiss and sometimes
rattle. I ask her why we acquired
access to a lake cabin in the first
place and she reminds me I did
it without her knowledge. I look
at the atlas for a route to the
mountains. First danger over-
come.
Thinking the unpleasantries
are over, I make the mistake of
asking which route she would
like to take. She gives me her
pitying look as if I’ve flipped my
wig and tells me there’s really
only one - the road to Santa Fe
through Albuquerque. I know
I’m slow on the uptake, but it
doesn’t take too long for that to
set in.
‘‘Listen, Gertrude,” I say,
‘‘We’re not gonna play that
game. We’re going to the
mountains as you’ve asked, but
we’re going to rest and relax,
not go on a dadgummed shop-
ping spree.”
Again I’m answered with a
pitying look, giving me the
feeling she truly does think I’m
really dumb. She emits a highly
audible sigh tind then says,
‘‘Your brother’s wife Jan
does.”
I think uh oh, she’s delving
into her special brand of logic,
always a risky situation at our
house. Without mentioning the
word logic, I tell her that
because Jan spends megabucks
shopping is no reason for her to
do the same. She comes back
with something inane like it
seems to her I could be as nice
as my brother and I try to let
that pass. She doesn’t.
“And smother thing,” she
says, ‘‘When’s the ltist time
you’ve taken me shopping?”
I reply, “I don’t have to take
you shopping; you do that well
enough on your own. ’ ’
“Maybe so,” she says,
‘‘And if it’s so, you can wait in
the car when we’re in Santa Fe
or wherever.”
I kinda get my dander up
and tell her we tire taking
William Least Heat Moon’s
Blue Highways to the mounttiins
and are most certainly bypass-
ing those big cities. I quickly
turn on my heels and leave the
room, shutting the door behind
me. There is an immediate
sound of breaking glass, in-
stants before the door complete-
ly shuts. I tell you, the danger
lies in the planning.
GRAND JURY
both indicted for burglary of a
building. Both Cody Allen Cloud
and Kyle Ray Glenn were indict-
ed with burglary of a habitation.
Charles Wayne Pope was
charged with theft over $750.
Billy Halliburton and Alfred
Cortez were also indicted for
burglary of a building. Daniel
Saldivar Jr. was indicted for
forgery by passing. Ylma Garcia
Farias was true billed for at-
tempted murder, and Thomas
Tranthan was indicted for injury
to a child.
FORUM
continued from page 1
Each of the political candi-
dates was offered time to ad-
dress the gathering of around 70
residents. The forum and ac-
companying box supper and os-
trich skin boot auction were
sponsored by the Whitharral
Lions Club.
The box supper auction was
conducted by Charles Macha
and was spurred by good-natur-
ed rivalry among friends. The.
decorated boxes brought a low
of $27.50 at the start of the
auction to a high of $130 for one
box. The Lion Tamer’s pot, pro-
moted as containing a number
of outstanding IOU’s, brought
$30.
The auction concluded with
county judge Don Avery ex-
plaining how the Lions came
into possession of a pair of $500
ostrich skin boots from Phil
Martin Autoplex and opening
the bidding at $300. The bidding
quickly rose to $475, with Monte
Rogers claiming the boots. In
all, the auction generated
$1,880 and donations afterwards
pushed the total to $2,075, all of
which will be used at the annual
sale following the junior live-
stock show this week.
STOCK SHOW
continued from page 1
seeing the swine are Milton
Marrow, Bobby Kauffman, J.T.
Pugh, Dale Hewitt, Dtui Taylor,
Greg Methvin, and A.D.
Hughes.
Other show officials include
County Agent Billy Warrick and
FFA supervisors Mark Edens of
Levelland, Charles Roberts of
Anton, Dennis Pate of Ropes-
ville, Johnny Baker of Smyer,
and Ronnie Miller of Whithar-
ral.
Trophies for the winners of
the showmanship, grand
champion, and reserve champ-
ions in the three categories were
donated by Eddie's Cowboy
Store, Charles Reid Insurance,
Hockley County Farm Bureau,
Post Montgomery, J.T. Rackler,
Henry’s Backhoe Service, Buz
Poage and Charles Macha, Lev-
elland Barrow Association, and
Eddie Courtney and David
Barnes.
continued from page 1
James Gene Dickens was in-
dicted for aggravated robbery,
and David Allen Jordan was in-
dicted for unauthorized use of a
motor vehicle. Lionel Sanchez
Jr. was true billed for criminal
mischief, and Billy Halliburton
was indicted for burglary of a
habitation.
Elsa Mendoza was charged
with credit card abuse, and Joe
Olivas Jr. was charged with fail-
ure to stop and render aid. San-
tos Hernandez Jr., Tommie
Hernandez and Armando Salas
were all indicted for aggravated
robbery.
Clarence Woods was indict-
ed for making a terroristic
threat, a misdemeanor.
During a docket call in the
286th district court Wednesday,
a trial date of March 21 was set
for Chester Wallace, charged
with murdering Grant Washing-
ton Jr. on Jan. 31, 1987 outside
the Northside Recreation Cen-
ter.
Letter to the
editor
Dear Editor:
Do you wish to sharpen your
communication skills in an en-
vironment of fun and fellow-
ship? If the answer is “Yes,”
then you will want to plan to
attend the organizational meet-
ing for a new Toastmasters Club
in Levelland to be held at 7:30
p.m., Tuesday, March 8, at the
Spot Restaurant on College Ave-
nue in Levelland. The session
will include a brief demonstra-
tion of a Toastmasters program
and orientation for the prospec-
tive members. You may want to
meet with us about 7 p.m. to
eat. We will meet in a room
near the buffet.
Toastmasters International
is a nonprofit educational organ-
ization which helps men and
women develop skills in com-
munication and leadership. The
Levelland Club will join 52 other
clubs in District 44 of West
Texas.
The organizational meeting
will be presented by members of
the Texas Talkers Toastmasters
Club of Lubbock and other
Toastmasters from CentraPDivi-
sion of District 44.
Any interested person is
welcome to attend the organiza-
tional meeting. Reservations are
not required. For more informa-
tion, you may contact Ruby M.
Jackson, DTM, at (806) 794-
5448 in Lubbock, or Dr. Paul
Dunn, (W) 894-7765 or (H) 894-
6800 in Levelland.
Sincerely,
sRuby M. Jackson
Ruby M. Jackson, DTM
Community Relations Chmn.
District 44
Toastmasters International
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