The Hockley County Herald (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1942 Page: 2 of 16
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LET'S KEEP IT
UP / MORE WAR
SWELL IDEA/
I'M ALL FOB
THE QUOTA PLAN
FOR WAR SAVINGS
K BONOS/ /rf
SSKiSK
-AND STILL
LgOING STRONG:
NOW EVERY
COMMUNITY,
KNOWS THE
MINIMUM IT
TO BEAT THE
* ENEMY/
FOR OUR
WAR VICTORY/
mar
me day/
Thursday, August 27, 1942
The Hockley County Herald
OUR DUTY
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AT THE THEATRES...
WALLACE TO PRESENT
ANOTHER WEEK OF HITS
Friday and Saturday of this week
is a big twin-star program, Tex
Ritter and Bill Elliott, are co-star-
red in “Ndrth of the Rockies" an-
other thrill and action packed
drama of the old West, with plenty
of gun-slinging, fist fighting and
hard riding. It is just what you
want, if you like good-fast action.
There will be another chapter of
“Perils of the Royal Mounted" and
“Bulldog and the Baby” to make
this a swell program for Friday and
Saturday.
Prevue Saturday, Sunday, Mon-
day and Tuesday, Humphrey Bogart
hsa reverted to type in more ways
than one. In his new picture, “The
Big Shot” produced by Warner
Brothers, Bogart is a bank robber
and prison Inmate again, quick on
the trigger, hard on the tongue, it
is the story of a gangster who made
bis way from the gutter to the Top
and back to the gutter again. Ap-
pearing opposite Bogart in the “Big
Shot” is Irene Manning. Her charm
plus her acting ability assure this
young lady of a very successful
screen career. Showing In connec-
tion with “The Big Shot” will be
“Suing Frolics.”
t Wednesday and Thursday at the
Wa&ece, hit the deck with the
Middies as they rock the screen with
thrills, In “Hello Annapolis", star-
ting Jean Parker, as the sweetheart
of the Navy, in the gayest story
ever told. Tom Brown, as the bov
with love on his mind, Wednesday
anti Thursday, Bargain days at the
Wallace.
STANWYCK AND BRENT SHARE
TOP HONORS AT ROSE PREWE
Friday and Saturday brings to
the Rose, the East Side Kids in an-
other rollicking story “Let’s Get
Tough” another laugh riot, filled
with excitement, suspense and thrills
to fit the most critical eye, when
they tried to Join the armed forces
and couldn't they started out to
fight sabotage, in New York’s East
Side section. Also another chapter
of “Riders of Death Valley” and
"Art of Self Defense”, comedy.
Prevue Saturday night, Sunday
and -Monday, another grand novel,
“The Gay Sisters" has been brought
to the screen by Warner Bros. This
picture has an exceptionally fine
cast, In the leading role is fiery
Barbara Stanwyck as the eldest
of the Three Graykord Sisters", a
sometimes firece, brusque and level-
headed person who thinks that sen-
timent is a silly emotion. George
Brent, in his usual casual, but at
the same time forceful manner,
plays the role of a civil engineer
who becomes a millionaire, and also
is the reason why the Gay Sisters
are practically held penniless. There
is a grand supporting cast headed
by Geraldine Frltftgerland and
Nancy Coleman, Gig Young, a new
cdmer to the screen. Also the latest
Air Mall News and comedy.
Tuesday, Bargain Day Only, “The
Night Before the Divorce” a laugh
riot of a guy who loved one woman
and made love to another, starring
Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, and
Joseph Allen. Showing In connec-
tion With this program will be a
two one reel comedies.
Wednesday and Thursday, full-
length, unchanged screen classic
demonstrates fresh appeal in 1942,
“Gone With The Wind” with Clark
Gable. The greatest screen enter-
tainment of all time, uncut, full-
length, exactly as previously shown.
Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, and
Olivia DeHavllland .head a grand
cast of stars.
About People
You Know
Jean Clark returned home Sat-
urday after a two weeks vacation
in Los Angeles, California. She visit-
ed her brother and his wife, Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Clark while there. She
is employed at the Ellis Drug store.
Mrs. P. T. Fagan and grandsons,
Gene and Jimmy Jinklns, left Mon-
day after a visit with their grand-
parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Jinklns.
They returned home to Alexandria,
Louisiana.
• Mrs. Bob Hurst and daughter,
Theta Bell, will leave Levelland
next Monday and join Sgt. Bob
Hurst at Camp Claiborne, La, for a
few months. Mrs. Hurst is employ-
ed at the local Furr Food Store.
Mrs. D. A. Martin of Post, spent
the weekend in Levelland visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Ernest Stewart,
Mr. Stewart and their children.
iN THE
LEVEL
With the elections over and the
senatorial question settled for an-
other six years, there’s not much to
talk about except the war . . .
which reminds us that next Satur-
day Is the time to do something be-
sides talk......Bring In all the
scrap you aui possibly salvage
The~Salvage Committee said that
they would be unable to handle any
tin, such as car bodies, but they
want all types of articles made from
Iron.....Bessie Mae Kitchen and
Lorene Dowell plan to attend Har-
din-Simmons this fall and be
roommates. .... “kelly green” and
“wild plum” are two of the “musts'
for an attractive fall wardrobe this
year .... Had you noticed that
some of the trees on the court house
lawn have already begun to turn
yellow and brown. .... Beatrice
Williams and Inez West are working
at the Club Cafe now. . . . . Gloria
Dene Ham ill made a trip to Okla-
homa with her father this week. . . .
She drove a pickup for him.....
Rain the first day of school ....
Tincy Johnson plans to attend Texas
Tech at Lubbock this fall . . . .
Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone ha3
as cheerful an attitude and ready
smile as Ella Rea Williams.....
She is cashier at the Ellis Drug. . . .
Maurene Bailey will go back to
Draughon’s Business College in
September.....She also went
part of last year.....Jimmy Cox
bought his lunch pall last week and
Informed a friend that his mother
wouldn’t see him for a “long, long
time” because he was going to start
to school.....Billy Boysen and his
deg “Stinky” make a pair that is
hard to beat.....If crops con-
tinue to look as good as they do now,
Levelland will have a busy fall.
v *• . 1 • 1 DRY
Hie geographical center of Texas
Is a point 30 miles hbrtfieAst wf
Loss of the Maikop oil fields has been a heqvy blow to the Rus-
sians. Transportation facilities from the Baku fields, already over-
taxed, must now carry an overwhelming burden. This trainload of
tank cars is en route to a Black seaport
According to the 1940 census, 93 Brftdy ^ Mc0uDoch county,
cities in the United States have
more than 100,000 population. Four
are Texas cities—Houston, Dallas,
San Antonio and Fort Worth.
Houston ranks fifth among the
list of 17 cities in the United States
whose population increased ten per
cent or more from 1930 to 1940. Dur-
ing this decade, Houston’s popula-
tion increased 31.5 per cent.
Texas of 250,000,000 years ago was
Inhabited solely fay insects, a large
percentage of which were mamoth
cockroaches, according to geologists.
Dr. C. G. Dunn
General Practice
DENTISTRY
OFFICE PHONE 4IS
RE8. PHONE 423
Levelland. Te
Snowfall reaches an annual av-
erage of 25 inches in the Texas Pan-
handle, while in the Lower Rio
Grande Valley, snow is unknown.
From Texas’ Lower Rio Grande
Valley to the Texas Panhandle Plains
the mean annual temperature ranges
from 74 to 54 degrees.
In 1910 the urban population of I
Texas was 24.1 per cent. In 1940, |
It was 45.4 per cent.
Nearly one-fourth of Texas’ pop-1
ulatlon lives in four counties—Har-
ris, Dallas, Bexar and Tarrant.
Magneto, Carbure-
tor, Starter, Genera-
tor, Ignition Repair-
ing.
GERLACH
- ELECTRIC CO.
Plums 342
THANK YOU, FOLKS
OF PRECINCT NO. 3
WORDS-Are not at my command which would
ft
completely express my sincere appreciation for
your confidence and trust in me by electing me
as your Commissioner. TTianks to you my fine
friends. I will do my best to give my very best
efforts to each one of you in Precinct 3 and
make the kind of a Commissioner you will be
proud to call yours.
Sincerely,
C. J. COTTEN
The highest town in Texas is
Fort Davis, county seat of Jeff Davis
county, with a elevation of 5,060
feet.
At the Texas Memorial Museum
at Austin are skulls of the pre-his-
toric elephant, mastodon, dire wolf,
mosasaur and sloth, which have
been found in various parts of Texas.
Animals which roamed over pre-
historic Texas were the elephant,
mastodon, tapir, horse, camel, bison,
ground sloth, giant wolf, giant ar-
madillo and saber-toothed tiger.
A few people do make a success of
taking things easy—kleptomaniacs,
for instance.
The Nation’s greatest rose industry
Is located around Tyler, Texas.
— --------
Texas highest mountain is the
Ouadalupe Peak, with an eleva-
tion of 8,078 feet.
The Americans Can
Take If!--
At home, or on the battle fronts of the world,
Americans can take it. . . . Yes, and they can
dish ft out, as is being proven all over the War
Fronts.
They are doing their share to make the country
free of all “Isms” except Americanism.....But,
are we on the Home Fronts doing our share, to
help them?
Out in the back of your own home, there is prob-
ably enough Junk Iron, qppper, tin, aluminum,
rubber or other materials, that are vital to war,
to help them win, or save a soldier’s life. Bring
it to town, convert it into cash, and buy a Bond
with the money.
Attend the Barbecue and Salvage
Rally At Levelland Next
Saturday, August 29th
CICERO SMITH
Lumber Company
JUNK RALLY
For Levelland
AND VICINITY
National Scrap Harvest
Aug. 29
AT
LEVELLAND
Junk helps make guns,
tanks, ships for our
fighting men.......
Bring in anything made
of metal or rubber . . .
Get paid for it on the spot
Bring your family
Spend the day
Meet your friends
r-
WINK MAKES FIGHTING WEAPONS
Owe old dim will provide
Kr»p«twl needed for aiOmwii
automatic light carbines.
One old plow will help
make one hundred 7 5 -mm.
armor-piarciac projectiles.
J
Owe useless old Ora
provides aa much
rubber aa is used in
One old shovel will
help make
hand grenades.
f f'f
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Let’s Jolt them with Junk
From Hockley County
THIS ADVERTISEMENT SPONSORED FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE BY:
E. K. Hufstedler and Sons
LEVELLAND
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Weimhold, Forrest. The Hockley County Herald (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1942, newspaper, August 27, 1942; Levelland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153122/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting South Plains College.