Hockley County Free Press (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 52, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 29, 1964 Page: 1 of 12
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BI-DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP
BOXHOLDER
RURAL OR STAR ROUTE
BULK RATE
U. $. POSTAGE
PAIO
PERMIT NO. 114
LEVEU.AND, TEX
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PLAYED
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This coming Friday even-
ing at 7 o’clock the Ropes—
ville Eagles and the Sun-
down Roughnecks will
battle, in Levelland, for
Championship.
They are the two ‘giant’ went through district play
teams of this section of the and by—district play with—
state both winning by— out suffering defeat
district, Sundown defeating are both in Region B.
Great Falls. Both teams coach at Sundown and has When they meet at Level—
the Regional 3—B football Bovina and Ropes defeating
done an outstanding job land Friday evening, at
of training his team. G W 7 o’clock, under the lights,
They Maxwell is Coach of the they will both be fresh from
Ropes Eagles, and has de— victory and teams which
Max Washington is the veloped an outstanding team, have not suffered defeat—
it will be a fight from the
open play to thi < end of the
fourth quarter
SEE PICTURES PAGE 1
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• ■Hockley County - 2nd. Leading Cotton Producing County In Texoi
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hown is the tinge of tinsel—The stringing of the Christ-
js decorations started on Tuesday of this past week
*when linesmen of the Southwestern Public Service com-
pany started the work so the lights could be turned on
the day after Thanksgiving. In the picture is Ray Toney,
of 105 Hickory, hanging a big star. He and Jim Bowling
strung the lights and will look after them during the
season on their own time. Photo by Photocraft
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VOL. 1-NO. 52 ★★★★*★★*★★★★★ LEVELLAND, TEXAS ★★★★★★★ SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1964
Going Band From Loboland
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^^EATHER -Who cares any-
^mng about the weather on
Sunday.
You are supposed to be read-
ing this paper on Sunday mor-
ning so let.’.s take a look at
the Good Samaritan:
“.....A certain man went
down from Jerusalem to Jer-
icho, and fell among thieves,
which stripped him of his
i raiment, and wounded him,
J||d departed, leaving him for
dt’ed . . And by chance
theflk came down a certain
prieflP that way; and when
he jgjhw him, he passed by
on Jle other side . . . And
JjyWrise a Levite, when he
^■mts rt the place, came and
<^^Ki/)ked on him, and passed
-^^by on the otherside . . .But
a_- cwynn Samaritan, as he
, "^journeyed, came where he
was; and he saw him, he
had compassion on him . . .
And went to him, and bound
up his wounds, pouring in
oil and wine, and set him on
his own beast and brought
him to an inn, and took care
of him . . . And, on the mor-
row when he departed he took
out two pence, and gave them
to his host, and said unto
him, take care of him; and
Cont. on page 2
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Department 'Rescues' Man
From Burning Building
On Monday night of this
week Fire Chief John Rob-
erts invited members of the
Frej * Press staff and photo-
grapher Norman to witness
a demonstration in fire fight-
ing.
Chief Roberts told us two
'houses just across the street
from the colored school was
to be burned.
The first demonstration was
house to do rescue work.
Sonny Bell went into the
house and hid, then a fire
was set which consisted of
rags and old automobile tires.
When the smoke was pouring
in dense clouds from the win-
dows and doors four firemen,
C. B. Joiner, Johnny Joiner,
Jerry Pierce and Kenny Ke-
sey, two wearing Scott Air
Packs and two wearing skin
showing the Fire Departments diving equipment, entered
ability to aates a smoke filled the burning building and
"rescued” Bell, who also
wore a Scott Air Pack.
They were experimenting
with th?i skin diving equip-
ment, and Chief Roberts told
the Free Press it worked
perfect.
Another demonstration was
a new nozzel, which was
put together by Chief Roberts.
This nozzel was supposed to
throw a stream of water
forty feet high and eighty
feet long. However, when
it went into operation it was
discovered there was not
enough water coming through
the mains to operate it.
They burned two houses in
their experiments. These
houses were ones to be re-
nt. on page 2
TO MARCH JANUARY 1, IN DALLAS
Photo by Photocraft
LOBO BAND COTTON
BOWL BOUND
Troy Morris
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| Newspaper Edited With Shotgun
We speak so often of the
good old days--and some
folks thoughtlessly wish they
were back.
We’ve b?en thinking about
the good old days—you can
have them. Back in 1910,
when the South Plains of
Texas was still listed as
the Great American Desert,
we made our first trip to the
South plains, coming up the
Cap Rock some four miles
east of Crosbyton. That was
in the spring of the year and
the sight which greeted us
was something to write home
about.
We stepped from a horns <
drawn buggy and our mouth
fell open with surprise and
awe.
* As far as we could see there
was nothing but waving grass
—seemingly a sea of it and
more than knee high-while
there were farms in cultiva-
tion it was still the cattle-
man's paradise—where there
were farms they were plant-
ed to maize and kaffir core-
cotton was unheard of. We
were told cotton could not be
grown on the Plains, the sea-
son was too short.
We w;nt from this point to
Crosbyton and thence to
Ralls, our destination.
>VPB
TODAYS PRAYER
Thank You, 0 God, for
thy son; thank you for
the things hast spared me
from. Thank You, God, for
the joys as they unfold;
thank You for the lives
Thou dost Mold...Spare
me Thy u rath-teach me
thy ways, lead me to Thee
in the following days. Show
me Thy love. Thy mercies,
Thy care; help me, O God,
my love to share...Heaven-
ly Father, Thy will be
done, help me. Father, all
evils to shun, bless me
Savior in the days ahead,
remembering always how
Thy blood was shed...
Bless Thy Word as it
dwells within,
spirit speak
all sin, lift me up
the clouds, carry i
ward tit
, <"•* r*Jr
and reveal
^Crosbyton was the county
[seat and the residents of
Ralls swore they “stole” it
with stuffed ballot boxes, and
also that the county records
had been “swiped” in the
dead of night and moved to
Crosbyton.
The situation was this, t he
C. B. Livestock Company, of
Chicago, had started the town
of Crosbyton on lsnd which
they owned and then built
the South Plains and Crosby-
ton Railroad from Lubbock.
Emma, at that tiaie was the
county seat, but the rail-v
road passed Some fear W
five miles north of it.
In those good old
neither had paved
did you have tracks,
a town did not have a rail-
road it was a I
when the irot
Emma that was ______
rant. Ta offset tbia Jots
Ralls, and other
abliahed the town of
'Headlining the New Year
holidays for the Levelland
High School Band is a na-
tionwide TV appearance at
the 1965 Cotton Bowl. Se-
lected as one of the five
outstanding bands in the
state,the band will team with
Denton, Paschal of Fort
Worth, Fredericksburg aad
a Dallas band to be selected
to present a 25 minute pre-
game show to the 75,000
present. At halftime the
bands will teeai with the
units from the Univeraitie*
of Arkansas and Nebraska
and the Kilgore College band
and the famed Rangerettes.
to climax halftime activities
and the presentation of the
1965 Maid of Cotton ' *
awarding of the SWC
man ship award.
Being in the
becoming habit to the I
land High School
Since 1948 the band hi
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Morris, Troy. Hockley County Free Press (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 52, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 29, 1964, newspaper, November 29, 1964; Levelland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1168862/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting South Plains College.