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*Z4e eJlockley County Jle^aLU
OUTSTANDING
TOP WEEKLY
SERVING LEVELLAND AND HOCKLEY COUNTY FOR THIRTY - FOUR YEARS
FRIDAY, JUNE 10, I960
LEVELLAND, HOCKLEY COUNTY, TEXAS
PRICE: 10cVOLUME XXXIV, NUMBER 36
Morton edges Reid; Clem, Horne winBalloting
is close in
By ORLIN BREWER
3 of races
■fef'
the
as-
r
t
FIREMEN BATTLE BLAZE BLAMED ON ARSONIST
O(»O
con
HIRE TEACHERS, HEAR PROPOSALS
City's Canadian water
REPORTDear Editor:
neighbor
scrupulous)-
IX UNSEATING REID, MOR-
out that both I
R. Watkins.
fi om
the ad-
w ith
REID HELD HIE LEAD VM<
would
S.
morning
v i-.it In
FOR
neier
to Levelland stressed
They
to
vot
on
THE CHAMBER manager, who
naiing committee seeking to wuia • • A . , ” t ~
out the water differentia) problem | manager of the Chamber of Com- strumental in securing: federal QO»
11 .1 - - — " - _ Z •! , . L T « • , zs 1 1 n —s z4 Z— fez v-sl ■ —S zx . 1 t W — —M
*1
Funnels reported sighted in county
4 t
A LEVELLAND HIGH SCHOOL
ever read the
somebody at
J
$
the lighting* and saw no-
fra’
sw
RUBY BEEBE REPORT
lightning struck the V, G.
per |
the
and the
payment
have a radio
that she can
mighty good
on
It
be
a
|
diabolical
small as a
his family.
Association,
an Jim St.
spokesmen.
Volunteer fireman Clarence Copeland (left panel) pours
water into the smoldering kitchen of a residence fire at
104 Avenue N Friday which led to filing of arson charges
Book awarded second
at the district conven-
against a Levelland man who identified himself as an ex-
convict. At right, furniture and belongings are carried
by volunteers from the home to protect them from fire
of he wouldn't
which fudged
a little.
box 110 to 37 to assure the victory.
In winning the Precinct 5 race.
Horne carried 6 of the 9 voting
precinct to cop the victory.
Here is a box by box report <M
the 18 voting precincts on which
reports were received Saturday
night: • Xfr i
Precinct 11 — (Cactus School!
’ iContinued on Classified Page)
ABSENTEE
ened Wednesday
Sunday to
church
Roll-
and
high
The Herald, long recognized as
one of the top papers in the
weekly field, has taken many
state and area press association
prizes for excellence.
:he office of |
Clmgan in the
bond election,
been cast by
and water damage. Note firemen on roof trying to douse
flames which have broken through shingles.
— FEATURES
— ADVERTISING
— CIRCULATION
— LOCAL NEWS
I
"We are
new year,
can count
sistance.”
can
bow to
Elkins,
of news
trip to
picture |
s clubs. '
day night. .
Bobby Simpson,
sign re-
on the
the
, cent
I w ith
onl v
2.
school board president
Price indicated no ac-
be taken until several
additional applicants
employee of the elder Wesley, Mr., phone control box on a pole be-elland in the Clauene area says
and Mrs. Wayne Wesley, and
my and Ken.BREAKIN REPORTED
A break-in at Frank and Lucille's
market on College Avenue was re-
ported Monday morning to city
police. Several cartons of cigarettes
and appreximate.y J50. or $6 in
was removed from a window.
Bill 116
NEW ELEC
only on a
as in years
school. 62 cents; $150,000 addi-
tions to Carver School. 2.9 cents;
$110,000 junior high school gym,
2.1 cents; $50,000 classroom addi-
tion to high school, 1 cent; $75,-
do at
eight miles west and two miles
north of Ijevelland.
Gillespie, an uncle of Simpson
was not home at the time.
“It came out of the clouds and
dropped down and then went back
up.’’ young Simpson told slaffter
Jean Howell in a telephone con-
versation.
AFTER THEY SAW WHAT
they believed to be a tornado at
the Gillespie home, young Simp-
son and Wesley sought refuge in
a cellar at the Wesley home, 6
miles west of Levelland.
Simpson said that several people
at the Wesley home east of White-
face saw either the same tornado
or another tornado. He listed these
Says he guesses he’s a cinch
for » straight ja< let any-
how. though, if it's ex er found
out that he don't cheat on his
income tax.
If this paper
with the good s
ton club, this
stand up. face
Society Editor
She ably handles
and ue believe,
Anton last year
page on that city's women
looking to- ward to
and we feel that
on
Canadian River
is lower than
in 1958. .which
even this would not bring j
relief from the schedule of,
lor the small-j
funnel about 8 p.m. and the
ond 10 or 1.5 minutes later.
The .second funnel wax described
as “A little dark thing that came
out of the clouds'’ tlten' ‘went
back up.”
Sheriff Weir Clem and Deputy
J. N. Poteet reported they were
patruling this general area at the
time of
thing.
MM.
ed that
Anderson home at 203 15th Street.
Mrs. Anderson was washing dishes
shock. Their TV was knocked out
and their carpet burned aMghtly
by the bolt, it was said.
Connie Mack Clark reported tele-
phones were knocked out of service
near the Clark home at 108 12th
your continued
it that much,
he should lie
a
“Our sincere thanKs to you and
members of your staff for every
kindness and courtesy given our
publicity. We were Honored to have
our Press
place prize
tion.
day night.
T. R. Harrison, 12 tnfles west of
Gin at Coble Swith, 7 miles west
of Levelland, reported 1.25 inches.
Sunday night.
Walter Schmalstieg, 7 miles
southeast of Levelland, estimated
about 2 inches Saturday night and
1 inch Sunday nignt, with no hail.
Mrs. E. B. Burelsruith, miles
north of Levelland, 2.5 inches Sun-
day night. On the Burelsmith farm.
6 mi lea south of town, about 2
inches fell on Saturday night and
1 inch on Sunday night.
Britt Fletz, 2 miles. northeast of
Central
I >ickin-
Elemen-
malhe-
junior high school;
Pearce, mathematics
Mechanical drawing, junior
| School: Anderson Evans Jr.,
, enth and eighth grades and driver
■education. Carver Schools; Van T.
| Jefferson, mathematics and
I science. Carver.
Trustees took no action on the
applications for junior high prin-
I see where a Navy finance
officer U about to be dischar-
ge as a mental cuse nt» ac-
count
ports
rules
was 31.03.
He also pointed
Levelland and Brownfield will be ■
automatically enl tied to two di-;
rectors on the authority board,
rather than their present one each
because of the I960 census increase.
Leon Hill, driector of the Bureau;
had sn; thing to do
showing of the An-
department
vest and
Mam ine
this type
made a
to do a
.stopped because
ms'igured the
of.
Proposition No. 2 — For (or
againstt issuance of Carver School
building addition bonds
levying of the tax in
thereof.
Proposition No. 3 —
Level la nd
| Weimhold. back from the Mon-
i day Plainview meeting ol authority
directors, said Tuescflh that he
■ would reserve anv comment on the;
new allocation until after it could
( M’l —
XI, has
School officials although
are convinced that it would
the tax-
approv-
will not
The Anton Study Club won high
honors in its district press book
contest recently, and retiring pre-
sident Mrs. James W. Cathey ap-
pears to feel that th< Levelland
newspaper helped the club to do it.
Mrs. Cathey wrote:
OF the I.evelland i cipa] and
usually a pretty! Geo»-ge C.
tion would
anticipated
ace heard.
I
MEMBERS
School board.
I talkative group, passed a single-'
[ motion accepting two resignations 1
and approving hiring of six new
teachers — then spent most of
; the rest of the time at a special
| board meeting Monday night in
, simply listening.
They heard:
1.. Recommendations for a new
; insurance program for the schools
which would give 100 per cent in-
■ surance payment on
I. Doesn't Mrs.
have company on
keep her awav from
FORMER COMMISSIONER 4.
E. t Jackt Morton proved that elec-
tion comebacks are still possible in
Hockley County, beating the man
who unseated him four years ago
by a narrow 36 votes out of a total
of 822 in the Precinct 3 Commis-
sioners race Saturday.
Sheriff Weir Clem swept back
into office, staging a solid second
runoff victory over from- •
highway patrolman B. L.
Warren.
HORNE, LEVEIXAND
service operator for a lo-
dealer, won a narrow 83-
8KIES POURED A MILLION
[ dollar rain on Hockley County over I student, Jimmy Simpson, called
■ the weekend, while the Clauene 1 the Levelland Daily Sun News ear-
area w as lashed by damaging hail I ly Monday morning to report that
and two tornado sightings in the i lie and Ken Weslev saw a toroa-
! county were reported | do at the Geral Giilespie home
Lightning also snuck at least
two, places in the city, giving one
| housewife who w as watching dish-
| ex a frightening jUt bti< failing to
i injure her.
Rains up to 3.2 inches were re-
I ported in the rea for the week
end, while the hail damage Satur-
| day night was limi’ed to a small
area of possibly several thousand
! acres near Clauene.
■ ODELL FRAZIER OF THE
Hockley County Farm Bureau said
I the rain* were worth a million
dollars to the county.
Only thcae auffering hail damage
to cotton may have k»t from the
rain, and indication* were they
would be replanting as early as
high secretary,
to the Cheyene
District near
junior high principal, sue-
Marvin Wheelr, who is
to t Ira ham.
the resignation of G.
as secondary cixirdinator
For (or
againstl issuance of junior high; Johnson asked for passage of
'Continued on Classilied Paget resolutions on the formula by city
This is a Monday
afterthought passed on to us by
Jess Wofford, it's a taur year-
old Associated Pr< ss story
from Porter, Oklahoma, which
still seems to have some sign
Ificance for churen people, In-
cluding this scribe, who skip-
ped services Sunday to
Tulia a brother >■ ith
children whom
■ crossroads BUT LOWER THAN 1958 PROPOSAL
Operation, maintenance and re- ed since until Saturday.
pair cost vL $25.861500 over the' REID HELD THE LEAD UM-
50 year period would bring latb- til the deciding Pettit box — tha
bock’s total cost to $97,494,000. | last to report Saturday night —
Amarillo would pay only $73.239,-1 was received. Morton carried thia
000.
Lubbock and Amarillo
take an equal amount.
PLAINVIEWS coast of the aque-
I duct under the new formula would
be $6,053,000.
Pampa's costs, figured the
! same formula would be $12,268,-'
,000 and Borger's $9,552,000.
(Continued on Classified Page)
R. Wakins, Mrs. C. G.
Bur< e Burney, from t h e
people who use the
ways. Walker said 28 per cent te
spent for food, 22 per cent flor
lodging. 20 per cent for retail pur-
chases, 19 per cent for gas and
oil, 8 per cent lor recreation and
3 per cent for repairs.
He said a survey made by Arntfii
rlllo of the tourists on whaV
| asked that the various directors
; take the proposed new formula to
j their city governments for study |
; and possible reaction.
Sundown, reported 2.2 inches Sun-
day night. It began G aining on his
place about 8:30 p.m. Sunday and
continued all through the night.
W. G. Ashmdre, 11% miles west
and north of Levelland, 1.4 inches
Sunday night.
Mrs. O. C. Heard, of the Heard
night.
Homer Ivey, 2% m’les northwest
of town. 2% inches Sunday night,
and on his farm. 6 miles south of
Levelland, received a good amount
of hail damage Saturday night.
Cliff Brown, 4 miles southeast of
town, l.inch Saturday night also
rain Sunday, but the amount was
not known.
Glen Smith, 12 miles west of <
town, 1.7 ihches Sunday night.
John Fletz, southwest of town,
1.2 Inches Sunday night.
o. €. Biair, west «f Clauene. U
inches Sunday nignt
I. W. Holloway, 8% miles north
The story:
PORTER. Oklahoma
Mrs. Lila Craig,
not missed Sun-lay School at-
tendance in 1.040 Sunday*
i (XX) cafeteria for high school. 1.5
cents.
$ (ITERS M AY BALLOT
or against any of the five
posals-.
A total of five propositions
appear on the ballot,
read:
Proposition No. 1
against i issuance of
— , — school building bonds and the levy-,
: pay for the bonds in the event1 ing of the tax in payment there-1
for|they aie passed,
for I Each c< the five proposals and
ix-aten down by the amount they will increase the
margins along with a pro-1 tax rate are a $325,000 elementary
posal to place operation of the i
s< hool under Sena'e
VOTERS IN THE
tion will ballot
straight bond issue.
primary
er state
tScrubi
BILL
wrecker
cal auto
I vote victory over incumbent V. J.
Humphreys in the precinct 5 con-
stable race. Horne polled 1,124 to
I 1,041 for Humphreys.
| Closest race of the lot was in the
| Precinct 1. where incumbent Jack
Ogle managed only a 9 vote mar-
I gin over former constable Bob
| Whitlock. 177 to 168.
i HOCKLEY COUNTY DEMO-
cratic Party officials, who tabulat-
ed votes in the county courtroom
while a booming thunderstorm
crackled outside and rain damp-
ened the city and county, went
1 home w ith only one of the 19 boxes
i not reporting.
North Sundown Box 24, report-
j ing after counting w as closed down
i Saturday night, gave Weir Clem a
; 59 to 40 edge over 13. L. Warren
I in the sheriff's race. This boosted.
i Clem’s -final margin of victory to ’
570 votes — 1,936 to 1.366 — with
j a tgtai of 3,302 voting.
x leading Warren 1,877
1;826. carrying every, m-.
! sible. I pot box with the exc^itiflB 'kf '
THE RESOLUTIONS would in Precinct 13 and 45.
effect call for a vote on the water I In the only statewide race,
contracts to each city, if approved counly went for incumbent Judga
by the governing bodies. ; Davidson 1,631 to 1.321 f<XFMcDOB*
UNDER THE KIR.Ml’LA, with aid in the court of
Amarillo and Lubbo -k taking e-1 peals race,
qual amounts of waler. Lubbock
would pay 42.5 per cent of its I ton pulled off the only political
cost of the dam and reservoir, or comeback against .oppostion since
$4,613,000 plus its share of $31,-1 early day county history. Hockley’s
403.000 of the aqueduct thus mak-, first county judge. J. R. Evans,
ing the city’s total $36,016,000. Add | was beaten by John H. Doyle,
to this $35,614,000 interest cost and then came back in We next eleo-
Lubliock's share of tile capital cost I tion to beat Doyle.
The feat hadn't been accomplish-
PRICE, WITH general consent
of the board memliership, named !
a special committee lo go over]
the school's insur ince program i
j with representatives of the Ix-vel-l
land Association of Insurance a-:
gents Members of this committee
j are O
Dunn.
HIGHWAYS ARE big business per day.
which brought in a total of $30
billion in revenue over the United was among a number of people in-
states last year. Robert Walker, j ntrumental in securing federal de-
Eddie
as pri-
presented a
brochure of;
isified Paget 1
new $710,000 school
Only one vote had
10 am. on opening
The absentee ballot,ng will !bel
closed on June 21, thic'e full days 1 ed on
before the new bond election
the third school issue voted
here within eight months --
staved on June 25.
Two previous issues one
51 6 million and the other
S967.U00
My
says any day now he expwets
to be nabbed »x a psycho
becaiiM- he don't overdrive
speed limits, even if some
authorities do say it's a man's
Christian duty to violate laws
he don't approve of.
two local
and a former
BALLOTING OP past.
they
lienefit the school and
payers, have given up
al of Senate Bill 116.
be a part ol lite issue.
The bond pro's,sals.
separately require
rate increase of 13.7 cenjs
hundred dollar valuation and
district will levy a 14 cent tax to
individually
- damaged or destroyed schools in
to 80 per I board, and Supt. O. W. MarcOm
and O. “
ministration.
The
Paxton
maty
carefully prepared
'Continued on Cla
Jim-1 hind his house. | he will likely have to replant be-
---------- ! A tree w as reported damaged in I cause of the hail damage to his
The boys said they saw the first j front of the Padgett Hotel either | crop on Saturday night.
„ " • sec-1 from wind or lightning. I George Martin, 8 miles west of
Staffers made telephone checks | Levelland, 2.1 inches rainfall Sun-
oik >
Not everything 's sweetness and
light on the budding scene. Peo-
ple who re building ho'.ies general-
ly have a probl? n or two for
instance, the Leveilan 1 man who
has a home going up in one of the
new subdivisions.
Progress has
the contractor
bricks needed by a < ouple of hun-
dred and matching bricks can't be
found.
The miffed owner s.iys he un-
derstands that 'he guv who figur-
ed the bricks on 'he Empire Stale
Building didn't miss
He doesn't see whv
the victim of stun
pencil on something as
new home for him and
For
elementary i ratio of water
pointed out.
Chairman C. T. Johnson of,
Plainview, who heads the ctxirdi-1
nating committee seeking to work
Iz*v elland
struction continues at a record
clip. For years the city seem-
ed to be hemmed in with no
direction in which lo grow be-
cause new mihdiv isions simply
weren't opening up. Now there
are three new subdivisions
with activity either Ixromlng or
fixing to start anew in them.
Hal Harpole tells us he feels
Hke the city has enough develo-
pment area staked out now to
do for about live J ears, un-
less something unforsern hap-
pens. He says the second in-
stallment of ..Abe. Colonial
Heights mibdivUio.1 he’s pre-
paring to open is a long-range
program, which he hopes to
develop in this five year per-
iod.
j merce. told the Ktwanis Club
| Monday morning.'1
He said this figure, including
heavy freight traffic which moves
on the nation's highways, amounts
1 to $7.71 per person in the U. S.
Itoard meinoers accepted
resignation of the Beasleys
approved hiring of the follow-
teachers. recommended by
administration:
Mrs. Lou Kirkpa.rick, second
, grade. Central Elementary; Vance
j Dickenson, sixth grade,
■Elementary; Mrs. Vance
son. sixth grade. Central
itarv; Maurice Bresiitar.
1 matics,
! ert M
...
over the area, getting he following
reports from the individuals listed
personally, or else from their
friends who had talked to them:
Rainfall in Levelland on Satur-
day night was .27 inches and 1.07
inches Sunday night, and early
Monday morning, according to the
official weatherman,' Artie Fore-
hand.
Some hail was reported in the
Clauene area with some of the
farmers facing the possibility of
having to replhnt. No other areas
reported hail damage.
Coy Phillips, Jr., • miles south- _______ _____
east of Levelland. 2 inches rain Levelland, reported 1.4 ratal Sun-
Saturday night and from, .7 to 1.2
rain tai that area Sunday night.
Levelland, explained the necessity
for business people to continue
. boosting this highway.
Levelland was rated by Walker
as the sixth largest city along the
U. S. 385 route. He listed these
cities in order of site as Odessa,
Regina, Canada: Saskatoon, Can-
westward from Levelland to Low-
I ington, New Mexico.
HE AI-SO discussed efforts to
have U. S. Highway 82 entended
westward from through Levelland
to Lovington, New Mexico.
Walkbr said that prospects for
this had changed from a “bare
chance’’ to a fifty fifty chance
within the few months since New
Mexico and Lubbock burst a high-
bombshell, backing extension at
the route from Tjibbock, through
Brownfield to Alamagordo.
WAIAER SAID that the states
of the country have ftpent 817,8
million in advertising their high-
ways. and reported .hat one state .
claimed it received 114 for every
dollar spent for this purpose.
led that pos- 1 / f / f f O t
Value ot U.j. routes
D. E. X<X)TT
rate among 3 highest
I THE CITY Of I.KVKI.I.A?». be-presented to the mayor and.city commissions within 3il days if pos-
1 scheduled to double it? represents-! council.
j tion on the Canadian River Muni-[ Weimhold did 'tote that the pro-
| cipal Water Authority board as a posed new Ijevelland rate for wa-
I result of passing the 10 000 mark, ter piped from the " "
I in city population in the 1960 cen-! north of Amarillo
sus. will have the third highest i the one presented
rate among 11 member cities if I
rates presented Monday in Plain-
view are accepted.
A rate of 27.26 cents per thousand
gallons was suggested for Level- j
; land. This is m< ve than 10 cents ■
’ per thousand below the proposed
| rate suggested for Br >w nfield.
Forrest of Relcamation’s regional office , would-4vf a I $71,630,000.
presented the new formula based
on recent agreements between
Lublxxk and Am irillo for the $92
million project, lo representatives,
of the member cities.
Under the new formula d.-scrib-l
ed by Hill as a potential allo-!
cation on use of facilities, waler
charges to other cities would be:
Amarillo. 12.79 cents; Pampa.
13.30 cents; Plain view,
13.85 cents; Lublxiek, 17 03 cents;
Slaton and Tahoka. 20.19 cents;
f O’Donnell 24.81 cents; Lamesa.
32.40 cents and Brownfield 38.01
cents.
the cities and sug.
jsibly
fected
cities,
will ■ But
will j much
; high water charges
(or er cities because of the smaller j
taken. Weimhold!
Absentee voting opens
in school bond election
system, compa'e
average at the present time
an increase in premiums of
about $900 per year.
Applications from
' faculty members
Levelland faculty member for the
post of
' reeding
moving
I 3. Of
■ Beasley
for Les elland schools, and of Mrs.
■ Beasley. junior
who are moving
[Mountain School
‘Colorado Springs. Colorado.
IN THEIR single motion of the
i evening.
the
and
ing
! the
?. Doesn’t she ever Ro any-
where on Saturday right, and
get up tired on Sunday morn-
ing?
3. Doesn't she ever have
headaches, e o I d s, nervous
spells, tired feelings, poor
breakfasts, sudden calls out of
the city, business trips. Sun-
day picnics or any other trou-
4. Doesn't she have any
friends at all — friends who
invite her to a weekend trip
to the seashore or mountains?
5. Doesn't she ever sleep late
on Sunday morning?,
S. Doesn't It ex cr rain or
snow In Porter on Sunday morn-
ble?
7. Doesn't she
Sunday paper?
feelings hurt hy
church?
». Doesn't she
or television so
listen to some
sermons from out of town?
oOo
The story prompts the question,
which we think a preacher tacked
onto the end of the dispatch,
"What's wrong with Mrs. Craig,
anyway?
Board spends most
of time listening
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