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VOLUME XVII, NUMBER 145
LEVELLAND, TEXAS
ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP)
TUESDAY, MARCH 25,1958
PRICE: DAILY 5c SUNDAY 10c
Dear Editor:
Lota of distress over unem-
ployment these days. My hog-
washed neighbor says what we
need is a Labor Secretary who
is as efficient as our Agricul-
ture Secretary.
If he was, he could explain
that this trouble is caused by
there being too many workers
anyhow, and lots of them mar-
ginal laborers who arc not
much good and had ought to
get into some other line.
Also he could do like the Ag
Secy did for the farmers and
cut labor’s wages 30 or to per
cent for the good of their souls
and so their work would sell
better.
D. E. SCOTT
MURDER CASES SET FOR WEDNESDAY
NEWS IN BRIEF
Bid for Federal Buying
New Production
Twelve Guilty Pleas
is Anticipated
Accepted by Lindsey
0% SUN
Aid Extension
the De-
Committee Asks
also said after their
$2.9 Billion For
was
Florence
resi-
OFFICERS—Harold Roberts (right), winner of the club
Rackets Probers
Harold Roberts
ADDITIONAL WINNERS LISTED
»■
which
Sundown, I
Billy Eudy, |
Price Tag Too High
and
his
Soil Bank Could Cause Area $54 M illion Business Loss
West T exas Cotton FarmersUrged
CROSSROADS
T o Plant E very Acre of Allotment
REPORT
na-
all of
2 - point
in
acre
from
because the grade tint, Should case the better
to jobs in harvest- grades of cotton to sell above the
up adver-
traffic and
is read
annual
Feline
on his
murder
by the
the
the
and
and the
Wednes-
unem-
in the
presidency
hand from
Police Chief Bill Sage Tuesday
was continuing an investigation of
a shooting and cutting scrape in
the J. D. Green cafe in North Lev-
elland about 1:30 a m. Sunday.
Rebel leader Fidel Caxtro’a threat
of “total war’’ unless President
Fulgencio Batista quits by mid-
night April 5 sent a wave of fear
surging through easternmost pri-
ente Province today. Some Anwri-
in
‘is
Labor Relations Board: j
the amount requested. [
3 and CVtnrti 1 i n tinn
erican missionaries. - The cou-
ple are now learning the lang-
uage so that they will be able
to carry on their assignment
there.
Lar-
Lev-
Rev. A. B. Cockrell
Conducts Last Rites
Eisemiowvr w I
to authorize a 600
speed-up in govern-
to help combat the
Four Negroes, two of them from
Whiteface, are being held. Sage
said charges of some sort would be
filed probably Tuesday afternoon.
A Levelland Negro woman was
shot in the finger and her husband
received knife cuts in the fracas.
was
sen-
fail-
Loyan If. Walker. WTCC agri-
scheduled game
with Odessa had
Samford said the
try to play Wed-
at Levelland's
of Levelland;;
and David Mil-1
the committee
presidential re-
un-1
also ,
Sou’h Plains Soap Box derby
(J. C. PREXY—fpage 7)
By OKIJN BREWER
Advertising thought (Dun and
Bradstreet originated this informa-
tion) : “Ninety-five per cent of all
failures in business are from the
ranks of non-advertisers. Only five
per cent of those who fail are ad-
vertisers.”
to get really de-
have to do
the last
American
National Institutes of
support price of $130 per bale (for
middling inch),” the WTCC agri-
(WEST TEXAS—Page 7)
,hS club's annual election of offi-
cers, Monday.
He will succeed Tom Sappington,
retiring president.
Other officers named were
Wayne Thompson, first vice presi-
dent; Austin Maeers, second vice
Three new pleas of guilty Tues-
day morning boosted the total to
12 for the week as Judge Victor
H. Lindsey continued to deal rap-
idly with criminal cases
docket — including three
indictments handed down
Grand Jury recently.
All three who entered guilty pleas
before the Judge Tuesday received
two year probated sentences.
Sentenced were Katherine Lock-
ett, forgery, Domingo Garzia, se-
cond offence DWI, and Jim Za-
chary Peel, second offence DWI.
A motion for continuance of C.
Pirblisher Forrest Weimhold left
Tuesday afternoon by plane for
Wichita, Kans. Along with other
area publishers, Weimhold is par-
ticipating in the annual Cessna
“fly-away,” in which publishers
are flown to Kansas for a day’s
entertainment and to view the Ces-
sna plant.
Physical Science
Division Winners, Junior
A. C. Sharbutt. John
Jerry Cammack, Edwin
security grants
ABILENE (Spl) Texas cotton
farmers, faced with the best pros-
pects in both moisture and prices! program,
in a decade are being urged to
plant every alloted acre in cotton ■ culture and livestock department
this year, the West Texas Cham-; manager who attended the mem-
ber of Commerce said today.
A group of cotton industry lead-
ers including ginners, growers,
shippers, buyers. Texas Agricultur-
al Extension Service, representa-
tives of the WTCC, and others
met in Dalias last Saturday to ap-
praise the outlook in view of a
large soil bank participation.
They came up with a
recommendation:
Plant every available
cotton.
Withdraw cotton acres
soil bank while there is time.
The U. S. Department of Agri-
culture, indicating Belief that the
soil bank sign up is greater than
desirable, has extended the with-
drawal date to March 28, in order
WASHINGTON <T1-Repuh’ican
ongressional leaders reported to-
day President
ask Congress
million dollar
ment buying
recession.
The leaders
regular meeting with the Presi-
dent that he is about ready to send
Congress his request for a 50 per
cent extension in the duration of
unemployment insurance benefits, •
A special message on that pro-
gram may go to the Capitol later
today or tomorrow.
Construction was scheduled to
start this week on a new $41,956
Production Credit Association
building at Austin Street and Ave-
nue E, just west of the Austin
Street Church of Christ.
Manager P. J, Marcom said that
W. L. Breshears is contractor for
the project. The new building to
be constructed of brick .and paved
parking space for some 24 cars, is
to be finished in 120 days. With
a northeast entrance, the new struc-
ture will have a lobby, bookkeeping
and stenographic department, two
private offices and a directors
room. It will have central heating
and air conditioning.
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Every dog has his day, the say-
ing goes. But as for cats? Well,
that’s a different story.
If you want
pressed, all you
the minutes of
meeting of the
Society.
Some excerpts
“Dollarwise, 1957 was the socie-
ty's biggest year; unfortunately,
still not enough to ’balance the
budget.’
“Briefly, the society’s total in-
come from all sources was $10,-
542.58, with expenditures of $15.-
121.99, incurring a deficit of $4,-
735. Added to a previous cumula-
tive deficit of $49,827.89 this makes
a total cumulative deficit of $54.-
563.87.
Second
Division
Tucker.
Wilcox. John Porter, Larry Jones,
Gloria Forehand. Jerald Cookston,
Sam Newberry, George Payne all
of Levelland.
Second Division Winners, Senior
Division.:— Jerry Dison. John Du-
pre. Steven Ray,»William McMa-
han, Douglas Edgar Milton Hollo-
way. Suzanne Wilcox, Boh Neal
Bruce Brown, Tom Spencer. Har-
vey Mitchell, Frank Lawlis,
Levelland.
Third Division Winners
Divis'on Joe Boggs. Jean
F. Renfro was passed.
Dates for four other trials also
were set, including two for mur-
der.
Johnnie Onell Dawkins and Ger-
ardo Gaucin both were arraigned
n the Monday session
cases were set for 9 a.m.
lay.
Dawkins is charged in
member slaying of another Negro
n Anton, while* Gaucin was indict-
ed for the knife death of a Latin-
American. in Levelland in Novem-
ber.
The case of Fred McGee, a Lev-
elland Negro also charged with
murder, was passed to the next
term of court when he waived a
special venire. McGee is charged
in a February slaying here.
The trial of Johnnie William
Bates, charged with driving while
intoxicated, second offense,
set for 9 a.m. Wednesday, .while.
D. D. Long, also indicted for DWI,
second offense, was. slated to ap-
pear in court, Friday at 9 a.m.
In other action, Monday, the
court received nine pleas of guil-
ty and passed, continued or dis-
missed several other cases.
In the last court action of the
day, Arcadio F. Quintanilla
assessed a four-year probated
fence on his plea of guilty to
uro to stop and render aid.
The 25-year-old Levelland
dent was charged after a Nov. 26
accident in which Edward Wil-
liams, 12, of Levelland was ser-
iously injured. Williams was un-
conscious for several days after
the hit-and-run mishap on High-
(12 GUILTY—Page 7)
In a period when everybody is
talking about hard times, this is a
potent bit of information every
businessman should ponder.
This could well indicate that
when a business cuts off its ad-
vertising to reduce expenses, it is
taking the one basic negative step
which could eventually send it to
its ruin.
The alternative: Step
tising, increase business
revenue.
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Several months ago,
and Gerald Pinkston, Baptist
missionaries from Levelland,
sailed for Indonesia.
A lot of friends wondered
what influence the outbreak of
violence there would have on
their work.
The young missionaries an-
swered this question last week
in. a letter which has just ar-
rived here:
“Our work goes on uninter-
rupted and with no opposition
whatever from the political sit-
utation. In fact, if it were not
for seeing the soldiers from
time to time, we would scarce-
ly know that they were having
a civil war here.”
to give more cotton producers
more time to withdraw from the
The Cuban government relnforo'
ed army, navy and air forces in
Santiago de Cuba, Capital of the
rebellious province.
Junior
Wiles
Ronnie Glover, Ronald Schoenrock,
Lucretia Adams, Lois Ann Ray.
Jerry Ray Davis, James Smyer,
all of Levelland.
Third Djivison Winners. Senior
Division — Royce Thomasson of
Smyer; Jerry Reid, Ted Weaver.
(5 AREA—Page 7)
Five area towns walked off with , erage
all the first division, ratings in sev-
enth and eighth grade arithmetic
and general math in Saturday's and Bob Mounce
science fair. “ — .
They were Levelland,
Whitefgce, Bledsoe and Anton.
Names of these and other win-
ners omitted from Sunday’s c</v-
NEW JAYCEE
in Monday’s annua) Levelland Jaycee election, gets the gavel and a warm
retiring president Tom Sappington. Other new officers, from left, are Wayne Thomp-
son, first vice president; Herbert Brink, treasurer; Sappington; Bob Walker, secretary;
Roberts, and Austin Magers, second vice president. Installation is scheduled later this
year. (Staff Photo)
“While the rate of the deficit
was materially reduced, it be-
comes more and more obvious each
year that- the membership will not
lend sufficient support to cover op-
erational costs. Subsidies (substan-
tial gifts i are urgently needed since
we shall soon be forced to employ
paid help. The service load is too
great to cope with. The corres-
pondence backlog hovers at two
thousands of pieces. The master
list of 110,090 potential members
needs to be automated. Our office
space is woefully inadequate. Addi-
tional office equipment is urgently
needed.
The Texas Employment Commis-
sion said today that compensation
claims reached 92,435 for the week
ended March 20. an increase from
89,309 the previous week.
For example, in states
now pay benefits for 26 weeks, the
new program would add 13 weeks.
There is no plan, Knowland said
in reply to questions to increase
the amount of weekly benefits.
As disclosed last week, the ex-
tension of the duration of bene-
fits would be financed in one of
two ways:
1. Either that portion of the
present tax on employers which
ris, Biff Warren. Tom Steele, Bob now goes to the federal govern-
Johnson, and Doug Morton. : ment to finance administration of
These officers won out over oth-; the program would be increased
. . . ; or .
other action at the meeting,; 2. If they elected to do so, the
at the San Andres Hotel, states themselves could repay to
members: i that federal fund money advanced
Voted to buy Jimmv Davis i it. to increase the duration of bene-
sound truck from Bob Reid fits.
Knowland said there was no dis-
cussion of the possibility of a tax
cut. Eisenhower and other admin-
istration officials have said they .
intend ta+wait a few weeks before
deciding whether a tax reduction
is necessary.
Patsine Chaddick
sap of Bledsoe.
Second Division
Levelland; James Webb, and Mick-|
ey Hoyl of Bledsoe.
Third Division — Louis G. Grif- ______ ________ _________
; fin, Carver; Mae Parker of An-! president: Bob Walker, secretary
(ton. and Billy Weatherly of Level-i and Herbert Brink, treasurer.
land. ; Five new directors were also
i elected. These included Eldon Mor-
1.
old
Chevrolet.
2. Agreed to start work toward
completion of five scrapbooks for|
the state convention.
3. Voted to sponsor an entry in ;
the ~ •
ing the serious effects from the
■ecession that is creating such Hard
ships in other sections of the
tion.
"Perhaps equally important
’he long run,” Walker stated,
the fact that unless we produce
■uality cotton in the largest possi-
ble quantities, we will be losing
more of our market to synthetics
and foreign produced cotton."
Walker stated that presently
there is a scarcity of high-quality
cotton, a condition brougnKabout
ment to ferret out evidence of ing.
rackctpe’-ing and other evils, in the At a nows conference Dulles,
labor-management field. accused "the Soviets of putting a
The pronouncements as to Hoffa i five-point price tag on a summit |
were embraced in the second and ] meeting. He said flatly the price
final installment of a 200,000-word I is too high although he assumes1
report. Well over half the bulky Russia is willing to negotiate it.
‘ext was devoted to the Team-! The latest note from Moscow
sters. , has not advanced' prospects for a!
Cxich Doug Samford said Tues-
day afternoon’s
baseball opener
been postponed,
two teams will
nesday afternoon
Babe Ruth Park.
5 Area Schools Cop|WlK Presidency
Top Math Ratings
! ■ I the Southwestern Public Service)
Five area towns walked off with crave of the science fair follow•: Company, was named president of;
General j the Levelland Junior Chamber of;
F:fst Division — Luis Perez, J Commerce for the coming year at
Labor, Welfare
WASHLNGTON Uh—The House
Appropriations Committee today
recommended $2,961,862,181 in new
funds for the Labor and Welfare
departments. It said more money
will be needed soon because of
current economic conditions and
the outlook for the future.
The amount approved by
Budget Bureau for raising
requests prepared last fall
submitted by Eisenhower in Jan-
uary. It also called inadequate the
administration’s approach to na-
tional health problems and said
the wage and hour division was
not effectively ferreting out wage
and hour law violations.
The committee's token cut in
new appropriations left the two
big departments and several re-
lated actMtUip,..with. 1215.504,600
less than they were given during
the current year. Much of this cut
undoubtedly will be restored.
For the fiscal year startiag next
July 1. the committee recommend-
ed these allotments:
Labor Department: $382,446,800,
a cut of $25,585,800 from the
amount requested.
Department of Health, Educa-
tion and Welfare: $2,565,080,581.
an increase of $14,356,000, mostly
for the
Health.
National
$1,295,000,
Mediation and Conciliation Serv-
ice: $3,650,000, a cut of $45,000.
Major allotments of new funds
recommended by
compared with
quests included:
Unemployment
to states, 305 million dollars, cut
$24,300,000.
Grants to states for public as-
sistance, $1,806,400,000. no change.
Grants to states for maternal
and child welfare. 42'2 millions,
an increase of one million dollars.
7th Grade Arithmetic
First Division — Cleon Dowlen
; and Linda Brown, both of Level-
iland; F’aine Stokes, of Sundown;
; Mike Fowler, Chalres Kerr and
■ Jerry Kulm al] of Anton: Gary
Hamilton of Bledsoe.
Second Division - Lynda Min-
ter. and Janie Gray of Sundown;
Curtis Dickson, and Jerry Brown
of Whiteface; and Turlia Bilbrey
of. Bledsoe.
Third Division: James Hansen,
and Woody Weaver of Levelland;)
Sharilcne Kirk, of Sundown: Joyce ;
Dale Walker, and Betty Joyce Sims'
of Whiteface; Milton Brown
Charles Dye of Bledsoe.
Sth .Grade Artithmetic
F:r*r Division Doss Mabe,
ry Mason and 'Rill Owens'* of
elland: Linda Day Deaton. Caro
'yn McLeroy of Sundown; Daila
of Whiteface: Virginia:
' Conaway, James David dye and
Jimmy Smith of Bledsoe.
Second Division San Ira Jo
i Gressett, -Levelland; Rose Love,
i Sun down a Lirjda Pond, and Louise
Stone of Whiteface.
Third Division , Wilmer Gid-;
; dens jjf Sundown: Ophelia Rowe i
| of ’.^©c-face, Linda Glasscock, of I
i Bledsoe.
At the White House conference
there also was discussion of a
$5,400,000,000 highway construction
bill now up for Senate deoate.
The GOP leaders noted that the
highway measure is not in the
form the administration request-
ed. But Sen. Knowland of Califor-
nia, the Senate Republican lead-
er, predicted Congress wiU ap-
prove some form of highway leg-
islation to help dcai witn the busi- .
ness slump.
Knowland said legislation to
speed up government purchasing
in all fields, including defense, will
go to Congress in the next
day or so.
The new White House plans
were reported as it became known
that SesMtary of the Treasury
Anderson has indicated "to leading
members of Congress that oppo-
sition to a tax cut is increasing
within administration councils.
As for unemployment com pen-
I ricin, Knowland spelled it out for
j the first time that the plan is to
; increase by 50 per cent the num-
ber of weeks during which
I ployment benefits are paid
j various states.
Credit Building
Construction Set
Ike to Request
Unemployment
; er nominees for the same posts, by 50 per cent'
In
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“Regarding the rash of com-
plaints about anti-cat material
appearing in both text mat-
ter and advertising copy in sev-
eral national magazines: Since
such material is prepared as
much as six months in advance
and editors do not aim at a
specific readership, except for
supplying and assisting with
future pro-cat material, there
is little the Society can in
fact do.
“Moreover, it is extremely
poor policy to quarrel with
editors."
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When you get to considering it.
that may have been a good bit of
depressing material to deal with
just in order to get in that last
devastating punch line.
Dulles went
on. He predicted a continued ex-
change of propaganda notes would
make the outlook for a heads-of-
government meeting much worse.
The United States, Dulles said,
is ready to negotiate through dip-
lomatic channels and possibly a
foreign ministers meeli.'i ’ and
issues no. ultimatum on its own
requirements for a top level meet-
ing.
The new Kremlin note w:s de-
livered yesterday. The immediate
reaction of U.S. officials was tii.it
its terms would turn the prw.osed
meeting into a spectacle instead : Baldwin
of a decision-making meeiing to
ease international tensions.
Labor Betrayer
WASHINGTON t.P The Senate
Rackets Investigating Committee,
said today President James R.
Hoffa of the Teamsters Union is
a betrayer of labor and “danger-
ous to the country.” .
In a report prepared for the Sen-
ate, the committee described Hof-
fa as a man with a lust for power
who has built "a hoodlum empire’’
in his giant union. It termed Dave
Beck, Hoffa's ally and predeces-
sor. a man who could not resist
temptation to engage in “thiev-
ery” of the union’s funds.
It accused Frank W. Brewster,
West Coast Teqmster boss and a
top lieutenant to both Hoffa and
Beck, of involvement in a thwart-
ed “plot to control vice” in Port-
land, Ore., through crooked deals
with politicians and racketeers.
“The stench 4>f corruption per-
meates many” in the Teamsters
high command, said the commit-
i tee headed by Sen. McClellan (D-i
Ark).
The report was prepared as a‘’agreed to a summit conference at
Rev. A. B. Cockrell, pastor of the! summary of the committee's first] the terribly high price he said
First Methodist Church. Levelland,: year of work on a two-year assign-; Russia demands for such a meet-
was in Westover Saturday to offi-
ciate at the funeral services of i
G. W. Holmes, who died Thursday
following a lengthy illness.
Also attending here here was
niece, Mrs. King Reed.
Mrs. C. A. Dickson, who was
able to attend the services, is ;
a niece of the deceased.
ing, said the group is uring cct-
ton farmers to reconsider their soil
bank participation and place soil
bank acres \nto production.
“Becasue of the excellent mois-
ture. we received thus far and
due to the present shortage of
quality cotton, the promise of cot-
ton prices that will be consider- by last year's bad weather which
ably above government supports, it! lowered the cotton grade. Both
is highly likely that the farmer can ! domestic mills and foreign custo-
make a larger net profit by put- mers are bidding for cotton of high
ling his acres in production than ] quality, he said.
thejhe can by placing his land in the "Increased world consumption,
soil bank." Walker said. I combined with the shortage of high
"In addition. I
duction will create jobs in harvest
ing ginning and such, the farmer
will be helping to insure Texas and
particularly West Texas from feel-
On Summit Parley
WASHINGTON Secretary of | summit conference.
State Dulles said today the United
1 States would lose its shirt if it
AND
NOT
Last Chance!
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3 p.m. Subscriptions received after that time will not give Candi-
dates credit.
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CANDIDATES ARE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY
ACCORDING TO POSITIONS
MRS. GLENN BUTNER, Levelland
MRS J. B. CRAWFORD. Levelland
MRS. C. W. CRISP, Shallowater
MRS. E. H. MAY, Levelland ,
MRS. GORDON McMILLAN, Levelland
MRS. JOHNNY PITTS. Levelland
MRS. CARL W. REED, Rt. 2, Littlefield
MRS. IRENE RHODES, Whiteface
MRS. WALLACE ROGERS. Ix>velland
MRS. NATHAN TUBB, Whiteface
JESS WOFFORD, Levelland
MRS. ROYCE WOMACK. Anton
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