The Hockley County Herald (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 1, 1946 Page: 1 of 20
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SECTION ONEtJlockleq, Howitt]. tJl&UilcH
VoL No. 22
Five Cent* A Copy
Levelland, Hockley County Texas
Thursday, August 1, 1946
Numl
Governor’s Runoff
Lt. Governor Runoff—
each of the
the judge
James
He was given a two-year con-
will
to
Get
Rev. Levi Erice
the
37
at
1946
Baker
six ad
ball field In th* near future, sc-
Tom
four
1,192. In the state Shiv-
leading House 385,057 to
Church
ie the e-
of meet-
Baptist
Sunday
all
same
Wilson Cox and Jack
two well-known local men,
left
Lub-
bed-
Gra-
Lub-
the
spot
Ar-
Fort
in
lead
Lubbock.
25 eoun-
Dawson
for the
as fol-
Halsey
1519
1069
819
888
Elected Without
Runoff ~
of my
area,” he
Mahon
2166
2139
634
1117
3242Thirty-three of the 38 species
of birds of paradise can be found
on New Guinea.
Tahoka to
of Miss
SERVING LEVELLAND AND HOCKLEY COUNTY FOR TWENTY-ONE YEARS
Mr and Mrs. Mack McCool and
rr. and Mrs. Leon Headdlee of
undown are In Ruidoso, N. M.
he quartet will spend a week tn
ie mountain resort town.
—Advertising
—Circulation
—Local News
—Features
First Baptist Church in Tahoka state general fund and ad va- fee>s Tuesday
here Monday night lorem tax levies this year, affect- (election returns
the evangelist in a ing a saving of $14,000,000 to the |Canvassed
The 37-cent tax levy which will
be collected is set by the constitu-
tion and is made up of 35 cents
on the $100 for the available
school fund and 2 cents for the
Confederate Veterans pension
fund.
The reduction will affect
taxes only.
Rev. Levi Price, pastor of
the First I
Tahoka, who
vangelist
ings at
Church
morning,
will arrive here for the Mon-
day night service.
Commissioner Of
Agriculture Runoff—
Funeral Services
To Be Held For
JC. G. Barnett
and
of
slat-
24,
with
Baptist Revival
Rev. Levi Price, pastor of
the
Conoco
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FAMILY GOES FISHING
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Brasch
and sons, Jimmy and Edgar, Jr..
County schools operated
i buses the past school year.
Apportionment figures for the
$55,999 total received Monday
are as follows:
i Anton, six buses—$3,541.
j Levelland, 10 buses—$6,406.
Pep, two buses—$1,406.
Pettit, three buses—$3,225.
Ropesville, six buses—$4,400.
Smyer, three buses—$2,797.
Whitharral, seven buses—$4,-
681.
lap, Cobb’s Department store;
Miss Joy Reid, C. C. Dry Goods
company; Miss Charlene New-
man, Hockley County Herald;
Miss Mary Gage, Reid-Faubion
Chevrolet; Miss Bill Ragsdale,
Lions club; Miss Pat Cunning-
ham, Keeling Buick; Miss Doris
Powers, Palace Studios; Miss’
Sparky Redden, Ellis Pharmacy;
Miss Thelma Dee Keck, Club
Cafe; Miss Laverne Boyd,
Couch’s Jewelry, and Miss Eve-
lyn Veretto, Burson Motor Com-
pany.
2575
448
3555
2422
161
1095
7848
298
728
568
657
1514
1792
1635
865
2384
2083
2082
1535
877
’44,420
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County Schools
Last Installment
For Transportation
Hockley county schools receiv-
ed Monday a total of $55,999
transportation money from the
state—final of two installments
paid this year, County Supt. T.
O. Petty reported. The money
will be divided in accord with
the number of bus transferred
students in each of seven schools.
Adding the payment this week
to the the 4,970 received in the
county last December 17, total
transportation funds paid to the
seven schools has reached the
$100,969 figure for 1945-46.
Maintenance and operation of
the buses and salaries for the
bus drivers are paid from the ,t°r of First Baptist Church
transportation funds, Petty said. *n Corpus Christi- and who for-
Thirteen beauties sponsored by
as many organizations and busi-
ness firms rehearsed this morn-
ing in preparation for the an-
nual contest set for tonight at
8:45 on the stage, of the Wallace
Theater. __
„ Two winners out of the
Hockley group will be declared Miss Lev-
1,101 elland and Miss Hockley County,
j... .... 3 out-of-town three-man
will arrive
and will be
two weeks meeting at the First taxpayers of Texas.
Baptist Church. It will begin I
Sunday morning at 11:00 a. m. I
with Rev. Franklin E. Swanner, |
pastor, preaching both Sunday
| services and Monday morning
services.
' Harry Miner, educational direc-
Levelland Hosts
Baptist Rally In
Harry Miner, former edu-
cational director at the Lub-
bock First Baptist Churctrr“"
but who now holds the same
position with the First Bap-
tist Church in Corpus Chris-
ti, will lead the singing at
the First Baptist Church in
meeting beginning Sunday
morning. He will be in his
first service here Monday
night.
.State politics reached a high
interest Dvel in Hockley county
through the first democratic pri-
mary election Saturday. In most
races Hockley countians follow-
ed through by giving the most
votes to the candidates that were
favored throughout the state.
Returns from, the state given
in this story were from 248
| counties out of the 254—144
j county ballots complete.
Gubernatorial candidates that
placed one, two and three
over the state held the
spots in county returns.
In the governor’s balloting
Beauford Jester polled 1,425
Hockley votes, with Dr. Homer
P. Rainey receiving 926
Grover Sellers taking votes
605. Jester and Rainey are i
ed for runoff on August
State results showed Jester
394,719 and Rainey 251,380.
United States Senator '
Connally, who swamped his
opponents ’ throughout the state,
was left on the ballot locally by
2,217 primary voters.
Scheduled for runoff in
state’s lieutenant governor
are Allan Shivers of Port
thur and Boyce House of
Worth. Votes on the duo
Hockley county were House 1,504,
Shivers
ers was
304,450.
State
I The board’s action reduced
I state property tax rate to
| constitutional minimum of
j cents on the $100 valuation, low-
est tax rate since 1912. fl
The state tax Tate last year
was 72 cents on the $100. The
35 cent reduction cuts out for the
current tax year all taxes levied
for the general fund and the ad
valorem tax.
Reason given for the unpre-
cedented slash in taxes was the
state’s excellent financial condi-
tion. A surplus in the general
fund has accumulated for the
Baptist
i will bi
In a series
the First
beginning
Is shown above. HeClark’s Donkey
Softballers Win
Over Firemen, 2-1
Bill Clark’s donkey softballers
edged out the Fire Department
nine Wednesday night by a 2-1
count before a large crowd in the
Levelland Rodeo Arena.
Horace Battenfield of the Fire
Department, slapped out a home
run in the second inning and
mounted his donkey and went a-
round the bases.
Billy Pearcy got a circuit drive
for the Bill Clark team with one
man aboard for winning margin
for the Clark Ollers.
Another donkey game is set for
tonight at about 9:15.
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BUILDING LOCKER ROOMS
Locker rooms at the Levelland
High school are being re-built
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Miss Mildred Dulaney will
leave Friday for Mart, where she
will spend a week with her par-
ata, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney.
Iss Dulaney is librarian for the
Hockley county library.
The evening meal
the
Mrs.
The Bakers came
over
| ject.
Youths from Anton, Sundown
Morton, Fellowship, Fairview’,
Whitharral, Whiteface, Ropes-1
ville and Levelland churches will :
appear on the day’s program. <
Each visiting church group1
has been asked to bring along a!
basket lunch. 7"__ ;
drinks will be provided by
Levelland church.
: Missionary Baptist
Revival One Of
Best-Hallford
Rev. J. H. Hallford, pastor of
the Fifth Street Missionary Bap-
tist Church renorted Wednesday*
that the revival meeting now in
progress at the church, was one
of the best in the history of the
organization here.
Rev. Roy B. Flippo, pastor of.
the Amarillo Bethel Baptist
Church, is doing the preaching In
the revival, which started last
Sunday morning and will con-
tinue through Sunday night.
Through the Wednesday morn-
ing services there had been about
twenty-five re-dedications, four-
teen professions of faith,
djtions for Baptism and six by
letter.
Helmer Schoenrock, Sunday
School superintendent, and active
in all of the work of the chureh,
surrendered to preach at the
Tuesday morning service and was
licensed to preach by the church.
Baptismal services are to be
held Sunday night after the ser-
vices in the new church building,
if the Baptistry Is complete by
that time, said Rev. Hallford.
O
Elvis R. Bakers
Buy Club Cafe
Mr. and Mrs. Elvis R.
have bought the Club cafe
Levelland from Mr. and
Phil Eskin,
here from Morton, taking
their new business Wednesday.
The Eskin family, residents of
Levelland for about eight years,
will continue to live here.ILL IN LUBBOCK
Mrs. Forrest Welmhold
Levelland this morning for
bock where she is at the
side of her sister, Mrs. L. W.
Heath at the West Texas Hos-
pital. Mrs. Welmhold was tele-
phoned at inid-momlng by her
brother, Loran Maples of
ham, who was already in
bock. ,
O
Plumbing Company
Formed By Pair Of
Levelland Men
AH-Day Service
Mrs. Roy Hill of Morton
preside Friday over an all-uay
youth rally that is to be held in
Supt. Ray D. Brown was elect-
ed to a three-year term to head
the Levelland schools through
the 1949-50 term at a meeting of
the board of trustees recently.
O. R. Watkins, who was elect-
ed superintendent of the Clauene
school for the 1946-47 fiscal year,
the fact that the
I Clauene school has been consoli-
dated with the Levelland schools,
he has been named a principal
and text book custodian, accord-
George Makoi
Takes Wide Lead
court places in Hockley county
balloting were Charles T. Row-
land, Graham B. Smedley and
J. E. Hickman. Hickman had no
opponent. Jesse Owens polled 1,-
892 votes in the county for judge
of the court of criminal appeals.
Voting in the state favored
John H. Sharp over Rowland for]
justice place one,
leading James B.
a count of 434,858
Present Land
Bascom Giles and
intendent of Public Instruction J ean Basye, sponsored by Fair
L. A. Woods were unopposed, re- department store; Miss Leia Pax-
turning to their places. William! ton, Levelland Junior Chamber
Q. Boyce was also unopposed for (of Commerce; Miss Furn Dun-
the place as associate justice,
court of criminal appeals, sev-
enth judicial district.
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Loran & Sons Firm
Moves To New Home
Loran and Sons, Allis-Chal-
mers dealers for Hockley county,
have moved this week from their
former location on the east side
of the square to a building of
their own, three blocks off the
square on the Brownfield high-
way.
Considerable remodeling has
been done to the implement deal-
er’s new home, the former loca-
tion of the Levelland Paint and
Body shop.
Additional space has been add-
ed affording more room, for a
larger and better equipped shop
and other facilities noted in an
advertisement appearing in this
issue of The Herald.
T. E. Loran is manager of the
firm. Assidated with him is his
son, Jack. Another son is in the
army. ,
State Tax Drop
Affects County
Over $110,304
Hockley county taxpayers ,
pav $110,304.24 less in state tax-'
es this year than last. A reduc-
tion of state taxes from 72 to 371
cents on the $100 evaluation is '
responsible for the decrease.
The county saving was estimat- !
ed by J. B. Reese, tax assessor-
collector. He reported last year’s,
state tax total for the ■ county I
stood at $226,914.46, gathering I
the savings figure from the dif- {
ference in the amount and the |
1946 estimate of $116,610.21. His
1946 state tax estimate was based
on 1945 evaluation.
The Texas automatic tax board
for the first time in the history
Hockley Puts Governor Candidates
In Same Order As Remainder Of State
Voters-Jester, Rainey, Sellers
Comptroller of Public’
Accounts George H. Sheppard of
Sweetwater retained his place in
the Texas capitol in the election.
Hockley voting showed Sheppard
with 2,905 and Clifford E. But- j but due to
ler 7#4. :-----------
State Treasurer Jesse
also retained his Texas office.
He was favored in this county
2,595 to 1,032 votes for Clarence (ing to to Supt. Brown.
Williams. [ He g'"?" ? tu/n _
Hockley voters placed the at-1 tract as East Ward principal,
torney general candidates in a- [
Sealed bids will be accepted by*
the Hockley county commisslat
ers court on the first 20 mile* *C
road construction planned in tb*
$850,000 road improvement pf*»
iect. Bids, said County Judge
Z. O. Lincoln, wtrf be received Mk
til August 16, at which time fix#
court will publicly open and
read them.
Plans and specifications for th*
proposed construction may be **•
cured from Judge Lincoln’* *f*
flee.
A section of the 20-mile total t*
be bid on by construction com-
panies is taken in for farm-to
market roads in
county’s four precincts.
!‘Actually,” the judge com-
mented, "this initial opening *f
bids is expected to determine tto*
cost of other sections of county
road building, to be financed Djr
bond issue."
The court has been awaiting
letting of Terry county road pfO>-
jects, construction of which
similar to that to be used In
Hockley county. The bid* M
Brownfield were good, showttg
$6,333 per mile as the apprOXk
mate construction figure. Lym
bounty bids set the per-mile co*t
$400 higher, Judge Lincoln UtftL
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Demo Committee
Petitions For
More Vote Boxes
I Hockley county’s democratic
executive committee has petition-
ed the commissioners court to
create new election voting boxes
in the Levelland and Sundown
areas. Formation of additional
balloting boxes in the two areas,
said County Chairman Howard
Vaughan, should relieve th*
heavy number of ballots handled
by the five boxes.
i Between 500 and 600 vote*
were cast in Saturday’s demo-
cratic primary election in* th*
Sundown-Levelland boxes. Count-
ing of the ballots took lengthy
night hours for the election
pudges and clerks.
As an illustration, Vaughan
pointed to the Levelland box that
j finally gave out complete unoffi—
| cial returns Sunday evening.
(“The committee believes,” h*
declared, “that new voting box**
should be established.”
The petition was presented to
Ellis
, have
established the Levelland Plumb-
ing and Supply^ company. Al-
though no permanent location for
the business has been found, the
firm is licensed.
Cox and EUis will do general
plumbing work and repair. The
two will handle a good line of
plumbing fixtures and fittings.
In Levelland for the past eight
years Cox has served in the ar-
my air forces during the war.
Ellis was formerly an oil com-
pany office employe locally.
Youngblood Opens
Service Station
Jake Youngblood, owner of
building housing the
Service station, four blocks north
of the square on Highway 51
(Avenue H), has re-opened the
station after remodeling and
painting the building since it was
damaged by fire a few weeks
ago.
Mr. Youngblood will handle a
complete line of Conoco products,
batteries and other automobile
accessories and a line of tires in
the near future.
Owner and operator of the
station for several years, Mr.
Youngblood in an advertisement
in this issue of The Herald Invit-
es the patronage of motorists
now that he is back In the ser-
vice station business.
/i., xcnooi are oeing re-duht
left Levelland today for a 15-day and work will begin on the foot-
fishing trip. The local family ball fi*M In th* near future, ac-
plans to spend time in Monte cording to Marvin Wheeler, dlrec-
Vista and Crede, Colo. tor of athletics. I
[ merly held the same position at
the Lubbock First Baptist Church,
with Dr. C. E. Hereford, who is
also the pastor of that church
now, will direct the singing at
the meeting.
Wjeek day morning services will (-----
begin at 10:00 a. m. and night past two years,
services will be held on the east
lawn of the church at 8:30.
Group prayer meetings of men,
women, young people, intermedi-
ates and juniors will be ’ held
8:00 o’clock every night.
will
-day
I y .. * ----- neiu in
I Levelland s First Baptist church.
The , Hopkley - Cochran county
• event is expected to attract be-
tween 200 and 300 youths from
the association, of which Mrs.
Hill is young peoole’s secretary.
Credit for required work com-
pleted will be given in a corona-
tion-recognition ceremony Friday
evening, 8 o’clock. Girls in the
association area have been asked
to wear formal dresses for the
service.
The entire day’s program,
which opens at 10:30 a. m., will
center on the topic, “Bridge-
Builders.” Guests speakers for the
morning will be the Rev. Levi
Price, Tahoka pastor, who is to
use “Today Bridges” as his sub -
“The Hockley County Herald 1
Covers Its Whole Field As Well '
As It Could B‘ Done By Two 2
Or More Papers And Ad ver- }
Users Pay But One Bill.”
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Hockley To Take Bids On
Initial 20 Miles Of Road
Ray D. Brown Is
Elected 3 Years
As Superintendent
of' was accepted by the board.
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Beauty Revue
Tonight At
Wallace Theater
o The registration of Mrs. Mary
bout-face from returns through- Barlow, a third grade teacher,
out the state. Price Daniel
Liberty, who led the race in the
state, took 1,763 votes here
1,969 polled for Pat M. Neff, jr„
of Harris county. Texas gave
Daniel 528,968 to Neff’s 478,388.
J. E. McDonald, present com-
missioner of agriculture in Tex- I
as, will go into the runoff with [
another man with an identical (
last name, R. E. McDonald. In!
Hockley the present commission-
er received 1,074 votes to the
latter’s 1,314. J. E.’s state total |
stood at 323,095 to R. E.’s 253,498. (
A comfortable margin of state !
votes favored Olin Culberson for
reelection to his railroad com-
missioner place over a pair of'
other candidates. His 1
vote was 2,542 over the 1
combined vote of the other duo. by an out-of-town
High men in associate supreme I judging committee,
in Wnnlrlov nnnnfv Winners Will gO tO
compete for the title
South Plains and will receive a
week’s Vacation at the Broad-
moor Hotel in Colorado Springs,
Colo., and a screen test. All dis-
'■ | trict entrants will also be honor-
ed in Tahoka with a banquet.
and ^Smedley The 13 ®irls wil1 arrive at the
Hubbard by)Rose Theater tonight at 8:00 and
to 422,263. will be in charge of Mrs. J. B.
Commissioner! Beeson.
State Super-1 Entrants include Miss Venita
In/ , -------J ' roe petition was present**—
Oaf? tXntorXT1?n’ ^Wlpe? 0U,‘ the the coUrt following the commit-
■* [tee’s Tuesday meeting, when
j were officially
.canvassed. The commissioner*
[will act on the petition at their
the regular meeting in August.
fhe | John R. Potts, who was named
37 (county democratic chairman in
(the Saturday balloting, attended
[Tuesday’s meeting along with
[Vaughan and the committeemen.
Others present were Bob Ford,
I. N. Johnson, gercy Cole, and
George Beakley, Levelland; J. W.
Perry, Ropesville; Joe Howard,
Smyer: W. E. Thompson, Coble-
land; Frank Locke, Pettit; Her-
man Greener, Pep; Ed Langford,
Whitharral: Ed Hart, Anton; T,
A. Wloolem, North Smyer; Geo.
Gilley, East Pettit; J. G. Morrow,
Hodges; Charlie Akins, Sundown,
I Funeral services for C. G. Bar-
nett, about 65, who died near
Denver, Colo. Tuesday, will be
held at a Littlefield Baptist
church at 4 o’clock this after-
noon.
Burial will be in the Littlefield
kwnetery.
I Mr. Barnett, who was formerly
jnanager of the Farmer’s Co-
operative gin in Whitharral and
later operated a store there, was
working with the Hockley county
co-operative hospital.
He was with a real estate
agent near Denver and had just
left a drug store after drinking
a malt and stepped outside. He
propped deal as a result of a
heart attack.Over Opponent
With returns in from the 25-
county 19th congressional dis-
trict, Cong. George Mahon stood
today 17,744 votes in the
over Hop Halsey of
Mahon led 23 out of the
ties, with Garza and
favoring his opponent.
Total votes for Mahon were
44,420. Halsey received 26;676.
Congressman Mahon, now at
his home at Colorado City, said
as the final election returns came
in, “I lack the words to express
my appreciation for the over-
whelming vote of confidence giv-
en me. I shall do all in my pow-
er to merit such an endorsement.”
Halsey asked that the news-
papers express his sincerest
thanks to the voters of the dis-
trict who worked in his behalf.
“I have no regrets, and I deeply
appreciate the efforts
many friends over this
said.
The district balloting
congressional race was
lows:
County
Hockley
Scurry
Garza
Gaines
Lamb
Hale
Andrews
Howard
Haskell
King
Stonewall
Lubbock
Borden
Martin
Kent
Yoakum
Dawson
Floyd
Crosby
Cochran
Mitchell
Terry
Lynn
Dickens
Bailey
Totals
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