The Hockley County Herald (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1946 Page: 1 of 22
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—Local News
—Features (
—Circulation
—Advertising
Thursday, July 4, 1946
VoL No. 22
Five Cents A Copy
Levelland, Hockley County, Texas
Number 49
levelland's Big Three Day Rodeo Gets Underway
of
last
£* Harry Mann Takes
night drew a
ler
be
introduction,
calf roping,
of
of
at
Chambers, killed
Edgar
Clark, killed in
W. Denton, died
non-
non-
Jr,
died
John M. Leavelle,
killed in
W. D. Miller, died
non-bat-
Thurman M. Mlolder, killed
of
in
nessmen were quoted-
declared dead.)
the
on
and
a 10:30 lunch
features of the
scheduled for
with the final
the rodeo.
program fof
night perfor*
ELLIS PHARMACY—Spencer Ellie, for 16 years a Levelland
pharmacist, is shown in the above picture, standing in front of
his new prescription laboratory a half-block east of the hos-
pital on Houston street. Ample parking space and air conditioned
Interior with comfortable chairs are provided for pharmaceuti-
cal supply customers. Fast prescription service and free delivery
are also features of Ellis Pharmacy, 1113 West Houston street.
Ellis stock of sick room and hospital needs is as complete as
any in West Texas. Sherman Williams is Ellis’ assistant in his
new laboratory.
LAST NIGHT’S
RESULTS:
Many Stores To
Be Closed Today
Sum-
in the
14
Chamber of
will have a float,
of Cross
first place
contest
Ruby Bonds
N. M., captured
senior sponsor’s
time of 68 seconds; Joyce
were in
Porter,
Levelland
attend the
PH/
About twenty business firms and
organisations have already signed
to sponsor gfrla»gut the tbeasrs here
are looking for girls for the spcnwrt.
(Program for next._week,
not at this time,, ready
of great interest,
Rotary members,
of the city. This
guarantee, even
Stove Explodes
At Coffee
Home Wednesday
Firemen were called to
residence of D. C. Coffee
Avenue B, between Eighth
streets at 3:50 p. m. yes-
to extinguish a hot water
that had exploded,
chief H. B. Johnson said
to Odessa, was
night, enroute
Hurst reported
flood
over at
Levelland’s Club Cafe will
closed for two weeks beginning
Sunday. The local eating spot1
will be closed to its customers
while Mr. Ind Mrs. 'Phil Eskin
owners and operators, and their
employes take a vacation.
Many of Levelland’s business
firms will be- closed today in ob-
servance of Independence Day.
Both banks along with the post
office, as well as many retail
stores have announced plans to
close.
Practically all drug stores,
cafes and filling stations will re-
main open in order to help take
care of the large number of
visitors who will be here for the
rodeo.
Worn out paper money is
sent by the banks to the Treas-
where it is
Banks receive new
bills to replace the ones sent in.
the
that
on<-
c?n-
Ninth
terday
heater
Fire
that there was no other damage
with the exception of the loss
the stove.
ture.
E. L. Banks company, Bigham
Furniture company, Buckhorn cafe,
Burson Motor company, Carter gro-
cery, City cleaners, Petty Grocery ft
Market, Turner Brothers Motor
.. company, Ellis Pharmacy, Hock-
ley County Herald, Ranson Brothers
Feed-Seed, Harding- drug, Piggly-
Wlggly, Watson’s Grocry * Mar-
ket.
F Hatton OU company, McCann's
Grocery Ac Market, Hub Dry Goods
store, Williams Grocery & Market,
King’s Variety store, Hlgginbotham-
of Hobbswas second
Arthur Kilgore was
seconds.
Miss
Roads,
in the
with a
Barnett and Miss Sally McCrum-
men, both of Lubbock tied for
second with 68.8. Miss Thelma
Dee Keck of Levelland was
fourth with 69 seconds.
Saddle bronc riders included
Jack Foust, riding Dog Gone;
Arnold Aufield, Happy Go; Pete
Moncrief, Baldy Socks; Ed Knap-
pe, Black Jack; Gale Willis, Red
Robbin; Hood Abercrombie, Red
Wing.
C. C. Mitchell, A. G. Nichols,
Kid Wheeler and B. J.* Hightow-
er were bull riders.
....In the afternoon show, Jack
Lowe of Plains topped the after-
noon show calf. ropers • with a
time of 13.8; Jack Shaw was sec-
ond with 15 seconds; Hershell
Romane, third, 15.6.
to next Tuesday's
hike
will
next
Supply, G. F. Wacker store, Kessel’s
Variety store, Garnett’s Home sup-
ply, Couchs’ Jewelry company.
J. P. Potts .Insurance, Cicero-
Smith Lumber company, J. R. Fain
Sheet metal. Bass Hardware com-
pany, West Lumber company, C. C.
Dry Goods store.
The resolution Was the immediate
outgrowth of a meeting of Levelland
businessmen in the Hockley county
board of development office Monday
afternoon. Discussion of OPA
claimed the spotlight during the
entlrp meeting, which was presided
over by C. B. Edgar HCBD presi-
dent. V-
Others attending were
Brasch, vice president: Ray Watson,
John Morton, Jim Peeler, C. F.
Faubion, Hugh Davis, Jeff Davis and
R. E. Morris.
Before-the-meeting contacts were
made With other men to reach the
overall conclusion contained in the
message to Texas senators and Con-
gressman Mahon. Watson, Brasch
and Faubion composed the message.
Despite the fact that OPA price
control is a dead issue within the
United States by presidential *yeto.
prices in Levelland are scheduled
for no distinct changes, the mer-
chant consensus declared- All busi-
nessmen contacted by HCBD repre-
sentatives were in accord that the
lifting of OPA price control would
give the manufacturers and mer-
chants a chance to prove that gov-
ernment price regulation is not a
necessity.
Local dry goods men commented
that primed cottons, sheets and
towels of better quality are expected
to become available soon and at no
higher prices. Every type of busi-
ness was discussed at the meeting.
OPA had already begun allowing
price increases, with the raises al-
lowed to milk, butter, sugar and
coffee. “We believe that trices wens
beginning to be raised faster by OPA
than they will go up by the natural
consideration of supply and de-
Below is listed the results
of the various contests
night.
Jeeter Preuitts of Fort
ner, N. M., took first place
calf hoping with a time of
seconds; Paul Young of Tokyo,
second, 14.2 and Doyle .Riley of
Ballinger, third, 14.4.
Red Whatley of Crosbyton took
top honors in the teamtying with
a time of 33.8 seconds; Raymond
Barryhill of Ballinger was sec-
ond, 39 seconds; Doyle Riley of
Ballinger, third with 40 seconds.
Bill Best of Olton won first
place in bulldogging with a time
of 27.4 seconds; Glenn Combest
with 32.2;
third, 34
dead and missing was 308,978.
Only three counties in the United
States showed no casualties. One
of them was King County, Texas.
In releasing the booklets
var department pointed cut
the listing w.?r a preliminary
and might because of its scote
tain errors which would be corrected
when determined. In addition to
possibility of error in preparation,
it was emphasized that misinfor-
mation often is given unintentional-
ly by an Individual when entering
service such as a misaken identifi-
cation of his home county and other
inaccuracies are from time to time
apt to be Introduced Into the In-
dividual’s records.
Distribution of the limted supply
of booklets was made to the press,
congress, state adjutants general
and local selecive service boards.
This distribution exhausted the sup-
ply of booklets, the war department
announced. A revised and final list
4s expected to be published at a
future date.
Hockley county casualties on the
war department list, together with
.their army ratings and manner of
deaths were the following:
Pvt. Elvln C. Allen, killed in ac-
tion.
T-Sgt. James L. Bayliss, killed in
Sgt. Earion A. Brewer, killed in
action.
action.'— ».■
Pvt. William H. Browning, killed
in action.
S-Sgt. Nolan R. Caddell, finding
War Department’s List of World War II Army Casualties
Gives Names of Z1 Hockley Countians Dead in Service
FORMER RESIDENT HERE
Bob Hurst, former resident of
Levelland and Sundown, but late
last year moved
here Wednesday
to Lubbock. Mr.
that the recent
Odessa was a big one as three
inches of rain fell in two hours,
flooding the city. Some citizens
were forced to swim from their
homes to higher ground. The fire
department made rescue calls,
taking people to safety.
the club met in regular weekly
luncheon, nad President Roy
Simpson shifted gears to pass the
gavel to Harry Mann, who as-
sumed the responsible position
of president df the Levelland Ro-
tary club for. the ensuing year.
Roy in a few brief words ex-
pressed his appreciation of -the
cooperation of *the members dur-
ing past year in carrying on the
work of the club and mentioned
some numbers who had made
outstanding impression on him,
because of their extraordinary
work during the year in making
the club work a success.
Harry Mann in his usual gift
of proper words at the proper
time, dropped expression of eu-
logy, in accepting the gavel, and
taking this place as president,
upon Roy for his splendid work,
and said in his opmicn that it
will be hard for him or any-
one else to carry on as success-
fully as Roy during the past 12
months, and said he was pf the
opiniqp that the year’s work just
closed was without doubt the
most successful, and filled with
greater accomplishments than any
in the history of Rotary in this
community.
Rotarian Carl Ratliff, speaking
on classification of law, gave a
brief talk regarding the courts of
our state, and told the club some-
thing about the jurisdictions of
the various courts, and of the
great change in the requirements
of obtaining license to practice
law in Texas, as compared with
years gone by.
Ray D. Brown, who is the new
program chairman! will have a
-irogram for next.„week, though
' to an-
Rotary Presidency
Tuesday Noon
Change of administration fea-
tured the Tuesday session of Ro-
I Fifty-eight Levelland business
I firms went on record Monday to
I assure local people that no sky-
-rocketing of prices will take place
pwith OPA price cotrol a dead-for
I -the-moment issue. The merchants
I agreed in a survey conducted by the
I Hockley county board of develop-
I ment to hold prices at present levels
I wth few exceptons.
I An added agreement voiced by
I by the’merchants was that "we de-
I finitely oppose retaining OPA in
I apyform.” ',
I - Buch comment was enbodied in a
—message by*’Westem Union sent to
^Senators Tom Connally and W. Lee
I GDanlel and George Mahon, con-
I gressiohal representative from this
I district.
I The message carried the following
I signatures: Watson & Abell sport-
I Ing goods, First National bank,
I Cobb’s Department store, Foxworth-
| Galbraith company. Palace Drug
I company, Reid-Faubion Chevrolet
L company, Edgar Motor company,
— Warren Implement company.
p Brasch-Mitchell Hardware com-
pany, T. E. Loran & Son farm
machinery, Levelland State bank, R.
E. Morris Motor company, Birdwell
Brothers Firestone store, Tipps Dry
Goods company, McCall-Parsons
drug. Purr Food markets, Davis
Food store, General Supply com-
pany, John Morton GMC Truck
company. Stewart-Smith furniture,
L Brown Tire company, Auto Tire &
— Supply, Mason * company furnl-
Parade To Begin
At 10:30 Today
Chairman Jim Peeler of the
parade committee announced at
a meeting of the committee Tues-
■ay night that the big pprade
would begin to form before ten
o’clock this morning and would
leave Birdwell Brother’s Sta-
tion at 10:30,* south to Brasher
Lumber yard, three blocks east
on Austin street, north to Hous-
ton and down Houston to Cobb’s
and south to the rodeo arena.
President W. J. Robertson and
Miss Thelma Dee Keck, parade
^ueen, will lead the parade, fol-
Wowed by Wadkie Fowler and
Bert Eads, flag-bearers.
The Pep band under the direc-
1 tion of Lewis Owen will follow
I the flagbearers. Cowgirls, spon-
Isors, women riders, cowboy con-
I testants, cowboys, then floats,
I trucks and other vehicles will
I parade in that order.
Capt. Olen Harris of the State
Ipuard will furnish two Army
Keeps to patrol the traffic dur-
ing the parade. His organization
Bwill also have an armored car,
Ba big truck and traitor and a
Bnotorcy cle. ..
Fire chief H. B. Johnson said
■that the Fire Department would
■furnish two trucks, R. B. Morse
■will enter a tandem truck, Dow-
iell, Inc., Haliburton Cementing
|Co., Chemical Process Co., and
BWestern Co., plan to enter trucks.
Levelland Junior
I Commerce
r which they have picked three
| young ladies for the project,
I Misses Laverne Boyd and Patsy
Cunningham and Mrs. Juanita
Battenfield.
E. L. Banks company will en-
ter a big truck, an old tractor,
^bearing a sign “we rode the range
and a pickup.
Prizes of twenty-five dollars
for first place, ten dollars for
second place and five dollars for
third place will be awarded to
the three top floats in the parade.
Assisting Chairman Peeler in
making arrangements for the pa-
rade are Earl McDermett, Jim
St. Clair and Lois H. Vestal.
Levelland Firm Heads Declare No
Price Sky-Rocketing in View Here
With OPA’s Status as Dead Issue
F. B.
E. R.
Wyatt
M. J.
Dr. T.
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Mir. and Mrs. Jack
Lubbock,
Wednesday night to
rodeo celebration.
Contestants And Fans Are Here To
Participate In Many Events; Much
Entertainment Included On Program
Over Refiners
Wednesday, 3-1
In an exhibition game here
Pat Carter field Wednesday’ at-
ternon, the Seagraves Oilers edg-
ed out the Levelland Refiners t®
the tune of 3 to 1.
R. D. Prather of the Oilers let
the Refiners down with one hit,
a double by Centerfielder Roscoe
Jarman who later raced to third
on Third Baseman Jones error
and then scored on an infield
roller, Prather to Jones in the
second inning.
Seagraves scored two runs iri
the third inning on an error,
two singles e and an infield out.
They scored the other run in the
fifth of the seven inning contest
on a walk and two singles.
SCORE BY INNINGS:
Levelland 010 000 0 I
Seagraves 002 010 0 3
---O---
Beauty Contest
Winner To Receive
Screen Test
J. B. Beeson, advertising manager
of the Wallace Theaters of Lubbock
said here Tuesday that Miss South
Plains or the winner of the district
beatuty contest to be held in Mid-
August will get a week’s vacation in
Colorado Springs, and a screen test.
The Alexander Film Company of
that city will make the test and send
•the pictures to a film company in
What promises to be one
Levelland’s greatest rodeos got
underway yesterday afternoon
with almost 100 contestants en-
tered in the various events and
visitors from as far away as
North Carolina arriving for the
three-day event.
Some 54 calf ropers are com-
peting in this event, while team
tying is next with 47 men work-
ing for this prize money. Bull-
dogging has 10 entrants, with a
total of 12 attempting to ride
the bucking horses and bulls.
Eight women are after the prized
in the senior sponsors’ contest
while four are in the junior
sponsors’ contest.
One of the highlights of yes-
terday’s shows was the “Mad
Scramble” with six riders trying
to stay atop six wild Mexican
Mules.
The mounted quadrille with
14 mounted men and women par-
ticipating got a big hand again
this year. This is the second time
this event has been presented
I in the local arena.
Wiley McCray, The Canadian
Kid, and his trick mule fur-
nished a tot of lauglis during
his special clown act as well ag
at different times during the
show.
Plenty of grace and skill wad
shown by Yelda Tindall and
Effie Corbin, both cf Fort Worth,
in their sp’aal trick riding event.
Jack Hitson and Blanket Sims,
who are furnishing the stock
for the show, certainly brought
along a tot of wild ones which
are giving the spectators a thrill.
The dance last
large crowd.
Two shows are
today (Thursday)
go-round scheduled for Friday
afternoon, Dances are to be held
each night during
Included on the
both afternoon and
mances will be:
Grand entry and
Mad Scramble,
Two sections of
Mounted quadrille.
Two sections of team tying.
Junior and senior sponsors’
contests,
Clown acts,
Bulldogging,
Trick riding, and
Bull riding.
—--O---
nounce, Will be
not only to the
but all citizens
much we can
though it has not been completely
worked up.
Visitors were present from
Lubbock, Littlefield, Sundown,
and several other places, be-
sides a number of Rotarians
brought guests.
A number of members were
absent, but most of them are
sure to make up their attend-
ance during the coming week.
----O----
Ace Brownies Plan
Slowdown of Work
At Early Meetings
Ace Brownies will see a letup
in work for the summer begin-
ning at the next Tuesday morn-
ing meeting, Mrs. Earl McDer-
mett and Mrs. Clarence Heald,
co-leaders, reported following
this week’s gathering of the troop
at the Little Scouthouse.
Scrapbooks are scheduled fqr
early completion, and after that
the Brownies will spend time on
learning songs.
Mothers are asked to send
■craps of material to cover the
scrapbooks
iriheting. A short nature
followed by
be topflight
session.
Second Lt. Patt W. Carter, killed
in action.
Cpl. Carltoq S.
in action.
T-Sgt. John C.
action.
First Lt. James
of wounds.
Pvt. James Eady, killed in action.
M-Sgt. Olan G. Gilbert, died
battle.
Sgt. Wilbert L. Gravitt, died
batye.
Second Lt. J. A. Horn,
non-battle.
Pfc.
action.
Pfc.
tie.
Cpl.
In action.
T-5 Omey L. Monroe, finding
dead-
Pfc. Rafael E. Moreno, killed
action,
S-Sgt. J. O. Newberry, died
wounds.
Pvt, Raytilon E. Oneal, killed
in action.
Pfc. Charlie E. Payne, killed In
action.
Sgt. Melvin J. Pope, killed in ac-
tion. ►
Pvt. Lunsford C. Sanders, killed in
action. . 1
Second Lt. James O. Sheek, died
non-battle.
Pfc. Matthew J. Spears, killed In-
action.
Pvt. Homer R. Vincent, killed In
action.
Pvt. Arthur N. Young, died non-
battle.
---—O---- ury department,
The face of a coin is called its macerated,
obverse side.
LARGEST DEGREE CLASS—
Shown In the above picture are
24 men who were in the lai
class ever conferred Royal Arch
Degrees by the local chapter of
Royal Arch Masons, No. 446. De-
grees went to the men in cere-
monies May 30 with the Lubbock
chapter assisting in conferring
the work. Names of the men pic-
tured who received the degrees
are as fottows: front row, left to tafy in Levelland Tuesday, when
right, J. C. Akin of Sundown,
Glenn Cearley, O. C. Moore, H.
W. Bailey, R. E. Avery of Whit-
harral, Floyd Brock, Glen Eas-
ter, J. W. Moore of Whitharral,
Lee Blundell, Earl Honeycutt, Dr.
John Dupre, Curtis Smith. Back
row left to right, 8am A. Thomas,
Jr., James A. Mitchell,
Young, Jack Jenkins,
Daniell, J. A. Whiteside,
Hanks, Jr., J. V. Vestal,
Stacy, Homer Hailey and
M. Hobart of Sundown.
•-----o------
First consolidated listing of army
dead and missing in World War II—
a compilation of the names of nearly
310,000 men and women who gave
their Ilves in the nation’s service—
has been released by the war depart-
ment. It includes a total of 27 for
Hockley county. ,
The list in booklet form gave nam-
es of an additional 12 Hockley coun-
tians to the partial list being com-
piled by the William E. Evans Amer-
ican Legion post. Details for only
four out of the 12 has been secured
by the post, which now has 65 nam-
es on its casualty list.
A total of 15,764 casualties were
reported among Texas armymen and
women. The names are listed by
counties in the war department re-
lease, which has been sent to the
draft boards and newspapers.
The list was made up of 50 book-
lets, one for each state, one for the
District of Columbia and one for the
territories and possessions of the
United States. Each one contained
a foreword explanatory of the meth-
ods of listing, a breakdown by coun-
ties and types of casualties. ,
Also included were alphabetical
listings of names, serial numbers,
grade of each Individual and manner
in which deidh came. The Philip-
pine commonwealth was not includ-
ed in the study.
An overall death and missing
rate of 2.98 percent from all caus-
es was Indicated. From more than
10,000,000 men and women mobilis-
ed Into the army between May 27, _ . _ _
1941, and January 31 date conclud- of dead (declared miming and later
tag the study. the aratya* total of ----' '
“The Hockley County Herald
Covers Its Whole Field As Well
As It Could Be Done By Two
Or More Papers And Adver-
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SECTION ONE _
JlGckleq, Oou/titf,
SERVING LEVELLAND AND HOCKLEY COUNTY FOR TWENTY-ONE YEARS
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