Levelland and Hockley County News-Press (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 8, 1992 Page: 2 of 16
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2-LEVELLAND & HOCKLEY COUNTY NEWS-PRESS, W
8,1992
State A Capital
HIGHLIGHTS
WHITHARRAL continued from page 1
CELEBRATION
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dumping
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LIGHTING LIP THE NIGHT SKY-Saturday night around 3,500
people enjoyed the July 4th Country Caravan show which was staged at
the South Plains College track. After the show a fireworks display was
set off giving the audience a thrill as many different shapes, colors and
During the first month of sales,
Hockley County residents spent
s?T).(XX) on slate lottery tickets
a. cording io preliminary figures
■ I. ased by the Slate Comptroller’s
lu a a rciniikk-r Liial lire News-Press
a.Ji w ill lx- working hard Saturday
io phoiograpb the many Early Settlers
!>t\ adiviiies. those photographs
a ill h- published in a special section
, xi A ednesdav.
; hank you Paxton Real Estate
haring with the people of
By Lyndell Williams
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
Maps, babies, gavels and bullets
E >w ams ('lub members were also
up <• uiy Saturday, putting out the big
S Hags I hey provide the service
t y subscription. They are also
Im autitul Club members hope that
entually their project will catchon
to the [>>ini that whole streets are lined
w i th 11 ags W1 ule u i L aibbock Saturday
altonixin we saw several residential
sin . is where that has happened and
■ ; o indeed a great sight
played just about everything," said
Inez. "I guess if the school would
have had football, we’d of played
that too."
Approximately 20 Whitharral
early settlers met for the 1992
reunion. After participants enjoy-
■ed a potluck dinner, a brief and
informal business meeting was
held to elect new officers for a new
term. Lou Emma Edwards, current
president, call the meeting to order.
New officers from Levelland
include Arvilla Tipton, president;
Kempson, secretary-treasurer, and
Ethal Tipton, vice president.
Like many of the "Whitharral
gang", VioIa Tipton remembers the
closeness she and her peers enjoy-
ed back in high school. Graduating
with Whitharral’s largest class ever
(14), she looks back on many days
of fun activities and outings.
1 guess one of the best mem-
ories of high school is of our senior
trip to Carlsbad, New Mexico,” she
recalls. "There were about 35 of
us, and we al road the whole way
on the back of a flatbed truck. I
Jul dropjied a note to say a big
in.ink you to Coldwelt Banker
I’.ixion Real Eslate for sharing in
i... h wonderful way the Fourth of
I ds ss nil the citizens of Levelland
I lie flags certainly made my heart
pound with pride for the U.S.A
i'i n Real I stale certainly pul in
: >t ol hours to make Indcpen-
dru Das a special celebration for
designs brightened up the night’s sky. This photo was taken from the
north side of Brashear park, across from the area where the fireworks
were being set off. (Staff Photo by Kevin Campbell)
$203 million; Texas Match-Up S83
million.
Instant prizes claimed under the-
Lonc Star Millions was $80 million
with $45 million in prizes remaining.
In the Texas Match-Up which began
the middle of June, $35 million in
instant prizes had been claimed
while $52 million remained
On that date $166 Lone Star
Millions SIO.(XX) tickets and 59
Texas Match Up $20,000 winning
tickets were still out there.
Sharp said his office held state up
expenses to less than half of the $12
million the Legislature appropriated
[Trough the first through third
wei ks of the lottery, Hockley County
residents spent $9 13 per capita on
lottery tickets, lower than the state
i r.igc ol $12 per capita.
In its first record destroying
month of f un and excitement, the
I ex,is Lottery sold an average of
6,6?(i tickets per minute; that’s 110
per second." said State Comptroller
John Sharp.
Daily sales volumes have
averaged better than $9.5 million.
Hie lottery’s $286 million in sales
from May 29 through June 28
aim Hints to nearly 25 percent of sales
projected for the entire two-yi^r
budget cycle In its first month of
operation, the lottery paid about
$114 million in prizes on sales
volumes dial could cam as much as
another $114 million for the state
treasury
lire lottery reported the following
figures through the close of business
on Sunday, June 28, the end of the
first month of lottery ticket sales:
Total sales: Lone Star Millions-
admimstrative expenses remain
below earlier conservative estimates.
He praised the Lottery’s network
of 16,000 Texas retailers who earned
roughly $14.3 million in commis-
sions during the first month of sales.
"Our retailers have done an excellent
job of marketing this new product to
their customers," Sharp said.
Of the top five retailers in the
state, the Stateline Oil Company in
Seminole was ranked number two.
The first and third place retailers were
in Houston, the fourth place retailer
was in Dallas and the fifth place
retailer was in Port Arthur.
people that he insisted we continue
to meet every year," said Mrs
Dalrymple Dalrymple, a former
Whitharral school teacher, and her
husband Lester, a former cotton
gmner, will be married 61 years in
December
"1 ginned cotton, built houses
and worked 25 years at an oil
refinery, said Mr. Dalrymple "The
work was so hard that when 1 went
to work for the school, I had
worked nine years and thought I
had only worked two."
Il had been two years since Elsie
(Ercanbrack) Dowden, who drove
to Whitharral from her home in
Snyder, had attended the reunion.
She and her sister Jessie (Ercan-
brack) Inez, who traveled the
farthest to the reunion from her
home in Kerville, reminisced about
what it was like coming of age
during The Depression.
"Besides working and going to
school, there just wasn't that much
to do-so we would go to house
parlies,” said Inez, who at the age
of 77 is the oldest surviving gradu-
ate of Whitharral High "The usual
thing was for everyone to go to
someone's house and play games
and things There would usually be
a Victrola there-so we would all
dance And if we needed more
room, we would hang lanterns
outside and dance outdoors."
Besides school, many of the
young people would have to
change into work clothes alter
Levelland &. Hockley County
News-Press
•Serving All Of Hockley County"
Box 1628 LsvsNand. Tx.
79336-1628
711 Austin St. (806 )894-3121
Publication No. 146-380
PuMWwd Ewi
Parade participants are encour-
aged to register at the Chamber of
Commerce between now and noon
Friday, allowing parade planners io
put together some type of plan for
the parade. Police Chief Ted Holder
and the Goldcoats will help line up
parade participants. Those not
registering will be allowed into the
parade line-up but most will go to
the back of the parade.
Musical entertainment follows the
parade and has been lined up by
Patricia Blair. Parade awards will be
presented by Chamber Manager Mike
Witt at 12:30.
The annual horseshoes and washer
pitching contests will kick off al 1
p.m. on the square with many
participants defending their skills.
Contestants must be al least 18 years
of age Entry forms will be available
at the registration table under the east
tent on the square. Registration w ill
begin at non and contests will begin
at 1 p.m. Rules for the event can be
found in the Early Settlers’ tabloid
Miniature boat races will also be
held at 9 am. Saturday on tlie Brashear
Park Lake on Sherman Ave. The boat
Hockley County residents
spending cash on lottery
City Racing Association which picked
Levelland as the host city for this
weekend’s races The racing boats
are scale models of professional racing
boats. Spectators are welcome
A play day sponsored by the
Hockley County Sheriff’s Posse kicks
off at 1 p.m. in the South Plains
College arena.
Team roping also kicks off at 1
pm in tte Ray Harley arena southeast
of Levelland. Directional signs will
be set up south of the Levelland
Municipal Airport on Highway 385.
Books open at 1 p.m. with roping
beginning at 2 p.m. Additional
Many Levelland residents walked
outside of their homes Saturday to
find small American flags briskly
Happing in their yards.
Coldwell Bankers/Paxton Real
Estate associates were responsible
tor the flags It is the fourth year they
have done something like this. The
i irst two years, they pul the flag out
on Memorial Day.
The sight of the flags flapping in
the golden light of sunrise cannot
help but stir die heart. They were
beautiful as they lined block after
block.
Brett Paxton said his firm put out
around I.NX) flags this year,
expanding the project to include the
Country Club, University Heights,
most ol the Kauffman Addition,
areas around Cactus and Capitol
S lu« L and the North Park area.
A vovered over half of the city
tin nine," he said "I wish we could
• er the whole city but we ran out
i Hags and we have limited
manpower.
Nineteen agents, spouses and kids
helped put out the flags with the
ear liesi starting around 4 a m. They
all f mishcd around7:30 and met for
breakfast al McDonalds
He said his son Chris had to
sharpen all of the flags so lliey could
poke them into die ground. As it was
tie lack of recent ram make it tough
io get some of the Hags set.
11 Is a fun thing for us todo. We
would get all of the city if we had
enough manpower," said Brett. He
is proud that the Hags were made in
the L S A this year "They are the
Ix st Hags we have ever gotten," he
added He said they have had calls
io ask if they were going to pick them
back up and said "no.” He has
ncouraged residents to save them
and put them out on other patriotic
school and go straight to the fields
to help their families tend the crop,
said Inez. "It was expected-.-
working in die Helds, feeding
chickens or slopping hogs," she
added. "But there were times when
my daddy and uncle would draw
out a baseball diamond and the
whole family would play baseball.
Even Mom would gel out there and
hit the ball. In die winter lime, we
played a lot of dominos."
At Whitharral High, everyone
had his or her shot at playing
competitive sports, according to
Dowden, who graduated Valedic-
torian from Whitharral High in
1934
"What else could we do besides
play sports," she quips. "Most of
us played several sports. I played
basketball, volleyball, softball, and
was on the track team--wc won the
county meet two years.”
Both sisters agreed, the opportu-
nity for girls to participate in a
variety of sports in high school
served a unique and positive
purpose in their lives. "Girls
day
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Letter
to the Editor,
remember driving through Brown-
field and getting dust all over us—
hair, eyes, mouth. The truck broke
down on the way back and we had
to spend the night sleeping on the
bed of that truck -the boys had to
sleep on the ground," she said with
a laugh.
Despite the informal posture of
the organization. Tipton accepts
her term in the office with sincere
humility. "I feel it’s a great honor,"
said Tipton. "It’s very important to
assume responsibility for helping
all of these fine people keep in
touch. We old folks tend to place a
great deal of importance on keep-
ing in touch. It seems many youn-
ger people don’t think too much of
such things."
As always, plans arc already
being made for the 1993 Whith-
arral Early Settlers Reunion which
will be held the first Saturday in
July of next year. The date will
mark the 25th annual meeting for
the group of founders. According
to Tipton, there might be a few
special trimmings for the settler’s
silver anniversary.
"We’ll have to do something a
little special,' she said "We hope to
get in touch with some of the early
settlers who haven’t attended in
several years.
WRECK
continued from page 1
treated and released from Methodist
Hospital Levelland.
Jimenez w as taken to the hospital
by his employer following the
mishap.
The mishap was investigated by
Department of Public Safety trooper
Ole Rodriguez who said no citations
have been issued yet. He said a
failure to yield the right of way
citation will probably be issued to
Mrs. Connally.
F.E. Shaheen with Levelland EMS
said their first ambulance was
dispatched at 10:16 and transferred
the Mrs. Connally al 10:48 a.m. He
said their procedure involves
notifying the fire department
whenever they are called to the scene
of a major traffic accident where
speed has been involved. By having
them on the scene previous minutes
can sometimes be saved by having
them and their equipment available
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Stephen A. Henry, Publisher
assessment and take care of life
threatening situations. Where a
trauma patient is involved, such as
at a wreck, we usually transport that
patient within 10 minutes of arriving.
If we go over, as in this case, our
medical director will want to know
why." ---— __
He said his people immediately moderate wage earners at 7.41
assessed Mrs. Connally’s condition percent interest.
and determined her injuries weren’t * The State of Texas filed suit
life threatening. "She was talking to last week to halt
us and was well oriented," he said, of New X01^
adding, "She was very, very lucky." Texas facility.
* The U.S. Supreme Court
rocked the Texas Democratic Party
by upholding court-drawn re-
districting maps which apparently
favor Republicans;
• Hie High Court also ruled
that state legislatures have the right
to restrict abortions, thus bringing
the abortion battle to Texas.
♦ Gov. Ann Richards was
named chairwoman of the Demo
cratic National Convention open
ing next week in New York; and
* The Texas Federation of
Teachers proposed a tax on bullets
-one cent per shell--to raise $3(X)
million next year to pay for secure
ty and anti-violence measures in
public schools.
Earlier, Attorney General Dan
Morales, a Democrat, got the U.S
Justice Department to drop its
objections to an 11 th hour re
districting plan by the Texas
Legislature.
Heartened, he asked the justices
to install it and change the political
boundary lines for the 1992 elec-
tions.
They didn’t, and last week
Morales admitted that his fight to
maintain Democrat supremacy was
over for awhile.
Richards: No Veep Slot
Gov. Richards, who vaulted to
national party prominence with her
convention keynote attack on
George Bush in 1988, will now
have even more air time before the
American public. And while the
voters are checking her out, she has
checked herself out of vice presi-
dential contention.
She said her convention chair
manship should end speculation
that she will be Gov. Bill Clinton’s
running mate.
State Claims Private Land
About 150 stunned families in
Austin and Fort Bend counties are
upset with Land Commissioner
Garry Mauro for claiming a one
third state ownership in 5,(XX) acres
of their farms and homelands.
Mauro’s position is that one of
the land’s three original settlers
forfeited his share to the state in
1830, and he cannot ignore that the
state still owns it.
Three months ago, Mauro wrote
landowners a letter telling them to
reduce ownership interest that you
claim by one-third." Many famil
ies have owned their land, free and
clear they thought, for more than
100 years.
A spokesman said Mauro was
^advised of the title glitch by an oil
company which wanted to drill
there.
Last week, Mauro told the
landowners he will seek a constitu
tional amendment to remedy the
title. Did Mauro Lie?
Meanwhile, Mauro was criticiz.
cd by the media for apparently
lying when he said he did not know
his state employees were using
state phones and equipment to
campaign for Clinton.
Mauro, who is Clinton’s Texas
campaign manager, may have mis-
led his own audit team probing the
alleged abuse, according to pub
lished reports in the Houston
Chronicle.
He said he had no knowledge of
campaign work for Clinton on state
lime, but news reports said Mauro’s
telephone call patterns suggest dial
he did.
Treasury Saves $5 Million
The Texas Treasury, using a
new tax-exempt commercial paper
program, will save the state an
estimated $5 million by Aug. 31.
said Treasurer Kay Bailey Hutchi
son.
Although Texas has a balanced
budget by law and will end the
fiscal year on Aug. 31, 1992 with a
cash balance in excess of $200
million, the general revenue fund
routinely has temporary cash How
deficits throughout the year. These
cash shortages have generally been
covered by short term notes and
interfund borrowing among Trea-
sury funds.
"This year, we substituted
continued from page 1
information about the event can be
obtained by calling 894-2560or 894-
2709.
One of the most exciting events
of the day will the be the annual suck
horse races which will be held on the
west side of the square. Anyone age
two through seven is eligible to
compete with first, second and third
place ribbons being awarded in each
age group. Hockley County 4-H 'ers
will handle the races. Registration
begins at 1 p.m. and races will begin
promptly at 1:30 pm. Contestants must
bring thieir own slick horses. An entry
form was also in last Sunday’s tabloid.
Organized activities conclude
around 2 p.m. but music and
socializing will continue until around
5 p.m. Booths can remain as long as
participants are willing to stay. A flag
lowering ceremony will be held at
. 5 p.m.
The day’s activities will conclude
i with the annual street dance from 8
until midnight on Ave. G between
Austin and Houston streets The Silver
Creek Band will provide the
entertainment.
Just
e Rambling
open the door and immobilize the commercial paper for most of the
victim on a spine board, do patient interfund borrowing. Interfund
' borrowing would have cost 6
percent; the commercial paper was
2.25 to 3.2 percent," Mrs. Hutchi-
son said. Other Highlights
♦ The Texas Department of
Housing and. Community Affairs
will start a program to finance
3,000 mortgages for low and
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