The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 99, Ed. 1 Friday, August 28, 1964 Page: 1 of 8
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Published Weekly—Read RaUy
(Member Associated Press)
Kermit, Winkler County, Texas
Friday, August 28, 1964
Another in a Series of Articles
Know Your City Government
Budget Hearing Slated Sept. 22
(Editor’s note: This is another
in a series of articles explain,
ing the operations of the various
departments of the City of Ker-
mit. Today’s installment explains
the operation of the utilities de-
partments. Additional stories
will detail the functions of the
city’s various other departments.
BY DAVE SCLAIR
Staff Writer
Next to the jobs of Councilman
or city manager, the post of pub-
lic utilities superintendent is,
without a doubt, the most diffi-
cult one in the City of Kermit.
This post requires supervision
of six different departments.
Ably handling this tremendous
chore is a veteran of 16 years
employment with the City of Ker-
mit . . . W. G. (Jerry) Haynes.
He is paid $8,074 annually.
As public utilities superinten-
dent, Haynes is directly respon-
sible for the proper operation of
the water and sewer departments.
Through the coordination and
assistance of a department head
Haynes also oversees the oper-
d^pns of the street and sanitation
sections and the park and ceme-
tery departments.
Working with Haynes as street
aAd sanitation department super-
i™ndent is J. W. (Wes) Hes-
tand while Ira Barrett is immedi-
ately responsible for the parks
and cemetery.
In addition to the three super-
visory personnel, the depart- _
ments also employ 24 other men
in the various sections.
Alvin Giesler is employed as
sanitary sewer maintenance me-
chanic; assigned in the water
production and distribution de-
partment are Leon Mitchell, Noel
McLendon, Charles Parker and
Carl Richardson.
In the cemetery are Mike Sig-
ala and A. J. Powers. Both are
gardeners. Three other garden-
ers working in the parks are
Bernice SoComan, Sal Galindo
and Johnnie Williams.
Working in the sanitation de-
partment are M. P. Lazenby,
W. M. Townsend, p. A. Riley,
Troy Laden, Ray Lee Horsley,
Isiah Newton, Jese Nunez, Fel-
iciano Pedraza.
S. E. (Gene) Burnett is city
sanitation officer and Dr. Har-
per Peddicord is public health
officer.
Working on the street main-
tenance department are Roy Gene
Thomas, John Singletary, Ray
Evans, Don Wright, Leon Car-
asco and Juan Dominguez.
As part of the city’s operation,
14 water wells and 2 pumping
stations are maintained plus 4
sewage lift stations. The utilities
department takes care of 18.63
acres of developed park land, 37.-
65 miles of paved streets, 8.04
miles of unpaved streets and 1.2
miles of paved alleys.
The water system supplies an
average daily total of 2,032,186
gallons of water. There are 51
miles of water mains, about 3,-
500 water connections and 2,500
sewer connections] The crews
All-School Party
Scheduled Friday
also takes care of 48.3 miles of
sewer mains.
During the last year the city
put into operation, on its own
land, a sanitary landfill disposal
area and inaugurated twice-
weekly garbage collection in res-
idential areas and daily collec-
tion in most commercial areas.
The water and sewer depart-
ments are operated on a 24-
hour basis with emergency per-
sonnel always available when
needed.
A program of improved main-
tenance of the cemetery and
parks, along with the addition of
almost 10 acres to the cemetery,
has been undertaken this year and
new equipment has been installed
on the playgrounds. In addtion, the
old items have been repainted.
The street department has been
preparing and erecting reflec-
torized signs throughout the city,
improving alleys and working
with contractors on seal-coating
projects.
At the present time about a
third of Walton Park has been
resodded and a sprinkler system
installed and plans call for the
remainder of the park to be com-
pleted this year. Also, a new
1,000,000 gallon water storage
reservoir is to be built in the
park and additions are to be com-
pleted to the pump station lo-
cated there.
Mary Frances Webb and Cath-
erine McMillan take care of
billing, collections and general
office work for the utilities de-
partment.
One other task for the depart-
ment is the annual fogging pro-
gram in which every alley in the
city is sprayed with an insecti-
cide several times during the
spring and summer months.
Council Sells Revenue Bonds
Kermit City Council Tuesday
night approved the sale of $100,-
000 of water and sewer revenue
bonds to the First Southwest
Company, the city’s fiscal agent
at an effective interest rate of
3.38 per cent.
The action came during a reg-
ular meeting of the Council at
the City Hall.
The agency had been asked to
submit a proposal to the city
relative to the sale of the bonds,
which are to be used to finance
construction of a new 1,000,000-
gallon ground water storage res-
ervoir in Walton Park.
Terry Franks, a represen-
tative of the firm, pointed out
that recent sales of bonds by
other communities had brought
effective interest rates ranging
from 3.5 per cent to 4 per cent
<
city proposed.
He offered a rate of 3.38 per
cent and Councilmen voted
unanimously to accept the offer.
The Councilmen also voted to
set Sept. 22 as the date for a
public hearing on the proposed
budget. Meeting will get under
way at 7 p.m. in the city hall.
The budget was given to Coun-
cilmen during a meeting several
weeks ago and members agreed
to the suggested tax rate, $1.67
per $100 valuation, during a spe-
cial meeting last week.
'W. G. (Jerry) Haynes, super-
intendent of public utilities for
the city, was appointed acting
city secretary until a new city
manager is employed.
In other Council action, a res-
olution was adopted asking the
State Department of Public Wel-
among members of the Kermit
Police Department to determine
whether or not they wish to en-
roll in the Social Security pro-
gram.
, City Manager Howard Willing-
ham, who attended his final'meet-
ing of the Council, explained that
a recent law change made police-
men eligible for the program. He
said the welfare department will
poll the department and if the
majority of members are inter-
ested they will enroll the depart-
ment.
He pointed out that present
policemen who do not want to
join will not be required to do
so, but additional officers em-.
ployed in the future will be.
Authorization was given for
bids to be sought for a new 20-
total accounting machine, a nost-
S
machine.
A proposal to proceed with de-
tailed plans for a service center
was tabled until a later date and
a brief discussion was held on a
report concerning the status of
the Firemen’s Retirement Fund.
Permission was granted to po-
litical parties to hang banners
across Kermit streets.
Two other actions included
purchasing from Willingham an
air conditioner which he had
bought in 1963 for the city car
which he used and final passage
was made of an amended ordi-
nance setting out the duties of the
new city manager.
BEEK3E EZELL
, . new board member
Ezell ii to Fill
Posh on * School Board
Beekie Ezell, longtime Kermit during the next regular meeting
and Winkler County resident, was of the board, Sept. 8.
The annual all-school party for
Kermit High School students is
scheduled for County Park and
the Youth Center Friday, start-
ing at 4 p.m.
Johnnie Roberts, assistant
principal at Kermit High School
and one of the student council
sponsors, said competitive
games, a barbecue dinrter, an
annual-signing party and dance
ai||on the agenda.
Trickets for the affair are on
sale at the High School for $1
eflAh. All students at the school,
including entering freshmen and
last year’s seniors, are welcome
to obtain tickets.
The party is sponsored by the
student council. Also acting as
sponsors of the council, in addi-
tion to Roberts, are Herman
Barrs and Betty Bleeker.
The affair will get under way
at 4 p.m. with competitive games
at the park. Activities will in-
clude volleyball, softball, swim-
ming and other contests, with
the various classes competing
against each other.
A barbecue supper, at the shel-
ter in the park, will follow at 6
p.m. and continue for an-hour.
Moving over to the Youth Cen-
ter, the annual-signing party will
be held until 9 p.m. and then a
dance, featuring a live combo,
will continue until midnight.
Roberts said members of the
school faculty are also welcome
to attend the party.
McGuire Named
TML Regional
Vice President
ALPINE — G. L. McGuire,
mayor of Kermit, was elected
vice-president of Region 4 of the
Texas Municipal League. The
action came during a meeting at
Alpine Friday evening.
Midland Mayor Hank Avery was
elected director of the region. He
had been serving as vice presi-
dent.
Named to the presidency was
Alpine’s mayor, Bill Winter. He
replaces George Zacharias,
M ayor of Big Spring.
McGuire is the first Kermit
official to be honored by the
group since Kermit started par-
ticipating in regional activities.
Ezell has lived in Kermit for
the last 13 years and is owner
and operator of Ezell Industrial
Paint and Tank Co. A resident
of West Texas since 1927, the
new school board member attend-
ed Wink Schools and was grad-
uated from Wink High School.
He then attended Texas Chris-
tian University where he majored
in physical education. With time
out to serve in the armed forces
during World War II, Ezell was
graduated from the university
and coached for six years at Mc-
Allen and Pharr-San Juan Almo
at San Antonio.
After leaving the coaching pro-
fession he moved back to Wink-
ler County and started his tank
business at Wink, moving it to
Kermit six months later."
Ezell is married and has two
$135,000 malpractice suit daughters ?“• a f°Ph°more at
st a Pecos doctor has been Ker*b^ ^Sh School, and Candy,
a sixth grader. Ezell, his wife
Claudia and ineir children livv-
at 107 North Avenue H.
Foreman Attacks Johnson’s
Advance Notice of Assault
KEY EMPLOYE — Jerry Haynes, utilities department superintendent, is a long-time city
employe. As head of the utilities department, Haynes sees to the operation of water and sewer
departments and also coordinates other utilities operations of the city. (Staff Photo)
Congressman Ed Foreman de-
scribed as “high-level irrespon-
sibility” President Johnson’s ad-
vice announcement of an attack
ofPCommunist Viet Nam’s PT
boat installations in a speech to
members of the Kermit Rotary
Clip Tuesday noon.
f’oreman, a Rotarian, was in-
troduced by Dr. W. H. McClure,
a past' president of the' Kermit
organization.
Included in the congressman’s
talk were an explanation of the
time element in the attack on
the PT boat installations, some
remarks about what he stands
for and an attack on wrongs in
W ashington.
Foreman later commented
along similar lines during a
luncheon meeting at Mack’s Cafe
in Kermit. The affair was attend-
ed by a number of the Congress-
man’s backers.
The Odessa Republican was in
Kermit while on a whirlwind
tour of the 16th Congressional
District. In addition to the two
luncheon talks, Foreman also
visited with supporters during
a coffee at Republican headquar-
ters in Kermit and later in the
afternoon at another coffee in
Wink,
“If a private in the army were
to inform the enemy that the
U. S. forces were going to at-
tack, I wonder what would hap-
pen to him. But the President of
the U. S. goes on television and
broadcasts to the whole world
that the U. S. is going to attack
and gives the enemy more than
an hour and a half to prepare
their defenses.
“The loss of one life and cap-
ture of another pilot is an indi-
cation that the Communist Viet-
namese were ready for the at-
tack,” Foreman said.
However, he said the action
against North Vietnamese PT
boat installations was agreeable
to him, and it was commendable
that the administration “finally
did something to retaliate” when
U. S. planes and ships were at-
tacked. .
In a statement telling what he
stands for, Foreman said:
“If we are to preserve the
American way of life, we must
preserve the incentive for the
individual and the rewards sys-
tem.”
He also degraded the foreign
aid program as being a give-
away of American resources to
countries “that have foreign aid
programs of their own.”
SPEAKS TO ROTARIANS — Congressman Ed Foreman (left) spoke to members of Kermit
Rotary Club Tuesday noon. Chatting with the Congressman are Rotary Club President Butch
Medford (center) and Dr. W. H. McClure, who introduced the speaker. (See story, Page 8.)
Loose Connection
Disrupts Power
In Wide Area
A 69,000 - volt jumper came
loose at Community Public Ser-
vice Company’s Wink sub-station
about 10:45 a.m. Sunday, causing
disrupted service in several
areas.
Calvin Dunlop, manager ofCPS
said the service was cut from
three-phase to single-phase for
customers serviced by the No.
1 sub-station. Station No. 2 and
Keystone station were not ef-
fected.
City water wells, some oil
field operations, Winkler County
Memorial Hospital and Wickett
were included in the trouble area.
Service was restored to normal
in about 20 minutes, Dunlop said.
A city water department
spokesman said anumber of fuses
were blown by the reduction in
power and it is possible that one
motor may have been ruined.
Hospital officials also reported
a number of blown fuses.
Engineers Hired
To Prepare
Paving Program
Winkler County Commissioners
Monday morning employed aeon
suiting engineering firm to pre-
pare the county’s 1964-65 paving
program, County Judge W, E.
Cook reported.
Rady & Associates, which re-
cently purchased the W. W. Greif
& Associates firm of Kermit, was
employed to handle the project.
Judge Cook said a major item
in the paving program this year
will be paving the Sealy-Smith
road, located about 10 miles
southeast of Kermit.
He explained the 4-mile road has
been the object of increased oil-
field activity in recent months.
Due to this it was felt that pav-
ing of the road would be less
expensive then continued main-
Record Total
Enters Contest
A record-breaking total of 23
girls has been entered in the
Miss Kermit Contest, according
to the chairman, Mrs. James E.
Lipham.
Deadline for entering the con-
test is Thursday (today), Mrs.
Lipham said. She added that three
additional sponsors are needed
Stanley, Martha Lawrence,Cathy
Arledge, Murrell Underwood,
Vicky Ray, Ruthie McGuire, Bar-
bie Bewley, Patty Robinett, Ann-
ette Dalton, Charlene Bridges,
Donna Martin, Nina Locklear,
Jane GermuiDer, Hope Tellez
and Elaine Barron.
The affair is being sponsored
the three out-of-town judges will Jhis year *Y the Kermit Down-
be held Labor Day afternoon at town Lions Club,_
First National Room of First
National Bank, the chairman re-
ported. It will get under way at
3 p.m. and is designed to give
judges a chance to meet the con-
testants and consider their poise
and personality, two of the three
points of the contest. The other
point is beauty.
Rehearsals for the contestants
will begin next Tuesday with ad-
ditional practice sessions sched-
uled Friday and Saturday at the
high school.
Contestants entered in the 11th
annual contest include the follow-
ing:
Sherry Abel, Carol White, Irma
Juarez, Milly Gallas, Patsy Me-
Camey, Judy Compton, Jeannie
Wallace, Cynthia Gregg, Donna
appointed to a vacancy on the
board of education of Kermit In-
dependent School District.
The appointee fills the vacancy
created recently when Dr. John
O. Dampeer resigned his post
on the board. He was elected in
April and Ezell will serve out
the remaining portion of the 3-
year term.
Board members approved
Ezell for the position during a
special meeting held Friday
afternoon. He will be sworn in
Malpractice Suit
Moved from Pecos
To Kermit Court
A
against
transferred from :he Reeves
County District Court to 109th
District Court at Kermit.
The suit was originally filed
in Pecos in 1961 against Dr.
John Dunn by Severiano B. Vil-
laloboz of Pecos.
Villaloboz filed the suit follow-
ing an accident in which he in-
jured his right leg. The suit
contends that Dr. Dunn treated
him when he was rushed to the
hospital and subsequently placed
his leg in a cast.
The suit claims Villaloboz
complained to the doctor on sev-
eral occasions between March
11, 1961 and March 18, 1961,
that the cast was too tight and
causing him severe pain. On
March 18, Villaloboz was rushed
to a hospital at El Paso where
doctors said gangrene had de-
veloped in the leg and in order
to save his life amputated it.
Villaloboz, in the suit, con-
tends that “Dr. Dunn made an
incorrect diagnosis of the type
fracture . . . that as a result
of the improper treatment by
the defendant (Dr. Dunn) the
plaintiff (Villaloboz) lost and had
amputated his entire right leg.”
The change of venue was sought
by Dr. Dunn. In his request the
doctor claimed he could not re-,
ceive a fair trial in Pecos be-
cause of prejudice. Originally
slated to be moved to Crockett
County, Judge J. H. Starleyruled
that the trial would be trans-
ferred to Judge Russell D. Aus-
tin’s court at Kermit.
County Youths
To Participate
In Discussion
Three Winkler County youths
will be featured on a panel dur-
ing a meeting of the Permian
Basin Juvenile Council at Pecos
Sept. 3.
County Juvenile Officer Jack
Roe said the three, two from
Wink and one from Kermit, all
attended the Attorney General’s
Youth Conference during the
summer.
Those attending the affair from
Wink will be Jerry Wilson and
Glenn Howard. Marc King will
represent Kermit.
Moderator for the panel dis-
cussion will be Robert T. Davis
of Austin, a member of the At-
torney General’s staff.
Roe said that he will attend,
as will J. L. Dodd, high school
principal at Wink. He indicated
several other county officials
will probably attend the meeting.
“Any person interested in
hearing this panel discussion is
certainly welcome to attend the
meeting,” Roe said. It will begin
at 1 p.m. and continue through
5 p.m.
! Appreciation
Banquet Set
Annual Teachers Appreciation
banquet sponsored by the Kermit
Downtown Lions Club will be held
at County Park in Kermit Thurs-
day, Sept. 3, according to James
Lipham, general chairman for
the affair.
The banquet, for all teachers
and their husbands or wives,
and all members of the Lions
Club, is an annual get-together
sponsored by the Downtown Lions
to welcome the old and new
teachers.
Plans call for the affair to be
held at the shelter in the park
WINK MELON FEED — Wink Chamber of Commerce director Frank Barton (right) hands
a slice of melon to Bill Davis during a watermelon cutting for the residents of Wink Thursday
evening. Wink park was filled with melon relishing citizens during the event, sponsored by Wink
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Sclair, Dave. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 99, Ed. 1 Friday, August 28, 1964, newspaper, August 28, 1964; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth809992/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Winkler County Library.