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January 14, 1946
The Sun-News
WANT ADS
FOR SALE
lOR SALE— 50 foot lot. Corner
Houston and - Avenue C. Inquire
•t Delashaw grocery 25-Itp
34-ltp
•OR SALE—One good Remington
portable typewrite, good condition.
Phone 245 34-ltc
FOR SALE—Three registered tur-
- key hens and a gobbler and 25
Rhode Island Red hens, one year
aid. O. E. Zickefoos, phone 435-W
25-ltp
34-ltp
FOR SALE—6 foot General Electric
* IHgldalre. See Miller Gibbs, Sun-
down, Texas. Box 131. 25-ltp
34-ltp
The chureh will recelv bids all
tn's wttk for the sale of the church
biulding and will reserve the light
interested should contact Rev. J.
H Halliard or G. H. Tub*>. 34-ltc
25-ltc
FOR SALE— four room modern
house located 1714 W Austin,
phone, 435-J 25-3tp
34-3tp
FOR SALE—Regular Farmall trac-
tor, with powerllft and planter, at
IE. V. Dunn’s east of Levelland.
Roy Mason, Hft. 5 Lubbock. 25-ltp
34-ltp
FOR SALE—two room house and
bath. Half block east of Halli-
burton's. Leland Yeary 24-ltp
34-ltp
BY OWNER—552 acres, fair im-
provements ready listed $65.00,
•ere, 1 miles Southeast Levelland.
A- J. Dunavant, 3 miles northeast
Ropesvllle 24-2tp
FOR SALE—Nice three-quarter
' Hollywood bed with boxed springs
Sari Danniel. 24-2tc
l*OR SALE—Modem 25 foot trallor
Rouse. Good shape. Factory made.
Clan be seen at Jones Trallor
Osmp West Houston St. Fred
Formgins. 34-itp
FOR SALE—346 acres farm land,
1-4 mile west Levelland, place
wall Improved. Labor 1 and 10,
League 72.—E. C. Stovall & Son,
Bex 717, Graham. Texas. 6-tfc
•OR SALE—Six room brick tile
bouse, three lots. Four blocks
(forth of Phillips-Dupre hospital.
/, 0. Wright 32-3tp
23-3tp
WANTED—Nice room In
home, dose In.—Call S3.
private
24-ltc
FOR &ALE—177 acres Red Cat-
claw land. 5 room moderm house.
2 miles south and % west of
Fairview. Owner W. R. Wag-
goner, route 1 Levelland 25-ltp
34-ltp
FOR QUICK SALE—One of the
best stock ranches In eastern
Colorado, consisting of seven sec-
tions, all under good fence, di-
vided into several pastures with
plenty of good shallow water in
each one and contains no gip or
alkali. This ranch is located about
14 miles from a good market and
railroad and is on a good high-
way. About 25Q acres broke, bal-„
'EGIONAL
mm-IIP
TEXAS A and M College has ap-
to lejfct any and all bids. A^yonrfluted a committee to Inspect the
Hereford Prisoner of War Camp
this week for the purpose of con-
verting the 80-acre site into an
experimental farm and 4-H Club
headquarters to serve the high
plains region of Texas, Oklahoma,
and New Mexico. The communities
involved are now being asked for
letters on support of the project.
Staff representatives of Western
NeWs Service are conducting the
survey.
THE Panhandle Press Association
will resume Its annual convention
in Amarillo, Texas In April, ac-
cording to secretary Clyde War-
wick of Canyon. The Directors of
the Association met this week to
complete’ plans.
Waste materials of the Army Air
Corps alone during the last war
were, !# sufficient amount to put-
each. Texan a $35,000 home,
ance In buffalo and gramma grass u ,
fruit. Priced for quick sale at $9.00
per acre. Call, write or see, Ham-
mond Brothers, Phone 42, Bur-
lington Colo. 25-ltc
34-ltc
FOR RENT
FOR RENT—4 room modem fur-
nished house. See W. W. Pugh
at Levelland Poultry 25-ltp
34-ltp
FOR RENT—Six room house lo-
cated 2 1-2 miles north of Level-
land—Noble Haliburton 25-ltp
34-ltp
FOR RENT—Four room house with
gas and llght^ee Orville Bynum,
4 miles nor th of Levelland 25-ltp
34-ltp
WANTED
WANTED—Ladles and children
clothing to make—306 Ave B
25-2tp
34-ltp
WANTED—Ford tractors and clean
used cars—Bomar Moore, Rt. 3,
Levelland, Texas 24tfc
J . 33tfc
FOR BALE—Radiola, with records.
% gas cook stoves.—V. McMurry.
24-2tp
FOR BALE—Natural gas hot water
baater and all-steel cattle trailer.
C. A Page, Sundown school 33-2tp
FOR SALE—1941 Ford Wench truck
FpR 8ALE—1936 Ford Truck, also
kerosene Chicken brooder—Jack
Bherrod, l mile west, 2 miles north
Of refinery. 23-4tp
FOR BALE—Lot on loop in Morn-
•* Ing side' additiop. across street
in front of Stevens,,* Grocery—
.. Potts and Allen 34-ltp
FOR SALE—Three room modem
Stucco house and lot. Next door
east of Methodist Church in Sun-
down. George C. Diller - 24-2tp
33-2tp
STORAGE 8PACE —
Poage has It
For Rent
23-4tp
WANTED—Position as bookkeeper.
2 years experience with all types
of bookkeeping. See Valeria Jung-
man, Pep, Texas. 24-2tp
WANTED—By permanent govern-
ment employee, house or apart-
ment, furnished or unfurnished—
WALTER O’NEAL, phone 146
24-ltp
34-ltp
REGISTERED Poland China boar,
for service—See Vernon Wright
1-2 mile west of Levelland 25-2tp-
LOST and FOUND
LOST—Large Blackhawk jack. Li-
beral reward, phone 191, Levelland
24-ltp
34-ltp
ubuAi
dor. The rich tapestries and ex-
quisite furniture were made for
dreams and the girl buttoned her
thin coat against the chill as she
continued to study the display. She
Cattle drifed against the fence held the boy’s artn tightly as they
wbeh the chilling win’d Struck, and walked-away. Dreams-can be sweet-
• windmill spun on ids Tower like er than reality:, [
By Douglas Meador
a strong man disturbed in his sleep.
Tumbleweeds bumped across cow
trails and clamored through the
dusk. The sleet was like a whip in
the bands of a mad giant, leaving
cattle cringing and cowed with its
lash. Darkness was fierce and sud-
den. as snow mingled its way
through the sky The sound of a
wagon rose above the noise oi the
wind and the cattle turned their
bfads In thi^cIlfCcilbh f>T Hie Kouri ’
Soon bright bundles' of feed were
being scattered on the mow-cov-
ered prairie and there was the
'1
• Ae-
Roaring through ^the night like
a frightened demon, the ‘ mighty
truck ppunded the pavement with
its heavy wheels, sparks flying from
the dragging static chain. Near a
small house close to the road, the
deep-voiced horn sounded, jjjvA a
door was suddenly flooded with
light. A woman wave from the door-
way. and the truck thundered on
without pausing.
Faith Is the soil which nourishes
love. Flowers in a vase may be love-
peaceful music of cattle eating The to upon hut they perish and
wagon rumbled away, leaving the shed their petals so qujckly that
wind to sing its ancient song from (he pattern of their beauty is not
the veranda of the winter night. retained.
..... It doesn’t require a big house to
p&rltfienjal executives. These au-
thorities also* stated the average
Texas farmer will spend at least
$1,000 in remodeling his home this
year.
JESSICA Davon, Dallas and Mex-
ico City philanthropist, visited the
Panhandle region last week dis-
cussing her proposed “Progress of
the Americas’’ program whereby
Industrialists of Latin American
countries and the United States
will exchange products througn a
central agency. N
THE Important- Board of Scien-
tists conducting experiments to
deRfmlne the cause of wheat poi-
soning will move their efforts this
week to Hereford where ample
wheat Is available for grazing tests
Thfcfr have been headquartered in
Amarillo. Dr. H. Schmidt, Chief of
the Division of Veterinary Science,
A and M. arrives In the Panhandle
this week to* work with the Board
now under direction of Dr. Frank
P. Mathews. Newton Harrell, Claude
Is also a board member.
OUTSIDE of being “dog-goned”
hard O'Donnell’s water supply has
been declared okeh by state chem-
ists.
URGINQ more citizens to give
time to local projects, Texhoma
has elected new chamber of com-
merce officers and is planning an
expansive 1946 program of develop-
ment.
HOBART, Oklahoma, voted Tues-
day on $102,000 civic improvement
bond issue. Hobart is also mak-
ing plans to carry out a much larg-
er Sales Day program, a stunt it
has presented each Wednesday
since December 1932.
BROWNFIELD home owners plan
to spend more than $390,000 In the
next five years in repairs and re-
modeling, according to a survey re-
cently completed.
FIFTY cents Invested in Earky
Hegarl seed by Donald Joe Jack-
son, Floyd -County 4-H Club bey
has returned him more than 8100.
He sold more than 2,250 pounds off
of two acres at approximately four
cents per pound and saved enough
seed for another year’s planting.
LA VERNE, Oklahoma had suf-
ficient excitement last week to last
for weeks. First It was announced
with cowhanch In catching the
wolves.
APPROXIMATELY $1,265,000 In
road Improvement for Coke County
have been outlined from Bronte
this week, the majority of the pro
jects being Farm to Market roads.
* BORGER will be featured as
the Industrial city of West Texas
in the next issue of West Texas to
day, the official publication of the
West Texas chamber of commerce.
LAMESA’S grain thief failed to
get away with a load of maize this
week and the sheHff believes he
knows who the culprit may be . . .
Lamesal and Dawson County took
the lead this month in post war REA
extension lines with construction
of its "D” Section of facilities La-
mesa’s building permits for last
year totaled $131,200.
PORTALES. N. M. ’ land valua-
tions have Increased 25 per cent
for 1946
HORACE Taylor, newly elected
prexy of the Muleshoe Chamber of
Commerce, announces the capital
stock of the new telephone com-
pany fqr that city will be $20,000
Issued In 200-shares at $100 each.
CROSBYTON’S city planning
board has asked for a complete re-
valuation of all city property for
the purpose of raising taxes to
meet bond Issues.
T. E. Johnson, former Amarillo
and Memphis newspaper mar, has
purchased the Silverton paper.
SAM Braswell, former Clarendon
publisher. Is now director of pub-
licity at the Texas Wesleyan Col-
lege. Fort Worth.
STANLEY Carter, Crosbyton bus-
inessman, retired this week after
38 years of business management
Despite claiming the record for the
most years In one job on the South
Plains, Carter points out he is now
only 60 years of age and played 18
hales of golf on Christmas Day In
Lubbock.
WELLINGTON’S Commissioners
have announced work In securing
Church members announce plans
for a modern building. Honest BUI
Miller’s first edition of the Spear-
man Reporter under his new own-
ership Is a cosmopolitan paper re-
ceiving congratulations from all
Panhandle publishers. Nick Holt’s
hounds won first money at the
Clayton, N. M., coyote rodeo lor
Spearman backers. ’
BROWNFIELD’S Board of Edu-
cation is reviewing applications for
the coaching Job that Is novy open
for that school.
ROY W. HAHN, former publisher
of the Briscoe County News, has
returned from a vacation in Old
Mexico and has Joined the stiff
of a farm Implement company in
Amarillo.
MRS. FRANK EXUM, Shamrock,
Is the woman of* the year. In filing
her Income tax return last year It
was found that she did not owe a
tax. Believe it,or not the govern-
ment has refunded her the sum
of 10 centA
DUMAS is rapidly gaining an en-
viable position as an industrial city.
The Shamrock oil and gas com-
pany is the latest firm to announce
a huge 10-year expansion program
In Moore county.
FRIONA has employed Wright
Williams as City Manager.
TURKEY thought the atomic
bomb had dropped right in then-
laps last week when little Jarrell
Rice, five year old boy. stuck a burn-
ing stick into the gas tank of an
old, discarded truck. The resulting
explosion did no damage other than
scaring the boys, mothers and half
the town.
TUCUMCARI, reaUzing the
growth ahead due to the Conchas
Dam irrigation program which wUl
who thoughtful enough of other*
in his grief to direct that the
baby’s eyes be given to the Eye
Bank for Sight Restoration, Inc.,
which supplies corneas from dead
eyes to be transplanted to the
living. Motor Corps hurried to the
hospital, took the baby’s eyes,
sealed in sterile solution, and
rushed them to the bank. The
next day a man, head of a large
family, who had been blinded in
an industrial accident, and a
young mother blinded by a cook-
stove explosion, both received
corneal transplants. The corneas
were those of the dead« baby
which the Motor Corps had deliv-
ered.
-O-:— s‘.
Even cats hve heard that the
Red Cross is the “Greatest
Mother”* A litter of five was left
behind the bookshelf at the Pearl
Harbor Naval Hospital’s Rec*
Cross office recently. The mother
showed up the following mormhg,
checked orf her offspring’s Well-
being and then, apparently satis-
fied that they • were in good
hands, disappeared forever.
T-O-
“Love with the help of the Red
Cross knows no Canadian boun-
daries,” was the message wired
home by a Canadian airman who
was married recently in the Lit-
tle Church Around the Corner,
New York City, with a “proxy”
mother and best man recruited
for him by the New York Red
Cros in response to a telegram
sent by Col. C. A. Scott, com-
missioner- of the Canadian Red
Cross. Neither bride nor bride-
water some 45,000 semi arid acres, | £room knew anyone in New
is planning along range program v u"‘ *~l
‘ T V ^ i Magdalena and Bill Prestridge of
the sewer bond vote would come up I ^ are the promoters,
at an early date. Second, it staged | OI<^ ah£ounces
of development which Includes plans
for electrification along the more
than 75 miles of canals and ditches.
THE CANADIAN Record has ask-
ed citizens of Hemphill County to
„ , . . . . .. . organize a Sportsmen’s Club, point-
toe right oi w»y Hw toe l»**4ur» ^ hM more ^ ,
faced /arm to market road from of ln the p^h&r
there to Dodson will begin soon.
STANTON Home Demonstration
clubs sold $28,301.55 in poultry pro-
ducts ln 1945. -
LOVINGTON, N. M-, will ask for
bids this month to pave the road
from that city to the Texas State
line.
THE TIDE WATER oil company
Kermlt, brought ln the EUenber-
ger well for 1,970 barrels to cele-
brate the holidays while other com-
panies ln the area were shut down
for vacations.
BROWNFIELD will start several
miles of road building this week
to launch a program financed by
the recent $375,00 bond Issue.
MENARD lets contracts this week
for six miles of paving west of
that city.
YOAKUM County Review Im-
plores its readers via the front
page editorial to vote for road
bonds. It deplored the closed door
sessions help by objectors to im-
provements.
RALLS announces $100,000 ln
new construction as its next six
month program.
RANDALL County will secure one
of the first post war farm to mar-
ket roads when contracts are let
this week to pave highway 87 to
Wayside.
PLANS for a' half-million dollar
racing plant irl New Mexico, only
a few miles from El Paso, Texas,
are under way. H. C. Badger of
York, but wanted
there.
to be married
Brazil's President
<C3
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G«n. Eurico Caspar Dutra is
president-elect of Brazil. H« will
succeed Getulio Vargas, who
supported his candidacy.
GI hecklers had a field day in
Calcutta recently when a Red^
Cross club sponsored a hat-mak-^
ing contest. Five members of the
audience were called upon the
stage, introduced to five Red
Cross girls, and presented with a
mound of crepe paper, cardboard,
artificial flowers, ribbon, waste-
baskets, flowerpots, teacups,
palm leaves, fruit, rulers, rope,
mosquito netting, discarded cur-
tains, and assorted Indian knick-
knacks. They were given 45 min-w
utes to produce their millinery
masterpieces—in full view of the
audience. Winners were selected
by audience applause.
of any in the Pahhandle Region.
TULIA has named committee
members to plan for a Swisher
County livestock show for March.
CHA8. W. Stewart, county judge
of Armstrong County for several
terms, ha* resigned. County Attar- I
ney Richard 8. Morris has been *n-
polnted his successor.
PERRYTON announces the ap- !
polntment of Ovle L. Doane as sec-
retary-manager of Its chamber of
commerce. Doane is from El Dorado
Ark. Perrytoh also announced a
record high for postal receipts last
year and also stated right of way
would be purchased soon to start
thp new highway from Perryton
to Pam pa.
MELROSE, N. M , chamber of
commerce members will meet this
week to reorganize before launch-
ing an extensive expansion program
for 1946.
--O-
Lois Mattox Miller in her arti-
cle “Eyes That See Again” Read-
ers Digest, Nov. ’45) reports on
a job done by the New York
Motor Corps. A young father, in-
formed by the doctor that' his
baby had "ived only a few hours,
McCRORY FURNITURE CO.
Come in and see our new arrivals. Cedar
chests, 20 gallon Water Heaters, Breakfast Seta
—porcelain top table with chrome legs—chrome
chairs, New Ranch Style bedroom suites with
night stands—
McCRORY FURNITURE CO.
„ Just east of Baptist Church on the Loop
306 Houston St, Phone 237-J
BIG SPRING announces the
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
will make extensive improvements i
in that city.
j LITTLEFIELD announces two
Sometimes I used to 1 improvements this week: the con-
of a large food locker,
the first annual coyote rodeo where
dogs from three states competed
the directory of en-
torn from
chantment.
wonder if a secret opening at the I struction
bottom of the cookie jar allowed j an(j the beginning of garbage col
its replenishing after my . small j lection throughout the city,
hand had kept returning, holding j THE APOSTLE of the TempTe of
delightful abundance. Other rela- , Truth in the Donley County Leader
tries said my aunt waS poor and] says: “Atom-splitting goes back to
that it was a shame because she the Holy Scriptures where you find
was so beautiful. I never under- that the first Adam-splitting gave
stood her poverty because she left up Eve, a force Which man In all
me her heritage of hope and en- ages has never gotten under con-
dowment that has paid so much trol."
in the love of laughter. I SPEARMAN’S First Christian
Pain Is the unspoken thing be-
hind a smile; the hurt behind laugh-
ter. It hides in a song and swings
from the stars like a pendulum
which is never still.
provide comfort and the proper
attmosphere for happiness.
* • * • *
My Aunt baked giner cookies
that bore a spicy fragrance in their
crispness which might have been
Looking at the cup of black |
coffee, the humble man thanked
me before he touched it to his
lips. His veined and scarred hand
trembled under its weight. There '
was a mist in his eyes when the [
blonde girl bent, the check and left
It by his saucer. He refused to order |
food and sipped the cqffee without
comment. Back on the street, he j
took the old suitcase from my car
and walked toward the highway. Ke
turned back and spoke his thanks
again and there was a trace of
tears in his Voice. Then the threads
of our acquaintance broke and he
was gone, never to know that in
the trifling help to him, my own
life had become less futile.
Walking hand ln hand, the boy
and girl paused before the lighted
window and looked at Its splen-
HOYT FORD
General Insurance
Agency
and Real Estate
Day Phone 501 Night Phone 69
Post Office Box 245
Fire — Automobile
Liability— Burglary
BONDS
No risk is too large for our
facilities, nor too small for
our Attention
McCall-Parsons
AT YOUR SERVICE
FOR ALL DRUG NEEDS
Levelland
Lamesa
Squash The Wolf Outside Their Door
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