The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 304, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 15, 1956 Page: 4 of 8
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THE LEVELLAND DAILY M7N NEWS, Levsllaad, Texas, Sunday, January iff. 185fl
Citizens Voice Their Ideas on Community Needs During 1956
When Chamber of Commerce Program of work committee, Necking to come up with a solid progrs!m
VACANT building cleanup
for 19M, asked residents for suggestions on specific projects, J. Russell Mitchell called for a community-Wide effort to clean up windows
'of vacant buildings. The building shown here is a good example. Vacant buildings with out-dated signs give a bad impression, Mitchell feeds.
He suggests that the signs should bo taken down and the windows opaqued from the inside.
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New industry was among the most frequently suggested goals for the chamber diirln" 195fi on most of the questionnaires
returned by local residents. This group, discussing the possibility of starting broiler production here, exemplifies what the Chamber of Com-
merce Is already doing in this realm. In the picture left to right are Herbert Ray, F. Z. Beanblossom, Texas A&M College poultry marketing
specialist; County Agent Bill Taylor, Burnett Roberts, chamber director heading the agricultural division and Leon Ranson.
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COVERED GARBAGE CANS — Jimmy Bearden, health unit sanitaria n and a consistent campaigner for better health conditions, told the
chambrr'The city needs a covered garbage can ordinance. Here he lo oks at the system adopted by one of the Ia*velland supermarkets, the
only onec ln the city which has such a system at the present time. Th e store manager says the use of covered cans has transformed a clut-
tered anf.filthy alley into a clean one. eliminating within two weeks two thirds of the flies whfrh had bothered the store. Bearden wants to
see the at of covered garbage cans ex|>anded to other city businesses a ad homes. He says most homes could make the change for lews than
|d, including a simple method for keeping cans and lids from blow in g away. He calls the present open barrel system the “weakest link”
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STREET MARKER REPLACEMENT — Lennis Mitchell, warrant officer with the national guard here on full-time assignment, says one of
the most distressing itoms for a newcomer in Levelland is the lack of street markers. Shown here, looking over a broken sign with M. R. Haws,
a member of the program of work committee, Mitchell says the chamber should undertake a street sign replacement program. This sign has
the top street marker, which should designate the street as East Avenue, missing.
ZONING NEEDS STRESSED — George Stallworth, manager of the Southwestern Public Service Company, rated the zoning program now
being planned by the city as the number one project when he sent in his questionnaire. Here he talks over the problem with Dr. Wayne. Hardy,
who is in charge of the civic affairs section of the chamber’s program of work committee. Hardy, himself, has been a lender in the move*
ment lor zoning here. (Staff Photos)
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Brewer, Orlin. The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 304, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 15, 1956, newspaper, January 15, 1956; Levelland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1122997/m1/4/?q=music: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting South Plains College.