The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 299, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 8, 1956 Page: 4 of 16
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THE LEVELLAND DAILY SUN NEWS, LevelUad, Texa*. Sunday, January 8, ltM
phone Walkout This Week's Hockley Profile-
Over for Cifylfi^^^^^^^H[
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Levelland telephone workers
were back on the Jbb this week-
-end and the most evident change
; as far as residents were concern-
ed was that the operator answer-
ed a little quicker, generally, and
always 4n a feminine voice.
LeveJTand’s pickets put down
: their signs at 10 p.m. Friday and
| went bttk to work with assurances
| they v^juld have a new 15-month
: contract taking effect Sunday.
Most of the other 1,700 union
employes of the company are back
on the job again too and super-
visory personnel who were flown
to outing exchanges in the five-
state Jgea to man switchboards
durinjgr’the strike have been re-
turned^** the home office.
Cleatus Lebow, union unit stew-
ard for the Levelland exchange,
said W4day night that the work-
ers had won wage increases of
slightly^over 414 cents per hour
per employe.
He expressed hi3 thanks to the
public for their cooperation and
understanding during the strike and
said he was sorry for any incon-
venieace which it might have
caused.
Full -scale work on the city’s
dial cahversion program was back
underway again, but chances were
that The scheduled switchover
woultf be delayed. The change to
dial had originally been scheduled
here for Jan. 31.
A study of Alaskan eagles shows
that their food is almost two-thirds
fish and less than one fifth other
birds.
(Continutd from page one)
bracket families.
He feels investigation might
prove such programs within the
realm of possibility for towas the
size of Levelland. But he admits
that getting someone to invest in
such a program here might be dif-
ficult, even under a government-
guaranteed program.
Harpole, who says one of his
biggest pleasures is to build a nice
home, is convinced there is still a
large unfilled demand for bigger
and better homes in Levelland.
The problem is tighter credit re-
strictions, which have put at least
a temporary squeeze on new con-
struction here. The down payment
is the major item for most resi-
dents, who would like better homes
but have to settle for less than
they deserve.
Harpole, born in Mineoia, Texas,
in 1900, moved to Snyder with his
family when he was seven years
old. His father, a pioneer inde-
pendent groceryman, ran a groc-
ery store for 50 years, most of this
time in Snyder.
Harpole has two. sisters, Mrs.
Melvin Newton and Mrs. Jack Phil-
lips, both of whom reside in Sny-
der at the present time. 4
Harpole worked in his father’s
grocery store on Saturdays, walk-
ed a mile to and from school three
times a day when he was young
then iatcr graduated to a bicycle
His family got its first automo
hilc in 1918, a Buick which cost hi?
father $890.
Harpole remembers he saw his
first car in 1908 or 1909 when one
cut across the school yard at hir
school at Snyder, setting off a ma
jor round of excitement among the
students.
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Harpole was graduated from
Snyder High School in 1918 and
entered Texas AAM College. He
was on the verge of being called
into the army when the armistice
was signed.
He later attended Simmons Col-
lege (now Hard in-Simmon* Univer-
sity) at Abilene, receiving his de-
gree there in 1923.
At Simmons, Harpole was a pre-
in ed student who worked as an as-
sistant instructor in the science de-
partment for a time. He had hoped
to go on to the university medical
school, but went to work for a
lumber yard at Snyder in 1924.
He moved from there to Sweetwat-
er in 1926, then worked for short
times at Matador, Lorenzo and
Petersburg. Petersburg was the
first place In which he was mana-
ger of a lumber yard. He held this
post from 1927 to 1929 — the year
that he married and also ventured
into the dry-goods business in Sny-
der on a partnership basis.
He worked with the Panhandle
Lumber Co. at Pampa, Borger,
Hereford, Muleshoe and Melrose,
New Mexico after two years in the
dry goods business, then returned
to Snyder with the Burton-Lingo
Lumber Co. in 1938.
Harpole worked with Burton-Lin-
„go as manager until 1946, when he
moved to Lubbock and formed the
.Tarpole-Harris Lumber Co., which
ie operated until two years ago.
le later bought out the Marvin
Ywbrey Lumber Co. here and his
on, David, took over as manager.
About two years ago, the two
men formed a partnership with Ed-
lie Paxton and consolidated the
entire operation Here at Levelland.
Harpole and another son, Billy,
nought Paxton and David out about
i year agb.
Billy, 21, who graduated from
Tech last year, is an auditor for
lohn Deere in St. Louis, Mo. He
’ravels over most of the nation for
the company.
David, 26, is planning to move
to Denver. He married Johnnie
Cato, a nurse at Edgar-Renegar-
Campbell Hospital two years ago
and they now have a daughter,
Kay Lynn, 7 months old.
FOR FOURTH DISTRICT VICTORY
Lobos Down Lamesa
•velland’s battling Lobos '^corn ‘op man with 11 points. Big Spring comes to Levellanc
Levelland*----..----------
bined team effort with outstandln;
Individual performance here Satui
day night to keep a toe-1”
second place in district com
smothering Lamesa cagers
It was the Lobos fourth dj||fi^
victory against two losses.
Larry Corbin, favoring a
ful back, injured in the Amarilk
game Friday night, burned th<
hoop with 17 points — eight o
them in the final canto — to spar!
the victory.
Levelland jumped to a 14 - 1
first quarter lead, fought Off a
brief Lamesa rally, then slid pasi
„to a surprisingly easy victory.2*''
Levelland held a solid 27 - If
lead at half and had pushed this
to 42 - 28 in the third.
Only Jim Brown, who Mt T2
points for Levelland, fouled out dur
ing the game, reversing a costly
trend of free throw line losses ex-
perienced at Sweetwater and Palo
Duro. Corbin had four fouls, dies
ter Jackson 3 and Jesse Sudderth
4. No Lamesa player fouled ojit.
Doyle Chapman was Lamesa’s
If.
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Attempts Suicide—
(Continued from Dage one)
->f Austin, in throwing the com-
pany into receivership, declared
th&t the firm appeared “born in
tin, iniquity a id fraud and appears
to have operated that way from
‘he beginning to the present time.’’
The judge called the company’s
situation the "most amazing, frau-
dulent thing it has ever been my
misfortune to look at.”
There were 5,600 depsitors and
140.000 policyholders. Besides these
creditors, there were persons with
claims against the policyholders.
Tonight, a statewide mass meet-
ing of creditors, who have been
described earlier as' “enraged.”
was held in Houston, beginning
pnly minutes after Shoemake shot
himself.
Lt. Royals reported that Shoe-
make was expected to go to dinner
with a brother-in-law tonight.
When he did not keep the engage-
ment. the relative called a neigh-
bor. Barnes. Shoemake's Telephone
had been disconnected because he
had been besieged by calls.
Barnes went to Shoemake’s side
door. The executive came to the
door with blood streaming down
his body from the wound.
The neighbor called an ambu-
lance service. Ambulance attend-
ant A.D Sherrill said he found
Shoemake sitting in a chair and
Dr Alexander treating the wounds.
Dr. Alexander told newsmen
that he last saw Shoemake three
days ago. When asked if Shoemake
talked about suicide at that time,
Alexander said, “No. His emotions
were on the surface. He had been
unset but he did not mention sui-
cide. News photographer Jimmy
Willis, who got inside the house,
said he saw at least three written
notes in the room where Shoemake
was sitting.
Shoemake lived on an elaborate
estate at 222 Oriental Road in a
wealthy Waco neighborhood.
The house was of Spanish type
with a red tile roof. It had a
three-car garage, swimming pool
and tennis courts.
ADAYintheSUN
(Continued from page one) ’
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Every year with our tax mon-
ey we invent thousands of dol-
lars for equipment, library
books, motion picture project-
ors, and construction mater-
ials. None of us doubt the
soundness of Investing public
money in aids for good teach-
ing, but if we stop a moment
and compare we realise that
we are getting a bargain in
our human resources. The stor-
ed talent in our stockpile is
free. I am quite sure that in
Levelland there are numbers of
people who would be willing to
give to our pupils the benefit
of their stored experiences.
Besides It would benefit them
to spend an hour occasionally
in our exciting world of child-
ren. .
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“When we bring the world into
the classroom we are demonstrat-
ing teaching at its best. Of course
it requires careful selection and
timing. This actual example shows
how teaching skill enhances the
value of the offer of talent and
experience. One class was studying
the Netherlands as a social stud-
ies unit. They planned their study
under the guidance of a teacher.
They read everything they, could
get on the Netherlands until they
had developed a historic*lt«l»ck-
ground and also knew something
of present conditions in the Nether-
lands. They collected maps and pic
tures, got together an exhibit of
clothing and other articles charao-
teristic of the land, saw a film
showing some of the cities,'’the
country-side and the people.
The teacher, knowing that the
class was ready for the next stfp,
invited a woman who had lived
in Amsterdam to come and talk
to the class. The woman was in*
formal and approachable and be-
gan by telling about the house she
lived in, the people she knew, and
her everyday life, . , ...
"The children, of course, asked T, ~~7 c„ar„h
a lot of questions. What do Dutch said today a statewide search
children study in school? Do they ™ for
field? Are their windmills like
ours? Where does the queen live?
These questions gave the
a chance to show unexpected dif-
ferences and some surprising sim-
ilarities. At the end of her talk,
the children were so interested in
the Netherlands that they obtain-
ed the names of several Dutch
children. Bv exchanging letters,
each child had a direct personal
contact with children in Hol-
land. Later the class received a
gift of some real Dutch tulip bulbs
direct from Holland. None of the
children can ever forget that ex-
perience.”
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Okay. That’s the story. Don't
be surprised If you get inter-
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‘op man with 11 points.
Others scoring for Levelland
ides Corbin and Brown were Jack-
on 2, Bill Billingsley 4, Sam
lawls 7, Hillry Ranson 6, Sudderth
i, Jimmy Johnson 2 and Berl Rail-
■y 4.
Big Spring comes to Levelland
Tuesday night for the next con-
ference clash for the Lobos and
Levelland goes to Monterey for ano
ther tough district test Friday. The
Lobos play Sudan there on Sat-
urday, Jan. 14. ’
For Ropes Consolation Title
Whitharral Edges
Coyotes, 68 to 65
IfUliUnMMnl J T AtlAllsM^is
Whitharral edged Levelland’s
Coyotes 68-65 Saturday night for
the consolation title in the Whit-
harral tournament.
Davis and Dalrymple proved the
spark in the contest.
Thomas Cowan led for Levelland
with 19, Jesse Ballew and Mack
Hicks got 14 each while Fred Gard-
ner sank 8 points. David Costin
5 and Sonny Reeves 3.
In a previous tournament match
ihe Coyotes romped over Wellman
S7 to 37, with Cowan, Ballew and
Reeves leading the way. Cowan,
who fouled out, sank 15 points
Ballew hit 13 and Reeves got 12
Others scoring for Levelland weir
Costin 8. Hicks 8, Ronald David
son 2, Mack Tubb 6, Gardner 3
and Eddie Curry 3.
The squad lost its first game
in the tournament to fast-moving
Meadow.
Friday night the Coyotes fell to
Palo Duro in Amarillo 69-38. Cow-
an was high point man for both
teams in the contest, scoring 17
Ham got 12 for Palo Duro.
Others scoring for Levelland
were Costin 2, Ballew 6, Hicks 4,
Reeves 2 and Gardner 7.
In Saturday night’s B clash with
Lamesa, boys returning from the
Ropes tourney played the last half
but Coach Gano Tubb was forced
to play his varsity subs the firsl
two quarters in order to get the
game started on time. Levelland
lost this one 43-55. - - • ■
» Jimmy Johnson led the Level
land scorers with 8 points. Bart
Jett got 7, Tubb 7. Webb 2, Wiles
4. Dupre 2 Bowman 7, Curry I
and Railey 4.
As sales go up
As sales go up, so da production, salorlos and
lh« standard of living—and advertising to o vital
factor. By making your shopping so«wf, by
bringing you information on new products, new
features, new ideas, advertising moves merchan-
dise and keeps business humming. As • result,
our factories work full time and the pickup is
fob down the lino from plant owner to yon, the
consumer.
Advertising makes you the boos. To
fpvor competing products must constantly bo
improvsd; to satisfy your needs now products
• must always bo introduced. And moot important,
as you buy more, production costs drop . . - ssd
so do prices. Every day in many ways, Adver-
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The Levelland Daily Sun News
Pioneer W omen-
(Continued from page one)
OrfW, 700 or 701.
All that Is needed at this
time Is the person’s name, how
long she has lived here and
how we can get in touch with
her.
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WASHINGTON. Jan. 7 tiff—
George Preston Marshall, own-
er of the Washington Redskins
told the touchdown club tonight
that Jim Tatum Is going to
North Carolina to take over as
head coach.
Tatum, himself, was non-
commital.
Missing 14-year-old
DALLAS. Dec. 7 (*>—Officer!
She was last seen walking alonf
a street. Her teachers and parent!
could give no reason for the dis
woman appearance.
some day—perha|»s on many
days, to help the school in Its
prgram.
Personally, we’re not going
to be modest. We will ask to
help.
We’re going to volunteer In-
formation to the homemaking
elasses on our special recipe
iceberg stew. We got it
piekled walrus who
hy|Miotlzed us once when we
visited the San Diego zoo. The
walrus accompanied Admiral
Byrd on his first trip to the
antaretic, so should have known
all about Icebergs.
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