Levelland Daily Sun-News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 299, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 25, 1967 Page: 2 of 16
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^AGC 2-LEVELLAND DAILY SUN NEWS SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 1967
PLANE
TALK
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Last Tuesday evening five
plane loads at aviation enthu-
siasts flew down to Brownfield
to a dinner and meeting held
by the Brownfield organization.
It was held at the Brownfield
Country Club and 94 people In-
terested in aviation were pres-
ent The program included two
fine movies—one supplied fay the
Federal Aviation and the other
a trip to Alaska fay the Piper
Company. Attending the dinner
from Lev ell and were Mr. and
Mrs. Eddie Courtney, Mr. and
Mrs. Mikie Guetersloh, Bobby
Taylor, Ray Tucker, Ronnie
Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Alan Whitey
Mr. and Mrs. James Smith,
and Mr. and Mrs. Allen Gard-
ner. It was a beautiful night to
fly and everyone arrived home
about 10:30 Johnny Carson time.
The Lavaca County Tribune
in Hallettsville recently obser-
ved that its airport is becom-
ing more and more useful as
time passes, and pointed out a
few recent events:
Oil company officials and doc-
tors (who visit the hospital)
are among the most consistent
users of the airport, but dur-
ing the cotton season, many
planes arrive with businessmen
who have business at the Goe-
decke cotton firm.
Recently a fire broke out at
a ranch southeast of town, and
a local plae owner allowed the
fire chief and a fireman to sur-
vey the area and pin-point the
fire from the air.
Also, two men from near Cor-
pus Christi were on their way
to a ginners’ meeting in North
Texas when fog moved in and the
flyers found it necessary to turn
back and make an emergency
landing at the airport.
"The airport will become
more and more useful Jo many
more as we move further into
the ‘jet age,’ ” the editor of
the newspaper wrote. "There is
little doubt that our airport is
becoming a tremendous asset to
our economy here.”
Dallas area will find a conven-
ient stopping point at the WMF-
ney State Park strip. Food is
now available in the concession
building, which is just 75 feet
across the road from where
planes are parked. The rest-
aurant serves breakfast, lunch
and 6upper, takes short orders
and has steaks, fish and chick-
en available. Pilots report it is
a real timesaver.
Two lawmakers who use the
airport in their home area regu-
larly are State Representative
Bill Clayton and Congressman
Bob Price. Clayton flies Ms own
plane between Diqwnitt and Aus-
tin on weekends, \(hile Price
flies to special meetings from
Washington.
The value of an airport for
special efforts was emphasized
recently at Comanche, Tex.
when a barbecue honoring House
Speaker Ben Barnes was held
there. More than 60 planes
brought visitors to the event,
bringing busy people who other-
wise may not have been able to
attend because of the time ele-
ment.
Pilots flying north to the
Coffee
FROM PA OF ONE FROM PAGE ONE
"And how old are you my little
man?” he was asked.
"I’m at the awkward age,”
he replied.
"Really?” asked the visitor.
“What do you mean by the
awkward age?”
"To oM to cry and to young
tosnae*^”^.
No doubt you've figured out
tv now whether you’re an ex-
trovert or an introvert. But
are you aware an extrovert
can't handle aa much liquor as
an introvert? A couple of drinks
tends to fog ig> an extrovert
and make him giddy. That if
why few extroverts became al-
coholics. They can’t hold enough
to get into said condition, or
such is the claim of the re-
searchers.
follow.
The moon is between its full,
phase and last quarter.
The morning star la Saturn.
The evening stars are Venus,
Mars and Jupiter.
Bom on this day in 1660 was
French composer Gustave
Charpentler.
On this day in history:
In 1876, Gen. George Custer
and Ms force of 306 mend led at
Little Big Horn, MonL, in a
battle with Sioux Indiana.
In 1952, the War Department
announced the formal establish-
ment of a European theater of
operations under the eammtnft
of Mg}. Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
In 19SD, North Koreans
invaded South Korea.
In 1962, the Si*»reme Court
handed down a decision inter-
preted aa barring prayer in
public schools.
A thought for the day:
English poet Edmtmd Spenser
once said: "111 can he rule the
great, that cannot reach the
small.”
ANSWER TO
-Ibtfrs
Argu.li/. Salmon. Outfit
Piddle Ascent: Broach:
DISCOURAGED
Motorist: "Aren't you the
fellow who sold me this car
two weeks ago'’"
Salesman (proudly) Yes,
sir "
Motorist "Tell me about
it again I get so DISCOUR-
AGED"
^ Fred Barker-Levelland’s
Pioneer Banker Has Seen
Outstanding City Growth
TROUBLES’
■Rwl
This is a sensible tip
Florida for base operat
is well to remember thatl
a transcient airplane li
something. He may want gaso-
line, storage or repairs, or
maybe he will want nothing-ex-
cept to park his plane and §D to
town. Don’t wait until he ha
pulled into the wrong place and
blocked ground traffic and cut
off his engine. The chances are
that once he has stopped, he
stays stopped, so fla g him in
and ask how you can help. It is
a lot easier, and everyone is a
lot happier.
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Two of the prrficipants In the Moou tcunouiy nun iui
alrp’anes were Mrs. Kathy Long of Irving, left, and Mrs.
Marge Mitchell of Painview, who proved that plane travel
1* cheaper, faster and safer than a trip by car. They are
shown here after winning trophies in the Jaycee All-Women’s
air race from Midland to Lubbock and return. The plane is
a Bellanca 260C.
Plane Vs. Car
At least 80 per cent of the
top industries in the U2S. will
not consider a plant location
without air facilities. Three per
cent require accommodations
for single engine planes; 20 per
cent need facilities for light
twin-engine aircraft; 29per cent
need strips for medium twin-en-
gine planes, and the remainder
need facilities for heavy twin
engine planes.
Here’s a tip that is old hat
for some base operators, but
an area pilot index file that was
set ig> by Clay Beckner at the
Midland-Odessa Regional Air
Terminal has proved to be pop-
ular and a flight operations
timesaver.
The file has cards that show
the pilot’s name, address,
where Ms plane is based, its
color and other standard infor-
mation relating to filing flight
plans.
Thus, all a pilot, who has a
card in the file, has to say to
speed ig> filing Ms flight plans
ie: “I’m in the file, Midland-
Odessa Flight Service Station.”
Chamber
Canada's
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tree. Mftjestlc giants of the for-
ests that once required hours
or even days to fell with sxes
and crosscut saws esn now be
handled to less than a minute
by a motel monster called a
"tree harvester”.
Canada has a large, varied
mining industry. Her known mi-
neral resources include about
evfary variety, some rich or ex-
tensive enough to be of world
wide importance. Coal, copper,
gold, uranium and oil are some
at the leading ones.
Modern steel mills and other
plants have been developed,
even In the frozen north. A-
merican dollars and know-how
have helpod in our neighbor’s
development.
Even tee Royal Canadian Mou-
nted police now use Jeepn, pnw-
er boats and helicopters more
than horses. They still however,
"always get their man!”
A plane trip Is quicker, less
costly and safer than travel by
automobile.
Two Texas women pilots
were among a group of flyers
who proved this a few weeks
ago when they "competed”
against automobiles in the Mo-
bil Economy Run.
They were Mrs. T.E. Mitchell
of P ainview and Mrs. L.K.
Long of Irving. They flew a
Bellanca 260.
Forty-two automobiles and
six planes were entered In the
run from Burbank, Calif., to
Detroit, Mich., via Denver and
Omaha. It took the cars five
days to make the trip; the
planes, counting an over night
stop, made it in two days, or
14 hours flying time. Forty-one
Birth Control
For Animals?
things they must do, first take
care of the over-drawal at the
bank; reevaluate the due not-
ices; decide upon a fund rais-
ing campaign; and write a letter
to each of the chambers credi-
tors explaining the delay in sub-
mitting payment.
During the meeting, Yeager
was given authority to sign
checks for the chamber. In the
past, the secretary, Mrs. Dora
Kiser, and the treasurer, Dick
C&rothers has signed. No
checks will be written unless
there is sufficient funds in the
bank to cover them and that
will include the monthly pay-
roll. The secretary will have the
authority to sign Yeager’s
name in Ms absence from town.
In case that the treasurer, who
always must countersign the
check, is out of town, Ernest
Gentry, will have the authority
to sign them.
The Almanac , At nearly 11 pan. the meeting
Today is Swday, June 25, the I was closed and the annoimce-
176th day of 1967 with 189 to ment made that they will hold a
Thursday morning meeting,
June 29.
LUBBOCK, TEX.—A Texas
Tech agricultural scientist will
deliver a psp*r In P iris next
month which may provide the
beef industry with its count-
erpart to human birth control
pills.
Dr. Coleman A. O’Brien, as-
sistant professor in Animal
Husbandry, has been experi-
menting with a hormone in the
feed of fattening heifers In an
effort to suppress ovulation dur-
ing the time which normally
would be the mating period.
Ha said the tests indicate
the hormone, melengestrol a-
eetato (MGA), app j-ently pro-
duces the desired suppression
as wall as resulting in increas-
ed weight gains and reduced
amount of feed per p*und of
gain.
Dr. O’Brien will deliver his
paper to the 18th World Veter-
nlnary Congrats, to be held In
Paris July 17-22. Leading veter-
inary scientists from 47 na-
tions will take part in the five
day meet
O’Brien will deliver his pap-
er during a July 20 panel on
Endocrine Pathology of Repro-
duction in Domestic Animals
with 13 other participants from
11 nations. His paper will be
the only one on the pawl from
the United States.
0’Brian will describe two
tests In which he fed the hor-
mone to one group of animals,
while leaving another group on
regular feed.
In each test, he said, the hor-
mone treated heifers showed
a greater weight gain than the
untreated heifers and a cor-
responding Improvement in
gain-feed unit ratio.
He said that while sexual
receptivity of the treated hei-
fers was effectively supp •eas-
ed, the second test showed that
the ovaries of treated heifers
were 15.9 percent larger and
bore significantly more large
graafian follicles than were ob-
served on the untreated ani-
mals.
This creates the possibility
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(Tomorrow; First look at
Expo 67, in the swinging me-
tropolis at Montreal. Seventy
nations develop the theme,
"Man and his World” In uni-
que, exciting ways.)
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News
of the cars finished; all of the
six planes made the trip safely.
The average cost for the cars
was $->20. The cost per plane
was $138.
The cars got 19.9 miles per
gallon of gas, while the planes
got 20.7 per gallon.
Mobil’s Economy Run has
been held for a number of years
to show how economically a car
can be run on the sponsor’s gas.
A special event for planes was
started last year.
The two Texas ladies report-
ed that the sponsors of the event
had "mixed emotions” about
how well the planes fared In the
competition.
The ladies’ advice after the
run was; “Make your second
car an airpl ane and rel leve high-
way congestion.”
he said, that more research
may indicate the hormone can
be used to bring about multi-
ple births in cattle.
He said that the treatedhei-
fers returned to completely nor-
mal behavior and growth
patterns as soon aa the control-
led feeding at the hormone was
discontinued. Dr. O’ Brian cur-
rently Is researching multiple
birth potential in cattle by use
of MGA.
him for It. Many got as much as
five sections that way.”
Upton attended school at
Campbell’s School House on
Spring Creek in Cook County.
"We weren’t graded in school
like nowadays.” he said. Most
of my education was practical.
My slater was a school teacher
and the Instructions were made
at home.
/ He said his sister would give
him his ABC’s one day and told
him If he learned them by the
next, he could have a pencil.
If not, it would be a whipping.
Upton had five sisters am
three brothers. His brother, W.
E. Upton, 87, from Dallas, will
be on hand fills year aa years
previous to celebrate his 100th
birthday. They are the only two
surviving members of the fami-
ly.
Among Upton’s many grand-
children, la Mrs. Marvin New-
man, who with her family reside
In Levelland.
He moved to Clarendon in 1917
and earned $25 a week working
in a shoe shop, and later ran
the shop himself for 35 years.
"Clarendon waa already a good
little town then,” he said. Ha
also ran a four-mule binder tn
Pimpa during harvest time.
Upton moved to Amarillo to
live with his daughter in 1947.
He has one othar daughter, Mrs.
Jessie Gartin of Las Vegas, N.
M.
Falling eyesight prevents
him from reading newspapers,
but he does read a large-print
Bible. He is a hard of hearing,
but does not wear a hearing aid.
"1 love to read my Bible,”
he said, "and I watch the news
| BY BARBARA GARRETT
. 3*
One of the early settlers of
Levelland is Fred Barker, vice
president of the First National
Bank, and a citizen of Level-
land since 1939. Born south of
Ft. Worth, he was reared in Ta-
hoka and attended college in
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Briefs
CHICAGO (CPI)—1 ittle love-
lies In bikinis and handsome,
flexing he-men pranced and
lolled in the sand of 1 ake
Michigan beaches Friday—if
they could stand the smell, that
is.
Only the brave fun and sun
seekers flocked to the beaches,
which stretch for 20 miles north
and south, in Friday’s official
beach opening, which at least
was blessed with warm, sunny
weather.
They braved the biggest stink
to hit the beaches in years:
dead alewives.
Millions of alewives, small
white fish about six inches long,
have laid out a slimy, silvery
carpet from the downtown
yacht harbor from the shoreline
to the harbor mouth. And man,
do they stink I
Sunbathers had to dodge
bulldozers, which worked
around the dock to scrape up
the fish, a variety of salt water
herring, and had them hauled
away in trucks,
Willard Barry, general su-
pervisor of Chicago’s parks and
beaches, said as long as the
northeast winds prevail, mil-
lions of alewives will continue to
wash ashore. And the northeast
winds keep blowing.
He said he had received no
complaints that the dead fish
have created a health problem.
"They ju*t stink, that’s all.”
VERSATILE FRUIT
SAN FRANCISCO (UPD —
The Apricot Producers at Cali-
fornia claim a record.They say
that their fruit can be used in
more ways than any other.
The industry group said it
has documented 30 important
uses and expected to find more.
They found the apricot busi-
ness to have been thriving aa
long aa 4,000 years ago in China
and Japan. But mostly, apri-
cots are canned.
SEE?
AYLESBURY, England (UPI)
—The menu read “Aylesbury
Duckling” but the metal tag a
diner found on Ms read "Pro-
duce of Denmark.”
How come? the diner asked
a waiter.
"It was born in Denmark but
it died in Aylesbury,” the waiter
replied.
WHITE SANDS, N. M. (UPD
—The fifth Pershing missile in
a series of seven launcMngs
this month was successfully
fired Friday from the Blanding,
Utah, site and impacted on the
White Sands missile range as
planned.
Troops of the Seventh U. S.
Army fired the weapon.
COMPUTERIZED FOULUP
PIERRE, S.D. (UPI)—The
state had been paying capltol
employes on time until a
cotnputer system was Installed
to speed things up.
"Pay day will be sometime
next week,” the employes were
told Friday.
Rejoined one unhappy em-
ploye: "We’ve been computer-
ed, but there’ll be a lot of
checks bouncing around the
state until the pay comes
through.”
and religious programs on TV
although I’m not a lover of TV.”
He listens to sermons on the ra-
dio every Sunday and especially
likes Billy Graham at night.
Mr. Upton will be honored
with a birthday party, July 8
at the Women’s building, *hen
all of his family will be on
hand as many years past
"Now what I have to look
forward to, Mr. Upton said,
is 101.”
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KAY’S BEAUTY SHOP
219 PAT 694-4366
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NITA PIGG
(Formerly with LeCoiffurei)
ANNOUNCES
NITA PIGG
AS A NEW OPERATOR-
EXPERT HAIR STYLING,
CUTTING AND COLORING
WE INVITE ALL OF NITA’S
FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS
TO CALL FOR AN APPOINTMEtfi.
FT. Worth.
First employed with the First
National Bank in Tahoka, he la-
ter was transfered to The First
National Bank in Levelland as a
teller and assistant cashier.
“In 1 *40 I counted more than
a hundred oil rigs one night
from my window at the old
Stroid Hotel, Barker said in
describing Levelland as a
“boomtown”, alive with oil
wells and oil field workers.
The popidation was approxi-
mately 3,500 . very few streets
were paved and the buildings
were around 15 years old.
The entire West side of the
square was occupied by thriv-
ing business establishments and
tlie northwest corner of the
square, which is now owned by
C.B. Edgar of Abilene, were
small frame buildings which
housed cafe and hamburger
stands.
Across from the W allace The-
ater building, was a filling stat-
ion.
Since that time farming has
increased, more land has been
put into cultivation and irrigat-
ion for farming purposes has
developed. "Levelland has had
continuous growth since that
time,” Barker said, “and it
has been my good fortune to wit-
ness it.”
The First National Bank in
1939 was located in the building
now occupied by Copeland Hard-
ware. At that time deposits at
the bank were approximately
$500,000. Oil activity helped to
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CHOW TIME—The wee Boston bulldog was left motherles
Mrs. Jackie Ellison took over with a regular baby formulj
a bottle. “Troubles” is his name, and the formula must agree,
he’s growing like a week.
increase deposits until by 1940
it reached the million dollar
mark.
In December 1942, Barker
was promoted from teller to the
loan desk and was elected caslv-
ier. He served as cashier for
many years until he was elect-
ed vice-president and executive
vice-president to the board of
directors.
Barker was married to Miss
Wanda McRherson of Lubbock
in 1914 and they have one son,
Larry, a 1966 graduate of Lev-
elland High School presently at-
tending South Plains College
where he will be a sophomore
this fall.
He is a member of the First
Baptist Church and the Level-
land Lions Club and for 17 cchv
secutive years has had 100
per cent attendance in the local
club,
When asked about the crop
prospects, Barker stated “In
my opinion they are only fair.
There hasn’t been enough rain
for bumper crops.”
Well known for his banking
and business experience, his
jidgment and counsel is respec-
ted by all._
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