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Volume 31 No. 240 Levelland, Texas Tuesday , September 11, 1973
Dowell’s safety awareness emblems are now
appearing on Dowell service vehicles throughout
the United States and Canada. In an effort to
direct greater attention to the need for safety in
the oil industry, Dowell has created the positions
of safety and training supervisors for its
operating areas.
Safety
supervisor
is named
B.J. Nunley has been
named by Dowel 1
Division of Dow
Chemical, U.S.A. to the
newly created position of
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responsible for West
Texas and New Mexico
for coordination of the
company’s safety
awareness program, as
expressed in its well-
known “Life is Fragile”
slogan.
“Although Dowell has
one of the finest safety
records per man-days of
any major oil industry
service company, we
created this position to
help us stress the
continuing importance of
safety to our company,”
explained Tromer R.
Smith, executive vice
president and general
manager.
Nunley, who
previously was a
manager’s assistant
with the company, will
now be in charge of
implementing and
updating Dowell safety
standards and
coordinating the training
of area employees. He
also will prepare and
conduct continuing
safety-education
programs from his
Midland, Texas office.
Nunley has been with
the company.for the past
See SAFETY Page 2
Air tour
plans are
discussed
the air tour, said the
affair is a yearly get-
together where lawyers,
doctors, and
businessmen take off on
pleasure flights across
Texas. ‘‘They drive
around, ’ ’ he said.
Anyone who flies can join
the tour and stop
whenever he wishes.
The tour begins
October 6 in Temple and
ends October 13 in
Kerville. Anyone who
stays with the convoy
until its 29-stop
completion will log 2,700
miles. The guest pilots
will eat dinner here at
the Municipal Airport.
In other chamber
business this morning
Bill Pope gave a report
on the Levelland
industrial team which
met recently with
Japanese businessmen.
The team met in Lubbock
along with sixother area
communities who are
interested in
establishing a cotton
spinning mill in the
Southwest.
Towns making
presentations besides
Levelland were
Floydada, Crosbyton,
Lubbock and Slaton
(combined), Plainview,
and Tahoka. Pope said
whether anything comes
of the meeting or not he
felt the presentation was
important, and he
expressed his
appreciation to the team
who made the effort.
In another item J.G.
Stacy, chairman of the
Texas Food and Fiber
Abundance Project,
IN HOCKLEY COUNTY 160,000 acres were planted this year to dam age to the grain crop, harvest is expected to be good. Grata
grain sorghum, and harvest is just around the corner. No first prions this morning were set at $4.00 a hundred. Andersen
loads have been reported in Levelland as of this morning, but Grain in Svnyer received its first load almost two weeks age. It
with the drying out, sunshiny days, the trucks will soon take was harvested by Albert Shaw. (Staff Photo)
their turn in line. Although there has been considerable hail
Levelland will be
invaded by air in
approximately a month.
Courtney toll
0110,1 - Commissioners m
that the 25th Annual All- Chamber manager Jake Monday to take care of
Texas Air Tour will be S*.118®* said the chamber two weeks business. The
coming to town Tuesday. wil1. ParticiP“te but no Commissioners did not
October 9. decision was made to meet last week.
Courtney, chairman of »Pon»orit. Commisioners
approved the monthly
bills to be paid. The
Hockley County Budget
was also approved
during the meeting.
General Telephone
Company of the
Southwest was granted
their request to install
buried cable
communications lines
within the right-of-way
on a county road.
Commissioners
Court sets tax rate, Ml'S. Viola Wood Selected
okays road construction
At Odessa
Meyer taking
another look'
agreed to pay W.D.
satellite towns Turner Construction
considered. Company of Lubbock,
Street said the Meyer
Company has not “flat
out” said no, but
comments lead to the WEATHER
belief that a suitable,
feasible site for the The weather report
“central” facility has for Hockley County calls
not been found. Street for partly cloudy skies
Meyer, in re-checking said “concern on this today with late afternoon
the potential of the matter is delaying any showers, and
Odessa area, is announcements on any of thunderstorms. The high
proposing a “cluster the proposed cluster today will be in the low
approach” to its plants.” He added, 80’s and the low tonight
manufacturing “Looking at a $6-7 will be in the low 60’s,
operation, and million investment, they There is a 20 per cent
Levelland, Brownfield, simply cannot afford to chance ofor rain tonight
and Littlefield are take chances. ” and Wednesday.
Jake Street, Levelland
Chamber of Commerce
manager, said in a
meeting this morning
that the John Mayer
Manufacturing Company
is still checking out
Odessa for their central
warehousing and
distribution facility.
tree hundred three
dollars and seventy
seven centts
($41,303.77) for
additional road
construction work in
precient No. 3, in
Hockley County. The
cost includes labor and
materials consisting of
48,972 yards of crushed
caliche at eighty cents ($
.80) per yard, additional
seal coating of
intersections andone and
one half miles of road
construction. This
payment is in addition to
a contract awarded W.D.
Turner, on June 4, 1973
in the amount of one
hundred eighteen
thousand four hundred
twelve dollars and sixty
three cents
($118,412.63).
Commissioners set
the tax rate for Hockley
See COURT Page 2
Local man injured
in hit and run
Levelland Police
Officers are
investigating a hit and
run accident at the
intersection of 1st and
Ave. F this morning,
involving an elderly
man.
Officer Joe Condren
said, Jessie Dominguez
was hit while he was
walking on First Street.
Dominguez was injured
about his head, Condren
said. He had a deep cut on
his forehead. He was
admitted to Cook
Memorial Hospital.
By Joyce Wrinkle Mrs. Wood, a native of
Mrs. Viola Wotid, a Callahan County, located
tiny little red head who east of Abilene, lived at
won’t tell her age, and Putnam, Texas, with her
long time resident of parents on their ranch
Levelland and Hockley .north of the townsite. She
County, was selected to *vas the former Miss
be the first ‘Senior viola Marshall. She
Citizen of the Month ’ by gf aduated from Putnam
the Senior Citizens Hi*»h School and attended
Association.
County Court
hears ten
cases Monday
The Hockley county
Draughon’s Business
Coll ege in Abilene.
Vi ola helped her step-
father keep books on the
ranch for as long as she
could remember. She
also had to help her
mothe r milk ten to
fifteen cows each
morning before walkiiM
several miles to school.
Viol a s aid one of the
September term of the fondest memories of her
County Court ■ convened childhood was of her
this week with Judge very O'wn ‘little Spanish
Hulon Moreland pony.’ “I would ride my
presiding. 1 ittle pc <ny into the fields
Cases set for trial this andhavisalotoffun.”
week: Johnny Bates,
liquor law violation;
Mrs. Bert Davis, check
law violation; K.P.
Tillman, liquor law
violation; Cora
Jennings, check law
violation; Jack Stanton,
driving while
intoxicated; Jose I.
Chavez, aggravated
assault; Estanislao
Banda Palomin, driving
while intoxicated; Sera
Lee Wheeler,
aggravated assault on a
peace officer; Adan
Lopez, theft by false
pretext; Ronny Gene
Driver, driving while
intoxicated; Eddie Floyd
Jackson, carrying a
prohibited weapon; L.A.
She later
A. Julian
Putnam,
payrolls
employees.
Viola said this was
how she met her
husband, Marlin Lewis
Wood, in 1926. “One day
as I was making out the
payrolls, this greet big,
blue eyed Irishmen
walked in and said ‘Hi
gel, how about a cheek?’I
thought he really was
big. Later we began
dating.”
In 1927 Wood moved to
Pyote, Texas on another
job. He returned to
Putnam on December IS,
and they were married
on December 29,1927, in
Putnam.
See WOOD Porn 2
See MONDAY Page 2
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