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FRIDAY, }1AY 17. 1940
HOCKLEY COUNTY HERALD
The Hockley County Herald
Published every Friday at 506 Avenue H, Levelland, Texas, by Saun-
ders and Weimhold. Phone 83.
FORREST WEIMHOLD _______________________ EDITOR
J. D. SAUNDERS _ _ BUSINESS MANAGER
It is not the intention to cast reflection upon the character of;
anyone knowingly and if through error we should, the management
Will appreciate having our attention called to same and will gladly
correct any erroneous statement made.
Entered as second class mail November 11, 1924, at the post office
In Levelland, Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1897.
Sewing Project
To Hold Open House
Statistics Show
Tire WPA Sewing Room will
hold open house through ‘'This j
Work Pays Your Community!
Week,’’ May 20-25, from 9:00
o'clock in the morning to 9:00
in the evening. From nine o’clock I
to four each day the workers will
be on duty, except Tuesday, then
from 2.00 to 9:00 and on Satur-
day from 5:00 p. m. These hours
will make it possible for all classes
of working people to come, while
the room is in operation.
The weeks activities will start
with a kick-off program Mon-
day night, consisting of talks,
special musical numbers by local
talent, a radio broadcast of
speeches by Nationally known per-
sons on the Professional and Ser-
vice Project Week and light re-
freshments.
Hockley County’s quota of vis-
itors for the entire week is 1781.
Everyone is urged to come once
or as many times as you care to.
The Sewing Room is located on
the ground floor of the County
Court House.
The Library project at the
school and the Commodity De-
partment will also have exhibits
in the courthouse with the Sew-
ing Room exhibits.
The local WPA Sewing Project,
co-sponsored by the city and coun-
ty governments, will hold open
house through "This Work Pays
Your Community” Week. May 20
to 25, it was announced today by
Miss Evelyn M. Richter, District
Director, Professional and Service
Division.
This project is participating in
Mattress Program
Expanded
Two hundred and fifty-two of
the 254 counties in Texas may
take advantage of the govern-
ment’s mattress program for low-
income families under an expan-
sion plan announced this week by
Miss Mildred Horton, vice-director
and state home demonstration
agent for the Extension Service
of Texas A. and M. College.
Previously the program had
been limited to the 187 counties
With county home demonstration
agents. Now, however, county ag-
ricultural agents will be respon-
sible for informing the public
about the program in counties
without county home demonstra-
tion agents. Training of supervi-
sors for the mattress making cen-
ters will be directed by district
agents in charge of home demon-
stration work.
An estimated 2,500 mattresses
have been made in the demonstra-
tion countes, including Ellis Coun
Local People Go To
Lubbock District
Conference Tuesday
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Cole, Mr.
and Mrs. Jno. W. Steele, Rev. and
Mrs. R. T. Breedlove, Mrs. J. T.
Humphries, Mr. Roscoe Brown,
and Mrs. J. W. Brown attended
the .first session of the Lubbock
District conference of the United
Methodist Church at Seagraves
May 14.
Bishop Ivan Lee Holt addressed
the crowded house at eleven
o’clock of The Church and This
War. A very interesting confer-
ence was enjoyed by an unusually
large delegation throughout the
day. The Seagraves church en-
tertained in a royal way and
spread a great feast at the noon
hour.
A Year Around Plan
National Cotton Week, set for May 17-25 this year,
promises to be the greatest event of its kind in cotton’s
history.
Promoted by the National Cotton Council, the Cotton
Textile Institute, and other cooperating agencies, Cotton
Week in the nineteen cotton-producing states will bring
before the public a record parade of cotton products.
With merchants of the Belt featuring their annual
cotton sales, it is certain that cotton consumption will take
a decided jump during National Cotton Week. Promo-
tional plans which bring into play every agency in the
community can but result in such an increase.
Yet an increase in volume of cotton sales during Na-
tional Cotton Week alone is not enough. To increase cot-
ton consumption appreciably we must convert Cotton
Week into a year around plan. If the goal of a ten per
cent gain in domestic consumption set by the National
Cotton Council for the immediate future is to be reached,
every man, woman and child in the United States must use
an additional 14-100ths of an ounce of cotton every day of
the year.
Fourteen hundredths of an ounce is not a very im-
posing quantity. But when the per capita increase per day
of cotton consumption reaches that quantity, we will be
using 750,000 bales a year more than we are at present.
This increase would bring domestic consumption to within
a few hundred bales of the all-time high.
The Cotton Council is launching a program which can
bring about that increase which win make it Cotton W««k ]
not once, but titt^-two times a year. Cooperation of the i served on every Professional and
people of the Belt will go a long way toward making that Service Project from coast to
program successful. coast throughout the week of May
20-25. The local sponsors are in-
viting the citizens of the city and
county to see for themselves what
the project is doing for their com-
munity by observing it in opera-
tion during this time.
There is a twofold purpose in
operating Sewing Projects.
1. To gives employment to
needy persons, chiefly women who
are able to perform the work as-
signed.
2. To produce garments and ar-
ticles needed by the local welfare
agencies for free distribution to
needy families and to tax sup-
ported institutions.
Through the establishment and
maintenance of these projects a
payroll is brought to the commun-
ity. This project, as all other PWA
Projects is operated on a cooper-
ative basis, in that the sponsor-
ing agency pays for a portion of
the non-labor cost and the re-
maining costs are paid by the
Federal government.
A great majority of women when
assigned to Sewing Projects know
nothing of even the simplest
things about sewing: many of
them have never even touched a
machine.
One impoitant ~ phase of this
project is that thorough training
is given each employee so that they
in many instances are able to take
private employment when it is
offered. They are taught to make
all types of garments in order to
enable them to clothe their fami-
lies much better and at much less
expense than would be possible in
buying even the cheapest of ready
made clothes.
A variety of articles are made
on these projects, chiefly cloth-
ing for men. women and children,
layettes for infants, and uniforms
and other articles used on other
WPA Projects. The projects work
basically from job orders furnish-
ed by the local sponsoring agency.
The clothing and other articles
made are turned over to the spon-
sors for distribution.-------------
The Levelland project, employ-
ing 14 women,'with Mrs. Willie
M. Mathis, Project Supervisor.
During the 6 month period, Oc-
tober 28. 1939, to April 27, 1940,
a total of 3120 garments and other
articles were made, consuming
5636 yards of textiles furnished
by WPA. The cost of the textiles
TWO MINUTE SERMON
PEACE ON EARTH INEVI-
TABLE: In the prophecy of
Micah appears the expression
"Nations shall beat their swords
into plow shares and their
spears into pruning hooks, na-
tion shall not lift up a sword
against nation, neither shall
they leam war any more.” In
the light of present world af-
fairs the fulfillment of the pro-
phecy does not seem any near-
er today than when it was- ut-
tered more than 2700 years ago.
Even so I do not believe .that
world conditions today should
shake our faith in the prophecy
of Micah. I believe that the
time is coming when there will
be no more war upon the earth.
I believe the prophecy of Micah
will one day be fulfilled be-
cause I believe that one day the
Kingdom of God shall come up-
on the earth. When the King-
dom of God comes upon earth,
war will disappear, because war
and the Kingdom of God are
incompatible. They cannot both
exist upon the earth at one
time. The coming of the King-
dom of God on earth may be
delayed, but its coming is in-
evitable. It is inevitable because
it is a part of God’s plan, and
no human force can forever
resist that plan.
77,000 Die Annually
Statistics Show
Statistics just compiled by the
American Life Convention indicate
that 77,000 policyowners die an-! what Jesus loved, and to know
THOUGHTS FOR SERIOUS
MOMENTS
What grander ambition is there
than to maintain in yourselves
nually in the United States, with-
that your example, more than
Since 1931, cotton has gained on
rayon in the number of pairs of
hose purchased in this country,
according to the National Cotton
Council.
J. P. POTTS
Insurance and Audits
Specializing in Income Tax Re-
turns and School District Re-
ports
COUNTY TREASURER S QUARTERLY
REPORT OF COUNTY FINANCE
in a year after they invest in life
insurance, and that their benefi- worc*s' ma*ces morals for man-
I ciaries receive approximately $52,- kind!—Mary Baker Eddy.
000,000 as a result of their in- We can do more good by being
| surance. j good, than in any other way.—
The statistics, just received here Roland Hill,
by Mr. W. W. Carroll who is local j Mucli more gracious and profit-
representative of Southwestern able is doctrine by ensample, than
j Life Insurance Company, an af- by rule.—Spenser.
I filiate of the American Life Con- Example is a lesson that all
l venticn, were taken from a sur- men can read.—Gilbert West.
| vey which also covered the field | —
of health and accident records.
Based upon estimates of the Unit- |
ed States Public Health Service,'
I the American Life Convention re- :
ports an average of 5,000,090 per- In the matter of the Quarterly Report of Mrs. Jas. A. Long, Treaj^
sons invalided each day by sick- urer. Hockley County Texas. , ,' . „ _ m
ness and 500 000 bv accidents I In the Commissioners’ Court, Hockley County, May Term, 1940.
eT, On this 13th day of May A. D. 1940, in Regular Session of the
The report estimates the annual; commissioners’ Court of Hockley County, Texas, came on for examin-
oss in v,ages from sickness and ation the Quarterly Report of Mrs. Jas. A. Long. Treasurer of Hockley
accidents, not covered by Work- i County, Texas, for the Quarter beginning on the 1st day of January
men's Compensation benefits, to- i A. D. 1940, and ending on the 31st day of March A. D. 1940, filed
tal more than $6_,500,000,000, herein on the 12th day of April A. D. 1940 and the same having been
Where permanent disability is in-1 compared and examined by the Court, and found to be correct, IT IS
volved however much of this lo« THEREFORE ORDERED by the Court that the same be and is hereby
\onea, however, much of this loss i approyed and lt appeanng to the Court that dur.ng said time the
said County Treasurer had received for account and credit of, and
paid out of each of the several County funds, the amount set forth,
and leaving balance to each of said funds, as follows, to-wit:
Amount balance to credit of the Jury Fund as
per last report ____________________________$11,155.05
Amount received since last report____________ 4,612.93
is covered by life insurance.
Levelland Truck
Line
Check Will Be
Made Monday
J P. Wooward, assistant dis-
ty, which has reported 722 through j trict supervisor Bureau of Cen-
the first week in May. Applica- ! sus with headquarters in Lubbock,
tions of 2,498 Ellis County fami- was in Levelland Tuesday work-
lies have already been certified by ing with the local census takers
the AAA committee, so that at and officials of the Hockley Ccun-
least 250 bales of cotton will be ty Board of Development in check-
eonsumed in the mattress making mg the-census figures for the city
program of that county. , Mr. Woodward stated that he
May 22. is the last day to re- was here to cooperate with the
ceive applications in Hockley
County. Hockley County will com-
plete their quota, which is 260
mattresses.
Mrs. F. M. Morgan of Brown-
wood, and Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Mor-
gan and children of Lubbock,
visited in Levelland Monday with
their daughter and sister, Mrs.
Monte Dunkin and daughter. Miss
Murl Dean. Mrs. Morgan will at-
tend the commencement exercises
- here Thursday evening to be with
her grand daughter, aTsemdr of
the Levelland High School.
citizens and Board of Develop-
ment in gathering up any who
may have been overlooked.
He will return Monday for a
final check up, and that will be
the last opportunity for those who
have been missed to get counted
as the final report will be made
to Washington.
Anyone who thinks they were
not counted by the census taker
are urged to leave their name at
the Herald office, or with Har-
old Clingan at the Board of De-
velopment office in the court
house.
Mrs. Spitler Honored
On Mother s Day
Mrs. Grace Stephens and
daughter. Miss Pauline entertain-
ed at their home Sunday with a
Mother's Day dinner, lion oring
Mrs. I. J. Spitler, her children
and grandchildren. All were pres- j
ent except one daughter and her
family, who reside out of the
state.
Friends who attended the dinner j
were Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Bowman
and little son, Joe rank.
J. B. RIGGS Honored C
Friends and relatives of J. B
Riggs, of Levelland. met in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Hem-
meline, near Wilson, Sunday, May !
12. to honor Mr. Riggs on his 78th
birthday. 78 tiny pink candles !
decorated the lovely four-tier
white birthday cake. Another cake
decorated with rose buds and the
word “Mother” written across top
was served in honor of all mothers
present. At the noon hour a huge
dinner was served, in the after-
noon the young folks enjoyed
playing ball and singing.
Those who attended were Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Riggs, Mrs. Cullen
Riggs and Mrs. H. J. Barnes of
Levelland: Mr. and Mrs. M. C.
Kizer of Ropes; Mr. and Mrs. A.
A. Pruitt of Odessa: Mr. and Mrs.
R. N. Ensor, James Ellis. Nelda
Jaunice, Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Her-
meline of Tahoka, Mr. and Mrs.
A. B. Hermeline and family of
Lubbock, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Her-
meline, Boyce and Peggy of Wil-
son, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Claric,
Charletta, Charles and Bonnie Jo
and Miss Lula Waller of O’Don-
nell.
DAILY SERVICE
LUBBOCK TO LEVELLAND
Levelland Phone 67
C. L.* DAVIS, Local Agent
Your Business Appreciated
We have new and used
T ractor and
Automobile
Parts
And we maintain an effi-
cient Mechanical Service.
WESTERN
MOTOR SUPPLY
BOB JONES, Owner
2 Blocks North of Davis
Grocery — Levelland
Total "Cr.” as shown by current report $15,767.98
Amount paid out and disbursed since last report 2,653.95
Leaving and showing to credit of said Jury
Fund on March 31, 1940, a balance of ___________
Amount balance to credit of the Road and Bridge
Sinking Fund as per last report_______$19,556.71
Amount received since last report________ 3,687.96
$13,114.03
Total "Cr.” as shown by current report $23,244.67
Amount paid out and disbursed since last report 5,827.13
Leaving and showing to credit of said R. and
B. Fund, on March 31 1940, a balance of________$17,417.54
Amount balance to credit on the General Fund
as per last report__________________$ 556.58
Amcunt received since last report____________ 11,584.47
Total "Cr." as shown by current report $12,141 05
Amount paid out and disbursed since last report 8,732.98
Leaving and showing to credit of said General
Fund, on March 31, 1940, a balance of
Amount balance to credit of the Precinct 1 Fund
as per last report ___ ________________________ $
Amount received since last report
$ 8,622.98
461.85
4,439.87
Total "Cr.” as shown by current report $ 4,901.72
Amount paid out and disbursed since last report 2,935.37
Leaving and showing to credit of said Precinct 1 Fund
- on March 31, 1940, a balance of ______________$ 1.966.35
Amount balance to credit of the Precinct 2 Fund
as per last report _ ___________$ 3,483.17
Amount Received since last report __________ 3,868.28
Total "Cr.” as shown by current report $ 7,351.45
Amount paid out and disbursed since last report 2,834.87
Leaving and showing to credit of said Precinct 2 Fund
on March 31. 1940. a balance of ______________$ 4,516.58
Amount balance to credit of the Precinct 3 Fund
as per last report ________________$ 1,110.79
Amount received since last report _____________ 4,198.33
Total "Cr.” as shown by current report $ 5,309.12
Amount paid out and disbursed since last report 3,019.30
Automobile Sales
Burson Motor Company sola
Mr. and Mrs. Neulon Robinson
spent Mother’s Day in Wortham,
visiting with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. L« Byers. Mr ™, Mrs By- ^^ toTT
ers are former Levelland citiz ns. Levelland, De Luxe Fordor. W. C.
Nunn ally, Goodland, Tudor Reg- I was $655.76. making YVotaT^ed-
Ain’t Got But Half
A Shirt Today, Maw
Do you wake up in the morn-
ing with only half a shirt to put
on?
Figuratively millions of Ameri-
cans do, the National Cotton
Council says, pointing to the vast
shortage in cotton garments and
household articles in the United
States.
Estimates indicate that exist-
ing personal or family inventories
are as follows:, dress shirts, 2.6;
underwear. 2.!5; pajamas, 2;
sheets, per family, 4: pillow cases,
per family, 4; towels, per family.
8; overalls. 1.5: work pants, 1.5,
and work shirts, 1.25.—
To bring American personal
and family inventories up to a
point that would permit two
changes a week tvould require ap-
proximately 1,500,000 bales of
cotton above the quantity already
consumed domestically, the Coun-
cil said.
LION’S
CLUB
VISITORS WELCOME
ular.
Auto-Tractor com p a n y sold
Ralph Dougherty. Fordor Special
Town Sedan Pontiac.
Public A
ccountantj
1408 Ave. N
Lubbock
O. B. FERGUSON
Audits
OvlItvIllUIll o
Systems
Income Tax
— Estate Tax
V
CARD OF THANKS
Wo wish to thank all of our
friends and neighbors who liave
=frisw-n Ko kina m TiSTSThg ws riHce*
our home was damaged by fire.
J f invite all of my beauty shoppe
customers to call me at the Con-
atser Beauty Shoppe while cur
home and beauty shoppe is being
repaired.
Sincerely
Mr and Mrs. Eeverett E. Simpson
eral cost of $3219.77. Expenditures
by sponsors $474.48.
There are 28 Sewing Projects
operating in the 24 counties com-
prising the Lubbock District, with
Mrs, Myrtice Gillespie, Field Sup-
ervisor and Mrs. Marie Corrington,
Assistant ” ’' ~
Watch
Husband!
NEXT WEEK IN HISTORY
May 20—Columbus died at
Valladolid. Spain, 1506. Lindbergn
starts for France, 1927.
May 21 — Lindbergh lands in
Pa^is, 1927. Glenn Curtis, inventor
of the Hydro Aeroplane, born,
Number of garments made in
Lubbock District Oct. 28 to April
27, 111,076. Number yards tex-
tiles used in making these gar-
ments, 187,127,
Levelland Masonic
Lodge No, 1236
—Meets first Tuesday of each
month and third Thursday of
month set aside for Masonic
Educational Service.
P. J. MARCOM. W. M.
H. E. GILLESPIE. Sec’y.
Mrs. Ralph Stewart, of Kalgary
accompanied Mrs. Kate Wren of
Crosbyton. to Levelland. Tuesday
Mrs. Wren has accepted a posi-
tion in the laboratory of the Phil-
j lips-Dupre Hospital and assumed
j her duty Wednesday morning.
L. C. HILL
JEWELER
PALACE DRUG
More than ten times as many
paper bags are sold in the Unit-
ed States today as in 1900, accord-
ing to the National Cotton Coun-
cil. Cotton bags, through research
and advertising, can regain some
of the markets lost to paper, the
Council asserts.
KELLEY CRUME
Representative for
Farmers and Bankers
Life Insurance Co.
In Hockley County and
Surrounding Territory
May 22—Last Civil War skirm-
ish, 1865. A Conan Doyle, author,
bom. 1850.
May 23—McKinley tariff bill in-
troduced, 1890. President Cool-
j idge vetoed the McNary-Haugen
[farm relief bill, 1928._-
May 24—First steamship cross-
ed the Atlantic, 1819 First -pas -
| senger railroad in the United
States. 1830.
May 25—American Philosophi-
cal Society, oldest scientific organ-
; ization in America, was founded
by Benjamin Franklin in Philadel-
phia. 1743.
May 26—Commander R. E. Byrd
and Floyd Bennett flew across
! the North Pole, 1926.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Clingan
j were in Tahoka Monday evening.
I Mr. Clingan attended the Masonic
J Lodge, where his nephew, Conway
I Clingan received his masters de-
gree in Masonry,
He needs watching, espe-
cially during these warm
summer days. Under
stress of making a living,
he may get a little care-
less about his appearance.
But others are noticing
him, and they know that
GOOD APPEARANCE IS
A BIG ASSET. You can
help him make a good
impression on all those
whR whsfft life' comes tit
contact, by having his
clothes cleaned and press-
ed regularly here.
r
PHONE 122
City
Cleaners
Leaving and showing to credit of said Precinct 3 Fund
on March 31, 1940, a balance of _________$ 2,289.32
Amount balance to credit of the Precinct 4 Fund
as per last report _________ _ ____________$ 697.85
Amount received since last report ______ 5,849.95
Total “Cr.” as shown by current report $ 6,547.80
Amount paid cut and disbursed since last report 3,374.11
Leaving and showing to credit of said Precinct 4 Fund
on March 31. 1940, a balance of _______$ 3,173.69
Amount balance to credit of the Road and Bridge
General Fund as per last report - ~ $ 99.37
last report 1,058.24—
Total "Cr " as shewn by current report $ 1,157.61
Amount paid out and disbursed since last report -|> 29.30
Leaving and showing to credit of said R. and B Gen-
eral Fund, on March 31, 1940, a balance of___ $ 1,127.41
Amount balance to credit on the County Farm
Fund as per last report ___________$ 411.66
Amount received since last report________ 144.05
Total "Cr." as shown by current report $ 555.71
Amount paid out and disbursed since last report .90
Leaving and showing to credit of said County Farm
Fund on March 31, 1940. a balance of $
Amount balance to credit of the Court House and
Jail Fund as per last report __________$ 749_,flD__
Amount received since last repert' ' _ 657.99
554.31
Total "Cr.” as shown by current report $ 1,407.89
Amount paid out and disbursed since last report 1,252 20
Leaving and showing to credit of said Court House and
Jail Fund on March 31. 1940, a balance of
j Amount balance to credit of the Court House and
Jail Building Fund as per last report $ 5,436.27
Amount received since last report 1,536.65
155.69
Total "Cl-.” as shown by current report $ 6.972.92
Amount paid out and disbursed since last report 9.50
Leaving and showing to credit of said Court House and
Jail Building Fund cn March 31. 1940, a balance of
Amount balance to credit of the Court House
Sinking Fund as per last report $ 8 625 91
Amount received since last report 3 533 83
$ 6.963.42
Tufa**.. ’ tis suujkii .iiie curr*m report -
Amount paid out and disbursed since last report
2.052.49
Leaving and showing to credit of said -Court Hcuse
Sinking Fund on March 31, 1940, a balance of $10 107
Amount balance to credit of the Court House ----
Warrant Fund as per last report « s naa m '
Amount received since last report
$ 5.049.03
1.996.94
Total “Cr. as shown by current report $ 7.045.97
Amount paid cut and disbursed since last report 2.716 55
Leaving and showing to credit of said Court House
Warrant Fund on March 31, 1940. a balance of $ 432940
And that said amounts were received and paid out of each of the
respective funds since the filing of the preceding Quarterly Report of
said County Treasurer, and during the period above stated, and that
the said separate amounts as therein shown are correct Ttr«
THHREFORE. FURTHER ORDERED by the Court thlt the saW
detailed report be. and the same is hereby, in all things approved fnd
the Clerk of this Court is hereby ordered to enter the said re^t
together with this order, upon the Minutes of the Commissioners’
Court of Horkle.v County. Texas, and that the proper credits be made
m the accounts of the County Treasurer in accordance with thi^ order
Witness our hands, this 13th day of May, A. D. 1940.
J. A ELLIS. County Judge.
* J°e Mears, Co. Prect. No. 1 -
L D. Gann, Com. Prect. No. 2
C G. Brooks, Com. Prect. No. 3
Robert Roach, Com. Prect. No. 4
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