The Hockley County Herald (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, May 6, 1960 Page: 1 of 16
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TOP WEEKLY
OUTSTANDING
LEVELLAND, HOCKLEY COUNTY, TEXAS
PRICE: 10c
FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1960
VOLUME XXXV, NUMBER 36
farmer killed in tractor planter mishap
Local
Seed chute
City grows nearly 2 miles
i!%SUN
hits head
of Lucas
By ORLIN BREWER
Council
r
jammed up
are
approves
measure
de-
had It
it the
may
AS SERVICES INCREASE
in cancer
wife,
drive lag
in
de-
ser-
least
GOV. PRICE DANIEL
to the
TO VISIT CITY IN MAY
141 JUDGES, CLERKS AUTHORIZED
Mature.
1 Heard a report
kind?
the college he dedicated
, -1 -W
H-
received an
coat hanger
city
that
been pressed with duties as the
state's top executive office and .a
campaign for re-election, coming
in the new
out to take
ordin-
in the
116 west of West Mrenue,
an area to the west of St.
Lutheran Church, but gener-
annexationa to the west were
in the
3 p.m.
polling
local
That
Low-rent
program
FEATURES
ADVERTISING
CIRCULATION
LOCAL NEWS
weekly field, has taken many
state and area press association
prizes for excellence.
has
Lincoln
the previous estimate of 40 low-
rent units was revealed Saturday
by members of the Levelland Hous-
ing Authority.
“I doubt if we get the 40 unite.
LEVELLAND TOOK nearly two
square mile growing spell the ot-
her evening when the city council
approved on final reading a new
annexation ordinance — boosting
city size to almost five square
miles.
Bv DALE JOHNSON
A 31 - YEAR - OLD Levelland
farmer, Glen A. Lucas, apparent-
ly died almost instantly about 10
a m. Monday, when the metal seed
chute of a tractor planter struck
him in the head as he was work-
ing under it.
Lucas, who had lived in the Lev-
elland area all his life was dead
when a doctor and ambulance ar-
rived at the scene, one and one
half miles northeast of Levelland.
Dr. John Dupre, who drove to
the scene after Mrs. Lucas called
said Lucas had a “severe com-
pound fracture of the skull and a
deep laceration of the brain.” The
metal corner of the chute struck
Lucas just above his left ear.
ONLY WITNESS to the accident
was the victim's 2*4 -year-old son,
Jeffrey, who ran crying to the
house 80 yards away to tell his
mother that something had hap-
pened to Lucas.
Mrs. Lucas went to the tractor,
near a bam east of the house,
and then returned to telephone Dr.
Dupre. The physician said Mrs.
Lucas told him the tool was still
on Lucas’ head, and he told her
to call nearby neighbors to raise it
as quickly as possible. The doc-
tor then called an ambulance and
left for the scene himself.
Dr. EXjpre said that Mrs. Lucas
told him she could still feel a
pulse when she first went to her
husband, but the doctor added that
he apparently lived only a short
time after the tool struck him.
NEIGHBORS theorized from the
position of the farmer that he ap-
parently was adjusting new plas-
tic seed tubes when the planter
dropped, allowing the metal portion
of the chute to hit him.
Lucas’ head was the only por-
tion of his body which was in-
jured. ' *
per
in -
will
THE HOCKLEY County demo-
era tc Executive Committee nam-
ed two new precinct chairmen and
authorized 141 election judges and
clerks for the May 7 primary in a
meeting Thursday night.
Then,
members, plus several
ty supporters of Sen.
Johnson for president,
bers. The workship is
session of the LBJ for President
Club at which members were urged
to participate actively in the pre-
cinct conventions in order to boost
the soion's candidacy.
L. SHERROD and David Stan-
ley were the two new precinct
chairmen named by the executive
committee. Sherrod was named to
head precinct 11 in place of E.
C. Payne, who resigned. Stanley
was chosen for the Precinct 13
post, replacing Bob Ford, who
hds moved from the precinct.
County Dons ChainosB LbWrb
. council are new faces.
R. S.(Bob) Reid and P. J. Mar-
com recently were re-elected to
their second terms. S. M. New-
berry and Wilson Cox are in their
first terms.
As city manager, Harper over-
seas ail activity carried on by
city employees. With him in the
administrative and general
partment are City Secretary L. E.
Mabe, Auditor Morris Hudson and
city Attorney Frank Kiser. Vir-
ginia Harrell is billing clerk, Ann
Hill is cashier and Judy Stephens
works in the tax department.
Water and sewer department
employees include Superintendent
Cyrus Humphries; C. B. Noon-
kester, foreman; T. J. Bell, in-
spector; Virgil Bryant and W. B.
Medford, serviceman; Lonnie Wil-
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Addition, the coun-
all property
the time of his death, bordering on
genius.
He considered himself a victim
of his rearing, of his childhood, of
his circumstances. And in the
home of any one of hundreds of
fine Levelland people, he might
have become an engineer, a doctor,
a lawyer or a minister — a son
that almost any parent would have
been glad to call his own.
But he was none of these.
oOo
Yet circumstances turned
him into one of the most re-
nowned prisoners of all times.
He will go down in history
along with such prisoners as
Paul, the apostle. Hitler, Marx.
Bunyan — if not with the de-
cent people — at least with
those behind bars who through
their own Ingenuity would like
to gain their release to live
a decent life, or to prey again
on the decent people of socie-
ty-
He was a nobody but his long
ordeal on death row made him
into a symbol which could
prove how more important —
through the possible eventual
elimination of capital punish-
ment — than many of us who
have never been to prison, nor
found guilty of vicious car-
age.
oOo
The prisoners of society. like
Chessman, have in a way been
more fortunate than many of us.
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ptoyee of a neighbor. Jack McMil-
lan and McMillan’s wife.
Other close - by farmers arriv-
ed at the Lucas house soon after-
wards also.
THE TRACTOR on which Lucas
^as working was a new model,
which he had purchased only re-
cently, according to neighbors. He j
had never made a crop with the
machine.
The plastic tubes which he ap- j
peared to be adjusting had been
purchased only Saturday.
SURVIVORS include his
Louise, the son, Jeffry, and an 11-
month-old daughter, Rebecca Lynn.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Q.
Lucas, live on route 5, near Fair-
view. A brother, Tom, lives
Lindsey, Okla.
The South Plains College chap-
the group which
Daniel to Level-
and
the
DONATIONS In the Hockley
County portion of the Cancer Cru-
sade are lagging far behind sched-
ule with only >1,100 of the $3,650
quota reported to date.
County Chairmen Eddie Crawley
said Tuesday morning that several
collections made in the general bus-
iness portion of the drive one week
ago have not yet been turnd in,
iness portion of the drive one week
house collections have been made.
In addition, the figure does not
include money raised in county
towns. Crawley said results of
drives in Anton, Pettit, Pep, Smy-
er, Sundown and Ropesville prob-
ably will not be known for at
another week.
ONLY ONE portion of the
Crusade has been completed,
is the fund -‘raising effort among
professional people in Levelland.
Crawley said approximately $250
was contributed in that portion of
the drive.
Meanwhile, "several” of the 24
workers in the general business
drive which was started last
Tuesday have not yet turned In the
money they collected, Crawley add
ed. He said these people would
be contacted Tuesday, and asked
to turn in what they have so that
the money might be included in
county totals.
THE HOURE-to house portion
of the Crusade, expected to bring
in about $1,000 in contributions, is
slated to gain’ momentum Tues-
day night when several Levelland
women conduct the opening phase
of the effort.
The residential drive originally
was slated to begin a week ago,
but late afternoon rains caused
postponement of the march.
The residential collection also
has been hampered by lack of vol-
unteer workers to aid in making
the house - to - house c
GOV. PRICE DANIEL, who ded-
icated South Plains College here
in November of 1958, will come
back to Levelland next month af-
ter the heat of the current politi-
cal campaign is over — and re-
gardless of the outcome.
The governor will be installation
speaker tor the South Plains Col-
lege Circle K Club - - recently hon-
ored at Nacogdoches during a two-
state convention, as the beat jun-
ior college club in the Texas-Okla-
homa district of Circle K Interna-
LIKEB ROLL-YOUR-OWNB
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Dr. Elmer
McCann, Jim St. Clair and Z. O.
Lincoln also were named as a spe-
cial board to canvass absentee bal-
lots in the primary.
Election judges in the primary
will be precinct chairmen, except
in one instance. In Precinct 22 in
Levelland, Harold Roberts
been named by Chairman
as presiding judge.
PRECINCT conventions
County will be staged at
May 7 at each precinct
place. Each precinct will chose
delegates to the county conven-
tion, which is slated at 10 p.m.,
May 14 in the district courtroom.
McCann pointed out that partici-
pants in the precinct convention
must have voted in the primary.
He said the election code requires
that each convention participant
present a poll tax receipt or ex-
emptton certificate marked De
mocrsL”
I-EVEJJ.AND TOOK a vaulting
jump in total land area Monday
night when the eity council ap-
proved on second and final read-
ing and annexation ordinance in-
creasing the city limits by al-
most two square miles.
The council took the action at a
regular session in which arrange-
ments were made to sell the re-
maining $25,000 of a total issue
cf $100,000 in paving bonds voted
by the city in 1958.
The council felt it would need
only around $12,000 for proposed
paving of a through street in Lev-
elland cemetery and seal coats
for park street and some 49!4
blocks of other city paving.
BUT BECAUSE OF costs invol-
ved. and the possibility of new
paving applications this summer,
councilmen decided to sell all the
bonds rather than just the $15,000,
which had been previously dis -
cussed.
Money not needed this year will
be placed on deposit at level-
land Savings and Loan at 4
cent interest — about the
terest rate which the bonds
be drawing.
Bond representative Claude Shel-
ton of Tulia made arrangements
to take a 10-day option on the
bonds, before their purchase. He
said total costs to the city would
run about $1,937.50 — boosting the
overall interest cost to about 4.05
per cent, resulting from an in-
crease in interest rates since the
bonds were originally issued, with
3*4 per cent coupons.
COUNdLMEN FIRMLY reject-
ed a final bid by one Levelland
resident to alter the annexation
program, leaving out a portion of
his property, in exchange for an-
other property of the same size.
Earl Allison appeared before the
council to suggest simply that his
client, Dr. C. M. Phillips, would
be willing to pay the .costs of a
new ordinance if this would be an
item of consideration in making
the proposed change.
Councilmen expressed the opin-
ion that any change would wreck
the entire program, and bring on
a flurry of requests with which
they could not deal satisfactorily.
IN IT'S ORDINANCE, the coun-
cil increased the size of the city
by an estimated 1,160 acres — far
below initial recommendations of
the City Planning Commission,
which would have more than doubl-
ed the size of the city.
The city prior to the annexa-
tion had about three square miles
of area. The new annexation lacks
only about 120 acres pushing the
overall area to five square miles.
Annexations to the east and
north of the city reach out about
a quarter of a mile, but consid-
erably farther than this to the
south, where they take in the new
Country Club
try club and
north of it.
Councilmen,
ance, reached
VFW on the west side of the city
park, business along State High-
way
and
Paul
ally,
not as extensive as in other areas.
Additional annexations are anti-
cipated within the near future. At
least some 44 acres east of the
Colonial Heights subdivision will
come into the city as a new de-
velopment of Harpole * Hill, and
there is a possibility of other an-
nexations in the area of any new
school the people might vote, de-
pending on the location selected.
In cutting back on the original
annexation proposals, councilmen
said they felt they had done a-
way with the possibility of any
difficulties which could grow
LEVELLAND MAY qualify for
only one - half as many low-rent
public housing units as were in<U-
cated in previous estimates after a
government survey of sub - Mans-
ard housing in the city last week.
Such a development could ecu*
iously hamper continuation of ef-
forts for a public housing paofoet
here.
most of the committee
other coun-
Lyndon B.
attended a
being spon-
any woman who would volunteer to «
work in the drive contact Mrs. J. i=-
G. Stacy, chairman of that divi-
sion. m
ter of Circle K,
has invited Gov.
land next month
acceptance, is in
business.
If your closets
with hangers as a result of taking
home two or three years of dry
cleaning without a systematic han-
ger elimination, they’d like to
lieve you of your problem —
joke.
Jesse Hofacket called this
partment Monday night to say that
Circle K members will pick up
your old hangers if you'll call
Gary Stacy from 1 to 6 p.m. each
day at Telephone 4-4137. Stacy is
president of Circle K.
The live - wire young club mem-
bers will sell the hangers in one
of their money - making projects.
oOo
In case you’re going to be
out of tow n Saturday and have-
n’t voted absentee in the of-
fice of County Clerk Grace
Clingan, then you’ve
friend. Somebody besides you
will pick local officers, a
state representative and deter-
mine who’ll go into the gover-
nor’s office. Absentee voting
closed Friday.
oOo
Some thoughts on the execution
of Carly Chessman:
Attempted rapist, thug, burglar,
robber Carl Chessman, possessed
with a brilliant mind, shouldn’t be
pitied. He died in something of a
blaze of glory, considering the
circumstances, his crimes virtually
forgotten — and forgiven by much
of the world he so readily abused
— although the legal structure of
society didn’t forgive.
Twelve years in prison enabled
Chessman to become an individual
least
The number of people employed
by the city, or associated in some
way with city government funct-
ions has been increasing, too —
but more gradually, in keeping
with the rate with which city
vices have increased.
A NEW DIRECTORY of
officials and employees shows
as of April 15, 1960, there are a
total of 70 persons employed by
the city or with titles in various
departments. This compares with
a total of 60 listed in the official
directory of June 20, 1957.
These personnel range from the
city health officer, Dr. Raymond
Reid, who contributes his services
without pay, to City Manager Ken-
neth Harper, who is highest-sala-
ried man on the city payroll.
In addition to this, Levelland
currently has a total of 37 differ-
ent public-spirited citizens serv-
ing without pay on 10 committees,
boards and commissions which
help direct the course of city af-
fairs.
This means more than a hund-
red people are currently active in
city government or services in
one way or another, ranging in
duties from the man who empties
your garbage barrel to a busi-
nessman who may make policy
recommendations.
MAJOR INCREASES have come
in the sanitation department
which increased from 10 to 15 em-
ployees, and ■ the city police de-
partment, which is up from 12 to
17 employees. Other departments
have had gains or losses which
balance off their differences with
total employees three years ago.
Changing the police department
from a two to a three shift oper-
ation was responsible for the
change there, while the sanitation
department has added ax addit-
ional garbage truck since 19W.
HEADING THE entire eity op-
elland Toaetmasters elub at a
ladles night dinner. Other new
officers of the club include Dr.
G. D. Lindsey, Sgt. at Arms}
George Harkrider, secretary;
J. B. Sharp, administrative
vice president, and O. R. Wat.
kins treasurer. McCabe, a
tong.time member of toe local
club, lives in Levelland. A re-
gular program was conducted
by toe club prior to the Instal-
lation by retiring president W.
H. (Bill) Wadlington.
that the city might qualify lor <xdy
20 units.
.However, Tipton pointed out that
the local housing authority “wcsi’t
know anything” definite until com-
pilation of survey results are »•-
ceived here in about two weeks.
Tipton said a group of govern-
ment economists will check the
survey report to determine how
many housing units are needed.
Then, a figure will be given to Bis
local housing group.
After the report is returned to
the Levelland group, they wiH de-
cide what steps will be taken.
PRELIMINARY loan funds have
been set aside for construction of
the Levelland unite, says Tipton,
but if the survey shows a need
for less than 50 units, the city
must underwrite the project. How-
ever, if 50 or more units should
be necessary, the project becomes
self - supporting with its own
administrator.
The units would be financed by
the sale of bonds, which would
be guaranteed by the government.
IA8T WEEK'S four - day sur-
vey was the first one conducted
here by the government. Prevtoua-
ly a city - financed survey to de-
termine If the Levelland Housing
Authority wanted to enter into the
program was conducted by Rev.
E. L. Rios. _____
re-
no
conducted the government survey
under the direction - of Harvey
Crowell of Fort Worth, a Publie
Housing Administration official.
The group — including L. Oi '
Griffin, Maureen
M^gk, Jack Murphy.
AREA SENIOR GIRLS VISIT COLLEGE CAMPUS
Senior girls from area high schools Sunday visited South from the group are shown here as they were served.
Plains College campus, where they attended a special From left are Linda Jones of Ropesville; Judy Payne of
tea for them staged by the local chapter of The Ameri- faevuitand^ Ann Hunt, qf Whiteface, Gayle Couch of An-
can Association of University Women. Representatives ton and Rebecca Brown of Sundown. (Staff Photo)
Exact date which the governor
will visit the city hasn't been de-
termined. He gave young Level-
land Circle K Leaden the assur-
ance that ne’d select a date be
tween May 7 and 20 in- which he
would work the installation appear-
ance into his busy schedule.
CIRCLE K President Gary Stacy
and Kenney Evans were interested
in obtaining the most outstanding
speaker possible, and contacted
Publisher Forrest Weimhold, a
staunch Daniel supporter and coun-
ty campaign chairman for the gov-
ernor when he was re-elected two
years ago, about the possibility of
securing Daniel.
Dr. Thomas M. Spencer, presi-
dent of South Rains College, had
suggested that be might come
Royal bridegroom
won't pay preacher
LONDON (AP)—The bridegroom
won’t pay the preacher Friday
when Princess Margaret marries
Antony Armstrong-Jones.
The ceremony will be performed
by the Most Rev. Geoffrey Fisher,
archbishop of canterbury and Ang-
lican primate of all England. An
official at the Church of England
offices told an inquiring reporter:
“You can say that the question
of a fee has not been raised—and
you can be sure that the arch-
bishop wil! not be paid.”
Working force
of city grows
$1,100 REPORTED
Donations
Gov. Daniel secured
for Circle K dinner
Hockley Demos set
stage for primary
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