The Hockley County Herald (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 3, 1947 Page: 1 of 20
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—Feature*
Thursday, April 3, 1947
SECTION ONE
Five Cents A Copy
Number 38
1
For School Vote
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Levelland To
o
Refiners To
1st Places In
Mexico
District Meet
large number
Local Churches Plan For Easter
VICTIMS OF NAZI RULE
To Make
First
Houston sti
death
a
Suggestions
For Hockleg
Plant Arrive
PHOTOS MADE AT
LIVESTOCK SHOW
NOW AVAILABLE
—Advertising
—Circulation
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Students Win
Polish Couple
Residence In
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•The Hockley County Herald
Coven Its Whole Field As Well
As It Could Be Done By Two
Or More Papet* And Adver-
tisers Pay But One Bill."
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EASTER HOLIDAYS
fjlen Mears, a graduate of Lev-
Jfland High school, a student in
Texas A. & M. College at College
Station is here spending the
Easter Holidays with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mears.
MAYOR —Ray Watson,
mayor
nominee
As-
ap-
Three Levelland students took
first place, one second place and
one third place in oratorical con-
tests in District 4 in Andrews
Saturday, G. C. Clapp high school
principal announced.
John Morton, extemporaneous
speaker; Patsy Stallworth, se-
nior girl declaimer, and Fete
Morris, senior boy declaimer,
took first place honors in the
sixteen-school district.
Gwen Harrison took second in
the senior girls’ declaiming di-
vision and Joyce Berneice Black
burn won third in the junior
girls’ division.
Marjorie Jo Luck and Jimmie
Wynn, Levelland debate team, did
not compete in the district as
they were automatically crowned
district champions as no ather
(Contiunued on Page 4)
is the pastor of the church, and:
Rev. D. C. Hamilton is the as-
sistant pastor.
Regular services will be held
in Levelland’s two Churches of
Christ. At the Austin Street
Church of Christ, services wf’.ll
begin at 10 a. m., and S>. A..
Ribble, Muleshoe, currently ’cas-
ing a revival here will hold his
final meeting of the meeting at
3 p. m. Ernest E. West is the
regular minister. Services at the-
Fifth Street Church ol Christ
will begin at 10:30 a. m. with
Cline Nall officiating.
Easter services at the United
Pentecostal Church will begin ar
11 a. m. Sunday with E. M. Staf -
ford, pastor, in charge. The
evening evangelistic services will
begin at 7:30 p. m.
Rev. R, J. Huebner of Lamesa.
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Volume No. 22
PTA Officers To
Be Elected At
Thursday Meeting
Officers of the Parent-Teach-
ers Association will be elected
for the 1947-48 fiscal year at
3:00 o’clock Thursday afternoon,
April 10 in the Junior High au-
ditorium.
A large crowd is expected and
the program will be given by the
Girl Scouts and the Brownie
troops in the Ward Elementary
school. —
A “United Nations” theme will
be carried out through various
songs and folk dances.
Miss Betty Jo Crisler of Lub-
bock, Girl Scout field director foi
the area, will also appear on the
program.
Parent-Teachers District con
ference will be held April 17 and
18 in Ralls and plans are to
send representatives from Level
land.
ciating. The church’s member-
ship will adjourn to the Buck-
horn Cafe for a breakfast and
special Easter music and Easter
messages. The regular service
will be held at the church at 11
a. m. with Rev. Morris preach
ing on “The Risen Christ."
Burton Riddle, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church, will
begin that church’s Easter obser
vance at 8 p. m. Friday with
communion services. At 11 a. m.
Sunday the recently formed ju-
nior choir will make their first
public appearance by singing
two Easter songs. Rev. Riddle’s
special Easter sermon will be
“The Ever-Living Keeper of the
Keys.”.
The senior young people of the
Fifth Street Baptist Church will
present Easter songs, readings
and a pageant at 7:30 p. m. Sun-
day for that church’s Easter pro
gram. Rev. J. H. Hallford, pas-
tor of the church, will preach
on “The Resurrection.”
At the First Baptist Church
special Easter music will be
presented by the Church’s choir.
Also, the occasion will mark a
special Sunday school drive in
which an attendance of <0J Sun-
day school members will be th:
goal. Rev. Franklin E. S vant .
Plag Lamesa
Sundag 2:30
Manager Roscoe Jarman and
his Levelland Refiners will move
into the home of the West Texas-
New Mexico Lamesa Lobos Sun-
day.for a 2:30 o’clock exhibition
game. »•
1 Last year, the Refiners won
over the Lobos here in ten inn-
1 ings, 11 to 10 and after the sea-
son Levelland dropped a 2 to 1
game in 12 innings to the Class
* V
Jim Reiger will be back at
short stop and Ken Balch will
hold down the hot corner spot.
G. I. Jones, who plays almost
any spot on the diamond. New-
som or even Rieger may catch.
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Two school board elec-
tions are schedule for Sat-
urday in the Levelland Ju-
nior High School building.
One election will be for the
selection of board of trustee
members for the Levelland Con-
solidated Independent School Dis-
trict and the other will be for
board members to the County
School Board.
John Blair has withdrawn his
name from the ballots of the
Levelland school district election.
Blair’s action will leave only ten
men on the ballot.
Possibilities of a few write-in
candidates was brought to light
this morning as a group of citi-
zens began a movement urging
that the names of J. Pressley
Shofner and Earl W. Garrison be
“written-in” by voters in the Lev-
elland Consolidated School Dis-
trict trustee election Saturday.
In order of their appearance
on the ballot, candidates for the
Levelland school election are W.
A. Magers, Percy Cole, Gordon
McMillan, Edgar Brasch, John V.
Morton, C. E. Birdwell, George
W. Moore, Ernest Stewart, Paul
Atchison and Joe Tunnell.
Seven will be chosen to serve
as board members. The last sev-
en on the ballots are present
members of the board.
Blair’s resignation from the
ballot is the fourth since the
election machinery has begun
turning for the Levelland school
district. Others previously drop-
ping their names as candidates
.are F. B. Farmer, Will Beakley
and Tom Finley.
County School Election
In the county school board elec-
tion no candidates have filed for
ballot positions other than the
current members of county school
board, according to County Su-
perintendent T. O. Petty.
Those present members oftfie
county school board are E. M.
Barnes, Levelland, ‘ member-at-
large; J. W. Berry of Ropesville,
A. J. Richards of Sundown, Her-
man Greener of Pep and George
Broome of Anton.
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Get New
Milk Plant
I Construction work on a $15,000
I grade A milk pasteurization
I plant was begun Monday in Lev-
fl elland, according to Vernon Shof-
I ner, local dairyman who will own
I and operate the new firm.
I ^h°fner declared that farmers
I vWR) wished to become his pro-
fl ducers by building up their herds
I and equipment to grade A stand-
fl ards should contact him for tht
fl purpose of making financial ar-
■ rangements on such work.
I Operation of the plant will be
■ within 60 to 90 days and will be
I the only Levelland grade A pas-
fl teurization plant. Location of
I the firm will be behind the Mod-
fl Food Store on east Houston
I {Meet. The establishment will
I be housed by a one-story 34 by
I 50 foot tile building.
I Future products to be handled
I by the new pasteurization plant
I will include churned buttermilk
I and cheese products, Shofner
said. To be used by the plant
I will be square milk bottles with
aluminum caps.
^gtate and federal officials have
^proved the firm’s building and
the public will be welcome to
inspect the layout at anytime
during working hours, according
to Shofner .
Shofner said that equipment
will have to be purchased out-
right by himself because the set-
up will be entirely new. Also, he
P said, the plant will be the most
modem of its type within a ra-
<4*s of 500 miles of Levelland.
^ The firm name for the plant
will be Vernon’s Dairy Foods.
Shofner, Levelland resident for
21 years, currently owns a dairy
farm four miles north of Lev-
elland. He entered the dairy
business with his father, J. P.
Shofner, in 1936. That firm was
sold to Luke Pearcy in 1937.
Shofner has had other busi-
nesses in Levelland, including a
jflhn machinery business, a ser-
vice station, and a brake and axel
service.
Levelland Debaters
Win Easily Over
Brownfield Girls
Marjorie Jo Luck and Jimmie
Wynn, district chamnion debat-
ers of 4-A, defeated thn girls'
debate, team In Brownfield, 3 to
0, or a complete decision. Wed-
nesday afternoon, Mrs. Horace
Blackburn, debate director said.
.The Brownfield girls are in
District 1-AA. They will return
the debate match here next week.
Levelland’s school district
scholastics will probably total
around 1,950, according to school
officials who have been work-
ing on a scholastic census.
This will net the district $107,-
250 in state money next year, a
figue based on a per capita
payment of $55 which the state
legislature passed Wednesday.
The scholastic census of the
district is currently 1,857, which
allows the district $64,995 under
the old per capita arrangement.
Parents or guardians of child-
ren bom on or after September
1, 1929 or before September 1,
1941 are asked by school au-
thorities to call 520-W if the
children have not been enumer-
ated in the school census.
Such action will aid the dis-
trict in state aid even though
the children falling within the
1929 group have finished school,
enrolled in college, or have mar-
ried.
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COLORED CHICKS
COME INTO CITY
Levelland has seen everything
now. The latest oddity to show
up in the town are colored
chicks, which three local mer-
Afcnts have brought in for the
Easter Season.
The tiny white leghorn chicks
are a spectacle of blue, green,
purple, orange and pink colors.
They may be seen at the Clyde
Brown Tire Company, the Hugh
Davis Grocery or Turrentine’s
Hatchery.
Tuesday, April 15, will be the
deadline for Hockley residents to
submit suggestions in connec-
tion with the naming of an of-
ficial flower for the county, ac-
cording to Mrs. Forrest Weim-
hold, chairman of a tri-club com-
mittee which will consider all
suggestions before naming a
flower.
All suggestions may be mailed
to members of the committee
and the flower chosen will be
one which has received the most
nominations, Mrs. Weimhold
said. Nominations may be mailed
to any of the committee mem-
bers, which include Mrs. Weim-
hold, Mrs. Clarence Knick Jr.
and Mrs. Jack Morton. Mrs.
Weimhold represents the Level-
land Garden Club, Mrs. Knick
represents the Junior Garden
Olub and Mrs. Morton is a mem-
ber of the Rose Garden Club.
Several floral nominations al-
ready have been received by the
committee.
dence In Levelland
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did Mrs. Rosen’s two sisters and
little brother. Mr. Houstman’s
father was later killed by the
Nazis during their invasion of
Russia.
Mrs. Rosen’s identity was later
discovered by the Nazis and she
was interned in two concentration
camps before the Americans
freed her in Berlin.
Mr. Rosen’s father died in the
ill-famed Ghetto in 1941, and his
mother, Sister and three broth-
ers were victims of a Nazi gas
chamber. He has one brother
remaining who now lives in Po-
land.
To appear later in The Herald
will be a feature story based
on the Rosens experiences under
Nazi domination, and their im-
pressions of America and Level-
land.
will have charge of St. Paul’s
Lutheran Church’s Easter sen-
vices, which will begin at 3:-CT
p. m.
Sunday’s services for the Arfc
sembly of God Church will b’
under the direction of Rev. IT.
L. Newby and will b-gin at IF
a. m. with the mornlrg worship.
The evangelistic services will b< -
gin at 7:15 p. m., and three o'her
services of the church will bo
held ‘hroughout the day.
Charter Proposal Given
OK—State May KO Plan
Levelland’s Citizen’s Charter Association emerged
victorious in Tuesday’^ municipal election when qualified
voters of the town approved their three candidates by a
substantial margin.
Ray Watson is Levelland’s new mayor—a job assigned
to him by virtue of 361 votes. Currently, Watson is on a
hunting trek in Old Mexico.
The two new city commissioners are Homer Johnson
and Kenneth Harper. Johnson received 206 votes and
Harper received 217. Other votes cast were 159 for Perry-
Smith, 113 for J. L. Smallwood,
and 25 for Jack Thomman. Wat-
son was the only candidate for
Mayor.
In all, a total of 375 votes was
cast. G. H. Tubb was the election
judge.
Also approved by Levelland’s
qualified voters by 291r84 was a
proposal to change the city’s
form of government over to a
charter system. However, the
state legislature has been consid-
ering a constitutional amendment
which would outlaw this system
of municipal government and
Levelland will have to do without
a charter government if the pro-
posed state constitutional amend-
ment goes through.
Another “if” in connection with
the city charter association per-
tains to Watson, the new mayor.
Watson, at the organization
meeting of the charter associa-
tion, advised the group that he
would run for the office of mayor
on the condition of serving four
or five months in the office un-
til the charter form of govern-
ment was set. up.
Ordinarily two more elections
on the charter question would
come up for Levelland’s voters.
One would be to select a 15-man
commission to draft the proposed
charter, and the second election
would be on the contents of the
charter itself.
In short, Levelland’s proposed
charter form of government
now hinges on the action of the
state legislature.
Such questions will face the
new mayor and commissioners
when they take office. Monday
was scheduled to be the first
meeting of the new government
officials, but advice from City-
Hall indicates that the new mu-
nicipal officers will not meet un-
til Watson returns from his hunt-
ing trip in Old Mexico.
Mrs: Watson yesterday told
The Herald fhat she did not know
exactly when Watson would re-
turn, although it would probably
be soon.
In each instance, all three1 can-
didates nominated by the Cit^
izen’s Charter Association asked
that their names be withdrawn
as candidates for the municipal
offices. It was only after sev-
eral hours of con\ ..rsation with
the association that the three
men agreed to run for the offices.
Mr. and Mrs. Izek Rosen, na-
tives of Poland, arrived Satur-
day in Levelland where they will
make their permanent home with
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Houstman.
Mrs. Rosen is a niece*of Mr.
Ifoustman.
• Hie couple, both victims of
Nazi oppression, arrived in the
United State* on March 14. Both
, are seeking to become American
citizens and to learn America's
particular brand of English. Mr.
Rosen will work in Mr. Houst-
man’s clothing store in Level-
land.
Mrs. Rosen escaped death by
the Nazis when her grandmother
gfl^e the family possessions to
a Polish couple to pose as the
girl’s parents. The old lady, Mr.
Hous/man’s mother, later met
Nazi gas chamber, as
We Than 1,000
Take X-Ray Test
Four .'lundrad- and twenty-six
students m the Levelland schools
and six hundred and seven stu-
dents from other schools over
the county took the X-ray Tu-
bercular tape tests here.
There were one hundred and
four positive reactiqns, Mrs.
Bushyhead said.
In addition, a
of foodhandlers including cooks,
waitresses, waiters, and some
managers were X-rayed without
the tubercular test, Mrs. Bushy-
head continued.
Foodhandlers of the firms who
took the test were the dairies,
Buck Horn Cafe, Mamie’s Cafe,
Polka Dot Cafe, Mrs. Petty’s
Cafe, Cleveland’s Cafe, Epper-
son’s Cafe.
Club Cafe, the East Loop
Drive-In, McCall-Parsons, Up-
shaw Drug and the entire staff
of the school cafeteria.
JlocJd&y County. Jletudd,
SERVING LEVELLAND AND HOCKLEY COUNTY FOR TWENTY-ONE YEARS
LEVELLAND, Hockley County, TEXAS
ratucdLy ls!wal slIi May CCA Candidates Are Elected
Be $107,256 p0|0 Match Ready For
Sunday Match At Arena
Only three days remain before
the first indoor polo will be
played in West Texas at the Lev-
elland Rodeo Arena.
Beginning Sunday at 2:30 p.
m., at the arena, two three man
teams made up of men who have
played in international play will
begin the area’s first indoor polo
match.
In all, nine international polo
players and 40 well trained polo
ponies will be in Levelland for
the event. The Levelland rodeo
association is sponsoring the
match and will turn proceeds
over to the Levelland High School
band for the purpose of purchas-
ing equipment, according to W.
J. Robinson, president of the as-
sociation.
Elsewhere in this issue of The
Herald is a feature story which
attempts to explain the princi-
ples of the game.
Admission to the event will be
$1 for adults and 50 cents for
children. Tickets may be pur-
chased from members of Level-
land High School’s band or at
the ticket office of the arena on
the day of the game.
Tom Mather, Morton, will be
captain of one team, and Charlie
Smith, Lubbock, will be the sec-
ond captain.
Mather has been in interna-
tional play and is a member of
a committee which chooses ^play-
ers to represent the United
States in international games.
Smith’s goal rating is 5 goals,
which means that he has to spot
his opponents 5 points before
the beginning of a match.
The difference between indoor
and regular polo is essentially
in the size of the teams playing
and the diameter of the ball used.
Indoor pclo is played with a
larger ball than is used in reg-
ular polo, and there are three
men on an indoor team. Four
men comprize the regular polo
team.
Other players, and their rat-
ings, to be in Levelland Sunday
are Bobby Wiley, 8; Gene Lins-
comb, 9; Harry Evenger, 7; Bill
Barry, 5; Roy Barry, 6; Stanley
Taylor and John Mather.
Taylor will come from Long
Island, New York, for the match.
He often visits the West Texas
area for the purpose of training
polo ponies.
John Mather is Tom Mather's
son and has been playing polo
most of his life. Tom Mather
owns a ranch at Morton which
he is using to train 30 head of
polo ponies. Mather also is train-
Ing seven ponies at San Antanlo
which will be used in a coming
jaine with Mexico.
bounty Is Short
Ji ARC Quota
A total of $3,295 of the Hockley
County American Red Cross
quota of $4,500 had been raised
at 11:00 o’clock today, according
to Fred C. Chandler, county
drive chairman.
Every population center in the
county has reported with the ex-
ception of Anton, Ropesville and
Hodges, said Chairman Chandler.
Sundown, which has already
raised more than $400, plans to
continue toward their quota of
$1,000.
In Levelland, the service sta-
tions and the doctors have not
reported.
The drive will continue until
the quota is raised and Mr.
Chandler is urging citizens to
turn their reports in at once.
C West Texas-New
League entry.
George Sturdivant, who oper-
ates a farm in the Lamesa trade
area, is back as manager and
first baseman of the Lobos, led
the league last year with batting
average of over 400, when he was
hit by a pitched ball.
He was on the bench as man-
ager several weeks and returned
to his old stand at the initial
sack during the latter stages of
the season, but was still play
shy.
I. B. Palmer, the "Arkansas
Traveler" and infielder and one
of the most colorful players in
the league, will probably break
into the Lamesa infield lineup.
Two Levelland outfielders,
Manager Jarman and Bob Hillin
are both former Lamesa fly-
catchers, while on the other
hand, Billy Jones, southpaw
twirler, who was one of the aces
of the Levelland mound staff last
year, may pitch for Lamesa
Sunday.
Another lefthander who tossed
them over for the Refiners last
season was L. T. Jones a brother
of Billy, who may see some ac-
tion for the Lobos.
Another star in the Lamesa
lineup will be Pepper Martin, an
outfielder, who was with the
Lobos last year.
Business Manager Rufus
Bushyhead stated Wednesday af-
ternoon that either Dale Peden,
youthful lefthander of Clarence
Waters, another youngster who
pitches from the right side, will
start for Levelland.
To round out the Levelland
outfield will be Boyd Watkins,
former Hubber outer gardener.
Ray Newsom, infielder of the
Refiners last season is going to
make the trip with the Refiners.
A Texas A. & M. student, he is
here for the Easter holidays.
Photo* of the Junior Fat
Stock Show held In Levelland
on March 22 were made by the
South Plains Studio In Level-
land. Numerous requests for
copies of the pictures have
come into The Herald.
Persons seeking copies of the
prints may obtain them from
the South Plains Studio on
target.
Special Easter themes will
guide most of Levelland’s 11
churches Sunday as the Chris-
tian civilization pauses to com-
memorate the rising of Christ.
Rev. Father Higgins, Catholic
priest from Littlefield, will of-
ficiate at the Easter mass for
Levelland’s Catholics in services
to be held at 9:00 a. m. in the
Legion Hall.
Levelland’s First Methodist
Church will begin its Easter ob-
servance with a sunrise breakfast
for the church’s young people in
the church. The first morning
worship will be at 9 a. m. and
will be followed by an Easter
worship service at 11 a. m. Rev.
Sam Thomas, pastor of the
church, will preach on “The Sig-
nificance of Easter” at the 9
a. m. service, and the 11 a. m.
sermon topic will be "Doctrine
of the Resurrection." The even-
ing services will begin at 8 p. m.
and will feature an Easter can-
tata, "Memories of Easter Mom,”
which will be presented by the
church’s choir under the direc-
tion of Edgar Brasch. For the
younger children of the church
an Easter egg hunt will be held
during the day.
A sunrise service will be hold
at the Foursquare Gospel Church
with Rev. E'vls E. Morris off!-
NEW
the only candidate for
of Levelland and a
of the Citizens’ Charter
sociation, Tuesday was
proved for that office by 361
votes. Two other charter as-
s’n. nominees, Homer John-
son and Kenneth Harper, were
voted in as the town's new
city commissioners.
■ -ft;
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