The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 15, 1952 Page: 12 of 16
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THJK SEMINOLE SENTINEL
THURSDAY. MAY U, 1962
The Hired Hand
First Odessa and Big Spring, J
now Lubbock has reached out toj
a nearby county with an idea to
drilling water wells for future
need.
The former two cities, along
with Colorado City and Snyder,
entered into development of a
water supply well network in
Martin County, and the construc-
tion of a dam across the Colorado
River.
The reservoir won't be filled
for several years, perhaps, so
the cities will take water from
the Martin CoCuaty wells in the
the Martin County wells in the
ests have fought the right of
the water district to drill the
wells, but lost out in a court
battle.
Now the good people of Bailey
and Lamb counties are up in the
air because the city of Lubbock
Is making eyes at water under-
lying the tongue of sand hills
which extend across the north
halves of the two counties.
At this writing an option on
water rights to 50 sections, in
northwest central Bailey County,
has been secured for the city.
Under the existing water law
of the state, cities have first pri-
ority to water anywhere. A city
can condemn water wherever it
wants, and take it after paying
the surface owner a fair price.
The city can condemn the wa-
ter rights even if the owner is
using the water for irrigation.
Second priority goes for agri-
cultural and stock uses, and
third for industrial purposes.
The sand hills area in the two
counties is thought to contain an
Inexhaustible water supply, and
since its sand dune topography
probably precludes cultivation, it
is not a matter of robbinp irri-
gated fields of their water. Of
course heavy municipal pumping
in the sand hill area might lower
water levels under adjacent cul-
tivated land.
Suppose Odessa had reached
north into Gaines County, instead
of east into Martin County, for
water supplies. We naturally
would object, as removal of the
water to Odessa for domestic and
industrial use there would pre-
vent that water ever being used
for agricultural, industrial or
municipal development here.
Although some benefit would
bo gained through personnel and
expenditures necessary to devel-
op and maintain the water sys-
tem. the benefits would be neg-
ligible compared with what ihey
could be if the water were used
for irrigation of crop lnnd or to
supply an industry located here.
The same line of reasoning can
be used concerning shipment of
Texas crude oil and natural gas
! outside the state for refining and
j industrial use. The state gets
some benefit through production
j of the crude and gas, and the
I taxes thereon, but this amount
is only a drop in the bucket com
j pared to the payroll which the
j state would add, and the taxable
value which would be added, if
j all the crude were refined in Tex-
as. and the industrial plants us-
as were set up in the
Neighboring Press
.JOHNNY STEWART makes
his film debut In Columbia's
"Boot* Malone," starring Wil-
liam Holden al the Chief The-
atre Sunday.
Baccalaureate exercises for 21
graduates of the 1952 class of
Seagraves High School are sched-
uled for Sunday night at the high
school auditorium. Doyle Ragle,
of the Bible department of Mc-
Murry College, will be the speak-
er. Commencement exercises will
be held May 22. Arthur B. Wat-
kins, personnel manager at Dun-
laps in Lubbock, will" be the
speaker.—Gaines County News.
Down in Gaines County
the other day a grand jury
no-billed a mail who admit-
ted shooting another and no-
billed the man who got shot
and who was charged with
rape.
Maybe Gaines grand jurys
are getting fed up with in-
dicting men for rape, mur-
der, drunk driving, etc., and
then having district Juries
turn them loose. It Is a well-
known fact that In so-called
dry Gaines County a Jury
cant be found which will
convict a man for drunk
driving. They have turned
them all loose.
As for rape cases. Juries
down there Just can't seem
to see any harm in a little
forced fornication. They turn
them loose, too. — Denver
City Press.
Kindness shown by people of j
the cyity of Slaton to 14-year-old
Norman Brown, wiio was maim-
ed in an April 14 railroad yard
accident, has elicited more than
a dozzen letters of thanks from
California and other states and
ha% attracted considerable* pub-
licity in Los Angeles newspapers,
—Slaton Slatonite.
Bonds calling for $265,000 in
water and sewer Improvements
were authorized by a wide major-
ity by city voters last Saturday.
—Andrews County News.
The swimming pools at Den-
ver City and Plains will be op-
ened around May 26, with school-
age children being given sum-
mer passes to both pool facili-
ties.—Denver City Press.
A whiskey well which was put
out of operation about a month
ago was found in use again by
liquor control board agents in a
raid on a house in east Levelland
last week. Six electrically - con-
trolled push buttons around the
house were capable of tripping
the flooring in the well and drop-
ping the whiskey to the bottom.
The load hAd been dumped,
agents found.—Hockley County
Herald.
D. E. Doan of Oklahoma,
charged in a DWI case, was fined
$224.45, while another Negro,
Warner Yager, was fined $425.55
on a liquor case.—Crosbyton Re-
view.
J. O. Gillham, Brownfield
banker, is unopposed in his cam-
paign for representative from
the 98th legislative district fol-
lowing the withdrawal of Forrest
Weimhold, Levelland publisher.
The district includes Cochran, -
Hockley, Terry and Yoakum*'/
counties—Terry County Herald.
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An unusually lar(« cotton crop
near Edinburg, Texas, this year
brought beatilie* clad in swim suits
to the fields to help relieve the
j labor shortage. While brunette Bet-
'tjr Zanc Lane, a local beauty, helps
father the fluffy white cotton
j fiber, she acquires a glamorous sun
! tab to boot.
L. Lovelady, candidate
state legislature from
j the district involved in the Lub-
| bock water development, brands
j the move as a steal.
■ To what extent, if any, poll-
j tics entered into this statement
I (Lubbock iii not in his districti
t we don't know, but we know
i there is some justification for
j Lubbock's search for water. A
I city of 100,000 which is still
I growing must have water and
the present supplies near the
city will not forever supply the
city's wants.
The long - awaited Canadian
River project couid provide a
more lasting answer. A cheap
method of distillation of sea wa-
ter, and cheap power which
would make it economically prac-
tical to pump the water from the
Gulf of Mexico will be the even-
tual solution to the problem—if
the atom bomb doesn't get all of
us first.
Foods and Nutrition 8[*'<ialist*
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-1 hard cooked eggs
'i cup peanut butter
'4 cup mayonnaise
1 tablespoon lemon juice
'i teaspoon salt
Dash Tabasco sauce
Salted peanuts
Cut the eggs in half. Remove
yolks, mash and mix the peanut
butter, mayonnaise and season-
ings. Stuff the egg white with
this mixture and serve on crisp
lettuce leaf or water cress. A
bed of crisp shredded cabbage
may be used. A light French
dressing is desirable. Garnish
with salted peanuts.
LET'S EAT THIS FOR ONE
DAY
Breakfast
Grapefruit Juice
Shirred Eggs on Toast
Bacon
Coffee Milk
Dinner
Beef Pot Roast with Carrots
and Dumplings
Broccoli
Tossed Salad
Compote of Peaches and
Shredded Oranges
Coffee
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j Egg and Peanut Salad
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Steakley, Melvin. The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 15, 1952, newspaper, May 15, 1952; Seminole, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth412230/m1/12/?q=%22dewey+redman%22: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gaines County Library.