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A FIRST OF THE WEEK
NEWSPAPER
for Urelland, Sundown
and Whit of ace
Featuring eewplete news and
•flaring Merchant* an opportunity to
wadi a Great Market—the mid-week
THE SUN-NEWS
“SERVING THE FIELD IT COVERS—COVERING THE FIELD IT SERVES”
Volume 6 — Number 35
Levelland, Hockley County, Teui, Monday. January 21, 1946
Sc Copy
Featuring
Two Day Conference Of Tuberculosis
i Association In Lubbock, Jan. 22-23
A two day conference of the Tu-
berculosis Association will be held j
at the Hilton Hotel. In Lubbock,
Tuesday and Wednesday, January
22 and 23. The following program
' has been arranged and there, will be
a number of Levelland ladles nttend
each day. ' . .
• Tuesday January 22—9:00 a m—
^ Registration.
Relationship between State. Na-
tional and Local Tuberculosis Asso-
ciations.
Who, What, Why, Where,* When
How.
Organization—
"Nothing much happens without
good organization.”
Executive committee, Member-
ship meetings.
12:00 Noon Luncheon
^ 1:30 p m Assembly.
Administration and Office Man-
agement.
“Tuberculosis control Is a serious
business and associations establish-
ed for that purpose may measure
their effectiveness by the business
like methods employed.” r~ ^
Office — Location, furnishings,
equipment, files, mail sale file, li-
brary. ~-
Business-Like Methods — Bond-
^ Vng, bank accounts, checks, insur-
ance, bookkeeping, financial state-
ment, budget, seal sale program,
contract, reports.
• . Program Development—
"An educational campaign should
cover the community In the broad-
^^^est possible way through every
^Wedlum of approach. It should be
c0^kdnuou8, and both extensive and
— "V Uirvey, community organiza-
t
i
The -a*
tion, pui«
forms of
4:00 p.
Wednesday;
Health
SChOOlS, S;
erature,
Ject, speaker’s
radio, house
Case
X-raya,
Treatment
Rehabilitation:
Rehabilitation
of treatment
gram of coni
re-admissions
slderably If
social agefif
patient maf
tuberculosl;
portunlty a®<t
ing as a
maintain!
relations, authorized
culosls work,
[journment.
afy 23—9:00 a m.
n — General,
ips: Movies, Llt-
ihool press pro-
u, newspaper.
rculin Testing,
(dlow-up. .
Sanatorium care,
an Integral part
is basic to a pro-
Bre&kdowns and
n be reduced con-
tonal, medical and
combine to help the
in sound health. The
lation has an op-
responslbillty In act-
k plug In starting and
a sound program to-
ward this fend.
Afternoop reserved for conference
with State*Staff members.
2,416 Poll Taxes;
Only Nine Days
Left To Pay ___________
There were 2.416 poll taxes paid
'in the office of J. B. (Bill) Reese,
tax assessor-collector Saturday
morning, with only nine days left
for Hockley County citizens to put-
' chase their poll tax receipts.
Mr. Reese will be In Anton Tues-
day at Mrs. J. B. Pirtle’s office to
collect poll taxes and all other
taxes, in Ropesvllle Wednesday at
J. W. Berry's drug store and !n
^ Sundown Thursday at S. D. Glass-
cock's office.
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J. G. Stacy Is Again
With Mason’s
J. G. Stacy lias returned to Level-
land and Is again connected with
Mason and Company, after serving
in the European Theater of opera-
tlonz.
w» He enlisted In the army on March
34 1944 and was with an M P pla-
toon In the Infantry. He spent ail
Of his training period at Camp Hood
before going overseas, holding the
rank of sergeant when he was
recently discharged.
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Sundown Coffee Shop
Sells To Miss Parr
R Mils Mozclc Parr Is new owner
of the Sundown Coffee Shop. Miss
Parr, farmer resident of Tfchoka
and Orange hae had previous ex-
perience In operating cafes. She
served the Orange high school as
dietitian.
The new owner bought from Miss
Cleta Bentley, who will continue
to live at Sundown.
Some remodeling plana are al-
w ready being made for Sundown Cof-
to Shop by Idee Parr. Work will
get underway as soon as materials
1946 Farm Program
Meetings Are Set
In Hockley County
A called meeting of the com-
munity committees held a session
with the county committee and D.
W. Sherrill, Friday, in. th^ court
house for the purpose of discussing
the different phases of the agri-
culture program and crop insurance
as It pertains to Hockley County
for 1946, according to J. W. Evans.
Tixe various committeemen a-
greed to have educational meet-
ings In their respectlce communit-
ies to explain the new program
Mr. Evans and Mt. Sherrill will
be the pripcipal speakers at these
meetings. * >• ,
The time of these meetings were
set at 7:30 p. m at the various com-
munities And places are listed as
'followar
Smyer, Clyde Lee committeeman;
In the Smyer high school building
Thursday, Feb. 7.
Ropesvllle, Giles H. Dwwaau. laeu
Rice and Frank Slyvester, In Ropes-
vllle high school auditorium Tues-
day, Feb. 5.
Pettit, Woodrow W. Price, In Pet-
tit high school audltorlun) Friday,
Feb. 8.
Whitharral, Ira H. Marrow and
Vernon Cox, In the Whitharral
high school auditorium Monday,
Feb. 11.
Sundown, no committeeman list-
ed, In the Sundown high school
auditorium, Wednesday, Feb. 6.
Pep, A. G. Jungman, in the Pep
school building Thursday, Jan. 31.
Levelland, Joe Mears, In the
court house, Friday Feb. 1.
"It la very Important that the
farmers attend these meetings to
receive the proper Instructions In
regard to applications for practices
which must be appoved before they
are carried out, if the farmer ex-
pects to receive payment for the
year of 1946,” Mr. Evans said.
Dr. C. G. Dunn,
Army Dischargee,
Returns To City
Dr. C. G. Dunn, who has been In
the Dental Corps in the Army since
December 18. 1942, and overseas
for twelve months, returned to
Levellend Saturday with his wife
and three year old son, Earl, and
Ziegfeld Follies—Tokyo Version
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This is a scene in the Butterfly Dance number of a current musical extravaganza In Tokyo, one
of the first musicals in Japan in four years. The production has a Ziegfeld touch—kimonos giv-
ing way to tights, blouses, evening gowns. The photographer found the show tucked away in a
building where balloons to carry bombs to the U. S. Were made during the war. Billboards and
«.—— off-limits signs camouflage the place.
District Governor
Charley Dean
Whiteface Speaker
Charley Dean of Plalnvlew, Dis-
trict 2-T Governor qf Lions Inter -
ternatlonal will speak at a ladles
night meeting of the Whiteface
Lions club Tuesday night In the
Whiteface High school gym.
M. C. Ledbetter, a member of the
Morton Lions Club and zone chair-
man, will have charge of the pro-
gram after being Introduced by
T. J. Capps, president.
A large number of Lions and
Lionesses from neighboring towns
ere expected to attend.
Lobos Run Wild
To Jake Tourney
At Olton Saturday
The Levelland Lobos ran wild In
Olton- Saturday and marched un-
checked to the championship In the
Olton high school invitation bas-
ketball tournament,' beating Hart
68 to 22 in the finals.
Levelland romped over the Su-
dan B team 78 to 28 In the open-
For District Attorney
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he will open hls dental Office the ing game of the day. Dimmit
are available.
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The harbor for
■feeterwoodH Shoe Shop.
second door south of the First
National Bank.
Enlisting in the Army as a first
lieutenant. Dr. Dunn was stationed
at Camp Barkeley, Texas and Camp
Bowie before going overseas to
France and Germany with the 332
Battalion.
He held the rank of captain when
he was ffisdharged Tuesday from
Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio.
Dr. Dunn Is a past president of
the Wink lions club and one of
several members of the Levelland
Lions club who has been on leave
In the Jfrmy. *
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Mrs. Billy Knoy and son of Ros-
well, N. M., visited her husband
over the week end. Mrs. Knoy Is an
Instructor In the Roswell schools
and Mr. Knoy recently purchased
the Levelland Bowling Club from
Tony Gilson.
nosed out Muleshoe in the second
game, 33 to 28. The third game
Was won by Hart, beating Olton
38 to 27.
Sprlnglake won the consolation
title, winning a free scoring ..thril-
ler over Dimmit, 48 to 43.
Joe Garrison of Levelland was
the scoring leader of the tourna-
ment. Sportsmanship awards went
to individual players on the Olton
Hart, Dimmit, Levelland and,
Muleshoe teams, individual basket-
ball emblems being given the
players.
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Lt. Col. George Bond, who was
seslosuly Injured In an automobile
wreck here, has written President
O. D. Bass of the Levelland Lions
Club, thanking the club for the
flowers sent to him by the or-
ganization. Lt. Col. Bond’s home
la In Mlarshall.
LLOYD CROsClN
Chiefs of Pearl Harbor Probe
/
Seth W. Richardson, left, new chief counsel of the Pearl Harbor
Committee, and Sen. Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, committee
chairman, confer itt Washington during progress of investRptton.
Sundown, Ropes Place
In Ropes Basketball
Tourney Saturday
The Meadow boys and the New
Home girls ruled as kings and
queens of the annual Ropes High
school invitation basketball tour-
nament In Ropesville Saturday
night.
The fact moving Meadow boys
nosed by Frenship in the finals, 19
to 14, in a game that was close all
the way, and not until time ran out
on the battling Frenship boys was
the winner assured. Barnes paced,
the winners with nine points, while
Kinslow and Hufaker tied for the
losers, with five.
In the girls finals, New Home
won a well pfayed 22-to-16 victory
over Ropes, blocking - the last
chance of the host schools to sal-
vage a title from its own tourna-
ment. Nettles of the home club
paced the losers with ten points
for top honors og the game, while
Tabor, was high for the winners
with six points. •
Ropes sent two teams to the
finals In the consolation bracket,
but were unable to annex a title.
Sundown tourned on the steam In
the boys consolation finals to elim-
inate Ropes 24 to 19 but Means
of Ropes was high point man for
the game with 12 points. Glen
Pe&rcy sparked the Sundon five
1th nine points.
In the semi-finals during the af-
ternoon, Sundown beat New Home,
36 to 13, to gain the finals. Pearcy
was again high with nine points,
while Timmons sparked the los-
ers with seven. Ropes A reached
the finals in consolation but en-
countered plenty of trouble from
their "little brothers,” beating the
Ropes B team only IS to 12, with
Hewlett setting the pace for the
winners with eight points.
TJie Meadow A team won the
girls consolation title, with Steven-
son sparking the club to the vic-
tory. Stevenson led Meadow to a
win over Ropes B team in the
finals, 17 to 9, as Stevenson looped
In ten of these paints.
Stevenson scored seven points In
the semi-finals, as the Meadow
girls beat their own B team, 13 to 4
Ropes B, with Riley looping In
eight of the points, beating Fren-
ship 17 to 8 In the other semi-
final game.
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date Paw Soles and Hade. Baeter-
wcju‘'4 Shoe Lti:p. t -
Brother Of Local
Man Is Reported
Dead By Navy
Cleo Locke Matthews, 29,
of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Mathews, who7]
was M M first class on. the sub-
marine, U 8 8 Tompano, was of-
ficially reported Friday to be one
of the seventy-seven enlisted men
and officers who lost their lives
when their ship went down In em-
pire waters near Japanese Main-
land on October 29, 1943, according
to the Navy Department.
Hls ship was the first one to go
ships, not including a large num-
ber of smaller vessels.
He enlisted on February 6, 1940.
He was a graduate of the Sea-
graves high school, John Tarleton
College, Stephenvtlle, and attended
Texas Tech. ^
* OH hls decorations^he was award-
ed the submarine combat pin and
five presidential citations.’ •.
Sis ship was the first one to go
around the coast of Japan. Their
first ship to sink was a 17,000 toner.
Their own ship was around 300
feet. • .
Besides his parents, he is sur-
vived by two sisters, Mrs. Geneva
Emerson, Seagraves; Mrs. Margaret
Hudson, also of Seagraves, whose
husband Is In occupied Germany.
Three brothers, Robert Mathews of
Levelland who has been In the ga-
rage business, but has closed the
firm to go to a veteran’s hispltal
for treatment, John M. Matthews,
lr- who recently enlisted in the
Marine Corps, who is reported t»
be enroute to India, and Lowell
Matthews, a student in John Tarle-
ton.
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Health Department
Approved Agency For
Vocational Training
An official announcement from
the State committee for approval
of Educational and Training Insti-
tutions has been received by Dr.
George W. Cox, state health officer,
designating the Texas State De-
partment of Health as an approved
vocational training agency for vet-
erans. t
Training offered by the state
health department will Include
sanitary engineering, entomology
technician, water and sewage plant
operation and typhus control.
Veterans who meet the eligibility
requirements under the G I Bill
of Rights, ages 30 to 40, with at
least a high school education and
physically fit for Held work may ap-
ply for this training. Applicants
should be men who desire to make
sanitation or some other phase of
public health activity a career or
life work.
Applicants who have been ac-
cepted will receive such training
allowances as is provided under
the O I BUI of Rights; tor instance
$66 and $90 per month, depending
on marital status, which afhount
may be supplemented by the city
I where the applicant is taking hls
training.
For full Information concerning
this type of training, veterans are
urged to consult Dr. O. M Phillips.
County health officer, or the State
Department of rise 1th In Austin
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Mr, and Mrs. Lseter Marrow of
Helen. N. H-. «t« bar* iRtg t*-
March Of Dimes
Gains Momentum
In Hockley Areas
Hockley County's March of Dimes
gained headway Monday, as plans
for contributions at picture shows,
In booths, an Invitation dance and
42 parties were announced. O. G.
Hatton Is chairman of the annual
funds drive for treatment of Infan-
tile paralysis victims and for re-
search on the dreaded disease.
Booths, where members of Level-
land’s four women's clubs are ac-
cepting contributions to the March
of Dimes, are In the post office,
the First National and Levelland
State Bank.
At the arrival of films on infan-
tile praralysls collections will be
arranged In both the Wallace and
Rose Theaters. Girl scouts will p«jm
plates at designated times.
Proceeds from an invitation d——
Tuesday night will be placed In the
March of Dimes fund by the spon-
soring Pioneer Dance Club, Hatton
said.
Home demonstration clubs through
out the county will sponsor benefit
42 parties, Mrs. Rufus Buahyhead.
rural chairman, announced Mon-
day. Arrangements for the parties
are In the hands of leading club-
women In the communities.
Quota for the 1946 drive In Hock-
ey county has been set at the 9900
figure. Last y^SFs drive netted
$934.17.
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Harold Clingan, Jr.
Lions Speaker At
Thursday Meeting
Harqld Clingan, Jr., will speak on
the "History of the Boy Scouts and
the Sponsorship of a’Troop” at the
Thursday noon meeting of the
Levelland Lions Club at the Legion
Hall.
He will relate the history of scout-
ing as a whole In Levelland, when
the local troops were most active,
when they had the largest mem-
bership, what a sponsoring club
should do and how the local troops
tie In with the national organiza-
tion, according to Ike Johnson, pro-
gram arranger.
K. L. Riggs of- the Lubbock Lions
Club, who was scheduled to speak
on “Civic Improvement,” switched
his subject to Juvenile problems.
Of the many suggestions he of-
fered was for the Levelland schools
to turn the high school gym open
for the summer for a social earner
as well as sporting activities, which
would be sponsored by members of
the Lions Club.
G. C. Darwin and John R. Potts
were told of the responsibilities of
being a member of Lions Interna-
tional by Ubn Z. O. Lincoln.
Jim Peeler of the program com-
mittee, introduced Bob Ford, who
in turn. Introduced the speaker.
Guests Included Frank George, A.
A. Sparkman; George W. Smith
and P. L. Flowers of the Whiteface
Lions Club; J. C. Powell, Lubbock,
Bob Ford; and Billy Knoy, Lola H.
Vestal.
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Floyd Ora vita, who underwent an
operation In McCloskey General
Hospital In Temple. Is reported to
be Improving.
Victory Clothing Collection drier
In Hockley County, schedules to
close January 31, is progressing at •
satisfactory clip. County Agent D.
W. Sherrill, county drive chairman?
reported Monday. Plans for special
house-to-house canvass have hen
announced in Sundown and Level*
land. Central collection point tat
used clothing, shoes and bedding
is the city hall in Levelland.
Auxiliary collection places for
clothing In Sundown have been do*
signs ted by the community com*
mi t tee as the grade school building,
high school, Williams Grocery, Lae*
ters’ Pood Market, Stone’s Orooary
and Market, Johnny Jones' Grooery
and Market, Denton and San.
Supt. P. O. Smith, Sundown chair*
man, said early this week that the
fire truck will make a house-to*
house canvass for the Victory
Clothing Drive on Tuesday January
29. Other committeemen at Sun-
down are Orville Johnson and
Richard McCrystal.
Boy Scouts will make the Loagk
land clothing canvass Saturday JaB*
uary 26, Sherrill added.
On the LeveBand usmutUae Mg
Victory Clothing Collection M*
Supt. Ray D. Brown, Burton Rlddia, M
George Stallworth and J. S. lfSTIt
field.
In rural areas of Hockley County
the clothing collection is schedldg#
to go through the school studsoMft
County commissioners will lying tt
the clothing from outlaying distriegL
The commissioners Include Tom*
my Price of Ropesville. Precinct If”
B. D. Carter, Route S, Levelland^
Precinct 2; G. J. Cotton, Route %
Levelland, Precinct 3; and W. St
Dowell, Route 3, Levelland, Pi 11 llflt
4.
County citizens who have tbttt
used clothing ready have been MSp
ed to either take the contributtOHf
to the schools, contact CbaimMM
Sherrill, commissioners or mi llliNK .
of community drive committees.
Volunteer workers, numbers gf
them, are being sought by the Via*
tory Clothing Collection heads. Vd*
unteers will be used to help pack
the clothing for foreign relief at
the city hall at the end of ttfl
drive.
Persons who will assist with tbt
packing have been requested to gal
in touch with Chairman Sherrill,
Mansfield, or Stallworth.
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January Payment Of
1945 School Taxes
Avoids Added Penalty
February 1 la the deadline for
payment of 1945 school taxes In
Sundown without penalty, J: O.
'Akin, tax assessor-collector, an*
nounced last week. The taxes will
be declared delinquent following
that date, and penalty will be ad*
ded to the tax total.
probably caused some tax state*
ments to go astray, but failure ts
receive statements will not be r*a*
son for delay • of tax payment*
Property owners who have not re*
celved their statements have bead
asked by Akin to telephone the
school tax office, giving legal dee*
criptlona of prqperty. .
Akin’s office Is in the elementary
school building at Sundown.
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TEMPERATURE HITS 3*
A 20-degree low was marked 9
In temperature far Levelland Mm*
day morning at 8 o’clock, but flpg
mercury rose considerably
the morning- Cold wind
ed a smattering at
night, but the small amount at
recorded no moisture.
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Vestal, Lois H. The Sun-News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 35, Ed. 1 Monday, January 21, 1946, newspaper, January 21, 1946; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1117642/m1/1/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting South Plains College.