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Newspaper
Lovington Leader
Location
Lovington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1950
Page
4
New cafeteria opens at the Tatum school in the former Masonic hall with seating for 150. Mrs. Mary Axer heads the program, assisted by Mrs. Bennie Craig, with a second assistant to be announced. Two lunch shifts will serve students at 35 cents each for a plate lunch and drink.
Kay Preston, teaching shop, announces a strong woodworking program for the year in Tatum. He notes securing mahogany and other woods to craft lamps, tables, cedar chests, and home items. New equipment will expand the program and attract a larger class.
C. R. Patterson of Patterson Grocery in Hilburn City says farmers are busy prepping for a cotton harvest expected to start around September 25. Acreage cuts may impact business but a strong fall run is anticipated with land once planted in cotton now in other crops.
The FFA and FHA clubs are the most active at Tatum Schools and the Letter T Club handles athletic winners. Sponsored by coaches Storm and Brinker, with Mr. Gibson leading FFA activities and Miss Stanton heading the Future Homemakers group.
The 4-H dress revue at the New Mexico A and M College encampment featured 40 home made garments from 23 counties. In the junior division costs averaged 1.35 for cotton skirts 3.06 for a dress or suit and 5.88 for best dresses. Senior items averaged 5.50 for best dresses 24.61 for school dresses 8.26 for active sports outfits 13.53 for best dresses and 6.70 for tailored dresses. Joy Morgan of Portales won the senior dress revue and a free trip to Chicago. Nancy Gentry of Roswell won the junior dress revue.
Tatum prep football begins with a Sept 15 home game and a slate of upcoming matches against Vai Melrose Wilminton Farwell Loy Ituidosa. A long list of students are set to attend as supporters and players including Tvotomy Price Clinton Houston Wayne Oak Joel Black Ike Mike Pitt man Rex Pittman Virgil Green Miack Toliver Jimmy Rice Dex ter Hopkins Larry Whitley Jack Greenfield Marvin Townsend Bill Holloway Charlie Holloway Wayne Lewis Kirby Lewis Millard Owens Haskell Giles and Richard Frazier.
Louis Beeman, former McDonald farmer, has leased his farm and will soon open a grocery and general mercantile business at McDonald. A tile cement building 25 by 120 feet is under construction, planned as the first fireproof structure in town, near existing stores, with opening anticipated by the start of cotton ginning.
Rev. Joe Bickley of the First Methodist Church of Tatum welcomes county residents to the Mission preaching event running through September ord. Visiting minister Rev. H. H. Allen leads services with Gomer Ray Allen directing the song service.
Marriage licenses list numerous couples across Texas towns. Odessa to Seminole Lubbock to Abilene indicate ceremony plans. ages range from teens to sixties with partners from Odessa Breckenridge Seminole Hobbs and more.
The Persian Basin Kennel Club based in Hobbs schedules its first sanction match at 1fth School Gym on October 1 a Sunday with classes for puppies novice and experienced Prizes awarded entries allowed for any breed club president H C Clark Denver City L A Duque vice president Mrs E L Groh Hobbs secretary treasurer meets first and third Mondays at Shell Recreation hall Films on breeding and dog care entry blanks from Mrs Groh Admission charged Two sanction matches required before a show under National Kennel Association rules.
One animal unit yields annual fertility equivalent to $15 in fertilizer value when converted from manure. This unit includes one horse or cow or seven sheep or 1400 pounds of hogs, reflecting manure’s nutrient contribution.
National Cotton Council proposes a ten point plan to curb gin fires as the 1950 season begins. Key steps include banning matches and foreign materials in seed cotton, enforcing no smoking near gins, guarding during transport, keeping premises clean, storing combustibles safely, securing machinery and wiring, swift emergency action with trained personnel, a rapid wagon traffic plan, and isolating firepacked bales. The fires threaten thousands in property and income.
A U S Department of Agriculture report says the U S can increase sheep numbers by one third, carrying 37 million head, with domestic wool production still far short of total needs. It estimates 335 million pounds of wool from more sheep versus 675 to 725 million pounds consumed annually, noting war demand could raise the import share from five Southern Hemisphere countries.
Young chickens on U.S. farms this year are estimated at 670,275,000 a 10 percent decrease from 1949 and 14 percent below the 1939 48 average. Total runoff from national forest lands in 11 western states is about 60 trillion gallons which could irrigate 46 million acres if saved.
Miss Betty Ann Caster and Philip W. Roberts married Tuesday at 2:30 PM in the First Methodist Church of Tatum. The double ring ceremony was conducted by Rev. Oliver Nelson with pink gladioli and candles adorning the altar. The couple will reside in Dora New Mexico where Roberts will teach music, after a wedding trip to New Mexico.
Mr and Mrs Dick Alexander and their children of Tatum left last week for a weeklong trip visiting points of interest in New Mexico and Colorado.
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