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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1963
Page
4
Across 70 South Plains towns, four bond issues were approved while one failed. In Hart, a $375000 high school and an $85000 auditorium bond were defeated. Voters in Hale Center backed incumbents or backed change, with Brown leading Boyd in trustee races and Cannon edging out rivals. Overall turnout was down about 20 percent from last year’s peak, with 17,309 votes counted in 69 districts.
Incumbent W D Banders captured all 20 votes to secure another term as trustee. BE Lambert led the second post with 131 votes, Harvey Latrick 112, and D D Skipper 76. Hugh Pettit did not run. At Sands School in Ackerly, Jack Archer and Lonnie Kemp were elected to trustee posts with Kemp at 86 and Archer 76. incumbent W C Fryar trailed with 68. Unsuccessful: Bobby Bayes 4, Joe Lemon 60, Earl Newcomer 46. All candidates were farmers except Newcomer, a butane dealer.
In an uncontested contest 37 voters cast ballots. CR. Roberts and Winston Cummings received all 37 votes and will replace Closs Tomes and James Cor who did not seek re election, according to Supt. Lamar B. Kelly.
Voters chose two new school board members from seven candidates. V. C. Melton received 268 votes and J. L. Brown 262. board president Dr. W. Hutcheson Jr. won 320 write-ins. Other candidates included Frank H. Clements, R. Tonkin, Harold G. Cox, Mark Grissom, and Ray Horton with varied write-ins.
Voters Saturday re elected two unopposed Cotton Center school board incumbents J. Burnett and Jason Allen after light turnout of 87 votes. In Crosbyton, Ross Cash and Ralph Parson were reelected to the school board with 115 and 116 votes respectively, both unopposed, while three write in votes were cast. Crosbyton district also approved a $185 000 bond issue by 94 to 24 to fund an addition to the junior high for PE dressing rooms and cafeteria storage.
In a light turnout on Saturday, Denver City Independent School District voters returned three incumbents to office. Jack M Olkin Dr Joe C Taylor and Ho G Brown each received 93 votes and were re elected to their positions.
Cleavinger Jr and H W Golden were elected to the Dimmitt Independent School District board with 274 votes cast. Cleavinger received 234 votes and Golden 35 to defeat lone challenger Woodrow Killingsworth who tallied 50 votes.
James W. Patrick and Bill Prince won the two trustee seats in Fawcell with 97 and 47 votes respectively. Five candidates competed. other tallies included Preston Martin 87 and Melborn Jones 37 followed by Sterling Donaldson 28. Incumbents Walter Kaltwasser and Clay Henson did not seek reelection. Supt. W. M. Roberts noted 124 votes cast.
Voters in the Floydaday school district cast ballots Saturday with 87 total votes. Incumbents Ralph Johnston and Jack Stansell, unopposed, each received all 87 votes to secure another term.
In light election turnout Saturday incumbents D. C. Herring president and W. M. Massie were re elected to terms on the Friona Independent School District board of trustees. Herring 70 votes Massie 78 votes, opponent Charles Howell 44 votes. Total turnout 99. Superintendent Alton Farr announced.
Hale Center voters elected two new trustees Davis Cannon and Troy Brown as part of a six-candidate field while incumbent Orval Boyd trailed. In Happy school district trustees were chosen unopposed Foster Harman and Clifford Stevens. A Hart Independent district bond issue of 375000 failed 156 to 142 with an 85000 auditorium option also rejected 183 to 114. Hereford Rural High approved district conversion to independent 695 to 315, with Gentry Parris and Clearman among those elected to three vacancies. Total voter turnout varied by district, with 88 votes in one Hale Center tally and over a thousand cast district-wide.
Idalou voters re elected incumbent Ralph Harmon to one of two seats on the Idalou Rural High School board Saturday. Clifton Smith led with 1107 votes from 168 cast, Harmon had 92, James Hamilton 75, and Buddy Winters received 1 dollar in votes.
Large voter turnout at Jayton school election Saturday. Beart Murdoch re elected as board president with 98 votes. Buddy Gallagher named to the board with 109 votes. Other candidates include Purvis Sorelle 78 and M W Davis 96. Aaron Bennett 47 and Buddy Owens 14. Incumbent Bep Boland 414 not seek.
Incumbent trustees O. L. Watson Dr. Raymond A. Reid and Mrs. C. G. Dunn were returned to office without opposition in Levelland on Saturday. The election drew a very light total of 185 votes.
In the high turnout election 1,087 votes were cast for Littlefield trustees. Dr. William Carl Nowlin, the incumbent board president, won re-election alongside Dr. Albert Perkins and Charlie Duval. Roy A. Hutson, Lindsey D. Williams, James E. Cook trailed. Armstrong did not seek re-election. Perkins is a dentist, Duval a gas company manager.
In Lorenzo on Saturday 229 voters ousted school board president Joe een and re elected Harold Campbell with 1229 votes. New member B galeette, a farmer, joined the board after ballots were cast for Darden and Kenneth Jay. First time voters from Robertson and Farmer districts participated as the districts were consolidated recently.
Incumbents Clifford Martin and Leon Smallwood won new terms as trustees after Saturday balloting. Martin received 37 of 37 votes cast and Smallwood 36, according to Supt. Burt Exzszeil.
In low turnout, Winfred Tucker was re-elected with 52 votes and Don Day named to a trustee post, 51 votes. Ralph Spain and Billy McCallister trailed. Curtis Hulse retired president did not run. Nearby districts saw various results with bond votes and multiple incumbents reelected.
School board secretary P. W. Ford Jr. lost at New Deal Saturday as seven ballots were cast. Ford, elected trustee in 1960 by write in, received 61 votes. Verbal Peeples won 106 votes and Bobby Joe Henderson 120 votes. F W Covey did not seek re election.
Incumbents lost two trustee posts as 24 ballots were cast in Saturday elections. A. C. Fallingim Jr. led with 53 votes and Dick Turner followed with 56. Incumbents Roy Blevins 31, Edwin Nettles 27, Harold Gene Franklin 30 trailed. Milton Evans drew seven write in votes.
In Olton on Saturday 199 ballots were cast for school trustees as J M Wood and Dp Basalre, both Moana, led a field that included Kenneth Tentoon and Earl Greenlee with 48 votes each. Incumbents Ralph Beach and Elbert Crawson did not seek re election. Thompson led Oilton votes with 267 and Gilbert Roberson, board president, had 242.
Roaring Springs and Roosevelt voters turned out in record numbers with Lt LeFevre leading the Roaring Springs slate and incumbents Klyde Williams and Clyde Clifton re elected. Roosevelt board president Bart Rowan won re election with 129 ballots. Cleve Wooley took the vacancy with 82 votes as Wes Davis 537? Max Barnett 89 and R A Peel 12 rounded out the field. County board candidate L E Evans led Precinct 2 with 60 votes.
A one vote margin decided the Shallowater school trustee contest with Gale Ballard 77, L V Rhodes 78, and Bennie L. James 76 among 315 total votes. Rhodes won, Ballard incumbent, and Bob Payne did not run. Silverton and Smyer also reported elections with multiple trustees chosen and incumbents edging rivals.
National Guard tank moved into the East Texas pine woods to flush out Ellis Whittaker a 49 year old man who escaped from the Rusk State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. He seized rifles and shotguns by burgling his brother’s home in Lilbert and killed two bloodhounds and shot a horse before deputies arrived. Whittaker was then sent back to the hospital after demonstrating violent tendencies.
In McKinney, three high school girls who posed for yearbook photos were charged with auto theft after a woman identified them from the annual photos as possessing a stolen car that she says they wrecked in front of her home and used her telephone. They were to be brought before a juvenile judge.
The Rev Alan Lazenby announced yesterday the Sunday school in Houghton England will close because it does more harm than good. He cited concerns about religious instruction and community impact and did not indicate any replacement program.
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