babqib (gteMn? StlSlilDISIR--mmw PAGES 46 Years Old And New Twice Every Week 10 CENTS 47 mUME LITTLEFIELD, LAMB COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1969 NUMBER 63 Ai MRS. GEORGIA TAYLOR, deputy tax assessor-collecto- r, compares this year's black-on-whit- e license plate to next year's blue-on-whi- plates. The 1970 plates will be the second issue of reflectorized plates In Texas and will go on sale Feb. 1. Basketball In Limelight I v T 7SWES35KL.. LITTLEFIELD, AREA TEAMS IN TOURNEYS It is roundball season and the spotlight 3:30 Thursday afternoon in the Slaton is on basketball this week in Littlefield tourney. Winners will play winners of the and area towns as the first of a series of Spur-Slato- n game Friday evening at 8:50 basketball tournaments open invitational and losers play losers at 3:30 p.m. Friday. flPPPPPPLm play. Littlefield's Junior Varsity, Spade, VW Tfv ffBBBBBBBBBBH Littlefield Wildcats meet Roosevelt at Whitharral, Amherst, Anton, Bledsoe, Lazbuddie, Smyer and New Deal boys and girls begin play in the Anton Chase Nets Invitational Tourney at noon Thursday. L, Whitharral and Bledsoe girls lead off at bbbhT'-"''- ' T&wLTfjJWj rOKk. m BBBP''I,,B,! Jut 12 noon today. Whitharral and Bledsoe boys tangle at 1:20 following the girls' mvr T"- Nine Tickets game. Spade girls try the Lazbuddie BBLYBk OBBBBKAk'" V tsfk'Lw . LbbV m " lassies at 2:40 today. f9 A total of nine tickets was issued to r Littlefield Varsity and the KFi ipL jpFppppT p ''pppm 3tU'mm B two drivers Tuesday afternoon following Junior fi ;, Spade Longhoms duel in the opening a 100 mph chase by a city patrolman game Friday noon. Losers of the V 9ppWPflHflpHk r down Ninth and Houston Streets in 'PPB LMm f , Spade-Lazbuddi- e Littlefield. Whitharral-Bledsoe- sextettes play for a chance at consolation Two vehicles were racing down Ninth of the Street when the patrolman began pursuit at 1:20 Friday. Losers Whitharral-Bledso- e and Littlefield EIIL X PVPHrHr T a "V" PPs'iV 'PPPPLH i &km with red lights flashing and siren blowing. t JV-Spa- boys' games play on the They went across the railroad tracks and consolation side at 2:40 Friday. turned back to the left down Houston Girls' teams playing for a try at Street and proceded at about 90 or 95 mph. consolation at 4 p.m. Friday will be losers the Smycr-Amher- and According to the officer's report, of New Deal-Anto- n games played Thursday when the cars came to the intersection of afternoon. Winners of these four games Houston and Highway 385, one of the s - v ifA 'HhtJ i(tw PPPPS i will meet at 5:20 Friday for the girls' tilt. i3 cars skidded through a stop sign and slid In the boys' bracket, losers of the 1970 into a service station owned by Phil Auto Plates Smyer-Amher- and New Deal-Anto- n Adkins. games play at 6:40 Friday, and winners About $150 in damages resulted to a play at 8 p.m. gasoline pump in front of the station, and !o Finalists begin play at 8:30 a.m. BZwe about $10 worth of damages resulted to And White Saturday morning, and championship the 1960 Chevrolet. games are set for 8:00 and 9:30 Saturday !nu since a background Driver of the damaged vehicle was automobile license plates, which 1969, and that black evening. i taditionally carried the colors of would not be very reflective, the new given five tickets and driver of the other iim white the past 12 years, will letter and numeral color was chosen by vehicle was given four tickets. Springlake-Eart- h and Olton teams will toacolorc. dmrein 1970. the Texas Highway Department. Wednesday morning, a 'j61 be playing In thr. Kress Tournament this Ifat ear's plates will aealn be Tfe reflectorized material, which the Oldsmoblle, driven by Walter Stewart of weekend. Woraed and will hae high visibility highway department buys from Littlefield and a 1966 Chevrolet, driven Area junior high teams get in the i letters and numerals on a white Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, by Lester Hewitt of Littlefield were round this week, too, in a junior high ound. does not work in a black background, and involved in a collision at 6th and Harral tournament at Pep with play beginning i Hubert Dunn, countv tax has to go in a color that can be Streets. Thursday. THE HIGHWAY PATROL team here has the surnames of Angel and said a change to blue reflectorized. The Stewart vehicle was headed west The Sudan Hornets host Seagraves in a Parson. Weldon Parson, seated, and Bill Angel, standing, enforce traffic because of reflcctorization in A spokesman for the Texas Highway on 6th Street and the Hewitt vehicle was bout Friday night. Bula rules in Lamb County and investigate all county wrecks outside Department said the blue letters and headed north on Harral. The Hewitt Bulldogs open district play at Three Way incorporated towns. Angel and Parson are called to an average of three numerals could be changed to some other vehicle failed to yield to a stop sign and Friday. weeks each week, and spend at least an hour a day on paper work in their oc color, perhaps red, in 1971, or reverted collided with the left front fender of the See page 11 for the Slaton bracket and office in the Courthouse. Statistics show that driving too fast for JLSowman back to black again. Stewart Oldsmoblle. results of this week's area games. conditions and carelessness cause most wrecks. The highway department does not Damages to the Hewitt Chevrolet were have any statistics, b u t believes approximately $300 and damages to the ops Lontest reflectorized license plates have prevented Stewart Olds were approximately $50, AN ANGEL AND A PARSON bad accidents. according to the investigating officer's ro!d Ras (Docl Bowman of Among some of the safety factors report. & sly uami; In this involved in avoiding accidents include: Monday afternoon, a 1969 Dodge, 'i Leader N'cws football contest, but abandoned autos on the highways with driven by Alcario Baiza of Levelland and s to win the season prize of two reflectorized plates can be seen at some a 1962 Chevrolet station wagon, driven Do-Righ- i to the Cotton Bowl came and in the dark when headlights by Grace Winters of Dimmitt, were :se distance t' money bv one correct strike the plates, and in cases where one involved in a collision at 23rd and Hall They Are Boys 4rtn headlight is out on an auto, the Avenue. tyre - Pierc- was only one game short reflectorized plate on the approaching The Baiza Dodge was traveling east on ByNILAH RODGERS you just went on to California?" Angel jnni prize with 151 game winners vehicle reveals that It is an automobile 23rd when the Winters vehicle was drunk. "Sometimes they are about out of mis There's an Angel and a Parson kidded. gas sloshing ser:on Pierce closed in with instead of a motorcycle. traveling south on Hall Avenue and made and are fuel from side to side VI the watching Lamb County motorists. The most common excuse for speeding trying to it to a gas lu week, but still failed by License plates without reflectorized a wide turn westward onto 23rd and make tank before When a county resident is involved in given to Parson Is that they were in a running out," he said. gracious!" material bonded to them cost 12.4 cents collided with the left front fender of the "Oh, "" Persons 1.1 an accident, the Angel and Parson are hurry to go to the bathroom. "I usually Of all persons stopped for various nlrlt.H ulnnnrc fnr a a pair, but reflectorized plates cost 42 Baiza auto. y tie among the first to arrive at the scene to just follow them right on in," Parson said, violations, women give more excuses. that was settled on tie cents a pair. Approximately $200 in damages "'scores comfort and aid victims. "and give them a ticket." "Women may be the weaker sex," Angel in the final contest. James The plates are made by convicts at the resulted to the Baiza Dodge and about "(l KOIl I' I. Hrc nlnnn They also dispense justice to Parson has found that drivers who said, "but not when it comes to talking." " . ...a UlttLt n.l.UIII.W lfVT state prison in Huntsville and saves the $350 in damages resulted to the Winters motorized law breakers. weave down the highway aren't always Angel doesn't go along with the idea dearest nrtnnl cnrr I.amnr state thousands of dollars on labor costs. Chevrolet. oof Lev", and was nnxt host puessor The Angel is Highway Patrolman Bill that women are poorer drivers than men, cond is phc , and Ed McCanlies won Angel, and the "preacher" Highway either. "Statistics show this. Men get the Jpnze Patrolman Weldon Parson. "Or pole cats, most violations," Angel said. "That's fither and dauuliinr won Ihlrrt nnd the do-rig- boys, or stripped legs," Angel Slow been my experience." spots for the season. Linda Hood said. "We know all the names fuzz, cops, Entries f Area Singers Win and worse. We've been called everything, Angel and Parson say teenaged boys aren't a big problem either, although '"HSfoilrlh ,,,1,1. 1.fi but usually not to our faces." Angel and Parson have been with the For Lighting insurance companies penalize male ,rlnj are the final standlnes of a youths.