Tubb, Nathan 2005-03-24
Nathan Tubb talks about his life growing up on the South Plains, farming and ranching, social activities, teaching, the Great Depression and World War II, and South Plains College in Levelland, Texas.
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Interviewee Name: Nathan Tubb
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Date: March 24, 2005
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Interviewer: David Marshall
Length: 00:59:23
Abstract
Personal Information; Family in Tahoka, Texas; Father’s Occupation: Farming; Had livestock and land; Mesquite problem; Vegetation; Ranching Country; Livestock spreading mesquite; Growing up in New Home, Texas; The move; His house; Dogs he bought; Father was a trucker; Completing the town square; Church activities, dinners, stage plays; Started going to school in 1925; Brothers went to the same school; Schools in Hockley County, Texas; Consolidation of schools; Heating the schools; Requiring materials for homes; Railroad starts a land boom; Land speculation; Ranch land rented by schools; Losing the road from Lubbock, Texas; Farmland farmed by tenant farmers; Major land promoters; How father promoted land; Moving west for cheaper land; Types of homes in the area; Manufacturing process of building houses; Sandstorms of 1926; Great depression; Finding way home during sandstorm; Shiplap helping to keep sand out; Changing home designs; Stucco farm houses not popular; Government programs; Forms of currency; Family hit hard by the Great Depression; Father out of work; Works Progress Administration; Lobo’s stadium built; Levelland, Texas gymnasium built; Civilian Conservation Corp; Opposition to the Civilian Conservation Corp; Forms of entertainment in the 1920’s; Hunting badgers for dog fights; Singing and Social events; Father being choir director; Travelling as a gospel group; County meet in Levelland, Texas; Softball popularity in the counties; Bledsoe builds first gymnasium in the area; Academic events in Levelland, Texas; Graduating from high school; Working in Lubbock; Hitchhiking to Weatherford, Oklahoma; Going to Southwestern Oklahoma State University; Paying for college; Family members in Oklahoma; Pulled cotton as a child; Farming during the 1930’s; Encouragement to become a teacher; Meeting wife; Getting a job as a teacher; Budgeting money; Wife gets job in Tahoka, Texas; Becoming an auditors assistant; Becoming superintendent for Pep, Texas; Being drafted for World War II; Stationed near Boston, Massachusetts; Bataan Death March survivors; Discharged from the army in 1946; Becoming superintendent for Whiteface schools; Administrator for South Plains College in Texas; Establishing the country music program at South Plains College; Success of the country music program; Retired in 1981 from South Plains College; Levelland passes the vote for a junior college; Opinions on cooperation with Texas Tech University; Opinions on students.
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