This is an announcement for the paper "Compact lines and the Sobczyk property" by Claudia Correa and Daniel V. Tausk. Abstract: We show that Sobczyk's Theorem holds for a new class of Banach spaces, namely spaces of continuous functions on linearly ordered compacta. Archive classification: math.FA Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B20, 46E15, 54F05 Remarks: 12 pages Submitted from: tausk@ime.usp.br The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1310.1950 or http://arXiv.org/abs/1310.1950