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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1968
Page
1
The piece previews a Brownfield citizens special edition marking Santa Fe Railroad’s 50 years in Terry County. It requests photos and early railroad history, notes the plan to publish stories on the railroad’s impact, and invites reader contributions while clarifying a campus rumor and school lunch anecdotes.
Olga Guest joins nine contestants in the Terry County Farm Bureau Queen Contest set for August 8 at Brownfield High School Auditorium. Contestants compete on poise, appearance, and a five minute speech about Farm Bureau membership. Local winner receives 25 dollar savings bond and advances to the district contest. public invited.
General Telephone Company of the Southwest lowers interstate long distance charges by five to ten cents for the first three minutes on weekday daytime station to station calls from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday as ordered by the FCC to cut rates by 20 million dollars annually.
Brownfield Independent School District approves a 1968 69 budget totaling 1 671 105 with 177 054 from federal sources. The plan reduces local revenue and emphasizes manpower and plant costs while noting administrative cuts and salary shifts under a year 68 69 framework led by business manager James Willis.
Judy Rowe Sherrod received care at Shriners Hospital in Shreveport after Shriner Marvin Higginbotham organized medical reports and transport. Doctors found she lacked hip sockets and underwent traction and two surgeries in 1949, spending nine months away from home and receiving periodic postcards to maintain contact.
Harold L. Drummonds, former district Scout executive in the Arrowhead District, will lead the Quanah Parker District in six counties Borden Dawson Gaines Yoakum Terry and most of Lynn. He succeeds Tom Peabody Jr. and will reside in Brownfield. The South Plains Council announced the move.
Local law officials face a business slowdown while law enforcement enjoys the downturn. The report lists multiple arrests with fines including O V Alexander drunkenness 27 dollars and 57 dollars, Diverne Steen worthless check 72.75, Jacinto H Garza no valid license 27 dollars, Sue Lorene Bledsoe DWI 92.30 and six months probation, plus other cases from drunkenness to theft and a gun theft. A vandalism report concerns Nelda Blackman at Plaza Restaurant.
Mrs David Nicholson outlined the Selective Service System to the Brownfield Kiwanis Club meeting at the Party House. She noted the system is an independent U S government branch supplying young men for the draft. The local board serves Terry Hockley and Yoakum counties.
The Quanah Parker District hosts a two day Boy Scout Swimoree at the local pool with preliminaries Friday 6 p m and finals Saturday 9 a m The Howard Henson Post No 269 American Legion sponsors the event Scouts from across the district attend and are guests of the Post Friday Judges are Legion members and local Scout leaders No admission is charged.
Funeral services for Mrs. H. W. Finley, mother of Dr. James E. Finley of 1302 East Cardwell, will be held at 4 p.m. today at the Baptist Church in McLean. Burial is in McLean Cemetery. She died Tuesday night in a Lubbock hospital after a monthlong illness. She also survived by Dr. Charles W. Finley of Lubbock, six grandchildren, a brother Tyre Jeter of Baltimore, and two sisters Mrs. B. H. Davis of Norman and Mrs. Slyvania Harbour of Mangum.
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