Casual Corner Notes Highlight Local Life and Changes
Brownfield notes honor Grady Goodpasture and reflect on a life well lived. Community items include church purchasing a minister’s home, home sales, Gen Tel directory updates, a pedestrian accident, a gallery reception, and a business merger between Brownfield Body Shop and Chevrolet Body Shop.
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First Christian Church
Truett
AOK Motors
Brownfield
Tom Zorns
Delbert Lewis McNiel
Randal E. McNiel
Lamesa Road
Michael Seaton
Brownfield General
Hurd Gallery
Barefoot Sanders
U. S
Howard Hurd I
Howard
Bettye Hurd
Texas Medical School
San Antonio
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Kelsay-Blacklock
Brownfield Body Shop
Chevrolet Body Shop
Jesse Lozada
Chevrolet
Carlos Vera
Lozada
Holiday Restaurant Changes Hands in Brownfield
Claude Edgin and Ernst Jordi take over management of the Holiday House Restaurant at 1301 Tahoka Road as W. T. Gibbs continues to run the Holiday House motel and Velvet Club in the same complex. Edgin brings Sundown Supreme Restaurant experience and Jordi, Swiss trained executive chef at the Lubbock Country Club since 1962.
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Claude Edgin
Ernst Jordi
Tahoka Road
W. T. Gibbs
Velvet Club
Brownfield
Edgin
Supreme
Sundown
Jordi
Lubbock Country Club
Switzerland
American teen recalls Finland trip with Lions Club
Toni Dixon describes a six week stay in Finland as part of a Lions Club sponsored Texas group. She details arrival in Dallas, host families in Helsinki from Antila to language barriers, a mid-summer night religious gathering, and a blind man's buff style game with a sausage prize.
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America
Toni Dixon
Stanley Dixon
S. Lons
Finland
Lions Club
Texas
Toni
Dallas
Germany
Helsinki
Antilla
The
Lions Clubs
Dave Cushman
Forecast Says Clouds Might Weep A Little
The Civil Defense weather teletype wire notes little change in the pattern through Tuesday. Afternoons stay partly cloudy with a few isolated showers possible. evaporation around a third of an inch per day. highs in the upper 80s to low 90s and lows in the 60s, with northern readings dipping to the upper 50s. Crops progress, weeds remain a problem, cotton growth could improve with higher temps.
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Civil Defense
Lewis Simmonds
Crosswalks Planned on Tahoka Road
Brownfield Police Department spokesman says crosswalks will be erected on Tahoka Road but state highway permission is required. Residents on the north side have pressed the issue and traffic officials are coordinating with the highway department to address it promptly.
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Tahoka Road
Brownfield
Highway Department
City approves zone change and public hearing summary
The city council, led by Mayor pro-tem Alton Webb, held a public hearing on extending C-1 and C-2 zones to properties including Block 8 east addition and Cordill addition. Westinghouse Electric plans a local plant site, restrooms at Mini Park bid awarded to Williford Construction, and an amplification ordinance to study. An appreciation dinner for Senator Tower, with Earl L. Butz as main speaker, set for August 29 in Lubbock.
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Zoning Board
Alton Webb
Lloyd Hahn
East Addition
Cardill
Oak Grove
Dewey Rogers
Dennis Lilly
Odell Sears
Bill Marchbanks
Lot 1
Block 30
Cordill Addition
Jake Geron
First and Main
First
Broadway
Cardwell
Buckley
Geron
Westinghouse Electric
Williford Construction Company
John G. Tower
Red Raider Inn
Lubbock
James W. Evans
Terry County
Republican Party
Earl L. Butz
Leonard M. Ellington
First National Bank
Ginger's Ready For School Supplies
Seven year old Ginger Stokum daughter of Mr and Mrs Ed Stokum 901 North B prepares for second grade. She shops for pads pens rulers and notebooks and reminds motorists to slow down for a safe happy school year.
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Ginger Stokum
Ed Stokum
North B
Newsfote
Dave Cushman
Wellman To Open Doors August 28
The 1972 73 school year begins for Brownfield Meadow and Union districts with Wellman opening August 28. Brownfield students registered Thursday as football and band practice proceed all week and teachers attend in service. Bus routes and cafeterias operate on schedule with Meadow pre registration and enrollment set for Monday. Odell Wilkes, superintendent, says total enrollment is expected.
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Brownfield
Meadow
Union
Wellman
Odell Wilkes
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CCC
Grady Goodpasture
John W. Gardner
Brownfield High
Cecil George
Richard
Holiday Restaurant
Ginger
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