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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1966
Page
3
A retrospective lists events from Terry County including Brownfield Quarterbeck Club, Chamber studies, golden anniversary at M and M Study, Episcopal retreat planned, and local notes on school tests, 4-H, and community life spanning decades with multiple mentions of residents and anniversaries.
Keeler's Corner Meg and others organize for upcoming bowling season. Bowlerette League, Alley Katz and Housewives League set start dates at Sands Reeling Lanes with lanes available for nonleague players. Toby Bowlers will have free lessons September 10 for students through grade 12, led by TABY instructors Mrs Weldon Morton and Mrs Carl Pye. Jockey Sam Boulmetis won the World's Playground Stakes four times at Atlantic City.
Members met Tuesday in the Flame Room to organize the Bowlerette League. Officers present were Carolyn Reed president Darlene Lasiter vice president and Billie Morton secretary and treasurer. Nine or more members are needed to complete the league for the fall season with a 6 31 p.m. Sept 12 start for three rounds.
Private Don A. Frazier was assigned as a missile crewman in Battery D, 1st Missile Battalion, 65th Artillery, 30th Artillery Brigade on Okinawa, Aug. 13. He left Brownfield High School in 1965 and attended Midwestern University in Wichita Falls. He is a member of Phi Mu Alpha.
Orville Freeman, Secretary of Agriculture, will be the guest speaker at the High Plains Research Foundation Tenth Annual Field Day on Sept 8. Foundation president Moore says attendance could surpass the 6 500 crowd last year with a noon to 3 30 p m schedule and Freeman speaking at 5 p m after an introduction by Congressman George Mahon.
Denny Renfro son of Mrs Billie Renfro has been awarded silver dolphins after qualifying in submarines. Commander Lieutenant R B McComb notes this places him among an exclusive group, with demanding hours and added duties. Nuclear propulsion opens new opportunities and broader Navy education programs for qualified sailors.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Thursday in Brownfield Memorial Chapel for John W. Wright 31 of San Antonio and a former Brownfield resident. Rev. Mack D. Abbott of Roswell officiated. Burial followed at Terry County Memorial Cemetery under Brownfield Funeral Home direction. Wright died after a truck accident on Tuesday morning at Harris Hospital Fort Worth. He was married to Martha Eleanor Bullard of Brownfield. Survivors include his wife, two children at home, his parents John Wright of Hageman New Mexico and Mrs H C Brownfield, and a brother Wayne.
Jimmy R. Briggs of 704 Mag poelia has been appointed field representative for Woodmen of the World. A Trenton native with education from South Plains College, he has worked in insurance since 1943. Briggs, married with one child, belongs to Woodmen Camp 4444 and enjoys fishing and hunting. Announcement by E A Bowers, Woodmen State Manager for northwest Texas.
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