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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1966
Page
1
Local readers note a bright Christmas star atop the Brownfield courthouse and humor about signs and traffic at the Lamesa Seagraves intersection. A Meadow couple won five shares of TIME stock via a booth ceremony, and Dollar Day sales loom in Brownfield ahead of the holidays.
Douglas Cox, son of Mr. Doug Cox and Brownfield High School senior, was named Young Texan of the Month by the local Optimist Club at its regular Thursday meeting. He has competed in football and track since junior high, earning three letters in football.
County Attorney Virgil Crawford and District Attorney Bill Boedecker said no charges were planned in the death of Lang Don Meador after he was fatally shot by a pellet from a 12 gauge shotgun fired by Deputy Fred Tucker during a prowler incident near Brownfield. The case centers on a deputy responding to a prowler report at the Moorhead home four miles southeast of Brownfield. Meador, a Brownfield High School sophomore, died at the scene. funeral arrangements were announced. Survivors include two sisters and extended family.
Thirty farmers signed up for the Crop Land Adjustment program at the Articultural Stabilization Conservation Office by 5 p.m. Friday. Only $40,322 was allocated for Terry County, six farmers used the fund on a first come basis, with signup open through March 31 and more funds to follow. The program pays six cents a pound for cotton plus yield, and 41 cents a bushel for feed plus yield, with non basic land eligible at about $7 per acre. contracts run five or ten years and land is to be in cover crops.
Terry County Farm Bureau members held a special meeting and voted nine to one to back the 1-a-base check-off bill. They stressed personal interest as cotton producers and urged all producers to vote in the referendum. Ballots mailed from the ASCS office Friday and voting runs Monday through Friday with a 5 p.m. Friday deadline for receipt.
A presidents meeting of 13 local civic and service organizations was held at the Chamber of Commerce offices. Members discussed a 1967 Program of Work and an idea fair with committees on Highway and Transportation Public Affairs Tourism and Convention Community Development Retail Education and Recreation with scheduled meetings through December and January.
Brownfield City Council meets with seven items including retaining L A Rhyne as corporation judge at 125 dollars monthly plus 75 dollars for car expenses. Rhyne will handle magistrate duties three to four days weekly. Council discusses jail conversion, farm rent, police car exchanges, a new fire ordinance, and endorses a one percent city sales tax proposal to be considered by the legislature.
Two divisions surpassed their targets with the Employe Division led by Vernon Clem at 126 percent and $4,451.86 of a $3,500 goal. Holland Evans’s School Division hit 116 percent with $1,736.10 from a $1,500 goal. The Terry County United Fund Campaign chairman met at 10 a.m. Friday to review through November 30 and plan a second push toward $27,000. John J. Kendrick praised reaching 90 percent with $24,161.03 raised.
Kendrick says a two week extension will help raise the last ten percent of the campaign before Christmas. Advanced division stands at 87 percent with $15 915 96 raised while general division is 51 percent at $1 032 75 and rural division 76 percent at $1 714 36. Wholesale division has $500 goal and six percent raised with $30. Kendrick hopes to finish in one week as harvest season limits prospect reach.
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