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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1964
Page
1
Rich Ferguson urges early mailing to ease the holiday rush at the focal post office. Pack cards in local and out of town bundles with return addresses and first class stamps for priority handling. use zip codes and include contents lists in packages to aid identification if stamps are lost.
H L Hub King a Brownfield Farm Bureau director testifies at a Dallas Labor Department hearing. He supports permitting a supplemental farm labor force of Mexican or other foreign nationals under a general immigration statute or similar means. He cites Texas farming needs, bracero history, and rising imports while noting domestic labor shortfalls and growing foreign investment.
Partly cloudy today with a slow warming trend and high near 44 48 degrees. Southerly winds 10 to 20 mph with limited sunshine. Humidity 20 to 90 percent this morning improving. Sunrise 7 38 am sunset 5 39 pm. Friday high 2 degrees overnight low 23.
Dick Whittington will replace Love Miller as Terry County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Office manager. Miller retires after 32 years of service this month. Whittington, 27, comes from the Upton Reagan ASC office and will assume duties January 4 at Big Lake headquarters. He is married to LaJuana and they have two daughters.
The 30 day outlook for December shows temperatures and precipitation near or slightly below normal for the High Plains of Texas. Counties in the outlook include Terry Lynn Garza Gaines Dawson Borden Howard Deaf Smith Palmer Castro Swisher Briscoe Bailey Lamb Wale Floyd Motley Cochran Hockley Lubbock Crosby Dickens Yoakum. High pressure systems expected to dominate with the main track from the central west coast across the Rockies to the Gulf Coast states. December is normally dry with average precipitation well below an inch. western areas see six-tenths inch and eastern counties around eight-tenths inch.
Brownfield High School FFA youths gave a program to the Optimist Club during a luncheon at Moneer Natural Gas Flame Room. Robert Becker introduced the group noted for contest success and planned Huntsville state leadership entry. Members named include Pulgham Haywood Hudson Longbrake Seaton Pettigrew Thurman.
Dallas report on a Texas Farm Bureau spokesman backing temporary foreign labor for farming. King of Brownfield argues domestic labor cannot meet wage-competitive needs, urging Mexican labor import or food import. Hearing at Sheraton Dallas on Immigration Act waivers ahead of bracero program expiration.
King argues that shifting to smaller farming units so a farm family handles most labor would not provide a workable solution to the farm labor problem, noting his point on the FARM Page 7.
The mercury fell to 16 degrees in Brownfield early Friday at KKUB, the city’s official weather station, marking the season’s coldest depth. The previous low was 20 degrees, and Friday’s high barely reached 31. Weekend warming began with an overnight low of 28 Saturday.
Brownfield council members spent two hours on a seven item agenda. They set January 7 1965 as the bid receipt date for the Brownfield Community Antenna Television System project and heard BCATS co owners report they are ready for bids. General Telephone Company of the Southwest announced joint use of utility poles and contract arrangements with BCATS. The council also weighed codifying ordinances under Municipal Code Corporation guidance with a four thousand dollar cost for 100 copies and deferred action pending study. Police Chief James Tippit spoke on intoxicant control and invited council members to a Teenager assembly at Brownfield High School. A Monsanto Fertilizer plant location on the railroad right of way was discussed with action deferred pending zoning board input. A sign permit request was denied due to policy.
TEC reports 30,237 bales ginned in Terry County for the week ending Friday morning, pushing yearly total to 59,332 bales and surpassing last season’s figures. Last year at this time 74,076 bales had been ginned in the county.
Brownfield hosts 2 pm event titled Operation Teenager featuring four Huntsville inmates sharing talks on their paths to crime and lessons learned. The program, held in the Brownfield High School Auditorium, is open to Brownfield, Meadow, Wellman, and Union students and interested residents.
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