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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1962
Page
2
Lew Worsham former U S Open champion and Oakmont pro is appointed winter golf pro at Coral Ridge Fort Lauderdale Florida The item notes Worsham as golf figure joining Coral Ridge for the season
Arrangements Chairman Ben Ramsey urged Texans to reserve spots for the statewide appreciation dinner honoring Governor and Mrs. Daniel Price. Reservations exceed 1,500. tickets cost 10 dollars and are obtainable by mailing to Ben Ramsey in Austin. The event is at 7 p.m. December 12 at the Municipal Auditorium.
Music students of Miss Ruth Yant from Jessie G. Randal Elementary School will perform Christmas carols in the cafeteria at 7 30 p m Monday. A brief business session follows and all parents and patrons are urged to attend.
Orville Sleepy Bailey of Hockley County is selected as Texas outstanding cotton ginner for 1962 by the Texas Cotton Ginners Association executive vice president E H Bush. Bailey, owner of Roundup Gin at Anton near Lubbock since 1944, leads a growth in ginning from 2700 to over 6000 bales in 18 years and has developed a seed cotton conditioning system. He serves on multiple industry boards and committees and was nominated for the Horace Hayden Memorial Award to be presented by the National Cotton Ginners Association next spring.
William Clark Quantrill renowned Civil War guerrilla leader died in a Louisville military hospital in 1865 from wounds suffered in battle.
The Texas Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee explained Dec 11’s cotton marketing quotas vote. If two thirds approve quotas, they apply to the 1962 upland crop with penalties on excess cotton and price support 65 to 90 percent of parity for compliant farms. a minority vote means no quotas and 50 percent parity for 1963. Allotments stay in effect regardless of quotas. All upland cotton producers in 1962 may vote.
Two boys reported running away from home near Lubbock and were released to their parents. Juan Alvier, 19, faced a $1000 bond on a prohibitive weapon charge. Jack Eicke, 54, was charged with selling whiskey and released on $500 bond. Jessie Manchika, 22, received a 60 day jail term and $26.70 costs after a car burglary charge in Meadow.
Louisville officials identify a local rock quarry and tunnel network capable of housing more than 100000 people as a potential fallout shelter in a nuclear attack scenario.
Citizens are urged to visit their local ASCS office for answers to questions about the upcoming vote.
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