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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1972
Page
1
Brownfield column notes Old WHN will soon sport personalized plates reading OLD WHN. Col. Holly Osborne visits to sponsor space in Texas Lawman. local births, Christmas events, and other small town updates follow.
The Terry County Chamber of Commerce announces nominations for the 1972 Top Citizen of Terry County. Nominations close January 1 with the banquet planned for the second week of January. Harvest Festival net profit reported as 7,712.82 on income 15,212 and expenses 7,499.18.
Santa urges kids to mail letters early for Christmas. Brownfield Postmaster Howard Davis helps copy all letters for rush to the North Pole. letters printed in the December 24 Christmas Eve edition.
The Brownfield City Council asked the Texas Highway Department to install flashing lights and widen the paved shoulders on Tahoka and Lubbock roads to improve driveway safety. They discussed the department survey, approved a zoning change for parking minimums, accepted a land gift for a city park with no use restrictions, and approved purchasing a Purroughs L5000 posting and billing machine for 19 291 plus trade in.
U S Congressmen George Mahon and Lloyd Bentsen announce HUD authorized a preliminary loan of 7 200 to the Brownfield Housing Authority. The funds will fund construction of 36 low rent housing units, 16 set aside for the elderly.
Local Brownfield figures promote the Fred Smith Memorial Fund a scholarship created by the late band instructor. Principal Jesse Geron and Klein's Department Store owner Harold Klein push awareness and donations to sustain a single scholarship aiding needy students, not limited to music, with gift options through local banks or trustees Jesse Geron and Harold Klein.
The Rev Adrian Kolean will be installed as minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Brownfield today after a congregational supper at 6 30 p m. Palo Duro Union Presbytery leads the service. Kolean arrived November 29 from McAlister Ohio and has pastored churches in Missouri Mississippi Tennessee and Arkansas. He holds a BA from Hope College and an MDiv from Louisville Theological Seminary. He and wife Mary Jo live in Brownfield with two daughters Lizbeth a Dallas Presbyterian Hospital nurse and Mrs Horace Plum of Arkadelphia.
Fair but cold days boost Terry County cotton harvest with 36,969 bales weighed by Friday morning. The gain compares to 20,489 more bales since last Friday's report per Guy Britton of the Texas Employment Commission.
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