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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1989
Page
1
A US District Court jury cleared Ken Muldrow and 14 Brownfield area farmers of claims by migrant workers that they were paid below minimum wage from 1984 to 1986. Plaintiffs alleged violations of the federal Agricultural Workers Protection Act and the verdict was praised as fair by the defendant’s spokesman.
Brownfield Goodfellows Christmas toy drive persists as chairman Dick Fletcher reports recent cash contributions from the Middle School pep squad and Oak Grove PTA. Several individual businesses have given, and the Optimists and Lions clubs will collect toys at their upcoming events.
The Texas Adult Probation Commission approved funding Friday for the Regional Court Residential Treatment Center a project that began last spring at a town hall meeting sponsored by the Brownfield United Task Force. The Austin meeting finalized the financing and support for the facility.
The plan secures a 45 bed program to house first time felony non violent probationers in a minimum security treatment facility. The CRTC is tentatively scheduled to open August 1. The Advance Through the 90s UTF group collaborated with the city.
A columnist rails against 1-900 hotlines and high-pressure telemarketing. The piece contrasts past telephone respectability with today’s pay-per-minute calls offering jokes, horoscopes, gossip, and advice, urging readers to reconsider the phone as a tradeable commodity.
Brownfield city council discussed a chamber of commerce survey via a letter from Retail Business Committee Chair Ted Hardy. Twenty three responses addressed handicapped parking enforcement, fire zone ordinances, and traffic speed at the Tohoka Road Cedar Road junction, amid notes on highway patrol ticket rates.
The second annual Brownfield Rotary Invitational is scheduled for December 14 to 16, using both high school gyms and the middle school boys gym. Nine varsity teams include Abernathy Alpine Brownfield Canyon Denver City Eunice New Mexico Littlefield Snyder and Sweetwater. JV field lists Big Spring Brownfield Canyon Denver City Eunice Lamesa Levelland Littlefield Lubbock Coronado Lubbock Monterey Midland High and Midland Lee.
The Brownfield Development Foundation will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. Monday in the Terry County Courthouse District Courtroom to discuss the proposed location of a private prison facility. The Intermediate Sanction Facility would be under contract with the Board of Pardons and Parole. The site described is 20 acres near Highway 137 just south of the Court Residential Treatment Center.
The Brownfield High School Spirit Band will give a Christmas concert in the high school Big Gym at 7 30 p.m. this Monday. The performance should run about 30 minutes and the public is invited.
The Terry Memorial Hospital District board of directors plans to discuss selecting a new board member at its 7 p.m. meeting this Monday. The agenda item highlights ongoing governance and community representation.
A compact listing of sections and pages from the edition shows Inside Today with brief items on News Briefs and Obituaries. Page references indicate where Births Opinions and other features appear across 3A 4A 6A 11 12A and 9B.
Residents express cautious optimism about the Berlin Wall opening and the summit while warning against premature trust in the Soviet Union. They discuss freedom for East German youths, the pace of change, and the risk of renewed tension. Some call for continued U.S. support to Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary amid shifting Europe.
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