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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1972
Page
1
Brownfield’s Casual Corner notes a cookbook advance with a hip salad recipe and warns readers about holiday car theft risks. It also highlights letters about justice and satire, local events, contests, library closures, and merchants’ Christmas promotions including Moonlight Madness sales and a color TV giveaway.
The Brownfield region experiences a modest warmup with temperatures rising into the mid 50s on Monday and Tuesday. Wet fields and icy roads earlier hindered driving and farming, but precipitation eases while temperate air returns, according to the National Weather Service via Civil Defense wires reported by Lewis Simmonds.
The 7th to 9th grade choirs will present a Christmas oriented program at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Middle School Auditorium with no admission charge and public invitation. The event will include a few non Christmas songs as well.
Monday is the deadline for submitting names of families to receive Goodfellows visits in Brownfield this year. City manager Jake Geron said names have been collected since December 10 and that deliveries will be made Saturday. He noted the program serves those who would not have Christmas otherwise and that funds are tighter due to a United Fund shortfall.
The Brownfield News announces a Christmas Coloring Contest with $15 total prizes for four winners. Entries due by 5 p.m. Thursday, two age groups 2-6 and 7-12, with two $5 winners and two $2.50 runners up. Chick Lee of Brownfield Art Association will judge.
Jerry Garms an oil field salesman for the Western Company based in Brownfield travels a demanding route through West Texas facing dust winds and occasional blue northerns. He has 25 years in the Persian Basin and lives with his wife Toni and children in Brownfield. The region’s drilling rigs and presence of Diamond Back rattlesnakes shape his cautious daily rounds.
The Wellman School Board awarded Durbin Construction Company a 442500 bid for a new elementary school with nine classrooms and support spaces and set a 330 day completion. The same bid package includes high school lighting, carpet, air conditioning, and football field lights. Also on the agenda were another contract to be let later and the resignation of tax assessor-collector Donald Martin.
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