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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1971
Page
1
The writer thanks Howard Davis and Leona Davis for a stamp mini album and a packet of stamps offered to boost youth stamp collecting. Postal receipts rely on philatelist sales, as stamps are rarely used for postage. The note ends with a light quip about schoolchildren and a thermonuclear project askew humor.
The Brownfield News highlights a budding political contest with three candidates named in the election column. Santa visits Sears on two nights while plans for an American Legion banquet honor law enforcement rise. A community Christmas party distribution to needy children follows a bank event marking three advisory directors. Reservations open for the American Legion New Year’s Eve Dance and local merchants promise Yuletide greetings in the upcoming edition.
The 76th Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show runs Jan 28 to Feb 6 in Fort Worth with 11 000 head of livestock and 164 000 in premiums. Special Day welcomed by W R Watt offers a spotlighted intro, ticket block, rodeo grand entry, and Cowgirl Sweetheart honors. Judy Lynn headlines with a 20 performance run plus added acts and a total prize pot over 186 000 in rodeo winnings and overall prizes exceed 250 000 dollars.
Dry weather on the South Plains boosts cotton gins as farmers resume stripping fields toward a white cotton Christmas. Harvest operations expand in southern and western counties while northern fields remain wet. USDA classing offices report rising bale counts, with 181 000 bales classed this season and prices climbing $2.50 to $5 per bale from last week.
Police logs indicate fewer calls with varied incidents. Notable items include a drunk picked up and jailed, two-car wrecks and a lone parked car hit, plus miscellaneous calls about a stray horse, a locked child, a bitten dog, and vandalism at a station.
City Council discussed joining the South Plains Association of Governments SPAG and set dates for a revenue bond sale. Truett Mayes urged joining now to avoid higher costs. dues drop from 15 to 10 cents per capita, totaling $967.40 annually, with a formal resolution to be approved.
Terry County United Fund board meets to delay campaign until January due to seasonal rush and harvest delays. President Fulkerson cites remaining contacts and hopes for better weather and renewed support to reach the 28,500 goal. SPAG attendance planned with Mayor Hamilton as representative and Alton Webb as alternate. bonds to be sold before March 31, 1972.
Texas has reached Phase IV of the hog cholera eradication program marking the move toward being free of the disease. Officials note a three month outbreak-free period the longest since hog cholera emerged in the state over a century ago. If Texans keep herds free for one year the state will join 29 others declared disease free.
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