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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1962
Page
2
The Terry County Voice recounts Gomez’s January 1 1904 pageant of the first Christmas tree. A standing room crowd, schoolchildren performances and Santa Claus delighted residents as gifts were exchanged, celebrating a communal event long remembered in Gomez.
The Brownfield Police Department answered 37 calls in November and made 92 arrests per a report to the City Council by Police Chief James Lipit. The file notes 31 city accidents to date, 215 for the year, 12 hazardous and 55 non-hazardous traffic tickets, 27 parking tickets raising the month total to 94, costs of 469.17 dollars, and 2320 dollars in fines collected. John Williamson, animal warden, reports 35 calls and 62 animals picked up, with 16 dead animals collected in the period.
Mr. and Mrs. John Bordeaux and their children will visit relatives in Arlington to spend the holiday season.
Mr and Mrs Jesse Grissom and their daughter will travel to Odessa to visit his parents and then proceed to Lubbock to see her parents during the holiday season.
The U S Department of Agriculture Classing Office in Brownfield reports heavy cotton receipts as harvest speeds up. For the week ending Friday 40 645 samples were classified and by Friday night 209 380 samples from Terry Gaines and Yoakum Counties had been classed. Daily sample intake runs about 6 000 with ample classing capacity and roughly 80 percent of the area’s expected crop is now classified with most of the remainder due by month’s end.
Firemen reported seven cotton seed and trash fires this month with two youths unharmed when cans of gasoline flew through flames. A truck trailer overturned on US 62 near Wellman but did not ignite. Dec fire total reached 18 in Brownfield and Terry County through Saturday morning with the worst disaster at 1209 West Lake leaving two families homeless.
Nine Brownfield Chamber of Commerce members attended a West Texas C of C orientation session in Lub bock this week. Preston Smith and Doc Blanchard with several state representatives were present. Attendees named: Paul Farrar Harry Elam Jim Parrish Herb Emery Charles Robison Bunce Jones Jake Geron Charles Kersh and A C Bishop.
Specialist Four Arthur L. Cole, son of Mr and Mrs Hiram Cole of Brownfield Texas, graduated from the seventh U S Army NCO Academy in Bad Tolz Germany. He completed four weeks of leadership and combat tactics training and serves as a team leader in Company D 30th Infantry in Schweinfurt Germany. Cole joined the Army July 1960 and trained at Fort Ord California after Denver City High School.
James Tippit presented desk name plates to all council members as gifts from the police department. Council discussed next year projects including Oak Grove Lake and an early settlement, with paving to begin in January and the first general paving program in two years. A suburb substation for improved electric distribution is slated for completion by April per City Manager Eunice Jones.
Levelland school superintendent Thad McDonnell will become president of Levelland State Bank starting January 8. The move follows Homer Johnson and Bob Reid purchasing controlling interest in the bank and accepting McDonnell’s resignation.
A Brownfield youth tried a new shoplifting gimmick at Piggly Wiggly on W Hill taking a $2.94 vitamin bottle and claiming a refund. He admitted past thefts at two markets and a local grocer bought the items. The store did not press charges. police warned him and released him.
Funeral services for Mrs. J P Benson, 73, Georgetown, mother of Johnny Benson, were held Saturday afternoon in Georgetown. She died of a heart attack Friday at 7 p m and will be buried in Liberty Cemetery, Georgetown. Survivors include her husband three other sons and several grandchildren.
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