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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1965
Page
5
The Texas Employment Commission reports a strong month with record employment driven by boosted trade activity. Non manufacturing jobs rise by about 41 000 mostly temporary in retail and post offices. An unemployment uptick is forecast in January due to after Christmas cutbacks and bad weather.
A New Eyes program helps a Virginia woman and others including a leper patient, a farmer, a diabetic in a wheelchair, a six year old, an elderly pensioner, and a discouraged adult obtain glasses. People may apply via New Eyes or welfare clinics with local hospital staff handling care. Community donations of used glasses are urged, wrapped separately and mailed to New Eyes for the Needy, Short Hills, New Jersey.
A note directs readers to call the Women's Editor at Brownfield News for inquiries, with the contact number 637 3116. The text also mentions substituting oil in muffin recipes and asks about hosting guests.
Col Morris S Schwartz state Selective Service director told Texas college registrars in a letter that draft boards could extend to ages 26 through 35 to meet armed forces quotas. He urged rapid reporting of male students who drop below full-time or leave college to preserve serious students, noting deferments reduce intake and many in the 26 to 35 range may qualify for other deferments.
Extension Service specialist John Seibert of Lubbock explains the income averaging provision of the Internal Revenue Code. By averaging the four prior years’ income and applying 133 1 3 percent, the result reduces this year’s taxable income if it exceeds 3000 dollars. Farmers and ranchers with emergency high incomes from droughts or mixed crop sales may benefit.
A note favors pastel food coloring in holiday cookie dough and cake batters, saying pastel hues are more attractive in baked goods than bright or dark shades. The suggestion emphasizes the appeal of softer tones for festive treats.
George, age 23, won a five man race for state representative in four West Texas counties Cochran Hockley Terry Yoakum. He later taught history at South Plains College and served as Texas Tech administrative assistant. He chairs Morton Area Chamber efforts and serves on West Texas Chamber committees. He pushed junior college legislation and the Texas Student Loan program while organizing Legislative Community Councils in four counties. He travels with a weekly eight speeches and leads youth crime conferences in his counties. He was an early 1960s West Point alternate and appeared in Who's Who in American Colleges.
In the tale set in Bethlehem Mary and Joseph answer a census decree by Caesar Augustus. A stable cradle holds the newborn Jesus wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger, a simple scene that belies its future glory as voices recall the old story amid a world slow to heed.
A cooperative study by the Water Development Board and The University projects population growth by county from 1960 to 2020. Bexar El Paso Travis Nueces and eight others rise in share then stabilize or grow, with two-thirds of Texans living in fifteen counties by 55 years.
George was named to the four man committee on district expansion for South Plains College, reflecting ongoing governance efforts at the institution. The appointment signals focus on regional growth and program planning within the college system.
State Rep. Jesse T. George spoke Monday at the Annual Ladies Night Christmas Banquet of the Ropesville Lions Club. He warned that Texas crime rose 88 percent in ten years and juvenile crime 177 percent, urging citizens to push growth through initiative and hard work. about 24 attended.
In Leeds England a Methodist Liaison Committee formed by opponents of church reunion with the Church of England aims to overturn the decision at next year’s Methodist Conference. The group claims about half of British Methodists back the opposition and warns that forcing union on current Catholic lines would divide the church and fault the Conference.
The Wellman School held its annual Christmas program with the high school Girls' Choir and 5th and 6th graders performing. James Tidenbergs, Southern Baptist missionaries, spoke at Wellman Baptist Church and a post service open house followed.
The new home of Mr Quinn Casey and Mrs Casey is nearing completion Casey serves as principal of the Elementary school at Wellman Wellman college students are home for the holidays
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