The Rejects Win Grand Talent Title at Brownfield Tourney
The Rejects from Brownfield High School earned grand winners at the ninth annual Tournament of Talent. In a field of 63 entries over two nights they claimed top honors in the High School Division and faced runoff with winners from Negro Elementary and Junior High divisions.
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Brownfield Lions
Rejects
Doug Simpson
Eddie Gutierrez
Sammie Garcia
Jerry Purtell
Brownfield High School
Lions Tournament of Talent
Alisa Ree Sims
Jimmy J. Sims
Route Ropesville
Alisa
A. V. Wall
Brownfield
the Rejects
Steven Brian Sims
Boy Recovers From Near Hanging In Texas Town
An 11 year old boy Harold Wayland Brown is hospitalized in Terry County after hanging from a rope in the Marson Apartment yard. Neighbor Mrs G W Morrow cut him down and performed CPR saving him. The boy was unconscious ten minutes before rescue. Family recently moved from El Paso. father works in the oilfield.
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Harold Wayland Brown
Terry County Hospital
Ing
Mrs. Morrow
Harold
Association Warns Against Drifting Insurance Agents
A spokesman for the National Association of Life Underwriters cautions buyers against paying full-year premiums to drifting agents and urges dealing with local, licensed agents. Reports note multiple cases where upfront payments led to nearly worthless hospitalization policies, with checks made out to the agent rather than the company.
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Association
National Association of Life Underwriters
Chamber Resolution Backs Brownfield By Pass Paving Plan
Chamber of Commerce directors approve a resolution opposing a hard surfaced extension of Old Lamesa Highway near Brownfield Texas. The action favors routing trucks around the city and supports future by pass plans aligned with State 137 while recalling the December 1958 butane truck explosion.
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Brownfield Chamber of Commerce
Lubbock-Tahoka Highway
Terry County Commissioners Court
Lamesa Highway
Lamesa
Chamber
State 137
Branfield
Lubbock Highway
Brownfield
Retail Trades Committee
Terry County
Texas
Commissioners’ Court
Texas Highway Department
Chamber of Comcorporated Field
Mrs. Helen Sampson Files for Brownfield Trustee Seat
Mrs. Helen Sampson of 902 East Reppete is the second woman to file for the Brownfield public schools trustee race. She competes with four men for three positions on the April 1 ballot, with filing open until 5 pm in the high school business office. Election hours are 8 am to 7 pm at the county superintendent's office.
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Brownfield Public Schools
R. B. Sampson
East Reppte
Brownfield Board of Education
J. O. Burnett, Jr
East Cardwell
Robert Baumgardner
Truett Finche
East Buckley
Bilie B. Moore
East Oak
Dillie M. Kelley
Baumgardner
Burnett
James Thurman
E. C. Davis
Fast Broadway
Sampson
Helen
Helen), Busty Mother of Two Sons, To Filet
Bailey Chevrolet
Bob) Sampson
Jack Bailey Chevrolet
Mark
Timothy
Helen Sampson
First Methodist Church
Eastern Star
Brownfield
Sampsons
Civil War Centennial Plans in Terry County Faces Meeting
Civil War centennial observances in Terry County will be planned at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the offices of County Judge Ray mond A. Simms. The meeting at the courthouse will involve sons and daughters of Civil War veterans and Texas Historical Society members.
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Terry
Raymond A. Simms
Sons and Daughters of
The
Texas Historical Society
Terry County
W. A
Judge
Largest Terry County Junior Livestock Show outlined
A 4 p.m. courthouse meeting detailed April 17 as the Terry County Junior Livestock Show. 124 youths from FIA and 4-H will show about 183 head, with premiums set for steers and swine and numerous officials named including Robert Becker and Monty Griffin.
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Terry County
FIA
Robert Becker Brownfield
Membership Drive Set Kick-off Breakfast in Terry County
The Terry County Farm Bureau kicks off its annual spring membership drive with an 8 a.m. breakfast at Fellowship Hall of the First Methodist Church. Guest speaker is Millard Shivers of Waco, Texas Farm Bureau state organizational director. The goal is 930 members for 1961, with four-member recruitment teams over four days led by TCIB president Lloyd Wayne Yowell and vice president Graham Swain.
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Terry
County Farm Bureau
Fellowship Hall
First’ Methodist Church
Millard Shivers
Waco
Texas Farm Bureau
Lloyd Wayne Yowell
TCIB
Graham Swain
Conservative U S Senate candidate in Wichita Falls visits town
A Raleigh or Wichita Falls reader recounts Mr John Tower visiting for a Tuesday night fundraising dinner. The article quotes Tower on conservatism and critique of Kennedy s recession policy. Tower supports reducing debt and limited government while warning against overreliance on federal aid. He defends constitutional tax policy and asserts moral obligation to balance the budget.
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John Tower
U. S. Senate
Wichita Falls
James Evans
Mr. Tower
John
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Paul
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Bayless Jewelry
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Kirschner's
Smith Machinery
David Nicholson Agency
Copeland Hardware
Frog
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Harold Brown
G. W. Morrow
Chicago
Billy Bond
Jim Nail
Jerry Jones
Joé Ed Sullivan
Homer Jones
FFA Boys
Stanley Dixon
Meadow
Walter Meyers
Becker
FFA
Bruce Griffith
Jimmy Nail
Raymond Smith
Frank Gorton
Weldon Mason
Jim Foy
Robert Becker
Joe Ed Sullivan
By Curtis Sterling
Democratic Party
America
Kennedy
Congress
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