12 Jan 1997
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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1997
Page
1
Terry County property owners have three weeks left to pay taxes to any of the county's 10 governments. Friday, Jan. 31 is the deadline to avoid penalties. After Jan. 31 penalties and interest rise monthly, reaching 12 percent penalty by July plus ongoing interest and 15 percent attorney fees. Postmark by Jan. 31 if paying by mail. Ronny Burran reports latest collection figures.
About 400 volunteers from Colorado, Kansas and parts of New Mexico Texas gathered outside the Brownfield Kingdom Hall for a three day project to construct a new auditorium and remodel the existing building. Project overseer Nevada St Clair noted labor is donated and travel costs saved about $90000. Workers from Lovington Clovis Artesia Perryton Clarendon Abilene Sweetwater and El Paso came to the site. all are baptized Jehovah's Witnesses seeking spiritual reward.
A reflective column contrasts HAL from 2001 with today’s rapid tech advances. It traces how machines once fictional now inch toward self thinking, notes dramatic knowledge growth since 1900, and ponders future self aware computers and their impact on society.
Jim McDonald, Training Manager for Compliance at Brownfield Intermediate Sanction Facility, discusses his varied career in law enforcement and his satisfaction with CCA's training culture. He trained recruits in CPR and first aid, and instructs on chemical agents and control techniques.
Brownfield officials and a wind power company representative travel to Washington, D C, to be interviewed by the DOE and EPRI regarding the Wind Turbine Verification Program Phase III. The project would place two clusters of three turbines each on city outskirts, tying directly into local lines, with possible funding and location changes under consideration.
The Terry County Commissioners meet at 10a.m. Monday to set salaries for officials and employees, appoint county committees, form a grievance committee, approve first year orders, and consider bids for health insurance and new vehicles. They will reconvene with Architect David Messersmith on the West Texas Children's Center progress and approve deputation records for the Sheriff’s Department and Tax Assessor-Collector.
The Brownfield Industrial Corporation board meets Monday at 4 p.m. in the City Council Board Room to hear an ad valorem tax update with Ronny Burran and a report on the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Prison Board meeting. They will also discuss incentives for a proposed peanut shelling facility and other current activities. Public welcome. Contact City Hall at 637-4547.
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