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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1963
Page
1
Brownfield residents suffered water outages during a deepfreeze weekend with over 200 calls to the water department. Officials report three main lines broke by pressure changes, not freezing, as crews work 24 hours to thaw and restore normal service later in the week.
The Brownfield Cotton Classing Office will close Friday with samples shipped to the Lubbock office for classification. Through Tuesday, 262,040 samples from Terry Gaines and Yoakum counties have been classed. final tallies and per-county bases will be released soon. Micronaire readings declined last week amid higher overall quality variability.
A municipal electric plant outage left many homes without power for about 15 minutes on Tuesday. Officials attributed the failure to a generator going out at the plant, triggering an overload on a second motor and the subsequent loss of electricity from 6 10 to 6 25.
The Brownfield Boys Club started its 1963 fund drive with a noon luncheon at the Party House. The 500 Club aims to enroll 50 to 60 donors giving at least $1 monthly, or $12 yearly via monthly or quarterly drafts. President Richard Prigmore and Executive Director Ralph Burton outlined signup procedures and distributed materials.
A string of weekend fires touched different sites. At the Marion Josselet residence in Lons Street the den fire caused about 100 in wall damage after a late-night discovery by the daughter. Fire officials suspect thawing a water pipe earlier that evening contributed to the blaze.
Dr. Marvin P. Baker of South Plains CollegeLevelland spoke to the Brownfield Kiwanis Club and junior high honor students on education as the key to tomorrow. He urged a balance of science and the arts and warned against teaching technology alone, while recognizing youth in the audience and noting new club officers for 1963.
Funeral services for J. B. Worsham 57 Terry County resident were held at 3 pm Wednesday at the First Methodist Church. Burial followed at Terry County Memorial Cemetery. Worsham, a longtime mail contractor for the U S Post Office, died Monday night after a two week illness. He moved to Terry County in 1919 from Mena Arkansas and married Edna Machen in 1926 at Tokio. Survivors include his wife two sons a daughter a brother four sisters and seven grandsons. Pallbearers were L E Sis Hamilton Clarence Lewis William C Brown A Winn Virgil Proffitt and Omar Dalton.
Delbert Downing a Midland notable speaker will address the Men's Bible Class of First Methodist Church and guests at a supper in the Fellowship Hall Friday at 6 30 p m. Harry Goble class president notes Downing formerly Midland Chamber of Commerce manager has spoken here before and now pursues speaking and writing full time.
Terry County Commissioners Court approved a 10 percent salary increase for all courthouse employees and officials under its jurisdiction retroactive to January 1. The increase excludes other county staff. The court also formed the County Historical Survey Committee, filled board vacancies, advertised for bids for a depository for county and school funds, and created a 250 dollar Civil Defense fund with city contribution. Two weeks vacation with pay and sick leave were authorized. conference attendance dates were left open for now.
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