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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1985
Page
1
Brownfield City Council plans regular session at 8 30 a m Thursday in city hall council chambers with four agenda items. Bids will be opened for an elevating scraper. In 1980 Brownfield purchased a scraper from Plains Machinery Company of Lub.
Texas loses high tech Saturn plant to Tennessee. Texas had other gains with Corpus Christi battleship homeport and rising coastal industrial activity. West Texas considers Plains Machinery repurchase option at 71 000 and bids for a new machine. city to intervene in Energas versus Westar case.
Brownfield issued July permits totaling 331584 led by a $120000 church commercial build at 103 W Hill and a $75000 new residence at 1716 E Broadway by Steve Vaughn. Through July 1985, permits reach 2026055, surpassing last year's Jan-July total.
Midland born Rotary District 573 governor Jack Biscoe will speak at Brownfield Rotary Friday noon at Coleman Park Party House. A longtime Midland West Rotary Club member since 1972 he has served as director of club services and president. A separate notice lists mobile home moves: 1002 S 4th St for 8,099 dollars and 702 N A St for 9,000 dollars.
Area law enforcement seeks information on 13 year old Shawn Bradley last seen near Wellman July 20. He is five feet four and a half inches, weighs 115 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. He wore a western blue plaid shirt faded blue jeans and white Velcro strapped tennis shoes. Call Terry County Sheriff's Department at 637-2212 or 637-2288 with sightings or tips.
Brownfield Independent School District schedules a 7 am special session to open bids for a four classroom addition at Oak Grove School due to rising enrollment and a state mandated class size ratio. The board will also address a revised 1985-86 school calendar and a newly filed lawsuit by four local citizens challenging BISD at large voting procedures.
The first in a series of NEWS interviews with Brownfield pioneers recalls 1915 arrival by immigrant railroad car, a town of eight hundred, wagon ruts, a water trough and bandstand, and early hardships. R R Benton, aged 84, recalls cotton planting, corn, a power boiler hauled by burros, and treating flu patients in 1918 as the town grew toward Terry County.
Brownfield’s Little League All-Stars were eliminated by Dumas All-Stars 5-2 in eight innings at the regional tournament held in Dumas. The game stayed tied 2-2 through seven innings before Dumas pulled away with three runs in the eighth.
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