Annual Clean Up Drive Concludes Here Saturday
Brownfield finished a week long Clean up Paint up Fix up campaign as Mayor C Primm praised citizen effort. The city will complete remaining jobs by Saturday evening and focus on removing stagnant water and insect breeding sites with fogging and trash collection rescheduled for Monday. Local groups including Boy Scouts Jaycees and various civic clubs aided the effort.
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Brownfield
C. Primm
Primm
Eunice Jones
Boy Scouts
Jaycees
American Legion
Rotary
Alpha Omega
Kiwanis
Lions
Chamber of Commerce
ESA
Delphian
Garden Club
Music Club
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Parent-Teacher Association
T. B. Richards
E. Ripley
Ripley
Duncan Ellison
Insurance reform via premium penalties for accidents
A columnist argues auto insurance should penalize drivers with accidents and reward safe drivers. Using a tiered base of 20 dollars, premiums rise after accidents and fall with clean records, aiming to curb risky driving and reduce overall costs. The piece ends with a local anecdote involving a hospital visit and a double birth.
Dollar Day Edition Prompts Brownfield Watch
Monday in Brownfield marks the traditional first Monday Dollar Watch for the Dollar Day Edition on your lawn, with reminders for Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning displays.
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Brownfield
County Oil Activity Light During Week
Relative quiet reigned on the oil front in Terry county during the week. Completions numbered three in the Prentice field. Tennessee Production Co pumped 121.65 barrels from north and west lines of Section 22, Block K, PSL Survey. Honolulu Oil Corp pumped 77 and 161 barrels from Ella Covington locations with no water. J C Barnes No 1 Elmore swab testing, no gauges. Mid West Oil Corp No 1 Roy Golden drilling at 4 833 feet in anhydrite and lime. Anderson Prichard Oil Corp No 1 Oil Development Co drilling at 5 519 feet in lime.
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Terry County
Prentice Field
Tennessee Production Co
C. B. Townes
PSL Survey
Honolulu Oil Corp
Ella Covington
Merchants Announce New Summer Hours Schedule
Downtown stores shift to a summer schedule opening at eight a m and closing at five p m Monday morning. Participating shops include Collins Department Store Dunlap's Cobb's Shelton's Franklin's Go're Shoppe City Cleaners Graves Cleaners Broadway Cleaners Sid's Cleaners and Phillips Cleaners.
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Collin'’s Department Store
Dunlap’s
Cobb's
Shelton's
Franklin’s
the Go’'re Shoppe
City Cleaners
Graves Cleaners
Broadway Cleaners
Sid's Cleaners
Phillip’s Cleaners
Hiway Department Alters Plans For Right-of-Way Through City
State Highway Department officials briefed Brownfield and local leaders on widening U S 62. Right-of-way rises from 80 to 100 feet with 12 feet clear behind, forcing most filling stations to move pumps and boosting damage costs. City eyes bond issue for funds.
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Hiway
Brownfield
State Highway Department
Highway Department
C. C. Primm
R. W. Tureker
Lubbock
Hockley
Ofa
Magnolia Camp
Reppto Street
Prinun
Repp
Tucker
Lions Host Soap Box Derby Entrants in Brownfield
Brownfield youths set to participate in the annual Soap Box Derby in Lubbock this summer were guests of the Brownfield Lions club at a noon luncheon. The program featured the Soap Box Derby film Opportunity on Wheels with Jake Geroa presiding as president and F N Martin serving as program chairman.
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Brownfeld
Lubbock
Brownfield Lions Club
Jake Geroa
F. N. Martin
Fletcher Hester and Emmett Royer to receive MD degrees
Two Brownfield men, Fletcher Hester and Emmett Morgan Royer, will receive doctor of medicine degrees at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas on June 7. The 100 seniors will graduate at McFarlin Memorial Auditorium with remarks by Dr. Edward L Turner and degree conferral by Tom Sealy. Hester plans internships, exams, and an immediate medical stint in Texas and California before settling in.
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Brownfield
Fletcher Hester
Emmett Morgan Royer
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Dallas
McFarlin Memorial Auditorium
Edward Lewis Turner
American Medical Association Council On Medical Education and Hospitals
Tom Sealy
Midland
University of Texas Board of Regents
George N. Aagaari
Southwestern Medical School
Atticus James Gill
Robert Woodfin Lackey
John Stewart Chapman
Hester
J. N. Hester
Lubbock
West Texas Hospital
Austin
California
San Diego County Hospital
Childre
Kirk
Cynthia Lou
Local Man Seriously Hurt In Auto Truck Collision
Alvin Hallbauer of Brownfield sustained multiple fractures and lacerations in a head on collision ten miles south of Brownfield on Farm Road 403. He was transported to Treadaway-Daniel hospital then moved to a Lubbock hospital. his wife had just given birth in Lubbock earlier that week. The truck driver Baylos James Wood and his 15 year old son Mack were involved. MacK underwent examination with results not released. Hallbauer is employed by HEB Construction Company.
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Alvin Hallbauer
EB. Broadway
Methodist Hospital
Lubbock
Brownfield
Hallbauer
Farm Road
Foster Road
Baylos James Wood
Rt. 2
Mack
Treadaway-Daniel Hospital
Halbauer
HEB Construction Company
Here
B. J. Wood
Farmer
Wellman
Duncan Ellison
Building Permits Totals Lag Behind Last Year
May permits total 57 350 bringing five month sum to 275 420 versus 566 070 for same period last year. Fifteen active applicants include Ex Proctor 1 400, 1910 BK Hill 6 000, 810 E Harris 500, 200 N 12 1 000, 602 B Sons 400, 1213 S 5th 150, 10015 W Powell 1 900, Magnolia Dr homes 12 000, 500 Magnolia Dr 6 000, 1202 Broad way 7 000, 1216 Lona 12 400, 905 1 Lake 15 000.
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First Methodist Church
W. M. Thomason
E. Harris
Neal Thompson
N. 12
Howard Davis
B. Sons
Co. L. Aven
Magnolia Drive
Henry Gaston
B. Broadway
Co. L. Aven, Jr
Lona
Farris Nowell
Mit
Lake
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Ralph Bailey
Sherman
Soil Conservation Districts
South Plains
Terry County Soil Conservation District No. 151
Amarillo
Agriculture Department
United States Department of Agriculture Research Service
Gaines Hocks
Startin
Howard, Yoakum
Lynn, Dawson
Cochran
Terry Counties
Ed Ouat
Ida
Hockley County
B.D. Jones
City? Superintendeot
Lions Entertain Soap Box Derby
Emmett M. Royer
Wood
Althou
Jake Geron
Proctor
W. Lake
Flora Williams
BK. Hill
S. Alton
S. 5Th
W. R. Marsh
W. Powell
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