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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1962
Page
1
A quintet of Terry county juniors plus an adult sponsor attend the annual American Legion Boys State in Austin with more than 600 Texas youths. The event teaches government by placing selected boys in state offices for a day on the University of Texas campus.
Juanita Mulkey daughter of Mr and Mrs C S Mulkey 918 South 6th is the first entry in the Miss South Plains beauty pageant. She is a May graduate of Brownfield High School and will compete with contestants from Terry Gaines and Yoakum Counties in the July 4 event. Tickets are 1 each and include a chance on a Miss Texas TV set drawn the night of the pageant. Local groups are collecting entry blanks from Johnny Keyes at Brownfield State Bank seeking contestants.
Jaycees sponsor a preliminary for the Miss Texas contest with the winner earning an all expenses paid trip to Fort Worth in August for the state pageant. The Texas winner will advance to Atlantic City for Miss America. Entrants must be 18 by Sept 1 and no older than 28. A Brownfield resident’s name is hidden in classifieds with two free theater tickets awaiting at the NEWS office for a consolation draw.
About 706 chiropractors are expected for the Texas State Chiropractic Association annual convention in Fort Worth from today through Saturday. Local doctors Dr T H Mellroy and Dr Howard W Mellroy will speak, joined by Dr John Q Thaxton of Raton New Mexico and Dr R T Leiter of Macon Georgia. A postgraduate refresher clinic is included and annual clinic attendance is required by Texas law for license renewal.
Brownfield area chamber directors inspected a portable sprinkler devised by R. J. Purtell near Brownfield, noting two systems under development to be manufactured southwest of the city on Level land Cutoff. They also covered conference responses on National Guard cuts, member growth, and local park preservation efforts.
Ella Fayne Williams twenty is found by city police at 701 West Bridges with a bullet wound to her left shoulder. A .25 caliber pistol lies on a dresser with one shot fired and five bullets in the chamber. Willie Williams husband says they argued prior to the incident. She is treated at Brownfield General with a non serious condition and states she wished to die.
Brownfield Boys Club team placed second in five events and third in one at the Texas Area Councils of Boys Clubs of America Track and Field Meet. The event in Abilene Christian College Stadium drew clubs from Fort Worth San Antonio Houston Odessa Abilene Lamesa and five more Texas cities. Second-place ribbons went to Mickey Bench and Randy Douglas in the 100 and 240 yard dashes in the 11 12 year old division. In the 13 14 year old division Tommy Bench and Mike Gauntt won 100 and 440 yard dashes with Bench Gauntt Bench and Cecil Farrar in the 440 yard relay. Tommy Cole earned a third in the 44 yard dash in the senior division.
A two car collision at 8 30 p m Sunday on Lubbock Road near Levelland Highway sent three residents to Brownfield General Hospital with minor injuries. Cars a 1962 Chevrolet driven by Randy Hodges 17 of Levelland and a 1961 Mercury driven by Carroll Hughlett of Denver City collided as Hodges turned onto Levelland Highway. Injured were Leon Hughlett 15 a passenger in the Mercury with a cut forehead and ear, Randy Hodges bruised elbow, and Walter Reed 17 a passenger in the Hodges car with a sprained back. All were treated and released.
In Galveston Mr and Mrs Carrol Collier of 120 West Tate are there as he takes part in the Texas State Funeral Directors Association annual convention. Collier works at Brownfield Funeral Home with his father Roy B Collier of 1204 East Buckley. The Galveston session ends Friday.
Douglas McDonald, 36, a former law enforcement officer, joined Sheriff James Fulford's staff as deputy on Friday. He previously served seven years as a deputy in Bay Minette Alabama before moving to Brownfield. The McDonalds moved here three years ago and ran the McDonald Irrigation Service with his brothers. They reside at 1111 South Fifth with wife Katherine and children Shirley Ann Kathy and Randy.
A Brownfield resident and Texas Tech student Stephen Rass Loe Jr., 21, was killed late Tuesday when a traffic incident occurred. Funeral arrangements were announced for today.
W. E. Pool a longtime Terry County farmer rancher died Sunday in Brownfield at age 86 after ill health. He homesteaded the Pool Ranch in 1916 near the area now known as the Pool Community. Services were Monday at Memorial Chapel Brownfield Funeral Home and burial followed in Little River Cemetery near Cameron. Survivors include a brother A F E Pool of Roswell and sister Mrs T A Robinson of Dallas. Born April 20 1876 in Milam County he moved to Brownfield in 1942. He and Hat tie Chamberlin married in Cameron in 1915.
Services for Grover C. Bristow 74 a Terry resident since 1910 were held at Northside Baptist Church with Rev A J Franks officiating. He died Monday night in a Big Spring hospital after a three year illness. He was a farmer in the Johnson Community until 1945 when he retired and moved to the city. Burial was in Terry County Memorial Cemetery by Brownfield Funeral Home. Survivors include brother Ben Bristow Rule sister Miss Bertha Bristow Donna and two grandchildren Herbert S Moore San Angelo and Wendell L Moore Brownfield.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Carter of 506 North A were injured in a two car collision Tuesday at Fairfield. Mrs. Carter suffered a broken leg and was hospitalized. Mr. Carter had minor injuries and the car was a total loss.
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