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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1969
Page
2
The editorial praises the Cub Baseball team for hard play across the season district bi district and regional attempts. It notes the value of competition the pride it brings to Brownfield and thanks local fans for support. It compares youth to crops and says agriculture remains the area’s main industry and promising harvest.
Brownfield ends its Clean Up Fix Up Paint Up Week but urges ongoing daily action to haul away abandoned cars. City with Police and City Slickers reports dozens removed and warns it remains unlawful to accumulate junked or wrecked vehicles on private property. Citizens are urged to contact the city for proper disposal.
The National Observer reports campus disorders across elite universities like Cornell Harvard and Columbia. Students confront administrators with violence while faculty join strikes. Life magazine outlines eight grievances including boredom and smashing the corporation. President Nixon warns administrators not to surrender to force to preserve free education in America.
A religious exhortation argues against taking a vacation from God. The essay cites Jonah and imagines a world without divine presence, urging readers to keep God with them everywhere including travel and leisure.
A reader recalls Memorial Day worries and a missed Indy speedway victory report. The piece pivots to a sequence of humorous, sharp definitions about marriage, alimony, sugar daddy, a modern girl, gold digger, and faithful, framed as cheeky social commentary.
Weex begins Monday as city sanitation officer Ray White asks residents to cut weeds and stacked grass and drain any water holding containers to curb a mosquito crop. Also reports a truck train wreck at West Broadway crossing injuring one and damaging a Ford truck. Band students to attend McMurry College event. school lunchroom supervisor to attend Headstart workshop.
A veteran recalls the D-Day signifi cance with orders moved from San Francisco to Sioux Falls. Three months after the night mare ended he and others felt fortunate to survive. A calm June day in Pampa gives way to radio warnings and prayers for fallen comrades and the freedom won.
John J. Kendrick, district director for Water Inc., spoke to the Kiwanis Club at the Party House. He reviewed past Water Inc. achievements and the upcoming Aug 5 amendments, urging informed voting on the Texas Water Plan, stressing voter apathy as a threat. Don Burda led the meeting. T. A. Wartes gave the invocation. Tommy Jomson led the pledge.
Summer Migrant sessions focus on basic language for students from first to eighth grade. Mothers of Head Start children may enroll in sewing and home management classes. Material donations in one yard lengths are welcomed at Oak Grove Elementary School.
Councilman Jake Geron noted the last city fire truck cost 15 500 in 1956 and estimated the Brownfield lift at 20 to 25 years. The council approved a preliminary draft of a comprehensive city development plan by Parkhill Smith and Coover and the Texas State Department of Health, due by July 1 1970. Bill McGowan called the plan potentially transformative for the city.
Bermuda grass emerged as the main pollen source, accounting for 90 percent of the count with 10 percent from miscellaneous sources. The May 31 to June 6 period showed an average daily count of 5.2, a high of 12 on June 7, and a low of 2.1 on June 2, yielding a overall low weekly average.
Stanley Miller, husband of Zelma Foote, farms in Gaines County with two daughters Dian and Vickie. A World War I Army Air Force veteran, he worked at Brownfield banks and Magnolia Oil before becoming City Assessor-Collector in February 1960. He serves on the Kiwanis board, is an American Legion member, and participates in United Fund drives. He enjoys football, westerns, and sharing bus-walking memories with his daughters.
The Cubs finished 14-7 marking their best Browne field record in years and the farthest from Brownfield since 1964. Lopez credited with four strikeouts Garcia two. Muse tangs committed only one error in the field.
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