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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1963
Page
1
The Sanford Dam part of the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority project is 38 percent finished. H. B Zachry Co. of San Antonio builds the 17.87 million dollar dam 40 miles northeast of Amarillo with completion due in June 1965. The dam rises 200 feet, crest 6,390 feet long, and will feed an aqueduct system supplying Amarillo and several surrounding towns.
Texas telephone users will see a second reduction in station to station late night long distance rates effective June 15. The new Texas night rate visible from 9 p.m. to 4 30 a m lowers costs by five to 50 cents depending on distance with a maximum 80 cent charge for any Texas call. Collect and third number billed calls are excluded and daytime 6 9 p m rates remain. A Brownfield to Corpus Christi three minute sample drops from 1 15 to 80 cents.
The Four-County Agriculture Workers will meet Tuesday at 7 a.m. in the Westerner Restaurant at 1609 Lubbock Road. Joe Christian will be the principal speaker and discuss the new Grain Futures Marketing Scheme established.
Arlie Lawrimore was elected chairman and Bill Noble secretary of Brownfield’s new equalization board at its first meeting in City Hall. Other members include Paul Farrar Lal Copeland Ned Self Alton Webb and Stanley Miller. Public hearings set for June 18 at 9 30 a m in the council room. Citizens may discuss taxes with tax assessor-collector Miller before the hearings. The board will then approve the 1963 tax rolls.
Friday evening brought light rain to Terry County with Brownfield recording .09 inch and June totals reaching .59 inches through seven days. Needmore area saw three quarters of an inch amid washed out crops. Foster and Wellman reported showers with minimal damage as farmers resume planting after May rainfall.
Doug Cox manager of Terry County Swimming Pool notes the first two week session has about 30 students enrolled. The second class starts June 17 and the final class begins July 1. Each two week course runs five days a week mornings for all ages with instructors Cox and Charlie Reese. The $10 fee covers swimming. Weather affected attendance in the first week.
Dorothy McDonald, 18, Brownfield High School graduate sponsored by the Kiwanis Club, won the Miss South Plains title at the second South Plains Pageant held at Brownfield High School Auditorium under the Brownfield Jaycees. First runnerup Nadyne Faulkenberry, 22, Sea Graves, Rotary Club sponsor. Gena Cox, 18, Brownfield, VFW sponsor, was third finalist.
The House rejected a bill to extend the bracero farm labor law by two years leaving Terry County farmers short on seasonal workers for the irrigation season. Jim Foy notes the lack of workers will burden local growers during peak farming.
Brownfield City Council awarded the Oak Grove Addition storm sewer project to R. B. Hodgson Co. for 71943 dollars and sold 190000 dollars in bonds at 2.9227 percent to Texas Bank & Trust Co. The bid list included Hemphill, Clyde, and Panhandle Construction Co. The project aims to start by July 1 and finish around September 1, 1963.
Friday farmers across the county pressed to replant after a poor outlook for the big cotton year. Foy notes June cotton as a hazardous crop with a tight deadline before the first frost in Terry County. Returns may drop to about one bale per acre, with two bales possible on the best land. Lakes are draining, reducing future problems if dry weather holds.
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