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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1954
Page
2
City readers respond to early delivery policy and yard distribution of the NEWS. Officials support extending the clean-up drive to make Brownfield the cleanest city in Texas and encourage public participation and pride.
The Drivers' License office of the State Department of Public Safety has moved to the court house. L. J. Foster, drivers' license examiner, announced the office can be entered through the basement door on the east side of the building and will be open June 12.
No new locations were staked in Terry county over the past week. Only drilling reported involved Mid-West Oil Corp No 1 Roy Golden south of Brownfield and Anderson-Prichard Oil Corp No 1 Oil Development Co. Roy Golden wildcat at 6348 feet, lime and shale. No 1 Oil Develop Co at 6679 feet, lime, west of Brownfield. Jake L Hannon No 1 Atlas Life preparing for a potential Thursday.
Hiram T. Carr Jr. sonarman seaman U S Navy and son of Brownfield residents completed a round the world cruise aboard the USS John W. Weeks. The ship served with UN Peace patrol in the Far East and crossed three oceans and nine seas earning the Korean Service and United Nations Service ribbons. He was initiated into the Golden Dragon and other orders for crossings of the dateline equator and world voyage.
Funeral services set for 2 p m today at Morton First Baptist Church for Josep Allen Gresham 75 a Morton resident for about two years who died Tuesday in Cochran County Hospital He was born August 7 1878 in Erath County and lived in Snyder Okla Brownfield and Levelland before moving to Morton Survivors include three sons a daughter and two sisters four brothers and many grandchildren Burial in Brownfield Cemetery Also note Mrs Lee Lyons visiting sister Mrs C E Hodges now in Gaston Avenue Hospital Dallas
Mr and Mrs Harvey Gage vacationing and visiting relatives in Stephenville this week. Mr and Mrs Glen Barnett have moved to Odessa where he is working in the oil field.
Texas posted a 1953 income record of 12.442 billion dollars with about 20 percent from crude oil to a year marked by drought across western Texas and disaster aid to preserve cattle, sheep, and goats. Cotton income surged to 682.181 million while livestock income fell. May 11 brought the worst tornado day, striking San Angelo and Waco with an estimated 55 million dollars in damage, 124 deaths, and around 700 injuries.
Dan Hulse Chester Hulse Johnnie McCutcheon Elroyd Barton Kathleen Barton visited Mrs Wanda Smith in a Dallas hospital Monday. Mrs Smith is reported to be much improved.
Cpl. and Mrs. Bill Hyman of Camp Chaffee Arkansas spent the past week with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Willie Hyman in the Wellman community.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. McMillan and their son are spending a vacation in California this week, enjoying travel and leisure.
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