Funds Needed To Restore Building On Sept. 20 1949
The Selena Jane Brownfield Clubhouse, oldest women’s club site in Terry County, needs extensive repairs after termites and age. Donations from Maids and Matrons, Alpha Omega Study Club, Delphian Club, Grandmother’s Club and individuals are requested to fund air conditioning, windows, floors, and grounds. Call Mrs. R. D. Shewmake, secretary-treasurer, to contribute.
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Selena Jane Brownfield
Maids and Matrons Club
Terry County
Alpha Omega Study Club
Delphian Study Club
Delphian Club
Grandmother’s Club
R. D. Shewmake
Senator Tower Praises Brownfield High Dedication
Senator John G. Tower thanks Dr. Tim Faulkenberry and the Brownfield Independent School district for the warm reception during the dedication of the new Brownfield High School. He notes the district's educational contributions and offers assistance, conveying gratitude from his daughter Marian as well.
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Tim Faulkenberry
Brownfield Independent School Board of Trustees
John G. Tower
Brownfield High School
Brownfield
Marian
Hominy Grits tale ends with neighbor aid
Cornball Blevins recounts a parable where a farmer leaves 17 cows to three sons with half one son one third another and a sixth the math needs an 18th cow borrowed from a neighbor to divide. The moral: borrow a cow when in trouble.
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Cornball Blevins
Leader-News
Littlefield
Cornball
Terry's Past Excerpts From Our Files Of Yesteryear
Brownfield records show May permits total nine valued at 17650 with inspector Lewis Simmonds noting the decline. Chamber of Commerce directors met in June with Bob Sewell in charge. Kenneth Odom’s private club permit at 1301 Tahoka Road approved by Texas Liquor Commission, News learned.
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Brownfield
Lewis Simmonds
Brownfield Chamber of Commerce
Kenneth Odom
Tahoka Road
Texas Liquor Conew
News Esday
Immunization Law Enacted For Texas School Children
Governor Smith signs a law requiring all Texas students in public private and parochial schools to be immunized against six diseases diphtheria tetanus poliomyelitis measles rubella and smallpox The State Department of Health will provide vaccines where local provision is lacking Compliance begins with starts by January 1 1972 with full completion as medically feasible Exclusions may be granted on an individualized basis
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Press
Smith
Texas
State Department of Health
State Health Department
Big Spring Hosts Texas Nurses Association Regional Meet
Big Spring will host the Texas Nurses Association Regional Educational Program on June 16 17 for Regions One and Two covering Districts 2 18 21 23 and 24 in the Tone Face area including Spring Midland Odessa and Jena. Registration starts 8 30 a m in the Veterans Administration Building. The program includes the structure and functions of TNA and regional medical programs with talks on the legal implications of the nurse extended role by Ike Kampmann Jr TNA legal counsel.
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Big Spring
Texas Nurses Association
Texas Nurses Associations of
Spring
Midland
Odessa
TNA
Texas
Ike Kampmann Jr
TNA Legal Counsel
76 Arrests Made In June By County
Terry County Sheriff's Department reported 76 arrests in June 75 in Terry County and one in another county. They traveled 15 196 miles during May served 111 civil papers for 115 total fees and averaged 39 cents per meal per prisoner. The department recovered 505 43 in stolen property and had a reported loss in property through theft vandalism. Total expenses were 1 479 36 with vehicle maintenance totaling 526 8 wash and grease 113 53 for three weeks.
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Terry County
Clinic Faces Minor Hurdles Amid Smooth Operation
School, meals, lodging costs totaled 108.87 with jail expenses at 335.68 and dry costs 23.40. Monthly jail supplies 1.97, office 68.19, phone 171.13, teletype 42, postage 5. Thirteen civil papers served elsewhere for 68, 98 in Terry County for 47. The clinic, run with a board chaired by a minister and director, was credited as a success by Mrs. Anderson, who cited general patience and thanked the Evening Lions Club and volunteers for their help.
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Terry
Reframing of Elephant as Mouse Alleges Dam Builders
The quotation likens an elephant to a merely mouse sized to fit government specs and reimagines the U S Corps of Engineers as erecting a small Post Office, reflecting satire on large projects. The remark credits J C for the idea.
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U.S. Corps of Engineers
J.C
Visit a Little Child Will Lead Vacation Bible School Reflection
A devotional piece praises children in Vacation Bible Schools and community projects. It reflects on Jesus Christ’s teaching about childlike faith, urges kindness to others and animals, and reminds parents to value children as an heritage of the Lord citing Psalm 127:3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus Christ
Christ
Kingdom of Heaven
Conservation Comments on Cropping Changes for Climate
The district notes major shifts from deep plowing and irrigation to new cropping concepts in the 1970s. Recommends original planning to fit a cropping system to the climate, reduce wind and water erosion, and plant with soil cover and weed control. Calls for equipment and methods to start crops with cover on the land and address deteriorating soil conditions.
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Brownfield News
Dick Brownfield
M. G. Tarpley
U.S. Postal Service
Charles H. Wilson
Calif
Post Office Civil Service Committee
Postal Reorganization Act
USS. Postal Service
Corps of Engineers
Congress
Speaker
House of Representatives
Post Office and Civil Service Committee
Blount
U.S. Postal
Dulski
N.Y
Iowa
Gross
Subcommittee On Postal Service
By Joe Crump
Congressional Record Daily
Latitote Editor
Doctor Faulkenberry
Publisher’s Report
Cornwall
Yesteryear
THE
Terry County Herald
West Mill
National Newspaper Assn
Texas Press Asan
Texas Press Assn. Panhandle Press
Ase
United States
Carrier Boy
Sone
GG. H. Atkinson
Bill Cone
Norman News
Glenda Baggett
Celeste Thomas Society
Virginia Atinson
Bob Sewell
Tower
Arena du
Tommy Steiner
Wild Bill
Elliott
Brownfield Consolidated School District
Bill McKinney
Brownfield State Bank
West Texas
George Small
Higginbotham-Bartlett
Dr. Spock
Mrs. Anderson
Evening Lions Club
Ev Lions Club
Mr. Anderson
Well Baby Clinic
Morris Knox
Anderson
J. B. Jobe
Wayne Rousseau
Evening Lions
Billie
BY Duane Moss
Soil Conservation Service
Saletenai A
Lam
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