Rodeo Parade Seeks Float Entries For July Event
Terry County organizers invite business firms to enter a float for the July 6 7 rodeo parade sponsored by the Sheriff’s Posse. Weldon Kennedy chairs the event with a July 2 entry deadline. The parade starts at Lubbbock and Levelland highways and travels through Main Fifth Street Broadway Sixth Main to Co-Op Service Station.
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Terry
Terry County Sheriff's Posse
Lubbock and
Levelland
Main
Fifth St
Broadway
Sixth
Plains Hwy
Rainfall brings relief to Terry crops in 1962
A wet front from New Mexico dropped about an inch to Terry on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, ending a year long drought. Local reports vary by location with total rainfall reaching 4.10 inches at a SCS gauge in southeast Brownfield and earlier data noting 1.3 inches near the Paddock place between Wellman and Union. Farmers anticipate replanting as cotton prospects improve yet await first fall freeze.
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New Mexico
Brownfield
Wellman
Roswell
Needmore
Farmers Co-Op
Tokio
M R
Union
Terry
U.S. Soil Conservation Service
GenTel Expands with 236-foot Microwave Tower Project
GenTel unveils a rapid expansion plan for Brownfield featuring a new central office at Tate First Street with 3100 lines 3900 terminals and a 23 position switchboard. A 236 foot microwave tower links Brownfield to Hobbs Lubbock Seminole Seagraves and Ropesville with 600 circuits capacity 120 active initially. Local service continues from 402 West Main as the system connects via a tie cable to existing long distance equipment.
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Brownfield
Paul Farrar
General Telephone
GenTel
Tate-First Street
Automatic Electric Company
Ilinois
Farrar
Hobbs-Lubbock
Hobbs
Seminole
Southwestern Bell
South Plains
General
Levelland
Lamesa
Tahoka
402 West Main
Tate
Teachers Attend Texas Tech Science Workshop From Brownfield
Eleven Brownfield teachers join an elementary science workshop at Texas Tech. The two week course aims to improve science teaching for elementary students. Milo Blecha of the University of Arizona conducts the session as associate professor of elementary education.
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Texas Tech
Brownfield
Milo Blecha
University of Arizona
Furniture stores set new summer hours in Brownfield
Brownfield three furniture stores Gable Furniture H M Furniture and Knight Furniture announce summer hours 8 am to 5 pm Monday through Friday. Regular Saturday hours continue. The change remains in effect through August 31.
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Brownfield
Gable Furniture
H&m Furniture
Knight Furniture
Longtime Resident Boyd Howze Dies in Comanche
Boyd Y. Howze 68 a Terry resident who ran a Union grocery for years died Tuesday in Comanche. Funeral services are set for Saturday in Comanche. Surviving are his widow and a daughter Mrs. Frank Smith of Norfolk Virginia. Howze came to Terry in 1924 and was a World War I Marine veteran.
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Boyd Y. Howze
Terry
Union
Comanche
W. T
Tobe) Howze
East Main
Frank Smith
Norfolk, Va
Howze
Marine Corps
Woman in Jail After Cafe Stabbing Sunday
Brownfield resident Bobby Jane Thomas is jailed on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after she stabbed Duke Harden in Hubbard's cafe around 9:50 p.m. Sunday. Harden slapped her, she said, then she retrieved a butcher knife and returned to stab him. A 1949 Plymouth four-door driven by Claude W. Pate was stolen from the Post Office parking lot between 8 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Sunday. the car was unlocked with the key in the ignition.
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Sheriff's Deputies
Brownfield
Hubbard
Bobby Jane Thomas
Duke Harden
Harden
Post Office
Claude W. Pate
Pate
Kiwanis International Convention Engages Denver Couple
Mr and Mrs W D Bud Cotham of 802 South Pecos attend the 47th annual Kiwanis International convention in Denver. The radio note directs readers to See No 1 Page 5 for more.
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W. D
Bud) Cotham
South Pecos
Denver
Kiwanis International
Day Long Track Meet Set In Lubbock For Saturday
Junior Olympic hopefuls trained this week at Cub Stadium in preparation for the Lubbock Recreation Department event at Monterey track. Final workouts are scheduled for today and Friday at 6 p.m. Boys compete in three divisions: 12 and under, 13-15, and 16 and over under Coach James Morris invitation.
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Cub Stadium
Lubbock Recreation Department
Monterey
James Morris
Lubbock
Secretarial Studies Underway For Melba Luker
Miss Melba Luker daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Luker Route 5 has enrolled at Draughons Business College in Lubbock. A 1962 Union High School graduate she was salutatorian and now majors in secretarial work.
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Melba Luker
Robert Luker
Route 5
Draughon’s
Business College
Lubbock
Miss Luker
Union High School
Draughon's
Brownfield Consolidated ISD Budget Copies Open to Public
The proposed 1962 63 budget for Brownfield Consolidated Independent School District is available in the high school office of business manager Dillie M Kelley. A public hearing on the budget is scheduled for June 25.
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Brownfield Consolidated Independent School Districts
Dillie M. Kelley
17 Year Old Latin Boy Arraigned Murder With Malice Charged
Jaycees hear year in review for Brownfield General Hospital at The Party House luncheon. Administrator Joe McWilliams reports 12 month totals: 2,614 patients admitted and 35.1 daily average, 3.93 days average stay, 1,836 ER visits, 357 major and 369 minor surgeries, cash balance $4,245.79, receipts $380,033.83 and disbursements $375,779.79. Cost breakdown includes dietary, nursing, lab, operating rooms, and supplies among others.
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Jaycees
Brownfield General Hospital
Joe McWilliams
BGH
Party House
McWilliams
Hospital finances and a fatal stabbing in Brownfield
The report lists disbursements including salaries of hospital staff and notes plans to modernize the operating room. Eloy Joe Contreras 17 was arraigned for murder with malice in the stabbing of Richard Vasquez 19. Vasquez died after a five hour operation. Contreras denied bond and is jailed. Police say Vasquez identified his attacker before dying.
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Eloy Joe Contreras
West
Buckley
Richard Vasquez
Brownfield
Vasquez
Contreras
North Second
Brownfield General Hospital
Lonnie Rhyne
Terry County
Chamber Official Attends Texas Chamber Conference in San Antonio
A. C. Bishop, manager of the Brownfield chamber, returned from San Antonio where he took part in the 56th annual conference of the Texas Chamber of Commerce Managers. He was among 200 delegates attending sessions from Sunday to Tuesday.
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A. C. Bishop
San Antonio
Texas Chamber of Commerce
Bishop
Brownfield Chamber
Reunion plans set for Classes of 1942 43 44
Steering committee in Brownfield lays out schedule for reunions to be held June 22 23 at The Party House and Brownfield Junior High cafeteria. Harold Dalton and Carroll Collier to emcee. Members urged to pay $2 registration by Saturday and mail to Mrs Bobbie L Thomson or deliver to several committee members. Final meeting 7 30 p m Tuesday at Mrs Thomson's home.
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Brownfield Savings & Loan
Emecees
Harold Dalton
Stinnett
Carrol W. Collier
Brownfield
Bobbie L. Thomson
East Sons
James Evans
Stanley Miller
Jene Neal
Gayle DeBusk
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Weldon Kennedy
Kennedy
Lubbock Hwy
Ruby Lee Arnold
Eunice Inez Black
Ona Faye Cleveland
Lillie Zora Crump
Dorothy Jo Garrett
Robbie Joe Garrett
Beulah Arnold Herring
Ruby Kempson
Creola Moore
Terry Lou Moorhead
Leola Petty
Maxey Brown
Maxey
Leo C. Brown
Mike
Main Street
Kiwanian
Texas TE
Terry County Young Farmers Organization
Gary Henson
Route 1
Robert White
Meadow
Earl Brown Jr
Route 2
Kenneth Tuttle
Route 4
Donald Bingham
Duane Lewis
Brownfield Hospital
Dodgers
Yankees
Pirates
Red Sox
Cubs Cardinals
Indians
Giants
Cubs Braves
American Legion Post
Eloy Contreros
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