City Upgrades Water and Sewerage Systems
Brownfield undertakes a $64,975 contract with Chicago Bridge & Iron Co for a new 500000 gallon overhead water tank over 100 feet tall at Cedar Street and Tahoka Highway. Hemphill Contracting Co of Lubbock handles $262,298 sewerage pipe work as part of a $450,000 bond approved last August, with completion expected this August.
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Cedar Street
Tahoka Hwy
Chicago Bridge & Iron Company
Brownfield State Bank
Power & Light Plant
Hemphill Contracting Company
Lubbock
Tate and
Cardwell Streets
Hams Prepare Field Day Here With Local Operators
Brownfield and Terry radio amateurs join nationwide field day from 3 p.m. Saturday to 3 p.m. Sunday at The Scout Hut near The Legion Hall to test temporary communications. The event coincides with Amateur Radio Week proclaimed by Gov Price Daniel and Mayor Jess McWherter. Three transmitting stations will operate with no city power, and visitors are welcome.
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Brownfield
Terry ‘Ham
Legion Hall
Cov. Price Daniel
Jess McWherter
United States
Brownfield-Terry
Ralph Bailey
East Ripley
Terry County Amateur Radio Operators Club
Bill Conlee
Route 1
Hilton McCabe
Bobby
East Hester
David Nicholson
East Reppto
Mother and Four Children Treated After Car Mishap
Mrs Lovella Johnson Todd 25 of 1117 South Second and four children were sent to Brownfield General Hospital after a 1955 Ford blowout on Farm Road 211 two miles southwest of Meadow. Patrolman Fred Lenz said the car overturned on its left side causing about 300 to 400 dollars in damage. Mrs Todd was returning from Lubbock with the children at about 4 25 pm.
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Lovella Johnson Todd
South Second
Brownfield General Hospital
Highway
Fred Lenz
Heartbeat May Have Saved Man From Fatal Shot
Domingo Rios survived four gunshots at 506 North Sixth after a quarrel from a roving bootlegging joint. Benancio Olveda, 30, of Route 2 Seagraves, was arraigned on assault with intent to murder and released on $5,000 bond. Rios lay in critical condition at Brownfield General with wounds to spleen bladder colon and chest. A bullet narrowly missed the heart as he was hit at 3:36 p.m. Sunday.
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Domingo Rios
Brownfield General Hospital
North Sixth
Benancio Olveda
Route 2
Seagraves
Lonnie Rhyne
Olveda
Pleistocene Target Among 11 Texas Tech Students
Eleven Texas Tech students excavating late Pleistocene deposits near Beeville work under Dr. David H. Kelley at the Bar 1 Ranch. Lewis Davis, a May Brownfield High School graduate, is enrolled for the summer program which ends July 13 and aims to uncover extinct animals informing early North American man. Hardin Joyce Jr., Purdue graduate with a master’s in mechanical engineering, is among the recent arrivals. Texas Tech hosts mathematics institute for 50 teachers, finishing August 3.
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Texas Tech
Beeville
Lewis Davis
Wm. H. Davis
North
David H. Kelley
Bar 1
Davis
Brownfield High School
Tech
North America
Purdue University
Hardin Joyce Jr
Hardin Joyce
Don Hend
Brownfield Boys Club Announces Summer Program Start
Executive Director Ralph Burton announced a Brownfield Boys Club summer program will start July 1 with night activities. The full schedule follows Sunday. June hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. the club was closed June 3 to 16 while Burton attended Marine Reserve training at Camp Pendleton, California.
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Brownfield Boys Club
Ralph Burton
Burton
Marine Corps Reserve
Camp _ Pendleton
Calif
Collision and Thefts Probed by Local Police
Police investigated a two car collision at North Fifth and Ripley with damages estimated at 155 dollars. One driver Willie Herrera and Garland Jones were involved. passenger Felix Salis suffered bruised ribs and was treated at home. Also a 26 inch girl’s blue and white bicycle was found and returned to the Hensons. A 20 gauge Marlin shotgun and leather case were reported stolen from F. L. Renfro two weeks earlier.
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F. L. Renfro
North Sixth
Ballard
Lowell Henson
North B
Willie Herrera
Route 4
Garland Jones
501
North First
North Fifth
Ripley
Felix Salis
Herrera Auto
Gym Shoe Shod Pad Strikes at Local Builders
A burglar wearing gym shoes hurled a brick through a window of B and M Builders at 902 North Ballard on Sunday night. He entered via the broken pane, left empty handed, and police tracked gym shoe prints to an alley where they faded. Damages approached 50 dollars. No items reported stolen. In weekend arrests, Victor Reina, 23, was jailed on aggravated assault and traffic violations. James I McMinn, 25, jailed on a worthless check charge.
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B & M Builders
North
Ballard
Park and Garner Lanes
Victor Reina
South Seventh
West Broadway
Mrs. J. H. Eubanks Dies. Brownfield Native Was 94
Funeral services for Mrs. J H Eubanks longtime Brownfield resident who moved from New Mexico in 1923 were held Monday at First Baptist Church. She died Saturday night in a Littlefield rest home after a lengthy illness at age 94. Survivors include three daughters and four sons. A wartime class reunion for Brownfield High School graduates of 1942 1943 and 1944 was planned for Friday and Saturday with events at The Party House and Junior High Cafeteria.
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J. H. Eubanks
Brownfield
First Baptist Church
Eubanks
Littlefield
New Mexico
Ed Crow
First Baptist
Terry County Memorial Cemetery
Brownfield Funeral Home
Jess McWherter
East Tate
Lee Hart
Corona
Calif
Vivian Johnson
Alhambra
Bill Eubanks
Happy
Joe Eubanks
Plentywood
Mont
W. H. Eubanks
Galconda
Nev
John D. Eubanks
Los Angeles
Brownfield High School
Harold Dalton
Stinnett
Carrol W. Collier
Chapter To Rearrange Board In Brownfield Meet
The Terry Yoakum County Chapter of the National Foundation plans a 7 pm session today at Brownfield State Bank. Mrs. Pat Ramseur of 805 East Broadway becomes new chapter chairman, with Lynnwood E. Pounds of Odessa attending as the foundation’s state representative for West Texas. The foundation expands its program to arthritis birth defects and polio aid.
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Terry- Yoakum County
National Foundation
Brownfield State Bank
Pat Ramseur
East Broadway
Lynnwood E. Pounds
Odessa
West Texas
Newmoore Reunion A Community Picnic Returns Each June
All Newmoore Community residents and former residents are invited to a basket lunch and a meet up at The Party House. Lunch is served at 12 30 p m. The reunion is scheduled for the last Sunday in June each year. Those unable to attend this year should circle the date for 63.
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Newmoore
Twenty Terry residents travel to Tennessee for flame cultivation study
A group of twenty Terry residents departs at 4 35 a m from Lubbock Municipal Airport aboard a DC 3 to study flame cultivation in Mississippi with a Memphis stop and Delta tour and returns to Lubbock at 1 15 p m on Wednesday. Names listed include H L King Ross O Black Max Proffitt Merlin Speed Val Garner Kenneth Tuttle E H Wood Scott Cooper Thurman Skains Claud Buchanan Bill DePoyster Weldon Callaway R N McClain Jim Foy Weldon Mason Earl Collister Kenneth Hancock W H Holleman Charles Bruce Chas S Kersh.
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Terry
Central Airlines
Tennessee
Mississippi
Lubbock
Memphis
Mississippi Delta
H. L. King
East Tate
Ross O. Black
East Cardwell
Max Proffitt
Buckley
Merlin Speed
Val Garner
East
Tate
Kenneth Tuttle
Cactus Lane
E. H. Wood
East Hester
Scott Cooper
Meadow
Thurman Skains
Claud Buchanan
Powell
Bill DePoyster
Legion Drive
Weldon Callaway
East Reppto
R. N. McClain
Broadway
Jim Foy
Weldon Mason
Earl Collister
Agricultural Research Foundation
Halfway
Kenneth Hancock
W. H. (Dub) Holleman
Charles Bruce
Route Meadow
Chas. S. Kersh
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Tom Crudup
East Sons
Rios
Rio
Carrol Collier
Forrest Cousimeau
T. C. Hogue
Harold Jones
Erma Jean Neal
Ava Brown
Monroe Rowden
Bobbie Thomson
Gordon Patton
Leonard Ellington
Billie Craig
L. G. Moore
Gwendolyn DuBose
Wanda Joyce McPherson
Robbie Jones
Jo Anna Morris
Raymond Houtchens
Newmoore Reunion
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