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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1966
Page
1
Brownfield proclaims Burglary Prevention Week as Chief Tippit urges residents to reduce risk this summer. He outlines four steps to deter thieves: create a lived in look, button up the house, reduce risk, and inform the right people with practical tips on lighting, timers, mail, and securing doors.
Trustees agreed to hire nine new teachers for 1966-67 and authorize Dr. Douglas to employ a school nurse and a speech therapist. The board raised Jim Russell’s salary to a 12 month term and reported 93.69 percent attendance for the final six weeks and 71 students in Summer Reading.
An unexpected tornado drill sounded around 3 a.m. Sunday, drawing wide attention from civil defense, police, and residents. Police turned off the southeast siren after a brief incident, while many sought shelter. Separate arrests included Shirley Renfro on an Ec tor County warrant with a $500 bond, and J. C. Perkins and Huron Daniel Barnes charged with vagrancy and fined and released.
registration at Oak Grove Elementary for Head Start reaches 92 students after daily roll counts 43 then 78 with growth to 92. The eight week program aids children entering first grade in September including two rooms for non English speaking pupils taught by Zelma White and Ruby Arnold financed by a 1960s CEO grant of 19650 dollars.
May added 25 to Brown field's population with 15 males born to 10 females. The month saw six deaths including two from heart attacks, one apoplexy, one respiratory distress syndrome, one malnutrition, and one pneumonia, bringing the year’s deaths to 46.
Funeral services for Mrs. Ethel Vest 73 were held at Immanuel Baptist Church with Rev. Darold Baldwin officiating. Burial followed in Brownfield Cemetery. Mrs Vest died Saturday at Brownfield General Hospital after a long illness. Born June 5 1893 in Evant she moved to Terry County in 1930. Survivors include five sons two daughters three sisters twenty two grandchildren and twenty six great grandchildren.
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