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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1972
Page
1
A quirky tidbit shows a boy lisps do you want a tute kitten or tat. The piece blends light lines with reflections on love and aging. Brownfield community items mention garment industry applications, triplets, local business moves, surgeries, and farewells en route to Chicago.
Brownfield residents take interest as 17 year old Alice Toliver Brownfield High senior wins the lead in Oliver at the Lubbock Theatre Centre. Director Roland W. Myers announced the cast after two weeks of auditions at the LTC Playhouse in Lubbock. Rehearsals start July 17 with elaborate sets and costumes planned.
Brownfield Independent School District trustees approved multiple bids for milk gasoline paper goods and duplicator fluid. They authorized a 40 by 36 foot addition to the east side of the field house at 17250 cost with brick facing and set August completion. Plans for dividing music rooms and adding classrooms at Oak Grove Colonial Heights and a new sound system for the middle school were discussed.
West Texas Chamber of Commerce president Claude W. Brown of Mc Camey will visit Brownfield Thursday July 6 to meet Terry County Chamber of Commerce leaders and discuss the West Texas Chamber’s past present and future. A noon open meeting at Holiday House will feature a dutch luncheon and forum on current issues and Washington Austin representation.
The EPA ban on DDT effective December 31, 1972 prompted strong protest from cotton producers and industries. National Cotton Council President Charles F. Youngker of Buckeye Arizona said the ruling contradicts the hearings examiner and will raise costs and hazards, forcing shift to pricier, riskier pesticides that may delay maturity in the long growing season.
Police investigated multiple Coke box burglaries at J and J Texaco on 1st and Cardwell Marty Texaco on Lubbock Highway and Hixon's Texaco on Seagraves Highway. Boxes unlocked, coin containers stolen, totals near 20 dollars. Investigations by Captain Churchwell, Sergeants Frith and Roe continue as evidence and suspect details are developed.
El der Richard Foutz has been in Texas since October 1970, serving in Garland Waco Grand Prairie and Marshall before arriving in Brownfield as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He is the son of Hubert E and Burma Taylor Foutz of Rosemead California where the elder Foutz is district manager.
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