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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1975
Page
1
The excerpt features mangled names and sharp witticisms about KKK politics prayer postures and a perilous fall in a 40 foot dry well. It closes with a parable about a daughter and son-in-law and a parrot centipede joke turned walkie talkie.
Dr Clyde Kelsey describes Texas Tech growth at its 50th anniversary as A W Turner recalls teaching three students in a country school. The piece mentions Pizza Hut family night deals, Cook's Paint Grand Opening, Jaycee Shopping Spree tickets, and weather records for June 20 1975.
Three Terry County youths were elected to offices at Bluebonnet Girls State held at Texas Lutheran College Seguin under the American Legion Auxiliary. Freda Howard becomes state treasurer Kathy Miller is justice of the peace Place 1 Howdy County Karen Ball is justice of the peace Place 2 Friendship County.
One person was killed while four girls and boys attending Boys State in Austin will be honored at a salad supper at 7 p.m. Friday in the American Legion Hall.
Cotton ginners and gin superintendents will review ginning standards, cotton variety protection laws, OSHA standards, and other topics at the Plains Ginners Clinic in Lubbock on Wednesday June 25 at the South Park Inn. Registration opens at 9 a.m. with programs at 9:30 a.m. The $7.25 fee includes luncheon and features State Senator Kent Hance.
Texas Highway Patrol records show 524 traffic accidents in May 1975 across 60 counties of the Lubbock DPS region with 17 deaths and 310 injuries. Terry County alone had 10 rural accidents in May with 1 death and 4 injuries, and 41 accidents with 1 fatality and 23 injuries in the first five months of 1975.
The Smithsonian traveling exhibit The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution opens at Terry County Heritage Museum and runs through July 6 during Wednesday and Sunday hours 2 to 4 pm. Leonard Ellington announces the display funded by the Smithsonian traveling service with 40 annals on black life from 1770 onward. Admission is by membership card or 25 cents per person.
The Terry County Sheriff's Posse and the Lubbock Pony Express Club co sponsor a World Championship Pony Express tournament in Brownfield at the rodeo arena Friday and Saturday. Eight to ten teams from Vernon Decatur Plainview Lamesa Crowley Lubbock and Ardmore Okla compete. Gates open 8:30 p.m. with kid admission free and adults over 12 charged $1. Wayne Rousseau serves as announcer and a concession stand is provided.
Chamber of Commerce Trade Development Committee approves a six day holiday closing calendar adding Labor Day to Memorial Day Independence Day Thanksgiving Day Christmas Day and New Year Day. Observances for 1975 and 1976 are listed with dates. Door prize fund grows as attendees defer prize drawing to July 17 meeting.
The John Trumbull work titled Peter Salem from the Smithsonian traveling exhibit The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution is shown at Heritage Museum as part of the current display.
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