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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1967
Page
2
Brownfield News outlines contact details and staff, listing Billie Norman as editor and William R. Campbell as publisher. Subscription options include monthly carrier and yearly mail, with region-specific rates for Terry, Yoakum, and Gaines counties and other areas.
Dallas Public Library now stores more than 500 Kennedy mementoes in a vault with some samples on display. The Detroit or Richardson admirer spurred preservation, and the library plans to gradually publicize and protect brittle notes, poems, cards, and cancelations from visitors worldwide, including children and the elderly who penned heartfelt tributes.
Col Homer Garrison Jr of the Texas DPS says 55 people may die in traffic accidents during the four day Fourth of July holiday. He cites past trends and notes 1967 deaths are ahead of 1966. Operation Motorcide runs Friday evening to Tuesday night with DPS tabulating and announcing totals three times daily. Additional uniformed personnel will augment patrols to stress safety.
The 1967 Babe Ruth League season ends Friday night with the Pirates vs Red Sox final. A coronation ceremony will name the 1967 Babe Ruth Queen and honor the All Star team and top batter. Queen candidates include Graves, Briscoe, Brookshire, Denison, Pendleton, and Moore. Linda Coker will crown the new queen. The All Star Team features 15 players from six teams for district play.
Pioneer Natural Gas wants a general service rate increase adding 20 cents to the current $1.65 minimum, raising it to $1.85 with 10 percent late payments. The change affects 55 West Texas towns including Brownfield Plainview Lubbock Midland and Odessa and would boost the average domestic bill from $74.64 to about $83.25 annually.
Seaman Recruit Joel L. Fulcher Jr., son of Mr and Mrs Joel L Fulcher of Denver City, begins nine weeks of basic training at the Naval Training Center in San Diego California. He studies Naval customs, ordnance and gunnery, seamanship, damage control, first aid, swimming and survival, shipboard drills and sentry duty. A program of physical fitness and inspections keeps recruits alert while training. His Navy Classification tests will determine post graduation assignments.
The six flags over Texas headline the Palo Duro Canyon amphitheatre season presenting Paul Green’s TEXAS from Friday through Labor Day except Tuesdays. Sixty actors, singers, dancers and horsemen tell of Texas Panhandle settlement on a stage with perfect acoustics and 1400 seats. The canyon backdrop, a hundred miles long and thousand feet deep, frames the drama of a young settler, his romance, and conflicts with a rancher, cowboys, Indians, and musicians. This is TEXAS second season, following over 61,000 attendees in 1966.
Funeral services for Mrs. F. P. Simmons 83 are at 2 p.m. today at Crescent Hill Church of Christ with Tom Wallace officiating. Burial is at Terry County Memorial Cemetery. She died at 6:35 a.m. Wednesday in Brownfield Nursing Home after a long illness. She moved to Terry County in 1933, farmed northeast of Brownfield with her husband until his death in 1956, and lived at 914 Grace Street since. Survivors include two sons Ralph of Brownfield and Jack of Crane, daughter Mrs. Edmonia Taylor of San Angelo, five grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Pallbearers are Phillip Rogers, J. C. Oliver, H. M. Smith, Willie Hyman, Ned Self and Herb Chesshir.
James D. Eddy, a 21 year old helicopter mechanic and Specialist Four, is assigned to the 612th Transportation Detachment near Dong Ba Thin in Vietnam as of June 1. Eddy, son of Mrs. Jimme L Dewlea of Denver City, entered the Army in February 1966 after graduating from Denver City High School in 1964 and was last stationed at Fort Hood.
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