Foundation gourmets and a Medford memory
A reader questions a term foundation gourmets in an ad for Playtex and Jezebel products. The column then recalls a humorous wartime episode centered on James Medford, a trusted but soon-memed desk soldier from the 5th Army, as the narrator departs for western assignments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownfield News
Playtex
Jezebel Foundation
Medford
James Medford
Buddy
Texas
Windy City
5Th Army
Jim
Army
WAC
County Commission Inches Tax Rate Toward 1.07
Terry County Commissioners Court endorsed a plan to cut the tax rate from 1.10 to 1.07 per 100 of assessed valuation. The final rate awaits formal budget approval after August 15, with a groundwork created for the County Tax Assessor-Collector to start on county rolls.
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Terry County
Commissioners Court
Brownfield Public Schools Budget Approved At Hearing
Trustees unanimously approved the 1965 66 budget in the high school library setting the tax rate at 1.50 dollars unchanged from last year. The revenue and expenditures were each 1 563 988 33 dollars with a 26 175 33 dollar surplus absorbed. Dr O R Douglas highlighted raises for teachers with bachelors and masters degrees while planning a conservative year with 10 percent cuts in operations and no tax increase.
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Brownfield Public Schools
O. R. Douglas
Oil Company
B. R. Luscomb
Pan American Petroleum Corporation
James FE. Dahse
Tenneco Oil Company
Douglas
WTCC Gathering Set In Brownfield For District Campaign
WTCC leaders from 19 Panhandle and South Plains counties meet at Brownfield Chamber building at 2:30 p.m. led by Dennis Lilly to kick off an intensified membership drive. Beeman Fisher Henry Sears and John Ben Shepperd will address district directors on engagement, finance and Infocade oriented goals. The WTCC margins reflect 3,000 members across a 1382 county area.
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Lua
M& NO Kamys
Brownfield Boys’ Club
Boys’ Club
Roy Cole
Jackie Hanson
Brownfield
Panhandle
South Plains
WTCC
Chamber of Commerce
District 2
Dennis Lilly
Beeman Fisher
Fort Worth
West Texas Chamber
Hereford
Henry Sears
Odessa
John Ben Shepperd
Sears
Chamber
Shepperd
Reception Planned For Beck And Family
A get acquainted reception for Raymond Beck and his family is set for Thursday evening from 5 to 7 30 in the Flame Room of Pioneer Natural Gas Company. Beck recently became Brownfield Chamber of Commerce manager and invites all to meet him and his family. The Chamber's Red Coat group will staff the reception line and punch and coffee will be served.
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Raymond Beck v
Pioneer Natural Gas Company
Beck
Brownfield Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Red Coat Organization
Lodge Officers Installed Here
Brownfield Masonic Lodge No. 903 installed new officers with Meadow Lodge No. 1228 assisting at the Masonic Temple in Brownfield. Installing Officer Lee Brownfield and Installing Marshall Virgil Bynum led the ceremony. new Brownfield officers include Samp son as Worshipful Master Muldrow Senior Warden Vandivere Junior Warden Burnett Jr Treasurer Campbell Secretary Price Tiler Halamcek Senior Deacon Elam Junior Deacon Baumgardner Chaplain Paul Senior Steward Rousseau Junior Steward. Visitors from Meadow and Brownfield attended and refreshments followed.
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Brownfield
Lee Brownfield
Virgil Bynum
Marshall
Brownfield Lodge
Robert B.sampson
A. M Muldrow
Keith Vandivere
J.O. Burnett Jr
Paul C. Campbell
Gay Price
Lynn Halamicek
Roy Elam
R W. Baumgardner
Charles A. Paul
Wayne Rousseau
Period law enforcement activity dominates Brownfield area blotters
Brownfield police and Terry County deputies report numerous thefts and burglaries during the period. The sheriff’s blotter notes two thefts including seven used tires stolen from a Sawyer Graham farm and gasoline missing from a Brownfield resident’s tank. City reports include burglaries, drunk and liquor law violations, and multiple arrests. Ten aliens were detained for illegal entry, and several vehicle accidents involve local residents on Main Lubbock Road and Lubbock Road.
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Brownfield
Terry County
Sheriff's Department
Sawyer Graham
Lahey Gin
Alton Lee
Sheriff's Office
Melvin Sorrells
J.C. Ebersole
Lons
J. L. Wright
Meadow
Billy
Hestey
Arthur Steffins
Pecos Drive
Edwin Howell
Texas Highway Patrol
Highway Patrol
U.S
Border Patrol
4Th and Main
Roy Carleton Harris
Oak
Ford
Julia Hartt Batchelor
Loth St
Plains
Island Main
Conrad Anton Kuehled
Delores Russell Davis
W. Buckely
Lubbock Road
John Vernon McCormick
46Th St
Lubbock
F. Campbell
Route 4
Lanny Avenue
Randell Ray Rodgers
So. Lons
Paul Joseph Walton
55Th St
Lubb
Guilty Pleas Entered In Non Jury Criminal Cases
In the 121st Judicial District Court Judge M C Ledbetter presided as both guilty pleas were entered. Edward Yuzbick former manager of Piggly Wiggly in Brownfield pled guilty to embezzlement and received a three year suspended sentence. Richard Wilson pled guilty to forgery by alteration and also got a three year suspended sentence.
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121St Judicial District Court
M. C. Ledbetter
Morton
Edward Yuzbick
Piggly Wiggly
Brownfield
Richard Wilson
Rites Held For Mrs E L Loftin
Funeral services were held for Mrs. E. L. Loftin 43 at Calvary Baptist Church with Rev. A D Kyle officiating. Burial followed in Terry County Memorial Cemetery. She died at 5 45 am Monday at her home after a long illness. Survivors include her husband two brothers James W. Smith and Larry Wayne Smith two sisters Mrs Clara Chumley and Mrs Dorothy Diaz.
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E. L
Loftin
Calvary Baptist Church
A.D. Kyle
Terry County Memorial Cemetery
Brownfield Funeral Home
James W. Smith
Rochelle
Larry Wayne Smith
Germany
U. S. Army
Clara Chumley
San Laurenzo
Calif
Dorothy Diaz
Turlock
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Foundation
R. A. Simms
Simms
Betty Frazier
Wade Yandel
Jim Foy
Richard Spencer
Scott Abel
Cloudcroft
N.M
Southwestern Public Service
State Department of Health
A. H. Daniels
Levelland Highway
H. B
Dock) Settle
R. L
Bob) Burnett
Wayne Mullins Jr
E. S
Red) Tankersley
Yandel
L. D. Bailey
Board
Paul Farrar
Tim Faulkenberry
James Thurman
Delton Tatum
John McFarland
Billie Moore
Carrol Collier
Dr. Douglas
E. B. Posey
Billie M. Kelley
John Jennings
Fisher
Dstrict 2
The
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
J. D. Herndon
Johnny Lewis
E. L. Loftin
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