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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1973
Page
1
A Brownfield column blends sharp obituary wit with community snippets. Notes on local library book drive, Eastern Star meeting, track team's district hopes, and residents like Ike Bailey and Dick Tucker include humorous asides and travel for spring training.
Sue Mitchell collects blood from volunteer Thelbert Millsap at First Presbyterian Church. Donations go to Brownfield youth Howard McGowen in a Lubbock hospital after a gunshot wound. Brownfield businessmen organize a community blood bank for local residents.
Brownfield City Council heard City Manager Jake Geron describe a record high budget of 2,324,928 for 1973 74 with an 8.9 percent spending increase and no tax hike. The plan includes a 6.5 percent wage rise for most city workers, a 10 percent rise for garbage workers, higher street repair funds, a new ambulance, Mini Park completion, and a $90,000 Power and Light Plant cost jump. Revenue boosts come from a higher water sewer minimum to 3.50 and a utilities rate, plus about 30,000 additional gross ad valorem income. The revenue sharing funds cover street and downtown improvements and heavy equipment. A downtown parking plan project was approved for engineering.
Six candidates, including three incumbents, filed by Friday for four Brownfield School Board of Trustees places. Incumbents Jane Shirley, John Ball, and Robert Baumgardner seek re election. Shirley and Baumgardner face opponents. Filing closes Wednesday at the district Administration Building.
Brown field city records show thirteen building permits issued in February totaling over 42000 dollars. A retail store center project at 1305 Tahoka Road ranked as the sole commercial permit valued at 25000 dollars. The rest were residential additions and repairs to homes across multiple addresses.
In Terry County the commissioners approved a 1985 landscaping plan for the courthouse square. Town and Country Nursery will plant four clusters of red oak trees four yaupon hollies 12 Japanese black pines and 88 prostrate junipers. A March 12 vote on a seven percent county employee raise was set with Harvey Smith Gerald Bevers and H B Settle voting yes and John Johnson abstaining.
A three member commission awarded Houtchins property and improved land a total value exceeding 4900 for lands taken to open Grace Street in east Brownfield. They fixed land at 2000 per acre with 1200 in damages and 140 for movable improvements after hearing arguments from both sides.
The article traces branding from 3000 B.C. to the 16th century Spanish introduction by Hernando Cortes, noting early thefts of brands via running irons and later the transfer of the 1889 DOV brand in Terry County from Ira J. Coulver to a new owner. A Newsfote by Dave Cushman appears.
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