New Resident Director Named for A&M Lubbock Center
Dr. laroy Moore, former head at El Paso TAES, will become Resident Director of the Texas A&M Ag Expt Station at Lubbock effective March 1. Announcement by Dr. Edward Hiler notes Moore's administration experience and West Texas background, replacing Dr. John Abernathy who left for Texas Tech. The piece also covers USDA Universal Cotton Standards review, EPA Bactril label hopes, and formation of the Caprock Eradication Zone Grower Committee in the Southern High Plains.
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Shawn Wade
Texas A&m University Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Lubbock
Laroy Moore
el Paso Texas Ag Experiment Station
TAES
Moore
Edward Hiler
College of Agriculture
A&m
el Paso
Pecos
Hiler
West Texas
John Abernathy
Texas Tech University
Roger Haldenby
High Plains Caprock
Joe Alspaugh
Lubbock County
Leland White
Lynn County
Scott Gilbreath
Crosby County
Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation
TBWEF
Africanized bee quarantine grows in Texas to 96 counties
Texas expands its Africanized honey bee quarantine to 96 counties after a home sample tested positive at Texas A&M. The move restricts hive movement within zones while inspectors monitor a state-wide trap network. Officials warn swarming season, boosted by a mild winter, could be heavy this year.
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Hamlin - Fisher County
Texas
Paul Jackson
Texas Apiary Inspection Service
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Texas A&m
College Station
Jackson
Louisiana
New Mexico
California
Aransas
Atascosa
Austin
Bandera
Bastrop
Bee
Bell
Bexar
Brewster
Brooks
Caldwell
Calhoun
Cameron
Colorado
Camel
Crane
Crockett Culberson
Dawson
de Witt
Dimmit
Duval
Ector
Edwards
Ellis
el Paso
Erath
Falls
Fayette
Fisher
Fort Bend
Frio
Gaines
Gillespie
Glasscock
Goliad
Gonzales
Guadalupe
Hays
Butterfield stage line ends as Texas marks independence
Talk of By Jack Maguire notes March 2 1836 Texas independence and March 2 1851 Congress halted the Butterfield Southern Overland Stage line. The long route carried passengers and mail 2795 miles from St Louis to San Francisco with Texas along much of its path. The Alamo story recalls it was 108 years old at the famous battle.
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Jack Maguire
Texas
Mexico
United States
Con
Gress
Butterfield Southern Overland
Butterfield
Red River
Colbert's Ferry
Denison
Grayson County
Sherman
Jacksboro
Abilene
Pecos River
el Paso
San Antonio Road
Fort Stockton
Fort Davis
van Horn
St. Louis
San Francisco
Alamo
San Antonio de Valero
St. Anthony de Padua
Duke of Valero
Alamo del Pamas
Coahuila
Spain
Moving to Jacksboro Ends Brownfield Chapter
A Brownfield community letter from a resident announcing the move to Jacksboro Texas after three and a half years. He thanks locals for a warm welcome, praises civic leaders, criticizes a recent witchhunt against city staff, urges unity, and laments the departure of a police chief while emphasizing community service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stacy
Jacksboro
Tex
Levelland
Brownfield
West Texas
John F Kennedy
Combest warns of terrorist threat and Iraq arms lie
Congressman Larry Combest argues that Iraq's weapon program and Saddam Hussein's cooperation with UN inspectors remain uncertain. He calls for a clear mission and sustained pressure for access, warning that war without defined goals risks American lives. He cites the World Trade Center bombing and urges concrete policies and public communication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larry Combest
Texas
Clinton
Iraq
Hitler
Saddam
United Nations
World Trade Center
New York City
Saddam Hussein
United
Nations
Kofi Annan
Kuwait
Cautionary Email Warns Against Quick-Con Phone Scam
A Brownfield Texas reader describes a caller claiming his mother was killed by a drunk driver and asking for urgent Western Union funds. The writer warns others about accepting collect calls and falling for a slick con artist, noting education and experience do not prevent being swindled.
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Bnews @Door. net
Western Union
Coy Jones
Brownfield
Paper n Ink nudge nap joke recalls old dog Lie Down gag
In a Sunday Paper n Ink column Richard Feagan writes about a reader's note joking that to make a dog lie down you must say Lie Down not Lay Down. The Boston terrier named Fido is cited in the humorous anecdote.
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Mr. Brisendine
Fido
Richard Feaga
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Mitch Word
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