City Election Filing Deadline Approaches Saturday
Filing closes March 4 with City Secretary Jake Geron and City Marshal candidate Luther Jones as current filing names. Mayors and aldermen races loom while political chatter grows about re election chances. School Trustee election set for April 3 with two seats, Brownfield presiding judge Lee Brownfield. Officials James Harley Dallas Bart Jones Sid Lowery and W G McDonald listed.
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Jake Geron
Luther Jones
Ermen
Homer Nelson
Pat
James Harley Dallas
Bart Jones
Sid Lowery
W. G. McDonald
Red Cross campaign kicks off with breakfast in Terry County
The Terry County Red Cross fund drive starts Monday with a 9:00 a.m. breakfast at Nick's Cafe where General Fung Chairman B. F. Hutson and workers begin the effort to reach a $3,280 goal. Community chairs and district leaders are named for Brownfield and surrounding rural areas, with coordinators listed for Tokio Gomez Cha nis Wellman Needmore and Pleasant Valley among others.
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Red Cross Fund
Terry County
Fung
B. F. Hutson
Nick
Marcford Taylor
Malcolm Thomason
Clyde Bond, Jr
Hutson
Brownfield
Norman Lovelace
Wilburn Bailey
Tokio
Kelly Sears
Gomez
V. Carroll
ChaNis
Alvin Hamm Wellman
Auction
Crawuctioneer
Noah Horner
William Gaulkenberry
Wil
Building Permit Totals Dip to Low Mark in Years
City records show building permits for January and February 1954 total $95 319 with 28 7 permits in January and 67 819 in February. No major projects like church or City Hall began this period. seven new houses and two moves were recorded along with several small commercial and residential works.
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Brownfield
Methodist Church
City Hall
Jake Year
Geronthia Commercial
Felix York
Atkins
Methodists Move From Old Church to New Building
Members of First Methodist observe their final Sunday in the old church as the new facility nears completion. The first services in the new church are set for March 14 under Rev. Dallas Dol. Dennison with a 24 hour vigil concluding on Monday. The $300,000 project began over four years ago and is near completion except for the auditorium.
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Yellop
Crosby
First Methodist Church
Dallas Dol. Dennison
Who
Wagata
Funeral services for G. S. Webber held today
Funeral services for G S Webber 65 retired Brownfield druggist held at 3 30 this afternoon at the First Methodist Church with Rev Dallas D Dennison and Rev Uel D Crosby officiating. Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery Brownfield. Survivors include a son Glenn and a sister Mrs W B Parks of Ponca City Oklahoma.
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G. S. Webber
Brownfield
Webber
First Methodist Church
Masonic Lodge
A.f.&alm
Dallas D. Dennison
Glenn Brothers
G. T
Perry
Oklaacksonville
Texas
Peautuan
Oka
W. B. Parks
Ponca City
Okla
Safety notices and local traffic concerns cited in Brownfield column
The column reports residents venting over traffic violations and a call for the Citizens' Traffic Commission to issue notices later in the week to avoid ruining morale. It notes local figures like Otis Williams and Buddie Turner, plus Buddie joining Griggs & Goble, and mentions Billy Brown appearing on KDUB TV to demonstrate silk screen printing on Friday.
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Stoltz
Citizens’ Traffic Commission
Earl Jones
Wolfforth
N-Y
Billy Brown
Tech
Kdubtv
Humble Offset to Tokio-Wolfcamp Discovery Well Flows
Humble Oil & Refining Co reports a flowing test on No. 1 Mattyes three miles south of Tokio in Terry County. The drill stem test reached surface in under three hours with mud mudding the well and initial flow to tanks. The record notes flow duration and surface time amid field activity in the Tokio-Wolfcamp area.
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Humble Oil & Refining Co
Mattyes
Thompson
Tokio
Terry
Tokio-Wolfcamp
Terry-Yoakum County
Cas Etors
Wolfcamp
Psu
Terry County
Argo Gil Co. Ae Beck
Brownfield
Humble
Randal West Ward P T A Father Night March 11
Randal West Ward P TA hosts Father s Night March 11 at 7 30 p m in the Randal cafeteria with an officers election and social hour. Nursery provided and a pie-baking call line shared.
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Randal
West Ward
P-Ta
Jesse G. Randal-West Ward
Harry Goble
A Few Hogs Help in Dry Year
A. P. Wenzel, Terry County’s leading Berkshire hog breeder for 25 years, explains hogs stabilize his farm during droughts. He keeps 35 Berkshire hogs, 18 pigs, and builds huts for sows to protect and raise litters, noting hogs can sustain income when cotton falters.
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Wenzel
FFA
Berkshire
Jim Foy
Juvenile Court Meets After Vandalism Report
No new cases were recorded in Juvenile Court as sheriff reports damage at a park and a First Presbyterian church incident. A youth admitted partial involvement in vandalism at Goodpasture Gravity and implicated others from recent weeks. City enforces curfew ordinance for under 16 after 8 p.m. in colder months and 9 p.m. otherwise.
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Park
First Presbyterian Church
Lions Club
Bootlegger Crackdown Targets Terry County
Terry County Sheriff Chick Lee and deputies report arrests over the last two weeks with four bootleggers pleading guilty and paying $500 fines plus costs. Authorities seized 120 cases of confiscated beer and five pints of whiskey as they press a drying campaign along routes from south to Lubbock county.
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Lubbock County
Terry Coutain
Chick Lee
Prayer Day Observance Briefly Noted At Local Church
Signs announce a 10 am service at a nondenominational church with a 45 minute program to allow employees to attend. The hour of prayer marks World Day of Prayer with participants worldwide.
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Cal Church
Reverend Keenan Resigns to Attend Yale Divinity School
Reverend Keenan resigns from the First Presbyterian church after the regular Session meeting. He will remain until May 30 and then enroll at Yale Divinity School for further study. A pulpit committee of Al Muldrow James Harley Dallas and Coleman Williams was named to oversee the transition.
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Tom Keena
First Presbyterian Church
Keenan
Yale Divinity School
al Muldrow
James Harley Dallas
Coleman Wiliams
Wen’s Berkshire pigs mark new record for Terry county farmer
A. D. Wen, a Terry county farmer, notes his newly registered Berkshire pigs, about a day old, as part of a growing record in his hog business. He emphasizes careful management and a price of 25 dollars per pig, with over a hundred litters raised in 25 years.
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A. P. Wenzel
Berkshire
Wenzel
Terry County
Ness
A. D. Wen
Zel
School bond passes for Meadowang project amid low turnout
The Meadowang school board approved a 260000 bond measure with 172 approving and 19 opposing votes and tentatively sold 90000 of bonds. Officials aim to sell remaining bonds by April 15 with bids let by May to start construction of a new elementary building and gym, replacing the old facilities.
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Meadowang
Helmingly
Mayany
Barnes
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Lance Turner
East Sons
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Buddie) Williams, Jr
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