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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1963
Page
3
Dugger Services Set In Lamesa
Funeral services for P. A. Dugger 71 of Lamesa will be held at 2 30 p m today in the Lamesa Church of Christ with W T Hamilton officiating Burial will be in Lamesa Memorial Park Dugger a retired welder died Friday at Medical Arts Hospital Lamesa He was a member of the Church of Christ and the Masonic Order Surviving are his wife Amantha four daughters three sons two sisters a brother fifteen grandchildren and five great grandchildren
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. A. Dugger
Lamesa
P. A
Will Donald
Brownfield
Dugger
Medical Arts Hospital
Church of Christ
Masonic Order
Egg consumption per American falls to six per week
The U S Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service reports average American egg consumption at just over six per week, down from about seven and a half ten years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Economic Research Service
County 4 H and FFA Stock Show Exhibits Announced
The then upcoming Terry County event features 4 H clubs and FFA exhibitors with grand championship trophies courtesy of Alvin Davis. Co superintendents James Willis and John Badgwell head the show with judges Paul Gross and Calvin Holcombe. Dozens of sponsors and buyers provide prizes and support, including Goodpasture Grain and First National Bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Willis
Young Farmer's Chapter
John Badgwell
Jaycees
Jerry Jones
Delton Gregg
Carl Hogue
Earl Brown Jr
Paul Gross
Calvin Holcombe
Gaines County
R. N. McClain
Dennis Q. Lilly
Charlie Robison
Robert White
Tim Faulkenberry
Joe Sullivan
Alvin Davis
Jimmy Harris
Duane Lewis
Weldon Mason
Noah Lemsey
Crede Gore
Hub ‘ Bing
Frank Gorton
Jim Parrish
Joe Boatright
Cy Duffy
Jim Foy
Bruce Griffith
FFA
Homer Jones
Wellman
Scotts Cooper
Meadow
Robert Becker
Stanley Dixon
Brownfield
Goodpasture Grain
First National Bank
Brownfield State Bank & Trust
Terry County Farm Bureau
J. B. Knight Co
Brownfield Co-Op
Johnson Gin Inc
Newsom Gin Inc
Travis
Lahey
Western Grain
South Gin
Brownfield Seed & Delinting
Tokio
Allison Implement
Cotton Producers Gin
West Gin
Needmore
Sonny's Feed Store
Wellman Co-op
Guetersloh- Anderson Grain
Tudor Sales
Higginbotham-Bartlett Lumber
Brownfield Savings & Loan
Brownfield Tractor
Foster Gin
Mason Oil
Production Credit Assn
Pendergrass
Farmers Co-op Compress
Lubbock
Cicero Smith Lumber Co
Kirk Named Metropolitan Brownfield Agent
Dale Kirk is the new Brownfield field agent for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. He moved from Lubbock with his wife and 18 month old daughter and resides at Marion Trailer Courts on Tohoka Highway. He replaces Ed Strickland who has enrolled at Texas Tech to finish his degree. The Kirks attend the Baptist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale Kirk
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Kirk
Lubbock
Marion
Tohoka Highway
Morton
Ed Strickland
Brownfield
Strickland
Texas Tech
Kirks
The
Baptist Church
Cossacks’ Love of Freedom Spans Many Nations
The common bond among Cossacks was a devotion to freedom and rejection of social norms. They were mostly Ukrainians and Russians, with Poles, Lithuanians, Scandinavians, Serbs, Germans and Turks also among them.
Rites Set Today For Bill Hart
Services for W. B. Hart 67 owner of the A W Root Beer Stand will be held at 2 p m in Crescent Hill Church of Christ with Minister Cecil Hill officiating Hart died Thursday at Brownfield General Hospital Burial is in Terry County Memorial Cemetery under Brownfield Funeral Home direction He was a Terry County resident since 1925 farming in Pleasant Valley until 1944 when he moved to Brownfield and ran the root beer stand Survivors include his wife three sons J C Medford Oregon Glen Gomez Duane Lubbock four daughters Mrs Arthur Walser Medford Mrs Curtis Lee Artesia N M Mrs Ed Osgood Farmington N M and Mrs Kenneth Allen Coolidge a step mother Mrs Nora Richards Sweetwater four sisters Mrs Paul Smith Weatherford Mrs Allen Johnson and Mrs Raymond Franklin both Sweetwater and Mrs Ralph Johnson Kansas a half brother Elmer Hart Artesia 23 grandchildren and several great grandchildren Six grandchildren will be pallbearers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. B
Bill) Hart
A&w
N. First
Crescent Hill Church
Hart
Brownfield General Hospital
Terry County Memorial Cemetery
Brownfield Funeral Home
Terry County
Pleasant Valley
Brownfield
J. C
Medford
Oregon
Glen
Gomez
Duane
Lubbock
Arthur Walser
Curtis Lee
Artesia
N. M
Ed Osgood
Farmington
Kenneth Allen
Coolidge
Nora Richards
Sweetwater
Paul Smith
Weatherford
Allen Johnson
Raymond Franklin
Ralph Johnson
Kansas
Elmer Hart
Wellman Community Activities Highlight March Events
Wellman residents engaged in several events this week including PTA basketball games at the high school on March 1, FFA and 4 H bog show March 2, and a school board discussion in the study hall. The roster also notes church, wedding travel, and basketball tournament attendance plus a youth revival planned March 15 17 at First Baptist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellman Pta
Wellman Ffa Chapter
Wellman 4. H Club
Wellman School Board
First Baptist Church
Wellman
Hawaii Shown Delphians Delphian Study Club Meeting
Delphian Study Club members viewed slides titled Hawaii at Seleta Jane Brownfield Clubhouse on a Wednesday afternoon. E C Pool presented images of the 50th state and its Pacific islands with colored slides. Hostesses Mrs W T Pickett and Buck Howell served Hawaiian punch and sandwiches. guests included Mrs Herbert Seminary and members Mrs John Hansard, Mrs W P Norris, Allen Harkins, Mary Sereie Ward, Pool, Mrs Joan A Bynum, Wayne E Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delphian Study Club
Hawaii
Seleta Jane Brownfield
Allen Harkins
Mary Sereie Ward
Pool
J.oan A. Bynum
Wayne E. Brown
City to Name Water Lake Meredith and Refinance Bonds
The council discussed naming the water body Lake Meredith and heard Sid Wooldridge of Rauscher Pierce & Co and others seek a bond refunding contract to reduce interest costs pending Texas Legislature action. The council approved the contract and renewed focus on Oak Grove Lake, with brighter prospects for land around a lake retention area as an obstacle to agreement with property owners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meredith
Sid Wooldridge
Rauscher, Pierce & Co
Texas
Wooldridge
Oak Grove Lake
Mrs. J. A. Miller Rites Held Friday
Funeral services for Mrs. J. A. Ella Miller 93 were conducted at Meadow First Methodist Church with Rev. Harold Rucker and Rev. Weldon Rives. Burial followed in Meadow Cemetery. A Ter ry County resident over 40 years she left two daughters a half sister a half brother six grandchildren 15 great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren survive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A
Ella) Miller
Meadow First
Brownfield School Week Menu March 11 15
EBOITOR says school cafeterias offer a week of meals. Monday serves baked ham sweet potatoes green beans celery sticks hot rolls butter fresh pears and milk. Tuesday features frito pie pinto beans spinach mixed vegetable salad cornbread apricot cobbler and milk. Thursday offers beef stew cole slaw crackers cheese toast cherry cobbler and milk. Friday presents hamburgers french fries English pea salad lettuce leaf relish mustard wheat cake and milk.
Industrial Session Draws Local Men
Six men represented Brownfield at a West Texas Industrial Conference in Brownwood on Thursday. The session was sponsored by the West Texas Chamber of Commerce. Attending from Brownfield were A. C. Bishop, Eunice Jones, C. K. Ross, Harry Elam, Jim Parrish, and Lowell Hunt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownfield
West Texas
Brownwood
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
A. C. Bishop
Eunice Jones
C. KE. Ross
Harry Elam
Jim Parrish
Lowell Hunt
Also Mentioned on This Page
Richard Copeland
Meadow Ffa
Bill Copeland
Wesboro
Wesbors
Loafer
Oxford
Amantha
Vernon N. Todd
Lake Thomas
Leon Lewis
Plains
J. B. Mashburn
Stanton
Buck Moore
Little Rock
Ark
Effie Dugger
Gunter
Myrtle Whitsett
Olney
R. W. Howard
J. F
Dos Palos
Calif
City Club
India
America
Jimmy Watson
Mr. and
J. M.watson
Ross Irrigation
Meadow Implement
Tucker Seed Inc
Quality Gin Inc
Brownfield Manufacturing
Copeland Hardware
Hamilton Tire
Waters Bros. Seed
Charles Paul Chevrolet
Terry County Lumber
Terry County Tractor
Bowers
Darwin-Reynolds Ford
Brownfield Gin Co
Bowman Olds-Cad-Pontiac
Star Tire
Meadow Oil Co
Timmons Feed & Seed
Brownfield News
Southwest Seed
Windham Gin
Carter & Webb Implement
Smith Machinery
Lyn
Tegar Electric Co-op
Plains Cooperative Oil Mill
General Telephone
Regal Rio Theaters
Kyle Grocery
Collins Department Store
Dr Cc. B. Knox Jr
Nelson Pharmacy
Primm Drug
Ward Milling Co
Pioneer Natural Gas
Sandage Bros
Lindsey Hardware
C. J. Fails Jr
Frank Ratciff Jr
Shamburger Lumber
Green Garden Shop
Ervin Auto Service
Chiff's Western Wear
Wayne Mullins Jr
C. S. Mulkey Construction
Eaves Radio & TV
Merritt's Grocery
Green Hut Grill
Jones Grocery
R. A. Simms
Christian Auto Electric
Sunset Motor
Continental Oil
West Texas Irrigation
Craig Motor
W. G. McDonald Real Estate
Sexton's Drapery
Poka-Labre Rural Telephone Co-op
Terry County Insurance
Brownfield Floral
J. C.’s Steak House
Bob Eakin Office Supply
Reed's Body Shop
Key's Grocery
Bob Burnett
Horace Fox
R. J. Purtell
Baker Grocery
Edgar Nash
White Auto
Plaza Restaurant
Western Auto
Claude Caperton
State Farm Insurance
Brownfield Magneto Electric
Beauty Aid
James Finley
Texas State Irrigation Motor
S&p Motor Supply
Copeland & Clayton
Brownfield Retail Merchants Assn
Gosdin Drug
Ches Gore
Hugh B. Edmiston
Bailey
Byron Cabbiness
Oscar Jones
Texaco
Mack Gray
Elmer Faulkner
Brownfield Printing
McNutt Court
Sands Bowling Lanes
Hackney & Crawford Abstract
McIntyre Electric
Cicero Smith
Wilson Drug
Meadow Conoco
Brooks Welding
Jennings Grocery
Humble Oil & Refining
Jack Mason
Jack's
Beaver Shoe Shop
MedIlroy & Mellroy Clinic
Mildred’s Laundromat
Wade Yandell
Brownfield Welding
O. L. Jones
D&d Auto
W. A. Heflin
Metropolitan
Brownfield Retail Merchants Ass'n
Bill Hart
PTA
Darlene Brown
Weilman Mthodist Church
A. L. Tittle
Alton Lee
Silver Creek Lodge
John Moorehead
L. O. Moorehead
H. O. Parker
Garland, Freeman
Margaret Parker
John Hill
Denton
Velda
Gary Malicoat
Frank Malicoat
Colorado
Air Force
Larry Ingram
Calvin Ingram
Reagan Hendricks
Council
J. A. Miller
Brownfield School
Judy Garland
Burt Lancaster
Regal
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