Planning Session Set For Next Polio Dose
A planning session for the second mass polio immunization project is set for Tuesday at 7 30 p m at the South Plains Health Department office at E Main and D. All former volunteers from the first clinic are urged to attend and anyone interested in helping is invited, announced Mrs Pat Ramseur, chairwoman of the local National Foundation chapter.
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South Plains Health Department
E. Main
Pat Ramseur
National Foundation
Lepard
DeMolay Week Proclaimed in Brownfield Plans Highlight Events
Mayor Proclaims International DeMolay Week in Brownfield for March 17 to 24. Lynn Smith named 1963 Wayland Parker Chapter Sweetheart. coronation during Mother and Son Banquet at Mason Lodge. City government to be led by DeMolays Wednesday afternoon. Initiatory Degree and Flower Talk set for Monday. Buddy Night Friday at Masonic Lodge. Senior DeMolay Wayne Rousseau to speak. Also notes Sabin oral polio vaccine distribution and Terry County cotton acreage bonus under 1960 law with 1024 farmer requests. final allocations by March 25.
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Lynn Smith
Wayland Parker
DeMolay
Masonic Lodge
Lynn
Fred Smith
Broadway
Brownfield Masons
Wayne Rousseau
Brownfield
First Baptist Church
Terry County
ASC
County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
Terry
Miller
Lubbock
Dawson
Hockley
Yoakum
Cochran
Bailey
Crosby
Floyd
Hale
Lamb
Plains
Jess McWherter
Buzz Steele
DeMoley
Henson Post Celebrates 44th American Legion Birthday
Henson Post 269 marked the 44th anniversary with a Legion Hall party attended by 140 members guests and visitors. J D Miller cut a flag shaped cake as H B Virgil Crawford led the program with out of town guests District Commander Winford Stoerner and Adjutant Jim Hodel noting April convention in Lubbock.
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Howard Henson
Post 269
The
American Legion
Legion Hall
Ladies Auxiliary
H. B Virgil Crawford
Winford Stoerner
Lockney
Jim Hodel
Plainview
Stoerner
Pioneer Hotel
Lubbock
Crawford
Malcolm Thomason
W. A. Bynum
Brownfield
Miller
Bynum
Brownfield State Bank
Siil
Thomason
Legion
Rio Theatre
Courthouse Lawn ReLandscaping Vote Divides Commissioners
Courthouse courtyard redevelopment moves forward with tree removal. Judge Simms notes three proposals: landscaping alone 40 votes, landscaping plus one parking lane 22, and two parking lanes 18. Merchants suggested added sidewalk areas to ease sewer parking. Petitions due Thursday to include streets in summer paving program. two thirds of property owners must sign.
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Simms
Sies
Absentee Voting Underway for City Council and School Elections
Absentee voting is under way at city hall for the April 2 city council election. Voters away on April 2 may vote at city hall before March 3. County clerk’s office opens March 26 for school trustee ballots, with elections set April 6. Victor Watts is the sole new nominee for the Weisman School Board.
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City Hall
Victor Watts
Weisman
Farm Bureau Kickoff Breakfast Launches Terry County Membership Drive
Terry County opens Farm Bureau Week with a 7 a.m. breakfast at the Party House to recruit 1,228 members. Millard Shivers of the Texas Farm Bureau speaks. Leon Lepard heads the program as the drive follows the opening of Brownfield’s new Agriculture Center. The 80 000 dollar facility houses all major agricultural offices. Terry County held 1 227 members last year, ranking seventh in the state. Several counties exceed it, including Ellis Hidalgo Lubbock Hale McLennan Williamson and are listed with memberships from 1 312 to 1 617. Shivers heads the state department for membership and organization, a role he began in 1955.
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Farm Bureau
Terry County
Party House
Millard Shivers
Texas Farm Bureau
Leon Lepard
Terry FB
Terry
Ellis
McLennan
Williamson
Hidalgo
Lubbock
Hale
Shivers
State Farm Bureau
TFB
Kersh Withdraws From Brownfield City Council Race
Charles Kersh announces withdrawal from Brownfield city council race leaving four candidates for three seats in the April 6 election. He will move to Lubbock soon while maintaining an office in Brownfield and continuing with Goodpasture Grain & Milling. Remaining candidates are Kenneth Purtell, Jack Hamilton, Sam Teague and F B Raybon. Council terms held by Ross Black, Marion Bowers and Curtis Sterling expire this year.
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Charles Kersh
Brownfield
Kersh
Lubbock
Goodpasture Grain & Milling
Goodpasture
Johnson Implement Co
F. B
Johnny) Raybon
Ross Black
Marion Bowers
Curtis Sterling
Ag Center Opens with Local and State Officials
The Terry County Agriculture Center opened with an open house from 2 to 5 pm featuring local citizens and out of town guests. Terry FB president Charles Bruce and state director Hub King led the program. Texas Farm Bureau president C. H. De Vaney attended. The $80,000 building houses the Farm Bureau plus ASCS SCS FHA and Young Farmers offices with a board room and kitchen. The center was occupied earlier in the year but furnishings delayed the formal opening.
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Terry County Agriculture Center
Terry County Farm Bureau
Charles Bruce
Terry FB
Hub King
Brownfield
C. H. DeVaney
Texas Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
ASCS
SCS
FHA
FB Claims Adjuster
Young Farmers Assn
Robert Baumgardner Named Spelling Champ of Terry County
Twelve year old Robert Baumgardner, sixth grader at Colonial Heights Elementary, won Terry County Spelling Bee at Brownfield Junior High in a four word final. He will compete in the area bee in Lubbock April 7. rival Trudie Marchbanks, 13, will be alternate.
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Terry County
Brownfield
Robert Baumgardner
Colonial Heights
Robert
E. Reppto
Lubbock
Tradie Marchbanks
Union Seventh Crade
Trudy
M. P. Marchbanks
Route 5
Trudie
Abbor
Martha Thomas
City Bee
Martha
Randy Wood
Oak Grove
Kathy Hungerford
West Ward
Robert Harris
Phyllis Wheatley
Jim Cherry
William Nunn
J. O. Burnett
Jan Cherry
Two More Weeks To Purchase Plates
Motorists who have not obtained their 1963 license plates are reminded that only two weeks remain before the deadline. New plates must be displayed by April 1 with March 30 as the final day to obtain them since March 31 falls on Sunday.
Brownfield School Board To Discuss Contracts And Textbooks
The Brownfield School Board meets Monday at 7 30 p m in the high school library to discuss the building program approve teacher contracts for 1963 64 adopt new textbooks open bids on the junior high tennis courts and review regular business and financial reports as announced by Supt O R Douglas.
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Brownfield
Supt
O. R. Douglas
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Jess MecWherter
First Methodist Church
Farm Bureau Week
R. A. Simms
Charles Smith
Delton Tatum
Mike
Henson
Speedy Nieman
Gomez
Farm Bureaus
Agriculture Center
State Farm Organization
South
American Farm Bureau Federation
Gibson County
Tenn
University of Tennessee
Waco
Ag Center
Champ
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