Tornado Education Film Offered By Local Civil Defense
Terry County Civil Defense and the Weather Bureau will co sponsor a 15 minute color film for civic clubs next week to educate the public on tornado dangers and precautions. The film uses color footage from Nebraska Texas Missouri Illinois and Kansas and builds on a prior black and white version viewed by millions.
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Terry County Civil Defense
Weather Bureau
Lewis Simmonds
Civil Defense
United States
Great Plains
Nebraska
Texas
Missouri
Ilinois
Kansas
Cee Peacock
Ie Films, Inc
Washington
Trustees Approve Personnel Changes For 1968 69
In a closed session after the regular meeting, C E Arnold, Wheatley principal, was named assistant principal of the Intermediate School for 1968 69. The district rearranges grade placement, moving sixth to the new Intermediate School and shifting fourth and fifth to Oak Grove or Colonial Heights.
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C. E. Arnold
Wheatley
Jim Culver
West Ward
Colonial Heights
Jim Hensley
Prin
Cipal
Oak Grove
Tohoka Highway
Legion Avenue
Ninth Street
Santa Fe
THP Investigates Nine Rural Highway Crashes
The Texas Highway Patrol investigated nine rural highway accidents in Terry County during February. Sergeant A. E. Roberts reports four people injured and an estimated property damage of 7725 dollars. Countywide data show 17 accidents in the first two months of 1968.
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Texas Highway Patrol
Terry County
A. E. Roberts
Schools Will Try Breakfast Program at Brownfield
Brownfield Public Schools will start a pilot School Breakfast Program Monday for West Ward and Junior High School students only. Breakfast runs 7:45 to 8:30 a.m. in the junior high cafe with 15 cents student price and 30 cents for adults. no full-price discrimination.
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Brownfield Public
W. O. Caraway
West Ward
Texas Education Agency
Livestock Show Called Outstanding Success
The 1968 Terry County Junior Livestock Show was termed an outstanding success at the Brownfield Jaycees meeting. The show is co sponsored by the Jaycees and the Terry County Young Farmers with a DeMolay program presented by Donald Jones and Greg Chapman. Officers will be installed at the next meeting. The annual Jaycees golf tournament will be held March 30 31.
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Terry County
Brownfield Jaycees
Jaycees
Terry County Young Farmers
Donald Jones
Greg Chapman
Wayland Parker
The
Order of DeMolays
Jack Greenfield
Dennis McCutcheon
Wayland Sealy
Jim Hensley
Paul Qualls
Neil Dennis
Public Hearing Set For Budget in Brownfield City Council
Brownfield City Council to hold a public hearing on the 1968 budget at 8:30 a.m. in the council room at City Hall. The meeting will also consider awarding a contract for a seal coating project.
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Brownfield City
City Hall
Costly Fire Destroys KKUB Radio Station Facilities
A fire sparked by a faulty heating unit at 11 p.m. Monday gutted KKUB's control rooms and back of the building, with damages over 30,000 dollars. The station will be off air until between Saturday and Monday and operates from the Brownfield Medical Pharmacy Building for about 60 days. Firefighters battled the blaze amid snow delays and crews.
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KKUB
South Fifth Street
K-Kub
Don Turner
Turner
Brownfield Medical Pharmacy
South 5Th Street
Heavy Snow Welcomes Spring in Terry County
Terry County residents awoke to heavy wet snow on the first day of spring with thunder and lightning. Snow measured 1.6 inches in the past 24 hours, bringing yearly moisture to over 5.5 inches as Brownfield recorded springtime temps and expected a warming trend.
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SI Ting
Bob
Brownfield
Terry County
Terry
Local Red Cross marks fifty years of service milestone
Terry County Chapter of the American Red Cross celebrated Fifty Years of Humanitarian Service with a framed certificate presented to Howard Davis at a Rotary Club luncheon. Kenneth Infield of St. Louis presented the award. The chapter, chartered Oct. 19, 1917, has aided service members in WWI and WWII and now assists families of military personnel in Vietnam with emergency support and loans.
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Terry County
American Red Cross
Howard Davis
Rotary Club
G.V. Ellis
Kenneth Infield
St. Louis
The
Red Cross
Vietnam
Ellis
L.J. Richardson
United Fund
Kenneth Intfield
Davis
L.G. Richardson
Ist Graders Must Have Inoculation
Trustees of the Brownfield School voted to require all first grade students to have measles inoculations before entering school. They approved a joint summer recreation program with the city and authorized computer use in student scheduling. The board discussed Latin curriculum changes and finalized enrollment and bus needs amid Wheatley School closure.
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Brownfield
West Ward
The
W. O. Caraway
Jake Geron
Charlie Reese
Geron
Caraway
Lions Club
Goodpasture, Inc
Region 17
Wilkes Withdraws From Precinct One Race
Rex Lee Wilkes withdraws from the precinct one commissioner race citing personal reasons. Nine candidates remain including Bobby Gilliam John R Hill Olan Herring John A Best G W Woody Switzer Alvin Herron Harvey Smith C C Miller and George B Steele. Incumbent E S Red Tankersley is not seeking re election.
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Rex Lee Wiles
Precinct One
Wilkes
Bobby Gilliam
John R. Hill
Olan Herring
John A. Best
G. W
Woody) Switzer
Alvin Herron
Harvey Smith
C.C. Miller
George B. Steele
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Board
THP
Terry Coun
Goodpasture
Marion Hair
Keith Gore
Jack Shively
Hair
Citizens Advisory Committee
Tom Adams
Jessie G. Randal
James Willis
Wheatly
Rex Lee Wilkes
E.S
Red) Tankersley
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