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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1968
Page
1
City Council in regular session accepted the 1968 69 budget after a brief public hearing with no attendees. Lloyd Hahn moved to approve the budget, seconded by Bill Noble. A seal coating contract was awarded to W D Turner Construction Company of Lubbock for about 65 blocks.
Funeral services for Jerry Seymour 26 are set for 3 p.m. Monday at Henderson Chapel Lubbock with Rev Cle ments Lambert and M E Rhodes officiating. Burial is in City of Lubbock Cemetery. Seymour died of an apparent heart attack Friday at Lubbock Osteopathic Hospital. He was manager of National Life and Accident Insurance Co in Lubbock. Survivors include his wife Ann Burns two children his parents and several siblings. The piece also lists city bids and remodeling plans for public buildings including the post office city hall and police facilities.
The 13th New Mexico Water Conference opens in Milton Ballroom at NMSU with John J. Kendrick Water Inc. president and Floyd E. Dominy Interior official among speakers. Dominy to address Water Supplies for the Southwest Future and Kendrick to discuss Water Importation to West Texas and New Mexico. Other participants include Lloyd Calhoun of NM Electric Service and Orren Beaty of Four Corners Economic Development.
West Texas Airmen's Association held its regular monthly dinner at the Brownfield Country Club. Visitors included families from Lamesa and Lubbock. New member John Forsythe was introduced. Discussion covered airport improvements and CAP growth. A film recounting a 1954 South American flight was shown.
Chance described Farmers Home Administration aims and programs including housing loans and rural water projects in Central and East Texas. In Terry County FHA operations total 1.2 million with 238 thousand loaned for land, 32 thousand in housing loans, all in 1967. Local DeMolays promote National DeMolay Week with slogan Building Better Citizens.
Texas Highway Patrol and local agencies searched after a T-37 jet trainer crashed on the R J Rowden farm near the Ashmore community in Terry County. Second Lt. Larry L. Calvin 24 died at the scene. Captain William B. Harris 30 survived and was kept under observation. An Reese AFB board opened an investigation. Calvin, from Illinois, had been in pilot training since October 1967. He is survived by his wife Donna May.
The United Commercial Travelers Brownfield Council 825 will hold a regular session at 7 p.m. Monday in the Party House. Senior counselor Jackie Cargill will preside at the business meeting held after dinner.
Citizens gathered to form a Civil Air Patrol unit meeting at the Terry County Chamber of Commerce building. Fourteen applied, with fingerprints taken for ID, as organizers plan another session at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Brownfield Cable TV on West Main.
KKUB will resume broadcasting at 7 a.m. from a downtown 218 South 5th Street location after a Monday night fire destroyed equipment and damaged the building. The $30,000-plus loss was caused by a faulty heating unit. An open house will be scheduled later.
Brownfield Lions Club met at noon with presiding officer Lion Ross and program chair Houston Stevens. Shad Brooks and Bobby Craig of the Wayland Parker DeMolay Chapter spoke on its history and goals, noting 20 active members and several prospects. Stevens then outlined the duties of the County School Superintendent across four districts Brownfield Union Wellman Meadow, including transfers, bus operations, teacher records, and social security for 13 drivers. New member introductions followed and guest Larry Yowell, a Brownfield High School student, was welcomed.
The court convened Monday, dismissed Wednesday due to a six inch snowstorm, and finished by noon Thursday passing 12 cases. Four counts target Roy Key for misappropriation of county funds, two for Naomi Jones, and two for both Key and Jones. Key was serving as justice.
The 1968 Boys Oratorical Contest sponsored by the Brownfield Optimist Club will be held April 4 at the noon meeting of the Party House club. Eligible entrants are boys under 16 as of Dec 31 1967 from Canada or the United States. Winners advance to district and international rounds in Louisville Kentucky June 16–20 with a $2000 college scholarship await.
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