Tracy Cary honored in 45th year at Stacy Mason Furniture
Casual Corner notes Tracy Cary’s 45 years in the furniture business and his varied early life from Ft. Bliss Cavalry to Pampa Harvesters. Highlights include college days in a covered wagon, West Texas University training school, and family ties as his siblings pursued education.
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Stacy-Mason Furniture
Tracy Cary
Tracy
Hoss Cavalry
6Th Cavalry
Ft. Bliss
el Paso
Pampa
Pampa Harvesters
West Texas University
No Rain Through May 4 Says NWS
Mild temperatures and light winds kept April days dry and warm with no rain expected through Tuesday. Palmer Drought Index shows moderate drought in the High Plains including Terry County. April brought 1.28 inches of moisture on three days, with temperatures ranging from 95 to 26 degrees.
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NWS
Hereford
Big Spring
Seagraves
High Plains
Terry County
County Officials To Get 10 Percent Salary Increase
Terry County Commissioners approved a 10 percent raise for officials and employees effective April 1, and appointed election judges and alternates for upcoming elections. They also advertised bids for mineral leasing of 292 acres of Terry County School Land in Gaines County and granted easement authority for a Lyntegar Electric line along a county road. votes: 31 yes, Bevers opposed.
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Terry County
Gaines County
Harvey Smith
H. B. Settle
John L. Johnson
Gerald Bevers
Lewis Simmons
Troy Phillips
C. C. Faught
Union
Louis Peeler
Ann Brooks
Meadow
Roy Barrer
L. M. Waters, Jr
Virginia Pendergrass
Homer Jones
Wellman School
Wellman
O. A. Pippin
Herman Wheatley Jr
Tokio Johnson
Tokio
George Weiss
Bonard Stice
Court House
League 299
Johnson
Lyntegar Electric Coop
SWCD Hosts Breakfast For County Ministers
Terry County ministers attended a breakfast at the Holiday House in support of Soil Stewardship Week May 16 to 23. James Thurman chaired the event with J W Hawkins noting soil, water, and land conservation, census shifts, irrigation growth, and cotton and grain sorghum crops in Terry County.
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Terry County
Terry Soil and Water Conservation District
O. V. Harris
James Thurman
TSWCD
J. W. Hawkins
Hawkins
Moss
City approves bids for used Caterpillar tractor
The Brownfield city council opened bids for a crawler tractor and accepted West Texas Equipment Company’s low bid of 32700 for a used Caterpillar with 861 hours and same warranty as new equipment. Other bids came from Case Power and Equipment Co. The council also approved selling the Allis Chalmers track loader to Consolidated Equipment Co for 14836 and passed a liability insurance resolution for city vehicles.
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Thursoning
Brownfield Cty
Counc
West Texas Equipment Company
Brownfield
Case Power and Equipment Co
Allis Chalmers
Consolidated Equipment Company
Postage Rates Rise May Sixteen With New Eight Cent Letter Fee
Rates set to take effect May 16 as part of pay your own way package. Eight cent letters and eleven cent air mail will be available as postmaster Howard Davis notes improved supply since January 1967. Second class mail up 142 percent over five years and overall costs align with service costs to reduce taxpayer burden by 1975.
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Brownfield
Howard Davis
Congress
Davis
U. S
America
Friends of the Library to hold annual meeting
The board of directors of the Friends of the Library will hold their annual business meeting at 4 p.m. on Wednesday the 12th in Kendrick Memorial Library, according to president Mrs. Murphy May.
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Liza Shirley
Jack
Jane Shirley
Hillcrest Rose Hall
Stephens College
Columbia
Ken Curtis
G’tec Cable TV
Brownfield Cable TV
Carl Jenkins
James Michael
James
Peggy Walter
Route 2
Slaton
St. Mary’s
the Plains Hospital
Lubbock
Lindsey’s
The
Friends of the Library
Kendrick Memorial Library
Murphy May
DeMolays To Install New Officers May 7
Sydney Joe Hester Jr. will be installed as Master Councilor of Wayland Parker Chapter DeMolay at 7 30 p m Friday May 7 in the Masonic Temple. Jerry Faulkenberry and David Jones will be installed as junior and senior councilors. Hester a Brownfield High senior active in FFA and Vocational Agriculture holds multiple DeMolay awards.
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Sydney Joe Hester Jr
Sydney Joe Hester
Cactus Lane
Wayland Parker
Masonic Temple
Jerry Faulkenberry
Tim Faulkenberry
David Jones
Leon Jones
Hester
DeMolays
Brownfield High School
Future Farmers of America
Vocational Agricultural Group
Ag Coop
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Sig H. Atkinson
Brownie
Ccc
Arizona
Indiana
Hawaii
Michigan
J. L. Shellman
Dale Durham
Jack Garrett
Rodney Dowdy
Johnny Lee
Clarence Branch
Jim Cantrell
Doyle Kelly
Billie
John E. Hill
Party
John D. Moorhead
E. V. Riley
Jesse G. Randal
P. A. Powell
Jack DuBose
Precinct
Box Four
Gertrude Lowe
Leonard Ellings
Ton
John Givens
Colonial Heights
Box
Dough Lowe
Prather Sheet Metal
Raymond Green
Paul Young
Enoch Stuart
Conley Steen
Robert Hodges
SWCD
Faulkenberry
Animal Hospital
First United Methodist Church
Sydney
Joe Jester JR
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