Youth Week praise and community bowling for Heart Fund
Brownfield Optimist Club promotes Youth Appreciation Week urging praise over condemnation for teens. A Heart Fund bowling week features non league bowlers and Marion Snell, Jaycees president, plus a Foster Road car mishap and a local hospital visit. A Christmas decor clash and Farr's Market opening draw local attention with Mrs. Ethel Hungerford winning a color TV.
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Brownfield Optimist Club
Optimist Club
Optimists
Heart Fund
Marion Snell
Jaycees
Elbert Hubbard
Foster Road
Yo Ae Srey
Farr’s
Terry County
Ethel Hungerford
Airlifted First Class Mail Overseas and Viet Nam War Priority
Postmaster announces immediate airlift for first class mail and parcels up to five pounds to overseas military post offices. Second class publications for Viet Nam will be airlifted from San Francisco. Parcels under five pounds via surface to port of embarkation, with Sam marked on acceptance to speed delivery. Christmas parcels under five pounds prioritized. </s>
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Howard Davis
United States
Johnson
San Francisco
Viet Nam
Lawrence O'Brien
San Francisco Concentration Center
Davis
Solons Convene to Canvass Votes and Review Nine-Item Agenda
County commissioners gather for regular session to canvass the general election results from November. Judge R A Simms presides with officials including E S Tankersley Wayne Mullins Jr H B Settle R L Burnett and Wade Yandell. Topics cover Hamiltons Farm Books sale approval maintenance bids and welfare expenses.
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County Commissioners Court
R. A. Simms
Tankersley
Wayne Mullins Jr
Settle
Burnett
Wade Yandell
J. O. Burnett
Gerald Bevers
D. Bailey
Terry County Memorial Hospital District
Brownfield Chamber of Commerce
Commissioners Court
Simms
Harvey Knight
Knight
Precinct
R. N. Lee
Lee
Texas State Welfare Association
Fort Worth
UF Campaign Reaches 61 Percent of Goal
Terry County United Fund reports 61 percent completion toward a $27 000 goal with $16 340 62 raised. President Jackie Cargill confirms progress as the advanced division led by Arlie Lawrimore and Ike Bailey continues fundraising efforts.
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Terry County
District Court Proceedings Open with Fifteen Cases
District Court in Long Session adjourned day two with fifteen cases past, three settled, one dismissed, and one defaulted. Judge M C Ledbetter presided. The Downtown Ford Sales vs Shopnite Foods case yielded $1332.31 to the plaintiff. A new Farmers Division led by Dennis Lilly and Donald Hancock had collected $967.50 by noon. Plans for a November 22 victory celebration close the 1966 campaign with major agencies benefiting from United Fund contributions.
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M.C. Ledbetter
Morton
Felix L. York
Goodpasture Grain and Milling Company
Odell Flying Service
Leonard Miller
Emil Kester
Alvin Davis
Lonnie D. Clark
Dba
Clark
Aerial Service
Cleo Davidson
Cora Long
Dean Browning
Delores Browning
Bob Thompson
Bob Thompson Plumbing and Electric
Ford Sales Inc
Shop Nite Foods, Inc
Plantiff
Curtis Scott
Vernon Clem
Holland Evans
Donald Hancock
Cargill
John J. Kendrick
Minor Accidents Plague Officials
A string of minor crashes occupied local law enforcement over three days. Incidents included a 1962 Pontiac driven by Fulke Howard Farrar at Fourth and Broadway, a 1961 Ford driven by Real Longoria Franco at City Park, a 1964 Pontiac driven by Domingo Perez Alvarado near Sea graves Highway, and a 1965 Chevrolet with 1966 Ford clash in front of the Hill Street Post Office. Local burglaries, prowler reports, and multiple drunkenness or traffic warrants arrests followed. Firemen tackled a farmhouse blaze at James Thurman farm due to an electrical short with heavy damage.
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Fourth and Broadway
Pontiac
Fulke Howard Farrar
E. Buckley
Dwayne Brown
E. Hester
Ford
Joy Pruitt Crain
Oak
Real Longoria Franco
E. Hill
Cesario Rivera
E. Buckey
Domingo Perez Alvarado
Menard
Seagraves Highway
Terry County Tractor Company
Hill Street
Fred Clarence Smith
E. Cardwell
Charlotte Ash Frogge
E. Reppto
Norman B. Frogge
East Broadway
Addison Farm
Filter Queen
General Electric
Harold Andrews
Brownfield Boys Club
Earl T. Kemmerbling
Jose Velasquez
Jesus Jose Leija
Joe Cabrera Jr
David Cabrera
Earlie Earl
Guy Ivin Seibert
Raul Garcia
Billy Ray Oliver
Texas Highway Patrol
Lupe Espenoza
Alex Flores
Jameson Casamero
Joe Gonzales Maniko
James Thurman
Retail Committee Meeting in Brownfield on Thursday
Members of the Brownfield Chamber of Commerce Retail Committee will meet at 3 p.m. Thursday in the Chamber building. Jim Bayless, chairman, will preside. The agenda covers Christmas activities in Brownfield and the new 1966 Christmas decorations.
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Brownfield
FHA Program On Tap For YF Group
Terry County Young Farmers meet at 7:30 p m Thursday in Brownfield High School Vocational Agriculture building. Officials from the Farmers Home Administration will discuss loan programs for young farmers. Plans for Stripper Day and the state convention in Corpus Christi on June 13-14, 1967, will be reviewed.
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Terry County
Brownfield High School
Farmers Home Administration
FHA
Corpus Christian
United Fund appoints Holland Evans Terry County chair
Holland Evans, longtime Brownfield Public Schools business manager, is named chair of the Terry County United Fund School Division overseeing four county schools. Evans traces 10 to 42 years of United Fund work across Gaines Dawson and Terry counties, moved with his family to Brownfield in July 1965, and notes his leadership role makes the job easier.
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Holland Evans
Terry County
United Fund
Evans
Brownfield Public Schools
United Fund For
Gaines County
Dallas
Dawson County
Gaines
Dawson Counties
Brownfield
Lamesa
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Joe McWilliams
C. E. Ross
Farr
Main
Hill Streets
Ave
Shawn
Bob Sewell
Chamber of Com
Solons
Long Session
Brownfield Boy’s Club
Boy Scouts of America
the Salvation Army
American Red Cross
Girl Scouts of America
West Texas Boys Ranch
Girlstown
Terry County Society For Crippled Children and Adults
Volunteers of America
Goodfellow Fund
United Service Organization, Inc
Retail Committee
Helland Evans
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