Brownfield Casual Corner Highlights Holiday Open House and Local News
The column mixes in Garrison-esque quips about housewives trading stamps and a locksmith arrest, notes National Bible Week closing, and touts Dear Abby in Brownfield papers. It mentions Hoy's Flowers Christmas Open House, local Christmas shopping, and visiting families including Jim and Pam Petra with 4 month old twins Krista and Keira. It also covers Brownfield Country Club December events and alumni tales from Fatelline.
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Abby
Hoy’s Flowers
Gwen DuBose
Gwen
Colleen Herron
Sue Daniels
Jim
Pam Petra
Trinidad
Colorado
Brownfield
Bill
Marge Damron
Krista
Keira
Bill Cone
Canyon
Brownfield Country Club
Jean Meyers
BCC
Raiders
J. T
Skip Bowman
Fatelline
Ike
Jack Pailey
Jack Baccus
Old Man Winter Halts Harvest Across Terry County
Cold front and dry air slowed harvest as cotton gins backlog and fields stayed wet. Peanuts remain unshipped. grain sorghum soybeans and castors await dry weather. Local temps plunged to the teens and twenties with light precipitation and forecasts for clearing skies and fair drying conditions over the weekend.
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Holeidays
Brownfield
Lamesa
Levelland
Lubbock Mercury
Plains
Seminole
Tahoka
ACT To Meet Monday Night By United Travelers in Brownfield
825 of United Commercial Travelers of America will convene at 7 o'clock Monday evening at the Party House. Craig Wilkerson announced the gathering with Jim Pete Hale, senior councilor, set to preside at the regular dinner meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownfield Council
United Commercial Travelers of America
Jim Pete Hale
Brownfield News Adds Dear Abby Column
The Brownfield News will publish the Dear Abby column in every issue starting today. Abigail Van Buren writes the widely read human relations feature now in its 16th year with about 1 200 letters annually selected for publication.
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The
Brownfield News
Abby
Abigail van Buren
San Francisco
Notable woman journalist Abby tied to Martin Van Buren era
A columnist born July 4 1918 in Sions City Iowa identical twin. She attended Morningside College earned an honorary degree after marriage to Morton Phillips and two children. Abby pursued journalism to ease tensions and emotional pain, residing in St Paul and highly admired nationwide.
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Sions City
Iowa
Morningside Colege
Moreton Phillips
Abby
UF Drive Short of Goal As Weekend Efforts Continue
Brownfield United Fund workers hope to finish the drive soon as 45 percent of the forecast total has been gathered. By Friday $15,231.95 was collected toward the $33,480 goal with days left before closure. A final report will be submitted Tuesday morning ahead of the original Wednesday end.
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Paul W. McCracken
National
Brownfield United Fund
Richards joins Brownfield News
Don Richards age 25 joins Brownfield News as a writer in his family’s long newspaper lineage. A Texas Tech graduate and former Abilene Reporter-News freelancer, he is son of Afton Richards publisher of the Ralls Banner and brother of Charles Richards at Avalanche Journal.
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Don Richards
West Texas
Brownefield News
Richards
Afton Richards
Ralls Banner
Ropesville Plainsman
The
Meadow Star
Terry County
Meadow
Texas Tech
Abilene Reporter-News
Tech
University Daily
Sad
Die Tramps Spirit
la Ventana
Lubbock Avaelanche-Journal
Jayton High School
Meadow Blacksmith Shop Roots Run Three Generations
Dave Cushman recalls Meadow’s blacksmith shop started in 1923 by John Maddox and later run by L. J. Brooks and his children Jessie and Corky. Jim Finley, Meadow’s 80 year old elder, provides early history while WWII era service and family moves shaped the shop.
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Corky Brooks
Jessie Brooks
Meadow Blacksmith Shop
Jim Finley
Oldtimer
Meadow
Brooks
Henry Wadsworth Longfeleow
Jessie
John A. Maddox
Finley
Putoff
John Maddox
Annie
Measdow
Maddox
Dox
L. J. Brooks
Audrey
F. C. Lowerie
Lowrie
Corky
Bessie
Annabelle
Navy
Earl
Dad
Alabama
Oklahoma
Lion Levo Honored At Banquet With Four Lions Awards
Bob Levo, former district governor of Lions District 2-T-2, received four awards at a Tuesday night banquet. International Lions President, another international director, and district officials presented the honors as Brownfield area Lions and guests saluted his service. Ed Grindstaff of Ballinger delivered the main speech and awarded Levo the president's award, a first for a Texas Lion. Don Hensley led ceremonies, and Levo also thanked past zone chairmen and district sweetheart Vicki Wells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownfield
Bob Levo
Lions International
Ed Grindstaff
Ballinger
Levo
Brownfield Lion
Joe Masso
Horate
Vicki Wells
Lubbock
Grindstaff
Texas
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Brownie
Ccc
National Bible Committee
Old Man Winter
Guy Britton
Texas Employment Commission
Billy Wilson
City Electrical Department
Man Winter
Dave Cushman
Craig Wilkerson
Abigail
Martin van Buren
United States
St. Paul
Charles
Avalanche Journal
Don
Melba Herron
Brownfield High School
Area Lions
Don Hensley
Brownfield Noon Lions Club
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