Garden Club Christmas Tour to showcase local homes Thursday
The 1983 Garden Club Christmas Tour features two Brownfield families the Tolivers and the Jinkins with their festive home décors and personal touches. Also on tour are the Coon and Fordyce households. Proceeds fund Bicentennial Park upkeep. advance tickets are $2, at the door $2.25.
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Coke Toliver
Tim Jinkins
Garden Club
Paul Coon
E. Tate
Tom Fordyce
E. Hester
Tolivers
E. Buckley
Odell’s
Odell's
Bicentennial Park
Brownfield
Cabbage Patch dolls spark near riot at store
The article recounts a store selling 120 Cabbage Patch dolls drawing over 1000 buyers. Shoving and table toppling led to a near riot with the manager threatening the crowd with a baseball bat. The author muses on international views of such American hype and ends noting Clifton Record ad text on page 2A.
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Clifton Record
Waco
Texas
Yield Good Terry Cotton harvest tops half-way mark
The Terry County cotton harvest is mid progress with gins reporting 50 to 70 percent completion. The Thanksgiving wet spell paused field work for days, now farmers resume picking. grades run below normal yet prices are stabilizing with many growers seeing better in-field yields than last year.
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Terry
Alvin King
Terry County Gin
Brownfield
Raymond Bohler
Lanny Webb
Needmore Gin
Webb
Ray Emerson
Wellman Co-Op
Wellman
Gillham Park project moves forward at regular meeting
County Commissioners met Monday with all members present and approved travel funds for the County Judge's Secretary and First Deputy County Clerk to a Vital Statistics Conference in Austin. They directed Santa Fe Railroad to curb overgrowth affecting drainage and crops near rights of way and agreed to cooperative development of Gillham Park with Brownfield, the Park Board, and the Mental Health Board. Plans from Texas Tech students were reviewed, with landscaping chosen and funded by donations. land gifted by Mrs. Gillham to be developed within 10 years. The 9 acre site lies east of Brownfield on Tahoka Road, with gradual construction planned and city and county labor and equipment contributing. A December 12 vote may raise salaries by 5 percent. Cotton harvest progress is mixed with reports from local gins noting varying percentages completed and quality concerns due to weather and rainfall.
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County Commissioners Court
Austin
Santa Fe Railroad
Terry County
Mental Health Board
Commission
Gillham Park
City of
Brownfield, Park Board and
Gillham
Texas Tech
Park Board
Brownfield
Tahoka Road
Commissioners Court
Santa Letters: Brownfield Christmas Help Wanted
Santa and Lynn with elves invite Brownfield friends to drop or mail letters for Christmas wishes. Letters go to Brownfield News office at 409 W Hill or Box 1272, Brownfield 79316. Include names, requests, and keep to deadlines. Susie and Johnny serve as friendly reminders about grooming.
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Lynn
Brownfield
North Pole
Brownfield News
W. Hill
Goodfellows prep for Christmas aid in Brownfield
Dick Fletcher leads Brownfield Goodfellows as they collect new and used toys and food for local children, with gifts delivered on Christmas Eve. Toys should be unwrapped and age and gender noted. Families are screened with help from police, sheriff, and welfare workers.
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Brownfield Goodfellows
Dick Fletcher
Fletcher
Jake Geron
Sheriff's
Goodfellows
Lion’s Club
United Way
Police arrest alleged car thief Oscar Alvarado
Oscar Alvarado was charged with theft over 10000 in connection with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle taken from Plains Motor Co. last Thursday. He was apprehended in Levelland after a hit and run in Lubbock. bond set at 7000.
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Oscar Alvarado
Plains Motor Co
Alvarado
Levelland
Lubbock
United Supermarket
East Hester
Cargill's Equipment Co
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Santa
High
New Horizons
Jinkins
Crystal Lane
BHS
Mt Tike Lynn Brisendine
Johnny
Susie
the Goodfellows
City Hall
Goodfellow
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