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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1963
Page
1
New parking area on the courthouse square is finished and in use, easing peak shopping congestion during Christmas. Smiley’s appearance drew many visitors from the surrounding area to the square.
Kemal Ekermen, chief engineer from Turkey’s Soil Conservation and Farm Irrigation Directorate, arrives in the United States for a two month on the job exchange. He will work with American soil conservation technicians in Texas and California, starting in Washington and Nebraska, then Brownfield, Pecos, and beyond.
Mack Gray of the Soil Conservation Service spoke to the Terry County Young Farmers Association at Brownfield High School Agricul tural Shop. He traced the 1939 Texas SCS origins and noted the Great Plains SCS in 19, offering aid for deep-breaking piping and land improvements.
Brownfield Rotary Club met at noon Friday with about 60 members and one guest BF Ada of Lubbock. Richard Ferguson Brownfield Post Office superintendent spoke on the U S Postal System praising its superiority over Europe and urging support. Joe Price presided and introduced the speaker.
The Brownfield Optimist Club met in regular session at the Westerner with president James W. Evans in charge. Special vocal selections by the Cotton Town Four entertained. They discussed youth appreciation week for November and welcomed guests from Lubbock Downtown Optimist and Monterey Optimist clubs.
Plans call for a Brownfield delegation to join a Tuesday ribbon cutting for the extension of U S Highway 82 in Artesia New Mexico A car caravan from Lubbock to Artesia will pass Brownfield with local civic drivers joining the convoy Four carloads were in prospect as of Saturday morning John Ben Sheppard of Odess a will speak and a hospitality hour follows at the Artesia Country Club A dinner at the Abo Underground School and Fall out Shelter begins at 7 00 pm continuing the route with coffee and doughnuts at a Lovington stop and an earlier Plains stop to add units to the caravan The highway becomes a trans continental route from Savannah to Los Angeles and San Diego
Adult classes begin Monday at Brownfield High School with registration through first class period. Art and typing courses meet weekly in specified rooms with named instructors. Conversational Spanish and bookkeeping run evenings through the first semester. A $15 fee applies per course and credits toward graduation are not earned.
Brown field water consumption for September rose from 1962 levels. City secretary Jake Geron reports 49 287 200 gallons used this month versus 39 357 700 in September 1962. Peak day was Sept 8 with 2 065 800 gallons, compared to 2 289 000 on Sept 1, 1962.
The Brownfield city council in regular session approved a sidewalk ordinance to ensure uniform continuity on residential blocks and to prevent obstructions near streets. It also addressed water sewer extensions, street paving in the Gillham Powell Addition, and bid acceptance for the Emergency Operating Center work and evaporative cooling installation.
The Advanced Gifts Division of the United Fund reported 1000.46 received by 4 p.m. Friday, with R. L. Hansen as chairman. Report-Back day is set for Tuesday at United Fund headquarters. Leonard Ellington chairs the general campaign aiming for 25,295 and 12 agencies participate this year.
Terry County Farm Bureau members receive policy questionnaires from Kenneth Purtell, chairman of the Policy Development Committee, ahead of the annual convention and barbecue at Brownfield High School. The form asks about salt water pollution control, water districts, poll taxes, stray dogs, dog licensing and vaccination, sorghum midge control, litter law enforcement, school citizenship programs, welfare work requirements, and unemployment compensation. Additional items cover state and national issues including seed purity, welfare liberalism, inheritance tax study, and the feed grain program. Local policies will reflect majority responses.
Six area juveniles were arrested by the Terry County Sheriff's Department in a countywide theft ring involving automotive parts and fuel. The haul included tools, generators, gas, oil, and over 200 gallons of gasoline, plus 50 sticks of dynamite and 100 caps. Some juveniles released to parents, one fined, one held for hearing, others pending. Police also reported liquor raids leading to three male arrests, a vagrancy conviction for Marion Walker Harris, and a single-vehicle crash on Stn Street and Seagraves Road with the driver hospitalized.
About 50 to 75 planes carrying around 200 people will land at Brownfield Airport at 2 50 p m Tuesday for a coffee break. The All Texas Air Tour is sponsored by multiple Texas aviation groups with the Brownfield Chamber of Commerce hosting refreshments and inviting locals to meet the visitors. The flight from Carlsbad New Mexico is the only out of state stop before continuing to Plainview and later to Pampa Quanah Olney Breckenridge Mineral Wells Fort Worth and ending at Victoria.
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