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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1963
Page
1
In This Corner Jerry Jackson recalls rumors from a recent Thursday night game at Cub Stadium. A Seminole football player was hurt with a back injury and later deemed not serious after X rays and a doctor visit. A separate Lamesa injury rumor circulated without substantiation. He urges discretion to protect reputations.
Joe Price of the Brownfield Chamber of Commerce presented 32 certificates as the Public Relations course closed. The four day program by Noel Childs, UT training specialist, ran for 10 hours and targeted business men and DE students with focus on customer relations and effective conversation.
Services for Brewer Cole, 56, were held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Brownfield Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Ray Turner of Park Terrace Baptist Church officiating. Burial followed at Terry County Memorial Cemetery under Brownfield Funeral Home direction amid Brownfield residence for two years. Cole died at 7:40 a.m. Thursday in Brownfield General Hospital.
The Brownfield School Board holds a 7:30 p.m. session at the high school with a brief superintendent’s report and a full agenda. It covers curriculum personnel business and finance unfinished business policy updates student dress and fee payment policy proposals campus visits for teacher recruitment bonfire request for homecoming and various communications and notices.
United Fund Campaign for 1963 shows more than half of the $25,295 target raised by Friday afternoon. Advance division contributes $15,390.96 while the general division totals $12,794.96 and $596 in the first five days. The drive expanded with a luncheon kickoff and will increase across divisions this week.
C W Collins 79 a former Terry County resident died Friday of a heart attack in Evant He lived in Terry County since the early 1920s moved to Evant in 1962 He was a retired farmer Methodist Church member and Odd Fellows Lodge Survivors include his wife three sons Odell Hereford A E Brownfield and L L Walker Medford Ore a daughter and several grandchildren and great grandchildren
Ladies from the Terry County Friends of the Library attended the Optimist Club session at The Westerner. Members invited to join the library group and purchased memberships at one dollar each. Reports were heard from committees as James W. Fivens presided and Robert Noble Jr spoke for the Boys Club. Discussion covered Youth Appreciation Week planned for November.
Carolyn Hall will reign as Homecoming Queen during the Brownfield High School festivities on October 25. Daphne Pemberton is princess with Karen Smith and Sherry Timmons as duchesses representing senior, junior, sophomore, and freshman classes. Coronation and pep rally follow, with bonfire planned for October 24 and a firewood gathering contest between class pairs.
Two aggravated assault charges and two transporting charges figure in Ferry County Sheriff’s blotter. Rolando Vela pleaded guilty to one aggravated assault charge and posted 351.70 in fines. Josephat Garcia pleaded not guilty to another aggravated assault and is free on a 750 bond. Two Lubbock defendants Norman Daulton and Noble McDougal pleaded not guilty to transport charges and were released on 2 500 bonds. A drunkenness plea carried a 25 50 fine. Police report a school theft of 20 dollars from West Ward Elementary and two minor traffic mishaps with injuries. A 1962 Ford and a 1957 Chevrolet were involved in Atkins and Tohoka Road crash. the trailer separated and hit a parked car. The driver was Martin R. Aluniz. the parked car belonged to the General Adjustment Bureau of Lubbock. Police also investigated a short changer complaint, prowler reports, and youths throwing watermelons at cars.
Funeral services for Jack D Wester former principal and English teacher at Brownfield High School were held Oct 16 at First Baptist Church Normangee with burial at Ever Rest Cemetery Bryan Wester died Oct 8 in John Sealy Hospital Galveston after a two month illness A former Brownfield resident he worked for the school system in the 1930s later entered the ministry Survivors include his wife three sons and several grandchildren
Brownfield firefighters extinguished a cotton trailer blaze on North Sth Street at 4 40 p m Friday. Very little damage was sustained as the fire was put out in short order by local units.
The Texas Employment Commission reports a surge in cotton ginning activity in Terry County with 4 547 bales by Friday morning, more than double the week prior. TEC projects a county base count of about 135 000 bales for the season underway.
A cold front and showers affected Terry County early Saturday with Brownfield recording 0.13 inch at the official weather station Radio KTF. Harvesting moved slowly as light rain touched Meadow Foster Union Wellman areas. Total rainfall for the year reached 18.57 inches with October normal at 2.37 inches and the year’s normal 18.96.
Brownfield High School chorus directed by A. V. Wail presented six selections at the Brownfield Rotary Club with about 60 students. Emily Risinger accompanied on piano. Juan Wilson district governor will visit November 1 to speak. Notable guests included Ken Kendrick Rev Crow Robert Baumgardner St G Woods Bur Lawford and William Brown. Levelland guests Harry Mann Melvin Kunkles and Walter Reed attended. Student Rotarians Sterling Cox and eo Smith were introduced by A C Bishop.
The USDA market service in Brownfield classed 4 480 samples for the week ending Friday October 18th. Last year 8 659 samples were classed in the same period. Through Friday night Terry Gaines and Yoakum Counties total 7 990 for the season, far below 18 396 through October 18th last year. Three classers worked, classing stayed current with receipts. Daily carryover ranged from 1 000 to 1 200 samples.
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