Community theater grant sparks town play The Mouse That Roared
Optimist Club backs a November community play featuring Our Town citizens including a banker farmer merchant housewife doctor and schoolteacher The three act production will need 30 plus players with auditions directed by Darlene Gray Contact Jimmy Billings or Phil Porter. Delwin Jones of Lubbock seeks District 76 State Representative seat while opponent Merle Rose a Santa Fe yardmaster also visits voters during Political Day at the office. When voting November 5 new ballot format shown on page eight.
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Optimist Club
Darlene Gray
Jimmy Billings
Phil Porter
Delwin Jones
Lubbock
Jones
Merle Rose
Rose
Santa Fe
Texas
the News
The Privilege of Voting and Time Change Reflections
A Bay Shore column urges voting participation while musing on daylight saving time. The writer notes civic duty contrasts with inconvenience of registering and voting and recalls clock changes and sunlit hours impacting daily life.
Brownfield Council Approves Motel and Expansion Plan
Brownfield City Council approved a plan by W T Gibbs to build a motel and apartment complex with a swimming pool and to enlarge the Holiday House restaurant nine feet. The project, located east of the Holiday House on the Tohoka Highway, requires dedication of alleys and legal work by Monday. The council also voted to donate two percent of the 1968 United Fund budget to the city light plant and heard a report on Brownfield property donated to the city.
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Brownfield City
W.T. Gibbs
Holiday House
Nine Feet
Estille Mize
Harold Harriger
Lubbock
Tohoka Highway
United Fund
Local Citizens To Hear Muskie In Lubbock Rally
A Terry County Democrats caravan leaves at 1 p.m. Tuesday to hear Senator Edmund S. Muskie, Democratic vice presidential candidate, speak at the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum at 2:30 p.m. He stays about three hours. The group meets at 610 West Main Street.
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Terry County
Lubbock
Edmund S. Muskie
Muskie
Lubbock Municipal Coliseum
West Main Street
Terry's History Book On Display At Tea Event
Terry County presents Early Settlers of Terry a hard cover history compiled by local writers under the Terry County Historical Society. The volume includes accounts of over 100 pioneer families and more than 1 000 names in the index with illustrations by local artist Mrs L G Juna Smith published by Pioneer Book Publishers Hereford. Tea today from 2 to 5 p m at Seleta Jane Clubhouse offers inspection and first sale of the book.
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Terry County
Seleta Jane
R. L. Bowers
L. G
Juna)Smith
Pioneer Book Publishers, Inc
Hereford
Commercial Feedlot Discussion in Terry County
Texas cattle and milo are shipped to California feed lots managed by Texas men. The meeting Tuesday Oct 29 at 8 p.m. in the Terry County courtroom will discuss a local commercial feed lot with local and out of town speakers answering questions.
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Texas
California
Gulf Coast
Terry County
Highways Are For People emphasized by Texas engineer
Mel Pope, Texas Highway Department engineer, spoke to Brownfield Lions Club on Highways Are For People. He described TV cameras on busy freeways to study driving habits and inform Austin plans for efficient freeways. Texas has 68 000 miles of highways and 38 000 miles of Farm to Market roads, more than seven New England states.
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Highway Department
Austin
Pope
Texas
New England
United States
Absentee Voting Underway For Nov. 5 Election
Absentee voting began Oct. 16 with 175 ballots received by county clerk J.O Burnett. Ballots for the general election and county bond issue are cast in the county clerk's office while school bond ballots go to the high school business office.
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J.O Burnett
Burnett
Brownfield CROP Day Proclaimed For Community Drive
Mayor Jack Hamilton designates today as Brownfield CROP Day to support the Church World Service hunger appeal. Youth from eight churches, about 100 students, begin door to door fundraising at 3 p.m. meeting at the Church of God host church.
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Jack Hamilton
Leonard Ellington
First United Presbyterian Church
First Assembly of God
Church of God, Nazarenes
First United Methodist Church
First Christian Church
First Baptist Church
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church
Church of God
Don Stovall
Leslie Thompson
Marie Chesshir
Texas
Food For Peace
CWS
Church World Service
Hamilton
UCT Schedules Dinner Meeting
Brownfield Council No. 825 of the United Commercial Trawlers of America will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the Party House for its regular meeting. Robert Becker, senior counselor, will be in charge of the meeting. All members their wives and guests are invited to attend.
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Brownfield Council No
United Commercial Trawlers of America
Robert Becker
Youngster Injured When Hit By Auto
Three and a half year old Patricia Ann Brown was struck by a car driven by Michael Terry Lawrance while crossing near the A W Root Beer Stand. She remained in serious condition at Brownfield General Hospital after the Friday 4 45 p m incident.
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Patricia Ann Brown
Eddie Tiller
North First Street
Brownfield General Hospital
A&w Root Beer
Michael Terry Lawrance
Yucca Lane
North Seventh Street
Justice of the Peace
Frank Gray
Jesse Earl Byars
Victor Briones
James Finnen
Optimists Honor Teens During Youth Appreciation Week
The Brownfield Optimist Club and national Optimist groups plan Youth Appreciation Week from November 11 to 17. Nominations are accepted by Jim Hale, with forms sent to county high schools and churches. A committee will pick 10 teens, then the board selects three to be recognized at the luncheon on November 14. Nomination deadline is November 1.
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Brownfield Optimist Club
Optimist
United States
Canada
Bob Burris
Jim Hale
Optimist Club
Hale
South 5Th Street
United Fund Opens Campaign Thursday
Terry County United Fund launches its drive with a 7 a.m. Thursday breakfast at Oak Grove Cafe and a 4 30 p.m. Friday report meeting. Early tally shows 7712 96 dollars raised or about 28 percent of the 27211 goal. Various division chairs and goals are listed, with guests from Lubbock and remarks urging community action.
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Meadow Chapter
Future Homemakers of America
Johnnie Wright
Sheila Swinford
United Fund
Meadow Fha
Tom Williams
Lubbock
Arlie Lawrimore
Terry County United Fund
Oak Grove
Mack Ross
Sammy Jones
C.G. Grizzle
Jimmy Bennett
Optimists View 1999 A.D. Film at Club Meeting
Members of the Brownfield Optimist Club met at the Party House at noon Thursday to view Charles Darwin’s film 1999 A.D. The event honored the club and Ford Sales for co sponsoring the Pass Punt and Kick Contest, which drew 101 local entrants. Jim Ashlock joined as a new member, and Linda Golden will present a musical program at the next gathering.
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Brownfield Optimist Club
Charles Darwin
Darwin
Charles Darwin Ford
Jim Ashlock
Linda Golden
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