Community column reflects on vacations and local developments
The writer recalls a simple two week vacation with rest and reading, then shifts to Our Town news. New industries, the R. B. Todd Produce Company and a forthcoming cotton meat industry feature, are highlighted alongside plans for a United Fund Queen idea and Merlin Speed’s Outstanding Young Farmer honor. A Terry County history book project is announced to preserve local heritage for future generations.
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R. B. Todd Produce Company, Inc
Bobby
Billie Todd
Billie
United Fund
Terry County
Merlin Speed
Speed
James Willis
Brownfield
Brownfield sees August building permits rise with portable classrooms
August permits total 15 for 66 655 dollars raising the year to 274 352. Metal 24 by 36 foot classrooms go to Brownfield ISD migrant program at four schools including Jesse G Randal Oak Grove Colonial Heights and an East Reppto site with concrete slabs and central heat cooling. A move of a classroom from Wheatley to Brownfield High adds 7 000 dollars. One new dwelling at 1608 East Reppto costs 138 500. Funeral services held for Vida S Brumley long time Brownfield resident with survivor list.
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Lewis Simmonds
Tahoka Road
Jesse G. Randal
Fast Cactus Lane
Oak Grove
East Reppto
Colonial Heights
Brownfield Independent School District
Wheatley
Brownfield High School
East Broadway
Jimmie Reeler
East Repptor
New State Residents Allowed Vote In '68
Voters who have lived in Texas less than a year must apply for a ballot during a 15 day period beginning Friday to vote for President and Vice President in the coming general election. J. O. Burnett, county clerk, announced Tuesday. Applicants must appear in person at the county clerk's office.
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Texas
J. O. Burnett
Terry County Court House
Burnett
Todd Produce Company Opens In Brownfield
A new business, the Todd Produce Company, Inc., opens in Brownfield on the Lubbock Highway. The plant will run 24 hours during harvest, employing about 27 locals, with 7 workers now and 9 per shift later. The Todds plan to assist farmers with navy beans, black eye peas, and pin beans, grading finished products for sale and shipment nationwide, including to Maine.
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Brownfield
R.B. Todd Produce Company, Inc
Todd
Lubbock Highway
Terry County
J.W. Hawkins
Navy
Hawkins
Todds
Crosbyton
R.B. Todd
75 New Members Join Chamber in Victory Dinner
The Terry County Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture admitted 75 new members at a victory dinner hosted by George Weiss. Judge W T McKinney Lloyd Hahn contributed 33 and 23 members respectively, raising total paid memberships to 305. The farm tour on Sept 12, with eight air conditioned buses, is sponsored by the Chamber and the Soil Conservation Service.
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Terry County Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture
George Weiss
Chamber
W.T. McKinney
Lloyd Hahn
Weiss
Dub Legion
Hahn
The
Soil Conservation Service
Coleman Park
Kiwanis State Variety Show Promises Local Talent
Brownfield Kiwanis Club hosts a music and variety show at Brownfield High School Auditorium at 8 p.m. Friday. Proceeds fund a Little League team and youth projects. prizes donated by local banks and companies. Peggy Kincannon stars with Lubbock disc jockey Chuck Baker hosting. Local acts from Lubbock, Lamesa and Brownfield perform.
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Brownfield Kiwanis Club
Peggy Kincannon
Brownfield High School
Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis
Brownfield Savings and Loan Association
First National Bank
Pioneer Natural Gas Company
Terry County Farm Bureau
Chuck Baker
Ksel Radio
Lubbock
Rites Held For Mrs. Dora Mae McClain
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Dora Mae McClain 66 at Brownfield Memorial Chapel with Rev. Don McWhorter officiating. Burial followed at Terry County Memorial Cemetery. She died Tuesday evening at Brownfield General Hospital from an apparent heart attack. Born May 7, 1902 in Camp Springs, she married Bur Ross Smith McClain in 1929 in Amarillo. The couple moved to Brownfield in 1967 to manage Park Terrace Apartments. Survivors include her husband, one daughter in Guam, her mother in Tohoka, two sisters in Oklahoma and New Mexico, and five grandchildren.
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Vida S. Brumley
Brownfield
Brownfield Funeral Home
Jack Garrett
First Christian Church
Terry County Memorial Cemetery
Oklo
W.L. Travis
H.T. Branigan
Hollis
Zack Elder
Odessa
Iva Cawley
New Jersey
Bur
Dora Mae) McClain
Don McWhorter
Parkview Methodist Church
Bur Ross Smith McClain
Amarillo
Park Terrace
Civil Service
Fort Stanton
N.M
Almagorda Air Force Base
Shirley A. Williams
Guam
Emma Davidson
Tohoka
Edna Fisher
Tyrone
Okla
Ann Smith
Lovington
Woods Named G TEC Cable TV Manager at Brownfield Levelland
J C Woods appointed manager of the Brownfield Levelland G TEC Cable TV System. He previously led G TEC Cable TV in Winchester Indiana. GT E Communications, a General Telephone and Electronics unit, runs 37 cable franchises across nine states and provides time weather and public service programs. Woods is a native of Alma and has accounting training from American International College Bermuda.
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J.C. Woods
Brownfield- Levelland
G’ Tec
William L. Alexander
California
Gt&e Communications, Inc
Woods
G’tec
Winchester
Ind
Gt&e Communications
General Telephone and Electronics Corporation
Alma
American International College
Bermuda
United States Air Force
Pharr
Delta the Am
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Merlin
Rotan
Doyle Simpson
Mrs. Brumley
Todd Produce Company
Maine
Mrs. Todd
Raymondsville
Carol
Sharron McCann
McNeese College
Lake
Harold Klein
Courthouse
Klein
Queens
Bill Blankenship
Ken Williams
Stanley Miller
Howard Davis
Don Burda
Noah Stone
Jack Greenfield
Marion Snell
Jackie Cargill
Roy Seudday
Charles Darwin
W.O. Caraway
Howard McIvoy
C.C. Brooks
Alvin King
Meadow
Mrs. McClain
Agi
Phi Ternity
Relay Lea
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