City officials back new Brownfield post office site
City Council and Chamber of Commerce unite on post office expansion as Brownfield grows from 4 009 to an estimated 11 500 residents. They urge a new facility off a current site due to cost, congestion, and modernization limits while noting drive in service and off street parking are priorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry Jackson
Chamber of Commerce
Brownfield
Brownfield Post Office
McCout Chamber of Commerce
Brownheld Chamber of Commerce
Post Office
Brownfield considers teen curfew and new post office
Brownfield City Council approved a 11 pm to 6 am curfew for residents under 17 with penalties for violators and urged parent and business cooperation. The body also backed efforts to build a new post office, weighing a downtown site or expanding the current facility as postal traffic grows from the 1929 structure serving about 4,000 people.
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Wunanimo
Brownfield
Brownfield Fiver Crashes Near Welch injuring pilot
Brownfield crop dusting plane crashed about three miles north of Welch in Dawson County while spraying cotton on the Ted Turner place. Pilot Bob Cummings, 40, suffered a head gash and was treated at a Lamesa hospital. The plane, totally destroyed, struck a highline pole and bounced after impact. Cummings, from Fort Worth and a former Pampa resident, has dusted crops here since July and lives at 1518 Lubbuck Road with his family.
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Welch
Dawson County
Bob Cummings
Lamesa
Ted Turner Place
Cummings
Fort Worth
Pampa
August 107800 in Brownfield Building Permits
August building permits in Brownfield rose to 107800 after a slow July, with new residential permits issued to B F Shipley, Moore & Sons, P R Cates, Capri James, and others. Moves included two ready built homes by S J Bleyd and a residence relocation, plus remodeling at Piggley Wiggly and an addition by J B Hadaway.
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Brownfield
Jake Geron
B. F Shipley
Buckley
Moore & Sons
BE. Harris
P. R Cates
E. Warren
Piggley Wiggly
W. Hill
Clemmie Hamilton
J. B. Hadaway
S. 4Th
Optimists Plan Organizational Session Here
James W Evans temporary chairman of the Brownfield Optimist Club announces an organizational meeting for Tuesday at 7 at the Westerner International. Jim Caston will attend to install officers and offer help. The first major project targets Youth Appreciation Week November 11 to 17 to honor local youths.
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James W
Amy) Evans
Brownfield Optimist Club
Westerner International
Jim Caston
Brownfield
Motorists Urged To Heed Bus Law
James E. Tippit, chief of police, warned Saturday that the state law prohibiting passing a school bus applies inside city limits as well as on highways. The law bans passing while students are unloading with a $50 fine for offenders. if no unloading, four motorists may pass after stopping but must proceed slowly with extreme caution.
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James E. Tippit
Hich
Tippit
Brownfield QB Club Hosts Grid Preview and Ice Cream Supper
The Brownfield Quarterback Club prepares a combined grid preview and ice cream supper at Cub Stadium Monday evening beginning at 7 p.m. Club president W A Wolf invites the public to attend with varsity and B team players and their parents welcome at Oak Grove cafeteria after the event.
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Brownfield
W A. Wolf
Cub Stadium
Oak Grove
Valdene Garner crowns FS Queen at District Two pageant
Valdene Garner presented the crown to Judi Shurbet, District Two Farm Bureau Queen, at a Thursday contest held in the Lubbock Christian College Auditorium. Shurbet, 17, lives near the Floyd County line. Terry County Farm Bureau did not sponsor a queen. Garner will be state queen until the Fort Worth state contest on Nov 10.
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Valaene Garner
Val Garner
State Farm Bureau Queen
Lubbock Christian College Auditorium
Miss Garner
Judi Shurbet
Floyd County
Terry County Farm Bureau
Miss Garnett
Fort Worth
Nov Lo
Charges Filed Pleas Heard In County Crime Report
Three thefts are under investigation by the Terry County Sheriff's Department with items stolen from farms near Tokyo and Rustic Drive In Theatre. A guilty plea was entered by J D JGRCS OF & Coharece for vagrancy with a 119.51 fine. Additional vagrancy charges against Eiva Valdez Margaret Cisneros and three others. An accident Thursday night near Lubbock Levell involved a 1957 Chevrolet and a 1956 Ford with no injuries.
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Terry County
J.D. Jgrcs OF & Coharece
Eiva Valdez
Margaret Cisneros
Brownfield City
Pelagus
Tory Costello
Virginia Gacez
Carmen Florez
Lubbock Levell
Eamon
Alvarado
Roy Jarlen Butler
Shinnery Lane
First Football Contest Listed in Brownfield News
The gridiron season opens with a weekly football contest offering cash prizes. The first contest is listed on page two and fans are invited to participate. To enter the ballot, write the advertised item name per the rules shown on page two.
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Brownfield News
Four-County Council to Meet on Cotton Defoliation
The Four County Agricultural Council will convene at 7 a.m. Tuesday in Seminole at the County Extension Office. Dennis Q. Lilly and J. A. Foy arranged a program on cotton defoliation, highlighting its importance this year due to late cotton and past misuse of defoliants and dessicants. The council covers Terry Dawson Gaines and Yoakum counties.
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Agricultural Council
Seminole
Dennis Q. Lilly
J. A. Foy
Terry
Dawson
Gaines
Yoakum
Police Busy During August in Brownfield
Brownfield Police Department reports August activity with $1805 total expenses and 341 calls. Chief James Tip pit notes three expense categories car $33.64 prisoner food $33.55 other $59.98. The force made 40 arrests, issued 67 traffic tickets, 28 hazardous 37 non hazardous and 2 parking. Twenty accidents were investigated, bringing yearly total to 124.
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Brownfield
James FE. Tippit
Coach Cox Addresses Rotarians at Brownfield Rotary Meeting
Brownfield Cubs coach Doug Cox spoke to the Rotary Club about the coming season and Friday's opener against Littlefield. New staffers Jerry English and Delbert Wiley joined first assistant Charlie Reese as Cox outlined probable starters and key schedule items.
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Doug Cox
Brownfield Cubs
Rotary Club
Jerry English
Delbert Wiley
Charlie Reese
Cox
Little Feld
Tim
Graham Smith
Terry Farm Income Higher Than Average
Farmers in Terry County posted higher per capita receipts in 1962 than the national average, with gross farm receipts of 38.5 million dollars and per-person income of 9 656 dollars due to more efficient, highly mechanized operations. National figures show U S farm income trends amid larger acreages and mechanization.
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Standard Rate and Data Service
Terry County
Tims
Department of Agriculture
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Eunice Jones
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4Th
W. Friday
Brownfield Fiver
Dences
So J. Bleyd
Park Lane
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N. 4Th
Lake Matilda Lopez
Waco
Valdene Garner
County Council
John Kendrick
Danny Thurman
Brownfield High School
George Weiss
Sherman Hope
Dale Durham
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Barbara Newsom
Miulai
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