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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1968
Page
1
Eight air conditioned buses will leave the courthouse at 9 a.m. for a farm tour of Terry County crops. A Red Cross coat representing the Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture and a Soil Conservation Service director will join each bus to point out sights.
Republican nominee Paul Eggers arrives in Brownfield Thursday around 11 a.m. to meet the LACSO Club at 11:30 and speak at the Optimist Club. County campaign chairman Robert Baumgardner says he will not stay long due to a 2:30 p.m. departure for Ralls.
Funeral services for W W Watson 68 will be at 2:30 p m today at First Methodist Church with Rev R N Huckabee and Rev Gordon Groom officiating Burial will be in Terry County Memorial Park under Brownfield Funeral Home direction Watson died Friday at Lubbock Methodist Hospital after a long illness He had lived in Terry County since 1942 farming east of town until retiring in 1964 Survivors include his wife one foster son David Earl Golden of Wharton one brother Elmer of Dougherty two sisters Mrs Janie Watson of Corsicana and Mrs J E Wallings Sr of Haskell one foster granddaughter and many nieces and nephews
City manager Jake Geron spoke at the Brown field Rotary Club about a proposed one percent municipal sales tax. He urged the measure to fund a treatment plant, fire equipment, and other city needs, noting alternatives and urging voters to decide the Sept. 17 election at City Hall.
The Brownfield Waste Cotton Company, led by Bill E. Damron, will operate in the old compress buildings on the Lubbock highway. The plant will hire about five locals year round and around 45 during cotton harvest, with 15 inside the plant and 30 as truckers. It will buy and bale waste cotton mote, supply storage for ginners, and may expand to felting for mattresses and furniture. The venture aims to be running by harvest time, with a two year lease on the site and a $30,000 retrofit cost plus equipment from the Littlefield plant. Market prospects include attracting mattress and furniture manufacturers to the area.
The Terry County Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture and the Terry County Soil Conservation Service District sponsor a Field Day tour beginning at 9 a.m. with eight air conditioned buses leaving from the north side of the square. The west county route highlights participating firms including Brownfield banks, Brownfield Co-Op Gin, Hi Plains Co-Op Gin, Carter and Webb Implement, Wes Tex Irrigation, Plains Liquefied Gas, and many other local businesses.
Brownfield Kiwanis Club held a noon meeting with Miss Vicki Marsh daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J B Marsh of 807 East Buckley as a special guest. She is chosen to represent the club as queen candidate for the Harvest Festival October 19. Other guests included Dave Goode Wayland Sealy and Dean Merrifield who led a program opposing the city sales tax on September 17. Tommy Sane presided. invocation by Jake Fulford. Don Burda led the pledge. Directors met after lunch and approved the monthly report.
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