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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1968
Page
1
About 30 local businesses plan to participate in the annual Sidewalk Sale this Thursday in Terry County. Stores open at 9 a.m. with bargains inside and outside. Four prize drawings at 11 a.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m., and 6 p.m. will award $50 to registrants. no purchase needed to enter.
Community note about a Friday turkey supper at Oak Grove Elementary School before the Colorado City-Cub football game. The Jesse G. Randall PTA sponsors the event serving turkey and all the trimmings starting at 6 pm.
W T Bil Thompson Hereford Chamber manager told Brownfield Lions the city’s eight year growth shows diversification into vegetable farming and grain. He cited cattle feed lots and rising industry including a planned five million dollar Wilson and Company plant and a tannery in development.
Brownfield citizens vote Tuesday on a proposed one cent city sales tax with polls open 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at City Hall. Presiding judge David Nicholson and alternate Jess Bryant oversee. absentee ballots close Friday at 5 p.m. Local water, fire truck needs, and street paving drive the measure as Levelland already passes the tax by a two to one margin.
Miss Denison daughter of Mr and Mrs C W Denison of 1006 East Reppte is the Lions Club Harvest Festival Queen candidate and 1968 Lions Club Sweetheart. A Brownfield High School junior she serves as class treasurer and council member in Future Teachers Association Science Club and Press Photographer's Club. She participates in the A Cappella Choir Madrigals works on yearbook staff serves as church organist and enjoys piano and skiing.
District Governor Jack Rodgers of Odessa spoke to the Brownfield Rotary Club praising its leadership and program. He urged members to engage in club work and extend Rotary values into business, professional, and church life. Dale Durham led the meeting. Ann Garrett is Harvest Festival Queen candidate.
The Lewis Waters family is named the most Outstanding Farm Family of 1968 at the 13th annual Field Tour co sponsored by Terry Soil Conservation District and Terry County Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture Waters and his wife Sue have two children Glen Ray a Brownfield High School freshman and Becky a senior Glen Ray is in the Future Farmers of America and plays freshman football while Becky focuses on the music department and works in the high school library Mrs Waters presides over the Tokio Baptist WMA and tends the church nursery Waters has farmed 22 years facing drought and sand and promotes conservation through deep plowing crop rotation and stubble mulching The 55 mile tour visited farms showing modern farming and irrigation practices with stops at Paul Woods J O Farrar and other sites including parallel terraces and a new self propelled sprinkler system Final stop noted Terry County crops with cotton grain sorghum and navy beans and the event concluded with a luncheon and plaque presentation to Mrs Dennis Q Lilly.
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