Brownfield News and Local Happenings tonight
A Brownfield sighting report describes two bright saucers with a blue ring seen east of town at 6 27 p m Wednesday followed by a third. The witnesses drove toward Tohoka Highway but the objects disappeared. Dollar Day and Thanksgiving plans dominate local chatter as merchants prepare events and decorations. A hunting camp missing person alert turned out to be mistaken.
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Brownfield
Tohoka High Way
Associated Press
Dallas
Dr. Davis
Wilds
Idaho
E. C. Davis
East Broadway
Terry
Fabulous
Ozark-Mahoning
United States
Prentice Gasoline
Red light runs draw police action in Brownfield traffic surge
Brownfield police issued 73 moving violation tickets this month led by a 12 minute rush at a red stop sign. New officers Dallas Bartley and Billy Wayne Weatherby joined the force while one motorist, Jack LaRue Lewis, paid a $200 liquor violation fine after running a red light. City traffic injuries rise to 108 with one recent hospital treatment for William Cromer Knox.
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Brownfield
Nolan Lassiter
Department
Lassiter
Dallas Bartley
Slaton Department
Billy Wayne Weatherby
U. S. Army
Bartley
J. R. McDaniel
Seagraves
Weatherby
352 Military Police Battalion
Europe
FE Paso
Jack LaRue Lewis
James Tippit
Lewis
el Paso
Tippit
William Cromer Knox
East Lake
Treadaway-Daniell Hospital
Services Held For T. J. Falkner In Meadow
Final services for 78 year old T. J. Falkner of Meadow were conducted at Meadow Church of Christ with John McCoy officiating. Burial followed at Meadow Cemetery. Falkner died after a long illness in a Big Spring hospital. He previously lived in Terry County since 1928 and was a native of Alabama. Survivors include three sons Elmer and Clyde Falkner and T. P. Falkner and four daughters Maude Hammock Autrey Turner and others, along with many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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T. J. Falkner
Meadow
Meadow Church of Christ
John McCoy
Brownfield
Crescent Hill Church of Christ
Meadow Cemetery
Brownfield Funeral Home
Falkner
Terry County
Big Spring
Alabama
T. P. Falkner
Eunice, N. M
Elmer Fa
Cotton Harvest In Full Swing In Terry County
The cotton harvest gains speed as 9 371 bales were turned by 17 gins in Terry County by Monday up from the prior week. Aubrey T. Jones of the Texas Employment Commission reports producers need about 4 000 pullers immediately to meet demand.
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Terry County
Aubrey T. Jones
Texas Employment Commission
Jones
Terry
OES Chapter Hosts Grand Officer Visit With Costume Pageant
More than 150 attend a Brownfield Chapter of OES dinner meeting at the Masonic Temple themed Eastern Star World Wide. Pauline Smith Night features grand officers from Lubbock and Brownfield with members portraying countries served by the order.
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OES Chapter
Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Brownfield
OES
Pauline Smith
Lubbock
Billie Cocanougher
Mollie Gogdpasture
Florence
Bynum
Adah
Ian Ruth
Hall
Esther
Proctor
Martha
Toliver
Virgil Bynum
K. B. Sadleir
General Foods
Sawyer Graham
Ireland
Sadleir
Other Reeves
Lewis Simmonds
W. F. McCracken
Ted Fox
Havel Lackey
Claude Buchanan
Worthy Paron
Worth
Terry County
Tahoka
Ralls
Seagraves
Ropesville
Sundown
Post
Levelland
Southland
Seymour
Lamesa
Seminole
Idalou
O'Donnell
Denver City
Wenzel Tops Berkshire Show With 18 Wins at Panhandle-South Plains
A. D. Wenzel, a Berkshire expert from north of Brownfield, led with 18 wins in the Swine Division at the Panhandle South Plains Fair in Lubbock. His trophies included top placings in senior boar, junior yearling boar, mature boar, senior sow, junior champion sow, reserve champion sow, and multiple get of sire categories among others.
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A. D. Wenzel
Brownfield
Berkshire
Lubbock
Berkshire Authority
Texas Company Finals Allen C Black Wildcat Oil Activity
The Texas Company completed its No Aten Chick wildcat well this week. It was drilled 990 feet from the west line and 20 feet from the section line in Section 123. The well shows a 35 barrel per day low flow and perforations at 12 788 62 feet. No water was reported and gravity measured 0.687.
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Texas Company
Allen C. Black Wildcat
The
C&se Survey
Gas well tests and depths rewrite in Tennessee and Texas fields
The report notes completion activities at Prentice Vield in Tennessee with depth targets around 12 000 feet, acidizing operations, and a 24 hour test with 61 percent water and 29 3 percent gravity. It also covers Amerada Petroleum Corp locating a 160 acre lease near Meadow townsite and a deep drill test near Gomez townsite with oil and gas shows and variable flow measurements.
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Tennessee Gas
B. Townes
PSL Sure Vey
Meadow Townsite
Rotary
Brownfield Chamber Seeks Vacant Lots for Parking
The Brownfield Chamber of Commerce retail committee argues residents oppose parking meters and plans a citywide drive to clear vacant downtown lots for merchant parking. An auction and Saturday start are set to secure more lots, with appreciation extended to local merchants and shoppers urged to support，更
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Brownfield
Brownfield Officer Takes Pacific Duty With US Army
Maj James A. Shelton of Brownfield arrives in Hawaii to assume as chief of the USAPRAC G-3 Air Section. He sails aboard the USNS Breckenridge with wife Judy Dansherp and three children, plans to live in Honolulu. A veteran of WWII with the 5th Division in Europe, he earned the Purple Heart and Air Medal with clusters plus campaign and service medals.
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Usaprac
James A. Shelton
Brownfield
Hawai
Pacife
Maj. Shelton
Hawaii
Breckenridge
Honolulu
Judy Dansherp
Rotterdam
Holland
Betty
Robert
Michaels
Lidie L. Shelton
Department of the Army
Pacife Army Inn
Army Aviation School
Port Sil
Oklo
Bart Sill Artillery School
Maj Shetton
Jewel Walker Lands 50-Pound Cat at Possum Kingdom
Mrs. M. Vv. Walker of 106 Fast Reppte fished Possum Kingdom Lake this week and pulled in a 50 pound catfish. Friends say she doesn’t like to fish at all but this catch proves otherwise. Mrs. Walker also owns Jewel's Beauty Shop at 111 Last Main.
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Jewel Walker
M. Vv. Walker
Possum Kingdom Lake
Alk
Scholarship Awarded to Former Brownfield Resident
The Mighew Scholarship in Geophysics for four years totaling 3000 dollars goes to Richard bf McReynolds, son of TD and Mrs McReynolds, former Brownfield residents now in Port Stockton. Announcement made Friday by J Agnich of Dallas, chair of SEG student membership committee. Mayhew Supply Company of Dallas sponsors the scholarship.
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Richard Bf McReynolds
TD McReynolds
Brownfield
Port Stockton
Bh. J Agnich
Dallas
Ehateman
Society
SEG
Mayhew Supply Company
Didlas
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Brownfield Chamber of Commerce
n-Vy
Lubbock Fair Park Coliseum
Coot Arnold
B. F. Hutson
Bill Bridges
John Hansard
Harry Ward
J. T. Hoy
Paul Farrar
John J. Kendrick
Marion Bowers
Slick Collins
C. E. Ross
Paul Thompson
Boyd Ball
Thompson
Ball
Honolulu Oil Corporation
Prnmypod
Laras Feed
Anderson
Gomez
Coroca
Pacific
Alpha Omega Study Club
Selena Jane Brownfield
Rogers
Bill Cope
Jack
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