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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 2002
Page
1
Local listing notes a transaction involving Northwest Micro at address 2627 and Yandel in Yandel FL near El Paso TX for a total of 79S with the date 12 30 50 referenced in the shorthand.
In a special meeting on Sept 26 Terry County commissioners faced costly red tape as a leasing dispute over the airport hangar and office buildings intensified. The only bid from Keith Neill offered $350 per month for one year, a sharp drop from prior verbal offers, slashing annual revenue from $10,800 to $4,200 and prompting concerns over procedure and low returns. The group also rescheduled its next meeting to Oct 11 for Columbus Day.
The Brownfield News surveyed 10 area gins Friday morning about the start of ginning season. Fiber-Tex Co Ck Gin reports 250 bales processed and modules on the yard while Southwest Cotton Growers Gin states 934 bales ginned with 15 modules on site and plans for 12 hour days.
In a tense national landscape journalist Lynn Brisendine notes rising tempers and sharp rhetoric from President Bush Senator Daschle and Al Gore. The piece laments cross party infighting over Iraq policy while warning that war looms and diplomacy frays as allies and rivals weigh profits and power.
Brownfield City Council adopted a 2002 03 budget of about 16 million dollars, a 28.2 percent rise, after a nearly non existent public hearing. The council also set a ad valorem tax rate of 48.7 cents per 100 dollars and reviewed employee life and health insurance bids noting fixed costs with Pace Insurance Agency offering the lowest fixed costs.
Brownfield ISD leaders urged the city council to fund paving on Avenue D and connected streets near the elementary and intermediate campus to protect the growing student population. Superintendent Charles Harrison and Principal Doug Young cited increased traffic and dust, noting prior school growth after the former intermediate building fire. The district plans curb and gutter work on Cactus Street and seeks cooperation to curb and gutter Avenue D and Stewart Street to reduce costs. Joyce White resigned as a prekindergarten teacher amid a separate Brownfield School Board meeting.
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