Dawson County News Highlights Community Aid and Weather
In Dawson County Texas 1971 saw high cotton trailer registrations and a big Kiwanis Pancake Supper set for February at the High School. The community helped James Crow with medical expenses after his artery transplant in Lubbock. A trio of recent accidents prompted neighborly aid as harvest crews moved trailers to the gin. A cold snap with snow and freezing temperatures slowed harvests and caused minor wrecks.
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Dawson County
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Farm accident costs limb of local pastor in Dawson County
Moody Smith a Dawson County minister and Klondike Baptist pastor was badly injured while using a cotton stripper on the Ervin Boff farm near Patricia. His right arm was amputated after the machine jammed and pulled him in. This follows two other farm incidents in the county including a fatality near Higginbotham and a severe injury in Midway.
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Dawson County
Moody Smith
Klondike Baptist Church
Ervin Boff
Patricia
Burkett Youth Suffers Critical Burns In Farm Accident
A 17 year old Dawson County farm boy Randy Burkett was badly burned when a mechanical cotton picker contacted high voltage lines while near his Midway home. Surgeons removed both feet above the ankles and the left arm as he remained in critical condition at Methodist Hospital in Lubbock after transfer from Medical Arts Hospital. The accident occurred about 10 30 a m Friday while the boy helped his father harvest cotton. An elderly laborer and the father aided in freeing him as power lines caused the injuries. The Burkett family farms about 960 acres in Key Midway with a large harvest underway and community volunteers assisted in picking and ginning efforts.
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Midway
Randy Burkett
Higginbotham
Welch
Dawson County
Gus Burkett
Methodist Hospital
Lubbock
Lamesa High School
Medical Arts Hospital
young Burkett
Burkett
New Year Baby Timothy Don Born to Rickmans
The first baby of 1972 in town is Timothy Don, a ten pound two and a half ounce boy born at 12 34 a.m. Saturday at Medical Arts Hospital to Mr and Mrs Jackie Rickman of 519 N. 10th.
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Jackie Rickman
Timothy Don
Mr. Rickman
Medical Arts Hospital
Lamesa Council OKs Charter Amendments After Canvass
City council canvassed results of a Dec 28 special amendment election with 777 votes, approving amendments two through seven and defeating one nine and eight balancing annexation and tax rate changes. Ordinance ordering amendments into effect passed on first reading.
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Lamesa
Joe Spikes
John Palmore
Jim Norris
County Wide Meet To Explain 1972 Cotton and Feed Programs
A county meeting to explain the 1972 Cotton and Feed Grain programs is set for 2 p.m. January 11 in the District Court Room. Eddie Brown and Lee Roy Colgan note 1972 allotments mirror 1971. subsidy checks likely similar despite lower cotton yields. Cotton notices total 149 425 acres. feed grain allotment is 242 307 acres with weak Dawson County participation.
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Eddie Brown
Dawson County
ASCS
Lee Roy Colgan
District Court
Brown
LHS Singers Join All-Region Choir in Midland
Fourteen members of Lamesa High School Golden Tor Choral will perform with the All-Region Choir in Midland at 7 30 p m Saturday at Midland Lee High School. Seven of the group will seek All-Area honors Friday as the next step toward All-State selection.
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Lamesa High School
Golden Tor Choral
Midland
Lamesa
Texas
Midland Lee High School
Belinda Watson
Leette Trice
Vicky Borland
Ann Pope
Brant Waldrop
Chuck Pearce
Keith Merrick
Carol Clayton
Marsha Millikan
Janan Purkapul
Charlotte Crow
Layne Heald
David Corley
Carl Renner
Lamesa Cotton Classing Office Reaches Fifteen Years
The Lamesa U.S.D.A. Cotton Classing Office on North 22nd Street marks its 15th year as a key regional substation serving Dawson County and adjacent areas. Under J A Dedear, the office classed 88 360 samples with about 10 000 backlog, and employs 37 people to process up to 6 000 samples daily during the cotton harvest season.
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Lamesa U.S.D.A
North 22nd St
Lamesa
Dawson
sourthern
Lynn
Borden
Martin
Andrews Counties
J. A. Dedear
Dedear
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Plains
Walter Buckel
Lim
Smith
Burkett Youth
Lamesa Ambulance Service
Key - Midway
ers and friends
Pete Buchanan
Key Gin
Permian Basin Regional Planning Commission
Don Bryant
Lloyd Cline
Norris
Palmore
Joe Carroll
LHS
Lamesa Cotton Growers
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Ted Proske
Harlingen
cotton
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