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Newspaper
Brady Standard
Location
Brady, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1963
Page
1
Brady civic leaders urge voters to approve an overall general improvement bond to fund water and sewer system upgrades, electric capacity, street improvements, parks, and flood control from Brady Creek dam construction. The plan aims to attract industry, support population growth, and ensure reliable services for future demand.
The Rochelle Chamber of Commerce awards its Distinguished Service Award to Milton A. Gainer for a lifetime of help to neighbors. He ran a Rochelle country store on U S Highway 190 and is a longtime civic and church worker, Mason, and Lions Club member. The tribute cited his kindness and acts of friendship toward townspeople and strangers alike.
Brady observes National Library Week with a tea and art exhibit at Richards Memorial Library. The Friends of the Library host the event at 2 p m with the annual meeting in the clubroom and a gallery of Geeslin paintings from 2 30 to 6 p m.
The Brady Bulldog Band will provide music for the Band Boosters pancake supper on Friday evening in the Piggly Wiggly lot from 5 to 7 PM. The band plays 6 to 6 40 PM, tickets 25 cents with proceeds to Brady Schools program. If weather is bad, event moves to the high school cafeteria.
Mr and Mrs Jamie Marshall and their small son Stephen from Houston are visiting for Easter with the parents Mr and Mrs Lewis Bell.
University Savings and Loan Association of Houston will erect a four story building at Dunstan and Kelvin Streets with a three level parking garage, expandable to ten stories. Ground was broken April 9. The tower will house 92 401 square feet with University Savings occupying parts of the space. President Nath A Turner, a former Brady banker, promises advanced design and climate control features.
Mrs. F. R. Wulff Sr wins the first spring Yard of the Month plaque from the Brady Gorden Club. A secret committee selects the yard and the plaque stays for a full month. Mrs. Wulff invites Brady and McCulloch county residents to view her flower garden and yard.
Norville Barley of Fort Worth died suddenly on Thursday morning. He was brother of J. D. Barley of Brady. Mr. and Mrs. Barley and their son Donald left Thursday afternoon to attend the funeral.
Thirty three McCulloch County 4-H youths will race in San Angelo for District 4-H Contest rounds during the Club Round-up this summer. Eight boys compete for the county rifle team after Thursday eliminations. Lou Bratton and other livestock judging team members participate, along with a long list of girls entered in various contests in San Angelo.
Kenneth Beeman 38 of Brady was hospitalized at Brady Hospital Wednesday after a wrench handle broke, injuring his neck during work at Brady Industries Loadcraft. He remained in the hospital Thursday and was reported as doing all right.
Guests visiting the T. L. West home at Sohn on Easter Sunday included Warren West and family, G. A. Burnett and family from San Antonio, D. B. Krischke and Tony from Brownwood, and Ray Nobles and family from San Marcos.
An eight-year-old boy, Jeff Holt Robinett, was struck by a southbound car at 2016 South China Street around 4:30 P.M. He sustained a concussion but was improving at Prady Hospital. The driver, 16-year-old Anne Lawler, said she saw a blur as the boy darted into the street from a yard.
Brady Volunteer Fire Department sent a delegation to the Hill Country Firemen Association semi annual convention in Brownwood. Brady placed third in the six man relay with 21.5 while Eldorado led with 19.6 and Ballinger 21.3. in the one man race L J Armstrong finished second with 15.8 as Coleman won with 14.4. Brady also won six fire prevention poster prizes and the Brady group included Mrs. Howard Salter and several couples plus W L Cotton Reeves and Kenneth Young.
J. D. Sullivan, 29, of Brady, died at Shannon Hospital in San Angelo after an Easter weekend crash near London. Funeral services set for Saturday at the First Baptist Church in Rochelle with burial at Rochelle Cemetery. Sullivan, raised in Rochelle, worked at Brady Industries Loadcraft and was returning from an Easter pageant with Mrs. Mattie B. Tomlinson when her car overturned.
Brady citizens are invited to a public meeting Friday night to hear a discussion of next Tuesday's city bond election. The McCulloch County Industrial Foundation sponsors the session at 7 30 p m in the Brady High School auditorium. The four bond propositions cover street, sewer, water and electric bonds with amounts totaling 1 315,000. Directors and city officials will be present along with financial and engineering representatives. Voting hours next Tuesday are 8 a m to 7 p m at the county courthouse poll box.
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