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Newspaper
Brady Standard
Location
Brady, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1974
Page
6
Brady high school launches 55 player football workouts with two daily sessions at 6 45 a m and 6 45 p m led by head coach Jerry McLeod. Eleven lettermen return including 10 starters. Pads start Aug 16. first scrimmage Aug 23 vs Lampasas, then Aug 30 at Anson.
The Brady Chamber aviation committee reviewed city repairs at Curtis Field and noted staffing needs after 5 p.m. A general safety meeting is planned for August 24. The recreation chair promotes hunting, fishing and golf in the county via ads, and the bank has a new art display room. Directors consider aiding Beta Sigma Phi float and urge attendance improvement for monthly meetings. A booth will be at the Goat Barbecue Cook-off on August 30.
Three McCulloch County 4-H members attended the Texas air Congress in Dallas from July 23 to 26. Linda Rodgers of Rochelle Robby Pearce of Fife and Kim Carroll of Lobn represented the county and District 7 alongside Marjo Tuomala IFYE from Finland. Tuomala is staying with a Ponder host family and will soon depart for Rhode Island.
Milburn Texas reports 2.4 inches rain on the Colorado as Elm Grove hosts a lively FFA Rodeo with big crowds Friday and Saturday and a record barbecue line. Injuries include a cowboy hurt and spectators slipping. Kevin Koch rides bucking calf for 22 points. Community notes Cox Cemetery Auxiliary grows. Clinton Chamberlain funeral. visitors from Pataskala Ohio depart. local hospitalizations and river conditions noted.
Othella Don Simpson, 56, of Brady, died Tuesday in a San Saba hospital. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Waldrope Funeral Home Chapel in Llano with burial in Broad Cemetery. Born March 29, 1918, in Llano County, he was a Brady resident three years. He married Evelyn Barclay December 23, 1940, in Valley Spring. He was a rancher, World War II veteran, and Church of Christ member. survivors include his wife, two sons, five brothers, two sisters, and three grandchildren.
Reserved seat tickets for Brady Bulldogs home football games are on sale through August at the Chamber of Commerce. The package covers five home games for 7.50, with gate prices 2.00 for adults and 1.00 for students. Returning fans may keep their previous seats.
Jeanna Beth Pyles Hendrix 22 of Austin died at 3 a m Wednesday after a sudden illness at Seton Hospital. Services were 2 p m Wednesday at the First Christian Church in Lockhart with burial in Lockhart Cemetery. Survivors include husband Rev Bethel Pyles of Duncan Oklahoma, her parents, grandmothers Mrs Xoevin Baxter of Fort Worth and Mrs Lizie Pyles of Eden, and brother Greg Pyles of Austin.
Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Engdahl returned home Monday night after a 4000 mile trip spanning New Mexico Colorado Utah Wyoming and Montana. Mrs. Jimmy Locklear joined them to visit the Engdahls son and daughter in Brady she later rode a bus home. The Engdahls continued to Yellowstone National Park and other sights reporting an interesting two weeks of travel.
Mrs. Kothmann received a $100 reward from the University of Wyoming after locating a scientific balloon on the family ranch ten miles west of Brady. The device, launched May 3 from Laramie, carried instructions to notify the physics and astronomy department when found and was shipped back to the university.
Suzanne Carrithers, daughter of Mr and Mrs George Carrithers, was among more than 540 University of Texas students who received bachelor’s degrees in the College of Natural Sciences at the close of the spring semester. She earned a bachelor of science in home economics.
J. M. Crump of Mineral Wells, former Brady High School teacher and first Brady Junior High band director, visited Brady Tuesday to catch up on city news and former students. He taught at Brady from 1948 to 1957 and later worked as principal and coach at Rising Star, then in Mineral Wells. Now retired in Mineral Wells, he does substitute teaching and church work with his wife.
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