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Newspaper
Brady Standard
Location
Brady, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1962
Page
6
The Texas Farm and Ranch Safety Council warns holiday hazards rise from man made risks. A fresh Christmas tree needs proper watering and placement away from heat sources and must use UL approved lights. Keep decorations nonflammable and turn lights off when away. Traffic risks rise with weather and hurry.
Two McCulloch County students among 150 Southwest Texas State College members selected for Alpha Chi for the coming year. David Groves and Marilyn Kay Hall join top ten percent juniors and seniors. Groves, son of C B Groves Brady, majors in music and mathematics. Hall, daughter of Woodrow Short Fife, is a junior English major.
Mary Helen Bratton of the Melvin 4 H Club will show three fat Hereford steers at the Sand Hills Hereford Show in Odessa from December 30 to January 5. Her second place steer in last year’s event is noted. Bratton works as foreman at G R White Ford Ranch. County Agent Norman Drake will accompany the party.
A 20 minute Christmas morning program on KNEL at 9 a m features Loretta Young in The Littlest Angel and Christmas Greetings presented by Ricks Furniture and Appliance Co.
Parkway Lanes launches a three day Friday to Sunday Jackpot Doubles with a $50 top prize for the high couple hitting a 1350 series. If not hit the total drops 10 pins weekly and $10 added to the jackpot. Additional prizes of $30 $10 $5 and $1 are split among four teams weekly. Entry fee is $4.70. Handicap is 75 percent of 200 on current averages.
The Southwestern States Telephone Co and its Four States Telephone Co announce a 1963 expansion budget exceeding $1 million. D. T. Strickland says the program adds central office buildings, converts exchanges to dial, adds dial exchanges, and enhances carrier and microwave systems, with 11 new dial exchanges and seven upgrades. By year end 1963 the firms will run 174 central offices across Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.
Early carolers in Europe carried a large lighted star as they went door to door in the Star Singing tradition. The star later gave way to lanterns and torches, with modern carolers using electric lamps or flashlights.
Mrs John F Kennedy is named 1962 National Honorary Christmas Seal Chairman for the National Tuberculosis Association to aid Christmas Seals campaigns fighting TB and related respiratory diseases.
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