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Newspaper
Brady Standard
Location
Brady, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1963
Page
1
Brady area counts a year of public service and local milestones from 1963. Mayors, judges, and citizens appear in brief items on public works, crime, sports, industry, and community events across Brady County.
Kerrville Pin Rustlers won the team championship at Parkway Lanes with a 2426 total. Team members were Lefty Blount Leonard Bailey Don Hill and John Redden. Second place went to Windrow Company of Brady with 2910 and third to a Dreyer Music Company squad of San Angelo with 2293.
Brady Jaycees distributed over 100 sacks of fruit nuts and candy to needy children on Christmas Eve. About 12 members packed the gifts at the McCulloch Electric Cooperative building Monday night and Tuesday the presents were delivered by Fletcher Fields Edward Whitney and J D Edmondson.
The Kimble Menard Singing Convention will be held Sunday starting at 2 p m at Heat Baptist Church.
Three burglars failed to pull off a Rochelle store break in Rochelle Texas. They were caught after a patrolman spotted the scene and a car and IDs were recovered. The trio, ages 23 39 and a Galveston 16 year old, were jailed on burglary charges in McCulloch County. They confessed to prior burglaries in Bertram and Liberty Hill.
Five students from Brady Hospital School of Vocational Nursing received their caps at the Nurses Home on Monday December 23. The group includes Mrs J P Arledge Mrs J W Willmann Miss Gloria Schwertner Mrs Alfred Schwertner Jr and Mrs Jack Tyrone. The 17th class to graduate since 1961 will complete studies in September 1964 and take the State Board in October 1964 with 84 graduates licensed to date.
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Nance of Brady welcomed a daughter named Deborah Dawn at Brady Hospital on Christmas Eve. The baby weighed five pounds two ounces and both mother and child are expected to be released Saturday. Sisters Ms. B. B. McDonald of Fort Worth visited Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Moseley, and Fort Stockton visitors Dick and Mrs. Harris are in town for the holidays.
Brady’s 1963 industrial story centers on Loadcraft production growth and a $30,000 loan drive by the McCulloch County Industrial Foundation to secure federal funding for expansion. A stock merger with Brady Industries and Loadcraft, a $1 million trailer contract, arrival of top executives, and new Mohair combing and sand grinding plants in Brady boosted jobs and industry.
Brady residents recall the top ten 1963 events as selected by The Brady Standard editors. Scott Appleton earns All-American honors after starring at Brady High and the University of Texas. A January fire destroys four business buildings on the Square and a later blaze guts the Brady Theater. Brady Lake is completed and powered, and city bonds fund school construction. The town also inaugurates a rural phone system and votes on water light and sewer projects while President Kennedy's Dallas assassination weighs on the year.
The SAC announced two supersonic test corridors will open Jan 2. One route runs along Lake Michigan, the other from Altus Oklahoma to Kerrville Texas passing near Vernon Throckmorton Cisco Brownwood and Brady. Flights may occur daily with quiet hours 10 pm to 7 am. Mach 2 speeds at 35000 ft in a 40 mile wide corridor. Sonic booms are weak due to high altitude and will not injure people.
A late night dispute between Brady and Comanche youths led to a brutal brawl at a service station. Gene Rowell 20 of Brady suffered 42 stitches after a bottle attack and all five involved were fined for affray. Comanche suspects were later arrested in Brownwood. one faces aggravated assault charges.
James Francis Wilson aged 51 of 205 East Pearl Brady died at Brady Hospital. He was born July 14 1912 in McQuilloch County and lived in Brady his entire life. He worked as a truck driver for H D Griffith and was married to Eunice Gateway on Nov 17 1945. Funeral planned at Wilkerson Funeral Home with burial in Brown Cemetery Mount Tabor near Woco. Survived by wife three sons two sisters and his mother and ten grandchildren.
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