Memorable Christmas Greetings From Saudi Arabia to Brady
A Brady area column recalls a holiday call from Dhahran Saudi Arabia to the Marion Holland home in Waldrip and shares details about Jerry Hollands with Aramco, his wife Inge and son Nicky 8 in the Mid East. Also notes Don Carroll in the oil fields and Jack and Helen Greene in California hear a new perfume joke. Readers send Christmas gift subscriptions and retirement plans for Russ and Jewel Holland ending with Brady school memories and plans to Granite Shoals.
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Santa Claus
Saudi Arabia
Marion Holland
Waldrip
Jerry Hollands
Mid-East
Dhahran
Persian Gulf
Jerry
Inge
Nicky
United States
Aram
Jack
Helen Greene
Mary Ann
Westminster
Calif
Arabia
Russ Holland
Kingsville
Granite Shoals
Top 1973 Brady McCulloch County year in review
The Brady McCulloch County papers recap the year with deaths on Lyndon B. Johnson and Vietnam peace, a $1.14 million Heart of Texas Memorial Hospital bid, Navy Sanguine project concerns, a growing natural gas boom in Doole Wal area, and retirement plans of Brady Independent School District leader C A Reynolds.
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Brady
McCulloch County
Vietnam
Heart of
Texas
U. S. Navy
Sanguine
Hill
Navy
McCulloch
House Appropriations Committee
Pentagon
Colorado River
Doole Wal Drip
C. A. Reynolds
Brady Independent School District
Reynolds
Area Workers Are Named For March Of Dimes Campaign
Mrs. Fay Ellison campaign director of McCulloch County announces the 1974 March of Dimes drive to improve prenatal care and fund research. She stresses birth defects affect 250000 yearly and can be prevented by better early life care and community health organization. Campaign starts New Year’s Day.
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National Foundation
March of Dimes
Fay Ellison
McCulloch County
Voluntary Health Organization
Ellison
Brady Mayor Proclaims January 1974 as March of Dimes Month
Norman S. Lawler, mayor of Brady Texas, proclaims January 1974 as March of Dimes Month to honor birth defect prevention efforts. The proclamation highlights prenatal care, treatment, genetic services, and newborn intensive care, urging citizen support for the cause and its programs benefiting children.
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Norman Lawler
National Foundation
March of Dimes
Norman S. Lawler
Brady
Texas
Police Station Updates Dial Numbers
Police Chief Bill Strickland announces the station’s phone number changed from 597-3131 to two new lines 597-2121 and 597-2122. He urges the public to note both numbers for easier access as the new listing appears in the updated telephone book.
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Bill Strickland
Top Ten County 1 Stories Snapshot
Chronicle of key local items includes the death of a president and end of a long conflict, hospital contract award with low Odessa bid, committee axe on Sanguine, county natural gas crisis, Reynolds retires after 23 years, Myers Houdini moment, Brady National Bank opens, courthouse jail and school superintendent office changes, nationwide gasoline shortage affecting Brady, and Brady’s fourth snowfall with soaked ground.
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Odessa
Sanguine
Reynolds
Myers
Brady National Bank
Brady
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David Myers
Sandra
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Huntsville
Bob Favor
Luke Vogel
Montana
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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George Carruthers
Hardin Jones
Humberto Pina
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