Brady City Council Eyes Municipally Owned Country Club
The Brady City Council is asked to take over the Brady Country Club and run it as a municipal project. Stockholders offer to deed the entire layout for 5000, a fraction of its 50000 to 75000 value. Mayor Davis and officials discuss benefits seen in Lampasas Kerrville examples and strong local group endorsements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brady City Council
Brady Country Club
Brady
F. W. Larahen J
C. A. Ethridge
L. E. Davis
Don Fixon
Lampasas
Davis
Karl K. Steffens
Bill Malone
Kerrville
Brady B&pw Club
Brady Lions Club
Epsilon Signa Alpha Sorority
Beta Sigma *Hi
Four Seek Two Brady School Board Seats
Four candidates enter the race for two Brady School Board seats. Karl Stef fens Ben Dillon Lowell Brown and Dick Gleaton are listed. Dillon qualified via a voters petition. Election is the first Saturday in April. Terms of Harkrider and King expire. both have not committed to run. Prospective candidates may file until ten days before election. Top two votegetters win, no runoff.
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Brady School Board
Karl K. Steffens
Ben Dillon
Lowell Brown
Dick Gleaton
Dillon
Clayton Myrick
Jack Kirby
Fred Wulff, Jr
Fred Hall
J W. Harkrider
J. S. King
Harkrider
Heaviest February Rainfall Lifts McCulloch County Hopes
February downpour brought 1.81 inches in Brady and up to 2.90 inches in Calf Creek with totals for the county reaching about 2.70 inches this year. Weather observers note it as the heaviest February rain since 1949 and forecasts promise more moisture this week. Farmers celebrate improved crop prospects as fields green and subsoil fills, signaling an end to drought conditions and earlier livestock support.
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Brady
Jay Cochran
McCulloch County
Iest
West Texas
Placid
Calf Creek
Ole Ranch
Texas
Brady School Board Reelects Principals And Coaches
Brady principals and coaches were re elected to two year contracts by the Brady School Board on Monday night. K K O Martin was renamed to a two year contract as district coordinator. Teachers to be considered at the next meeting on the first Monday in March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dreuth
J. W. Edgar
Supt. C. A. Reynolds
Dawes Plan Banquet Honors Brady High Football Team
The Dawes Plan group met in the Brady High cafeteria on Monday night to sponsor a banquet honoring Brady High football players and coaches. The event precedes the Brady Relays set for Saturday April 2 with one or more college coaches invited as speakers.
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Ol Hound Dawes
Brady High
Eyes To The Future Contest At Brady Texas
The Standard invites Brady readers to enter the Eyes To The Future contest by matching cartoon numbers to local business leaders and their firms. Prizes total 25 dollars with rules on posting, deadlines, and eligibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brady
Standard
Jack Henseler
Alva
Okla
Rudder Nominated for General’s Stars
Karl Rudder of Brady Texas land commissioner is recommended by the Fourth Army in San Antonio for promotion to brigadier general and to command the 90th Reserve Infantry Division. nomination awaits Senate confirmation. Rudder will address the 21st District American Legion Convention in Uvalde on April 23 and 24.
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Karl Rudder
Brady
Texas
Fourth Army
San Antonio
Rudder
90Th Reserve Infantry Division
U. S. Senate
Austin
21St District
American Legion and Auxiliary
Uvalde
Jubilee track sale proposed to Brady schools
A group of 14 Jubilee Track owners proposed selling the track to Brady schools, removing the track and using the grandstand for football and recreation. They value the plant at 150000 dollars, with land and facilities, and seek 80000 plus 7500 for the land, with the 14 owners willing to sell to the city, county, or schools.
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Brady Schools
Ol’ Houn’ Dawgs
Jubilee
Brady
Delma Bell
The
Houn’ Dawgs
C. B. Whitehead
Whitehead
Bell
Rochelle railroad agent C A Woodford dies at 71
Clarence Albert Woodford known as C A Woodford, longtime Rochelle railroad agent, died at Brady Hospital at 12 30 a m Sunday. Born March 8 1881 in Missouri he was buried in Rochelle Cemetery after services at Wilkerson Funeral Home. Surviving son Jack Woodford of Miami Texas two daughters Pauline Haddow of San Diego California Jane Moseley of Rochelle a sister Eva Gates of Maywood California and four grandchildren.
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Mes Bere
Clarence Albert Woodford
Rochelle
Brady Hospital
Missouri
W. P. Anderson
Leander
Wilkerson Funeral Home
Rochelle Cemetery
Jack Woodford
Miami
Tex
Pauline Haddow
San Diego
Calif
Jane Moseley
Eva Gates
Maywood
Melvin Seniors To Give Blood In Brady Visit
Eleven Melvin High School seniors plus sponsor T Wood will travel to Brady to donate blood to the Red Cross Bloodmobile. The Bloodmobile will operate at First Christian Church from 10 a m to 4 45 p m with more donors needed. Superintendent K O Ellington approved the trip. Named donors include Lester Sutton R L Fikes Jr Estella Perez Elene Perez Daniel Fernandez Lester Dahlberg Barbara Jo Wood Jaime De Los Santos Barbara Noreta Raben Patricia Ann Cooper and Winfred Magnuson.
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Melvin High School
T. Wood
Brady
Red Cross
First Christian Church
Melvin Supt
K. O. Ellington
Lester Sutton
R. L. Fikes, Jr
Estella Perez
Elene Perez
Daniel Fernandez
Lester Dahlberg
Fourth Army Band to Play Brady Festival
The Fourth Army Band from San Antonio will headline Brady's Heart o' Texas Band Festival in March. Six high school bands will stay with local churches. trophies costing 114 dollars were bought for the event. Hunt praised the Del Rio festival bands and noted Mason and Sanderson as top winners. Tivy High of Kerrville won best show band while rain spoiled Saturday parade.
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Fourth Army
San Antonio
Boyd Hunt
Hunt
Bulldog
Brady Churches
Church of Christ
Luling
del Rio
Kerrville
Trinity Methodist
First Baptist Church
Breckenridge
Cross Plains
First Methodists
Traan
Boosters
Mason
Sanderson
Tivy High School of
Kerville
Brady resident Burton Gillam dies at 70
Burton Gillam of Brady died at 3 45 a m Friday at St John s Hospital San Angelo He ran a cabinet shop at Clay Building Material Co His wife died in a 1953 Concho County auto crash He is survived by three sons Harold D J and W B and five daughters and 13 grandchildren funeral was at Wilkerson Funeral Home chapel with Rev W LeRay Fowler officiating burial in Rest Haven Cemetery
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Burton Gillam
Brady
St. John’s Hospital
San Angelo
Gillam
Clay Building Material Co
Concho County
Harold
Chicago
Wilkerson Funeral Home
W. LeRay Fowler
First Baptist Church
Rest Haven Cemetery
D. J
Lavern
Calif
W. B. Gillam
Wichita Falls
Ben H., Gray
Houston
Irene Davis
San Antonio
Norman Fitch
Brunswick, Ga
E. C. Hodges
Germany
Larry Brunson
Corpus Christi
Mrs Roy Simpson Returns Home After Oklahoma Visit
Mrs Roy Simpson returned recently after an extended visit with her son Franklin Sheffy and family of Oklahoma City Oklahoma.
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Roy Simpson
Franklin Sheffy
Oklahoma City
Okla
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Ray Cates
J. C. Penney Co
Brady Creek
John Oldham
Richards Park
Elm Street
Tan
Brady Law
Mercury
Toca
Doole
Melvin ( Fife
Fairview
Camp San Saba
Pear Valley
Waldrip Eden
Dawes
G. R. White
C. A. Woodford
Melvin
Hunt Lands Bas
Angelo
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