22 Bands Gather For Heart of Texas Band Festival
Twenty two bands visit Brady for the sixth Heart of Texas Band Festival. Nine march Friday night in Bulldog Stadium. Saturday features concert sight reading in Brady High auditorium with guest Abilene Christian College Band and a downtown parade and massed concert on the plaza.
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Heart of Texas
Bulldog Stadium
Brady, High Auditorium
Brady
Doug Fry
Abilene Christian College Band
Brady Band
BHS
Brady High School
Stardusters
Cross Plains
McCamey
Breckenridge
Cisco
Caldwell
Boyd Hunt
Kerrville
del Rio
Luling
Iraan
San Saba
Lake View
Anson
Cuero
Killeen
Fort Stockton
Menard
Burnet
Dublin
Sonora
Rocksprings
Brady Junior High
Brady High
Athens Review Open House At New East Texas Plant
Dick Dwelle's Athens Review invites all to an open house today from 3 to 7 at its new Athens plant in East Texas. Attendees will receive an illustrated booklet on the paper's history and the plant description. The writer notes regional rains and a hopeful spring in prospect.
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East Texas
Athens
Dick Dwelle
Athens Review
Review
Edward Geeslin
Brady Schools Invite Visitors for Public Schools Week
Brady schools plan a week of events for Texas Public Schools Week March 16. Visitors can tour Brady High North Ward South Ward and Dunbar Schools with displays exhibits and special programs including an abbreviated day at Brady High and a Back to School Night at Dunbar.
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Brady Schools
Texas Public Schools
Bradyigh
Brady Junior High
North and
South Ward
Dunbar School
Brady High
Dunbar
North Ward
Junior High
Brady resident Mrs Stone Shipman dismissed from hospital
Mrs Stone Shipman of Brady was discharged from Medical and Surgical Hospital on Tuesday.
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Stone Shipman of
Brady
Medical and Surgical Hospital
Brady Mayor Declares Red Cross Day for 1954 Drive
Mayor W K Cobb proclaims Wednesday March 3 as Red Cross Day in Brady to kick off the 1954 Red Cross fund drive. The proclamation cites the Red Cross role in disaster relief and urges city residents to support the drive financially and morally.
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Red Cross
W. K. Cobb
Brady
FHA Girls Honor Mothers Friday at Brady High Banquet
Members of the Brady High School Future Homemakers of America will be honored Friday night at the annual Mother Daughter Banquet in the high school cafeteria. Miss Tressie Shaver sponsors the FHA with committee chairs Anna Jo Palmer Roberta Hanson Glenda Dodds Phyllis Biermen June Underwood and Velta Cheak coordinating invitations foods table setting program place cards and decorations.
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Brady High School
Future Homemakers of America
FHA
Tressie Shaver
Anna Jo Palmer
Roberta Hanson
Glenda Dodds
Phyllis Biermen
June Underwood
Velta Cheak
Gassiot Re-elected By Trustees at Lohn
Lohn school board renewed two year contract for Superintendent Gassiot and his wife who teaches primary grades. One year contracts were approved for Ed Whiteley coach D E Edwards vocational agriculture Nelda Rogers home economics Richard Faulkner English John Yeilding grades seven and eight and speech Mrs John Yeilding sixth and fifth grades Miss Gladys Baizeard fourth grade.
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Lohn
Cleg Gassiot
Gassiot
Ed Whiteley
D. E. Edwards
Nelda Rogers
Richard Faulkner
John E. Yeilding
John Yeilding
Gladys Baizeard
Hospital Dismissals List Names on Brady Tuesday
Tuesday dismissals from Brady Hospital include Buford Sheffield Jr Mrs George Davenport and Mrs Emma Cobb Brady and Tobe Hubbard Rochelle.
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Brady Hospital
Buford Sheffield, Jr
George Davenport
Emma Cobb
Brady
Tobe Hubbard
Rochelle
Tuesday Club of Brady Wins National Honor
Brady's Tuesday Club was chosen as one of 250 U S women's clubs to receive the 1954 Honor Club Award from Woman's Home Companion for distinguished community service. The award cited its sponsorship of Waldine Amanda Teauch's education and career as a sculptor, with presentation made at a club meeting. Miss Teauch, once a Brody resident, gained national prominence and now lives in San Antonio.
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Waldine Tauch
Sculptro&s
Brady
U. S
Woman's Home Companion
H. L. Brady
A. W. Moseley
Walter Gray
Woman’s Home Companion
America
Waldine Amanda Teauch
Brody
Miss Tauch
San Antonio
McCulloch County
McCulloch
Four Generations Tied to Lohn School in Public Schools Week
Public Schools Week highlights four generations connected to Lohn School. Ovid P. Lohn was an early teacher, followed by student and alumna H W Huie, then her daughter Nicky Huie now Mrs. Victor G. Bloede of New York City. Dee Ann Smith, Bloede’s daughter, attends Lohn High as a freshman.
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H. W. Huie
Lohn
Lohn School
Ovid P. Lohn
Nicky Huie
Victor G. Bloede
New York City
Student Teachers From A&M To Practice At BHS
Milton Grenwelge of Fredericksburg and Marcus Hoelscher of Rowena, Texas A&M College agriculture education majors, begin two weeks of practice teaching at Brady High School. They will teach vocational agriculture from March 1 to March 18 under regular BHS VA teachers John Holcomb and J. D. Hampton.
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Milton G. Crenwelge
Fredericksburg
Marcus A. Hoelscher
Rowena
Texas A&m College
Brady High School
Crenwelge
Hoelscher
A&m
Brady High
John Holcomb
J. D. Hampton
BHS
Trustees Vote to Begin Construction of Richards Memorial Library
Trustees of the F M Richards Memorial Library voted unanimously to begin construction as details are finalized. The $40,000 gift from Mrs. F M Richards in 1948 funds the library to memorialize her late husband, with site donated by Mrs Richards at South Blackburn and adjacent Streets.
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F. M. (Buck) Richards
F. M. Richards
Hardin Jones
W. E. Ferguson
T. Gray
Fred Wulff
Clyde Hall, Jr
Sidney Richards Wood
South Blackburn
Sts
Richards
Melvin Bulldogs Honored at Gym Crowd
Almost 1,000 Melvin patrons filled the high school gym to honor bi district champion Melvin Bulldogs and coach Dale Johanson. Four Melvin boys made the all district team: Bobby Kyzar Harold Turner Daniel Fernandez and Curtis Nelson. Kyzar invited to Texas all star game in Dallas next August.
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Melvin
Melvin High School
Melvin Bulldogs
Dale Johanson
Johanson
Bobby Kyzar
Harold Turner
Daniel Fernandez
Curtis Nelson
Kyzar
Dallas
Texas High School Coaches Association
Chelle
C. D. (Slick) Reed
Brady
Bulldogs
D. C. Middleton
Middleton
Mrs. Johanson
Supt
K. O. Ellington
Bulldog
Wag
Local Marriage Licenses Issued to Three Couples
James Walter Glidden and Virginia Sue Haywood, and L. C. James with Delores Gail Squires received licenses on February 19, while William Robert Rountree and Marcia Lynne Smith were licensed on February 20.
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James Walter Glidden
Virginia Sue Haywood
L. C. James
Delores Gail Squires
William Robert Rountree
Marcia Lynne Smith
Brady FFA Aims to Finish Rural Directory for McCulloch County
Brady FFA president Jerry Smith announces the chapter will complete the Rural Directory for McCulloch County. Forms are mailed to farm and ranch owners, requesting operator names, locations, livestock and crops, and telephone numbers to produce a county booklet showing where people live.
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Brady High School
FFA
McCulloch County
Jerry Smith
Jerry
Brady Ffa
Retail Merchants Hear Banker Otto Frederick Guest Speaker
Otto Frederick vice president of the Commercial National Bank will be the guest speaker at the McCulloch County Retail Merchants Association annual meeting. Banquet begins at 7 30 p m in Brady High School cafeteria with musical entertainment by Mrs Hilma Stockstill and Mrs R L Akins. Roger George presides. Hardin Jones is program chairman. New officers will be elected.
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Otto Frederick
Commercial National Bank
McCulloch County Retail Merchants Association
Brady High School
Hilma Stockstill
R. L. Akins
Roger George
Hardin Jones
Admittances to Brady Hospital Wednesday
Admittances to Brady Hospital Wednesday included RE F Leifeste from Mason Mrs M B Brandon of Brady and Mrs Ernest Kothmann of Menard.
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Brady Hospital
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