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Newspaper
Brady Standard
Location
Brady, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1963
Page
9
For sale a 90 ft front by 150 ft depth lot with paving and curb. Priced to move. Contact Billy L. Jackson of Jackson Electric Co. for details or to arrange a viewing.
Classified notices seek a nine bedroom two bath house to rent by January 20 with climate control. Also listings for a van sales setup, Watkins dealer job in McCulloch County, a one person business starter, a daytime carhop in Silver Spur, and an all around afternoon lady. Listings include contact boxes and company names.
An insurance service advertises complete policies including dwellings household goods mercantile building contents liability automobile and homeowners. The ad also urges replacing worn iron cords with a GE heavy duty cord priced at 6.97.
Sealed proposals for constructing 13.474 miles of widening grading structures and paving on US 87 from 4 Mile West of US 283 to Concho County line in McCulloch County will be received at the Texas Highway Department Austin until 9 00 A M January 25 1983 and publicly opened. Plans and specifications including minimum wage rates are available at the Brady Resident Engineer office and Texas Highway Department Austin. Usual rights reserved.
Lohn Texas reports unusually mild New Year weather with grain fields needing rain for grazing. Community notes include travel to El Centro by Mrs W Townsend, holiday visitors from San Antonio Brownwood and Baytown, obituaries for Mrs Ethel Ledbetter and Carl Lohn Gouldbush, and a busy church and social calendar with gatherings in Gouldbush Rochelle and Brownwood.
Texas public schools enrolled 1,200,415 students and employed 50,339 teachers in 1948-49, rising to 2,191,000 students and 95,200 teachers in 1961-62. By 1967 Texas anticipates 199,000 teachers for about 2,459,600 students, with annual growth near 76,900 since 1952. The state now has more than 2,555,000 scholastic ages six to seventeen. 1947 figures project approximate enrollment.
Miair of Fort Polk Louisiana stopped Saturday to visit the Hollis Phillips family as they travel to Albuquerque to visit their mother who is seriously ill in a La Mesa hospital.
The article notes a surge in Toras student population demanding over 1,500 new teachers annually and about £75,006,0006 for 200 new classrooms. It highlights that over 90 percent of scholastic growth in ten years occurred in 21 of Texas 254 counties, with most increases concentrated in four counties. Sixty-five Texas events show scholastic growth rising from 1 cent to 20923 percent in the decade.
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