Tests of Small Grains to Show Best Types for County Farmers
McCulloch County tests nine grain varieties in two plots near Brady to compare cold tolerance disease resistance fodder yield and overall performance. Varieties include Alamo oats Comanche wheat Texan barley New Nortex oats Mustang oats Quanah wheat Cordova barley Victor grain oats. The Alamo oats showed resilience to the recent cold.
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McCulloch County
A. R. Grote
Grote
Johanson
Dahlberg
New Nortex
Mustang
Early Triumph
Cordova
Victor Grain
Quanah
McCulloch
Weise Earns All Tournament Team Honors for Brady
Brady High notes Bobby Weise named to the all tournament squad at the Coleman Invitational. Brady lost to Ranger 68 39 and Hamilton 78 62 in Friday rounds then fell to Novice 68 41 Saturday. Sammie Loggins scored 20 in Hamilton, Ed Jordan led in two games with 12 and 14. Coleman defeated Comanche 83 73 for the title. District 8 AA opener with Bal linger set for home Tuesday with Lake View trip Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brady
Ranger
Hamilton
Bulldogs
Sammie Loggins
Ed Jordan
Novice
Coleman
Comanche
Winters
Ballinger
Lake View
Cold Wave Sinks Brady Temperatures to 20 and 15
Brady records show temperatures dipping to 20 degrees on Monday and Tuesday mornings with a heavy frost. A trace of rain, only .03 inch on Saturday, preceded the cold spell. The week’s low 15 degrees before Christmas marks the winter’s lowest in Brady thus far.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brady
Jay Cochran
SCD Supervisors to Fort Worth for State Meeting
The San Saba Brady Soil Conservation District board plans travel to Fort Worth Wednesday for the State Association of SCS Supervisors meeting. About 500 attendees expected through Friday, with E. O. Henderson, Arthur Scharlach, O. B. Harkey, Hugh Thaxton, and Jess Smith representing the district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Supervisors
San Saba-Brady
Behrens of Brady Admitted to Hospital
J. H. Behrens of Brady was admitted to Medical and Surgical Hospital on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Behrens of
Brady
Medical and Surgical Hospital
Mrs Harris Carlson Enters Medical and Surgical Hospital
Mrs Harris Carlson of Brady entered Medical and Surgical Hospital on Sunday for unspecified treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harris Carlson of
Brady
Medical and Surgical
Bulldogs Face 3 Games This Week
Brady High basketball team schedules three District 8-AA games this week. The Bulldogs host Ballinger Tuesday night in Brady, travel to Lake View Thursday, then return home Friday to meet Richland Springs.
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Brady High
Bulldog
Ballinger
Brady
Bulldogs
Lake View
Richland Springs
Martha Lemons Pioneer Resident Dies at 81 in Brady
Martha Jane Lemons 81 longtime Voca resident died at 4 p m Sunday in Brady. Born July 29 1872 in Burnet County she lived in Voca most of her life and was married in 1888 in Brownwood. Funeral held at Wilkerson chapel with Rev Sam Thomas burial in Voca cemetery. Survivors include two daughters two sons a brother and a sister with 18 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren. Another son died in 1941.
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Martha Jane Lemons
McCulloch County
Brady
Voca
Burnet County
Brownwood
Corpus Christi
Lemons
Wilkerson Funeral Home
Sam Thomas
Central Baptist Church
Fred Appleton
Camp San Saba
Jim Schafer
L. J. Lemons
Kerrville
Millie Hennington
California
Extension Work From Sul Ross Planned
An organization meeting for spring extension classes from Sul Ross State College was to be held Tuesday night in Brady High School library at 7 30. Supt C A Reynolds who holds a Master of Arts from Sul Ross called the meeting. Courses are available to anyone wishing to take college work. In fall Sul Ross ran 11 extension classes in nine centers across West Texas with some completing in the first semester and others continuing longer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sul Ross State College
Brady High School
Supt. C. A. Reynolds
Sul Ross
Reynolds
West Texas
Man climbs courthouse roof adds color to town
W P Spears of Brady scurries atop the McCulloch County courthouse repainting the roof. He notes this is another job like his past climbs on a Georgetown church cupola and the 1942 courthouse roof. The county chose black over red for the roof though the weather vane heart remained red.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCulloch County
W. P. Spears
Brady
A. L. Tinney
Spears
Georgetown
Lumberyard Closed To Make Way For Shopping Center
Lawler Lumber Co sold its stock and closed for the last time Monday. He plans to move the buildings to clear the site at South Bridge and West Second Streets for a $250 000 shopping center to be built there.
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Lawler Lumber Co
Lawler
South Bridge
West Second Sts
Special Gifts Section of Polio Drive Opens
The 1954 March of Dimes special gifts section began with a breakfast at El Patio. Frank Roddie chairs the section. reporting at 4 p.m. Wednesday. Attendees include Norman Lawler county MOE chairman and several local leaders across groceries, drugs, cafes, gas, oil, professionals, and retail sectors.
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el Patio
Frank Roddie
Norman Lawler
March of Dimes
Harry Curtis
Karl K. Steffens
Mac Slaughter
Jack Roddie
Charlie Samuel- Clinton Newlin
Jerome Wilkerson
Egan Fowler
Walter Gray
Jamie Williamson
Hardin Jones
Roddie
Harold Deaton
W. N. White
H. D. Bradley
John Sorell
Joe Barekman
T. P. Wood
Gardner Broad
B. R. Sheffield
Charlie Matthews
Hunter Ables
G. P. Kittle
James King
L. V. Ruffin
Pat McShan
Dr. J. S. King
Bill Bodenhamer
Voca Man Enters McCulloch County Sheriff Race
Dorman Gibbs a 41 year old stock farmer from Voca joins Sheriff J P Williamson in the McCulloch County race. Gibbs born Mason County near Fredonia and educated in London high school has lived in the county eight years with wife and two children Larry and Connie. This marks his first political bid.
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McCulloch County
Dorman Gibbs
Voca
J. P. Williamson
Gibbs
Fredonia
Mason County
London
Larry
Connie
the Standard
Woman Critically Injured in Wreck Near Brady
Mrs Vernell Wood Holmes 25 of Vine Mont Alabama was critically injured when she lost control of her 1953 Cadillac on Brownwood highway eight and a half miles north of Brady. She suffered a fractured back pelvis and internal injuries and was brought to Brady Hospital in very critical condition.
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Vernell Wood Holmes
Vine Mont
Ala
Brownwood Highway
Brady
Quarter Horse Race Added to Jubilee’s Card
Jack Locklear announced a new Quarter Horse race the Heart Of Texas Futurity will join next summer’s July Jubilee racing card. It will rank with the Brady Derby and Richards Futurity, with the mile long Derby as Jubilee’s oldest event and Richards Futurity holding the richest purse. The Futurity honors F. M. Bueck Richards who donated Richards Park to Brady and McCulloch County and it aims to boost Quarter horse breeding in Texas.
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Jack Locklear
Texas
Birthday Cake Honors Doctor at Brady Hospital
Dr. J. S. Anderson was surprised with a 77th birthday cake in his Brady Hospital office. The gesture came from the graduate nurses and hospital business manager Leonard Atherton.
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J. S. Anderson
Brady Hospital
Leonard Atherton
Hospiital
J. P. Anderson
D. W. Jordan
G. H. Ricks
McCall and Anderson School of Nursing
Erna Samuelson
Jennie Marie Burns
Verda Hargroves
Faye Morgeson
Oma Jay
Arvilla Neal
Ruth Carson
Mary Day
Lena Mae Land
Brady Attorney Sam McCollum Undergoes Surgery in Temple
Sam McCollum longtime Brady attorney underwent an operation in Temple Monday and was reported to be doing as well as could be expected. He traveled to Temple last Wednesday and is to return to Brady the latter part of this week.
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Sam McCollum
Brady
Temple
McCollum
Sixteen More Boys Weigh In at CC's Commercial Feeding
The Santa Fe stockyards hosted the second weight-in for the Chamber of Commerce commercial feeding program. A total of 16 boys weighed 10 calves and 60 sheep, bringing participants to 59. Names and entries include Brady FFA members Gilbert Steelhammer William Strickland and others.
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Chamber of Commerce
Santa Fe
Gilbert Steelhammer
Brady
William Strickland
Brady Jaycees Grow From Two to Thirty Nine Members
The 1953 Jaycee report by secretary T. J. Chapman details rapid Brady Junior Chamber of Commerce growth from two paid members in 1952 to 39 currently. Activities include a Get Out the Vote effort, a county talent show, disaster relief donations, a baseball uniforms fund, a fishing derby, Little League sponsorship, Boy Scout support, a school gym set purchase, blood donor drives, chapter affiliation with state and national Jaycee bodies, and a turkey shoot event.
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Brady Junior Chamber of Commerce
T. J. Chapman
Jaycee
Chapman
Jaycees
McCulloch
San Angelo Disaster Relief Fund
National Guard
Dunbar School
Blood+ mobile
Brady
Texas
U. S
Jaycee International
Texas Jaycee
Tommy Cook
Lumber Dealer L M Irish Dies in Brady
Logan Milton Irish a 72 year old lumber dealer in Brady died at his home at 1600 South Bridge Street at 8 55 p m Friday after several months illness He was born November 29 1881 in Center Texas Surviving are his wife two sons Leo and Merton of Brady five grandchildren and four great grandchildren four brothers and four sisters Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at Wilkerson with Rev Roy May pastor First Methodist Church officiating Burial was in Rest Haven Cemetery Pallbearers were Joe McAnally Ralph Underwood Earl Finlay Odis Cox Wayne Freeman and Walton Hill
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Logan Milton Irish
Brady
South Bridge St
Center
Tex
Leo
Merton
Charlie
Bob
T. L. Irish
W. H. Irish
Houston
Viola Graves
Timpson
Rosa Knox
Davie Murphree
Tenaha
F. T. Yeary
Wilkerson Funeral Home
Roy May
First Methodist Church
Rest Haven Cemetery
Joe McAnally
Ralph Underwood
Earl Finlay
Odis Cox
Wayne Freeman
Walton Hill
Infant Daughter Dies in Brady Hospital
Julia Garcia six month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Victor Garcia of Brady died at Brady Hospital at 2 am Friday Funeral services were held at Guadalupe Catholic Church at 3 pm Friday.
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Julia Garcia
Victor Garcia
Brady
Brady Hospital
Guadalupe Catholic Church
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Corbin Robertson
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Pat Hallmark
Brady Ffa
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Kent Finlay
Lohn Ffa
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Waymon Blackburn
Calf Creek
Norman D. Cox
Mercury
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