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Newspaper
Brady Standard
Location
Brady, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1954
Page
1
Rains persisted as Brady Creek reached a 25 foot rise threatening to topple the levee and flood the business district. Water stood feet deep along East Commerce Street. images show a west view and a center scene of the inundation.
Absentee ballots total 178 as deadline passes, nearly all poll tax payers in McCulloch County likely to vote. Polls open 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday. KNEL and The Brady Standard sponsor an election board on the plaza reporting results live from the election board, 8 feet by 16 feet, on courthouse plaza. Public address system will broadcast returns and tabulations will be posted on the board.
Brady High Bulldog Band starts its summer program Wednesday July 28 with five day sessions through August 16 in the band hall. Director Boyd Hunt outlines 8 to 9 am rehearsal in cool hours and 9 am to 12 noon instruction. freshmen may use time to pass entrance requirements. The program is free. A four day trip to Camp Landa in New Braunfels is planned August 17 to 20 after the school ends. Further trip details will be announced during band school.
Rochelle High School pep squad will hold a bake sale in front of Gartmans Saturday starting at 9 o clock. Proceeds support the squad as students offer treats and refreshments to the community on the event date.
Ann Hardie Lawkis and Doris Stone leave today for Boulder Colorado to attend a University of Colorado program lasting six weeks with planned study and activities on campus.
Alongside Saturday's election Democratic precinct conventions are planned at 1 p.m. at polling sites. Resolutions will be discussed and delegates elected to the county convention on July 31 at 2 p.m. in the county courthouse. Each precinct gets one delegate per 25 votes for the Democratic gubernatorial candidate two years ago. The county caucus will then send 10 delegates to the state convention. Precincts and delegate counts are listed.
Contracts for the F. M. Buck Richards Memorial Library were sent to architect J. J. Black in Midland but not let this week. Trustee Hardin Jones said Black may be aiming to secure bids low enough to fit the available funds before submission to trustees.
Men from the Lohn School district worked this week to construct two 35 foot sections of pipe bleachers for the Lohn football stadium. The moveable stands will seat 400 to 600, with welding in the vocational agriculture shop. J O Lawson supervised the project as a list of local workers assisted, expanding spectator capacity previously restricted to roadside viewing.
Police and business leaders saw a compact radar unit installed in a patrol car that records speeding with 98 percent accuracy at 100 mph. A parked radar car triggers speed readings as vehicles pass, enabling intercepts further down the highway to reduce high speed pursuits and boost safety.
The City Council hired Wichita Falls engineer Joe Ward to report on the feasibility of obtaining a municipal water supply from Brady Creek. The plan contemplates a possible dam and a long pipeline to the city, with study of other sites on the San Saba and Colorado rivers as alternatives.
Water and electricity use in Brady this month hit all time highs with 105,840,000 gallons of water and 1,411,000 kilowatts produced by the BW&L Works by July 20. If heat continues, July 20 to Aug 20 figures may rise, surpassing 1952 marks. The city bans lawn watering 9 am to 6 pm continue while council seeks a new water well site. BW&L Supt. Geeslin traveled to Austin for geological data on local wells and underground supply.
A Mills County grand jury in Goldthwaite indicted Roy Barton and David Dutton both 58 and 46 respectively of Brady on castration charges and assault with intent to castrate. Sgt Clyde Bennett a Fort Hood soldier from Pennsylvania is in hospital but improving. Indictments allege July 4 at a Mullin area ranch owned by a 35 year old widow with $5000 per castration and $1500 per assault. Trial likely set for September per District Attorney Raymond Thornton.
M A Gainer's Rochelle shop burglarized Tuesday night with 150 dollars cash and merchandise stolen. Tom Penn's adjacent store entered but nothing missing. Gainer noted four year span since last break in, recalling four prior incidents within a year.
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