Brady Water Light Co Moves Office and City Cleanup Success
Brady Water Light Co informs customers of new office in Brady National Bank building with payment rules and service suspension penalties. Brady school board reelects W L Hughes as superintendent with salary rise. community praised for city cleanup efforts reducing disease risk and fostering sanitary habits.
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Brady National Bank
Upstair
Brady Water & Light Co
Paul Calvert
Brady Schools
W. L. Hughes
Hughes
Brady
Texas
Texas lawmakers eye special session over taxes and water bills
The Texas legislature faces delays on insurance, water conservation, and tax plans with a possible May 11 special session. A prominent tax measure would levy a one cent per gallon tax on gasoline and distillates, aiming to raise about $160 million yearly while repealing the four cent gas tax and countering a two cent gasoline tax proposal.
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Austin
Tex
Shivers
Jerry Sadler
Percilla
Texas
Sadler
Charles Murphy
House
Senate
Crawford C. Martin
D. B. Hardeman
Water Resources Committee
Martin
A&M Scholarships Offered Forms at Principals Office
Applications mailed to Texas high school principals for 90 Opportunity Awards at Texas A&M College. Dean J. P. Abbott says forms due April 1. Four year awards based on character leadership need and scholarship with stipends from 200 to 400 yearly plus employment. Includes five Jesse H. Jones agricultural scholarships and two military scholarships.
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Texas
Texas A&m College
J. P. Abbott
A&m
Jesse H. Jones
UT Frat Initiates Brady High Grad
The University of Texas chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha announces the initiation of Stanley Wade Wallace son of Mrs Leola Wallace Brady. Stanley a Brady High graduate transferred to UT after Baylor and holds the highest scholastic average of the Lambda Chi pledge class.
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University of Texas
Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity
Stanley Wade Wallace
Leola Wallace
South Cypress St
Brady
Stanley
Brady High
Baylor
Weather and Public Notices From Austin and State Agencies
Senator Ottis Lock schedules a March 2 hearing on a bill for a 20 dollar per semester student activities fee. Austin weather bureau uses automated phone reports to calm callers. Munici pal Airport installs a voice response device to announce forecaster busy. 1955 highway maps issued in half a million copies with simplified folding. State Highway Engineer D C Greer notes no need for extra maps to refold open travel maps. Auto license buyers receive a card to request the new map.
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Ottis Lock
Austin
Weather Bureau
Highway Department
D. C. Greer
Balalaika: An Old Russian Stringed Instrument
A balalaika is a traditional Russian string instrument with a triangular body and three strings. It is known for its bright tone and simple technique suited to folk music and ensembles.
New APO Member Doyle Todd Joins University Fraternity
Doyle Todd a University of Texas sophomore accounting major from Brady becomes a new member of Alpha Phi Omega national service fraternity for ex Boy Scouts. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Earl Todd of 909 West Eighth Street Brady.
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Doyle Todd
University of Texas
Brady
Alpha Phi Omega
National Service
Todd
Earl Todd
West Eighth St
Dallas couple guests at Rochelle native’s home
Here From Dallas Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Tull of Dallas were guests Saturday and Sunday in the home of Mrs. J. S. Wall. The Tulls formerly resided in Rochelle and Brady, where Mr. Tull was vocational agriculture teacher. He is manager of Swift & Company’s cotton oil mill in Dallas.
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R. P. Tull
Dallas
J. S. Wall
Tulls
Rochelle
Brady
Tull
Swift & Company
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Ida Mae Souther
Esther Anderson
Minnie Wiley
Lizzie Souther
Gillie Macy
Paul Orlopp
Fort Worth
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James Stone
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Moffatt
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Duke Mann
Jack Nussbaum
Ladies Five Hundred Club
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Charlie White
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Helen Latham
Fredonia
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Beau-Nots
Vern Sanford
Texas Press Association
Mary Johanson
Mayme Spiller
Ferole Ford
Olga Schaeg
Ruth
Ruby Wood
Mozelle Glenn
Lucile Yantis
Leslie Howlett
Brownwood
W. C. Wegner
Hayde Willoughby
State University
W. D. Walker
Wiley
Walling
Wichita Falls
Karnes County
Maury Maverick
Tom Joseph
State Banking Department
Veterans’ Land
Bexar County
DeWitt Co
Cuero
DeWitt County
Wiley Cheatham
Travis County
Grand Jury
Lee Proctor
House Committee
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Shepperd
Education
Logan Wilson
Legislative Finance and Appropriations Committee
Gartman’s
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Roy C. Wilkerson
Funeral Directors Burial Insurance Ambulance Service
Barton Motors
S. Braswell Locker, M. D
Coggin
Prescription
Central Drug Store
Don F. Johnson
Gibbons Bldg
Fidelity Union Life Insurance Co
Dallas, Texas
Brady High Grad
TEMCO
Roddie & CO
Brady Y
Howard W. Sams
Harvey Hocker
Western Auto
Andy Olson
Brady, Texas
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