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Newspaper
Brady Standard
Location
Brady, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1956
Page
7
Rochelle residents push public schooling during a dedicated week noting Russia’s faster schooling progress. Community highlights include local travels, PTA plans, Home Demonstration Club actions, safety talks by Joe Perry, and a Book Review fundraiser for the Brady library piano.
Legal notice for bidding on 7,902 miles of asphaltic pavement from Brownwood to Early High School and Mason C. L. to Camp San Saba on US 377 and 87. Bids due 9:00 A M March 21 1956 in Austin. Plans available from R B Russell Brownwood and Texas Highway Department. Rights reserved.
Rochelle voters elected H. V. Sawyer Ruth Watson Mrs Lockett Bryson Vera Boykin John Adkins G S Hubbard and James Langford to the Rochelle school board. Miers Johnson will return next fall as vocational agriculture teacher. Claud Thompson and Oscar Beakley face expiring terms. Beakley will run again, Thompson declines. Election set for Rochelle school house on Saturday April 7.
SCS Survey and Dick Winters, president of the Brady Creek Watershed Association, told the council about a Washington trip to seek Congressional appropriations for Brady Creek. They praised their House appropriations committee appearance as the Budget Bureau recommended a 1.2 million dollar increase, and they urged 2 million dollars next year to finish all 46 dams within two more years.
The former Prisoner of War Camp in Brady is being transformed into a hospital at Eden one block east of city hall. Dr. John E. Carter bought the old dental clinic building, creating office and hospital space with 4600 square feet. An open house is planned from 2 to 6 p m Sunday for public attendance.
Amos Kidd and Wayne Jones, both seriously injured in a February 22 auto crash on the Old Mason Road, were reported improving at Brady Hospital. Kidd’s condition sparked plans to move him to Temple, while 17 year old John Merlin Davis remained jailed after fines totaling 6 dollars. Miles Harlan Wooten paid 20.50 for permitting an unlicensed driver.
Here From Dallas Mr and Mrs Duke Mann host Mr Manns sister Mrs Grace A Bevans of Dallas visiting after stops with friends and relatives in San Antonio and College Station before returning home.
The State Highway Department invites bids for paving on U S 87 from the Mason County line to Camp San Saba. The project pairs with asphalt work in Brown County from Seventh Street in Brownwood to Early High School. Bids open in Austin March 21.
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