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Newspaper
Brady Standard
Location
Brady, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1969
Page
6
County Judge Ellington designates May 1969 as Senior Citizen Month in McCulloch County. The memorandum honors Texas seniors and urges society to recognize their contributions as parents, relatives, mentors, and community members.
Cong. Omar Burleson sent a telegram announcing a $226,914 economic opportunities grant to Central Texas Opportunities Inc. The funds support a summer program for 98 youths, a 21 month full head start for 50 children, a neighborhood center, pre vocational and vocational training for 1026 low income individuals, plus a nine month part day head start for 102 children. Local share totals $107,782.
Seventy six driver education students will take their written examination May 15 at Lop in the county courtroom. The test qualifies them as beginners and allows back wheel training this summer. Principal Ed Whiteley said three instructors will conduct the summer training for about two months.
Showers with wind and lightning hit Fife Texas as fields remain too wet to plow. Visitors from San Antonio, Lubbock, and Anson joined local families for weekend gatherings, with cemetery blooms and roadside wildflowers noted after recent rains. The Fife Friendship Club plans a May 8 meeting and Rev. Tom Connolly will lead services May 8 at 7:30 p.m.
A. P. Waldrep spent last Thursday in Dallas handling real estate interests and property leasing. He attended the stockholders meeting in the Fidelity Union Tower of the International Soil Conditioner, a subsidiary of the Southern Union Production Company, of which he and Mrs. Waldrop are principal stockholders. The meeting noted a lease in West Texas where sulphur was discovered.
The Mason County Singing Convention meets at 2 p.m. Sunday at Bethel Church Camp Air. Everyone is invited.
Justice of the Peace rules a personal safety related gunshot wound caused the death of 63 year old Mark Mitchell of Comanche and formerly of Rochelle at Sorrells Creek Park Lake Proctor. The 308 rifle wound occurred as Mitchell drove up while Oliver L. Martin was fishing about 50 to 75 feet away. Funeral services were held and buried in Rochelle Cemetery with Masonic rites. Mitchell was born September 20 190F and was a custom combiner. He married Bertha Dooley and had lived in Comanche ten years with Masonic Lodge membership. Survivors include his wife two daughters his mother Opal Rose a sister and other relatives.
In a Mexico City context built on mud the article notes a 600 year process of subsidence. It contrasts with rural Malaya where time is told by vivid local phrases such as Many cocks crow at 3 50 a m and The buffaloes return to the shed at 6 p m.
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