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Newspaper
Brady Standard
Location
Brady, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1959
Page
12
Deans family, farming 251 acres with 190 in cultivation and 200 leased, leads Voca farmers to form a cooperative to raise quality produce in large volume. They employ a bracero and rely on hand labor, planning to plant 10 000 slips of potatoes and explore mechanization to improve results. John L. is 9, Janie 21 months.
Mrs. Harry Carlson, 74, of gin, visiting relatives near Brady, suffered a heart attack and died about 9:50 p m Thursday. She and her husband had spent the night with cousins the Berquist sisters and had just left to visit another cousin when illness struck. The Carlson party, from Miles, had planned to return home after visiting Mrs Carlson's sister in Elgin. Survivors include her husband and son Glen Hilmer Carlson of Dallas, and her brothers Oscar and August Samuelson of Elgin and Miles.
Funeral services were held in Austin on Thursday April 30 for Sidney Ray Salter a former Brady resident found shot to death in the driveway of his home about 1 a m April 9 Salter was the son of Mrs Bo Salter of Idalou and the late Mr Salter who resided in Brady and later in Melvin before moving to Austin Survivors include his wife Wanda two daughters Sherry Lynn and Cindy Lou and a son Donald Ray
The Rev. Harry C. Bamberger, pastor of the First Methodist Church, won the Rotary Club’s annual singing contest held Tuesday. He accepted a trophy for the top performance amid a festive club gathering.
State Highway Commission approves keeping a four mile section of Voea road in the state system to serve local traffic as a new Brady approach is built. The cut off will alter FM 744’s present path linking near Brady to the southeast, with the section from Brady Mills to a point south of Brady. County Judge Love Kimbrough and the Commissioners Court urged retention of the segment in state maintenance.
Classified note seeks oat grazing for brood mares. See or call Bob Loud for details and arrangements.
The City of Brady invites sealed proposals for the Power Plant Building improvements. Bids are due by May 26 1959 at 4 PM with a 5 percent bid security. Plans and specs available from Consulting Engineer Jack K Covington in Abilene Texas.
The article notes a farmer near San Saba Brady LCD cooperative area plans to invest up to $16,000 in irrigation after installing a new pump. It highlights soil conservation, crop rotation with vetch and winter peas, cover crops, deferred grazing, contouring, and grass land management as key practices.
The farmer Deans uses cover crops to build soil and grazes oats without harvesting. He grows corn cotton peanuts watermelons and sweet potatoes while maintaining 25 Angus cows two registered Angusse hulls 96 hogs and 95 Angora goats. He part of the Organization of the Heart off Texas Producers Co op and sees potential for oca farmers in the new co op.
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