15 Oct 1965
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Newspaper
Brady Standard
Location
Brady, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1965
Page
1
Brady will host the University Interscholastic League Region VII Band Marching and Twirling Contest on Saturday November 20. James Mallow the local band director says about 30 to 40 junior and senior high school bands will march in Bulldog Stadium with twirling events on the practice field.
Benny A Alley of Austin formerly of Fife has been appointed District Expressway Engineer for District 14 in Austin and will start October 1. He holds a UT civil engineering degree and has 12 years with the Texas Highway Department. A test event in Brady will feature bands from multiple towns with a chance at a sweepstakes trophy.
McCulloch County 4-H members will show livestock at the State Fair in Dallas from October 18. County Agent Lowell Kuykendall and several fathers and mothers accompany the group. Judging runs Wednesday and Thursday, with calf sales Friday and lambs and hogs Saturday. Participants include Ringer, Bratton, Whitworth, Deans and others showing calves lambs and hogs. group departs Sunday and returns the following Saturday.
Notification that late Lee Threadgill was made a captain in the U S Air Force retroactive to July 15. If not killed in a plane accident in August he would have earned captain’s bars October 15.
The McCulloch County Farm Bureau sets its annual meeting for October 26 at 7 30 p m in the Brady High School auditorium. Registration begins at 6 30 p m. President David Dahlberg urges members to submit resolutions by October 21.
Mrs Clare Haywood of Melvin will leave Saturday for a winter check up at M D Anderson Hospital in Houston and then spend the season with her sister in Rockport. She expects to return home in Melvin the first part of March.
The Brady Stamp and Commerce Association redeemed its first $100000 in Brady Stamp books last week when Mrs J D Bailey exchanged stamps for a table lamp at Ricks Furniture. Formed in 1960 as a non profit the group supports local 4 H clubs and other county projects while speedily expanding merchant participation and planning.
Brady High opens district play at Bulldog Stadium with the Bulldogs facing Mason in a bid to start the SAA race on a strong note. Coach Rapp’s Punchers bring a 1-4 record but six returning lettermen and a tested line, while Brady’s passing game shows signs of improvement after a 12-for-15, 234-yard effort last weekend.
The Rochelle PTA will gather in the school lunchroom at 4 p.m. Monday October 15. Executive meeting at 3 p.m. precedes the session. The topic is Who Is Pressuring Johny Home or School presented by Mrs T E Bratton.
George Jones student at North Texas State University in Denton traveled to Brady with friend Miss Kaye McLaughlin, a Carrollton student. They were hosted by Warren Jones and his wife from Friday through Sunday.
Rochelle school honors eleven students for the first six weeks with grades of 90 or higher. Principal Bill Spurgin notes the sixth grade has the most honorees with five students. Names are listed by grade from third to twelfth, including Liane Jones, Mike Kilmer, Sherry Page, Elaine Hurd, Sherry Smith, Tanya Cooper, Donna Neal, Nita Page, Cathy Parks, Maria Beakley, Geyla Boren, Janet Huffman, Dianne Harris, Janice Kruckemeyer, Anne Moseley, Kathy Turnell, Cheryl Kruckemeyer, Paul Kruckemeyer, Brenda Deeds, Vicki Gamb, and Ronnie Mohr.
A Brady group led by Mayor John Rudder met with the Texas Aeronautics Commission in Austin to push for a matching funds grant for Curtis Field upgrades. The plan covers four items including a turn around area, apron rebuild and resurfacing, and a lighted wind cone with a 32,500 project cost.
Contest winners from Richland Springs and Brookesmith presented a travel program to the Brady Lions Club after lunch at the Plateau Restaurant. Guy Wood and Joe Henderson narrated with Mrs. Ed Davenport operating the slide projector. They shared scenes from the Government in Action Youth tour of Washington, D C, June 3 14, with sponsors in attendance.
John E. Hill of the Texas State Teachers Association will be the principal speaker at the McCulloch County Teachers Association meeting in the school cafeteria Monday at 7 p m It starts the year with Supt Charles Yarborough of Lohn schools as president Entertainers from Melvin "The Uke N Four" will perform The group includes Mackye Morrow Kathy Fiemnips Sandy Marshall and Gayle Taliaferro Hill heads TSTA headquarters staff since August and is a University of Houston graduate with BS and ME He coached basketball and history in Wharton Hempstead and Bay City and served in the Navy in the Far East
Cub Scouts of America Pack 424 met in the First Christian Church fellowship hall to plan fall and spring programs and form new dens. Den 4 opened with a flag ceremony and awards were presented by Cubmaster Wayne Rawlings and assistant James Dale Carson. Webelos badges were given to a group led by James Carmichael and others. A downtown Brady Scouting In Action show was announced for early November to showcase local Scout work.
Mrs Louise Striegler Jordan 87 was found dead at her 105 W Marshall home by her brother Wednesday about 1 30 pm. She was born March 1 1878 in Fredericksburg and had lived in McCulloch County over 45 years. Funeral 3 30 pm Thursday Wilkerson Chapel, burial Bethel Cemetery. Survivors include son Rey Lee Jordan of San Antonio, six sisters and two brothers.
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