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Newspaper
Brady Standard
Location
Brady, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1969
Page
1
City Council approves seal coat for about 25 blocks to preserve older streets. Paving starts next week if weather allows. Meeting moved to Sept 15 to avoid conflict with US Highway 87 Improvement Association event Sept 16-17.
Season tickets for Brady Bulldog football are on sale at the school tax collector’s office in City Hall. About 50 tickets have been picked up, with about 100 more spoken for but not collected. All tickets must be purchased by September 12 or be turned over to reserved-seat sales.
The U S 87 Highway Improvement Association schedules its annual meet ing in Brady on September 16 and 17 With McCulloch County Judge K O Ellington as president invites from all counties between Ra ton New Mexico and Port Lavaca Delegates are urged to attend A Texas size hospitality hour barbecue is set for 7 p m September 16 at the Brady Municipal Golf Course Clubhouse The business meeting on September 17 at the Plateau Restaurant follows a lunch The program includes Gar rett Morris Texas Highway Commissioner as guest speaker Aubrey Davee Brady mayor will speak at the barbecue Delegates may register at the Brady Chamber of Commerce office and late arrivals can register at Plateau Restaurant The Brady Chamber will provide airport transportation for those flying in from the 4 004 foot paved runway
Brady Hills Nursing Center will begin accepting residents Monday September 8 with a grand opening planned later in September. The four wing brick veneer Texas rambler design center offers 24 hour licensed nursing care for geriatric, chronically ill, disabled or convalescent seniors in the Menard area.
Brady district reports 1,228 students enrolled on the first day, up from 1,220 last year and below 1,305 from a few weeks after school began in 1967. High school registrations dip. South Ward and China Elementary gain due to grade shifts. Ed Whiteley notes possible further increases as late arrivals arrive, with 370 at Brady High School and 30 new students this year.
After several days of teasing showers a black cloud brought an unofficial 1.20 inches to Brady. Rainfall across the county ranged from 1.95 inches at Camp San Saba to traces elsewhere with reports of flooding in Mason. Residents cited 0.6 to 1.5 inches in Brady streets and West Texas weather fatigue.
Adena M. Smith, 69, of Brady died about 2:30 a m Tuesday after a short illness in Brady Hospital. Funeral held at 1:30 p m Wednesday in Wilkerson Memorial Chapel. Burial in Pittsfield Mass. Born October 6, 1899 in Brady she married William Smith in 1929. Survivors include son Douglas Smith. daughter Ruth Ann Smith. five brothers W A Steelhammer August Steelhammer Cap Steelhammer Ted Steelhammer Oscar Steelhammer. three sisters J W Claxton J B Willis Joe Conley of Brady and San Angelo.
Robert E. Waldron 24 an Air Force serviceman was injured when his car overturned twice after hitting gravel nine miles north of Brady on Highway 283. He sustained a head laceration and was kept overnight, taken to Brady Hospital by Wilkerson ambulance. Waldron, headed to Dyess AFB for temporary duty, is from California and wore a seat belt.
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