The Brady Standard and Heart O' Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 53, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1954 Page: 3 of 8
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rTHE BRADY STANDARD AND HEART O' TEXAS NEWS, BRADY, TEXAS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 1954
!City PTA Council Sets’
Hallowe’en Play Nij?ht
PACE THREW f
ON GUARD—Among the first-string linn-
men for Melvin’s Bulldog* this year are these
four lads. Left to right they are Dario Garda,
l3&*pound sophomore guard; Gail Odom, 145
pounds, junior, guard; Donald Brown, center
and a junior at 155 pounds; and Gale Smith, a
big (227 pounds) two-year letterman guard. Fri-
day night Melvin entertains Eden in one of tha
Bulldogs' big games of the season. (Standard
Photo)
Members of the City Council
of I'TA met Tuesday afternoon at
2:45 in the South Ward auditor-
ium with Mrs. Jack Hunter Wlg-
KInton. president, in charge of the
meeting.
Hupt. C. A. Reynolds told the
group that the lunch room at the
high school was operated without
state aid since the state restricted ,
the sale of any food except plate j
lunches and milk Mr Reynolds'
said that many of the children pre-
fer sandwiches, hot dogs, ham-
burgers or a salad plate and soda
waters instead of milk They go
somewhere else to get it if It is
not served at the lunchroom Mr.
Reynolds said that until they
started serving the variety that is
now obtainable, they were operat-
ing In the red every month
During the business program,
plans were made to hold the Hal-
lowe’en Play Night, Oct. .'$0. be-
ginning at 7 p. m. at the Brady
High School. The program will
he planned for the most part by
the children as to high school,
.Innlor high and ward school
levels. Each level will have four
selec'od parts of an entertainment
feature, aide show, fond booth and
a feature booth.
It was announced that a PTA
school of instruction taught by
Mrs It L Akitis, will be held
from !♦ to 11 a in Oct, 5 with the
place to be announced at n later
date.
Don Jackson, Rochelle, spent the
past week-end with Norman Cox.
Her McCulloch Countv friends
will lie glad to know that Mrs.
Richard Heilman has spent a most
pleasant summer in lamdon and
Switzerland. She is on her way
now to her home at 995 Afton
Road, Han Marino 9, California.
flPC Prexy Baptist
Brotherhood Speaker
Fifty,-two men enjoyed the din-
ner at the First Baptist Church I
wjien they attended Baptist
Brotherhood Monday night
Guest speaker for the evening j
was the president of Howard
Payne College, Hr. Tom Taylor, !
known as the ' Will Rogers of j
Texas.” Hr. Taylor chose "The
Value of Christian Service" as the
topic of his address, which was
thoroughly enjoyed by the men
During the business meeting,
new officers for the ensuing year
were eleried as follows; C It
! Groves, president, and Mercer
| Slaughter, membership vice presi-
dent. The program vice-presidents
were elected for the four quartern
of the year with Jim Dudley to
serve the first quarter, George
Young, the second quarter, tb«
announcement of the third to bo
made at a later date arid Burnet
Davis for the fourth quarter,
George Ricks was elected s»cre.
tary-treasurer; C. A. Watson,
benevolence committee chairman
and Hugh Ake will serve as
kitchen committee chairman the
first quarter with the other threw
vacancies to be filled later.
George and Martha Washington
made the minuet popular in Amer-
ica. ,
< ROt|L ET, f'OL'NTRY STYLE—Dominoes and hone shoes
lake a back scat to the fine game of croquet on Pecan Gap's main
•treet. The champ, Roy Rushing, lines up a shot at the wicket
a three cronies -tand by. Left to right, they're W. L, Stanscll, Kz
Gatrison and J. 0. Grady. LP; Photo.
Chores Often Must Waif While Town's
Men Folks Complete Game of Croquet
PECAN GAP. Texas GPl — I About that time, a stranger
There may be cotton that needs named Roy Rushing »howed up.
picking or cows to be milked. But Somebody challenged him to a lit-
you can always find a croquet tie croquet contest and he licked
game at Pecan Gap’s community, th<- tar our of the whole crew,
court. Rushing, it developed, was a new
Croquet, it seems, is the official fa inner n'-ar Pecan Gap. H>- ha.
sport in this little Delta County i been the undisputed champ ever
town. | since.
Down here they judge a man ly After Rushing’s amazing feat,
the way he swings a croquet mai- the boys all had to have profes- j
]«»(, j sional mallets like he owned. Or-j
"Ycssir, we play croquet,” growl- i dered them from Dallas, special,
ed one of the town's leading citi-1 make, for nine buck- a throw.
z<-n* from the sidelines, "And some Couple of the boy* even bought
are pretty good at it, too. D’yo: $25 mallets,
know anybody who wants to play * * *
UH?" I The rest of the equipment I* a
You’ll find a game in progress! community deal. They pass the hat
at the community court any *«? biib P“y
Hometime* the boys travel
around to neighboring town*. They
UMiialiy win.
On Saturday the boys fday until
midnight. Week days, they quit
earlier.
Do the women folks object to the
continued croquet playing? "Aw,
back in ml Somebody showed up cJady, "But after'all!'we
one Saturday with a croqt.cn set. n hav,. ,.r uet malUt in
Some of the fellows got. to knock-j . .’ . ..
ing the ball around on a vacant lot' ’ ' ________ _____
across the main street.
From there on in, it’s history.; ...............
They liked the sport and cleared
off a court. ► MERCURY NEWS ♦
When the crowds grew they f By Mrs. D. S. Pumphrey ♦
graded out the court, adder! clay * + 4.**+* .......
and gravel, and erected profession-.
al steel wickets imbedded in blocks j
of concrete. Even put lights on the |
court.
but Sunday. Takes a heap of rain,
to chase the players inside. Never
too hot or too cold.
* * *
Pecan Gap's men folk take th<ir
croquet seriously. Most of them
have time and money invested in
the court.
This croquet business started
The first dial was put there
by an Independent
Telephone Company
-A*-
Now 74% of all telephones
in the U. S. are dial
9,232,500
/ 5,150,0
100
reueMOMC* is vrr a
In 1889 a Kansas City businessman developed
the first successful automatic dial telephone.
Shortly afterward, his equipment was installed
in an early Independent telephone exchange at LaPorte, Indiana. History
records this as the first dial telephone system in America. The development
of dial service was necessary, not just fortunate. For hiring and training
enough operators to handle today's huge volume of local telephone calk would
be a near-impossible task. Now as in years past, America’s 5,100 Independent
Telephone Companies are adding to the value of
your telephone service. At your fingertips, their nine
million telephones—backed by an investment
Hind-lorm Damage* REA Line*;
Breaks Arm In Diolbail Practice
Mercury, Texas, »*pt. 21—A
most promising looking cloud came
up about sundown Monday after-
noon and a terrific electrical storm
developed about midnight, bring-
ing only light showers in this com-
munity arid doing some damage to
REA lines. Power went off about
3:20 but the REA men had the
trouble cleared up before any dam-
age resulted to deep freeze boxes
age resulted to deep freeze, meat
and ice cream boxes.
Miss Jane Ann Campbell, Brown-
wood, visited from Friday to Sun-
day evening with friend* here.
Mr. and Mrs, Cecil Pin-on.
Brown wood, visited at the France
j Adams home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Elgin Dennis, Sam-
my arid Jerry and Marvin Garr«-tt,
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. MiBride and
I family. Pleas McBride, Mr, and
j Mrs. Ve - Bennett, Miss Amanda
! Powell, Mrs. Gordie Dunn, A. D.
i Hoover, Brady, enjoyed a barbecue
j picnic dinner on the Colorado River
! Sunday.
* * *
Mis-, Amanda Powell visited with
j the Chas. Powell family at Brady
j last week.
Lavon Beakley arid Mile* Massey
are in ACC at Abilene.
Jerry Pirrnigan is able to be
track in school after receiving
treatment for a broken arm. The
1 accident occurred during football
j practice at Rochelle Friday,
j Mrs, Virgil Painter, who ha*
been seriously ill for several weeks,
is making almost miraculous re-
covery following treatment at Bay-
1 lor Hospital, Dallas. She wn> aM«.
: to leave the hospital Friday and
! w»- taken to the home of her
! daughter, Mrs. G. D. Bawley at
j Abilene.
• * *
Mrs. D. S. Pumph-ey and Mrs.
I W. H. Matthews, Brown wood, went
to Menard Saturday to attend fun-
eral service for Mrs. Alice No-
guens.
Word has been received here that
Mrs. Bert Page of Eldorado is
I convalescing very satisfactorily,
I following an operation at Sealy
Hospital. Galveston, Room P. 212.
Mr. and Mrs. Page were native Mc-
1 Culloch Cdoatnas before they mov-
| ed to Eldorado many year* ago.
of V/i billion dollars—are at your service.
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our
Money
Slays in McCulloch County
290
LIGHT MEAT TUNA 2<,„.490
TOMATO CATSUP 2
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Monte ■ CMwfl Lv Halves CanAvy
SUN SPUN TOMATOES 2 "IL 290
......... SALAD DRESSING ;:,, 390
Au*t ex
CORN BEEF HASH 2,
Saitine Make* l.b. Box
• Nabisco Premium t rackers 23c
Lb. Box
• Nabisco Kit/. Crackers..........‘He
wxvrrm
Crisp. Solid Heads
LETTUCE Lb. 12c
Fresh
OKRA ..........Lb. 15c
Cello I’kg.
CARROTS ... Lb. 12c
Sunkist
LEMONS . .. Lb. 15c
New Crop
ORANGES...Lb. 10c
Idaho Bunnell* II) l.h. Hag
POTATOES........53c
★ CHARMIN PAPER TOWELS
★ CHARMIN TOILET TISSUE
★ CHARMIN NAPKINS .....
2 ROLLS 350
4 ROLLS 350
2 BOXES 270
2 94
MARYLANDCLUB INSTANT COFFEE 2*650 6,,51.95
Kvaporaled
Pet Milk 3
Tall Cans
(Limit)
Old South
Frozen Orange Juice 2 254
MEATS
Center Cut Lb.
PORK (HOPS 59c
Choice tirade, T-Bone
or f-oin
Steaks
• POUND 55c
Calf Lb.
SHORT RIBS 25c
Swift’d Sweet Rasher Lb.
SLICED BACON 55c
Lb.
Smoked JOWLS 35c
No. 1 Orade
SALT PORK Lb. 39c
Sun Spun
OLEO .... 2 Lbs. 45c
I or Everything You Wash
SURF
Red & While
FLOUR
GIANT SIZE 590
• 10 Lb. Baj* ......S9c
•5 Lb. BaK.........47c
TOMATO JUICE 2 lU'j 450
CRUSTENE SHORTENING 3 m„ 790
Imperial Pure Cane
Sugar
10 Lb.
Ba^
(Limit)
Specials f or F riday and Saturday, September 21-25
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Smith, L. B. The Brady Standard and Heart O' Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 53, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1954, newspaper, September 24, 1954; Brady, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth881228/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting FM Buck Richards Library.