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VOL. XLV, No. 101
The Brady Standard
Published TWICE-A-WEEK aitll JipRrt ($' i'fplVfi TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS
8 PAGES TODAY Brady, .McCulloch County, Texas Friday, March 10, 1954 5c PER COPY
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Whole Number 7296
More Recreation
For Children on
lap This Summer
Brady 8upt. C. A. Reynolds out-
lined an expanded summer re-
creution program to * *the City
Council Tuesday night and the
council voted to back the pro-
gram with up to $1,500 this year.
Reynolds said the schools want
to give some help this year to the
Pony League, which takes care of
boy “baseball players 13 to 14
years old; and to provide some-
thing for the girls and for small
children between 0 and 8 years of
age.
* * *
He said it is hoped to get
tlie girls Interested in tennis
after new tennis courts
are 'built at junior Idgli
school. For the tots, Reynolds
mentioned a “story hour and
play ,.eriod."
* * *
School Board President Maurice
Kidd also appeared with Reynolds
and asked the city's help in get-
ting the northwest corner of the
junior high grounds leveled off
for use as a hall diamond by the
Little League, another part of the
summer recreation program.
The Little League wants to
turn its diamond around so home
plate will he facing northeast.
The aldermen instructed Streets
Supt. Lilian! Holt to talk to
County Commissioner H. E. Pat-
terson and go ahead with the job
when the equipment is available.
* * *
As the $1,500 was voted, Mayor
W. K. Cobb praised the recreation
program and said It “has been
managed very conservatively.”
In years past the city has pro-
vided $1,000 a year, hut at the
start, of last year the program had
a $902 balance, and the city put
up only $500.
The program ended the 1953
season with a balance of $219.
Receipts from the city swimming
pool also are used to support the
program. Last year they totaled
$1,391.
Board Lets Contract
For 2 Play Courts
Supt. C. A. Reynolds said
Thursday that the School Board
has let a contract to Virgo Huff
of Brady for construction of two
concrete slabs, 105 by 40 feet each,
at Brady Junior High School.
The slabs will he used as com-
bination .tennis-basketball-volley-
hall courts. Work is to start im-
mediately.
Recently the Lions Club called
attention to the need for the
courts and offered to do the work.
Because the School Board wants
to get the courts constructed as
quickly as possible. Reynolds said,
the board decided to go ahead and
let a contract.
C. A. Enqdflh!, 83,
Dies in Rochelle
Carl August Engdahl, 83-year
old retired stockfarmer, died at
his home in Rochelle at 10:42 p.
m. Wednesday.
Born in Sweden April 24, 1870,
Mr. Engdahl came to the U. S. in
1800, settling in Williamson Coun-
ty. He ramn to McCuJIoeh County
about 1805 and married the former
Annie Otelia Johnson Jan. 1, 180(1.
Survivors are his wife; three
sons, Walter G., Ray and W. T.
Engdahl, all of Rochelle; a daugh-
ter, Mrs. G. D. Howard of Brady;
13 grandchildren and 13 great-
grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at
the East Sweden Church at 10 a.
m. Friday, and Wilkcrson Funeral
Home will direct burial in the East
Sweden Cemetery.
Former Katemcy Man
Jess Manning, Dies
Jess Manning, 07, of Mason,
died suddenly at his home at 4 p.
m, Wednesday. He had returned
from town and said he was feeling i
ill only a few minutes before his
death.
A native of Meridian, he came
to Mason County as a young man.
He farmed at Katemcy until
about 15 years ago when he mov-
ed to Mason. He worked as a car-
penter and stonemason.
* * *
Services will be held at 10 a. m.
Friday at the Bethel Church at
Camp Air with the Rev. Bill Ar-
nold, Mason Baptist pastor, of-
ficiating. Burial will be at the j
Camp Air Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife of
Mason; two brothers, Monroe
Manning of Weatherford and Earl
Manning of Granbury; and two
sisters, Mrs. Will Reed of Godley
and Mrs, Alice Moore of Cleburne.
FASHION NOTE: SHIRT TAILS TO BE LONGER
Latest fashion craze among Brady Junior
High School girls is the wearing of their father’s
shirts—with the tails hanging out, of course,
A tie, also from papa’s collection, completes
the ensemble. The boys don’t like it (see photo
below), but as one of the girls said, “1 don’t
care what the boys think.” That’s Christine Allen
sitting on the curb, and the other girls (approxi-
mately left to right) are Bennie Teague, Judy
Samuelson, Aileen Swenning, I’atsy Kirklin,
Gracie Scott, Sidney Spears and Joyce Sommer-
field. (Standard Photo)
IS IT THIS BAD? To show the gilds “how silly they look”
in their dad’s shirts, Brady Junior High hoys showed up at school
in their mom’s skirts and blouses. Left to right, the boys are
Donald Sessom, Roger Spider, Frankie Tomlinson, Norris Wallin,
Orville Wright and Kenneth Eastman.
Brady Stores Select
Style Show Models
Brady clothing stores have
named their models for the an-
nual style show to lie sponsored
by Beta Sigma Uhl in the Brady
High School auditorium April 2.
A preliminary rehearsal for the
models was to be held Thursday
night at the Lewis Shoe Store
Other rehearsals are scheduled In
the BUS auditorium March 31 and
April 1.
In the show will ho models
from the store* and Brady clubs.
Miss Katherine Oromatzky, who
currently wears the title of “Miss
Wool,” will be featured, and Mrs.
Bill Malone will he the commenta-
tor.
* * *
The stores and their models
are:
Thompsons’ Shoppe-—Mrs. Har-
roll Watkins, Mrs. .1. II Francks,
Mrs. Elmo Kyzar, and Mrs David
Bratton,
J. C. Penney Co Mrs. J. B.
Gault. Mrs. Ross Huffman, Mrs
Bob Rothe, Karon Lewis, Pam
Francks, and Cissy Gault.
Gibbs Exclusive Styles Mrs.
Carroll Watkins, Mrs. Frank (.'or-
der, Mrs. Norman Henry and
Mrs. Bill Burns.
Elite Children's Shop Mury
Glenn Corder, Randy and Bob
Rothe, G'harmalne Hallum, and
Randy Holloway.
* * *
Olson's Style Shop- Mrs. Bill
Bennett, Mrs. J. S. King, Mrs.
Charles York, and Mrs. Clovis
Holloway,
Wllensky's—Mrs. Bill Gran-
ville, Mrs. Roy Baker. Anita Ben-
nett, and Diane King.
Mode O'Day Mrs Elmo Kyzar.
Jerrle's -Ann Lawler. Geor-
gann Granville, Bill and Lewis
Bratton, Mike and Bob Rice.
Rosenberg’s Mrs. Henry Mil-J
ler, Mrs. B. A. Hallum, Jr . Mrs
Ross Hoffman, Mrs. Marian Dale]
Rice, Mrs. .Jamlo Williamson
Elene Corder. Sue and Lou Huff-
man, Pat and Cathy Malone, and
Diana Williamson. Hank Henry,
Donnie and Steve Kyzar, Jan,
Gayle and Diana Watkins, and
James Marvin Burns.
Visits Sisters
Mrs. J. D. Branscum visited her
sisters, Mrs. G. F. Thornton and
Mrs. P. B. Melton of Dallas, last
week, and while there attended a
Spencer School of Corsetry and
also the Annual Dallas Garden
Center Show which she said was
very beautiful.
Jess N. Shaver,
Dies Here Tuesday
Jess N. Shaver, 77, a resident
of McCulloch County for half a
century, died at his home in
Brady at 8 o’clock Tuesday night,
lie had been ill for two years,
and seriously ill for the last six
months.
Funeral services were held at
3 p. m. Thursday at the Wilker-
son Funeral Home chapel, with
the Rev. LeRay Fowler, pastor of
the First Baptist Church, conduct-
ing, and burial followed in Rest
Haven Cemetery.
* * *
Mr. Shaver was a native of
Corsicana, but had lived In Mc-
Culloch County since |!Mi4. Iff*
lived in the Lohn community most
of the time he was a resident of
this county, where he engaged in
stock farming. He and Mrs. Sha-
ver moved to Evant a few years
ago before returning to Brady last
year.
Survivors Include his wife and
throe daughters, Mrs. Carrol
White of Eldorado, Mrs. J. C. Fay
of Denver, Colo., and Mrs. Harold
Taylor of Lohn.
$1,362 Given
To Red Cross
| A preliminary total in the Red
Cross drive shows contributions of
$1,362.42, W. L. (Doc) Taylor,
chairman of the drive in McCul-
loch County, announced Thursday.
The drive continues through
March, and volunteer workers are
being a ;ked to make their calls
and turn in their contributions as
quickly as possible. For McCulloch
County, the quota is $5,000.
* * *
Itemized, the contributions so
far are: «
Special gifts
% 639.50
Industrial (BAG)
200.75
Special groups
95.50
Residential
286.42
Cowboy
West Sweden
16.50
(incomplete)
28.00
Whiteland
50.00
Placid
29.60
Nine
16.25
Total
$1,362.42
Drouth Feed Shipments
Will End Here April 15
No more drouth relief feed will
1><> available for McCulloch Coun-
ty farmers and ranchers after
April 15, the County Drouth Com-
mittee was told late Tuesday
afternoon.
The news came in a telegram
from Claude K. McCan, chairman
of the State Drouth Committee.
He instructed the local committee,
“No applications for feed or mix
J ed feed shall be approved .
j to meet needs . . , beyond A pul
15.”
* * *
Farmers who do not have
enough feed on hand to last
until April 15 may niukc ap-
plication with the county AKC
office in llrady, hut the ap-
plications must In* in h> next
Monday, March 22.
* * *
The telegram did not say March
22 is the last day to order, hut
that is the way members of the
committee interpreted it. They
pointed out that orders would
have to he placed by then. If the
feed Is to arrive in the county
before the deadline.
Farmers who have orders still
unfilled may increase their pre-
vious orders to provide a supply
through April IB.
End of the feed program comes
while the drouth continues un-
broken in McCulloch County.
As«oue member of the Drouth
Committee said Tuesday after-
noon. "We’re in worse shape now
than when the program started."
McCun’s telegram, which in-
cluded an excerpt from n wire
from the Department of Agricul-
ture. offered some hope for the
county.
“We will give consideration to
advancing the date (April 15) In
limited areas where extreme
drouth conditions persist," the
wire said.
The County Drouth Committee
will meet again next Monday to
approve any additional applications
for feed, and at the same time the
committee is expected to try to
hii\o the deadline extended In the
county.
Recently the committee has
boon ordering only corn for use
here. Wheat also Is available, hut
so few Uvestockmen have wanted
it that the committee lias not been
able to make up a carload order.
The supply of cottonseed nieui
tuts been exhausted several
months.
Mixed feed (range cubes) lias
been available through commer-
cial feed dealers with a certifi-
cate from the Drouth Committee.
9 Schools Send
Tennis Teams !o
Tournament Here
City Increases Funds
For Library Support
The third annual Heart o’ Texas
Tennis Tournament got started at
Brady High School Thursday af-
ternoon.
Nine schools have teams entered
in the eight brackets. Since the
original pairings were made,
Lampasas has dropped out of the
tourney, hut to fill the gap Llano
is bringing its girls team here
and Menard is taking Lampasas'
spots in the hoys’ matches.
A girls’ singles match between
Brady nnd Eden was the first
game on the opening schedule, and
four other matches were to he
played Thursday afternoon: Mel-
vin and Eden in the boys singles,
Eden and Melvin in girls’ doubles,
Brady and Eden in boys’ doubles,
and Llano and Melvin in girls’
singles.
* * *
The tournament begins again nt
8:80 a. m. Friday and 8:80 a. m.
Saturday. Championship finals
will be played Saturday afternoon.
Brady is represented by Pat
Probst in the boys’ singles and
Gwen Hall in the girls’ singles. In
the doubles, Brady has two boys'
teams and two girls’ teams. Rob-
ert Bouchillon and Jerry Neal
make up the No. 1 hoys’ doubles,
and Leo Threadgill and Larry
Franklin are team No. 2.
In the girls' doubles, Janet Rud-
der and Bonna Jean Nance arc
team No. 1, and Gay Lynn Town-
send and Nancy Bruce are team
No. 2.
* * *
At last year’s meet Clyde High
School entries dominated the mat-
ches and won both the hoys'
singles, and the girls’ doubles, So-
nora won the girls’ singles, and
Brady took the boys' doubles prize,
thanks to Terry Townsend and
Murray Jordan.
Clyde is bark this year, too.
Other .chords entered in addition
to those mentioned are Fredericks-
burg, Junction and Sonora.
City <*iveil Thanks
For Aid in Securing:
Easements on Creek
The City Council Tuesday
night voted to increase Its finan-
cial support of tlu* proposed I1'. M.
(Buck) Richards Memorial Lilt
rury. and Hardin Jones told the
council:
"I Hi ink we can go right ahead
with Hie library now.”
Jones, one of six trustees for
Airline Brings
Equipment Here
Trans-Texas Airlines moved in
part of Its equipment to Curtis
Field Saturday, In preparation for
Hie start of airline service to
Brady.
Date for the start has not been
set.
Although landing on a tem-
porary strip, beginning March 31,
lias been considered. Trans-Texas
has decided now to wait until the
new paved runway is completed.
Work on the new runway is
continuing rapidly. Most of the
grading lias been done, and lay-
ing of a caliche base wan started
Tuesday.
The City Council will open bids
from paving contractors for as-
phalt topping of the runway April
1.
Students Prepare
For Literary Events
Brady High School students
] have sturted preparations for the
literary events in the annual In-
terschelaslic League contests to lie
held nt Ballinger April 8.
The field of conteHtautH will he
trimmed down to the number
Brady will tie allowed to enter.
Directing debate eontestants Is
J. M Crump; declamation, ,V1 Isa
Lucille Welch; extemporaneous
speaking. Mrs Dorothy St clalr;
spelling. Mrs. E .1. Unwell; ready
writers, Mrs A. D. (’order; num-
ber sense. Garland Black; slide
rule, C. D. York; typing
shorthand, Miss Beth Rosson.
$40,00o given by Mrs. F. M. Rich-
ards to build the public library,
appeared before the council to ask
that the city's pledge of $2,500 bs
raised to $3,500 yearly.
IThe aldermen agreed unani-
mously.
* ♦ *
1’ulred with vot<sl
by Die McCulloch County
('oiiiinisNlollct'H Court last
week, that a ill give the lib-
rary a maximum of $7,000
yearly in maintenance funds,
* * *
Under the terms of the trust
agreement set up by Mrs. Richards
the library would be maintained
Jointly by the city and the coun-
ty. The County Commissioners
Court, acting through Its Library
Board, will remain the actual
governing body of the library,
however.
Jones snid the $7,000 is a maxi-
mum figure and that (lie library
will use only wlmt Is needed.
The aldermen asked him about
an architect for the library.
"We haven't contacted an
architect, but we'll start on that
tomorrow."
* * •
Thanking the council for Its
cooperation, Jones added that the
library lias been delayed only be-
cause the library trustees hadn't
been able to agree previously on
the amount of maintenance funds.
"Borne wanted $5,000, ami
some wanted $10,000," he said
Henry Bradley, one of Hie trus-
tees for the library building site,
also appeared Tuesday night and
thanked the council for the city’s
help in getting; the library sturted.
DeMolays* Dance
Reset for March 2G
Brady DeMotaya have changed
the dale of their sweetheart
dance. It will lie held now at the
Country Club Friday nigh), Murch
211.
The date was changed because
of the conflict with the Bluebon-
Hitd net Relays In Brown wood March
27.
New Stage Set Arrives
For Senior Play Friday
For the city’s help in securing j
casements for the Brady Creek i
flood control project, the City .
Council -was thanked Tuesday
night in a resolution by the Board J
of Supervisors of the San Saba-
Brady Soil Conservation District.
Arthur Scharl^ch of Rochelle
presented the resolution to the
council.
It .said that the soil conserva-
tion district realizes the magni-
tude of the task of securing ease-
ments and that the job normally
takes three or four years.
"Through the direct moral and
financial support of the City of
Brady this task was shortened to
about one year . . .
"The board of supervisors of
the San Saba-Brady Soil Conser-
vation District expressly desires
to thank the mayor and members
of the council in furthering com-
pletion of this task . . . arid for the
evident spirit of cooperation dem-
onstrated thereby."
Scharlach also reported to the
council on his trip to Washington
in behalf of the flood control pro-
ject, and Mayor W. K. Cobb told
him that “the council appreciates
your going up there ....
“The Council thinks we picked
a pretty good man to send,” the
mayor said. Scharlach's expenses
to Washington were paid by the
city.
New stage scenery arrived
Tuesday just in time for “Mr,
“Peepers,” a comedy and class
play to be presented by Brady
High School seniors Friday night.
Curtain time is 7:30 o’clock in
the BUS auditorium.
The stage set cost $484 and was
bought by the Speech Club. Doors
nnd windows of the set can be
moved around to depict various
interior scenes, but Friday night
it will he set up to depict the
teachers’ lounge of “Jeffcr !on
City High School.”
• • •
“Mr. Peepers” is based on
the popular television program
about a high school science
teacher. Jaryl Young has the
title role, and along with the
laughs the play honors the
teaching profession as “Mr.
Peepers” derides to stay on at
Jefferson City High School,
rather than accept a labora-
tory job at a much higher
salary.
* * *
The fact that "Mr. Peepers”
falls in love with the school nur <>,
“Nancy Remington,” played by
Anna Jo Parmer, might have
something to do with his decision.
Of Interest to the audience Fri-
day night also will be the presen-
tation of the “Oscar” for the best
performance in the play.
Stanley Wallace won the “Os-
car” last year, and in previous
years it has been pre-ented to
Peggy Edmiston, Howard Cream-
er, Jimmy Locklear and Bobby Lee
Hodges.
"The Stardustcrs of Tomorrow,”
under the direction of Boyd Hunt,
will furnish the music.
Members of the cast went
through their final rehearsal
Thursday night. In the cast are
Jaryl Young, Jackie Sallee, Joe
Hernandez, Anna Jo Parmer, Dee
Ann Spears, Sammy I.oggins,
Mury Stic Bean, John Wallin, Syl-
via Nixon, Kisalda Gutierrez, Paul
Boldt, Roberta Hanson, Carol Mr-
Shan, Robert Osborne and Wayne
Hampton.
Miss Lucille Welch, BUS speech
teached, is directing the play.
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