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P.0* Box 8066
Dallas, Texas.
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The Br ady Standard
Published TWICE-A-WEEK
anil Jicart (§’ (ILexas Tuesdays and Fridays
Whole Number 7360
H PAULS TODAY
... in
Brady, McCulloch County, Texas Tue.sdiy, November 2, 1951
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VOL. XI.VI, No. 61
2 Entries in Tie,
Split Top Prizes
In Grid Contest
Two contestant in thlK week’s
football gumming contest missed ;
only two games cacti, and their \
neons of the Mrady-linllinger
game were mo cIohc that the judgim '
declared them In a tie.
So splitting the first and second
prizes this week are Hill Jack
Smith, the ambulance Jockey from
Wilkeraon Funeral Home, and j
Honnle Halter, end or, the llrady I
High School P.ulldoy team.
Smith and Salter min ed the i
name two games: Blanket’* vie-j
tory over Melvin and that 13-1 tl
tie between HMI' and Texan.
Sixteen contentatitii minned only
three games, but by reanon of bln
13-7 guess at the Brady-Balllnger
score, Eugene Cornelius, another
Brady Bulldog team member, wins
third place.
In addition to the Melvin-Blan-
ket and SMU-Texas game*, Cor-
neliuM strayed in picking Stamford
over Colorado City.
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The other contestants who mis-
sed Just three games were Ben
If Teague, Charlie Dye. Mm. Love
Kimbrough, Jesse fi. Foster, Nor-
ris Wallin, Glen E. Jones, M. L.
(Jack) Wootan, Linda Leach,
Jerrell Lawrence, James Crawford
of Rochelle, Elaine Tomlinson,
Gene Appleton, Joe B. Simpson,
Clarence Friar, and Mrs. Charlie,
Dye.
This week’s best guess at the
Brady-Hallinger score was a pre-
dicted 0-0 tie, turned in by Brady
High teacher J. M. Crump. TTn-j
fortunately, he missed seven other
games also.
Shaver Lawyers
To Appeal Case
Defense attorneys for Jimmy N. day, charged mi-conduct by the
Shaver gave notice of appeal Sat- jury and contended that two jur-
urday after they were denied a ors had made up their minds aisiut
new trial for the J1-year-old Lack- the (‘use before they were chosen,
land Air Force Base airman who * * *
was given the death penalty here Saturday in questioning the jur-
Iht. 2. ors they wanted to know what it
•bulge Joe I,. Mays of San An- was that caused the jury to coma
gclo overruled the defense motion out dining the deliberations to ask
after almost five hours of test!- Judge Mays if “there is any sen-
rnony in 35th District Court, tence we can give Shavei where
Eighteen witnesses were question-
ed, including all 12 jurors who re-
turned a verdict of guilty against
Shaver.
The ease now will go to the
Court of Criminal Appeals.
he r an never get out of prison.”
The defense asserted that the
question indicated the jury wai
considering the law of pardons and
parole.- and that tic death penalty
was given when the jury realized
I’l.AY FOOTBALL ON YOL K BACK 7 Eleven men already
had hit the turf Friday night in Ballinger when Biady Quarter-
back Fletcher Fields farrow) was stopped on the Ballinger 35
after a 0-yard gain in the second quarter. Sprawled in the middle
foreground is Ballinger's Grady Cuiry (22). Still on their feet in
the background are Gary Ferguson (70), Eugene Dreyer (74), of
Ballinger, Brady’s Vernon Ityan (05) arid Bobby Winona (05),
Ballinger guard. Brady won, 3-0. See stoiy on page 2.
It was that Melvin-Blanket
game that upset the contestants.
Only six bet on Blanket, winner
by 1 Of course, no one called
that HMU-Texa* tie, but a lot of,
people thought Texas would
bounce back after a shakenp of
the team iast week.
A majority of the entries also
went wrong by picking Stamford
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Halloween Quiet;
Kids Get Thanks
Halloween night in Brady went,
“very, very good,” City Marshal
K. T. Clay reports.
“We want to express our ap-
preciation to the kids for not
marking up the windows,” he said, j
Only a few windows along one!
side of the square were marked,
and that was done after mid-
night, apparently by one prank
Bter.
The only report of a lost gar-j
bage can didn't come until Tues-*
day morning, and Clay said he
found only one garbage can in the
street Saturday night.
While the vandalism was ab-
sent, there was plenty of “trick
or treating” Saturday night.
State Watersheds
Organize; V/inters
Is Vice President
Dick Winters of Brady was
elected president as the Texas
Association of Watersheds was
organized last Thursday In Waco.
Some 150 farmers and ranchers I
set up the association to coord I-!
nate information and means to
solve water problems.
Winters is president Of the
Brady Creek Watershed Associa- (
tlon.
The meeting was called by the
State Association of Soil Conser-
vation District Supervisors, and
delegates representing 14 Texas
watershed groups attended.
Congressman Bob Poage of
Waco told them that cities ne°d
not fear loss of water in their
large dams as the remit of up-
stream flood structures. He said
the upstream dams will provide
a steady release of flood waters
to the larger reservoirs down-
stream.
Truett Smith, Wylie banker,
was elected president; and John
Royal of Menard was one of those
named to the hoard of directors.
defense attorneys, M. C. Gonzales
of San Antonio, Sum McCollum
III and Ben Davis Gevslin of Bra-
Russians Staying
'Ready,' fisher
Says After Tour
Hankers to Meet
In Hrady Next April
Brady was selected for the Ap-.
ril meeting of the Hill Country!
Bankers Association as the group j
met last week end in Kerrville. |
About 115 attended the Kerrville
meeting. C. R. Truett Smith, vice
president of the First State Bank j
at Wylie, was the speaker.
FINAL FUTILE PLUNGE Here's that Ian-
minute, fourth-down, fourth-quarter plunge by
Ballinger Quarterback J-.hn Duke as the Bear-
cats got their last chance to pierce Brady de-
fenses Fiiday night. From the 3-yard-line, the
Bearcat effort failed, and the Bulldogs took over
and waited for the final gun. That’s Brady's
Jerry Smith (47) in the foreground, and you may
Is- able to spot Tracy Byrd (72) and Johnny
Bradshaw (46). (Standard Photo),
Deaf Peddlers Just 'Racketeers’;
Don’t Contribute, Public Urged
Deaf persons who have been
making the rounds in Brady ped-
dling little trinkets get little sym-
pathy from most deaf people “who
are average hard-working and in-
dependent citizens.’’
j That's the word from Roy Moore
Stelle, former superintendent of
the Texas School for the Deaf in
Austin, and from the National As-
sociation of the Deaf.
In recent months, more and more
strangers claiming to be “deaf”
have been visiting stores and cafes !
in Brady, offering some little gad-
get for sale, usually a key chain
tied to a card that says something
about “I am deaf and am making .
my living selling these souvenir!
key chains.”
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Answering an inquiry from The
Standard to check on these ped-
1 dlers, Mr. 8telle said, “There is
Volunteers on Duty
At Fire Station
Brady Fire Department volun-
teers are taking turns on duty!
with Fire Chief Howard Salter
at the fire station until a replace-
ment ran be found for Cunts Gib-
son. fall-time fireman who was
killed fn an automobile aertde t
last week.
Seven applications to fill the
ra-ancy bare been received, and ,
they mere to be referred to the
City Council Tuesday night
‘KING BORDEN” REIGN'S—Loots Nolan Borden, If, 5 months
old, bolds the first place trophy he won in a baby contest sponsor-
ed by the VTW recently m Austin. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Nolan Borden of Austin and the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. John
Borden of Brady and Mr. and Mrs. William Smith of Austin.
Hrady Men’s Trial
Set for Nov. 29
District Judge D. B Wood has
set the trial of Roy Barton and
David Dutton of Brady for Mon-
day, Nov. 2k, in Georgetown.
The ease was transferred to the
26th Judicial Dmtrrirt in William-
son County after failure to obtain
• jury in Goldthwaite.
no reason why the deaf can not i
find suitable employment without;
resorting to such tactics.”
Mr. Stelle, who resigned recently
from the Austin school to take a
job in Colorado, turned the report
over to the National Association
of the Deaf in Berkeley, Calif.
The association condemned the
practice even more severely.
“There is absolutely no need
for any deaf person to use his
handicap ac a “vropathy gimmick j
Halloween Parade
Winners Named
Judy Gail Wilimann, 3-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Wilimann, 305 West White St., wort
the first-place red ribbon Saturday
night in the costume parade at the
PTA’s Halloween Flay Night.
The parade was held in the
Brady High School football ted-
ium. Scores of children in thejrj
Haliow'-en masks participated.
The second-place blue ribbon
went to Janie Crew, 7, a second-
grader at South Ward and daugh-;
tor of Mr. and M s. W. K. (Bill)
Crew.
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Despite the chilly weather, the (
turnout, pleated th<- f*TA upon* r<
Hot dogs, sandwiches, pies and
cakes, pop com i/alls and cold
drinks were served in the school
cafeteria; and outside behind tlej
school building there were booths
for pitching washers, a fish pond,
ard a bean hag toss. Movies were
shown in one of the classroom*,
and a sock hop *u held in the
gym.
Mr. sad Mm. Dick Sweating of
Brady announce the arrival of s
son, bora at Brady Hospital Sun-
day.
to fill his purse,” the association
said.
“All the deaf are given voca-
tional training in school and if,1
when graduated, they are unable
to xariire a lob, they are given ad-
ditional training or other h»-lp in
obtaining work by th< Vocational
Rehabilitation office. These offices
are located all over the country
and within easy reaph of anyone
needing such service.
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‘'The mj'ority oi the deaf
are average, hard-working
and independent people. 'I his
organization, representing that
majority, d'--.pises and has
been waging a ‘war' against
peddling for a long time.
* * *
"Publicity can and has helped
immensely. And much more is
reeded, for the only way to stop
the 'At organized petty racketeers
is to advise the pubic against do-
nating to any of them. Stop their1
income and there will be no more I
business. *
"As I mentioned,” Rene Epding,
office manager of the association
wrote, “peddling is an organized j
racket. One of the larger ones op- >
erates from Chicago arid sends out
hands of these small hoodlums all ■
o er the country. There's more y
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Hrady Man Escapes
Injury in Accident
Shields Norwood, Hr.. 120b;
South Pine St., Brady, narrowly
er'aped serious Injury in an
automobile wreck west of San
Saba Friday afternoon.
Although the car, a 1J54 Chev-
rolet. overturned and was severe
ly damaged Norwood wa# only
bruised and scratched.
Norwood's car and a second
auto collided about four miles
west of flea Babe He had been to
Sea Babe on business.
asking for a ^new trial, the Shaver might get out of prison in
a few yearn, even if given a life
sentence.
Most of the jurors said they
didn’t remember just what the dis-
cussion was that led up to the ques-
tion. They also added that it did
not influence their decision on tho
(h ath penalty.
Attempting to show that somo
of the jurors hud switched to the
death sentence after questioning
Judge Mays, tho defense asked sev-
eral jurors how they stood on the
first ballot.
The jurors admitted it was on
WASHINGTON (/P;—Two eon- the question of death or n life sen-
gressmen who toured the Soviet; tence, but disagreed on the exact
Union this summer repott the Rus- split. L. C. Barton of l.ohn said it
sians have not changed their aims was 7-5 for death* W I, (Dooi
and “are keeping themselves in a Taylor remembered’ it « ■ "«#.;* („r
state of readiness.” ; death; Robert Bratton said it was
Their views were set, forth in a 6-6, ^nd the foreman, Arch Gain-
copyrighted interview published in ”r *®*d ’’about even."
the magazines 17. S. News & World Gainer udded that "I never did
Report. The congressmen are find out, even after asking the
Reps- Laurie C. Battle of Alabama judge” whether Shaver could he
and O. Clark Fisher of Texas. I*ut in prison and kept there. But
They cautioned the West against hum observation, Gainer said he
relaxing its vigilance. knew Shaver would he eligible for
“I would say that the Russians parole later,
are in a position to mobilize their j * * *
military and civilian population Ramey Dikes, an employe of In-
with minimum delay,” Battle said, tercontincntal Manufac turing Co.,
“I think they are keeping them- w,lli the first witness on the stand
selves in a stall? of readiness.” ! Saturday. He had signed an affi-
• • » ! davit saying he had heard Troy
Fisher characterized as a "Com- t-ates, an IMCO guurd and one of
rnunist propaganda line” the talk “** th”
of “peaceful coexistence” of the ' n!P i1,*1*!*'1,0" th<’
Soviet bloc and the West. (Turn to I age 8, Col. 7, Ph ase)
"They want the West to be jess j
vigilant,” he said, "and certainly I
«w nothing to how Dial, the uRi- VlUO HrUNIciuil t
mate objectives of communism art*
being relaxed. Until they net rath ()f VVf
er than talk, I would discount ft ”
They offered no encouragement ffl Hrilflv FriflflV
to the idea that the Russians are "
chafing against their leadership. I * meeting open to all business-
Mattle said "we better not count rn' n interested in learning of the
on any discontent in the sense that Program of activities and services
we use that word hi the West." °* *•"<• West 'lexas Chamber of
Rattle said he was “amazed" to Gommeree will is* held at J0:30 a
see in Russia as many pictures of n'*» Friday at the Hrady ( huinber
the ChircHc* Communist leader Mao , Commerce office, II. D. Winters,
as of Malenkov or any of his Rus- director of the WTCC, has
sian colleagues. Fisher commented, atim>unccd.
“The present regime is playing up , *“'• '■ Buelow of San Angelo,
to the very limit the new relation- rice-president of the regional or-
“hip that they are trying to force ganizntion and chairman of its in-
between Red China and the present ‘1 uxtrial development committee,
regime in Russia.” he the speaker,
• * * Buelow will be accompanied by
Battle, author of a law requiring l>rtul Marabb* Jr., manager of the
countries that receive U. S. help to '"dustrlal and water resources de
refrain from shipping strategic partrnenfs^ of the WTC' with of-
rnutorials to Russia, said he thinks
the law has been a success al-
though Russian industrial develop-
ment has forged ahead.
fires in Abilene.
‘There could ha v* l,< <n a gi eu ’ <-r Dl*. ffriTry (/,
increase in the particular indus-
tries necessary to a war economy
if there had been no embargo," he
said.
General Election
Drawing Eif<ht Vote
Only 144 voters had <ast ballots
in the general election in Brsuly
up to noon Tuesday A cold spell
that blew in Tuesday morning got
part of the blarne for the light
turnout, in addition to the fact
that. Democrat!' Parly candidates
had been nominated in elections
this summer
Voters, however, also were be-
ing a-.ked to decide on II impor- j meeting, presided over
tant constitutional amendments. Franck*
Meads Dental Society
Dr. Harry C. Prieot of Hrady,
was elected president of the Heart
o' Texas District Dental Society,
which met in Brown wood Satur-
day afternoon and night. Dr Prie
succeeds another Bradyitc as head
of the organization, Dr. J. H.
F/ancks.
Named secretary-treasurer of
the association was Dr. H. O. Sim-
mon* of Llano The r>ew officer
will assume their duties next June
1.
The quarterly meeting, held at
Hotel Brownwood, was climaxed
with a dinner party Saturday
night. Dr. Lotiweine of Dali* ,
was principal speaker at th*-
bjr Dr.
Mrs. Starr, IOI, Melvin’s
Oldest Resident, Dies
Mrs J M. Starr, Vtolrin's oldest
resident, d;--d there at 6:30 p. m.
Friday Mother of Mrs. T. W Park-
er, editor and publisher of the Mel-
vin Enterprise, she was 101 year#
old.
Mr* Starr had lived In Melvin
with her daughter for tiu last 23
years. Although blind and hard of
hearing and until she became ill
about nine month* ago, she re-
mained cheerful, in good health,
and indepradent, permitting no one
to wait on her.
Since ner illness she had been in
the McCulloch-Cone ho Hospital in
Melvin several times.
The former Mary M. Hoffman,
she was horn la Akroa. lad , Fab.
27, ISM, and came to Texas wit!
her hu e band about 50 year* ago
and settl' d at Xocoria. Later they
moved to Iowa Park and to Wichita
Falls. Mr. Starr died in Melvin in
December, 1033.
Mrs. Starr was a member of the
Congregational Church.
Funeral services were held at 3
p. m. Sunday at the Methodist
Church in Melvin with the Rev.
Mitchell Smith, pastor, officiating.
Burial was in the Melvin Cemetery
under direction of Day-Lov*de«t
Funeral Home of Eden.
Survivors are one daughter, Mrs.
Parker; a niece, Mrs. Terry Hogan
of San Angelo; and a
Ryai Parker of Melvin.
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