The Brady Herald (Brady, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 13, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 13, 1955 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 1.1
BRADY, TEXAS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1955
NUMBER 13
Army Dogs Bed Down at Armory
En Route Home From WarGames
For safety reasons, each man
handles his own dog and none oth-
er. When a man gets killed or
leaves the army, the dog is put in
a small pen for two weeks and a
new man starts feeding him. Ev-
entually the dog gets tired of
Lt. Harold Garrett, executive of-, trial basis. Such dogs later saw
fieer of Brady’s National Guard i considerable ac tion in the Korean
unit, received a call Saturday usk-1 war, leading infuntry patrols be-
ing permission for a group of hind enemy lines.
Armv men to spend the night at * * '
the armory here. ! Li Kuni/rger was a profession -
Sure, he said and then went out handler of dogs hefore he joined
to the armory. the Army, and in Korea he com- .staying in the pen, and when he
You eun imagine- his surprise ntandeii the 16th Infantry dog pin- Ketx out he accepts his new mas-
when he found 20 enlisted men, an toon- fIih unit now is one of only t,.r. The two then start training
officer, and 18 dogs! fo" du* PlatoonB *n theU; S. , all over again.
They were all members of the ’ o Jhe dogs are pedigreed German | -
25:1, Infantry Scout Dog Platoon, Shepherds. They are bought from
returning to Fort Carson, Colo., tb“ * fro‘n
from “Operation Sage Brush” in owners who want their dogs to
Louisiana. It was understandable,. Jfe a “good home.* They take a
of course, why they couldn’t just -we“k ba*,c cuur8e an'* fr°™ tht-‘
check into a hotel for the night. be*,nn,n*’ l,ne m“n "°rk* W, h one
The latoon is commanded by dog, and even after the dog learns
1M Lt. James Kunberger, and it’s bl8 •»,’b ll take* the man two to
the outgrowth of the old “K-9
Corps” of World War II when
three months more to learn his.
Since the dog can’t bark while
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Melvin Hospital
Offered $10,000
In Ford Grants
H-SU Line Coach
Subs for Baugh
Al Rochelle Feed
John Steber, line coach at Har-
din-Simmons University filled in
dog’s signals through the pull on for H-SU Head Coach Sammy
! the lcasn. Tne itog can detect an Baugh as speaker at the Rochelle
enemy from 150 to 900 yards away football banquet Monday night,
depending on the wind. Steber said people “usually
In a unit like this, the men are throw rocks at me when I show
only “secondary.” On patrol each after they had been expecting
man carries a 40-pound pack, but Sam,” but he went on to explain
| it’s mostly dog food since the dog that Baugh had been called to
I eats three pounds of dog food a Washington to speak at another
day. The handler can get along football party and to appear on
The McCulloch-Concho Hospital on a candy bar, if necessary. j television,
at Melvin was one of .’1,500 pri- j Men in the dog platoon are uc-, The Rochelle Lions Club was host
vately supported hospitals cepted only on a voluntary basis, ^ th<> Ro<,he|ie Hornet football
throughout the nation named Mon- and the Army particularly likes team at a barbecue supper in the
day to receive a grant from the farm boys for the job since they schoo| lunchroom.
Ford Foundation. are accustomed to pets.
Trustees of the foundation said
the money was being given to the _
hospitals to “help them improve |j||f| | r|||ntOf
and extend their services to the |\UII V» IIUIIIvl,
public.”
The Melvin hospital was ear-
marked for $10,000. A cooperative,
it presently is without a doctor. | Ruff C. Hunter, 74, a farmer and
Henry Ford II is chairman of rancher most of his life in the
the board of trustees of the Ford Mercury and Trickham areas, died
Foundation, and the donations to a^ 2:15 a. m. Wednesday in his
the hospitals were only part of a 1 gan gaj)a County home near Mer-
total appropriation of $500 million cury
for privately supported institutions. Funeral services were held at 3
in communities all over the U. S. J p m Thursday in the Bowser a lot of boys who didn’t care I
It was the largest single appro- Methodist Church, and burial was whether they won or lost,
ipriation in the history of philan- j jn tRe Varga Chapel Cemetery. i “This year we played only those!
thropy. Mr. Hunter was born May 21, who wanted to win—and filled in 1
Mercury, Dies
Steber himself has an impressive
football record: All-Amencan in
1943 for Georgia Tech and cap-
tain of the team when it went to
the Sugar Bowl, and six years of
professional football with Baugh
on the Washington Redskins’ team.
At Baugh’s request to “come
out and help us build a football
team,” he joined H-SU coaching j
staff last spring.
He said he could see progress
at Hardin-Simmons.
“When I went out, there were
The foundation’s announcement
in regard to the hospitals said,
"The terms of the grants will place
full responsibility on the govern-
ing authorities of each hospital to
1881, at Trickham. As a youth he with those who didn’t care. Those
was a cowboy on the famed XIT
Ranch in the Panhandle. He had
lived in San Saba County 18 years.
Survivors are his wife; a son,
spend the funds in accordance with R. C. Hunter of Route 1, Brown-
local needs and problems. 1 wood; four daughters, Mrs. Owen
who wanted to lose just sat on the
bench.”
It produced a 5-5 season for the
Cowboys.
• • •
Steber talked a lot about Baugh,
“Use of the funds will be per-j White, Mrs. W. C. Patrick, and how he is a self-made athlete, and
mitted for any program of im- Mrs. V. E. Abernathy, all of Mer- how now he has taken up golf
provement or extension of hospital cury, and Mrs. H. B. Johnson of and already is shooting in the
service but not for operating ex- Colorado City; two brothers, John 80’s. He also had many good words
ponses for service currently being , John C. Hunter of Rockwood and to ray for K. Y. Owens, Brady
performed." ! G. L. Hunter of Coleman. High ex who was the Cowboys’
co-captuin this year.
“K. Y. iilmost won that Texas
Tech game for us. He went 50
yards for a touchdown, but the
officials called it back on an off-
sides penalty.”
Steber explained to the Lions
and the boys how Hardin-Simmons
picks its football boys from high
school (“We mostly take the
coach’s word for it"—and how
the school’s athletic scholarships
are handed out.
To the Rochelle boys themselves,
he said their ability is largely a
matter of what they set their
minds on.
“If you believe you can do it,
you’ll come close to doing it.”
Good Gridders Must Also Be Good
Boys, Junior High Lions Advised
You can’t bo good football play-)
s without being good boys, too,
■ady High Coach Chuck York
Id the Junior High Lions Thurs-
y night.
York was the speaker as the
nns and their dates were guests
n banquet given by their moth-
s at the Brady Country Club.
Hr complimented the boys on
eir successful season and said
nt “you look like champs—and
ture champs for Brady High.” |
Scott Appleton, one of the
ons* co-cir tains, was master of
remonies, and Frankie Tomlin-
n presented a gift from the boys
Coach Leonard Boyd. Charles
>ynolds presented another gift to
distant Coach Harris McCol-
m.
York reminded the hoys that it
mildn’t be too long before they
mild be playing football in high
hool. He showed movies of the,
rady-Lake View game and told
e Lions that four of the Bull-
„,s in the film were in junior
gh last year.
"You don’t have to be big to
v ” be said. Obviously referring
Bethel Cemetery
Committee to Meet
The Bethel Cemetery Commit
tee will have a business meeting
nt the Bethel school house Friday,
] )re. Hi. at 8 O'clock for the yearly
report and to elect new officers
and •ommittee members. Mrs.
Alvin Eckert, president, said any-
one who has an interest in the
cemetery is asked to be present.
to Quarterback Lesley Fisher, be
said that “one boy in this movie
weighs only 135 pounds, but he’s
one of the best I’ve over seen.”
The coach urged the boys to
take care of their bodies, keep in
tip-top condition by exercise, and
at the same time to "be sharp in
your studies nnd learn to follow
instructions.
“Learn, too, to get along with
your teammates,” he added.
LOOK THIS WAV !—At the Brady Junior High Lions' football
banquet al Ihe Country Club are (left to right) Billy Ross Cavin.
Lynda Barker, Norris Wallin, Brenda Shuffield, Frederica Miller,
Roger Spiller, Alteon Swenning, and Donald Scssom.
Area Insurance
Agents to Meet
Here Thursday
Brady insurance agents will be
host Thursday at a regional meet-
ing of the Texas Association of
Insurance Agents.
The all-day session will be held
at the Brady Country Club. Clyde
Hall of Brady is regional chair-
man, and he and George Carrith-
ers, representing Brady agents,
will preside.
Approximately 75 out-of-town
agents are expected. The region
covers a territory extending west
of San Angelo and east to San
Saba.
Mark Wentz of Austin will de-
liver the main address during the
morning. He is commissioner of
the fire insurance division for the
State Board of Insurance Com-
missioners.
Others on the program are:
—Marion Sanford of Lubbock,
vice president of the Texas Assoc-
iation of Insurance Agents.
—J. Aubrey Reilly, director of
the Texas Insurance Checking Of-
fice.
GILLESPIE COl'NTIANS SEE DEEP CREEK—Lee Schmidt,
Harper ranchman, takes a look at the water gauge at the Hughes
Estate dam (Site No. 5) in the Deep Creek watershed as others in
a Gillespie County delegation gather about their bus on the north-
ern shore of the lake. Forty-three men, including county and
city officials, from Fredericksburg and Gillespie County were taken
on a tour Thursday of the Brady Creek and Deep Creek dams after
a dinner at Hotel Brady.
Junior Play Draws
Laughs, Big Crowd
A near-capacity audience laugh-
ed and applauded as the Brady
High School junior class pre-
sented its class play Friday night,
“The Able Miss Cain.”
The able Miss Cain in question
was an aunt of the Prescott fam-
ily who had notified her relatives
that she was drawing up a new
will. How the Prescotts could win
her favor—and her money—was
the plot of the play, hut Miss Cain
(Jane Sorell) had her own ideas
and gave the plot a final-scene
twist.
Mama Prescott, played hy Clo
Ann Ethridge, got a tip that the
money would be left to the rela-
tives who needed it most, and she
immediately went to work to prove
Maria Rubio, 23,
Dies al Home Here
Maria de la Luz Rubio. 23, |
daughter of Mrs. Florencin Rubio,
died at 7 a. m. Friday at her home
here at 402 West Walker St.
She was born Dec. 1, 1932, in
Brady.
Survivors are her mother; three
brothers, Lorenzo, Raymond nnd
Johnnie; ami three sisters, Jessie.
Mrs. Fred Galindo and Mrs. Tino
Barrera, all of Brady.
The Rev. H. A. Seitters conduct-
ed the funeral at 3:30 p. m. Sat-
urday at the Guadalupe Catholic
Church, and Wilkerson Funeral
Home was in charge of burial in
Brady Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Gloria Fer- i
nnndez, Lupc Klguesehn, Angelina
Aguirre, Rosa Dominguez. Cather-
ine Ruiz and Pauline Rubio.
Snyder Man Fined
After Deer Killed
On Brook Ranch
A Snyder man paid fire- and
court costs totaling 8235 after- he
was arrested Sunday by Game
Warden Bill Bennett of Brady on i
the Tommy Brook ranch nt Camp
San Saba.
He was charged in Justice of
Peace Joe Myriek’s court with
trespassing and killing a doe deer
nnd was fined $100 and court
costs of $17.60 in each case.
The defendant pleaded guilty in
both cases.
that Papa Prescott (Johnny Rend-
ley) had gone bankrupt. She mov-
ed out all the good furniture, put
the family on meager rations, and
took in a boarder, Mrs. Livermore
(Nancy Wilkerson).
Annoyed by the Prescotts’ hec-
tic family life, Mrs. Livermore was
forever praying to her late hus-
band, “Pilsbury, Give me
strength!”
Kid brother Petey (Bobby Un-
derwood) and the dumb maid
Mamie Magoon (Annell Cottle)
almost stole the show with their
hypnotism act. Petey insisted that
he had hypnotized Mamie, but
Mamie was only sleepy—from ba-
by sitting the night hefore.
Sandra Barton was the haughty
Mrs. Ostade who was eager to
make a match between her darling
baby-talking son, Alvie (Dick
Moseley), and the Prescotts’
daughter Cheryl (Barbara Brook)
—until she learned the Prescotts
were “broke.”
Bdward Appleton played the
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Dawgs to Build
Curb for Track
A concrete curb around the Bra-
dy High School track in Bulldog
Stadium will be constructed in the
near future, with the 01’ Houn’
Dawgs Club sponsoring the pro-
ject. It will take nn estimated $450
to finance the construction, it was
announced at a meeting of the club
in the Brady High School cafeteria
Monday night.
Jim Schafer was named by Pres-
ident Dclma Bell as superintendent
of the work, with Assistant Coach
James Glenn in charge of manual
labor, and Board Member Pat Ry-
an chairman of the "wheelbarrow
service.” The curb will he five
inclies u ale i ground, five inches
above, and will be four inches wide.
The dub voted t<> nsk for dona-
tions from the public toward fi-
naneing the construction of the
track curb, and the members also
voted to give a new model TV set
away the night of the Brady Re-
lays, April 7.
Persons who donate as much as
$1 will be eligible to receive to
TV set.
A joint meeting of the 01’ Houn’
Dawgs and the Mothers’ Club has
V f . m .J» •. Tnn O
C. F. Lundgren,
Early Settler of
West Sweden, Dies
C. F. Lundgren, one of the early
settlers of the West Sweden com-
munity, died at 6 p. m. Thursday in
Brady Hospital. He was 80 years
old but was still active on his West
Sweden stock farm. He had enter-
ed the hospital only Thursday
morning.
Born Dec. 1, 1875, in Travi3
County, Mr. Lundgren came here
in 1905 with several other Swedish
boys from the Austin area. They
bought land just west of Brady
and for awhile lived together—
until they found wives and could
build homes.
Mr. Lundgren returned to Travis
County to find his wife, married
her there Dec. 19, 1906, and
brought her back to McCulloch
County. She was the former Delia
Sponberg. They had lived in West
Sweden since their marriage.
Mr. Lundgren’s full name was
Carl John Felix Lundgren, and his
parents were immigrants from
Sweden. When he was still a young
boy they returned to Sweden for
a time and then came back to Tex-
as. Mr. I.undgren’s father had seen
the United States through his job
as an interpreter on a ship that
ran between Sweden and the U. S.
A carpenter in his youth, Mr.
Lundgren helped build the old
West Sweden Methodist Church.
Funeral services were held in
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—Mrs. N. Basford, director of
the Workmen’s Compensation Sec-
tion for the Board of Insurance
Commissioners.
—Robert C. Estus, director of
the General Liability Section for
the insurance board.
—Don Squibb, manager of the
Texas Automobile Insurance Ser-
vice Office, who will explain the
new automobile liability policy.
The insurance men will have
lunch at the country club and will
elect a new regional chairman.
Adjournment is set for 3 p. m.
Dogs Must Be
Vaccinated First
Before Tags Issued
Dogs must be vaccinated by a
i veterinarian before licenses can
be issued at the City Hall, City
Marshal Golden Jones reminded
j dog owners this week.
After the dog is vaccinated for
rabies, the veterinarian will give
the owner a certificate which he
can take then to the City Hall to
buy the tags.
All dog licenses expire Dec. 31.
Attended Funeral
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Morgan of
Irving, spent Saturday night with
Mrs. Morgan's parents. Mr. and
I Mrs. Carl Nance. Mr. and Mrs.
Nance accompanied them to Big
j Spring Sunday for the funeral of
james L. Perry, father of Mrs.
; Carl Nance. Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Nance, Jr., flew from Calgary,
Canada, for the final rites. Mr. and
I Mrs. Morgan returned to Irving
I Monday.
THREE LEGS? I hn's K. <it Finlay (No. 00) looks like he's
running on three legs—and he ecu Id have used them in this cham-
pionship game with Centennial in the Lohn Bn ketball Tournament
Saturday night. The Centennial boy in the foreground (No. 2) is
Johnny Christa, and No. 22 is Lohn’s Barnard Browning. Cen-
tennial won, 54-27. (Herald Photo).
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