The Brady Standard and Heart O' Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 83, Ed. 1 Friday, May 4, 1956 Page: 1 of 10
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VOL. XLVU, No. R3
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Friday. Hay 4, 19»6
Brady. McCulloch lounlv. Tt*\a*
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Whol* Number 7ihl
McCulloch Escapes Damage in Million $ Rain
2 to 4 Inches
Reported From
Most Gauges
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S< KNK OF TRAGEDY — This is the low-
water bridge across the San Saba River at \ oca
where three members of a San Angelo family
ill owned Sunday night. In the darkness their
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L,r ran off into the water which covered the
bridge, and they were swept down the river be-
fore they could reach safety. At left is old steel
bridge, no longer open to traffic.
Negroes Freed From Jail
Lack Evidence, DA Says
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Booker T. Young, 27, of Brady
and Wilburn Lee Bell, 37, of Fort
Worth were released from the Mc-
Culloch County jail Wednesday
morning after the ,15th District
grand jury failed to indict them.
They had been held here since
last Jnnuary when two Negro (
men took $220 from Gray's Fine
Foods. One distracted the attention
of Clarence Friar, 10, cashier,
while the other took the money
from the open cash drawer.
District Attorney Bill Allcorn
of Brownwood said Young and
Bell were not indicted by the
grand jury because the evidence
against them is insufficient for
conviction.
The grand jury met here Tues-
McCulloch Demos
To Choose Sides
McCulloch County Democrats
will meet in 17 precinct conven-
tions Saturday to elect delegates
to the county convention next
Tuesday—-and to choose up sides in
the Shivers-Johnson controversy.
The big Brady Precinct No. 1,
Here's Where
County Demos
Meet Saturday
As announced by Paul Lohn,
county Democratic chairman,
here's where McCulloch Democrats
will hold their precinct conventions
Saturday, May 5:
Precinct No.
1—Brady, 2 P- district
courtroom.
o Nine, to he designated by
precinct chairman.
;t Camp San Suba, 10 a. m. in
schoolhouse. _
4—Voca at 2 p. nt. in Schooley
Store. . .
6—Rochelle at 2 p. m. in Lion-
Club Hall.
6—Cowboy at 1 p. nr. in school-
• -|,
Milburn at 2 p. m. in school-1
-Lohn nt 2 p. m. in school-
sc’ -IV,
—Waldrip at l p. m. in church
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1_Mercury, to he designated
precinct chairman.
2—Fife at 10:30 a. nt. at Mrs.
tree Store.
•j—pear Valley at 11 a. nt. at
ore Store.
4—Melvin at 2 p. m. at school-
G—Calf Creek at 2 p. nt. in
oolhouse.
7—Placid at 2 p. m. in Church
Christ.
9— Doole. to he designated by
icinct chairman.
>1— Salt Gap at 10 a. m. in
loolhouse.
BOUNTY CONVENTION—2 p
Tuesday. May 8. in district
ivirnAm iii courthouse at Brady,
which holds the balance of power i
in the county, will meet at 2 p. m.
Saturday in the district court-
room of the courthouse.
Ben Davis Geealin, Precinct 1
chairman, this week urged Demo-
crats to attend and was expecting I
a big turnout.
“The national policy (of the
Democratic Party) is set in these
precinct conventions. They are
even more important than voting, ' i
he said.
Who will lead the Texas delega-
tion to National Democratic Con-
vention is the principal issue be-
tween Gov. Allan Shivers and 1
S. Senator Lyndon Johnson.
One political source indicated
that a fight might he avoided m
the Brady convention—with a com-
promise proposal that “Shivers
lead the delegation and Johnson
he endorsed as Texas' ‘favorite
son’ candidate for president." lie
contended that the rules would
prohibit Johnson from leading tin:
Texas delegation on the floor, if
Johnson also is a candidate foi the
presidential nomination.
day but “passed" the charges
against Young and Bell and
against a third Negro, Allen Louis
Baldridge, 37, of Fort Worth. Bal-
dridge was released previously
under $2,500 bond.
Bell and Baldridge had been
charged with felony theft and
Young with felony swindling.
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‘ Tuesday was the last time this
grand jury would be in session. A
new term of court commences
Monday, and a defendant has to he
released if he is in jail and has
not been indicted when the term
of court ends. That's the require-
ment of the law.” Allcorn said.
Release of the prisoners prob-
ably ends the case, although the
charges remain on the hooks.
Allcorn said, however, that “the
matter is still being investigated
... If we can tie up some loose
ends of the evidence it will be
presented to another grand jury.
(Turn to Page 10, Col. 2, Please)
Kay, Float, IJand
Going* to San Saha
Brady and McCulloch County
will be represented in tbo parade
in San Saba Monday afternoon,
the second day of San Saba
County’s centennial celebration.
The parade begins at 4:30 p m.
Kay Bratton, 1055 Jubilee queen,
will ride on the Jubilee's new
float, and the Brady High School
Bulldog Band will march in the
parade.
Kay’s mother. Mis. T K. (Son)
Bratton will accompany her.
The Bulldog Band also will play
u concert Monday night on Hogan
Field, just before the fn t pci-
forinance of the centennial pag
cant, “Memories on Parade."
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Wilensky s to Move
To Remodeled Home
Wilensky’s Department Store is
moving to a new location—one
block west on the square to 101
West CommercetSt.
The west corner building, at
South Bridge and Commerce
Streets, will he remodeled, with a
modern front of glass, sandstone
and redwood.
Inside, new fixtures will he in-
stalled along with a tile floor and
fluorescent lights. The contt actor.
Albert Ortiz of Brady, started
work last week. Wilensky's has
owned the 30-hy-90-foot building
since 1948.
Ramond Wilensky said he ex-
pects to be open in the new loca-
tion by June 15.
Wilensky's was founded in Brady
by Kaniond's father, H. Wilen-ky,
hack in 1909, in the same location
it occupies now. on the cornel west
from the Brady National Bank
Mr. Wilensky moved to the west
ids of the square in 1913 and <p
crated there until moving to Dai-
la- in 1920. He returned to Biady
in 1939 and opened on the north
side of the squate. in the building
now occupied by Perry Bros.
In 1940 the store was moved
to its present site, a building own
cd by Mis VV 1 Myers, a former
Brady resident who now live- in
Fort Worth.
Ramond Wilensky has operated
the store since 1948. His father
retired in 1952 and now lives in
Dallas.
this w$M*k for tin* c
a> s prolinl tlit* S in Sabo
Uiv**r for boilies ot their mother, tepfather, *rnl
.sister who dniwiunl in a flash Hoo«l Sunday n vht
Dowling Kennedy, 1 I (left) spent two hour-* m a
Airline Manager
Here Being Sent
To Waco Station
Les Eliott, station manay r In
Brady for Trans Texas Airways,
is being transferred to Waco where
TTA will inaugurate service June
1.
||e will leave here within tin*
next two weeks. No successor has |
keen named, hut Kllett vnid an ap-
pointment may be made next
week.
"I’ve certainly enjoyed woik
ing with everyone around here. (
This is the first place I’ve ever I
hated to leave," be said, lie canu*
from TTA’s Brownwood tat ion
when service was started to Brady
May I, 1954
TTA is still making two flights
daily through Brady, one plane
arriving from Dallas at 12:30 p
in. eri route to Sun Antonio, and
the north-bound flight from San
Antonio to Dallas at I 35 p. m
Although passenger business ha
not been good in Brady during
TTA’s first two years here, Kllett
said it has “improved a little in
the last couple of month ."
Temple ul'O i included a a stop
on TTA’s new crvice to Waco.'
The plane will originate in the
Valley and fly to Shreveport, I a
l»ull(l<>K Hand Will
Name Drum Major
At Concert Sunday
A new drum major for the Brady
High Bulldog Band will lie reveal
cd Sunday afternoon a' the Imrid -
annual spring concert in tie BUS
auditorium at . p. m.
Next year’' It ini mujoi already
has been elected, but only Diane
Koddie, thi year’s drum major,
and Band Diiector Boyd Hunt
| n«/v the winner. They d lilted
tile votes.
Tickets to the corucil um
cents foi adult and 25 cent I ,i
students.
One-Act I Mays Set
At l»HS Tuesday
The Brady High School Speech
( las- i- piesent ng th|i*<‘ on* a t
play next Twe day night at h o'-
clock in the BUS auditorium.
Admission will lie 25 cents fot
adults and student*.
tree in lb* flooded i ivei before he w a > re coed
At light Susan Kennedy. I !, till numbed by the
shoc), 'd the night of terroi anil tiugedy. nei
vously fuigei . a ring on a chain (Standard
Photos i
Thunderclouds this week dump-
ed » Million Dollai ram on Mr
t'ulloch County hut graciously
avoided doing the flood damage
which neighboring counties suffer
i etl
VII ovei the count v ame tcpnrts
nf mins avei aging fiom 3 to 4
^ inches Only at Placid il 25) and
Pent Valley (I all) did tin* ram
| gauges fail to )ui nt least J inches
Tin* lam filled terrace* and
tank in the county, and tnaitu
weic running Dint hail keen diy
fin months Brady Creek win car
lying almost 1 ; feet of water Wed-
nesday, but ful uildei it « capacity
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\ few lilt I oad in t he utility
weie damaged by the ram, hil'.
there was no enmii flood damug '
or even u tin eat I'hc nio.t »oI*m -
mg effect of the lam war the losr
of three mcmliers of a San An-
gelo family on the San Saha Itivn
bridge al Vm a
At the nortliein boundary of
the county, the Colorado River war
mi a 47 foot rise after heavy iiimr
in < "lcman ami Blown ( utilities,
and lliimigh the oiutlicrn edge of
the county the San Saba River
■ aged hankfiil following 7 inches of
ruin in Mi nurd.
Among Iliads ncigbkoi flood
Watei lose in kiw lying sections
of Menard, Brownwood, and San
Saba llrownwooil' familial traffic
I i'iicle was undei water, and Men-
ard merchants bail to sweep tlm
watei out of their stoics.
Detention dam in the Brad/
I reek project proved mole than
ample foi this week’s rain Soil
Conservation Service nu n from th"
Brady office found that the ram
only filled the borrow pits, and
Hone of the dams even itarted
running through the drawdown
t lilies.
Site N'o | on tin* Wall ranch
outhwc-i of Brady caught th*
moil water, tint it lacked three
feet going through the drawdown
t like
Where If Rained
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Voca
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Rochelle
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Melvin
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Rob Man in Bed
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Man s Body Found
Search Continues
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The holy of W I' Hale Si
*i ond victim of i tragic dro.vn
mg on th'* San Saha River at \ •>
ca Sunday night, wa-
ll a. nt. Thursday.
Search parties di
body about a mile la-low the Vm a
the E
Directed by Miax Lucille Welch.Kirk ranches
the plays are "If Girls Ask'd Boys
for Dates.” a comedy, and “Fog
on the Valley” and “Submerged.” afternoon for the oody
both serious dramas.
wife, the third victim
Mr and Mr-. Hale and the,,
daughter, Sharon Kay Kennedy ’’v *
11, were drowned after then auto i
pin into flood water which covered
the bridge Sunday riig't With
i them were two other children,
overerl the "• r«s .
Sharon's twin brother, Dowling. I<» iMlltT
and the twins' younger sister, Su
san Kennedy, 12
After Mr. Hale failed in aril
car out of
5, Please)! primary flection comes
found about
L. Boden-
Last Day
Politics
-earih continued Thursday
of H lie’s l,» l,u+h thl'
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Smith, L. B. The Brady Standard and Heart O' Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 83, Ed. 1 Friday, May 4, 1956, newspaper, May 4, 1956; Brady, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth905146/m1/1/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting FM Buck Richards Library.