The Brady Herald (Brady, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 25, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 28, 1964 Page: 1 of 8
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NUMBER SS
Bloodmobile Due
For Brady Visit
The Red Crus* Bloodmobil • no obligation to n-plarc the
will lie at thf F'irst Methodi.-i *>N.orl n ml frum the R«d Cross
1 liurtli Inn' Wednesday. iiper- ('enter II w.-vit, once u pint of
ittinir from 111 a. in. until 1 p. bhmd is used, another pint must
m l‘f dnmited to assure that Mood
“Sime we are only nppmxi- will !• available for the next
mately two months away from |h i ton who needs it.
the end of our fiscal year, it is » • •
vitally important that v- fill • r., hlm.d in the Center
our <|iiota this time. ai l Mi ,|„ „sk members of
>o,| I’rotrii.ii ,h,. patient'- family to donate
are tunning jf possible. But if the
said Mr?
Ben Dillon, Blood
chairman. “We
about lb pints short.”
Mrs hillon also said that
there i« one question which
is asked mum times: Doe*
Bed < ross blood haw to he
re placed’
“The answer is no. There
l>" 'ii’lr. Hut if the family
doi not replace the blood, the
patient does not have to pay
for it nor is the family frowned
on for not replacing it.
"The only charge is the hos-
pital' charge for transporta-
tion. administration, etc.”
WRITER CAN SPEAK, TOO— Mason
author Fred Gipson chats with Mrs. John
Jones (center) and Mrs Fred Wulff. Sr.,
members of the Library Hoard, after his
speerh here Friday. "I’m a writer not a
speaker," he told the audience, but they
didn't notire. His Speech was as well re-
ceived aa his books. (Herald Photo)
House Packed
For Reunion
Of Singers
Gipson Telling Kids
How It Used to Be'
Vandals Litter Halls
With Books at BHS
Some, ue broke into lie Brails (evidence of all attempt to de-
High School Building .umetirm troy the hooks or tear them
I Saturday night, opened th" tip: ‘ They just opened the lock-
I locker*, pulled out the books and er doors and then pulled every-
; (tapers, and scattered them thing out on the floor.”
j sloop the halls. Some stuih nts lost themes
(•wests arrivinir for th Hear* and term papers (hey had tx*en
• if Texas Singers Reunion, working on. and Kthridpe said
| found the hall littered Sunday that might lie the answr
The Heart of Trias Singein
Reunion here Saturday and
Hunday was "a success beyond
my fondest dreams,” My, Mr,
A. C Stewart, president of the
reunion.
Saturday night's concert drew
a feTl house in the Hradv
High School auditorium, and the
Mis» was parked all day Sun-
day
“It wa* prat if yin* to hear
people aay, ‘I think thie i« the
heft one we ever had*,” Mr*.
Stewart said
Plan, are already Firing made
for next year’, reunion here.
,"Mv thank, *o out to enrery-
one who help with the reunion.
The four quartet, were (Prat,
and everybody liki>d them Peo
pje were here from every part
of Texas."
Mrs. Cheatham
Dies in Hospital
Mrs. A B. f'heatham. 72. of
Mdlersview, died Sunday in
Rrady Hospital, She had been
111 for about two year*
Funeral service, were held at
2 p m. Monday at the Ray-
loveles* Chapel in Kden, and
htirial wa, in the Milleraview
Cemetery.
Mrs Cheatham had lived in
Milleraview aince 1921.
Survivor, are two step-
daughters, Mrs. Charles Ben ire
nf Santa Anna and Mrs. Floyd
Pranke nf Milleraview; a atep-
»on. Ale, Cheatham of Rig
lake; five brothers, L C. San-
aim »f Rochelle. Iwonard of
Eden. Floyd of Garfield, Ark ,
Eldon of Hrownw«a»d, and Ther-
on .Sanson* of Feet Worth, and
a slater, Mrs. James I, Ruaaell
of Hyattaville. Md.
Fred Gipson say, he is try
in* to "bridge the gap between
life today and life a, it was
on » frontier -or even as it
was in his own childhood.
"Children today don’t have
the Has-karound They are regi-
mented in big dty school,, bet-
ter school, maybe, hot the
children don't even know where
their food comes from litri
ally!”
Ctpson. Mason author of “Old
Yeller.” “Hound Hog Man,” and
“Savage Sam,” among other
hooks, spoke here Friday night
in the South Ward School audi-
torium, under sponsorship of the
Friends of the Library
• e e
Maay of the reader, of
hi« popular hooka are child-
ren, he aaid. “and I'm try-
ing to give them a little
of the barkgrouad of oar
culture, trying ta tell theai
how we reached Ihia stage
of riviliratitm.”
Gipson admitted that “I
doubt I had that in mind when
I started writing ... I just . | |{n.,rfl
wanted to become a writer like ‘’l •"•IB ■*
*om.. men want to he banker. Attends Workshop
or lawyers 1 loved to read but,. r
■ve couldn't get many book,' Thr'*' »»”"»'». the Brady
when I was a child." School Hoard were in Brown-
» • • I wo<*d Friday attending a work-
Gipaon’s father "was not an sh"»* sponsored at lb ward
educated man." but he had the < olln*. by the T. xa,
atdlitv to tell atones, stories | Association of School Hoards,
about wild animals, creatures' Representing Hradv were
nf the woods, “and I used to Mr* Dorothy K/rar, Jean Wil-
prowl the woods every chance Hams. M I Kidd, and Supt.
I got because it appealed to I * • A. Reynolds.
»**" — —-— — -
With the succewa of his bonks j*" ‘ream Supper
and the mnvtoa which result • [ An ice cream .-upper will be
ed from them, Gipson now rw- held at the I ohn School Friday,
reives many letters from child- May 1 at 7 p. m,. spinwin'd '’V
ren: “They write to me about ; the Ijthr Wranglers I lub. l>om
their pets, their dogs. But these ine and volleyball gam.o nl*o
are lap dogs, not the kind I arr on the progiam. Adnus-ior
knew or respected . . is 25 cents for children and d*
"I hate ta see children ! cents for adults.
grow up and never know
anything hut comfort. Jn-t
go a few mile* across thr
border into Mexico and
you’ll find people who never
heard of an airt-onditioned
house, and wouldn't believe
you if you told them. Itut
then you take the«e child-
ren and put them in a war,
and they go to pirce* . . .
“We ought to let them know
that their food comes from this
earth, that we arc still govern-
ed by the same law* of nature
that have governed us since the
beginning of time "
Big city children may kn«r
what a row l«mk* like Im-cmum*
they have •o-en pl< tore, of rows.
“Rut they don't know whwt
she smells like, or how the
smeM is differret from a home
They don't know what gri»*»ef
she'll cat and what glasses she
wont"
Gipson *«v» he tries to lie
(Turn to Page i. Col. 5)
morning.
*' Im sure it wa* some of
our ii* n kids." said I’rin-
ripal C. Ethridge. "I
don’t knew whx the* do
lhim>« like this—hut it has
hnpptncd before.”
"Maybe someone thinks that if
tie can make a mess like this
the toucher* will have to jmst
ponflpthe deadlines to turn in
the |S»[ierH ... It usually hap-
prn* at this time of the year.”
Kthridge said he hadn't
found out who did the van-
dalism. hut some of the stu-
dents admitted privately
(hat they kni-w: "I’eople
♦:*lk; >Ou can't keep a thing
%*‘',this secret.*
“This has happened before in
F'atjier this spring term a
few of the lockers in the hall-
were emptied on the floor, but j
this time »<* to mo peri-ent of j
the lockers were enterud The
vandals went thtough th*> lower f
fl'uir Hnd then continued on the the school business, here, and
•-c. ond floor. elsewhere," Ethridge said, “And
F^thridge -aid there was no it will happen again.”
Cotton Men Meet
Thursday at Lohn
Me* ulloch County cotton uir g and inechanixation special-
farmers and others interested ist, will discuss machine har-
in cotton production .•u*' invd v<-stir*g.
ed to a meeting ,»t 7 ;•.<* p in. i
Thursday at the l>ihn tati'i j
nae le.
I'o be present is a “cotton j
team" front Texas A AM:
F'rcd K11 i • >t t. Kxten-ionl
Service cotton sjieciali-it, who i
will discuss glass and weed j
control, defoliants and deco
Bulldogs' Sprint Relay Team
Runs 42.7 in Regional Meet
cants to
stripping.
Phillip I
prepare cotton
llammon, F!xti>n
"Thi* team of highly
qualified specialists should
lie able to answer almost
any question in the field of
cotlan production." said
County tgent I an ell Kuy-
kendall.
F’armers, ginners, implement
dealers, seed and feed men, and
Connally Group
Attends Session
At San Saba
A meeting of county roordin-
tora for the John Connally ram
paign was held at Ranchman's
Tower Hotel in San Saha Mon-
day evening at 7:30 with repre-
sentatives attending from San
Saha, Lometa, Lampasas,
Rrownwood, Eden, Brsdy, Bur-
net, Killeen and Ooldthwaite.
Mrs. Warren Duren of Goldth-
waite, coordinator for Women
of the district, with Groner
Pitts, Brownwood, and Jim
Luther, Burnet, presided at the
meeting where Ted Connell of
Killeen was speaker. Mr. Con-
nell is one of the five members
of a speaking bureau for Con-
nally.
• • r
Plans were discussed and
formulated for the precinct con-
ventions to be held in each pre-
cinct on May 2 at 2 and 1* p. m.
Attending the meeting from
Brsdy were C. P. Rockwell, co-
ordinator for men for McCul-
loch County; Mrs. Richard
Moseley from Rochelle, coordin-
ator for Women for McCulloch
County, who reported that she
has her chairmen appointed and
functioning; Frank I.ohn, can-
didate for county chairman, and
Mmes. A. P. Waldrop, H. L.
Braly and L. B. Smith.
Mrs. Inez Garrett of San
Saba acted rs hostess for the
meeting and served coffee af-
ter adjournment.
Hunt Named
Principal at
Brady High
Boyd Hunt, principal al I ment of a bill for core test
Hymn Festival
Slated Sunday
The annual Community
Hymn Festival, sponsored by
the liamrosch Music Club as
a part of Music Week, will Im
presented next Sunday after-
noon. May 3. at the First
Methodist Church at 4 o’clock
Churches to he represented
on the prncrnm are the First
Baptist Church. St. Paul's
Fpleconal, Hradv Presbyterian.
F’lrst Christian Trinity Metho-
dist. Fourth and Bridge Street
Church of Christ, the F'lrst
Methodist, and the A. M B
Church
Mrs. Allen Brown Is chair-
man of the program, and the
puhHe is tnvtted.
Mrs. Stockstill
Dies in Lubbock
Mrs. Velma Ivey Stockstill.
4d, of Brsdy died at 4 p. m. in
the Methodist Hospital in Lub-
bock. She had undergone a brain
operation shout a month ago.
Funeral services were held at
2 p. m. Sunday at Wilkersnn
sinn Service entomologist, will plants cotton in IBM will plan < rh*P*l- burial in Rest
for | others involved in growing cot
j ton are urged to tar present.
I hope every farmer who j
discuss early and late -eawon to attend. The latest informa,
cotton iiiM-et control. j tion on cotton production will be
H. G. Reeves, cotton gin- * presented," Kuykendall said.
The Brady Bulking«, In the
regional track meet in Wren-
ham Saturday, qualified their
•print relay team and a broad
Jumper i Huhha Hurra) far the
lug elate meet in Russia May •-
ft,
Liberty wan the regional title
with 70S points, just ahead of
Meurne with W F'oreet Nrt
of Beaumont *a» third with «k
Hradv a Ha I Mug > led the
saeet far • time aHh 22
petal* hat then the) drop-
ped the ho loo m the mile
relay -and they quit wor-
rying ahaai w taping the ra-
gman! title.
"I don't know that we weald
have qualified in the auk relay,
•van if they hadn't ••rapped the
hat an." said Cuwrh K Y ‘Ham
*hr ware In the -h»a* heal II
gat'd been tk the fast Heat we
« kwi •
Robert Floyd wa* gnawing a
hoy <>n a carve, taking the lead.
their swinging arma hit
and the baton was knarked out
al Fhqrd t hand. Floyd pirkdd
It up. and the Dope 'Ant on to
finish with a dill-|Md tune nf
1ft Liberty wan Urn event
with S:Sta.
Others <*n Brady's mda rainy
team err* (ilBsrt l^wfuanUr.
Mark Day. and Danny Hrhitl.
• f e
Heeds a an the eprtat re-
lay aHh a I Mae a< 12.?.
a kirk equate the erhaai re-
cord *e4 at the state marl
(third piece 1 In IMS. Ma
the team are MrhiM. Huhha
MarrUk^ Hehhir Wade, and
4il 1, behind Liberty and- Usm,
both with 13.0 Wui In the fin-
• ain the Duga fuiuhoti ahead of
Liberty by 4 <H I yards.
Itahha llarrH aae *ec«ad
in the broad tump ailo a
dial ante id 21 feel 7 tarhee
drhill placed third in the
220 with J2n. and Mark liny
was fourth in the HOP with ” 22-
| Roltert Floyd waa fbwrth in
! the 440 with ktJL
Only thr fimt Attd mrtimI*
ptnre wtnnrre go tw statu.
Alau cumpeUng far Hrady Hi
Uts ragUMmi ware Harold An-
I 'trrson ia the hunlles, Don Mil-
ler in the dterue. and Msi hmi j
i Lewis ip the pale vault
Rain fuM aa tlw Hrv.iham
, trnrk baterday ■•'••ratug TtHn
i cteend in thr »De» uuswi •. >t*g) ,
'flu • fee sprinkle. .41 and an
tMwfcm Ms i
Haven Cemetery.
Mrs. Stockstill was horn April
1R, 1919. in Oklahoma, and she
and H. E. Stockstill were mar-
ried Nov 25, 1934.
Survivors are her husband;
three sons. Invon Stockstill of
Wharton, Jarkaon and Eli
Stockstill at home; and a daugh-
ter, Mrs. R. E. Riainger of
Rrady.
Also surviving are seven sis-
ters. Mrs. Clark Deaton of Kan-
sas. Mrs. Jack Shipley of Odes-
sa. Mrs. Neva l-ae Perdurr and
Mrs. June Waford of Amarillo.
Mrs. Ora Billingsley and Mrs.
| Billy Tidwell .4 Shamrock, and
' Mrs. Irene Shankle of Mary-
land; and sis grandchildren
Brady Junior High for the last
four years, was appointed Mon-
day night to become principal
at Brady High School next year.
In a special meeting, the
School Hoard also elected Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Huntington of
Melvin to join the Brady sys-
tem next year.
Huntington will succeed
Hunt as Junior High prin-
cipal. and Mrs. Huntington
will be homemaking teach-
er at Brady High, succeed-
ing Miss Tressie Shaver
who is retiring from the
system.
• • •
The Huntingtons have been at
Melvin the last five years, he
as high school principal and
she as homemsking teacher. In
Hrady he also will take over
the school system’s golf pro-
gram. A former coach and
teacher at F’loydada for 10
years, Huntington ia an out-
standing golfer himself and is
a former champion of Brady’s
All-City Golf Tournament.
Huntington is a graduate of
Howard Payne College and re-
ceived his master's degree from
Hardin - Simmons University.
His wife is a graduate of Texas
Tech with a degree in home
economics and taught at Cross
Plains and F'loydada before
going to Melvin. She is the
daughter of County Attorney
and Mrs. Aubrey Davee of
Brady.
For Hunt, it will be a case
of “going home" He was dir-
ector of the Hulldog Rand at
Brady High for seven years
before l>eing named Jnnior High
principal. At BHS he succeeds
C. A EthrifFge who resigned
earlier this spring. Hunt has s
master's degree from North
Texas State and came to Brady
in 19B3 from Cameron.
* • *
“Mr. Hunt haa done an
outstanding job at Jnnior
High, and the hoard feela
that he is deserving of a
promotion." said Supt. C.
A. Reynolds.
Hunt, was given a two-year
contract. The Huntingtons re-
ceived one-year contracts.
In other minor action Mon-
day, the laiard authorized pay-
Jubilee Float
2nd at Fiesta
The July Jubilee float—“a
reel pretty float"—won a sec-
ond-place red rihlvon Saturday
at the F'iesta F'lambeau par-
ade in San Antonio.
The Jubilee was edged out hy
Fredericksburg's Gillespie Coun-
ty F'air float.
The float workers had no
trxvuhle in the parade. The lights
worked, and the float escaped
the rain.
The new float will he shown
drilling for the foundations at
all of the sites where the board
is planning new school con-
struction this summer.
Regular employes of the
schools’ cafeteria also were giv-
en an extra month’s salary, for
their extra work in getting the
cafeteria ready for the open-
ing nf school and in closing the
cafeteria at the end of the year.
Republicans
Discuss Hope
For '2 Parlies'
Hope that Texas might some-
day be a two-party state was
discussed here Monday night
at a Republican Party meeting
at (he Country Club.
The honored guest was Jack
Crichton of Dallas, unopposed
ps the Republican Party's
candidate for governor.
He was Introduced by Mrs.
Rita Bass of Dallas. National
Republican Cnmmitteewoman.
She In turn had been Intro-
duced by her fathnr, Mason
Crocker of Rrsdy, county Re-
publican chairman.
About 80 persons attended
the meeting, to hear speeches
hy Crichton and Mrs Rasa. Re-
freshments were served later.
Among the guests were
Meson County Republican
Chairman and Mrs. Walker
White of Mason.
Club Cafe
Burglarized
Rurglars Friday night enter-
ed the Club Cafe on West Com-
merce Street but received very
little for their efforts.
They pried open a back door
and then broke into the rigaret
machine and the music box.
* •• •
“We didn’t find anv-
thing else missing, not even
a package of chewing gum.”
said Mrs. Ruby Penning-
ton. owner of the eafe.
And the burglars didn't get
much out of the vending
machines, maybe $10 to 215.
Companies which service tha
machines had rnhhed them just
last Wednesday.
Mrs. Pennington estimated
the burglary occurred sometime
between midnight Friday and 3
a. m. Saturday, when the rains
started. No tracks were found,
indicating the burglary took
place sometime before the rain
began.
Marine Itccrnilcr t inning
S*t Jenson. Marine Cor pa
recruiter, will visit Brsdy <>a
May 7. from »:]» i in. to 11 I#
s hi Young men between the
ages of IT-S8 who are Interest-
some night in Rradjf. Jubilee | eti mey confect Sgt Jenstta
Manager James Isbell and Float I here, or call hie offtee collect
Chairman F;d Davenport were I in Austin. <!R 4-4411 Kateaeioa
to lie out of town this week. 1 435
One-Stroke Margin Sends
Golfers to State Tourney
Reedy High School's golfer*., my Crt»w*44. Karl test Steffen*, made l let hewers with an opesi-
loechad by c A Kthridge. pull- , and Paul Pneei waa unable to ug day wore of ft, four under
ed out of a first round slump to | pick up a lead on last ynor's par. He shot n :W on the open-
defeat Fa rant Park of Beau- regional •hamp, A&M < eoeeh- ug nine hole* and tied tha
, ment. KM to HI, in tha regies- dated ream resold on the hath mm
el golf tourney hold in Bran-1 through the hnrh am* with Ma four under-par 22.
bam last F'rtday and Saturday. bate* thrv . eeuaaed Is base « hartee I deter nf Brady trad-
The Balldene arrived at the | molt* tu UM and ended ed Butler for medalist honor*
• rth a 72. Hleffeaa fired a 79
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Brow bam roorse for
'• pmrttre round Thursday la
parfert weather, they fired •
j 2d?.
Friday, ahheagh Mwekal
•lady, was a perfect day fee
pipy over the . lover-covered
nod trow *tuddari i*w«.
Through ’he first him hole* of
pipy, hammer. Hrady'* getting
the first day * play •dh a
319—9 >i rate* behind
YAM * 2d? and IP intend
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