The Brady Standard and Heart O' Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, June 15, 1945 Page: 1 of 12
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and the one which struck Brady in
the wee small hours of the morn-
ing Tuesday was no exception,
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The Ed Gutierres family on West
Lockhart street f?els very fortun-
ate. When it became excessively
hot Monday night, the family
couldn't sleep in the back room, so
moved in the front of the store,
next to a big plate gloss window.
The window was smashed to bits,
and the awning caved in. but not a
scratch did any member get. The
entire store building, incidentally,
was badly damaged.
$90,000 In Series E
Bond Purchases Needed
Before Quota Reached
Woolems was reared at
and attended school at
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Nov. 18, 1940, training at
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1944, to Camp Chaffee, Ark., and
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STORM HITS BUSINESS AREA
AT 12:20 TUESDAY MORNING
Overseas Veteran Stationed At Brady
Prisoner Of War Camp Is Killed At
Bus Station From Falling* Debris
STORM VICTIM BUT A BIG ONE TODAY—
OVERSEAS VET
Sgt. Paul McDonald To
Be Buried At Kensett;
Ark.; Was Pacific Hero
Co-Pilot Of Superfort
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TORNADO KILLS 1, INJURES 5;
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ed at the city of Brady shortly pact midnight Monday, doing damage
estimated at more than $500,000. The porch awning of Hotel Brady
on ears like the one in the fowar riribt ef mm picture. The eoutheaat
eemr cf the Mmu Building <uppcr right) M rippril put, and the
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“The tornado looked just like a
big ball of smoke up in the air
with a funnel-shaped tall on it,**
said O. N. Whitefield, ticket agent
at the bus station. The lashing tail
of the sky monstor covered at
times perhaps 100 yards, he thinks.
To other persons, the storm was
"just balls of fire—constant light-
ning—and lots of wind.'*
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"It sounded just like six trucks
loaded and coming down the high-
way.” said Walter Dodson. Jr.,
who had shattered window glass
sprinked over his bed. The north-
west corner of the Dodson’s new
home had the robf jerked off.
(d^fll rocks—one of the weighing
’ pounds—were bounced on the
nardwood floor of the living room.
Rocks torn from the front of the
house shattered a bed and dresser
in the bedroom, occupied by a ca-
det and his wife until 10 days ago.
At Brady Hotel there is the case
of the missing door The door op-
ened on a fire escape. The outer
screen door was untorn and still
locked, but the inside and heavier
door was torn from Its hinges.
This is one time when Brady
business firms will cash In on their
Insurance. Most every firm was
well protected from damage by
windstorm. Adjusters were among
the busiest people In town Tuesday.
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and J. H. Shafer of
accompanied Maple
plate glass in the front wns broken; the W. L. Dodson home was
pounded with rocks, one of thv.m (lower left), puncturing the floor,
which Walter, Jr., inspects; the old Dutton warehouse on Bast Main
Street (lower right) was tereled, and considerable damage wm done
Wmeerleustand therein by Piggly Wiggly, and wool stand by
ing Tuesday was no exceptioi
There were many so-called funn
things that happened, many
which will never be recorded.
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No Tuesday Paper, So
i Blame It On Tornado
Subscribers to The Brady
Standard-News can blame it on
the tornado for not receiving
their Tuesday edition. The
storm earl(y Tuesday morning
disrupted electric power, and as
a result, the presses "hd lino-
types were unable t »>11 until
Wednesday noon.
The Tuesday edition thus is
being combined with the Friday
edition, with 12 pages of news
picures and stories of the tor-
nado being given the many read-
ers of The Standard-News.
The Standard-News was not
damaged in any manner by the
storm, and only the lack of el-
ectricity caused delay in publi-
cation.
jft
ed long
campaign.
Persons
buy bonds during the current 7th i
Loan Drive, but who have ;
yet actually purchased their;
i_ -------- pt ’h» and avoid the last-minute rush,”
Buy DOW advises Mr. Frederick.
The first question nearly every
person asks when he sees the
wreckage scattered about our
i,.town» is how such a tornado could
^ ririke a city and take only one
and injure only five. The resi-
flnts of Brady undoubtedly were
very lucky in this respect. Had the
storm struck in the daytime when
businessmen and their employees
were at work, no doubt many lives
would have been lost and hundreds
vther hand,
.x a residen-
of dipping
business area,
would have
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| new galvanized highway
Sn/«hLe en’rinT’vJh Ifence was blown down» and r°<>fs on some of the stables
were blown off.
“freak” is
by H. 0. Broad, who
tornado turned on his
front-yard hydrant. It was run-
Why the twister would tear
down a substantially constructed
building and leave an adjoining
shack, is also unexplainable. But
that happened on almost every
block in the path of the storm.
The old Carmichael Hotel for col-
ored people is one example. It is
standing intact, while al! around
it is seen destruction. Incidentally
this old landmark has weathered
three floods and two fires in ad-
dition to the tornado.
Mexico Air Mail
Rates Are Changed
Air mail rates to Mexico chan-
ged Monday, June 11, according
to officials of the Brady Post
Office. Effective Monday, the
new rate is 8c for each one-half
ounce.
Sgt.
tioned
Camp,
early Tuesday morning when a
tornado hit Brady, at the time of
his death, was performing town
patrol Military Police duties near
the bus depot in the city of Bra-
dy, when without warning, the
roof of the bus depot reportedly
gave way and one of the bricks
hit the sergeant, causing an ad-
dominal hemorrhage a.,d his un-
timely death.
Sgt. McDonald was inducted in-
to the Army on March 20, 1941,
at Camp Joseph T. Robinson and
was assigned to the 43rd Engin-
eer Construction Battalion. He
left with his unit for overseas du-
ty in January, 1942, and served in
New Guinea, East Indies. Papua
and Australia. Sgt. McDonald was
awarded the Bronze Star for his
outstanding performance of du-
ty and for his participation in ma-
jor offensives, and a Meritorious
Service Unit Plaque for perfor-
mance of duty in the Netherlands,
East Indies.
Upon his completion of foreign
duty, Sgt. McDonald returned to
the United States in December,
Lieut. Burl T. Wiley has been
missing in action in the Pacific
war theatre since May 3, the War
Department has notified members
of the family. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. B. T. Wiley of Santa
Anna, formerly of Brady and, a
brother of Mrs. Jack Hunter Wig-
ginton of Brady.
Lieut. Wiley was co-pilot of a
B-29 Superfortress, and was on
his seventh mission. He had been
overeas since March, and in the
Air Corps since February, 1942.
A graduate of Brady High
School, Lieut. Wiley was a star
center on the football team a
few seasons ago. He was attend-
ing Texas A. and M.
when he entered the service.
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DAMAGE ESTIMATED $500,000
JAKE WOOLEMS—
Son Of Brady Lady
Buried In Oklahoma
Mrs. E. G. Billington has Just
returned from Oklahoma City,
Okla., where she attended the
funeral for her son, Jake Wool-
ems, who died in a Veterans’
hospital at Pasadena, Calif., May
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Miss Petreta Johnson, who has
been attending the University of
Texas, Austin, and working there
in J. C. Penney’s, is enjoying a
two weeks* vacation visit with
College her mother, Mrs. W. R. Johnson
2„. and family.
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Good rains, accompanied by
high winds and some hail, visit-
ed most of McCulloch County o-
ver the week-end, with total rain-
fall in Brady Saturday night and
Sunday night amounting to 1-53
inches, according to the official
government gauge, and the rain
early Tuesday morning amounting
to about one-half inch.
Saturday night’s fall amounted
to 1.02 inches In Brady, while
Sunday night’s rain measured
.51 inch. A few scattering pellets
of hail fell in Brady Sunday night,
while other parts of the county
reported some hallstones, but not
enough to do any damage.
While most of the county re-
ceived rain, according to reports
reaching The Standard-News, the
rains nevertheless were scattered.
Communities which were slighted
Saturday night, received a good
rain Sunday night or Tuesday
morning it was said.
The rain was badly needed on
gardens, row crops and ranges,
although many of the grain far-
mers were hopeful they could
finish the harvest season before
rain fell. The weather had been
ideal most of the time on com-
bining and grain cutting.
Ranges in most sections had
become dry and were beginning
co parch, and the rains, which
were believed to have covered
this section pretty well, will do
much toward reviving them.
then
prior
April, 1945.
Sgt. McDonald is survived by
his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Louis
McDonald of Griffithville, Ark.
The funeral will he held at
Kensett, Ark.
The tornado blew down trees a-
long Brady Creek, then dipped
down and smashed Dave Freese’s
garage,
recently completed, and scattered
' it over the highway at the hridgw
l on West Commerce street. Higgin-
! botham’s, the station east of the
McCulloch County jail, and several
buildings in that block were vir-
tually destroyed, before the wind
caught the awning of Hotel Bra-
| dy and ripped it off. tearing down
the sign atop the structure, and
■ damaging the roof and upper
’ story considerably. Several ears
parked underneath the awning
were caved in by falling awning,
brick and other debris.
Home Lumber Company, suf-
I fering damage from three floods
during the past 15 years, felt tho
full wrath of the tornado, and
was almc. ♦ leveled. The entire
block for that matter, was badly
torn up. Across the street east
from Home Lumber Company,
Brady Motor Company, occupying
a quarter of a block was virtually
demolished, all plate glass win-
dows l»eing broken out, and the
walls on the west and cast sides
being blown down. Ed Gutierres*
Store suffered considerable dam-
age with the family narrowly es-
caping injury.
The bus terminal was also
heavily damaged, as was the cor-
nice to the adjoining building oc-
cupied by Smith Tractor Co., and
also the building occupied by the
FSA office. It was at the bus sta-
tion that the three soldiers from
the Brady Prisoner of War Camp
who were on duty sought refuge
from the storm, with falling brick
and debris killing Sgt. McDonald
and injuring Pvt. Napoli and Pfc.
Vitagliano.
A block north of the bus sta-
tion, Feeder Supply Store suffer-
ed some damage, and next door,
Marion Holland Co. suffered hea-
vy damage and an adjoining garage
was leveled. Other buildings in
that area were damaged.
The Planter’s Gin. two Nocks
north of the Plaza, was badly
wrecked, as were numerous other
buildings along the north edge of
*he business district along Brady
Creek. Mayhew-Jordan Co. suf-
fered damage to their plant. Er-
eckon-Ulstad Motor Co. suffered
1o«s of plate glass windows and
other damage, and Roddie A Co-
and Piggly Wiggly, who oaed
the old Dutton warehouse on
East Main Street suffered da-
mage when the building waa <te-
naNished.
ning full force when he arose that
morning.
How several persons kept from
being electrocuted by live wires
blown down by the storm is an-
other mystery, in the opinion of
Sgt. Allan Schwarz. He and Sgt.
Henry Newstead had spent the
. fore part of the night visiting
friends in the city, and had start-
ing walking toward the taxi sta-
tion when the storm blew up.
They made It to the lobby of the
Brady Theatre when the tornado
hit. There was a pandemonium of
noise, said Sgt. Schwarz. The
lights went out, glass, galvanized
iron, < automobile fenders and all
sorts of debris and rubble were
flying through the air. When the
wind Mibsided, Schwarz and New-
stead finally made their way to the
taxi station, despite high water,
downed electric wires, broken
limbs and debris.
Rumors spread thick and fast
after the storm, reminding the
flood veterans of past disasters
in Brady when rumors came of
RFhe creek’s rising a Whiteland,
■t falling at Melvin.” Thia time
it was a little different. This re-
porter was asked no less than
fifty times: “Was Menard really
blown off the map; did Richland
Springs catch it worse than we
did?”
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A lengthy window transom !n
the Smith Tractor Co. Building
on West Lockhart street was
blown to the concrete floor, but
not a glass was broken.
War Bond Sales in McCulloch
County up to Saturday noon dur-
ing the Mighty 7th War Loan
Drive, amounted to >475,000, ac-
cording to Otto Frederick, chair-
man. The overall quota for the
county is >585.000. The drive
closes on June 30.
The quota of Series E bonds is
>312.000, with purchases thus
far amounting to $232,000. Off-
icials are hopeful that good pro-
gress in the campaign will con-
tinue right on through the entire
drive, and that the remaining
$90,000 in E bonds will be rais-
before the close of the
25th.
Mr.
Lohn,
Fife
Army ________
Ft. Sam Houaton and Springfield,
Mo. He was assigned to the Med-
ical Corps in which he served for
three years.
Survivors include his mother
and step-father, three brothers,
W. O. Woolems of Oklahoma
City, Okla., 4 B. and Tom Wool-
ems of Ft. Worth, and three
sisters, Mrs. Ward of San Diego.
Calif., F
City. Okla.,
Ft. Worth.
One person was killed, at least five were injured anri
property damage will run into approximately half a million
dollars as a result of a tornado that struck the business dis-
trict of Brady early Tuesday morning. A soldier was fatally
injured at the Brady Bus Station by falling debris, two
other soldiers were hurt there, and three civilians received
treatment for injuries in this city’s w’orst disaster since tho
flood of 1938 did property damage estimated at half a mil-
lion dollars.
The dead soldier, stationed at the Brady Prisoner of
War Camp, was listed as Sgt. Paul H. McDonald, Pacific
War Theatre hero with several decorations.
The two injured soldiers were Pvt. Carmen Napoli and
Pfc. Louis Vitagliano, also stationed at the Brady Prisoner
of War Camp. The f -e injured civilians were Solia Corten
and Sebera Bara, who w’ere hospitalized here and Mrs. Ber-
nice Creech. None was seriously hurt.
The storm struck here shortly after midnight, with
buildings, trees, glass and electric wires cluttering the
streets of the business district. The tornado, coming from
the west, was accompanied by considerable lightning and
thunder, and about one-half inch of rain. It was the third
straight night that this section had been visited by rain and
an electrical display.
Just what it will take to replace the damage wrought
by the tornado could not be estimated, but some have said
it will take more than half a million dollars to rebuild the
property destroyed.
The storm came from the west, striking the Richards
Park grandstand first, and then heading down Brady Creek
towards the business district. The grandstand was
“wrung out” like a wet towel, with the sheetiron roof being
(scattered for hundreds of yards. Some of the race track
Attend SummerCamp
Twenty Boy Scouts and two
Scoutmaster are spending this
week at Camp Louis Farr, Mert-
zon, at the annual Scout Summer
Camp.
Hardin
Troop 24.
Troop 33,
Avery, John Tom Blackwell, Al-
fred Broad, Glen Butler, Ray
Davis, David Deans, Eugene Gol-
den, John William Hughes, Roy
Huffman, Bobby Lewis, Pat Mc-
Shan, Jr., Bruce Miller, Cadman
Neal, Joe Ogden, Jr., Bufford
Sheffield, Tommy Tetens, Billy
Joe Taylor, Bill Willmann, Billy
Woodward and Jerry Kendrick.
Mr. Jones called his wife by
long distance, Tuesday at noon
and reported no cyclone or wind-
storm near the camp.
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The J. M. Doyle residence Just
northeast of the grandstand at
Richards Park escaped undamag-
ed. but the family had the scare
of their lives. The Doyle windmill
looks like it has p.bout “played its
last tune”, as its head is drooped
from being hit by flying pieces of
galvanized iron from the grand-
stand. The wind blew away some
outhouses and about 80 chickens.
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