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8 PAGES TODAY Brady; McC ulloch County. Texas. Tuesday, January 21. 1947
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ICED SHRUBBERY FORMS
ARCH—This perfect arch was
formed by shrubbery heavy
with ice, and was typical of
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president of the bank are out,
they sometimes let me sign a few
papers."
K. W. Wicker, in Bnsdy on to«m»
taeaa Monday, reported plenty «C ^guests of friends In Brady
j from ice in the Rich-
Springs area. Incidentally,
___ here he placed his order
for The Brsdy Standard fcr the
coming year.
have
near
dangerous
at our residence, there was
rustle for candles, and then
kerosene lamp. It was quite
novelty to two youngsters.
.Mexico, according
Agent Norvel McCauley
and Dr. R. D. Lozo. state veter-
inarian for this district.
Although no cases of the
sease have been reported
where
the
the
SANTA FE FREIGHT REVENUE FORtSum™
1946 INCREASES BY 40 PER CENT
Wool Shipments Boost
Revenue to New High
Mark During Year
scenes in many Brady yards.
Lots of them cracked under
the strain, including the ones
pictured above.
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This area is on the alert for
any sign of the dreaded foot-and-
mouth disease following the out-
break in Mexico, according to
County
are Ed
Frank
DAMAGE
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and hanging half way
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will be opened at Barracks B at
Field by the McCulloch
Vocational school on
Tuesday, Feb. 4, according to an
made this week
by Elmo (Jack) Kyzar, coordin-
ator.
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Mr. and Mrs. Fred Salting
were called to Miles Monday af-
ternoon for the funeral of Mrs.
Minnie Lee O’Quinn, a reahlent
of that communitv • since 1909
Services wen» conducted from the
Methodist Church with
Hill, pastor, and Rev. 8.
ICE STORM
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M. Bail-
ey of Paint Rock, officiating. Mra.
O’Quinn died suddenly Saturday.
Mr. Sailing was ineluded in the
Hat of pallbearers.
Doner had recently been
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Mr. and Mra. Barney Long,
who have been living In Freder-
icksburg since last fall, were
the
first of the week. They leased
their place in the Dodge com-
munity last fall.
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GROUP STUDIES
FIELD PROJECT
Planning Commission
Chooses Officers
First Meeting Here
storm here last Friday and
Saturday, with this scene be-
ing of the S. A. Benham trees
on South China Street, show-
McCulloch Recovering From Damaging Ice Storm
POWER LINES,
SHRUBBERY
TAKEBEATING
City Is Isolated For
Three Days As Phone
Lines Down: Service Is
Being Restored In Area
LOOKING NORTH ON
SOUTH CHINA—Shade trees,
shrubbery and pecan trees
took a beating from the ice
under »7.50'‘ bonii-
Brady Man Is Held
For Attack On Girl
The bond of James Martin. Bra-
dy white man who has been
charged with rape of a 16-year- I
old colored girl, has been set at'
$7,500 and the youth is being held ;
in jail here awaiting meeting of
the grand jury Friday.
Martin was arrested Wednes-
day night in company of the col-
at^the back of the Christian | ANNUAL 4-H,
.^Lurch by Nightwatchman J. J. 7
K eraon when he investigated T> A TNFJ A <Tb
liter he heard screams, he said. I
The girl made a statement to |
the effect that she had attended
a show and was on her way home
at about 9:30 p. m. Wednesday
when the man attempted to force
his attentions on her. She refused
his advances and said that he fol- ,
lowed and grabbed her as she
passed in front of the Christian
Church and dragged her to the
back where, she stated, the at-
tack took place.
beeing making examina-
of Mexican cattle which
imported Into the state
while the quarantine was lifted
to Mexican shippers. Most of the
local veterinarian’s inspection
has been In the northern part
of the state, he said, and he has
found nothing that Indicated
the disease would hreak out in
the cattle he inspected.
"it Is doubtful that any of th«
cattle cqming here from Mexico
In weeks past will now get the
disease,” Dr. Loxo said. "The
time between contact and out-
break of tue disease Is very short
and if those cattle were to
LAi K OF HEAT—
Partner, Rochelle School Is
Closed For Week
Students of the Rochelle Con-
School District are re-
an enforced vacation a-
gain this week, with the school
FRANK CORDER TO TEACH NEW
AG CLASS, OPENING FEDRUARY 4
Qaseinnc Rf»crin ^.QOITexas A. & M.tand a former
OCoBIU b 11 I «OV member of a national livestock
In Barracks “B”; Newp“dgin« ‘ea,n- ‘n,8trutt the
’ class. Corder sold his interest in
Class At Mason Also ’Corder-Rudder to his 1
{Earl Rudder, as of Jan. 1.
i Those veterans who are
1 transfers from other classes
Increase in freight revenue
moving in and out of Brady was
slightly more than 40 per cent
higher in 1946 that in the prev-
ious year and set an all time nigh,
F. W. Lazalier, Santa Fe agent,
said this week.
Revenue for the year ran 1446,-
509 as compared with $317,106 in
1945, an increase of (129,404. Of
this amount outhound movements
ran $211,673, inbound $232,417,
the president and the other vice In 1945, outbound movements to-
said. There was also an increase
stock shipments while grain
movement showed a slight de-
rupted.
Livestock held up well under
the ice storm, with no losses re-
ported. Traffic was not interrupt-
ed, as no ice formed on highways
in the 30-31 degree weather.
Everything in the Brady area,
i was covered with an inch of ice.
and the strain was too great on
telephone and power lines, as
well as pecan trees and shrubbery,
which took a heavy toll. The rain
started freezing as it fell in this
section Thursday afternoon, and
continued intermittently through-
out Friday and Friday night.
Crashes of falling limbs, commun-
ication and power lines and poles
could be heard throughout the
storm period, as obstacles gave
way under the weight of the ice-
The temperature started mod-
‘ erating Saturday noon, and by
nightfall, much of the ice had
l melted. Sunday dawned bright
' and clear, and it was only a mat-
ter of time before all traces of the
ice had gone. But not so the after
effects. Crews of workmen start-
ed Saturday making repairs of
telephone and electric lines, and
while most power lines in Brady
have been repaired, it will be sev-
eral days before telephone service
(Turn to Page 8, Col. 1, Please)
sent “Wirephoto’’ over the
nation, showing damage from
the Brady ice storm. The pic-
manxffdd to force the
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A total of 1,178 cars were
ceived here in car-load lots
compared with 734 in 1945. These
mer-
The Heart of Texas country is
recovering from one of tne most
damaging ice storms ever to
strike this section, with residents
and business concerns counting
their losses into the hundreds of
thousands of dollars. The storm
did its most devastating damage
in the Brady-Menard-Junction sec-
tors, where telephone communica-
(Being a review of news,!
thoughts and opinions—some old, I
some new___ some good, some bad, ]
by LBS).
AREA ON ALERT FOR SIGNS OF
DREADED HOOF-MOUTH DISEASE
No Cases Reported ln!“^lr^
The Border Sector;
Care Is Necessary
tions and power services were dis-
Lohn.
gion and Hilda.
Between 130 and 140 veterans
are availing themselves of the
agricultural instruction and
thereby taking advantage of the
subsistence allowance for which
they are eligible under provis-
ions of the GI Bill.
When the power was disrupted
our residence, there was a
a
a
who
wanted to stand and watch the
flame flicker, or who wanted to |
carry the lamp from room to j
room. But to a veteran of kero-
sene lamp days. It was anything
but a pleasant situation.
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Mliile it wasn’t the type we’d I
like, nevertheless Brady and the
Heart of Texas received much |
publicity from the press and ra-
dio during the Ice storm. Metro-
(Turn to Page 8, Col. 5, Please)
, in all
_____________ already have It.”
There are no Mexican cattle in
this immediate vicinity.
Information received by
1 Cauley from H. L. Darby, in-
1 spector in charge, the Bureau
of Animal Industry. Fort Worth,
points out that measures to pre-
vent the escape of the infection
from the region where it is now-
evident are being taken by the
Mexican government. No cases
have been reported farther north
in Mexico than about the middle
■>f the States of Vera Cruz and
Hidalgo.
Protective measures in Texas
will be especially imperative.
McCauley said, because of local
movements hack and forth a-
cross the border of persons and
various kinds of goods, the com-
plete stoppage of which is out
of the question.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON—
J|2^vid Masten Escapes
SrcCulloch Co. Jail
David Masten alias David Dry-
den of ,fort Stockton who was
being hdid for trial here in the
35th District Court on four counts
of forgery, escaped Sunday af-
ternoon, Sheriff Love Kimbrough
has announced.
Masten, who was confined in
the jail run-around Sunday, made
good his escape by walking out
the front door, Kimbrough said.
Whether the door to the outside
had been unlocked or whether the
kvrtsoner
lock had
Monday.
The prisoner had recently
indicted by the grand jury
was I
FFA AFFAIR
WEDNESDAY
Exhibition Will Be
Stated At Woodard’s
Building, Angelo Road; Campbell, cattle
Prizes To Winners Corder, sheep,
judge; Ben L.
Johanson, superintendent of sheep (Turn to Page 8, Col. 3, Please) 1
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below five will be awarded $1.00
each. Ribbons will be presented S,ur ls
the first ten places, and rosettes 5,,°“?/
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superin-(champion and reserve champion
of the show. Senior, calves will
tailed $156,362 and inbound $168,-
576. ”
The shipments of wool from
here had i tore to do with the out-
bound movement increase than
an'* <)ihar comauodRy, Lazalier
ture, as were others of the
storm, was taken by The
Standard's editorial staff.
In the first session of the
group, a dinner meeting held in
the Hotel Braidy Bhllroom, the
recently named Brady Planning
Commission selected officers and
appointed a committee to I----
into the feasibility
tion of a j .
Dr. J. f .-''•Anderson was Selected , and vocational agriculture
chairman of the commission, |Structors J. W. Holcomb of Bra-
Frank Roddie, vice chairman, and dy, E. L. Ross of Lohn and Tal-
Clyde Hall, Sr., secretary.
Dr. G. H. Ricks, chairman, and
P. L. Ulstad were named to or-
ganize a committee from other
citizens and look into the possi-
bilities of taking advantage of the
tentative allocation <
which has been set up by the fed- |
eral government for the purpose
of building a runway at Curtis
Field. To take advantage of the
allocation, plans for the project
must be submitted within 30 days
and the allocated funds must be
matched locally, causing the pro-
ject t^ total 267,000.
That committee will report j
back to the commission at a call
meeting to be held on I
Jan. 31.
Regular Meeting time follow-
ing the next session was set as
the last Monday night of each
month.
will be held for the first time show.
this year and several boys have jn the club calves division,
indicated they would enter this ciflsses will be shown in Angus
phase. r isenior, Angus junior,. Hereford
Merchants and individuals of senior, Hereford junior and short-
this vicinity have been very gen- horn. Prizes will run 312.50 for
erous in donating to the prize first, $10 second, $7.50 third, $5
fund and between $600 and $800 fourth and $2.50 fifth. All places1
in prize money will be taken
home by the entrants.
Officials for the show
judge;
Corder, sheep, hog and goat
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tendent of cattle show and George
a slight
headquarters at the office of the j
Hotel out of order several days ago.
and a butane gas system is now
being Inst ailed in the school,
and it will be a few days yet be-
set*uP. fore It is completed, the super—
1 the coordinator said. B. Homer intendent stated
I Lemburg of Mason is to be *“
Istructor there.
i These new classes will meet at
'7:30.
The two new classes bring to-
tal number of classes under the
program to seven for the
cars included all types of
chandise and items and there was ,
an increase in practically all com- (
modities handled. ,
Due to the closing of Curtis .
Field as an Army Air Field and
the inactivation of the prisoner |
of war camp, passenger business
was far below the 1945 level, La»-
alier added.
di-
any-
the Texas border,
possibilities of
situation “call for extreme
watchfulness on the part of all
interests concerned.” McCauley
said.
Dr. Lozo has for the past two
weeks
tions
were
But Brady and M<-Cu11<mI»
County can take it. The damage |
looked terrific while it was hap-;
pening, hut il could have been
much worse. There was no loss (
of livestock, one great consola-.
tion. Many homes w<*n- without
electricity a day or two, and
many rural families arc still
without ehTtricity. The s|>ell has!
brought upon us the realization!
of how useful are our lights and
power . . . how we'd hate to go (
back to the keroaene Lump days. (
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i’ We believe we’ve seen pretty
t* <-*r everything In the Heart o’
exas country, what with floods,
tornadoes, snow and ice storms
visiting us during recent years.
That the weatherman has thrown
the book at this section this sea-
son goes without saying. First
the worst blizzard in 1J years
keeps ns in its grip for ten days,
and about the time we recover
from that, we’re in the throes of
the worst ice storm in modern
history.
____ Army overhauling personnel
being held for trial Ihia week, methode to build compact force.
Inaugurated By J. C.
The “Pay Your Poll Tax’’ com-
mittee of the Brady Junior Cham-
ber of Commerce is this week
shifting into high gear on the
campaign which is urging every
eligible citizen of McCulloch
County to pay the tax and take
advantage of the voting privi-
lege for 1947.
Crawford Winfrey is chairman
of the Jaycee committee. Pla-
cards have been posted in busi-
ness windows tn the downtown
section urging that poll taxes be
t>ald before the Jan. 31st dead-
line.
AFTER 28 YEARS-
vx Dr. Lockhart Retires
^tKd°(From Bank Board
Dr. J. B. Lockhart, physician
and banker, who was 87 years of
i a g e on December
9, has retired from
the board of directors of the Bra-
dy National Bank, u position he
has held since Jan. 8, 1918.
Although he says he has retir-
ed from active pursuits, Dr. Lock-
hart is still vice president of the
bank and vice president and di-
rector of the Brady Building and
Loan Association.
In 1884, he came to McCulloch
and began the practice of medi-
cine at Camp San Saba where he
remained for a year. In 1885 he
entered the Memphis Medical
College where he completed his
medical work to graduate and re-
turn to Brady. In March, 1886, a
partnership between the late Dr.
Moiies Jones and Dr. Lockhart
was formed here and the two
worked together here for many
years.
For the last score or more of
yean. Dr. Lockhart has busied
himself with his banking inter-
ests.
As to the work he does now as
vice president of the Brady Na-
Class in the agricultural phase,
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I the county and who already have solidared
I certificates of eligibility may at-|cejVjnR
Ky- having been dismissed because of
been certified and who care to
enroll can obtain the
With the sun again shining
here after a run of very bad
(weather for show purposes, FFA
and 4-H Club members are eager-
ly anticipating the big event of i
i the year—tiie McCulloch County I
Fat Stock and Breeder Show
i which is to be held Wednesday. I
Record entries are expected by {
officials of the Chamber of Com- |
merce, sponsoring organization, if
the weather continues to remain
favorable.
This year’s show is to be stag-
ed at the Woodard Truck and
Tractor building on the San An- (
gelo highway and all is in readi-
ness for the boys who have been
feeding stock for the showing.
__ look More than 200 animals have been
of construe-!on feed under the direction of
'fciway at Curtis Field. County Agent Norvel McCauley
1 vocational agriculture in-
commission, jStructors
madge Wood of Melvin.
A new class, Shorthorn calves
(tend the first class and bring
those certificates with them. T'
zar said. Those who have not yet j ]a"c^
been certified and who care to
enioll can obtain the proper pa- part of the week before
pers by calling on Kyzar at his will be re#unied, he paid.
headquarters at the office of the | The boiler heating system went
Chamber of Commerce in Hotel 1 OUf of
Brady.
A class at Mason is to get un-
derway on Feb. 3. under super-
vision of the McCulloch r*x “7
coordinator said. B. Homer
In-
| Deputy Supt. Brady
Visitor On Friday
G. D. Holbrook of Brownwood,
___ two- deputy state school superinten-
county area. Schools now in op- dent, was in Brady Friday work-
eration include those at Rochelle, in" on routine school matters
Doole, Voca-Katemcy re- with J. E. Herrington, county su-
perintendent.
Among other things. • the state
school man checked state aid ap-
plications which Herrington has
been working on.
He will be hack in the near
future, Holbrook announced, to
visit all schools in the county.
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Smith, L. B. The Brady Standard and Heart O' Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 85, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 21, 1947, newspaper, January 21, 1947; Brady, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1357427/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting FM Buck Richards Library.