The Brady Herald (Brady, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 16, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 20, 1962 Page: 1 of 8
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Girls Basketball
Playoff in Burnet
Brndy 11 ijch’s Pupettc# will
take on the Rockdale l '.-r
ottes in the bi-district of the
jjjirls basketball plnyoff- in
Burnet next Tuesday, Feh.
27, at 7:30 p. m.
1 ho neutrnl Hite was
chosen Tuesday morning ns
Pupette Coach Lnurice Hunt-
er and Principal <A. Hth-
rii'.'e met with Rockdale of-
ficials in Burnet.
The pm me nctuully is the
fii ■ , ' of the i 1*’ rt
gionnl tournament to he play-
ed in Houston the weekend
(d March 2-3.
Tickets (50 cents for stu-
dents and ?1 for adults)
will 1 e available at Brady
High or at the pate at the
Burnet gym.
In preparation for the
playoff, the Pupettes will
meet the Lake View Maidens
Lai VI t! T
at 7 p. m. The Pupettes have
lost two games previously to
the Maidens, each time by 1
points.
Tot, 6, Kills
Playmate in
Gun Accident
Connaliy Here, i
| Gets Quizzed
On Omnaian
1 w*‘
,T. hn C. Connaliy, Democratic .
candidate for jrovernor of Texas,
was 1 nored with a reception a* ;
the Brady Municipal Club from lb
! to 11 n. m. Tuesday, with more
than 50 McCulloch and Menard
county citizens turning out to
m et the former Secretary of tlie Si nr.0,d Krmalinda Med-1 “If he had been intending to
Nnvy‘ . . . fV rano of Brady was shot and killed kill her. he couldn’t have hit
Jamie Williamson headed the playmate, David Hernandez, her with the bullet, the
delegation and introduced on- ■ , ,„ut r).;!0 p m, Thursdny. 1 sheriff said,
nal'y. after the croup had been l . ’. „ v,m,iiin,ln
treated to coffee and doughnuts
•| was born and reared in
Justice of Pence Joe Myrick Krmalinda was born in Cole-
returned a verdict of accidental man Oct. ‘~8, 1055, and had lived
_Ex-Con Tours Town
5B| Points Out Burglaries
Texas, nnil want to give my
tiir- and nbilltv to the people
of Texas. That’s my purpose
in resinning ns Secretary of
thi‘ Navv in order to he a can-
didate for governor,” Can-
nnlly said.
The gubernatorial candidate
did not give a formal talk, hut j
I said: “It is more important for |
me to find out what you are in
death.
Daughter of Jasper Med-
rano of Coleman, the girl lived
here with her mother, Mrs.
Janie Medrano, 404 Kail
drove St. David is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Tony Hernandez
who live Just outside the city
limits on the old \ oca road.
in Brady about two years.
Funeral services were held at
3 p. m. Saturday at Guadalupe
Catholic Church, and Wilkerson
Funeral Home directed burial in
Rest Haven Cemetery.
Survivors are the mother and
father; a brother, Domingo; a sis-
ter, Mary; and the grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Manriquez of
’-I
( m IMUFCTORY LIBRARY Chamber of Commerce Man-
ager George Purcell displays the library of 41 city directories
given to the Brady chamber for pul lie use. The library includes
most of the largest Texas cities and a few from Oklahoma,
Louisiana, and New Mexico. The directories were g.veu to
Brady by R. L. Polk Company of Dallas, which is at woik
now on a city directory for Brady. (Herald Photo)_
A»imn«• JT sr2^1ttiSriSSSj......"f r"""m—
every11 burglnrv in Brady” in the “they were in worse shape than I Th(, Ul.8tloneri, asked about found a 32-a ngle shot ta.ge pis-
Sit two or three years.' |wis.” He said lie had born ms.de 1|fyillK th(. new state sales tol ... a trailer house parked in
.... .... ...... ether bin incss houses here also tnx hiB coo,)erntion with the Lc.*- the yard.
James Hugh Feggitt, 33, was ^ dcc,dpd to leave “because it iMl/tUu. jf t.K.,.t,.(| (ioVernor, his Sheriff Luke Vogel estimated
brought here last week an I • WR8 too dose to the street and 1 , on f0,i,.rul nid to schools. Krmalinda was at least 50 feet
t‘llk“"fonI n, '°‘,r p'mv "as afraid of getting caught.” th(, limit of the governor’s ; away from David when the bullet
GoIdVn Jones. Leggett pointed out Bom. of the “ °f,{ definitely i. her*!Sk aS^e^out'her
n'ported to the police. ! against' anybody serving more forehead. She was killed Instant-
sciiinng xm mu r. . * * * thnn two terms ns governor, for ly.
lC '.'iv the town better then While try it • to enter the J&I the simple reason that practically
t l " VolmI said amazed i Feed Store (a building now occu- al) hoard members would thus he
I do, No. ’ pied hy the Farmers and Ranchers appointed by the governor should
The sheriff said l.egge Co-op "feed store) at a side doov he serve more thnn two terms. He
I on Elm Street, Leggett noticed ujS() saj,i that if named chief execu- i
a packing box in the alley, adjoin- tive of the State of Texas, he !
ing the poultry co-op. j would meet once monthly with the
“When the patrol car came chairmen of all hoards and com-
Hiichhiker
Wounded in
Gun Mishap
Dunbar Cagers Climb
To State Semifinals
admitted the safecracking it
Duncan t hevrolct, t harlie
Brown’s Radio-TV Sales and
Service, and ’it the office of
Dr. Janes II. Francks, and
burglaries at Carlson’s Clean-
ers. JiV I Feed Store, the office
or Dr. W. V. Olin. Farmers
and Ranchers Co-op elevator,
(he Windrow Company, and
the Brady Poultry Co-op.
hy. he just crawled inside the
box. and let the police go on
P\,“ Vogel said lagged told
him. "Then he ha«f plenty of
time to open the door.
Texns Rangers announced
missions to help formulate and es-
tablish policy.
Connaliy flew in nt 0:45 n. m.,
nnd left about 11:30 a. m. for
I Coleman where lie was to appear
pi at a luncheon in bis honor.
Dunbar High Schools district
champion basketball team, in
Prairie View Thursday for the
state tournament, made <t to the
semifinals before losing to Crane,
58-53.
Crane, always powerful and a
state tournament contender almost U(,va|u.e to t|io semifinals,
every year, went on to chum its -• then ,08t to Crane after three
third Class B state title after UnWvA hud fwuU.,| out.
swamping Buffalo in the finals, (.oa(.h Bradshaw was very crit-
shooting of Nathaniel Harris
and Charlie Reed, the re-
bounding of Charlie Brown
and Carl Francis and the all-
around play of t apt. Johnnie
Reed."
• * *
The Steers stomped Pampa. 70-
! Burglary charges have been January that Leggett is part of n
against Leggett here in the statewide burglary ring which was
. , .: .- iV,.,.,. Joe My- broken up with Ixiggett a arrest
iS but 1,-ggett also faces bun-j in Abilene Jan. 22. Another mem-
deeds of other charges through- her of the ring. Haioh -ee . ' "1
(iH.is oi own h fpq.p o7t 0f Temple, already has
out the state. ^ atatonu..it to officers in
"H‘‘ hns hMvcn almost 1.000 Jon|ipctiHn with th(. burglary of
statements in 76 counties, VogelP(krkway Lanes here.
said.
Campbell Heads
War I Veterans
Truck and Car
Hit on Square;
Drivers Unhurt
A truck and an automobile col-
lided down at “suicide corner" at
Church and West Commerce
Streets Monday afternoon.
Luckily, both drivers saw
A 20-year-old Corpus Christ!
man, Guadalupe V. Tanguma, was
accidentally shot about 1:30 a. m.
Tuesday while camping with i»
friend three miles south of Brady
on U. S. 87.
Tanguma nnd the friend, Juan
Manuel Muniz, 17, also of Cor-
pus Christi. hud been hitchhiking
1 nek to Corpus after working in
Snyder.
They were camping under »
bridge on the highway when Mun-
iz got up to stir up the fire. A
122-pistol fell from his jacket
1 " pocket and went off, the bullet
00-64.
Dunbar Coach Robert
Bradshaw praised the "fine
Fife Lodge Hears
Burnet School Man
Jcal of the way the bracket had
keen drawn up for the state meet.
It gave byes to the weuket Fast
Texas teams, which meant that
"the two beat teams did not play
in the finals.’
••Without doubt the best teams
in the tournament came from out
west, but the bracket was set up
so they would have to play each
Annual F-milv Night we* ob- j other first.”
s-rved by the Fife Masonic lodge other Cla-s B teams present
at Lohn Saturday night, with a ,-redited Dunbar as being the “sec-
barbecue supper being served to un,j in the Mate,
about 50 members nnd guests. Bradshaw said, adding that either
The program was in observance Brady or I’ampn would have made
of George Washington’s birthday,
and principal speaker was J. C.
Petty, formerly head of the Lohn
Schools, who now is superinten-
dent at Burnet
Potty ill cussed W »*hu toi' •
life, politically and otherwise, and
the part be played in early-dav
Masonry in America, and chal-
lenged the citisens to read and
Study the Constitution of the I’m
tod States,” a JOO-venr-ohl docu*
men) so (tear to bis and all true
Americans’ hearts
Rot lu’lk* I I’ \ Hoys
Win < tl! Srrnmblt*
a strong opponent for t rune in
the finals.
"Now that it’a all over, it
doesn’t matter «o much.
Bradshaw »aid. but pointing
to t rane’s *0 tit vietorv over
Buffalo. "I believe the people
at the stale meet -houhl have
s«,mr other »a) ml setting up
lh« bracket.”
crash coming nnd had almost pjercjne Tanguma’s left log and
stopped before the collision. No ]odxjnjj jn his side,
one was hurt. | Brady city police brought Tan-
Mrs. Mary Morwin, 300 Croth- guma to Brndy Hospital,
ers Avc., a pioneer resident of i Fearing they were in trouble
,, - --------- Brady, was driving a 1955 Chevro- for possessing the pUtol, the
. George Campbell was elected let four-door sedan nnd was head- youths nt first told officers that a
rkway Lanes here commander as the World War One ed south on Church Street, try- third party had shot at them Sher-
Vogel is certain that Leggett . j a(lios Auxiliary of ing to get across West Commerce, iff Luke \ <>gel convinced them,
wasn't just accommodating the ' ' their; The truck-tractor, with a 35- however, that he was only interest-
officers in admitting the string Barracks No.. 1- foot trail,.ri wa* headed east on ed in the truth, and they admitted
„f burglaries and safecrackings in Electric West Commerce, entering the | that the shooting was only an ac-
Brady.
“lie knew too much about
those buildings. He knew
exactly how they were ar-
ranged inside."
square. Under lease from a Hous- cident.
ton firm, it was driven by Melvin No charges were filed.
: Co-op building.
District Commander J. A. Cav- ..... ......
♦* innrtinn wui the irue.Ht Jackson Rond, 4d, of San Antonio,
ooss of Junction was thi M* truck ski(1(ll.d ttbout 25 feet
speaker and acted as chairman . _w
and installation officer in th. .Uc f#c#d „nlv Fire lUlM House:
The safecracking at Brady H».th tlu"j*th^ new'^ficers^re Dee
School last October also was senior vice commander. ......... , . ,
cleared last week hy a statement. » ^ junior vice command- Police Chief Dorman Gibbs found
not from Leggett this time, but ^ Geor(fp Kngdahl. sergeant were filed
rgu^k.‘nSrHun ^ ^^an,ihoat
tion lights at the intersection, and oa(l ||gse Hill 1110(1
„.,th.r n,r .t fault. So ohar^oa .....| the ftor-
don Ake home at 103 NNest 14th
Gibbs was glad the wreck was Street about 8 a. m. Monday.
.• more serious than it was: One room was gutt
Y„u can imagine what would and sm««kc damaged the remainder
u : U Wharton 11 "Yi.u can imagine what would „n<l smoke (tamngeu »•
’ " ’ r Walter Kn«d.hl, wrg^nt at arm. ^ J, tW. truck had of the houae. ewned by M. ' M
Sheriff Vogel and Texas Ranger ( harles L. Deats, adjutant "'"l ' - - ■ - - -• «-• «—
Charlie Miller of Mason went to \ftt«r the business meeting.
Wharton last week to question the j Auxiliary served cookies,
men. Both were being held in the and ,lri„ks
rado t tty-
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nt wi
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Wharton jail.
Mackey and Walters said they '
Hnd Sidney Cole, already in prison
in Arizona, were in Brady last
October in a H* *> Ford con-
vert ibh They took a cutting torch
front the ag shop at high school
and then went to the main build
it and opened the school safe
The\ -aid they i t only 10 cents
aft r working -t*» minutes to open
the »afc A Mil 'i»mh k'l t* the
. .feteria nl«-» Wa* broken open
( t inmittiM*s Nanu*d
l t r Hand lV»»tival
HOjuiam. tr.iv,.,„f<j faster.” Irish, MOO South Bridge.
Damage t<> the truck was esti- Fireman blamed a faulty hose
mated at $250 and to the car, „n a heater for the blaze.
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