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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1970
Page
9
Fort Ford district manager reports the 1970 Census is near completion with census takers preparing to collect filled questionnaires. In about a week enumerators will visit residences, interviewing a subset of households with longer forms. Most census takers are women, wearing official credentials and sworn to confidentiality.
Discussion of when a residence can host a business. Court rulings vary by scale and wording of deed restrictions. Minor home activities like lessons may be tolerated, while substantial ventures conflict with residential character. Examples include a living room chicken dinner restaurant ruled incompatible. doctors visiting patients at home treated as not a trade.
The state singing convention will be held in Stephenville at the Gallon Hall in City Park over two days. It starts Saturday at 2 p.m. and ends Sunday at 4 p.m. Comanche singers led by Charles Kiles and Elmo White will perform, with broadcasts on KSTN after 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
Apprentice Larry W. s, son of Mr. and Mrs. des M. Anders of Comanche, completed a course in Electricity and Electronics at a PAR training program in San Diego. A dinner in his honor was hosted by several relatives in Brownwood and nearby towns.
Public records list multiple deed transfers in Leon Gustine and Comanche counties including Norman Moore and Bessie Mae. Dororthy Chapp and Igband Thurman. Cecil I Brashear. Steven Basil Pinkard. J A Thurmond. T L Cagle. Floyd F Teutsch. W C Echols. David W Echols. Local notes report Mr and Mrs C E Millsap visiting relatives. Jerry Wright and Paul Jeanes in Gorman Hospital for treatment.
A public service feature from the American Bar Association and the State Bar of Texas is presented, authored by Will Bernard. The piece outlines legal aid resources, consumer rights guidance, and how readers can access free or low cost legal assistance through bar association programs.
Vern Sandford notes sunflowers have become a valuable Texas crop with vegetable oil yields comparable to soybeans. The Cot ton Seed Crushers Assn of Dallas processed seeds locally, with major harvests around Pecos and areas near McKinney, Rockdale, Thorndale, and Uvalde. County agents aid growers. sportsmen are urged to plant sunflowers for hunting season food plots.
A library listing highlights children and adult titles with authors and brief notes. Hoover offers Wilderness tale Gift of the Deer with mate and two friends, plus drawings. Ernest Gann paints Song of the Sirens for sea and fate. Tucker presents Sound of Summer Voices with Southern characters. Barrett’s The Wine and the Music follows a priest’s crisis. Gulick’s Liveliest Town in the West depicts Dustville’s dull spell. Giles’s 49 Acres and No Mule returns to Kentucky hills after demand.
Mr and Mrs A P Burks and Miss Rena Owes led a Bluebonnet Trails tour to Liano and the Lakes Country end near Marble FallsSunday. A display of bluebonnets and Indian paintbrush drew thousands of Texans. Also enjoying the flowers were Mr and Mrs Ben Evridge and Mrs Wade Evridge joined by Mr and Mrs I G Evridge of Brady.
Guidance on updating addresses with the Post Office to avoid refund delays. Taxpayer note: allow ten weeks for refunds and contact the Internal Revenue Service if needed. Also lists political announcements subject to Democratic Primaries with named candidates and offices.
Citation by publication issued March 24 1970 in Comanche County Texas commands the defendant in a class action to appear by May 11 1970 for A N Boyd et al vs residents of Gustine area. Case number 11245 seeks a declaratory judgement to construe Mrs Phil Bertram will.
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