Comanche County urged to grow grapes and cover crops
Ross Wolfe, Stephenville nursery owner, urges Comanche County to plant grape orchards and cover crops like Austrian winter peas to improve sandy soil. He says the county could become Texas garden spot with proper cultivation and a grape processing plant may boost markets. Local officials and the Chamber of Commerce backed test plantings and wider adoption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ross Wolfe
Ir Seryman
Olfe
Stephenville
Comanchee County
Texas
Mr. Wolfe
Comanche Coun
Gandy
Gustine
Comanche
Sipe
de Leon
Wolfe
Mern Stanton
Comanche County
Virgil Parsons
E. L. Pierson
Chamber of Commerce
Ierson
Coleman Masons To Give Degree Here Tonight
A special meeting of the local Masonic Lodge is set for tonight. Worshipful Master Bob Allen says a Coleman lodge team will present the master's degree. Hon Marcus Weatherred of Coleman, Past Grand Master of Texas, will address attendees. All Masons are urged to attend, with visiting Masons welcome. The note adds a separate line about Texas City’s tin smelter completion in 1942 and Bolivian ore use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Allen
Coleman Lodge
Marcus Weatherred
Coleman
Texas
Mr. Allen
Dairy Day Exhibitors Set For Comanche Friday
The fourth annual Dairy Day in Comanche Friday April 27 will showcase old and new blood lines. Prolific breeders from De Leon Sidney and Gustine join Comanche entrants with juniors and adults. Judges E. Gibson and O. Thompson of the A M College Extension Service will classify animals at 10:00 a.m. at the Comanche Ball Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comanche
G. _ Strickland
de Leon
E. Cc Eay
Sidney
E. L. Carpenter
W. Long
Bob Carpenter
P. A
Kirk Petit
Gustine
M. E. Stephens
Leon
Jan Franks
Louise Phillips
Charlie Denny
Harold York
Pice Wayne Richards
Harold MacCullough
Hoyt Dowdy
Frances Dean
Gene Biggs
G. G. (Hoot) Gibson
O. Thompson
The
M. College Extension Service
Visiting in Comanche by Amarillo pastor and family
Rev. and Mrs. A Edwin Wilson and children of Amarillo are visiting friends in Comanche. Wilson, former pastor of the First Baptist Church in Comanche, now leads a leading Amarillo church. He has served successfully as pastor and is known as an evangelist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Edwin Wilson
Amarillo
Comanche
Rev. Wilson
First Baptist Church of
First Baptist Church
Robstown
Islso
Pvt R H Cloud Receives Combat Infantryman's Badge
Pvt R H Cloud of Comanche Texas credited with exemplary conduct against German forces in Germany on March 1 1945. Citation notes his unit the 375th Infantry and 94th Infantry Division contribution to Saar Moselle operations aiding capture of Trier. Commendation signed by Raynor E Anderson Lt Col and Walton H Walker Major General.
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R. H. Cloud
Dee Cloud
Comanche
Germany
375Th Infantry
Raynor E. Anderson
94Th Infantry Division
Pvt. Cloud
Saar-Moselle
Saar River
Trier
Walton H. Walker
Variety Show Tour By North Texas State Music School
Under Floyd Graham's direction the Aces of Collegeland Band Swingset Can-Can Chorus a dance team and soloists tour army hospitals and camps in Texas for eight days sponsored by The Dallas Morning News. Mrs Floyd Graham accompanies. group started at Regional Hospital Camp Maxey after leaving Denton.
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Floyd Graham
North Texas State Music School
Texas
Dallas Morning News
Patricia Howard
W. H. Howard
Comanche
Aces of Collegeland
Graham
Swingset
Denton
Camp Maxey
Year-old Linda Rae Musick Drowns in Cree Creek
Linda Rae Musick three year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Musick drowned in Helmsleys Creek north of Pettit on Tuesday about 6 pm. Funeral services were held at Gentries Chapel with interment at Gentrys Mill Cemetery. She wandered away from home while meeting her brother and was found in the water after a search. The family spokesman said she slipped back into the creek and strangled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linda Rae
K. Music
Helmsley's Creek
Pettit
Gentry’s Cill
Gentry’s Mill
United Nations Clothing Drive Seeks Comanche County Help
The United National Clothing Collection urges Comanche County residents to donate garments at schools post offices or the courthouse basement. Urgent needs include infant wear men and boys coats and sweaters women and girls clothing beds and shoes with ties, remnant fabrics and headwear while high heels and novelty shoes are excluded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United National Clothing Collection
United Nations
Comanche County
Comanche
W. Z. Compton
Earl Jenkins Buys Herd of Registered Hereford Cattle
Comanche farmer Earl Jenkins bought 30 registered Hereford cattle last week from Brady rancher T. Brown. The Domino strain includes a fine herd bull and several cows with calves. Jenkins plans to run Herefords on one farm and keep Jerseys on his home place seven miles from Comanche on the old Hamilton highway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Jenkins
Comanche
T. Brown
Brady
Mr. Jenkins
Hamilton Highway
Son Taken By Plane For Treatment In Pacific
Mrs. A. J. Boucher learned this week her son A. W. Wilson was flown from the South Pacific to Bougainville for treatment. He has two brothers in service, one in the Pacific and one in France, brothers of Mrs. J. B. Lowry and Mrs. George Lowry.
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A. J. Boucher
A. W. Wilson
South Pacific
Bouganville
Pacific
France
J. B. Lowry
George Lowry
Bond Drive Now Underway Here
The Seventh War Loan Drive is now underway in Comanche County to secure an E Bond quota of 280000 dollars, up 100000 from the last drive. County War Finance Chairman Roland Miller called a courthouse meeting to plan an intensive campaign urging everyone to buy to the limit. Troops of the North and South met in the first battle of the Civil War on July 21, 1861.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comanche County
Roland Miller
Miller
Comanche Captain Beaty Killed in France March 29
Capt Wendell Beaty son of Mr and Mrs B F Beaty Newburg community was killed in a French aircraft accident. The P-51 pilot named his plane Comanche after his home town. He had 47 combat missions and one air victory, earned the Air Medal with seven Oak Leaf Clusters. He taught at Concho Field before overseas and was a 1939 Comanche High School graduate then a junior at Howard Payne College. Burial was in Liege Belgium. Surviving are parents sisters Patsy Wanda Mrs Walter Liss Brownwood Mrs Gerald Corby Patsy and Wanda Beaty and Billy Beaty. Sgt Melvin Beaty is in England nearby his brother’s base.
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Wendell Beaty
B. F. Beaty
Newburg
France
War Department
Beaty
Concho Field
San Angelo
Howard Payne College
Armed Services
Captain Beaty
American Forces
Liege
Belgium
Melvin Beaty
England
Sgt. Beaty
Set
Walter Liss
Brownwood
Gerald Corby
Patsy
Wanda Beaty
Billy Beaty
Air Medal Awarded to Lester Romans in Southwest Pacific
Tech Sergeant Lester Romans of Comanche County is awarded the Air Medal for meritorious aerial missions in the Southwest Pacific from August 13 to November 1, 1944. Citations by Lt. General George C. Kenney praise his courage in bombing enemy targets and supporting allied operations. His wife resides in White Point, Comanche County.
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Romans
Lester Romans
Southwest Pacific
Mrs. Romans
George C. Keeney
U.S.A
Indians at Work In Grid Practice
Comanche High School Indians enter week three of spring football under Coach J M Wilkins. The squad, about twenty strong, includes returning lettermen Harold Pate Richard Armstrong Gene Arthur Jack Riley Lawrence Samuels Charles Lane Dudley Marvin Brooks George Samuels and others as backs ends and linemen.
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Comanche High School Indians
J. M. Wilkins
Wilkins
Kilgore Junior College
Texas Wesleyan College
Harold Pate
Richard Armstrong
Gene Arthur
Jack Riley
Lawrence Samuels
Charles Lane Dudley
Marvin Brooks
George Samuels
Indians
Jacks
Pate
L. Samuels
Riley
Arthur
Ritchy
Scott
Armstrong
Dudley
Brooks
Biggs
Gore
Wilkerson
B. Hicks
G. Hicks
Keel
G. Samuels
Daniel Baker College
Mrs Bowman and Mrs Loftis Visit Yakima After Sister's Husband Dies
Leave For Washington says Mrs R L Bowman and Mrs Reubin Loftis who traveled Saturday to Yakima to visit their sister whose husband died there last Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. L. Bowman
Grigsby Confirmed as Comanche REA Superintendent
Ory J. Grigsby, previously temporary superintendent after A C Thomas’s resignation, was approved by Federal REA authorities in St Louis to lead the Comanche East land cooperative. The letter from W J Neal of REA confirms the appointment and pledges staff cooperation. Grigsby, a long-time REA employee and former chief lineman, comes highly recommended by the local board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ory J. Grigsby
Comanche County
REA
A. C. Thomas
St. Louis
Comanche-Eastland Cooperative
William J. Neal
Sidney J. Price
Grigsby
Starling couple announce birth of Daniel Lee
Mr and Mrs J Frank Starling of Comanche announce the birth of a son named Daniel Lee on Tuesday morning April 17 at Memorial Hospital in Brownwood. The infant weighed seven pounds and both mother and child are reported doing well and to be returning home this weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Frank Starling
Comanche
Daniel Lee
Memorial Hospital
Brownwood
Comanche Boy Scouts to Hold Court of Honor
On April 26 at 8 pm the Comanche High School auditorium hosts a Court of Honor inviting the public. Eagle awards will go to Bobby Marshall Lawrence Samuels Jr and Dale Biggs with a Howard Payne College speaker and a Brownwood Scout Troop Indian lore program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boy Scouts of
Comanche
Bobby Marshall
Troy Marshall
Lawrence Samuels
L. W. Samuels
Dale Biggs
Clarence Biggs
Howard Payne College
Brownwood
Ard Slider
W. H. Slider
Senior Play at Sidney Tonight at Sidney High School
Sidney High School presents the class play Pigtails tonight April 20 at 8 30. Director Mrs Cyril Irby leads a large cast including Gaye Brooks Wanda Glee Cagle Sydney Campbell Lavada Cox and Julie Hemphill in a modern comedy with adult admission 20 cents and student 10 cents.
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Sidney High School
Gaye Brooks
Wanda Glee Cagle
Sydney Campbell
Clinton Geye
Mrs. Campbell
Lucilla
Frances Armstrong
Annabelle Campbell
Lavada Cox
Florabelle Campbell
Rudy Smetak
Schools to Collect Scrap Paper in April Drive
Schools will bring in scrap paper for loading in Comanche on Monday and Tuesday April 2 and 24 local dealer Sol Hoffman said. The piece of silver Judas betrayed Christ would total 11.28 dollars in American money.
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Comanche
Sol Hoffman
Judas
Christ
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