16 Aug 1957
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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1957
Page
1
Readable fragments show a 50th anniversary noted for a local cooperative. The text mentions sales and prices like $3.79 and $3.19, a Frosted Root item, a drug store window fountain display, and a 7:00 start time for a family park event.
Gustine Baptist Church announces a summer revival starting Sunday August 18 at First Baptist, led by evangelist Dr. J M Bradford of Dublin. Rev Roy Hill invites all. Weekday services at 10 am with 7 30 pm prayer services and 8 pm evening services led by Gustine choir director Roland Miller.
A revival meeting will open Friday August 16 and run through Sunday August 25 at the Gartman View Free Will Baptist Church. Evangelist Rev Gilbert Aiken, pastor of the Free Will Baptist Church, Ada Oklahoma, noted as a leading Free Will Baptist minister today. Morning services at 10 and evening services at 8. Everyone is invited to attend.
The Comanche Troop 74 won the district swimming meet for the Comanche Trail Council at Brownwood municipal pool, scoring 16 points to 11 for Troop 43 and 7 for Troop 52. Names include Johnnie Lightfoot, Tom Brightman, Rodney Strain, Stanley Rauhut, Harold Perkins, Scotty Morris, and Gary Davis with councilmen J. E. Lightfoot and Oswell Brightman.
Mr and Mrs Wayne Nance and sons Kenneth and Cam visited his parents Mr and Mrs C C Nance. Wayne serves as minister of music at the First Baptist Church in Big Spring.
Comanche hosts two events with the REA annual meeting set for Friday night at Indian Memorial Stadium. The Learn To Swim program enters its final week with Junior and Senior Life Saving courses beginning at 9 am at the Lake Eanes pool taught by Gayle McNutt.
Mary Wilhelm widow of the late Anderson Wilhelm has been notified she earned a full scholarship to the Hannah Harrison School in Washington D C. The program covers room board and tuition and is based on integrity character need and testing. Also notes about the Comanche county annual meeting nominations for district directors and details on the REA amateur contest with prize amounts and the cooperative service area.
Comanche Public Schools resume with a full day on September 3 led by Superintendent Joe Harper. New staff include Bill Scoggins as head football coach Travis Henry as head basketball coach and assistant football coach. Bernice Swindle and Wyatt Morris become principals with Morris moving to J B Layne Elementary and Swindle to Junior High. Enrollment near 1000 students expected for 1957 58 amid major improvements to CHS including a new agriculture building and updated classrooms.
Prominent Newburg resident Jesse Franklin Reese two term county commissioner and founder of Reese's Uranium Ranch was found dead near his Newburg home after missing since Friday. A coroner's inquest was delayed pending an autopsy in Austin. Funeral services were held at South Leon Baptist Church with three ministers officiating. Reese, born August 1902 in Comanche County, left a wife Bryinh Mae Perkins and three children, survived by two daughters and a son, plus siblings and grandchildren. The dairy farmer rose to fame after a national TV interview detailing a dramatic health episode in 1952. Continued on Back Page.
The six room Campbell home six miles out on the Gustine highway burned Wednesday night while the family attended a First Baptist revival. Cause undetermined. A Comanche Volunteer Fire department stopped the blaze from spreading to nearby buildings. Loss partially covered by insurance. Mr Campbell is a salesman.
Rev W G Self and Mrs Self left Monday for Ridgecrest North Carolina to attend the Home Mission Week of the Southern Baptist Convention. Self is Comanche County Baptist Missionary and aims to spread 30 000 new preaching stations across the South to develop and establish mission fields.
Mrs. W. W. Wilson of Comanche will travel to San Francisco to be with her son Billy Wilson who has just returned from Japan and will receive an honorable discharge from the Navy soon.
John M. Happy Hathcock of Dallas area dealer wins a Westinghouse sales contest and an all expense trip to Columbus Ohio with district manager A L Sigman. They will tour the new Westinghouse plant and view 1958 model line beside six other Texas dealers leaving Love Field next Thursday.
Minister Chester Hill of Fort Worth will preach at the Gustine Church of Christ gospel meeting opening Friday. Edison Luker leads the services. Bible classes run Monday through Friday mornings from 9 to 11. Pastor Billy Patterson invites the congregation to attend and says, Come and let us reason together.
The Sidney Baptist Church starts its annual summer revival with a Friday service led by area clergy. Attendees include Miss Nelda Roberson, formerly with the Production Credit Association, who will speak at the event.
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