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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1958
Page
1
The Comanche school district shows Grad classes and kindergarten prep with 44 faculty and merchants aiding the effort. A local preview week at Maj Theatre features The Return and The River Kwai while store specials, gowns, and season sales run through Labor Day. community notices include lake opening votes and chamber closures.
A city wide drive in Comanche plans to exterminate rats and mice in both business and home areas beginning Tuesday September 2. Warfarin poison will be sold at cost in 8 ounce packages for 10 cents each, with households urged to use at least two pounds. The city purchased 700 dollars worth of poison from Durham Products and will distribute from City Hall.
The Comanche district approves a 1958 59 budget of 257578.03 with 202414.03 from state sources and 85580.37 from local revenue. Enrollment is expected to rise slightly as 1011 scholastics are recorded and new staff join S H Fletcher leads a 43 member faculty.
Survey work begins for a Mid-Texas Gas Company pipeline from Hamilton County to Austin. N. A. Saigh & Company wins the contract to lay 120 miles of 14 and 12 inch trunk lines and about 250 miles of gathering lines serving 120 wells in Hamilton Eastland Erath Stephens Palo Pinto Parker Coleman Brown and Comanche Counties. Project cost about 9 million with initial capacity 90 million cubic feet daily. Gas sold at the well head nine cents per 1 000 feet rising to 15 cents later, delivering exclusively to Austin’s city plant by year start.
Mr and Mrs J C Wilkerson have returned home after visiting his brothers and sisters in Parker County.
W C Chilton of The Comanche National Bank reports Texas banks led all lenders in farm credit on January 1 this year with 309.1 million dollars in loans, including 268.2 million in production loans and 40.9 million in agricultural mortgages.
Creath Davis will be ordained at the First Baptist Church Comanche on Sunday August 31 at 3 pm in the church auditorium. He is pastor of Midway Baptist Church in Eastland County and plans to enter Howard Payne College this fall. He is the son of Mr and Mrs C V Davis 1301 N Austin Comanche. The public is invited.
The Comanche Junior High PTA will hold its first meeting of the 1958 59 school year on next Thursday afternoon September 4 at 3 00 p m in the school lunchroom. President Mrs John Brazier says a short acquaint program has been arranged with talks by Superintendent S H Fletcher and Principal Bernice Swindle.
The 20th annual Comanche County Rural Electric Cooperative meeting drew about 1,750 attendees at Indian Memorial Stadium. New directors named are H. C. Dean and Jessie L. Garrett. W. B. Starr reelected president, B. Ray McCorkle vice president, and George Willis named secretary treasurer. Other board members include Joe Weeden and B. A. Ross. Lavonne Hall crowned Miss Comanche County Electric in a popular beauty contest.
Mrs. Paul Pollock of San Antonio daughter of Mrs. Luther Sledge Route 2 Comanche died in a motor vehicle accident near Fredericksburg on Wednesday night August 27 at 8 35. Funeral services will be announced by Comanche Funeral Home. Pollock, maiden name Annie Lorene Hutto, about 41, mother of three, was reared in Oda Springs. Her husband Paul Pollock was driving and taken to Brooks General Hospital in San Antonio for treatment.
About 75 adult members of the Rush Creek Watershed met Tuesday night in Soda Springs to plan the public hearing on the project set for the district courtroom next Thursday night September 4. Attendees came from Fairview Soda Springs Stag Creek Amity Sidney Beattie Sipe Springs and Duster. A Rush Creek Watershed District tour is scheduled for Thursday afternoon with the open hearing set for Thursday night.
Soda Springs hosts Rush Creek Watershed Association meeting with 70 adults planning for the watershed hearing Thursday Sept. 4. Community briefed on the big Soda Springs Homecoming scheduled for Saturday August 30. See you there.
Public hearing on the Rush Creek Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention project is planned for Thursday at 7 30 pm in the Comanche District courtroom. The State Soil Conservation Board members will tour the watershed area and discuss bids, with local residents urged to attend.
The First Methodist Church at Blanket is finishing an extensive improvement program. It has refinished interiors and added air conditioning, aiming to be one of the nicest urban churches in the area. Rev. Lloyd Coker of Comanche is pastor of the Blanket Church during Labor Day weekend.
The third annual meeting of Comanche County Telephone Cooperative Association members occurs at Lake Eanes Park on Friday night August 29 with 7 30 p m registration. Five directors will be elected and the by laws revised. Jimmy Blanton and his Ranch Hands provide entertainment. Cold drinks and attendance prizes add incentive for members to attend.
Rev Reed Harris announces the Board Church Baptist will hold the annual Sun day School officers election during Sunday night services on August 31. He requests full attendance at the service.
The Hasse Tabernacle revival began last Tuesday night August 26 and continues with services held twice daily at 10 30 a m and 7 45 p m Rev John W Reynolds of Tyler is preaching the meetings draw attendees and sustain active participation.
Head mentor Scoggins lists probable starters for the opening game against the Santa Anna Mountaineers. The 1958 Indians, with thirteen lettermen, average 189 pounds on the line and 171 in the backfield. The squad includes sophomores Bill Meyers and Gary Swearengin, juniors Bob Slider and Paul Ray McKinzie, and seniors Delbert Brewster and Kenneth Henry.
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