Petersburg appoints James Bachus as Tax Assessor Collector
James Bachus of Petersburg is named Tax Assessor Collector for the Comanche Independent School District and will also serve as Business Manager. He is a 48 year old licensed real estate broker with tax work at Amarillo College and a former employee of Southern Union Gas. He leads the Petersburg Lions Club and is a director in the North Plains Tax Association. He will begin January 11 and assist Ruth Livingston with planning the Tay Office until then. Bachus and family will remain in Floydada until school ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Bachus
Petersburg
Comanche Independent
Bachus
Petersburg Independent
Amarillo College
Southern Union Gas Company
Carlsbad
New Mexico
Petersburg Lions Club
North Plains District of Tax Association
Kirkland Wins Second in District Wool Contest
Mary Ann Kirkland daughter of Mr and Mrs V F Kirkland won second place in the District TV Make It Yourself with Wool contest in San Angelo on November 21 She will go to TWU at Denton Friday to compete in the Junior Division of the State Make It with Wool contest accompanied by FHA advisor Kathryn Hill The top juniors and seniors will compete in the national contest in Las Vegas Nevada in January Mary's outfit featured a navy blue coat with princess seaming navy fur collar and cuffs a navy sleeveless dress and matching accessories She is a CHS junior active in Nations Honor Society FTA AHC Library Club and serves as FHA president She is a forward on the basketball team.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Ann Kirkland
V. FE
Kirkland
San Angelo
TWU
Denton
Kathryn Hill
FHA
Las Vegas
Nevada
Mary Ann
CHS
The
Nations Honor Society
FTA
AHC
Library Club
Indians and Maidens Travel To Clyde Friday
The Comanche Indians open Jusu-71 District play Friday night by traveling to Clyde to face the Bulldogs. The Indian Maidens win over Cisco to start district play. Probable starters for Comanche include Shaw Elliott Gore Barret Hutchins. The Maidens led by Hicks Jolley Lubke Frick Ormsby Brightman. They host Winters next Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comanche Indians
Clyde
Bulldogs
Cisco Girls
Gene Westmoreland
Indians
CHL
San Saba
Ronnie Shaw
Efferson Elliott
Jerry Gore
Richard Barret
David Hutchins
Leta Andrews
Cisco
Comanche
Susan Hicks
Jane Jolley
Rhonda Lubke
Cyn¢ra Frick
Nancy Ormsby
Janet Brightman
Parker Heads to National White House Conference on Children
Parker, business manager for Comanche County Electric Cooperative, travels to Washington, D. C. for the National White House Conference on Children. He is chosen as an adult leader joining Dr. Edward Schlutt, with 4 H delegates Randy Miller of Edinburg and Stella Rose of Brackettville. The event runs December 13 to 18 in the capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Parker
Comanche County Electric Cooperative
Washington, D.C
White House
Parker
Comanche
Edward Schlutt
College Station
Randy Miller
Edinburg
Stella Rose
Brackettville
Comanche Schools Dismiss For Christmas Holidays
Comanche students will have a long Christmas break as classes end December 22 and resume Tuesday morning January 5. School officials announced the holiday schedule with a full two-week recess.
Vance Named District Attorney for 52nd Judicial District
Governor Preston Smith appoints Leslie B. Vance of Clifton as District Attorney for the 52nd District covering Roscue Comanche Coryell and Hamilton counties. He succeeds Byron McClellan, who moves to District Judge, with changes effective January 1, 1971. Vance holds a Baylor Law JD of 1965 and aims for a full term at the next election.
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Preston Smith
Leslie B. Vance
Clifton
52Nd Judicial District
Roscue, Comanche, Coryell
Hamilton Counties
Vance
Byron McClellan
Gatesville
Texas
McClellan
Truman E. Roberts
Hamilton
State Court of Criminal Appeals
Mary Belle Vance
L. B. Vance
Bloomfield
Baylor
Lions Club Mile of Dimes Planned for December Dates
The Lions Club hosts its annual Mile of Dimes on Saturday December 19 and Monday December 21 with booths on the square both days. Proceeds buy eyeglasses shoes and other needed items for needy children in the community. President Ernest Ebell says contributions enable Lions to lend helping hands to those in need.
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Lions Club
Lions
Ernest Ebell
Mail Service Curtailed By Railroad Strike
Embargo on second through fourth class mail went into effect at 4 p.m. Wednesday due to a threatened nationwide rail strike. Some states will receive mail via highway routes. airmail PAL and SAM mail and first class prepaid mail are unaffected. Packages up to 36 inches in length, 60 inches total length and girth, and 40 pounds may move up to 300 miles.
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Jim Carpenter
Comanche
Carpenter
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Colorado
Kansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Wyoming
PAL
Winton M. Blount
Kenneth White Returns to Washington for Peanut Task Force
Kenneth G White county executive director of the Comanche County ASCS office left December 6 for Washington D C to join the Production Adjustment Automatic Data Processing Task Force for peanuts. He oversees flow chains from the county level and may stay through next week if the assignment continues. Previously he visited Washington November 3 to 6 and Anadarko Oklahoma November 17 to 18 to study local peanut operations. He returned November 22 to 25 for further meetings with the task force.
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Kenneth G. White
Comanche County
ASCS
Washington
D. C
Mr. White
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
Anadarka
Oklahoma
White
Washington, D._C
Chamber To Sponsor Holiday Decoration Contest
The Comanche Chamber of Commerce sponsors a Christmas Decoration Contest for Comanche residents. Homes will be judged on originality and expression of the Christmas theme with cash prizes of 25 15 and 10 dollars. Enter by contacting Mrs Frances Lockwood at the Chamber office.
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Comanche Chamber of Commerce
Comanche
Frances Lockwood
Chamber of Commerce Ofice
Chamber of Commerce Doing A Great Job
Frances Lockwood reports on Comanche Chamber of Commerce efforts in community service economic progress and cultural growth. Observations note Santa visits on the plaza a busy First Monday turnout a Nut Marketing Contest with cash prizes and a demand for peanut growers to enter by December 31 with awards in early January and requests for pictures of Old Comanche courthouse artworks.
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Chamber of Commerce
Comanche
Santa Claus
Comarche
Time Square
Chamber of Commerce and Gold
Kist
Comanche County
Christmas Edition to Publish Santa Letters in Comanche Chief
The Comanche Chief announces its annual Christmas Edition to appear Wednesday December 23. Santa letters from local children can be mailed to Santa Box 749, Comanche 76442 or delivered to the paper. The issue also features Christmas stories and business messages. Local artists display works including Old Cora paintings by Eloise Parker and Ruby Daniel's Edwards home place. The chamber notes a high artist density in town and invites painting Fleming Oak on the square before it becomes a memory.
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Santa
Comanche
Eloise Marshall Parker
Chamber
Old Cora
Bil
Ruby Daniel
Edwards
Fleming Oak
Money Exhibit At State National Bank
The State National Bank hosts a week long display December 14 to 21 spotlighting genuine and counterfeit money. Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the exhibit lets visitors test bills with a button that reveals authenticity. Comancheans are invited to attend.
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State National Bank
State National
Federal Reserve Bank ‘of
Dallas
Tax Clinic Here Dec 11 In Comanche Hospitality Room TP and L
A Farmer's Income Tax Clinic will be held in the Hospitality Room of the TP and L Building in Comanche on Friday December 11 from 9:00 a.m. to noon. James S. Denton Area Farm Management Specialist Stephenville will speak. Farmers and ranchers invited. Copies of the Farmers Income Tax Guide will be available.
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Tp&l
Comanche
James S. Denton
Stephenville
Comanche Sgt Eldon Cotten Killed in Goldthwaite Crash
Sergeant Eldon Wayne Cotten 19 a Comanche native died in a two vehicle crash 2.3 miles south of Goldthwaite on US 183 Monday morning. The truck driver Alfred Walter Jordan 25 of Austin was hospitalized from shock. Cotten recently completed guard duty at Fort Hood and was en route on 30 day furlough to Comanche when the collision occurred. Funeral services were held December 7 at the Comanche Funeral Home Chapel with interment at Sardis Cemetery. He was a 1979 Comanche High School graduate married May 31 to Debra Kay Davis and survived by his wife, parents, six brothers and two sisters.
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Eldon Wayne Cotten
Fort Hood
Goldthwaite
Eldon Wayne Collen
Childress Hospital
Comanche
E. Milton
Alfred Walter Jordan
Austin
Dwain Cohn
Collen
White Swan Institutional Foods
Jordan
US 183
Set
Cotten
Vietnam
Sergeant Cotten
Comanche Funeral Home
John C. Wiles
First Baptist Church
Dale
Uary
Omanche
The
Baptist Church
Sgt. Cotten
Comanche High School
Debra Kay Davis
Wallace Gibson
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Floydada
Tay
Ruth Livingston
Miss Kirkland
Cyde
D.C
Leslie Vance
MR. Vance
Kenneth White
Sgt
Dearl Cotten
Larry Cotten
Leon Cotten
Rick Cotten
Willie Cotten
Ronnie Johnson
Misa Charlene Cotten
Francis Morgan
C. L. Necessary
Fort Worth
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