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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1967
Page
8
The cash value of Series E and U S Savings Bonds outstanding at the end of Fiscal Year 1967 was 50.817 billion dollars, up from 49.682 billion the prior year. This indicates a year over year increase in federal savings obligations.
A six year old boy in Comanche writes Santa asking for a Texaco truck and clothes for himself and a Texaco truck for his brother while his sister requests a crying doll and he prays for all other children.
Gustine Tigers place four seniors on the All District 7 B team chosen by district coaches. Nicky Pruitt Sidney and Hardy Vaughn Cherokee named for the All Star game to be held in Levelland in August. Alternates Boyd Westfall Gustine and Donnie Stewart Sidney named.
The article highlights John and volunteers at the Comanche Fire Department with training at A&M and 30 explosive ordnance graduates. It notes 28 enroll in a radiological monitor school, rural calls, high loyalty, and a snake rescue aversion while praising preparedness and community support.
Sharron Hutton 18 of Mule Shoe Riley County will join Texas delegates at the 49th American Farm Bureau Federation convention December 10-14 in Chicago. She was chosen TFB Queen last month in Austin, earning an expense paid trip for her and a masque escort. national pageant has no queen contest.
Larry Blackshear placed third in the Junior Dairy Production Awards in Texas with his Jersey cow Estella Fortune Bonita. The cow yielded 9,810 pounds of 4.9 percent milk and 478 pounds of fat in 300 days, with mature equivalent production of 10,497 pounds of milk and 511 pounds of fat.
Miss Sallie Kellum a longtime Comanche County resident died Saturday in a Gonzales rest home. Services were Sunday with burial in the Masonic Cemetery. She was born in Waco June 27, 1885, to Edward and Mary Frances Mosley Kellum and lived in Comanche County most of her life before moving to Gonzales in the 1940s. Survivors include a sister, Mrs. G E Bradley of Gonzales.
The VA does not set a fixed hour requirement for full educational allowance. The VA accepts the school's certification of attendance status whether full time half time or quarter time and pays accordingly. Additional information is available at VA offices and through enrolled programs.
The article emphasizes Christmas centers on family with mother as the hub guiding memories. Lucille Moore from Texas A&M urges shared activities such as choosing and decorating the tree, decorating the home together, attending church, and doing kind acts for the less fortunate to create meaningful family experiences.
Mrs. Ethel Owens aged 50 died suddenly at her Comanche home Tuesday night and was pronounced dead at 10 45 PM. Final rites set for Friday December 22 at Hubbar Kelely Chapel Odessa with burial in Odessa cemetery. She leaves husband John Owens, a daughter Clarice Jones Odessa, sons Thomas Ray Moore Lufkin and Kenneth Harold Moore fusk, siblings and five grandchildren.
Comanche FFA plans its annual project show at the County Livestock barn on January 6 with 188 entries from Future Farmers and 4H Club members. The event features numerous breeds across cattle swine lambs and dairy heifers plus two Angora goats, serving as a practice show to train youth in animal care and showmanship.
The mince pie evolved from mut ton pies with World Book Encyclopedias noting English cooks originally baked them in a manger shape for Christmas. This piece links holiday baking history to a distinctive display form.
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