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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1962
Page
1
The town welcomes new owners Vernon and Kemp with open house at STRICKLAND east of 66 STATION and a COMANCHE BOARD candidacy drive. COMANCHE CITY notices urge filing by March 2 for council seats while EVRIDGE announces fabric and sewing promotions. J D WALKER and KER'S APPLIANCE advertise appliance deals and spring inventory.
The article notes open invitations for attendees to bring their own items to a community meeting led by Manager Jenkins of Bte. It mentions an agricultural extension publication, a tax clinic, and a bank distributing illustrated notes. It also references a film star staying at the Wilhelm home and a local cattle rancher.
Comanche County Young Homemakers will honor the M C Channarajar family with a farewell coffee from 7:00 to 9:30 Thursday night February 22. Visiting County Agent from India wife Pache and daughter Comanche will return to India next weekend after ten months in Comanche County. An organizational meeting to plan the farewell was held Monday afternoon with committees named for decorations invitations arrangements and refreshments.
Kos Dudley announces Comanche County Screwworm Committee kickoff. Dr. F J Mulhern says first sterile fly release by air Wednesday in Austin. Five million flies to be released next week, rising to ten million in two weeks. Kerrville facility expands to reach twenty million in about five weeks. Permanent South Texas plants aim for 50 to 75 million weekly.
A Co manche city section will lack water from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday Feb 17 as De Leon Highway waterlines are lowered. The area affected is east of Houston Street and north of Paine Avenue. City Water Superintendent John Jolink asks public cooperation.
Retired Baptist minister and county missionary Rev. T N Carter died February 12 in a Comanche rest home. He served Comanche County for 69 years and was a moderator of the Comanche Baptist Association. Funeral services were held February 13 at Oak Lawn Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Paul Watson and Rev. S J Isham presiding. Burial followed at Taylor Chapel. Survivors include his wife Kathleen Booher Carter, seven children, eight grandchildren, nineteen great grandchildren, four stepchildren, and multiple other relatives. He was born October 23, 1869 in Georgia and moved to Texas in 1890 returning to Comanche in 1900.
The Comanche County Teachers Association hosts its Spring Dinner on Monday February 19 at seven o clock at the Golden Arrow Cafeteria. Guests include spouses of members and the school board. Dr A Donald Bell Howard Payne University executive vice president will speak on the theme American Heritage. Mrs Louise Hill chairs decorations and menu. A large crowd is expected.
Odessa youth Charles E. Laughlin Jr. won a principal appointment to the U S Naval Academy at Annapolis after a West Texas exam under Rep Rutherford. He will enter July 1 and is the son of C E Laughlin and a Odessa High School graduate attending Odessa College.
Plans are set for the Comanche city election on April 2 and the independent school district trustee vote on April 7. Prospective candidates must file by March 2 with Mayor John H. Hall or City Secretary Ruth Loudermilk. Incumbent councilmen John Hathcock, Jack Flippo, and Adolph Proffitt have terms ending. Proffitt and Jerry Wright have filed as candidates. Hathcock and Flippo do not plan to seek re election. In the school district, terms of Swearengin and Robertson expire. both have served three terms and do not plan to run again.
Three Comanche County youths excel at the San Antonio Livestock Show Calf Scramble finishing with top placings. Don Kemmitz placed second, Bobby Lane fifth, and Claude Dudley seventh as twenty calves were entered by ten 4-H boys. Tom R. Dudley won grand in Hereford Sale judging at the expo on February 11.
Producers may receive up to half of estimated payments in advance by signing up under the 1962 Feed Grain Program. Payments depend on diverted corn and grain sorghum acreage, with two per acre rates per county and base-based minimums. Diverted land may not be grazed after May 1, 1962, and must receive pest control as directed. In 1961 Chariton County planted 47,336.1 acres of peanuts with 46,149.6 harvested and 35,398,444 pounds produced.
The Comanche Independent School District reports 1114 scholastics for the year, a gain of about twenty from last year, with Superintendent S. H. Fletcher hoping the rise will help secure another teacher next year. James and Bill Wilkerson of The Comanche Chief attended a Car penter Paper Company show and sales meeting at the Statler Hilton in Dallas.
Robert Pat Hughes, assistant at San Saba, is named head coach of the Hamilton Bulldogs by School Superintendent Erie Stringer. He succeeds Kenith Scott who resigned after five years to take a similar post in Stephenville.
Raymond McCullough a 1960 Texas Tech graduate and entomologist at Stroop Chemical Co will teach science at Comanche High School succeeding Margaret Teague. He is married to a former Dallas public schools homemaking teacher and will move to join his wife in a few weeks.
Mr and Mrs Dick Massingill returned Tuesday after spending three days with their children in Fort Worth and Arlington, highlighting a brief family visit.
February is Heart Fund Month as Mrs. E. Arthur chairs plans for a county drive to combat heart disease the leading killer. Ernest Guy and Dr. Richard W. Ernst visit for talks at the Lions Club and area schools sharing a film on heart surgery and urging volunteer cooperation for the drive.
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