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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1969
Page
6
Comanche County residents face higher Social Security payroll taxes starting Jan 1. Workers pay 4.8 percent on the first 7800 of earnings with employer matching. self employed rates rise to 6.9 percent. Projected local totals rise about 133000 over 1968.
The regular meeting of the W O W Lodge is scheduled for Tuesday night January 7 at 6 30 p m at Lola's Cafe.
The week features varied lunches with daily milk and bread. Monday offers spaghetti and meatballs, cheese wedge, green beans, beet pickles, homemade cookies. Friday serves beef casserole with potatoes and tomatoes.
Miss Cindy Parks entertained with a holiday tea at 700 N. Ress on Friday December 27. She was helped by her mother Mrs. W. J. Paras and neighbors Mrs. Lewis Horelik and Mrs. John Braziel. Guests enjoyed avocado and pink decor, punch, sandwiches, and sweets with a walnut footbasket centerpiece.
The Chamber highlights support for the Athletic Banquet and Krazy Day cash awards, Rodeo Queen sponsorship, a Duchess at parades, Welcome Wagon outreach, and a Baxter Building display of local products. It notes the new color brochure, Trade Days cash prizes, travelers’ inquiries, Lake Proctor and peanuts coverage, and rising housing and employment signals.
At its 65th convention in Waco, the Texas Farmers Union outlined seven policy items. Delegates from De Leon and Comanche heard proposals to close tax loopholes for nonfarm profits, support a national bargaining system for price negotiations, and back an export wheat certificate program. They urged rapid passage of a strategic reserve for key crops and support for the Young Farmers Investment Act. The convention also backed a cotton acreage campaign and more details on the 1959 Cotton Program. Speakers included Rep. Ralph Yarborough, Rep. Jake Pickle, J. T. Dechant, and Gil Rohde.
Mr and Mrs Joe Connor were feted December 22 at an open house at Comanche Garden Center to mark their fiftieth wedding anniversary. The couple wed in 1918 in McKinney and have lived in Comanche eight years after moving from Houston. Attending were relatives and friends from Wichita Falls Texarkana Mesquite McKinney and Longview with guests numbering about forty.
Joy the Ayrshire cow at Heart of Texas Ayrshire Farm Blanket Texas set a state best two year old senior lactation record with 14610 pounds of milk and 564 pounds of butterfat in 305 days on twice daily milking. The DHIR record was supervised by Ayrshire Breeders Association and Texas A&M University. Joy averages 48 pounds of milk and about 2 pounds of butterfat per day. Polly also held the prior record for this division. California visitor Dan Burton arrived in Comanche December 22 for a Christmas visit and left January 1.
Private First Class Richard A. Burks 21, son of Mr and Mrs Gaylord Burks Comanche, assigned November 25 to the 6th Battalion of the 32nd Artillery in Vietnam as an aircraft mechanic. His wife Aleyeia Williams Burks resides at 406 E Grand.
Special report compares Comanche County with national and regional rates. It notes 12 local accident deaths in the year ending Jan 1, 1967, eight from automobiles, a population-based rate of 120 per 100000, higher than national 58 and regional 66. It cites 21.3 billion national costs and local share around 32.28 million.
The Comanche Garden Club held its December meeting with a Christmas program on December 19 featuring red and green decorations. Mrs Wiggins of De Leon presented Not by Bread Alone and Mrs Pele Mize displayed embroidered linens brass carvings and Persian slides before sharing Christmas customs. The next meeting is January 16 at 2 o clock at the Garden Center.
Dwight E. Woolsey of Comanche has been elected to membership in the American Angus Association at St. Joseph Missouri. Secretary Lloyd D. Miller reports 446 memberships issued to breeders of registered Aberdeen Angus in the United States during the past month.
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