Farmers Asked to Sign Tuesday on Draft Deferments
Comanche county farmers are urged to sign enlistment forms Tuesday as the government explains draft deferments under the Selective Service Act. The article details new deferment classifications II-C and III-C and how war units measure farm production, with examples for cattle, crops, and other commodities to qualify for continued agricultural work during the war effort.
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Congress
Usda War Board
Selective Service Boards
Department of Agriculture
Comanche County
War Board
B. F. Vance
Vance
Texas
H. H. Williamson
Texas A. and
M. College Extension Service
Roosevelt
Mr. Vance
Sidney Graduate Lt Hilley Reported POW in Philippines
Lt Gayle Hilley son of Mr and Mrs A A Hilley of Sidney is listed as a prisoner of war of the Japanese in the Philippine Islands after the fall of Bataan and Corregidor. He attended Sidney High School, John Tarleton College and the University of Texas and served as a Flying Fortress pilot with the United States Army Air Force. Guy Ruth, holidaying in Comanche with his parents, has returned to duty in the U S Navy.
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Gayle Hilley
A. A. Hilley
Sidney
Philippine Islands
Guy Ruth
Comancheth
Mrs. M. Ruth
United States Navy
Mohon Writes From Ireland With News Of Son
John A. Mohon of Comanche reports his son Set Mohon with American Expeditionary Forces in Ireland sent five letters in one day this week. The younger Mohon is doing well, enjoying his work, and believes allied forces will prevail this year. He forwarded a clipping by John Parris, United Press correspondent with U S troops in North Africa.
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John A. Mohon
Set
John Travis Mohon
Ireland
Mohon
John Parris
United Press
U. S
North Africa
Local Man Receives Wings at Brooks Field in Large Class
Darden McCollum 22 year old son of Burley and Mrs. McCollum of McCamey and grandson of Mrs. J W McCollum of Comanche received his silver pilot’s wings at Brooks Field on Sunday December 13 as part of one of the largest Army Air Forces Gulf Coast Training Center classes. He volunteered May 8 1941 and served at Fort Bliss before transferring to the Air Corps for flight training culminating at Brooks Field now a second lieutenant.
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Darden McCollum
Burley McCollum
McCamey
J. W. McCollum
Comanche
Brooks Field
Army
Aiir Forces
Young McCollum
Fort Bliss
Texas
Mechanized Cavalry
Air Corps
Randolph Field
San Antonio
Coleman
Waco
Postal Receipts Rise Over 1941 and 1942 Contributions
Postal receipts at the Comanche office reached 21,320 in 1942, up from 19,320 in 1941. The final quarter of 1942 totaled 6,523.48, versus 5,600 in the last quarter of 1941. Overall 1942 receipts exceeded 1941 by more than 2,000, with a more than 50 percent increase since 1933 when Postmaster Banes began his tenure.
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Comanche
J. R. Eanes
Banes
Comanche Cotton Ginned Totals Rise Over Last Year
Eleven hundred eighty two bales of cotton were ginned in Comanche before December 13, up from 996 on the same date last year, per special census agent Joe Marshall. Two gins operated after the date and the season total will be released in the next report. Mrs. Billy J. Rollins returns from Seattle visit with husband.
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Comanche
Joe Marshall
Comanche National Bank Reaches All Time Deposit High
Comanche National Bank reports deposits at December 31 1942 totaling over one million dollars an all time high in its fifty two year history. Since 1890 deposits grew from 47451.44 to 1085606 reflecting steady expansion under leaders J B Chilton W C Chilton T J Williams and Robert Eaton with a full page ad detailing bank facts elsewhere in the issue.
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Comanche National Bank
J. B. Chilton
Texas
W. C Chilton
T. J. Williams
Robert Eaton
K. L. Macon
W. C. Chilton
Ruth Mayfield Joins WAVES at Dallas Ceremony
Ruth Mayfield in Comanche County named Home Demonstration Agent. She was sworn into the WAVES at the Cotton Bowl ceremony on January 1 along with other Texas women and expects to report for active duty around February 1.
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Ruth Mayfield
Comanche County
The
WAVES
Dallas
Texas
Army
Navy
WAACS
Oath of the Waves
Miss Mayfield
Miss Luper Wins War Bond Prize for Higginbotham Window
Miss Bertie Jo Luper, Higginbotham saleslady and interior decorator in Comanche, won a $25 War Bond in a Portis Brothers Hat Company nationwide contest. Stores submitted photos of Christmas week windows. hers featuring a patriotic Higginbotham display placed first, with the winning window located south of the Higginbotham store across from Sutton Dudley Drugs.
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Bertie Jo Luper
Higginbotham
Comanche
Portis Brothers Hat Company
Sutton Dudley
Drugs
Prisoner of War Cpl. Joseph J. Johnson Named
Cpl. Joseph J. Johnson 26 son of Mrs. Leona Seward Comanche is a Japanese prisoner per War Department notice. Johnson served in the Philippines during the Bataan Corregidor surrender and volunteered October 16 1940. His last letter reached his mother in November 1941 after Comanche High School class of 1936 graduation. He was a gun mechanic in the U S Air Corps.
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Cpl
Joseph J. Johnson
Leona Seward
Comanche
United State War Department
Johnson
Philippines
Bataan and
Corregidor
Army
Comanche High School
United States Air Corps
Ninety Percent Cotton Parity Loan Next Year
Ninety percent parity loans will apply to 1943 cotton crop. A nationwide quota for 1943 follows a 1942 referendum in which about 89,654 farmers voted yes and 16,121 voted no. George Slaughter, state AAA chairman, notes quotas aim to maximize war crop production.
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Texas
George Slaughter
AAA Committeee
Slaughter
Higginbotham Buyers Tour Chicago Wholesale Markets
Higginbotham Bros. & Co. representatives Herbert Williams Bob Allen and Ben Evridge from Comanche are in Chicago Illinois this week buying merchandise for Higginbotham stores.
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Higginbotham
Chicago
Herbert Williams
Bob Allen
Ben Evridge
Higginbotham Bros. & Co
Comanche
Ilinois
Comanche Bank Deposits Near Two Million Record
Bank deposits in Comanche neared two million dollars, the town’s all time high, with totals at $1,803,683.47 as of December 31 1942. Loans declined about $100 000 to $395 855.67 from $1392 25.18 a year earlier. The Red Cross sewing room in the county courthouse basement is open daily for volunteer sewers especially women to cut material and sew shirts slips blouses and pajamas.
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Red Cross
Comanche County
Comanche
Farm Mobilization Day Set For January 12
Texas 254 county USDA War Boards prepare to sign up farmers for 1943 production on January 12. District meetings outline the farm plan, sign-up process, and deferment rules, with guidance from B F Vance and H H Williamson.
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Texas
Usda War Boards
War Board
Texas Agricultural
College Station
Enti
Wethers Sold from 1330 Lambs at $7.75 a Head
Zack Bettis and Prank Baker of Blanket bought 250 picked wether lambs from Oscar Callaway's 1330 lambs. Price was 7.75 dollars per head. Also notes shift in local staff and community events including marriages and new postmaster appointments.
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Zack Bettis
Blanket
Oscar Callaway
Sutton Dudley
Smith's
Hilburn Arthur
Mackey Motor Force
Benedict
Ernestine Atwood
Nannie Perry
Ghent Sanderford
John Reese
Henry Gantz
J. P. Graham
Murt Sullivan
Comanche
Mr. Henderson
W. H. Carpenter
Will Hayes
Fatty Arbuckle
Prestons Welcome Daughter Pamela Joe In Comanche
Mr and Mrs Preston Young of Comanche announce the birth of a daughter at a Brownwood hospital on Sunday January 3 at 12 30 PM The baby weighed 8 pounds 2 ounces and has been named Pamela Joe The mother and baby are at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Boyce Briscoe in Comanche
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Preston Young
Comanche
Brownwood Hospital
Pamela Joe
Young
Baby
Boyce Briscoe
Fort Worth Press Bargain Rates At Chief Office
The Fort Worth Press offers a bargain rate of four dollars and fifty cents for a one year subscription with delivery daily except Sunday. Orders are accepted at The Chief Office until further notice and the withdrawal date is not yet known.
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Fort Worth
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