Improved Long Distance Service Starts January 10
Comanche Texas Telephone Company announces that from January 10 long distance calls originating in Comanche and Gustine to Abilene Cisco Dallas Fort Worth Hamilton Stephenville and Waco will be completed by local operators. Existing routes to Blanket Brownwood and Dublin remain served locally. The change aims to speed call completion and more towns may be added soon.
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J. B. Wylie
Texas Telephone Company
Comanche
Gustine
Abilene
Cisco
Dallas
Fort Worth
Hamilton
Stephenville
Waco
Blanket
Brownwood
Dublin
Wylie
Recruit Lee Reese Begins Eight Weeks of Basic Training
Recruit Lee Reese brother of Odell Reese of Comanche is assigned to Co A 22nd Armored Engr Bn Fifth Armored Division at Camp Chaffee Arkansas for eight weeks of basic training. Reactivated July 6 1948 the division has six European WWII campaigns. By late 1949 Camp Chaffee is expected to house 20000 troops.
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Lee Reese
Odell Reese
N. Austin St
Comanche
Fifth Armored Division
Camp Chaffee
Arkansas
Fifth Armored
Reese
Reese & Fritts Grocery
Co “A
22Nd Armd Engr Bn
Sheron Wright Wins Brownwood 1949 Stork Derby
Little Miss Sheron Rose Wright, daughter of Mr and Mrs O B Wright, born at Memorial Hospital Brownwood at 12 58 New Year’s Eve, weighed seven pounds two ounces. Grandparents on both sides named, and she will receive gifts from Brownwood merchants as Derby winner.
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Sheron Rose Wright
O. B. Wright
Braay
Brownwood
Memorial Hospital
Sheron Rose
Charles Woolsey
Comarche
Charlie Wright
Route 1
Sidney
Brownwood Merchants
Humorous Exchange on Morning Photo Routines and Odd Medical Case
A guest and Godfrey discuss pre dawn photography and bed life while sharing quips. The doctor recalls treating a 200 pound soprano who claimed she had eaten too much. A roast turkey gag follows, noting feathers remained and the meat went down easily. Heard on CBS Talent Scouts.
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Godfrey
Guest
Women outnumber men by millions in world population
The text notes that about 5 000 000 more women exist than men and cites 1947 as the first year in many years when Comanche did not have a woman holding a certain Courty office, indicating gender balance concerns and local political change.
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Comanche
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Bob Hendrix
Jesse and
Ammi Tiner
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Comanche County
FFA
The
Comanche County Livestock Association
Dick Weekes
Jack Vaught
John Burroughs
You 4-H
West Texas
C. A. Coulter
Japan
Eighth U.S. Army
Tokyo
Billy P. Leach
Pete Leach
First Cavalry Division
Tokyo-Yokohama
William C. Chase
United States Army
Walton H. Walker
Pfc
Leach
Fort Lewis
Washington
Chaffee
J. W. Strong
Pete Pell
Bobbie
Dora Strong
Comyn
J. W. Preston
de Leon
Claud Strong
T. J. Strong
Ranger
Bud Newsome
Buchanan
United States
Cleveland
CBS
Talent
Imperial Sugar Quartet
Marion Snyder
Dan
WFAA
Farmers and
4-H Club
Central Texas Fertilizer Co
Pat Cagle
F. W. Prather
W. M. Durham JR
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