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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1948
Page
1
J E Lightfoot the Tax Assessor Collector says Saturday is the final date to pay the poll tax for 1948 voters. He urges all subject to the tax to pay at once, noting bad weather may prevent timely payment.
The Comanche Chamber of Commerce elected six new directors for 1948 49 at the annual banquet last Tuesday night. Newly chosen are Bill Lemons Bill Dudney Herbert Williams Ben Evridge Gail Dud y and W D Blackwood. Hold over directors include Charles Marshall 1947 president Floyd Prather Jolink Elten ell Arthur and James Wilker.
Ice snow and sleet caused accidents across Texas with injuries in Comanche. James Wilkerson fractured and dislocated his jaw after a fall at home. Mrs. C R M Dudley bruised and bed-bound after a yard fall. Homer Wilhelm sustained arm injuries. Mrs Sid Cunningham bruised. Ollie Allen injured an arm and shoulder. Fort Worth hospital care anticipated for Wilkerson.
A Saturday night basketball charity game at the local gym pits Brownwood Negro players and Brazilians against the Comanche Lions Club. Proceeds support the Comanche Grammar School for basketball equipment. Lions Club members are touted to provide strong competition and crowd appeal.
Higginbotham Bros and Co announce a grand open house for their new brick veneer lumber yard building in Comanche on Saturday January 31 from 1 pm to 8 pm. The article highlights the building, staff, and company history from 1881 to present with local dignitaries and community welcome.
Comanche on a $250 000 program to build a new reservoir below Lake Eanes on the Mercer’s Creek watershed. Plans call for a 4 800 acre foot capacity dam with a core trench and cut off wall to prevent seepage, aiming for completion in about six months.
Comanche business firms will stay open all day Friday per Mayor Fane Waldrop after a City Council meeting. To conserve fuel, establishments were asked to close Thursday until 1 p.m. Gas shortages hit laundries and tailors early in the week. Schools in Comanche and county closed for the week due to cold weather and icy roads.
Westfall, Eugene Perkins, Cecil Elliott, and Neal Greenlee are listed with Beattie High School teams as new matches are arranged for boys and girls. The first game is set to begin at 6 o'clock.
Southwest Natural Gas Company of Comanche urges all consumers to conserve fuel during the unusual cold weather. The statement notes the nationwide extreme cold and the worst, prolonged cold wave in history and asks cooperation with other fuel suppliers to conserve as much as possible.
Walter Hill and his son Bill acquired the Graham-McNutt Humble Station from Jake Graham and Carl McNutt this week and assumed control at once. Hill says the current staff, including Graham, remains except for McNutt who will relocate to Coleman. An advertisement by Hill appears in this issue.
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