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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1953
Page
1
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The town plans a quiet Fourth with most stores closing. Jubilee and Homecoming events draw crowds for races, rodeo, and lake activities. Kean’s promotes Days sales, Vineyard and Soale Station name new manager, Burks Melon Stand opens with fireworks stock for the holiday.
Baptist workers conference set for July 9 at Shiloh Church with theme With Christ the Lost. Program includes fellowship, song service, Wallace devotional, sermons by L. R. Higa m and H. M. Cham, F. D. Stover. Last conference of the year. Association to meet Sept. 3 through Friday at another Baptist Church.
Hillbilly Kids, a Comanche County string band, win first premium in the Share The Fun Festival at Texas A M College and earn an all expenses paid trip to the 4 H Club Congress in Chicago this fall. Delbert Reed leads the group with Mac Pyburn, Jack Boen, and Leon Loen as fellow members from local 4 H clubs. Over 1200 participants attend the awards banquet as Shirley Godfrey and Reta Richman place in Dairy Foods Demonstration and Dress Revue respectively. Accompanying adults attend the Texas A M event.
The Comanche All-Stars meet Mackey Sporting Goods nine of Abilene in a single game Saturday night at 8. Admission is 10 and 25 cents. The Mackey Company is noted for strong play and sportsmanship, promising a top flight contest.
Comanche readies a three day rodeo July 16 to 18 with bronc and bull riding, calf roping, barrel race, goat roping, and a kids event. Lions Club sponsors the parade with prize money for top floats, parade entries encouraged from local firms and clubs, Queen contest to crown during the second night, Fort Hood jeep band invited back.
A freight truck and a pickup collided on the Leon River bridge on US 67 377 northeast of Comanche early Wednesday. Mr and Mrs King D Jones, aged residents of the Williams Ranch south of Comanche, were killed. The driver of the truck, H W Calhoun of Fort Worth, was uninjured. Joint funeral rites were set for July 2 at the Church of Christ in Comanche with burial in Oaksrand Cemetery.
Fire heavily damaged the Hamilton Mill and Elevator Company's square-block plant on Sunday afternoon. Officials estimate total loss at $400,000, with the mill and grain storage warehouse destroyed and the feed warehouse heavily damaged. Sid Wieser, manager, noted recent $60,000 machinery installments by the 50-year-old firm.
Eight teams enter Comanche Annual Invitation Tournament beginning Wednesday July 8 with double headers through Friday and a possible second game Saturday. Teams include Brownwood Floral, Mackey Sporting Goods, Camp Walters nine, Mineral Wells All Stars, Brady, Stephenville, Comanche, and an eighth from Coleman Gatesville Killeen or Fort Hood. First prize is $100, runner-up $50. admission $1.50.
Dr Grant Davis begins internship at Blackwood Hospital Clinic in Comanche native Oklahoma City graduate World War II veteran Masinic Lodge member. He and wife seek a home in Comanche with two sons Phillip and Steve. Mrs Davis and boys travel to Wichita to visit ill father. Dr R G Raley to finish training and move to Goldthwaite to open offices.
Work on the cement swimming pool advances on schedule at Lake Esnes Park built from more than $8,000 raised by public subscription. The 4200 square foot pool should be ready for swimmers by the last week of July with walkways bath houses concession stand and surrounding fill progressing as donations continue to come in. New donors include Roy Pinson Vasco Lee Clarence Jones W F Lane E H Seay Sam Phifer Homer Miller Oral D Morris Herman L Moore Dr Pepper Eng Co and others.
Comanche County named among 152 Texas counties designated as drouth disaster areas. President Eisenhower announced $8 million in federal funds to aid cattlemen in drought counties of Texas and Oklahoma, to reimburse feed price differences under price support operations. Local committees will screen applications. funds not to bail out sideline farming.
The local Church of Christ announces a summer meeting starting Friday evening July 3 through July 12 with daily services at 10 am and 8 pm. Wilson Wallace of Oklahoma City will preach and Garland Johnson will direct the singing. Wallace is 28, a University of Oklahoma graduate, and has held meetings in many states. The open air services will be on the east side of the building. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Funeral services for Paschal Sartwell of Palacios and former Comanche resident will be held Saturday morning July 4 at St Matthew's Episcopal Church in Comanche according to word received here.
Comanche will observe Independence Day by closing Saturday, July 4, as has been the custom for over 25 years. Some firms will stay open on Sunday or holiday, with notices in this issue indicating those remaining open. Hospital note: H. E. Waggoner at Temple Veterans’ Hospital recovering well.
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