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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1955
Page
5
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Relatives from Brownwood De Leon Rising Star and Rising areas gathered for the funeral of Ms A Payne on Monday. Attendees included Mr and Mrs P Brownwood Mrs Jim Brewer Mrs Willie Brewer Mr and Mrs Jack McKeehan Lon Dunsworth Mrs Wimburn and Mrs Brett Alexander among others.
Reverend E E Barber, pastor at Hasse Baptist Church, returns to lead Sunday services after a month away due to his son and daughter in law’s serious car wreck injuries near Midland. The Barbers’ daughter is Mrs Ward Driskill of Comancts and Mrs Barber is out of hospital. Mr Barber will remain hospitalized for three to four weeks.
There will be no services this weekend at Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church. Services resume Tuesday night and Wednesday morning and night with Rev. Len Dalton preaching. Sug Rasco visited Mr. and Mrs Underwood Tuesday.
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon, July 19, in Fort Worth for Max G. Heidler 65, husband of the former Fort Guthrie of Comanche. Heidler, a retired produce salesman, died Saturday after an extended illness. Burial was at Greenon Cemetery, Fort Worth. He was born in Carlsbad Austria and had lived in Fort Worth forty years. Attending from Comanche were Jim Guthrie and others with Guthrie surname.
Odessa youth Mac Glenn Monroe is visiting his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Patton and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Monroe in Comanche this week.
W A Payne longtime Comanche County resident and former Eight Gun manager died in Brownwood Hospital on Sunday July 17 after a stomach illness. Funeral at First Methodist Church with Rev Lightfoot and Rev Burton officiating followed by interment in Oakwood Cemetery. Survived by widow Lucy Blanche Brewer Payne three sons Johnny Vance Wayne and daughter Bettie Lou plus five grandchildren.
In Comanche County producers with at least thirty days ownership of sheep six months or older between January 1 and voting time may vote on whether the Secretary of Agriculture should withhold one cent per pound from incentive payments for a wool promotion campaign run by the American Sheep Producers Council. Ballots were mailed to all known sheep growers about ten days ago and voting continues at the County ASC Office through August 19 1955.
Geyik describes Turkish agriculture with 14 acre averages, tobacco and wheat as key crops, 40 percent use tractors, and small farms dominate. He notes 98 percent Muslim population, compulsory military service about two years, and Turkey being a republic since 1923 with seven parties since 1945. He compares Colorado to Turkey and finds Condanche County appealing.
Archie Boyd was treated in Comanche after a Black Widow bite at his Sidney area home last Thursday. He became quite ill but has since recovered.
First Methodist Church invites worshipers to Sunday services as Rev J W Whitefield, recently appointed Superintendent of the Brownwood District, preaches at 7 30 p m and 10 50 a m. He recalls past service here and launches a sermon series The Will of God. Connie Grainger from Shreveport La will sing and WSCS Guild observe their 15th anniversary with a joint program Mrs Lightfoot soloist and all women invited to attend
Here From Midland Mr. and Mrs. Claborn Kerley and children of Midland spent the week-end in Comanche with Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Kerley.
Clarence Nordyke a Texas Ranger stationed in Brownwood for over a decade and known in the Comanche territory was killed instantly in a car wreck near Merizon four miles east during heavy rain at about 7:15 Monday morning July 18. He served at Brownwood from 1943 to 1953 before transfers to San Angelo and Ozona for the last eighteen months.
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