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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1966
Page
1
The county agricultural agents plan a peanut production tour starting in Frio with a 1800 acre target, visiting irrigation sites and the Frio Agricultural Research Farm. Participants will observe harvesting and peanut demos led by Eldred A Jordan and Aaron Baxter, with contact details for the office by July 27.
The TV and Small Service department at Walker's Apple Pub Smith hires Mrs J D Walls as a technician. The shop in Houston, operating under Thrif-Tee Food Store, adds repair experience in black and color televisions. Mrs Smith and Mrs Barbara 3, residents near 1109 North, attend the local church.
The fifth annual 4-H Tomato and Flower Show occurs Saturday July 23 at the Comanche courthouse. Entries are due by 12 noon at the Extension office with judging starting at 1 pm. Exhibits run until 3 30 pm in the ground floor hall.
T. J. Davidson age 31 has been employed by the Comanche Independent School District Board to fill the Vocational Agriculture vacancy created by Elam Miles resignation. He comes from Formey where he taught V A for six and a half years and holds BS from East Texas State College and MS from the University of Kentucky. He and his wife and two daughters attend the Methodist Church. His record shows excellence in classwork shop work and project work.
A July discovery on a 24 acre peanut farm near Gustine in Comanche County reveals a sitting skeleton with an embryonic horned skull and two cerebrae. Artifacts include red war paint and flint fragments. experts will analyze to identify the owner and date the remains.
The Comanche ISD school board named Orville Hale to teach high school mathematics for the next school year. Hale, 56, previously taught 19 years at Downfield Public School and 26 years overall. He is a graduate of Galdfthwaite High School Tarleton State College Howard Payne University and Texas Tech. He is married with a wife who has taught elementary education in Brownfield and they attend a Baptist church. Hale seeks a furnished apartment.
Longtime basketball mentor Ted Jones, who led Hamilton High School for twenty years, resigns to take a similar coaching position at another school, ending a two-decade era of teams and player development.
Comanche High School announces the resignation of Troy Norris after five years as principal and two years as a teacher. He will become high school principal at Herne Texas. His sons graduated from CHS and Mrs Norris works at State National Bank.
TV Cable Service of Comanche completes new trunk lines to all sections of town and proceeds to install service lines to individual homes, improving local access to television service.
Victor Scott of Gold Kist Peanut Growers watched the first 1966 peanut crop unload at the Comanche plant. The peanuts, grown and harvested by Fd Mann of Charlotte Texas, were bought by Gold Kist at Pleasanton on July 11. The 170 acre crop arrived two weeks early.
Tim Fleming from Baylor will lead a Summer School of Church Music at First Baptist Church of foamanche July 25 29. The program offers classes for all ages with books Sing from Your Hearts Lets Make Music and The Beginning Music Reader. A leaders class for child choirs runs 10 am daily. Evening attendance is open to all denominations 7 to 8 40 pm with a concert on Friday July 29 at 7 pm. Travis Shelton and Jon Wiles lead the program as church hosts.
The 26th annual Comanche Amateur Rodeo drew a near capacity crowd after a colorful parade on July 14. Roping Club President Ernest McDougal thanked supporters as Queen Bettye Barret was crowned, with runners-up Vicki Pipes and Vicki Gaines.
Quinton Allen formerly of Lubbock opens a Town and Country Store one mile from the overpass on Gustine Highway. The new shop sells fruit and produce with groceries. Open six days a week and Sundays after noon. The Allens live with their one year old daughter on Route 1 Comanche.
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