Creighton Wins Easy Senate Runoff in 22nd District
State Senator Tom Creighton swept aside Tom Holmes in the runoff for the 22nd District. With 14 of 17 counties reporting Creighton led 50,309 to 30,400, reversing Holmes’s primary advantage after Holmes faced felony theft charges. Creighton carried all counties including Hood, as Holmes prepared for arraignment next week.
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Tom Creighton
Tom Holmes
Creighton
Holmes
Travis County
Crieghton
Mineral Wells
Hood
Senate
Reader additions swell list of Chief subscribers
Fourteen new readers join the Chief list from across Texas and nearby states. Names include E. L. Henson of Alaska, William C. Allen of Houston, Rufus W. Haggard of Dallas, John Stokes Real Estate of Dublin, and many others extending from Fort Worth to Arizona and New Mexico. Renewals also posted for out of state and county subscribers.
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E. L. Henson
Alaska
Thurber Layman
Temple
William C. Allen
Houston
Rufus W. Haggard
Loy Collie
Dallas
T. S. Green
Garden City
John Stokes
John T Allen Family Reunion Set for June 17 18
The John T Allen family long time residents of the Gustne area will gather for a reunion June 17 and 18. The Holiday Inn in Brownwood hosts the event with a spokesman inviting friends and relatives to attend.
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John T Allen
Gustne
Brownwood
Autobiography of James McGuire in Comanche history
A 90 year old reprint from The Comanche Chief reprints James Martin McGuire’s autobiographical sketch. He narrates birth in 1832 in North Carolina, emigration to Georgia and Texas, cattle work, a Civil War service as a sergeant, and a long life of farming, family, and faith in Comanche County with eleven children and ongoing health decline.
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A. P. Burks
Comanche
Comanche County
James M. McGuire
D. J. Gafford
James Martin
Mart McGuire
Rayburn County
N. C
Murray County
North Georgia
Methodist Church
John A. McGuire
Pillar
Texas
Belton
Williamson County
Dock McGuire
Brother John
John
Indian Creek
Ary Reed
Old Henry Martin
Dock
James McGuiregin
M. C. Coker
Charley Isham
Mississippi River
Galveston
Houston
Bell County
M. Coker
Coreanche County
Brother Doce
Gooch and McCoy
Brazos River
Ft. Chadbourne
Ranging Company
Ford
Amarillo
Margaret Jane Parcroft
Elisha H. Barcroft
Ergeant
Gurley
Co. G
Leon
Beaumont
James Martin McGuire
De Leon Announces Peach and Melon Festival Dates
De Leon schedules the Peach and Melon Festival for August 1 through 5 with school year changes prompting the earlier opening. Festival chair C. M. Caraway III heads a committee including vice-chair Gayle Mahan, treasurer Tommy Taylor, and secretary Mrs. Eldon Terrill.
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de Leon
C. M. Caraway III
Gayle Mahan
Tommy Taylor
Texas Voters Clean House In Austin
Voters in Austin delivered a decisive runoff as liberal and moderate incumbents fell to challengers, with Barefoot Sanders ousting Yarborough in a statewide shift. Dolph Briscoe won the governor’s race, and Bill Hobby and Wayne Connally won lieutenant governor and comptroller races respectively. Comanche County favored Creighton for Senate and Boykin for sheriff as incumbents were reelected in local contests.
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Texas
Austin
Robert S .Calvert
Barefoot Sanders
United States
Ralph W. Yarborough
John Tower
Dolph Briscoe
Clean
Briscoe
Frances ‘Sissy’ Farenthold
Corpus Christi
Houston
Bill Hobby
Wayne Connally
Heboy
Calvert
Jim Wilson
Tor Creighton
Mineral Wells
Tom Holmes
Henry Grover
Albert Fay
Frances Farenthold
Robert S. Calvert
Citation by publication in Comanche County Texas
Public notice commands Paul Ward to appear in the Comanche County District Court by July 10 1972 to answer a petition filed January 29 1972. The suit Wayne Ward et al v Ona Ward Cobb et al seeks partition of 16 6 acres of land described from the Three League Survey Lamapasas County School Land Abstract 607 with detailed boundary calls.
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State OF Texas
Paul Ward
District Court of
Comanche County
Comanche
Texas
Wayne Ward
Ona Ward Cobb
Lampasas County
R. T. James
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