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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1961
Page
3
Fragmentary text mentions Chester McKinzie and Patti and youth travel in Texas with names like Austin and Durham context unclear and incomplete.
Miss Jeanne Cagle, to wed Joe Cauley of Lubbock on June 4, was feted with multiple pre nuptial events at homes in Brownwood and at the Holiday Inn. Hosts included Mrs. McCullough and others. attendees enjoyed brunches, a gadget shower, a spinster dinner, and a bingo gift game, with arrangements featuring gardenias, blue and white decor, and a cake-like centerpiece. The groom’s parents hosted a rehearsal dinner at the Holiday Inn on June 3.
Gayle Harris has been elected president of the Gustine High School Student Council for the coming year, having served in the post in 1960-61. Cheerleaders will be Janice Kee, Peggy Hungerford, Geleta Priddy, Pat Haggard, Dianne Adcock. majorettes head Diana Harwick with Gayle Allen and Sharon Moore as assistants.
Sealed proposals to construct 7.943 miles of graded road from FM 1689 0.6 miles south of Sidney to SH 36 in Comanche will be received by the Texas Highway Department in Austin until 9 00 AM June 20 1961. Plans and specs including minimum wage rates are at Glenn G. Trotter's office in Comanche and the Austin office.
Here from Waco F D Coker, formerly of Comanche, who has worked with the A and P Food Stores in Waco for 16 years, has been back in Comanche the past two weeks as head of the local A and P Store while Store Manager Jimmy Warren was on vacation.
Former Indian basketball coach Mike Murphy visited Castleberry High in Fort Worth on Saturday. Terrell residents Mr and Mrs Angus Dickson Jr and their sons were visitors in Terrell on Sunday.
A memorial poem honors the late A J Coker Jr by Mrs Lonnie Hicks with lines of loss, memory, and a hopeful reunion in heaven. Separately, Paul Ray McKinzie, 1961 Comanche High School graduate and student council president, enrolls in the University of Texas summer session as a pharmacy major.
Otis Johnson, a 1961 Comanche High School graduate, enrolled this summer in a business college in Austin. Mike Kendrick of Harlingen visited his grandmother Mrs Gracie Robertson and other relatives and friends here last week.
The Comanche Chief notes new Texas Almanacs available in paperbound copies for 1.65 dollars, mail 1.79, and cloth bound at 2.00 dollars, mail 2.24, offering readers updated yearly data and reference material.
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