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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1957
Page
1
Various retailers advertise weekend bargains across town. Beal back in operation with fuel and forage specials. Up sale stores invite shoppers to preview furniture and household goods. Gore's announces early hours and menu items while Morton’s promotes dress and food assortments. A Brownwood reunion set for June 23 in Cogwood with plans ongoing.
Kirkland's Bargain Store a new and used furniture firm owned by Alton Kirkland, his wife Mrs. Alton Kirkland, and Frank Kirkland, opens formally Saturday in the Higginbotham building. Alton is a former Comanche County Judge. he remains Atwood Hatchery production manager as his wife and father run the shop. Passengers are not permitted on the navigator's bridge when a vessel is underway.
County FHA loans near 400 000 dollars were advanced in Comanche County over ten months ending April 30 1957. Farmers Home Administration reports 393 670 dollars loaned to farmers, with 18 500 Texas farmers aided for 54 773 dollars in operating emergency and real estate losses. State Director Walther T McKay notes rising demand from family-type farmers for long term credit and plans next year operations with National Administrator Kermit Hansen.
A revival meeting will be held at Mercer Gap Baptist Church from June 30 through July 7. Rev. W. G. Self of Comanche County Baptist will preach and Al Tucker will lead the song service. Everyone is invited to attend and worship with us.
Comanche commemorates the 1937 CHS graduation with a June reunion at Lake Eanes Park drawing 112 attendees and awards for distances traveled and family size. Plans advance for the Comanche Amateur Rodeo June 26 27 28 featuring Lloyd and Sandy Woodley stock and a large parade with CHS band and floats.
Superintendent Joe Harper reports fifteen to twenty inquiries for the Comanche High School coaching job after Mike Murphy resigned as Indians head coach last week. The board met Monday to discuss the hire and other school business, aiming to announce a successor within two to three weeks.
Members of the Comanche IOOF Lodge will hold a family supper on July per an announcement form J. W. Stark Jr an officer in the lodge We expect a good turnout of members and families and urged everyone to plan to attend Details will be in next week's Chief.
Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Wilson of Los Angeles, California travel to visit Mrs. Sam Switzer, the wife’s mother, during a family trip.
Plans near completion for the Comanche 1957 Rodeo Parade set next Thursday at 5:00 pm. The parade includes floats and a western mounted division with about 150 riders. Sponsored by the Comanche Jaycees, prize money totals 50 dollars for top floats with 25 for first, 15 for second, and 10 for third.
W C House, Sinclair agent, marks 35 years in oil and gasoline business in the area. He began with Pierce Oil in 1930, later Sinclair. he runs ten service stations and is active with the Lions Club and Methodist Men. He and Alice School Halliday celebrate their 27th wedding anniversary.
Mr and Mrs Joe Waring of Comanche announce the birth of a son Samuel Joseph Carson at Brownwood hospital on June 15 weighing eight pounds two ounces Grandparents are Mrs Frances Waring and Mr and Mrs G Preston Tate Comendia The baby is named for a great uncle linked to Texas history including Carson County and roles in state government and diplomacy
A Social Security officer will be in Comanche each Thursday starting July 11, announced by assistant district manager Ralph T. Fisher. Previously officers visited on Tuesdays twice a month. business will be transacted in the County Courtroom at 10 a.m. each Thursday after July 11.
Twenty-two Comanche Boy Scouts with Scoutmasters Eugene Perkins and Gilmore Durham plus several fathers finished a week at Camp Billy Gibbons 17 miles southwest of Richland Springs. Troop 74 won Adventure Trail top honors with 1,279 points, Explorer Creath Davis earned a Sharpshooter badge and Order of the Arrow, while Jim Jarratt advanced to Second Class and Stanley Rauhut earned a canoeing merit badge.
An oil test was spudded Monday on the Cliff Pettit ranch two miles southwest of Energy with a 1000 foot offset from a heavy gas producer drilled last year. The drill is by Irish Drilling Company Eastland with Terrell Ot Co Fort Worth in charge and aims for the Marble Fall formation at about 2800 feet. Lone Star Gas recently completed a line to Pettit No 1 Gas Well, a heavy producer. Humble Oil and Refining Company wildcat drilling miles south of Gustine passed the 3000 foot mark this week.
Mrs Mittie Pope wife of Roy Pope Comanche died suddenly in a Lubbock hospital after a stroke at home Tuesday funeral rites planned for Thursday in Lubbock with burial in a city cemetery She had lived in Comanche and Lubbock portions of nearly twenty five and twelve years respectively She served as nursery superintendent for a Lubbock church Surviving are husband Roy Pope two sons Collier Pope Houston Joe Lewis Lubbock and daughter Miss Novice Lewis SMU faculty
Visiting in the home of Mrs. W. H. Hamilton are her children and grandchildren Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cowen and son Joey of Dimmit Texas Mr. and Mrs. Harold Murph and Annie and Johnny of Orange Mrs. Les Tye and children Dickie Kenny and Beverly of Fort Worth
The Red Cross announces a Water Safety Aide course to begin Monday at 9 am at the Lake Eanes Pool taught by Gayle McNutt. The program trains instructors for Learn To Swim lessons, open to Junior and Senior Life Saving certificate holders, with July 8 planned for swimmer classes. Fifteen youths enroll in current life saving courses this week.
Undefeated Saint in 8-0 record faces city champions Top-TS in a twin bill on Friday night. Earlier, Gustine and the Raiders split. Tuesday results showed the Toppers beat Gustine 13-10, and the Saints topped Gustine 8-2 after trailing 2-0. Next games list Dudley's vs Gustine and Toppers vs Raiders.
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