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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1943
Page
1
Motor vehicle owners must obtain a use tax stamp from the post office for 5.00 each and affix it to their vehicle by July 1 1943. The face shows the amount and the back notes to record the stamp serial number in case of loss. A heavy penalty applies for violations and stamps are available at any post office.
W Baggett, aged eighty six, renews as chief for the 60th time. Born in Comanche County in 1857, he recalls reading The Times since its earliest days in the seventies.
The Comanche market sold native wheat to Comanche Milling for $1.00 per asher on June 18. A. O. Whaley of De Leon inherits £40,000 from M. W. Ables. Comanche Baptists plan a $50,000 church, pastor Dr. Forrest Maddox, with finance committee members listed. A Gustine reunion marks a 103rd birthday celebration for J. F. Banner’s father. Local marriages, school enrollments, and a town directory with humorous program notes accompany a College Hall moment announcement.
Farmers urged to sell scrap iron now before an Army farm to farm drive moves in to collect iron for government use. Mr Hoffmann soon begins loading his 36th car of scrap iron for shipment from Comanche as local marts run hot.
Mothers are invited to attend a Girl Scout meeting at 8:00 tonight in the courthouse. The district adviser will attend and Miss Dena Lou Cox leads the Junior Girl Scouts known as The Brownies. Seven to eleven year old girls from Siobe are the focus as about seventeen girls have enrolled and more are expected.
The First Methodist Church of Comanche raised over 2100 in three hours to clear all remaining indebtedness on the 50,000 church building completed in 1929 under Rev. R. J. LaPrade. The tabernacle and lot across the street were sold to fund improvements and future repairs.
A P Cox was elected head of Lions after D W Long won a vote to succeed Harry Melows per a brief local notice.
Private Joe Clate Carnes is reported as home on furlough with details indicating service status and pending returns. The brief notes his name and military status while at home.
Hilton Burks states the county plans likely to include a countywide singing event this year.
Kenneth Foster graduates from a seven month intensive course in aircraft radio and electrical equipment as a aviation radio technician second class. The Corpus Christi trainee and class members are being assigned to operational bases shore establishments and fleet units to support the war effort against the Axis powers.
Mrs. A. P. Cox, chairwoman of the Comanche County Surgical Dressing Center, announces an emergency quota of Red Cross surgical dressings. The center will be open weekdays afternoons and Monday mornings, plus Tuesday and Thursday nights, and invites teenage girls and all volunteers to help meet the War Department’s urgent demand for bandages.
Charles Wetzel formerly of Fort Worth with work at Inter-State Theatres Mon Ward and J R Auto Company has entered the Army. He will be stationed at Mather Field to train as a navigation cadet, with Lt Wetzel to fly cadets.
Mrs Sherwood McDonald was elected and installed as leader of the Co manche Eastern Chapter for the year. She succeeds Mrs Tom Dudley and leads a full slate of officers including Esfield Worthy Matron and Tom Worthy Associate Matron with R J Bean as Associate Patron.
A six percent interest and eight percent additional penalty will be charged on all 1942 taxes unpaid before July 1. The notice references state law and cites Assessor-Collector P. A. Pettit. In Comanche County many suits have been filed for delinquent taxes. improved times may reduce nonpayment.
An aunt urges restraint on a possible strike by recalling a Comanche boy who died in a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines. He writes that he lived, fought, and would have become an American citizen, yet died far from home 10,000 miles away, awaiting aid.
Several men named for Army service such as John David Tate Harold G. Hillhouse Huey A. Laird Leroy Adams Eugene A. Durden Wade J. Milner Willard F. Decker Billy J. Edinburgh Austin N. Brinson Glen H. Robertson are inducted. Six others passed the physical and were accepted for the Navy though names are not yet released.
Pvt. Gerald D. Reeves, 22, formerly of Comanche, died last month in a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines. He was in the Philippines at the fall of Bataan and had been a prisoner since May 1942. Born in Comanche County, he moved to Abilene with his parents around 1935 and is nephew of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Williams of Comanche.
John Dyer, former Comanche High School athletic coach, was commissioned as a second lieutenant after graduating from officer's candidate school at Camp Lee Virginia. He has served thirteen months in the quartermaster corps and will attend a month's training at Fort Sam Houston before reporting to Camp Lee for his regular Army assignment.
Singers and lovers of music are invited to attend a Sunday afternoon service at Freewill Baptist Church in Comanche two blocks south of the cabins. Charlie Marshall of Van Dyke, president, says the new books vereavens Lamp will be used.
A 1944 notice outlines withholding from salaries effective July 1 for the Pay-As-You-Go tax. It details 20 percent withholding for high earners, penalties for underpayment, and exemptions for self employed individuals and certain professionals. It notes you must file annual income reports and that total tax may exceed the 20 percent deduction.
The Comanche American Legion campaign to send cigarettes to soldiers overseas reports $535 spent and over $100 in the Legion toward a second purchase. Contributions from the county exceed prior reports as locals work toward the first or second week drive in Sidney. Jars in Comanche stores have raised about $15, with nickels funding packs and dollars buying 20 packs each for distribution to servicemen. The Comanche Lions Club adds $15 this week, with Legion ladies assisting.
I G Evridge son of Mr and Mrs Wade Evridge of Comanche and owner of a main Brady variety store was inducted into the Army Monday from Brady and is stationed at Camp Wolters temporarily. Mr and Mrs Evridge now have three sons in the Army I G Joe and Tom.
Divorce filings include Margaret Rasco versus H S Rasco in District Court. State docket Harrol Spivey found guilty of negligent homicide with a $25 fine and costs. Autoists face drunken driving charges against Ralph Plowers. bond forfeiture for failure to appear. Marriages listed for D Hodges De Leon to Gwyn Harding and Amos Gilchrest Route 1 Gorman to Amanda Odean Wilson. Army discharge noted Private Weldon D Weidner. Property transfers include Robin B Roberts to M Welch in Comanche and 5 acre Gustine tracts for $900. Land sales show W E Starkey to John Scott 165.8 acres in Gustine for $25. Earl Nelson to L M James lot in East Comanche. E Emert and others to T J Oliver in De Leon. Potential scribal errors and fragmented lines indicate multiple notices and verifications in county records.
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