New GI Bill Expands VA Benefits To Post1955 Veterans
The Veterans Administration reminds that the new GI Bill applies to veterans who served after January 31, 1955, with eligibility based on six months active duty. Benefits include education payments from $139 to $175 monthly, high school support, on the job training stipends, farm training payments, flight training coverage, and VA loan guarantees up to $7,590 for homes, plus medical care eligibility for those serving after January 21, 1955.
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Veterans Administration
Joseph R. Warren
Veterans County Service
Food Show Set At Comanche County 4-H March 16
Comanche County 4-H Foods and Nutrition leaders invite girls and the public to a Favorite Foods Show Saturday in the Texas Power and Light Company Petty Room in Comanche. Judging 1 to 3 pm, public viewing 3 to 4 pm. Senior winners advance to the April District Favorite Food Show. Also notes VA veteran benefits and Civil Service preferences.
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Comanche County
Texas Power & Licht Hos Ptetty
Comanche
Farmers Can MakeExtra$$$$ On Recreation
Comanche county landowners can earn extra income by leasing hunting and fishing rights. A Technical Action Pool with representatives from FSA, Soil Conservation, Extension, ASCS and Vocationals will inventory landowners interested in leasing land or water. Recreation demand rises as population grows and spaces fill on weekends and holidays. Prices vary from 50 cents to 1 dollar for fishing to 200 250 per section for quail hunting and 10 to 15 dollars per day for deer hunts.
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Tromen L. Renshaw
Comanche County
Porel
Farmers Home Administration
Soil Conservation Service
Extension Service
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Texas
Teves
Fourteen Seniors Named Honor Graduates
Fourteen seniors have been named as senior honor graduates for a high school. To qualify a student must maintain an average of at least 90 over four years. Honorees include Larry Blackwood Gale Carpenter Donnie Daniels Jerry Ellis Cardyn Foreman Jimmy Hareik Cheryl Horton Asa Sallie Huffman Lynn Kivler Karen O'Brien Elaine Ripley Gwinn Summers Gay Waggoner and Kent Wiles.
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Larry Blackwood
Gale Carpenter
Donnie Daniels
Jerry Ellis
Cardyn Foreman
Jimmy Hareik
Cheryl Horton
Asa
Sallie Huffman
Lynn Kivler
Karen O’brien
Elaine Ripley
Gwinn Summers
Gay Waggoner
Kent Wiles
Juniors Take NMS Test in Thirteenth Year of Program
Thirty one juniors took the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test on Tuesday February 27, lasting about three hours. Finalists will be chosen to take a senior year exam to determine scholarship recipients. The program, started in 1955 with Ford Foundation and Carnegie Corporation grants, has awarded numerous scholarships.
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Grant Street
Ford Foundation
Carnagie Corporation
Election notice sets date for two trustees in Comanche ISD
The Comanche Independent School District board announces an April 6, 1968 election to fill two trustee seats. The poll will be in the Homemaking Cottage on the high school campus. The move was approved by the trustees and signed by President W. E. Clemens and Secretary Wm. G. Parker. The notice also mentions grant funding and a garden club meeting with specific hostesses and a program.
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Board of Trustees
Conandhs Independent School District
Tow.j
W. E. Clemens
Estes Dudtry
Clyde Williams
Wayne Stewart
Wm. G. Parker
L. L. Dukes, Jr
Sid Carney
Board of Trades of
Camanche Independent School District
Beard
Eltas Dudley
Sid Carney, Jr
Comanche Independent Schocl
W. E. Clemons
Comanche Independent School District
Brazos Electric Adds Patrick Lynch For Industrial Growth
Brazos Electric Power Cooperative expands its 5.7 county service area with Patrick Lynch joining the staff to lead commercial and industrial development. Lynch, 26, UT graduate, arrives from Pasadena after assisting the city mayor for about a year and a half.
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Hollis Dalton
Brazos Electric Power Cooperative
Patrick Lynch
Brazos
Lynch
John Etheredge
University of Texas
Pasadena
Political Announcements By District and County Officials
Officials announce candidacies and names for Congress State Representative Tax Assessor-Collector County Attorney Sheriff and Commissioners with district precinct details and party chair. Piping by UNICEF mentions rural clean water would span routes from Montreal to New Orleans.
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Unicef
Montreal
New Orleans
Bonners Visit Comanche With Hallmarks and Boyds
Irving residents Mr. and Mrs. Larry Bonner and son Jimmy spent the weekend in Comanche with Mr. and Mrs. James Hallmark and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Boyd, meeting relatives and enjoying time together.
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James C. Wilkerson VI
Austin
Comanche
D. F. Caraway
Wilkerson
Larry Bonner
Jimmy
James Hallmark
Lewis Boyd
Pecos Visit Brought By Brightman Party
Pecos visitors Oswell Brightman and Miss Berta Brightman were accompanied to Pecos to visit Mrs. Brightman over the weekend by Tom Brightman and Mike Fisher of Austin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oswell Brightman
Berta Brightman
Pecos
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State
Rexall
Durham
Mennen’s
Colgate
GLEEM
Mc Gillette
Ently
Durhan
Faster Seal Research Foundation
Garden Club
Mrs. Elmo Mongomery
Mesdames
A. D. Anderson
Nick Higginbotham
W. C. Chilton
Charles Boyd
J. N. Isham
Ris In
Stanley Sstation
Raymon Hicks
Harvey Netherland
East Central
Sarita
Brazos Electric
Omar Burleson
Jones County
Everett J
Esb
Grindstafe
Runnels County
Idk
Lynn Nasers
Brown County
Bert Massey
Marilyn
Elrod
Co. C. Hampton
Gaston Boykin
Ardell Ellis
Claud Jones
Homer ED Miller
Irvin Dunn
HW. L. Kemp
Democratic
Alda Arthur
Irving
Norman
Harelik
NEW Dawn Reg
Contac
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Rosser
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O.J
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Colgate 100
Bram Conner and
Gorge
Maalox
Santa Fe
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