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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1965
Page
1
A garbled sales page lists low price deals at Frozen Food Lockers and Wig store ads. Candy and candy stockups, groceries, insurance, and peppers appear amid fragmented lines praising weekly specials and price cuts.
Comanche High School hosts its second annual Red Skin Relays at Indian Memorial Stadium this Saturday March 27 with preliminaries at 1 00. Eighteen schools entered including Baird Dublin and Santa Anna defending champs. CHS athletic director Roger Oliver will oversee events with Bud Guinn starter. Admission 25 and 50 cents. gates limited to west entrance.
Ranger Junior College Choir will perform at Sunday morning worship in Comanche at First Methodist Church and again Sunday night at Hamilton First Methodist Church. The group then returns to Comanche as overnight guests. Director Kenneth E. Alford leads the choir with members from Eastland Brownwood and Houston areas among the listed personnel.
Jack Wheat of Western Hills Nursing Home Comanche was elected president of the Abilene Chapter of Texas Nursing Homes Association at the March 9 meeting. The chapter covers from Goldthwaite to Big Spring and San Angelo to Graham with about five nursing homes. Wheat attended the Texas Nursing Homes Association spring meeting in Austin March 15 16 where operators discussed new legislation. Speaker Ben Barnes addressed the noon banquet stating support for helping the elderly the crippled and the blind who cannot help themselves.
The Comanche School Board extended the contracts of Troy Norris High School principal Glen Morgan and C. E. B. Irby Elementary principals by one year through the 1966 67 school year. The board also reelected Harley Black as superintendent counselor for the 1965 66 school year.
The Comanche Camp Fire Girls will host a tea Saturday March 27 from 2 to 4 PM at the Camp Fire House. Former Camp Fire Girls will be honored guests with special guests the Bloomer Girls including Marguerite Ross Lollie Cauley Editha Dudley Sue Carnes Elizabeth Durham Kathleen Marshall Faye Belle Evans Nadine Parnell Emile Meyers and Morene Johnson. An invitation is extended to parents friends and anyone interested in the Camp Fire program.
The Ranger Junior College Choir of 122 members directed by Kenneth E. Alford will perform at the First Methodist Church Co manche for the Sunday morning service and at Hamilton Methodist Church for the evening service before returning to Comanche. The program includes seven pieces by composers such as Bach and Dickinson.
L and H Discount, Inc announces a new discount store opening in Comanche. Operated by Jonnie Lavinston and Fred Hunter, the shop will sit at 10 Sunset Center near A P in Carnes Bros is new buildings. More than 5000 items will include drug goods sporting hardware cosmetics and some clothing. The owners say the store aims to attract shoppers locally rather than steal business from nearby merchants.
CHS presents a humorous misadventure April 1 and 2 at 7 45 p m in the Comanche High School auditorium. The Maxwell family fumbles a belated twentieth anniversary as flowers arrive in the husband’s name and a lunch with Dr Gladys Gooch fuels the farce.
The Comanche Roping Club to sponsor a Quarter Horse Show on Saturday May 1. Fred R. Mabe named superintendent. The event at the Rodeo Arena is approved by the African Quarter Horse Show Association. Halter and performance classes plus Open Youth Judgings will be offered.
The annual All-Sports Banquet honoring Comanche High School athletes will be held Monday night March 29 at 7 30 in the Junior High School Cafetorium. Guest speaker Bob Wright Ballinger High School head coach holds a noted football record. Tickets are $2 and on sale by the Comanche Lions Club members.
Comanche County Extension Service wraps up a three session Farm Management Workshop from March 23 to 26 at the TP and L Hospital Room in Comanche. Cecil Parker and Billy Freeman, Farm Management Specialists from Tarleton State College and College Station, lead sessions on farm records and a simple record system. Freeman leads livestock management and irrigation costs with sessions starting at 7 30 pm Thursday and Friday.
McCullough-Jeanes True Value Hardware of Comanche has joined Cotter & Company as an owner member, linking with over 1500 True Value dealers. Cotter & Company buys by carload and stocks over 22 000 items, offering lower prices and exclusive brand lines to members in 35 states.
The Comanche Jaycees elected Don Lavender as president at their last regular meeting. Don McCraw became first vice president, Donald Spivey second vice president, Henshaw secretary treasurer, and Eddie Lee Inter-Club Director. The group plans a summer Jaycee Carnival and park improvements including restrooms and a fence at Little League Park.
The article analyzes peanut farming costs focusing on capital expenditures, ongoing operating expenses, and how operation timing affects economics. It discusses how farm size influences costs per unit and profitability under varying market and input price scenarios.
Comanche High School announced alternates for Boys and Girls State to be held in Austin this summer. Boys alternates Lynn Brown and Travis Phifer are sons of Tom Brown and Lice Phifer. Girls alternates Bonnie Day and Debbie Carney are daughters of Mire Day and Sid Carney.
Sharks rely on their strong sense of smell rather than vision to locate prey, compensating for limited eyesight with an acute olfactory system.
County Agent Angus Dickson and Comanche County Farm Management leaders announce the Beef Cattle Pocket Herd Record System, created by James R. Dickey of Texas Power & Light. The Beef Cattle Herd Record Book debuts at the March 25 workshop session, with Tomorter presenting Livestock Management and corriga tion topics.
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