It's Clean To Week In Comanche
The town promotes a Clean To Week from Monday through Saturday with city trucks offering free trash pickup on Thursday through Saturday and requests residents to place rubbish by curbs. Various local stores advertise specials, freebies, and events including cookie coffee at Piggly Wiggly, Dollar Days at Mullican's, a Hall Mercantile birthday cake drawing, and a Soil Conservation Issue upcoming in The Comanche Chief.
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Piggliy Wigely
J.C. Biggs
Piggly Wigely
Mullican’'s
Del-Monte
Hall Mercantile
Hall's
Heavy Rain Fills Lakes Tackling Comanche Water Shortage
Heavy rain swept Comanche County with 3.15 inches and caused lakes to rise sharply. Lake Tomancin reached a 12-foot gain near record levels, Lake Comanche rose 4 feet, and Lake Eanes gained 12 feet but stayed below the spillway. Local water rationing ended as supplies improved.
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Comanche
Lake Caranche
Lake Wanes
Comanche County
Blan
New Mexico
Texas
Tomancin
Lake Comanche F
Lake Eanes
Baptist Workers Conference Set At Beattie May
The Comanche County Baptist Workers Conference meets at Beattie Baptist Church on Thursday May 7 with moderator Henry O Wardlow hosting. The theme is Looking Toward Our Revivals This Summer and the program runs 6 30 pm fellowship 7 00 board and WM A meetings 7 30 lone service 7 45 devotions 8 00 prayer for a revival 8 25 Jesus Seeking the Lost 8 50 sermon 9 20 adjourn.
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Comanche County Baptist Workers’ Conference
Beattie Baptist “Church
Mont
Henry O. Wardlow
Decil Fisher
Floyd Flem
Bill Carroll
Jesus
Bill Ingram
Bill Sullivent
Clean Up Week Set Here For May 4 Thru 9
Comanche to hold a city wide Clean Up Week from May 4 to May 9 with free rubbish pickup by city trucks. Residents should place sacks or boxes of trash along curbs for collection on Thursday and Saturday. Mayor Roy Brannan calls the effort vital for public health city beautification and property protection. Mrs. J D Stevens visited Munday Texas over the weekend.
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Comanche
Roy Brannan
Brannan
City of
Sid ey And Brownwood Youths Die In Dublin Area Crash
Three Tarleton students were killed or badly injured in a traffic accident near Dublin. Dwane Feril and Kenneth Jenkins died, Ray McDonald from Blanket was hospitalized with injuries. The crash occurred late at night on U S Highway 67 371 amid drizzle and slick roads.
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Smashep
John Mark Spruill
Lee Spruill
van Dyke
Duncan Creek
John Mark
Comanche
Gorman
Young Spruill
Dwane
Larry Feril
Ormal R. Feril
Sidney
Kenneth Charles Jenkins
C. A. Jenkins
Brownwood
Dublin
Amd
Ray Ory McDonald
Young Jenkins
Fern
McDonald
Medical Arts Hospital
Makime
Tarleton
Stephenville
Jenkins
Jenkin
Fernl
Bill Roberts
Dwane Larry
Sidney Baptist Church
Pindergrass
Sidney High School
Dean Howell
Kenneth Jenkins
Holland Food Store
Jones County
Coggin Avenue
Eastlawn
Shorty Edmondson
Roy Elbert Kennedy
Rt. 1
Brady
E. W. Murray
Melvin
Grammar School PTA Final Meeting May 7
The Grammar School PTA will hold its final meeting for the present term on Thursday May 7 at 3 30 p m in the Grammar School Library. Rev Chambers of the First Baptist Church will speak on Living With Our Children and music will be provided by Grammar School pupils. All members are urged to attend.
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Edna Harris
Grace Tate
Comanche West Ward
Alvin Keesee
Charles Hall
Freddie Lynn Chappell
Gary Croker
Billy McNutt
Phil Cogburn
Charles McNutt
Grammar School Pta
Grammar School
Chambers
First Baptist Church
Church Women To Meet Friday In Christian Church
Placards announce United Council of Church Women program at the Christian Church on Friday May 1. A 12 30 covered dish luncheon follows. theme Citizenship Our Christian Concern. The piece urges women to engage with city councils state legislatures and national congress to combat corruption and promote peace and justice.
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United Council of Church Women
Christian Church
National Congress
Funeral Services Friday for Claud L Millican 79
Claude L Millican 79 died Wednesday afternoon April 29 at his home 706 W Cherokee. Services Friday May 1 at Comanche Funeral Home with burial in Antioch Cemetery Brown County. Survived by five children Ben Odessa Jim Sipe Springs Bryan Comanche Curtis Comanche and Mrs Robert Davenport Fort Worth.
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Claude L. Millican
Cherokee
Comanche
Antioch Cemetery
Brown County
Blanket
Comanche County
Brown
Pentecostal Youth Rally Set For Blum Texas
The Youth Rally in Blum Texas runs May 1 to May 2 with Friday night opening and Saturday Bible study. Rev. James Kilgore will deliver the night address. Local youths are urged to participate in the district event.
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Pentecostal
Blum
Texas
James Kilgore
Grammar School Operetta Mississippi Melody Thursday Night
Comanche Grammar School sixth to eighth graders present Mississippi Melody in two acts on Thursday May 7 at 7 30 in the High School Auditorium. The show follows Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a small Mississippi River town filled with humor romance and adventure. The cast features Ronnie Bagley Billy Norwood Joe Harper and many others with student tickets at 15 cents and adult tickets 40 cents.
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Comanche Grammar School
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Mississippi River
Ronnie Bagley
Billy Norwood
Joe Harper
Larry Morris
Ben Bowers
Roger Croker
Sidney
Stanley Smith
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Dale Isham
Steamboat Sam
James Ruth
Jim
Jesse Chancellor
Sereny Harper
Juanita Sellers
Susy Harper
Jolene Manchester
Becky Thatcher
Polly McCullough
Widow Douglas
Laura Hilliard
Miss Watson
Glenda Day
Sally Phelps
Judy Helmsley
Flla Mae Phelps
Mattie McEwin
Mammy
Linda Hayes
De Leon adds John Adcock as Frigidaire Maytag salesman
The De Leon territory gains John Robert Adcock as the new Frigidaire Maytag salesman for Philco Appliances representing Service Drug Store Comanche. He previously worked for Higginbotham's in De Leon and brings track like details from regional events.
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John Robert Adcock
DE Leon
Maytag- Philco Appliances
Comanche
Mr. Adcock
Higginbotham’s
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J. D. Stevens
Munday, Texas
Proffitt Studio
Crenencne
Pvt
Jack N. Moore
H. B. Moore
Gustine
Anti-Aircraft Artillery Replacement Center
Fort Bliss
Proffitt
PTA
Claud L. Millican
Biggs
Holbrook
Winters
Turner
Odell
Webb
Albany
Bocthe
Lampasas
Wash
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Maynard
Davis
Small
Colorado City
Cisco
Bean
Hamlin
Owens
Fields
Taylor
Ellwood
Thompson
Mayo
John Gary
Snyder
McNutt
Awalt
Adams
Wilson
Radford
Singleton
Marble Falls
Mobley
Roland Smith
Kelly
Hymer
Burkhart
Smith
Stamfhard
Anson
Eklund
Harlow
Jerry Sessom
Tie
Pyburn
Rudder
Wood
Meek
Sessom
Bucky Nix
Roscoe
Bob Cleveland
Herman Johnson
Terrell
Miles
Cosby
Johnson
Terre
Warsaw
Ike Tennison
Burk
Melvin Borchert
Comanche High School
Indians
Colorado City Wolves
San Saba
Rochester
Junction Eagles
Bulldogs
Don Maynard
Weldon Turner
Billy Wilson
Lloyd Biggs
Weldon Hicks
Kenneth McNutt
Jerry Pyburn
Austin
Calvin Lee
Bobby Radford
Corbell
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