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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1943
Page
2
The Comanche High School Senior Class presents The Warrior monthly, replacing the Arrowhead yearbook in spirit. The issue echoes World War II times, honors teachers and staff, and shares reflections from students on school history, war, and community pride. Rev J D Smoot and family spent the weekend in Austin.
A long list of senior students and their hobbies is recorded. Activities include reading, collecting programs and stamps, photography, sewing, fishing, singing, pen collecting, and studying. Several entries note routines such as visiting libraries, writing letters, and drawing or crafting.
The Comanche High School senior class of 1943 wraps a long stage year dating to 1932. Students from Ward and Grammar schools carried on a robust drama tradition including a rhythm band and chorus under Miss Kilpatrick Ruth King and Pattie Ruth King. The year culminated with The Pampered Darling, a Grammar School Senior Class play, featuring many familiar performers from earlier years.
A narrative recounts stage productions from Grammar School to the 1943 Senior Play Hobgoblin House directed by Miss Nobia Dunn and Mr. Carl Sutton. It lists many cast members including Marie Marshall, Bob A Freeman, Imogene Green, Thelma Hassley, Wanda Jones, David Compton, Cleve Denny, Dot Armstrong, Red Cox, and Matricia McDaniel.
The CHS senior class plans to present two silk U S and Texas Flags with stands for use in the auditorium. The gift will be presented before school closes. Class officers are Billy Monroe president Ruth Marshall vice president and Joan Jenkins secretary treasurer. Mrs J A Holmes visited Lubbock with her two sons.
Comanche High School residents rallied early in the war effort by scrap drives, talks, and supporting the Allied Armies. Students note many have relatives in the service and emphasize collective sacrifice across schools to back U S troops.
Comanche residents have purchased enough War Bonds and Stamps to buy a jeep, leaving a surplus of 779.50 dollars. The effort reflects strong local support for wartime financing and community programs.
Odell Ormsby and Betty Jean Farner are the only two pupils at Grammar School who have neither been absent nor tardy this year.
A fragmented historical piece mixes claims that democracy expanded under Andrew Jackson and later regressed, citing dubious dates such as universal manhood suffrage by 1940 and retrograde statements about labor, justice, and spirit. The text shifts between praising Jackson and nonsensical digressions about Ammonia and odors.
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