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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1965
Page
1
The page notes the farewell of a County Agent and welcomes a new appointee, mentioning Hastings and Bosque County. It highlights The XTRA SAVINGS, emphasizes low prices at OTHAM'S Coman plete Store with yard items, and advertises discounts on Gruen Watch Sets, Early Furniture by Bray, and a Real Estate LAW-A-WAY Sale at Len Bonick's Ben tore.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hoover and children Patsy and Mike of San Angelo spent Sunday with their uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gaddy in Comanche. The item also notes local ads for plastic pipe, air conditioning motors, and a car dealerArthur's. A Wednesday night plea hopes for no rain tomorrow.
Masons plan a workshop for officers and members at 7 30 p m May 17 at Armstrong Lodge 445 De Leon. Attendees include officers from Comanche Sipe Springs Gustine Hico Carlton May and De Leon Lodges. Allen I Sutton Jr will conduct the program as part of a statewide semi annual effort led by Grand Master J Carroll Hinsley of Austin.
A fragmentary lyric line plays with rain imagery and suggests extending the familiar rhyme into June and July, capturing a playful, incomplete motif.
Indra Prather heads the annual CHS Senior Edition with student editors Sandra Prath and Cathy Fanning. The issue marks 29 years of The Chief published for school readers, advertisers, and features, with war news and special school ads planned for this week. Correspondents are urged to submit copy early in the week.
The Comanche Chief won Area IV Distinguished Service Award as best agriculture paper. Nomination cited three years of FFA and Young Farmers coverage across Comanche County and region, with support from Gustine, Sidney, and De Leon FFA chapters. Award presented at Dallas during Aug breakfast.
Angus Dickson Appreciation Night to be held at 7:30 p.m. in the CHS High School Auditorium with Comanche High School Indian Band directed by Jack King and Bill Parker as master of ceremonies. Regan Brown will give the keynote on community improvement, highlighting Brown’s Texas A&M background and wars service.
Plans are underway for the Miss Comanche Contest to be held at the High School Auditorium June 5, 1965. Local merchants will sponsor and girls may call Marlene Reese or Doris Gore for details. Rules require age and residency as specified and judge decisions are final.
Joe Crouch a 32 year old successful coach from Whitewright High School is named Head Coach and Athletic Director of Comanche High School. He succeeds Roger Oliver who led the program the past four years. Crouch has a strong record including a regional title after Whitewright dropped to Class B and a 27 3 2 over three seasons.
The new Comanche coach, a Texas native and three sport letterman, will teach math amid coaching duties. He played college football at Northwest Louisiana State College, holds a masters from East Texas State College, and is married with three children. The family joins the Church of Christ and moves to Comanche May 31 to teach Driver’s Education this summer.
A nearly three inch rainfall in Comanche caused flooding on S Austin St where a dip washout damaged a rock wall and barrier. damage tallied at about 800 dollars. Lightning struck TV sets causing outages and two homes suffered fire damage from Sunday and Monday storms.
The Comanche Chapter of Future Farmers was selected as the best vocational agriculture chapter in Area IV for 1964 65. Chapters submit activities. the State FFA Organization rates them. Comanche has been a top area chapter for two years and now leads. The Chapter Rating goes to the State Checking Committee to help choose Texas eight chapters for national rating at Kansas City next October.
Sunday and Monday brought heavy rains and high winds totaling about 5.70 inches with another inch on Wednesday. Farmers and ranchers hail the downpour as a million dollar rain that fills Comanche lakes Lake Proctor and Lake Eanes while Lake Comanche goes around the spillway and Lake Proctor rises to 1158.38 feet at 8 am May 13.
Comanche High School holds baccalaureate in the school auditorium on May 16 at 8 p m. Reverend John C Wiles opens with invocation followed by scripture and prayer led by Reverend B L McCord. Reverend William S Cool delivers the sermon and Mill er Hurst gives the benediction. Music direction by Jack King features Margertson Childs Jan Rob Sandra Prather Travis Joe Phifer as accompanist. List of graduates includes Franklin Abbey James Albcorn Bob Allen Paulette Anders and many others.
Jim McCall minister of the First Presbyterian Church Comanche will present the Bac calaureate Sermon at Sidney May 14 8 p m The Reverend McCall was raised in Weatherford Texas attended Schriener Institute and graduated Austin College in 1959 He studied at Union Theological Seminary Richmond Virginia and interned at St Andrews Presbyterian Beaumont He was ordained pastor of First Presbyterian Comanche March 1 1964 Married to Dian Gould of Beaumont The 4 H emblem is a green four leaf clover with a white H in each leaf representing Head Heart Hands Health.
Gustine events announce Baccalaureate on May 16 at 8 p.m. in the Gustine School Auditorium with Dr. George Tolbert as speaker. Senior exercises follow May 21 at 8 p.m. for the high school in the Gustine School Auditorium with George Luker as valedictorian and Sue Eddleman as salutatorian. Eighth grade graduation is May 20 at 8 p.m. in the High School Auditorium with Jenny Repenne as valedictorian and Harold Harrison as salutatorian.
Rodger Maddox, popular assistant coach and teacher at Comanche Junior High, is elevated to the top coaching post for the 1965 66 school year. He will succeed John Smith who resigned. Maddox is a Howard Payne College graduate and serves his first year in the role.
Mr Edward L Kirk Assistant Professor of Education and Psychology at Abilene Christian College will present the Commencement Act at Sidney High School May 21 at 8 p.m The speech title is What You Can Do for Your Country He previously taught in his hometown and at ACC Campus School and has earned the George Washington Honor Award from Freedoms Foundation three times He writes for a nationwide radio program and lives in Abilene with his wife Yuvena and two children.
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