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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1945
Page
4
A farmer advertises service for a stallion named Jack for breeding at a Ham place north of Comanche with pasture and water. Another notice from Starkie's Hatchery in Gustine offers week old pullets and young cockerels from tested flocks with a guarantee on all stock.
Col Curtis D Renfro, Texas native and Comanche High School graduate, receives Bronze Star for gallant river crossing leadership and Silver Star for coordinating defense under heavy bombing in a vitally strategic city in the European Theater of Operations. Oscar Callaway of Comanche reported the citations.
Work is underway at the old Bailey Stock Yards on West Grand to construct a feed mill operated by Dave Cunningham and his son Herbert and son in law H R Craddock. Stock pens and sheds have been torn down with repairs and additions to the warehouse.
Grady O Ripley returned to Hoff General Hospital Santa Barbara California after a 30 day furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs George E Ripley Comanche Rt a Set Ripley was wounded in the left arm and foot by mortar fire on January 13 while in action in Belgium He wears the Purple Heart Com bat Infantryman s Badge Good Conduct Medal and European theater of operations ribbon He has three and one half years service in the Army a year overseas He has two brothers in the service Sir William T Ripley Shoemaker California and Pvt Robert E Ripley Camp Leonard Wood Missouri
Lt. Fred Capp led the Inf Division unit that seized Tomb Hill on Okinawa as U S forces repelled a Japanese counter assault next day. Soldiers including Set. Robert H Jones of Russellville Alabama woke comrades and riflemen held forward positions for hours. Pfc Woodrow Ellenburg of Mansfield Louisiana and Pfc Charles Potter of White Earth Minnesota also helped repel the assault.
Second Lieuten ant Billy J. Gregory of Comanche aged 21 serving as navigator on an Eighth Air Force B 17 earned an Oak Cluster to his Air Medal for meritorious achievement during bombing attacks on Nazi targets. He previously won the medal and is the son of Rev and Mrs E G Gregory of 406 North Houston Street. He attended Howard Payne College before joining the RAF in August 1943.
In 1876 W. S. Ikard brought the first registered Hereford cattle to his Henrietta area Texas ranch. Many died of cattle fever before Ikard established the first immunized registered herd in 1885.
A note on insect biology states that sugar feeding species of flies do not produce eggs. The finding highlights metabolic limits and reproductive patterns among sugar reliant insects.
Mrs Mae Rogers at Mrs Andy Roberts Mill Street Comanche seeks practical nursing workers day or night. Also listed are Pfc W T Barfield 22 of Comanche Tex and Pfc Valentine Lazzaretto 20 of Centerville Ia.
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