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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1953
Page
1
The first Goodwill Days event in Comanche promotes cash giveaways, Hillbilly Kids entertainment, and special values from local merchants. Stores report discounts on dresses, lumber, tiles, linens, and paints plus limited time demonstrations and a postponed fabric exhibit at Dudney's Dry Cleaners.
The Comanche Garden Club will sponsor a public plant exchange on November 20 at the Veteran's Building Comanche. Plants will be received between 8 and 9 30 Friday morning. Officers note the event aids the civic beautification campaign and urge residents to bring plants.
Comanche Cub Scouts plan to raise funds by selling Christmas cards this week. Cards cost one dollar per box with proceeds aiding Cub Scout home projects. A parakeet donated by Alton Kirkland rewards the top seller with the special prize.
Comanche County peanut farmers will vote Tuesday December 15 in a referendum on marketing quotas for 1954 1955 and 1956 crops. Eligible voters include those with more than 1 acre harvested in 1953. A two thirds majority is required to approve quotas.
Mrs Ralph Hull of the Comanche Garden Club gave a demonstrated lecture at the De Leon Garden Club November program on Christmas table settings and flower arrangements. The formal table featured a white cloth with silver appointments and pink rose buds. the informal table used a red cloth with white trim. A miniature green mesh Christmas tree centerpiece, red ribbons, and small wrapped packages completed the decor alongside bisque cherub candle holders and a Santa punch bowl with mugs. Mrs Elbert Cox assisted with the demonstration.
The report lists current SW Conference members and their win percentages since joining. Texas leads at 63.3 percent, followed by TCU 57.7, SMU 54.6, Texas A&M 49.4, Baylor 46.3, with Arkansas and Rice and others implied in the sequence.
Comanche county reports total peanut weigh ins of 523 310 pounds from Nov 5 to 11 with daily top grades noted for Calvin Horton Guy Carnes Morris Walker and Jess Wilson among others. Heavy moisture and frost hold farmers out of fields though harvest progress varies by locality.
Local shoppers can expect special bargains as Goodwill Day begins next Wednesday with Eddie Jones returning as master of ceremonies. The program enjoys near total merchant backing, and activities include preparations by the Chamber of Commerce. Boyce House shifts rodeo focus to writing roles while taking publicity duties for the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show at Fort Worth.
Comanche Lions Club will underwrite a $1390 electric scoreboard for Indian Memorial Stadium. The board aims to arrive before the Cisco game on November 20. Tom Cox Jr leads the fund drive with committee members and Lions solicitors across two local banks to gather outside contributions.
Fire believed sparked by a defective stove destroyed Rex Evans’s house and contents, leaving a total loss. The local Fire Department prevented spread to adjacent buildings, and insurance partially covers the loss.
Oklahoma appears to abandon its return ambitions to the Southwest Conference after the 1918 season ending.
The United Church Women of Comanche held a September 16 program at First Methodist Church titled Our Four Great Faiths. Leaders and speakers included Mrs. Ira Clemons Mesdames Porter Franks W R Greenwaldt Tom Dudley and L D Edwards. They collected linens and clothing for Korea Germany and Palestine and funded an observer at the United Nations. Officers elected at the September meeting were Mrs Hardy Slider president Miss Mary Armstrong vice president Mrs Wm Chilton secretary and Mrs Pat Tupin treasurer.
Members from Comanche, including Rev. and Mrs. Raymond Burton and Rev. G. B. Clark, attended the Methodist Conference in Winters last week. The conference next year will be held in Santa Anna.
Comanche loses longtime barber and civic leader Joe Marshall after a stroke at De Leon hospital. Born in Austin in 1888 he moved to Comanche in 1921 and served the First Methodist Church. Funeral services were held Monday with pallbearers and choir in Oakwood Cemetery nearby his daughter Irl Marshall.
The Air Force now allows civilian high school graduates to join the Aviation Cadet Program. Previously, 60 semester hours were required. Cadets undergo four training phases and receive a monthly allowance, flight gear, housing, medical care, and a $10,000 life insurance policy. Information is available through the Brownwood Texas Recruiting Station.
Harold W. Kellum of Proctor, now a Corpus Christi Daily Caller Times cartoonist, has a vast private Texas Indian relics collection. A Comanche County boyhood arrowhead finds sparked a 17 year hobby, leading him to study UT relic literature and travel through Comanche, Erath, the Panhandle, Colorado and New Mexico. He favors Comanche items but owns pieces from other tribes, stored in boxes at home and offered to a museum or historical society. Kellum is a son of Comanche County pioneers and a Tarleton State College alumnus, after Air Force service.
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