Biggie week ends without $100 prize in football pick em
Nearly 100 entrants tried to guess nine football winners with Texas favored over Baylor and several upsets. Stan Hicks wins $5 for missing one game while his father Johnny Hicks takes $3 for missing two. Tommy Wilhelm claims $2 for predicting Texas Baylor score 38. Honorable mentions go to multiple contestants with three misses.
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Pittsburg
Penn State
Texas
Baylor
Houston
Texas Tech
New Orleans
Atlanta
Stan Hicks
Johnny Hicks
Tommy Wilhelm
Emergency Feed Program and 1978 ASCS Notices
Emergency feed cost sharing available for eligible livestock owners with at least 40 percent feed production shortfall. Program pays up to 50 percent of costs, cap two cents per pound grain equivalent. Also ECM funds for livestock water wells reservoirs and cover crops on peanut land with no grazing. Sign up through December 15. Peanut marketing cards due January 1, 1978. County Committee ballots mailed by December 5, 1977. Wool and unshorn lamb receipts due for incentive payments. Office closed Thanksgiving November 24. Change of phone numbers for Farmers Home Administration and Soil Conservation Service listed.
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Kenneth G. White
ASCS
County Committee
Gustine Cagers Sweep In Rochelle Tournament
Gustine High School girls win first place in Rochelle tournament defeating Mason as Cyresse Allen Deb Gunter and Olga Escobar earn All-Tournament honors. Boys claim Consolation Trophy beating Rochelle with Larry Adams on the All-Tournament team. Junior Highs take second at Crawfills Gap with girls runner up to Clifton and boys losing Consolation to Meridian. Next week Jr High hosts May then High plays Gordon.
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Gustine High School
Rochelle
Mason
Cyresse Allen
Deb Gunter
Olga Escobar
Larry Adams
Crawfills Gap
Clifton
Meridian
J.r High
May
High School
Gordon
TX Fur Trappers Need Licenses Amid High Prices
Texans planning winter trapping are reminded to obtain a resident trapper license costing $5. A beaver or otter license is $50. Open fur seasons include mink November 15 to January 15, muskrat November 15 to March 15, and all other fur bears December to January.
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Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Gilmore and Julie Durham Visit in Waco
Mr and Mrs Gilmore Durham spent last week in Waco visiting granddaughter Julie Durham while her parents Hank and wife were away.
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Durham
Waco
Julie Durham
Mrs
Hank Durham
Comanche School Lunchroom Menus Week
Comanche School offers a weekly lunch schedule with daily main dishes and snacks. Monday features barbeque beef on bun and snack tuna sandwich. Tuesday meat loaf and hot dog. Wednesday pig in blanket and corn dog. Thursday frito pie and burrito. Friday fried steak and sloppy joe. Milk accompanies all meals.
Series E and H Bond Sales Cited
September sales of Series E and H United States Savings Bonds in Comanche County were reported by County Bond Chairman Reginald Waggoner. Nine month sales totaled $20,450, reaching 45 percent of a 1977 goal of $200,000. Texas sales for the month totaled $25,683,912 and nine month statewide sales reached $209,908,231, achieving 76 percent of a $276.9 million annual goal.
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United States Savings
Comanche County
Reginald Waggoner
Texas
Kiwanis Signs Fall To Highway Law
Kiwanis club reports that emergency aid signs on highways 67 377 and 36 were removed after a federal beautification law required permits and bonds. The signs on biway 16 remain, continuing to aid motorists.
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Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis
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Mike Mathis
Dublin
Randy Russell
Rt. 2
Brenda Hicks
Ronnie Hicks
Lurene Hicks
Jim Bob Hicks
Tony Hicks
Odis Smart
Judy Lacy
Ways and Means
ESA
Carole Brady
Ascs News
Farmers Home Administration
Soil Conservation Service
Chuck Roast
del Monte
Indian Creek
Musselman Applesauce
Ocean Spray
Thriftee Food Store
North
Lilfrl
KS Easant
Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore
Comanche
Blazers
S & L Mfg. Co
Stephenville
Coloc
Cologne
Len Bonick
Ben Franklin
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