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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1940
Page
1
Jordie Jones city secretary and tax collector for the Comanche Independent School District announces taxes for 1940 will be due starting October 1 and payable by May 1, 1941 to avoid penalties. City rate $1.45 and school district $1.00, total $2.45, with state and county taxes at the courthouse.
County schools adopt a hot lunch program using surplus commodities from the Federal Government. District 8 in Waco receives monthly allotments including pears, milk, prunes, and raisins with additional items such as rice and meat. County officials praise cooperative superintendents and trustees and invite discussion with parents and teachers.
The Comanche Indians travel to Brady to face the undefeated Bulldogs who have thumped Rochelle 21 0 and Cross Plains 39 0 to start the season. Brady backs include Sesson Schultz and Kennedy with coaches Glenn Frazier and John Dyer stressing defense and new plays. The Indians expect a shuffled lineup with Edwards, Ritchie, and others, plus a 54 piece band and a chartered bus for thirty squad members and staff.
Gustine High School defeated Sidney 12 to 7 on Thursday night in Comanche. Delmasso scored for Gustine from three yards in the first quarter and Barnett added a five yard TD in the third. Ward and Yancey connected on two late four yard passes for Sidney, with Douglas converting the extra point.
Comanche Garden Club met September 19 at Mrs. Clara Slack home with Mrs. J B Albcorn presiding. Mrs. Harold Denny elected secretary replacing Mrs. George G. Smith. An instructive paper on the club’s value to the community was read by Mrs. T J Williams. Next meeting set for October with Mrs. Bob Stanton.
In observance of Jewish holidays Hoffmans will close next Thursday and Friday October 3 and 4 until 12 30 p m.
The Comanche Band Mothers report 555.65 in the band uniform fund and plan to order new uniforms for the 54 member Comanche High School Band this week. Uniform vendors from Fort Worth Abilene and Dallas will visit Friday to display samples and pricing, with costs estimated between 1200 and 1500 dollars. The group aims to raise 800 before ordering, with the School Board promising a 50 cent match per dollar raised. A play under Miss Nobia Dunn is set for October 16, and KGKO Fort Worth will bring the Sunshine Boys to the High School Auditorium soon. Two new bell lyres for the band were ordered this week.
Comanche County Electric Cooperative schedules a two day REA Farm Electric Equipment Show for November 7 and 8. D W Teare and D L Grant will demonstrate motors from quarter to 70 horsepower and new home appliances. Miss Kathryn Harris and Miss Evelyn Bloome will showcase washers and electric irons in the afternoon program aimed at farm women. A C Thomas leads arrangements with Extension Agents assisting. Free demonstrations invite farmers from nearby counties regardless of REA service.
Mrs Murl Alsup was elected president of the Gustine Parent Teachers Association at Tuesday afternoon meeting. She succeeds Mrs Waine Elms, the music teacher, who resigned. The club plans an active program during the school term.
Monday September 30 is the final day to club The Chief and Semi-Weekly Farm News. Beginning October 1 Dallas will not club with any publication. Call at The Chief office today or Saturday to subscribe for $1.50 per year. existing subscriptions will be extended to the new expiration date.
Rev. R. B. Hooper, commissioner of The Harris Memorial Methodist Hospital Fort Worth, will preach at the First Methodist Church next Sunday morning. He also serves as director and treasurer of the Golden Cross Funds for the Northwest Texas and Central Texas Conferences. The local pastor, Rev. E. R. Gordon, notes Hooper’s 25 years at major Methodist churches before his current ministry and says his visit is of strong interest to the congregation. Friends are invited to attend.
About one hundred bales of cotton have been ginned by three Comanche gins this season. The first bale was brought in by John Smart on August 30. Four gins operate in the county, with yields expected around 1,000 to 1,100 bales and roughly 700 ginned in Comanche. Local buyers paid eight and one half to nine cents per pound.
Miss ZaNette Lane, County Treasurer and Democratic nominee for re election, marries A Vance Payne of Comanche in Madill Oklahoma on March 27 1940. The couple planned a delayed wedding trip to Durant Oklahoma and will reside on North Main Street East in Comanche while leasing a small nearby farm.
W. B. Price of Gustine reports his rye advertisement drew strong demand and sold the entire crop in the first eight days. He urges others to cut out his ad and notes the rapid sale.
About 4,000 bass crappie brim and channel cat fingerlings were released into Lake Eanes at Comanche by the State Fish Hatchery in Cisco. Mayor M Coleman spearheaded the request with backing from Frank Howington a district representative. L A Proctor assistant superintendent of the Cisco Hatchery delivered the fish using an air conditioned truck and five gallon buckets with air pumped in by a compressor. The new transfer method aims to reduce losses and previously 4,000 bass fingerlings were released earlier in the year.
The county clerk lists ten marriages recorded this week with licenses issued. Couples include Olen W. Kelley and Louise Dawkins De Leon. F G Floyd and Dorothy Schwartz Santa Fe New Mexico. J C Helm Jr and Ruth Isham Comanche. J D Cloud and Effie Hicks Comanche. Grafton Townsend and Jancie Eidson Goldthwaite. Oliver Hall and Patty Hollman Comanche. Elton White and Minnie Vaughan De Leon. Clemens Watson and Virgi Parker Fort Worth. Ceron Thompson and Mildren Tinney Blanket. Licenses issued include Lessie Hattox and Nadine Jeter Gorman Rt 4.
Macksville resident E W Strickland killed a large rattlesnake in Coryell County while in Comanche Thursday morning. The four and a half foot reptile bore eight rattles and was given to Mack Matthews at Gustine for stuffing to join his curio collection. Strickland has lived in Macksville for fourteen years and has worked trails for over forty years.
Work began this week on a model bedroom apartment display for Higginbotham Bros. & Company in the furniture department on the store’s second floor. Ben Evridge of the department says the room will showcase bedroom furniture to customers.
Roy Brannan superintendent urges full attendance of pupils and asks every teacher to be on hand. C A Greene and Roy Little were Brady visitors Sunday.
Tax collector P A Pettit announces statewide and county taxes due October 1 with discounts for early payment. 1940 taxes payable from October 1 to February 1 1941, penalties apply after. Comanche County rates total about 1.22 to 1.30 with road and school components. Total property valuation is 8 352 099 and potential revenue 148 920 98, down from ten years ago.
Enthusiastic display marks Grammar School playground as pupils form Football Teams Nos. 1 and 2, Girls and Boys playground ball teams, and Tennis clubs. Captains, co captains, and sponsors named. new equipment praised.
Band Mothers Club stages Aunt Samantha Rules the Roost at Comanche High School Auditorium on Tuesday October 8. Cast includes Aunt Samantha Mrs B G Combs and Annie Ambrose Mrs W Z Compton with Serena Serena Simpkins Pearl McDaniel Sophie Simpkins Hildred Franks. The comedy features love powders and a widower with a happy ending.
A cemetery work session is planned at Albin Cemetery on Saturday October 5. Volunteers are asked to join by 8 AM under the direction of W M Little with the event led by local organizers.
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