Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 18, 2010 Page: 3 of 18
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www.thecomanchechief.com
The Comanche Chief
Thursday, November 18, 2010 Page 3A
Mcelroy
Boh McKlroy, age 80.
passed away on Wednesday,
November 10, 2010, in
Stephenville, Texas.
He was bom on June 25,
1930, in Comanche County,
Texas to Charles and Vivian
(Auvenshine) McElroy.
On December 28, 1951
he was united in marriage to
Margaret “Marg” Mazurek
in Comanche County, Texas.
When he was eighteen, Bob
joined the United States Army
and served as a paratrooper.
After leaving the regular
army, he continued to serve
his country in the Army
Reserves for over seventeen
years. In 1962, he was called
back to active duty during the
Cuban Missile Crises. He was
a rancher, and for many years
also worked as Construction
Foreman for Higginbotham
Bros, in Comanche. He was
a loving husband, father
and grandfather. Bob was a
Baptist.
He is survived by his
wife, Marg McElroy of
Comanche; daughter and son-
in-law, Kristi and Michael
Kennedy of Dallas; daughter,
Mitzi Patin of Dallas; and
grandechildren, Alexandra
Kennedy, Erin Kennedy, Jake
Patin, and Luke Patin. He
was preceded in death by one
grandson, Patrick Kennedy.
Funeral Services were held
at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday,
November 13, 2010 at the
Comanche Funeral Home
Chapel with Dr. Van Christian
officiating and Rev. Gerald
Bums assisting. Burial
followed in the Gardens
of Memory Cemetery in
Comanche County. Comanche
Funeral Home is in charge of
arrangements.
View and sign the guest
book at www. comanche fh.
com.
DeLeon Harvest Bake Show to be held Nov. 27
By Jane Sims
Want to win $50? Then
enter the Harvest Bake Show
on Saturday, November 27.
I hat $50 will be the Grand
Prize for this bake show,
sponsored by Women’s
Division, at their annual Arts
& Crafts Fair on the Saturday
of Thanksgiving weekend in
DeLeon.
Anyone can enter, from
1st graders through adults, no
matter where you live. In fact,
if you lived on another planet,
and could get your entry
here, you could enter it! So
encourage your Thanksgiving
visitors to participate too,
whether they are from another
planet, another town, or just
down the street.
Check-in for entries will
be between 9:00 and 9:30
a.m. on Saturday in the
DeLeon City Auditorium at
137 S. Texas St. in DeLeon.
The Arts & Crafts Fair opens
at 9:00 a.m.
Anyone from 1st grade to
an adult, regardless of their
residence, can enter.
Age Divisions include:
Children (grades 1-4); Youth
(grades 5-12); and Adult
(ages 19 and up).
Food Classes include: Pie-
bring entire pie; Cake- bring
entire cake; Cookies- enter
12 cookies; Candy- enter
12 pieces; Bread- enter 1
loaf; Miscellaneous- enter
representative sample
(includes appetizers, snacks,
salads, cheesecake, etc.).
Awards will include
ribbons, rosettes and a $50
grand prize!
I f you have questions about
the 1 larvest Bake Show, please
email HarvestBakeShow@
hotmail.com.
By Missy Jones
1 was privileged to attend
the Veterans Day program at
Comanche High School on
November 11, 2010. This was
the 11th year that this program
has been at the 1 ligh School, and
it was attended by High School
and Junior High students from
Comanche. Before the regular
program, there was a reception
for veteraas, their families, law
enforcement and firefighters
from Comanche.
This is such a touching
ceremony, as sometimes we do
not get to know about a person's
military service.
It was wonderful to see the
reverence, and the enthusiasm
of the students for each of
these veterans. As they were
introduced, their names, rank
and the time of their service
was read by a student, and
then that student escorted each
veteran to their seat. Ihere was
wonderful patriotic music, the
posting of the colors, and yes,
I do get a tear in my eye when
Old Glory is posted.
Mrs. Kay Quast presented
the songs of each branch of
the service, and as each song
was presented, the serv ice men
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Comanche County
Comanche Kiwanis Club
Comanche Co. Hospital Foundation
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Comanche Schools
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Comanche Pow-Wow
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and women who had served
in that branch of the service
was honored- and yesr- 1 am
old enough to sing along with
"Anchors Aweigh", " rhe
Army Caisson Song", "The
Wild Blue Yonder", and the
Marine's "From the Halls of
Montezuma".
Other music was presented
by members of the High School
band, musicians and singers,
and the Sign Language classes
presented "God Bless America”
in sign language. This was all
very touching.
Veterans Jake Chapman
and James Chapman, and their
sisters, less Chapman Wilson
and Mary Chapman Clemons,
received special recognition, as
their father, Walter Chapman
had served in World War 1.
ITiis was an appropriate day
for this, as the Armistice that
ended World War I was signed
on November 11, 1918 at 11
o'clock a.m.
We invite you to visit our
Museum. We have an extensive
Veteran's display, with many
pictures, artifacts, guns, and
other items- loaned by families
from our county- to honor our
Veterans. We have uniforms,
pictures, weapons, shoes,
medals and many items on
display. Ihese start from World
War I, and continue up to the
present day. These young men
went to war, left their parents,
their homes, their wives or
sweethearts, their friends and
their lives, to go to fight on
foreign shores. Many did not
return.
We also have other items
you might be interested in.
One thing that 1 can remember
from world War II is rationing.
1 brought to the Museum a
letter and form issued from
Gustine High School, and
the letter is signed by Paul
Whitten, who was the High
School Superintendent during
World War II. The letter is
dated April 24, 1942. Mr.
Whitten writes that on May 4,
1942, the elementary teachers
will issue War Ration Book #
1 in the homemaking cottage at
the school. TTiis was for sugar
rationing. Ihe book had stamps
that were removed for each
pound of sugar by the grocer.
Ihe letter says that you were
allowed to have two pounds,
and up to three pounds of sugar
on hand, for which no stamps
would be removed when you
received your book. You must
remember that many women
canned fruit, and made jellies
and jams, and the shortage
of sugar must have created a
hardship on the housewives.
Also, gasoline, shoes and
many other items were rationed
for the war effort. Of course
tires were in short supply, as the
supplies of rubber came from
far east countries, and they were
fighting or already occupied by
the Japanese.
Ben Evridge, who for many
years was one of our faithful
Museum members, brought
some of the ration books that
his father and mother, Wade
and Nellen Evridge had used,
and also other family members’
books. We have books # 2; #
3; and book #4. We also have
a part of a gasoline ration
book, with some stamps still
in the book. I do remember
that you were allowed three
gallons of gasoline per week.
On the gasoline book was
listed Mr. Evridge's name,
car license number- 1940
Plymouth car registered in
Texas- and the stamps have
letters and numbers, silch as B
8, # 4626753 etc Old copies of
Ihe Comanche Chief and the
DeLeon Free Press has articles
during the war years telling
readers what stamps numbers
would be used at that time.
We have a leather holder,
just the right size to hold
your ration books, and a slim
holder with a container labeled
"Tokens". I had never seen
these before Ihe holder has
some red tokens, smaller than a
penny, and each one of them is
labeled "OPA one Red Point."
What these were used for I have
no idea, maybe some of our
readers will remember this and
call me. OPA was the Office of
Price Administration.
Also, Higginbotham
Brothers and Company,
telephone 283, presented a
Ration Book Holder to their
customers, Phis was for holding
your ration books, and on the
cover there are drawings of
jeeps, tanks, marching soldiers,
artillery, and an airplane. On the
back is a calendar for September
1942 through August, 1943.
I also remember that
sometimes goods could be
bought on the "Black Market"
with no stamps required. I
never heard my parents talking
about this.
We invite you to visit us,
you'll be surprised at the number
of items that our Museum has
on display, and the history we
can tell you about
Comanche County Historical Commission meeting
#
By Missy Jones
The Comanche County
Historical Commission met
on October 30, 2010 at the
Comanche County Historical
Museum for a called meeting.
There were 15 members
present, with three guests.
Special guests were our
speaker, Mr. Tom Adams of
Cross Plains and his wife.
Chairman Fain McDaniel
called the meeting to order.
He asked that we remember
the family of Harold Roberts,
who was buried that afternoon
at Oakwood Cemetery. He
asked the Commission to
remember the five members
that have passed away during
the past year- James Rucker,
Dorothy Robertson, Ben
Evridge. Robert Vernon and
Harold Roberts.
Chairman McDaniel
reported that our Commission
had been honored for the
third year in a row by the
Texas Historical Commission
in being awarded the
Distinguished Serv ice Award.
This award is given each year
to those county Historical
Commissions who have
excellent records of historic
preservation.
Treasurer Jim Dudley
gave the financial report.
Mr. Dudley suggested that
the County Commissioners
might want the Commission
to continue work done by
the late Dorothy Robertson
for historical markers of
interest to our County. Ms.
Robertson had researched the
history for several markers
that the County might want
to do. A motion was made
by Cliff Conway to have Mr.
Dudley check into this, and
the motion was seconded by
Tommy Patterson.
Thomas Harrison and Jerry
Shugart gave their report on
the Veteran's Committee.
Mr. Harrison stated that it
was becoming more difficult
to obtain veteran markers
for installation at county
cemeteries. He said that it
was nearly impossible if there
was a legible stone at the
gravesite. Mr. Harrison passed
out brochures for the Sons of
Confederate Veterans, Camp
| 1904 at DeLeon, for their
Christmas Banquet to be held
in DeLeon at the Highway 6
Cate on December II, 2010
at 6:00 p.m. Mr. L.D. Cox of
Comanche will be the featured
speaker at the banquet.
Tommy Patterson of the
Archeology Committee
gave his report. He stated
that there were 112 recorded
archeological sites in
Comanche County; 564
sites in Brown County; 24 in
Eastland County; 48 in Erath
County ; 132 in Mills County;
and 249 sites in San Saba
County.
Rose l ay lor and Linda
Frank reported on the History
Book project. There is still
some information coming
in for another edition of the
Comanche County History
Book.
County Marker Chairman
Anna Thompson reported on
the marker work that is being
done for the Cora Cemetery.
She said there have been
eight people meeting to plan
work on this project, and
that on Saturday, October 30,
2010, she. Rose Taylor, Linda
Franks, Dorothy Brodie and
Henry D. Adcock met at the
old Cora cemetery site and
cleaned it up.
Preston Cox of the
Cemetery Committee had
nothing to report at this
meeting.
Chairman Fain McDaniel
reported on the need for the
Commission to have by-laws
adopted. He said that Walter
Dixon had done some work
on this in the past, and the
Commission would need to
have a meeting later to work
on this.
Margaret Dudley reported
on work progressing for
the restoration of the Depot
project. She stated that funds
were being raised for this,
and hoped that this could be
completed by 2012, which
is the 100th anniversary of
the Cotton Belt Depot in
Comanche. Charles Ligon,
the Architect from Houston,
and a graduate of Comanche
High School, is giving his
time and talents to do the
architectural planning on this.
In the past week, he and his
assistant were in Comanche
and viewed the Depot. They
also came to the Museum
to see the monument on the
Museum grounds for the
Central Presbyterian Church
memorial, for which he was
the architect in charge.
Margaret Waring.
Chairman for libraries, stated
that she would like to thank
everyone who helped to make
the birthday .party for the
Comanche Public Library so
special.
Chairman McDaniel
stated that we have two new
members on the Commission
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What: 11th Annual Bake Sale and Raffle
benefiting Hospice patients.
Raffle for 32” Television Sponsored by Comanche Appliance.
$200 sift certificate Higginbothams
$ 100 gift certificate Brookshire’s
$2 each ticket or 3 for $5
When: Tuesday November 23, 2010 starting
at 9:00 am until sold out
Where: Comanche County Medical Center
Lobby and Alco in Comanche »< n
We will be accepting donations of baked goods
on Monday November 22 from 8-5 at the
Hospice office located in the Old Comanche
Hospital Building. All donations will be gladly
accepted.
Thank you for your support!
Please call Comanche Hospice
325-356-2966
Willi questions or to Purchase Raffle
Tickets.
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