Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 5, 2005 Page: 1 of 22
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as the District 8-3A runners-up. They will face Lake Worth, the District 7-3A third place team, in best of three bi-district series
at Mineral Wells High School. Game 1 is at 7:30 this Thursday; game 2 at 5:00 p.m. on Friday; and game 3, if necessary, at 1:00
p.m. Saturday. Pictured are, front, from left, Brance Coleman, Cole Franco, Sheldon Feist, Chayden Feist, Andrew Young, Daniel
Dickey, Lance Morgan, and Chad Suniga; back, from left, Trent Gore, Chris Lambert, John Schuman, Scott Bearden, Wesley
Carroll, Matt Byrd, Jordan Feist, an Kyle Hall. chief staff photo
manche County Cancer Soci-
ety and bottled water by
Higginbotham Bros, and Com-
pany.
In honor of those that have
won their battle against cancer
and to remember those that did
not, a special candlelit cer-
emony will be held at 10:00
p.m., Friday evening. During
ceremony, luminaras bearing
the names of those who have
battled cancer will be lit around
the track. The names will be
read aloud as walkers continue
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purchased for $5 by contact-
ing Carolyn Frasier, 254-893-
5785, or at the event by 8:00
p.m.
Games, music, and a cake
walk will be going on all night.
A snack bar will be available,
with proceeds going to the
American Cancer Society.
The last lap will be made at
6:30 a.m. Saturday and will be
celebrated with a breakfast
provided by the Comanche and
De Leon Methodist men. The
event will conclude with an
award ceremony and last lap
of everyone at 7:00 a.m.
Spring band
concerts set
The Comanche High
School and Junior High Band
Concerts have been scheduled
in conjunction with a Band
Booster Club fundraiser
jewelry and gift show.
The Junior High Concert is
scheduled for Tuesday, May
10 followed by the High
School Concert on Tuesday,
May 17. Both concerts will get
underway at 7:00 p.m.
The Junior High and High
School bands will be having a
major fund raiser this year at
the Spring Concert. This is
very important since this is our
only fundraiser for the year.
We need your help to make
this a success. This money will
be used for many different
things, benefitting all band
members. We are having a
jewelry and gift show at both
the Junior High and High
School Spring concerts.
This will be a great time for
Comanche County voters
can go to the polls this
Saturday to vote in the general
election for the Comanche and
Gustine school board and city
council races.
Ruby Lesley, County
Clerk, says early voting picked
up the final week but was not
as heavy as many expected.
As of noon Tuesday there
were 152 votes cast in the
Comanche ISD Board of
Trustee election, 32 in the
Gustine ISD Trustee election
and 15 in the City of Gustine
alderman election.
Marilyn Elrod reports there
have been 79 votes cast in the
City Council election.
Saturday’s voting locations
open at 7:00 a.m. and close at
7:00 p.m.
You may vote in the
Comanche City
Council/Mayor race at
Comanche High School,
Highway 16 North.
Comanche ISD Trustee
election polling places are at
Comanche High School and at
the Proctor Community
Center.
Gustine ISD voters will
cast their ballot at the Gustine
ISD Ag Building at 503 West
Main in Gustine. Gustine City
Alderman voters will cast their
ballots at Gustine City Hall,
112 East Main Street in
Gustine.
The Comanche ISD has
eight candidates for their
board of trustees. There are
seven candidates for the two
three-year terms and one
candidate for the o:.c year
unexpired term.
Frazier Clark is the only
candidate seeking the one year
term, replacing Jim Turner
who resigned from the board.
Seeking the full two 3 year
terms are Jennifer Rucker,
Roy Edinburgh, Bobby Evans,
Russell Johnson, Marshall
Pybum, Royce Daugherty, and
Jason Pate.
Gustine ISD will have four
candidates for three positions
on the Gustine Board of
Trustees. Candidates are
Tracey Ripley, Mary Ratliff,
Paul Byrd, and incumbent
Neal Yates.
The City of Comanche will
have four candidates for two
positions on their city council.
Brent Hagood is running
unopposed for mayor.
Incumbents Dement Allen
and James Nelms are seeking
council positions along with
Sandy Blue Luker and Roy
Dove.
The City of Gustine has
eight candidates for three
positions as alderman. The
positions are at large for two-
year terms.
Candidates include
Michelle Keeter, Ike
Thedford, Faye Bolton, Terrell
D. Bennett, Chrissy Lane,
Billy Kight, Billie N. Couch,
Kenneth Rinehart.
CHS STATE-BOUND TRACK ATHLETES: Comanche
High School seniors, Chayden Feist and Jennifer Spivey,
qualified for the State Class 3-A meet in Austin on May 13.
Feist qualified with first place finishes in both the pole vault
and 300-meter hurdles at the Regional meet last week in
Odessa. Spivey qualified in the shot putt by placing second.
CHIEF STAFF PHOTO
Water well registration
period drawing to a close
The deadline to register
water wells in Comanche and
Erath Counties is Tuesday,
May 10,2005. The Middle Trin-
ity Groundwater Conservation
District has been inundated
with registrants exempting their
wells from rules that apply to
all new wells. In addition to lots
of walk-in traffic, the MTGCD
has received many inquiries by
telephone, mail, e-mail and fac-
simile. According to Joe Coo-
per, MTGCD’s manager, “The
increase in registrants has re-
sulted in busy telephone lines
for some callers and intermit-
tent periods of waiting for those
dropping by our offices.”
The mandatory well regis-
tration program, which began
May 11,2004, allows landown-
ers to “Grandfather” their
wells; thereby, exempting them
from rules that apply to all new
wells drilled after that date. Ad-
ditionally, registered wells are
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Cinco de Mayo
celebration set
A Cinco de Mayo celebra-
tion will be held on the square
in Comanche from 6:00 to 9:00
p.m. on Thursday, May 5.
The public is invited to cel-
ebrate with live music, 25 cent
tacos, free non-alcoholic
margarifas and lots of give-
aways from The Ox.
Cash prizes of $100 each
wijl be awarded in a Jalapeno
Pepper Eating Contest and
Taco Eating Contest.
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FOR FRIDAY NIGHT
Come and join in on the cel-
ebration and festivities honor-
ing our cancer survivors and
supporting the fight against can-
cer. Relay For Life begins Fri-
day, May 6, at 6:45 p.m. at the
Comanche Football Stadium.
Approximately 30 teams will
take shifts with the goal of hav-
ing a team member on the track
until 6:30 a.m. Saturday morn-
ing.
Co-chairman Laura Brown
reported that the teams turned
in their donations collected so
far at Bank Night on Monday
in De Leon and Tuesday in Co-
manche. Many of teams will
continue to collect donations
until 5:00 a.m. on Saturday, May
7. Each team member who
raised at least $30 or more will
receive a t-shirt. Each team
member has been encouraged
to raise at least $ 100. Individual
walkers are welcome to collect
donations and walk for the cure
for cancer.
The Relay For Life program
will begin at 6:45 p.m. and the
introduction and the first lap of
our cancer survivors will begin
at 7:00 p.m. Cancer survivors
are encouraged to be at the
field by 6:15 p.m. to register and
pick up their survivor t-shirts
graciously donated by the Co-
manche National Bank Survi-
vors will be served refresh-
City Police step up efforts
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The Comanche Police
Department, in a continuing
effort to assist with the clean
up of the City of Comanche,
issued several Junk Vehicle
Abatements and Dirty Lot
Abatements in 2004. This will
continue through 2005 as there
is still work yet to do.
Chief Ronald W. Moe
stated, “The Comanche Police
Department has worked very
hard in the last year to clean
up the lots and junk vehicles
in the city limits and I feel that
we have made some great
progress. It’s a start, but there
are still more lots and vehicles
that need to be cleaned up.”
Chief Moe went on to state
that his officers would be
writing more citations this
year in a continued effort to
clean up the trash and make
Comanche a more attractive
place to work and live.
This effort is a direct result
of City Ordinances which state
that junk vehicles in the city
must be kept out of view by
privacy fencing, placing the
car in a closed garage,
etc....and that lots are to be
kept clean of rubbish, trash,
dead tree limbs and the like so
the appearance of the
neighborhood is not
compromised. Since 1999 the
citizens of Comanche has
removed 362 unusable
vehicles from the city. Since
the “Dirty Lot” ordinance was
enacted in April 2004, the
property owners in Comanche
have cleaned up 74 city lots.
The City Police
Department request that the
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OUTSTANDING AG STUDENTS: These Comanche High School outstanding ag students
were honored at the annual FFA Banquet, Monday night. They were, from right, Wes Dudley
(first year ag student); Lindee Pickett (second year); Kobi Works (third year); and Tanner Hicks
(fourth year student).
CHIEF STAFF PHOTO
WEATHER
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Rain
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May rain fall
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Lake Level 1162.07
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7.95
INDUCTEE INTO TEXAS FIDDLERS* HALL OF FAME,
Jim “Texas Shorty” Chancellor, will be performing in
Comanche at the May 21 “ John Wesley Hardin Days’ Fiddlers
Contest on the west side of the square in The Saloon. He began
his musical journey at the age of 7 when his dad brought home
a mandolin and told Shorty and his brother Allen that it would
go to the first son who learned to play it. Shorty devoted most
of the next six years to picking the mandolin. In 1956 he
became attracted to the style of World Champion Fiddler
Bennie Thomasson and began his old time fiddling career. In
1959 he won the World’s Fiddle Festival and in 1960 was on
TV’s “To Tell the Truth” as the youngest fiddler in the history
of the World’s Fiddle Festival to win three consecutive times.
Since then Shorty has won many fiddle contests throughout the
nation. As a famous fiddler, he has encouraged many young
fiddlers and kept this type of music, that was once almost
extinct, entrenched in the entertainment world. Gene
Westmoreland, local fiddler and chairman of the event, reports
that he is looking forward to a successful fiddlers’ contest with
outstanding music from old and young alike.
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