The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, January 14, 1949 Page: 2 of 20
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The Comanche Chief
Krtahltabed In 1878
Editor
Entered at the Port Office at
Comanche, Texas. M Second
have record of.” snapped Smith, to be different. To dev**®P
Such courthouses are one of the soanllty and become dlffi
drabbest of buildings now In
existence, asserted the speaker. •
Why. Smith wanted to know,
does a courthouse have to
annual Comanche Chamber of
Commerce banquet to be held
next Tuesday.
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the Port
the lead
'• Humphrey, editor of
Worth Press, Is one of
tag young newspapermen of Tex-
as and Is a fine after-dinner
speaker,
*, His column. •"The Home Town-
er—Mighty Big Talk”, published
dally on the front pace of The
Press la (me of the moet interest-
ing parts of hist paper.
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THE OOMAHCHE CHLtr JANUARY 14, IMS
short poems
must do something well and us- i.ome
ually different, he said. |
Quest,
man.
terent, A. Quest, which appear dally
Quest hat been writing a syndi-
cated column of verse dally for
the pest 40 years. The book that
* * first made his name a household!
veteran newspaper- word >j njw t*u famou-s volume.!
and poet. Is A Heap of Living", published mi
the keynote 1916.
Smith 'had these suggestions, man philosopher
iiijct _ _____________ _____ __ look which If carried out tor th# limit, gchqduled to be ___ ______
gEH1ns .jsujjt a?
Walter Humphrey Is scheduled' JJn, 0j town?” he asked. Plant shrubs, ouch as c£aP* Municipal Auditorium Friday, sense philosophy lias a down to
to be the main speaker at thiL.^p being a bowling alley for B,,rU* *n *w#rv front, not ba«k I.-....™ oi t*,. rvm>Mh« esu* »ek >... —• - -----» ^—■
all traffic between Dallas and
San Antonio. All It Is now is a
myrtle, In every front, not baje. january yj The Comanche Chief earth tang and a great deal
yard. has received two complimentary genuine hearty American life.
2. Get every church to hang a tickets to this performance which
bell In ilr steeple and every Sun- we will be glad to pass on to
day ring them all at the same someone who can go. as we will
time. Soon the town would be not be able to
the trip.
touchy topic In Button according noted m the city *
ple^oreaii *hiwe aggiuted that theatre project. onS that
the highway be
town.
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Belton was somewhat stunned
by the talk made by Dr. Everett
O. Smith, a Department Chair-
man In the University of Texas
College of Business Administra-
tion at the Belton Annual Cham-
ber of Commerce banquet held
last Friday night, according to
the Dallas Morning News which
described Smith s talk as “The
most explosive .Chamber of Com-
merce speech ever made In this
section.”
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After a delicious dinner con-
sisting of all the good eats for
which Central Texas to famous,
the proud civic leaders of the Bell
County metropolis settled back to
hear a typical flattering talk
from the main speaker.
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Smith softened his audience up
with a generous serving of humor,
theif suddenly, but bluntly pro-
ceeded to dissect Belton. He was
using It as an example of what
to wrong and what could be done
In practically every small city In
Texas.
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Almost before hto startled aud-
ience realized it. Smith had criti-
cised such traditional Institutions
as the main highway through
town and “painting your house
green, if* you like.”
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’Not even the most sacred of!
small city landmarks—the court-
house—escaped the lashing ton-
gue of the professor.
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“The Bell County courthouse
belongs to the period of the low-
est architectural skill that we
Smith said that
most small towns
ways, “to selling
for a couple of cokes and
a few gallons of gasoline."
speeds
right
, Signaling the start of the
„ _____„ ,______ _ would chamber’s program of work for
rerouted around Include everybody ‘n towr. and the coming year, the meeting will
not Just a few stage struck araa- be the first of a series planned
• * I teur hamlets. » by 8an Antonio for the entire
Belton like *• Concentrate on the towns chamber membership In 1949.
on through children. Double the teachers
i blrtn-
salaries and have the best schools who u taown M -the
In the State
vtue
! post-1
home.
Quest has a message which will
touch off the spark that to need-
ed to meet the problems which
most civic leaders must solve for
the continued growth of their
i ommunltv. ,
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The poet-philosOpher’s Texas
trip Is being sponsored by the
Austin and San Antonio Cham-
bers of Commerce. The public to
invited to hear these
laureate of the American price of the ticket,
se lectures.1
, if you do
A survey shows that vefy few the
will also give lectures at use our complimentary ones, will
University of Texas and be- be 80 cents each, and we believe
T like Belton and this to Just people In the South read poems fore the Austin Chamber of Com-, will be well worth the money,
home talk,” he smiled. “But few today except for required reading, mere* on January 19 and 20, pfovided you have the time to
of our towns have a real person- In a school or college. We doubt respectively.
So It to with Belton—i that there are 10 people In Co-; • •
mane he outside of students who1 a native of England. Quest
have read a book of poems during j makes hto home In Detroit, Ml chi-
the last year.
ality. So
mediocre, stereotyped town, devoid
of any particular character."
Smith’s point wes that a town,
like a person, must work hard
A good many people, however.
gan. where he has been a mem-
ber cf the Detroit Free Press
editorial staff since 1895.
| make the trip either to Austin or
! 3an Antonio.
Total rainfall In Brown County
during 1948 was 18.38 Inches as
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Plan to attend the Comanche
Chamber. of Commerce annual!
meeting. Among other things to
be passed upon will be the sche-
dule of holidays for 1949. 1
Bible Thought: "We must die,
and are as water spilt on the
ground, which cannot be gather-
ed up again.”—2 Sam. 14:14.
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Funeral services were held Jan.
6 at Dublin for Hix Quyger, Dub-
lin service station operator, a for-
mer resident of Proctor. W. P.
Barnett gave the cause of Mr.
Quyger’s death as self-inflicted
wounds, according to the Dublin
Progress.
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Rev. Fern Miller, formerly pas-
tor at Canadian. Is the new pas-
{ tor of the Dublin Baptist Church.
Joe Fletcher has been elected
president of the Dublin Develop-
ment Club to succeed Joe Ken-
nedy.
Deposits in the Dublin National
Bank on the last call totaled
83,789,2M .86.
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Wilkerson, J. C. The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, January 14, 1949, newspaper, January 14, 1949; Comanche, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth891895/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Comanche Public Library.