The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, November 8, 1957 Page: 1 of 14
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Colon.
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Socki
Comfortable,
VV arm and
Durable.
Reg. 59c
3 P,s.
Dollar Days
Only
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Dress
Just Arrived.
Newest
Assortments
of Fancy
Colors.
ReR. 59c
2 Prs.
Dollar Days
Onlv
BOY'S FLANXL
Sport Shii
Assorted
Fancy Colon.
Sixes 1 to It
Reg. $1.59
While
They IJUtt
Dollar Day*
Only
2 For
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Socks
pl*r 69e Pr.
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day Said "Court at office to
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OFFICE SUPPLIES J
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n old, outmoded {fas
modern ranges
ibor-savinjf, gas-savin
my of these features!
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w GAS range not on^
tuit DO BETTER!
he New GAS
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, full day
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all arrived—
to look over
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pjffirS5n&:
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fjtotcwd Shop With
jjgiM for your meat
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l^»t DURHAM’S
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truck, or car to
i for repairs
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nlfhty pleased with
I Ml P0RD8- and the
•t lookers, and pros-
are passing on to
| tbeoe new models,” say
I inleti IRA and BILL
new shipr
ART Maple In
just unpacked by
C8
»V manap-
suggrsts
order now
turkey,
i — and advises you
his firm's regular
i wek-end specials, and
HENDERSON'S your
headquarters
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and OLD8-
« now on display.
M the local dealer-
CHEVROLET.
K> see these all-new
The
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34 IN. RAIN NOV. 4
44.J7 IN. RAIN TO DATE IN ’57
Comanche Chief
Comanche County's Oldest Business Institution - Published For And About Comanche County
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•usauuut
ITo
Workers
• 0. Bed, Comanche
Workers
meet with -the
.. CD, Comanche.
-iPovember 11. The
■ *X> o'clock The
,7:00 o'clock.
Youth Rally
Comyn Bap-
H Hl*W. Nov.
i w .IT- Clinic will
"f^Baptlrt Church,
JtoMsy night. Nov.
otlock
Oniofi Assoc la t-
™ be with the
De Leon,
l at 7.00 o'clock.
rrofTam^
: Oervice. Cecil Fish
and Prayer,
Report, H. M.
- Missions, Cllf-
-ial Missions,
ents.
Message D
hijiikm
it
mm a" Indians Close Out ’57 Season
With Granbury Here Friday
Wm
i
Texaps voted three amendments^
to the state Contlsutlon in Tues- j
day's special election.
With less than .one-tenth of 1 |
per cent of the 202.000 votes cast1
■still unieported. the Tt?xas Elec-'
tion Bureau gave this final count
on the three proposals. ■
State employee benefits: For
142,148; against 52,264
Increased pensions: For 168-
253; against 61,937.
Water plan: For 142,993
against 51,937.
A light turn-out of only 750
voters showed up at the... polls
In Comanche CuOffty—fahd ap-
proved all three of the amend-
ments. .
The Comanche County vote,
Favorin,; Proposition 1 (State
Fmpolyees Retirement Program)
482 For, 268 against; No. 2 (Old
Age Assistance) 64i for, 112
against; No 3 (Water Drvelop-
ment Fund) 495 For, 240
against. ^
The state employee benefits a-
mendmentwa* approved by 73.06
pr cent of the voters; th increased
-.pensions by 85.17 and the water
plan by 73 4 L
The state employee benefits
amperidment guarantees a mini-
mum pension of at least $30 per
month to state employes and 11b-
erlizes retirement, disability and
death benefits.
The i>eiislons amettdment 4n-
creascs tlie pensions paid to the
1 aged from a maximum of $20 per
, month to $25 with a provision
j that no payment over $21 be made
without matching federal funds.
The writer plan amendment set
up the Texas Water Development
! Board and authorizes Development
— Board and authorles it to sell up
to $200,000,000 in bonds for use
J in water development and control
> by local groups.
teterans
Day
flow. II
1 ho. Granbury; lHrates come to town hero Friday night,,
av ’he Indians and Gnuibury clash in the final X-AA grid
game of the season for Comanche. Gartoe time is X o'clock,
* Hc-i-bentes have mmpiltHl a favorable 4 wins, 2 losses,
anil a tie during t-be -season- and will be out to avenge the
1-’ O deteat at the hands of the Indians la^t season.
C/iach Hill Scoggins’ Indians, seeking to escape the
w* perhaps their l»est game of the
season last Friday night, in
PTA Sponsoring
i
Art Exhibit
Hero Nov. 14-15
the 6-6 tie with Dublin^
f W f • W
HOMECOMING QUEEN NOMINEE—Attractive Miss
Ij* Rae Swindle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. O. Swin-
dle, Comanche, is one of the' five Tarleton State pol- i beer proposal in
SZfciS tttSiF&glt SJ5* COUNTY DEFEATED
coming Queen will be named at the Tarleton State-San
' Angelo Jjwittf College /qotlall game at Stephenvillc*
y: Oth
the
Homecoming Ouedn contest^ The 1957 Home-
Voter* of Brown County re-
jected an “off pirmhw" beer
Saturday/ Other nominees for queen at Tarleton are: j vot^7ni
Mary Bremer. Galena Rark; Shannon Posey, Andrews; | |on ‘ ' 'rc "
Suzanne Gray, San Saba, and Carolyn Cooke, Cleburne. a record vote of 5.504 vote* wm
Mina Swindle, a 1966 Comanclt# High SchtKd-grJvJUiaie, 4 •***- ____
is editor of >he Tarleton paper. Tin .
tjeen named to several other college honors, attribute were punlshabie by death
ing to her popularity. , England.
Most Comanche InBdnesjrTtrmsrr as has been the
custom for the last several‘years, will observe Monday,
'November 11, as a holiday.
November 11 is .now.-being observed as Veterans’
Day—in which to pay tribute to the veterans of World
Wars I and II and of (he Korean campaign.
Next Monday’s holiday tyaji one of six approved
by Comanche merchants during 1957, in a poll con-
ducted by the local Chamber of Commerce.
SEE MUSTANGS WIN
_Mr and Mrx. Herbert Williams
were among the Comanche fans
In Dallas Saturday to see the SMU
Mustangs register a mild upset
in their 19-12 cln over Texas
Saturday.
jc. „ - ^ 11. f‘i
___ Card playing Is known to date
In back at least to the 12th cent-
ury.
County Singing
At Hosse Friday—
The Comanche County Quartet
Singing Convention will be held
Friday night. Nov 8. at the Hasse
Baptist Church.
The public la cordially invited,
say those in charge*.
Comanche, by winning over
the Pirates, could finish as
high as third place in the con-
ference standings behind tl^e
! first place Hamilton Bulldogs.
| and the second place De Leon
Bearcats, but Mould have to
score a mild upset in whipping
i i The J B Lane Elementary the IMrates. *
pchool 1 1A Ls rtKaln sponsoring jn district competition. Oran-
Wshibh T WI......fert-Ovei Du*-
Arts TravellDk Exhibit. , ipn. and dropped" a 0-20 decision
Thes picttrfi will be on display i to Hamilton Comanche has for-
nt the Homemaking Cottage of felted to Hamilton due to a
Comijnch' High School n« xt Eri- n ie of flu. and lost to De Leon
day (ind Saturday, November 15-10-33. and tied Dublin 6-6.
16
’ L Seniors on Indian Squad
The public Is cordially invited ■ 'w_
to come and view this'exhibit of , W1 l*l® tt8J; i°r
Texas Artists. Tills annual art f0U1 Comanche THgh^SchoiR sen-
show in Comanche has pl<>Ved'£“ir1 ^awi^'J'®41
very popular for the past several McCullough and James
years in Comanche. ; Duth. backs, and James Mercer,
The. exhibit ts made possible '.. V - ■ * a .
through the cooperation of Mrs. . , Aa.^.e
Cluules Gray, member of the, ^pt.,llu; lnd‘an* 1,'slde a l weet
Practice sessions hXve all been
I held In the CH8 gymnasium*.
"The boys have been going
through spirited workouts this
week, and we're expecting a good
I effort here in the final game of
the season.” says Coach Scog-
Mr. and gins, pointing out that his squad
in better physicial condition,
for last week's tilt ' with
-Lj
Texas Fine Arts Association.
Bill Blue In
Basic Training
Bill D. Blue, son of
Mrs. Robert Blue, of Comanche. Is
is now completing an eight weeks than
basic training course at Ft. Car- Dublin,
son. Colorado.
trie was employed with ctay
Building Material Company here
before entering the service.
He is married to the former
Corrlne Hallman, who is resid-
ing with her mother here.
Rainfall At All-Time High
__■ ■■ ■■ is taf~i - ■ As
peanut
awaKing clearing
sume harvesting operations
Opinion* a* to damage caus-
ed peanuts by the continued
molature vafy. but everyone Is
In agreement now as to the
need of some, i bright, clear
weather the next few week*.
Rains of from 3 to 7 Inches
have fallen In Comanche Coun-
ty the past week, according to
reports reaching The Chief.
Comanche received an official
4 29 inches- during the period.
Friday. Nov 1 through Thurs-
day morning. Nov. 7. according
to a report from Weather Re-
corder Ted Bear
Rainfall here November 1 tot-
aled .14 of an inch; Nov 3. 1.95K
Nov. 4. 1.18: Nov 5, .67. and
Nov. 6. .36.
This week's total rainfall
sent the official precipitation
to an all-time high—with the
rainfall recorded to date dur- *
lug 1857 now reaching 40.37 j
■pfcp»
Next wettest year of the last
ten was 1949 w ________________
were recorded Last year, total j making cottage to organjae a Jun-
ratnfall In Comanche measured J ior Garden Club. <
18.39 inches, and in 1955, the The following officers were elect-
1954 ..... ..... ‘ '
day to consult an ear specialist. •’ j®" r“** 1
sssm CHS CARNIVAL RESIT FOR NOVEMBER 22
a stand-still, and the county's — w WMVBWMVU mmi
farmers are patiently ^^J-
skles- to re Comanche High School
Hallowe’en Carnival, one of the
highlights of the school social year
which was orglnally set for Oct.
31. then postponed until Nov 4.
was postponed again this week—
and reset as a Thanksgiving Fes-
tival fr Friday night. November
Junior Garden
Club Meets
t
year of the last) "The Junior Garden Club met
*hen 31.61 Inches. November I. at 2:35 In the Home-
total was 27.73. In 1954 the. total
rainfall recorded was only 18.08.
17.95 Inches is Lowest
Previous record rainfall for any
ed: Cheryl Braziel. president;
Nancy Cottrell, vice-president;
Margie Vineyard, secretary; Jane
Craig, treasurer: Ann Green, par-
year atnee the records have been
offklallv kept here, was in 18321 porter.. Mrs. Clarence Rea. spon
whe|| 39.17 Inches fell. Lowest
was In 1834, when 17.85 Inches
were recorded.
Rainfall through November 6,
for the ten-month period, by
years shows that the average has
been 2129 inches—showing the
1967 moisture to be 18.72 inches
above the ten-year average of
21.29 for the January to Novem-
ber S period.
lQ-month re-
sor.
Turkey Shool
22.
Continued, wet weather, com-
bined with a siege of Illness, caused
the further postponement
The Carnival Queen will not be
announced until November 22. In-
terest h again high among the
top four CHS classes In this con-
test.
Trie seniors have as their can-
didate- Jane Matthews, eacortm
Mrs. Roy Bloyd Winner of Weekly
Football Guessing Contest Of Chief
Upsets were the rule rather
than the exception, in last week’s
selected football games appearing
In the Chief’s Grid Contest, but
Mrs. Roy Bloyd. 403 N. Page. Co-
manche. correctly predicted 9 out
of 10 games on the schedule.
Her only miss was the Coman-
che-Dublln 6-6 tie, which she
forecast 6-0 favoring the Indians:
so she gets the 85 first prize.
■ J. E. Liffhtfoots high school
Some $50,000 wc
anthemums are sold 'annually in
the U.8.
Probable offensive aiartera
Tor the Indians will be: Creath
Davis, quarterback; Butch
Uoudermilk. fullback; Joe Paul
McCullough or Jam** WnHi JhtUa
John Oleaton. halmaek.v; Ml-
bert Brewster. Anter; James
Mercer and Mnmy Parsons,
of chry*-| guards; Bob^fender and Gary
Gregory
81ms and
and Donald
Patrtsh. ends.
$12r000for Improvements Due On
County Farm-To-Market Roads In '58
Sunday School i|
f,--
uiuaic • jam' mnuiii-wa, TJ ----- ---
by James Ruth. Imogene Olasgow i principal, won second place. He
is duchess, and her escort. Eugene to failed on the Comanche-Dublin
Dobbins I game, as well as on SMU's upset i
The Juniors have Wanda HU-
win over Texas.
By years the
port follows:
1947 -.. . , .
1948
1849
1950 :... .
1.951
19M ......
1953 ......
1954
1955 ......
’ 1958
1957
Average
Hard as their candidate. Butch Danny Cagle. Comahche Junior
Loudermilk is her escort. Duchess High School quarterback won the
Is Dorothy Lancaster, escorted by third place prize, which Is a year’s
Lewis Sims. " subscription to the ChieL Re also
The Sophomores have Linda pom^Iche ’iamp?IU ^
Flanagan as their candidate for Dublln-Comar che g
queen .escorted by John G lea ton. At least four persons, correctly
, Nancy Davis Is the duchess, and predicted the Comanche-Dubltn
m . ; will be escorted by Tommie Me-, tie, but failed to come up with en-
The Annual Jnycee Turkey J Donald. . ough of tho other winners.
Shoot which wm °fR!nftlJV ^ched- _ ThajFreshman has Janiee! On the honorable mention list.
17.37
20.10
30.45
24.01
19.80
14J3
23.38
14.22
12.07
14.92
49.27
21.29
uled to be held this week-end.
has been postponed until the week
end of November 16-17. according
to Dr William T Oalhoun. presi-
dent .
The Turkey Shoot will be held
at the Comanche Rodeo Ground.
The gun which is to be given
away svill be awarded Sunday
afternoon, November 17.
W. G. BARRETT BACK IN
COMAJNOIE MONDAY
WO. Barrett and family lunch-
ed In Comanche Monday, after
attending the Baylor Homecoming
In Waco recently. Barrett was the
Superintendent of the Comanche
Schools for about 10
nHM
HBnHnpHPI^ 019 yware ai
•i^as.rsi.
‘ a number of years near u
after retiring form school
1 making
’ ' * -
Ishsmias their candidate. She will j with 7 out of 10, correct guesses
be escorted by Paul Ray McKlnxie. I A. lawless ^rai^l5r
Dcanqa Durham will be the duch-1 Smith Mrs. Merlin Elliott. Preg*-
es*. and her escort will be Bill ton Coat. Elza Perry, t. I* Mohon,
Meyers I Jr., Melvin Harkins. Harold Kiser.
Further plans about the CHS Harklna and Mrs
carnival and coronation cere- _
monies will be announced In next Clifton t win ovar Glen Rose;
week’s Chief Winters over Cftco; 3MXJ over
* (Texas: Ranger ovef MUHnger, a-
, long with the Dubl In -Comanche
j Ue were most frequently missed,
i Another grid guessing contest
Is underway his week. Turn to
the football page — and get in
on the fufeu
HOME FROM U of T
Attend Grand
I00F Encampment;!^
eoaf
Mr and Mrs. Ransom Amos,
Comanche, attended the Grand
Encampment of the I.O.OF. In
Corpus Christ!. Oct. 26-30. Head-
quarters for the 106th annual
session were at the NuedOq Hotel.
Mr Amo’s completed a term as
Special State Deputy Grand
Patriarch. He still holds com-
mision as Special State Deputy.
Robekah Assembly. Mrs. Atpos
belongs to the Ladies Auxiliary
Patriarch Militant.
The Texas Highway Depart-
ment will spend $12,000 for Im-
provements on farm-to-ntarket
roads In Comanche County dur-
ing 1958, Robt. J. Milligan. Dist-
rict Engineer at Brownwood. has
announced. This Is in addition
to the regular construction and
maintenance program.
The State Highway Commis-
sion. at its October meeting, ap-
proved this appropriation of
$16,000 to improve already exist-
ing farm-to-marfeet roads in this
county. A Kital •! $20 million
was( alloted to 153 Texas counties
farm road improvement in
This $20 million will Bb
t for shoulder widening, seal
coat lobs additional surfacing,
and for widening of structures
and roads.
The projects In Comanche
County will be under the super-i
vision of the local highway dist-
rict personnel.
"We should have this program
November 3:
Gostine Baptist
First Methodist ........
First Baptist
De I-con Assembly of God
Presbyterian , r.\"
Central Christian :.....
Last Side Baptist
Sidney Church of Christ
Gartman View
Pettit Baptist
First Freewill
Assembly of God
Comanche Church of Christ
Baggett Creek
Untied Pentecostal
Gustlnc Methodist
Proctor Baptist ^
Newburg Baptist
•'It.
Total
HERE FROM WASUINQTON
„C .HUU.U ...... ...» ........,DCc ^°w™
moving by spring.” District ^ vl^f ^Uh°hi«
glneer Milligan said. We believe, ^..r,a
the money spent in this county vvvatt^T^^inH tLnni* brt>ther’
will go a long way toward bring-. Wyatt ^ *** famlly
lng these roads up to date.”
J When carrlagea first came ln-
Fvlnds alloted for Comanche to use during the 16th Century,
Next session of the Grand En-|County will be spent to replace: they were scorned by men as
campment will be held lti Lub- drainage structure on F M 587.|sulUble only for women and
bock. 128 miles east of $ipe Springs. Ichildren.
Christmas "Trade At Home”
AV" ••• ■ *• • • ' ' ■ ,
Campaign Being Planned
Elementary PTA
To Meet Nev. 12
and Mrs.
Tho next meeting of the J. B.
Layne P.T.A is scheduled for
Tuesday afternoon, at 2:30 p.m.
’’Ouldanoe With Meaning'' Is the
theme- of the meeting. John Ben
Sheppard said "Ood determined
the color of (Kir chUdren’a eyes,
it la. up to us to put the) Bulk of the world's diamonds
In them.” ' ; oome from the Cape Province of1
The fifth grade pupils wUl fjouth Africa,
preoent a short program. I
Hershel Robenon,. wljo Is at-
tending the University of Texas,
was horn for the week-end. visit-
ing his parents. MY.
Walter Roberson. -
| occaflon—and only one ticket
Plans are about, complete fori IT this amount Is to be drawn,
the renewal .Of the Comanche I If trie ticket holder Is not
Ooodwill Ch»ys, a popular trade- present, the 1198 will be add
at-home event, sponsored by the
Comanche Chamber of Commerce
and local merohants.
First of 4he series of weekly
ed to a special Jackpot draw-
ing on Santa Day.
Cash Primes
Cash prizes of 835. 815. and
810 will be jjlven away each Wed-
givf-sways will be held on Wed-’ nesday—as well as the ehance.to
ne&day, November 27—and willget the $100 or more.
cr, awn- ™ »> *■» tft
Comanche.
First
prim will be 5188 to,
In lining up en-----___
presented at each of these Wed-
nesday Goodwill Days. Merchants
of Comanche are expected to
operate V>o, by offering special
values on these trade promotion
days.
Tickets Start Nov. 88
Tickets will be In tho hands
of the participating metehanto
aroond November 28. Cham-
ber of Commerce
Durham. whoso,
nmnbcrs appr
(Inns, soys that ttefcoto age
limited to member* of
that all *0
Arms are Invttod
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