The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, August 25, 1961 Page: 1 of 12
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glT. HTY - EIGHTH YEAR-
NO.9
COMANCHE, TEXAS, AUGUST *T>. 1961
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college clothe i
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■ nursery school ana
week too—and
In this is-
that regis-
i underway, and there
, ft« openings..
|g|ji3» . ■
teachers. MRS
(JOS) WARING.
■ McCullough,
• VOUJE MEYERS,
too. to begin - their
I otek.
FANS are re-
SEASON TICK
COMANCHE IN
I GAMES are bow
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me of the moot
Inbi achedules In
Prim for season
Ore gamea.
Iween the 40
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Here In COMANCHE
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ARCHITECTS DRAWING of the modern new Moorman Manufacturing Plant which
is to.be located on a 12-acre tract, one mile west of the Comanche Square and just
off Highway 377-67. The new building, which is to be an all-steel structure, will
have both manufacturing and warehouse ‘facilities. A 24’x36’ office building is also
included in the plans, and Is to be just in front of the manufacturing plant. Blue-
prints on the building are now in the- hands of contractors—and bids are due to be
accepted by mid-September, The Moorman Company, manufacturers and distribut-
ors of mineral and protein feeds, will manufacture their famous protein blocks and
several other nationally known MoorMan product.^here.
FARM BUREAU MEMBERS
MEET NEXT
The Comanche County Farm
Bureau will meet for its annual
picnic on Thursday Night. August
II, starting at 7:00 o'clock at Lako
Hanes Park.
All members and prospective
members are urged to attend this
picnic. Each guest Is asked to
bnng a basket lunch and drinks.'
The Farm Bureau will furnish the
bread and ice. - j
Oeorge McKinney, of Dallas.'
who Is with the Texas Power <te
Bill Willman
Joins Conservation
Staff Here
ASC Committee
Election Set
GETTING READY FOR SEASON OPENER—Shown
is a group of. Comanche High School Indian Rand stud-
ents, as they paint and cleanup one of the concession
stands at Indian Memorial Stadium'; in preparation for
the opening football game just a week away. The
Cdtnanche Band Parents Club will have the concession
stands at ajl “A", “B”, and Junior High football | tames
here this fall. • - . ,. „ .
District Judge Bill Allen
Dies Suddenly/ Rites Friday
f
Judge H. W (Bill). Allen, pre-
siding judge of the 52nd Judi-
cial District Court and a promi-
I nent attorney In Hamilton for
' _ ■ . (many years, died suddenly in his
of Comanche County j sieep Wednesday morning at
Medical Arts Center hospital In
Dallas.
According to his doctor. Judge
Allen entered the Dallfcs hospital
Farmers
are being urged to take part in
the election of their local Com-
munity ASC Committee, wljjch Is
•scheduled for September 12 Vot-
Wtlliam (Bill) Willman Is a
Light Public Relations will be the new member of the Comanche
guests speaker. B. J. Gist. State.. Work Unit of the Soil Conserva-
Ulstrict Farm Bureau Director tlon Service.
from Abilene will also address the Willman, 29. native of Mason . _________
gathering. County, is a graduate of Mason |stabilization and,- Conservation
"This annual meeting is an High School and of Southwest Committee chairman, points‘ out
important date for Fto.m Bureau Texas State Teachers College,
members", say those in charge, San Marcos. His degree from
adding that many important bus- SWSTC was in agriculture,
lness topics of Interest to members He previously had worked With
will be discussed the Watershed Planning Party of
________________ the Soil Conservation Service at
Waco.
ers will cast their votes In'this Saturday morning for a check
election by mall or in person at
the Coamnche County ASC Of
flee, Comanche. Ballots giving
the names Of .all nominees w-111
be mailed to all known eligible
voters in the county by not lat-
er than September 1,
An announcement by William
F Brvant. County Agricultural
that this annual election Is one
In which all eligible farmers
The community‘ASC commit-
should feel a duty to participate
tee to be elected consists of three
regular members and two alter-
up. and his death was complete-
ly unexpected. • ■
The cause was dlagrt06ed as
due to "eotonary occulatlon.’* ac-
cording to a wire service report
from Dallas Wednesday morning,
and his doctor said he apparent-
ly died In his sleep frbm the
unsuspected heart ailment. It'
was not known that he had heart
trouble wheh he enferetf the hos-
pital. v
Funeral services for Judge Al-
len will be'held Friday afternoon,
Aug 25, at 2 o’clock in the Riley
Funeral Home in Hamilton.
Judge Allen was elected dist-
It'fc back - l,i-w hool next Mon
day, Aug. 28. for aprpoxlmately 1
2,100 Comanche County youngs- I
ters—as all schools In the roun- I
ty—Comanche. De Leon. Gus- 1
tine, and Sidney, open their |
doors for the 1941-lt term.
Scholastics in the school sys-!
terns in Comanche County show:'
Comanche 1.076 .j.
■ De Leon 699
Gust Inc' 194
Sidney . 134
Comanche Plans
Enrollment in Comanche High
School has already been carried
out for all except about 20 stud-L
Jjjuts. Through Wednesday, Aug-
ust 23,'2W—freshmen, 61 sopho-
mores. 69 junior* and 49 seniors,
for a total-of 264 bad registered.
. Grades 6. 7. Rnd 8 in Coman-
che will register Friday, Aug. 25,
and first grade pupils, wtjo did
not register last spring, will re-
gister Thursday
Buses to Bun
Buses will make their
runs on Monday, and will at-
tempt to keep the Same time
schedule as was being used in
Mav. announces Superintendent
--- S. H. Fletcher
Lunches' will be served in all
-Comanche /lunchrooms Monday
with prices the same as last-year
$1 50 per week in J B Loyne
Elementary School, and $175 In
Junior High School and High
School.
Faculty Meeting Net
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SUPT. FLETCHER
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JUDGE ALLEN
. Dies In Dallas
Faculty Listed
Personnel lri the Comanche
administrative and special posts
include: 6 H Fletcher, super-
i intendeut; Miss Lee McGlothlin.
special education' Mrs., Vonita
Morris-., special education; Mrs.
Byrlene Moore, special educa-
tion ; Mrs Kathleen Eads, school
nurse; Mrs Sarah Spalding, sec-
retary 16 - superintendent; Mrs
Artis Rachels, lunchroom busi-
ness manager, R H. Nowlin, co-
op. counselor (Or. 7-12); C. E.
Irby, co-op. counselor (Or 1-6).
High School: Troy Norris, prin-
cipal; Archie E Boyd, vocational
agriculture; '
I ■
Mis* Hattie Bright-
Faculty meetings will be held man. mathematics: Donald Cook*
on Thursday and Friday of this i English. Spanish, staff; Mrg. Jlm-
wec.k in preparation for the Mon-1 day J B Layne; JimjnleAC,
day opening. Irttie Croker. girls PR. % day J.
Thursday night, Aug. 24. the B. Layne; Fred Curry, history,
school board will review the 1061-1P E . girls’ coach: M S Dean.
62 Comanche school budget
High School Prlnclpah Troy
Norris asks that all students who
have not registered to please be
at school by 7 30 next Monday
morning, and reminds students
to return cards which were
sued during the registration
vocational agriculture. Miss Nob-
la- Dunn, librarian: Jack King,
band director; Mrs Vera New-
ton, homemaklM, ’ Roger Oliver,
athletic director ewthnstry. driv-
er education, P3E: Mr* Pallia
ls-JPalmpr, Engllah. civics, staff;
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Anthrax Quarantine Area Covers
Section Between Hiway36SEdr FM 590
j Collier. Joined by Dr H H.
A wide sector to the southeast-1 Payne, El Campo., consulting
southwest of the City of Coman- veterinarian sent here by the
CURTIS W. (SHORTX) DAVIS Waco. nates The chairman and vice rtet judge of the 52nd District,
CRITICALLY ILL IN'HOSPITAL Willman, who Is to specialize lfhatrman pf the elected commit-1 composed of Hamilton, Coman-
Lln'developing plans and applica- fPr vvlll serve as delegate and al- che. Coryell and Bosque Count-
**“■ **“ OL"" trrT1gtP delegate to the county ies in November. .1960. and took
Cyrtts w (Shorty) Davis. Co-'Jt-*on* in the Soil Conservation
manche wholesale tobacco sales- Service here, replaces Boll Con-
man, is reported to have shown Sal vationist Henry Gregory in the
imprnypmunl TlnugHnr Kill lOCffl Stuff CiIOKOry HOW lioads
remains on ih,- <-i it k nl listr at '• 'v ' V: r,1,t nt Afl)«ny
the Veterans' Hospital In T>m- Other members of the>staff in
pie. • • Comanche are Jo|in Simpson and
Davis, who was hospitalised Whit Jarratt. <
here for two weeks prior to be- 1 ^r- B,M* Mrs. Willman
convention where the County
ASC Committee will be chosen
,Ahjr,
Mft In
ant. oi
his oath of office in January
1961, for his first term.
person may vote in the A native of Hamilton, he grad-:
nlty election who Is of teg- 'VlkWH from the 'TTnlverattT of _
* - - Texas Law School and began h»j
law' practice in Hamilton-in 1931
Except for a period of 12 years
common
nl voting age,’who has an inter-
a farm as an owner, ten-
pr sharecropper, and who is i
and|eligible to take part~In one of the!when he was district attorney.
Local Seoul*
At Meeting
In Indiana
che. reaching to the boundary
lines of Hamilton. Mills and
Brown Counties has been placed
under quarantipe against move-
ment of any type livestock out-
sldejthe arch in an effort to con-
trol an anthrax outbreak in that
(section.
The quarantine order was first
Texis Animal Health Commis-
sion. Austin, issued a joint plea
this week, that livestock owners
not only continue, but' increase
their efforts towards vaccination
of all livestock in the area, and •
3-5 miles outside, against an-
thrax. The immunization of live-
stock against the disease is now'
(described by the TAHC officials
4~
ing transferred to Temple, is suf- Aj®** 212-year-old daughter. SAr- ' programs administered by
ferlng from polyslstlc kidney ill-;llh Ann, are now at home at 20®‘the committee. Also, any person
ness. West College. They are members
He is In Ward AK. Veterans' of Methodist Church*#
Hospital, Room- 135. Temple. _ . 1 '
Ed Crews Home
h’our Comanche boys, members
Mrs. "Chuck" Bettis motfcer 01 j o C*
Mrs. Oswell firlghtmun, was taken Ddmoged Dy Tire
seriously ill recently while lr. Pecos J
visiting her daughter. Mrs. Eail An early morning fire around
Stewart. —1 ■ is o'clock Tuesday resulted In an
I - . - .. ........estimated damage of $1,200 to
*■ FLANNERY JOINS
!**#■ _ __ firemen confined the (.wtiAge to
WOOD HOSPITAL STAFF furniture and the Interior of the
1
; house, aeeordlng to Assistant Fire
ilection.
•upplie*)
POPSICLE
I , k^0od announces
^ nannery. form-
iKwr now as-
hlni tajhj pracMce
lu» and
LT “^ekwood clinic
,-,u hol<ta hu
[«>»tsBn?fra d*8r*e*
L^rl^WWrsity, has
(VlLAnfe,“
t^eles. cS.
moTtnt te Fort
*04 his wife
I Mg ^fyWrtB
and
4m — Arm-
**West Ann-
of the
I not of legal voting age. but who
|dh hi charge of the supervision
and conduct of the farming op-
erations of an entire farm. Is
eligible to vote. In the ease of
Joint ownership by two or more
Individual^, each Is an eligible
voter
There are some limitations on
voting T£aeh voter Is entitled to
only one vote on any one ballot.
If a voter has an Interest In a
farm, or farms in more than one
community In a county, he or
she may select the community
In which he or she wishes to vote.
In only
1900
Judge Allen, 52
his widow and three children. ...
was a member of the Baptist Conference of the
Church.
Chief and Driver John Carpenter but the vote may be cast
The Crews family was not at one community of the county.
home when the fire started, ap-
parently In a divan. Insurance
i carried included $3,000 on the
house and *2.000 on household
IflilROlnM.
I Colnanche has made an out-
standing good fire record during
the last few years. The Velun-
i teer Fire Department is now In
the , midst of an extensive drill,
, progtam. i
Voting by proxy is not allowable,
fn the ease of partnership farms,
the vote may be cast by either
partner, and a corporation's vote
may be cast by any authorised
officer of the corporation. *
Because of the vital part that
the ASC community and county
committees play In the fanning
affairs of the county. It Is 1m-
Contnued On Bo^e Page
JAYCEES TO SPONSOR
LABOR DAT COFFEE STOP
supervising
imal Health Commission, on an
area from- the SE comer of the
Comanche public square east-
southeast following State
Judge Allen was a law partner of the Order of the Arrow, along ;‘way, 36 ^ the Hamilton County
*SilaRl t8AllenheR pioneer*aUorrn- wlth 17 oth(>r such 8couta from line, then following the lines of
ey who began his practice in
the Comanche Trail Council. Boy
„ survived W
~ " ence of the Order of the
Arrow. v
Comanche Scouts attending the
Visit Six Flags conference in Indiana are Hank
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Carson and Durham. - Danny Morris, Jerry
sons Mike and Bill. visited with- Norris and Jim Jarratt.
Mr. and Mrs. Howell Cobb 8un- The group made the
day afternoon. Robert Cobb re- Bloomington from Brownwood
turned with them to their home visiting many points
in. Fort Worth to visit for the
Comanche-Hamlltbn counties to
past week. Mrs Cobb and Vir-
ginia spent Wednesday and
Thursday In Fort Worth and
took Robert to see Six Flags Oc-
er Texas.
Granbnry Visitors
Mrs Odell Ormaby and daugh-
ters were Orapbury visitors Sun-
day.
Scouts of Americia are at theithe Comanohe-Mllls Unas to the
point where State Highway 16
entcra Mills County, thence fol-
lowl^p Highway 16 to the point
of Ortftin In Comanche. Then on
Saturday, August 19, Collier ex-
tended the quarantine ordef In
a southwestern direction frpm the
Comanche square, following the
to | route of FM Road 590 to the
Comanche-Brown County lines.
The quarantine order prohibits
any person from moving, trans-
porting. allowing to be transport-
ed. or allowing to drift any live-
stock including horses, mules,
asses, cattle, sheep or goats, and
swine out of the described area.
The quarantine order stands
until such time as It is released
officially by the Texas Animal
Health Commission.
Vaccination is Urged
EL ____ _ of Interest
enroute. The meeting began Mon-
day and was scheduled to end
Thursday.
Some of the other members of
the Order of the Arrow at Co-
manche were unable to attend
the conference Among these was
Tom Brlghtman who Is on vaca-
tion in Mexico City with his un-
cle and aunt. Dr. and Mrs. J. C.
Schiller.
put In effect last Friday. Aug-,19," and Drs Bill Hill and J F Hall-
. James M Collier. (mark l iuciii u-ii-; iiuuucf, as the
nspeclor. Tf^tn.s Ah'* 1 most effective means lo~control
further spread of the disease.
Stiite Sends fn Two VeU
High-1 Texas Animal Health Commis-
sion sent in two veterinarians to
Comanche to assist in the vac-
cination program. They are Dr
Ben B Norman. State-Federal
Brucellosis Laboratory, Sweet-
water, and Dr Seymour J Smith.
TAHC. Livestock Market Super-
vising Veterinarian. Austin The
services of Drs Smith and Nor-
man may be secured by contact-
ing the offices of Drs. Hill or
Hallmark.
70-80 Animal Deaths Reported
Since the outbreak of anthrax
in Comanche County during the
latter part of July, Dr. Payne
said Tuesday, a total of 70-80
animals death* had been report-
ed to him These animal deaths,
counted only In the quarantine
area, included both confirmed
and unconfirmed anthrax-infect-
ed animals.
The TAHC officials plea for a
report of animal deaths to the
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Plans are almost complete for
the Jaycee Coffee Stop over the
Labor Day week-end The coffee
-♦,n, will be hnid -thls-year QU FO;
Fatyoleum
dav and Monday nights from 8:00
m until 4:00 am. during the
savy traffic of the labor day
wk'-end.
motorists traveling through Co-
manche on these, dates in an ef-
Co Cisco to* 10 8low down trarflf
SSSj 4he drivers a few nUnuHfl ’-g**”
week away, uomanenc s young
be safety Hogans *nd inexperienced grklders have
the oars as "ven as \jeen showing mach hustle and
The Jaycees are planning to
have wrecked cam placed doae
to the square In both directions as
another warning to matortfU.
There will also
an warnings on the
other locations
center of town.
This ll-tn cooperation with Texas
Safety Association in order to hellp
meet the goal of 260 coffee stops
this year as oompared to 34 last
year. Tit!* year 200 clubs are ex-
pected to work In these stops. Over
Indians Hard At Work Propping
Opener With Eastland
u
With the season opener wl
it Eastland Mavericks just
Comanche's
Roger Oliver and aaslstanU, Vic first taste of combat Tuesday
del Battle, have only four re-|T,„,;hnrn„
turning lettermen—and the squad
and
I tt» going through
their twlce-a-day work schedule.
• Practice gets on the one-a-day
routine Saturday—and will con-
tinue ail next week, as school
opens Monday.
After e week end e half of
workouts, Comanche's most ln-
lo om in nnnfcpi ttti f‘”
26 boys are working out. with 12
of these freshmen. — “1
The young Indians looked good
in hoM.nw th^lr own Hotli trAms
' scored once each in an hour tong
scrimmage session, as the leather
Early.’* says Coach Oliver, who
had some pertlealer prelae far
younger boys showed e will!
ness to “get In there end
It up” wee encouraging
reruns tnjnrcit
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