The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, June 1, 1956 Page: 2 of 15
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This reunion nod homecoming
FINISHWITH-IANOLIN
LANONTT with Gotwi’s
unique trofnwwhlp brings !•
you wonderTuI vgTveTy 40tn
hun>U» pullon pontie end Birds with
satin tlostk front ond hock panel.
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Pontie |«dlo. $5M
Matching glrdto
Comanche Chief!
I. C. WILREMON l
i'UII/ir and P«hfch*>
Editor end P«bfl»h*r.
in U*l-
rWUJibed Every Friday
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»orial Stadium on Sunday nlfnt.
t July 1. with a raii«-
l ioue service with all chore he* of
the county mvtted to co-operate
| a ^minister of state-wide note »
\ being sought, for the occasion
i arid plan* are lo
vealing talk on “Wings For War
p.ur Atwood. Another |wSch’nrrAl
w|> »«««JSU r1iiSur<d't t
.land
ton 24. D. C
people
County
made
on the
Peace.”.
more
subject. “Wing*
.land' - xnere a*w *•:» ”»:*.....~.i~ i=~- a^lt wa* held annually
and direct danger? to rural *iroe. CountyFa Inca, until about the
of‘Mr and xht ftTis fXut A potato cel- from ^18^“nUl
i, cyclone cellar or any I mm of the ee^tu^ ■
?*3MM WHSS! ^ ^ — *«-
J have a county- -w.ngs For Trade, ‘n whkh he aheiter < from jadtoacUwe W ^^ . livestock, poultry and
| wide 'choir to furnish music for strewed tt« airplane* value in The ^ond_ dar.ger ^S 'exhlbttTas well as ex-
the service. , moiftm transportation. : «"**g!L!!£?3' iZ effect of’Si in cooking and canning,
■oaaoRiPTiOH wares*
mi Hi Camancto
rvrkl rout** or .
■i.to p*r nu. •"PW" .
■ it tor eur-or -«**• *u
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rmurod *1 t«» VMTWtrV*
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^Tom'Hounalel.'401 ®
Comanche, U a native of Coman-
che County Tom. a former bank-
er, and r^chman stUl Tuns a
few cattle on Kl* fijnch near Co
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Tom's grandfather was one of
the original settlers, who came to
Comanche County before It was
nrymlzed In 1464. The Hplmsleys
The Centennial Committee is
working on a day-time program
?W& 3* £ ^velf8 downtown “fc ^ Wr^ F* Mercy,
and will feature various kinds of* .. • •
races and oontfsU ir^ludUig an - ----*“-
• • somtUUDC UJ »-s*wv. VI in kyym*
Ann Blackwell, valedictorian of Kun ue.tpons-'the I c»binet maklnt .
be The mam div^ me Fair
contest, and
■ o Sl6l)« CBll w -
ito.to*r.«afir is iuSLfiJLJi0*’1 *
and chemical
N-*
! ductlon—Estimates
successful attack
in Pro-
1 that ft
A hiuSe^Dentenma^parade win ’ our blessings or exteraina
be given late Monday evening In* • • ■ ________
downtown Comanche preceding M leJut one pastor of a Co- urge! clUes would maze
the first of throe night perform- manehe church, after rgadin* the #urv4vor4 totally dependent on
ances of historical pageants to v^acllmeg m the dally papers (ood 8tored ln rural areas wlthm
he given at Indian Memorial morning, switched *Ub*.two WM|U —rr—
sm&atz
m1:
agent
Judging from his looka and
activities,. Tom might stilt De
classed as a man of middle age.
but for lack of more definite in-
formation, we are going to nomi-
nate Tom as the oldest native of
the county who still lives here.
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In order to properly celebrate
Cbmadche CWmty'B Centennial,
we are making a search for me
oldest native an or woman still
living In this county.
— _ .Sunday morning, switched sUb-itiro Wcoks
Stadium Jects for & ^ To
, ^ ' to preach on "Tlie Crisis We Face (krodttetioo_< Y0a
These pageants will ^ i ^ This Atomic Age.‘ * ■ —
heart and the feature part of . .
at__nrnimt m And In - _ at..___a
For the pant tgOOL yea.rs:
neari auu urc k-- --
oXrCar«',!.SSfr‘^*£
celebrations have been held, have
drawn near-capacity crowds gnu
have been highly successful and
entertaining.
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The major day-time Centen-
nial program, on Wednesday. July
4. will include the annual 1W. B ttn- ’0*1^ to t
Nowlin Fourth of JttlE Siruing ^ £ a4r rAid.
and Homecoming at Hodges Park
near CM Ueon. which annually *,m----—.
hiVSn-OiS fT U» thW wUI
public to use b* o*m of an air
raid or atomic explosion
If you can qi
•T- rr-----ir-—<r
:is
s
’
qualify as a native ----
■ little sketch of your life. If
you will do that, we can get
some Interesting definite Infor-
mation for this department and
really establish who Is the oldest
native man or woman of the
county. They certainly deserve
some sort of award.
•
Tire Comanche County Old
Settlers Reunion. established
more than a half century ago,
has not been held here within
the last six or seven years, but
plans are to hold one of the
biggest reunions of all times at
Lake Eanes Park on Tuesday.
July 3.
O#
Last year the pension group of
Comanche County under the new
and more dignified name of
“Senior Citizens Club of Coman-
che County." held a very success-
ful reunion at Lake Eanes in
August with speakers of state-
wide note present.
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It is this club that is to take
the lead in the reunion to be
beld here July 3, but all old tim-
ers and former citizens, whether
or not they are members of the
eiub, are urged to be on hand
and take part in the reunion
draw#
South
Is usually attended
of from five to six
will be giv-
Comancha on
yubr 8. about
4£,opc:
perform-
Tne iliaui uivc^,— -- - . .
' should know what preliminary 1 horse racing. Comahche at
flffs Sfssa'spa £rA"^^
SirSiL
here and UUX- P*n ,n ^
races as did the outlaw
Bass of Denton.
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The Fair Orounds, according to
nur beak information, was locat-
D.
north and east of the present
Bart Johnson residence.
The Comanche Fair, according
to oTdtlmer*. wm older tfom
State Fair at Dallas which was
I what plans
Market Tour
___ should know
have been made by
DRES
SAL
* dw a ane®
sarzjsarjsrss._
know your county plans for gaso-
line priorities, and have a good
o,^** 32. ^ 8SS srs^jf
markers
in Ne wTork 8Ute dir-
tunnels In case
Thursday -w
5 o'clock
Comanche's annual
ghU kMUtAur Rodeo V
ices.
. • •
Other features of the Centen-
nial will be announced from
time to time b ythe Centennial
Committee, which Is headed by
BUI Parka, manager of the Co-
manche County REA organisa-
tion. ______________
Announcement in the dally
newspapers Sunday by General
Curtis LeMay that by 1«5© Rus-
sia will have enough long range
bombers and nuclear weapons to
destroy the United States—it
Soviet airmen should get every
conceivable break in a surprise
attack—has put fear in some of
us. and caused us to realise ‘‘that
bombing oould happen to us too.”
• •
Even the Comanche High|
School graduation program on
Last year some of the larger
structlons to civic groups on
what to do in c«ae of in air raid
or Atomic bomb explosion
• *
Some counties la Togas have
organised for ClvU Defense. Co-
manche Mayor Oewell Brtghtmao
recently attended A ®vtl De-
fense meeting and he has pliBS
underway for instructing the pub-
lic here akmg that line
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Just this week The Chief re-
ceived the foBowtng Information
fro mthe Federal Defense Ad-
ministration. Battle Creek. Michi-
gan, stressing civil defense roles
the farmer anfl his family should
play ln case of an atomic attack.
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Texas Almanac.
State Fair in the United States.
not the
tem ln your area
4. Be Ready To Take In Evac-
uees—"You. your family and your
neighbors should make plans now
to shelter- andfeed
Civil Defense law provldes thsi
you will be paid lor anything
that is properly requisitioned
». Plan To Help Otom- Rur-
al families may be asked to help
2m0aBfSj. mSTluch u*m» afl.JMeUcmn W«r
“«SE5 .udd«
and auxiliary police "If you ar*
not ln civil defense, ask your lo-
cal or county civil defense agency
how you may Join a training
class. If there Is none in your
area, help to get one started.
“The principles of civil defense
are not new to rural people." the
The publication, “RID”—"Rur-
al Family Defense," Is being dis-
tributed throughout the nation
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pamphlet emphasizes. “You have
been taking care of your own.
helping your neighbors, and
ready to help others—in peace-
time emergencies—for a long
„ point up tie ImportaiM* of time. Buttb. Problem. ..oddAO
2-wu: jrwrsua ss,ri^^d‘n.ri.^
Thursday night of last week.an<*
dealt with the power of the air.
The four outstanding class rep-
resentatives speaking at the ex-
ercises used the slogan. “The
World Has Wings" as the prog-
ram theme as follows:
• •
Jeanette Read. - senior saluta-
torlan, made a very able and re- 1
small towns
defense
A five-point rural a*nd small
town defense program Is outlin-
ed in the pamphlet partly as fol-
lows : _
•1. Take Care of Your Family]
tack can be met and answered
-only by organization. Civil de-
fense is that organization.”
In addition to the distribution
being made by FCDA. copies of
the leaflet are available at five
cents each from the Superintend-
ent of Documents. U. 8. Oovern-
Take Care 01 I our p-muuij cm m , .__
Yourself—“A mass enemy ment Printing Office, Washing-
had brought
to Corpus
Christl, but after the war clos-
ed. prosperity changed to hard
times.
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The discovery of gold la Cali-
fornia in SM0 took a heavy toU
of Corpus Chlsti's population and
left Colonel Kinney with a vast
empty acreage and no prospect
of filling it with substantial set-
tlers Only transient prospectors
on the road to California were
frequent visitors.
Kinney, however, had faith ln
Corpus Chrlstl. if only the peo-
ple oould see It. The business sec-!
tkm at the time was mainly on (
the beach and the residential,
section,-was scattered along Af
high bluff.
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Land in the vicinity was ex-
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Wilkerson, J. C. The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, June 1, 1956, newspaper, June 1, 1956; Comanche, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth903889/m1/2/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Comanche Public Library.