The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, January 22, 1965 Page: 2 of 14
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JANUARY 22. 1861
X
THE COMANCHE CHIEF
COMANCHE. TEXAS T«~.
The Comanche Chief
PERCENTAGE OF ALL DEATHS FROM HEART AND
BLOOD VESSEL DISEASES, BY STATES
V»
duly confirmed.
J. C. WltKEKSON, Editor t r«b«rtor
W1UCERSON. M.login, Editor
JAMES WILKERSON. Aiiocloto Editor
WM. B.
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PUBLISHED BVttY HU DAY
AT 20] W. ft RAND
COMANCHE. TEXAS
SUBSCBIfTION PRICES: >>.00 p.r yoor.
SI.71 tot 4 month* In CoouBcho Coooty
and on rarol routoi of Dublin, ftormao,
BUnt.t, Carbon. May and Zaphyr.
S4.E0 por yoar. $2.21 tor 4 month* alia-
whoro In Tom*. $4.50 pnr yoar, $2.SO
tor 4 month* outtidn T*i*». Minimum
iub*cription nccaptnd SS 1.75. Sncond
Jack Moore, president of the -
Comanche National Bank, holds
another Important offioe. He is
vice preseident of the 1915 Co-
manche High School Graduating |
Class, and he fills that office
well, too, as is his cuAtom in
whatever he undertakes.
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The next crisis developed over
>uY Czechoslovakia visas. It
seems that the -forms had been
changed and that new and proper
forms would have to be filed, but
by this time we were less than
•,wp weeks away from departure
time. The mounting excitement
caused us to wake up at 4:30,
sometimes 3:00, in the morning
ind with chills and fever from
the typhoid shots we had taken,
the nights were short and the
days very long.
retween H oust n
lost one hour
and Chicago,
and betvyjaa
I wanted to clear my camera ceitcd beside us.
with Customs to avoid having to
pay duty on it ,w.itn I retumd,
but the gentleman told. me that * ®
since I had a receipt for its pur- Chicago and London, we lost six
chase, containing tie serial num- hours. We lefet Chioago about
bers. I didn't need anything more. 0:30 with a seven hour night
When I checked in at the airline ahead Of us. I remember on take-
ticket office, the clown who wrote off from O'Hare, It seemed the
an the tickets promptly' discard- airplane would never become air-
ed my tiihe table which had been borne, and about the time I start-
carefully prepared showing flight ed looking < for the escape hatch,
times, night numbers and other the wheels left the runway and
pertinent details, and I was so we were off. We saw the sun go
excited I didn't notice it. down and we saw it come up In
• • one of the shortest nights ever.
r*„ s.mH.v iLfo're the Wednes-1 Our night from Houston was Of course, there would have been
dav w^Tra SSulSTtTS" * BranifT interchange with Pan little chance of sleeping regard-
to Dub- American via Dallas to Chioago less of how long the night was.
we took our younjwt eon w o'Uaw #•»*«! whpnpp wa fl&w dir* a •
bock to enter college and this °ffAre' whence we flew air
turned out to be a monumenUl (wtv
project. It's hard to realize that
>ne so young can collect so much
.hmiMi.iv essentia) to his'a tow of" Continent and'we and in the clear night sky, they
ly SWxnd to ton visited with her all the way We seemed all the brighter. Shortly
health and ^U-betng. And to ^ ^uldn t very well ^avoid it, since after we «?<>._the mm
to London.
| Coming Into the London alr-
- - . ’port. It seemed we could see the
In Dallas, we picked up a lady lights of the city for literally
. _ . . Q ormarent-1 who was going to London to Join hundreds of miles in all directions,
n so short a time all apparent-1 ___ * . . . . . .
.the plane was full end she was came up and began to warm the
v..
chilly M degree morning. We di*. I
onYbarked and went Into the ter !
mlnal where we waited for a f»» I
minutes before boarding a bus to I
be driven to another area og the I
Airport. London airport Is a HueJ
placs that has to be highly c.„
highly cen-1
trallxed In order to function, aicl
although it seems disorganized I
It actually operates very smooth
iy-
haror
Ixchai
The bus ride at the airport
where traffic moved an the lerfl
side of the street, was the only
time the traffic system saemec
awkward or unusual. When ]
drove In England later, U seen
ed as natural as though I hac
driven there all my life.
Our next flight was Air Tnncti
to Paris, and we had a wait off
some thirty minutes before thd
ticket office opened, which gavyl
us a chance to observe many un ?
iContinued on Next to Last Pm
Recently Jack called Dr. George
Huff in San Diego, California,■
president of the CHS 1915 Class, I
;ind asked about the plartk for j ■
another class reunion Dr. George
assumed him that It is a fact j
that the next nunlon of the class j
will be held next July, and that .
' Ruby Parham Barton. Comanche, j
now secretary of the class, re- ^
ports she has heard from all liv- .
ing rhembera of the class and all m
said they • would be > on hand for \ j
the great occasion, which will
HEART AND BLOOD VESSEL DISEASE ire the leading eauie of death lo eieh of the
Now, If I seem to Imply at this
stage that it Isn't worth It. you
can bet your bottom dollar that’*
exactly how I felt I'm convinc-
ed that the proper way to plan
a trip Is not to think about It tn
advance and on the appointed
day, Just put out the cat, lock
the door and go.
against these diseases
contributions to the 1965
ethnic composition oi ineir populations, me niuvumuc <
is spearheaded by your Heart Association, supported by
85 Heart Fund. The month-long campaign reaches its high
.rf c.mdav EVhmarv 21. when more than 1.750,000 volui
your
point
on the weekend of Heart Sunday, February 21, when more than 1,750,000 volunteers
will visit their neighbors to distribute heart-guarding information and to receive Heart
Fund contributions.
be the golden anniversary of the
to visit and this entailed a
great deal of reading and cross
referencing.
class.
— Our guide books and literature,
TRir TO Kt’IMll’K is well as our maps, constantly
We have arranged a treat for ( ,mphasized the fact that distance
fiTe readers of this department for | )t..A.en poin ts-an Europe are much
the next few weeks whereby the shfvrter than ln America and this
^isual space alloted- to us. will be
written by Charles E. Wetzel, Jr.,
of Houston, who will give details
■of an interesting' month’s trip
that he and hts good wife, Alma
Jean, took ln Europe last sum-
mer.
Charles,
is the son
native of Comanche,
led us to pdopt an inteneray
much too .ambitious. Two 'points
were fiimly resolved, We would
take the Rhine steamer trip and
we would make the major part
of our tour by private automo-
bile.
After a long process of select-
or Mrs C. E. Wetzel, _ng, ^an(j subsequently discarding
of San Angelo. His father passed
away last summer in Comanche
while he was working on a home
which he had just bought here
with the intentions of moving
back to the town where he and
Mrs. Wetzel were mostly reared.
Charles’ wife, Alma Jean, Is
our daughter, and of course we
think that she is a very won-
derful person, wife, and mother.
She Is a" 1938 graduate of Co-
manche High School. -
Charles is what people used to
call a "self-made man", in that
whatever he has achieved, he has
done mostly on his own efforts
with but little outside financial
assistance.
omet, the main points of our
itinerary were plotted on a plan-
ning map and we began to crys-
tallize our entire program. The
World Wide Travel Service of the
American Automobile Association
publishes an excellent book titled
'1964 Motoring Abroad — Travel
Guide eto Europe', which We used
in most instances in selecting hot-
els, and as a gtiide to relative
costs.
Our plan was to visit ben-
in Stuttgart, Germany.
We—then began a series of
mark, Holland, Germany, Czech- conferences with our travel agent
oslovakia, Austria, Italy, France,'.and made application for visas to
England, Wales, Scotland and Ire-'travel in Czechoslovakia, the on-
'■"» >» - »•“>»’ ™ rrr.
gible step was to have photos, Ume our dj<,lor had advised teta
mdde for our passports and at i nus anj typhoid shots ln addition
this point we realized the signl- me required smallpox vaccina'
fioance of the jokes about pa.'vs- ticn an(j as a result, we were
port photos. However dismal we
thought we looked, the photos and
jur applications for passports
were accepted and in due course
the passports were issued.
An American citizen pays $1100
for a passport and it' is good for
three years and may be renewed
hors d’eombat for a couple of
days. After that, things really
got fraiftlc.
The first tangle developed when
the Porsche factory notified me
that delivery on the cabriolet I
had ordered could not be made
befeore October 15, but a. coupe
for an additional two years upon I could be delivered on the speci-
application. 'It was necessary to [fled date. Two cables were then
select clothing which required a1 sent to Ship Side, Amsterdam
minimum of care and which could 1 requesting details on available
be washed, if need be, in cold
water and allowed to drip dry.
While assembling the proper
wardrobe I placed an order for
a new Porsche to be delivered
cabriolets, but. no concrete assur-
ance could be given that I could
get the car I wanted. It then
waft necessary to re-place the fac-
tory order for a coupe, which was
He is a 1938 graduate of Co-
manche High School and holds a
degree from Rice University,
where he spent four years. He
later did graduate work at SMU,
studying for a CPA which he re-
ceived.
After he was graduated from
Rice, Charles worked in the busi-
ness office .of that University for
two years. He then secured a
position with one of the largest
accounting firms in Houston and
worked hU way up * He is now
it partner in the firm and has
made ,fi great success financially
and otherwise.
Charles be also talented in mus-
ic and for several years was choir
leader of his church; and is a
member of several Houston musi
cal organizations.
We believe that you will enjoy
Wetzel's series of articles ln this
department, the first of which
follows:
—o -
Preparation
It all started in the fall of
1963 when the Texas Society of
Certified PiJblic Accountants an-
nounced the possibility of Its
sponsoring a trip to Europe and
requested an expression of lnter-
’ est On the part of the member-
ship' Apparently, a sufficient
number indicated they would like
to go and the Society proceeded
with plans,, which were duly an
nounced, the departure date being
July 30, 1964, and the cost for
a 21-day excursion was set at
$995 00 per' person.
The date selected was not com-
patible with my work schedule,
■but unfortunately, my interest
had been aroused, and worse still, j
mv wife's interest had been arous-
ed! We then started making plans
of'our own for a trip to Europe.
Frahkly, it's one thing to plan a
trip and quite Another actually to
• go, th" planning in a number of
ways being more enjoyable a than
the trip When we realized that
we were really serious about It,
we -dapped to appraise our sit-
uatton and concluded that now’
was as good a time as any.
Alma Jean then began to visit
the <>ffices of travel agents, who,
wiieh t^ey found out we didn't
.....l».V>.n..t.9....1.?.«>.V.P....XSJ:...At....teadit. foiar
months, were not toVerly helpful
nor "even as enthusiastic As ’
were However, wii did acquire a
tVast amount of literature iwhlch
we began to 'study. It was neceit
sary to be selective in our choices
I.of the points of interest we want*
LADIES’
...v
READY - TO - WEAR
Well, Don was duly deposited
in school, we took our last shot
ind collected our tickets oo the
day before we ware to leave. At
this point, we discovered that
we had no hotel reservations In
Paris or ln Copenhagen, the first
two cities bn our itinerary. It
menu the hotel we had designat-
ed ln Paris had no available rooms
jn the dates requested, the travel
gent finally admitting he had
sent the reservation request to
the wrong hotel.
♦ •
TTiere was nothing to do tout
contact Pan-American’s passeng-
er service ln Paris on arrival.
This later led to a complication
which I’ll take up in due course.
Of course, while all this was
going on, I was desperately try-,
ing to tiej things down at the
office, because you Just don't walk
out and say “Til be back ln six
weeks”.
In the meantime, the garbage,
utilities, and newspaper people,
as well as the post office, had
J>een notified. The only trouble
tjrere was that the 'nrwdl delivery
was" stopped on the day the post
office was notified, not a week
hence, -as requested.
SRIiE GOmmUES
ALL
Ladle*’ SWEATERS,
WOOL SKIRTS,
Children’s COATS,
and a big selection of
Ladies’ DRESSES
From REDUCED TO
ALL
Ladies’ COATS
and SUITS
F^om REDUCED TO
$4.95
$5.95
$6.95
$1.95
$8.95
$10.95
$12.95
$14.95
$16.95
$19.95
- tk
$ 5.88
$4.88
$4.88
$5.88
$6.88
$7.88
$9.88
$10.88
$12.88
$14.88
$14.95
$16.95
$19.95
$24.95
$39.95
$44.95
$54.95
$59.95
$69.95
$29.95
$10.88
$12.88
$14.88
$17.88
$29.88
$32.88
$41.88
$45.88
$52.88
$59.88
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ALL WINTER
HATS
o n b
WE GIVE AND REDEEM GOLD BOND STAMPS
HIGGINBOTHAM’S
l.>
Finally, I pushed my unfinish-
ed work off on one of my part-
ners and went home to pack, ex-
pecting to get at least one good
night's sleep. Packing was no
problem since we were able to
get all we planned to take ln
three .bags and these were with-
in the weight allowed eby the air-
lines.
, '-IVfv
bolts of beautiful
Piece Goods
SAVEL SAVE! SAVE
Values to up $1.49
per yard
ONLY
FOR
I neglected to mention that a
month earlier I had bought a new
camera &n<^ had been snapping
pictures of everything and every-
body for practice and had had to
evaluate the results since I didn't
want to go around taking pictures
that were not good.
Departure
September 16, the big day, fin-
ally arrived—at 4:00 o’clock as
Usual!" One of my partners pick-
ed us up at home at 9:00 and
drove us to the airport to check
in and try to compose ourselves.
YARD
45” PRINTED
AND SOLID
POPLIN
45” COTTON
SATINS
46” DRIP DRY
SHEER PRINTS
56” CHICKEN
CHECKS
HIGGINBOTHAM'S
SAVE 50%
AND MORE!!
clearance
ladles' SHOES
Values
to $10.95
reduced'
tor..
*4.95
• • #
Ladles' SHOES
Regul&ry
priced
$8.95
now
*2.98
SHOE DEPARTMENT
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iron Janiece
iy McKlnxie.
performed
ire an altar of
IoIm.
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Mrs. John
lllsboro and Mrs |
le of Comanc
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her uncle, wore i
^tin gown whlcl|
iplre waistline
le lace bodice,
[tin pdllbox held
and she
English ivy
igle large white|
ly Jeiwelry was
gift of the
I Maid of honor
re of Br
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Idegroom, was
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due satin pcce
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of the slim
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ivid Goocn»n|
legroom as
lea Johnson y
srs Included
San Marcos,
itth, Hubert
and Der
Ivarado.
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sang “The
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accompanied
itson, church o|
le mother of
-green dres
hat
Mrs.
of wlnetoer
fur hat.
lellla corsage\
dlowing the
>tk>n was hekll
of the chii
colors we
>ratlona, and
itured a blue
rangement fla
idles In crystal |
fembera of
led Misses .11
iannaa Fr
Jorado, Ann
and Mrs.
Worth.
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let and A-lin«
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raduate of Bal
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Lambda
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tin Public
[The bridegroor
jartche High
)»t In' the Unl\
tollege of
Bee-president of |
ie is a Member
professional pha
fernlty, and MeJ
The couple is
lin.
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Slid Mrs.
Jess |
groom's grand
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Wilkerson, J. C. The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, January 22, 1965, newspaper, January 22, 1965; Comanche, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth888605/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.