The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, June 29, 1962 Page: 1 of 20
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Baseball Team
Mooting Friday
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■. .{ iij.1' it'Ml'U ' HI praying on a new
baseball team m Comanche. na%
' "benr set for Friday night, June
29 at the Sheriff's Office 'il
tY-.c Courthouse
Several young tnen have been
working' out ,,and playing prac-
tice baseball games the fast few
weeks — and are interested in
playing more games. Fifteen ne*’
uniforms will be available for
the games.’ ■
■ Sheriff Delve Bean, former
major league. pitcher, is to be
the manager of the new’ base-
ball elub .-arid' Invites Interested
player^ to attend the Friday
night meeting
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS for the Upper Leon Soil
Conflervatinn District, who are leaftinp the way in
conservation farming $»nd ranching are left-to-rij?ht •
H. W. Turney, Dublin, secretary; Clint M. McCain,
Eastland, chairman; Ory Beaty, Comanche, and Wade
George, De Leon.
SAI.OIS RESIGNS POST
Sam Salots. Constable, Precinct
No 1 Comanche for the past 2
years, resigned the position this
week He is now attending a bar-
• ber. j^rllegc in Fort Worth.
13 T«or Old Son Fires Fotol Shot
DELEON WOMAN
ACCIDENTLY KILLED
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Mrs. Edith Fields. 45-year-old
De Leon woman, was .killed in-
stantly Tuesday. June 26. about
7 p.m when accidently shot by
fa tS-yearK)ld son.
The shot, fired from a 22 rifle,
struck Mrs Fields In the back
of her head, and lodged In her
1 temple. She was working in a
' * ■ garden behind her home in the
_ issue Is published thru outskirts of De Leon when the
mpattlon acc,<lent OCcured.
.UlL'fwwrr iirbatt The shooting was Investigated
JTfL., by City Police Chief Raymond
WBi WIUAIANN, special ^ Sh., Iff n»i„»
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Area Maneuver Right Sought —
General, Urea Ranchers
Here Thursday Right
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COMANCHE WORK UNIT STAFF- Whit Jarratt;
- John Simpson, and Will Willmann arc pictured study-
ing a Conservation Farm Plan, and preparing to give
assistance in its execution.
Newburg To
Welcome Visitors
The "Newburg Community Club
invites everyone . interested in
Community ' Inmmvemml---aiul
j Better Town and Community
'Relationship to attend a spec-
ial meeting at the NewUirg Com-
munity Center Thursday night.
July 5th at 8 o'clock.
Principal speaker for the mcet-
^ Ing will be George McKinney,
Rural Development Specialist
1 Community Improvement, Texas
j Power Ar Light Co.. Dallas.
•'There will be a home-made
i icc cream supper following the
program," say folks from the
Newburg. Community Club, add-
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I IKWd 'J IMHl rot! a- ' ' V jl-,.UUI,-
jiy area innitaiL m.uieu.>.ei>: ihaU
lain include the .-iiitiiera pan,
of Coma ne) le Count! .s set fur
Thursday night. June ^8. at the
l-iistrud Courtroom, starting at
8 o'clock
l andowners and' other’ inter.
extfcT parties arc invited to meet
with' Lt Co'n Tfiomas Dunn,
Commander of Fort Hood.
Similar meetings were held In
Lampasas, Gatesville and Hain-
Uto non Monday, Tuesday, apd
Wednesday nights—and meetings
are set for Brownwood Friday
jught, and at San Saba next
Monday night.
General Durm extends an In-
vitation for lifteitewted |>ersons to
attend—-and a good size dele-
gation of Comanche Countlans
is expected to be present.
Landowners Vote To
Close Open Season
SORORITY SPONSORING CONTEST o„ o..r .no Turkey
TO NAME "MISS COMANCHE”
Homecoming Set
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official ambassadoress of
manche for the coming year, per-
forming such duties as repres-
enting Comanche in the Peach
and Melon Festival at De Leon.
Indian Creek's annual home-
coming will be held Sunday, July,
11. according to announcement by.
Comanche County landowners ' • • • W r
jf.rvored a closed deer and tur-1 lt‘ \. rtlcn Bowman of Fort1
Co. "key season, and a quail hunting^ W >rtH vJli deliver the annual
FRIGID AIRE
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Tfft advertisements
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s wave of optomln to
PABMBS, as well as
ever the ana.
fl^m PRESIDENT
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SCHWARTZ, and
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[•Wton tors ether coin
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Patton. De Leon; Sheriff Belve
Bean. Comanche, and District At-
torney' Byron McClellan. Oates-
vlllc
Sheriff Bean reports that Dav-
id Fields. 13. made a voluntary
statement about 11 o’clock Wed-
nesday morning saying that he
fired the shot that struck and j
killed his mother. The youth re-,
ported that he was In the kitch-
en at the family home, as his
mother was In the garden, be-
hln dtfte bouse doing some hoe-
ha took a 22 rifle,
and shot at a scissor toll bird,
that was parched on a fence post
The boy was sitting In the kltch-
A Miss Comanche" and "Jun-
ior Miss" contest, sponsored by
tire ES A. sorority, is slated- tor
Friday, July 13. al 8 p.m in
the Comanche High School Audi-1 and other sJch activities,
lonum Admission will be 50cT , , „
and 30c The w inner will ire the1 A1‘ *in'4le girls, over 15 years purpose of regulating rules and
• J ot age who live in the Coman-
season from December 1 until
January 16. at the special- public
hearing hel dhere Wednesday af-
ternoon at the County Court-
room.
The meeting was held for the
Comanche To Take
Holiday July 4
July 4th. the annual Inde-
pendence Day national holi-
day. will he observed by Cq-
manrhrans on Wednesday with
both hanks, post office, govern-
mental offices. Chamber of
Commerce Affiliated businesses
and most other businesses to
be closed.
| Customers are asked to keep
this holiday in mind, and ar-
....__ftred thTThol through ‘ » do^‘hrirJ ®"
k screen door, the stray bullet Tuesday or Thursday with the
gtrtklng his mother. 1 r* pective stores and offices.
David and hVs younger broth-! Also news contributor* and
«T, Bruce 8, saw their mother] advertisers are asked to sub-
fall. went to her, and then call-1 mit their news and ads to
ed an ambulance Justice of the THE CHIEF as early as po>»-
ftoace Howard fMoott Baker. De| ihle next week; so that the
Leon, rendered a verdict of ac- newspaper office can be closed
cidental death by gunfire. i'll day Wednesday, and cm
Young Fields stated that he] nloyees get the independence
_j— . beUeved Ure bird to be. the one l»ay holiday.
tto SPIED LAUNDRY ‘that had been bothering his pig- -------
I*1** Sf <to must modern 1 eoru and he fired at lt through bar.’t at home at 3 o'clock Wcd-
ln the ' ihe screen, not realizing that htejnerday morning.
garden, was In the line of fire
Funeral services for Mrs. Field*
were hcl:’ at 4 o’clock Thursday
•ICtemoo.i -_at the First Baptist
Church in D» Leon. Burial was
In Oe I -on Cemetery
Mrs Fields ‘s survived by her
h isfcai.d Horn e Fields, four sons
and a daughter. Mr: Fields, a
tract operator, was hauling grain
trim Littlefield .at the' time the
a 'Idem occured. He arrived
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net
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T*mty sntosutie wash- I mother, who was hoeing In the
|! dryers, two
1 Uae hair dryer*.
!*• coin-operated
“dto will be In-
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Simpson
Cooporotort
.JOHN o 8IMPHON,
,2* C*wervatlonbt
Ptos eK>rf'w‘ »P-
S?*1 Wal-
a“*n that The Cs-
Mtonu.^ Wbllshed.
• ,Uh on thta
- Kgantontloas.
^ hw‘n m««t
h "totag thh -
L" Sa
A.’uSt “ wim re-
I ig^V^lwment and
with.
sTiLi* maintain
ii^2abss
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^’Jth the basic
" «s«h acre of
lr£iT"*ln* *
“*M* to
che Independent School District,
are eligible when sponsored by
a community, organization or
business. Divorcees are ineligible.
An-entry fee-of $10 in to be
paid by the sponsoring group up-
on entering its contestant. En-
trants and fees will be register-
ed at the Comanche Chamber of
Commerce by the local secretary.
Deadline for entry Is Friday,
July 6
Out-of-town judges will pre-
side over the entertaining festiv-
ities which will Include bathing
suit and formal competition for
the! Miss Comanche Contest. This
group of girls must be at least
18 years of age
The "Junior Miss Contest",
comprised of 15-17 year olds will
> i mited to formal competition
only. All groups arc urged to
submit their entry or entries ear-
ly -IT " -
Max me Barret. E.S.A president
says. "Tr.ls ^shoulti be a lovely
and entertaining contest as Co-
manche Is, of course, the center
of lovely and entertaining young
ladies."
operations of hunting and fish-
ing in- Comanche County for
September 1, 1£>82 thru Septem-
ber 1. 1063.
Seventeen were present, in-
cluding land owners and Game
Wardens.
In the propositions voted on,
Comanche Countians favored a
closed deer season, 6 to 3: nine
for and none against a closed
turkey season, and 9 for recom-
mending the quail season open
December 1 and continue thru
January 16, to none against.
Game Wardens present were
Clyde Hall, Decatur; Leonard
Lamb, Fort Worth; Horace Gore,
Brownwood; John Wood. Brown-
wodd; J: C. Moore, Stephenviile.
and Charles Edmondson, Waco.
Boptist Workers
Conference Set
Comanche Baptist- Association
will meet the montlily .Work-
ers' Conference at the Board
Church Baptist Church Thurs-
day. July 5th, at 6:30 pm
A good attendance is urged at
this important meeting.
eir.ron.
p nr r will lie served under'
thje tabernacle at noon.
The public is cordially invited j
to come and bring'dinner, said
Mr. Luker.
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McKINNfCY
Work To Begin
On Nursing Home
Work Is expected to begin on
th,, new $140 000 Western Hills
Nursing Home within two or three
w'ecks. according to Regionald
Waggoner. «n0 of the offtgers In
the corporation.
The new 50 bed nnrnnc home
will be located Just west of the
Sunset Hills addition In Coman-
che
Nathan Ktaet’. Austin Archi-
tect. anrt former Oomanchean, wlli
be the architect for the building
protect.
H0S8V ELECTED AS
CHS ASSISTANT COACH
mwL*~Zr..
4-H Girls Named
On Disl. Council
JFtoy& rpettn Hobby. 25, co-
, captain of last year's Howard1
Payne College Yellow lacked grid SdlKird SHflW
[team, is the new Comanche High 1
-School football line coach, and
first assistant, on Coach Roger
r | Oliver's staff '
Bv r»ROi VN 4 otewvs County ! „ .. - . . ", _
Horn- Demon.lratlon \grnf ! , »obby' .w,h« '■ fom’ s*»rt
Lom McCnlloujGi of v.-.M^ter^n atChljton.mgr School.
»t« tmv,football and
recently began duUes as District , Sa^ll sta^or two v^s be
8 Olrl’s 4-H Council offlCert. ! sUr for two years’ be’
Garden Club Tots To
Teen Program Friday
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Want to see your favorite
youngster on parade? Then cornel
Ur the high school auditorium
on Friday night, June 29, at 7:30
o'clock. “ IARAII LOU tooCULLDUOII
Linda Iras been ejected as Coun-
f.
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Elected As
CHS Teacher
Sandra Shaw, who is engaged
to newly elected Comanche foot-
ball coach. Pete Shaw, has been
elected as a member of the Co-
man die school faculty, and will
teach physical education classes
from the sixth grade in Junior
High School through Grade 12.
along with one class In com-
mercial studies. _
Miss Shaw and Mr. Hobby plap
a nAugust wedding. The newly
elected Comanche faculy . mem-
ber Is a candidate for a degree
in August from Howard. Payne
College, Brownwood. She is maj-
oring in business administration
and education, and has her min-
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The ComanchA Garden Club
wU lpresent the town’s pre-school
children In review along with
several talented teen-agers.
Dancers will Include D'Arta
Scott and Connie Baber from De
Leon and Sue Russell and Leslie
Hallmark of Cbnianehe.
Marsha Wllkerson -and Ken
Rachels will be soloists for the
group.
Jack Ring’s Stage Rand will
be on hand to m$ke the program
complete. V. -
Pianist* wbH- Inotude Mrs Tbin
Odder
Mrs. Bill Wllkerson will set as
mistress of ceremonies and the
Pfogram will be under the dir-
ection of Miss Nobla Dunn.’Mrs.
Wi J. Piriu. and Mr*.
ell secretary and Sarah Lou has
been named Council treasurer.
Both glrh nr? outstanding 4-Hers
and have received many honors
on a local, county, district and
state level.
The girls were elected ^hlle
FETE HOBBY
. . . new assistant coach
fore transferring to Howard
Payne. ' "i
At Navarro. Hobby won the
award for being the school’s most
outstanding athlete. At Howard
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Wilkerson, J. C. The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, June 29, 1962, newspaper, June 29, 1962; Comanche, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth890454/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.