The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, May 24, 1968 Page: 1 of 16
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LET'S KEEP COMANCHE GREEN,
SHOP and SAVE AT HOME
REMEMBER ... NO CITY SALES TAX HERE
.oans
Texas -
The Comanche Chief
Comonche County's Oldest Business Institution - Published For and About Comanche County
' NINETY-FIFTH YEAR NO. U>
COMANCHE, TEXAS 76112 MAY 21, 1%8
16 PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
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COPY
show you care-BUY
Paul Draws 30-Year Term For
Killing Dc Leon Molher-in-Law
CHS Graduation Exercises Friday Night
Wtjr should you buy the Bud-
dy Poppy?
For quite u few reasons.
The sale of Buddy Poppies
has raised a total of more than standing child care
40 million dollars since (he No one wfi'
first sales in 1922. These dol-
lars were used f.;r (he benefit
of disabled and needy veterans
and the widows and orphans of
deceased veterans.
Buddy Poppies have help'd
finance
Service Offices in every sjjite
of the union —offices which
have made their services avail-
able without rharge to all vet-
erans and- a ded them in ob-
taining billions of dollars in
compensations, pension and
other benefit* to which
are entitled under law
fhar'es E Paul, 44-venr-old
... . TT 7~ Bay Titian, charged with the
Michigan Without the help of murfVT* of his De l.ron mother-
the BumV Poppy, this unique jn_|PW ia«t August 25. was found
home could rot provide the at- guilty Saturday morning bv a
mosphere wl.ich has made it jp„r f.|j Cotmtv 52nd District
respected as a model of out €ourt juryi and his punishment
set at 50 veors in Drison
one wt!' ever know just Taul, indicted last October bv
Low many needy veterans a Comanche Tounty 52nd Dist
ha'e Teen given emergency rid Court grand jury, was al-
lowed a change of venue for
the trial which was held before
Judge Truman E Roberts in
Gat°sv ille lar.’ week
Paul, found guilty of murder viee the Comanche
will dee ir>' • the
aid or he'p-’d to a better life
bv the Buddv Poppy funds
spent on a local level N'cr can
a tabulation he made of the
Memorial Services
Sunday, May 26
hv A. It. Ilorten
Th re v'ij! he h Memorial
y-rviop StrVav m^rnirc at
7:3') in the Oakwood (Cemetery.
Th’« r>roer'’m v«'it| h» hv the
4 H ho- « and rirls assisted, hy
the v py post flUjO of Co-
mancho This will he held at
the Confederate Monument
a system of Veterans many hosDitali/ed veterans who
have had their lives made with malioe aforethought, shot
more cheerful through the hns- to death his 6S year old mother
piial programs financed by in-law. Mrs Don McClellan, at
the Buddy Poopv her home in De I^eon Five shots
.The local \ F W Post 8460 from a 22 ca'ibre pi,stoI, were
will sponsor the Buddv Poppy fired into Mrs McClellan’s proper
sales this yenr on Saturday, body,
they May 25. You can help fulfill Ben I) Sudderth, Comanche
the motto of the Buddy Poppv attorney, representing the de:
Imm'siiatelv aft r
The Buddy Poppy has pro- “Honor the Dead by Helping
vided much,of the fund needed the Living" by purchasing a
to support the V.F.W National Buddy Poppv from one of the
on the streets sentencing to priwm Sutklerth
entered a plea of insanity in
— ' behalf of Paul during the trial
Prosecutors iri the trial were
Byron McClellan, GatesvilLe,
52 nd District, and Sam Cleve-
land. Stcphonville. 28th District.
Both are District Attorneys.
the ser-
V F W
of all
v< t'*ran< v ith the United h'ntes
Flag Once wvdn w<- would like
to sa\ we fee! wo shall miss a
few of the gtaves due toim-
idept fieation. If we
nuss one we will be happy for
■y'hu to call this to our atten-
tion ANn tVre will be extra
Home for Orphans of Deceased representatives
Veterans kt Eaton Rapids, Saturday.
may 23-28 is Time To
Spray your Pecan Trees
rendant. -ikl Paul waived his nags' i, ft AV;th the caretakers,
appeal right to the jury find- and they w:ll be happy to put
ing, and accepted immediate one ouj for ou
Everyone is invited and urg-
ed to attend
From Floyd M. Key
County Agricultural Agent
On the basis of moth emer-
gence in Erath and Brown
Counties, it appears, that the
appropriate spray date for Pe-
can Nut I'-sc hearer in this
area will be May 2^21! The
emergence of the moths from
the collections in the County
have not reached a number to
•determine the spray date for
Comanche With some larvae
Abilene Firm
Lends $251,859
School Contract
The Chief To Be
Published Day
Early Nexf Week
Royce Lubke
To Attend
Boys Stale
-G4
Valedictorian •
Sakitatorian
V(kki Andrews
DaVid Bingham
'Larry Biaekwood
Janda BloyjL,
Marilyn Rdvkin
Billy Bra<jshaw
Casey Bradshaw
Richard Burks
'Gale Carpenter
John Cm.ley
Harrv Cloud
Javnie Cloud
Cathy Coker
Jane Cotten
Vicki Coufal
Jefrv Culpepper
'Donnie Daniels
Tom R Dudley
Estelle K'.lis
‘Jerry Ellis
Doris Evans
Martha Fanning
'Carolyn Foreman
Johnny Garner
David Gere
Jaynie Grayson
Harold Gressett
Dan Grimmer
•Jimmy Harelik
Wendy Hicks
'Churyl Horton
Sal lie Huffman
CLASS MOTTO:
CLASS COLORS:
CLASS FUtWEKS-
CLASS OFFICERS
The Chief will be published a
day earlv next week, as the
presses will roTT on tV^ctiie ^av
rtne to the Memorial Day holi-
day, May 30
Mail subscribers wiH g e t
their papers the u£ual time, on
Fridav. as the mail will not be
Li
will be the
week's issue
deadline for next
The Comanche School Board
has accepted Ihe bid of 1251.859
of Rose and $an«. Abilene to
construct the Comanche Ele-
still in the shoots it looks like mentary BulMing and Music delivered on Thursday,
two sprayings will be neces- Building. TTiia was agreed up- Advertisers and those } w ho
sary for good control this year, on in called school board meet- have copy for: the paper,, are
George Madden, Research ing Thursday night with the reminded that Tw*=dsv. Mav 28
Horticulturist of the U S. Pe- architect, Geoige Sowden, and
can Field Station in Brown- representatives of Rose A Sons
wood reported *1% moth em- ^ fiuur'e'was agreed Thanks for .your cooperation
upon after a study of alternate and consldcrat>on'_
plans were gone over The Co-
manche School Board express-
ed pleasure over the agreed al-
ternates, which all felt 1 would
present a sv.ind building pro-
gram. accoi ding to Superin-
tendent S H Fletcher.
-—Roll-
. . , . , Gale Carpenter
. . . . Jerry Fills
Tommv Humphrey
Gary Paul Johnson .
Ra'y Johnston
■S f^rron Jones
'Lynn Kitjer
'Dee Ann Kilgore
Jimmy Kirkland
Buddy L.'.ne
Paula Jo Lee
Ray Livingston
Jack McDonald
Roeer Martin
Fdith Matthews
Saragoza Moreno
Katie Northcutt
Donny Norwood
'Karen O'Brien
James Preston
Norman Reed
Norman Reid
David Ripley
'Elaine Ripley
Mike Srhul
Debbie Stark
'Gwinn St.mmers
Fred Tnylor
' ‘Gay Ws',goner
(Tvde Weaver
Janice Welch
Brenda Whitworth
'Keat Wiles
Aleycia Williams
Jerry Williams
• Honor Graduates
"We earner we saw, we conquered."
fg^irlel and White
White Rose,
Buddy L,ane
Larry Blackwood
Gale Carpenter
Martha Fanning
Janice Welch
W'alk Alone"
Beautiful" „ . ,
Larry Blackwood
Gay Waggoner
Meyerbeer
Rogers rind Hammerstein
. Ward
Martha Fanning
Sallie Huffman
Jimmy Harelik
. President
Vice-President
. Secretary
. Treasurer
, Reporter
GRADUATION EXERCISER
HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
FRIDAY. MAV 24 199*
8:00 O'CLOCK P.M
PROCESSIONAL
‘ Coronation March”
Vickie Croft
INVOCATION
Billy Jack McDonald, President of the Student Body
SPECIALS
"You'll Never
"America the
Jerry Ellis
Keat Wiles
Gale Carpenter
PROGRAM THEME • "
Act Well Yuur Part, There All The Honor Lies
Jerry Ellis, Salutatorian ------ 1 *
If There Were Dreams To Sell. What Would You Buy?
, Gale Carpenter, Valedictorian
Presentation of awards and honors ~j
Leon Douglas. Principal
PRESENTATION OF CLASS -
S H Fletcher, Superintendent
PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS
Bill Parker, President of Board of Education '
ACCEPTANCE OF DIPLf>MAS
Senior Class—Larry Blackwood, Vice President
of Senior Class
PRESENTATION OF CLASS GIFT
Buddy Lane, President of Senior Class
SCHOOL SONG
.Senior Class
BENEDICTION
, Keat Wiles
RECESSION AL
"Pomp and Circumstance"
Vickie Croft
Elgar
(The audience will please remain seated until after
the recessional!
ergence as of May 14, from to-
tal of 25)W pupae collected Lar-
vae were still being found in
the shoots. From this emer-
gence the proper time to begin
would be May 22-23.
Two orchards have been
bunded in Comanche and the
moths haven t emerged as yet.
However to be sure and n o t Construction will
miss any it looks like we will Monday, May 27
need to start spraving around .
ha
(ifv To Take A
Holiday May 30
Employment
Service Offered
By Chamber
A new service offered by
vour Chamber of Commerce is
an "employment service ’
Check with the Chamber of
Swimming Pool To Open Saturday
It’s that time of the year
again- swimming time, and the
City {A Comunche s Swimming
pool opens Sat unlay. May 25 sat
2 o'clock
The pool v.ill be open six
days a week opening each day
at 2 0 clock and closing at 9
Commerce if you are in need pm, except Sunday when the
begin on
May 23rd and then have a later protect against a shortage
spray about May 30th to he 7inr fle sure to follow the di
aure and have good control of ructions on the insecticide as
the Pecan nut casebearer. to precautions and grazmg re-
Anyone of several insecticide commendations For further in-
may be used to control the in- formation, leaflet L-245, "Tex-
aert They are DDT, Malathion as Guide for Controlling Insects
Toxaphene, Carbaryl (sevin), and Diseases on Fruits and
or Guthion Ii would be good to Nuts" is available at the CoUn- boxes will be the same as for
add zinc sulfate to the spray to ty Extension Agents Office. Sunday and other holidays.
Memorial Dav. T h ti rs day.
May 30. has been designated
as an official holiday bv the
Comanche Chamber of C o m-
merce Mod Comanche busi-
nesses and firms wit! close
The P os t Office announces
thirt Ww»r« will be no deliveries
b“ rur-'l and city m«U carriers
of full or part time help We
have applications on file at the
Lubke of Comanche present time for farm workers,
attending Boys' State truckers and office personnel
We are also in the process of
taking student applications for
Summer employment Call us,
or come by, and we will he
g'ad to review with you avail
able applicants
For those student applicants
we are unable to place in
Royce
will be
f-om Jigu; lit 19 in Austin:
Royce Is the son of Mr and
Mrs. Itohert Lubke.
All boys are selected on a
basis of scholarship, leader-
ship, citizenship and character
Royce is a member of Ae
National Honor Society. Future that
pool closes at 6 The pool will >’ard run year
be closed all day Wednesday Sharon Beaty, daughter
Hilly Williams, sen of Mr
and Mrs Cl.de Williams, Co-
The office schedule for the dis- Teachers of America. Spanish full or part-bme summer jobs,
path of out-of town mail and Hub, and the I'C” Assn He we plan to keep a current list
the separation of mail for local participated in football and in to fill anv odd job requests that
basketball. Royce is also a we may have Remember us if
member of the student council, you have a yard to be mowed
or a garage to be cleaned out
and need some willing student
help A working student is an
asset to his tommunity and a
source of pride to himself
che High School next year, and lor v<*r v as awarded the
was chosen as the outstanding medals for outstanding student
male athlete this past year in in math, science, and English.
CHS He plryed football, has- She was selected on the All-
kethall, and ran track for the^ District and All Regional
Indians for the past three years hands.
and was sehtted All - District City officials state that they
and AH Area in basketball, and are certainly pleased to obtain
set a district record in the 880 the services of these outstand-
ing individual*, and know that
of they will do an excellent job.
Mr and Mrs. John Beaty will Youngsters and older sw'Im-
be in charge of the concessions- mors will ftru; a new attraction
manche will be the lifeguard t*1‘s >ear a< th* swimming pool this year at the pool, a new
this summer He has both jun ‘'haron will also be a senior at slide, which should provide ad-
inr and senior lifesaving, and tTfS next year ded fun while swimming,
expmonce 3s 21 lift*jzudrtJ SIk* nss the hi^h rnnlf- I*nc*t*s tAill h(? the ssiflf
He w ill be a senior in Coman- stu<1*nt if her class the last \ ear 20 cents for students
past two years, and in her jun- and 40 cents lor adults
Two More Flood Control
Dams To Be Constructed
| DRY GOODvS,GROCI,RILS,HARDWARE,|
[ IMPLEMENTS, FURNITURE ahdCOFFINS
/■:
Lions T0 Hear
Talk On Viet Nam
On Tuesday night. May 28L
the Lions Club will have as
speaker John Ammons, mana-
ger of Mid '.Vest Electric Co-
operative at Roby
Ammons will present a slide
film talk on electrical construc-
tion in Vietmim which stimu-
lated U S Aid to under devel-
op°d countries
The Program Committee will
he in charge. Lions Chester
McKlnzie chairman and Lions
J E Watson and O. B Fields,
assisting
Invitation lor bids for con-
struction of two more flood
prevention dams in the Blan-
ket Creek Watershed are be-
ing circularized, Trunyan Ren-
shaw, work unit conservation-
ist of the" Soil Conservation
Service reports.
The-^fcrmx sre shown in the
Watershed Work Plan as No.
?A. located on the Roy Nird,
Charles Thrrp. Morris Wolff
1 aurence Sumner places ap
proximatcly 3 5 miles northeast
of Blanket and Site No 9 locat-
ed on the J T Hodnett and
Mrs Oscar Huggins places 3
miles north of Zephyr. These
two dams will increase the
flood protection to the Blanket
Creek flood plain, R e n s h a w
stated.
kwal sponsors: and about 12.-
245 feet of woven wire fencing
around the dims to protect the
grass
Bids' on tiiis job are to he
opened in tie State Soil Coo-
Priacipal hid items in the srrvation Service office in
two contracts include about Temple at ? pm on June 7.
214.000 cubic yards of compact Work is due' ttr iiegin on the
ed earth fill embankment: 5.180 job within X days after award
lbs. of steel bar reinforcement ot contract and is to be com-
in 75 cubic vards of concrete plctod within 200 calendar
for principal spillways; salvag- davs M W’ McNeese. Project
ing and placing over 25,010 sq construction Engineer with the
yards of top soil on dam<i and Soil Conservation Service in
emergency spillways for Brownwood, will be avaulgblv
growth of grass to provide to show the sites to prospective
minimum ma ntenance costs to bidders, Rcnydiw said.
Nightuay Ccnstruction Costs More
A L-o-o-k At
The Weather
(Special to the Chief)
the Highway Trust Fipid, which features that are being mcorpo-
pavs 90 percent of the cost of rated in the construction
NEW YORK. May 18-Coman- construction. The states foot , •
che Cotin'v's car owners are the bill for the other 10 per back ,n 1 '5*- whcn ^ Pr*-
discovering that Uncle Sam s wnf. jeet was started, it was believ-
ervoir Weathrr Station' Tern- Tht.v . ihev are 8nd ge,s 14 miles lo tbl' '
peraturcs and moislure report nj,vl,.u u„ ^.*2? Wllw lh;. « about 930, according to the As a refcutt MoU out I/OWoH
ed are for a ?i h.xtr period JJ.J Th,. \rZ^na government findings For tb— K Ilridw. !l Federal IRghv
from Ham. until 8 p.m
TEMPflll VTVRE
* M ■ ----- '.
EVKHYTHINU FROM IMKTH TO OKAlU
^ was pr»>vttled t»y Martin «ariy day ( umani hc
* general st'-re. located on the Morth Side of the
Square, where Jeanes True-Value, Hardware how
does huainess. According, to the Texas State
Guelewr Buoine.a Directory, (1914) Martin
#»•*«».«« ..... * * * '** , 'e
Compnny’s capital stock was Hated at fTR.OOO.
\\m. F. Durham' waa named aa juvsi.leut, Wm.
R. SLder; vie.' president, and Hill Huddleston,
setretary and treasurer. Many of the people pic-
tured in frr»nt of the early flay sfore, have l>een
iderltified, while a4veral remain unidentified.
Date
May 16
May 17
Mav 1* - a
May 19
M «fv -n
May-?1
May a , '
KVINFALI
1988 to date
Rainfall this week
May 18
4U*4I
thdr
Sre proportionately larger or basis, is not receiving enough
rtventie to maintain Ha
ditto,
mately $161000. calculated on Trsnapor'at on Secretary Al-
^ the basis of figures from the an S: Boyd reports that the Consequently, it now appear*
gj Hureau of Bublic Roads. The coat uf the interstate highway that compIqUoti cannot ba be-
M
hulk of it was from the 4 cents system hss t limbed nearly 20 Lre 1975. instead of 1972
K-v
mm the governmert received pen>ent, or shout W himon, ^.jfh
71 every gal.oa of gas above the. 1965 estimate. U IS (IZ,
24 75 N’«t inc luded in the total were *15 5 WHIbn greater than ifl c>n 0x^1 t0 pjy "
the auto-use taxes collected by " r , $1,126,000 mora into the
.18 the state • In part, the Soaring coats are baaed upon the number of ctfe
-4X Thu. itvaoUk. wai. ikpokiied jb attrihuLod to unproved saitfty. H!* « oueraikin lot flfyr
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Wilkerson, J. C. The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, May 24, 1968, newspaper, May 24, 1968; Comanche, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth892085/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.