The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, September 3, 1954 Page: 1 of 16
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Cowanch* County's Oldest Business Institution—Published For And About Comanche County
YEAR—NO. 8
COMANCHE;, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 3.1954
16 PACES IN TWO SECTIONS
,v3Chool time next
i °00'
fcSSUi School
fa* 1954-55 school
Lsday-xnd the local
i__ to see that
JJ.V _ kindergarten
epUeges*.'1 gel start-
awaits
The JComancht- School* will
ammnt affal.
'open Tuesday, September 7th
JWUH a 1 till school dtiy. The ‘-eh jo I
VsiniK-. Vs
will begin their'route* at
the usual time and lunches will be
.served in all of the" school lunch
rooms.
Howevef, first grade pupils will
remain at school for only about
an hour. Parents of first grade
children are requested to come1
with their children to school and
fill out proper registration forms
and receive necessary instructions ,
Birth certiftcateg. are* required of
first grade children who have
awaits you at, MlLUj
Ies ar* arriving^,
E°K THE MEETIM
T0 pAY US a Vi
Approximately 2,«Oo persons
attended, the Comanche County
Electric Co-Operative’s Annual
Meeting and Electric Pair held
Friday, August 27, at Lake Banes
[itek * mother want to ]
L ^ the purpose of out- 1
Lr school-age daughter i
L school wardrobe. After <
[the drive, and spending
the day on the city streets i
tooujh the big stores .she
j ifier making but a few
0, visiting the ready-to- )
department at Hlggln-
the next day. and found
tot she waa looking for”.
0 0 0
, M cream earn, popsicle
uU, avail* school shoppers,
25c purchase or over of ,
(applies at the Service .
Park, Comanche.
Everyone enjoyed the singing
and playing of Billy Wimberly
and the Drifting Texans; the 1
breath-taking stunts of Bobf
Johnson, the aerial balancing;
artist; and the startling acts of
Harland Stretz, the master of
magic and Illusion.
Winnie Williams gave an in-
teresting demonstration on elec-
tric ranges.
Directors Elected
In the business session. J. M.
Foreman was re - elected for
of directors from Place 2 in
Comanche County. M. A. Rich-
mond was re-elected for board
of directors from South Place
In Mills and .Brown County.
Amateur Talent Contest
-i Thor* were six entries in the
{Amateur Talent Contest which
were aa follows: JHoilis Stewart
and Horace Cavitt. Rt 2. Co-
manche, played "Ragtime An-
nie”. Jerry and Susie Cook, Rt.
1, Sdm Springs, played and sang
"Playing Dominoes and Shoot-
ing Dice”. Maxine Stacy. Car-
boo. sang and played “Make
Lose to Me". Patsy Ann Stevens.
Re l. Sipe Springs, sang “I’m
«a Bow-Legged Chicken”. Shelia
Count Shows
Governor Allan Shivers polled
a total of 779.000 vote* In the
run-off primary Saturday to
991.234 for Ralph Yarborough,
giving Shivers a majority of
92.400. This was not Shivers”
biggest rote nor his greatest
margin of victory over Yarbor-
ough. In the first primary of
19W Shivers received 833.801
votes to 498.345 for Yarborough.
Running unopposed on both the
Democratic and Republican tick-
ets in the general election of
1952. Shivers received a total of
1.843.192 votes, more than twice-
the rote he received Saturday.
Shivers led Yarborough in last
July’s primary by only 23.787
a difference of less than
Grammar PT A
Meets Sept. 9
in having thk heb
I successful club w*
| predate viaRorj lnl
j from all th« m
! Clubs in the mm*
RECENT GIFT TO COLLEGE—Some 400 books of general in-
terest, along with some rare Texas collector’s Items, were recent-
ly given to Howard Payne College. Brownwood, by Mrs. Clara
May Hamilton, 801 North Elm Street. Comanche. The books
are a portion of the library of the late L. B. Russell. Mrs. Hamil-
ton’s father and long-time resident aqd prominent citizen of
Comanche Included In the gift are Items which had, also be-
longer to Mrs. Hamilton’s grandfather. Accepting the books
and some 1150 Texas Items on behalf of the college wefe Dr.
T. R. Havlns, left, professor of history; and Dr. D. D. Tidwell,
professor of Bible and Greek. The gift includes a history of
Abe First Baptist Church of com anode written by Mrs. JJamil-
ton’s father, a brief monograph of Comanche County with em-
phasj. on the' "flrsta” in that county, an autobiography by
L. B. Russell, the diary of Ephriam Selby Dodd., a member of
Co. D, Terry's Texas Rangers covering the period Dec. 4, 1882
to Jan. 1, 1894. and a treasury warrant and land grant dating
back to the early period of Texas .history, iHPC) news Photo).
Auvenshine uid S?
“; ton win be houM*]
just meeting. •
FREY FAMILY
BY STAG CREI
Z By SUg Creel {*
v Count,
|*i Mrs. ww-dt K. ft*
77were honored This
ej August 12. with i *
, per served by tb
11 Community Prop**
*■ I Seventy-five tduiu
‘ i to the children vert i
K j the last official ad
-Iclub with Mr. frd
e Creek Club prejead
8 Mrs. Frey with il
t lamp. Talks wen J
s Frey. Henry Dread
1 Cagle on farm andl
■ lems.
i Mr and Mn fa
’ missed. but we ml
• them to go on to I
’ The Stag Cred I
wffi be pleased
I -000
Lyot it oww Clwr' oiet cars
K new Chevrolet -pickups on
Kgr bow,” says Eutll Arthur
b Chevrolet dealer, who
rve're going to move them
I Arthur's prices • on new
ktt start at $1.67V
I 0 o o
p s treat aa Q* house”.
wt friendly fc3kt> over al
pi Pharmacy. Who adver-
a laek-to-BChooi Stoppers,
pier you visit our school
| department and nuke a
■f of 25c or over, that a
rake’’ or cone awaits you
k fountain Durham's spec-
ks! ad. Is an page 8
0 0 o
Mltr Days again At Mul-
i-and this onty a -month
I *»lue days has some real
“ iwaitlhg shoppers
ooo
Baxter's Place «d 1n this
4nd you’ll find money sav-
**• In the firm's specials
i week.
ooo
f-Palmer's Ready.-to-Wear
'WRened after suffering a
votes
ore Dercfervt.
Last Saturday's primary gave
Conservative Shivers the Demo-
cratic romiivatlon for an unpre-
cedented third term by 53.17 per-
cent.
Other Interesting cofnmentw on
Saturday's primary as • taken
from Tuesday morning's Fort
Worth 8tar-Telegram follow*.
The Jlrval Texas Election Bur-
eau report showed Associate Jus-
tice Few Brewster nominated for
re-election by 777 478 to 428 3©r
over Austin Attorney Alfred
Scott. '.At noon Tuesday. Scott
had been reoorted with * total
of 429.892. The election bureau-
said the difference was caused
by a correction In returns from
Jones County. »
In tih-e race for Congress. Dis-
trict 14. the final report from
19 counties. 18 of them complete,
gave State .Senator John Bell
43285 and State Senator Wil-
liam Shtreman 38958.
A total of 1,454.974 vote* was
cast In the governor’* race, the
last election bureau returns show.
Shiver* will be opposed In the
Nov. 2 general election by Re-
publican Tod Adams-of Crockett,
Adams said Monday he expeats
to open a campaign between
Sent. 15 and Oct. 1.
Otlleapie Countv 1 (Ppedicks-
burg) gave Shivers the” heaviest
vote percentage The 1.570 votes
cast for Shivers against 186 for
Yarborough was 90.1 percent.
Next came Webb County (Lar-
edo) with 87.8 percent or 0,212
for Shivers to 984 for Yarbor-
ough.
idem. - . Ronald ThitlUT. "Duane 8tewart,
Theme for the opening meeting Mary Aim Tupln. Raymond Wool-
ls "Let's Get Acquainted.'" sey.
A large world globe is to be * The first general assembly
presented to the room havtng the meetir* of the year is to be held
most present for the mretmg Friday -night, September 3rd at
and will keep the globe In the 8:00 p. m at the High School
home room until after the next building. All teachers are required
meeting with the room havlqg the to attend this meeting. 1
themost present at the monthly O E. 'Bowman of Comanche has (
meeting getting to keep It during - been selected to teach high school
the next month. At the end df the science replacing R. H Chambers
acool term the room wining the who resigned. Mr. Bowman form- .
most contest* I* to he pre*emt>cl erlly taught science at Big Spring.!
with the globe. * PtaUuttew and Mnheshoe
KBW® TO BROADCAST
INDIAN GRID GAMES .
Swimming Pool
Closes Successful
Season Tuesday
lake Ernes Swimming Pool,
operated by the City of Coman-
che win close after Monday, Sep-
tember 7, for the season accord-,
29 New CHS Grads To Enroll
irg to annouTvrement from Mayor:
. n tv — i. h. *___
' Or "til Brightxnan.
T^e nool has attracted thous-!
a::ds of swimmers this season.1'
and has en.’oyed financial sue-'
cess. The pool was built through -
voluntary contribution* of cltt-.
zens last year, at a rout of some
$10,000- then turned over to the
' od fire loan last month
ram. looking mighty neat
a* tfler remodeling has 8111
begin football practice Monday.
Weldon has been planning to
I enter the Baptist institution for
the past several - months, but All
State footballer Dalton Hicks was
slated for Houston University. The
i Hicks cousins decided to go to-
gether, and hope to be important
(cogs in the Baylor Bears football
machine in the future. Other
| Baylor students are Garrett Palm-
I er. Ronald Matthews, and Janelle
Burnett.
Edward Seay will be a iunior at
Sam Houston State Teachers Col-
ege in Huntsville.
uate is in the University of Virgin-
ia at Richmond, and Jerry Wright
left this week to attend Oklahoma
AAtM at Stillwater.
James Slider and Don Cun-
ningham are Optometry students
at the University of Houston.
With the spirit of football
games, college classrooms, and
Autumn revelry in the air, some
80 young Comanche men and
_ women have oegun thetr trek to
Pwa-wlth approximately i coll<‘*e8- universities, and business
■»dy having been sold The 180110018 throughout the state.
® Ike tickets is $635 and ’Some three ex-co«n»nch*‘ students
M»e* »re Mineral Wells llftve selected places outside of the
Bollinger. De Leon and state 10 Rain their higher ed-
» TWets are still on sale ucatlon.
"jw School bulldlng-^arlth ‘ Among the collegians will be
Kjood steaU still M t.” 29 members ot the 1954 Comae-
^- Che High School graduating ciaa*.
fBOStCf tS As they begin their various fields
iidnfe C. of specialized training, their goals
are ror Will include careers In home ec-
Marshal onomkCA, music, medicine, engin-
eering. the minbitry and other
and Jerry
Beene will be a Junior at Bice.
7 off te Tech
Seven Comancbeans plan. to
enter Tech this year, giving the
Lubbock .institution Its largest
local enrollment ever. They are
Lloyd Bigga Sue Hoff, Marvin
Lee. Harold Seay. Jane Bradley.
Nancy Sue Carter, and Jerry
COUNTY El
te • native of C5ol»eglans
«Tta»SniL_hllvtn* been
for the past year
[ibwrted to
S'C"
child
Comanche
Neighboring Howard Payne Col-
lege, at Brownwood, wilt draw
Weldon Turner Jerry Gregory.
Cynthia Keeler. Nancy Outer, and
Dale Carmichael.
Off to East Texas at Com-
merce will be BUI Dudley. Jimmy
Jbnes and Robert Lee.
Aggies Draw 7
Aggies and future Aggies from
Comanche Include Charles Ligon.
Daymon Power, H. D. Swllley,
Jimmy Lockrldge, John Beaty,
WOODS PINPOINTS
ELECTION RESULTS
R. D. Woods. Comanche,
who studies politics pretty
closely, couldn't have made
much better prediction on
the outcome of the gover-
nor’* race last Saturday in
Comanche County.
Several days before the
run-off, Woods was asked M
his prediction. Here's what
he answered: ''There'll be
3.750 votes polled in Coman-
che Comity. Shivers will get
1.825 and Yarborough will
poM 2.125” .
Here’s the official count,
as tabulated by the Demo-
cratic Executive Committee:
3.74b votes counted; Shivers.
1.882; Yarborough 2,127. And
that shows Wood* missed the
total on* vote; Shivers' vote
by three; and Yarborough's
vote by two, ”
That * dog-gone good pre-
dicting.
the former on furthering their eaucauon *v
of Hasse and th* IhUverslty of Texas and Tech.
*uekmm«W and I Twa“ 11
Iren live on East Twelve students have listed the
—..j. i University of Texae a* their first
w »11 the voters choice. Indicating their preference
rext ten days" say* for the U. of T. are Joe Paul
****■■ wbo adds “I will Tupln. Jack Vaught. Joseph Slider
^be consider*!- John Lacy. Keqr.cth PW»*on. BUI
01 one and all." Auvenahln*. Gyale Flfkle. «»•»
r--7-—— v Vaught. Olen Ellis. Tom Cun-
(Qltlbo Ingham. Bob Bonser. and Roae-
| e , mary Wilhelm
v-andldaf-e . Tarleton College over at Step-
henvtlle. as 1* the usual custom
u,lbo- Com ache an- tor Comanche High Graduates
» candidate for the *et8 0,0 Birgest number of first
Marshal in the City yew students. Planning to attend
, n* up Saturday Tarleton this year are Dora Jones.
Snlrley Godfrey, Joan Chaney.
** flret time to ever *>hn Hall and Chan Edmondson.
7**° office”, says Mr Hicks Ta Baylor
* ti!*** w111 Mire- -Comanche football stars, Weld-
Jf* vot® and oon- on and Dalton Hicks, leave next
7 week for Baylor, where they will
Two Comancheans are now ob-
taining their college work In pre-
paring to become doctors. Ken-
neth Ore gory, a graduate of
Howard Payne, i* in his third year
at the Kansas City College of
Osteopathy at Kansas City. Kan-
sas. and A. B. C. Dowdey 1* In the
Texas Medical School at Galves-
ton. ’ '* *“• ,
Helen Ruse, * 1982 CHS grad-
ROBERTS-McMILLIAN
VOWS.EXCHANGED ~
Mrs. Bernice ' Roberts - became
the bride of James McMlllian on
August bl in 1 single ring cere-
mony read by Ftev. R. h Roger*
in the minister's Comanche home'
Mr and Mr*. MoMilllan Will
boat* their tufa* in Brownwood.
Visiting in Wisconsin
Mrs. Tied Durham and son.
Rusty, left Monday for a two
weeks vacation with her parents
In Arpen, Wisconsin. .
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Wilkerson, J. C. The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, September 3, 1954, newspaper, September 3, 1954; Comanche, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth892472/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.