The Celeste Courier (Celeste, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, May 22, 1959 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME 60
CELESTE, HUNT COUNTY, TEXAS
FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1959
Merit Harrell
Charles Stratton
Services Wed.
To Preach Here At
Methodist Church
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“Who
Officers Hamed To
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of
RENEWAL
or mail their contributions to Mr.
Destroy Labor Boss Threat
ter, Mrs. Geneva Lowe.
day.
THE AMERICAN WAY
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USE THIS ORDER BLANK
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Street
State
City
CUT SPENDING, PLEASE!
Who’s Oppressed Now?
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News From First
Baptist Church
Lions Club Has
Regular Meeting
Glover Scout
Camp Dedication
Burglars Hit
Leonard School
Broilers - Fryers
Top May List Of
Plentiful Foods
Enclosed find check or money order for $.
Send the Celeste Courier one year to
THE CELESTE COURIER,
CELESTE, TEXAS
No one, year after year in Con-
gress, has better represented the
desires of the vast majority of the
Rev. H. B. Gideon has renewed
his subscription to The Courier
for a year.
Mrs. Glorie Skidmore of Gar-
land visited her aunt and uncle,
Mr. and Mrs. Rdell Patterson re-
cently.
Church.
Rev. H. B. Gideon,
Pastor
Mrs. Laker Carter of Dallas
was visiting old friends in Celeste
Saturday.
Mrs. S. L. McNeeley is visiting
her son, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Mc-
Neeley at Sherman.
Mr. and Mirs. W. B. Lanier
visited his sister, Mr. and Mrs.
Bob Davis at Mesquite Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bishop
visited her brother in a McKinney
hospital Sunday.
Mrs. Rosie Wilson and daugh-
ter,* Mrs. Arvin Melson of Bon-
ham, were visitors of Mr. and
Mrs. A. F. Wells last week.
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Mrs. E. Blakemore Rev. C. B. Fielder
P-TA President
Savings of up to two-thirds in
the cost of their GI insurance
are being offered by mail to all
veterans whose insurance policy
number is preceded by the letters
“RS”, the Veterans Administra-
tion said today.
All of these veterans, who for
the most part fall in the Korean
and post- Korean conflict period,
now have a chance to exchange
their present 5-year term policies
for 5-year term policies at lower
premium cost, due to the improv-
Supt. C. K. McClendon saife
approximately $3 was taken whm.
burglars entered Leonard school
Sunday night.
One drink machine, one pencSl:
machine and a paper machine
were broken open. The mens®-
was taken from the paper ma-
chine and 45c was overlooked. £&
the pencil machine. There was
money in the drink machine.
The knob and handle of ibfe
safe were knocked but the door
was not opened. A chisel was used'
on one corner of the safe.
The door to Principal Edward
Isaac’s office was forced open.
Entrance to the building was?
gained through a second floor
window.
Investigating the break-in were
Deputies Leon Shastid and OdeM
Hyepock and Ranger Burks.
Other schools in the county hit.
recently by burglars are Trenton*.
Dodd City, Windom and North.
Fannin.
Recent visitors of Bro. and Mrs.
H. B. Gideon and Rita Carleen
were Mr. and Mrs. Chester Cun-
ningham and daughter, Jean
of McKinney, Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
Noles of Blue Ridge, Mr. and Mrs.
M. B. Noles, Mr. and Mrs. John
Tucker of Anna.
Burglers Enter
Wolfe City School
Burglars broke into the Wolfe
City school building Sunday night
to steal about $190 from the safe,
Sheriff Tom Warren reported.
Entry to the building was made
through the east door, and the
office door was forced. Sledge
hammers and crowbars were used
to pound open the door and foul
up the combination lock system.
The vandals also forced the
door on a steel fifing cabinet and
scattered papers over the floor,
but only the money from the safe
was missing.
Chief Deputy Hub Brewer and
Deputy Sheriff Cecil Kirk are in-
vestigating.
It is believed that the burglars
who entered the Wolfe City school
may be the same ones who broke
into schools in Paris and Bonham
the same night. There has been
a rash of school building burglar-
ies recently, Sheriff Warren
pointed out, including the Camp-
bell and Cumby schools last week.
Subscription rate is $1.50 a year in Hunt and adjoining
counties. Sent elsewhere, the price is $2.00 a year.
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Mrs. Stella Gaulden is having;
a new home built in Leonard
plans to move there about Jtm&
1st. Friends here regret having
Mrs. Gaulden move, however
wish for her much happiness irt
her new home.
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Rev. Albert Click announces:;
Rev. C. B. Fielder, pastor of Wes-
ley Methodist Church of Greene-
ville, will preach at the Cefes&e*
Methodist Church Sunday, Wz
24, at 7:30 p. m.
The public is invited to heaar
Rev. Fielder.
iG I Can Save
On Insurance
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people of America for govern-
mental economics than has Sena-
tor Harry Byrd of Virginia. There
is a new federal building being
built in our state capitol city
at a cost of several million dol-
lars of tax money. How many
citizens asked that it be built?
It is my conviction that 95% of
the heavily burdened taxpayers
of our state would not desire this
additional building and the ad-
ditional employees needed to staff
it at additional government ex-
pense. I respectfully request that
you exercise your influence a-
gainst any further increase of
federal debt or federal spending.
Our national debt is more than
$280 billion and rising; our an-
nual federal budget has reached
$80 billion; taxes are greviously
high and are smothering the in-
centive that has made America
prosperous and strong. Please use
your influence to halt the growth
of government, to cut govern-
ment spending, to reduce the
great waste, to balance the bud-
get, and finally, to reduce every-
body’s tax burden.
Respectfully yours,
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Gaulden and
family of Talco spent last week
end here with his mother, Mrs.
Stella Gaulden.
______________________________\________________________
Woodrow Bishop of Orange
spent this week with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Bishop. Mr.
Bishop is improving from an ill-
ness.
Mr. and Mrs. Raco Bradshaw
of Lake Worth, Florida and Mrs.
Alice Clayton of Greenville were
Sunday guests of Mrs. Estelle
Sumrow.
MY DEAR CONGRESSMAN
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A letter has come from Mrs.
Laura Larsen of Omaha, Nebras-
ka, containing a reasonable re-
quest. Mrs. Larsen is worried
about the grave problems facing
our nation. She is a grandmother.
She had four sons in World War
II. All returned but “they return-
ed rather bitter about the war.”
Mrs. Larsen is worried about
many problems in which her
children and grandchildren have
important stakes. “I believe as
you do,” she writes, “that our
people’s apathy is our greatest
danger. But I think a lot of peo-
ple, who would do something,
don’t know what they can do to
help.
“I think more would write their
Congressman,” says Mrs. Larsen,
“if they knew’ how to do it. Would
you please send me a sample let-
ter?” Yes, Mrs. Larsen, I will. A
friend of mine recently wrote a
very sensible letter to his Con-
gressman, and sent me a copy. It
is a fine pattern, and here it is.
Mrs. Eva Milton spent last
week in Dallas with her daugh-
ter.
It is my opinion that Senator
John L. McClellan, chairman of
the Rackets Investigating Com-
mittee, is the best qualified man
in Congress to shape legislation
to safeguard America against the
growing power of labor bosses. I
ask that you back him all the
way in his fight to: (1) establish
democratic control in labor un-
ions; (2) erect legal protections
for the rank and file workers;
and (3) destroy the unwhole-
some power of those labor bosses
who obviously threaten the very
existence of our American way
of life. This fight by Senator Mc-
Clellan is not aginst the American
working man; it is a fight for
everybody’s freedom and long-
range well-being.
Agriculture Secretary Ezra T.
Benson has fought a courageous
battle with the political dema-
gogues during every moment of
his tenure. His efforts to restore
American agriculture to the eco-
nomic system of supply and de-
mand and ultimately re-establish
the American farmer as an inde-
pendent citizen commands the
support of every thinking
American, and especially our rep-
resentatives in Congress. The
, practice of spending billions of
tax money each year on farm
B products which are not needed—
^a million a day just to store the
Bbverproduction—is so ridiculous
■that the nation’s biggest farmer’s
^organization publicly denounces
Bit. I ask that you support legis-
IBlation to gradually take the
government out of the business
of farming.
Broilers and fryers take the Nbr._
1 spot on U. S. Department
Agriculture’s list of plentiful foods
for May.
Pork and eggs, featured itemst
in April and March, respectively^
still belong on the team. Turkeys,
especially the smaller sizes* a$so>
have stepped into the May/ JSsfc
for this area.
Edible fats and oils, milk and
dairy products, lard, and potatoes
are expected to continue plenti*
ful this month.
And with huge harvest of ceifery-
now underway, this item also
deserves special attention
month.
The monthly list of foods iit
heavier-than-normal supply 1$.
provided by USDA through the-
southwest food distribution drvr-
ision of the Agricultural Marked
ing Service, after national andt
local suppiles are determined,.
Menu planners usually will find,
it to their advantage to serve-
plentiful foods more often.
Control Found For
Iron Deficiency
In Lawn Grass
The First Baptist Church will
begin its Vacation Bible School
May 25. Classes will begin at
8:00 a.m. and dismiss at 11:00
a.m.
We invite all the children of
our community to attend.
The Lena Lair circle of W.M.U.
will meet Monday afternoon at
2:00 p.m. at the First Baptist
Church.
The Joy Day Russell Circle of
W.M.U. will meet Monday even-
ing at 8:00 p.m. at the First Bap-
tist
plan to make. A cash offering
was given to them to be applied
on their new Community Hall.—
Mack Pierson, Sec.
Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Passons,
Mr. and Mrs. George
visited their brother,
Mrs. Wyley Passon,
Iron chlorosis, a condition
lawngrass and ornamentals char-
acterized by yellow or bleached
leaves due to iron deficiency, was
favorably combatted with powd-
ered iron chelate about 85% of
the time in 78 demonstrations
conducted by county agents last
year.
Demonstrations were conduct-
ed in various areas of the state in
soils ranging from sands to clay
and from acid to alkaline.
“The problem is usually assoc-
iated with soils high in lime, but
sometimes occurs on acid soils,”
explained W. F. Bennett, exten-
sion soil chemist “Nitrogen de-
ficency symptoms are similar to
those of iron chlorosis and home-
owners should make sure nitro-
gen needs are met before treat-
ing for iron deficiency.”
Mild cases of the deficiency
may be corrected with dry appli-
cations of iron sulfate, Bennea
said. More severe cases on lawn
grasses usually require treatment
with iron applied as a spray,
since it is generally more effec-
tive in this form.
Iron chelates are generally more
effective and give longer-lasting
effects than iron sulfate. Manu-
facturers directions for use of
the chelates should be followed
carefully. Suggested rates vary
with the plant being treated and
the condition of the soil.
Treatment about every four to
six weeks may be necessary to
maintain the desired color in
areas where the problem is com-
mon or severe, Bennett said.
president.
P-TA voted to set up a fund to
buy supplies for needy children.
The room count was won by the
6th and 8th grades.
The following new officers were
installed by Mrs. Ralph Evans:
President, Mrs. Edwin Blake-
more; Vice-President, Mrs. J. B.
Compton; Second Vice-President,
Mrs. Bob Felty; Third Vice-Presi-
dent, Mrs. Bill Barnard; Fourth
Vice-President, Mrs. Troy Brooks;
Secretary, Mrs. Phil Perkins;
Treasurer, Mrs. T. B. Weatherly;
Parlimentarian, Mrs. Ernest
Roach; Historian, Mrs. J. D. Gay;
Music, Miss Mary Eastwood;
porter, Mrs. B. V. Smith.
Mrs. Dessie Graves of Garland
Mrs. W. B. Lanier was notified spent the week end with her sis-
by phone Friday of last week that
her son, Duard Hill was leaving
Norfolk, Virginia for Cuba where
he will be in training four to six;
weeks.
Honorable John Doe
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C.
My dear Congressman:
There are a number of issues in
Congress affecting the welfare
and security of my family and
my neighbors. I feel that it is my
citizen’s duty to inform my re-
presentative in Congress of my
opinions on these issues.
First, I am worried about the
growth of Communist power
throughout the world. We are en-
gaged in a war with this diaboli-
cal force, and yet in many ways
our leaders in Congress, the White
House and the State Department
seem to be aiding the very enemy
whorplots our destruction. Through
the administrations of both Dem-
ocrats and Republicans our for-
eign policy has permitted victory
^iter victory for international
Communism. Certainly the Red
conspiracy is being aided tre-
mendously by the stealthy work
being done and the atmosphere
of opinion created by Communists
«nd their dupes within the United
States. I respectfully request that
you give your support in every
way to the work of the House
Un-American Activities Commit-
tee and to the Senate Subcom-
mittee on Internal Security. I
ask further that you aid them in
preparing legislation to protect
our nation against subversive ac-
tivities to re-establish the security
safeguards which the Supreme
Court has destroyed with its re-
cent decisions.
Cancer Society
A slate of new officers, headed
by Mrs. Ray Milam of Greenville,
have been elected by the Hunt
county board of directors of the
American Cancer Society.
Other new officers include
Vice-President Gil D. McKay,
Secretary Mrs. G. C. Harris and
Treasurer Jack Griggs,
Greenville.
Funeral services for Merit
Harrell, who died unexpectly at
his home Sunday, May 17, were
held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the
Owens Funeral Home Chapel in
Wolfe City.
Services were conducted by
Rev. John C. Cook of Dallas and
burial was made in Mt. Carmel
Cemetery.
Born April 3, 1897 in Kingston.
Mr. Harrell was the son of F. E.
Harrell and Leia Warren Harrell.
He was a retired butcher.
Surviving are two sons, Freddy
Harrell, Wolfe City and Bobby
Harrell, Dallas; one daughter.
Billy Jean Vandiver, Seattle,
Wash.; one brother, A. L. Har-
rell; four sisters, Mrs. G. E.
Thompson, Mrs. Juanita Monk
and Mrs. Ida Mae Dillard, Dallas,
and Mrs. Janet Jenkins, Green-
ville, and four grandchildren.
The Celeste P-TA met for it’s
final meeting of the year Thurs-
day, May 14 at 3:30 in the hig|i
school auditorium. The president,
Mrs. Edwin Blakemore, called the
meeting to order. Mrs. Lem War-
ren gave the opening prayer.
Mrs. George Hackney, the pro-
gram chairman presented the
program. Nancy Stapleton gave
a reading, “Tomboy,” and Rita
Gideon gave a piano solo, “The
Burning of Rome/’ and Marsha
Gilliam gave a reading,
Wants to be a Genius.”
The business session was
ducted by the
all of
The officers were I
elected at a recent meeting of I
the board after a report from
ed mortality tables resulting from | the nominating committee by
Mrs. Mack Livingston, of Green-
ville. Also on the nominating
committee were Mrs. Lewis Jones
of Commerce and Tom Robnett
of Wolfe City.
Plans were made for an inten-
sive educational program for the
coming year and a fall showing
of the film “Time and Two
Women.”
It was reported that $1,025.98
has so far been received in the
Cancer Crusade here. However, a
number of workers have not re-
Louis B. Williams, Development
Chairman for Glover River Boy
Scout Camp, official camp of the
NeTseO Trials Council, Boy
Scouts of America, today an-
nounced plans for the Dedication
Ceremonies for the Boy Scout
Camp on Sunday, May 31, 1959.
Ceremonies for the new camp
will begin at 3:30 p.m., Sunday
afternoon, at Glover River Scout
Camp, located 15 miles North of
Wright City, in the Ouchita
Mountains of McCurtain County,
Oklahoma. i
Mr. Williams reported construc-
tion on the big Dining Lodge
with is Electrical Kitchen, the
Health Lodge is finished with
equipment ready for service, and
the Trading Post and Office con-
struction is complete, and is being
equipped.
“The Boat House and Dressing
Room Building is now ready for
use, and our Camp Storage Build-
ing is in use. We will have Camp
ready for the first summer en-
campment of 1000 boys/’ said
Mr. Williams.
“This has been a tremendous
project and we wish to thank
publicly all of the finest people
in Oklahoma and Texas, who
have helped the Council’s Deve-
lopment Camp in the Southwest,
on Sunday, May 31, at 3:30 p.m.,
said Mr. Williams.
Holland
Mr. and
both who
Mrs. Jim Pearce is in Phillips, have been ill, at Lewisville Sun-
Hospital in Greenville.
Gets Scholarship
QUINLAN — A dream came
true this week for Charles Wayne
Stratton, 18, honor student at
W. W. Samuel High School in
Dallas. He received a four-year
Merit Scholarship to study civil
engineering at Southern Metho-
dist University.
He is the grandson of Mrs. S.
T. Stratton, Quinlan, and Mr.
and Mrs. O. K. Hall, Route 3,
Celeste.
He received the Sears Roebuck
Foundation scholarship through
Merit Scholarship competition
with thousands of students
throughout the nation. His father
is a postal carrier in the Fair
Park business zone of Dallas.
Dr. W. T. White, Dallas public
school superintendent, cited the
The Celeste Lions Club held its
regular meeting Thursday, May
14th. A good group was in at-
tendance. The program commit-
tee was Lions Raymond Wade and
Hebert Shields. They presented
a quartet from Boles Home. The
boys, Richard Trice, Johnnie
Brown, Bill Nelson and Henry
Nicholsen brought a good pro-
gram. They sang a variety of
songs which was enjoyed by all
present.
The program committee for the
next meeting, May 28th, is Lions
Herman Compton, Roy Staplet-
ton and Alton Timberlake.
We expressed our appreciation
to the people of the Kingston
community for their community
spirit. The improvements they
have already made and those they' scholarship program as a stimu-
lant in developing the nation’s
youth. “Boys like Charles Strat-
ton give me a lot of faith in this
generation and I feel there is
no limit to the possibilities in
success and achievement a young
person of good mind, clean heart,
and industrious attitude can
achieve,” he said.
modem medical advance.
The new policy, however, must
eventually be converted to a per-
manent plan of insurance since
it cannot be renewed by the in-
sured past age 50.
To save confusion, VA also
pointed out, if you don’t get a
letter with the application form,
don’t worry. That will mean you
do not have “RS” type insurance
and are not eligible for this ex-
change.
A word of caution, even if you;
return the enclosed application' Ported. They are asked to t£|:e
continue to pay your permiums
at the old rate until the VA noti-, Griggs at the Greenville National
fies you the new type policy is | Bank- Dowell Mathews of Green-
in effect. Any overpayment will. yiiie is Crusade chairman.
be credited to your account. ______________
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