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THE BEST
ADVERTISING MEDIUM
Vol. 73, No. 44
Banks Are Largest
Boy Dies
cost of remodeling and the clear-
which
chase during
lowed
a
under discussion
tate loans by the Farmers Home
of agricultural credit is on an in-
ba-
Thursday
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agriculture’s credit needs.
land.
District
Charles
. James
dropped by the office the other
The Examiner for another year.
To Observe Golden Wedding
and
Marvin
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Rosie
Lee Davis.
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for the anniversary
Mill.
J. C. Woodard of Patterson, New
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City Hall May Move
To Old Post Office
involved.
The proposed move has been
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on: Herbert E. Rutherford, Wil- them.
Hodge, Phoenix, Arizona.
FAGAN, Victor Lavone
Date of Birth: September
1936
•After Wild Chase
Edward Dean of Carrollton has
renewed his Examiner for anoth-
er year.
McKinney, Texas, Thursday, july 30,1959
Wind, Rain Damage
ney
Mrs. Clara Travillion,
Clerk
ESTABLISHED OCTOBER
1886
OFFICE OF PUBLICATION
OPPOSITE COUNTY JAIL
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Police Report
Activities Past
Week-end
city commission and the county
commissioners court for the past
week. If the move is made all
city offices including the water
and tax departments, the plumb-
ing inspection office and the po-
lice department would be moved
to the new location. The change
is planned in an effort to relieve
crowded conditions at the pres-
ent city hall.
At Monday's regular city com-
mission meeting the matter was
postponed until estimates of cost
of remodeling can be obtained.
Certain legal aspects of the mat-
ter will also have to be cleared
up before any contract for lease
of the property can be entered
into.
Will Celebrate Golden Wedding
Helen Ruth Wilbanks
Millard Augustus Steele and
Lorenia Ann Carlisle.
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Hospital Auxiliary
To Hold Regular
Monthly Meeting
The regular monthly meeting
of the Collin Memorial Hospital
Auxiliary will be held Thursday,
August 6 at 9:30 a.m. in the Hos-
pital Doctor’s Lounge.
Speaker for the meeting will
be J. P. Huey, Hospital Adminis-
trator. Mrs. Roy Caldwell, presi-
dent, urges a good attendance for
the meeting.
Serving on the Courtesy Com-
mittee are Mrs. Bowen Williams,
Mrs. Pat Clark, and Mrs. Truett
Smith.
COUNTY COURT
Don Weaver Davis, Judge
Jas. R. Webb, Clerk
Marriage License
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Mrs. S. G. Sims of McKinney,
Rt. 1, came to the office recently
to renew her Examiner for an-
other year.
an new Impala.
Jimmy Hodges
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Mrs. Mary Coots of Matthews,
N. C., has renewed her Examin-
er.
the bid submitted by the Collin
County National Bank to serve
as depositary for city accounts
for the coming year; agreed to
look into the matter of whether
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COURTHOUSE NEWS
DISTRTCT COURT
W. C. Dowdy, Judge
Mrs. Justine Abernathy, Court
Reporter
Dwight Whitwell, District Attor-
Miss Goldie Caldwell. They are
the parents of two daughters,
Becky and Betty.
He will be assisted in the pre- I
scription department of the store
by Jake Dyer, a former owner of
ning at 8 o’clock.
Eugene Lowery of Prosper will
do the preaching and everyone day to renew his subscription to
is coridally invited to attend. The Examiner for another year.
he stopped, put his car in re-
verse, turned around and drove
north from the Farmersville
NEW ARRIVAL
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Duncan Jr.
of McKinney, are the proud par-
ents of a new baby son, George,
born at Collin Memorial Hospit-
al on Friday, July 24.
The new arrival weighed 8
pounds 6 ounces.
Mrs. Duncan, the former Miss
Carolyn Reese, is city secretary
for the City of McKinney.
ALLEN CHRISTIAN
CHURCH ANNOUNCES
REVIVAL MEETING
A revival meeting will open at
MAllen Christian Church on Sun-
"day, Aw st 2, and will continue
through August 9, the pastor,
Rev. Paul E. Russell, said this
week
Rev. Happy Ellis, former pas-
tor of several Collin County
churches, will be the evangelist.
Services will be held at 8 o’clock
each evening.
Gordon Smythe will direct the
music.
The public is cordially invited
to attend this series of services.
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Lucas Christian
Church Announces
Revival Meeting
n Dr. T. R. Leen, pastor of the
"‘M c K i n n e y First Christian
Church, will do the preaching for
a revival meeting which will be-
gin Monday, August 3, at the Lu-
cas Christian Church. The series
of services will continue through
Wednesday, August 12. Services
will be held each evening at
7:30.
Bobby Barr and Randall Nich-
olson will lead the music.
Rev. Kendall Coffey of Texas
Christian University at Ft.
Worth is pastor of the church.
The public is cordially invited
to attend.
Jersey; R. B. Woodard of Dallas;
Mrs. Juanita Warren and Mrs.
Dorothy McCarley of McKinney,
and Mrs. Ettie Allen of Garland.
They also have 14 grandchildren.
The' Woodards are a highly re-
spected and honored couple of
our city who have the best wish-
es of a multitude of friends upon
their approaching Golden Wed-
ding.
-,NEWS COVERAGE OF
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CITY AND COUNTY
Dencil Bruce Compton
Carolyn Maxine Burns.
building, corner of Virginia and
Chestnut Streets, for use as a
city hall has been deferred pend-
ing further investigation as to
Probate
Georgia Haily Bush has filed
application to probate the Wi
of W. N. Bush, deceased.
Mr. Stewart reported that 94 and Mrs. Robert Lentz. While
per cent of the insured commer- ] away she also visited her son,
cial banks in Texas are serving , Valdee Lytle, and family in Gar-
or not city maps call for an alley
cost 01 remoaeling ana me ciear- way at the rear of property
ing up of several legal questions owned by Dr. M. M. Searcy on
West Highway 24; agreed to re-
pair Bonner Street at the request
of Lloyd Hamilton, builder, who
appeared before the commission
in this regard; promised to re-
pair a washed-out section of a
road entering the Largent farm
driven by Brooks, came up. As
soon as Brooks saw the officers
check, plea of guilty before the for the anniversary
court, fine assessed at $10.00 and Melvin Woodard of
cost amounting to $40.25. .. J. "
Wilma Ruth Sartain.
Earl Cecil Harris and
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Mrs. Annie Scott
Passes Away Here
Mrs. Annie Eliza Scott, 80,
resident of Collin County all of
her life, passed away at 8:35
o’clock Sunday evening at her
home, 1303 West Louisiana St.
She had been in failing health
for several years.
Funeral services were held at
3 p.m. Tuesday in Turrentine-
Jackson Chapel, conducted by
Rev. George Kemp, pastor of
North Baptist Church, and Dr.
Myers, pastor of the First Bap-
tist Church. Interment was in
Pecan Grove Cemetery.
She was born March 19, 1879,
and was married in 1895 to
Charles F. Scott, at Allen. He
preceded her in death. Mrs. Scott
was a member of the North Bap-
tist Church.
Survivors are a daughter, Mrs.
Dean Tucker of McKinney; a
twin sister, Mrs. Lula Moore, of
Dallas; two brothers, J. A. Mc-
Mahan of Dallas and Clyde Mc-
Mahan of Melissa; four grand-
children, Donald and James
Tucker of McKinney, Harry Scott
of Celina and Lt. Col. Fred W.
Scott, in the U. S. Army, sta-
tioned in Italy, and four great-
grandchildren.
square athigh speed. Then fol-I The tract was purchased from
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John M. Boone of Princeton,
Rt. 1, has sent in his renewal to
.The Examiner for another year.
visited Gary
Any decision regarding the
leasing of the old post office
LOCAL GRAFT BOARD
SEEKS TO LOCATE
THREE REGISTRANTS
Howard Logan of Celina, chair-
man of Local Draft Board 22,
McKinney is seeking to locate
three registrants whose present
whereabouts are unknown. Any-
one knowing how these men can
be reached is asked to contact
the McKinney Selective Service
office in the Federal Building.
Names and last known address-
es are as follows:
JOHNSON, Thomas Henry
Date of Birth: February 28,
1938
Race: White
Address: General Delivery,
McKinney, Texas
or 1727 W. Cocpah, c-o Andrew
Local Firemen Attend
Course at A&M College
Three members of the McKin-
ney Fire Department returned
last week from College Station
where they attended a course in
fire fighting.
McKinney men attending were
Thurman Bales, Joe Mullins and
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G. C. M a t h e w s of Allen
FOUNDATION BUYS
11-ACRE TRACT
FOR INDUSTRY
The McKinney Industrial
Foundation has announced the
purchase of an 11-acre tract of
land just off State Highway 24
in Northeast McKinney to be
used for industrial expansion.
miles of roads in the county, ac- of agricultural credit is on a.
cording to Frank W. Cawthon, termediate-term repayment
between the
Administration. About two-
thirds of the production credit
extended by lending institutions
to Texas farmers and ranchers
came from banks.”
Mr. Stewart said that “more
and more, the banks in Texas
find that farmers and ranchers
need a new type of credit to help
finance the rapid increase in cap-
ital requirements. To meet
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area, west of Prosper suffered ...
considerable damage to cropsloans plus $32,842,000 in real es-
and buildings.
Vaughan and Bentley said they
reached speeds up to 110 miles
per hour.
The Brooks car turned east at
the north edge of Farmersville
and traveled down a country
road where officers lost the car.
The officers said they didn’t
know the car had crashed and
that the occupants lay in the
creek bed 25 feet below the coun-
try road until four and a half
hours later when they returned
to the scene and found it in the
creek. Reconstructing the crash,
officers said the speeding car
missed a bridge on a curve and
hurtled some 70 feet through the
air before striking the opposite
bank of the creek and then fall-
ing into the water.
Young Ealey was dead and
Brooks, pinned in the front seat,
was calling for help.
Sheriff Williams and Deputy
J. S. Hand said officers found
three pints and a fifth of whiskey
and a bottle of vodka in the
wrecked car.
Sheriff Williams said Brooks
had recently been discharged
from Huntsville after serving a
term for burglary and theft from
Collin, Rockwall and Hunt Coun-
ties.
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Teen-age
In other actions at Monday’s
/meeting the commission accepted
Continued Rains
Cancel Games
in Pee Wee Loop
All postponed games in the
two Pee Wee Baseball Leagues
up to the start of the third round
of play have been cancelled and
none will be made up unless
there is a definite effect on final
standings, league president Wil-
bur Thompson said this week.
Mr. Thompson added that all
games scheduled for the third
round will be played. The deci-
sion to cancel postponed games
was made at a meeting of mana-
gers and directors and after it
was found to be impossible to
make up so many games.
Here are the standings, through
last week, in both Pee Wee
Leagues:
Pee Wee National — Chamber
of Commerce 10-0; Kiwanis 5-2;
Lions 5-2; VFW 2-4; Jaycees 1-7,
and Community Center 0-7.
Pee Wee American—Quarter-
back 6-1! Memorial Library 8-2;
United Fund 2-3; Rotary 2-6; VA
Hospital 2-5, and Collin Memori-
al Hospital 2-5.
Mrs. Etta Lytle of McKinney
spent last week in Dallas where
she visited her daughters, Mrs.
Byron Amm, Mrs. C. W. Beaver,
J. M. Herron of Modesto, Cali-
fornia, has renewed his Examin-
l er for another year.
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A teen-age boy and his ex-con-
vict companion lay injured for
more than four hours in a creek
bed northeast of Farmersville
Monday night after their boot-
legger-owned car outran sher-
i iff’s deputies and crashed.
Bobby Ealey, 14, of Brashear,
I in East Texas, died in the wreck
and the ex-convict, Kenneth
1 Ray Brooks, 25, of Farmersville
• was taken to Collin Memorial
- Hospital in a Turrentine-Jack-
■ son Funeral Home ambulance
L with two broken legs and chest
f —and other internal injuries.
, (6 The car was owned by a boot-
i ‘Flegger, according to Sheriff Floyd
Williams.
= Deputies W. L. Vaughan and
I F. T. Bentley said they parked
[ in front of the picture show in
| Farmersville about 10 o’clock
; Monday night when the car,
Bell near Prosper
night.
An open house from 2 til 5 on
Sunday afternoon, August 2, will
be held in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Herman Rutherford of
Anna honoring their fifty years
of married life.
The prominent couple was
married September 12, 1909, in
Anna. Mrs. Rutherford is the
former Miss Harriet Grady
Greer and is a native of Anna.
Mr. Rutherford came to Anna
from Arkansas when a small
boy.
Six children were born to this
union three of whom have passed
this changing need, banks in
Texas now make larger farm
loans, and an increasing amount
Lenders of Money
Buildings And Crops To Farmers
*g ■ Texas banks were serving
McKinney received .35 of an
inch of rain last Saturday, .77 of
an inch Sunday morning and .45
of an inch on Monday afternoon.
Only a trace was reported here
on Tuesday.
$62,850,000 in non real estate
liam E. Rutherford and John D.
Rutherford. The three living
children plan to be present at
the open house along with one
grandson, John D. Rutherford,
whose mother is now Mrs. James
G .Rutherford. They reside in
Salt Lake City, Utah. The only
daughter the former Laura Grace
Rutherford is now Mrs. Alva
James Jr. of Dallas. George W.
Rutherford also resides in Dal-
las.
A cordial invitation is extend-
ed to all their friends to be pres-
ent and enjoy the occasion with
United Fund
Budget Hearings
Set August 4,6
The Greater McKinney United
Fund Budget and Admissions
Committee has set hearings for
August 4 and 6 at which time the
committee will hear applications
for participation in the Fund
during next year.
Paul Hardin, president of the
Fund, has requested that any
agencies not previously partici-
pating in the Fund but which
desire to make application this
year make such requests in writ-
ing before August 4. Any such re-
quests should be addressed to
Mr. Hardin or to James E. Fer-
guson, chairman, Budget and
Admissions Committee.
Other members of the commit-
tee are A. H. Eubanks, Boyd Wil-
liams,' Mrs. Edgar Bush, Leroy
Richardson, Wilbur Thompson
and Audie Turrentine.
WALNUTGROVENEWS
BY BARBARA DELL HORN
Miss Betty Hodges is driving
Marie Butcher.
a Jack Marvin Belden and Ola
GRuth Ellis.
Kenneth Avery Branch and
small branches torn from trees
and shrubbery.
County farmers have been anx-
iously watching the skies hop-
ing for fair weather and hot
sunshine to dry out fields and
allow them an opportunity to get
in much needed work, particu-
larly in cotton. An increase in
damage to cotton and maize
from worms and other insects is
anticipated following the pro-
longed rains.
In West Collin heavy rains did
considerable damage at several
localities, according to Mrs. Guy
Marion said that windows on the
north and south sides of the
Olen Hamby home were blown
out and that Mrs. Hamby and her
children crawled under a bed for
safety during the storm.
Four and a half miles north-
west of Prosper lightning struck
a barn on the Ray Roberts farm.
The fire that followed destroyed
400 bales of hay, more than 100
bushels of wheat, corn and maize
seed, and two livestock feeders.
About one inch of rain and
some hail fell during the storm.
The Parvin-Navo-Spring Hill
viaxille o..
Odell Harris and Joyce
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Highway Department
Lets Contract for
Collin Road Repair®
Contracts for construction have
been let for more than eight
Miss Barbara Nelson of Dallas
visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Nelson, over the week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Furr vis-
ited Mr. and Mrs. V. D. Miller
and Mrs. Grace Robertson in
Dallas Tuesday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Leigh and
George visited their daughter and
husband, Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Egan, in Los Angeles, Calif., re-
cently.
Mrs. Rosalie Baxter and Mrs.
Faye Hodges and Jimmy visited
the Reynolds Orphanage last
Tuesday.
Mrs. L. V. Cole Jr. visited Her
sister-in-law, Mrs. W. T. Dwyer,
in Dallas the past week.
Mrs. Cole and Mrs. J. L. Bry-
ant attended the funeral of W.
M. Smith at Frisco.
Mrs. Marlin Terrell, Judy and
Gary, Mr. and Mrs. Andy Cross,
and Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Horn
and Barbara attended the birth-
day supper given for Johnny
Kissinger Tuesday night in the
Kissinger home.
Mrs. Johnny Kissinger, Judy
and Gary Terrell and Barbara
Horn went shopping in Jackson-
ville and points between Thurs-
day.
Miss Ruby Hardwick, Mrs. H.
L. Hardwick and Bill Hardwick
of George West; Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Gibbens of Three Rivers;
Mr. E. C. Hardwick of Groes-
beck; Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hard-
wick and family of Garland; Mr.
and Mrs. E. V. Hardwick and
Bob of McKinney gathered at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. M. D.
Hardwick for a family reunion
Sunday.
Miss Ruby Hardwick stayed
over for a few days visit.
The Walnut Grove Home Dem-
onstration Club met Monday in
the home of Mrs. Alvin Leigh.
Mrs. Johnny Kissinger president,
called the meeting to order at
2:00 p.m.
Mrs. L. V. Cole Jr. led the
group in singing “Sweet Hour of
Prayer.” Mrs. Paul Nelson gave
the devotional from Matt. 5:3-13.
Mrs. Cole gave the council re-
port.
Plans for the county fair were
made by1 the members.
Mrs. Johnny Ray reviewed the
book, “I Led Three Lives,” by
Herb Philbrick.
Roll call was answered with
a “Book I’ve Read,” by fifteen
members.
Mrs. Robert Furr conducted
the recreation for the afternoon
with Barbara Horn winning the
prize.
The hostess served a lovely re-
freshment plate to the members,
Judy and Gary Trrell and Judy
Lynn Baxtr.
The meeting adjourned to
meet with Mrs. Johnny Ray
September 14 at 2:00 p.m.
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ENTERS HOSPITAL
Wesley Biggs of McKinney
left Thursday for Sanatorium,
iTexas, where he will enter a hos-
pital for treatment.
Race: White
Address: 504 Wood Street, Mc-
Kinney, Texas
or 1631 Main Street, Lubbock,
Texas.
DUNN, Leroy (NMN)
Date of Birth: October 3, 1934
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Address: ‘325 S. Kentucky St.,
McKinney, Texas
or 809 Redwood Avenue, Ander-
son, South Carolina.
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Church of Christ
At Climax Plans
Gospel Meeeting
A gospel meeting has been an-
nounced for the Climax Church
of Christ starting on Sunday,
August 2, and continuing through
August 9.
Services will be held each eve-
Fire Destroys
Home, Furniture
Early Tuesday
Fire of undetermined origin
destroyed the home of Aubrey
Williams, 1504 E. Anthony St.,
early Tuesday morning. All fur-
nishings and other contents of
the house were also destroyed,
according to firemen.
Mr. and Mrs. Williams were
vacationing in Missouri and no
one was at home at the time of
the blaze.
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the business, and Jesse New-
man, VA Hospital pharmacist.
It was announced that Charles
Allen, at present a student in the
University of Texas Pharmaceu-
tical School at Austin,' will be-
come a member of the North Side
staff upon graduation next
spring.
The official 9.07 inches of rain
measured in McKinney up to
Wednesday afternoon made July
the wettest month recorded here
since May of 1957 and brought
the total for the year to 22.87,
just 2.10 short of normal for the
first seven months of the year,
according to statistics furnished
The Examiner by Mayor Roy F.
Hall, local weather observer.
McKinney has received mois-
ture on 17 of the 29 days of July.
Rain in greater or lesser amounts
fell every day between July 15
and July 28, inclusive—14 con-
secutive days. Since July, 15 a to-
tal of 7.80 inches was recorded.
Normal rainfall for July is 2.61.
Last July only 2.25 inches were
measured.
During Monday afternoon’s
rain and thunder storm gusty
winds left considerable damage
to trees in North McKinney.
Limbs were blown off and a large
area was littered with leaves and
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New Suits
Geneva Williams vs.
Williams, divorce.
Anna Pauline Lewis vs.
Edwin Lewis, divorce.
Suits Disposed Of
A Denton man was arrested in
Celina early Monday morning
and placed in jail in McKinney
on charges of carrying a pistol,
according to Sheriff Floyd Wil-
liams’ office. The man, officers
said, was taken into custody af-
ter he appeared in Celina at
about 12:15 a.m. allegedly look-
ing for the officer who gave his
wife a ticket for speeding early
Sunday evening.
McKinney city police arrested
a suspect in connection with the
theft of $90 from Buddy Ham-
mond’s fruit and vegetable stand
at Lamar Street and Expressway.
The theft occurred Sunday night
while Hammond was asleep in
the stand. Charges of theft from
person were filed against the
man whose name was not re-
vealed.
Other activities of local police
included the arrest of an Okla-
homa man on a charge of driv-
ing while intoxicated.
Chief of Police Jack Pike said
his officers also arrested three
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Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Woodard of
this city will be honored by their
children at open house Sunday,
August 2 from 2 to 4 o’clock at
their home, 1107 Sherman Street.
The occasion is in celebration of
their 50th wedding anniversary.
The couple, married August 1,
1909, have spent their lives in
or near McKinney. Mrs. Woodard
was Miss Shewbirt before her
marriage. Mr. Woodard is a re-
tired farmer.
Their children, who are hosts
a a
Criminal
t W. E. Hendricks, charged with
possession of liquor for the pur-
pose of sale, plea of guilty be-
fore the court, fined assessed at
$300.00 and cost amounting to
$333.00.
W. E. Hendricks, charged with
transporting intoxicating liquor,
plea of guilty before the court,
fine assessed at $100.00 and cost
amounting to $132.20.
Carman L. Hankins, charged
with swindling by worthless
check, plea of guilty before the
court, fine assessed at $1.00 and
cost amounting to $25.00.
J. E. Craft, charged with
swindling by worthless check,
plea of guilty before the court,
fine assessed at $5.00 and cost
amounting to $29.00.
Thomas V. Miller ,charged
with swindling by worthless
farmers and ranchers with more
credit than any other group of
lenders on January 1 of this
year, according to J. C. Stewart,
President, Central National
Bank, who represents the Texas
Bankers Association as Collin
County Key Banker. During
1958, the state’s banks main-
tained their leadership in agri-
cultural credit services. Texas
banks held a higher proportion
of the total farm productions
credit than a year previous.
Based on the eighteenth annu-
al farm lending summary by the
Agricultural Commission of the
American Bankers Association,
Mr. Stewart reported that “at
the beginning of the year, Texas
bankers were helping farmers
and ranchers with $331,443,000 in
loans—7 per cent more than a
year previous. The total included
$289,152,000 in production loans
and $42,291,000 in agricultural
mortgages. On the same date,
$290,055,000 in agricultural loans
were held by insurance compa-
nies; $211,063,000 by Federal
Land Banks; $90,221,000 by Pro-
duction Credit Associations; and
district engineer at Dallas.
One contract is for eight miles
of construction on FM Roads
2170 and 2478 and was awarded
to R. W. McKinney of Nacog-
doches on a low bid of $232,253.
Construction of grading, struc-
tures, base, and surfacing on FM
2170 from FM 2551 east of Allen
east to FM 1378 and on FM 2478
from the junction of State High-
way 121 and FM 2478, north to
State Highway 24, is expected to
require 150 working days.
The other contract is for 0.7
miles of reconstruction on FM
Roads 544, 545 and 720 was
awarded to John F. Buckner and
Sons of Cleburne on a bid of
$133,555. Reconstruction of grad-
ing, structures, base, and surfac-
ing on FM 544, the Rowlett
Creek relief bridge and ap-
proaches 1.5 miles west of Val-
dasta, and on FM 720 between
Frisco and State Highway 121,
is expected to take 100 working
days, Mr. Cawthon said.
Resident Engineer John R.
Taylor Jr. of McKinney will be
in active charge of the two proj-
ects.
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CLARENCE FURR TELLS
WHEN “BIG FLOOD CAME”
We met up with Clarence Furr
the other day over at Jim Mon-
roe’s Appliance Store. He is one
of the natives of the Rhea’s Mill
community. Says he lives on
Main Street right in middle of
town.
It was pouring down rain at
the time and Clarence got to tell-
ing us about some downpours of
other days. Back in 1926 he was
living a short distance east of
Rhea’s Mill when they received
one of the worst and heaviest
rains he ever saw. The home in
which he lived had never been
bothered by water before, but this
time it came down faster than it
could run away. Water gradual-
ly crept up to floor level and
then receded. He and his family
left and went to his father’s
home and very shortly the rain
began again. This time the wa-
ter got up into the house.
He said he and his family nev-
er went back but went ahead
and moved into a home in Rhea’s
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for drunkenness during
week-end.
L. A. Addington vs. Juanita
Addington, divorce granted.
1 Annie Mae Brown vs. Paul
Brown, divorce granted.
Edna Jane Jones vs. Claud J.
Jones, divorce granted.
Berlin Lokey vs. Fay Evelyn
Lokey, divorce granted.
Josephine Dorothy Miller vs.
Jack B. Miller, divorce granted.
south of town in a newly annexed
area; referred to city engineers
the matter of approval of the
plat of a six-acre addition sub-
mitted to the city by Louis Mil-
ler, and discussed with a repre-
sentative of the Southwestern
Real Estate Corp, the matter of
installing individual water
meters for the 142 rental units
handled by that organization at
Texas Textile Mills.
A representative of the South-
western Real Estate Corp, -was
present and requested city gar-
bage and trash pick-up for the
area surrounding Texas Textile
Mills which has recently been
incorporated into the city limits.
He also asked that the city in-
stall water meters at each of the
142 dwelling units in the area.
At present the area gets water
from the cotton mill and a flat
rate is paid for this service. The
commission suggested that, until
some decision can be reached on
the matter of water meter in-
stallation, the corporation include
garbage pick-up charges in rent
charged for the dwellings and
pay the city for the service. No
definite decision was reached on
the matter at Monday’s meeting.
Mayor Roy F. Hall, Commis-
sioners McGee and Love, City
Attorney H. H. Neilson, Police
Chief Jack Pike and City Audi-
tor O. Dickason and Acting City
Secretary, Mrs. Estelle Brown
were present.
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George C. Webb
Now Sole Owner
Of North Side
George C. Webb, for th epast
four years part owner of the
North Side Pharmacy here, has
purchased the interest of Charles
E. Winniford in the business, it
was announced this week. Mr.
Winniford and his family have
moved to Muskogee, Okla., where
he is engaged in the drug busi-
ness.
Mr. Webb came to McKinney
in 1953 after receiving his degree
from the University of Houston
College of Pharmacy. In 1955 he
bought an interest in the North
Side Pharmacy and has been ac-
tive in the business since that
time. His home was at Navasota,
Texas.
He is past president of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce
and heads the public relations
committee of the senior cham-
ber. Webb is also a past presi-
dent of the Rotary Club and is
active in many civic affairs. A
member of the First Methodist
Church, he is assistant superin-
tendent of the Sunday School, as-
sociate district lay leader and
teaches a class in the Intermedi-
ate Department of the Sunday
School.
Webb is married to the former
sis.
“Intermediate-term loans are
most frequently needed for ma-
chinery and equipment, livestock,
soil improvements, additional
land, and refinancing short-term
notes. Over one-half of all real
estate credit is used to finance
those intermediate-type capital
expenses.
“As a further service to help
farmers and ranchers improve
their operations, about one-third
of all other bank agricultural
loans have a repayment program
longer than one year. Banks
serve farmers and ranchers with
far more intermediate-term cred-
it than any other group of lend-
ders.”
Mr. Stewart believes that
“farmers, ranchers, and bankers
working together in this way help
make Texas agriculture more
prosperous.”
The Industrial Foundation was
chartered some two years ago
for the purpose of encouraging
new industry to locate in Mc-
Kinney as well as for assisting
industry already here.
Foundation President J. M.
Whisenant, in commenting on the
purchase, said that his organiza-
tion feels that this is the first
step in what they hope will be a
series of uses to which the Fund
will be put.
Officers of the Foundation in
addition to Mr. Whisenant are
A. H. Eubanks Jr., vice-presi-
dent; Laud Howell, secretary-
treasurer, and Jewell Abernathy,
John Lowry, Raymond Neal, W.
B. Finney, C. H. Ray and Boyd
Williams, directors.
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Rev. Jesse Pugh
To Conduct Revival
At Melissa Church
Rev. Jesse Pugh, a former pas-
tor of several churches in this
area, will be the evangelist for a
revival meeting at the First
Christian Church at Melissa,
July 31 through August 9. The
Rev. Mr. Pugh conducted a se-
ries of services at the Melissa
church last summer. He is at
present pastor of the First Chris-
tian Church at El Campo, in
South Texas.
Mrs. Barbara Pugh will lead
the singing for the meeting.
Services will be held each eve-
ning starting at 8 o’clock.
Rev. Ron Carr, pastor, and all
members of the church extend a
cordial invitation to everyone to
attend this series of revival
meetings.
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