The Celina Record (Celina, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 8, 1941 Page: 1 of 4
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SEfje Cdina JterurD
The Thriftiest Town
VOLUME THIRTY-NINE
Finish of Improvements j Lightning Bolt Snuffs Out
McKinney City Hospital Life of Young Gunter Girl |
To Bring Celebration;
- | A bolt of lightning snuffed out the j
Improvements that have converted [ Celia Watwood, 14-year-old
the original 50-bed hospital in Mc-
Kinney into one twice that size have
just been completed and the feat is
to be appropriately celebrated Sat
urday by the graduation of seven
nurses from the hospital school of
nursing at 3 p. m. Tom M. Scot*,
chairman of the hospital board, will
preside as the program is carried
out. and will present the diplomas. An
address by the Rev. Earl J. Patton,
pastor of the First Methodist church
of McKinney, will be delivered. Hi-
subject will be “What the Hospital
Means to McKinney."
The names of those to graduate
follow: Miss Eloise Hollis of Leon-
ard. Miss Evelyn Sue Simpson of Me
Kinney, Miss Pauline Simms of Fris-
co, Miss Jessie Max Jean of Sulphu'-
Springs, Miss Dorothy Louise Haney
and Miss Wilma Jean Rose of Me- j
Kinney and Miss Opal Irene Cox of
Nevada.
Miss Anna B. Smith is the efficient
superintendent of the hospital.
WESTON NEWS
Mrs. Hugh Pope and daughter Sa
rah Lee of Van Alstyne are visiting
Mr. and Mrs. 0. B. Virden.
Decoration day is to be observed at.
the Chambersville cemetery near here
Sunday, it has been announced.
The postoffice, the Mayes grocery
stock and household furnishings have
been moved into the new combination
esidence and business house of Roy
“Mayes. The building is on the site
where the other store building stood
It is a low. flat roof structure with
an imitation brick design.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilliam Hobson and
Miss Bessie Hobson of Dallas spent
Saturday night here with their par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Hobson.
Mr. and Mrs. James Hunsingei ;
were hosts for a dinner and forty-two I
party at their home here Friday I
night. Guests were Mr. and Mrs.|
Harold Spain and daughter Linda i
Gayle, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Peebles
and daughters Barbara and Joyce,
Mr. and Mrs. O'Dell Bilderback, Mr.
and Mrs. Ross Jones and children,
Doris and Jerry, Mr. and Mrs. John
Payne and daughters Blanch and Ag-
nes. ,
The Rev. and Mrs. A. G. Coleman
and Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Foster at-
tended the Methodist district confer-
ence at Celina Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Caskey and chil-
dren of Texarkana spent Sunday with
her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Rob-
inson.
Miss Mamie McWhirtei of McKin
hey spent Sunday with her mother,
Mrs. W. L. McWhirter.
Mr. and Mrs. .J. R. Fouts of Has-
kell were week-end guests of them
son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Spain.
Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Erwin of Dal-
las visited Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Jones
and family this week-end.
Word has been received here of the
serious illness of Roscoe Stephens,
former Weston resident, at a Shreve-
port, La., hospital. He is a brother of
Will Stephens of Weston.
Billie Ross Chandler, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Chandler, and
Kathryn Jo Dunn, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Levi Dunn, are reported il1
of measles.
Mr. and Mrs. Burch Stiles and fam-
ily of Melissa visited Mr. and Mrs
J. W. Fra for and daughter Sunday aft-
ernoon.
Mx-. and Mrs. Laud Howell and
daughter Judy visited Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Smith of McKinney Sunday aft-
ernoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Young and
family of Plano visited Mr. and Mrs.
Lloyd Hansard and other relatives
last week-end.
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. B.
F. Choate-were Mr- and. Mrs. J. Har-
ry Price of Waco, Mr. and Mrs. W.
W. Taylor and daughter, Mr, and
Mrs. V. E. Powell and family, Mrs.
J. G. Gross of Dallas, Mr. and Mrs
C. F. Choate and son of Celina.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L.
Watwood, who reside near Gunter,
about G p. m. last Friday. The young
girl was walking between her own
home and that of an neighbor when
the fatal bolt darted from the sky.
bringing instant death. The tragedy
was observed by the father from his
home 4 miles northwest of Gunter.
The current contacted the girl's
head, melting some flat strips of tin
on which she had rolled her hair, and
burning the hair and scalp. Some feel
that had the metal not been in her
hair the stroke might not have been
fatal.
The victim was born March 7, 1927.
in Alabama, and had lived in Grayson
county for five years.
The parents and the following
brothers and sisters survive: Ossie
Watwood, O'Dell Watwood, Mrs.
Sybil McCrary, Elsie Watwood, Vina
Gene Watwood. Thelma Dean Wat-
wood, Junior Watwood and Beuna
Mae Watwood.
The service over the body was con-
ducted Saturday afternoon at 3:30 at
the Gunter Church of God and burial
was at Ethel cemetery following the
service at the church, conducted by
the Rev. Buddie Humes and Austin
Keasoner. Burial arrangements were
directed by Helms of Celina.
Patriotic Rally Thursday Night
May 15, Organize Home Defense
A public rally of the citizenship of
this community will be held on the
public square Thursday night. May
15, at 8 o’clock, the American Legion
post announces. It is to be a meeting
of the entire citizenship and the peo-
ple of the Gunter, Weston, Prosper,
Pilot Point, Aubrey and Frisco com-
munities are invited. The purpose h
to form a home defense group, which
may prove of great benefit.
This is not an American Legion at'
fair, but the Legion offered to look
after details of making all arrange-
ments, provided it is wanted. The
people were found to be enthusiastic
in their desire for it and all local oi
ganizations are behind it 100 per
cent.
The rally will be on the public
square and the legion will arrange
for seats, rostrum, loud speaker, mu-
sic and speakers.
The effort will have the support of
the public school, which will arrange
a program.
Commencement Exercises 1 Horrible Example Provided
Scheduled for May 18-23 By Old Age Pensioneering
Graduating exercises will begin for | From the Oklahoma City Times:
Celina high school with the bacca- j Oklahoma and 46 other states may
SUTn,e ? May 18 at th«: Profit by the horrible example fur-
F.rst Methodist Church here. The Rev. j nished by Colorado pensioneering poi-
Alexander Mooty, pastor of the First = iticians, who ran the milk of human
Christian Church of Celina, will de- kindness right into the ground.
Frisco Farmer-Cattleman
Gets $3,053 for 29 Steers
From McKinney Courier-Gazette:
Collin County’s beef cattle are
bringing some fancy prices, as shown
by a carload of 29 steers shipped
Friday to the Fort Worth stock mar-
Celina Girl Takes Trip
As Part of Class Work
DENTON, May 7.—Miss Louise
Brandon of Celina went on a special
■‘field trip’' to Dallas Thursday as a
part of her class work for a course
in office management at Texas State
ket by W. B. Fletcher, prominent live-1 College for Women.
New Telephone Manager
For Denison District
stock man of Frisco. He received a
check for S3,053 for the 29 steers, or
an average of $105.00 each, which I
the highest average for any carload
of cattle shipped from here in fifteen
years, according to Thos. Johnson
president of the Collin County Na
tional bank.
“I have heard of higher prices be-
ing received for an individual steer,’
said Mr. Johnson, “but $105.00 aver-
age for a carload lot is very unusual.’
The shipment Friday consisted of
fine white face steers averaging 18
months old.
F. L. KIRKPATRICK
F. L. Kirkpatrick, formerly of
Longview, is promoted to district
manager of the Southwestern Bell
Telephone company, with headquat
ters at Denison, C. L. Stewart, divi
sion superintendent of the company,
has announced.
He succeeds Jerome McKinney, clis
trict manager at Denison since 1929
who is transferred to Paris as dis
trict manager.
Both changes are effective imme-
diately.
The Denison district of the teh
phone company includes Celina and
15 other exchanges in this vicinity.
Celina Cemetery Will Be
Decorated Sunday, May 11
The graves in Celina’s silent city
of the dead will be decorated next
Sunday, May 11. There is to be no
formal program in connection with
the decoration, it is expected that
those who have loved ones buried
there will, if they can. go out some
time during the day -and take t:hei:-
floral offering to place upon the
graves.
The Record is asked to say that for
the balance of the week those inter
ested iri the cemetery will contribute
work to clean up the cemetery and
put it in a presentable condition for
the decoration.
Visiting the offices of the Texas
1 extile Mill, A. Harris & Company,
Dallas Retail Credit Association, and
the Dallas News, the class was con-
ducted by Roy L. McPherson, assis-
tant professor of economics and bus
inesg administration at TSCW. Trav-
eling in college buses, many classes
at TSCW make a variety of trips to
give students a practical insight in
many fields.
Miss Brandon is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Brandon of Ce-
lina.
liver the baccalaureate sermon, and
Deputy State Superintendent Hailds
Pearce, former principal of the school,
will give the commencement address
at the high school auditorium at 8:00
P- ni., May 23.
With childlike naivete these dem-
agogic statesmen assumed that all
you have to do is to vote money out
of the public treasury and then go
fishing. They induced the Colorado
voters to adopt a constitutional
Annie V. Stalleup, with an average amendment, in 193G, which provided
of 96.5, is valedictorian of the class
and W inton Pafford, with an average
of 94, is salutatorian. Rachel Russel
is honor student for the year with an
average grade of 97.5.
Members of the graduating class
are J. C. Biggs, Albert Hays, Ken-
neth Johnson, Buck Norris, Dwight
Loftice, Winton Pafford. Carl Swann,
Harold Robinson, Howard Blagg. Bil-
ly Adamson, Dwight Smith, Jean
Bridgefarmer, Kathryn Browning,
Dollie Gowden, Wanda Crosswhite,
Lorine Doggett, Billie Bob Foster,
Marguerite Giles, Glenda Hansard,
Louise Hayes, Emajo Hunn, Millie
King, Betty Lankford, Billie Jo Lee
Ruth Loftice, Arch LaVerne McNabb,
Earline Norris, Annie V. Stalleup,
I Rachel Russell, Mary Frances Weav-
Local Minister and Wife
Invited to Home-Coming
The First Baptist church of Lub-
bock is having a home-coming on the
last Sunday in this month and the
congregation has extended the Rev
L. T. Grumbles, who was pastor of
the Lubbock church 2G years ago, and
Mrs. Grumbles an invitation to attend
at the expense of the church, and will
attend if not prevented.
Lubbock was a village 26 years
ago but now is a city of many thou-
sands of people.
er, Lorene Yates.
Family-Size Farm Ownership
Is Aim of FSA Program
tor a $45 a month pension for every
qualified person over 60.
This would have cost the state
about $20,000,000 a year. The treas-
ury didn’t happen to have that much
loose change, and the payments pe-
tered out. One pensioner then sued the
state for the full $45, but the Colora-
do supreme court said, in effect, that
you can’t get blood out of a turnip,
so if the money isn’t available, it just
can’t be paid.
Now the assembly has adopted re-
strictions which, it is hoped, will cut
down the payments. But there is still
plenty of grief in the offing.
It all goes to show that voting sub-
sidies to private individuals—which
the federal government is doing in a
big way—isn’t enough. Like the rab
bit for the stew, you have first got
to catch the rabbit. If you don’t, you
have no stew.
Contract for Extension of
Grayson-Collin Co-op. Let
The contract for construction of 103
miles of new lines for the Grayson-
Collin electric cooperative was award-
ed a Nacogdoches firm Friday at a
cost of $00,973.17. The new project
will serve 304 members and will in-
clude 73 different taps in Grayson
and Collin counties. It will run the
total number of customers served to
1,769 anti the mileage of the entire
system to 703 miles.
SH AIN SCHOOL DISTRICT TO
VOTE ON CONSOLIDATION
An election to determine whether
the Shairi school district, northwest
of Celina, will consolidate with the
Alla district has been ordered for
Saturday. May 24.
It will be necessary for the Alla
district to hold an election on the
same day to decide whether the Sham
district is to be received. But this
will be u mere formality to comply
with the law. as Alla has invited
Shain to come in.
Mrs. T. H. Phelps visited
Ethel Cogswell of Sherman.
Miss
COTTAGE HILL CEMETERY
DECORATED LAST SUNDAY
Cottage Hill cemetery was decorat-
ed last Sunday afternoon, starting at
2 o’clock. The program as formerly
published in the Record was carried
out-talks by the Rev. W. J. Epting
and the Rev. Clyde Wallis of Celina
with readings by Dorothy Wallis, and
vocal music between numbers.
At the close of the program in the
church building the graves were dec-
orated, and presented a beautiful ap-
pearance—more so than usual due to
the fact that ample moisture produced
many and more beautiful flowers
than is usuall.
FOR SALE—No. 4 Baltic cream
-separator. $25.09; 1 .pump jack and 4
hp. gas engine, $25.00. All in good
condition. ROBERT SHORT.
NINE MEN ARE CALIXED
TO GO INTO TRAINING
Mr. and Mrs. Olli# Hall have as
) their guests their daughter, Mrs. Joe
Lewis, of Bakersfield, Calif., and
Mrs. Dallas Stevens of Arvin, Calif.
After a visit here they will go on to
Flint, Mich., to get new cars. They
* viII then visit in Michigan. Ohio,
Tennessee, Pennsylvania and other
points before returning to California.
Nine Collin County young men de-
parted Wednesday for Dallas! to be
assigned to army training camps fol-
lowing a program given in their hon-
or Wednesday morning at McKinney.
Those forming the group were Wal-
ter Leon Moore of Princeton, Homo •
Wylie Killingsworth of McKinney, R. '
3, Jerry B. Strickling of McKinney.
John Edwin Rhea of McKinney,
James Ernest Acklen of Farmersvillo,1
Ethan Ernest Hale, R. 1, Anna, Fred;
Wilson Cowden of Celina, Lester'
Richardson of Nevada, R. j, Clyde I
Marion Fleming Of Blue Ridge.
Mrs. J. C. Bruce and Mrs. E. D
Caldwell and baby of Dallas visited
Mrs. Alex Gleiulenning Tuesday.
Tenant purchase loans, for which
applications are now being taken at
the Farm Security Administration of-
fice, are intended to help worthy ten-
ant farmers to buy family-size farms,
according to Thomas S. Murphy, far-
mer and chairman of FSA’s tenant
purchase committee.
Farmers who practice “live-at-
home” farming will be first choice for
these long-term, low-interest loans.
This means that the family that
raises most of its food and the live-
stock and poultry feed on the farm
will have the best chance.
The Collin County tenant purchase
committee, of which Mi'. Murphy is
chairman, helps to choose families to
whom these loans are made. It also
helps to value the farms which the;,
buy.
Families to whom these loans are
made pick out the farm they hope to
buy and they are not restricted to
fully improved farms. The loan may
include funds to build or repair the
home, barn, and for other improve-
ments.
Other members of the tenant pur-
chase committee are Edgar H. Bush,
McKinney, and Will H. Snaveley, Rt.
5. McKinney. Applications for these
loans mat' be made at the Farm Se-
curity office located at 207 Aber-
nathy building, McKinney. Tenant
farmers who have made applications
prior to this year are urged to file
new applications, it was stated.
Ilmportance of the Pecan
As Money Crop Stressed
Dairying Program to Be
Presented Night of May 14
The Chamber of Commerce has
completed arrangements for presen
tation of a dairying program at the
school auditorium Wednesday, at 8 p.
m., May 14. A motion picture packed
with information about the dairying
industry will be shown by the Mead-
olake company of Sherman. In addi-
tion to mechanical speakers there wP!
be personal addresses.
The whole public is cordially invil
ed and those interested in the dairy
ing business can not afford to miss
it. Il is believed it will be profitable
for the community and especially
those who engage in dairying intel-
ligently. .
The program put on at the Lone
Star school house last Thursday night
has already resulted in one farmer of
that community arranging to buy
five cows.
ENTIRE FACULTY RETAINED
BY PILOT POINT TRUSTEES
The Pilot Point school faculty that
has served during the year now com
ing to a close was last Thursday re-
elected. They are as follows:
Supt. J. C. Jemigan. Mrs. J. L. No-
el, Miss Frances McDonald. Miss
Grace Burks, Miss Ruth Russell, Miss
Bessie Walling, Miss Sybil Newsom,
I N. O. Collins, L. J. Fite, Miss Irene
| Carter, J. E. Wheeler, Miss Virginia
| Cobb. Miss Mary Will Greenwood, O
I K. Hoyle and Y. W. Stanford.
It is pecan budding time in Collin
county, and thousands of native pecan
trees should be improved by budding
with proven varieties.
Collin county is blessed with thou-
sands of native pecan trees, and at
last many farmers have awakened to
the importance of improving the trees
by budding and grafting. For many
years farmers in Collin county have
been cutting down pecan trees in
their fields whiie farmers in other
counties (where pecan trees were
scarce) have been paying from $1 to
$3 per Iree and then setting them
out.
At last many Collin county farm-
ers have awakened to the fact that
no crop can be grown on the same
spot of ground that a pecan tree cov-
ers which will pay one-half so much
money.
Collin county needs to produce a
better quality pecan in sufficient ton-
age to attract northern and eastern
buyers. When sufficient tonnage of
selected nuts are produced, we can
organize a Collin County pecan mar-
keting association through which pe-
cans can be graded, packed attrac-
tively, and marketed.
Buddnig is rather simple and most
farmers can do the job if they will
only take the time to learn. In this
county we have hundreds of thou-
sands of pecan sprouts which have
sprouted out after large trees were
cut down. These sprouts when about
the size of your thumb or a broom
handle are ideal to bud. Small trees
with trunks too large to bud on have
limbs the right size to hud. Larg?
trees which have trunks and limbs
both to large to bud will have to be
top-worked in January and Febru-
ary. In the spring these trees will
throw out shoots which can be bud-
ded.
During the month of April ten pe-
can budding demonstrations were giv-
en to 310 4-H. club boys in the coun-
ty, and it is hoped that through these
boys, Collin county will eventually
take the lead in pecan production.
jack McCullough,
County Agent.
Mary Jo Stone of Celina
Member of Honor Society
Miss Mary Jo Stone of Celina is
one of the new members of Kappa
Delta Pi, national honorary society.
Miss Stone is a junior in North
Texas State Teachers College at Den-
ton, and ha.s won recognition in the
Gam madia ns, Pi Omega Pi, and Al-
pha Chi societies for her outstanding
work.
She is aiso a member of the Mary
Ardens, Green Jackets and Phoreff
clubs. She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Edd Stone.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Maxson of Lew
isville were Sunday guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Maxson.
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The Celina Record (Celina, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 8, 1941, newspaper, May 8, 1941; Celina, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth773504/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Celina Area Historical Association.