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Celina 50 Years Ago Today
This is a selection of stories, classified ads and commercial ads from the Celina Record first published Thursday, December 7, 1961.
New underground cable will bring better phone service to Weston area
Weston residents and people living between Celina and Weston will have better telephone service soon, promises Raymond Oliver, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company representative, who says that new 75-pair cable will be plowed into the ground between Celina and Weston.
"There will be as much difference between the new phones and the electric phones as there was between the old crank type phones and modern ones," he said.
The work will start before the end of December and will be done by a private contractor with machinery to dig a small trench, lay the cable, and cover the trench, all in one operation. The cable will lie two to three feet deep. Oliver said the job will cost more than $50,000, will service more than 60 present phones and be adequate to take care of anticipated needs for ten years.
Phoned death report proves to be false
A report of the death of a daughter-in-law of R.G. Martin of Celina Sunday evening proved to be false -- and possibly the work of a malicious practical joker.
Mr. Martin was called to the phone for a long-distance call from California, and informed by a woman on the other end of the line that Mrs. Newell Martin of Los Angeles, a daughter-in-law of Mr. Martin, had died Sunday of cancer. The caller identified herself as a cousin of Mrs. Newell Martin. She asked that the Celina man get word to other relatives. The call was made to the Celina telephone number.
The Celina man telephoned other sons in the Rio Grande Valley and informed them of what he had learned. Later, Mr. Martin decided to call his son Newell in Los Angeles. When the connection was made he learned that the death report was false and that Mrs. Martin was perfectly all right. When she learned that flowers had been wired for her funeral she said that was all right -- she would use them to decorate for Christmas. She doesn't even have a cousin in California.
The California woman's husband was understandably angry about the affair and said he would get busy immediately in an effort to learn who was responsible.
Farm road right-of-way condemnations suits filed
Three condemnation suits were filed by county authorities in county court Wednesday against landowners along the route of the proposed new farm-to-market road which will connect Celina and Aubrey. The suits seek to condemn land for right-of-way for the new road.
Two other suits were expected to be in the hands of the county clerk soon.
Named in the suits filed Wednesday were Carrie Z. Mann Parsons, Virginia; J.O. Latham, Celina, and John Willock, Celina. Hearing before three special commissioners has been set for Wednesday, January 10 at 9 a.m. in the county court room in McKinney, The commissioners named are Ed Crockett, Sam Hill and Tom Love.
Work is expected to start on the new road as early as 1962 as possible, with completion expected late in the year.
Pinion makes second team on All-SWC
Ray Pinion, TCU football guard and former Celina High School student and grid player, was chosen a member of the second All-Southwest Conference team last week by the players themselves.
Though named to the second team, Pinion, a senior, ranked fifth in the voting with Childress of Arkansas for lineman of the year, and the votes placed him third in the guards column.
Pinion was drafted by the Houston professional football team in the American Football league, and his fans here expect him to get other pro offers.
Renner Foundation head urges white corn hike
Renner, Texas -- White corn grown for the milling trade offers an excellent basis for partnership between industry and agriculture, Dr. C.L. Lundell, Director of Texas Research Foundation at Renner, has suggested.
"Texas is a corn deficit state, both of white and yellow corn, and production needs to be stepped up," he said.
He specifically recommended an increase in production of white milling corn. During the 1961 harvest, white corn commanded a 30-cent premium over yellow corn, the prices being $1.45 and $1.15 respectively. An even higher premium prevailed during the third week in November, after most of the harvest had moved to buyers.
Two regional seed dealers agreed with Dr. Lundell that the state's production of corn should be increased.
John D. Wells of Plano saw 1962 as offering a good opportunity to farmers to make money on both types of corn, "because Texas mills now have to bring in white and yellow corn from other states to fill their demand."
"Texas corn acreage is only a third or a fourth of what it was 20 years ago," he said. "Local demand exceeds local supply, and the farmer who plants corn on good land and follows good fertilizer and rotation practices will find corn more profitable than grain sorghum."
D.T. Black of Honey Grove recommended that regional farmers increase corn production, especially the production of white corn for milling trade.
"We have white corn today that will produce as many bushels to the acre as yellow corn, more bushels in some instances," Mr. Black said.
Uncle Dan from Doe Branch
Dear Mister Editor:
I see by the papers where a official of the Treasury Department claims it would be good for the country if we'd cut in half the inheritance tax on all estates worth $10 million or more. He allows as how it would be a "incentive to free enterprise."
I'm strong in favor of it, Mister Editor. I remember back in 1926 when Cal Coolidge come up with a idea called the "flexible tariff" for helping the little feller. My memory gits a little hazy after 35 year but seems like I recall we got a little relief on such items as goose feathers, paint brushes, axe handles and sheep dip. If I recollect right, this is the last time us little fellers has had any reductions.
Starting at $10 million is a little high up on the hog, but it could be the beginning of a trend. By the end of this century the Congress might git it so's a farmer or rancher could put his cemetery lot and front yard in the Soil Bank and git his fertilizer at cost through the United Nations.
When I brung these glad tidings to the fellers at the country store Saturday night most of 'em took a dim view of the situation. Ed Doolittle, for instant, claimed everybody in Washington did a heap of popping off when the Congress was out of town. It don't mean a thing allowed Ed, and he said he wouldn't be surprised, afore them Congressmen git back to Washington to see Bobby Kennedy issue a proclamation abolishing poverty. Zeke Grubb said he was special doubtful of anything that come out of the Treasury Department. He figgers that any Guvernment agency that has to have a barnyard full of high officials and a pasture full of clerks to keep track of them cheap dollars ain't to be trusted on long-range forecasts at the $10 million level.
Well, I see where the U.S. Safety Council says 1961 is going to be our best year yet for pedestrians, fewer of them per capita gitting killed than in any other year. I'd have to see the detailed figgers on this survey. It could be Mister Editor, that all slow-jumping pedestrians has been killed off afore 1961.
Uncle Dan
News of Alla community
By Mrs. Hershel Flanery
Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Loftice visited his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Neil Loftice, and family in Plano Saturday night.
Howard Logan returned to the Veterans Hospital in McKinney for treatment.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Allan Thompson and Kaven of Grand Prairie visited the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Claud Thompson, Sunday evening.
Rev. and Mrs. Ross Bourland were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. S.A. Miller.
Mrs. R.L. Willard spent last Monday with her mother, Mrs. Jewel Kirkland, in Frisco.
Mrs. Bruce Coulter of Frisco and Mrs. R.L. Willard were in Dallas Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Loftice were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. O.L. Hollandsworth in Celina.
Wayne Logan of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, is visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Logan, and Howard Eugene Logan and other relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. O.N. McCarty Jr., and family of Cottage Hill visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Claud Melton, Sunday afternoon.
Ads
Perry and Rucker offers Swedish cookies for 25 cents, Carnation Mellorine, one-half gallon for 39 cents and large paper-shell pecans, 3 pounds for $1.
Mayer Grocery offers Minot cranberry sauce, 2 cans for 39 cents, choice loin steak for 69 cents a pound and Patio TV Mexican dinner, 2 for 89 cents.
MYF group sees movie
A group of Celina young people, members of the Methodist Youth Fellowship, went to Dallas Sunday to see the movie, "King of Kings." They were accompanied by the Rev. Sherrell Hendricks, pastor of the First Methodist Church, and Mrs. Hendricks.
The group included Bob Blaine, Bobby Cashon, Barbara Graham, Gus Stelzer, Kathy Krauss, Nancy Stallcup, Martha Morgan, Tom Robinson, Linda Tolleson, Jerry Moore, Diane Kinney, and Sandra Short, all of Celina and Toni Ross of Van Alstyne.
Beginning December 9, Curse of the Werewolf will be playing at the Ritz Theatre in Celina.
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