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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, June 14, 1962.
Murray to head Pearsall schools
Rodger E. Murray, who resigned in March his post as superintendent of Celina public schools, announced Wednesday that he had accepted the position of superintendent of schools in Pearsall, Texas.
The school has an enrollment of 2,114 students, and 87 teachers are employed.
Mr. and Mrs. Murray and their children, Belinda and Steve, will move to Pearsall about July 1. Mr. Murray's contract as superintendent in Celina expires on that date.
The Murrays came to Celina in 1955, when Mr. Murray assumed charge of the school here.
He is being succeeded in Celina by Billy J. Bradley, who will move to Celina with his family this month.
Little Leaguers drop opening games
Celina's small baseball players have had a disappointing season thus far, with three defeats and a tie.
The Little League team was beaten by Prosper in this opening game last week, and the Ponies took a 4 to 3 defeat the same night.
A game scheduled with Pilot Point last Thursday was canceled when Pilot Point dropped out of league play.
Monday's games here with Gunter resulted in a 7-6 defeat for Celina's Peewees and a 10-10 tie in the Little League game.
Tonight's play is to be at Prosper, Peewees and Ponies participating.
The Ponies and the Little League go to Sanger Saturday night for a practice game.
TP & L is celebrating fiftieth anniversary
Texas Power & Light Company, the pioneer of electric transmission service and construction of rural lines in Texas, is 50 years old this year.
The investor-owned Company was organized in 1912 and the new firm acquired a number of locally operated electric systems scattered through North, East, and Central Texas. TP&L began serving some 14,000 customers in these towns.
On its Golden Anniversary TP&L serves 380,000 customers in 456 cities and towns in a 52-county service area that extends some 290 miles east to west and about 230 miles north to south.
The seven original communities served by the Company were Bonham, Cleburne, Hillsboro, Sherman, Temple, Waco and Waxahachie. By the end of the first year Brownwood, Taylor, Gainesville, Palestine, Paris and Tyler had been added to the towns served.
The original local electric systems had problems of voltage and continuity of electric service. Also hundreds of towns and villages had no electric service at all. Some plants operated only from dusk until midnight.
The early-day electric systems had problems of rate uniformity. After TP&L acquired plants the Company reduced and stabilized electric rates. Since its organization, TP&L has reduced electric rates 12 times. Electric rates have been increased only three times, in 1919, 1920 and in 1951 because of the inflationary conditions following Wold War I and World War II. The average cost per kilowatt hour for TP&L residential electricity is only about one-half what it was 25 years ago.
The company's first large generating station was built in Waco in 1914. This 12,000-kilowatt plant together with the plants located in other towns by the Company, provided ample capacity for serving the entire system load. By 1923, it was evident that TP&L's load growth would require additional capacity. This led to the construction of the Trinidad Steam Electric Station in Henderson County, the first major power plant in the U.S. To use powdered lignite as a fuel. Construction of the plant began in 1924 and 40,000 kilowatts of power capacity was put in service there in 1926.
TP&L at the end of 1962 will have 12 generating plants, and with additional power purchased will have 1,332,000 kilowatts of electric power, an ample supply to serve the growing 52-county area.
McKinney VA Hospital authorizes no solicitors
The local Veterans Administration Hospital does not authorize solicitations or contributions for any purpose, Dr. George W. Hosbon, Director, has warned.
Dr. Hobson said he had been informed that some businesses and individual have been approached by persons representing themselves as speaking for the VA hospital.
“Such solicitations have not and will not in the future be authorized by VA,” Dr. Hobson said, “and persons making them should be reported to the authorities and the Chamber of Commerce.”
This is your Personal Column
Little Debbie Maxson, three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Maxson, was the winner of a “twist” contest for children under 12 at a Republic National Life Insurance Company picnic on a guest ranch near Dallas Saturday. There were about 35 entrants. Debbie won a Cinderella doll and watch. Her mother, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Grubbs of Celina, is employed by Republic.
Mrs. Mack Winn returned to her home last week after a visit in Ennis and Waxahachie.
Miss Patricia Uthoff, Dallas, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Uthoff, and her grandmother, Mrs. R.L. Clayton, in Celina last weekend.
Uncle Dan from Doe Branch
Dear Mister Editor:
I see by the papers where Bobby Kennedy is claiming the Democrats is gaining in Vermont. It could be the game warden has caught a couple of them hiding in the brush up there. And I was reading a piece where 17 percent of all the people born in Georgia moves out of the state afore they die. I reckon they git converted to the Republican party and has to run for their lives.
They ain't nothing in this world that splits folks up like politics. When the other side puts it out it's always propagander and when your side puts it out Moses brung it straight down from Mt. Sinai. When a tax collector takes a bribe he gits throwed in jail, but a public office holder calls it a campaign contribution and gits elected fer another term.
I was reading here a while back where some woman from South Carolina celebrated her 104th birthday. She told the newspaper folks she loved everybody, even Republicans. I know a heap of Democrats that would rather die at 64 as to love Republicans at 104 – and viser verser.
I recollect about a feller we used to have living out here. He was a great Republican, didn't have much use for anybody if they wasn't a Republican. He wouldn't even speak to a Democrat. He'd go to his funeral, didn't mind seeing him buried, but he didn't want nothing to to with him while he was living.
We were talking about these things at the country store Saturday night and the fellers was agreed that common sense in this country has gone in orbit and horse sense is disappearing with the horses. Ed Doolittle allowed as how his old lady was even talking orbit stuff these days. Ed says some mornings when she gits up she says she feels “go” and some mornings she complains she is feeling “stay.”
Clem Webster said he was reading where some feller in Hollywood is fixing to manufacture wimmen's clothes out of cellerphane. All the fellers was in favor of it, natural, and Zeke Grubb claimed it would fit in real good with the Age of The Fig Leaf, that being the one in which we was living.
I don't know what the world is coming to no more. Sometimes I think the people in this country has growed tall but not up. How else can you figger it when rich folks will pay $100 for a necktie, when the big print giveth and the small print taketh away, when ever magazine puts a girl on the cover and no cover on the girl, and when it's easier to git a divorce than to git married?
It's sad, Mister Editor, I've come down to the sunset of my days fer what? To see instant coffee, instant milk, instant biscuits and, if ole Khrushy has his way, instant cremation.
Yours truly, Uncle Dan
Miss Klinglesmith is honoree at showers
Miss Roylene Klinglesmith, bried-elect of Robert C. Reeder, Jr., was honored Tuesday evening, June 5, with a bridal shower at the home of Mrs. S.G. McKnight.
The table was laid with an Italian cutwork cloth over apricot, the bride's chosen color, with an arrangement of apricot gladiolas. An arrangement of white regal lilies were placed throughout the reception suite.
Presiding at the bride’s book was Mrs. B.R. Huddleston. Mrs. Buddy Carey of Prosper poured punch and Mrs. Kenneth Howard served cake squares. Mrs. Huddleston, Mrs. Carey, and Mrs. Howard were high school classmates of the honoree.
Hostesses were Mrs. McKnight, Mrs. H.L. Merritt, Mrs. L.B. Johnson, Mrs. J.R. McIlroy, Mrs. W.O. Rolater, Mrs. Hoyt Douglas, Mrs. W.H. Stallcup, Mrs. Vance Stallcup, and Mrs. Tommie Bothwell.
On June 7, Mrs. Frank B. Thompson and her daughter, Susie, of Dallas, were hostesses for a kitchen shower for the bride-elect. Guests were former editors of high school publications Miss Klinglesmith has sponsored during her three years of teaching journalism at Bryan Adams High School in Dallas.
The bride-elect's matron of honor and former college roommate, Mrs. Charles D. Williams of Dallas, was hostess for a miscellaneous shower Friday evening, June 8 in her home.
Miss Klinglesmith and Mr. Reeder will be married, Friday, June 15, in the First Methodist Church, Celina. Friends of the family are invited.
Ads
Perry & Rucker offers Carnation mellorine for 39 cents for one-half gallon, Shurfine pure vegetable shortening, three-pound can for 69 cents and boneless rolled roast for 45 cents a pound.
McKnight Grocery has Hale's Pride Hominy, one-pound cans, 2 for 25 cents, one-pound Folger's Coffee for 69 cents and East Texas Ribbon Cane Syrup, 79 cents for one-half gallon.
Jones Pharmacy suggests Sheaffer pens, travel kits, electric shavers, cigars and cigarettes for Father's Day.
Cottage Hill News
By Mrs. J. B. Tucker
Tuesday guests of Mrs. J.R. Frisby were Mrs. Lloyd Merflitz and children of McKinney and Sue and Lloyd Wester and Kenneth Bell of Celina.
Mr. and Mrs. Buell Shields and their grandson, Bobby Shields, spent Friday with Mr. and Mrs. M.D. Shields and family of Carrollton.
Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Jones of Prosper were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Jones and family.
Mrs. Lowell Jones accompanied the MYF group of Chamberville Church to Denton Saturday night for bowling and skating. Troy and Beverly Jones were among the group.
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