The McKinney Examiner (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 9, 1950 Page: 4 of 16
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THE EXAMINER, McKINNEY, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 9, 1950 .■
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROOMS
growing Texas . . . and meeting the challenge of
McKINNEY, TEXAS
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NO DONATIONS WILL BE TAKEN
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At McKinney First
Methodist Church
Butterfly Found by
California Boy
Left: TP&L linemen repairing lines in
Bonham.
Top right: Rural power line in Fannin
County.
Bottom right: Ice storm scene typical
of damage throughout North Texas.
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We know that you suffered great inconvenience during the ice storm and the
period that followed. We deeply appreciate your understanding and for-
bearance.
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To towns faced with the peril of water shortage, the Company rushed portable
generating units to pump water during the emergency with the result that
no community served by TP&L was without water for any great length of time.
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renew for the Examiner
father, E. H. McCormic, of Dallas.
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in operation today, you’ll see
what we mean!
as quickly
Miss Linda Harben of Climax
spent the week end with her grand-
mother, Mrs. Lillie Harbens 805 N.
•Bradley Street..
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We assure you that TP&L is constantly on the alert . . . constantly planning
and building to meet the needs of homes, farms, businesses and industries . . .
anticipating the needs of a
emergencies as they arise.
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Mr. O. H. Stroup of the Altona
community has a statement in this
issue annonucing that he is a candi-
date for County Commissioner. He
comes from one of the oldest and
most highly respected families in
the county, is well-qaulified and if
elected will give excellent service.
See his statement.
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Mrs. W. J. Edwards sends the Ex-
aminer to her daughter, Mrs. Mar-,
tha Nan Tatum, in Ancon, Canal
Zone. We wish Martha Nan would
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The public is cordially invited to
attend a special service at the First
Methodist Church in McKinney Sun-
day evening at 7 o’clock. A play,
“Mothers of Children,” will be pre-
sented by the mothers and children
of the church. The play will have
a cast of thirty and will be under
the direction of Mrs. Frank Haynes.
Mrs. Haynes will portray the grand-
mother, Mrs. Forrfest Woods the
mother. The play will be presented
in place of the regular evening serv-
ice. :
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We are glad to enroll Mr. B. R. Pil-
kilton on our list of new subscribers.
Mr. Pilkilton and family reside a
few miles. south of town.
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Mrs. Rosa Ferguson orders the
Examiner to be sent to her daughter,
Mrs. Lee Perry, Rt. 2, Celina.
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Immediately after the disastrous attack of freezing rain and ice struck, Texas
Power & Light Company rushed linemen and construction men from through-
out the 5 2-county area served into ice-stricken North Texas and soon more
than 500 men were mending breaks, replacing broken poles, restoring service
as possible.
Across Sixteen Counties
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We appreciate the compliments being paid us on
ACTION by our crews of men in the emergency.
The management of the Texas Power & Light Company wishes to thank you,
our customers, for your cooperation, patience and understanding when the
recent devastating ice storm struck with all of its fury.
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Mrs. Sallie B. Godsey of Dardan-
elle, Ark., sends $2.50 to ren£w for
Examiner. Mrs .Godsey haMbeen
away from McKinney for pWAaps
25 years or longer. She is a trained
nurse and was connected with the
Dr. Wiley Sanitarium here. After
the passing of Dr. Wiley she went
to Arkansas. Has never lost inter-
est in McKinney people and has kept
up by reading the Examiner.
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J. F. Ray was here from Altoga
Monday to renew for Examiner. Mrs.
Ray suffered a broken arm in Jan-
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write a news letter .for Examiner. ' doing fine now.
By Frank X. Tolbert in Dallas News
Carl Axel Anderson, a Dallas man
who raises and trains butterflies, had
the thrill of seeing a million-in-one
shot come home Friday.
Anderson not only tames monarch
butterflies and teaches them tricks.
Every spring, he also brands the in-
sects painlessly and turns them
loose.
The idea is to find out just how far
the big monarchs migrate. Ander-
son, a tall, 58-year-old executive for
the United States Internal ■ Revenue
Bureau, sends thousands of cards to
nature lovers all over the continent
asking them to look out for his Tex-
as-branded monarchs and report to
him if any are found.
Anderson has turned loose 681
monarchs, all hatched in his home at
3209 Centenary. And all are brand-
ed, the brand and date of release .
being carefully noted in Anderson’s
bookkeeping system on his insect
pets.
“Still, I always figured it was
about a million-to-one chance that
anyone would ever find one of, my
Alvin McCormic leaves $2.50 to branded butterflies outside of the
:nc’.v for the Examiner for his immediate vicinity of Dallas,” said
Anderson.
Since a story on Anderson in the
May 16, 1948, issue of The Dallas
News, other stories on the butterfly
trainer have appeared in hundreds
of newspapers and magazines.
Recently, Anderson received a
scrawled letter from Ben Harris, a
10-year-old fifth grader in the Mc-
Kinley School of Santa Monica,
Calif.
“I saw your article a while back
about butterflies in a Santa Monica
newspaper. Then my step-brother,
Russell Spry, and I were playing on
a vacant lot near and we found a big
butterfly lying in a open bottle. It
looked Like it was dead. I picked it
up. It had ‘9’ branded on its wing.
It came alive later and flew away.
It was about two inches this way and
two inches that way. It flew north.
I’m not very good at drawing but
will try. It looks a lot like this:”
And Ben drew a picture of a mon-
arch with a “9” branded on the left
wing.
“He had me,” said Anderson. “On
May 8, 1948, according to my books,
I’d released a monarch with ‘9’ band-
ed on his left wing. In none of the
stories about my hobby was it men-
tioned whether I branded the but-
terflies with numerals or other sym-
bols.”
Before announcing the flight,
though, Anderson wrote to the prin-
cipal of McKinley School and in-
quired about Ben Harris. Principal
Morris Winnard replied: “Ben’s
mother also saw the butterfly be-
fore it flew away. Ben and Russell
are very reliable boys. Ben is vice-
president of the school YMCA club.”
This was an historic flight for a
monarch butterfly, Anderson said.
Scientists have thought that mon-
archs fly only north and south in
their migrations.
Unconventional No. 9 must have
spent all those months between his
release in May and his discovery in
flying across deserts and over the
wicked western mountains.
Anderson, who studied entomol-
ogy at University of Minnesota and
Columbia University, is probably the
nation’s closest student of the mon-
arch.
He says the monarchs seem to fly
on a radioactive beam.
“They stay on a direct line of
flight at an altitude of never more
than 400 feet,” he says. “To keep
on this beam they’ll fly through a
building—that is, in one window and
out another. If no windows are open
they fly straight up, over the roof
and then down until they get back
on the beam.”
Anderson says the big butterflies
can “cruise at twenty-five miles an
hour.”
Monarchs lay their eggs on the
undersides of milkweed plants. An-
derson snips off the milkweed, takes
the eggs home and hatches them in
a water glass.
He trains the insects by feeding
them. Soon the butterflies' are fol-
lowing him around the house. They
ignore other humans. But they
recognize and follow the person who
feeds them.
“Some of them get pretty affec-
tionate,” said Anderson. “I feel a
little sad when I. brand them and
turn them loose.”
Anderson owns a farm in Otter-
tail County, Minn., where he goes
around the farm, examining all the
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grown butterflies he can catch.
“It’d be a billion-to-1 shot if I’d
find one with my brand on it,” he.
says.
Last summer, an Ottertail native
saw him in the fields.
“Looking for butterflies, I guess,
Mr. Anderson,” said the native.
“No,‘” said the Dallas butterfly
trainer. “I’m just trying to round
up one of my old ones.”
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Mrs. Lewis Stephens sends the
Examiner to her mother, Mrs. Maud
Ruyle, 1302 E. Greenville, as a birth-
day present. Mrs. Ruyle was 71
years old yesterday.
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Thompson, Clint & Thompson, Wofford. The McKinney Examiner (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 9, 1950, newspaper, February 9, 1950; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1322313/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed May 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.