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VOLUME 56
NUMBER 21 .
■ CELESTE, TEXAS, Friday,
March 26, 1954.
25 YEARS AGO
—Reported
This pro-
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Japan’s Inland Sea has about
Rayford Nichols Of Ft. Sill.
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Greenville JCs
To Sponsor Big D
Jamboree
Jerry Leavers'
Angus' Win
Honors Al Show
Farm Bureau Names
Four New Directors
$24 to $26.25.
$21 to $23.50.
The Fannin County ASC Office
is accepting releases of cotton
allotment acres that will not be
planted by producers in 1954,
according to Ray R. Grisham,
Committee Chairman. In accor-
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Barnard and
son spent the weekend in Texar-
kana where they visited with
her father.
Mr. and Mrs. John Edward
Anderson of Longview spent the
weekend here with Mrs. Stella
Gaulden.
Taken from the files of The
Courier, March 28, 1929.
About the only thing we can
be sure of getting on our televi-
sion set is dust. <
Mr. and Mrs. Bert McCraw and
Wilma of Greenville were here
Saturday afternoon visiting with
friends.
It’s bad enough to be a quitter.
But it’s worse to finish some-
thing you never should have'
started.
Mrs. Elizabeth Grantham and
Claudette spent the weekend in
Wichita Falls visiting with frie-
nds and relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Bassons
had as their weekned guests, Mr.
and Mrs. Gaston Alexander of
Mrs. Opal Hammond, Publisher,
The Celeste Courier,
Celeste, Texas
BAPTIST INTERMEDIATE
BOYS ENJOY ALL NIGHT
OUTING AT LAKE
Friends regret to learn this
week that Mrs. Ardythe McGee
is reported on the sick list.
Cordially yours,
Lemmie R. Jones, Sr., Pastor
Dean Baptist Church
220 N. Border
Tyler Texas
I am
1922
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Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilhorn
are proud parents of a baby
girl born Monday in a Green-
ville hospital. Mrs. Wilhorn will
be remembered as Dorothy Jean
Harris.
ducer who will not plant his
cotton allotment in 1954 may
release this acreage to the county
committee and the acreage will
be reallocated for the 1954 year
only to other producers in the
county who make requests for
Jerry Max Lafavers, of Cel-
este, showing his Angus heifer
fo rthe first time in Sulphur
Springs at the Northeast Texas
Livestock Show recently brou-
ght home two blue ribbons. And
his junior heifer, Queen of
Crestview, was judged Champ-
ion female in its division.
He is sixteen and a Future
Farmer of American member
at Celeste High School.
Last Kites Heid High Winds Wednesday Hight Do
Tuesday For
Mrs. Granfiand
>hn White is visiting Mr.
i Billy Gene White and
Lerman this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Newman of
Dallas were weekend guests in
the Rex Denny home.
tn 3,000 isands if the iselts and Grand Prairie and Mr. and Mrs.
, jutting rocks are counted.
Mr. and Mrs. Artie Clinton
and Dempsie of Dallas visited
his mother, Mrs. Gladys Clinton
this week end.
Visitors in Postmaster Comp-
tons home during the weekend
were Mr. and Mrs. James Comp-
ton of Dallas, and Mr. and Mrs.
T. L. McGufey and children of
Garland.
When coots share a pond with
ducks, they often are used as
scouts by the ducks to warn of
danger.
Don’t know why they call’em
slacks when there’s never any
slack in them.
A lot of women are trying to
see who can get the most out of
an evening gown.
s Have Weiner
Roast Monday
The R.A.’s enjoyed a weiner
roast at the parsonage Monday
afternoon at their regular meet-
ing. They also enjoyed playing
baseball. There were 17 boys and
the sponsors Brother Allen and
Ralph Evans. A good time was
reported by all.
In Hospital
Mr. F. L. Cardwell is a patient
ot the Phillips hospital in Green-
ville this week where he is re-
ceiving medical treatment.
Miss Wanda Jean Compton of
Dallas spent the weekend with
Mr. and Mrs. Mack Compton.
The world’s deepest producing
oil well, 17,183 feet deep, was
drilled recently in Louisiana. To
set this new record, oilmen
solved special drilling problems,
and developed new techniques.
ASC Office Accepting Release Of 1954
Cotton Allolmenfs By Fannin Farmers
such acres.
The producer releasing this
■acreage for 1954 only will re-
ceive credit for planting the
■acreage unless no cotton was
planted on the farm in at least
dance with instructions, the pro- , one of the years in the three
year farm base period.
Mr. Grisham feels it is to the
advantage of each producer who
will not plant his allotment in
1954 to contact the county office
not later than April 16th,
release his cotton acreage.
At Wilsons’ Furniture Store
in Leonard, RCA “21 TV, “The
Leader”. It is better to buy the
best. Master “21” Ebony $209.95;
Master .“21” Maroon $219.95;
$12.95 Revolving Wrought Iron
Base $10.00. Blonde “21” Mod-
ernette legs $259.95, All wood
mahogany cabinet “21” console,
Talbot mahogany “21” Beauty
$299.95. $339.95 Ft. Knox De-
in
SCD Supervisors
Change Rental
Charges
The District Supervisors of the
Upper Sabine Soil Consevation
District at their regular meeting
on Monday, March, 1954 mad
several changes in their rental
charges for District owned equip-
ment.
The new rental rates for t
equipment is: 10 cents per
lbs. of fertilizer distributed t'
ough the fertilizer distribute -
fifty cents per acre for the
of the grain drills, and si.
cents per acre for the combi;
tion drills.
According to the Supervis
the reason _they had to ma
these increases was due to t......
fact that the people haven ■
taken care of the equipment, am
the expenses of keeping up tn;
equipment is so high that the.
had to increase the rates.
The Supervisors also passed a
regulation that anyone who has
used this equipment and has ne t
paid the rental is not to be pe: -
mitted to use any other Distr.
owned equipment until the pre-
vious rentals are paid. In dis-
cussing the necessity for this reg-
ulation, the supervisors stated
that they, hoped that those who
are involved will not embarrass
themselves or the custodians of
the District equipment by ask-
ing to use the equipment until
past due payments have been
made.
The Supervisors further point-■
ed out that they’re doing their ■
best to assist farmers by having ■
conservation equipment avail1- I
able to those who need it to ’
carry on a conservation program,
but that the cooperation of those
using the equipment is necessary.
The District is the land-own- "
ers’ organization to solve their
soil and water conservation
problems, and the Board urges
all people to feel it is their Dis-
trict and help take care of the
equipment as if it were their
own. They pointed out that if
each one who uses the equipment
will make it a point to see that
the equipment is in good operat-
ing condition when they return
the machine, then everyone will
profit and have machinery avail-
able to do the job when they
need the machinery.
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The Greenville JayCees an-
nounce that they will sponsor in
person on the stage of the Muni-
cipal Auditorium in Greenville
the entire cast from the Big “D”
Jamboree. The big show will be
held on the night of Friday, April
2nd at 8 P. M., with the admis-
sion prices set at 50 cents for
children up to 12 and 90 cents for
adults. ,
The three hour show will fea-
ture the Belew Twins from
Greenvile as well as Al Turner
as Emcee, Sunshine Ruby, Riley
Crabtree, Charline Arthur, Skeet-
er Webb, the Blue Mountain
Boys, Denise Foster and the Big
“D” Jamboree hillbilly band.
All for the folks of the Green-
ville trade area are invited to be
present for an evening full of
western entertainment.
How hard it is for a rich man
to enter heaven concerns us less
than how hard it is for a poor
man to remain on earth.
The intermediate boys classes
of the Baptist Church enjoyed an
all night fishing trip at the
Greenville Lake Friday night.
Those enjoying the outing
were the teachers of the classes,
Messrs. Mack Pierson and Leon
Lipsey and Rev. Earl Allen and
Jerry Warren, Joe Warren, Jack
Warren, C. L. Smith, James
Richard Gray, Hartwell Smith,
Deord Hill, Archie Lowe, Boleby
Goodman, Allen Biggs, Jean
Martin, Jimmie Lipsey and Tom-
mie Arey.
Cars Give Ten Jobs
For Every One Lost
In Carriage Trade
The carriage and wagon in-
dustry was one of America’s big
employers, until people began
buying automobiles and motor
trucks.
But the upstart horseless carri-
age makers have hired 10 work-
ers for every one aid off by the
declining industry.
When carriage and wagon pro-
duction was at its peak in 1904,
it employed a total of 77,882
wage earners. According to the
latest U. S. Census of Manufact-
ures, production of wagons,
carriages, pushcarts, wheelbar-
rows, sleighs and other mis-
cellaneous transportation equip-
ment employed a combined total
of 4,562 in 1947.
So the carriage industry’s 43-
year employment loss amounted
to at least 73,300 jobs. Mean-
while, employment in motor
vehicle and parts manufacture
rose from 13,200 in 1904 to 776,-
200 in 1947—a gain of 763,000.
Net gain for the nation: About
690,000 jobs, or more than 10
added for one job.
Actually, the automobile has
done much more than this for
the nation’s job holders. Vast
new areas of employment have
been opened to supply the mat-
erial that go into motor vehicles,
the fuel and oil they consume,
and the highways over which
they travel. At the same time,
’almost everyone’s job is some-
how related to the use of cars
and trucks, and to the transpor-
tation services they provide.
March 14, Mrs. Aubrey Brown
and E. Dan Tatum entertained
at the home of Mrs. Brown, hon-
oring Mrs. C. E. Lewis.
Mrs. Brown’s home was beauti-
fully decorated.
The guests played games of
“42” and bridge. Mrs. Rex Denny
won high score in bridge and
was given the prize which she
presented, to Mrs. Lewis.
President Jones of the Ce-
este Improvement Club has poin-
ted that some action should be
taken to insure that Celeste is
represented in the Court House
Celebration on April 11. at Gre-
enville if this community expects
to retain its own self-interest.
A special Easter service is be-
ing planned for Sunday Morn-
in at the Methodist Church.
Special music as well as a spe-
cial message by Rev. Aikin the
pastor.
Mr. C. F. Gaulden, local agent
for the Santa Fe says that the
excursion train to Dallas will
be held one hour and a half lon-
ger thn usual leaving time to
pemit excursionists to' see the
finish of the ball game.
The Young Men’s Bible Class
of the Baptist church is no longer
just beginning. It is now a well
Lemmie R. Jones, Sr., 1922 Graduate
CHS Writes; Praises Courier; Mention
degrees at Rice are professional Joys And Heartaches 01 Yesteryear
Fields, Lyndon Lewis, Justena
Pierce;, Eunice Thompso...,
Frances England, Gladys Medun
and myself (Lemmie Jones).
I suppose the girls have chane
ed their names and the boys ha, a
grown gray,- or bald-headed,
fat, but it would be so intereac-
, ing to hear from them. I do
not know if they are all still li
ing. Some of them I know where
they are but it would be so won-
derful to hear from all of them
again and I will appreciate it
should you find space in your
good paper to print at least a
portion of this letter and in that
way maybe hear about all of
them from some source.
, Our motto in our class of 1922
was “Climbing Higher Still.”
I feel that this wonderful class
is still climbing higher and one
dayf if not on earth, then sure-
ly in heaven, we will have anoth-
er class meeting and all be to-
gether.
Cunningham showed
•^Northern Star Cotton
i served coffee, cold
[nd doughnuts to the
i tert TALK
LIVESTOCK
by rev
Mrs. Ralph Evans and Mrs.
Hessie Mulkey attended the
Eastern Star at Bonham Thurs-
day night.
organized class of thirty on roll.
Last Sunday a social com-
mittee was appointed to arrange
for various entertainments. On
this committee are; R. L. Jones,
Grafton Barnett and J. B. Jobe.
So don’t be suprised it the class
comes out with a hot baseball
team.
Fred Blackburn who has own-
ed and operated a barber shop
in Celeste for the past twelve
years, sold his business last
week to Sidney Sanderson of
Whitewright who has been work-
ing on Sat. with Mr. Blackburn.
Mr. Sanderson is moving to the
shop to Whitewright this week.
Mr. Blackburn left Celeste
early Wednesday morning for
Lubbock prospecting. H i s
many friends regret that he finds
it to his advantage to leave and
wish him success wherever he
may decide to locate.
Bro. J. C. Foster, of Mount
Pleasant and brother of Mrs.
J. A. Stone of Celeste will preach
at the Church of Christ here
Sunday morning.
Notice
All who have not paid their
closet license should see J. P.
Harrison this week. J. A. Tay-
lor, Mayor; J. P. Harrison, Sec’t.
$339.95 Ft. Knox
Luxe $319.95. At Wilsons’
Leonard.
Funeral services for Mrs.
Zeloa Grantland, 81, were held
Tuesday afternoon at 4 O’clock
at the Wilson Funeral home in
Leonard. Interment was in the
Leonard cemetary.
Deceased was born August 17,
1878 and passed away March 22,
1954. She was the daughter of
the late Henry and Ellen Grant-
land.
Survivors included 3 brothers,
T. V. Grantland, Mansfield, W.
L. Grantland, Celeste, A. P.
Grantland, Denison.
3 sisters, Mrs. Emma Capps,
Boyd, Mrs. Parre Cain, San Lea-
ndro Calif, and Sara Cain, Sher-
man, Texas.
rather than vocational.”
Since Rice is privately endow-
ed, tuition-free university, stu-
dents accepted into the joint
program will in effect be on scho-
lorship during their two years
in Houston.
The co-operative program with
Rice in the third now offered at
TCU. Similar arrangements are
in effect with the University of
Texas and Texas A. & M. College.
“In co-operation with these
three fine institutions, TCU is
now in a position to offer stu-
dents an attractive program in
any field of engineering,” Dr.
Morgan pointed out. “Response
has been good to the Texas and
Texas A. & M. plans and the
completes the program. The en-
gineering division at Rice is re-
cognized as one of the best in
the country. We feel that the
new arrangement will be very
popular and to the advantage
of both institutions.”
Hunt County Farm Bureau
elected four new directors at a
special called meeting held re-
cently at the Greenville Co-op
Gin.
They include: Clyde Davis, of
the Floyd community, Bill Bar-
nard, of Celeste, R. E. L. John-
son, of Lone Oak and L. C. John-
son, of Jacobia.
These men are leading farmers
in their respective communities.
They believe that through organ-
ization farmers can solve their
problems and receive a fair share
of the national income, consider-
ing their labor and investment
in land and machinery.
T. R. Garber, Jr., of Concord
and Allbert Farr, of Caddo Mills,
are th^< other two directors.
. Bill/ ----------- ------J “
Dear Editor:
The first copy of The Celeste
Courier arrived today and I want
to express my appreciation for
the good looks of the printing
and especially for the news in
it. Your advertising has such fine
appeal it makes me want to
drive up from Tyler to trade
with my Celeste friends. The
Celeste people ought surely to
help you continue such a fine ad-
vertising medium for Celeste and
trade territory. I beileve they
will.
While in Celeste recently
visited the fine school of which
I was a 1922 graduate,
deeply interested in this
class because we had joys and
heartaches (we thought) along
the way and we learned to love
each other like brothers and sis-
ters.
, The 1922 class was Lister Arm-
strong, Leon Armstrong, Her-
man Hudson, Lewis Holland,
Neeley Pinkston, Roach Arnold,
Odis Medlin, Janie Comer, Ethel
Fort Worth — The largest run
of sheep to arrive at Fort Worth
this season was on hand Monday,
'' and the run was the biggest
since June, 1953. Orders for sheep
and lambs from all parts of the
country were reported during
the day and trade was active
after a rather slow start.
Prices were favorable despite
an offering of nearly twice as
many sheep around the major
marketing circle as last Mon-
day. Milk fat .lambs were strong
to 50 cents or more higher, and
the top of 526 was $1 above the
best so far this season. Shorn old
crop slaughter lambs were about
steady with the close of last week
in a very uneven trade. Yearlings
were strong to $1 higher and
topped at $19, a new high for
the class for the season. Older
sheep were fully steady.
Cattle trade was. again highly
uneven, with trade slow and
prices steady to weaker on most
kinds. It was another session
in which the buyers were- ap-
parently under no pressure for
supplies and there were some
soft spots in the prices of vir-
tually all kinds.
Butcher hogs were 50 to 75
cents higher and topped at
$26.50 to $26.75, while sows were
steady to 50 cents lower at $23.-
50 downward.
Good and choice milk fat
lambs cashed at $23 to $26 and
cull to medium offerings cashed
at $16 to $22. Shorn old crop
fat lambs bulked at $1 9 to $21.50,
when good and choice, while one
lot of lambs with No. 1 pelts
topped at $22. Cull to medium
kinds sold from $12 to $19.50.
Yearlings and two - year - old
wehters sold from $14 to $19,
and old wethers sold from $11
to $14. Slaughter ewes sold from
$6.50 to $9.50 a few higher. Old
bucks sold from $4 to $6.
A Good and choice slaughter
steers and yearlings cashed at
$18 to $22, and individual club
calves topped at $24 to $25.
Common and medium slaughter
steers and yearlings sold from
$13 to $17, with some cutter
grade down to $10.
vFat cows cleared at $10.50 to
$12.50, and a half load of out-
standing high yielding cows at
$13.50. Canners and cutters cash-
ed at $9 to $10.50. Bulls sold
■'K'~ from $10 to $14.50, odd head to
$15.
Good and choice slaughter
calves cleared at $16 to $19, with
a few fancy calves to $20. Com-
mon and medium offerings sold
from $13 to $16, and culls sold
from $10 to $13.
Good and choice stocker
steer calves and stocker steer
yearlings cashed at $16 to $19, and
heifer calves and heifer yearl-
ings sold around $2 to $3 under
comparable steers. Stocker cows
cashed at $10 to $13.
Good and choice butcher hogs
weighing 190 to 260 pounds sold
from $26.50 to $26.75, while light-
er and heavier weights sold from
Sows cashed at
TCU-Rice Announce
Coperative Program
FORT WORTH - A co-operat-
ing engineering program, under
which students may obtain two
degrees in five years of study,
has been arranged by the Rice
Institute of Houston and Texas
Christian University of Ft. Worth
A joint announcement of the
plan was made today by Dr. W.
V. Houston, president of the
Rice Institute, and Dr. M. E.
Sadler, TCU president.
Under the program, students
may carry a general course of
preparation for three years and
one summer session at TCU.
They then enroll for two years
of study in the engineering divis-
ion of thee Rice Institute.
When the work is completed,
TCU will grant the student the
B. A. degree and Rice will grant
the B. S. in the specific engineer-
ing field concerned.
The program will start in
September, 1954, with Dr. George
H. Richter, dean of the Rice
Institute, and Dr. Joseph Mor-
gan, director of engineering pro-
gram at TCU, ,in charge. The
engineering courses at Rice are
in the chemical, civil, electrical
andd mechanical fields.
“We are delighted to make
this arrangement with the Rice
“More and more, educators are
'coming to realize that we must
give students a whole education-
-with a strong foundation in the
liberal arts — before specificat-
ion in chosen fields,
gram will do that.”
“Rice, along with TCU, re-
cognizes the desirability of hav-
ing all students pursue a broad
program of fundamental sciences
and humanities, rather than a
narrow course of specialization,”
said Dr. Houston. “To that end
we have offered a five-year pro-
gram in engineering and archit-
ecture snee 1947,. All engineering
Garages of Fred Reynolds and
Glenn Compton were both blown
away, yet their cars were not
moved by the winds. A wash-
ing machine on J. W. Glasscock’s
back porch was blown out into
the yard.
Barns belonging to W. A.
Saye and W. L. Grantland were
leveled by the wind.
A numbei' of houses suffered
roof damage.
Albert Granberry, advised The
Courier that preliminary esti-
mates of damages in Celeste
were $4,000 to $5,000.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ethridge
of Ft. Worth spent the weekend
here with Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Ethridge and family.
$3,000 To $5,000 Damage Here; TV
Aerials, Barns, Garages Hardest Hit
The high winds nr “baby tor- during the few minutes of the
nado” which ripped through ' storm’s big blast.
Northeast Texas didn’t slight ■
Celeste —It left a $4,000 to $5,000 ,
bill of damages in the immediate
Celeste area,
Wednesday nights big blow hit
here about 10:15 o’clock and
wrecked a number of TV an-
tennas, a pair of barns and ga-
rages, and damaged a number of
houses, and other buildings.
The town was without electric
service for some four hours as
result of damaged electric power
lines and a total of .65 inches of
rain was dumped on the z area
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