The Celeste Courier (Celeste, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1982 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME 80
THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1982 NUMBER 30
Our Town This Week
Graphic And Courier To Be
Combined Into One Paper
From RIW
Celeste School Accrediation Letter
Dear Mr. Young:
Life with the paper
Sanderson New Head Football Coach
By David "Scoop” Johnson
Obituaries
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here, “as long as I can
remember,’’ Mebane
Denny says. The buil-
der and long time
resident was “uncle”
Billy and “aunt” Mat-
tie Cole. Thinking of
our readers away who
would remember the
house and first owners,
there would be Gussie
Fae McGurie Bickham,
her sisters, possibly
Pat Verble, and here,
This week the Cel-
este Quarterback Club
would like to introduce
Coach Ron Sanderson.
Coach Sanderson will
be Head Football Co-
ach, Athletic Director
and Track Coach. He
comes to Celeste from
Petersburg High Sc-
The following was sent to Mr. Bob Young, Superintendent of Celeste
Public Schools on July 29, 1982 from the Texas Education Agency of Austin.
and are members of the
First Baptist Church in
Celeste. David is the
son of Mr. and Mrs.
E.B. Kent of Leonard.
Sherry Thacker has
been employed at the
bank since 1970. For
the past four years she
has served as secret-
ary. Prior to this she
served in various capa-
CELESTE COURIER
(USPS 557-240)
P.O. Box 38
Celeste Tx. 75423
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beginning at 8:00 a.m.
Everyone is invited to
come out and help get
the stadium ready for
the 1982 season. For
include school and local
news.
We feel that this
decision will cut down
on much duplication
and will enable us to
publish a better weekly
area newspaper. The
decision to combine the
papers was not an easy
1, 1981 as assistant vice
president and loan of-
ficer. He is a graduate
of Leonard High School
and received a Bache-
lor of Science Degree in
Economics from East
Texas State University.
David, his wife Regina
and son John David
Kent live in Leonard
To purchase extra cop-
ies of the Celeste
Courier contact Mrs.
Ruby Jo Warren.
Due to the economic
conditions, the cost of
postage and printing, it
is our sad duty to
announce that we will
no longer be able to
continue to publish the
Graphic and Courier as
seperate newspapers.
We plan to incorporate
hool in West Texas,
where he was assistant
football, head basket-
ball and tennis coach.
He graduated from The
University of Texas
after 3 years in the
military service and
two years at Tarrant
County Jr. College. He
graduated from Bayde
High School in 1969.
Coach Sanderson
and his wife Sharon,
have one child, Brent,
who is nine years old
and will be in the fourth
grade. Sharon is a
graduate of Texas Tech
University and will be
teaching in the Green-
ville Jr. High School.
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The Celeste Blue
Devil Booster Club is
sponsoring a clean-up
day at the football field
Saturday, August 7
the two papers into one
area weekly news-
paper.
We do intend to
print Celeste and Cel-
este area news. We will
dedicate at least one
page to the Celeste
community that will
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Now we all know
that it’s not humid here
at this time of the year.
We don’t get much
rain, the temperature is
usually in the 100’s and
the humidity seldom
get out of the thirties. I
was explaining this to
clean Bryan as we
sorted out a few sheep
between showers. The
temperature was in the
high nineties and the
humidity was trying to
match it. The sweat
was pouring off of us
like water flowing over
my damn and I noticed
that Bryan was looking
at me with that -
wonder how manv
other lies he has told
me this summer - look.
I assured Bryan that
this had been a most
unusual summer and
that he could take
another shower as soon
as we finished. Without
batting an eye, clean
Bryan informed me
that he had to get back
to Kansas City.
Now I ask you?
What has Kansas City
got to offer after a
summer in Leonard. I
can just see Bryan now;
telling his friends about
breakfast at the diner,
lunch at the cafe and
supper at El Torito’s.
He can tell them about
the good clean farm
work, the happy care-
free hours in the grain
bins at the Feed Mill
and, of course, the trips
to the coffee shop, the
grocery store, Barker
welding, the hardware
store and Lord knows
where else. Ah, the
good old days.
JEANNIE HAS
JUST come with the
distressing news that of
necessity the Courier
will not be operated
after this week as of
these many years. It
will be a section of the
Graphic with ALL Cele-
ste news that is now
printed, school, city,
clubs, weddings, obitu-
aries, pictures locals,
etc., used, if they are
made available. The
headings, dates, etc.
are to be the same.
“Combining eliminates
the duplication of the
Leonard ads that have
supported the Courier,
thus saving that exp-
ense,” Jeannie said. It
is a sad day for us and
for the editors. We’ve
known for long carrying
us would have to come
to an end. Leonard
merchants do not get
that much trade from
here.
Subscriptions have
dropped from 650 to
487 in the last several
months. Jeannie will
come down and make
her rounds on Monday.
Even Tuesday morning
a call to the office can
be made.
Right now we say
thanks to Ernest Berry
for hurrying that box of
papers down here for
all these years to be in
our boxes early Wedn-
esday.
It is a change hard
to take!
News items may be
left here for publica-
tion.
I’ll see about, as I
have for 22 years,
seeing you next week,
I’m a bit low right now.
LLL
Bob Barnard, Pres-
ident of the First Na-
tional Bank, has anno-
unced the promotion of
David Kent to the
position of Vice Presi-
dent and Sherry K.
Thacker to the position
of Assistant Vice Presi-
dent.
Kent was emplo-
yeed at the bank June
It was a pleasure to visit you again during the Superintendent’s Workshop
here in Austin. As we discussed in June and again this week, Celeste ISD
must make a commitment to extensive facilities improvements or the district’s
accreditation status will be jeopardized.
Today I spoke with Mr. Randy Slack, Fire Safety Inspector in the State Fire
Marshal’s Regional Office No. 3. Mr. Slack informed me that the facilities at
Celeste ISD still pose serious safety hazards, especially in the gymnasium and
agriculture buildings. He further advised that students should not be
permitted to use those two facilities at all, because of severely hazardous
conditions.
The time schedule described in your letter of June 24, 1982, does not reflect
the urgent need the district has to plan for and to provide safe educational
facilities for students. In my letter of July 1, I reminded you to submit an
interim report on or before August 15. The report must include a revised time
schedule as well as describe progress made toward removal of health and
safety hazards and toward developing a long-term plan for providing
adequate facilities.
Thank you for the work and improvements which you have accomplished. Mr.
Slack also stated that he appreciates your cooperative attitude. I will look
forward to hearing from you in about two weeks.
Sincerely, Joyce Howard, Education Specialist Division of Accreditation in
Austin.
one and and was not
one that we like mak-
ing. We humbly ask for
the support of all of our
subscribers and read-
ers in making the
transition a good one
for the community at
large.
Mary Jones, Greenville
and Johnny Myers,
Celeste. He is a junior
at Celeste High School,
a member of Highland
Terrace Baptist church,
and a member of Troop
429 Boy Scouts of
America in Celeste.
Murray has earned
for a visit with the
Everett and Jane
McBrides. Mrs. Coker,
Norma, is Everett’s
daughter. Their daugh-
ter Shannan is with
them. They were called
back here early beca-
use of the death of
Bill’s mother.
The family, having
been in Saudi Arabia
for four years know of
the culture there. Their
life in the American
compound of 8000 peo-
ple and their know-
ledge of the native
Arabic people is told.
THERE’S ALWAYS
somebody interesting
to talk with in a group
of strangers. Such was
the case Sunday after-
noon when I went with
Chrystal Shuler to her
old school, Hendricks
Common School Distr-
ict. Annual reunion in
the Caddo Mills cafet-
eria. The man was
Elmer (Buster) White
now of Greenville. He
used to travel the towns
and sell tobacco and
candy. He told of his
visits to the Bickham,
the Tom Sparks and
Roach groceries, and a
cafe owner on the north
side. He knows Harry
Mayo (in the Woody
Store here) and plans to
come up for a visit.
The Hendricks folk
are all loyal to their
community school back
them. They turn out 40
or 50 each year for a
basket lunch and lots of
talk. Some remember
that Hendricks didn’t
consolidate until the
late 40ties.
RJW
“Happy Birthday”
Darron Godwin, Dick
Saye, Spencer Sumrow,
Renee Doan, Bob Sulli-
van, Bill Jones, Pauline
Craigo, Mackie Babers,
John Mize, Jack New-
man, Misty Davis, Roy
Hall, Betty Lodwick,
Elliott Hopewell, John
Allen Garcia, M. Pru-
itt, Jettie Shields, Bro.
Jim Houston.
Thanks to John Pe-
arce of Dallas for their
Courier renewal.
Sympathy to Elnita
LaFavers in the passing
of her father Elmer
Long who had lived in
Kingston community.
Congratulations to
Sherry Thacker and
David Kent on their
recent promotions at
First National Bank of
Celeste.
I have written and
collected news for the
Celeste Courier for
over forty years. I will
continue to collect the
Celeste news every
Monday with the new
change that will take
place next week.
ANOTHER OF THE
older homes on north
4th street will last
many more years now
since it is getting a
“face lifting” and
more.
The house recently
the property of the
E.H. Rainwaters has a
new owner, an out of
towner, energetic, Mr.
James White of Plano.
He is a neighbor of
Imogene Ross there.
He travels for a photo
company. Most week-
ends he is here taking
part in renovation of
the old home. First
there was extensive
levelling, underpining,
painting and this week
new fiber glass shinq-
led roof. Exterior night
lighting spotlights the
low porch surrounded
old home and decora-
tive entrance doorway.
The youthful owner
has long range plans.
(He said to come back
in a year or two). He
plans, inside, a change
to include two apart-
ments. A sister and
family in Florida may
make the move here.
The house, now the
White house, was built
in the very early years
Nellie Satterwhite
Mrs. Nellie Satter-
white, 80, of Leonard
passed away Monday,
August 2, 1982 at a
Mesquite hospital.
Funeral service was
held Wednesday at
Taylor Funeral Chapel.
Rev. Robert Turnip-
seed officiated. Inter-
ment was in Grove Hill
cemetery.
She was born Octo-
ber 20, 1901 at Leon-
ard, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George Gro-
ves, member of Grove
Hill Methodist Church.
She married Thomas
Nickolus Satterwhite
March 28, 1940 at
Leonard. He preceded
her in death November
23, 1972.
Survivors include
two sons, Ray Hyde of
Electra and Bob Hyde
of Vienna, Va.; one
sister, Ora Newman of
Bonham; one brother,
Joe Taylor' Groves of
Leonard; 5 grandchild-
ren and 3 great-grand-
children.
A daughter, Evelyn
Boudreau preceded her
in death in January of
1978.
Has your subscription
expired?
Has your subscription
expired?
many awards for his
achievements along the
trail to Eagle.
All friends and rel-
atives are invited to
join with the troop as
they pay honor to
Murray for obtaining
the highest award that
the Boy Scout’s of
America has.
Harbert, Mebane and
Mrs. McMichael, and
of course Dan Barnard
and Eunice Thompson.
Why don’t some or all
of you, out there, write
us, or to the Courier
some of your mem-
ories.
THE LOTS AND
roadway weeds are cle-
ared away from the
Nan Morrison place,
the old Kerr house, to
those away. Nan has
not been well all spring
and lost her last year
yard man here, so the
place was grown up
with all the rains. She
came early one day,
and T.B. Weatherley
came by and took over
the job of shredding,
tree trimming, and
mowing. Looks like its
old self now, the south
porch invitingly cool.
BILL AND TOM-
MIE (Hunter) Blyth
have lived and worked
in Rockwall most of
their married lives, he
in the school system as
former coach and later
assistant superinten-
dant. They had a hard
time deciding to accept
a move to a consolid-
ated school in Kaufman
county, the Surrey
School. There, he is
beginning, this week,
the position of Superin-
tendent. They will
move there when hous-
ing is available or they
build. Their son Ben, is
employed in Rockwall.
Lisa, is a senior in A
and M.
THE BILL COKER
family, came from their
home and work in
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Booster Club Work Day Saturday
further information co-
ntact Bobby Prather
568-4565 or Ron Sand-
erson 568-4727.
Things just aren’t
quite the same around
here. The ice box is full
of left over food, the
shower is dry (stock in
the west Leonard water
supply will probably
drop). The pickup truck
just sits there all day
and the horse and
sheep just mope
around the pasture all
day. We’ll all miss you
Bryan and I hope
things don’t get too
dull up there in the big
city.
I made a little
mistake Saturday. I
dropped down by the
City Park to take in a
bit of the horse show
and ended up spending
half the day. It was
pretty exciting down
there, what with all the
horses and all the good
riders. After a couple of
hours I began to think
that maybe I ought to
get myself a big fast
horse and take part in
some of those events.
Then I noticed all those
little tiny kids who
appeared to be sewn to
some pretty good sized
horses. Little Brandy
Lide who can’t be over
five years old proved
that she could ride with
the best of them and I
later found out that she
.wasn’t sewn to the
saddle because she
dismounted and re-
mounted just as easy as
if she were a miniture
Roy Rogers.
I don’t know. I
might just stick with
the sheep. It could be a
little embarrassing for
a fellow like me down
there.
Murray Myers Will Receive
Eagle Award
Celeste Boy Scout
Troop 429 will honor
it’s first Eagle Scout,
Murray Jerome Myers
at an Eagle Court of
Honor on August 5,
7:00 o’clock at High-
land Terrace Baptist
Church, Loop 315, Gre-
enville.
Murray is the son of
Thacker And Kent Promoted At Bank
cities at the bank.
Sherry, her hus-
band Bud, and their
three children, Don,
Holly and Rory live in
Celeste. They are me-
mbers of Celeste Chu-
rch of Christ. She is the
daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. E.A. Duncan of
Celeste.
Elmer R. Long
Elmer Russell Long
of Greenville, 72, pas-
sed away Tuesday, July
26, 1982 at his home.
Funeral service was
held Wednesday at
Coker-Matthews Cha-
pel with the Rev.
Homer Hawthorne and
Rev. Roy Dittmar offic-
iating. Burial will be in
Forest Park Cemetery.
He was born June
2, 1910 in Hunt County
to R.L. and Margaret
Elizabeth Pope Long.
Mr. Long was married
to Oneta Freeman in
Durant, Okla. He was a
retired service station
employee and a mem-
ber of the Kingston
Church of Christ.
Surviving are his
daughter, Elnita LaFa-
vers of Greenville; bro-
thers, Roy Long of
Greenville and Robert
Long of Fort Worth;
grandchildren, Bradley
Keith Lafavers and Ke-
vin Way Lafavers: and
great-grandchild,
Page Lynn Lafavers.
He was preceded in
death by his wife in
1949, daughter, Linda
Marie Long, parents
and two brothers.
Pallbearers were
Hershell Bridges, Ray
Eldridge, Alton Cald- >
well, Bo Lipsey, Alton I
Timberlake and Mer-
rick (Mickey) Money.
David Kent
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