The Celeste Courier (Celeste, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, February 20, 1959 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME 60
DISASTROUS U. S. POLICY
CELESTE, HUNT COUNTY, TEXAS,
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1959
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AIDING WORLD COMMUNISM
who resigned at
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Bellie W. Brooks
Give To Celeste
COURIER RENEWAL
WITHHELD AID TO CHINA
FFA WEEK IN TEXAS
THE AMERICAN WAY
BSE THIS ORDER BLANK
SHOCKING FACTS
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Man Surrenders
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Mrs. Cardwell Is
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Celeste, Bells In
3 Game Series
Starting Saturday
Tillerson Gets
3 Year Contract
As Superintendent
Send the Celeste Courier one year to
Name ________________________
THE CELESTE COURIER,
CELESTE, TEXAS
by
and
oilmen.
The terms of city councilmen
Morris Babers and Burley Lanier
and Mayor Milton will expire in
April.
State law requires that candi-
dates for city offices must file
a written application for places
on the ballot at least 30 days be-
fore the date of the election. This
will make the final filing date
March 7. Those wishing to file
may see Mrs. W. W. McMichael,
city secretary or Mayor Milton.
erly of Celeste, has renewed
subscription to the Courier.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Barbee visit-
ed Mirs. J. R. Eastwood and Miss
Mary Eastwood Sunday.
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for
this
Mr. and Mrs. James Rigsby and
children, Skippy and Becky of
Dallas visited Mrs. W. W. Mc-
Michael and Mr. and Mrs. Doug
Armstrong and children Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gibbs and
Pat of Dallas, Mr. and Mrs. Bud
Hanson of Wolfe City visited Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. Passons last week
end.
Mr. and Mrs. Mord Lyday were
Greenville visitors last week.
Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Ross andf
Mrs. Alice Perry of Greenville!
visited Mr. and Mjrs. George Holl-
and Sunday, on Mrs. Perry’s 89th.
birthday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Ward of
Kingston spent Sunday with Mr...
and Mrs. George McGee.
Duard Hill visited in Garland?
last week end.
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Merchants Say
“Congratulations
Services Tuesday
Election Box Here At Peniel
The Celeste Elementary boys :
and girls have enjoyed a very
successful basketball season this
year.
The boys have won 13 games
and lost only* one. The girls have
a 7 won and 3 loss record.
The boys defeated Anna Wed-
nesday afternoon at Anna by a
29 to 9 score, and the Celeste
girls won over the Anna girls 53
to 12.
The Celeste Elementary teams
will host the Melissa teams Mon-
day night, and have entered an
invitational tournament at Com-
munity next week end.
Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Byers and
Mrs. Mattie Steele of Ft. Worth
and John Warren of Greenville
were Saturday visitors with Mr.
and Mrs. Lem Warren.
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OPENTHAT
UPA6AJN!
Inflation
There will be a call meeting of
members of Farmer’s Union Local
; 127 Monday, February 23 at 7:30
: p.m.
The meeting will be held in
the Prairie Hill school building.
Aill members are urged to at-
tend. The price of seed corn and
maize will be discussed.
Texas Future Farmers will cele-
brate FFA Week in Texas, begin-
ning Saturday and continuing
through February 27. Texas has
36,000 Future Farmers. There are
boys who are studying vocational
agriculture in our public schools.
Not only do our agriculture stu-
dents develop into outstanding
farmers or ranchers, they be-
come leaders in our communities
because of the training obtained
through our FFA organization.
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Hbo the people of America rea-
Ke the significance of this re-
Krt? It reveals—and its facts
Iftve not been challenged — that
leaders of government, through
their shocking Communist-aiding
diplomatic and military decisions,
actually built up the present
monstrous power of world Com-
munism. The General throws a
challenging spotlight on what
might be termed a “hidden gov-
ernment” shaping decisions at
ist viewpoint and recommend no
aid to Chiang Kai-shek. How-
ever, his report, presented to
President Truman and Secretary I
Marshall in September, 1947, re-
commended immediate arms and
military advisory aid to China.'
His report was suppressed. The
aid, which surely would have
kept China and her 500 million
people out of the Communist or-
bit, was withheld until the Com-
munist had won in China. And
this was a turning point in his-
tory — terribly destructive to the
hopes of free people everywhere.
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Mayor and Two Councilmen Will
Be Elected In City Election April 7
Celeste voters will go to the
polls twice within three days in
April. On Saturday, April 4 the
school trustee election will be
H. C. Vale, 19, who served a
60-day jail sentence in Fannin
county for assaulting the night-
watchman at Ladonia last June,
Saturday walked into a New York
police precinct station and sur-
rendered.
Vale, a student at East Texas
State College, Commerce, told
New York officers he was wanted
for conspiracy to rob a bank.
Vale and a Ladonia youth had
planned to burglarize a store in
Ladonia to obtain pistols for use
in the holdup of the Security
State bank in Commerce the fol-
lowing day.
The nightwatchman engaged
the two in conversation and after
talking for some time, the pair
attacked the nightwatchman and
fled.
They were arrested by Fannin
and Hunt county officers early
the next morning in the vicinity
of Commerce.
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congratulating
basketball players
fine performances
Congratulations go to
the coaches and other school of-
ficials also.
The backing of the community
has lots to do with the success of
our sports program.
We feel sure everyone in Celeste
schools appreciate the thought-
fulness of these merchants.
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Allen Biggs of Houston visited
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Haskell
Biggs over the week end.
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Mr. and Mrs. Gaston Alexand-
er, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gibson
and daughter of Grand Prairie
visited in Celeste last week end.
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Elementary Teams Call Meeting For
Enjoy Successful Farmers Union
Basketball Season
Celeste Girls and Trenton Boys Wm
District 43-B Tournament at Leonard
Play-offs Now In Progress
The District 43-B basketball
tournament was held in Leonard
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
of last week. This is the second
time that a district tourney has
been used to help decide a dis-
trict winner. Last year the tourn-
ament was held in Wolfe City.
The winner of the district tourn-
ament plays the winner of the
double round-robin to decide the
district champonship.
The-results of the games were
as follows. Thursday: Wolfe City
boys over the Leonard boys 51-
31; Celeste girls over the Bells
girls 44-17; Ladonia boys over
the Celeste boys 65-41; Wolfe
City girls over the Whitewright
girls 23-14; Ladonia girls over
Trenton girls 33-27; and Trenton
boys over Whitewright 59-48.
The Leonard girls and the Bells
boys drew byes in first round
play.
In the second round Friday,
the Celeste girls defeated the
Leonard girls 46-42, Wolfe City
boys defeated Bells 66-48, the
Ladonia girls beat Wolfe City 33-
20, and the Trenton boys downed
Ladonia 55-51. Thus the Ladonia
and Celeste girls and the Wolfe
City and Trenton boys advanced
to the finals held Saturday night.
The Celeste girls, having earned
a tie with Bells in the regular
season play by defeating them in
the final regular season game,
displayed their prowess by de-
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feating Ladonia 46-30. Sarah
Roach scored 27 points in leading;.
Celeste to the win while Jo Nart
Mills had 17 points for Ladonia,
In the boys’ finals it look®&
like Wolfe City all the • way, bnJk
as they did. the night before £s—
gainst Ladonia, the Trenton quin-
tet rallied in the final minutes;,
to rack up a 4'4-40 victory. Isaacs,
was top for Wolfe City with:
points and Bobby Butler scor&S?
18 to be high for Trenton.
Due to a disagreement as to
officials' a Trenton-Ladonia game?
had not been played and a make-
up game was played at Ladonia
Monday night. The Ladonia girls?
defeated the Trenton girls to fin-
ish regular season play for both;
teams. The Trenton boys, being-
unable to win the regular season
play, started their second team
and put forth no effort as La-
donia easily won 40-22. This
threw Ladonia into a regular
season play-off with Wolfe City-
Tuesday night in the East Texas
State gym in Commerce. Wolfe
City scored four points in the*
final seconds to defeat Ladonfe,
50-47 in the exciting game.
Wolfe City will now play Tren-
ton in a best two of three series^
The first game was played at;
Trenton Thursday night, with..
Wolfe City winning by the scorn
of 5'1 to 40. The second game will:
be played at Wolfe City, and if a.
third game is necessary, it wilt
be played at Leonard.
Hunt County’s 36 voting boxes
and their presiding officers for
general and special elections have
been designated by the commis-
sions court.
Mrs. Ed Cardwell was named
presiding officer of the Celeste
box. A few of the boxes near
Celeste and the presiding officer
named are: Whiterock, Evelyn
Mathews; Kingston, Leon Lipsey;
Aberfoyle, Lee McKay;
Neil White, Jr.; Merit,
Collins.
The absentee box is in the
county clerk’s office at Greenville
with Dudley Ames as judge.
ENGAGEMENT TOLD—Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Jinkins, route 1, Leon-
ard, have announced the engagement and approaching marriage of
their daughter, Miss Shirley Ann Jinkins, to Curtis W. Fugitt, son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Fugitt, route 2, Celeste. The bride-elect is
a senior at Leonard High School and the prospective bridegroom
graduated from Leonard High School in the class of 1958. He is
an employee of the Greenville Herald-Banner. The wedding date
will be announced later.
Dwight Reneau of Ector, form-
his
Cemetary Fund
Most people contribute to the
Celeste Cemetery Association at
this time each year. This is only
a reminder to those who might
have forgotten. Your contribu-
tions may be left with Albert
Granberry, secretary for the as-
sociation.
The spring season is gradually
approaching, when weeds and
grass will begin to grow. It is
then when money will be needed
to pay for having the cemetery
mowed and weeded. Give now,
and give generously to keep your
loved ones resting place nice and
clean.
presidential and cabinet level. He
says: “ I sensed that our top
leaders were virtually captive to
those around them—their advis-
ors, now often alluded to as the
palace guard.”
General Wedemeyer says flatly
that President Roosevelt was de-
termined to get the United States
involved in World War n and
that he deliberately maneuvered
us into the war by provoking
Japan. The General shows,
through documentation, that our
government had broken the Jap-
anese secret code and had infor-
mation on December 6. 1941, that
the Japanese were going to strike
somewhere the very next day; in
other words we were forewarned
of the strike against Pearl Har-
bour 24 hours in advance. “Presi-
dent Roosevelt,” says General
Wedemeyer, “had ample time to
broadcast a warning.” He did not
and we lost 3500 men and most
of our Pacific fleet. General
Wedemeyer’s book ought to shock
our citizens out of their apathy
and stimulate active participa-
tion in our governmental affairs
which are the business of us all.
The title of his book harkens
back to “The Wedemeyer Report’’
in 1947. President Truman sent
him on a mission to China in
July, 1947 to determine what the
United States’ policy should be
toward the government of China
attacked
armed
Russia. Pre-
viously, Secretary of State George
C. Marshall had sought to force
Chiang Kai-shek, in 1946 to ac-
cept Communists such as Mao
Tse-tung and Chou En-lai into
the Chinese government, and
when Chiang resisted on grounds
that this would ultimatly destroy
figte China, the United States im-
posed a crippling arms embar-
go upon the government of China.
In his book, General Wedemey- held. More information on this
er indicates that he feels he was election will be published later,
sent on the mission to China with Mayor Solon Milton has called
thought. by President Truman for an eection to be held on Tues-
anW Secretary Marshall that he day, April 7 for the purpose of
would support the pro-Commun- electing a mayor and two coun-
General Albert C. Wedemeyer’s
book, “Wedemeyer Reports,” has
climbed to a top rung on the
Best Seller list, and this fact is
encouraging. It is also good news
that this outstanding American,
chief United States military plan-
ner for World War H in the Euro-
pean theater, has retired from
the Army to dedicate his influnti-
al efforts as a citizen toward the
preservation of the American way
of life. As a four-star General
he was restrained by the military
code; in retirement, he is speak-
ing up without such restraint.
General Wedemeyer today views
world Communism as the great-
est manace ever faced by Ameri-
ca or free people anywhere. He
held and expressed the same view
in the early days and throughout
World War n — while top Ameri-
can leaders turning a deaf ear
to his warnings, were making
diplomatic and military moves
which aided world Communism:
in fact, which gave world Com-
munism the great power it has
today.
The local merchants are spon-
soring a page ad in The Courier
this week
Celeste
their
season.
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G. W. Tillerson has received a
three year contract as Superin-
tendent of Celeste schools. Mr.
Tillerson came to Celeste in 1957
from Cristoval, in Tom Bean
County.
Paul Branum, elementary prin-
cipal and assistant coach here
this year, has resigned as of the
end of this school year, and the
school board accepted the res-
ignation.
The board hired Mrs. Lu Nell
Spurrier of Dallas as Hbmemak-
ing teacher. She succeeds Mrs.
Verlee Heard,
mid-term.
Mrs. Spurrier taught two years
in the Dallas school system. She,
Mr. Spurrier and small child have
moved to Celeste. He is a student
at East Texas State College.
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Subscription rate is $1.50 a year in Hunt and adjoining
counties. Sent elsewhere, the price is $2.00 a year.
In the final game of the
double round-robin basketball
play Thursday night the Bells
girls defeated the Celeste Blue
Devilettes on the local court by
the score of 49 to 44. The Celeste
girls, winners of the district
tournament at Leonard last week
end, and Bells will play a best
two of three series to determine
the District 43-B winner.
The first game will; be played
at Bells Saturday niglit, Feb. 21,
and the second at Celeste Tues-
day night, Feb. 24. The winner
of District 43-B will play the
Gober girls on March 2 and 3.
In the game Thursday night
the Celeste girls were ahead of
Bells by as much as 8 points at
one time, but Bells scored sev-
eral points in the last few minutes
for the win. Sarah Roach was
high scorer for Celeste with 25
points, followed by Carol Saye
with 11. McCoy scored 29, and
Williams made 10, to lead the
Bells scorers.
The Celeste high school boys
have entered a “Next Year’s
Tournament,” at Campbell next
week end.
This is a vitally important
book, a gravely important his-
torical report on disasterous U.S.
policy. With “The Wedemeyer
Report” suppressed, a group of
informed and courageous Con-
gressmen led a fight early in 1948
to force the administration to
send armament aid to China’s
sorely beset armies fighting Com-
munists. The legislation, enacted
in April, 1948, provided for $128
million worth of immediate arms
aid. But this aid was withheld
until the end of 1948, and by that
time Chiang’s position in China
had become untenable—the Com-
munists had won.
And, as General Wedemeyer
notes in his book, the fall of
China to the Communists, due to
American diplomatic and military
decisions favorable to the Reds,
led directly to the Korean War
and its disasterous consequences
for the United States. It also per-
mitted Soviet Russia, fatherland
and citadel of world Communism,
to annex and dominate most of
sia and assume otherwise unat-
tainable international power.
which was being
Communist hordes
guided by Soviet
Funeral services were held for-
Billie W. Brooks, 28, at Penial
Baptist Church Tuesday after-
noon at 2:30. Burial was made
in Memoryland Mlemorial Park..
Mr. Brooks died at 9:30 a. m...
Monday in a Greenville hospital
after an’ illness of several years,.
A native of Hunt County, he was
born on Rt. 2, Greenville, August;
21, 1930, the son of C. ,M. Brooks
and Collie Cox Brooks. He mar-
ried Anita La Juan Groves Aug-
ust 29, 1952, and they had mad&
their home in and near Green-
ville since that time.
Survivors are his wife anuj
three small sons, Len, Lee and!
Lyle and his mother, Mrs. C. ML
Brooks; one brother, Bobby TL
Brooks; two sisters, Miss Coy'
Brooks and Mrs. John F. Mc-
Clendon, all of Greenville.
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