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VOLUME 70
CELESTE
HUNT COUNTY, TEXAS, 75423
NUMBER 22
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OUR TOWN THIS WEEK
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Mrs. Dick Hunter
is undergoing tests
in Baylor Hospital.
He played basketball
three year being
Captain in 1972.,
Hal is a member
of Pike Baptist
Church where he is
Assistant Music Dir-
ector and President
of his Sunday School
Class.
He has also been
on the Honor Roll
three years in high
school with a grade
average of 92.003
and a member of the
school choir 2 years.
June 3
Billy Barnard
June 4
Bertha Armstrong
June 6
Hubert Shields
Johnnie Stapleton
June 8
Bob Barnard
Mrs. Joe Tillerson
and Jim Ed are vis-
iting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J.E.
Thorp, this week.
Mrs. Sam Gibson and
Mrs. P.T. Baker Sr.
were Big Town shopp-
ers in Mesquite Mon-
day.
Holiday visitors
of Mr. and Mrs. G.
W. Tillerson were
Mr. and Mrs.' Charles
Tillerson and Jeff of
Irving, Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Tillerson and
Jim Ed of College
Station and Mr. and
Mrs. C.R. Tillerson
of Celina.
Happy
Birthday
Persons wanting
to purchase extra
copies of The Ce-
leste Courier at
only 10c each may
do so by contacting
Mrs. Ruby Warren.
YOUNG PEOPLE MOVED
in our end of town.
THE D.B. LEWIS have
the prettiest new
wall clock up and
ticking of the time
from large Roman num-
eral numbers and
the fattest swinging
pendulum. The wood
is hand rubbed and
pretty. Three key
holes signify that
the clock has various
needs mechanically,
but the key was not
along with the trip
from Germany. The
Charles Lewis sent
it as a gift, (right
between Mothers and
Fathers Day). My
it’s a beauty!
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. IT IS MIGHTY LONELY
up Pete McGee way,
the family dog look-
ing distressed,’ (she
knows things are not
right). Iris had sur-
gery last Tuesday
and again more ex-
tensive yesterday,
Monday. Reports are
encouraging that
the brain tumor re-
moval is successful.
Wanda and Avon Wad-
dle are here.
ford; 25 grandchild-
ren and seven great-
grandchildren.
The Reverends Far-
ris Bledsoe, Dave
Malone, Winford Mit-
chell, Jim Austin,
L.C. South and Leo
Santers will be
pallbearers.
This Sunday, June
4, at 7:00 p.m.,
the Youth Choir of
the First Baptist
Church of Celeste
will be presenting
a musical entitled
’’The Dynamic Christ-
ian”. The choir will
sing many contempor-
ary songs as well
as traditional ones.
The purpose of ’’The
Dynamic Christian"
is to help people
live a more complete
and satisfying Chris-
tian life. The group
plans to present the
musical in several
other churches dur-
ing the summer. A
three-day tour in
Arkansas is also
in the plans.
Members of the
group include Mike
Armstrong, Collin
Clark, Tonja Clark,
Patricia Cole, Debra
Davis, Deborah Eth-
ridge,.. Shelly Glass-
cock, Billie Good-
man, Jim Goodman,
Bonnie Hall, Mike
Lipsey, Lisa Mor-
ton, Terri Oliver,
Monette Seigler,
Tessa Seigler, Deb-
bie Statzer, Dana
Warren, Rhea West
and William Wright.
Don Thrasher is
Minister of Music
and Youth at the
church and directs
the group.•
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sors report). Twen-
ty-eight trophies
are on display in
the window of Cleat-
is’ store, gold cow
,animal atop blue and
gold stand. A judge
from ET will offici-
ate at the showing
and pictures are to
be made of winners.
The Celeste Saddle
Club will sell bar-
becue and drinks.
Co-sponsors of the
affair are members
of Celeste FFA.
Thomas King of
Celeste, son of Mrs.
Estelle King will
be co-sponsored by
The First National
Bank of Celeste.
Thomas had two
years in football,
OUR TOWN is very
quiet these dry sum-
mery days. Even the
Memorial Day holiday
caused little stir,
as far as a stay-at-
home observer could
see. Love factory
work went right a-
long on Monday, stor-
es were open for bus-
iness and some form
of farm work is in
progress. It is in-
teresting. The odd-
est looking equip-
ment goes rattling
by behind pickup
trucks, great bulky
bins on wheels, bobb-
ing, long necked
apparatus looking
not unlike praying
mantis, great wide
sprinklers or poi-
soners with their
tentacles folded
neatly for transport,
and the occasional
grain havester. Soon
the hay trucks, with
ambitious young haul-
ers, will rumble and
race through leav-
ing a trace of fra-
grance, non other
like new cut hay.
The johnson grass
is just about ready.
Frank Milton’s rows
and rows of freshly
plowed cotton grows
in swirling waves of
glistening green,
nary a weed, grass
nor bug to be seen.
Beans, beets, oni-
ons, potatoes, berr-
ies and plums are
making good this
year, adding to the
farm work load, and-
the deep freeze. A
good year!
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ACTIVITY GOES ON
around school, the
tennis courts in use
part time, kids just
sort of migrating
that way on horse
or bicycle, and a
class of Driver’s
Education underway.
Will report on pre
school when it gets
going.
RICKY ROSS
Ricky was an FFA
member 2 years. He
•served as Greenhand
President his fresh-
man year and Chap-
ter President his
sophomore year.
He was Student
Council Representa-
tive his freshman,
sophomore, and jun-
ior years, serving
as president his
junior year and was
elected to serve
again as president
when a senior 1972-
73. He was a member
of the Business Club
and elected as pre-
sident during his
senior year. Also
a member of the
Beta Club his jun-
ior year, he has
been elected to ser-
ve as president his
senior year.
Other activities
include sports edi-
tor for Tiger
Growls one year;
class vice-president,
junior year; class
favorite, 2 years;
high boy in English,
freshman year; class
valedictorian,
eighth grade; voted
Most Outstanding
Boy by faculty and .
students sophomore
year.
In sports Ricky
lettered three
years in football,
made All-District
Jr. year and 2nd
team All-State Jr.
year. He lettered
both years in base-
ball and lettered
the three years he
played basketball.
He is also vice-pre-
sident of Fellowship
of Christian Athlet-
es, and member of
First Baptist Church
of Leonard.
The delegate from
Blue Ridge is Hal
Cunnyngham, son of
Mr. and Mrs. H.I.
Cunnyngham. His co-
sponsor’s is Dr.
James W. Davis,
Leonard physician,
and First National
Bank of Farmersville.
wiches and homemade
Shorthorns, cookies at City Hall.
Among the visitors
were Larry Miller,
District Attorney,
and wife; Carl Swear-
ington, Upper Sabine
Conservation Super-
vison; Gale Carden,
Attorney-at-Law, all
of Greenville, and
Dr. E.W. Roland of
Commerce.
O.H. Nolen Jr., Mrs.
Glenn Grounds, Mrs.
Curtis LaGrone and
Mrs. Austin Crehan,
all of Leonard, Mrs.
Joel Pitts and Mrs.
Roy Hutchins, both
of McKinney; six
sons, Royce, Lloyd,
Kenneth, Floyd and
Coy Flanagan, all
of Leonard, and Ro-
bert Watson of Leon-,
ard; seven sisters,
Mrs. Pearl Kizer,
Mrs. Leia Berry and
Mrs. Emma Rushing,
all of Leonard, Mrs.
Naomi Bryum of Lind-
sey, Calif., Mrs.
Georgia Gibson of
Missouri, Mrs. Lola
Mangrum of Lawton,
Okla., and Mrs. The-
BILL AND LOUIE
• LaFAVERS and Mrs.
Emerson are liking
getting back home
to live. Seems that
Bill is going to
feel a lot better
here where he can
visit around with
VISITS RELATIVES
Mrs. W.W. McMichael
and Mr. and Mrs.
Karl Davidson of Ft.
Worth have returned
from a visit with
relatives in Missou-
ri, Illinois and
Arkansas. They vis-
ited her grandson,
Norman Davidson,
in St. Louis and
toured Six Flags
Over Mid-America,
also visited Mr.
and Mrs. Dean Ander-
' son and girls in
Peoria, Ill. and
Mrs. Earl Peters and
Diane in Little
Rock.
Am. Legion Will Sponsor Three
Area Youth To Boys Stale
Loflin-Preddy Post
#110 of the Ameri-
can Legion is spon-
soring three area
Junior High School
students to the Amer-
ican Legion Boys
State at Austin be-
ginning Wednesday,
June 7th.
From Leonard, Ric-
ky Ross, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Jack D.
Ross, will be co-
sponsored by Leon-
ard National Bank.
Pehtacostal Pastor, J. T. Flanagan
Died At Leonard Home Sunday
Final rites for
J.T. Flanagan, 72,
were at 2:30 p.m.
Tuesday at the Pen-
tecostal Church of
Jesus Christ in
Leonard, the church
he had pastored the
past 32 years. He
was also a retired
farmer.
Officiating at
the services were
the Revs. Andrew
Farmer of Durant,
Okla, and J.B. Pitts
of Van Alstyne. Bur-
ial was in Leonard
Cemetery with Taylor
Funeral Home of Leon-
ard in charge.
Born April 4, 1900,
in Lampasas, he was
the son of John Tho-
mas Flanagan and Ima Watson of Here-
Martha Hawthorne
Flanagan. He married
Lelia Evans on Oct.
16, 1921, in Trenton.
They celebrated their
50th wedding anniver-
sary in October 1971.
Surviving are his
wife of Leonard;
six daughters, Mrs.
THIS SATURDAY there
will be plenty of
stir in town when the
Junior Livestock Show
judging gets under-
way down at the foot-
ball field. Over one
hundred entries have
registered and oth-
ers are expected.
(Entrants may regis-
ter, including the
day of the show, spon- people he knows- In
Houston "you dont
know your next door
neighbor". He may be
like Mr. Shipp. Mr.
Shipp makes a garden
this year and looks
fine. Getting back
to Celeste did the
thing of improving
his health, and now
that their daughter
and husband live
here they have more
interests. The cou-
ple live in the
"Henslee" house north
of Methodist parson-
age.
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THOMAS KING
one year in basket-
ball and two years
of tennis.
His sophomore
year he won third
place in District
and third place in
Regional in Number
Sense. His Junior
year he won second
place in District
and didn’t place in
Regional in Number
Sense and placed
third in District
in typing.
Thomas held the
office of reporter
in the FFA Chapter
in his sophomore
year, treasurer, .
junior year, Dist-
rict Historian jun-
ior year and will
hold the office of
Area Vice-President
his senior year.
He was Junior re-
presentative of the
Annual Staff and
will be the Annual
Editor his senior
year, Thomas was
in 1972; Captain 1972. valedictorian of
the eighth grade
class.
He was a member
of the FFA livestock
judging team two
years, and a mem-
ber of the FFA Chap-
ter Conducting Team
three years.
The boys will be
housed at the Beau-
ford Jester Dormit-
ory at The Univer-
sity of Texas during
their stay in Aus-
tin. The American
Legion Boys State
is a* Mythical State
within the State of
Texas and the United
States of America.
The boys attending
will learn the pro-
cedures of the oper-
ation of our State
Government.
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Fred and Vicki (Mc-
Carley) Felty in the
Babers mobile home,
South Fifth, next
door to young people,
the Harry Childress-
es. Fred is to con-
tinue his college
work at ET Vicki is
already using her
recent vocational
training graduation
at Skyline in Dallas,
in work at the Green-
villle Medical and
Surgical Clinic on
South Wesley Street.
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Donald Helms
Joins Air Force
READ ABOUT CHUCK
McCarley in the
story about his foot-
ball team last win-
ter. ^.He plays end
and'half back on the
team, now World
Champions for 71-
’72 in Pee Wee div-
ision.
See you next week.
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Reception Here Baptist Youth
Tuesday For Will Present
Peyton McKnight Musical Sunday
A group of suppor-
ters of Peyton Mc-
Knight, candidate
for election to the
Second Senatorial
District, were in
Celeste Tuesday morn-
ing.
An informal recep-
tion was prepared
for the visitors by
Mr. and Mrs. John
L. James.
The supporters,
along with local cal-
lers, were served
icy strawberry ring
Donald Glen Helms,
son of Mr. and Mrs.
E.J. Helms, N. Fifth
Street, Celeste,
P left Wednesday for
Orlando, Florida
where he will be
I I8«ti°ned with the
I U.S. Navy.
\ Helms attended
school in Celeste
and worked recently
for Texas Aluminum
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Mrs. J.R. Shields
is at home follow-
ing surgery at Cit-
izens General Hos-
pital in Greenville.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1972'
First Junior
Livestock Show
Set Saturday
The Celeste Jr.
Livestock Show will
be held Saturday at
the Little League
Park.
The FFA and 4-H
members are co-spon-
soring the one day
show.
• Dr. Roger Arnold
of East Texas State
University, Commerce,
will.be judging.
The Dairy Show will
begin at 10 a.m.
Steers will be judg-
ed following this
division. After lunch punch, varied sand-
the Angu’s, Charolais,
Hereford,
and Other Breeds will
be exhibited.
The Celeste Saddle
Club will serve lunch
to the participants
and spectators.
Twenty-eight trop-
hies and four plaq-
ues will be awarded.
The plaques were don-
ated by Don Arm-
strong, Smith’s Gar-
age, Cleatis Hudson
and City Food. Mer-
chants and individ-
uals donating trop-
hies were Mr. and
Mrs. G.W. Tillerson,
Mr and Mrs. Hubert
Shields, Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Lacy, Mr.
and Mrs. Harbert
Byers, Lyon’s Garage,
Hi-Lo Corp., Dean’s
Drive In, J.R Love
Co., Rowell’s Groc-
ery, Celeste Insur-
ance Agency, Cawthon
Hardware, First Nat-
ional Bank, Celeste
Co-op Gin Ass’n.,
Compton’s Grocery,
Bo Lipsey, Highway
69 Mobile Home Sales,
Elmer Long, Ruth Ro-
berts, E.C. and J.C.
Reed, Cynamid Farm
Supply, Mayor, City
Council, City Sec-
retary, Lenna’s
.Beauty Shop, R.C.
Mills, R.W. Wood,
Celeste Lions Club,
L and W Ranch, and
Celeste Saddle Club.
Others have donat-
ed money for the rib-
bons -
Everyone is invit-
ed to attend and see
these young people
exhibit and groom
thier animals.
This is the first
Jr. Livestock Show
to be held in Cele-
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Hal has been very
active in Future
Farmers of American.
He has served as
Greenhank President
Chapter President,
chairman of Leader-
ship Committee, Chap-
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trict II Public Speak~J
ing in 1971 and 1972.
He won second in
Area V Public Speak- |||
ing in 1971, first
in Area V Public
Speaking in 1972
(and will proceed
to State FFA contest)
served as District
II President in 19714
72; was recently
elected Area V Pre-
sident to serve in®
1972-73; Greenhand
Quiz Team in 1969,
placed first in Dis-
trict, Area V; att-
ended State and Area
conventions; and
applied for Lone
Star Farmer Degree.
He was a member
of Beta Club 3 years,
serving as vice-
president 1970-71,
Sgt. at Arms, 1971-
72, and attended
state conventions.
He was on the Annu-
al Staff 3 years,
photographer 1969-
70 and Editor 1971-
72.
He was FHA honor-
ary, FHA Beau and
FHA Trio. He was
freshman class pre-
sident and vice-pre-
sident of the sop-
homore class.
In sports Hal play-
ed football three
years, was All-Dis-
trict defense in
1970; All-District
defense and offense
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