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Excelsior PTO, Students and Staff
Clayton Moore
fans needed
Excelsior thanks
local merchants
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Motor Company. Link’s husband, Gilbert Link, had the winning entry in the drawing held by the Center VFD.
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Dear Editor,
I need your help and I hope you do
not mind giving it. I need to contact
everyone, (and there are thousands)
who are fans of Clayton Moore as
the Lone Ranger, to contact Le Sea
Broadcasting Corp. 61300 Ironwood
Road, South Bend, IN. 46614, and
tell Le Sea that you prefer Clayton
Moore episodes to be shown on their
stations.
I ask anyone who can put out the
call for support on their computers to
do so, as I think thousand nationwide
would respond. Let us call it Moore’s
last round up.
Le Sea is indifferent to viewer
preference and I so hope to get their
attention, and also ensure the young
people of this nation will see the
man who dedicated his professional
and personal life to the principles
of justice, respect for the law, proud
American patriotism and faith.
These things are so lacking in
today’s world, and through Moore
(and the Ranger), I hope this kind
of influence will help parents guide
the young, as in my generation. I
am 71-years-old - 65 years Moore
influenced.
Sincerely,
Carol Racey
Chris
Watlington
Susan
Watkins
Bartee
Haile
The Excelsior PTO, students and
staff would like to thank the follow-
ing local businesses who donated
prizes for our STAAR Test Incentives.
Center Dairy Queen, Curbside Market,
Granny B’s Sno Cones and Center
Pizzeria.
It has helped in motivating the stu-
dents to do their best on the test and
they have been excited about winning
a prize.
Many thanks to all of you who help
make our community and better place.
Leon Aldridge.......
Leah Dolan..........
Lacie Payne.........
Ronny Samford....
Jill Albert...............
Cheryl Gilcrease..
Cindy Barrett........
Susan Watkins.....
Darrell Martinez...
Tim Boyd.............
Joey Martinez.......
Courtney Basham
Sammy Garrett....
20 Years Ago
Week of April 21,1995
The Light and Champion
• Rick Campbell named Shelby Savings director. •
CISD adds buses to fleet, amends drivers drug screen-
ing policy. • Center’s new post office is set to open May
12, according to Center Postmaster Jim Cunningham. •
Scott Sanford to compete in Texas Future Problem Solv-
ing Bowl in Austin. • Timpson Bears surprised Shelbyville
Dragons with 11-7 score in baseball. • Laura Butler-
Rowe and Tammy Steptoe of Century 21 Action Team
Realtors of Center earn sales awards. •
30 Years Ago
Week of April 23,1985
The Light and Champion
• James Campbell of Center Auction Company
received special recognition for his 25 years of support
to the Shelby County 4-H. • Light and Champion wins
first in display advertising. • Debbie Dockins of Joaquin
FFA won the Grand Champion Heifer at the 25th Annual
Shelby County 4-H and FFA Beef Show. • Jimmy Bivens
of Shelbyville FFA won the Champion Bull of Show at
the 25th Annual Shelby County 4-H and FFA Beef Show.
• Center Junior High students travelled to Woodville to
compete in the UIL contest.
40 Years Ago
Week of April 23,1975
The Champion
• John D. Windham, Center businessman, was in-
stalled the 1975-76 president of the Center Chamber of
Commerce at the 53rd annual banquet of the chamber.
• T.E. Morrison was honored by officers and fellow em-
ployees of the Farmers State Bank of which he has been
associated with for the past 50 years. • Retha Swindell,
a CHS Senior is congratulated by Coach Dorothy S.
Williams for winning the first place long jump of 17 feet
and 10.5 inches at the Regional Meet held at Huntsville.
• Buron Robison of Center, was the high scoring contes-
tant in the FFA Division at the State Woodland Clinic held
at Stephen F. Austin Experimental Forest.
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10 Years Ago
Week of April 22, 2005
The Light and Champion
•Army Specialist Anthony Olivas welcomed home.
• Members of the Shelby County Memorial Veterans
of Foreign Wars Post 8904 distributed Buddy Pop-
pies at Wal-Mart. • Center ISD 2005 UIL participants
were honored at a banquet. • June Abernathy, a retired
Postmaster spoke at The Toledo Bend Chapter 1764 of
the National Association of Retired Federal Employees
meeting. • The Rio Theatre showed Fever Pitch.
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born in Dallas to poor immigrant _____________
parents on April 22,1923.
An Ellis Island clerk changed
his father’s name from Spurling
to Spelling the day the Polish Jew
entered the country.
The new arrival found a Russian-
born mate with the same ethnic roots
and moved halfway across the conti-
nent to Texas.
Aaron grew up in a small frame house down the
street from Fair Park that was not built for a family
of six. Reflecting on the poverty of his upbringing, he
revealed in a 1996 interview, “I still have nightmares
about being in a $6,000 home in Dallas. “Wall-to-wall
people (and) one bathroom. I was the one to go to the
local bakery a block away on Saturday to get the day-
old stuff.”
The skinny kid hated school, where bigger boys
So I’m at the gas station filling my
car up, watching the numbers in the
price read-out move a lot faster than
those in the gallon read-out, when
my eye is caught by the sign telling
me how much gas is.
$2.34 9/10 per gallon.
I looked at it again and it hit me
for maybe the first time: I’m paying
nine tenths of one cent more for gas
than I think I am all the time. I’ve
always seen the fraction at the end
of my gas price, but it never fully
dawned on me until this last Monday.
The gallon of gas I bought was not $2.34.. .it was much
closer to $2.35. And I put 20 gallons in my tank...so
that was 20 cents...or nine tenths of 20 cents which is
18 cents. I paid 18 cents-worth of nine-tenths.
Now multiply that over a life time of driving and
that’s a lot of money. They’ve been nine-tenth-ing me
to death!
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took pleasure in picking on him.
Trauma from the verbal and physical
abuse caused him to lose the use of
his legs at age eight and to spend a
whole year in bed.
Spelling ultimately went back to
class and, like Stanley Marcus of
Neiman Marcus fame before him,
graduated from Forest Avenue high
school.
He enlisted in the Army Air Corps
in 1942 and spent most of World War
II putting on plays for the troops.
The Texan did not, however, miss out on combat
altogether. A sniper shot him in a hand, which never
healed completely. For the wound he was awarded the
Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
The young veteran returned to Dallas and attended
his hometown college, Southern Methodist University,
I want all my nine-tenths back!
When I got home from the gas
station, I researched the reason for
the gas fraction. (By “research,” I
mean I typed “why do gas prices end
in 9/10” into Google and clicked on
the first match. That’s research, you
see.) It has something to do with fed-
eral and state gasoline taxes during
the Depression.
The government needed to tax
gasoline in order to pay for all the
roads that were being built as the au-
tomobile gained predominance over
horses and tricycles as means of mass travel, but no
government felt like it could get away with a full cent
of tax.
After all, one cent was a 4% tax hike on the 25 cent
gasoline of the Depression era. So in order to subtly
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I was not deterred by his statement
and continuing my story I said, “You
walked across the room, jumped over
the table and sat down beside me.”
He laughed again and said that
was the only open chair in the class-
room. Now, I was mad. He messed up
my wonderful memory.
I blurted out loud, “You did not
have to tell me the truth and mess up
my memory.”
Not even realizing what he had done until I pointed
it out, he apologized and then said he was sorry he was
not all I measured him up to be.
There are always two sides to every story. But, clear-
ly there is something wrong with his memory.
The jacket may have been vinyl but, I know he
jumped over that table to sit with me.
new art class. Suddenly, it was as if
time slowed down. He was wearing a
brown leather jacket, jeans and plat-
form shoes.
I am not even sure I took a breath
or blinked an eye as he stood there
scanning the room.
Then when his eyes stopped at me
he walked over, placed a hand on the
table, hopped over the table and sat down in the chair
next to me.
That was the beginning of a long friendship that end-
ed much later in marriage. One day I mentioned to my
husband that I remembered the first time I saw him in
art class. “You were wearing that brown leather jacket,”
I said.
He laughed and said the jacket was not leather. It
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