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fine animals and rigs that were
sure to be there all rigged out
in the best they had. The horse I
John Payne, Lisa Kirk and Laurence Naismith head the
Broadway cast of “Here’s Love,” coming to Dallas as the
State Fair show at the Music Hall for 24 performances, Oct.
9 - 25. This delightful musical of Meredith Willson’s is based
on the movie, “Miracle on 34th Street,” in which John Payne
also starred. It is a heart-warming story about the reality of
Santa Claus, with Laurence Naismith Maying the Kris
Kx ingle role he created on Broadway.
lady from the Trinity community,
six miles north of McKinney, and
rented a livery stable rig for the
occasion. I knew a lot of people
were going to be at the wedding
and I did not care to match my
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Fifty years ago and on back, I1 recall one such instance; a wed-
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to pieces.
I wrapped the lines around the
buggy whip and got out. I tried
to lead the fool horse by his
bridle. Old Cream tossed his head
mobile, all of which I have writ-
ten of from time to time in this
column.
Whereas, the modern car serves
as a specialty; a passenger car
for the family, and trucks for
work. Not so with the old horse.
Long’s mother when she was ap-
pointed to succeed Huey. Long is
the only Senator whose father
and mother both served in the
Senate and now he will have
used the desks each of them had.
Sen. Gaylord Nelson, D-Wis.,
who had a back corner desk, has
moved to the position that Thur-
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publican side where
now sits.
fly with both hind feet, and I
quit right there. One of the stip- aiiuis unu -- -—, -g- - .
ulations when renting a rig in had none of the signs of balking,
those days was that you had to He had stopped, that’s all there
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about Old Cream. He was a
C P. Horn Auto Supply
and Appliance Store
Home Owned and Operated
Mr. Auto, Truck and Tractor Owner
Merchandise in Stock
Autolite Ignition Parts
Autolite Sparkplugs
Niehoff Ignition Parts
Listed Below Are Only a Few of The Lines of
Champion Spark Plugs
A. C. Spark Plugs
McQuay Norris Piston Ring Sleeves
McQuay Norris Water Pumps, Valves and Springs
McQuay Norris Spindle Bolts and Bushings
Walker Mufflers and Pipes
Walker Jacks
Black Hawk Jacks
A. C. Oil Filter Cartridges
Fram Oil Filter Cartridges
Gates Fan Belts, Radiator Hose
Gates V Pulleys and Hubs
G.E. Light Bulbs, All Types
Borg Warner Clutch and Pressure Plates
Borg Warner Automatic Trans. Parts, All Makes
Crank Shaft Assemblies
DuPont Automotive Finishes
DuPont Chemicals
Autolite Batteries for Car, Truck, Tractors
Goodyear Automobile Tires
Goodyear Truck Tires
Goodyear Tractor Tires
Delco Batteries for Auto, Truck, Tractor
Auto Supply Store Employees: Lewis West,
Keith Gidney, Buddy Furlong, Denney Horn
Office Manager and Bookkeeper: Colie White
Territory Salesman: Dean Anderson
Service Billy Berry
Appliance Employees: Tom Warden, Mrs. Bob Ed Hamilton,
Mrs. Clyde Horn
General Electric Refrigerators, Freezers, Stereos! Televi-
sions, Radios, Refrigerated Air Conditioners
General Electric Heating and Cooling Systems, for Home or
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Dryers, Combination Washers-Dryers, Bicycles, Tricycles,
Wagons.
bring it back in as
as when delivered to you. I did
not care to have to assume the
responsibility of paying for a
buggy that a horse had kicked
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and held his ground, even mak-
ing an attempt to bite me. He
stamped his front feet and shook
his head, plainly indicating that
I was doing something wrong and
he was only trying to right it.
He had not “balked.” I. had had
plenty of experience with balky
animals and saw that Old Cream
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He was a double duty piece of
locomotion. During week days he
pulled plows, hauled wagons rented was called “Old Cream,”
and other farm machinery, and from the Coffee livery stable on
on Sunday took the family to “
church in a wagon, carriage or
buggy, and-at night he was usu-
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Sen. Olin D. Johnson, D-S.C.,
said today that Long now has
agreed to let him have the Cal-
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for this, Johnston said, when Sen. mond formerly occupied on
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he would let Long have his desk, had has been moved to. the Re-
Why did Long want Anderson’s
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we took as much pride and in- ding at Melissa,
terest in our horses as the young The --i-
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right. When I got in the buggy
and shook the reins the horse
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and communications between the
headquarters command posts and
the dissemination of information
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stressed to insure maximum pro-
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The 30-year-old soldier, a mem-
ber of Headquarters, Seventh
Army Signal Section near Vaih-
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Army in November 1953.
He was graduated from Pros-
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Bazaar Is
Popular Feature
Of State Fair
Big Tex may speak with ■ a
olid Texas twang, but one ma-
jor feature of his 1964 State Fair
of Texas in Dallas will tout its
wares with a strong foreign ac-
cent. Dates of the 1964 exposi-
tion are October 10 through 25.
The International Bazaar, pop-
ular feature of the Texas Inter-
national Trade Fair in the World
Exhibits Building, offers for sale
items which represent all parts
of the world in what is truly a
global shopping center.
Bazaar stands, containing a va-
riety of goods ranging from gem
stones to candies, will create an
air of an Old World marketplace.
From India there will be brass-
es in vases, lamps, trays and
jewelry. Hand-woven cloth and
carved pieces of mother of pearl
from the Philippines, beautiful
primitive wooden carvings from
Africa and shells from Japan,
Okinawa and other Pacific shores
will be for sale.
Candies will come from Bel-
gium, France, Britain, Italy and
the Scandinavian countries. Car-
ved wooden articles from the
Holy Land and Majorca, silk
cloth in bolts and beaded sweat-
ers from Hong Kong and Tar-
tan plaids from Scotland will add
to the variety. Antiques, gift
items and rich embroideries from
the Orient and French gold bas-
kets will be included with thous-
ands of other items.
Taking part in the 1964 Trade
Fair will be Belgium, Finland,
France, Germany, Israel, Italy,
Japan, Mexico, League of Arab
States, Sweden and the United
Arab Republic.
Each foreign nation will have
a special recognition day at the
State Fair and will receive a sa-
lute from the exposition at formal
retreat ceremonies on the plaza
before the Hall of State.
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Later, I asked Will Kendall who
sold the livery stable and Old
Cream to Sterling Coffee, who
the fellow was who hired the
fancy horse so much. Kindall told
me and I asked the fellow—his
name became well known in the
county later—if anything he did
could cause the horse to stop in
the shade of that big oak and
refuse to go on again. He said,
yes, there was. He said that the
road was his favorite drive and
he nearly always drove eut under
the big tree to sit a ghile and
enjoy the situation. V©nce, he
said, after he and the" girl had
sparked there for an hour or
more he gave Old Cream a lump
of sugar for standing so patiently
that long. He made this a prac-
tice; giving the horse a lump of
sugar each time just before driv-
ing on. It was a wonder, he said,
that I got him to move at all
without the sugar. . . 8
Don’t know the end of Old
Cream. I went off to the Army
shortly after . this escapade and
he was gone when I returned.
How about jpining me, you old-
time Old Crem men, in getting
up a mosument to this horse who
gave so much to the young peo-
ple of this county? Anybody have
a photo of Old Cream? I surely
would like to have one.
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Thurmond’s Desk
Stirs Up Senate
WASHINGTON—The poetical
realignment of Sen. Strom Thur-
mond of South Carolina has
caused an upheaval in the Sen-
ate—over the question of who has
whose desk.
When Thurmond moved from
the Democratic to the Republi-
can side of the Senate Chamber
the word was that he wanted to
take his desk with him but that
the Democrats balked.
Thurmond reportedly was un-
der the impression that the desk
had been used by John C. Cal-
houn, a 19th-century South Caro-
lina statesman who was noted as
a champion of states rights.
Now it turns out that not
Thurmond, but Sen. Russell B.
Long, D-La., has been sitting at
the Calhoun desk.
Long’s aides report that he
asked for the desk not because
Calhoun had used it but because
it is the desk that his late father,
Huey (the Kingfish) Long, had
occupied while a senator before
his assassination in 1935.
Before Russell Long got the
desk, it had been used by Sen.
Henry Cabot Lodge, R-Mass. Long
put in his bid for it after Lodge
was defeated for re-election in
1952 by the late President John
F. Kennedy.
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min H. Munday, son of Mrs. Era
L. Monday, Prosper, and other
members of the Seventh U. S.
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reluctance. I put him through his
paces, but when I arrived at the
soung lady’s heme I found her in
tears, or rather her mother told
me she was, for she had taken
'refuge in her'room and would not
see me. I fobd around a wh ile
and drove badk home. At the old
trysting place Old Cream trotted
past without a hint of stopping.
Good for him that he did, for1
was feeling evilly toward the
world in general, due to the girls
lack of concern for my safety
when I failed to show up on time.
Had he stopped, I might have
brained the old nag with the
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horse, very stylish and almost
pure white in color, just enough
tinged gold in his hair to give a
sort of a creamy appearance. He
was in great demand, so much, in
fact, that there was a waiting list
often a month in advance for him
on Sundays and other important
days. While a horse and buggy
usually cost a dollar for the af-
ternoon, Old Cream with a buggy
set a fellow back two and a half.
But she was worth it. I had ad
my name in for him for several
weeks before the date I got him.
Old Cream was an institution.
He was known from one side of
the county to the other, and a
fellow driving him, with a pretty
girl in the buggy felt sort of a-
bove the common herd, and so
did the girl. He had no great
feats of character like fast trot-
ting and the like; he was just
a fine looking horse with high
held head, dark mane and flow-
ing tail, and when he trotted a-
long the streets or roads, draw-
ing a rubber-tired buggy every-
body turned to look. I doubt if
there ever was a prettier horse,
and I felt that the world was
mine, as I drove out of town that
fine June afternoon in the year
of our Lord, 1907. Old Cream
was stepping high, and ahead of
me was waiting a pretty girl. In
Melissa I would hitch my rig
right up in there with the coun-
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ally put over the road under the
saddle or between the shafts of
a buggy, hauling the young man
of the household to see his girl
friend.
A few farm families were so
well situated that they were able
to keep an extra horse just for
carriage or buggy work, but
most had to use their horses for
all kinds of duty besides keeping
him for a saddle and buggy ani-
mal.
I had a horse once that we used
only for the buggy, for he wasn’t
fit for any other work. Dad com-
plained that a horse deadbeat was
about as bad as a man who made
his way through the world by
mooching off the rest of the peo-
ple, and looked with distaste up-
on my pony, who ate as much as
the work horses and only pulled
a light buggy two or three times
a week.
Many of the other boys who
went with the gals had good to
fine horses, and I was, at times,
rather ashamed to take a girl
anywhere to a large sort of meet-
ing, and resorted to getting a
horse from a livery stable in
town. Scarcity of ready cash
though, held this extravagance to
a low level and I drove my small
horse everywhere except to gath-
erings where he would show to
disadvantage among the better
buggy animals of the community
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I tried everything, and in those
days we knew a lot on how to
make an animal bow to your will.
None worked. I even unhitched
him and tried to lead him around
a little. No go. He stood, anchor-
ed firmly, tossing his head when
I got rough with him and stamp-
ing his front feet. I hitched him
up again and looked at my watch.
Five-twenty! I had spent over a
half hour with the horse and
time was running out on me. I
still had a mile to go to the girl’s
home, and another three miles to
Melissa. Remembering that I had
promised to be at her house by
five o’clock made me a little pan-
icky and desperate. I tried Old
Cream again. Another shake of
the head was all I got.
As I stood by the side of the
buggy a thought hit me. I would
take the harness off the old fool
and ride him bareback to the
girl’s home and explain the situa-
tion. Maybe he would go and
maybe he wouldn’t. It was my
only course and I had actually
started to unhitch him when I
heard a wagon coming south a-
long the road. Presently it came
in view and I saw the driver was
John Cave, who lived out of the
bottom a half mile to the south.
John stopped, wrapped the lines
around the brake lever and ask-
ed me if there was anything
wrong. When I told him I could
not make the old horse go, he
got down and came over.
He recognized the horse of
course, and said there surely was
something wrong as Old Cream
was never known to balk. “Wait
a minute!” he said. “I think I
| have it. That horse has a habit,
that’s all. Every now and then I
see a young feller and a girl from
McKinney drive Old Cream out
this way, and have seen them
sitting in a buggy under that tree
severa times. Yes, sir, Roy, that’s
it I am sure. They sit there for
an hour or more before going on.
Bet you a dollar that horse will
move off after a half hour or so.”
This was no consolation. It
was already about 5:30 and I had
four miles to go to get to the
wedding at six. But John was
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The wedding was to be prompt-
ly at six o’clock in the afternoon
in order to allow the bride and
groom time to catch the train for
a wedding trip. As I had driven
to and from Melissa many times
I knew just how long to allow
for the journey. One hor . to
drive from home to Melissa, plus
a half hour bonus, in case the
girl I was to take was not ready
when I got to her home. I left
my home, two miles north of Mc-
Kinney at 4:30 p.m., going north
on the Upper Bonham Road, now
Highway 75.
At the foot of the hill, going
down into East Fork valley I
turned to the east, crossing East
Fork on the iron bridge. This
was the main road at the time.
It crossed the bridge and turned
up the east bank of the creek,
winding through the big woods
which was there until 40 years
ago. This was a beautiful road
through the big trees with the
creek on the west and was a fav-
orite drive for young lovers in
buggies. Old Cream was trotting
right along and I was exactly on
time.
About half way through the
woods Old Cream, suddenly
swung to the left toward the creek
bank, and off the level dirt road.
Slightly annoyed, I yanked on the
right rein to pull him back on the
road. Nothing doing. The horse
turned his head with the pull of
the line but his body kept on
off to the left. I hauled back on
both reins and hollered “whoa,”
along with a few chosen words of
disapproval. The horse stopped
willingly. After a few moments
I slapped him with the lines and
pulled him back toward the road.
That is, I did everything to
guide him back to the highway.
He went straight ahead despite
my vigorous yank on the rein.
Ahead was a huge burr oak on
the bank of the creek and the
horse made it to the shad, of
this tree and came to a halt.- I
slapped him with the reins and
urged him to go on. He mierely
layed his ears back as if angry
at me and stood still. I took
the buggy whip from its socket
and flicked him with it. When
the whip touched his hips he
bounced up behind as a horse
does when he gets ready to let
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