The McKinney Examiner (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 26, 1964 Page: 7 of 10
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THE EXAMINER, McKINNEY, TEXAS, NOVEMBER 26, 1964
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McKinney, Texas
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I would like to start off this
grticle with the poem by Robert
Monday Through Thursday
8 A.M. to 7 P.M.
We join others in wishing for all
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to really make tracks on the highway. For
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BUYERS OF HAY AND
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Thirty Years Ago
IN McKINNEY
stated, this was the age of swings.
There were porch swings of many
kinds; garden swings for lovers
and often a little swing in the
house, attached to the ceiling for
the baby. We had one of those
high swings when I was on the
small side, 70 years ago.
Ours was 34 feet high, and at
John K. Wilson was over from
Princeton Tuesday. John lives in
and the seat was two feet from
the ground, 28 feet would reach
the crosspiece; 65 or more were
used in the big swings. On the
crosspiece the rope was passed
around the pole three or more
times, six to eight feet apart, and
the ends attached to the seat.
Tom Wilson came up with the
A&M Cadet Corps for the SMU
game. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Add G. Wilson.
Swing.” To my way of think-
ing, Robert Louis wrote some of
our best rhymes, and some of our
worst prose. He may be listed a-
mong the classic writers of all
time, but not by me, whatever
that amounts to. Herewith is the
poem:
“How do you like to go up in
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Dyer, Mrs. J. L. Gossett, Mr. T. E.
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I Ten Contest
For the tenth consecutive year
Plano Wildcat Band won First Di-
vision Honors in Region Interscho-
lastic League Marching Contest
held in Irving November 14. They
received First in Marching and
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The December issue of Ladies
Home Journal has an enchanting
baby picture on its cover which
was painted by Dorothy Hope
Smith, wife of Perry Barlow. Per-
ry ends the editorial matter in
this book with the Tucker Twins.
Mr. and Mrs. Barlow often visit
his brother, Henry C. Barlow
and wife at their fine farm "Col-
linsbrook" ten miles west of Mc-
Kinney. Perry, who now lives in
Connecticut and Henry are sons
of the late G. J. Barlow and wife,
honored pioneers.
one being the Rev. Ed T. Hayes,
who will speak on The Theology
of Christian Education.
The following delegates from
First Methodist Church, McKin-
ney, have been elected:
Mrs. Bryan Berry, Mr. Walter
Bomar, Mr. Gibson Caldwell, Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Caldwell, Mr. Louis
V. Chandler, Mrs. R. T. Craig, Jr.,
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Dale, Miss Nan
The ash, like many trees, grows
straight up and very slender in
dense woods in order to get its
top limbs to the sunlight. But
ash, unlike most trees, grows ar-
row straight, and when it is cut
and dried is as strong as hick-
ory. Some swing supports were
made of bois’d arc, but not many.
This tree seldom grows straight
and hardly ever tall enough.
Across the top of the upright
poles a stout pole was bolted or
chained to which the ropes or
chains of the swing were attach-
ed. This pole was from fifteen
to twenty feet in length so as to
give plenty of space for the swing
seat to clear the uprights. Many
used chains but ropes were the
most common, and they were at-
1024 N. Expressway
H. C. Hoy, Mrs. Grady Jackson,
Mrs. Jessie Jefferson, Mr. and
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Miss Madge Dickerson of Cham-
bersville is visiting friends in
McKinney.
We hope you have enjoyed Southwest
* Conference football broadcasts this sea-
• son . . . and that you’ll continue to go to
• the games with Humble.
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Plenty Of FREE Parking
There was a tacky party Fri-
day night at Walnut Grove. Ern-
est Mayhard was the tackiest.
Collie and Charlie Bridgefarm-
er, sons of Dr. D. E. Bridgefarm-
er, have just come from New
Mexico with two truck loads of
apples. They have made ten or
twelve trips since the apple sea-
son opened, getting the apples a-
round Estanola, above Santa Fe.
They dispose of their apples to
H. C. Myrick, wholesale and retail
dealer, and to H. E. Crice grocery
store.
one of those you see on merry-
go-rounds, where two people
sit facing two others at the other
end. This afforded more fun for
the gals but I liked the single
seat best. I recall an amusing in-
cident connected with this swing
before Dad put on the gondola.
It horrified us at the time, but
later we laughed over the issue
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Playing and First in Inspection.
Band Director Emmitt Clem
stated “I am very pleased with
the entire group for their band
work and the many hours put into
making the contest a successful
one, and extremely proud of the
thirty new eighth graders who
have worked so hard in order to
perfect their marching ability.’’
Forty-eight bands from Region
Ten were entered in the contest
in Irving High School’s Tiger
Stadium. Plano marched in Class
AA with the following bands:
Decatur, Grapevine, Kaufman,
Lewisville, Burleson, Everman.
North West, Lake Worth, Bridge-
port, Mansfield, and Rockwall.
The’bands did not compete a-
gainst each other but against a
standard set up by the University
Scholastic League.
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are on a hunting trip in Mason
County.
Indecision is costly but hasty
action sometimes costs more.
Thanksgiving picture at the Ritz
will be “Barretts of Wimpole
Street,” starring Norma Shearer,
Frederic March, and Charles
Laughton.
Mrs. Roy C. Heathington honor-
ed her mother, Mrs. J. C. Terry
with a birthday party Sunday.
Those enjoying the occasion were
Mrs. T. A. Parris, Mrs. M. C. Dud-
ley, Mrs. M. J. Stovall, Mrs. C. J.
Haydon, Mrs. A. Hayes, Mrs.
Sarah Howell, Mrs. G. O. Key,
and Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Westmore-
land.
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Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Carroll of
the Foote Community were given
a surprise birthday dinner Sun-
day by friends and neighbors. Mr.
and Mrs. Carroll both celebrated
birthdays the past week.
Mrs. Webb Nelson and daugh-
ter, Miss Leta Mae Nelson, en-
tertained with a lovely party Sat-
urday in the Nelson home on
North College, honoring Mrs.
Glenn Nelson, nee Miss Effie Mat-
thews of Allen. Mrs. L. Dow Hen-
dricks was lucky in a diversion,
after which the bride was led
by little Jimmy and Nancy Rol-
lins to a surprise find of pretty
wedding gifts. The hostesses ser-
ved ice cream and cake to fifty
guests. They were assisted by
Mrs. Doyle Nelson of Kelly; Mrs.
Don Estes, Mrs. Homer Haggard
of Frisco; Mrs. J. T. Rollins and
Miss Ruth Marcom.
heard the most awful screams Hardaway, Mrs. Ed T. Hayes,
coming from somewhere on the Mrs. D. F. Houston, Rev. and Mrs.
other side of the house. The
Mrs. W. B. Miller, Mrs. Doyle
Morrow, Mrs. Henry Myrick, Jr.,
Joe McMahan, Rudy Palmer, Mrs.
Percy Phillips, Mrs. R. D. Ray,
Mr. Lyman Robinson, Mrs. Al
Ruschhaupt, Rev. O. B. Rogers,
Mrs. John Taylor, Mrs. F. A. Tun-
nell, Mrs. George Webb, Mrs. H.
Lewis Nicholas of Plano came
in Examiner office for a visit. He
is doing newspaper work for Ed-
itor Arthur Bagwell of the Star-
Courier. Lewis is the son of D.
W. Nicholas, pastor of Plano
Christian Church.
appeal for us who have passed
along that trail a long time ago.
As a matter of fact, I am going
to tell you something of those
old swings of the primitive past
here in Collin County. Seventy
to eigthy years ago was, you
might say, the age of the swing,
and our limited childhood lives
revolved around them.
Now, I do not refer to the
common ordinary swing put up
hastily by a parent to amuse a
small child; but swings that thril-
led everyone with their mighty
sweeps “up in the air and down.”
Swings that swung from limbs
as high as 60 feet, and from sup-
porting poles 50 feet from the
ground, for many people built
them that high.
Before getting into this sub-
ect further, let’s consider the
grapevine swing briefly. I have
written some on this type of
swing in the past, but let’s try a
new approach. The main objec-
tion to a grapevine swing was
that it seldom if ever grew in
the place suited for a swing. And,
too, if the vine was long enough
to reach the required height it
' The Swing"
BY CAPT. ROY F. HALL
tached to the . crosspiece in one
manner only. In smaller swings
the ropes were attached to the 111S1 was a siigie seave. _alel
crosspiece by knots; but not the Dad built a gondola for it, like
high swing. . - -
Say the swing was 30 feet high
over 80 years, as counted by the
rings when felled. Sure would
like to know about this, how
the vines got up there in the — -------- -
first place, and why this type of ‘ crosspiece it was never fastened
grapevine had the best grapes, to it. The three wrappings or
John Friar and Lee Howell of
Weston were in McKinney on
business Friday.
F. Witherspoon, Mr. Art Whitney,
Mr. and Mrs. Forest Woods and
Mrs. Paul Young.
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gamanu"p.
in a rather restrained sort of
way.
Mother, my baby sister and I
were in the garden west of our
house picking peas when we
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tile to his senses and he uncoil- i
ed and fled. In spite of Mother’s
frantic swipes he got under the
woodpile and to safety.
By all rules and regulations the
girl should have fainted dead a-
way. Did she? Not by a jugful.
She came off the ground as if pro-
pelled by springs and took flight.
She sailed down our orchard to-
ward her home, squealing three
times to every jump. We pursued
her a short way but soon gave up,
and I was sent to her home to
see how she was making out. Her
mother was frantic when I got
there, after hearing the girl
scream something about a snake.
Examination had showed her no
bites were in evidence and my
appearance sort of bridged the
situation.
We figured out later what we
thought had occured. The snake,
a king snake and nonpoisonious,
and commonly called a “chicken
snake” had started across under
the swing and when the girl
swung down over him he promp-
tly buried his head in or on
the ground and coned over it
as a protection.
I have tried to laugh over this
small incident, but somehow I
can get no fun out of it. I think
perhaps that the horror of seeing
the girl fall on top of the poor
old snake sort of froze something
in my soul that remains to this
day. At the time, and at the age
I was, I thought there could be
nothing more horrible than that
screeching fall.
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District Conference
Set November 30 for
Methodist Conference
The Sherman-McKinney Meth-
odist District Conference has been
' set at the Key Memorial Church
on Monday, November 30, at 9:15
: a.m. The program will include
■ several well-known ministers,
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a good town, but loves to come
over and mingle with his good
friends in McKinney. He was hap-
rar waiver, v ernon vvaikei, py over the fine rains and in-
Bill Proctor and Ceman Mitchell creased outlook for business.
Though better than the grape-
vine swing, swings put up under
a tree were not as satisfactory
as those built where wanted near
the home, and, as stated, many
erected their own swings. Trees
seldom grew where wanted and
when one did a stout horizontal
limb usually was not present on
it. Take a look the next time you
are in the woods and see how few
limbs lend themselves to swing
making. Trees grew around many
of the homes of those days, and
when one had a good swing limb
it was a treasure indeed. Again
let me remind you that this limb
had to be 30 or more feet from
the ground, for only very small
children used a swing lower than
that.
In erecting a swing two poles,
usually the trunks of ash trees
that had grown in heavy woods,
were used and they were as long
as the swing builder could find.
Exsauzmaemasua
a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasant-
est thing
Ever a child can do.
Up in the air and over the
wall,
‘Till I can see so wide.
Rivers and trees and cattle and
all
Over the countryside—■
Till I look down on the garden
green,
Down on the roof so brown,
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down.”
Right cute, don’t you think, but
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more held it firmly by friction.
I never heard of a rope slipping
on the crosspiece. You can see
the why of this wrapping; the
rope merely unwrapped as the
swing went to and fro—no mat-
ter how high and did not have
to bend. I have to say again, I
never heard of a rope breaking
at the crosspiece.
Those big swings did not trav-
el very fast. The longer the pen-
dulum, as you learned in school,
the slower the swing, and the
best way to operate them was to
get one started and then have
the pusher “run under” it. This
was done by the person pushing
the swing running behind the
seat and going clear under it,
pushing it upward as far as he
could at the end. You cannot im-
agine the exhileration experien-
ced in the long sweeping course
of one of those tall swings. It
seemed to pause at the top of
the sweep, hesitate a moment, and
then slowly start back and down.
Coming within fifteen feet or so
of the very bottom of its course
the swing appeared to level out
and glide along parallel with the
ground, the next thing to actual
flying I have ever experienced
in my life.
A swing with ropes forty feet
long would swing through an arc
that measured at least 60 feet,
and the big swing was a long
time in “dying” down too. As
screams were awful in that they
rose and fell, a sort of a dop-
pler effect, but most piercing in
the middle. We listened a mo-
ment then dashed in the yard
and around the house to see what
was what.
A neighbor girl, age around 12,
was in our big swing swinging.
She was standing on the seat and
when the swing reached its low-
est course her screams were the
loudest and downright panicky.
We instantly saw the source of
all the racket. Right square in
the middle of the swing and on
the ground was a chicken snake.
He was sort of wrapped up on
himself with his head hid down
in his folds. Every time the
swing passed over him the girl
threw back her head, closed her
eyes and screamed to high heav-
en.
Mother found a hoe and at-
tacked the snake, hitting at him
and missing every stroke. The
girl finally came to herself and
jumped off the swing seat. How-
ever, instead of getting off away
from the snake she jumped off
as it was going back toward him.
She hit the ground and fell back-
wards, and by George, she fell
squarely on top of the snake.
This apparently brought the rep-
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was more of a chore than fun.
One situation here that remains
more or less of a mystery; how
did some of those grape vines,
fifty feet from the nearest tree
trunk, reach straight upward
without support to a far-out limb
on a big tree thirty, forty and
fifty feet or more? Must have
been that they started growing on
the tree when it was a sapling
and grew up with it. Here,
though, we stumble. The Depart-
ment of Agriculture says that the
length of life of the ordinary fox
grape—as these were—is not
over 30 years, and some of the
trees the vines were on were
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Thompson, Wofford & Thompson, Wofford, Jr. The McKinney Examiner (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 26, 1964, newspaper, November 26, 1964; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1523689/m1/7/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.