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THE CELINA RECORD | FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012
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FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY
This is a selection of
stories, classified ads
and commercial ads
from The Celina Record
first published Thurs-
day, Jan. 11,1962.
Bitter cold
wave strikes
Celina was thawing out
a bit in bright sunshine
Thursday at noon after one
of the coldest spells in his-
tory, which began with a
howling blizzard late Mon-
day night and brought
near-zero temperatures.
The gale-like wind,
which continued through
Tuesday and a part of
Wednesday, brought an es-
timated 2 inches of snow,
which was whipped by the
wind into drifts as deep as
2 or 3 feet.
Schools in Celina and
many other Texas towns
were closed, and Celina’s
school remained closed
through Thursday. The su-
perintendent, R.E. Murray,
went to Austin to a conven-
tion Tuesday morning and
nothing definite could be
learned about plans to re-
open, though J.T. Nelson,
high school principal, said
he hoped classes could get
under way again Friday.
Travel on icy streets was
difficult, and several minor
mishaps were reported. A
car slid off the street at the
intersection of West Oak
and Third streets and
struck a street sign stan-
dard. Tow-cars and
plumbers have been busy
since the cold struck.
Business has been prac-
tically at a standstill. Ben
Brewer, the town barber,
got tired of sitting around
by himself Friday, closed
up shop and went home for
a while.
Temperatures scraped
bottom. Wednesday morn-
ing’s low in Celina, as far as
The Record could learn
from several inquiries, was
6 degrees. Thursday morn-
ing the mercury dropped to
3 degrees.
Old-timers recall
cold spell of 1899
Celina folks whose teeth
have been chattering in the
frigid cold of the last three
days could learn something
about what really cold
weather is like by reading
some of the old newspaper
clippings about the great
Library offers surplus books
PENNY RATHBUN/STAFF PHOTO
The Celina Public Library has extra and donated books on offer. These books are avail-
able for a donation. Proceeds benefit the library.
This recipe comes from the Desserts
section of the “Be Our Guest” cookbook
published by the Fidelis Inter Se Club. To
obtain a copy of the cookbook call Jane
Huddleston at 972-382-2697.
Apple Cake
By Linda Long
2 eggs
2 cups sugar
1 and 1/4 cup oil
CORNER
3 cups flour
1/3 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups chopped apples
1 cup chopped pecans
Beat together eggs, sugar, and oil. Sift
together flour, salt, cinnamon and baking
soda. Add vanilla, apples and pecans to
beaten mixture. Bake in a 9-inch by 13-
inch pan for 1 hour in a 300 degree oven.
OWNER FINANCING
cold wave of 1899 — the
coldest weather recorded in
Texas by white men.
Tom O’Dell says that a
neighbor, Cal Stewart, had
started from the Alla com-
munity to the Emersan
ranch in the flats and that
it got so cold he stopped at
the O’Dell house for the
night.
Rhea Gossett, Celina
hardware merchant, was
living with his parents on a
farm just east of town
where Pete Cashon is now
living. He said their house
was icy cold and that the
women hung quilts over
doors and windows to help
keep out the arctic blast. “I
think I remember that the
mercury went to 4 below
zero, though it got a lot
colder than that in some
places,” Mr. Gossett said.
Perry Gearhart, who
lived at the time with his
parents a short distance
southeast of Celina, was
quoted by Mr. Gossett as
saying that the Gearharts,
who lived in a substantial
frame house, could not
keep it warm no matter
how much wood they fed to
the roaring fireplace. They
hung quilts from baling
wire strung from wall to
wall and partitioned off the
room into a smaller one in
an effort to keep warm.
State newspapers re-
ported that the Red River
froze over and cattle drift-
ing with the wind crossed it
and went on till they came
to fences and many of them
froze to death in tempera-
tures as low as 14 below.
Other rivers were frozen
over below San Antonio,
even Galveston Bay and
Corpus Christi Bay froze.
Switch engines were frozen
at Denison at 16 below.
More than a dozen peo-
ple in Oklahoma and
Texas, some as far south as
Houston and San Antonio,
froze to death. There was
snow in Florida to Tampa.
Trains into New York were
halted. Charleston, S.C.
had 6 below, the coldest
there since the first old-
time thermometer was
brought there in 1738.
In Dallas, it was 10
below, in Denton, 12 below.
Dog poisoner kills
several Celina dogs
Five or six Celina dogs
are dead and several chil-
dren’s hearts are sadder as
a result of the work last
week of a dog poisoner.
Best known of the vic-
tims was “Zip,” a tough
character of indeterminate
ancestry who belonged to
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Jones
and children. Sam said this
week that he’d give $100 to
learn who poisoned his
dog.
Other dogs who died in
pain as a result of the poi-
soner’s work were a cocker
spaniel belonging to Mr.
and Mrs. Lee Rucker and
Jimmy, a setter belonging
to Roy Allison, a beagle be-
longing to W.A. Mamison,
and a dog belonging to Bill
Mahan.
Recent stories in The
McKinney Courier-Gazette
have told of dog poisonings
in McKinney, and several
owners there who had lost
dogs offered rewards for in-
formation leading to the
identity of the poisoners.
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Mann, Rick. The Celina Record (Celina, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, January 13, 2012, newspaper, January 13, 2012; Plano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth804056/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Celina Area Historical Association.