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Celina 50 Years Ago Today
This is a selection of stories, classified ads and commercial ads from the Celina Record first published Thursday, September 6, 1962.
Celina School begins new term
Celina school childre3n got their first taste of the new school year last Friday when schoolhouse doors swung open for registration, issuance of books, and beginning of classwork.
In the first grade, only 20 youngsters – an unusually low figure – showed up for their first day in school. They are Gary Don Robinson, Paul Harold Martin, Brenda Ann Kinney, Linda Jan Kinney, Steve Allan Kinney, Keith Herron Scott, Charles Ray Huddleston, Ronda Gale Wilson, Cynthia Ann Tolleson, Joseph Dudley Wester, Mark Allen Rutherford, Chris Thomas Rogers, Carol June Hall, David Noe Torres, Donna Sue Parks, Peggy Dolores Aaron, Erasmo Ibana Morales, Susan Diana Williams, Katryn Renee Pelly, and Frieda Sue Bunch.
In the second grade, 28 were enrolled, in the third, 24; fourth, 26, and fifth, 26. In Junior High School, 28 enrolled in the sixth grade, 28 in the seventh, and 29 in the eighth, for a total of 86.
In High School, 22 students showed up for the ninth grade, 37 in the tenth, 23 in the eleventh, and 27 in the twelfth, for a total of 109.
The season’s first high school athletic event is scheduled for Friday evening at 8 o'clock, when the CHS Bobcats meet the Sanger football team in a non conference game on the Celina gridiron.
Weekend rains total 4.06 inches
Weekend rains totaling 4.06 inches fell in the Celina area, according to readings of the Weather Bureau rain gauge in the care of Mrs. Donna Pace.
On Sept 1, the reading was 2.90. On Sept. 2, it was 1.45, and on Sept. 3, .25 inches.
Through August, the year's rainfall totaled 26.39, making a total through Sept. 3 of 30.99 inches.
Nine 1962 graduates eye college this fall
Of last spring's 21 members of the Celina High School graduating class, about half are making plans to enroll in college this fall.
According to a hurried survey by The Record, a total of nine of the graduates will go away soon to various colleges. Helen Kindle, who had been working during the summer as a page for Republic National Bank in Dallas, will become a student in East Texas State College, Commerce, when the fall term begins Sept. 16.
Virginia Graham, an honor student in last spring's graduating class, is looking forward to her first year in the University of Texas in Austin, beginning right away with the activities of rush week.
Bennie Porter regretfully sold his palomino filly Wednesday, preparatory to enrolling in Sam Houston State College, Huntsville. David Tolleson, one of the football greats of CHS, goes to Texas A & M. North Texas State College gets five of this year’s CHS grads – Joyce Carter, Glenda Cozart, A.D. Harvell, Danny Kelly, and Izzie Phelps.
Quarterback Club revives effort to build field house
An effort to raise funds with which to build a field house at the CHS football field has been taken up again by the Celina Quarterback club, after the project suffered a temporary interruption last year when the school was hit by a financial crisis.
According to Lloyd Childers, the club's business manager, a club committee met with the Celina school board and got the board members to agree to sign a note with the club members to finance a balance of $2500.00 needed to complete the building. The agreement was with the proviso, Childers said, that an additional 24 co-signers could be secured.
The club has a balance of $2470.00 in a special field house fund in the bank. The building is estimated to cost $5,000.00.
The borrowed money would be repaid through various Quarterback club activities.
Childers said that several people last year pledged contributions to the field house fund when they could see some evidence of a building going up.
“Now would be a good time for these folks to pay up on their pledges,” he said.
In the club's first meeting last Thursday morning the following officers were elected:
L.E. Stambaugh, captain; Otis Bratcher, co-captain; Lloyd Childers, business manager; Jesse Adams Jr., chaplain; Bill Bradley and Russell Baldridge, two-year directors, and Dr. Vance Stallcup, one-year director.
Celina Inter Se Club has reassembly meeting
Members of the Inter Se Club held their reassembly meeting at noon last Thursday, August 30, with a luncheon at the Commodore Motor Hotel in Denton.
The speaker was A.L. Gilbreth, State Field Operations Director of Civil Defense, who spoke on “Civil Defense in Your Community.” He also talked briefly on the underground government center now under construction near Denton.
Attending the luncheon were ten members of the club and these guests: Mrs. Robert Shook, Mrs. Leo Taylor, Mrs. Vance Stallcup, Mrs. Raymond Underwood, Mrs. T.T. Blagg, Mrs. Mac Winn, Mrs. Nolan Walker and Miss Jorene McKnight, all of Celina, and Mrs. T.M. Hughes, Jr., Van Alstyne, and Mrs. Ralph Boyer, Prosper.
Latest Russian song hit: “You'll wonder where your father went when he cusses out the government.”
Happy Birthday
Sept. 9 – H.M. Lafferty, Mrs. Carl Nelson, Mrs. W.J. Mulkey, Mrs. Frank O'Brien, Mrs. Cage Stone.
Sept. 10 – Charles Lee Nelson, Louie Maier, George Hayden Mallone, Janice Kay Stambaugh, Hugh B. Peterman, Mrs. Kenneth Howard, Mrs. R.G. Carpenter, Jr., Annette Parish, Linda Tolleson.
Sept. 11 – Mrs. S.L. Durham, Mrs. J.H. Palmer, Mrs. Willie D. Hamilton, Ray Webster, Kay Webster, Luke Johnson.
Sept. 12 – J.W. Bounds, Mrs. O.D. Hayes, Harold Stelzer, Janet Hooper, Jimmie Williams, Billy Ross Pell, Ella Faye Elliott, Danalene Prince.
Sept. 13 – C.F. Choate, Mrs. J.L. Meachum, Ruth Kissner, Cerenna Annette Mize.
Sept. 14 – Mrs. Sam Weatherford, Tom Milligan, Robert Campbell Lively.
Sept. 15 – A.L. (Ted) Cave, Linda Dubberly, Sandra Scott, Mrs. Clint Carey Jr., Wanda Peterman, Johnnie Wayne Shelton, Mrs. J.R. McIlroy, E.W. Edmonds.
News of Alla Community
By Mrs. Hershel Flanery
Boyd Wayne Logan, in the Army stationed at San Antonio, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Logan, last weekend.
Rev. and Mrs. Ross Bourland were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shelton.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brown of Grand Prairie spent last weekend visiting her mother, Mrs. W. T. Helms, and Mr. and Mrs. Claud Melton.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hawn and children of Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Perry and daughters of Celina, and Mrs. O.N. McCarty Jr., and children of Cottage Hill visited Mr. and Mrs. Claud Melton Monday.
Thousands of livestock to be exhibited at Fair
Thousands of head of purebred livestock and market animals will be on exhibition in two major shows at the 1962 State Fair of Texas in Dallas Oct. 6 – 12.
Featured during the first nine days of the State Fair, the Pan-American Livestock Exposition will spotlight the judging of 2,000 head of purebred beef and dairy cattle, swine, sheep and goats.
Top attraction during the second week of State Fair will be the Junior Livestock Shows and Auction Sales in which more than 2,000 Texas farm boys and girls will exhibit approximately 2,500 head of beef and dairy heifers, milk-fed and market steers, lambs and barrows.
Junior exhibitors will sell the grand champion steer and all other prize-winning steers at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 19, in the Livestock Pavilion.
Cottage Hill News
By Mrs. J.B. Tucker
Mr. and Mrs. Buell Shields served a turkey dinner Thursday evening to the following guests, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Shields and family, Deloris, Sally, and Bobby of Weston, and Mr. and Mrs. M.D. Shields, Billy, Shirley, Carl, and Jerry of Carrollton.
Beverly Jones has been a patient in a McKinney clinic since Thursday of last week.
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Combest were Mr. and Mrs. Donald Combest and family of Garland.
Miss Dona Francis returned home Thursday after a few weeks' visit with Mr. and Mrs. Luther Francis of McKinney.
Z.L. Francis is putting a new front porch on his house.
From the Early Files
From the Celina Record for Sept. 2, 1937
A burglar entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Lee and stole a radio from their bedroom only a few feet from where they were sleeping, ransacked a dresser drawer and took a small amount of cash.
C.S. Nelson had bought a brick business house at the corner of West Walnut and First Streets, which had been occupied by the Childress grocery store. The Childress store moved to the west side of the square.
Miss Winnie Douglas had been employed as a teacher in the schools at Vernon.
Monroe Howard, Celina iceman, was crippling on a foot which he had dropped a cake of ice on.
Dr. R.F. Harp, who had practiced medicine in Celina for a few months, was moving to Lakeview, in West Texas.
The B.H. Rucker grocery was paying farmers 20 cents a dozen for fresh eggs and 30 cents a pound for No. 1 butter.
The Bray Dry Goods Company was advertising men's suits and overcoats for $18.75 to $25.00.
Ads
Perry & Rucker offers Shurfine peaches, halves or sliced, no. 2 1/2 cans, 2 for 49 cents, Maxwell House instant coffee, 10-ounce jar for 99 cents, and choice seven steak for 55 cents a pound.
McKnight Grocery has Morton's salad dressing, pint jar for 25 cents, Kounty Kist Corn, 6 cans for $1.00 and Northern tissue, 3 rolls for 25 cents.
Carey Food Market has Snowdrift shortening, 3-pound can on sale for 49 cents, 5-pound bag of Gladiola flour for 39 cents and Bama frozen pies, 3 for $1.00.
The Ritz Theatre next week will be showing “Sergeants 3” starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop on Saturday, Sept. 8.
On Sunday, Sept. 9 the Spanish picture “Analfabeto” will be showing and on Saturday, Sept. 15 “Viva Zapata” will be showing starring Marlon Brando.
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