The Courier-Gazette from McKinney, Texas • 2

Page 2 McKinney Courier Gaiette Tuesday March 9 1976 6(nmu) Soak TUESDAY March 9 AAUW (PLANO) The Gardening group will have a field trip Call Pat Evans 423 6312 for information AAUW (PLANO) Evening Bridge group will meet at the home of Mary Jo oxe 2205 Winterstone 423 8651 at 7 :30 pm EN AMI Club will meet with Mrs Bill Warden for a program on Communication by Mrs Stroud Nesbitt McKlNNEY GARDEN Club will hear Sandra owler home service advisor Mrs Chester Douglas is chairman of un Day Hostesses are Mmes Rutledge Powell McCallum urr and Myrick JL GREER PTA will meet 7:30 pm in the cafeteria for election of officers Mrs music class will present the program STILLMAN COLLEGE Choir of Tuscaloosa Ala will present' a program at 7:30 pm in the irst Presbyterian Church The public is invited WILL have a and dinner at Collin County National Bank community room at 6:30 pm REGULAR MEETING Chapter 2076 AARP will be held 2 pm in the Dulaney Room of the library John McCraw Jr attorney will speak of and Those needing transportation contact: armersville: EC Marshall 782 7166 Wylie: Mrs Douglas 442 2637 Princeton: Louise Lamont 736 2367 McKinney: Mr and Mrs Carl Bell 542 5240 Stitchery display now in CMH foyer In keeping with the current trend to recapture our heritage and the past stit chery and other needlework by Mrs Ruby Swanner is displayed in the foyer of Collin Memorial Hospital Mrs Swanner of McKinney is well known throughout Collin County for her beaiiiful stitchery and quilting She has displayed and sold her work at Collin County Crafts shows and in Plano Mrs Swanner is a member of the irst Presbyterian Church Heard Museum Volunteers guild and Collin County Craftsmen Her exquisitely done quilts are in such places are Ard more Okla New Mexico and many cities and town in Texas She has an order from Denver Colo as well as from Tennessee and Detroit Mich The display can be seen during the month of March and she will donate a delightful piece to the ward of the hospital at the conclusion of the show i Jr mi JHhlB 1 fV JHH ir 4 ew jEglL COLORUL CREATIONS Mrs Ruby Swanner of McKinney whose stitchery is featured this month in the foyer of Collin Memorial Hospital is appropriately shown with her grandchildren John and Beth Ann Swanner since she plans to donate one of her creations to the children's ward at the end of her show BRANCH CITY Council will meet 8 pm in the home of Mayor William Hayes The public is invited to attend CONNER HARRINGTON Republican Club will meet 7:30 pm at the home of Mrs Carol Schaefer 2500 Slides take club to Williamsburg Dalgreen Plano Republican candidates will outline their plans WEDNESDAY March 10 HEARD MUSEUM Volunteers Guild will meet 10 am at the museum The program in the will be given by James Pierce exhibits consultant ASCINATING WOMANHOOD class will meet 10 am to 12 noon at the library each week until March 31 Nursery provided at the irst Baptist Church NORTH CENTRAL Texas Genealogical and Historical Society will meet 7:30 pm at the Gladys Harrington Public Library 1501 18th St Plano Visitors are welcome AAUW (PLANO) Arts and Crafts (day) will meet at the home of Mary Stanton 2512 Stonemoss 424 8659 at 9:30 am Quilting will be demonstrated HURRICANE CREEK Ladies Association spring fashion show will feature spring and summer fashions from McKinney Dry Goods THURSDAY March 11 THE NATIONAL Association of Retired ederal Employees will have their regular monthly meeting at 10:30 am at Wyatt's Cafeteria Meeting Room at Beltline and Central Expressway A program pertaining to the preparation of tax forms will be presented by a representative from the Internal Revenue Service All members and eligible retirees are urged to attend CELINA INTER Se Club will meet with Mrs Nolan Walker for a program Upon a Time in by Mrs Robert Short and Mrs Harry Uthoff Club members will contribute recollections NOINO STUDY Club will meet in the home of Leta Smith with Oretha Davis and aye Nell Carr as co hostesses Leader is Joyce Gilbert Billy Combest will present a program on Drug Abuse AAUW (PLANO) the study group will meet at the home of Lolissa Moores 163 Moonlight Drive Murphy 423 5729 "Living with by Meg Titus will be presented ART CLUB will meet 3:30 pm withMmes Berry Rowell and Bergman as hostesses A film on John Marin American watercolorist will be shown ANNY INCH PTA will meet 7:30 pm for election of of ficers and a spring musical presented by the third grade A nursery will be provided for 2 children DAV CHAPTER 38 will meet 6 pm in the Central National Bank community room RIDAY March 12 EN AVANT Club will meet with Mrs Roscoe Wallace for a program on Antique Glass by Mrs Joe McKinney SESAME CLUB will meet with Mrs WT Dungan for a program by Mrs LW Coleman SATURDAY March 13 THE JOHN Abston Chapter DAR will meet 10 am at Collin County National Bank MEIJSSA GARDEN Club will meet with Mrs JH Wysong WW1 VETERANS Barrack 1942 and their Auxiliary will meet 2 pm in the community room of Central National Bank SATURDAY March 13 BAPTIST ELIX) WSHIP Club will meet 7:15 pm at the home of Mrs Roberta Allen 1501 Erwin Mrs Allen will be celebrating her birthday All members are urged to attend SUNDAY March 14 Mrs rank Smith was lostess for the recent meeting of the En Avant Club A dessert plate of strawberry delight squares cheese covered olives and ccffee or tea was served to 16 members Mrs John Mooney president called the business meeting to order and asked that the club Collect be read in imison In the absence of the secretary Mrs JW Alexander read the minutes of the previous meeting and called the roll Mrs EL Gantt gave a view of Williamsburg using slides and recalling noteworthy historic facts about this town and the state of Virginia Mrs Gantt said in her in troduction that it is good that we have a time to look at our history John Kennedy said is the memory of our nation the future arises out of the She added that without looking at our past and preserving our heritage we could become a nation with no memory of our history Jamestown was the first permanent settlement in America however since there was better soil drainage for crops and fewer mosquitoes Williamsburg settlement was established in 1633 This was seven miles from Jamestown and after a fire destroyed the original settlement Williamsburg became the capitol of Virginia The state of Virginia as a whole was loyal to the mother country bit was also the cradle of revolution and home patriots Patrick Henry Money management topic at HD meet The McKinney Home Demonstration Club met in the Lone Star Gas auditorium where the president Bonnie Ramey called the meeting to order Mrs LL Bowen gave the devotional and business was conducted The part in the forthcoming District meeting in Renner on April 6 was discussed Mrs Ala Mae Carrell and Mrs Mary Capps were lucky in the birthday drawing Mrs Joy Eubandks brought the program on She stressed setting a goal and staying with it but not making it so high that achievement is im possible A small amount each fTIcKinney Courier Gazette PO Box 400 308 Virginia McKinney Texas 75069 Jerry Strader Editor and Publisher Jack Stem Managing Editor Wolford Thompson Jr City Editor Norman Wilson Sports Editor Ginny Beverly Women's Editor Col Tom Emerson Business Editor Pete Mulkey Advertising Manager Published every Monday through Saturday Second class postage is paid at ostoffice at McKinney Texas Every effort is made by the editors of The McKinney Courier Gazette to report the news events accurately However any erroneous reflection on The integrity or reputation of any firm or individual will be corrected if brought to the at tentiofl of the editors SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Carrier of motor route delivery: 1 year $2400 6 months $12 00 Collin County (except McKinney or McKinney 'Post Office Boxes) in advance mad I year $1600 6 week or month will soon become a large amount Refreshments were served from a table decorated in a bicentennial motif to 11 members and three guests All About Princeton By Mri Otii Johnson ifth Sunday program The Youth Choir The Music Makers Young Musicians and the Pre School choir of the irst Baptist Church sang for a large appreciative audience Sunday night before the service hour In one of the numbers the Pre School choir did the deaf sign language as they sang and did a marvelous job After the service the fifth Sunday all church fellowship hour was held in ellowship Hall The women of The irst United Methodist Church met at the Church Monday af ternoon for their regular meeting Mrs Luella Burns president presided over the business session Mrs Allie Edmonds brought the lesson Covenant with taken from 2nd Samuel Chapter i through 7 Refresh ments were served and the meeting was closed by all joining hanL and repeating the watchword Richard Henry Lee and four of the first five presidents Washington Jefferson Madison and Monroe The Rev Dr WAR Goodwin twice rector of the Brunton Parish Church with the help of John Rockefeller were two of the first to realize the unusual opportunity to portray the story of Williamsburg's great patriots and the stirring events that occurred here through the restoration of 85 original buildings Mrs Gantt had the privilege of worshipping in the Brunton Parish Church and on the bulletin was written: great The near great The somebodies The nobodies All worshipped here And still do The En Avant Club will meet next in the Heard Craig Club on March 12 with Mrs Roscoe Wallace as hostess Mrs Joe McKinney will present the program on Antique Glass Latest rom Lucas By Carolyn Buihong A lengthy agenda faces the Lovejoy School Board of Trustees when they meet Monday March 8 at 7:30 pm for their regular monthly meeting They will consider both the 200 and 400 series of board policies at the meeting Additionally in an executive session they will take care of personnel mat ters Contracts for all teachers will be considered A decision will be made concerning the 7th grade program for the coming school year The public is welcome to attend the open meeting Spelling champion Sean McGown 7th grade son of Mr and Mrs Dick McGown was named Lovejoy School spelling champion in the recent spelling com petition Carla Shaw 6th grade daughter of Mr and Mrs Tom Shaw was the runner up Both Sean and Carla represented Lovejoy in the Collin County Spelling Bee Saturday morning in McKinney Alternates were Deedee Gillespie and Jeremy Semrau 6th and 5th grader respectively Carl Marion of Lucas' Hidden Meadows had been confined to Collin Memorial Hospital during the past week with a back problem More winners The Tepera children do seem to have winning ways about them Andy a Lovejoy 7th grader has been a winner in the Lovejoy Gazette school paper contest for the past two months ourth grader Susan Tepera has a brand new 10 speed bike a prize in a contest in a Dallas newspaper Susan named a monster and won her new set of wheels that way Dottie Trahan was 'away from her classroom at Lovejoy for several days last week She has been confined to her home with a recurrence of a back problem Her mother Mrs Willie Dee Smith of Sulphur La arrived riday night to assist in the Trahan home Open house A big crowd converged on Lovejoy school Thursday night when the annual Open House was held The rooms were prepared for the Parents Guests with a very prevalent Bicentennial theme showing throughout Refreshments were provided by the school with 7th grade girls serving as hostesses at the refreshment table With filing deadlines last Tuesday it appears have two good races ahead for city council and for the Lovejoy School Bord Both elections will be held on April 3 ive men filed for City Council for three vacancies These men are Joe Tepera and Dave Rainbolt both in cumbents Milt Gosney Bob Theobald and Merton Bushong Three persons are seeking the one spot at Lovejoy They are Pat Hoelzel Rod Rayburn and Mary Ellen Shaffer According to Lovejoy PTC president Del Hayes thrse three candidates will be presented at the March meeting of the Parent Teachers Club At this meeting scheduled for Monday March 22 Mrs Hoelzel Mr Rayburn and Mrs Shaffer will have an opportunity to speak to the group regarding their qualifications for the job they each seek SECOND SUNDAY singing Convention of Collin County will meet 2 4 pm at Southside Assembly of God Church 1305 Wilcox McKinney Singers from other countie will be present including Eveready Quartet Mr and Mrs TE Hamm and Mr and Mrs Jim Miller of Sulphur Springs and Mr and Mrs Kelse Ross of Quitman: All singers and listeners are invited to attend Wiley Griffin president months $900 BY MAIL DELIVERY OUTSIDE COLLIN COUNTY paid in advance a year $2400 6 months: $1250 3 months: GL Hargett CirculationMgr Circulation Dept Phone 542 6471 ALL OTHER DEPTS 542 2611 TEX AS PRESS 1976 ASSOCIATION Wedding ring made bracelet on new quints The quintuplets' claimed to be the first quints to survive infancy were so tiny at birth that their mother was able to slip her wedding ring over their hands Weekly Special HAMBURGER BASKET 89c BAR BE QUE BASKET 99c Offer Good Thru 3 13 76 DRIVE IN 1102 Tennessee 542 1248 5421249 Every Wednesday Night Is AMILY NIGHT 12 Price On All Pizza Served In Our Dinning Room 402 Tennessee 542 1293 1 rf News Bv Ginny Bavarty fox xx Ancestors come alive for club Texas Heritage was the theme for the Edelweiss program when Mrs LR Huddleston was hostess to the club Members were served a refreshment plate of chicken casserole chips chocolate pie and punch as the social hour began The meeting was opened with Mrs George Kadera using for the invocation is a by Mme Schuman Heinck Mrs Gary Minshew president conducted the business meeting A letter was read from Meals on Wheels thanking the club for their recent contribution It was announced that members would meet March 12 at 3 pm in the home of Mrs Lyman Robinson to put together the bicentennial quilt which has been a two year project The program was "Our Collin County Texas by Mrs Minshew nee Bobbye Jack Chandler and Mrs Naomi Snider Morris This part of the program began with a salute to the Texas flag led by Mrs GR Wheeler Mrs Moms told of her ancestor William Snider born in 1806 son ol Revolutionary soldier John Snider William with his wife and nine children settled in Collin County between 1844 and 18 18 The third child James Madison Snider bom in 1830 was the grandfather of Mrs Morris The most interesting true story she related con cerned the conversion and baptism of this grandfather on eb 14 1864 with the tem perature near zero JB Wilmeth home on furlough from Galveston where he was a Lt Col in the Confederate forces preached at orest Grove in James home there being no Christian Church there at that time James Snider and two others were converted and because of the war James felt he could not wait until better weather to be baptized even though all creeks and streams were frozen over so a huge fire was built on the shores of Snider Lake John McKinney and Gabe itzhugh took axes and broke the ice until they were 50 feet out from the shore and the water was three feet deep The men on the shore sang religious songs while Rev Wilmeth lowered Snider into the sub freezing water They changed clothes by the fire and went back to the house where Mrs Snider had hot tea made from mullen leaves for them to drink There was of course no liquor and because of the war no coffee Mrs Morris is connected by marriage with the Morris Waddill family who played an important part in the educational and judicial history of Collin County Mrs Minshew a high school teacher and a Methodist has among her ancestors Methodist preachers One club member remarked after the baptismal story were a lot of advantages to being a Methodist especially in cold Mrs Minshew in tracing her family for the McKinney ederation of Clubs bicentennial project with the stories published in the Courier Gazette found she was through intertwining of her four ancestral lines related to nearly everyone in Collin County who springs from the pioneers The four lines are Culwell Biggs Chandler and ox families In 1842 her great great grandfather William Culwell born in North Carolina came from Ten nessee to Collin County where he was a farmer a blacksmith and was skilled in remedies for various ailments He was called even though he was not trained as a doctor Her great great grand father Albert Chandler came about the same time Her great grandfather Organ built most of the old iron bridges around McKinney Charles (Sam) ox was Mrs great great great grandfather on her side He settled on Upper Rowlett Creek in 1850 His daughter laiura ox married an Anderson lived near Prosper was a school teacher but later had 11 children and outlived most of them Other third generation Collin County dub members are Mrs Tip McCarley Mrs David Clifton and Mrs Huddleston On display were an old family photo album of Mrs Morris's and Helen HISTORY COLUN COUNTY The Weston Wire By Mrt Home from hospital Mrs Beatrice oster Mr Ernest Rigsby and Loice Whitaker have all returned home from hospitals Lonzo Griff of Van Alstyne visited Loice Whitaker on Saturday Mrs Doris McElroy and sons Thomas and James of Garland visited them on Sunday Sunday guests of Mr and Troy Cowan Mrs Ernest Rigsby were: Mrs Leona Howell of Anna Earl Miller of Bethel Paul Warden of McKinney and LR Grigg of Van Alstyne Class party The Young Married Class of the East McKinney Christian Church had a Sunday School party in the home of Mr and Mrs Tommy Kissinger Saturday night SPECIAL PERMiNENT $11 SO Rag 1300 $g50 $2Q00 $J00 $J50 Com Sm Our New 941 175 Cody Owner EYE TABBING Reg 1300 EAR PIERCING Rg MANICURES Rag '400 Line Sprlnp Cortume Jewelry A ferrlnp BLOW CUT R) SSO ANNA BEAUTY SALON Plaza North Shopping Center COMPLETE ROST Reg 2950 CM.