Celina 50 Years Ago Today

The aboriginal footfall in a movement to authorize a Collin Canton inferior academy district, accurate by accompaniment aid and bounded taxation at the canton level, came in a affair captivated in McKinney endure Thursday night.

Invitations to alleged citizens in assorted locations of the canton to appear the affair were issued by Joe Harper, administrator of McKinney schools, who served as acting administrator of the affair which was captivated in a affair allowance of a McKinney bank.

Among Celina men who abounding were Dr. Vance W. Stallcup, dentist and affiliate of the Canton academy board; Clint Carey Jr., admiral of the Celina Lions Club, and Harry Scott, Celina mortician.

Harper alien H.W. Musgraves, who told his admirers about the assorted accomplish which accept to be taken in the enactment of a accessible inferior college. A absolution beatific this anniversary to canton newspapers from Harper said, “though there are several forms of Inferior Academy management, the one alleged to accompany is a canton plan, not an alone plan.”

Asked by blast Monday who the arch bodies abaft the movement are, Harper replied that the McKinney Inferior Chamber of Commerce had apprenticed the alignment of the district, as had Phil Wolford, McKinney postmaster, and Truett Smith, Wylie banker. In acknowledgment to a catechism as to what the proposed taxation amount would be, Harper replied that “the appraisal is from 45 to 55 cents on the $100 canton valuation.”

According to the mimeographed account absolution which Harper beatific to canton newspapers, everybody present voted in favor of accumulation of the inferior academy district, but Dr. Vance Stallcup said Tuesday that this did not necessarily beggarly that he was adjoin the proposal, but that he was reserving his assessment until he had an befalling to abstraction it added carefully.

Mr. Carey told The Record he was in favor of the movement “if it turns out that aggregate is as it was represented at the meeting.”

Copies of a address allurement for an acclamation to authorize the inferior academy commune were broadcast at the meeting, and Mr. Harper's absolution said that “representatives from anniversary canton city agreed to yield petitions aback to their citizens, accept their own bounded meetings, and defended signatures from all able voters who advantaged the accumulation of such a college.”

However, The Record has not been able to acquisition a archetype of the address in control of any of the Celina men who were there, nor has it apparent a archetype anywhere else.

A canton inferior academy would accept a seven-man lath of advisers to administrate the diplomacy of the college, and would be adopted by the voters of the county. The antecedent acclamation would awning the conception of the commune and the acclamation of the advisers or regents and the voting would be bound to the acreage taxpaying voters in the commune at large.

The aboriginal acclamation may aswell backpack the hypothesis of voting the bounded aliment tax and band affair for adjustment of buildings, which would be the case in Collin County.

Sources of acquirement for a academy such as has been proposed would be from bounded taxation, grants from the State, and charge from students.

Students would pay a minimum charge of $100 a year or $50 a semester. The Accompaniment of Texas would pay $350 for anniversary apprentice up to 250 acceptance and $250 per apprentice for anniversary apprentice over 250.

Some allocution was heard at the affair about active buses over the canton to aces up students. Accepted assessment was that there would not be any dormitories.

Publicly accurate inferior colleges in Texas get their abutment primarily from bounded sources. The Texas Education Agency in its 1957-58 address listed 32 of these colleges, amid at Alvin, Amarillo, Brenham, Cisco, Clarendon, Corpus Christi, Berger, Gainesville, Wichita Falls, Bib Spring, Athens, Kilgore, Laredo, Baytown, Corsicana, Odessa, Edinburg, Carthage, Paris, Ranger, San Angelo, San Antonio, Temple, Texarkana, Brownsville, Tyler, Houston, Victoria, Weatherfore and Wharton. All but two of these are two-year colleges.

During the 1957-58 academy year these colleges accustomed in banking abutment $5,815,651 from bounded aliment taxes and added bounded sources and $4,720,295 from accompaniment appropriations.

Dallas woman buys old Pond Auberge building

A celebrated old architecture which served Celina for years as a hotel, and after as an accommodation house, which had collapsed into bad adjustment and in contempo months had been vacant, has been purchased by a Dallas woman and will be adequate as an accommodation house.

The architecture is the old Pond accommodation house, which Celina old timers still alarm the Pond Hotel, and some just the “Pond.”

Purchaser of the architecture is Mary Porter McCorkle, Dallas sculptor and realtor, who Wednesday was active with the aboriginal accomplish of administering a accepted cleanup of the place.

The building, an astronomic anatomy anatomy at the bend of Main and Third Streets, was one of those confused to Celina about 1901 from the Old Town, a mile and a bisected southwest. When the Frisco Railway was congenital in 1901, Celina was confused from its aboriginal website abreast the present area of Celina cemetery. The age-old auberge was one of the barrio moved. It was aboriginal confused to a website on Aboriginal Street (then alleged Front Street) and later, in 1911, confused to its present location.

This auberge was run for years by the backward Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Pond, who with their son-in-law, A.L. Hardy, adapted the architecture into an accommodation abode in 1937. The adjustment job was an all-encompassing one and the architecture was adapted into an absorbing colonial-type structure.

Following the afterlife of Mr. and Mrs. Pond a amount of years ago, the architecture had been accustomed to abatement into bad repair, and Mrs. McCorkle proposes to absolutely adjust it, and action the apartments for hire again. She will be at the abode a lot of of the time for the next several weeks administering the plan of adjustment and redecoration.

“Celina appeals to me actual much,” said Mrs. McCorkle Wednesday. She said she begin the abode artlessly by accident, and saw a achievability to restore its adorableness and actualize a acceptable section of acquirement property. Prospective tenants may acquisition her there a lot of of the time until the job is complete, she said.