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Cooper Review - Page 2A
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Sheriff's Blotter
pUfl^ On The River
By Delta County Sheriff Ricky Smith
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From August 2, 2013 - August 8, 2013, the
Delta County Sheriff’s Office handled 38 calls
for service, 538 telephone calls, and 44 9-1-1
calls. Deputies made five (5) arrests, and filed
four (4) offense/incident reports. Of the38
calls for service, deputies were dispatched to
the following:
Precinct 1-5 calls, Precinct 2 -9 calls, Precinct
3 -6 calls Precinct 4-3 calls, City of Cooper
-15 calls.
Arrests
1 - Criminal mischief
1 - Driving without driver’s license
1 - Minor in consumption
2 - Violation of probation
Incident Reports
1 - Burglary of a habitation
1 - Credit card theft/abuse
1 - Death report
1 - Theft > $40 < $500
If anyone has information about any felony
criminal offenses occurring in Delta County
please contact the Lake Country Crime Stoppers
Tip Line at (903) 885-2020. Information leading
to the arrest of individual(s) involved in the
offenses may result with cash for tips.
Numbers Wrong?
By Jim Butler
Owner/Publisher
During the regular Cooper
City Council meeting on
Monday, it was brought to
the attention of the Council
members the City tax notice
published in last week’s
edition of the Cooper Review
was incorrect and efforts are
being made to get the correct
information out to the public.
It was indicated that this year’s
taxable base was understated
due to a computer error at the
Delta County Appraisal District
(DC AD).
Council member Joann Preas
who represents the City on the
DCAD board indicated that
DC AD will meet on Thursday
at 5:30 p.m. Their budget will
be discussed and should be
finalized for submission to the
taxing entities.
Kenneth Flanery came before
the Council asking that he be
allowed to partially fence his
property between SW 8th and
SW 9th Streets with gates to
allow the City to have right
of way easement access. He
indicated the fence will help
prevent people from walking
through his property. The
Council voted, once City
Attorney Jay Garrett draws
up the necessary contract, the
fence can be installed.
Derrell London, representing
the Delta County Economic
Development Corporation,
requested the city to
appropriate $500 in the
coming year’s budget as the
city’s share to help fund the
EDC. London stated, “The
EDC will hold a planning
session on Tuesday, August
20, 2013, 6:30 p.m.” Approval
was given by the Council to
provide the funding.
In other matters, approval
was given to renew the
tax collection contract
with the Delta County Tax
Assessor Collector and to
renew the contract with the
Texas Municipal League
for administrative services.
Approval was also given
to advertise for bids for a
depository bank.
A proclamation naming
August 11, 2013 as “Call
Before You Dig Day” was
approved.
During regular departmental
reports, after James Jerrell
stated, “ Water leaks are slow
this year.“ Mayor Scotty
Stegall warned, “You will
probably have a major water
leak since you said that.” It
was also reported we’ve had
fewer fires and the city lake
level is holding steady at this
time. The need for replacing
fire equipment in the next few
years was discussed along with
the current need to purchase
additional bunker gear for the
fire department.
The next regular Council
meeting is scheduled for
Monday, September 9, 2013
at 6 p.m. at City Hall.
Fatality: Scott Ferguson, former head
of SSISD, dies in farming accident
Courtesy of Sulphur
Springs News-Telegram
A former long-time
superintendent for Sulphur
Springs Independent School
District died Sunday in a
farming accident.
Scott Ferguson, 79,
of Sulphur Springs was
pronounced dead at the scene
by Precinct 2 Justice of the
Peace Ronny Glossup.
A neighbor reportedly called
emergency officials at 9:29
a.m. Sunday to report Ending
Ferguson not far from his
house, where he’d apparently
been working. A tractor was
reportedly on top of Ferguson,
who did not have a detectable
pulse, according to sheriff’s
reports.
Glossup said Monday it was
unclear how Ferguson became
trapped under the tractor.
Based on an examination
of the scene, officials were
unable to determine whether
Ferguson experienced medical
difficulties which caused him
to fall off the tractor or if he hit
something while driving it and
fell.
An autopsy was ordered,
as is standard procedure in
unattended deaths of this
nature, to determine if a
medical issue could have
resulted in the death.
Arrangements for Ferguson
are pending with Murray-
Orwosky Funeral Home.
Ferguson was SSISD
superintendent in the 1970s
and early ‘80s, including the
time when the bond issue for
Sulphur Springs High School
was passed. Ferguson then
went on to work for Region
VIII Education Service
Center.
Calendar of Events
August
The Delta County Appraisal
District will be meeting to dis-
cuss the upcoming budget on
Thursday, Aug. 15 at 5:30 p.m.
in their new office located in the
former Health & Human Ser-
vices building near Parts Plus.
* * *
The abortion issue will
be discussed on August 17,
2013. Come to the West Delta
Community center located in
Klondike Texas to hear Karen
Northcutt, wife of District
Judge Eddie Northcutt, speak
on what happened in Austin
during the debate on the
abortion bill. Karen will share
with us what her experiences
were while she was in Austin.
Come hear a Christian woman’s
first-hand experience and share
your thoughts and ideas on
this important issue. Meeting
will start at 10:00 a.m. Come
early for a pancake and sausage
breakfast for only $3. For
information contact Joe Adams
at (903) 517- 5478.
* * *
The Delta County Economic
Corp will be meeting Tuesday,
Aug. 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the
Cooper City Hall. Officer
election will be held as well
as electing a seventh board
member.
* * *
Delta County Public Li-
brary will be starting back the
lunches on Wednesday, August
21 which include bake potato,
salad, garlic bread, dessert, and
tea at the usual time. Call for a
reservation.
* * *
Cooper Elementary will be
hosting Meet the Teacher night
on Thursday, Aug. 22 from 5-
6:30 p.m.
* * *
Telephone: 903-395-2175
Owners - Jim and Sally Butler
Publisher - Jim Butler “
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Editor - Cindy Roller ~
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News and ad deadline 4 p.m. Monday.
Gateways Seminars will be
hosted Saturday, August 24 from
9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Cooper
First Baptist Church to provide
parents and teens with informa-
tion on how to keep their faith
in public school. Light refresh-
ments will be served.
October
Class of 1963, 50th Class
Reunion - Friday, Oct, 4 and
Saturday, Oct 5, 2013: Friday
is Cooper High School’s
Homecoming. Some of the
Class of 1963 class will meet
5:30 at the Pizza Factory on the
Square in Cooper for dinner
then on to the ballgame!
On Saturday, Oct. 5 meet at
McKinney House, located on
First Street in Cooper, at noon
for a catered barbeque lunch
and visiting.
The public would be honored
if those from this class could
make plans to attend. It will be
a casual setting.
The cost is $20.00 per
person.
Please contact Judy Thomas
Stewart with an RSVP by
September 1 and money is due
by September 15. Reservations
and money should be sent to
Carol Beth King (just make
checks out to her) mail to P. O.
Box 144, Enloe, Texas 75441.
Feel free to pass the word
along to everyone.
LOAD IT UP BOYS,
WE GOIN’ HOME
Here’s a little more about the Monday night
music soiree I attend sometimes. The songs are
mostly country and the kind that just grab aholt
of you and hang on all week. Remember the ear
worms where you can’t get a song out of your
brain? Try listening to a few of the following
and see if one tags along with you. Just type the
name of the song in on the internet. Sad Songs
and Waltzes, Going Where the Lonely Go, In
Love With a Rodeo Man, The Last Thing I
Needed the First Thing This Morning, Make Up
and Faded Blue Jeans, Hadicol Boogie, It Don’t
Hurt Anymore, I Never Go Around Mirrors, I
Met A Friend of Yours Today, Darkest Hour Is
Just Before Dawn, Who Says You Can’t Have
it All, You Don’t Know About Lonely, Smokin’
Cigarettes And Drinking Coffee Blues, I’m So
Afraid of Losing You Again, and Do You Be-
lieve Me Now. Now that is a heck of a group
of songs. There are many others played each
week but those seem to be some of the regulars.
Music isn’t the only entertainment as somebody
tells a joke occasionally.
When I arrived a little early two weeks ago
some of the crew were standing outside and I
thought it unusual to see what looked like ciga-
rette smoke. I knew none of them smoked and
when I got closer it looked like they were smok-
ing those little black Swisher Sweet cigars only
about twice as long. Closer checking showed
them to be smoking catalpa beans. Never heard
of it before. Of course they weren’t inhaling
but just making smoke. Said they are good to
carry squirrel hunting and the smoke will keep
mosquitoes away. One of the men smoked them
years ago like some kids smoked grapevine. Just
get a catalpa bean and cut about an inch off both
ends so air can come through. You got to pick
them at the right time. Too early and they are
too green to burn. Too late and they are cracked
and the smoke goes out the sides. Now you kids,
don’t go out and start smoking catalpa. You will
bum your mouth and that smoke makes your
throat raw.
One night somebody announced they were
going to play Love Me Tender so everyone could
be getting their capo (That’s Italian for ‘head of
fretboard.”) in the right place and Tom said he
just hated those real slow songs. I told Tom that
when a guy was sixteen at a high school sock
hop on the gym floor, it wasn’t too slow. I know
nothing of music and sit in wonderment at the
talent of these guys. Before a song sometimes
you may hear something like, “Put your capo on
the fourth fret, start out in A then go to C minor
then to E flat.” I am just amazed to think how
long it would take me to learn a thousandth of
what they know.
At times their fingers get to smoking from
playing the guitars and during a pause we learn
tidbits such as Gene Autry mentioned to side-
kick Smiley Burnett one day that he needed
a good western song to sing in some of their
movies. In ten minutes Smiley wrote one of
Gene’s most famous, Ridin 'Down the Canyon.
Smiley said he wasn’t just going to give him
the song for free but wanted five dollars. How
much would Smiley have made if he had just
kept a royalty on it?
At the next finger cooling break we talked
of Bob Wills trip to the Grand Old Opry. The
band was setting up and when they pulled out
the drums the man in charge told them they
couldn’t play drums on the Opry. Ole Bob
never blinked an eye but just said, “Load it up
boys. We going home.” I don’t know the rest
of the story but either on that trip or another
one, the one in charge told Bob he couldn’t do
his talking during songs or holler “Alihhhh ha.”
Bob showed his determination again and came
out with, “Load it up boys. We going home.”
Listen to some of those songs in the list above.
You may need a hanky to wipe a few tears or
some pills to get rid of an ear worm.
Free advice section. A few days ago I saw
on television that 50,000 propane tanks were
stored and caught on fire. Reckon the owner’s
mama forgot to teach him “Not to put all his
eggs in one basket?” If you can afford to own
50,000 propane tanks you need to buy a little
more land and spread them out far enough they
can’t ignite each other. Similar to the propane
tanks is the way some people put lots of big
round hay bales in a row touching each other.
When I was on the fire department and a row of
bales caught on fire we would have to go down
the row ahead of the fire and roll enough out of
the way so the fire couldn’t jump the gap.
Hogs continue to roam the Maloy Road area
south of Commerce near the Sand Hills Coun-
try Club. So far I have trapped ten of them in
a man’s yard. I have only caught one at a time
except for once when I had two. The last one
apparently got out of someone’s pen because
it will walk up to you wanting you to scratch
its back. All the others have been the typical
solid color but the gentle one was black with
the typical Hampshire breed stripe.
A woman sent her husband to the store with
instructions, “Get a gallon of milk, and if they
have avocados, get six.” Later her husband
came home with six gallons of milk and the
wife asked why. He answered, “They had avo-
cados.”
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it into a fruit salad.
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Freedom Rally and Bar-B-Que
U.S. Congressman
Louie Gohmert will be
the featured speaker on
Saturday, August 24 at a
Freedom Rally and Bar-
B-Que in the Mt. Pleasant
Livestock Pavilion. U.S.
Congressman Ralph
Hall, candidates for
U.S. Congress District
4, candidates for Texas
Governor and many
representing other
statewide offices will also
be speaking during the
event. Bring lawn chairs
and blankets to sit close
to the stage. Bar-B-
Que begins at 11:00 a.m.
Admission is free. Bar-
B-Que is optional for a
nominal charge.
Louie Gohmert
Programs at Cooper Lake State Park
AUGUST 17
9:30 a.m. - GUIDED
CANOEING TOUR - Meet at
Park Headquarters. $12 Canoe
rental for up to 3 people
2:00 p.m. - WHO LEFT
THAT/ANIMAL TRACKS -
Meet at Heron Harbor Parking
Lot and take a short hike to
the lake shore and check out
animal tracks. AUGUST
24
2:00 p.m. ~ NIGHT SKY
ACTIVITIES - Meet at Gulls
Bluff Group Pavilion Make a
“Sky Wheel” and learn about
the night sky. (Bring water.)
8:00 p.m. ~THE WONDERS
OF THE NIGHT SKY/
STARGAZING - Meet at Honey
Creek parking lot.
AUGUST 31
2:00 p.m. - GEOCACHE
TREASURE HUNTING - Meet
at Honey Creek Amphitheater.
(GPS receivers will be
provided.)
8:00 p.m. « NIGHT
SOUNDS - Meet at Honey
Creek Amphitheater.
SEPTEMBER 1
9:30 p.m. - WHATS A
KNOT & WHAT SNOT/KNOT
TIEING PROGRAM- Meet at
Honey Creek Amphitheater.
Special Labor Day event -
Photography in the Park. Stop
at Park Headquarters for more
details.
Programs may be cancelled
because of weather! Contact
903-945-5256 for updates.
Cool Off on a HOT AUGUST NIGHT
Collin Raye
headlines
Saturday's
fundraiser
Fire fighters are used to
heat, flames and cooking
a hearty meal. They’ll be
cooking up some fun with
this year’s 7th annual Hot
August Night on Saturday,
Aug. 17.
This event benefits the
volunteer fire departments in
Hopkins County.
The events begins with
Vendor booths and Kids zone
with bounce houses snow
cones, and cotton candy.
Then there’s BBQ! This
year for the first time there
will have three categories for
the BBQ Cooks to compete
in: ribs, chicken, and of
course brisket.
The firefighters compete
amongst themselves for the
coveted Fire Department
perpetual trophy. There are
also non fire departments BBQ
cook teams who compete for
the prize of the best of the
rest, we have competitors
throughout the Northeast
Texas region coming to this
year’s event
Ending the day with the
hottest event of all; a concert
featuring award winning
country artist Collin Raye.
He will be performing at 8
p.m. The opening act for
Raye will be the Texas Red
Dirt Artist Jason Cassidy.
For ticket information
contact the Hopkins County
Civic Center Box Office at
(903) 885-8071.
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Roller, Cindy. Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 133, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 2013, newspaper, August 15, 2013; Cooper, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1006794/m1/2/?q=music: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Delta County Public Library.