Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 134, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 3, 2014 Page: 2 of 6
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Cooper Review - Page 2A
Sheriff's Blotter
By Delta County Sheriff Ricky Smith
From March 21, 2014 -March 27, 2014, the
Delta County Sheriff’s Office handled 57 calls
for service, 421 telephone calls, and 62 9-1-1
calls. Deputies made six (6) arrests. Of the
57 calls for service, deputies were dispatched to
the following:
Precinct 1-12 calls, Precinct 2-8 calls, Precinct
3 -7 calls, Precinct 4-6 calls, City of Cooper
-24 calls.
Arrests
2 - Abandon/endanger child (violation of
probation)
1 - Delivery of controlled substance PG1 < 1G
1 - Engaging in organized criminal activity
1 - Forgery of financial instrument
1 - Sexual abuse of a child under 14
Citations
1 - Driving while license invalid
2 - Expired driver’s license
1 - Expired registration
3 - Failure to maintain financial responsibility
1 - Open container
3 - Speeding
1 - Theft of service
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.
Scammers contacting Lamar Electric Members
Submitted by Dena
Reason, Lamar Electric
Scammers have contacted
electric cooperative customers
throughout the state of Texas.
These thieves have been posing
as cooperative employees and
are trying to steal your money
and personal information.
These thieves are primarily
targeting the elderly, but
have been known to target
businesses as well. The caller
informs the customer they are
behind with payment and there
is a truck headed to their house
to disconnect power if they did
not pay over the phone or go to
Walmart and send the money.
Lamar Electric requests that
any member who receives a
suspicious call to ask the name
of the caller and a phone number
to call back. Then hang up and
immediately report it to the
sheriff’s department. Asking
the caller for any information,
like a name and phone number,
may help authorities locate the
source of this scam.
At this time, one report of this
type of scam has been reported
within the area. However, we
want our members to be aware
of the scam so they can be
prepared should they receive a
phone call.
Please remember Lamar
Electric has an automated
system that contacts customers
after 5 p.m. The automated
system calls delinquent
accounts as a reminder. The
recording will not ask for a
payment nor does it have the
ability to take payments over
the phone.
Letter to the Editor
To whom it may concern:
Recently I read that the construction phase for the new South bound lanes of Highway 24 would
begin in the summer and it started me thinking. I was working in Paris when the new North
bound lanes of 24 from Cooper to Highway 19 were constructed and therefore had the occasion to
watch the progress almost daily. I remember thinking as I watched that there seemed to be many
humps and bumps visible throughout the construction but, I was no road engineer and didn’t
know how things should be done, and they clearly had State Highway Department Inspectors
there watching. They must be doing things right and surely they will smooth all of these places
out in another phase.
I was appalled when construction was complete and the State accepted that section of road.
They never smoothed the humps and bumps. Recently I’ve noticed that they are grinding parts of
those lanes and I believe it has helped but.....I hope that whatever the construction company and
whoever the inspectors, the new South bound lanes from Cooper to Hunt County will be better
from the start.
If you have questions about my comments, please take a drive at the 75MPH speed limit north
from Cooper to Highway 19. Then ride back along the same stretch on the South bound side.
The South bound lanes were essentially just resurfacing of existing road.
Concerned Citizen,
Van Watkins
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Lost Knds
From my ledger in 1986: Sunday, April 13.
This morning Jean and I went to the river to
check my trotlines and only had two soft-shell
turtles. Calvin Nix lives north of Don and Shir-
ley Smith in the Vasco/Cleveland neighborhood
and has had my two skunk traps borrowed. We
drove by his house and got the traps in which
he caught two skunks in the last few days. Back
at home a family of five lined skinks (shiny liz-
ards) were sunning on the flower bed cross ties.
A caterpillar crawled by and the female ate it.
Took several pictures. While we ate lunch with
Jean’s folks my beeper went off at 11:57. The
boy and girl, ages seven and five,that live across
from our house on Highway 19 were missing.
There were a lot of people at the house when I
got there. According to the parents, the little boy
and girl had mentioned running away a few days
earlier. Only one or two people had been told
that so some of us wasted valuable time search-
ing three nearby pools. On an average pool when
a kid drowns they will be in water neck deep or
less on an adult. Buddy McKim, Jason Ingram,
Jason Toon, and I held hands. One of us would
walk around the pool about knee deep and the
person on the other end would be out about neck
deep. Three pools near the house were checked
that way then we went to Larry Calvin’s lake to
check around the pier.
About then, Thomas Peters and Danny Lile
found the kids’ tracks in a dirt road going east of
the house
toward Brush Creek. Only then did we find out
about the runaway possibility. I walked across
the road and got on Bret’s colt, Jake, that I am
breaking. Since I had been so busy I hadn’t ridden
him in two weeks. He was so snorty and nervous
I had to snub him up to a post to get on. Rode
east of the kids’ house until I hit Brush Creek
and south to a fence. Hollered every once in a
while. Went through a gate into Wylie France’s
meadow. Rode around the big meadow hollering
and listening. On east and got on the Post Oak
Creek levee. Ran into Thomas Barr near the east
side of the meadow. He said specially trained
dogs were on the way.
From the levee I could see Wesley Clark’s pas-
ture and knew people in cars and pickups would
be driving around there so my best bet would be
on toward the river. Unknown to me at the time,
I was very close to the lost/runaway kids and
had I gone north instead of south would have
run right into them. The north end of this levee
ties into the hill near Jolly Peters’ house. Rid-
ing south I came to two little breaks in the levee
before coming to the main break that everyone
has called the “levee break” for years. Just west
of the levee break another levee starts and leads
west to the Highway 19 Bridge. I rode west
along the river to Highway 19 and back north
home. The kids were still lost. My mother made
iced tea and was serving it at the rescue truck
parked at the kids’ house. Larry Maynard was
manning the rescue truck and working the radio.
A helicopter and tracking dogs were on the way.
The kids had gone out to play at 10:15 and now
it was after 2:00. Paulette and Danny Lile, Scot-
ty and Justa Calvin began searching at 11:00 and
at 11:55 called the sheriff’s office for more help.
Everyone was asked to come out of the woods
so if anyone were seen it would probably be the
kids. All we could do now was turn it over to the
dogs and helicopter.
State Trooper Jerry Hagan set up a land-
ing zone for the helicopter at Freck and Jewel
Holdren’s about a mile south of the kid’s house.
Jean went across the road to our house and got
our scanner so we could keep up to date. Soon,
the helicopter reported seeing a man and woman
riding horses and each of them had a little kid on
the back. The helicopter landed and confirmed
it was the lost kids that had been found by Roy
and Tina Hinsley in Wesley Clark’s pasture. The
little boy was still carrying a homemade bow
and one of my aluminum arrows he found in my
yard I guess. The kids were fine after being lost
for about five hours.
Now to the present in 2014. April 5 bright Ju-
piter is to the upper left of the Moon as darkness
arrives. April 10 the heart of Leo the Lion, star
Regulus, is close to the upper left of the Moon
at nightfall.
In regard to why the chicken crossed the road
Rip Templeton said it was to show the armadillo
it could actually be done without getting run
over by a car. Other celebrities besides Rip also
gave opinions: Let me be perfectly clear, if the
chickens like their eggs they can keep their eggs.
No chicken will be required to cross the road to
surrender her eggs. Period. Barack Obama.
My friends, the chicken crossed the road be-
cause it recognized the need to engage in coop-
eration and dialogue with all the chickens on the
other side of the road. John McCain. We don’t
really care why the chicken crossed the road.
We just want to know if it is on our side of the
road or not. It is either for us or against us. There
is no middle ground here. George W. Bush. Al-
though I voted to let the chicken cross the road,
I was misinformed, and now am against it. John
Kerry.
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EDC hears
new Insights
Continued from Front Page
There is Cooper Lake (includ-
ing the cabins), star gazing,
hunting and just the serine qui-
et,” suggested Shane Shepard.
“Ask yourselves, ‘Where do
you go when you leave town
and why?’”
He also proposed erect-
ing “way finding” signs on
the major highways directing
travelers to the attractions in
the area.
Grants through the Farmers
Market Promotional Program
and the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture are also
routes of potential funding.
“Marketing is essential wheth-
er it is through newspaper or
the internet (like Facebook),”
said Shepard. “You need to
keep the locals informed, if
they don’t feel proud of the
community and don’t attend
April
An Evening of Love will be
on Saturday, April 5 at Delta
County Civic Center to benefit
Lacy Jones and her stem cell
surgery.
* * *
A fundraiser for the
Enloe Volunteer Fire
Department will be Friday,
April 4 and Saturday, April 5
at the Community Center/Fire
Station. There will be a garage
sale, bake sale and door prizes.
On Saturday night there will be
an all-you-can-eat Stew supper
for $5 for adults and $3 for
children starting at 5 p.m.
* * *
The Delta County Exten-
sion Club will meet Monday,
April 7, at the Delta County
Civic Center at 2 p.m. Oph-
elia Banks will stil provide the
local events, neither will tour-
ists nor new investors. A Face-
book page should be engaging
- run contests, share news and
history, talk about lake activi-
ties - keep it fresh with several
daily posts (like the Cooper
Review does).”
He recommends the EDC
look into joining the Texas
Downtown Association (tex-
asdowntown.org). Their mis-
sion is for every community in
Texas to have an economically
vibrant center that reflects its
unique character.
“If you are looking for in-
dustry, sometimes it is best to
just cold call. It is better if it
comes from another local busi-
ness owner,” said Shepard,
who spends considerable time
visiting other cities to discover
businesses wanting to expand.
“Develop relationships with
the business owners and have
letters of reference available.
If you don’t think you can sup-
port a large corporation, look
refreshments. Ruth Crow will
present the program "Balance:
Living in My Strengths" that
she had planned to give at the
March Meeting that was can-
celled because of the ice. For
more information, please con-
tact the County Extension Of-
fice at 903-395-4400 Ext. 230.
* * *
A clean-up campaign of
Simmons Cemetery will begin
on Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at 9
a.m. in Ben Franklin (weather-
permitting). Lunch provided.
Volunteers can contact Dr.
Torance Vandygriff at 903-325-
4105.
* * *
Go Tell Crusade Women’s
Rally with guest speaker Iris
Blue on Tuesday, April 8 at
6:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 each
and the event will be at Paris
into spin off companies (i.e. if
you can’t get the trailer com-
pany, maybe you can get the
company that makes the parts
for the trailer company).”
He encourages businesses to
stay open after 6 p.m. especial-
ly retail and dining. Shepard
brings a youthful vibrancy to
his field. He went to school at
Texas A&M University-Texar-
kana graduating at the age of
20 with a Bachelor’s degree.
After returning to Kansas he
completed his Master of Sci-
ence in Business Administra-
tion and began working at La-
bette Community College prior
to Winnsboro. Among some of
his community development
awards are State Cultural Art
District Designation, Texas
Hardworking Community
Award and Certified Retire-
ment Community Designation.
He has been a member of the
Texas Economic Development
Council, International Eco-
nomic Development Council,
Country Club on Highway 195.
For tickets call Lynn at 903-
395-4413.
* * *
Delta County Fair and Trac-
tor Pull on Saturday, April 12
at 2 p.m. at the City Park in
Cooper. The event will also
include the annual Firefighters
Challenge, Livestock show and
vendor booths, etc.
* * *
Masonic Lodge #1240 will
be hosting their annual Easter
Egg Hunt on Saturday, April
19 at 9 a.m. at the Cooper City
Park - prize eggs included.
* * *
The Klondike Volunteer
Fire Department will have a
fish fry fund raiser on April 26.
They will serve fish and all the
trimmings for $10 for adults
and $8 for children under 12.
Texas Downtown Association
and National Trust for Histor-
ic Preservation. He also spent
eight years as an Intelligence
Specialist in the United States
Navy Reserve earning four
Navy Medals, including Na-
val Achievement Medal.
Shepard said the location of
Delta County nestled between
two college towns would be
ideal for starting a food truck
event (as it would be a good
startup business for that age
group) just like Austin, Dal-
las and Waco have.
Following Shepard’s pre-
sentation, Stegall said she is
researching information with
the Texas Workforce Com-
mission for funds for job cre-
ation.
London stated the EDC will
remain neutral on the discus-
sion of alcohol. He is also still
in the process of establishing
a tax exempt number.
In final thoughts the EDC
agreed the community must
be receptive to new busi-
nesses.
NEW GREENVILLE
DERMATOLOGIST
Dr. Kelly Warren M.D.
Board CartifrMf Dtirniarpiegif r
Phone: 903-395-2175 Fax: 903-395-0424
Owners - Jim and Sally Butler
Publisher - Jim Butler
Editor - Cindy Roller
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Dear Delta County Elected
Officials,
I would like to inform you
that I will be resigning from
my position as the Delta/
Franklin County Extension
Agent for Agriculture and
Natural Resources effective,
April 4, 2014.
I would sincerely like to
thank the elected officials of
Delta County, the citizens,
agricultural producers,
Cooper ISD, and 4-H parents
and members for allowing
me to serve as your extension
agent for the past year and
seven months. My time in
the county has been a very
rewarding and memorable
experience in which I learned
a lot from area producers and
4-H members and parents in
the county. I have made many
friends within the county of
whom I will dearly miss.
I have enj oyed every moment
in Delta County and have
been able to experience being
a part of a large community of
people who support and assist
in every way possible to make
the county an enjoyable place
to be a part of.
Again, I can’t thank
everyone who was a part of
my term as extension agent
enough. I look forward to
seeing each and every one of
you in the future!
Sincerely,
Cody Maxwell
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