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Thursday, July 29, 2010
Voices
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,
Years ago, I recall the US Forest Service
having manned lookout towers during the
long, hot, dry Arkansas summers searching
for the slightest glimmer of smoke in the area.
Lookout towers were located on the Ouachita
Mountain range just east of Queen Wilhelmina
Lodge and Bee Mountain located in the Shady
Lake area, about 60 miles apart. When smoke
was detected the two towers triangulated the
smoke on a large map located in the center of
each tower.
Where the two lines of location met, the
exact location of the smoke was forwarded
to emergency crews located in either Hot
Springs, Mount Ida, Waldron or Mena. Crews
were dispatched to the location to contain the
fire.
Today, “smoke” is rising in Texas and
towers around the state are sending the
message, “Be prepared to do what is necessary
to contain this potential fire”. This “smoke”
is the next Legislative Session scheduled after
the General Election located in Austin, Texas.
The “fire” is the budget shortfall of, depending
on who you talk to, between 12 and 18 billion
dollars.
It has been publicly stated that everything
is being evaluated to determine potential cuts
and discontinuing of programs.
Unfortunately, this includes Doctors
Creek State Park. While nothing has definitely
been identified I want to make you aware the
possibility does exist. We experienced this in
the past when Doctors Creek was temporarily
closed due to legislative budget shortfalls.
When the park was last closed Cooper lost
at least 2 or 3 businesses directly related to
tourism and Doctors Creek State Park.
How important is it to you to keep the park
open? The state park is the leading economic
development engine in Delta County. More
than 40,000 people from around the state
and surrounding area visit the park each year
and leave a significant amount of money and
business in our community and county.
What can you do? Actively pursue
candidates and current legislatures and
encourage he or she not to reduce or eliminate
the state parks from the Texas Parks and
Wildlife Budget. Also, support the Friends of
Doctors Creek State Park by attending the 4th
Annual Fish Fry at the First Baptist Church on
Saturday, August 21, starting at 6 pm.
A significant portion of the funds received
are being used to build a fishing pier to be
located at the boat dock in Doctors Creek. We
are about $10,000 short of our $20,000 goal
and would like to make this years event one
of the most successful. A portion of existing
funds are designated to gather local leaders
and supporters to make a trip to Austin to
encourage the state legislature to support the
state parks if necessary.
Prior to the meeting, the Friends of
Doctors Creek State Park will have their
Annual Meeting at the same location. You are
invited to attend both events and learn what is
happening at your state park.
Ron Lewis, President
Friends of Doctor’s Creek Park, Inc.
In Years Gone By
From the files of The Cooper Review
Ten Years Ago
Saturday morning, July
22, Alma Click was busy
cleaning East Delta Baptist
Church, located at 25 CR
1220, Lake Creek. As she
entered the restrooms, she
smelled smoke. She heard
something that sounded like
an electric surge, and within
minutes heard popping and
crackling noises upstairs. She
discovered that the second
floor of the church was on
fire. She immediately went
for help. She notified Eutah
and Geneva Chandler, and
Geneva called 911. Gary
McCain, principal at Cooper
Elementary, was recently
named Legislative Committee
Chair for the Texas Elementary
Principals and Supervisors
Association.
Paris Junior College’s
nursing Department held
graduation ceremonies for 48
Vocational Nurses Thursday
evening July 6.
Twenty Years Ago
Sixteen 4-Her’s from
Delta County just returned
from a three day camp at
Wilkes Lodge in Avinger. Five
counties participated in the
camp. Youth attending were
Rhonda Overstreeet, Dallas
Bookout, Tracy Lum, Dutch
Horchem, Jerry Young, Bobby
Lindsey, Bradley Bettes,
Dustin Hefley, Chasity Janes,
Brandon Lum, Blake Randle,
Casey Clark, Rita Schmitt,
Angela Schmitt and Maggie
Gilbert. Adults in attendance
were: Eric and Blinda Lum
and Joan Chandler.
Thirty Years Ago
After 30 days of lOOplus
degree temperatures the
rain Monday night brought
a welcome relief to the
drought. Although “about a
third as much as is needed,”
the 1.2 inches which fell in
Cooper dropped temperatures
considerably.
The liberty Grove snake
thought to be a cobra or a very
close relative was sighted
again Saturday afternoon, this
time at the Liberty Grover
Cemetery by Iva Stubblefield
of Cooper.
Forty Years Ago
The 1970 Little League
All-Star roster included Ricky
Belvins, Tim lowery, Andy
Rainey, Joe Price, MarkLinch,
Wesley Powell, Kevin Allen,
Tony Bettes, Jim Price, Jeffery
Preas, Randy Sweat, Mike
Boles, John Wigley, Robert
Douglas, Leslie Johnson, and
Marvin Morris as alternate.
Fifty Years Ago
Jerry Thompson 19 year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Thompson of Enloe sustained
serious injuries in an accident
at the Mt. Joy railroad trestle.
Miss Anne Simpson
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jap
Simpson is queen of the Delta
County rodeo and parade
this year. The name of her
horse is Star Money. Selected
as Most Courteous Public
Employee for this week is
Mrs. Oleta Shelton. Employee
of Caperton’s.
Correction
I need to clarify a
misstatement in my letter
to the editor in this week’s
paper. There was no director
of the Chamber of Commerce
opposed to honoring the
veterans. I seemed to have
left that impression. There
was one board member who
had reservations about the
Chamber co-sponsoring the
event, but in no way was
opposed to honoring the
veterans. I owe that individual
and apology and the Chamber
an apology for leaving a false
impression. I appreciate the
opportunity to clarify this
matter. Herb Brookshire
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On The River
With FT
FOUR FEET, EIGHT AND ONE
HALF INCHES
Each July as the corn and maize begin
to ripen, wild hogs begin their destructive
feeding. Several farmers have called asking
me to bring my dogs and catch a few, or at least
run them off. Temperature around a hundred
each day requires night or early morning
hunting. Saturday, July 17, my alarm was set
for 5:00 a.m. but as usual, just setting an alarm
causes me to wake before it goes off. By 4:30
I was loading Bad Eye, River, and T Garth.
Eighty degrees, still, and humid. As I went to
get each dog off its chain they were jumping
with excitement. My headlight showed clouds
of dust they stirred up. Makes you want to
hold your breath but I guess we breathe it in
daytime too; the headlight just seems to make
it show up more.
I try to visit each farmer’s place every
few days and today was George Humphries’
turn at Noble, west of Roxton. As I stopped
a few hundred yards from a maize patch.
Pegasus was directly overhead while Deneb,
Vega, and Altair of the Summer Triangle were
sliding down in the west. Long ranging Bad
Eye and River’s tracking collars’ red lights
were blinking as they raced away toward the
fields. A nighthawk made its roaring noise as it
pulled out of a high dive. While waiting on the
dogs to strike a trail I listened in the stillness to
great horned owls, barred owls, and mourning
doves. I kept medium range T Garth with me
so he could check more of the crooks and
turns. As daylight came it was apparent the
hogs either came and left early in the night or
didn’t show up at all.
A few hundred yards out on the highway,
volunteers set up a rest stop for Paris’ sixty-five
mile bicycle race. In a few hours many of the
eight hundred entrants would pass along that
highway. According to my Garmin Astro 220,
River and Bad Eye were two miles southeast
so I loaded T Garth and we drove that way.
The two were trailing a hog and Bad Eye was
singing his characteristic Walker hound song.
By 8:00 the temperature was rising so I called
the dogs in from the thick weeds. At least we
chased one a little further off. Maybe it will
stay gone a few days. We’ll come back soon.
Rancher/contractor Mark Baird called in
an observation this week. Like many ranchers
he has noticed fire ants don’t seem to be as
thick this year. Thinks maybe the wet and cold
winter froze some of them out. On the other
hand, as he bales hay he has noticed a sharp
increase in the number of bumblebee nests in
the ground. His hay baling equipment seems
to be stirring up four times as many as normal.
Mark thinks maybe there is a connection.
Do fire ants normally feed on the eggs of the
bees? If so, this decrease in fire ants would
result in more bumblebees surviving. Opinion,
entomologists?
Dr. Ensey from Paris sent more information
about the shellcracker fish, the big bream type
I went to Alabama to catch. Many ranchers
buy shellcrackers to put in their pools, ponds,
tanks, and lakes. Remember, snails are the
main item on the big bream’s diet. The snails
carry a disease that is transferred to livestock
so a decrease in snails produces a drop in
disease.
An amusing email has been sent to me
several times. Why are railroad tracks four
feet, eight and a half inches wide? The story
goes that our tracks were modeled after
Europe’s, which were modeled after the width
of chariot wheels, which were determined by
the width of two horses’ rear ends. Ironic that
high tech things like space shuttle rocket fuel
booster tanks produced in Utah must be small
enough to pass through a railroad tunnel to get
to Texas. Moral to the story, horses’ rear ends
determine much of the decisions today.
But now, the rest of the story: According
to the Internet, that story is incorrect. Different
mines used different widths for their cart
tracks. Englishman George Stephenson built
more miles of rails than anyone in England
and somehow decided on the four feet, eight
and a half inches. The “Stephenson Gauge”
was most common and therefore adopted as
the standard. But I still wonder how he came
up with for feet, eight and one half inches.
August 1 Mars and Saturn appear close
together as dark arrives. Golden Saturn is to
the upper right. Much brighter Venus is to
their lower left. August 12, the Perseid meteor
shower is at its best.
Here’s a riddle for this week: People that
make it don’t want it. Ones that buy it don’t
use it. People that use it don’t know it. What is
it? Answer near the end if I don’t forget.
A woman visited a small South American
country and attended a bullfight. A man told
her it was the country’s number one sport.
She said, “Isn’t that revolting?” He answered,
“No that’s number two.”
In Kentucky two men decided to steal an
ATM machine from a convenience store. They
broke the door, tied a chain from their bumper
to the ATM and took off. Instead of getting
the machine, they tore off their bumper, got
scared, left chain, bumper and all, including
their license plate.
A girl complained at supper that no one
liked her and everyone hated her. Her brother
said, “That’s not true, Mary. Some people
don’t even know you.”
Answer to the riddle, a casket.
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That Wonderful Year 1965
According to the Thursday, July 29,
1965 issue of the Cooper Review:
Two Delta County youths have been
designated by Attorney General Waggoner
Carr as delegates to the third annual Attorney
GeneraFs Youth Conference on Crime, August
20-22 in Austin. They are Bobbie Ellen France,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alford France,
Cooper, and Lana Jane Skinner, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Skinner of Enloe.
Plans are rapidly nearing completion for
the fourth annual rodeo sponsored by the Wolfe
City Riding Club, it has been announced by
Bethel Henslee, club secretary. The event will
take place August 5, 6, and 7th at 8 p.m. at
the Wolfe City Riding Club arena northeast of
town.
The Cooper School Board in called
session Tuesday, July 27, named Bob L. Hill
of Gaston to fill the position of Cooper High
School principal.
The Farmers Home Administration Tour,
open to all interested person, wifi be conducted
today. The entourage wifi assemble at 9 a.m.
in the meeting room at Boyd’s Cafe where
coffee wifi be served.
Revival services at the First Baptist
Church in Cooper are scheduled to commence
Monday, August 2, with Rev. Harles E. Cone,
evangelist. Rev. Bob I. Johnson, pastor, has
announced that services wifi be held each
morning, Monday through Friday, August 6, at
10 o’clock, and each evening Sunday, August
8, at 7:30 o’clock.
The Blackwell building on the west
side of the square, located between Adair’s
Grocery and Hodges Insurance Agency, is
being completely remodeled. Slakey and Son
are the contractors.
The building has been partitioned so
that it wifi accommodate two business
establishments. The ceilings are being lowered
and the building wifi be air-conditioned.
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