The Delta Courier (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 7, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 13, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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ids Hold
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William Shirley
Endorsed As New
2-X President.
COOPER, DELTA COUNTY, TEXAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1940
VOLUME 59, NO. 7
Tough Going for Army Amphibian Cars
Presidents and secretaries oi
Lions Clubs in this zone of Dis-
trict 2 met in Hotel; Cooper
Thursday night for a called meet-
ing. Clubs represented were
Paris, Bonham, Commerce, Lone
Qaik, Sulphur Springs, Detroit,
and Cooper.
William Shirley of Paris was
endorsed by the group as district
governor for District 2• Also en-
dorsed was East Texas as the
site for thd next State Conven-
tion, the towns of Longview, Kil-
gore and Gladewater having of-
fered to be host to the conven-
tion. The State Convention will
meet this year in Denton, April
29 and 30.
Henry Pharr of Greenville was
the guest speaker at the regular
meeting of the Cooper Lions Club
Friday at .Hotel Cooper. F. P-
Salmon presided at the meeting
and presented Rev. R. L. Street-
man, who made an appeal for
funds which he stated were very
much needed for the Community
Chest to elevate distress in Del-
ta county.
J. E- McBride made a report
of the meeting of the presidents
and secretaries to the club. H. S.
Slatton was elected a member
of the club.
| A Father and Son Banquet
^vvill be the feature of the next
meeting of the Lions Club which
■will be held on Friday night at
Hotel Cooper.
75 Men Begin
Work On East
Delta School
After
Old Schools To Be
Demolished In Very
Near Future.
THE NETHERLANDS—Dutch soldiers with the forces serving in
the defense work of the inundated territory test out one of their am-
phibian cars, and find that they cannot make much progress among
the chunks of ice. The cars failed to climb the slippery sides.
Old Clem Lumber Co.
Yard Being Razed
•v.
Show Business Is
Big Business For
4-H Boys In 1939
COLLEGE STATION, Feb. 12.
—The show business was big
business for Texas 4-H club boys
during- 1980 as they exhibited 17,-
007 head of livestock at 170
shows, collected premiums total-
ing 881,245 33 and made sales
that brought in $254,762.25.
Beef calves, fed out and train-
ed by the club members, lead in
volume with 2,776 head. The
annual report of L. L. Johnson
and J. W. Potts, state boys’ club
agents of the Texas A. and M-
Extension Service, shows that the
calves brought premiums of $16,-
774.14. The total weight of tho
animals sold at show sales was
1,878,931 pounds, and reeipts to-
taled $136,798.31.
In addition to local, district,
and state shows, Texas 4-H c'ub
beef falves, fed under the super-
vision of county agricultural
agents, took grand championship
honors at the Chicago and San
Francisco shows.
There (were 3,757 sheep and
lamb exhibited, weight 283,212.
'jrenuurds Otf $3,806-79, and sales
brought in $24,245.36.
Club boys showed 5,172 bead
o/ swine, weight 584,358, oremi-
Ui»t.- $5,600', and total sales, $32,-
401.08.
Few of the 1,361 dairy animals
exhibited were sold, but the few
individuals offered brought fancy
prices that totaled $5,680. Prem-
iums added up to $3,891-75.
The 12,967 pou-try entries
brought premiums of $1,672 64.
Again most of the birds were
kept for future demonstrations,
but sains came to $5,637.50.
Workmen are almost half fin-
ished with the wrecking .of the
Temple Lumber Co. office and
yard and they expect to complete
the job within the next ten days.
The materials in the office and
yard have been sold to a Fort
Worth concern.
Tne Temple Lumber Co. closed
its doors about six months ago
and was .occupied for a short time
by the Bolger Chevrolet Co. that
moved to its new quarters about
four weeks ago.
Before the Temple Lumber Co.,
ti e Clem Lumber Go., one of the
first of a chain of lumber yards
founded by the Clem brother?,
built and occupied the site. The
Clem Lumber Co. was one of the
oldest business institutions in
Cooper before quitting business.
Cooper Students
Named On Honor
Roll At East Texas
Annual Meeting Of
Teacher’s Group
Set For March 8
Among the names listed by J.
M. Bledsoe, chairman of the
Honors Committee of East Texas
State at Commerce, were those of
Chester McKinney, Jr., Jean
Katherine Phillips and Audrey
Pinkston, as having been named
on the fall honor roll.
Mr. McKinney and Miss Phillips
are residents of Cooper while Miss
Pinkston is a niece of Mrs. C. C.
Taylor, and lives in Electra.
Rube S. Wells
To Make Race For
County Judge
Rube S. Wells states that he
will make the race fer county
judge this year and that his an-
nouncement will appear soon.
The annua!- meeting of District
8 of the Texas State Teachers
Association will be held at Hen-
derson, Texas, March 8 and 9.
This district extends from Bowie
and Red River counties on the
north to Angelina county on the
south, ar.d includes 26 East Tex-
as counties.
The first general meeting will
be held Friday, March 8, in the
city auditorium. Music for the
evening will be furnished by the
East Texas State Teachers Col-
lege! Choir, which is directed by
Roy Johnson. Doctor Will Du-
rant, a well known philosopher and
writer of CoJur^ia University,
wild deliver the main address.
Saturday morning more than
twenty sectional meetings will be
held1 in the senior high school
building and one of the near-by
churches. Interesting and helpful
programs for the various section-
al meetings have been prepared
by the chairmen of the various
divisions..
Saturday afternoon the second
general meeting will be held in
the high sehool auditorium. Doc-
tor George W. Frazier, president
of the Colorado State College of
Education, Greeley, Colorado, and
B. B. Cobb, secretary of the Tex-
as State Teachers Association,
will speak- A business meeting
will be held at the close of the
jsecond general program.
The officers of the association
are:
J. M. Hodges, superintendent
of Tyler schools, president; Mrs.
Bertha Allen, county superinten-
dent of Gregg county, vine pres-
ident; Miss Eloise Watson, ele-
mentary principal Arp, Texas,
secretary; R. L. Speight, princi-
pal of Longview High School,
treasurer.
Seventy-five men assigned by
WPA began work Monday on the
East Delta Consolidated High
School excavating for the founda-
tions. This is the first assignment
of WPA workers on the project.
More assignments are expected
within the near future.
Students in the Vasc« school
nre being moved out this week as
the school building will he demol-
ished within the next few days.
The Charleston school also be
demolished in the next month.
Cleveland students will go to their
school building as it will root be
torn down until some time in
June.
Large quantities of materials
V.ave been bought for the school
and are being hauled to the loca-
tion where work will begin on the
foundation this week.
Funeral Services
Held Wednesday
For R. H. Horton
Funeral services for R. H. Hor-
ton, 72, who died at his home near
Klondike, Tuesday were held at
2:30 o’clock Wednesday after-
noon at the First Baptist Church.
Rev. R. E. Streetman, pastor offi-
ciated, assisted by Rev. O. O.
Harper, pastor of the Baptist
Church at Klondike.
Burial was made in the ceme-
tery at Liberty Grove. Smith Fun-
eral Directors had charge of fun-
eral arrangements.
New HD Agent
Approved For
Delta County
Miss Ellen Hooker
Approved For Home
Demonstration Post.
SUOMUSSALMI FRONT, Finland—White-clad Finnish soldiers
lift Uie frozen body of a Russian lieutenant to a lorry. He was one
of the thousands of Russians who were killed when the Finns cut off
the Forty-first Division of the U.S.S.R. during recent campaign on
the Suomussalmi Front and practically wiped It out. Passed by
Finnish censors.
Typhus Fever Shows
Increased Prevalence
In Texas In 1939
School Teachers
To Meet Saturday
The second meeting of the prin-
cipals and superintendents of | sidering making the race for coni
CORRECTION
The Review stated last week
that A. B. Carrington was cor.-
Delta county schools will be held
Saturday morning at 9 o’clock in
the District Court room.
Speakers for the meeting will
be Senator A. M. Aikin of Paris
and Deputy School Superintend-
ent E. G. Marshall.
missioner and inadverently de-
signated precinct, in which he re-
Hd-°d before the count; was re-
districted. His residence is now in
{recinct four, in which he will be
a candidate if he decides to make
the race.
R. H, Good To Head
Garner Campaign
In Delta County
Garner for President headquar-
ters in Dallas has requested R. H.
Good of Cooper to manage Mr
Garner’s campaign in Delta coun-
ty. Mr. Good says that he will do
what he can for the Vice Presi-
dent, and that he anticipates no
trouble in securing instructions to
Delta county delegates for Mr.
Garner for the Democratic nomi-
nation.
Cooper Gets Fourth
Snow Of The Winter
Miss Maidu Ben Wilson, who
has a position in Shreveport, La.,
since finishing a business course
spent the week end wuh her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Wilson.
Miss Myra Orr, nurse at Reed
Memorial Hospital, and Mrs. Jess
Jones visited ir Sulphur Springs
Saturday.
For the fourth' time this year
Cooper went under a blanket of
snow Friday.
The flakes began falling about
8:30 and 9 o’clocik and the
ground was completely covered.
The mercury hung around the 30
degree mark most of the morning
and most fo the snow melted as
it hit the streets. The snow
stuck, however, on cars, yards
and buildings.
Light gusts of snow fell
tluougout the day and; it was es-
timated! that four of five inches
of snow fell during the day. Sat-
urday was cold but the thaw was
rapid, only slight traces of the
rnew remaining in protected
places.
Friday’s weather must be very
embfirrasing to Mr. Groundhog.
On Ground Hog Day (Feb. 2) the
groundhog failed to see his shad-
ow—a sure sign that spring was
just a few days away. Only the
snow, the temperature and a few
other elements kept Friday from
being a perfect spring day.
Former Resident
Of Cooper Married
In Tyler Sunday
Miss Pa.tsy Childers of Tyler
and Gordon Miller Campbell of
Ssr. Antonio were married in
Tyler on Sunday, February 4, at
the First Baptist Church in that
city. Mrs. Campbell is a graduate
of Texas State College for Wo-
men and has been teaching in
Benavides. Mr. Campbell is a
graduate of Tyler High School
and Texas A. & M., and is nov
e mployed in San Antonio, whtve
the couple will make their home.
Mr. Campbell is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Allen Campbell of Tyler and
the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. L.
A. Buck of this city.
Mrs. A. Ellis Is
Hostess To Club
Mrs, A. Ellis was hostess for the
Home Demonstration Club at
Klondike last week. The meeting
was scheduled for January but
was postponed on account of in-
clement weahter. Fourteen mem-
bers answered roll call.
Miss Genevieve Feagin gave an
instructive talk on how to plant
berry and other vinos, also fruit
trees and cuttings.
Mrs. Jackson, who was repre-
sentative at the county council
made her report. After the pro-
gram, the hostess assisted by Mrs.
Ray Ellis and Mrs. Thurmond
* Ellis, served refreshments.
AUSTIN, F e ib. 12.—Typhus
fever, transmitted to humans by
the common rat flea, showed in-
creased prevalence to 538 cases in
1939 over the 497 cases previous-
ly reported to the State 'Health
Department during 1938, accord-
ing to Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State
Health Officer.
“Old World typhus fever has a
high death rate, while the type we
have in Texas (endemic typhus)
sometimes called Brill’s disease.
ha« a much lower mortality rate.
The incidence of typhus in Texas
is highest among those persons
who work or live in rat-irfested
buildings. It was the observation
of this fact that led to the discov-
ery that rats are carriers of ty-
phus. It appears that the rat suf-
fers attacks of this form of ty-
phus fever and that the fleas har-
bored by the sick rat bite man,
end thus human infection results.
“Aside from the public health
problem caused by rats, it has
been estimated that the
annually cause twelve to
million dollars worth of
to Texas property.
“Although typhus is not com-
monly fatal, it cannot be consider-
ed lightly. Typhus fever generates
intense headache, high fever, and
great mental depression in the
average patient. As in sea sick-
ness, the patient’s greatest fear
is that he is not going to die. The
illness generally lasts about two
weeks.
“Control of typhus is made dif-
ficult, since it depends upon ex-
termination of rodents, and that
is no easy matter. Trapping and
poisoning help, but the best le
Suits are obtained by starving the
rat. This can he done by having
ali buildings in an area where
food is stored, rat-proofed. The
State Department of Health and
U. S. Department of Agriculture
will be glad to assist the various
communities in their program for
the extermination of the pest.”
rodents
fifteen
damage
Bulldogs Win First
Half Of County
Basketball Tourney
Talking the last] of a three game
series on a forfeit to wind! up
the first half of the county-wide
round robin, the Cooper High
Bulldogs remained on top of the
four-way scramble for county
championship honors- 1
Klondike finished the first half
with only one loss, and that to
Cooper, Enloe and Pecan Gap
finished in third and fourth
places respectively. Cooper de-
feated Klondike in the first game
23-22 and followed that with a
victory over Enloe last Thursday
night by the score of i25-15. Most
of the Enloe game played by the
of the Enloe game was played by
the Bulldog’s second team. Pe-
can Gap defaulted to Cooper
Monday night.
The Bulldog roster is composed
of Buddie Gilmore, Jake Carroll,
Duane Robertson, Charles Ray
Morgan, Warren Blevins, Gar-
land Barnard, Eiiwood Robertson,
Randall Young, Murray Carring-
ton, and Robert Humphries.
. Replacing the scheduled Coop-
er-Pecan Gap, a group of former
stars of Cooper and Klondike
took on the Bulldogs but were
defeated by the schoolboys, 35-
33. Eugene Carrington, Hollis
Williams of Cooper, Doc Field-
ing, Joe Stringer, Jimmie and
Harry Ward of Klondike madle up
the opposing team.
Announcement was made her*
Saturday by Kate Adele Hill, dis-
trict agent, Extension Service, of
the approval of Miss Ellen Hooker
of Wichita Falls as Delta County
Home Demonstratino Agent. Miff*
Genevieve Feagin, present agent,
will go to Hugo, Okla., where she
will be a Junior Home Extension
Agent in the Indian Service.
Miss Hooker is at the preeent
time teacher in die high school in
Wichita Falls, having majored is
Home Economics in Texas State
College for Women at Dentoa.
She will arrive in Cooper Feb-
ruary 24, to survey the field be-
fore taking up her duties March 1.
The Commissioners’ Court ap-
proved Miss Hooker Saturday af-
ter she had been certified by the
Extension Service of Texas A.
& M. College.
Miss Feagin will serve three
counties in Oklahoma in her
work. She will begin her work
there March 1.
9,000 Foot Drilling
Thought Po&sible
For Talco Field
Barlow Win* Race
For Mayor At
Greenville
Mrs. Clyde Brackeen
Is Hostess To
Junior Bible Club
Mrs. Clyde Brackeen was hos-
tess to the Junior Bible Club on
Thursday afternoon, February 8.
Eighteen members answered roll
call with quotations on prayer.
Mrs. Elmer Nelson was leader
and gave the “Power of Prayer”
as the devotional after which
“Sweet Hour of Prayer" was sung
in keeping with the topic.
Those taking part on the pro-
cram were: Mesdames Sanimie
.Tcter, Greaver Miller, Hoyle Win-
sett, Barton Good, Jack Riggs, D.
D. Dunn, Goebel Templeton, Allen
Hnzlewood, Jeddie Mosley, Wilson
Riggs. Following the lesson, the
hostess served a salad plate.
The club meets February 22
with Mrs. WilsAi Riggs hostess,
and Mrs. Wallace Robinson as
leader.
M. H. Berry is illi of pneumon-
ia at, his home in west Cooper.
GREFNVI-LLE, Feb. 10.—By
a majority of 307 y»tes, J. W.
(Bill) Barlow, former ^official of
the Greenville Mill & ^Elevator
Company, was nominated Mayor
of this city in Saturday’s city
Democratic primary. Barlow ..de-
feated Joseph F. Nichols, former
Mayor, 1,156 to 849.
Ed B. Williams, incumbent in
the office of Commissioner No. 2,
defeated J. R. Ward, 1,181 to
822. T. S. Mitchell, Commission-
er No. 1, was nominated without
an opponent.
Klondike Winner
In Second Annua!
Basketball Tourney
Klondike upset Deport 27-15
Saturday night in the final round
of the Klondike Annual Boys
Basketball tournament held in the
Klondike High School gymnasium
Friday and Saturday night. Coop-
er was defeated in the semi-finals
by Deport 27-22.
>Emory defeated Commerce 39-
86 to win the consolation prize. A
feature of these games was the
close scores in almost every con-
test. Only seven teams competed
ns the tournament had been post-
poned a week on account of bad
weather.
Miss Sue Taylor Smith of Paris
visited in Cooper Saturday.
TALCO, Feb. 12.—An 8,000
or 9,000 foot test in search of oil
in the !imc stratum found east-
ward in iSouth Arkansas is ibeingr
rumored for the Talcio field in
Franklin and Titus counties.
Major lease owners at Talco,
inc'uding Humble and Magnolia,
are reported to have been ap-
proached on Ihe proposition and
to have made some commitments.
The real sp- nrors of the test,
howtver, have not been revealed.
Since the opening of the
Smn -kover lime in Arkansas some
C.j lervers iiave maintained that
Northeast Texas would soon be
Ihe scene of an active hunt for
this pay. On this supposition, sev-
eral large blocks have been as-
sembled in counties near the
Oklahoma line and considerable
geoniiysical work has been done.
The Talco fault structure is
considered one of the best for
deep possibilities bemuse of the
large closure defined on the
Paluxy pay zone. The field has
undergone soime deep drllinig,
but no hole has been carried (be-
low the Trinity.
Proposed location for the deep
tost i« wid to be on the north
side of the fault structure.
Trucking Industry
Pays $46,399 To
Delta During 1939
AUSTIN, Feb. 12.—The Texa*:
trucking industry last year paid
taxes to Delta ccunty amounting
to $46,399.62, Lynn B. Shaw,
general manager of the Texas
Motor Transportation Association,
reported today.
Shaw said the amount repre-
sented $38,187.60 for highway
construction and maintenance,
and $8,212.02 for the public
schools of Delta county. For each
scholastic in the state, the truck-
ers last year paid $2.49.
The total amount of taxes naid in
the state by the truck operators
during 1939 was $ 15,388,004.18.
These figures no doubt include ali
the taxes paid by private truck
owners.
J. W. Gregg of I*ake Creek, whoj
was in Cooper Saturday, has ro-
covered from a three weeks seige
of influenza.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Evans and
two children and mother, Mrs. €i
C. Evans, cf Addran, were Coopj
er visitors Mondujr.
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The Delta Courier (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 7, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 13, 1940, newspaper, February 13, 1940; Cooper, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth895567/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Delta County Public Library.