Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, June 7, 1946 Page: 1 of 8
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COOPER, DELTA COUNTY, TEXAS
FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1946.
VOLUME 67. NO. 28.
/ft FARM NEWS
1 y D. R. SCOTT, Secretary,
Delta County ACA.
For the benefit of farmers who
have crop insurance, this is to
advise you that there is no clos-
ing date for planting or replant-
ing cotton and that the County
ACA has no authority to release
any acreage or make any adjust-
ments whatsoever. The latest date
for planting or for replanting for
insuranct purposes will be deter-
mined by the producers and the
adjuster for each community. The
aduster will also get your acre-
age report when he visits your
farm. Last year you were required
to report your acreage to the
county office, but unless the reg-
ulations are changed you will re-
port to the adjuster when he visits
your farm.
2,000 Attend
Delta Singin«
Convention
Again let us urge every farmer
to grow all the late feed you
possibly can as the feed shortage
becomes darker every day and it
is a world problem with all coun-
tries with little promise of relief
bfore the fall of 1947. Grow
everything you can and can every-
thing you grow, is a good motto
for us to adopt in the food line.
Will remind you again that you
have plenty of,time to grow any
of the grain sorghums and the
bottom land can grow good corn
yet.
The farmer who has his own
feed next year is the only farmer
that will be able to1 live and board
at the same place.
We are confident the farmers
who have insurance in large ma-
jority are farming just as they
wc M if they had no insurance,
Sat any should get the idea
that they can get by with crook-
edness, let us warn you that due
to the enormous amount of money
paid to Delta county farmers for
losses in 1945, there will be a
most rigid inspection, so if you
have any doubt now is the time
to fortify.
Reports coming from many pro-
ducers throughout the county con-
cerning their experience with les-
pedeza purchased through the
AAA is very gratifying, the a-
bundance of rain has given them
a splendid growth which assures
them a splendid pasture for next
year. We sincerely hope that the
money invested in pasture im-
provement will result in improved
dairy herds and beef cattle which
is another very good reason for
our insistence that you grow all
feed possible.
If you are reading the papers
carefully, you are surely convinc-
ed that you should have at least
o.ne or two hogs as it is freely
predicted by the best authorities
that fats, oils and meats will be
so scarce next year as to be al-
most unobtainable.
More than 2,000 people from
Delta and surrounding counties at-
tended the Delta County Annual
Singing Convention held Saturday
night and all day Sunday at the
Cooper High School auditorium.
Clyde Robnett, president of the
convention, stated that the con-
vention was the most successful
that was ever held in the history
of the convention. Enon Cates is
vice-president of the organization.
Some 40 quartettes were pres-
ent for the convention and ap-
peared during the two-day meet-
ing. Some of the outstanding
quartettes attending the conven-
tion were the Invasion Quartette
from Sherman, the National
Quartette from Fort Worth, the
Billy Bartley Quartette from Sul-
phur Springs and the Texan Quar-
tette from the Stamps Music
House in Dallas.
At noon Sunday, members of
the convention and their guests
were guests at a barbecue in the
High School gymnasium supplied
by the Cooper and Delta County
Chamber of Commerce.
District Court
June Term To
Begin Monday
The June Term of Disrtict
Court will be held here beginning
Monday with Judge Charles D.
Berry of Greenville presiding.
The list of jurors from which
the grand jury will be drawn is
composed of the following: A. L.
Anderson, Lake Creek; B. M. Ed-
wards, Klondike; Alvin Welch,
Charleston; Raymond Hagood,
Cooper; W. I. Estes, Cooper; H.
T. Dawson, Cooper; Roy Hall,
Pecan Gap; L. W. McBrayer,
Cooper; G. W. Morgan, Cooper;
L. L. Allard, Cooper.
Also G. C. Coston, Cooper; S.
O. Russell, Lake Creek; Fred New-
man, Cooper; R. L. Ham, Cooper;
and Alvin Miller, Ben Franklin.
Suspect Roxton Girl
May Be Victim Of
Poliomyelitis
A 14-year-old Roxton girl, Mary
Margaret Watson, daughter of Mr.
fad Mrs. Rufus Watson was taken
to a Paris hospital Monday ill
from what physicians suspect to
be poliomyelitis.
The case was reported to the
Paris City-County Health Council.
This is one of the first suspected
cases of polio reported in this
section of Texas. In other parts
of the state, the disease has as-
sumed epidemic proportions.
A number of suggestions have
been made by Dr. Geo. W. Cox,
State Health Officer to control
and prevent the spread of the
disease.
Among the suggestions offered
are: Elimination of house fly,
and mosquitoes.
Keep garbage containers cover-
ed.
Maintain sanitary septic tanks
and outdoor toilets.
Institute approved garbage col-
lection systems.
Make certain water supplies
are safe.
Wash raw foods and fresh vege-
tables.
Secure approved milk.
Eleminate rats and mice.
Pay particular attention to per-
sonal hygiene.
Avoid over-exertion.
Early symptoms of infantile
paralysis are headache, fever,
vomiting, drowsiness, followed by
itiffness in the back and neck.
When suspicious symptoms appear,
a doctor should be called imme-
diately.
COUSINS MEET IN JAPAN
Fifty-one Student. (]\ew Softball
Graduate From <
Elementary School
Five Cooper Boys
Volunteer For
Army This Week
1945 applications are being paid
off rapidly now. All applications
except late reported ones and all
CMS cases have been submitted
to the GAO office for payment.
Five Cooper boys volunteered
for 18 months service in the Army
through the recruiting office at
tee post office. The five left
Wednesday for induction at Love
Field in Dallas. They will then
be sent to Camp Chaffee, Ark.
for clothing issue and reassign-
ment for basic training.
The volunteers are Gayland
Watson, who completed high
school this year; John W. Warren,
Jack Maynard, Herbert Guffey,
Ji\, and Kenneth Anderson, who
expect to complete their school
while they are in the army.
Texas Farmers
Making Bumper
Tomato Crop
Texas farmers are sending a
bumper crop of tomatoes to mar-
ket with still heavier shipments
due shortly as harvesting reaches
a seasonal peak.
So far this season, about 4,000
carlots have moved from the low-
er Rio Grande Valley, the Yoakum
district and East Texas, accord-
ing to E. A. McBrydo, Assistant
State Director, USDA’s Product-
ion and Marketing Administrat-
ion.
Total yield for the state is esti-
mated at 8,917,000 bushels, the
early Valley crop accounting for
5,472,000 bushels. Acreage in-
creases in the Avery and Yoakum
sections will bring production in
these acres above the average.
Tomatoes are highly perishable
and must be consumed soon after
they come to market to prevent
waste, McBfyde said, urging Tex-
as housewives and restaurants to
buy and serve them often
Mr. and Mr*. Wayne Stanley
and family spent the weekend in
Dallas with his brother, Javon
Stanley and wife.
We are proud of the efficiency
of our clerks. Out of 650 appli-
cations submitted to the GAO of-
fice only 3 have been suspended
for corrections. Wo doubt if this
record has begn equalled. Wc have
two very efficient clerks, Miss
Sine Chancellor and Miss Val
n Jackson.
SPARKS THEATRES
At The Sparks
Remember to get prior appro-
val for pasture mowing and plant-
ing peas in corn or solid. You may
get either of them now. Every
prior approval has an expiration
date and you must report on it
before that date in order to quali-
fy for payment, after that date
will be too late.
You still may get a pool pro-
vided; (1) Your farm allowance
will permit; (2) You can induce
the vendor to dig it; (3) You
actually need it. If you meet these
Continued on page 4
SATURDAY, JUNE 8
“GOD’S COUNTRY
Story by Janies Oliver Curwood. Photographed in color and starring
Eddie Dean and Helen Gilbert. Also Comedy.
SUN.—MON., JUNE 9-10
“TWO SISTERS FROM BOSTON”
A Metro-Gpldwyn-Mayer musical with Kathryn Grayson, June Ally-
son, Jimmy Durante. Also Cartoon and Comedy.
TUE.—WED., JUNE 11-12
“WUTHERING HEIGHTS”
A Goldwyn RC release. Merle Oberon, Lawrence Oliver, Geraldine
Fitzgerald. Also News and Comedy.
THUR.—FRI., JUNE 13-14
“TO-MORROW IS FOREVER
Claudette Colbert, Geo. Brent, Orson Wells. Also News—Comedy.
At The Grand
FRI.—SAT., JUNE 7-8
“SONG OF ARIZONA”
Roy Rogers, Dale Evans. Also Chapter 5 “Black Arrow.”
OWL SHOW SATURDAY NIGHT
“ALLOTMENT WIVES”
Kay Francis, Paul Kelley, Otto Kruger. Also News.
T-5 Doyce Nabors and Pfc.
Ennis O. Mills, cousins, both of
Charleston, met recently in Tokio,
seeing each other for the first
time since they trained together
at Camp Hood, Texas, in 1945.
Concluding basic training at
Camp Hood, T-5 Nabors spent his
furlough with his parents and re-
ported to Camp Mead, Md. from
which base he was sent overseas.
Pfc. Mills also spent his fur-
lough with his parents but report-
ed to Fort Ord, Calif, and was sent
overseas to the Philippines, land-
ing just 5 days before the Japs
.urrendered. After the surrender
if the Philippines, he was sent to
Japan where he was stationed in
Tokio.
Ennis O. (Sonny) Mills is the
only son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford
Mills, Lake Creek, Route One;
and Doyce Nabors is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Nabors of Char-
leston.
Local Veteran Is!
Successful Buyer
Of Surplus Tractor
One local veteran of World War
II was among the successful pur-
chasers of farm and construction
machinery in a sale of $850,000.
00 worth of items in short supply
held by the War Assets Adminis-
tration in Fort Worth yestei-day.
A total of 740 ex-GI’s from 12
states, some as far distant as
Prividence, R. I. and Seattle,
Wash, sent in orders by mail seek-
ing to purchase tractors, graders,
scrapers, revolving cranes, centri-
fugal pumps, draglines and many
other sorely needed by returned
ex-servicemen to rehabilitate
themselves on farms or in their
own small business.
Successful local purchaser was:
W. N. DeWitt of Cooper, Route
3, who bargained for a Centaur
tractor for $202.50.
Order of purchasing was de-
termined by an impartial drawing,
since many of the veterans were
seeking the same item. WAA of-
ficials safeguarded the interest
of Texas veterans by seeing to
it that all veterans from within the
region were successful in purchas-
ing at least one item of their list
before any awards were made to
distant veterans from other re-
gions.
The disposal resulted in a total
of 298 pieces of machinery being
awarded to veterans for a total
ice of $440,955.40. Most sought
items were tractors, cranes, drag-
lines and scrapers.
Business Houses
Change Locations
Johnnie Pollard has moved his
grocery store from his old location
in what is known as the Hendricks
building to a new location, one
door east of the Grand Theater.
Mr. Pollard invites his friends and
customers to come by and see his
new store.
Dessa’s Cafe and The Delta
Beauty Shop, now in the Smith
building on West Dallas Ave., will
nove in the near future to the
' uilding formerly occupied by
i’ollard’s Grocery. Installation of
facilities and renovation are being
made at the present time in an-
ticipation of the move.
Diplomas were presented to 51
students of Cooper elementary
schools Thursday night, May 30,
in the High School auditorium by
C. A. Hooten, president of the
school board.
Valedictorian of the class was
Donna Pollard and salutatorians
were Olivia Ann Allen and Elmer
Joe Hickman. Other honor stud-
ents were Patsy Southard, Robert
Templeton, Edwin Slough, Myron
Young, Florence Drake, Emily
Black, Jennette Starkey, Bobby
Glen Jones, Mary Lou Edwards,
Nora Fae Burrow, and James
Mosley.
Selected as best all-round boy
was Billy Jud Jones and best all-
round girl was Betty Pickering.
Students receiving diplomas
entitling them to enter high school
were Olivia Allen, Bobbie Ander-
son, James Anderson, Yulee Bates,
Emily Black, Nora Fae Burrow,
Don David Chancellor, Twylia
Conley, Clydene Couch, Florence
Drake, Mary S. Edwards, Marga-
ret Gilmore, Ravanel Goolsby,
and Elmer Joe Hickman.
Owen Hooten, Jr., Erna Mae
Huie, Billy Jud Jones, Bobbie
Glen Jones, Freda Kant, Harold
Lamb, Windell Lancaster, Peggy
Leeman, James Maynard, Jean
Maynard Mamie Maynard, James
Mosley, Nell Mullican, Wadie
Moore, Wanda Odom, and Jean
Parker.
Patsy Phillips, Betty Pickering,
Donna Pollard, Sue Routt, Peggy
Shultz, Bobby S. Simmons, Billy
Mack Smiley, Marilyn Smith, Ed-
win Slough, Patsy Southard, Mar-
gene Taylor, Jeanette Starkey,
Robert Templeton, Anna Thomp-
on, Claranel West, Charles Wil-
son, Eunice Wylie, Mary Wylie,
and Myron Young.
To Teach English In
East Texas State For
Summer Session
Mr. and Mrs. James Billie Lem-
mond moved to Commerce Wed-
nesday where they will attend the
summer term at East Texas State
Teachers College. * Mrs. Lem-
mond will finish her major in art.
Mr. Lemmond is majoring in bus-
iness adminstration.
Miss Mary Fred McKinney,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
McKinney, will teach in the Eng-
lish Department of East Texas
State Teachers College in Com-
merce during the summer term.
Miss McKinney, a teacher in the
Cooper Public Schools, will re-
ceive her Master’s Degree this
summer.
Following her work in Com-
merce this summer, Miss McKin-
ney will take a teaching position
in the Port Arthur schools for the
fall term.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bryant of
Shreveport spent the weekend in
Cooper visiting Mrs. Bryant’s par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Arvie Brice.
Mr. and Mr*. Rene Anderson
and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Forbes
were in Dallas Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Reid were
in Paris Wednesday.
Miss Jane Magee, Miss Edwina,
Miller, Mrs. Travis Carrington,
Buddy Moxley and Dudley Scott
spent the weekend at Bonham
State Park.
Mrs. C. D. Record and children
returned to their home in Texar-
kana following a short visit with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Knox
Scott of Cooper.
Mrs. A. D. Smallwood and
daughter .June, of Sherman visit-
ed over the weekend with Mr. and
Mrs. Doyle Smallwood,
Four Delta Men
Enlist In Navy
Four Delta county men enlist-
ed in the United States Navy
through the Faris Navy Recruit-
ing Station last week, leaving
Paris June 2, for their boot train-
ing.
The four were Syd McGraw,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mc-
Graw of Cooper; Charles Harris,
son of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Harris
of Ben Franklin; Don Young, son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Young of
Cooper; and Billy McCarty, son
of H. L. McCarty of Cooper.
Dog, Abandoned By Man, Now
Associates Only With Cattle
Bill Bartley and Miss Norm*
Kelly, of Dallas spent the week-
end in Cooper.
Passing along Highway 11, east
of Commerce, usually one may
see a medium-sized black dog a-
mong the cattle in J. R. Gentry’s
pasture.
It may seem strange that a dog
will associate with cattle, but
when man turns them down they
usually associate with some other
animal.
This dog was cast adrift last
year, when as a puppy, she jump-
ed out of the cab of a truck be-
longing to a Mr. Pickle who was
unloading wood at the Gentry
home. As the puppy made the mis-
take of avoiding Mr. Pickle when
he was ready to leave, she was
left on the farm.
Schedule Is
Announced
Due to continued wet weather,
the Junior Chamber of Commerce
Softball League has been com*
pletely reorganized and a new
eight team schedule arranged.
In place of the former four
team schedule, all eight teams will
play each other twice a week be*
ginning tonight, June 7. Team*
will be sponsored by Adair and
Hicks Grocery, Anderson’s Hard*
ware, Stovall hardware, Leeman
Garage, Antioch, Lake Creek, Ben
Franklin and Klondike.
Twenty-eight games will ba
played, two games each night on
Monday and Friday beginning at
approximately 7:30. No admission
will be charged and lights and
expenses of the games will ba
defrayed by a collection taken at
each game from spectators who
care to contribute.
Out of town games will bt
scheduled for an all-star team that
will be composed of players from
all teams. These games will ba
played on Wednesday night. Sev*
eral teams from surrounding
towns have indicated that they
want to match games with a team
from Delta county.
The first half of the softball
season will take 13 weeks and a
Shaunessy playoff will be held be-
tween the four top teams.
Following is the newly arrang-
ed schedule of the teams:
June 7: Hicks vs. Antioch;
Castleberry vs. Lake Creek.
June 10: McMillar vs. Ben
Franklin; Leeman \Klondike.
June 14: Hicks vs. Castleberry;
Antioch vs. Lake Creek.
June 17: McMillan vs. Leeman;
Ben Franklin vs. Klondike.
June 21: Hicks vs. Lake Creek;
Antioch vs. Castleberry.
June 24: McMillan vs. Klon-
dike; Ben Franklin vs. Leeman.
June 28: Hicks vs. McMillan;
Antioch vs. Ben Franklin.
July 1: Castleberry vs. Leeman;
Lake Creek vs. Klondike.
July 5: Hicks vs. Ben Franklin;
Antioch vs. Leeman.
July 8: Castleberry vs. Klon-
dike; Lake Creek vs. McMillan.
July 12: Hicks vs. Leeman;
Antioch vs. Klondike.
July 15: Castleberry vs. Mc-
Millan; Lake Creek vs. Ben Frank-
lin.
July 19: Hicks vs. Klondike;
Antioch vs. McMillan.
July 23: Castleberry vs. Ben
Franklin; Lake Creek vs. Leeman.
Funeral Services
Held For Father Of
Mrs. George Antoine
Funeral services were held June
1, for J. II. Kruger of Overton,
ftther of Mrs. George Antoine of
Cooper, at his home there. Inter-
ment was made in Paris.
Mr. Kruger came to America
in 1891 with his wife from Lodz,
Poland and settled in Madison,
Wis. where 10 children, four boys
and six girls, were born. He pass-
ed away on May 31, after a long
illness.
He is survived by his children
and 20 grandchildren.
For several days the puppy
stayed with the load of wood but
finally attached herself to the
herd of cows in the pasture where
she found a welcome. Cows with
young calves drove other dogs
away but seemed to show confi-
dence in this one. During the cold
weather, the dog slept alongside
the cows.
When food was scarce during
the winter, the dog started raid-
ing hen houses when the Gentry’s
left in their car. Attempts were
rvude at first to run the dog off
but were never successful so ef-
forts were made to become friend-
ly with the dog, bub like a child
that has been burned by fire, the
dog now avoids everyone.
Lloyd Perkins Is
Perkins Employee
Lloyd Perkins has accepted a
position with Terkins Bros. Co.
and begnn work this week. Mr.
Perkins, formerly of Ben Frank-
lin, is now living in Cooper with
his wife and small daughter.
Gross Lay, with Perkins Bros.
Co. store in Paris, is acting mana-
ger of the Perkins Store here
while F. P. Salmon is away on
vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Ebb Naal and
daughter, Bonnie Jo, have return-
ed hime with Miss Thelma Neal
who has been visiting in Denver
City, Tex. and Carlsbad, New
' Mex. for the past month.
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