The Delta Courier (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 8, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1939 Page: 1 of 4
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Home Town
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COOPER, DELTA COUNTY, TEXAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1939
VOLUME 58, NO. 8
O’DANIEL IS
INVITED FOR
SCHOOLRALLY
Urge Presence Here to Make
Affair Greatest In 15.
Year History.
Police Buy License
An invitation to Governor W.
Lee O’Daniel to attend the an-
nual rally of Delta County schools
been sent by County Superinten-
dent Alvin O. Welch. The an-
nual affair will be held Friday,
March 10.
In addition to the telegraphic
invitation, State Senator A. M.
Aikin, Jr., of Paris and Flotorial
Representative Troy E. Kern, of
Sulphur Springs, have been con-
tacted and asked to add their
requests for Mr. O’Daniel’s visit
here.
Although officials have as yet
received no reply they are hope-
ful of Mr. O’Daniel’s acceptance
and in that event elaborate plans
for the day are being laid. Mr.
Welch said all schools in nearby
counties would be invited to at-
tend and a large number of high
school bands would be extended
invitations. It was predicted that
the presence of the governor here
would more than double the at-
tendance at the rally which us-
ually ranges from 8,00^ to
10,000.
Both Mr. Aikin and Mr. Kern
Jlmvc been asked to attend the
’^^pinual celebration.
Successful Season
for CHS Cagers Ends,
Track Work Starts
A fairly sueessful season for
the Cooper High basketball team
ended last week with a 36-30 con-
quest of Paris High Wildcats.
Under Coach Woodrow Keahey
the Bulldogs won 15 games the
past season, losing ten and scor-
ed a total of 653 points to 619
scored by the opposition. For the
fourth straight year the Bulldogs
were runner-up to Klondike for
the county cage championship.
A small squad reported to
Coach Keahey Monday for track
and field work-outs. Bill Bartley
and Duane Robertson loom as the
best prospects but new material
will be developed in time for the
district meet at Commerce in
April. Ineligibility probably de-
prived the Bulldogs of a district
track crown this year as both
Sandy Swearingen, who won
points in both dash events and
the broad jump last year, and
Eugene Carrington, half mile
title-holder the past two years,
will be unable to participate.
Post Oak Church
To Have Dedication
Service On Tuesday
Due to the fact we were rained
out Sunday, the Post Oak Baptist
Chinch will hold dedication ser-
vice "* Tuesday night, Feb. 21st,
• beginning at 7 o’clock.
hope to have several visit-
pronehers and a good service.
B^^he church extends a cordial in-
JT vitation to all.
I J. C. McCLAIN, Pastor.
I
Census Enumerators
To Meet Saturday
Enumerators are to be appoint-
ed within the next few days,
County Superintendent Alvin O.
Welch announced Monday, to
take the annual census of Delta
County scholastics.
A meeting will be held Satur-
day, Feb. 25, in the district court
room where supplies will be dis-
tributed and plans made to begin
work on Wednesday, March 1.
Roy George, son of Supt. U'l
Mts. R. L. Stephenson, is ill thia
week with laryngitis.
BELLEVILLE, N. J. . . . Eight
members of the Belleville Police
Department came to the aid of a
boy and his dog here by chipping
in 25 cents apiece so the boy,
Robert W. Eyerkuss, could buy the
dog a license to keep It from being
impounded.
T. B. Good Named
Cooper Councilor
For Etex C. of C.
LONGVIEW, Feb. 17.—T. B.
Good has been appointed town
councilor for Cooper for 1939 in
the East Texas Chamber of Com-
merce, Rube Wells, manager of
the Cooper Chamber of Com-
merce, has notified Hubert M.
Harrison, vice president and gen-
eral manager of the regional
chamber.
Mr. Good, as a member of the
Council of the East Texas Cham-
ber, will have the privilege of
voting on all important matters
of policy and will reflect the
views of Cooper in the regional
organization. He will receive all
bulletins and communications
from the regional chamber head-
quarters at Longview. He will
also be chairman of a committee
to raise the membership quota in
Cooper.
He will be invited to attend
meetings of the Council at Hunts-
ville, March 24, to make recom-
mendations to the board of direc-
tors on program of work and pol-
icies. A cup will be awarded at
Huntsville by President Paul T.
Sanderson of the East Texas
Chamber to the Councilor who
has reported the greatest per-
centage of quota paid in cash.
Texas Asks For
Million To War
On Pink Bollworm
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—The
Texas congressional delegation,
backed by the Agricultural De-
partment, agreed Wednesday to
ask Congrcis for $1,000,000 to
fight pink bollworm infestation
in that state.
The money will be sought un-
der the regular Agriculture De-
partment supply bill being con-
sidered by a House appropria-
tions subcommittee. If granted it
would become available next July
1st.
It would be used to meet labor
costs in plowing under stalks on
300,000 acres in Texas after the
next crop was picked and for the
purchase of machinery and ma-
terials necessary in sterilizing
seed from all staples grown in
afflicted sections.
First Lady to Speak
at Sherman in March
SHERMAN, Feb. 20.—Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of
the President of the United
States, has accepted an invitation
from Mrs. Grace Dupree Ridings
to speak in the public auditorium
in Sherman on Saturday night,
March 11. The event will be un-
der the auspices of the Texas
branch of the National League of
American Pen Women.
BOOSTERS OF
STOCK SHOW
TO VISIT HERE
Business; Men To Bring In-
vitations To Fort Worth
Exposition.
A group of Fort Worth busi-
ness men will arrive in Cooper
Tuesday, Feb. 21, bringing invi-
tations to attend the Southwest-
ern Exposition and Fat Stock
Show, March 10-19, a letter , to
Rube S. Wells announces.
The visitors traveling hy chart-
ered bus will arrive from Paris
about 4:30 o’clock. The bius will
be equipped with a public address
system for making announcements
about the stock show, interspers-
ed with music from a cowboy
fiddle band.
The trip will be sponsored by
the Roundup Club under auspices
of the Fort Worth Chamber of
Commerce. Homer Covey for
the third year heads the Round-
up activities.
Charles G. Cotten, manager of
the trade extension department
of the Fort Worth Chamber of
Commerce, indicates that the out-
look for the fat stock show this
year is one of the best. Market
conditions have placed the cat-
tlemen in the best financial con-
dition in years while a well bal-
anced stock show is being plan-
ned to add to the interest of the
visitors in Fort Worth.
Features on the stock show
program this year will be Paul
Whiteman and his band, who will
provide rhythm in the rodeo as
well as in the Roundup, new
amusement spot on the show-
grounds.
The stock show program, it
was said, will appeal to the old
time cowman who rode the trails
50 years ago. Present day cattle
families also will be honored
through their daughters, eight
of them coming from separate
sections of the cattle country as
honor guests of the show.
Adopt Standard
System For School
The members of the Workers
Council of the First Presbyter-
ian Church met with Mr. and Mrs.
Guy Ray Tuesday night. Inter-
esting reports were made by the
superintendent and other officers
of the school.
The standard B, 500 point sys-
tem for standard schools, was
thoroughly explained by Rev. W.
A. Casseday. The 10 point sys-
tem will be completed by the
first of April which will make
this Sunday school a standard
school. The Worker’s Council
adopted the standard B, 500
point system which places the
Sunday school on a high stand-
ard of efficiency.
At the conclusion of the meet-
ing the hostess served a refresh-
ment plate. She was assisted by
Mary Lena Ray, Mrs. R. J. Harp-
er and Miss Pauline Aikin.
Mrs. Lillian Lambeth of Dallas
who has been visiting Miss Buna
Tillman has returned home.
Texans Consume 3
Million Gallons
Of Liquor in ’38
The Texas liquor appetite is
considerably under what is was
immediately after repeal and in
1938 dropped sharply under 1937.
State liquor control board fig-
ures show that in 1938 Texans
drank 225,000 gallons less liquor
than in 1937, 1,500,000 gallons
less beer. However, consumption
was 3,700,000 gallons of liquor,
45.000,000 gnllons of beer, 1,-
BOO,000 gallons of wine.
Mr. and Mrs. Garland Moss of
Texarkana, spent the week end
with relatives and visited Miss
Nettie Moss, patient at Janes
Clinic and Hospital.
Pleas of Guilty to
Be 1 leard In County
Court Cases Tuesday
A large number of pleas of
guilty in liquor law violation
charges are scheduled to be heard
by Judge John T. Taylor in Coun-
ty Court Tuesday. The pleas
will be made in several of the
cases secured in a series of raids
three weeks ago when 23 alleged
bootleggers were jailed.
Judge Taylor opened the three
weeks term of court Monday
morning and set several civil suits
for the last of the week. It is
likely that only one or two con-
tested liquor cases will be tried
this week as the majority have
been set for trial next Monday.
WORKSHOP IS
PLANNED AS
NYAPROJECT
Training I n Woodworking
Will Be Offered Youths
Of County.
Pension Advocates
RECEIVE GOOD
FIRE RECORD
CREDIT AGAIN
Fire Department Commend-
ed By State Fire Insur-
ance Commissioner.
Cooper will again receive the
good fire record credit of 15 per
cent for 1939, Mayor J. H. Mc-
Kinney has been notified by Mar-
vin Hall, State Fire Insurance
Commissioner. Although several
large fires increased the insured
fire loss for the year to $7,099,
the five year average of losses
was low enough to make the max-
imum cerdit possible.
In the letter Mr. Hall com-
mended the Cooper fire depart-
ment for the effective work it has
been doing in saving citizens of
Cooper both from fire losses and
from higher insurance costs. In
the last five years the city has
been relieved of a 15 per cent
penalty for a bad fire record and
the 15 per cent credit has been
earned.
The credit means that on a
fire insurance policy costing $10
premium with no penalty or cred-
it, citizens here save $1.50 with
the good record credit where five
years ago they were penalized a
similar sum of $1.50.
Klondike Loses To
Deport By 33-19 In
First District Tilt
The Klondike High School Wild-
cats dropped their first district
contest to the Deport Tigers by
33-19 Friday afternoon at the
Whitley gymnasium at Commerce
and were eliminated from the dis-
trict tourney. It was the fourth
straight appearance in the district
conficts for the Wildcats and al-
though they met Gober in the fi-
nals in 1937 and Bailey in the
last round in 1938, they have yet
to win a district title. The Wild-
cat basketeers were far off on
their goal shooting Friday, allow-
ing the TigeTS to take an early
lead that was never headed.
An awards game for the Wild-
cats was announced for Friday
night, Fohi. 24, with the strong
Cumby High School quint fur-
nishing the opposition.
To File Federal
and State Charges
On Liquor Violation
Charges of possession of untax-
ed liquor will likely be filed in
both Federal and County Courts
against a Cooper bootlegger ar-
rested Sunday afternoon by Sher-
rif John G. McKee and Wayne
Blackburn, Liquor Control Board
officer. The man was arrested
at his room in southeasst Cooper
with a half gallon jar of “bust-
head.”
First steps toward setting up
a woodworking shop in which a
number of Delta County boys not
able to attend school, will be em-
ployed were taken Monday after-
noon by the Delta County NYA
advisory committee.
Plans for the workshop were
outlined by Dan Dansby, area
NYA supervisor. Tools and
labor will be furnished by the
National Youth Administration
while a building and utilities are
to be supplied by the community.
Steps to secure a building to be
used temporarily while plans for
a permanent structure are being
made were placed in the hands of
a commttee composed of Judge
John T. Taylor, Wilbur Hart and
Rube S. Wells.
Alvin O. Welch was elected
chairman of the advisory group
at the Monday meeting and Mrs.
Rowena Poe, relief office case-
worker, was named secretary.
Mr. Dansby said the workshop
in charge of a skilled supervisor,
would afford valuable training in
finish carpentry and cabinet
work. In the shop, furniture for
any political subdivision could be
constructed or refinished.
Plans were discussed for a com-
munity center building on, the
Boyd lot recently purchased by
the city. Rube S. Wells said
plans now call for the union tab-
ernacle and the exhibit building
at the city park to be torn down
and rebuilt with a large auditor-
ium for community meetings.
Mrs. Rowena Poe and Mrs. Wil-
son Riggs were named as a com-
mittee to map plans for a day
nursery project here.
Old Age Assistance
Fund Gets $319,832
AUSTIN, Feb.20.—The Old
Age Assistance fund received
$319,832.73 from liquor revenues
during January, according to the
monthly bulletin of the Texas
Liquor Control Board.
January prorations added $75,-
884.98 to the available school
'und, which brought to $4,045,-
601.81 the amount this fund has
received.
Mrs. Jim Burrows of Cooper
route three, who is a patient at
Janes Clinic Hospital is improv-
ing.
Born Wednesday to Mr. and
Mrs. Horace Weir of Birthright,
a 7 1-2 pound boy.
WASHINGTON, D. C. ... The
House Ways and Means Commit-
tee called advocates of old age pen-
sion plans to testify on their vari-
ous pension schemes. Photo shows
Representative Ralph O. Brewster,
of Maine (left), who testified in
support of the Townsend Pension
Plan and Dr. Francis Townsend.
1-Variety Contest
Awards to be Made
At Waco Wednesday
WACO, Feb. 20.—The experts
and scientists will furnish the au-
dience for the standardized cot-
ton producing farmers when they
speak on their actual experience
in planting, cultivating, harvest-
ing, ginning and marketing cot-
ton grown by standardized single-
variety cotton communities at
George Washington Cotton Im-
provement Day, February 22, in
Waco.
Chief feature of the occasion
will be presentation of awards to
the three winners in the East
Texas Chamber Single-Variety
Cotton Community Contest. The
awards will be given as follows:
first Rugby, Red River County,
$500; second, Coupland, William-
son County, $300; third, Enloe,
Delta County, $200.
Representatives from South and
West Texas will also be honored
when the unique arrangement will
give the farmer spokesmen of
outstanding single-variety com-
munities of those areas an oppor-
tunity of telling how and why
they have made a success of single
variety cotton standardized pro-
grams of production.
Ben D. Clower of Tyler and
daughter, Miss Cara Jean, stu-
dent at Hockaday School in Dal-
las, spent the week end with Mr.
and Mrs. S. D. Clower.
The little son of Rev. and Mrs.
Guy Perdue of Pecan Gap, had
his tonsils removed Monday at
Janes Clinic and Hospital.
Drifting- Men Mean Drifting
Soil, FS A Tells Land Owners
“Drifting men mean drifting
soil,” said Carter D. McKinzie,
Delta County Farm Security Ad-
ministration supervisor, today as
he invited land owners of the
county to consider using the
“flexible farm lease,” description
of which may be had at his office.
“This lease provides a method
and an incentive,” Mr. McKinzie
stated, “whereby tenants will re-
main on their land owners' farms
for a longer period instead of
moving every year.”
“Men who own the soil are the
ones most vitally concerned in
bringing about improvements en-
couraging tenants to remain and
to take care of the land as if it
were their own,” he said in ap-
pealing to landlords to consider
the flexible lease and other cur-
rent proposals to improve ten-
ancy conditions.
“The foundations of agriculture
in this state are threatened by
difficulties within the cotton in-
dustry,” Mr. McKinzie continued,
“and it is imperative that we de-
velop a system depending more
largely upon livestock and other
diversified farm products. This
cannot be done with farmers who
stay upon a place for only one or
two years. They must have time
to build up their herds, develop
pastures, build bams and fences.”
“It is not the purpose of the
flexible lease," he explained, “to
benefit either land owner or ten-
ant at the expense of the other.
But it would stimulate mutual
benefits, such as we already find
in this very county, where some
tenants have remained for a
number of years and have plant-
ed orchards, built terraces and
new buildings and improved old
ones. Tenants of this type would
be multiplied many times if as-
sured that they will remain up«n
the land until they have received
the benefits of their labor and ex-
pense, or that they will bo fairly
repaid for these iinprovcmcnta in
case they should be required to
move through no fault of their
own.”
CONSIDER NEW
COURT HOUSE 1
FOR DELTA CO.
Structure Available As WPAi
Project At Minimum
Cost To County.
Plans and estimates for a new
court house and jail for Delta
County with estimates of uoafc
when constructed as a WPA psp-
ject will be submitted to the Com.
missioners’ Court by Earl J.
Brcnnnn, former consulting engi-
neer for WPA, in the early fe
ture.
Mr. Brennan was here lufc
Wednesdaj' nnd took measure-
ments of the old court house
'jail from which to make estimate*
of the amount of material that
could be salvaged from these elk
buildings. There will be no cost-
to the county for the estimates.
Judge John T. Taylor has beew
told by WPA officials that tkejr
believed that sufficient material
could be salvaged from the court
house to be used on a new $199,-
000 court house building as »-
WPA project that the actual out-
lay in cash by the county would
not be more than $15,000 er
$20,000.
Delta County has been out $7,-
000 or $8,000 during the past tea
years repairing the present court
house and it is now in bad condi-
tion with more repair work soon,
a necessity.
It also is inadquate in spas*
and the county is now paying
more than $75 a month for office
space for government projects
being carried on in Delta Coun-
ty. If the estimates on the pro-
posed building are as liberal ae
were indicated Delta County peo-
ple can afford to take advantage
of the opportunity.
Tentative plans considered eaM
for a basement that would house
all Federal government activitiee,
a main floor for all county of-
fices and a jail on the second
story, thus concentrating all coun-
ty activities in one building.
Robnett On First
String Eleven At
A&M Spring Practice
Marshall Robnett, former Coop-
er Bulldog grid star, has beeu
placed on the first string eieven-
at Texas A. A M. for spring prac-
tice purposes by Coach Homer
Norton. Robnett, who was all-
district fullback three years with
the Bulldogs, has been moved to
guard position on the Aggie team.
His brother, Ed Robnett, also a-
star performer wdth the Bulldog*,
played fullback for the Aggie
Fish last season, but has beeu
shifted to a guard position and
has been placed on the third
stringers.
Norton has divided his squad
into four clubs the New York
Giants, Green Bay Packers, Wash-
ington Redskins and Chicago
Bears to stage a ten game tourn-
ament with a championship game
on March 2 for the two top teams
in the standings.
Allred Confirmed
For Federal Judge
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Tho
senate confirmed Thursday Pres-
ident Roosevelt’s nomination of
former Governor James V. AM-
red as a federal district judge.
Confirmation of Allred previ-
ously had been blocked by Sen-
ator King (D-Utah) under u»-
animous consent procedure.
King complained that Allred
wi*s not a resident of the South-
ern Texas judicial district.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy McClain, Jr.,
of Paris spent the week end with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy
McClain, Sr.
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