The Delta Courier (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 29, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 16, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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COOPER, DELTA COUNTY, TEXAS TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1940
VOLUME 59, NO.
jpmmittee
forking On
^j£ke Project
Plentiful rains hpve relieved che
necessity for haste in securing a
more adequate water supply for
Cooper, but the public continues
to be anxious to know what plans-
have or will be adopted by the
City Council and its advisory com-
mittee. This body is naturally
working slow in conjunction with
Engineer Walter Hicks, in an ef-
fort to wisely adopt the best plans
and course of procedure. By pio- i
cess of elimination, sites for the
lake water supply has narrowed
down to two.
One is to raise the dam of the
present lake and add another
■mail fake to it. Thifc would have a
capacity of fifty million gallons
and including 1,419 feet of eight
inch main extending to town would
cost approximately the same as a
lake on Big Creek.
The Big Creek location would
have a lake just west of the over-
head crossing of the railroad. It
would require 5G acres and have
a capacity of one hundred million
gallons of water. The stream
would not pass through it, but it
would be filled at a gate at the
upper end which would be closed
when sufficient water is taken in
at the time and desire of the man
in charge. A 12-inch main would
convey the water by gravity to the
pumping plant on the east side of
the railroad. The cost of the filter
and pumping plant would be the
same at either site
There are some advantages and
disadvantages in either place.
fear that water from the
Backhand will not be as as good
as that afforded from the light
land which prevails on the water-
shed of the present lake. Others
urge that the Big Creek lake wouill
not fill up with mud, would be
clear and would not drain off pas-
tures where hundreds of head of
stock graze. To determine the
quality of water from a Big Creek
reservoir Mayor Rountree will
have the State Health Department
analyze water taken from pools in
Big Creek after floods subside.
The question has arisen as to
disposition of the present, lake
property if a new lake is secured,
and Mayor Rountree expects to
take the matter up with the State
Park Board to learn if the state
would take it over as a state park.
Engineer Walter Hicks suggest-
ed that deep well water would be
the better supply if such could he
found, and he believed it could be
In or near Cooper, as drillers were
now much more proficient in cas-
ing off bad water. He said it would
probably he too expensive to
search for it, but it has been sug-
gested that if an oil test is made
near town that the city pay extra
to hive tests for good water made.
Advice on the Vice Presidency
Directory For
Cooper And Delta
County In Mails
The latest and newest of the
2itv Directory is now out and be-
atributed here. It '« most
&n4 contains the latest
up-to-date information
■oncerning Cooper and Delta
:ounty. It gives the total, popula-
ien of Cooper ns 2,536.
Population of other tows in
Delta county are: Ben Franklin
J00j Charleston 225, Enloe 265,
Klondike 115*4, Lake Creek 200,
snd Pecan Gap 500. The directory
contains the names of the head of
Families in Cooper, representing
the total population.
These directories ar« being mail-
id out each day to business houses
for their use, to everyone in Coop-
»r and ether towns and to every-
one on the routes. B. B. Fort of
Houston is the compiler of the
directory.
Nearly $10,000
Parity Checks
Are Received
WASHINGTON, D. C. . . . Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon,
left, Republican Vice Presidential candidate, gets the “low-down”
on how to be Vice President from a man who knows all about the
Job—Vice President John Nance Gamer. "Charlie," Garner said,
“the first thing you must learn when becoming Vice President, is
the proper way to hold a cigar."
Needmore Farmer Makes 100 Per Cent
Profit On Skeep And Improves Land
M. R. .Humphries, of the Need-,
more community, has had a very
successful year with his sheep
demonstration. Mr. Humphries
says he has not only made 100
per cent on his investment, but
his sheep have improved his pas-
ture by keeping the weeds down.
At the beginning, , Mr. Hum-
phries had 26 Hampshire ewes
and two rams. He raised 31
lambs from this .6 ewes. Last
week Mr. Humphries sold 20
lambs for $128 and in the spring
he sold 187 pounds of wool for
$56.75. This made a total of
$174.75 and he has kept 11 ewi
lambs which increases his flock
to 37 ewes for another year.
It is estimated that 28 head of
sheep like Mr. Humphries has
could have been bought for $7.50
per head or $210.00. He has al-
ready gotten $176.00 and has
kept 11 ewe lambs.
Mr. Humphries kept his sheep
in good condition through the
winter, and has kept bone meal in
their salt all the time. The bone
meal was used for a very definite
purpose that is to strengthen and
mature the bone and general con-'
dition of the sheep.
Officers have Busy
Week End With Seven
Persons Arrested
Officers made up over the
week end for any lack of arrests
during the past two months as
seven persons were arrested Sat-
urday and Sunday and found
guilty in Justice Co.’rt.
Three of the persons were
charged with drunkenness, two
•with affray, one with vagrancy,
and one with disturbance. All of
the persons plead guilty to Jus-
tice of the Peace C. V. Flanary,
three persons paying fines, one
making bond and the' others re-
manded to jail.
Ur. and M-s H. C. Hurley and
daughter, Miss liOrcne Hurley and
Mr. and Mrs. Dahl JTurley are
vacationing in Mexico.
Excavating For
Courthouse Continues
Dirt excavated for the fount-
tions of the new Delta ciounty
courthouse is being moved this
week as heavy rains during the
latter part of last week slowed up
work on the foundations of the
building. A large part of the
dirt excavated for the foundations
of the courthouse cannot be used
in landscaping the grounds for
the building and is being given
away.
As soon as the ground will per-
mit, WPA} workmen will begin
making smaller excavations fo)
the piers of the foundations.
These will be put down to about
nine feet below the , three foot
level already excavated. Pouring
of concrete will begin as soon as
the excavating is completed.
Travis Carrington returned
home Wednesday from Detroit,
Mich., arriving home with a new
Ford car. Travis/ and his sister,
Miss Rita Carrington, accompan-
ied their sister, Mrs. R. J. Galla-
gher, and daughter of Rantoul,
111,, home for a short vacation be-
fore going to Detroit.
Former Resident
Of Delta County
Dies In Lubbock
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Petitfils
and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Devaney
of Lake Creek were in Lubbock
last week to attend the funeral of
Mrs. Ben Miller. Her husband died
about two months ago.
She is survived by one sister of
Long Beach, Calif., and a number
of nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Miller was formerly Mrs.
Ellen Miller, wife of W. S. Miller.
After his death she went to Cali-
fornia to live with her sister and
later married her first husband’s
brother, Ben Miller, of Lubbock.
The Miller family formerly lived
at T,ake Creek and were well
known over the county.
IN; CONNECTICUT SCHOOL
Jeff Woodruff, son of Dr. and
Mrs. E. E. Woodruff, a graduate
of Cooper High School ahd stu-
dent of East Texas State Teach-
ers College in Commerce and
Texas University in Austin, is f
rolled in school in Hartford,
Conn., for six weeks.
RECOVERING FROM
ACCIDENT
Bernie MeFarling, who was in-
itired last Wednesday night when
the truck he was drivine went out
of control near Broekston, is re-
covering satisfactorily at the home
of his mother-in-law, Mrs. L. C.
Schmitter.
RENT CNS BUILDING
W. H. Godfrey of Sulphur
Springs, route 3, had his tonsils
removed' Friday at Janes Clinic
and Hospital.
Thomas Cozart of Annona,
nephew of Mrs. W. iM. Parkhill, is
spending two weeks with her.
Mrs. J. D. Miller has rented
the building of Mrs. C. L. Ste-
vens 'first door north of the First
National Bank and will occupy it,
the first of August with a com-
plete line of millinery and, ready
t.o-wear.
Misses/ Dora Fay Hocutt, Jewel
and Freda Sissel visited over the
week end in Pario with Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Haden.
Almost $10,000 was received
here last week by the Delta County
AAA office in two groups of
checks for payment of 150 1940
parity applications made by Delta
county farmers At the present
time more than 350 parity appli-
cations have been submitted at
the State AAA office for payment.
The total amount of the checks is
$9,176.28.
This year, Delta county ran a
close third in getting paymeni. on
the 1940 parity applications and
would have gotten the checks
even sooner had not the unduly
heavy rains held up work in the
fields. Last year Delta county was
the first county in the State of
Texas to get payment on parity
applications. Robert Johnson of
route three received the first check
here.
Measuring Farms
Almost all of the 2,000 farms in
Delta county have been measured
but rains that have fallen almost
every week for the past two
months have held up progress on
the work. At the present time less
than 75 farms in the county re-
main to be measured. If the
weather will permit all of the
farms will be measured by the end
of this week.
Five farm reporters are now in
the fields of the county checking
destroyed cotton and rechecking
those farms that have put up the
$1 deposit for the rechecking.
The Delta County AAA is urg-
ing that farmers who have re-
ceived cards from the office come
ir to the office as soon as the
cards are received and not to wait
several days. Any person that de-
lays in signing his card is delaying
several other persons.
Parity applications are made as
as soon as a farm is measured and
n card sent the farmer is brought
to the AAA office, if the cotton
allotment has not been over
planted.
If the cotton allotment has been
over planted and the farmer de-
stroys this excess cotton, a re-
I check man from the county AAA
office must be sent out to check
the destroyed cotton. Then the
parity application is prepared in
the county office and the farmer
is notified to come in to sign the
application.
Mrs. I.on Jeter, who has been
ill several weeks from a major
operation, is improving, but a-
' jrefc is not sitting up.
$31,465 In Rural
School Aid Received
In Delta In 1939
Report of the state auditor
shows Delta county received $31,-
465 rural school aid last fiscal
year, out of a total of 35,3416,825
distrubtad over Texas, Superin-
tendent S‘. R. iLeMay of Athens
pointed out this week.
LeMay h is proposed distribu-
tion of rural aid funds by* an
automatic methr.il> free of po' ti-
ci> pressure, so thac schools may
know in advance how to plan
their budgets. He,is a candidate
for State Superintendent.
Program Being
Arranged For
Cornerstone Laying
0 _
Arrangements uie being made,
according to J. T. Taylor, county
judge, for a formal celebration j
during the latter part of August i
for the laying of the corner stone
of the new courthouse. In con-
nection with the laying of the
corner stone will be a celebration
of the 70th anniversary of Delta
county.
Committees are being appoint-
ed and many arrangements are
being made to make the day one
of the outstanding celebrations of
the year. Events for the day,
such as a “Pioneer Parade,"
speaking, picnics, contests and
entertainment during the night
are under discussion.
Many dignataries from over
Texas} and other states will be
present on that day. Plans for
the day are far from complete. An
announcement of the full day’s
program will be made in a short
time.
Party Leader
RE-ELECTED IN OKLAHOMA
Wricrht Patman
To Speak Here
Saturday Afternoon
Congressman Wright Patman,
able to return to his district for a
few days because of the recess of
Congress for the Democratic Na-
tional Convention, will speak in
Cooper Saturday afternoon, July
20, at 2 o’clock, it was announced
Saturday.
Arrangements are, as yet, in-
complete for his address her° hut
it is likely that the speech will be
made at the City Tabernacle. Mr.
Patman’s appearance in Cooper
will close his weeks campaign in
the interest of his re-election dur-
ing which he will make three or
four speeches a day in different
parts of the district. He will re-
turn to Washington immediately
after the Cooper address to be
nresent when Congress meets on
Monday, July 22.
In a statement released Satur-
day. Mr. Patman said:
“I arrived home today from
Washington. I have remained at
my post of duty in Washington be-
cause T believed that adequate na-
tional preparedness and keeping
our boys from being sent to Eu-
rope to engage in a war were more
important than my own personal
political future. Now. however,
Congress is in recess until July 22
r.o business will he transacted un-
til then. During this week, T ex-
pect to make a complete tour of
the district, and although I will be
unable to see many of the people
and will be unable to visit many
of the towns and communities, I
will cover as much territory as
possible, because when the House
meets on Julv 22 in Washington,
D. C.. although it is only five days
before the nrimarv election, I wiil
he on hand to look after your in-
terest. •• '
“Tuesday night at Mt. Pleasant,
at the conclusion of r.'v speech, T
expect to answer all criticisms and
attacks that have been o-rde in
this campaign. Before and after
that speech, I expect to make
three or four speeches a day in
different parts of tho -district.”.
I “I am deeply grateful to my
\ friends, who have carried on in mv
behalf during my absence.”
Walter Davis, a former resi-
dent of Cooper and of Delta
county, has been reelected coun-
ty commissioner in the first pri-
mary in Bryan county. Okla. Mr.
Davis, a resident of Bokchito, re-
ceived.as many votes as all of his
opponents in the primary election
held last week in Oklahoma.
Miss Juanita Dunn, who has a
position in Paris, will have a two
weeks vacation and will visit her
parents, Mr. and MVs. Alvin Dunn,
and family here, and friends in
Austin.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Sissel and
daughters, Gdelia and Lophelin.
of Seba visited over the week end
with his mother, Mrs. William
Sissel, and sisters in and near
Cooper. ,
KERBOW ANNUAL REUNION
WILL BE AUGUST 4
The annual Kerbow reunion
will be held at| the city park in
Cooper Sunday, Aug- 4. The
Kerbows are decendents of three
brothers who settled in Delta
county in an early day. For sev-
eral years they have practiced
gathering at Cooper f >r annual
reunions and the numbers of the
clan and their program are inter-
esting and impressive
WASHINGTON, D. C____Frank-
lin Delano Roosevelt, who controls
millions of votes, kept the party
mystified for a year as to whether
he would run for a third term.
Miss Faye Rattan will leave to-
day, Tuesday, fori Colorado City
to visit her cousin, Mrs. H. B.
Broadus, and family. Miss Rat-
tan will acempany a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Broadus of F
Oscar Tidwell
Announces
Candidacy
To The Voters of Precinct Two:
I would like take this opportun-
ity to call to the attention of the
voters of precinct two, my candi-
dacy for re-election as your com-
missioner for a second term: and
at the same time outline to you
a few things that have Lwi ac-
complished during my " term
In asking for re-election to a sec-
ond term, I wish to express my
sincere thanks to the people of
my precinct for your splendid sup-
port in the past and assure you of
my continued efforts to give you
an economical and efficient ad-
ministration.
As most of you know each com-
missioner of Delta county is limit-
ed in his expenditures to one-
fourth of that money which is de-
rived from the sale of $32,500 in
bonds each year, which amounts
to $8,125 for each precinct. In
the face of these limited finances
1 would like to submit to you some
of the things that have bnen ac-
complished during the eighteen
months that I have served you as
'•our commissir ner, thus giving
you the facts of an efficient ad
ministration upon which I am ask-
ing for re-election to a second
term.
I started a WPA rock road pro-
ject from Yowell to Klondike on
June 19, 1939, it is almost com-
plete. In the construction of WPA
jects the precinct is responsible
for the payment for all bridge
materials and all tools used by
the workers from the annual al-
lotment of $8,125. On the Yowell-
Klondike road there will be eleven
■timber bridges from ten to twenty
feet long, one steel bridge, one
forty-five foot timber bridge, and
three corrugated iron culverts with
rock head-walls. The total cost of
this project will he about $49,000
of which the precinct will he re
ouired to pav $14,000. The only
source of revenue from which tho
nrecinct can pay its part is from
the annual allotment of $8,125,
and what credit may be received
from the Federal Government for
the use of our machinery in grad-
ing the roadbed and sub-grades.
You can easily see that economy
must he practiced in spending
funds in order that the precinct’s
part of the cost may be met, and
at the same time give attention
to the voads and bridges through-
out the entire precinct. It is im-
possible to move the machinery
from the road project until the
-oadbnd is complete. To do so
would curtail the progress of the
work and often times stop it com
plete. For that reason some of my
criticisms seem unjust, in that It
was impossible for me to move
the maohitverv to other parts of
the precinct to work the roads at
?ny and all time*.
On January 1, 1989, there was
Two Negroes
Arrested For
Burglaries
After reportedly obtaining con-
fessions from two negroes '.Sun-
day night and Monday morning,
officers stated Monday afternoMt
that they believed that they had
broken a long series of nightly
burglaries that had plagued the
business section of Cooper for
three months.
The negroes, M. B. Traylor, 29,
and Roger Dyer, 17, were arrest-
ed Sunday for the offenses by of-
ficers after a break in the many
burglaries wa3 made by former
Deputy Sheriff Sam Martin. Mr.
Martin discovered the final clan
Saturday that led to the arrest of
the negroes.
A case of 20,000 cigarettes warn
stolen from a box car at the da-
pot early Saturday morning be-
longing to the T. and N. O. faB-
road. A tip came to the officers
that a negro was selling cigarettes
in the negro section of > Cooper.
Questioning of several negro as
that had bought cigarettes led to
the arrest of Traylor and Dyer.
After Traylor had confessed to
the breaking open of the box oar
Friday night or early Saturday
morning, according to a statement
made by the authorities, he con-
fessed to breaking in several busi-
ness bouses.
Authorities state that Traylor
confessed to entering Silman
Bros. Grocery on two different
occasions, entering J. Will White
and Son Grocery! twice, entering
Boyd’s Brown-Bilt Shoe Store
once and taking i$110 from Dr.
O. Y. Janes while in his employ.
Almost all of the loot that Tray-
lor is alleged to have taken hae
been recovered, including an ex-
pensive pistol belonging to Hollis
White. Almost all’ of the cigar-
ettes that were taken in the bur-
glaries have been recovered. The
burglaries of the stores and many
other attempts in which nothing
much of value was obtained oc-
curred during the months of
April. May, June, and July.
Several other persons have been
arrested by officers in connec-
tion with the burglaries as having
■icted as a “fence” in disposing
of the stolen goods obtained from
the box car case and from the
business houses around the square.
However, no charges had been
filed against anyone late Monday
afternoon. >
Traylor was a suspect in the
burglaries that have been occur-
ring, according to authorities, but
no dues or evidence had been
turned up against him until Sat-
urday. Authorities were lavish
in their praise of Mr. Martin who
broke;the case open by obtaining
evidence and clnas to the bur-
glars of the box car.
Review To Be
Homecoming Edition
-:—- . ■ >>i
The issue of the Cooper Re-
view Friday will be in honor of
Cooper's Second Annual Home-
coming that will be held Sunday,
July 21. The paper will be a
creditable edition that will con-
tain news and articles interesting
to persons visiting Cooper for the
first time in manyl years and to
persons who will not be able to
attend the Homecoming.
Persons who are able are re-
minded to attend the Second An-
nual Homecoming and obtain an
issue of The Cooper Review to
send to persons who cannot at-
tend the Homecoming.
TEN BOLLS ON ONE
COTTON STALK
Soe TIDWELL on pago ftor
Neil Pickens left a grown boll
of cotton at the Review and Cour-
ier office Saturday. It was one
of ten’ bolls on one stalk on a
little patch he is raising in town,
he reported.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Evans af
Fort Worth Visited relatives in
Cooper Sunday. ^
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