Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, January 30, 1953 Page: 2 of 8
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The. Cooper Review, Cooper, Texas
Friday, Jan. 30, 1953
LETS USE THE FRONT DOOR!
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VALLEY PUBLISHWG CO J. T. Toaoy and Richard
, Publishers. First door SW Hnw <* square Phone 86
Richard Stringfallow
Travw Toney
Mrs Harry Bartley
Kirby S. True
Loyd Tolleson
Clarwice Whitlock
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second class matter at the post office in Cooper, Texas,
ct of Congress, March 1879.
line between news and advertising is the line which
ormation of public interest from information dissemi-
rofit.
ssidn is charged or where geods Or wares of any kind
for sale, the regular advertising rates will be charged.
made for publication of notices of church activities or
C gatherings where no admission is charged.
~PTION RATES, DELIVERK» IN DELTA COUNTY
$1.58 1 Year $2.5* 2 Years $4.50
TION RATES, DEMVERHD OUTSIDE DRLTA CO.
$1.75 1 Year $2 75 2 Years $5.00
ditorial Comment
ral Employees Underpaid?
e can equal a bureaucrat in shedding crocodile
he appears before a committee to pressure Con-
,rger appropriations for federal funds. The plain-
which can be heard every spring are largely re-
‘or spreading the misconception that federal em-
e underpaid and badly treated.
'er, the simple fact is that the average government
is far better off in every respect than the great
f employees in the industrial operations examined,
ist report of the Civil Service Commission indicates
(March 31, 1952, there were 2,559,168 employees on
U payroll, and the total is increasing month by
1th few exceptions these employees work 40 hours
nd the annual payroll cost is in the neighborhood
£on, which is much more than it cost to run the
ral establishment, including the military, only a
iyears ago. Every taxpayer hopes that these peo-
usefully employed but it is a safe assumption that
It of them could be advantageously dropped from
with meritorious results.
t Hoover once said that security is a myth but he
ave had in mind the federal employee. This for-
ividual runs little risk of losing his job even under
inusual circumstances. No strikes plague him and
ess his job may wait for him indefinitely. Indeed
-es of the Civil Service Commission stress this fact,
t that during a national depression the factory on
|may close down but a government job runs on like
pf time. In all kinds of national weather the of-
[has the paternalistic blanket of Uncle Sam guar-
ds almost complete security.
ily speaking, the federal salary scale is based on
cation Act of 1949 which has been revised upward
?y year since that time. There are, of course, cer-
ions such as per diem employees, consultants, TV A,
rvice, etc. This scale runs from $1,500 to $14,800
The average salary is now about $4,000 per year,
n the 40-hour week, less some eight holidays and
of about 20 days off for annual leave, federal em-
rk about 1,776 hours per year, so their average
is about $2.15 per hour. In addition, the federal
ay have up to 15 days’ sick leave with pay, which
t to 120 hours, or three weeks more. This does
to accounts the extra time off for Washington
the inordinate amount of time lost in drinking
e government cafeterias.
reau of Labor Statistics reports that the average
nings in manufacturing industry are some $66
r about $3,400 per year. These statistics are based
ork year and do not reflect any loss due to striks
—a hazard that the government employee does
Iter.
fx-supported employees also get automatic within-
ncements merely by remaining on the job long
heir checks are sure to arrive on payday. There
of bankruptcy or other financial difficulties, and
re, the federal employee need never fear a garni-
salary. For some reason government salary checks
ed by special legislation which insures that the
walk” each and every payday,
device to force salaries upward can be found in
id “super grade” positions. The Classification Act
mitted the creation of 400 of these lush jobs pay-
11,000 to $14,000 per annum.
ick and annual leave privileges recently were re-
ward to some extent, but they still are more gen-
industry possibly could afford without marked
costs and sales prices. Most industrial establish-
it two-week vacations annually to employees af-
ye been in the service one year. In some instances
ased to three weeks but only after 15 years’ ser-
is generally computed on a calendar basis. In
e Government now permits annual leave to ac-
employee the day he enters on duty at the rate of
ys a year. After three years this increases to 20
a year and after 15 years to 26 work days a year,
Ti five calendar weeks. Unused leave may accrue
60 days, for which the employee may receive 12
upon severance. It has gotten to a point now
cy heads come before Congress and argue that it
o keep an employee on the payroll than it is to
cause of the amount of annual leave he has
Mrs. Dan Cummin* of Dallas NEWS
is visiting her mother, Mrs. W. N.
McGaha. She was accompanied
by Mrs. Craig Cumming who is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. T.
Toney, and family.
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Delta Soil
Conservation
District News
Joe Lowry of the Antioch con-
servation group is sold on the
use of hubam clover for soil
conditioning and improving.
Lowry, in 1949, made five bales
of cotton on six acres of land. He
feels that the hubam that was
grown on this land for two years
before was the main reason for
his high production. Before the
use of hubam, Lowry was only
making one bale to the six acres.
This gave him an income of
$160 off of the six acres or $26.66
per acre. After the land was
put into hubam for two years it
was then put back into cotton.
The first year in cotton it pro-
duced five bales on the six acres
and gave him an income of $800
on the six acres, or $133.33 on
each acre, an increase of $106.67
on each acre or a total of $640
on the six acres.
Lowry also says that his land
worked much better after the
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Henson
and children of Athens visited
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sparks last
Friday.
use of hubam, and he can tell to
the row where the hubam was
planted.
Lowry is so well pleased with
hubam that he plans on planting
more this year. Materials for
planting his hubam crops this
year are now being secured. The
time will soon be here for seed-
ing hubam. The first of March
is a good time to seed it.
Lowry is in the process of
sodding a broad, flat waterway
on the Hollis White farm this
week. SCS technicians designed
and staked the waterway. The
waterway was shaped with a
motor grader to proper size. He
is sodding the waterway with
bermuda grass. Terraces off of
about 80 acres will empty onto
this waterway after grass is well
established.
Financial assistance will be
given on this job by PMA through
the ACP program.
Soil Conservation Service tech-
nicians, G °i, McDaniel and
Rouse, gave a discussion on Soil
Conservation District and Soil
Conservation Work at East Delta
school on Monday night of this
week.
The vocational agriculture
teacher, C. W. English, of the
East Delta school called the meet-
ing and invited the SCS men to
participate. Rouse gave a talk on
Conservation, using colored slides
to illustrate. It was estimated
that 100 or more farmers and
business men attended the meet-
ing.
BEN FRANKLIN
MRS. M W. FOSTER
Mr. and Mrs. Brown Clark and
son, Mike, of Garland and Mr.
and Mrs. Boyt Clark and sons of
Atlanta spent Sunday with their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B.
Mrs. John Minin* of Route 2,
Cooper, has receded word that
her son, Samuel Mining, has re-
cently been promoted to the
grade of Technical Sergeant.
Sgt. Mining works in the Supply
Section of 85th Air Base Squad-
ron, Presque Isle AFB, Persque
Isle, Maine. _
Mm. Paul Herman and daugh-
ter, Paula Jane, of Sulphur
Springs visited her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Willson, Monday.
Blaine Adair and Miss Rosa
Macri of Dallas spent the week-
end with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Ed L. Adair.
A 4m*rU»(vm0nt
Clark.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Thomas
Jtf.
were visitors in Paris Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Ross of
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Leonard spent the weekend with
Mr. and Mrs. T. O. George and
family.
In Years Gone By
A Review of the Past in
Cooper and Delta County . . .
Taken From the Files of the Cooper Review:
TEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
Cletus Bridges, the younger son of Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Bridges,
and Miss Maxine McWilliams were married in Dallas Friday, Jan. 15.
There were 18,328 bales of cotton ginned in Delta county of
the 1942 crop to January 16, compared with 12,884 for the same
period last year.
The petroleum administration today prohibited all credit buy-
ing of gasoline and other petroleum products for private motor
cars, effective February 1.
Among the 564 army officers graduating from Texas A&M last
week were James Albert McKinzie, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. D.
McKinzie of Cooper, and Marshall Pickard of Pecan Gap.
While playing ball on the Cross Roads school grounds 14 years
ago, Calvin Cross lost his Cooper High School pin of 1928. Last
week this pin was found by William and Lois Pender, of Cross
Roads school, and are delighted to receive a nice reward from Mr.
Cross, who now resides in Houston.
TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
W. A. Thomas has been agreed on as collector of revenue for
the Dallas district. Mr. Thomas taught school in Delta county and
attended the Mayo school at Cooper.
The new county court has voted to keep J. F. Green, county
agent, and Miss Laura Morgan, home demonstration agent.
Robert Whitley, son of Sam Whitley, president of ETSTC, died
suddenly in his home in New York.
Four people were killed by a cyclone in Red River county.
The storm began at Howland.
THIRTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
Ed Hendricks has purchased the brick building on the north
side of the square of Yandell Lane of Koldenville, Okla. It is oc-
cupied by O. C. Orr.
Sul.Ratliff was run over and killed by a train near Chicago
Tuesday night. His sister, Miss Myrtle Ratliff, was notified by
telegram.
Rev. J. N. Coker has accepted the pastorate of the Presby-
terian Church.
P. J. Barker attended the annual state convention of the
Texas Farm Bureau in Dallas last week.
rORTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
Melton, young son of Joe Hargrove, was shot and killed with
a target rifle in the hands of Clyde Clark, 11, at the latter’s house.
The boy did not know the gun was loaded.
Drilling has ceased in the test well seeking fresh water, be-
ing drilled in South Cooper. Salt water was found.
John Smith was wounded in the right leg by a shot fired by
W. H. Whited from a pistol in the postoffice lobby Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Harris were
called to Dallas Sunday as their
son, Odell Harris, is seriously ill.
Gus Phillips of Mineral Wells
spent the past week with his
sister, Mrs. Jennie Hays.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McMillan
and Mr. and Mrs. John Waller
spent Sunday in Dallas with J. C.
McMillan family.
Mr. and Mrs. B. K. Foster and
daughter were in Dallas the first
part of the week to visit relatives.
Hershel Fowler and family of
Honey Grove spent Sunday with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leon-
ard Fowler.
Mrs. Drue Cregg and son are
visiting her mother, Mrs. R. A.
Kerbow.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith and
Mrs. Ida Smi*h of Oklahoma City
are hero at the bedside of his
sister, Mrs. Minnie Moody, who
is critically ill at the Marcum
Hospital in Ladonia.
TP&L Co. employees are work-
ing on the power line this week
and have put in several new
poles.
From where I sit... 61/ Joe Marsh
Curpr-se Ending!
That rafflo for ear Volunteer
Fire Department went over tine.
We're going to have money to get
a new engine—and then some.
Our local merchants really
donated some wonderful prizes.
Like Buzz Ellis, the radio-TV
dealer, giving that big television
set . . . and the Superior Motors
putting up a brand-new car.
There was a humorous note,
too. The prize of a year’s supply
of coal —donated by Baker Coal
Yard — was won by Mrs. Thayer,
whose husband is the biggest fuel-
oil dealer in the county! What did
Mrs. Thayer do with the coal?
She gave it to a church she’s not
even a member of. (Her Church
uses her husband s fuel oil.)
From where I ait, that’s real
genera? ity. But then, Mra. Thayer
never did believe in dividing
p< 0p!e into groups. She’s “for”
everybody — whatever church
they go to. whether they like TV
or radio, people who enjoy tem-
perate beer, people who don’t. A
really uurni-hearted person.
Cop\riiht, United Slant Brewers Foundation
Oscar Scott was in Dallas Mon-
day for a medical checkup at
Baylor Hospital.
Gene Leslie Ls on vacation this
week from the Chamber of Com-
merce office.
e Future?
hould be no question as to the meaning of the
vote for the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket through-
ited States. Of course corruption, Korea and
stood out as decisive issues, but they only served
people everywhere the evils that had followed
n the attempt to transform our decentralized,
tent of a free people into a centralized,
r tyranny of unlimited power. These spotlighted
served to make clear the wisdom of the fathers
rican Revolution who believed that the best gov-
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Sparks Theatres
Saturday, January 31
“THE DUEL AT SILVER CREEK”
Technicolor
Audie Murphy, Faith Domerque, Stephen McNalley.
Also Comedy.
Sun. — Mon., Feb. 1-2
Searing saga of the Big Timber Country! Flaming story of
romance adventure!
“BLAZING FOREST”
In Blazing Technicolor
John Payne, William Demarest, Susan Morrow, Agnes Moore-
head, Richard Arlen.
Selected Short Subjects.
Tue. — Wed., Feb. 3-4
The wildest war the West’s grazing country ever saw!
“CATTLE TOWN”
Dennis Morgan, Philip Corey, Rita Moreno, Amanda Blake,
Geo. O’Hanlon.
News — Comedy.
Thur. — Fri., Feb. 5-6
He took her out of the gutter and threatened to fling her back!
“THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL”
Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell,
Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame, Gilbert Roland, Leo G.
Cailull, Vanessa Biown.
News — Comedy.
Owl Show Saturday Night
Every human who likes to look at or play football should see
“SATURDAY S HERO”
John Derek, Donna Reed.
Also Comedy
AT THE GRAND . . .
Fri. —• Sat., Jan. 30-31
“WAGON TRACKS WEST”
A rooten’ tootin’ western with an all star cast.
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Stringfellow, Richard. Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, January 30, 1953, newspaper, January 30, 1953; Cooper, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth976125/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Delta County Public Library.