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COOPER, TEXi
Sulphur Valley Publiohina (/<>. \ olume 78 NO. 8
The Cooper Review, Cooper, Texas
Eight Pages
F riday February 21
Katin! named
To Office Of
w li (Bill) Crunk, 58, Qr*en- is U. S. Attorney
ELT A | Funeral Held In Greenville For
jLJ IARY
former Delta Lawyer And Resident
Chairmen For
Red Cross Fund
Are Announced
By Richard Stringfellow
This week the Cooper city offi-
cials made a step toward partial
recovery from the financial
problem facing the water and
sewer systems.
In announcing the revenue
bond election, Cooper citizens
will have the opportunity of vot-
ing for or against the proposal
of selling $60,000 in bonds to al-
leviate the problem.
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It seems almost a necessity to
secure these funds if the city is
to continue operation. Whether,
in the opinion of the voters, this
is the way to secure them re-
mains to be seen.
However, there is a matter of
$31 000 which must be paid for
the drilling of the two wells
south of Cooper plus other ad-
ditional expense which must be
taken care of.
It would seem wise to mention
vilte lawyer and member of the
firm of Crunk and Morgan, died
at 3:55 a. m. Sunday in a Green-
ville hospital. He suffered a cere-
bral hemmorrhage about 8 a.m.
Sauturday shortly after arriv-
ing at his office over the Rita
Theater.
Funeral services were held at
3 o’clock Monday afternoon in
Greenville and Dr. James L.
the board of elders and deacons
at the time of his death and was
teacher of the Men’s Sunday
School Class. He was also an
active member of the Dions Club.
On May 15, 1925, he was mar-
ried to Gene Gibson in Dallas.
Two sons were born.
Survivors include his wife; two
sons, W. H. Crunk, Jr., Purcell,
$60,000 Bond Vote
City Water Improvem
) Dave Jones, has announced the
Okla., and Gibson Crunk, Green- |p
Sandlin, pastor of the Central | vjjie; parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. ||
Presbyterian Church there offici- , R crunk, Commerce; sister, Mrs. j
ated. Interment was made m | q ^ cartwright, Dallas; three i j
Forest Park cemetery. grandchildren, Anne, Jeanie and
Pallbearers were Charlie Nes- Qaroj gue Crunk, Purcell, Okla.,
bitt, Judge Charles Berry, Irvin: and otber relatives.
Neel, Edgar Hutchins, Harris --
Morgan, Henry Pharr, Dave Ter-j
’ ^ Born m' the ^uth Sulphur | F WICI a! F0Y MTS.
Community near Commerce * U^IJ
Sept. 18. 1898, Crunk was the I lT0Iu
son of H. E. Crunk and Medu
Hamilton Crunk. Educated in the
public schools of Commerce, he
received his law degree from
Cumberland University Law
Fund Drive Chairman for the Notice has been given by the
Red Cross in Delta County, Mrs. | Cooper City Council that a $60,-
000 Revenue Bond election will
be held on March 9 in the City
Hall for the purpose of financ-
ing water and sewer system im-
provements.
Official^ of the election will be
J. H. Bond, presiding judge; Ar-
thur Stahmer, assistant judge;
Mrs. John Houston, clerk; Mrs.
Florence Fly, clerk; and Miss
selection of community chair-
men of various sections of Coop-
er and Delta County.
Those named include: Enloe,
Mrs. Sherwood Toon; Ben
Franklin, Ellen Miller; Pecan
Gap, Mrs. V. E. Shipman; Klon-
dike and Camp Lake, Mrs. Harry
SAM C. RATLIFF
Qualified voters in the election ] The notice, signed
will be those who own taxable H. R. Hicks, is the
property in the city of Cooper
and who have duly rendered
the same for taxation.
The ballot will contain two
propositons: For (or against)
the issuance of water works
system improvement and exten-
tion revenue bonds; For (or a-
gainst) the issuance of sewer
system improvement and ex-
tintion revenue bonds.
Sam C. Ratliff has been ap-
J pointed assistant U. S. Attorney
Mrs. Geneva Gillispie, 98, died f0r the Southern District of Tex-
Ward; Antioch and Gough, Mrs.
J. B. Adair; Hickory Grove and I Hallie McKinney, clerk .
Craig Tranquill, Mrs. Morris I-—--•--—-—-
peD^Hanna; Vasco Mrs Z H Little LcagUS Official Are Elected’,
Young; Kensing, Mrs. Grover D.
Pickering; Mt. Joy, Mrs. R. P.
Skeen and Mrs. H. H. Hayles;
Howell, Mrs. A. E. McFarlan;
Jot-Em-Down, Mrs. Herman
Plans Made For Coming Season
School in Tennessee, and also Cooper.
Saturday, February 1, at 5:30
p.m. at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. W. H. (Doc) Millard,
that should the bond issue carry, ^eid a degree from East Texas
it will not cure all the ills of the I gtate Teachers College in Corn-
water and sewer department, | m<?rce Continuing his studies at
Texas Christian University in Ft.
Worth, he was an all-star player
as, Federal Court at Houstun.
Ratliff, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
C. Ratliff of Cooper, has for the
past four years been assistant
but should ease the problem at
hand.
The issue will be presented to on the Tcu football team
the voters in two propositions , Re started his law practice in
and both must carry to vote t e j Cooper and was eiected in the
bonds. In other words, $ > early ’30s to two terms as county
is stated for water improvement ] attorney After thjs he practiced
and $5,000 for sewer improve- , ^ hfire until 1942 at which
ment. The poposition is for $6U,- lime he became county attorney
000 and both must carry by e serVed for five years.
Funeral services were held attorney general, having been ap-
voters or neither will carry.
He went to Greenville in 1948
This writer is in no way mak- to become associated with Harris
me an effort to convince voters , Morgan, following the death of
they should vote one way or the , his father, J. Benton Morgan
,----*—♦ I An active leader in Green-
ville civic affairs and in his pro-
fession, Crunk had served as
president of the Hunt County
opinion Bar Association and was a mem-
ber of the Texas Bar Association.
As a member of Central Christ-
other, but it is very important
that each citizen knows what he
is doing and that he or she must
vote on March 9. It will be your
chance to voice your
when you cast your vote,
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Basketball in Delta county is ^
lastly drawing to a climax with p. 1 g*. Arp
bi district and regional playoffs ^ lQ(H lVllCS C
- Held l or Karl
noted for producing some out-
standing basketball teams both
in Cooper’s Class A and the other; ^ ^ at 1 took a 67 to 52 victory and on
school’s Class B competi 10 . I the Church of Christ in Tolar Tuesday in Greenville the Coop-
year is no exception as w i f<jr Kafl R Hooten, former resi- j er boys won by a 66 to 47 score
evidenced in the playoffs. I Qf Delta Countyi who died to take the District 14-A Cham-
, 1 suddenly of a heart attack at pionship.
And with the curtain drawing ^demy oi a^ ^ west
on basketball it is only a matter nis
Hooten At Tolar
Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock in
the McDonald Funeral Home
Chapel. Rev. Robert Baldridge
officiated, assisted by Rev. James
Simpson. Interment was made
in Union Hall Cemetery in Dan-
ville, Ark.
Other survivors besides her
daughter, Mrs. Millard, are one
son, Ervin Gillispie, Danville,
Ark., eleven grandchildren,
twenty great-grandchildren and
two great-great-grandchildren.
Local Boys Win
District 14-A
Championship
After spotting the Emory bas- . n< r.
ketball team the first game in L|||ol E-ClfpC f OF
a two-out-of-three district pla> j
off, Cooper roared back to win ?i/l Trrt*t*pll lH
the final two game* by decisive | ivu «• 1 vlIvUj o*/
margins.
The first game Cooper lost by
a three point margin. Last Fri-
day in the local gym, the locals
At the first meeting of the rials held last week, new officers
Oats^1 * Liberty Grove'and* Pwan I Delta County Little League offi-I were elected for the coming
Grove, Mrs. Ode Tuomas; |
Charleston and East Delta, Mrs. |
pointed by John Ben Shepherd
during his term of office and
more recently by Will Wilson.
In this capacity he was chief
of public affairs and was in
charge of Duvall investigations
and more recently in charge of
the George Pharr trials held in
New Braunfels.
Ratliff attended Cooper schools
and later studied law at Cum-
berland Law School. He passed
the state bar in 1946 and was
Delta county attorney from 1948
to 1952.
He married the former Louise
Rector of Sulphur Springs and
they now have two sons, Brad-
ley and Jimmy. The Ratliffs plan
to move from Austin to Houston
in the near future.
Charles Cooper; Lake Creek and
Pacio, Mrs. Glee Taylor; Cross
Roads and Clark, Mrs. Preston
West.
For various areas in Cooper:
business section, Truman Whit-
lock; Clubs, etc., Lola Nell Mor-
gan; Highway Village, Mrs. Cot-
ton Echols; Northeast Cooper,
Mrs. Chleo Jeter; Southeast
Cooper, Laura Jo Taylor; Colored
Sections, Fannie May Mays
season.
— — — — —. — «—~ 9 i To serve din me the coming
llpitcl MOL) L)rive|year are: president, Richard
Stringfellow; vice preaident,
Goes Over $700
i x11 nded emergency!
in the city water
caused partly by th
last year.
With ecent rains,J
has been able to use|
the city lake, the nc
of water. During th
water was supplied]
from two wells goufl
on South Sulphur
Decision to hold
bond election was ml
ruary 18 and the
worded thusly: “Call
ion on the question
ance of $55,000 watd
tern improvement aq
revenue bonds; and
system improvement
tion revenue bonds!
Incomplete reports have been
made by various phases of the
March of Dimes drive in Cooper
and Delta county with a total
thus far from all scources of
$710.76.
The Mother’s March, under the
chairmanship of Mrs. L. F. Hoot-
Mrs. Jones stated that in the en, Jr. in Cooper, brought in ap-
near future all the above men-
tioned community chairmen
would have named their solici-
tors and will be announced as
soon as possible. , , _ , . _, ,
The drive is to start the first J $3 from the Fashionette Club.
week in March, but according to
Mrs. Jones the second week of
March will be the time when
Awards Nij
Held For Ti
of a few short weeks until base-
ball fever will become an epi-
demic in this county.
This writer was not abie to
attend a meeting of the Little
League officials last week, but
he shoulff have to defend him'
self. Being elected president of
the Little League should be con-
sidered an honor, but also carries
with it tremendous responsibil-
U The president of the league for
the past two years, Wade Bled-
soe, has carried out the duties of
this office, with the help of good
Delta workers will make the big
push.
Delta County’s quota has been
set for $1,643. There will be 35
Opal Preas; secretary, D. B.
Baker; treasurer, S. T. Garrison;
umpire in chief, Hiram Clark,
Jr.; player manager, Joe Daniels.
The group present discussed
the possibility of adding two
teams to the league for this sea-
son. Main reason expressed in
adding the teams was that more I tro»hl_es for the dlst:
youngsters would be able to
play baseball in the league.
proximately $216.87 and was held j After some discussion, it was
on January 31. Of this amount decided to call a public meeting
$42.18 was given by colored cit- and ask all boys who a^e not
izens which includes $5 from now members of a team and
the colored Masonic lodge and who are 12 years of age or un- | rnay ou
der and* will not be 13 before Second place tiu|
August 1, to attend this meeting I West Delta School
with their parents. The date for I reason play with E
in this meeting has been set for
Monday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m.,
and the place will be the court-
room of the Delta courthouse.
Mrs. Ray Banks was chairman
of the drive for business firms
of Cooper which brought
$73.50.
Mrs. J. C. Fisher, Jr., chairman
of the Mother’s March for Delta
county, reports the following j
On Monday mghtl
i i Gym, the spec!
night was held with|
in District 50-B
season.
First place trophy |
loe, the champions
who wil'l play the|
game as soon as a
termined in Districtl
defeated in a play-c
52 score. Third
Pecan Gap and foij
Delta.
per cent of the total amount col- contributions from various com-; Parmpr’o Mppt
ected which will be used and munities: Ben Franklin, Mrs. D. L 4111101 » 1TI001
C. Moore, Jr., $49.40; Charleston,) £j|l()(j To Be
kept in this county.
farm home six miles west
of Tolar on February 13.
Hooten operated a shoe and
harness shop in Cooper for many
years and for the past twelve
years, he had resided in Tolar,
Hood County.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Maggie Moxley Hooten; two
daughters, Mrs. B. W. Street,
Dallas, and Mrs. W. H. Bogle,
Houston; one son, Joe Hooten,
Dallas; his mother, Mrs. Joe
Hooten; and three brothers, Lun-
day, Clovis, and Owen Hooten,
all of Cooper; seven grandchild-
ren and one great grandson.
Those attending the
officers, in an excellent manner. | from Cooper were Mr. and Mrs.
Evidence of this is the wonder- L F Hooten, Mr. and Mrs. Clo-
ful cooperation received through-
out the county and the success
of the program.
Bledsoe is to be commended
for his faithful, diligent service
to Little League in this coun y
and let’s hope he hasn’t stepped
out cf the picture entirely and
we don’t think he has.
Anybody as interested to the
welfare of kids AND baseball as
Wade will still be actively in-
terested in Little League.
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Well folks, the industrial com-
mittee ’of the Delta Chamber is
working with another industry
that is considering a location
hCJust what it will mean is still
very indefinite, but you may
feel sure that your committee is
trying to find desirable industry
that will provide jobs for e
people of this area.
The latest proposal comes fro rn
a garment manufacturer that
states he will hire in the neigh-
borhood of 75 women. Just what
demands he will make on local
interests is not definite, bu
there is a never-ending struggle
by the industrial committee to
secure industry for our area.
This writer, ns well as many
others, believes that the econom-
ic future of this county largely
depends on whether jobs may be
found to keep our people at
home. Allhough farming is our
greatest source of income, there
needed f°r
vis Hooten and Mr. and
Owen Hooten.
By virtue of the girls’ and
boys’ teams of Cooper winning
district championship, and also
Duncanville 13-A boys’ and
girls’ teams doing the same
thing, the two schools will bat-
tle it out for bi-district titles.
However, the games will be
played at different times and
places.
The boys will play Duncan-
ville on February 26 in Terrell.
The girls’ game will be played
on March 5 at the Greenville
gym.
Tonight, February 22, at 7
o’clock the Cooper girls will
funeral, play a practice game with Col-
linsville. Immediately following
this game the boys will play a
Mrs. practice game with Trenton who
are winners of their district.
Mrs. Hugh Terrell, 59, died at
her home in Honey Grove on
Friday, February 15, at 3:40 af-
ter a long illness.
Funeral services were held
Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Pecan
Gap Methodist Church by Rev.
J. L. Hyde and Rev. I. N. Bur-
chinal, Paris, and the Rev. Wes-
ley Thompson, Pecan Gap pas-
tor. Burial was made in the Pe-
can Gap cemetery.
Born at Barry, January 6,
1899, she was a daughter of Mrs.
J. H. Scoggins, now of Ladonia,
and the late Mr. Scoggins. For-
merly Miss Mary LaVina Scog-
gins, she married Terrell at Pe-
can Gap in September, 1916.
She was a member of the Metho-
dsit Church.
Besides her mother and her
husband, she leaves two sons,
Billy J. Terrell, Amarillo, and
J. H. Terrell, Phoenix, Ariz.;
nine grandchildren, and these
brothers and sisters: Otis Scog-
gis, and Miss Frances Scoggins,
all of Ladonia, and Mrs. Joe
Joyce, Honey Grove.
Jack Phillips
Funeral Held
Funeral services for Jack Phil-
lips, 62, who died at his home
Friday, were held Wednesday af-
ternoon at 2:30 at the Pecan Gap
Methodist Church. Rev. Wesley
Thompson and Rev. Billy Lay-
man, conductsd the services. In-
terment was made in the Pecan
Gap Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Morris White
Oscar Yeager, Odell Fowler, Med
Wh.tt, Vernon Parish and Jim-
my Carl Loftin.
He is survived by one son,
S-Sgt. Thomas A. Phillips, U. S.
Air Force; and his mother-in-
law, Mrs. Gertie McCaslin, Copo-
Mrs. J. E. Perry, $21.62, Klon-
dike, Mrs Wesley Wallace, $61.40; .
Enloe, Mrs. Dale Stockton, $34.- rvpyf- j HPiClsOV
87; Pecan Gap, Mrs. John Reid, 1 J
$98.40; Lake Creek with Mrs. W. ; An important farmer's meet-
B. Burns has not reported. ing, sponsored by Delta County
From clubs and organizations ! Farm Bureau, will be held in
with Mrs. Richard Stringfellow Enloe next Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.
as chairman, $33.20 was donated. ’ at the high school auditorium.
Coin cards which were placed
in business houses have bought
in a total of some $121.40 which
is not incomplete at the present
time.
Mrs. H. R. Chesnut is chairman
of the March of Dimes Drive for
the county, Miss Laura Jo Tay- | the following important subjects,
lor is vice chairman and Mrs. Lou 1957 crop outlook and trends in
Featured on the program will
be C. H. Bates, Farm Manage-
ment Specialist of the Texas Ex-
tension Service and Ben Spears,
Agronomist, also of the Texas
Extension Service.
The two speakers will discuss
Ann Jones is the treasurer. If
there has been any person in
Delta county who has not had
the opportunity to contribute,
these officers asked that the gift
be sent to them.
Cooper Review Photo
Shown in the picture above are the Cooper 14-A Distric t Champs for this season. They
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Mrs. Elisha Jane
Skeen Succumbs
Funeral services were held
Saturday afternoon at 3:30 in the
Cooper First Baptist Church for
Mrs. Elisha Jane Skeen, Paris,
Rev. W. H. Fisher, Paris, and
Rev. Glenn Hayden, Cooper, of-
ficiated. Burial was made in the
Oak Lawn Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Stanley Shaf-
fer, Don Ellis, Newton Ellis, El-
lis McGaha, Lynn McGaha, Har-
old Bettis.
Mrs. Skeen passed away Fri-
day at 2:08 p.m. at her home in
paris.
She is survived by her hus-
band A. W. Skeen, Paris; four
sons,’W. T. and E. T. Ellis, Dic^'
son, W. W. Ellis, Texas City; D.
E. Ellis, Duman; six daughters,
Mrs. Jimmy McGaha, Cooper,
Mrs. H. B. Beeler Jr., Pecan Gap;
Mrs. J. O. Shaffer, Cooper; Mrs.
H. K. Blissett, Paris, Mrs. John
King, Dumas and Mrs. Claude
McKinney, Wellington; three
step-sons, A. W. Skeen Jr., Par-
is; Floyd Skeen, Melrose, N.M
and Carl Skeen, Maud, Okla.;
one step-daughter, Mrs. Inez Mc-
Cluthchen, California; seventeen
grandchildren and eight great-
grandchildren.
LEGION FAMILY NIGHT
The American Legion will hold
a family night meal and meet-
ing on Thursday night, Februar’’,
28, at the Delta Country Club
All members have been t k-
ed to call the club not later
than noon on February 27 for
reservations.
agriculture, recommended crop
verities (including cotton, small
grains, feed crops and legumes)
and use of fertilizers.
The meeting is being held in
LAWLER GETS
SPORTSMANSHIP |
Malcolm Lawler
outstanding sports^
during the Mondl
monies. He is a
and plays center
School.
Trophies were ft
winning teams by j
merchants and cli
and Delta Cour
Liong Cl
Weldon Briscoe ol
and the First Nat|
Cooper.
In games plaj
night, third-place
h ated fourth-place
ana second-place VJ
over first-place Er
The District
night for the girll
to have been held|
West Delta gym.
Fin..’, season sta
Enloe but is intended for all girls’ competition
SCHOOL HOLIDAY
Supt. Wade Bledsoe has an-
nounced that students of Coop-
er Schols would receive a holi-
farmers in the county and will
last no longer than 9 p.m.
LIONS CLUB MEET
______ __________ The Cooper Lions Club will
day on March 15. Reason for the j meet today at 12 noon at the
holiday will be to allow teach- Delta Country Club,
ers of the school to attend a dis- Rev. James Simpson and Hen-
trict meeting of the TSTA in ! ry Sparks are in charge of the
Tyler on Friday and Saturday, I program which will feature stu-
March 15 and 16. ! dents at Cooper School.
ta winning with
loss record: East
place with a four
record; Pecan Gap
with a three-thre
Enloe with no
losses were in the|
The West D< lta
er East Delta in
February 14 by t!
to 46 to earn the
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E. G. Pharr, Lubbock, visited
his mother, Mrs. J. D. Miller,
over the wreek end.
Cooner
The champions of District 50-B from Enloe are shown in the picture aboi
they played an exhibition game Monday night in the Enloe gym. They at
right, front row: Richard Dollarhide, Windel Carter, Dean Gillean and
Bark row. Larry Larkin, Charlie Stockton, Garland Giddens, Harold Si
Whitlock and Coach W. A. Bishop.
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