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Memo to Sheriff Tilley. It gives
ne a good feeling to read the small
signs you have placed around town. !
quote “There is no better way to
protea people than to be with
them.”
This summer ranciies and farms
have too few egrets and way yonder
too many horse flies and grasshop-
pers.
If you’re looking for Carolyn
Graves, search the Cooper Coop.
She's in the retail store and the
warehouse Carolyn's mom is Mattie
Catheyi Burgess. Her dad is Doug-
lass Hudgins of Garksville Carolyn
was bom in Dallas and raised in
Kansas City, Missouri, where she
studied at Raytown High
Carolyn met Raymond Graves in
Carthage, his home town. She lived
there a spell with her folks. She has
been Mrs. Raymond Graves twenty
years. Ray mond commutes to Dallas
to work for Canterbury Excavating.
Son Brian Graves, nineteen, CHS
Class of '84. is with Canterbury as
well. Julie Graves, fifteen, is a
coming-up freshman at Cooper
High.
Carolyn's brother James Mining
and wife Clarissa live in Irving with
sons Jamie. 15, and Michael, 13. Her
brother Bob Hudgins lives in Dallas
with wife Gay. Bob is in insurance;
Gay manages a restaurant.
The Graves family are Baptists.
Carolyn is on the Board of Boy-
Scouts of America, North East Texas
South East Oklahoma Trails Council
(NETSEO). She is on the Advisory-
Board for Streets here in Cooper,
Margaret Parkhill roasts ears of
com in a special way -- in her
microwave. She cuts off the ends of
unshucked ears, removes a few of
the shucks, places one to six ears in
the oven, with ends toward the
center The ears fif more than one)
are placed like spokes of a wheel).
Margaret lays a paper towel over the
corn One ear gets 2 to 3 minutes,
two ears get 4-5, three ears cook 6-7
minutes, four ears 7-8, five ears 8-9
minutes and six ears get 9-10 min-
utes Half way through the cooking
time. Margaret turns the ears over
the opposite wav (i.e. the top end is
turned to the other end. Get it?) She
says the shucks and silk come off the
cooked corn clean as a whistle.
Margaret wraps frozen com on the
cob in plastic and cooks one ear 4-5
minutes, two ears, six to seven
minutes, and so on.
Foun ' Ina (Strong) Blount and
Hazel (May*) Tngg working away on
7-8 at the Delu County Patterson
Memorial Museum. One large fan
keeps the well-built thick-walled old
train station cool. The gals are doing
fine, with the able help of Inside
Outside man Dick Spees
Dick keeps the grounds and is on
call for heavy jobs. He had been
there earlier to wrestle a large wagon
tongue into the display Elmer and
Ruby (Hagood) Larkin gave the
wagon tongue Never-used, the trea-
sure was made by Blacksmith Her-
man Phillips in 1937 for Mr. Frank
Hagood. Ruby i Hagood) and Elmo
and Raymond Hagood's father Mr.
Phillips made it with a forge and
anvil.
Hazel and Ina say visitors in
numbers are coming to the museum
from faraway places with strange-
sounding names. They are having an
extra busy summer
Teenager of the Week: Ban And-
rew Tatum, a CHS junior this com-
ing-up school year, will turn 17 on
September 11. Ban belongs to the
Rev. Richard and Songbird Charlotte
Tatum. Number one brother Peter
Mark is a UT Austin student. Num-
ber two brother John David lives in
Cooper with wife Toni (Moses) and
tiny James Richard. John is with
Reliable Insurance.
Ban. Junior Gass President for
'85-'86, is into as many sports as one
nearly-seventeen-year-old can man-
age: (l)on the Varsity golf team that
went to State last year, (2) Point
Guard on the Varsity Bulldog bas-
ketball team; they went to Regional,
(3) played Line Backer and Offense
Tail Back on the Varsity Bulldog
football team, (4) used to find time to
play tuba in the school band, and (5)
was one of the FFAbeaux; Malone
Oats was the other.
At Cooper First Baptist, Bart aas
in youth Aaivities, sings in the
Youth Choir, sings duets with Mom
Charlotte and with the Tatum Quar-
tet when Peter and John join them.
He’s in J B. Sanders' Sunday School
Class and in Brother Bob Hamilton’s
Youth Training Group. This summer
he’s working at the Delta Nursing
Home; Jimmy Bacy is a working
buddy.
Ban’s friends are too numerous to
list here. The junior and senior class
rolls would name part of them.
English is Bart's favorite subjea and
he is enthusiastic about the Delta
County Public Library.
Delta County’s Four Seasons: Ma-
dame Autumn bade farewell...Old
Winter chilled us well...Wild Miss
Spring left with a sigh...Now Lady-
Summer casts her spell.
This Week’s Spotlight
BY ANGELINE SHARP
John Lawson Wickersham, Jr.
(everyone calls him Junior) came
back to Delta County in 1980, bring-
ing along wife Jessie. The Wicker-
shams are good folks with a good
story.
Junior’s parents were Lawson and
Lucy (Preas) Wickersham. The
Wickersham family came originally
from England The Preases were
Virginia pioneers. Junior’s brother
Jack lives in Pacio; Jack’s wife was
the late Sula (Watson). Junior’s late
sister Imogene was married to Shug
McLemore of Pacio. Junior’s sister
Guila married Von Myers; both are
gone.
Junior studied at Post Oak and
Cooper and, when the family moved
to Coleman for a year, went to school
there. Junior farmed with his dad
until 44, when he went to Dallas to
sign on with Uncle Sam’s Army. He
was at Fort McClellan in Alabama
for Basic Training and boarded the
USS Gordon for France and Ger-
many. There he was “shot at a
little”. Junior can’t deny he got a
couple of campaign stars (battle
stars).
His outfit helped surround a Ger-
man submarine base on the coast of
France (the Yanks had the place
hemmed in by land and sea.) After
the war ended, Junior was given
training for Military Police work in
France. He was stationed in Metz,
France, later transferred to Berlin
for MP duty, and served there until
'46 Sergeant Wickersham used one
furlough to see as much of Switzer-
land as he could - a beautiful
country with superb service by elec-
tric trains.
Back in the States, John Lawson
Wickersham mustered out at Fort
Sam Houston in San Antonio and
made tracks for Delta County. He
farmed a year with his dad and
brother Jack In '47, Junior resolved
to seek his fortune in Big D. He ran a
service station a year and then went
to work for LTV. His career with that
company lasted thirty-two years.
At LI V he learned on the job. He
spent a year in the tool crib, went on
to the pattern shop, got into pattern
and tool making and then into the
model shop. He worked up to tool
maker and general machinist before
going into the Experimental Tool and
Model Shop. He was Lead Man five
years with a dozen workers following
his orders.
Back up to the spring of ’48.
Mutual friends arranged a blind date
for Junior with Jessie Hunter. Jessie
was born near New Orleans and
moved with her folks, Arthur and
Myra (Williford) Hunter to Missouri.
In ’42, Jessie went to Dallas to work
for North American Aircraft, and
trained as “Rosie the Riveter”. She
riveted for eighteen months. Tiring
of that, Jessie returned to New
Orleans to work for Consolidated
Aircraft. When the war ended she
went back to Dallas and worked for
Southwestern Life Insurance.
That was when Jessie and Junior
met. He was running the service
station. It took him four months to
persuade her to say yes. His sister
Guila and Guila's daughters Ruth
and Betty went with them to a
nearby Baptist parsonage on July 1,
1948 for the ceremony.
The Wickershams lived in Dallas -
the last fifteen years in Cedar Hill ••
which, when they moved there, was
rolling hills and uncrowded space. In
1956, their chosen son, Randal
Wayne, came to live with them.
Randal is the light of their lives. In
Cedar Hill High he was an honor roll
regular. He played on the football
team. (Later when a broken leg kept
him off the field, Randal managed a
semi-pro team in Cedar Hill.)
Randal studied at Mountain View
JC and at UT Arlington, majoring in
Pre-Law History. He made the
Dean’s list regularly at both schools.
He is now Purchasing Agent for
AT&T Communications. Randal
works in Las Colinas and lives in
DeSoto. He comes often to Delu
County to check on his folks.
Jessie's sister Della Hunter lives
in Dallas Her sister Norma Hunter
Heigeson lives in Minneapolis, Min-
nesota; Norma's husband was the
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MIRROR ON THE WALL
IVHC'S THE BIS3EST
RAT OF ALL ?
In Years Gone By
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TEN YEARS AGO
Dr. Kent Ziegenbein has arrived
in Cooper to open his practice of
dental surgery.
Miss Mary Beth Bailey and Wally
Gene Hogland were united in mar
riage in a semi-formal ceremony
Friday evening at the home of the
bride in Cooper.
Five members of the Cooper H A
Chapter will receive State Farmer
Degrees at the annual State FFA
Convention in Houston. They are
Jim Price, Joe Price, Robert Doug
las, Tony Bettes and John Wigley.
A birthday dinner honoring W.D.
(Pete) Henderson was held June 6 at
the Henderson home. Guests includ-
ed Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Rhodes, John
Max Rhodes, Ronney Talley, Mrs. R.
W Hunt, Jr., and Debbie, Mr. and
Mrs. ( laud Edwards.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Twenty-four members of the
Cooper National Guard SE Co. A 3d
Battalion (M) 144th Infantry will
leave Sunday for two weeks encamp-
ment at Ft Hood
Mrs. Betty Jo (Lay) Lewis, a
Cooper High School graduate of
1941, has been named executive
director of the Red River Valley Girl
Scout Council.
jerry Holcomb of James L. Hod-
ges Insurance Agency, has been
named chairman of Delta County
Chapter of National Federation of
Independent Business.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
An Epidemic Of Lawsuits
Since 1974, the number of pro-
dua-liability lawsuits filed in federal
courts has risen by more than 500
percent •• costing U.S. companies,
and ultimately consumers, billions of
dollars, much of which has ended up
in the pockets of attorneys.
The listing of lawyers in the
Washington, D.C., “Yellow Pages,"
for example, now takes up more than
forty (that’s right, forty!) pages. This
army of legal briefers includes a
number of superstars, such as Bal-
timore Orioles owner Edward Ben-
nett Williams. In addition, former
Vice president Walter Mondale and
other out-of-office politicians who
refuse to go home are practicing
here, as are many others who appar-
ently make a living chasing ambu-
lances and produa-liability cases.
There is even one law firm named
Accident Associates, which special-
izes in “personal injury claims aris-
ing out of...dangerous produas."
Many of the law firms which spe-
cialize in such praaice advertise “no
fee if no recovery,” meaning, of
course, that they’ll use any dirty-
trick in the book to win a case,
because if they don’t win they don’t
buy a new Lincoln Continental or
Mercedes.
The produa-liability epidemic has
hurt consumers in other ways. Ex-
tremely high produa-liability insur-
ance costs have led some manufact-
urers to drop certain produa lines
rather than face nuisance suits.
Connaught Laboratories, for examp-
le. discontinued production of its
DPT (diptheria. whooping cough,
typhoid) vaccine for several months
because it could not obtain liability-
insurance. resulting in a temporary-
nationwide shortage of the important
childhood vaccine. Merrell Dow
Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of
Dow Chemical, discontinued pro-
duaion of the drug Bendeain, con-
sidered the only safe and effeaive
treatment for women suffering from
severe nausea during pregnancy,
when the cost of liability insurance
reached $10 million annually, nearly
equal to Bendeain’s $12 million to
$13 million annual sales revenues.
There are hidden costs as well. For
instance, it is now estimated that 20
percent of the cost of a single
stepladder goes to pay for liability-
insurance, lawyers, and other such
costs.
When a produa-liability case goes
to court, the only people who usually
make out are the lawyers. According
to a Rand Corporation study of lia-
bility cases from asbestos-related
injuries, attorneys walked away with
63 percent of all damage awards.
Currently, there is no one stand-
ard for determining when and if a
company or individual should be
held liable for injuries resulting from
an allegedly harmful produa. The
different states have different rules.
Twenty states don’t even have pro-
dua-liability laws. In some jurisdict-
ions, a person might be entitled to
damages, while a similar injury in
another jurisdiaion might be thrown
out of court.
Because consumer produas move
freely in interstate commerce, it is
clear that a rational, national policy
is needed to deal with produa liabil-
ity, not only to protect U.S. consum-
ers against faulty produas, but to
protea them against the unintended
consequences and enormous costs of
feverish litigation as well.
While some thoughtful critics have
suggested that an alternative could
be found in a “no-fault” viaim’s
compensation fund operated by the
federal government, the creation of
such a tax-financed fund would
inevitably result in the creation of a
new interest group to lobby for
expansion of its coverage and bene-
fits. Above all, it would again place
the ultimate burden on U.S. taxpay-
ers.
The issues of liability must be
addressed in a fair and rational way.
The current system is causing as
much harm as it is doing good. The
only people who are really benefit-
ting from all the confusion are the
lawyers.
That Wonderful Year 1928
It was reported in the June 22,
1928 issue of the Cooper Review that
a heavy wind storm out of the
northwest did much damage in Delta
County on Thursday morning.
It was said that hardy a building in
the west part of the county escaped
injury. A small house on R. W.
Sansing’s place occupied by Mrs.
Pratt and family was destroyed, but
the occupants escaped injury.
A house on Mrs. Ann Miller’s
place occupied by Frank Oyler and
family was blown off its blocks and
damaged, but the family was in the
storm house.
Bams belonging to Charlie Cum-
mings, L. W. Wells, Joe Atterberry,
George Bond, Dr. Wheat, R. J.
Chancellor and many others were
damaged. Shingles were blown from
the Baptist Church at Price.
Delu'County scholastics for 1928
were 3872 and in 1927 were 3943, a
loss for the county of 71. 1927 was
the first year scholastics had been
below four thousand in many years.
There were 2392 scholastic in rural
school in 1928, according to reports
late Hank Heigeson. Jessie’s sister
Lorraine Crabtree and husband Bill
live in Jacksonville. Her brother
Hobart Hunter and wife Zula live in
Houston.
Jessie was a full-time mother until
Randal was thirteen. She worked for
Gibsons ten years. She retired when
Junior did; the day after his official
retirement they moved to Delta
County. They had bought his folks'
home place in ’75, fixed it up and
spent weekends and holidays here.
While their house was being built
they lived in a small bungalow under
a big shade tree without air-condi-
tioning in that dreadful summer of
’80. The day they moved into their
home, July 17, it was 110 degrees in
the shade.
That experience made them ap-
preciate even more their home,
Junior's well-equipped shop, the
pool, their woods, the garden and
fruit trees. The Wickershams are
busier than they ever were before
they "retired.” They are members
of Charleston 1st United Methodist.
They have hobbies by the number.
They visit friends and relatives but
hurry back to “Wood Chimes and
Woodcraft - Wickershams’ Won-
derland.
from the County Superintendent's
office. Following are the numbers
reported by independent distrias:
Cooper 652; Ben Franklin, 154;
Enloe, 217; Pecan Gap, 266, and
Klondike 189.
The following wedding was noted
in this same issue of the Review and
read: “The marriage of Walker J.
Hamilton of Dallas and Miss Flor-
eine Hooten, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Hooten of this city, took
place Sunday morning at nine o’clock
at the home of the bride’s parents.
Rev. G. W. Sanders, pastor of the
Methodist Protestant Church, offi-
ciated with the ring ceremony.
“An improvised altar was formed
and a trellis festooned with vines and
flowers. Tall floor baskets filled with
orchid thistles and pink roses, ferns
and baskets filled with sweet peas
completed the altar decorations. The
house was decorated with roses,
thistles and sweet peas.
“Miss Mildred Hazlewood, gown-
ed in orchid organdie with taffeta
trimmings, sang “I Love You
Truly”, accompanied by Miss
Frankie McKinney, who also played
the wedding march and “To a Wild
Rose” by McDowell during the
ceremony. Miss McKinney wore a
flesh crepe romaine gown.
“The bride, who was given in
marriage by her brother, Lundy F.
Hooten, wore a gown of powder blue
crepe romaine with collar of real lace
and carried a shower bouquet of
white carnations and orchid and pink
sweet peas. She wore slippers to
match her gown.
“Miss May Lightfoot of Pittsburg,
maid of honor, wore a pink and
orchid Elizabeth crepe gown and
carried a colonial bouquet of white
carnations, pink gladiolas and sweet
peas.
“Ervin Gark of Greenville attend-
ed as best man.
"Little Helen Louise Hooten,
niece of the bride, was flower girl,
and wore a dainty frock of pink
georgette ruffled with silk lace.
“The guests were received by
Mrs. Lundy Hooten. Mrs. Owen
Hooten presided at the bride’s book.
The three tier wedding cake was in
charge of Mrs. Govis Hooten.
“The bride’s traveling costume
was a navy Elizabeth crepe ensemble
with accessories of tar.
“After tossing her bouquet from
the front gallery which was caught
by Miss Debbie Barrett, the bride
and groom left by automobile for
Dallas and other places.
“The out of town guests were
Mrs. Anna Hamilton, Dallas, mother
of the groom; Mr. and Mrs. H. E.
Sandridge and Anna Earle of Com-
merce; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hamil-
ton and Frank, Jr. of Greenville; Mr.
and Mrs. C. S. Hopkins and Peggy
Ann of Dallas; Misses Grace and
Margaret Hamilton, Dallas; J. E.
Moudy, Greenville; Miss Mamie
Daniels of Commerce; Dr. J. J.
Mansfield, Texarkana; Mrs. Hous-
ton Good and John Milton, Paris;
Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Ratliff and
Barbara, Fort Worth; J. J. Creek-
more, Texarkana; Miss Thelma Tal-
iaferro, Texarkana; Miss May Light-
foot, Pittsburg; Erwin Clark, Green-
ville.”
Also the following Sunday School
party was reported by Mrs. J. F.
Henslee: "On Tuesday afternoon
from 3 to 5 o’clock Mrs. John
Stahmer, assisted by Mrs. J. R.
Fulton, entertained the Cheerful
Workers Sunday School Class at the
home of Mrs. Stahmer, 2'/i miles
from town. At 3 o’clock the ladies
began to arrive, by 3:30, 25 members
had been comfortably seated in the
spacious, cool rooms. Mrs. Oscar
Scott was chairman on entertain-
ment.
“The first game was some Bible
charaaers written on slips of paper
and one pinned on the back of each
guest and then tell something about
the name. The next was a lemon
race. The members were lined up
eleven in each row and a lemon
started down the line, each had only
one hand to use and then start it back
on the other side. See which could
roll it the faster. Much fun was
enjoyed at this. Then each one wrote
the wish for someone else to do a
stunt and sign your name to paper
but the tables were turned on you
and you had to do it yourself.
"We had as our guests Mesdames
Young of Dallas. Delbert Miller, Ed
Stahmer, Arthur Stahmer, J. H
Newton. Miss Lois Shawver Miss
Shawver favored us with several in-
strumental solos. Mrs. J. R. Fulton
and Mrs. Delbert Miller sang two
lovely duets.
(To Be Continued)
Mr. and Mrs. G. L Miller, Mr,
and Mrs. Ed L. Adair will leave
Sunday for Winier Haven, Florida,
where they will visit Lt. John Ed
Adair and Lt. Judd Jones. On July 25
they will leave on a cruise to Havana,
Cuba.
Ralph Vaughn, son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. M. Vaughn, will receive the
Lone Star Farmer Degree neit week
at the state FFA convention. Vaughn
is one of ten boys in Texas who
will receive the award.
Henry Kerbow, Texaco Service
Station owner, was seleaed most
courteous salesperson in Cooper for
Good Neighbor Day last Friday.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Calvin have
bought the Buckman place west of
the golf links and Mr. and Mrs. B.
M. Gunter bought the Calvin’s place
in Cooper.
Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Jones of
Guthrie, Okla., are spending their
vacation with her mother, Mrs.
Rome McKee, and sisters Ravia
McKee and Mrs. D. B Westerman
Miss Gracie Jefferson of Arling-
ton, Va., Miss Lillie Jefferson and
Florence Jefferson, Dallas, spent
Monday with their brother, E. C.
Jefferson and family.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Citizens sweltered in the heat
Sunday as the thermometer hit 105,
highest mark of the year.
12,125 quarts of food have already
been canned this season by 101
members of the eight home demon-
stration clubs in Delta County.
New officers for the Lions Gub
will be installed at a chicken barbe-
cue Thursday night at Harmon Park.
W. H. Jones is the new paresident.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
The Third Annual Farm Labor
Union picnic opened Thursday at
Edgewood Park. W. W. Fitzwater.
national president, will speak Fri-
day.
A heavy asphalt topping was put
on Waco Avenue this week at a cost
of $2,962.
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
Several hail storms and strong
winds damaged crops and homes at
Enloe Friday. Among those report-
ing damage were C. F. Patterson. C.
J- Cregg. Jim Watson and C. A.
Larson.
Iwelve hours delay in the sched-
ule of local trains resulted Monday
w hen an engine and two freight cars
derailed about one mile north of
Cooper and tore up about 100 yards
of track.
EIGHTY YEARS AGO
Lightning struck the flagstaff on
top of the Courthouse Monday dur-
ing a storm and demolished it.
County Clerk J. T. Rountree is-
sued marriage licenses to Oliver
Lawrence and Sadie Weir; W. L.
Snowden and Mattie Mae Walters
this week.
E- T. Pillnian entertained the
members of Odd Fellows Lodge with
a dinner Saturday night at Palmo’s
Restaurant.
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