Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1985 Page: 2 of 12
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rANGEUNE SHARP
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SHARPTOWN
U.S.A.
FEATURES
EDITORIALS
AMUSEMENTS
Campaigner-for-Congress J i m
Chapman, pictured in Country
World 5-2, shows farmers and ranch-
ers at a stew rally in Sulphur Sp-
rings that he's a sport. Jim is smiling
broadly--* hile milking a cow .
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Morris Update: Marvin and Marie
and their bunch work hard and play
hard. Dad Marvin is with Manatee in
Commerce; Mom Marie does every-
thing. Number one son Hollis lives in
Paris. Carolyn (Morris) Hooker and
husband Donald live in El Paso with
Donald. Jr. and Dereck. Evelyn
(Morris) and husband Mitchell Scott
are in Greenville; their two are
Mitchell. Jr. and Jennifer.
Second son Paul Morris lives in
Denver, Colorado. Third son J. C. is
in Big D. Sixth in the family and
third daughter Leslie, who lives in
Cooper with husband Calvin Wilker-
son and son Bernard. The Wilker-
sons expect to be four in July. The
Morrises lost their son Tommy in
1979 in an accident.
Ron Morris is tearing up the turf
and studying hard at SMU. Rodney,
a CHS senior, expects to attend ET
this fall. Barry is in seventh at
Cooper school; he plans a career in
football, of course. The Morrises are
a close family active at work and play
and regular at church.
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Herm Weir went to Fort Sill,
Oklahoma, in February of '42 to
muster into the U.S. Army Air Force.
He took his basic training at Wichita
Falls and pressed on to Eglin Field in
Florida for more learning. England
came next, then France. Holland,
and finally Germany.
Herm was a Staff Sargeant in
charge of Quartermaster Supply. In
Europe he served directly under
General Dwight Eisenhower. Herm
was in Ike's company a dozen times.
Once, in France, Ike came to lunch
with the troops. The Colonel told
Herm to go to a nearby French home
to borrow dishes. Ike heard and
asked what the soldiers were using
for table ware. The Colonel replied
they would use mess kits. “Then
bring me a mess kit,” said the
General. Herm said General Eisen-
hower was a pleasant and unassum-
ing man.
Herm's company moved short dis-
tances in jeeps or weapons carriers.
On longer trips they boarded C 47's.
Herm rode a B 27 on three combat
missions. He was the man who
dropped the bombs. Ear trouble
grounded him. By the time Staff
Sargeant Weir mustered out in San
Antonio in October of '45, he and his
group had earned a presidential
citation. Herm amassed six battle
stars and the bronze star for meri-
torious service.
Rose (Weatherby) and Pete Brew-
er and Lucille (Brewer) and Quinton
Gillean left the county on 4-29 and
headed for the Hill Country and Big
Bend. The four checked out Langtry
and the Law West of the Pecos at
Judge Roy Bean’s original court and
saloon (had soft drinks only). They
pressed on to Terlingua. a ghost
town w hich is the site of the famous
chile cook-off.
Coming back by way of Del Rio,
the travelers stopped in San Antonio
to give Brewer daughter Rhynda and
Dan Petersen the queen-sized quilt
Rosa made for them. In Austin they
found second daughter Mary and
Tom Stribling's place and left the
second quilt. (Rosa quilted all last
winter.) The four breezed on back
through Waco. Rosa said the wild
flowers all the wav were unbeliev-
able.
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Meal of the Week: Studied a copy
of the TDTA, ISD and Friends'
cookbook, “Essential Elements of
Readin' Ritin’ Recipes''. There are
endless possibilities for wonderful
carry-in meals. I chose this one: Judy
Falls’ Raw Vegetable Dip. Toby
Moody's Mexican Dip, anybody’s
crackers and chips, Zelda Fisher s
offering of Imogene Polk's Hot Rolls,
Diane Stegall’s Zucchini Muffins,
Cher Schnieder's Corn Meal Muf-
fins.
Continue with Nelda Skinner's
Shrimp Salad, Yvonne Choate’s Im-
perial Salad, Ann Ray Miller’s Mar-
inated Broccoli, Linda Silman's Cau-
liflower Salad. Mary Wilkerson’s
Blueberry Congealed Salad, Karen
Hudnall’s Baked Chicken, Judy Car-
rington’s Holiday Meatballs, Rhonda
Bailey’s Meat arid Cheese Enchila-
das, Tina Rainey’s Ground Beef
Stroganoff, Margaret Parkhill's
Western Casserole, and Eddie
Trapp's Watch-the-neighbors-come-
running Potatoes.
Add Cathy Bryan’s Com Casser-
ole, Pat Ainsworth’s Squash Casser-
ole, Lucile Bledsoe's Green Beans
Gourmet. Finish with Gail Hohen-
berger’s Turtle Cake, Donna King’s
Fruit Cocktail Cake, Vivian Hender-
son’s Fluffy Banana Cake, Joyce
Cates' Fruit Jello Pie, Norma Aber-
nathy’s Pineapple Pie, Sadie Emer-
son’s Cowboy Pie. Wash it down
with Betty Slakey’s Good Punch.
This carry-in dream meal may be
carried into my house come Sunday.
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Maytime is the glory time...And
this the place to see...Come to Delta
County now...Sweet shall your wel-
come be.
This Week’s Spotlight
BY ANGELINE SHARP
Honey Grove gave us Pauline
Lockridge. Her dad was Maury
(named for Maury County, Tennes-
see) Lockridge, who was bom in
Delta County in 1893. Her mother
was Etta (Denison- Etta’s uncle dug
the first water wells over in Deni-
son). Pauline attended the old Shiloh
School over in Fannin County. That
was some years before James Has-
kell Patterson came into her life.
In the summer of '47, Pauline was
visiting her cousin Dobbin Whitlock
and Lillie Mae (Berry) in Caddo,
Oklahoma. (Pauline’s grandmother,
Maury Lockridge's mother, was a
Whitlock, Dobbins’ great aunt). A
friend of the Whitlocks came up from
Delta County to visit. Haskell Patter-
son was introduced to Pauline and
followed up that introduction with
visits to Honey Grove. He became
well-acquainted with Pauline and her
bright youngsters, nine-year-old
Maury Winnie and seven-year-old
Rowena Winnie.
On January 10, 1948, Hack and
Pauline were married. It was a semi-
elopement. They traveled to Sher-
man and found a friendly Justice of
the Peace. They came to Enloe
immediately. James Haskell Patter-
son has been your basic Enloe
merchant/farmer/rancher. Pauline
is his faithful helper. Maury and
Rowena entered the En'oe School
and went on from there. Jimmy
joined them in 1950; Johnny arrived
in ’53, and Jane came along in '55.
Son Maury Winnie grew up to
become Superintendent of West La-
mar School. Maury and wife Nelda
Sue (Little) live in Enloe. Their
daughter Kimberly is Mrs. Mark
Bassham of Nelta. A full-time moth-
er to five-year-old Amanda and two-
year-old Markus. Kimberlv helps
Mark manage their dairy. Mark is
Chief Deputy of the Hopkins County
Sheriffs Department. Maury and
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In Years Gone By
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TEN YEARS AGO
C.H.S. Principal Charles New-
ton has announced that Mike Bur-
chell has been named valedictorian
and Diane Wintermute, salutatorian
of the 1975 graduating class.
Rodney Rainey is the fourth mem-
ber of his family to receive the
Outstanding Athlete award at Coop-
er High School and Evelyn Morris
was the recipient of the 1975 Out-
standing Girl Athlete award. Both
presentations were made at the All-
Sports Banquet May 5.
The Interstate Commerce Com-
mission has officially granted South-
ern Pacific Railroad Company ap-
proval to abandon trackage running
through Delta County from Com-
merce to Paris.
Waiting The Deficit Cut
Politicians in Washington are de-
bating the deficit again. Small- and
independent-business owners a-
round the country are wondering if
they w ill ever get around to reducing
it.
At the Small Business National
Issues Conference in June of last
year, the delegates said their first
priority was to see the federal deficit
reduced. They blamed $200 billion
deficits for the high interest rates —
among other ills. Since that confer-
ence, Congress has done little to
stem the tide of red ink.
The Senate Budget Committee
produced a deficit-reduction pack-
age, but it w as said to reflect only the
views of the Republican majority.
The White House didn't like that
package, so the Republican mem-
bers of the Budget Committee met
with the Republican administration
and came up w ith another package --
a compromise.
That compromise would reduce
the deficit by $52 billion in Fiscal
Year 1986. But it also would have
killed the Small Business Adminis-
tration, putting a few of its functions
in the Commerce Department.
Saving the functions was a good
idea, especially the procurement
office which saves the government
more than $75 million a year by
injecting small-business competitioh
into the federal purchasing pro-
grams. But effecting the transfer
would have cost money, and small
business would have lost its voice in
the government.
The National Federation of Inde-
pendent Business had a better idea:
Retain SBA as an independent agen-
cy, but with no impact on the $52
billion deficit-reduction package.
The White House agreed.
Eventually, the streamlined SBA
could pay its own way through the
savings realized in procurement. Of
course, costly direct loan programs
and even indirect loan guarantee
programs have been eliminated, as
have other “traditional" SBA pro-
grams.
The White House has also com-
promised on its call for large defense
increases, agreeing to significant
reductions from the original request.
And the Republican compromise also
limits inflation adjustments for So-
cial Security by a formula similar to
one overwhelmingly supported by
NFIB's small- and independent-
business members in a 1984 survey.
NFIB members also support an
across-the-board freeze on all gov-
ernment spending at Fiscal 1985
levels. However, most observers
agree that such a freeze would not
produce the $50 billion reduction in
the deficit which would be achieved
by the Republican compromise.
There are other proposals under
consideration in the Senate, and the
House of Representatives has yet to
be heard from officially. The deficit
debate will go through the spring.
Small-business owners aren't
playing favorites. They merely want
a package that slows defense spend-
ing, puts Social Security increases on
a reasonable formula and maintains
an SBA which will give small busi-
ness a presence, but without a big
price tag. They also reject tax in-
creases to reduce the deficit. So far
the White House-Republican Senate
Leadership package seems to be the
one that best fits those criteria.
That Wonderful Year 1928
Nelda Sue’s second one, Kristy, is an
ET student, majoring in To be
Announced. Kristy works at US
Brass after classes.
Rowena Winnie Lancaster and
husband Gene live in Enloe. Gene is
with Merico in Paris. Rowena runs
the Enloe Grocery and is Check Point
Charlene for the town. The Lancas-
ters’ daughter Brenda Jordan is in
Paris and is with Brookshires. The
Lancasters' daughter Cindy Smith is
with Sit-Corn Computers in Denton,
while husband Gordon Smith of the
U.S. Army serves in the Middle East
with the peace-keeping force in the
Sinai Peninsula.
Jimmy Patterson and wife Ernes-
tine (Simmons) live in Greenville,
where Jimmy is Computer Engineer
with E Systems. Ernestine teaches in
Caddo Mills. Jimmy and Ernestine's
daughter Jamey is six and in first
grade. Matthew (Matt), three, runs
things at home. Jimmy had a front-
row seat during the Lenell Geter
drama. He was not well-acquainted
with Mr. Geter but knew him in
passing.
Johnny Patterson and wife Fran
(McKnight--from Cunningham) live
in Enloe. Johnny is with the Federal
Crop Insurance Agency in Paris and
Fran teaches English and coaches at
Prairieland High. Jane (Patterson)
and Ricky Joe James live in Hurst.
Ricky Joe is a computer person and
Jane minds Melany, who’s twelve
and in fifth grade, and Ricky, 8, in
second.
Hack and Pauline ran their Enloe
store thirty years. They closed it in
'79 after he suffered a heart attack.
Now Hack and son Johnny have a
cattle operation together. Hack rais-
es wheat. Pauline is a big gardener.
She cooks up a storm The grandkids
are in and out. you can say this
family represents the true Enloe
spirit.
The lead story of the front page of
the Cooper Review dated April 20,
read: "A part of the motorcade
caravan, enroute from San Diego,
California, over the proposed Broad-
way of America to meet a similar
motorcade from New York and other
Eastern points at Memphis, Tenn.,
where a convention is to be held,
passed through Cooper Tuesday af-
ternoon enroute to Paris to spend the
night. There were some 15 or 20
cars, some of them stopping at
Cooper for a short while and admir-
ing the town, complimenting the
excellent highway and beautiful
country.
The motorcade w as met at Mineral
Wells Monday night by representa-
tives from-Sulphur Springs and Mt.
Pleasant, representing the lower
route from Greenville to Texarkana,
and representatives from the north-
ern route by wav of Commerce,
Cooper, Paris, Clarksville. New Bos-
ton, DeKalb and Texarkana all-wea-
ther route.
"The larger contingent headed by
Col. Ed Fletcher, director of Cham-
ber of Commerce of San Diego,
Calif., Lieutenant Governor Fitts of
California and other notables from
Arizona and West Texas, went by
way of Sulphur Springs where they
were entertained for the night.
“The contingent traversing the
northern route spent Tuesday night
in Paris as guests of Northeast Texas
Paved Highway Association and lo-
cal Paris organizations. After a con-
cert by Paris municipal band they
were given a luncheon at the Gibral-
tar followed by vocal music. Ed H.
McCuistion presided and Dr.
Wright. Hugh Palmer of Paris. Rube
S. Wells of Cooper and Egbert
Thompson of Clarksville spoke for
the local organization. They explain-
ed that they represented an all paved
highway only 16.4 miles longer than
the lower route which was not all
paved and asked that this highway
be designated as a part of the
Broadway of America. Such a resolu-
tion was passed asking for equal
designation and pledging the organi-
zation to assist in securing hardsur-
facing for the southern route, and
after being signed by Ed H McCuis-
tion was sent to Col. Ed R. Fletcher,
then in Sulphur Springs with the
other contingent.
*‘C. E. McShay, manager of the
Automobile Club of Southern Cali-
fornia and second in command of the
motorcade, responded with a lengthy
address in which he set forth the
purpose of the Broadway of America
Association. He explained that it was
for the purpose of securing tourists
to visit Lower California, and that
they figured that ten per cent of
those they brought remained as
citizens. He emphasized the value of
tourists and predicted the next de-
cade would see tourist travel grow by
leaps and bounds. He said they were
cooperating with West Texas in this
movement and while his organiza-
tion always routed tourists by way of
Greenville, Paris, and Texarkana,
they had no preference, except that
they knew it was the best road."
In this issue of the Review was
noted the Crawford-Norris-Stevens
Co. advertisement - “Sunny Sue"
Dresses • Never such captivating
styles at such a price - This is your
introduction to the Cleverest Array
of Wash Frocks this Store has ever
offered at $1.95. This line of dresses
featured chic colonial basques and
set-in sleeves for the larger woman.
“Sunny; Sue” dresses were all made
of fast-color materials featuring fine
tissues, printed dimities, chintz
prints and sheer batistes.
Two bridge parties were reported
- “Mr. and mrs. Wayne Whitting-
ton entertained a party of friends
Wednesday night with a bridge
party.
“Spring flowers decorated the
different rooms. Mrs. J. C. McKin-
ney drew high score for the ladies
while Mrs. Herbert Hudson drew
low score. For the gentlemen Henry
Sparks won first prize and D. T.
Chancellor, second.
“A salad course was served for
refreshments."
And, "Mrs. Olen Yeager enter-
tained a number of friends Tuesday
afternoon with a bridge party. Six
tables were used for the games.
Mrs. Ben Clower made high score
and Mrs. J. R. Riggs, Jr., made low
score. Small pots of tulips were
drawn as cut prizes. A lovely salad
course was served during the after-
noon."
The San Souci Club meeting was
also reported at this time •• "The
members of the San Souci Club
enjoyed a very delightful meeting
with Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Chesnut
Tuesday night.
“Vases of cut flowers were used
for decorations. An ice course with
salted nuts was served for refresh-
ments.
“Invited guests were Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Adair, Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Cumming, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Byrns,
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Chesnut, Mes-
dames J. W. Green of San Antonio,
Greaver Miller, J. P. Morrill and
Weldon Lowry."
In the April 27 issue of the Review ,
it was reported that A. M. Blackman
of the Department of Education at
Austin had visited the Cooper High
School and spoke very highly of the
work being done by the Cooper High
School. All credits that were lost in
consequence of the eight month
session the previous year had been
restored. In addition to that the
school was applying for two and
one-half more credits and if these
were secured it would give Cooper 26
college entrance credits.
The article stated further "It is
doubtful whether another high
school in the State of the size of
Cooper High School carries a larger
number of college entrance credits.”
Also in this same issue - "Miss
Mary Foster, daughter of Jeff Foster
of Ben Franklin, was selected at a
meeting of the Chamber of Com-
merce directors as Delta County’s
attendant to the Queen in the East
Texas Chamber of Commerce parade
at the second annual convention in
May.
“The privilege of the county to
furnish an attendant to the queen
was secured by the Chamber of
Commerce selling the 79 tickets to
the big convention. The county’s
quota was underwritten by the
Chamber of Commerce, and while
the tickets are not yet all sold, most
of them have been taken and the
committee is hopeful they will soon
all be sold.
"Secretary R"1'? S. Wells has
badges ready to .upply those dcsir
ing them."
(To Be Continued)
Mrs Marion Ainsworth has been
named to the 1975 state Textbook
Committee by the State Board of
Education.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Coaching staff at Cooper High
School is now complete with Roy L.
Newsom of Plano accepting the
position as assistant football coach,
joining A. J. Brazil, Athletic Direct-
or, and Don Woodall, basketball
coach.
The Cooper City Council called an
election for June 19 seeking approval
of $650,000 bond issue for new water
and sewer systems.
O.L. Bridges and Jimmie Cantrell
along with other members of
SRMWD, were in Washington ask-
ing a federal appropriation of
$75,000 for Cooper Dam and Reser-
voir.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Tuesday afternoon at 1:30,
Washington D.C. time, the House
Sub-committee on Public Works, by
unanimous vote, approved the auth-
orization of the Cooper Dam and
Reservoir, and recommended the
project to the House Committee.
R. W. McFadden was named vale-
dictorian and Susan Albright salut-
atorian of the 1955 Cooper High
School graduating class.
Valedictorian for the Enloe seniors
is Carolyn Cregg and Bonnie Toon
Johnston is salutatorian.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Myra Jean Wood, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Wood, and Ray
Willis, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. B.
Willis, were married at St. John’s
Methodist Church in Dallas, Satur-
day.
The children of Mrs. John Holmes
surprised her Sunday with a Moth-
er's Day dinner. Present were Mrs.
Marshall Holmes and sons, Mrs.
Hershel Reynolds and Ann, Dallas;
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Holmes and
Gladys, Mineola; Mr. and Mrs.
Claude Holmes and children, Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde Landers and sons,
Mrs. Onetta Landers, Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer Holmes and children, Mr. and
Mrs. H. N. Watkins.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Dr. Paul J. Schwab, dean of
Trinity University, was guest speak-
er at the Presbyterian Church, Sun-
day.
The Methodist Protestant Church
parsonage has been rebuilt into a
modern cottage and is nearing com-
pletion.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Fire which started in the attic of
the S.W. Foust building at an early
hour Sunday, did considerable dam-
age to the building and to stocks of
Mr. Foust, J. W. Crawford's Paint
Shop and I. A. Hamblin’s Grocery.
Ralph Lain has sold his home to J.
E. McBride and is moving to Musko-
gee, Okla. where he will be associat-
ed in business with his brother-in-
law, Hubert Sharp.
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
A. L. Miller, after taking the
school census, reported 603 scholas-
tics in Cooper this year as compared
with 636 in 1914.
The Delta County Beekeepers As-
sociation has been re-organized with
J. M. Hagood, president; J. H.
Grizzle, vice-president; J. W. Mead-
lin. secretary-treasurer; and J. T.
Mullins, sergeant-at-arms.
EIGHTY YEARS AGO
Fifteen students graduated
Wednesday evening at the third
annual commencement exercise of
Cooper high School.
R. F.. Dickenson and family will
leave in a few days for Madill, Texas,
where they will make their home.
H. E. Cabeen returned Friday
evening from a combined business
and pleasure trip to the Indian
Territory.
from HISTORY’S SCRAPBOOK
OATES AND EVENTS FHOM YESTERYEARS
May 16, 1933—FDR called for worldwide nonaggression pact.
May 17, 1876—Custer left Fort Lincoln on his last patrol
May 18, 1974—India became 6th nation with atomic bomb.
May 19. 1928—First Calaveras Jumping Frog Jubilee.
May 20. 1932—Amelia Earhart began Atlantic solo.
May 21, 1819 ! irst velocipedes used, New York(
May 22. 1964—Secretary of State Rusk hinted war could be extended to
North Vietnam.
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