Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 2, 1985 Page: 2 of 10
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FEATURES EDITORIALS
AMUSEMENTS
Zelda Nance Fisher's sister Ida
married DeWitt Studer. whose fath-
er came from Switzerland and was
owner of the Marshall Pottery plant,
famous in these parts. Their daugh-
ter Dorothy Studer Pewitt grew up
with her aunt Zelda; they were near
each other in age and seem more like
sisters than aunt and niece.
But we re going to talk about the
DeWitt Studers' grandson and Dor-
othy's son. Billy Randall Pewitt (he’s
Bill professionally and Randy to the
family). Bill studied Political Science
at UT Arlington and headed for
Austin with his degree. He’s worked
around the Capitol since and is a
full-time lobbyist.
lexas Monthly's April edition fea-
tures Bill and a couple of buddies in
a sharply-written article, "Birth of a
Lobby." Lobbyist Pewitt. along with
two attorney s, Dean Cobb and Shan-
non Vale, formed the Texas Com-
puter Industry Council. Dean, a
former legislator, supplies a cool
head and sound judgment, plus
excellent introductions. Shannon
Vale is an expert in computer-ism,
and Bill is all-round glad-hander.
The Texas Computer Industry
Council (TCIC) influenced legislation
last session that saved the softwear
industry tax dollars -• lots of them.
This session there is a computer
crime bill to watch, and a telecom-
munications tax bill to monitor. Billy
Randall Pewitt and Co. are busv.
In Popular Mechanics’ May issue.
"World’s Wackiest Race to No-
where" tells of Tommy Stanley
(Javon and Lucille's son and Ellene
Oliver's nephew). Tommy, an en-
gineer. has engineering-type hob-
bies (the basement of his Colorado
home is full of model trains). His
garage is a workshop for a contrap-
tion that has evolved from The
Mudshark (of a few years back) to
School of Mudsharks, which won
second over all in the '84 race I am
hurrying to tell you about. The
monstrous contrivances entering the
race must be amphibious and pro-
pelled by muscle power alone.
Many help with this work fun.
Tommy’s boss is a sport and some
work is done at the plant. A friend of
Tommy’s flies down from Dallas and
uses his vacation to join in. Tommy’s
brother Jerry and wife Donna come
down from their home up on the
Continental Divide to take part.
School of Mudsharks, looks like a
quartet of w ater creatures emerging
from a dark-ages lake, with a crew
dressed as medieval warriors. They
brave the seven-nule course, which
takes them through three parts of
Boulder Reservoir. They flounder in
deep mud. stumble through tall
grass, struggle up a steep hill, and
go around Coot Lake. Getting to the
finish line first with all crew mem-
bers intact is not the only goal.
Irophies are given for costumes, for
finishing last, for ugliest, craziest, et
cetera. Prizes are modest -- usuallv
gift certificates to local businesses.
Nevertheless up to 80 groups enter
and some 40.000 come to see.
Called the Kinetic Sculpture Chal-
lenge. the race has been described
as a cross between the Indy 500 and
the Woodstock rock festival held in
the La Brea tar pits of California
That's a conservative judgment.
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Newcomer of the Week. Enter on
the east side of the Cooper Post
Office basement to reach Stone Title
-- Delta County branch of the Lamar
County Plant in Paris. The company
has been in business some thirty
years. Begun by Sam Stone, it was
bought by Paris Attorney Don Mc-
Laughlin. Mr. McLaughlin's daugh-
ter. Anne Hutto, is now president of
Stone Title.
In early March. Polly Shew came
to Cooper to head up the Delta
County office. Polly’s mother, by the
way was Hattie Pickens Phillips,
who passed away last June 18.
Hattie w as Patsy Pickens Barton and
Inez Pickens Bettes’ own cousin.
Hattie’s parents were Priar and
Frances (Scott) Pickens.
Polly and husband Daniel live in
Paris, where he is with Lone Star
Gas. Their total of kids includes sons
Mark, Creg. Kevin. Jason. David,
and daughter Lori Stephens (and
Lori’s adorable 5-year-old Jon Da-
vid).
The Cooper staff lists Escrow
Agent Kathy Belinowski. Her hus-
band Pat is a Deputy with the Lamar
County Sheriff's Department. The
Belinowskis live in Paris with eight-
vear-old daughter Misty. Secretary
Brenda Spangler lives in Paris with
husband Larry and four sons —
Kenneth, 19, Keith, 17, Kvle, 13,
and Kristopher, 8. Abstractor Teresa
Shew lives in Paris with her sister
Nan Sherwood. Office Manager Polly
Phillips Shew is proud of her team.
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TEN YEARS AGO
Mrs. Marvaletta Sansing, Coop-
er High School teacher, and Joe
Price, student, have been selected to
attend a nuclear science symposium
at the University of Texas at Austin
June 4-7,
The annual Cooper School All-
Sports Banquet has been scheduled
for May 5 at the Delta County Civic
Center and will feature Dallas Cow-
boy Drew Pearson as principal
speaker, according to Richard Gar-
rison, Athletic Director.
Mrs. Claud Pickens, Joe W. Pick-
ens and Mrs. Jack Johnson were
honored Sunday, April 27, with a
birthday dinner in the home of Mrs.
Pickens.
Water Plan Compromise
Since 1960, Texas voters have
rejected three statew ide water plans.
This year, Governor White, Lt. Gov-
ernor Hobby, and Speaker Lewis
have all proclaimed water to be a top
priority for the 69th Legislature. To
that end. they have crafted a water
plan attempting to meet the object-
ions of those w ho have opposed past
water plans.
The water compromise worked out
by White. Hobby, and Lewis became
House Bill 2 and Senate Bill 138.
While the House passed HB 2 with
relatively few changes, the Senate
scrapped the bill entirely and passed
a substitute bill, including the
changes urged bv environmentalists
and conservation proponents.
Both bills address the major issues
discussed by the League in 1983.
(See the three part series, "Water
for Texas", which began in August,
1983)
The centerpiece of both the House
and Senate versions of the proposed
w ater plan is a constitutional amend-
ment authorizing additional Water
Development Bonds (WDBs). The
House version would add $800 mil-
lion in new bonding authority for the
Water Development Board while the
Senate version totals, at a minimum,
$1 billion.
Both the House and Senate ver-
sions earmark bonds (in $200 million
parcels) for water supply loans or
facilities acquisition, water quality,
flood control, and state participation
(limited to 50%) in facilities for
storage acquisition. The $200 million
difference between the two propos-
als stems from the Senate allocating
a total of $400 million in WDBs for
state participation in storage acqui-
sition and adding participation in
regional water and wastewater treat-
ment facilities to the list of authoriz-
ed uses for WDBs.
In conference committee, mem-
bers have tentatively agreed to a
bond package totaling $980 million -
shaving $20 million off of the Sen-
ate's original total in order to keep
the package under $1 billion to make
the plan more acceptable to voters.
The Senate’s plan contains provi-
sions generous to agricultural inter-
ests - authorizing the use of up to $5
million in WDB proceeds for a pilot
program of low-interest loans for
agricultural water conservation sys-
tems.
If the pilot program is deemed a
success, the Legislature may, by Vi
vote of both houses, authorize the
issuance of up to $200 million in
agricultural water conservation
bonds. This would bring the total
price tag of the Senate’s plan to $1.2
billion.
The House version of the water
plan contains neither of these pro-
visions.
Both versions of the water plan set
up an Agricultural Soil and Water
Conservation Fund with money tak-
en from the Water Assistance Fund.
The Senate would appropriate $15
million to an Agricultural Trust
Fund; half of the interest from the
fund would be added to the principal
which would not be spent while the
other half of the interest would be
transferred to the Agricultural Con-
servation Fund. The House version
would appropriate $10 million direct-
ly to the Agricultural Conservation
Fund.
Among the uses proposed for the
fund are: technical assistance and
educational programs, grants to un-
derground water conservation dis-
tricts, technical assistance for farm
conservation programs, research in
water conservation and utilization,
and weather modification. Unlike the
House, the Senate would allow use of
the fund for cost-sharing programs
to assist individuals in soil and water
conservation measures including
brush control, forest improvement,
and irrigation equipment purchases.
As approved by the House, the
constitutional amendment includes a
local bond guarantee program. The
program would represent a $250
million pledge of the state's general
credit for local water projects. The
House version also adds nonprofit
See, WATER PLAN, Page 4
This Week’s Spotlight
BY ANGELINE SHARP
That Wonderful Year 1928
Charles Nidever, Delta County's
first County Judge, was the maternal
great-grandfather of Sulphur Sp-
rings Attorney Jim Chapman. Betty
(Brice) Chapman has roots in these
parts as well. Jim's grandparents,
Dr. B. F. and Dama (McCullough)
Chapman, raised their son Joe in
Tira. Joe grew up. studied at ET.
married Idell Jones of Peerless, and
served in the Texas Legislature from
53 to ’65. Joe Chapman was Judge
of District 8 (Hopkins, Delta, Frank-
lin, and Rains Counties) until his
death in 1972.
Joe and Idell Chapman brought up
their sons Jim and Joe, Jr. in
Sulphur Springs. Joe, Jr. is in
business there. Jim is senior partner
in the law firm of Chapman, Price,
Hughes, and Bauer. Jim and wife
Betty are our Couple of the Week.
Betty (Brice) Chapman's folks are
Carl and Wilma (Vaden) Brice of
Sulphur Springs. Carl grew up in
Tira and graduated from Cooper
High in 37. Wilma Vaden was raised
in the Old Tarrant Community. Bet-
ty s sister Carla lives in the Metro-
plex and teaches Spanish in Richard-
son High.
This story actually begins in a
second grade class at Lamar Ele-
mentary in Sulphur Springs Jim
Chapman met Betty Brice and they
were friendly acquaintances through
their school years. As Sulphur Sp-
rings High seniors, they "went
steady '. When they graduated in
'63, Jim headed for UT Austin and
Betty enrolled at NTSU. Alas, the
romance cooled.
Turn the pages of the calendar
ahead to August, 1970. Jim was at
the SML Law School grind (Juris
Doctor - 1970). Betty, who earned
her BA and her MA at North Texas,
was teaching in Highland Park Mid-
dle School (they hire only the cream
of the crop there). The romance was
rekindled. The two soon were an
item. The wedding was June 12,
1971. Close friends and family gath-
ered at Sulphur Springs First United
Methodist. Jim's dad. District Judge
Joe Chapman, read the rites. Joe
Chapman, Jr. attended his brother.
Carla Brice stood up with her sister.
All was merry as a marriage bell.
Jim and Betty Chapman have been
busier than most folks. The family
cooperates to keep up with their
heavy schedule. Jennifer is a sixth
grader at Sulphur Springs Middle
School. She's on the Student Coun-
cil, plays baseball summers and
takes gymnastics. Trey, a third grad-
er at Lamar Elementary is a Cub
Scout, plays baseball, and soccer
No one calls Betty Brice Chapman
lazy. She's a fifteen-year-woman in
the classroom. She teaches English
at Sulphur Springs High (I have
personal know ledge of her command
of that language.) Betty is dedicated
to her home and family. She backs
Jim in his career and, when they’re
on the campaign trail, Betty is known
as a whiz. She’s active in profession-
al and civic organizations.
About Jim Chapman. There is
space to hit only the highest spots.
He has served and still serves on Bar
Associations at county, state, and
national levels. He has served on
state and local panels dealing with
criminal prosecution and violent
crimes. Governor Mark White tap-
ped Jim for his Transition Commit-
tee -- Criminal Justice - in '82 and
’83.
Take just the Jaycees. Jim Chap-
man was a Director of Sulphur
Springs Jaycees in '72, Vice Presi-
dent in '73, President in '74, a Na-
tional Director and a member of
Texas Jaycee Executive Committee
in '76. In ’72 he was named Jaycee of
the year and has won bookoos of
local and area awards. In 1972, he
was named an Outstanding Young
Man of America, was given space in
"Who's Who in Texas" in ’73 and in
"Who’s Who in the South and
Southwest" in '75.
Jim chose not to run again after
serving two terms ('76 to ’84) as
District 8 Attorney. He was known as
a hard-hitting law-and-order man.
He was organizer and original Dir-
ector of the Hopkins County Council
on Alcoholism. Jim Chapman has
worked hard in the Hopkins County
United Fund and the Chamber of
Commerce. He's a Director of Mar-
tin Springs Water Supply Corpora-
tion. He is a 32nd degree Scottish
Rite Mason and a Shriner.
If Jim Chapman’s IQ rating
weren’t out of sight he wouldn’t have
been able to accomplish the things
noted above -- and he'd never have
captured the heart and hand of a
winner like Betty Brice Chapman.
Headlines in the April 10, 1928
issue of The Delta Courier read:
"Frustrated in Robbing Klondike
Drug Store" and the story followed -
"Surprised in the act of loading a
safe out of Klondike Drug Store onto
a car. three robbers were fired on
from the garage across the street last
Thursday night and barely escaped
with their lives, leaving their car
behind.
"Robbing and burning stores in
Klondike has been common occur-
ences for several years, so much so
that operating a business has be-
come unsafe, and for self-protection
the merchants have employed Carl
Winters as nightwatchman. Thurs-
day night between 2 and 3 o’clock he
was in Hooten's garage with Ike
Bartley who sleeps in the garage,
when a car drove up and its lights
were turned to that they wold shine
into the garage. The lights were then
turned so they would shine into
Trotman & Ward’s Drug store across
the street and then the car was
driven to Hollon's store so the lights
penetrated the front door. Evidently
liking the drug store layout better
the car returned to the drug store
and three men got out and forced
entrance into the building.
"In the meantime Winters and
Bartley had telephoned Carl Hooten.
proprietor of the garage, and he
came. By that time the man had
backed the car up to the front steps
and were loading the safe onto the
car and had two legs on a carrier on
the rear of the car when the three
men in the garage opened fire, two
with shot guns and one with a 32
Winchester rifle.
"They thought one man was in the
car and fearing they would escape
opened fire on the car. Ten or twelve
rifle bullets entered the side of the
car and a charge or two of shot, but
evidently no one was in the car or
certainly they would have been kill-
ed. Mr. Hooten says he fired several
shots from his shot gun at a man
standing behind the car. The smoke
in the garage obscured the vision,
and when the smoke cleared away
the three men were seen running up
the road toward Cooper.
"Officers in Cooper were notified
and were soon therq. The car left
behind, a new Nash roadster, bore a
Texarkana license, so the officers
went to Ben Franklin where they
believed the robbers would attempt
to board a train, but no trace of them
was found. Besides the car a kit of
tools were found and a few drops of
blood w as found on the front steps of
the store building.
"After daylight, W. M. Fielding
who lives about 2 miles southwest of
Klondike, discovered that his Dodge
car had been stolen and driven out
onto the highway. Tracks of the
robbers were traced to the Fielding
car. The officers then believed the
robbers would go for Dallas and after
notifying officers to look out for
them, followed in hot pursuit but no
trace of them was found. During
Friday afternoon it was learned that
the Fielding car had been discovered
parked on the side of the road a few
miles west of Sulphur Springs, and
turned facing west.
"By telephone it was learned the
Nash roadster had been sold to a
man two weeks before, said to be an
ex-convict, and he had made only
one payment on the car. The Sheriff
from Texarkana was in Cooper Sat-
urday and stated that the owner of
the car with two other men had been
seen leaving Texarkana in the car
Thursday morning. The man who
bought the car had lived in Texark-
ana only two weeks, and had a wife
and child there. He said he had a
request from San Antonio for the
man's arrest.
"The dealer who sold the Nash
came after it Saturday.
"The officers are hopeful of effect-
ing the arrest of all three of them."
A meeting of the executive com-
mittee of the Northeast Texas Paved
Highway Association held a meeting
at this time to further perfect plans
in their effort to have the Texarkana,
Paris, Cooper, and Commerce route
designated as a part of the Broadway
of America Highway.
There were representatives here
from several towns on the route. The
Association was to raise $3500 to
defray expenses of the campaign,
and various towns on the route were
urged to take immediate action to
raise their quota as the Broadway of
America convention was to be held in
Memphis, Tenn. during April. Coop-
er's quota was $50 and it was hoped
it could be raised immediately.
The following rlllh meeting was
reported in this issue of the Courier
- "The Girls Dramatic Club met
with Jewel Simmons at the home of
Miss Christine Hardy Saturday, Ap-
ril 7.
"The club had its regular business
meeting and general exercises.
Rachel McDonald gave a report from
Shakespeare which was very inter-
esting. The club members agreed
upon an all-day picnic, meeting at 10
o’clock at the home of Miss Hardy.
"We had nine members and two
visitors present. Those absent were
greatly missed and we urge their
presence at our next meeting with
Pauline Allison on April 21st.
"We were served a delicious plate
consisting of whipped cream, peach-
es, and cake. We then spent an
enjoyable hour hunting Easter
eggs.”
The following wedding took place
at this time -- "Last Tuesday, March
27th, Mrs. Sallye Waterman was
married to Dolph Dollins. The young
couple drove to Paris and were
married in the study of the Central
Presbyterian Church by the pastor.
Dr. F. M. Wear. Mr. and Mrs.
Dollins will live in Detroit where Mr.
Dollins is a successful business man.
Mrs. Waterman had been teaching
public speaking prior to her mar-
riage.
"Mrs. Dollins is the daughter of
Mrs. C. G. Wright and a sister of
Mrs. C. C. McKinney. She has many
friends in Cooper who wish her much
happiness during her married life."
On April 13, the largest number of
graduates ever to receive diplomas
at one time in Delta County were to
be awarded diplomas at the high
school auditorium in Cooper.
On this occasion 134 graduates of
grammar schools of the county were
to assemble and would receive dip-
lomas signed by their teacher, prin-
cipal, County School Board Presi-
dent, County Superintendent and
State Superintendent. State Super-
intendent S.M.N. Marrs was to
present and award the diplomas.
The graduates had come to Cooper
to rehearse their parts on Saturday
morning prior to the graduation.
The article stated further, "This is
a forward step in unifying the educa-
tional system of Delta Conty where
all the grammar school graduates of
the county are assembled together
and officially passed to the high
schools."
(To Be Continued)
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Trustees of the Cooper Inde-
pendent School District met in a
called session to consider plans for
desegregating Cooper public
schools.
Mrs. Troy Stockton was elected
president of the Cooper Parent-
Teachers Association. Mrs Murray
Carrington will serve as vice-presi-
dent; Mrs. Joe Choate, secretary;
Mrs. LaFray Mitchell, treasurer;
Bennett Jett*-, parliamentarian; and
Mrs. Clyde Robnett, historian.
Miss Cathy Cain, Cooper High
School senior, will represent Delta
County as Dutchess in the annual
Hopkins County Dairy Festival at
Sulphur Springs.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Paintings by Jud Jones and
other East Texas State College stu-
dents will be on display in the East
Club Room of the Student Union
Building.
Peggy Reid, Pecan Gap, has been
elected parliamentarian of the Les
Choisites social club for women at
ET.
Larry Freeman, junior student of
Cooper High School, and Eddie
Thomas Willmon, Pecan Gap High
sophomore, student, were among
the winners in an essay contest on
"Why We Must Conserve Our Soil
and Water."
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FORTY YEARS AGO
Rev. Louis Drake, Presbyterian
minister, and Elmer L’Roy Church of
Christ minister, made talks at the
regular luncheon of Cooper Lions
Club Friday.
The Junior Afflatus Club present-
ed Miss Eusibia Lutz, head of the
French Department at ETSC, a book
review Tuesday evening at the home
of Miss Edwina Miller.
Mesdames H. C. Ward, B. M.
Edwards, Harman Keeling, Burl
Clayton and G. C. Wynn of Klon-
dike, and Mrs. Joe Allard of Cooper
attended the district WSCS meeting
in Sulphur Springs.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
The Cooper School Board held a
meeting, re-electing the entire facul-
ty for the school. Two new members,
Clovis Hooten and Tom Inglis, were
sworn in.
Seventh grade graduation exer-
cises for the rural schools were held
with 160 graduates receiving diplo-
mas.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Automobile traffic vas tied up
between Cooper and Paris on ac-
count of high water. Water was
reported 18 inches deep over the
bridge on North Sulphur River.
T. L. Bachellor and family will
move to Smithfield in a short time,
where he will oeprate the ice plant
recently acquired by Texas Public
Utility Company.
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
The following officers and dir-
ectors have been elected by the Delta
County Farmers Association: S. P.
Sansing, president; Jim Traylor,
vice-president; A. S. Harper, secre-
tary; G. G. Robinson, doorkeeper;
John Boyd. John Russell, Jim Tray-
lor, G. T. Chesnut, J. T. Yeager, J.
H. Patterson. S. P. Sansing. direct-
ors.
Rev. and Mrs. W. J, Haywood
moved last week to Sulphur, Okla.
where he has accepted the pastorate
of the Christian Church.
EIGHTY YEARS AGO
Roy Hazlewood arrived I
Arizona for a visit with his pare
Presiding Elder C. B. Gla.
held quarterly conference here
day night.
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