Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 1976 Page: 1 of 8
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COOPER, TEXAS
Published at Cooper, Texas 75432 Thursday, December 16, 1976
Eight Pages
[ommissioners State Position, Again
by Skip Steely
, Beierle of Southwest
year Company once again
Fbefore the people of Delta
■L with his proposal to
LjSh a nuclear and chemical
> plant. He received the
answer from the County
■missioned Court as he did
|Spring -a vote of no support.
Snost >00 interested parties
Ided the regular Commis-
K , c . <r> meeting Monday.
had to be held in the
l,v Civie Center because of
[crowd size. Beierle. who
| presented the proposal to
L County in August 1975.
fed a slide presentation of
[studies his company had
i several years ago on the
|bility of using part of
JO square miles in northeast
L for waste disposal of
Jnical and nuclear products.
|e also let the crowd view
Vofe To Continue Stand Against Disposal Plant
slides taken at a plant in
Barnwell, South Carolina, one
similar to that he proposed for
the Delta County operation. He
had taken several representa-
tives from the Roxton Industrial
Foundation to that site to help
educate them on the possibility
of placing the plant near that
town after efforts failed here.
Beierle explained the method
used to burv the wane, much of
which will be in 55 gallon
containers. He also showed the
land after the trenches were
covered, with marble head-
stones laying on the ground to
identify the site and its
contents. The trench he showed
was 25 feet deep, 493 feet long,
and 47 feet wide.
Beierle explained that his
company had done extensive
study on the 240 acres he
originally had option to use near
( harleston, and that he now was
willing to offer the county 10
cents on each cubic foot of waste
buried on the site. “In
Barnwell, they bury 150,000
cubic feet of waste each month.
II we bury a similar amount
here, that will mean $180,000
per year to the county.” he
explained. The county's budget
is only a little over $100,000 for
197^.
But the offer to donate a good
portion of money to the county
did not seem to suit most of the
crowd present. He explained the
200 foot theory that he was
willing to try but said that
probably 100 feet would be the
most economical level to use for
burial of the materials.
He said that chemicals would
still be buried in the trenches
until the deep well method was
proven successful and feasible.
The land where just chemicals
were to be buried could be
reclaimed and used for
agricultural or grazing purposes
again. The company would
retain ownership of this land.
However, the company pro-
posed to give the land used -for
burying nuclear waste to the
state. This would allow state
watch over the land for years to
come, he said.
Beierle' WAS axketi why his
company left after bring turned
down by the people last spring.
“You know why. My backers
were discredited. They were not
guilty. But you never knew that
because the newspapers never
printed that," he explained.
Several spoke after the
presentation. R. C. Ewing said
he carried the papers of more
than 1,000 acres of land in Delta
County and felt that he was
iouncii Hears Presentation Also
Proposes To Let Local Governments Share In Company’s Income
►proximately forty persons,
from Cooper and Charle-
also Pecan Gap and
n, were present at the
ber City Council meeting
night at City Hall,
najority there to hear Fred
krle, president of Southwest
Company present his
osition to the Cooper
^rning body.
Cviating from the published
and/or underpen the mobile December lb to prepare a
unit. Watkins answered "Yes" recommendation to present to
and Attorney Allison was the next council meeting,
instructed to proceed with the
"Where it is going to come from
I don’t know. It's a bad
situation."
filing of charges against
persons in violation with the
ordinance.
From this discussion the issue
of junk yards on private
property erupted as did the
ordinance on dogs running loose playgrounds,
town and "a lion” in the
Cooper School Board trus-
tees, Boyd Moody, Zane Oats,
asked the city to place speed
bumps in the road on the
southside of the Elementary
which separated the two
It was suggested by one
member of the crowd that the
guilty by responsible for the
reimbursement of the damage.
"In the first place, the
....... r_________ in town and "a lion" in the offending parties have been
da of the meeting, Mayor southeast part of the city. The council voted in favor of apprehended and they have
i Watkins opening the Mr. Beierle then appeared the decision and asked the admitted their guilt, explaine
(ting with a discussion of the before the gathering, beginning School Board members to draft Allison, As far as the law goes, umimissiuiicr niiam v'‘a"k
Gulf States-United Tele- with a brief presentation of his a plan of the placement of the they cannot be compelle to pay spoke t at c tne to oo at
• .......... - ----- -- --------i - k...........— aspha|t bumps which will be &>r the damages. Whatever the each issue with an open mind
placed soon, according to
Watkins.
proposal to bury nuclear waste
somewhere in this area also
photos of his Barnwell, S.C.
site. Apologizing for "raising
my voice", Beierle said, "If we
though for one minute it would
hurt anyone, or if a drum would
blow up, we wouldn't be here."
.............. ecu. He continued, "A lot of people
the new directory, but 1 have been fed wrong informa-
I't know what action can be tion"..."who wants to read <in
the newspapers) what is good,
they only put what is bad ... it
is safe, or 1 wouldn t be here.
Beierle continued with what
------------ ,, amnia, the ten cents per cubic foot of
[City Attorney James Allison waste his company would pay
instructed to contact the the local governments if his
plant was established here,
"You could build dams, get
good water, develop industrial
sites, boost the economy."
When asked by Mayor
_______0„ Watkins "What do you want
Jiber of that corporation's from the City Council? Beierle
Jrd was present. The mayor answered. "All I wanted was to
ltd that he had talked to J.O. present my position...the point
president of the Charle- is, it is a good safe operation
P Board, about meeting with and we want to present the
[Cooper Council and was told whole truth, not halt truths.
Pu meet with us (the Several persons took the
►Heston group). Watkins floor, including ME. Smart
i stated that he would try to from Roxton who said he had
with that group at their letters with him regarding Mr.
meeting. Alderman J.O. Beierle's past business ventures
Guyer commented "We're and a current Dun and
ling water to them, they're Bradstreet report of financial
I selling to us,” voicing the standing, to which Mr. Beierk
P'n8 of several of the called "a downright lie.
Rick Rhodes of Pecan and Dee
Slough from Cooper voiced
strong support for the South-
West Nuclear project.
The discussion which had
pe Directory in which the
ng for Cooper and Com-
are combined. Mayor
jtkins stated that he had
(tived three letters from local
Jdents complaining about the
\ directory in addition to nu-
»us vernal dislikes of the
►let. Watkins said, "No one
i this year." Those present
in unanimous agreement
['Hiking the telephone book.
a motion by Alderman
kce Adams, Mayor Watkins,
as Public Utilities Commis-
i in regard to matter,
paiting for Mr. Beierle to
ear, Mayor Watkins went on
Jiscuss the Charleston Water
issue, although
M.E. “Bull" Bettes brought
the council's attention to the
recent vandalism of the Oak-
lawn Cemetery.
for the damages. Whatever the
court decides is best." Allison
also remarked that the law
officials were awaiting a
damage estimate, to be com-
piled by Buddy Jenkins.
Bettes stated that the big
damage was done to the older
part of the cemetery, where few
"Somebody will have to do a relatives of those buried still are - -- -----
lot of work, or spend a lot of in contact with the Cemetery until Monday afternoon to finish
money," commented Bettes, Association. their agenda items.
Parking Situation Discussed
Students Told To Stop Wrongdoers
(3) Unanimous favoring on
recommendation from Wilker-
son to go before the City Council
and express desire for correc-
tion of traffic hazards around
school.
(4) Unanimous favoring of
new policy on student traffic
fetators.
4ayor Watkins continued
1 a discussion of the tax roll
fing that the City’s Delin-
fnt lax Attorney suggested
by Larrv Goddard
The Cooper School Board met ting around the school campus
in a hurried regular meeting containing a majority of stu-
Wednesday, December 8, and dents signatures who favor the
heard the Student Council’s changing of the policy,
reports on the wishes of the Fred Wilkerson, School Su-
students at Cooper High School perintendent, commented that
concerning strict enforcement of as soon as cars were driven on
a policy disallowing students to the school’s property, they ----- ,-------- ----
remain in their cars on the became under the jurisdiction of during school hours,
school's property. the school. (5) unanimous favoring
Because the School Board "We can dictate over the cars i:c;im of insurance
planned their annual Christmas then," he explained. The girls Vocational Building.
Dinner the same night as their suggested that a trial run be
meeting night, the students given to the students to see how
were allowed a brief fifteen the policy change would work,
minutes. Representing the stu- The Board members were also
dents were council members invited to visit the school before
Bev Beierle. Michelle Aliev, and the first bell in the morning to
lill Burrow. see how the process of standing
The students stressed that the in the cold weather works, and
deep rooted enough in the
county to speak against the
project. Dee Slough asked
Ewing if owning 1,000 acres
made his vote more important
than others. Ewing pointed out
that he didn’t own the land, just
carried the note on it. He
explained that he was pointing
out by saying that he had been a
land owner and that he was an
interested resident of the area
and had bo~» for time.
Ewing had previously owned
land that was purchased by the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
for use in building the proposed
Cooper Dam and Reservoir.
D. Todd asked Beierle why he
did not just make application for
the project and quit "agitating
the people.”
One person asked Beierle how
long 240 acres could take care of
the amount of waste he
expected. Beierle said that the
space was good for 100 years of
nuclear waste but that it would
take one-half that time to fill up
the land with chemical waste.
"But, remember, the land used
io store chemicals could still be
used for other purposes,” he
reminded.
Beierle said he felt the
problems found at Maxey Flats,
Kentucky, another similar site,
for waste disposal, was because
it washed off from on the
sunace. He said that he felt
other sites would be expanded
and created in the future for
such purposes of storage.
After several other discus-
sions, Travis Toney proposed
that the county commissioners
vote on the matter and express
their preference.
Commissioner Hiram Clark
STATE WINNERS - Members of the Cooper FFA Chapter Parliamentary Procedure Conducting
Team placed sixth at the state meet in Austin recently. They arc Donny Goforth, Jim Landers, Dale
Hinsley, Rickey Bettes, Jake Humphries. David James, (standing) Bill West, Sidney Hutchings,
Doug Wintermute and Scot Petty. Growl Photo
Delta Farmers Have Loss
According To Census Figures
each issue with an open mind
but he had been against this
project from the beginning and
still had not changed his mind
on the matter. He moved that
the court rei'erate the postion
they took against the project last
spring. The members voted
unanimously to uphold that
original position.
The Court then adjourned
The United States Depart-
ment of Commerce, Bureau of
the Census released this week
the 1974 farm production census
for Delta County showing that
farmers here had a net loss of
some $289,000 on their com-
bines operations. That expense
of farming was not offset by
sales is u new to area
farmers who have seen three
consecutive bad years.
Farm product sales in 1974 in
Delta County, according to the
Census Burea report, totaled
$4,741,000 and included all
agricultural products sold from
the 523 farms here. The same
report listed production expen-
ses on these farms total
$5,030,000 in 1974.
The figures are for farms
qualifying under the definition
first used for the 1959 Census of
Agriculture: A farm includes all
agricultural operations conduct-
ed at any time during the census
year under the control of an
individual management, pro-
vided that sales of agricultural
products amounted to, or
normally would amount to, at
least $250 for places of less than
10 acres or $50 for places of 20
acres or more.
A comparison of figures for
farms with sales of $2500 or
more for the years 1974 and
1969, show that agricultural
products sold in 1974 totaled
$4,545,000 while in 1969 the
figure was $3,655,000.
In 1974, 329 farms had sales
of $2500 or more while in 1969
the number was 447. The
average size increased from 314
acres to 399 acres during the
five years and the value per acre
increased from $199 to $350
raising the average value per
farm from $62,399 to $139,850.
The market value of livestock
and their products on farms of
$2500 or more of sales was
$2,582,000 in 1974. and crop
sales, including hay and forest
products was $1,962,000.
Farms reporting less than
$1,000 in sales number 18 in
1974 and the value of agricul-
tural products sold on these
farms totaled $6,000.
Of the 175,640 acres in Delta
County sixteen percent is
non-farm land; 22 percent is in
harvested cropland; 29 percent -
all other cropland; four percent
woodland; and 29 percent other
farmland.
In 1969 there were 650 farms
in Delta County while in 1974
the number had dropped to 523
and the numbers of acres
decreased from 156,282 in 1969
to 148.876 in 1974. At the same
time, the size of farms here have
increased from 240 acres to 285,
and value of agricultural
products sold went up from a
total of $5,946,000 to 9,065.000.
The census report also
showed cattle inventory in-
creasing from 22,314 in 1969 to
28.733 in 1974. while the
inventory on hogs and pigs
dropped from 633 seven years
ago to 180 two vears ago.
And farm production expense
rose from a total ol $3,890,000 in
1969 to $5,030,000.
Funds Still Needed
Funds are still needed for
care of Delta County children in
foster care according to Mrs.
Betty Slakey, president of the
Delta County Child Welfare
Board. These donations may be
made at the Social Service office
of the Texas Department of
Public Welfare. Courthouse
basement or by telephoning
Mrs. Slakey.
For Foster Care
Response from the commun-
ity has been great in this
direction, said Mrs. Slakey. but
a reminder needs to be given
that these funds which are used
for care of children 12 months
out of the year are still urgently
needed. Donated toys and gift
items are also being collected
for distribution to any requested
needy family in Delta County.
Flu Vaccines Total 295
In Cooper Last Month
Lax Attorney suggested The discussion wim-n The students stressed that the in the cold weatner works, anu
^ the city pass an ordinance become quite healed was uallt enjjre school was being punish- hear reactions directly from the
ting the tax rate to SI 25 per to a halt by Alderman Wade , ,---------The business was
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assessed valuation. Al- Bledsoe who stated that the
‘an Boyce Bailey presented Council would not take actu,n
I "otion to adopt such a ,his, "The county commissioner
olution. The vote was took action, and we will abide by
Yimous. their decision.
ed because of a few individual's
mistakes.
"Looks like some of you
people who are doing right
would stop the others, then
everyone will he set free,
answered Board member Zane
Oats.
"I'm certain you'll find that
all through life, a small handful
will mess up a lot of people's
students. The business was
deferred to the next meeting
when the time limit expired.
"We have to have policies not
to the enjoyment of all," added
Board President Don Aber-
nathy. "The Board may not see
fit to change the policy, but it is
admirable for such students to
come before the School Board."
The Board hastily continued
agenda which
i nd on the Mobile Home . „ijer.
Jjinance, Watkins stated that In further aUU’n' * m
jVre are still people here not men heard a presen
Iditig by the ordinance" and Watkins concerning prcscnt
H that the ordinance be ment pf^*5 ° tan privileges,"‘commented Board through the
I'fied to include such answers Harmon P. $84,000, member Doug Blagburn. included;
I'o whether or not a permit is will total a Derccnt of The council asked for the (1) i nanimous favor of
Inferrable. The question was approximate v - nmenta|. rcason the policy was designed, payment of bills and vouchers.
I? ra,sed as to whether the which will be * (hat thc but was given no answer. (2) Report on the Elementary
finance could be enforced Watkins a so Committee jbc students presented a Kali Festival which netted a total
«cial|y with a mobile home Safety A vls‘>ra^sd njghti tition which has been circula of $5,000 78.
failed to sign a permit, will mci
Vandals Confess
For Destroying Cemetery
Two Delta County teenagers, aged 15 and 16, were
apprehended last Tuesday night and admitted to the
vandalism of the Oaklaw n Cemetery monument stones on the
night of Saturday. December 4.
The two appeared before District Judge J. Kearney Brim
the next day and were placed on six months probation for the
act. The judge postponed consideration of restitution for the
damage done until a full report of the cost is submitted.
Neither of the two had been officially in any trouble before
and will be in the supervision of juvenile probation officer
Tom Davis.
County Attorney James Allison said officials are satisfied
that only the two apprehended were responsible for the actual
damage done to the 184 markers knocked down during
the night mentioned.
No reward was given Officially there was no informant
involved ir the case.
According to the Public
Health Region 7 office in Tyler,
there were 295 doses of Swine
Flu Vaccine given during the
public clinic in Cooper on
Tuesday, November 16, 1976.
There was 54 doses given in
Pecan Gap.
The Region 7 Public Health
Nurse, Mrs. Sherron Hicks,
R.N. from Sulphur Springs
states the success of the local
response was due to preparation
and cooperation and participa-
tion of local leaders and
organizations. Appreciation is
expressed for the support of
local medical authorities and the
superior organization of volun-
teers.. Gwen Pickering, R.N.
planned for the volunteers and
served in the clinic herself.
The Public Health team,
including Mrs. Hicks, Thcona
Cantrell, R.N., Leola Vaughn,
and Carol Ponder, clerks; Lillian
Fralin and Mae Etta Malone,
Community Service Aides of
Sulphur Springs, Jessie Bolton
and Anne Nelson of Paris, were
assisted by the following
volunteers: Gladys Stockton,
Anne Miller, Merle Blackwell,
Velma Box, Elizabeth McGraw,
Norma Abernathy, Carolyn
Taylor. Margaret Eudy, Wanda
Potts, Frankie McKinney, Lo-
rene Carrington, Nadine Whe-
eler, Gene Hagood, Billie
Ewing, Magnolia Roseman,
Betty Slakey. Nell Burrow.
Special thanks is extended for
the use of the community center
building and its excellent
facilities. Also, the value of the
eager cooperation and support
of the news media, both radio
and newspaper, cannot be
overestimated.
For those who still wish to
receive immunization against
the Swine Flu, contact your
private doctor, or call the local
Public Health Region 7 office in
Tyler, 214-595-3585 for infor-
mation.
The next comprehensive heal-
th clinic will be held as
scheduled, the 3rd Tuesday of
the month, December 21, 1976.
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