Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, August 13, 1943 Page: 1 of 8
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COOPER, DELTA COUNTY, TEXAS FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1943
VOLUME 64, NO. 33
Graduates Of Cisco Junior College
Japs Frightened I When Amer-
icans Visit Kurile Islands
Just North Of Japan.
American planes this morning
attacked the “northern section”
of the Kurile Island chain some
1,200 miles northeast of Tokyo,
the Japanese radio reported,
warning that further appearances
of enemy planes from the north
are to be expected.
Five Liberators and three
^Flying Fortreesses staged the
new raid from Aleutian bases,
Tokyo said, interpreting it as
stemming from “positive meas-
ures” by the United States to
“raid our mainland, Japan, from
the north.”
The broadcast was recorded by
the Fedi\ all Communications
Commission.
U. S. bombers raided Paramu-
shiru in the Northern Kuriles in
a 1,53a mile round trip from At-
tu on July 20.
On New Georgia Island in the
Solomons, U. S. army marine
forces pressed slowly and stead-
ily in against Bairoko Harbor
over difficult terrain and fierce
Japanes-j resistance.
Funeral Services Held
For Jimmie R.
Watkins Sunday
Funeral services for Jimmie R.
Watkins, who died Saturday af-
ternoon at the Paris Sanitarium,
was held at the Baptist Church
in Cooper Sunday afternoon at 3
p. m. Rev. J. R. Bennington and
Rev. J. C. McClain officiated. In-
terment was made in Oak Lawn
cemetery, under the direction of
Delta Funeral Home.
Surviving are his wife, a son,
Odis Watkins, of Dallas; a daugh-
ter, Miss Ella Faye Watkins,
Cooper; three brothers. Bob, Tom
and Zach Watkins, all of Cooper;
and a sister, Mrs. John Klein,
living somewhere in California.
Mr. Watkins had been working
in Dallas until recently, having
been appointed justice of the
peace, precinct 1, to fill an unex-
pired term. He. had formerly
served two terms as constable of
this precinct.
Thousands Of
Germans Fleeing
Sicily To Italy
I First Bale Cotton
I Here August 7,
i Sells For 20c
1 Monroe Clark, farming Grover
Pickering, Jr.’s place in the Vasco
I community marketed the first
I hale of cotton of the 1943 crop
! here Saturday, August 7. The
bale was purchased bv Tom Roun-
j tree for 20 cents a pound. The
.«.« i second bale of cotton was stored
Begin Crossing Three Mile ( the cotton yard Tuesday. It
Straits In Small Boats I w.ss grown bv Edgar E. Hainm,
To Mainland-
Among the outstanding grad-
uates of Cisco Junior College
May 31 were a brother and two
sisters only children of Mr. and
Mrs. E. M. Threatt, Sr., of East-
land. They are left to right, Tot-
sy Glen, 18; Edith Wren, 19,
and Evan M., Jr., 20. They com-
pose the first brother-sisters
group to graduate from the Cis-
co school. They each majored in
husiness administration and all
were active in college activities.
Totsy Glen was secretary-treas-
urer of the senior class; Edith
Wren was a member of the chor-
al club and Evan, Jr., was editor-
in-chief of the CJC yearbook
and member of the student coun-
cil. He is a VI recruit of the
USNR.
Their mother was Myrtle Gil-
lean of Mt. Joy community. These
children attended Enloe .High
School during the school vear of
1939-’40.
west of Cooper.
Listed below are the growers
of first bales marketed in Cooper
since 1910 and prices sold for,
etc.:
1942—August 17, A. L. Mob-
Doyce Wheeler Makes Winters Appointed
Hole In One On Head State Public
Cooper Golf Course Welfare Board
The best shot ever recorded on
Cooper golf course was made by
Doyce Wheeler last Sunday when
he made a hole in one on No. 4
green. It is a par-3, 215 yards
up hill with the green not visible
from the tee. The ball dropped
a few yards of the green and roll
ed to the center and into the cup.
Lawrence Allard has a record
of a hole in one on No. 8 green,
and someone else made the No. I
shot in one. Wheeler’s shot is
counted the best shot ever made
on the course.
Officers Take Car
And Liquor, Arrest 3
AUSTIN, Aug. 10.—The State
Board of Public Welfare an-
nounced today appointment of
John H. Winters as executive di-
rector of the state department of
public welfare. Mr. Winters was
not an applicant for the job but
was requested to accept the po-
sition, the board stated. The
appointment was made bv unan-
imous vote of the board. The
salary is $5,000 a year.
Mr. Winters has been commis-
sioner of Potter county for six
years and is now serving his
fourth term.
Former Delta Boy In
Service
New Deal Abandons
Crop Control Plan
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—
Farmers were assured today of a
government program of unre-
stricted production in 1944 and
abandonment of the ten year old I
new deal policy of rigid crop con-1
trols.
War Food Administrator Mar-
vin Jones said in a radio address
last night that the 1944 food pro-
gram now being formulated would
be on a “purely voluntary” basis.
Jones has said previously that
he plans no crop controls except
on tobacco, and his statement last
night was taken to confirm that
acreage restrictions are out for
the duration.
Under the planned 1944 pro-
gram, each farmer will work out
his production plans to suit him-
self, although the WFA will make
suggestions as to needed crops.
Seed and fertilizer will be given
to farmers whose plans meet the
general requirements of the new
program.
The former system of direct
benefit payments for cutting acre
age will be reduced or eliminated
on most if not all crops. The 1944
program will be announced step
bv step as it is completed, though
it is not expected to be ready un-
til after congress reconvenes.
Jones said the success of the
1944 program depends on the
farmers, as ‘ this country is too
broad, too far flung, too varied
in its production to have the work
done by directives from Washing-
ton.”
He said the new goals, calling
for tremendous food production
and proper handling and distribu-
tion of that food, can be achieved
only if there is teamwork by all
conceined. He appealed i'or an
end to “useless bickering, con-
flicts and arguments.”
Three men were arrested and
their automobile and two cases of
liquor held Saturday night after
a hot chase by Sheriff Kerbow
and his deputies. The officers
flushed the car of liquor in Coop-
er and chased it and its occu-
pants on the Sulphur Springs
highway nearly to Sulphur bridge
and fired some shots under the
car before overtaking it and
making the arrests. They are
said to have reached a speed of
85 miles an hour. Motors in both
cars were damaged from the ter-
rific speed.
One of the men plead guilty to
transporting, another to having
possession of liquor for the pur-
pose of sale and the third one for
drunkenness. The car is being
held.
Appropriations For
Triple A Reduced;
Causes Rerenchment
Curtailed appropriations for
the Tripple A department is com-
pelling drastic cuts in expenses
of operating the department.
Delta county office found it nec-
essary to dispense with five of
the nine clerks it was using and
Chairman D. R. Scott says that
it will be necessary to discontinue
the services of other office force
in order to operate within the al-
lotment for the Delta county of-
| fice.
LONDON, Aug. 12— A Reu-
ters dispatch from Sicily said to-
day it was stated authoritatively _
that German evacuation of Silicy j [eylI’ig 35*
was in full swing I 194I— August 21, J. C. Fish-
Dispatches from Sicily two ( er ,)(jc
nights ago had reported that the August 21, Clyde II.
Germans were withdrawing troops M t .■>,
and heavy equipment |* 1939—August 3, J. H. Kitch-
The Reuters report said thou- en
sands of Germans were getting] i938_August 8. Claud Smith,
away each day in vessels shut-
tling to the Italian mainland un-U 'i9;j7_Au>rU8t 6> Claude Smith,
der an antiaircraft barrage froi»lPrit.e 12 i-2c, premium $25.
hundreds of light and heavy guns. | 1936—August 8, Alfred Ray.
Price 13c, premium, $15.
1935—August 27, Grover Pick-
ering. Price 11.25, premium, $15.
1934—August 2, J. J. Mc-
Laughlin. Price 15c, premium,
$ 15
1933—August 14, W. T. Tay-
lor. Price 9.25c, premium, $15.
1932—August 5, C. B. Frank.
Price 6c, premium $17.
1931—August 24, Douglas Al-
bright. Price 7c. premium $17.
1930—August 1. F. J. Heth-
cock. Price 12 cents, premium
$20.75.
1929—August 8, A. L. Car-
rington. Price 20c. premium, $20.
1928—August 17, W. E. Beek-
hma. Price 20c, premium $25.
1927—August 15, H. E. Ep-
pers. Price 20c, premium, $21.50.
1926—September 1, Lee
Moore. Price 26 ]-2c, including
pi'emi um.
1925—August 6, E. L. Smith.
Price 25c, premium, $40.
1924—August 11, J. W. Toon.
Price 30c, premium, $48.50.
1923—August 4. Ed Stahiner.
Price25c, premium. $43.60.
! 1922—August 18, il. II. Moore,
j Price 21c.
, . 1921 August 17, B. D. Robin-
] CPL. VERNON A. SHOFFE1TT SO”'9^o^^AuguWPr9m*Price^20c
CpI. T 5 Vernon A. Shoffeitt mg—Wust 19 price 36c
is with Co. C, 626 T. L)„ Bn., ] j-y 1 1 ® ° J‘”
Nashville. Cpl. Shoffeitt was; 1 <n 8—August 1” B P led
j born in Delta county near Lake! betYei, Price 30 1-2e premium,
( reek and attended school at » jq
I Lake Creek and Enloe. Cpl.; ’ .L,™
Shoffeitt, known by'all his friends ‘ R h ‘ • Ro le.
In England
ms:
CLARENCE BUCKNER RAINEY
Clarence Buckner Rainey went
into the service in the U. S. army
air corps March 15, 1942. He was
transfered to several different
points in the United States, then
in August, 1942, he was sent to
England where he has been since
that time. His parents, Mr. and
Mrs. A. C. Rainey of Klondike
receive mail from him pretty reg-
ular. Buckner writes that he is
well and safe and hopes to get
the job done over these before
long.
Cpl. A. C. Rainey, Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Rainey, Sr.,
of Klondike, writes them that he
has been promoted to the rank
of Sgt. Sgt. Rainey has been in
the U. S. army air corps since
January 7, 1942. He is stationed
at Newark, N. J.
H.C. Hurley And
Son Has Open
Meeting Tuesday
State Seed Men Speak; Goad
Attendance of Farmers;
Melon Cutting.
j as Mutt, is the son of Mr. and
I Mrs. Edd Shoffeitt, of Mesquite,!
1 Texas.
Masons From Majors
Field Confer Degree
At Cooper Lodge
LIEUT. RUBY G. TORBRON
HERE MONDAY
Lieut. Rubv G. Torbron of
Paris filled her regular appoint-
ment in Cooper Monday where
she comes to confer with women
who desire to join the army mil-
itary service. She is prepared to
give information to any woman
who is considering assisting the
war effort bv volunteering in this
service. She can give the MA
test which will enable applicant
incurring any other expense if
not qualified to enter this branch
of the service.
COOPER LIONS MEET FRIDAY
Cooper Lions club will have the
regular luncheon at Hotel Cooper
Friday at noon. \V. C. Hazlewood
and Dr. D. O. Lowry will be in
charge of the program.
The club is urging renewed in-
terest \\'*th the public in contrib-
uting toward funds for sending
cigarettes overseas to service
men. Each 5c deposited in jars
the club maintains on business
counters will send a package of
cigarettes to some service man.
Miss Letrice Harcrow returned
to Dallas Sunday evening where
she has a position after spending
Saturday night and Sunday with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ace
Harcrow.
Price 25c, riremium $23
1916—August 11, Ed Stahmer.
Price 15 1-4, premium $21.
1915—August 24. J. D. Ander-
son. Price 9c.
1914—August 10, W. E. Beck-
ham and J. L. Raines. Price 10.-
75ci, premium, $33.
1 1913—August 15, W. E. Beck-
1 ham and J. T. Raines. Price 12.-
~ rr . ,, 1 10c, premium $35.
| Masons from Majors Fleld, | 1912_August 16, Larkin
I Greenville visited Delta Masonic .Johnson. Price 13c, premium, $30.
lodge Wednesday night to help | 191 i_August 8, D. A. Pardue.
I confer the masters degree on Price 12c> premium) $32 50
1910—August 16. R. H. Jones.
Ernest Hardy, one of the mem-
bers at Majors Field. 1st Ser-
geant Craig conferred the degree
with the assistance of his men,
Charlie Shook of Yowell and
others.
Visitors were present from
Greenville lodge, Yowell and Sul-
phur Bluff. Twelve members
from Majors Field represented
several lodges *r‘<various sec-
tions of the nation. Refreshments
were served.
NEGRO PAID FINE FOR
SHOP LIFTING
A negro who works on a farm
outh of South Sulphur w’as ar-
ested here Saturday with a pair
of shoes he had taken from one
of Cooper stores. He also ad-
mitted to having taken some lem-
ons front a grocery store. He
paid a fine and cost of $15.70
and promised to abstain from pil-
fering hereafter.
Miss Nida Bobo made a busi
ness trip to Paris Wednesday.
SPARKS THEATRES
At The Sparks
SATURDAY, AUGUST 14
“DANGER IN THE PACIFIC”
Action thrills and suspense. Leo Carrillo, Don Barry, Andy Devine
and Louise Albritton. Also comedy.
SUNDAY-MONDAY, AUGUST 15-16
“THE POWERS GIRL”
A picture glorifying the American girl, with Geo. Murphy, Anne
Shirley, Carol Landis and the hottest band there is. the one and only
Benny Goodman, together with the greatest collection of pretty girls
ever in one picture. Also comedy, “Don t Hook Now, ’ with Bob Hope.
TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17-18
“LADY BODY GUARD”
A riotous comedy, featuring Eddie Albert. Also News and comedy.
THURSDAY-FRIDAY, AUGUST 19-20
“HANGMEN ALSO DIE”
Based on the story of the murder of Reinhard Heydrick, Hitler’s
hangman, with Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene
Lockhart and many others. Also News and comedy.
At The Grand
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, AUGUST 13-14
“LONE PRAIRIE”
With Russell Hayden and Bob Wills. Also “Spy Smasher.”
OWL SHOW SATURDAY NIGHT
“JOURNEY INTO FEAR”
1 Creepy, chilling, with Orson Wells, Jospeh Cotton and Ruth War-
■ wick. Also cartoon.
WFA Increases Rate
Of Loan On ’43 Cotton
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—The
War Food Administration an-
nounced Thursday night that it
would make loans to growers on
1943-grown cotton at the base
rate of 18.41c a pound, gross
weight, for 7-8 inch middling
grade and staple length.
In terms of fifteen-sixteenths-
inch middling—the grade and
staple now commonly used as a
base for determining prices of
other grades and staples—the
loan rate will be 19.26c a pound,
gross weight, or 20.06c net
weight. As in the past, loans will
be made on a net weight basis.
The loan rates are equivalent,
the WFA said, to 90 per cent of
tre parity price of cotton. The
parity price has advanced since
last year’s rates were announced
hence the higher rate this year.
Actual loans will vary accord-
ing to locution of the cotton.
Generally speaking, rates are
highest in areas closest to mill
centers and lowest in areas long
distance from such centers.
Price 14 l-2c, premium, $25.
Assembly Of God
Church Buys Trinity
University Property
The Assembly of God general
church has purchased the Trin-
ity University plant of the
Presbyterian Church at Wax-
ahachie for $50,000, reports Rev.
H. L. Bayless, pastor of the lo-
cal Assembly of God Church. He
says the property was valued at
$750,000. Trinity University
moved from Waxahachie to San
Antonio last year. The Assembly
of God Church will conduct a
school as Southwest Bible Insti-
tute in the property at Waxa-
hachie.
Enloe Cans 10,318
Cans Of Food
Will H. Bell Appointed
Justice Of The Peace
Since the start of operations
about June 1, the Enloe canning
unit has turned out a total of
10,318 cans of food. Four
courses of 120 hours each have
been completed. This makes an
average of above 21 cans per
hour or slightly more than one
can each three minutes of opera-
tion.
A large part of the credit for
this success goes to Mrs. Will
Iglehart and Mrs. T. A. Mosley,
who have supervised the unit.
Also a big factor in the success
of the unit has been the coopera-
tion of R. E. Patterson and Son
in whose building the unit has
operated.
No further canning for individ-
uals will be done at the unit un-
til additional courses have been
approved. This will be after
September 1. Anyone desiring to
can food for the school lunch
room will be allowed to do so.
12 Million Bale
Cotton Crop Seen
By Agriculturalists
WASHINGTON. Aug. 13.—The
Agriculture Department reported
Mondav this year’s cotton crop
indicates an all-time record yield
of 279.4 pounds of lint cotton to
the acre, compared with 272.5
pounds last year which was a
record yield.
The acreage for harvest this
year is about a million acres less
than harvested last year, but pro-
duction, the department reported,
is indicated as 12,558,000 bales
of 500 pounds gross weight. That
is only 266,000 bales less than
produced last year, and 84,000
bales more than the average ten-
year (1932-41) production.
The census bureau issued sim-
ultaneously its first ginning re-
port of the season showing that
108,653 running hales of lint
cotton, counting round as half
hales, had been ginned to August
1. Ginnings to that date last vear
totaled 48,626 running bales. Two
years ago the total to that date
was 1,969 running bales.
Production of cotton last year
was 12,824,000 bales, of 500
pounds gross weight, in 1941 it
was 10,744,000 bales, and the av-
erage production in the 10 years,
1932-41, was 12,474.000 hales.
The area of cotton in cul-
tivation on July 1 was 21.995,000
acres, compared with 23,302,000
acres a year ago, and 29.508,000
acres, the 1932-41 ten-year av-
erage. Allowing the 2.0 per cent
10-year, 1932-41 average aband-
onment from natural causes from
July 1 to time of harvest, would
leave 21,576,000 acres for har-
vest this year, compared with 22,-
602.000 acres harvested la3t year,
22.236.000 acres two years ago,
and 26,389,000 acres, the 1933-
12 ten-year averages harvested
average.
Commissioners Court
To Meet Monday To
Prepare Budget
The regular monthly meeting
of the commissioners court was
held Monday. Regular accounts
were allowed and the tax rate
set for three levee districts.
The rate for Lamnr-Levee Im-
provement district No. 1 was set
at $4.50. Lamar-Delta Levee Im-
provement district No. 2 was set
at $2.00 for sinking fund and 50c
for maintenance. Fannin-Lamar-
Delta Levee Improvement Dis-
trict No. 3 rate was set at $6.00
and 50c for improvement.
The court will meet again Sat-
urday to prepare the budget and
a hearing will be held on it
within the next few days. The
Delta county tax rate will be set
at $1.60, same as last year, if the
rates that arelworked out are not
changed.
The annual public busineM
meeting of H. C. Hurley and Son.,
breeder of Hurley’s popular
Rowden cotton seed, was held
at Harmon Park east of Cooper
Tuesday, August 10.
An open meeting was held in
the afternoon followed by a war
termelon cutting.
There was a good representa-
tion of farmers from Delta and
adjoining counties. R. V. Mill-
er, chief inspector of the seed
division, state department of ag-
riculture, Austin, was one of the
principal speakers and he gave
much valuable information on
seed breeding of many varieties
of crops. He commended Mr.
Hurley for his reliability and
painstaking work of plant breed-
ing.
Prof. Joe F. Mogford of Col-
lege Station plant breeding de-
partment, gave some valuable
information on plant breeding.
W. H. Jones, county agent at
Longview and former oounty
agent at Cooper, was present and
made a short talk. Also G. Fred
Turner, former Cooper citizen,
who has a ranch at Grapevine*
was called to the stage by Rube
S. Wells, master of ceremonies
and gave a short talk. t
Delta County Man
Receives Order Of
The Purple Heart
Mrs. Sam Burrow of Cooper,
route 1, has received letters from
each of her three brothers in the
service recently. Pfc. John T.
Lee, who is in North Africa,
writes that he saw action for
four days and four nights in the
battle for Sicily, before being
wounded in the right shoulder.
He is now in a hospital in North
Africa, where lie says that he is
getting the best of care. He has
been awarded the order of the
Purple Heart and is very proud
of it, but is very anxious to get
back in action.
S Sgt. D. H. Lee writes from
England that he likes the coun-
try, the people are grand and
the weather good. He still is
looking forward to a week end
in London. He states that he re-
ceives his V-mail 10 to 12 days
after it is mailed in this country,
and is always very glad when mail
time comes.
Sgt. George W. Lee, who is iit
: the Percy Jones General Hospital,
! Battle Creek, Mich., suffering
' from a leg injury received at De-
troit, Mich., while taking Rang-
er training, is getting along all
right but expects to be in the
hospital for some time vet.
These men are all from Delta
county and have been in the
army for periods ranging from
one year to almost three years.
Black Cat Values
Offered In This
Issue Of Review
Cooper merchants have no fear
of hoo-dooism. They have confi-
dence in their merchandise, prices
and service and this Friday, the
13th, are telling the public of
the advantages they offer their
customers.
These values are shown to you
I in a special ad on page five
I sponsored by the merchants that
are offering you these lucky
black cat values. These black
cat values may be obtained by
going to the firm where designat-
ed in each of their ads. As Fri-
day the 13th is the only Hoo-doo
day (besides Hallowe’en). This
is the only day that these values
are obtainable.
Will H. Bell was appointed
justice of the peace by the com-
missioners court this week to fill
the vacancy caused by tbe death
of J. R. Watkins last Saturday. | L. C. Schmitter returned to his
He stated that he would qual-', job in Denison last week after
ify as soon as his bond could be being here with his mother-in-
secured which would be Thursday law, Mrs. Jane Walker, who is
or Friday. suffering from a fractured hip.
WAR PRICE AND RATIONING
BOARD WILL BE CLOSED
MONDAY
Delta County War Price and
Rationing board will be closed
Monday, Aug. 16th, for the pur-
pose of invoicing. All parties
having business with this board
are requested to come at another
date.
Cooper Cotton Oil
Co. Is Installing
More Equipment
Cooper Cotton Oil Co. is in-
stalling some extra labor-saving
equipment for handling the fall
and winter run this year. The
mill equipment has been worked
over and will be in good state of
repair for the season.
SUCCEEDS HUSBAND AS
GREENVILLE MAYOR
Greenville, Aug. 6.—For the
third time, Greenville has a wom-
an mayor,
Mrs. J. W. Barlow was elected
without opposition to fill the un-
expired term of her husband,
who died July 5.
Alvin Welch of East Delta wa
in Cooper Wadnaaday.
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