Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 14, 1977 Page: 1 of 8
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!Sf98. No. 15
Published at Cooper, Texas 75432 Thursday, April 14, 1977
Two Sections, Thirty-Two Pages
louncil Changes Billing System
by Skip Steely
a relatively short
fusion. I he Coooei City
L| made a mu >n to
L the billing system on
Crand sewer in the city for
nCXt few months, a move
j-H to save the city at
„ j,,440 during the course
i vear
i^-ously, nieter tcadMgs
been taken each month
I r;; -ted to city secretaries
billing- Complaints about
reading certain meters and
, some Who do not have
(frs have reached council-
„ during the last few
rths. Complaints about wa-
bills are one of the most
,uent reasons for calls to
incilmen. according to com-
Dts Monday night at the
;Ular monthly meeting of the
incil.
:Ustomers in Cooper will be
edthe minimum of $11 for
first two months of a
,ner That bill will include
tbage service, also. At the
j of the last month of a
iner, the meter will be read
Clinic Set
by city readers and the
customer -ill be billed Lt
actual use for the three month
period, over the minimum, if
his use calls for a higher
charge. The scaled charge will
be allocated over the three
months if excess water is used,
thus removing the cha*. .« a
customer may take advantage
of the city by using excess
water during the third month,
causing him to pay less for
more use.
“Please point out th *the
hill over the period will not
cost the customer anythinp
more,’’ Councilman Boyce Bai-
ley asked of the Cooper
Review. It will actually save
the city at least $180 in the
salary of a meter reader for
two months out of each
quarter, according to Mayor
Odis Watkins. The meter
reader was just given a salary
raise about three meetings
back!
The billing procedure in the
city hall office will also be
simple for the two months that
Bring Records
The monthly generalized
blic health screening clinic for
lira Counn citizens will be
nducted on April 19, 1977,
tween the hours of 2:00 P.M.
d 6:00 P.M. at the Commu-
|v Center in Cooper.
Die clinic w ill offer screening
rvices for the entire family,
rvices that w ill be offered are
ibetic screening, blood pres-
re screening, tuberculosis
iting, immunizations, family
inning and child health,
formation regarding dental
alth. environmental health,
nereal disease, rabies, and
oper food handling techniques
lialsobe available. Dr. Lex T.
iill "ill conduct the clinic.
Citizens usiny the services of
e clinic are asked to bring
Munization records, if im-
unizations arc desired, and to
** the name of the family
iwiaan if su li information is
'tilable.
Information regarding the
clinic may be obtained from
Public Health Region 7, P.O.
Box 2501, Tyler, Texas 75710.
Phone 214-595-3585.
Circus
Here
April 20
The Dailey Brothers Circus
will be here Wednesday night,
April 20, on the football field
parking lot in south Cooper.
The one-day show will
feature rides, animals, and
special attractions.
Advance tickets may be
purchased from directors of the
Delta County Chamber of
Commerce, sponsors of the
circus, for one dollar each.
minimum bills are .harged, tne
council su ..; sed. Commercial
use of city water, however, will
be charged by actual use each
month. "I can read those
meters,’’ said the mayor.
In other action Monday
evening, the council discussed
building permits and asked the
mayor to require permits be
paid at city hall before water
and sewer taps are completed
at the aces. "They have been
actually paying the permit cost
of $5,” commented Watkins,
"Because we put thal on their
first bill.” However, few have
paid the cost before construc-
tion is started, he added. The
cost is normally $5.
After the council swore-in
new members (actually re-
elected incumbants) Marion
Miller, Wade Bledsoe, and
Mayor Watkins, they can
vassed the votes and approved
of the totals.
Mayor Watkins voiced the
understanding that a $18,000
grant for law enforcement use
in Cooper was approved but
City Attorney James Allison
said after he investigated
further, the application was
only just submitted by the
Ark-Tex Council of Govern-
ments and that chances were
good that the grant to help
defray salaries of two officers
would be approved, soon.
Interviews with more appli-
cants for the jobs will be held
next Monday. They then will
be sent to the CETA (Man-
power) representative in Sul-
phur Springs for interviews
afterwards, if the grant is
approved.
The Council approved pur-
chase of a Chevrolet Nova from
Abernathy Chevrolet for a cost
of $4,609 to be used as a police
vehicle. Most of this money for
payment of the car will come
from a payment of over $4,000
from the Environmental Pro
tection Agency refund received
lately.
The Council discussed the
railroad bridge that now
belongs to the city but is laying
in the South Sulphur River,
approximately a mile above the
twin bridges on Highway 24
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COOPER LAKE PROJECT-The water impoundment limits of Cooper Lake and the roadways
affected by the lake are shown on this map. Persons using these roads w.ll meet with repre-
sentatives of .he Corps of Engineers on April 14-15 to discuss the.r usage to assist in possible
relocations.
For Water, Sewer Charges
between Cooper and Paris.
The council in:,.rucieu »»t.-
kins to contact Herman Ken-
nedy about the continuation of
cutting up the heavy iron.
Kennedy is charging four cents
per pound to do the work,
according to the mayor, taking
the pay in iron. The span is
estimated to weigh-in at about
100 tons.
The discussion of purchasing
drinking water from Paris
followed a tew minutes later
but no word has come about
such service, according to
Watkins. No word has come
either about the purchase by
the Corps of the current lake
Cooper uses for drinking
water, according to Allison.
It was decided to invite
consulting engineer Robert
Hayter to the next meeting to
clear the situation and find out
more facts about water from
Paris.
The council voted to join
with the school district to put
the tax roles on computer,
using their evaluation figures
as the city has done in the
past. The cost to use the
computer was estimated to be
abut $1,000 per year, the
council estimated. However, it
is expected to save money in
less errors and more efficient
output, they expect.
The council approved the
purchase of four tires for the
maintainer at a cost of some
$800 from the Farm Bureau.
They also discussed Charle-
ston’s water rates (see Notes
and Quotes, page two) briefly.
The council agreed that $.60
would be the minimum to
charge the corporation and that
the cost would be higher for
amounts over the contracted
limit to supply Charleston each
month. Right now the corpora-
tion uses a contracted 1.6
million gallons per month only
about 4-5 months of the year
and more during the other
months. The council also felt
that if a drought caused further
problems as it did last summer
that Charleston should pay
accordingly for the water
secured by Cooper from other
sources. The council also
wanted to include an inflation
cost clause in a new contract.
A meeting of the Charleston
Water SutvpAy Corporation was
supposedly held Tuesday night
to discuss the situation.
Allison read a resolution
requesting iease of Corps land.
some 35 acre-, for recreational
use. The C a. Brantley piu-
perty will be leased, hopefully,
to Cooper for a minimal
amount and on a long-term
basis. This was approved by
the council with the under-
standing anything permanent
constructed on the site would
belong to the Corps.
The Council also heard a
letter read by the mayor from
School Supt. Fred Wilkerson,
requesting some traffic bumps
be placed on roads near
the school to slow the traffic.
Watkins s^id this heen
approved earlier but that he
had understood the school
would be in contact with the
city on the exact location of the
bumps. He said he would be
getting in contact with Wilker-
son to determine the site.
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OATH OF OFFICE —City Attorney James Allison, left, reads
the oath of office to the three incumbents on the Cooper City
Council who won re-election to office last week. Left to right
are Mayor Odis Watkins, Councilman Wade Bledsoe and
Councilman Marion Miller. The three were swore-in during
Monday’s regular monthly council meeting.
Sponsors Seeking Financial Assistance
To Set Up Office For Dr. Hieu
Sponsors of Dr. Hieu Trong
Troung are seeking financial
assistance to set the doctor up
in medical practice in Delta
County, according to J.T.
Toney, chairman of the spon-
soring committee.
To establish the clinic, Toney
said, a minimum of $10,000 is
needed immediately. It was
proposed by the committee to
obtain signatures of ten people
on a note in Dr. Hieu’s behalf
for $1,000 each. This financial
arrangement would provide
$5,000 for medical equipment
and supplies, $2,100 for mal-
practice insurance, and the
balance office maintenance,
including salaries for recep-
tionist, secretary, utilities, and
$1,000 per month net income
for Dr. Hieu, until his practice
is such that he can take care of
expenses himself.
Property
Owners
Meeting
Property owners and users of
roads that will be affected by
construction of Cooper Lake are
being asked to meet with
representatives of the New
Orleans District of the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers on
April 14 and 15 to discuss their
travel needs and usage of these
roads to assist in possible
relocations.
Corps representatives that
will be in the Chamber of
Commerce Building. Delta Cou-
nty, Cooper, Texas, on thurs-
day, April 14, 1977 between 8
a.m. and 6 p.m. On Friday,
April 15, 1977 they will be in the
North Hopkins School in
Hopkins County, about 10 miles
north of Sulphur Springs,
between the hours of 8 a.m. and
6 p.m.
After the Cooper dam is
completed and water is im-
pounded, forming the lake,
parts of certain roadways will be
flooded, resulting in their
abandonment. In some cases, it
may be necessary to re-route
roadways, depending on how
they are now being traveled.
Tentative arrangements have
been made for a 24’ x 48’
manufactured type building to
be set up on the lot north of
the Cooper Review building,
for the doctors office.
Financing for the office
proper is being arranged by
Marion Miller, the city of
Cooper and the Delta County
Chamber of Commerce.
It is surmised that the
doctor's income will, probably
in three months after opening
of his office, exceed $1,000 per
month. At such time the doctor
is expected to start paying his
own expenses and will start
repaying the financial arrange-
ments for the office unit, and
in six months to start payments
toward the financial note.
Dr. Hieu received his license
to practice medicine in the
state of Texas last month,
having completed all medical
examinations in less than
eighteen months, six months
short of the original planned
time.
Arriving in Cooper the late
part of August 1975, Dr. Hieu
underwent a study program
under the supervision of the
Cooper School nurse, Mrs.
Gwen Pickering, RN. In 1976
Dr. Hieu took the ECFMG
exam, and was the only
Vietnamese doctor in this area
to pass his original exam. He
later attended the University in
Oklahoma, taking an English
courses.
According to Toney, Dr.
Hieu agreed to practice in
Cooper for at least two periods
after becoming qualified to
practice in the United States,
although Dr. Hieu is not
legally binding to this agree-
ment.
Since Dr. Hieu has no
income, it is necessary to
establish his practice im-
mediately, stated Toney. "And
to do this, funds are needed
now.”
"We are asking for volun-
teers to sign notes whereby the
committee can finance the
operation of the clinic, and
guarantee Dr. Hieu an in-
come,” concluded Toney.
50 Years!
As Volunteer Firefighter
County
Public
Hearing
A public meeting has been
scheduled by County Judge
George A. Bolger for 10 a.m.
Friday, April 15, in the
Commissioners courtroom to
hear public response concern-
ing how the county should
spent Entitlement 8 Revenue
Sharing Funds.
The funds, to cover the
period of January 1 to
September 30. 1977, is expect-
ed to total more than $50,000.
This money, has been the
practice in the past, will be
divided five ways, one fifth to
go to each of the four
commissioner precincts, and
the other one fifth to the
general county accounts.
According to Judge Bolger
this is the eighth period Delta
County has received Revenue
Sharing Funds.
by Angeline Sharp
This month Paul J. (you guess
what it stands for) Cates marks
fifty years as a volunteer fire
fighter (ten years as Fire Chief)
in Delta County. He began as a
teenager and has been reward-
ed with "a lung full of carbon
monoxide and a feeling of
having tried to help his fellow
man".
Visiting with Zelma Hazell
Simpson Cates makes you want
to slip off your shoes and stay all
day. Did you know Zelma is one
sixteenth Cherokee? Sitting in
her quiet living room in near
Southeast Cooper, we were
spellbound by the story of her
paternal great grandfather Red-
mond Boyd, a circuit riding
Methodist preacher, who helped
establish the Klondike, Green-
ville, Cooper, and Charleston
Methodist (Protestant) Church-
es. Her paternal grandparents,
J. B. Simpson and his wife, gave
the land for the Charleston
Methodist Church in the late
1800’s.
A loud bell startled us, but
not Zelma. She went to the
phone, turned off the bell,
listened as bit, reported there
was a fire near Camp Lake, and
that Paul and the other nineteen
volunteer members of the "fire
block" who were near their
phones, would respond to the
call.
Paul, born at Rattan, and
Zelma. whose roots are deep in
the Cedar Creek Community
(her forebears settled there
more than a hunred fifty years
ago), met when he came to the
two room Cedar Creek School as
a student at age fourteen (she
was twelve).
As teenagers they attended
"Singing School" in Cedar
Creek. He sings tenor; she sings
alto. They have sung for many
years with the Methodist Choir,
with groups, in a quartet with
Claude Pickens and Vernon
Barton, over KPLT Radio in
Paris, and in every singin’
around, with Zelma often ac-
companying on the piano.
Brother Nichols, a Baptist
minister, performed their mar-
riage ceremony on November
10, 1930, at the home of O. E.
Millard in Cooper. For the last
twenty-five years they have
lived in their comfortable home
on South East Second, the same
number of years Paul has run
his own business (with Zelma
doing the bookkeeping). Only
the good Lord knows how many
area farmers Paul has "got
rolling” in their fields.
The photographs in the living
room bear witness to their pride
in their daughter Beaufer Nell,
her husband Richard Farr, and
the Farrs’ three fine sons:
Richard III, twenty-one and a
student at ETSU, fifteen year
old Andy, and thirteen year old
David.
You aren’t told by these two
solid citizens about the selfless
service they have rendered to
the community. They don't
mention his fifty years of work
for the safety of the area, or the
many ranchers and farmers he
has helped to keep their
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