Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, October 13, 1944 Page: 1 of 8
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Delta Funeral Home
and the
Delta Co. Coop. Burial
Association
Phone 222
Serving Delta County For
Hie Past Sixty-five Years
*
toieto
$2.00 a year in advance. Combined with Delta Courier circulation Nor. 1, 1942.
Smith Funeral Home
Phone 109
Lady Attendant
Ambulance Service
W. D. HAKT & SON. Publishers
COOPER. DELTA COUNTY, TEXAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1944
VOLUME 65. NO. 41
War Chest
Drive Off To
Slow Start
Willkie Rites In
New York Tuesday
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K<v ; ■ ■ • v.;
Charles Talley
Decorated For Part
In Fortress Battle
olid tors and Quotas For
Various Communities
Announced
i
The War Chest drive in Delta
County has gotten off to a slow
start. Cotton picking and other
pressing matters at this time of
wear and shortage of help has
prevented workers from starting
on time.
Delta County’s quota is $2,500
this year and it will not be dif-
< Cfeuit to raise when the claims
are presented to our citizens.
TTiis quota provides for more
than twenty wartime agencies, all
meritorious, and especially so at
this time, when fighting is in-
tense and we are taking over
muah German occupied territory.
Judge J. E. Thompson is chair-
man in the county and
ing Cooper business men himseii.
He announces the following
chairmen and their quotas for
various communities:
Cooper $1,250—J. E. Thomp-
son, Chairman.
Pecan Gap $200—H. M. Tem-
pleton and C. A. Cockrell. Mnrril
Ben Franklin $175 — Morris
Hays and Edith Mullican.
Enloe $175—Paul Hervey and
Tei2ke”creek $125-Miss Bena
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and Teachers. «
Horton $25—Mr. and Mrs. N.
D'^wenre$25—Mrs. A. E. Mc-
T°Gough $20—Mr. and Mrs. T.
Clark*'School $20—Jessie Mae
Ellis and Mrs. Elmo Hagood-
Antiocih $20—Mrs. M. H. MU
'“Cross Roads $20—Mr. and
Mrs. A. H. Jack- , _ j Tha-
Mt. Joy $20—Thelia and Tha
lia Skeen. ... Ber*
Liberty Grove $15—Mrs. ce
’“c.J.r'cre.k *15-Mr,. How
’’copper”Colored *50-Mar,h«U
Colored *20-Zeph-
er Mae Walker.
TP&L Employees
Sell $2,575,939
In War Bonds
U S War Bonds and Stamps
totaling $2,575,939 have been
sold by employees of Texas Pow-
Position In Capital 'Attention To All
. Relatives Who Have
ll Boys In Services
MMaMj
WENDELL L. WILLKIE
New York, Oct. 9.—The body
Charles W. Talley, 22, of
Cooper, ordnance technician with
a 16th AAK Flying Fortress
sqadron, is now he proud posses-
sor of the blue ribbon designat-
ing that his unit, the oldest
heavy bombardment group in the
European Theatre, has been cit-
ed for “heroic performance of
duty against the enemy.”
The action for which his or-
ganization was cited occurred on
Feb. 24, of this year, when they
led the heavy bombers of the
15th Air Force against the air-
craft factory and installations at
Steyr, Austria.
Despite fierce attacks by more
than 100 enemy fighters against
their unescorted formation, the
Fortresses fought their way
through to bomb the target suc-
cessfully. The gunners destroyed
four enemy fighters, probably de-
stroyed three and damaged two
others, while their own losses
of Wendell L. Willkie, whose I were one man killed and one
death yesterday brought messag- i wounded. In all more than 35
es of sympathy from many parts enemy fighters were destroyed by
of the “One World” in which he the other bombers and their
took such a vital interest, will fighter escort that aided in de-
lie in state at the Fifth Avenue stroying the manufacturing cen-
Presbyterian Church from 2 p. m. ter.
today until funeral services bt --
3 p. m. tomorrow. D..H 1_ T’
The man who polled 22,333,801 ! OUllCIOgS 1 1©
votes for president in 1940, 1 Clarksville In First
when he was the Republican can- ' _ - _ . —
didate, died at 2:20 a. m. yester- INon-V-Onrerence uame
day at Lenox Hills Hospital, j __
which he entered Sept. 6 for a i The Cooper Bulldogs emerged
rest and physical check-up. < j from a hard fought game last
He contracted a streptococcic, Friday night with a scoreless tie
throat infection last Wednesday with the Clarksville Tigers,
which affected the heart muscles. , Although the Tigers were con-
Death resulted from coronary sidered favorites, Coach Brock’s
thrombosis. , | Bulldogs led their opponents in
• 1 he Public will he permitted to, penetrations and first downs and
view the body at the church from j as eame concluded the Bull-
2 rr> UP, "Jj o v , . ., > dogs had threatened to score by
His family said the body of the i comjng within two feet of Clarks-
52-year-old former public utility villp.s well defended ROal.
executive would be sent to Rush-, The ,a d on the local
ville Ind., where burial will be was given little publi-
in the fanuly Plot. ^e,dLte+? ! oity because of the late opening
burial will be determined by the ( of*school but a good number of
return of Mr. Willkie s so . t- | Cooper supporters turned out for
-P I the opening „mc of ft. ,e„on.
The Bulldogs defeated the
Leonard Tigers on the home field
Thursday night by a margin of
27 to 0.
Cooper is scheduled to play
the Paris B team next Friday
night here.
PANSY NEILL DOTSON
Miss Pansy Neill Dotson of
Cooper has accepted a position
with E. 1. Du Pont da Nemours
and Co. in Washington, Et C.
Charlie Dixon
Died At Posey
Wednesday Morning
Charlie Dixon, 64, died at his
farm home in the Posey com-
munity Wednesday morning at 3
o’clock following a stroke which
occurred a few hours earlier. His
health had not been good for two
years and he had rented his farm
for another year to retire.
Funeral services were held
Thursday with interment at
Posey.
Deceased is survived by his
wife and six children, all marri-
I ed and all living in the immedi-
! ate community except one who
| lives at Texarkana. He is also
| survived by two sisters, Mrs. W.
i A. Woodall and Mrs. P. T. Spees
| of Cooper.
Newman McMurtre
Back With Squadron
In Italy
This call and request is made
for the purpose of helping our
Delta County boys who are now
or have been in the servioe of
the U.S.A. during this war.
I will not go into detail as to
the importance of this request
at the present time, but it is im-
portant for us to have a list of
ihe names and the whereabouts of
all the boys who are in the U.S.
Army and Navy at present.
I will be glad if yon will give
me their names and addresses
and state if they are serving in
the U.S.A. or overseas, and if
you can name the country that
they are serving in at present
or just say overseas.
Please dear people, do not let
me down on this, be sure as soon
as possible, either by card or
I come to the County Superintend-
ent’s office and we will take the
addresses.
| Just use a postal card giving
full name and address of the boys
and be sure and tell me where
they are at present, if you can.
If you cannot, be sure and say
whether in the U.S.A. or over-
seas.
Now dear people please let me
have their names and addresses
as soon as you oan, and to the
parents who have boys missing 1
in action, or in prison camps, or 1
those who have lost their lives,
please state what country this
happened in.
I am assuring you now that if
you will cooperate with me in
this problem, you will be glad of
it because I am doing this that
we may help the boys.
Thanks for sending me the
addresses.
JESS E. MOXLEY
County Superintendent
of Delta County Schools
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Capt. Regan
Killed In
Plane Crash
Hero of Aleutians Killed
Georgia When Planes
Collide
Capt. James L. lie van nt t
inadn? piJot’
post ofadd°ut/-e CU°U“ion
Savannah,
on oonvoy duty in the Atlantic.
Held Court
At Canton
Roy Garrison
Stationed In
Washington
Plead Guilty To
Judge Newman Phillips went
to Canton last week to sit in a
case wherein Judge A. A, Daw-
son, the resident Judge was dis- j #
qualified. Judf™ Phillips says Can- l Bootlegging Charge
ton, the county seat of Van- I _
zandt county. an inland town | Deputy Shefiffs arrested a man
without railroad facilities but |jyjng near junction City, one
with splendid paved highway. T e east 0f Cooper Wednesday
county has a beautiful court n;gbt and found between two
house, built about the same time and three tg of H on his
as Delta County s court house. , premises. He pieaded guilty to
Other splendid towns in the coun- j the gale of ,. and wag ftned
ty,.are^rani?a^;_n^if°LlK $100 and cost, a part of which
! rnYe°T V1P. Siroad01111’ paid’_
Stamp Selling Program in Janu-
pany have purchased WarBonds
for themselves totaling $623,800.
Shortly after the attack on
Pearl Harbor, in 1941, Mr. Car-
penter suggested that employees
of the Company devote at least
two hours each Monday morning
Twelve Delta County
Men Leave For
A Delta County resident was
arrested by local officers here
this week on request of Dallas
r»TT 1 Pinro nn4 t. 1__• 1 < . . ...
Induction
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----- „„I1M| The following Delta County
officers and is being held in jail, men left Cooper Friday, Oct. 13,
pending bond or return to Dallas for Dallas, for induction in the
County for trial. service: Reney Oscar Davis, Clar-
It is said that he is under in- I encie Lee Yeley, Don Morris Rob-
dictment in Dallas County for nett, Billy Dean Council, James
... „ ______ , runnmg into another car in Feb- Clifton Blount, Boyce Alton
to selling War Bonds and Stamps ruary, 1943, and failing to stop Buckman, O. D. Dav, Jr., Troy
to the public. This program, un-; and render assistance as the law Dan Ray, Thomas Eire Stegall,
dertaken purely as an aid to the i requires. He was driving a milk J. L. Wickersham, Alfred P.
war program, will continue as truck in Dallas at the time. Vandergriff. and J. G. Whitbev.
long as the activity is needed, - --—---
Mr. Carpenter said.
Since July, 1942, all Texas
I^iver & Light Company district
iOTices are authorized issuing
agents for Series * ‘E” War
tru-_
Roy D. Garrison, Army Air
Forces, 26, son of Mr. A. S. Gar-
rison of Pecan Gap, has just been
promoted to the grade of Ser-
geant at the Washington Nation-
al Airport Army Air Base in the
nation’s capital. He is assigned
to the 503rd AAF Base Unit, Air
Transport Command, expediting
mail distribution and processing
for that unit’s several flight and
ground divisions.
Sgt. Garrison, who joined the
armed forces two and a half years
ago, received his original army
training in the Infantry.
He is a graduate of Pecan Gap
High School and also attended for
several years East Texas State
Teachers College, where he stud-
ied agriculture. Prior to his en-
tering the army he was employ-
ed for a period by Floyd West
and Co. of Dallas.
Sgt. Garrison was home on fur-
lough just a few weeks ago and
was fortunate in being able to
get together with his brother
Thel, also home on leave. Thel
Garrison is a Petty Officer Sec-1
ond Class in the U. S. Navy and I
is at present stationed in Galves- i
ton.
S/SGT. NEWMAN McMURTRE
Staff Sergeant Newman Mc-
Murtre, son of Mr. and Mrs. Al-
bert S. McMurtre, Route 1,
Cooper, Texas, has returned to
his B-24 Liberator Squadron af
ter being a prisoner of war in
Bulgaria. He made the following
statement of his capture:
“I was shot down over Bul-
garia on June 11, 1944 and be-
came a prisoner of war on the
same date. As a whole, the civil-
ian population treated me fairly
well. Some of our crew members
weren’t as fortunate .and were
beaten with clubs and rifle butts.
“When I was interrogated, I
was threatened with all kinds of
things if I didn’t talk, but the
threats were never carried out.
“Medical attention was very
poor and as a result there were
some fatalities that might have
been avoided among us.
“The food consisted of bread
and tea for breakfast with jam
i or cheese occasionally. For the
. . - i other two meals we received
Restrictions on the sale of cot-! bread and soup. We were always
tonseed cake and meal is causing I hungry but the Bulgarian soldiers
confusion which might be avoid- received the same food we did.
ed if the public understood the. “Living conditions were always
need for same. We desire to sub- poor and we had a constant bat-
mit some information with the; tie to keep clean.”
view of helping the public to un- _
derstand and appreciate the nec-! m T o • l
essity of the program. j NegTOe* OeriOUSly
The protein shortage is serious,
not in Delta County, but over
the entire country as a whole.
Restriction On Cotton
Seed Meal and Cake
Injured at Dangerous
i Road Junction
The Certificate Plan of Distribu- _____
tion has been ordered by the War! . XT_____ „ ,
Food Administration at Wash- I , N.e»ro ™an and woman were
ington as the best method of ob- j bad‘y mj.u^ *nd
“V distribution. I traT.nX'UVom dS-
las to Paris, failed to make the
abrupt turn in the road at the
The local public sees no need for
the program, and indeed there
would be no need for regulation
of cottonseed meal, if Delta
County were considered alone.
But as man liveth not to himself
bombingnjdapan^e He ***
to the T5S
in“®, won the Distinguished Flr-
reoentl°SS Air Medal- He w£
£?°entlr ^commended for
Silver Star and Cluster ot DFC.
unSrfn^'i1 waa faithfully
try’imd **,
loved, honored and respected ht
everyone. He died a/5T£d &
t d *nd served; active, useful ea-
Fa/hed> irV8,ted’ trusting in’ thjj
fath«r °f life and love In him
the church, nation and society ha2
fSr?c,0“8 and faithful servant*
a-h'm .Providence revealed ili
ln humanity and tender-
anHVn*hlrTi G°d liVed and sP°h«
and restored again to life by thl
toucih of His kindly hand.
He was born and reared ia
^kf, C^®ek> and was a member
Cooper High School
g aduating class. He was also a
graduate of the Paris Junior Col*
Z*e- He was a member of tha
Methodist Church, Lake Creek.
At the time he volunteered for
the Air Corps, he was superin-
tendent of the Church School and
president of the Youth Fellow-
ship. He had always been very
devoted to God and the chnrch.
A very liberal contributor. The
day the sad news came of his
untimely death, two beautiful
pulpit chairs were delivered to his
church, which he had previously
ordered.
He is survived by his father,
W. C. Regan, four brothers and
two sisters; Rev. M. R. Regan,
pastor of the Brashear Methodist
Church, Curtis, Jr., R. Vonay, R.
Garv, Mrs. J. A. Higdon and Miss
Veda Jean Regan, all of Lake
Cr^ek, and other relatives and
many friends. His mother pre-
ceded him in death five years ago.
The body was brought to Com-
merce Thursdav morning by train
escorted by Capt. Edward T.
Hoch, and was transferred to his
junction of highway 246 and 154 ; £at!"r.r’5 hom® at Lake Creek by
four miles southeast of Cooper ^nuth funeral car.
Sunday night. They missed their
DUI as man uvsui , road at Cooper and being unfa-
alone, neither do counties, states, ^ ^ dangerous junc_
tion in the road were unable to
or nations. All are inter-depend-
ent and must be governed for
the general good.
Here are some of the regula-
tions. The War Food Administra-
tion reserves 20% of our cake
into
make the turn and ran off
the embankment.
The approach to this junction
is downhill which makes it more
, , . , . , . ___i difficult to slow down when the
and meal for shipment to places, , urp,,--.. _:_n „nd
where the, confer it i. ">■>« | ft"?.t ”£
, . theTWs>nmavr result in a • sum® do not se® R untd *ts
needed. This may^resibR m^a ^ ^ get their car under
trol.. Tracks indicated that this
Street Loafers
Must Work
I have had complaints about
some people not going to work
or not going out to pick cotton,
especially some colored people. I
to talked with some people on
street who said they did not
"pick cotton. I told them they
piould either pick cotton or go
to jail, as we have a war on and
our boys are fighting and dying.
Even then, some people here re-
fuse to work and carry oa here
at home.
This is notice to all who re-
fuse to work, that anyone who is
reported to me, I will file vag-
rancy charges against and then
the county can send them out
to work out their fines.
Everybody knows that labor is
scarce and we certainly ought to
be glad to do whet we oan.
TOM ROUNTREE, Mayor
Mrs. Quentin Miller arrived
heme Sunday night from Savan-
S PARKS THEATRES
At The Sparks
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14
. “THE SPIDER WOMAN” ..
Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, Gail Sondegard as The Spider
Woman. Also comedy “Pick A Peck Plumbers.”
SUNDAY-MONDAY, OCTOBER 15-16
“STEP LIVELY’’
Great Fun — Great Songs — Great Moments. Frank Sinatra, Geo.
Murphy, Gloria De Haven, Adolph Menjou, Walter Slezak, Eugene
Pallette. Also Comedy,
TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17-18
Look deep into her eyes—if you dare! The strangest crime and
punishment the scirern has ever shown. George Sanders, Linda Dar-
nell in Anton Chekov’s
“SUMMER STORM”
with Anna Lee, Hugo Haas and Edward Everett Horton. News and
Comedy.
THURSDAY-FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19-20
The girl in every service man’s dreams — in a musical that is a
dream come true. Betty Grable in
“PIN UP GIRL”
with John Harvey, Martha Raye, Joe E. Brown, Eugene Pallette
and Skating Vanities. News and Comedy.
B. F. Clark’s Pecan
Party For Children
Uncle Benny Clark will give'
his tenth annual pecan party to j
the lower grades of Cooper'
schools Friday at 2:30 p. m.
Buses will leave the school
grounds at 2:30 and the program!
will begin as soon as they arrive, j
He reserves the fruit on a large
pecan tree in his yard every year
for these school children. Some
men climb up and thresh the pe-
cans off and the children pick
them up, and it is always an in-
spiring sight to see them scram-
ble for the pecans.
slight scarctity of
county, which was not the case
last season.
Anyone entitled to buy cotton-
seed meal may buy five sacks per
month without a certificate.
Anyone requiring more than five
sacks per month should explain
their needs to the County Agri-
A military funeral will be held
at the Methodist Church, Lake
Creek, Friday at 2 n. m., with
troops from Camo Maxey offici-
ating. The Rev. Travis L. Darby
and Dr. C. M. Simpson will offi-
ciate. with interment in the Lake
Creek cemeterv. Smith and Son
have charge of the funeral.
driver had skidded his wheels in I
order to slacken his speed. This!
is the third serious accident at J
this junction, a man having been
killed there a few months ago.
Efforts should be made to in-
duce the highway department to
A Sacred Gift
From France
^ttural* Conservation Committee, | remedy this dangerous junction,
and secure from them a certifi
At The Grand
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13-14
“WAGON TRACKS WEST”
Bill Elliott, Gabby Hays, Ann Jeffreys. Also Chapter One
“FLYING CADETS”
Time Out For
Ration Board
Saturdays
The Delta County War Price
and Rationing Board members
will not discuss rationing prob-
lems on Saturdays. This action is
necessary, due to the acute short-
age of help, and we ask that you
please cooperate with us in this
matter.
DELTA COUNTY
RATION BOARD
secure
cate for their requirements for a
thirty day period.
It goes without saying, that a
producer should get his hulls and
meal from the oil mill that crush-
es his seed.
Producers who expect to claim
the feed out of their seed, should
notify the oil mill promptly, so
the mill can have a chance to take
care of them. Not all producers
require all the feed made from
their seed, so the mill has some
feed available to non-producers
in this locality. How much that
will be we do not know, neither
do we know where to draw the
line on selling customers who re-
side out of this trade territory.
COOPER COTTON OIL CO.
C. M. McKinney, Mgr.
Boy Picks 123
Pounds Cotton
John
year old
OWL SHOW SATURDAY NIGHT
“DIXIE JAMBOREE”
transferro'd"’ from Ft. Screven, i Prance* Langfdrd, Guy Kibbee. A story of the Old Mississippi Show
Ga. to Camp Barkeley, Abilene. Boat Days. Also Cartoon.
nah, Ga., to spend a short time.
.Her husband. Pvt. Miller is bemcj |
Dbn Miller Jeter returned home
Tuesday from Fayetteville, Ar-
kansas. where he has been taking
A.S.T.U. training at the Univer-
sity of Arkansas, and will stay
here antil he is called to active
duty.
Wayne Watkins, 7»A
son of Mr. and Mrs.
Boodie Watkins of Cooper, pick-
ed 111 lbs. of cotton one day and
123 lbs. the next, for Roy Echols
last week.
Teacher And
Trustee Meeting
Our first teacher and trustee
meeting will be hpld at Cooper
High School Auditorium Friday,
October 20, at 1 p. m.
Each teacher of the county is
required or asked to attend this
meeting even though your school
has not started and our trustees
are invited to attend. I would
suggest that you teach in the
morning and be present for the
meeting. The main speaker will
be H. E. Rohinson, head of the
Equalization Department of Hdu-
cation, also Mr. R. M. White,
Deputy State Superintendent of
our district.
We are sure you will have a
good time.
JESS E. MOXLEY,
Coantv Suoerintendent
of Delta County School*
Opened Meat
Market in Cooper
Fifty-one Yeart Ago
Mrs. T. L. Winchester and son
of Dallas, are visiting her moth-
er, Mrs. W. T. Taylor.
Miss Georgie Stratton, who has
been working in Dallas, returned
home last week to enter Cooper
High School. Ijt. , ____i. ,
R. E. Patterson opened a meat
market in Cooper 51 years ago
last Saturday. He was 21 years
old that day and last Saturday
he celebrated his 72nd birthday,
and is fortunate in being able
to be in business here after these
many years.
Young Michael Hargrove
Wolfe, baby son of Pvt. and Mrs.
G. Lowell Wolfe of Cooper, has
received from his father, who is
somewhere in France, a good
health medal, which is of no small
significance. It is a Catholia me-
! dal, Our Lady of Lourdes, repre-
senting and honoring the Virgin
Mary in her message to Berna-
dette, a maiden of Lourdes, and
the healing waters of the nearby
spring. On one side is the figure
of the Virgin Mary, hands clasp-
ed in prayer. Engraved around
the edge are the words, “Notre
Dame De Lourdes, P.P.N.” On
the other side is the figure of
1 Bernadette kneeling before the
Virgin Mary, who speaks the
words engraved on the edge, “Je
Suis L’lmmaculee Conception,”
(I am the Immaculate Concep-
tion.)
The medal is a gift from Mme.
Crepieux, who says it had been
blessed at the Notre Dam*
Church in Paris and has been in
her family for several genera-
tions. A fellow serviceman with
Pvt. Wolfe says the only higher
honor it could have would be ta
have been blessed by the Pop*
in the Vatican in Rome.
Although Pvt. and Mrs. Wolfs
are Protestants, as this French
friend knows, they accept this
gift to their baby son in ths
same spirit in which it is given
and appreciate their interest.
Mme. Crepieux and her family
have done many kind things for
Pvt. Wolfe during his station
neat their home.
Mrs. Hulon Smith of Beanmsn*
has been visiting her parent*, M».
and Mrs. Walter Jenkina and
family this week.
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