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Cooper Review - Page 2A
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Community
On The River
With ET
Sheriff's Blotter
By the Delta County Sheriffs Office
From April 5, 2013 -April 11, 2013, the Delta
County Sheriff’s Office handled 37 calls for
service, 467 telephone calls, and 55 9-1-1 calls.
Deputies made three (3) arrests and filed four
(4) offense/incident reports. DPS made two
(2) arrests. Of the 3 7 calls for service, deputies
were dispatched to the following:
Precinct 1-0 calls, Precinct 2-9 calls, Precinct
3-7 calls, Precinct 4-1 call, City of Cooper
- 20 calls.
Arrests:
1 - Driving while intoxicated
1 - Driving while license invalid w/previous
conviction
1 - DWI 3rd or more; no driver’s license;
resisting arrest
1 - Public intoxication
1 - Violation of probation/indecency with a
child
Offense/Incidents reports:
1 - Burglary of a building
1 - Driving while license invalid w/previous
conviction
1 - Indecency with a child
1 - Theft
Citations Issued
7 - Speeding
If anyone has information about any felony
criminal offenses occurring in Delta County
please contact the Lake Country Crime Stoppers
Tip Line at (903) 885-2020. Information leading
to the arrest of individual s) involved in the of-
fenses may result with cash for tips.
Letter to the Editor
On Thursday April 11, 2013 at 7:30 a.m. there was a terrible collision on Highway 24 south,
just out of town. The collision involved a tractor trailer carrying fuel and a one ton utility
truck. The collision was so violent it exploded, caught fire, and killed both persons involved.
The fire burned for several hours, exposing high voltage electrical lines. The highway was
completely shut down until roughly 4:30 that afternoon. This tragic incident involved a
number of different entities and agencies.
The Cooper Fire Department would like to sincerely thank everyone who assisted with
this incident. We would like to express appreciation especially to L3 Fire Control from the
Greenville Airport for their assistance with control and extinguishment of the fire. They
provided safety to personnel on the scene as a community service. Also, the Cooper Fire
Dept. Flames or Ladies Auxiliary who provided much needed rehab and replenishment in the
form of food and fluids to sustain responders throughout the duration of the long event. We
would also like to thank the local Tx-DOT for getting the roadway repaired and reopened.
The collaboration, assistance, and support by all involved were very much appreciated.
Sincerely,
Leland Howard, Fire Chief
Cooper Fire Department
Delta County is site of car
show, fair and more...
Continued from Front Page
A class Cars, Stock 1900-1946
1st Place - Tim Klock, Sulphur Springs, Texas,
1946 Plymouth 4 door
B class Cars, Stock 1947 - 1959
1st Place - Paulette Fisher, Cumby, Texas, 1957
Chevrolet Bellaire
2n<^ Place - Don and Jean Janecek, McKinney,
Texas, 1956 Ford Crown Victoria
C class Cars, Stock 1960 - 1972
1st Place -Yvette Hudson, Caddo Mills, Texas,
1972 SS 454 Chevelle
2n<^ Place - Mickey Rose, Paris, Texas, 1970
Pontiac Lemans Sport
E class Cars, Stock 1973 - 1985
1st Place - Tami Stuckey, Cooper, Texas, 2001
Monte Carlo SS
F class Cars, Stock 1986 - Present
1st Place - Gene Ray - Paris, Texas, 1957
Chevrolet Convertible
2nd Place - Paulette Fisher, Cumby, Texas, 1958
Chevrolet Impala Convertible
G class Cars, Convertibles 1965 - Present
1st Place - Jim Crank, Princeton, Texas, 1970
Dodge Challenger Convertible
2nd Place - Gene Ray, Paris, Texas, 1973 Ford
Mustang Convertible
H class Cars, Street Modified 1955 - 1980
1st Place - Billy Johnson, Idabel, Oklahoma, 1955
Chevrolet Belaire
I class Cars, Street Modified 1981 - Present
1st Place - Mandy Songer, Annona, Texas, 2008
Shelby GT500 Cobra Mustang
J class Muscle Cars 1960 - 1980
1st Place - Stephen Brand, Greenville, Texas,
1967 Ford Mustang Fastback
2n<^ Place - Ronnie Thomas, Greenville, Texas,
1968 Chevrolet Camaro
K class Muscle Cars 1981- Present
1st Place - Kelsey Buchanan, Cumby, Texas, 2011
Chevrolet Camaro
L class Rods and Custom 1900 - 1935
1st Place - Marshall and Cindy Brooks,
Greenville, Texas, 1933 Ford Coupe Street Rod
2n<^ Place - Roger Elliot, Sulphur Springs, Texas,
1932 Ford Roadster
M class Rods and Custom 1936 - 1954
1st Place -Tom Sims - Bonham, Texas, 1939 Ford
Standard Coupe
2nd Place - Billy Hockett, Fannersville, Texas,
1940 Chevrolet Sedan
N class Rods and Custom 1955 - Present
1st Place - Roy Davis, Paris, Texas, 1969
Volkswagen
O class Trucks, Stock 1900 - 1960
1st Place - Jerry Hudgins, Grand Saline, Texas,
1959 Chevrolet Truck
P class Trucks, Stock 1961 - Present
1st Place - Charles King, Edgewood, Texas, 1971
Chevrolet CIO Truck
2nd Place - Jimmy Carson, Bagwell, Texas, 1990
Chevrolet Silverado
Q class Trucks, Modified 1900 - 1960
1st Place - Gaines Babb, Paris, Texas, 1936 GMC
Truck
2nd Place - James LaCook, Greenville, Texas,
1959 Chevrolet El Camino
R class Trucks, Modified 1961 - Present
1st Place - Linda King, Edgewood, Texas, 1968
Chevrolet Custom Truck
2n<^ Place - Jack Pirtle, Coleman, Oklahoma, 1993
Chevrolet Custom Truck
S class Work in Progress
1st Place - Justin Davis, Klondike, Texas, 1986
Chevrolet Truck
2nd Place - Brad Johnson, Idabel, Oklahoma,
1973 Plymouth Duster
Corvette classes:
AA class 1953 - 1962
1st Place - Roger Elliott, Sulphur Spring, Texas,
1961 Corvette
BB class 1963 - 1967
1st Place - Linda Brigance, 1966 Corvette,
Convertible
CC class 1968 - 1982
1st Place - Ken Smith, Dallas, Texas, 1968
Corvette
2n<^ Place - Dwayne Watts, Lindale, Texas, 1979
Corvette
DD class 1984 - 1996
1st Place - Kay Garrett, Cooper, Texas, 1995
Corvette
2nd Place - DeAnne Lloyd, Paris, Texas 1989
Corvette
EE class 1997 - 2004
1st Place - Tony Hughes, Sulphur Springs, Texas
2003 Corvette Convertible
2nd Place - Shannon Carson, Bagwell, Texas,
1999 Corvette
FF class 2005 - Present
1st Place - Bobby Anderson, Greenville, Texas,
2010 Corvette
2n<^ Place - Jeanette Martin, Cooper, Texas, 2006
Corvette Convertible
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lorrection
The photo of Mayor Scotty
Stegall and councilmen E.
J. Cates and Carl Reel in
last week’s paper should
have said Statement of
Elected Officials not Oath
of Office.
Oxbow Lakes
Recently I mentioned the horseshoe shaped
Roebuck Lake in Oklahoma and after doing
some checking found more information. This
is the largest natural lake in Oklahoma, being
formed when Red River cut across a bend and
shortened itself considerably. Apparently this
happened thousands of years ago since the lake
is so far from the present river. As water comes
out of the river banks and cuts straight across
the land it forms cut offs, leaving a horseshoe
shaped “lake” out at the side. Some of you have
read of historic Nachitoches, Louisiana. Red
River once ran right through downtown but a
cutoff left the town high and dry. What was once
a flowing river is now a calm, eighteen mile ox-
bow lake called Cane River. In Australia these
cutoffs are called billabongs. As an example of
how numerous the cutoff lakes are we find twen-
ty eight such lakes along the Brazos River in
Texas that were formed from 1896-1974. In the
Templeton pecan orchard, now owned by Bryan
Wood, south of Charleston there is a “slough”
that I believe was once the main course of South
Sulphur River.
Floods are not necessary to have a cutoff since
rivers continually meander, causing small “ava-
lanches” on the inside of a curve where there are
steep banks and swifter currents. River folks
call that a “cut bank” where the swift water is
on the inside of the bend. Across the river from
the cut bank you find slower water which allows
sediment to be deposited. That side is called the
“building bank” since pasture land is continu-
ally forming on this sloping, shallow side. The
lakes formed by rivers cutting across a bend
have many names, some of which are horseshoe
lakes, cutoff lakes, old river lakes, and more
commonly, oxbow lakes. The latter name comes
from the U shape similar to the curved part of
oxen yokes.
While researching the oxbow shaped Roe-
buck Lake, I found some interesting history of
the area and will share it here. The following in-
formation comes from a 1938 interview of Afro
American Paul Garnett Roebuck whose family
name is given to the lake. There is also informa-
tion from an 1873 letter transcribed and submit-
ted by Paul Cates Gee in 2001 to the Choctaw
Indian website, Okchocta.
Paul Garnett Roebuck was bom near Grant,
Oklahoma in 1882 in the middle of what is now
Mt. Olivet Cemetery. His daddy, R.D. Roebuck
was a slave, bom on the north side of Roebuck
Lake in a cedar log house, and was twenty
six when slaves were freed. Paul and his twin
brother were bom with a “caul”, a type of mem-
brane, over their faces which happens only once
in 80,000 births. Many superstitions abound
concerning cauls, one of which is the caul is to
be kept. At the time of the interview Paul still
had his caul in a tin can in his trunk. (More on
these cauls in a future article.) Also in the trunk
is a letter his grandfather wrote Paul’s mother in
1873 from Fort Arbuckle. The grandfather was
sold away from his wife while still a slave.
Paul continues with some of the things he
remembered over the years such a Negroes
and Indians whipped publicly in the Goodland
Courtyard where he also witnessed three Indians
executed for murder. When the railroad came
through north of Boswell, court was moved
there. Paul’s father, R.D., was once a Light-
horseman, a term for police officers of the day,
and then a U.S. Marshal for thirty years until his
death in 1903. R.D. was interpreter for Choc-
taws and Chickasaws at Federal Court in Paris,
Texas and Ft. Smith, Arkansas. There were no
jails at Goodland and prisoners were simply
chained to a tree until there were enough for a
wagon load. The wagon was pulled by oxen to
Ft. Smith for trial, a 10-14 day trip depending on
how much the rivers were flooded. There were
no bridges so you just had to wait for creeks to
go down. Ft. Smith was the place to drive cattle
to sell. Paul remembered going on a cattle drive
to Arkansas when he was thirteen.
Paul remembered Belle Starr, Cole Younger,
and their gangs passing through from time to
time, causing everyone nearby to hide until the
danger passed. They would be on the way to and
from Mexico and Texas stealing, raiding, and
killing, regularly crossing at Jones’ Crossing.
He knew Belle Starr and her brothers Henry,
Pony, and Guy. (There is disagreement wheth-
er all of these were her brothers or just part of
her gang.) Paul’s neighbor, Joe Ainsworth, was
plowing in his field a quarter mile from Paul’s
house and Paul noticed a rider approach Joe.
Soon, Joe was taking the harness off his plow
horse and the rider was putting a saddle on it.
As Paul approached to see what was happen-
ing Joe stood there with a tired worn out horse
while Belle Starr rode off on his much fresher
one. She could have anything she wanted since
people were afraid not to cooperate with her.
Paul remembered a fellow named Aldrich
that carried mail to Goodland, Doaksville, Clear
Creek, Lufata, Alikchi, and Eagletown, driving
a two horse buggy. One day he came in and an-
nounced he had been robbed at gun point by two
men at Salt Springs where he was tied to a tree.
They took the mail pouches out in the woods
and slit them open, after which they brought
everything back except the money. When they
left, the mail carrier worked loose and went to
Doaksville. R.D. was a U.S. Marshal at the time
and went to Salt Springs to investigate. The
only tracks he could find were the mail carriers
so R.D. arrested him and searched his tent house
where the carrier’s wife threated to shoot R.D.
A hundred twenty dollars was found in a sack
of commeal and the carrier served five years at
Leavenworth, Kansas.
And that folks, is the way it was in the old
days around here. More on the mysterious cauls
in a future article.
Note to any nature photographers: Call me
at 903 439 8110 or email me and I will show
you an easy place to get to where you can get
close up shots of the relatively rare, and beauti-
ful, black bellied tree ducks.
Sayings that should be on buttons: Well, this
day was a total waste of makeup. Don’t bother
me; I’m living happily ever after. Too many
freaks and not enough circuses. I started with
nothing and still have most of it. Therapy is ex-
pensive; popping bubble wrap is cheap. I pre-
tend to work and they pretend to pay me.
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alendar o vents
April
The Grief Ministry Team
of First Baptist Church,
Commerce started a new
GriefShare Group on Monday,
Feb. 4 in the Church Parlor
(enter the door on east side of
the main auditorium building).
Group sessions run from 6 to
8 p.m. each Monday evening
through April 25th. Sessions
are free.
* * *
82nd Annual Texas State
Gospel Singing Convention
to be held at the First United
Methodist Church 522 Highway
37 South, Mt. Vernon, Texas
on Friday, April 19, 2013 6 to
8:30 p.m. and Saturday, April
20, 2013 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Take
Hwy. 37 Exit 146 off 1-30. Go
North. Church is on left. For
information call 903-537-3616.
* * *
April 20th at the West Delta
Community Center at 10 a.m.,
come hear how CSCOPE is
affecting our country, state,
county, and our children. Come
prepared to talk and discuss
this important issue and how it
involves Delta County Schools.
Pancake breakfast available for
$3.00. For information call Joe
Adams at (903) 517-5478.
* * *
The Lamar/Delta
Retired Teachers and School
Employees will meet on
Monday, April 22 at the PJC
ballroom. The buffet line will
form at 11:00. The program
will include presentations of
scholarships to local seniors
and reports from the state
convention and the Children’s
Book Project. Members and any
other retired school employees
are encouraged to attend.
* * *
Town & Country Garden
Club will be hosting their First
Annual Spring Fling Garden
Sale on Tuesday, April 23 at
2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at First
Methodist Church Fellowship
Hall.
* * *
Economic Development
Committee will be meeting on
Thursday, April 25 at City Hall
for a sandwich lunch meeting.
The public is invited to attend.
* * *
Klondike VFD Fish Fry at
West Delta Community Center
on April 27, 2013 from 4 to 9
p.m. Adult $10, child 12 and
under $8. For more information
call Jerry Wood at (903) 517-
4057.
* * *
Mark your calendars! The
Sulphur River GO TELL
Crusade will be held on April
28 - May 1, 2013 at the Fred G.
Wilkerson Stadium in Cooper,
TX at 7 p.m. each night.
May
The annual Mt. Joy
Homecoming will be held
on Sunday, May 5th, at the
tabernacle in Mt. Joy. A
covered dish lunch will be
shared at noon. All persons
interested in sharing memories
of this community are welcome
and urged to attend.
* * *
Antique Car Show and
Swap Meet in Pecan Gap
on Saturday, May 18, 2013.
Vendors call W.D. Cheney
for spaces at 903-227-5188.
There will be old cars and
more. Country cooking by
the Ladies Club and The Fish
Place open at noon along with
Dewey Dogs.
June
The Wolfe City Chamber
of Commerce Country Cruise
will be held on June 15, 2013.
Registration will be downtown
Main Street Wolfe City.
Starting at 9:00 A.M. with the
first bikes out 10:00 A.M. For
more information or questions
about the ride please call Tony
at 903-496-2331 or email at
wolfecity cc@yahoo .com.
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