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elta Wary?
TEN YEARS AGO
Members of the Cooper
High School graduating class of
1924 who attended a reunion at
the Delta Country Club Sunday
were Mmes. Eula Oats Miller,
Esther Kerbow Watkins, Mary
Robinson Griggs, Estelle House
Hagood. Lola Bowman Riley,
Edna Helm Leverett, Fannie
Edrie DeWitt Albright, Mildred
Kinard Barker. Lorene Smith
Aiken. Erma Henson Hatfield,
Lucille McAlexander Clark,
Verona Traylor Handley. Miss
Veatrice Womack, Travis Car-
rington. Odelle Oats Rushing,
Garland Hagood. Mrs. Eunice
Carrington Toon. Alton Wright,
E. J. Stanley, Spurgeon Car-
rington. Flanoy Taylor, R. C.
Ewing and Dr. Cliff Clark.
The Cooper Bulldogs tacked
up district win number three
here last Friday night defeating
a strong Honey Grove Warrior
squad 35-20.
Piggly Wiggly Food Store at
211 West Dallas Avenue in
Cooper was again burglarized,
the second time in just over one
month and the third time in a
year.
Shortly after an old classmate
W. Garland Button, chairman of
ETSU's Board of Regents, plac-
ed a gold medallion around his
neck, Frank H. (Bub) McDowell
accepted the responsibilites of
the presidency at East Texas
State University Saturday morn-
ing.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Gene D. Good was elected
vice-chairman of the Cooper
Housing Authority succeeding
Finnell Johnson who was eleva-
ted to the chairmanship.
The Rev. Robert E. Jenkins,
pastor of the First Baptist
Church in Cooper for almost
four years, announced his resig-
nation Sunday, effective Nov-
ember 8. He has accepted the
pastorate of the Temple Baptist
Church in Amarillo.
The West Delta Community
Center is nearing completion
and residents are hoping to hold
In Years Gone By
Taken From The Cooper Review Files
THIRTY YEARS AGO
SIXTY YEARS AGO
members
FORTY YEARS AGO
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
Wade H.
Thursday
The six gins in Delta County
are reporting a total of 14,065
bales of cotton ginned thus far
this season.
Miss Conine Culver vis
in Paris Sunday.
Rev. R. Lowry Owen of)
tin has accepted a call as pi
of the Presbyterian Church.
J. F. Pierson has purchi
the home of John McClana
in southeast Cooper for $1,"
Misses Alma and Laura F
ders of Paris are visiting u
sister, Mrs. D. T. Chancellot.
Mrs. Walter McCuistion
Paris, visited her mother, I
E. J. McKinney, the past w
Willie Warren arrived
Thursday with his family to
begin work as minister of the
Cooper Church of Christ.
Halloween decorations were
used Tuesday when Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Poe entertained
with a party at the American
Legion building for their son,
Danny, on his 5th birthday.
Miss Jean Henderson, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. H. H.
Henderson of Klondike, became
the bride of Cpl. Waddie Moore,
son of Mr and Mrs.
Moore of Klondike,
evening.
Approximately 170
of the Delta County Chamber of
Commerce and visitors gathered
at the Delta Country Club Tues-
day night for the Fourth Annual
Banquet of the county-wide or-
ganization.
In the general election held
Tuesday, 475 voters exercised
the constitutional privilege by
going to the polls and voting, as
shown by returns from 12 of the
13 boxes. Pecan Gap box re-
turns having not been made
Thursday evening. 469 voted
the Democratic ticket.
Dr. E. B. Wheat left Monday
for Daingerfield where he will
be the company physician in a
steel plant at that place.
Cooper Bulldogs defeated
Leonard High School football
team here Thursday night by a
score of 20 to 7.
Thanksgiving events in the
building.
f,ftyyearsago
Rev O.P Kiker
turned as pastor of th.?
M E. Church by the Nor?
as Conference Z*
Gainesville. *^1
The Cooper Bulld0#1 u
ed Wolfe City eleven?!!
score of 22 to 8. M
Floyd Leslie Fulton
Margie Lucile Reed wtr
tied at the Presbyter^
by Rev. F. Sanders Sit
evening.
26.257 bales of cotton v
ginned in Delta County J
this week. p
12.560 bales of cotton U
been received at the Cm
yard. Cotton is selling « $
25.5 cents
J- A. Abshire's home (
contents were destroyed by |
at Enloe Thursday niomi
was insured for $3,000
There was a big crowd
Cooper Thursday night to t
the Klan parade.
Rev. J. A. Phipps and fig
moved to Wortham this «
where he was sent as pastor
his conference.
A Democratic rally will
held in Cooper Saturday t
noon.
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Small World Department: A
recent visitor to Sharptown,
George Boyle of Rio Grande
City, is in the Reverend Lundy
Hooten Ill’s flock at St. John's
United Methodist there.
George, who in his role as
father-in-law of Paul Swenson's
step-niece, came to spend the
day, has a million good stories
about his years as a geologist in
Venezuela, speaks fluent Span-
ish, and is excellent company.
He and his late wife owned a
hotel in Rio Grande City and
were famous for their buffets of
rattlesnake and such exotic
snacks. Sara heard from Lundy
III that he prizes George.
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ANGEL1NE SHARP
Scene: the Enloe State Bank.
Time; October 21, a Thursday,
2:35 a.m. Characters: Deputy
Sheriff David Mata, *4 Precinct
Constable Gary Thompson.
Bank Executive Vice-President
Noel Bailey. Bank Vice-Presi-
dent Robert Douglass, nearby
resident Larry King, and a
mysterious intruder.
Action: a noise-sensitive a-
term system sounds. Within
minutes, the five stalwarts enter
the building, weapons drawn.
The dimly-lit lobby shows no
signs of intrusion, but Deputy
Sheriff Mata's flashlight plays
on the culprit, crouching on the
drive-through teller's counter.
Frightened, the would-be
thief runs to the back of the
room and hunkers down in the
southeast comer The officials
confer in whispers. The intruder
neither speaks nor understands
English. What to do?
Constable Thompson and Ex-
ecutive Vice President Bailey
sprint to the back room to bring
a large cardboard box. Thomp-
son manages to trap the strang-
er in the box, using the wall as a
lid.
“Get a cover for the box,”
hisses King. Officer Mata finds
a piece of poster board and
slides it between the wall and
the box. Thompson starts for the
front door, the frantic prisoner
escapes, is recaptured with the
help of Douglass, and the strug-
gle continues.
The five pursuers, exhausted
by laughter, realize the capture
would not be worth the effort,
open the door and let the rascal
out. He was last seen headed
southeast on FM198, his four
feet beating out the William Tell
Overture. He was wearing a
brown raccoon coat, a black
mask, and the officers noted
distinctive black rings around
his backside.
A search of the premises
proved the burglar got in earlier
in the night. He was small
enough to wriggle through an
air conditioning duct and a hole
on the inside wall •• left open the
previous afternoon when wiring
was being installed. The hole
was securely closed next morn-
ing - early.
from HISTORY’S SCRAPBOOK
OATES ANO EVENTS FROM YESTERYEARS
November 4, 1879—Will Rogers, vaudeville performer, humor-
ist, and friend to the great, born Oologah, Okla.
Novembers, 1941—Japanese Naval High Command issues Com-
bined Fleet Top Secret Order No. 1 in preparation for attack on
Pearl Harbor.
November 6, 1947—NBC presents first television broadcast of
long-lived ‘‘Meet the Press. ’’
November 7, 1940—Narrows Bridge at Tacoma, Wash., one of
the world’s longest suspension spans, collapses in a high wind.
Novembers, 1942—‘‘Operation Torch” begins as U.S. and Brit-
ish forces land in North Africa against weak Vichy French
- opposition.
November 9, 1965—Massive electric power failure blacks out
northeastern United States, including New York City.
November 10,1919—American Legion convenes in first national
convention at Minneapolis, Minn.
SHARPTOWN
U.S.A.
That Wonderful Year 1925
Late summer 1925, residents
of Cooper were asked to cur-
tail the use of water due to a
pending shortage.
In the September 11, 1925 is-
sue of the Cooper Review, May-
or Walter C. Hazlewood said, "I
trust that no one who reads this
statement will become unduly
excited or alarmed and start a
lot of false rumors concerning
our water supply, but on ac-
count of the enormous consump-
tion at present and the further
fact that we are supplying our
country friends for a radius of 15
miles and that we do not know
just how long this drouth will
last, it would not be amiss to
caution the people about the use
of water and urge that we
conserve our supply rather than
wait until it is too late.
"We have ample supply, if
properly, conserved, to last us
several months, and should not
wait until the stock are stolen to
lock the bam.
"Let's let the flowers and
grass go. We might also cut
down the amount we use for
bathing purposes. Instead of
filling the tub full and running
over, try using less and let's
take care of the situation.
"Our records show quite a
number of people using far in
excess of what ordinarly is re-
quired for household use. We
must insist that our supply be
conservered or we shall be
forced to adopt radical measures
to enforce it.
"The flat rate customers who
are watering flowers, lawns and
sometimes the street, must
eliminate this waste or suffer
the service discontinued.”
The same issue announced
that the firms of "Howard-Car-
nes Co. of Moody, Texas, is
opening a dry goods and cloth-
ing store in the two-story Hen-
slee brick building adjoining the
Masonic temple on the north.
"This is an old established
firm. The Review is informed
having been in business in
Moody since 1882, but the
drouth conditions in Central
Texas are so acute that they
sought a better field, and after
visiting many towns of North-
east Texas selected Cooper for a
location.
And, "The Texas Public Util-
ities Co. 'cut' the current in on
the new Enloe line which means
that those people will now have
electric service.
"Andrew Jackson, who took
the lead in getting electric ser-
vice extended to Enloe, has just
completed and started operating
a plant that is the last word in
gin construction. With electric
power he is able to start running
any minute day or night. His
equipment consists of the im-
proved Lummus Automatic Gin,
and all modern cleaning mach-
inery.”
J. H. Newton, superintendent
of the Cooper public schools for
eighteen years, gave a resume
of the growth of the institution
during his tenure, saying
"Eighteen years ago the value
of the school buildings was
$13,600, now the buildings arc
easily worth $120,000. Then the
value of the furniture was prac-
tically nothing, now it is about
$5,000. Then we had no labra-
tory equipment for teaching sc-
ience subjects, now we have an
equipment worth of about
$3,000.
"When I came here there
were two volumes in the school
library, now we have over 2500
books valued at not less than
$2,000.
"Eighteen years ago we en-
rolled less than 50 pupils in the
high school, during the past
year we enrolled more than 200.
Th .1 we enrolled less than 350
pupils in the entire school, this
year we enrolled 850.
"If the attendance upon the
schools should increase during
the next eighteen years as it has
in the past eighteen years, there
will be more than 800 pupils in
the high school and more than
2,000 in the entire school.”
(To Be Continued)
American Viewpoi"1
Bledsoe will
the newest
world globe.
history books to thrill the it
ination.
The future may allow a “I
room" where we can hear D
Countians tell our story:
McLarty recounting his Ken:
years with Mr. Grover PicL
ing, John Reid moderating
group discussing the history
Pecan Gap. Wesley Wil
telling tales of Klondike P
There's excitement.
Delta Countians and frit
of the county, volunteeri
time, your interest and ors
your checks to the P»
Library Fund, P 0. Box I
Cooper, Texas 75432.
Thank you,
A Friend of The Delta Count
Public Library
There is always a best «W
of doing everything, it11
to boil an egg. Manners’"
the happy ways of doing
things. „
-Ralph Waldo Emeffl
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Editor. Cooper Review, P.O. Box 430, Cooper. Texas, 754
Dear Editor:
A library is a happy place.
Delta County is long overdue
this pleasure, which has the
advantage of enriching the
learning experience of children
and adults.
If you have small children or
grandchildren, picture them in a
circle listening to the likes of
Betty Zoe Baker reading from
young people’s classics. Do you
want your youngsters to learn
books are good and loyal fri-
ends? And high schoolers can
engage in the sport of reading
without competing, without
breaking bones, without hurtl-
ing down the highway in buses
to scream at their peers to
"win”. Everybody wins in a
library.
Where's the action? They’ll
gallop over the plains of
Mongolia with Genghis Khan,
escape Rome as Alaric the Visi-
goth leads his hordes to attack,
sail with the Pilgrims to Ply-
mouth Rock, explore the poles
without getting chilled, take a
camel caravan across the track-
less Sahara, sail on Magellan's
flagship past Tierra del Fuego,
or be amazed by the Sargasso
Sea.
Perhaps Lucile
direct them to
encyclopedias, a ------ gluut,
clear and up-to-date, the best
dictionaries, a current atlas, and
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COMING DOWN
THEN
WE MOVE?
a chemical known as "mala
thion.” The chemical had been
safely used in California and
elsewhere for some 25 years, in
both agricultural and nonagri-
cultural bug control programs.
In New Orleans and the Tide-
water, Virginia, area malathion
was used for mosquito control.
It was as safe and effective a
chemical as is known.
But Governor Jerry Brown
balked. The governor apparent-
ly felt he knew better than all of
the doctors and scientists, in-
cluding officials of the California
Department of Health Services,
who found the chemical safe. So
instead of authorizing the need-
ed aerial spraying, Governor
Brown called on Golden Staters
to hand-strip their fruit trees
and even called out the National
Guard to help. At the peak of
the confrontation, the state em-
ployed 4,000 workers to battle
the flies and quarantined 623
square miles of land.
As Dr. Jack Early, one of the
country's leading authorities on
agricultural pest control, said,
the eradicaion program became
"a circus, and all the while the
problem was spreading.”
The rest is history, reported
in cover stories in America's
news magazines and watched by
Medfly: R.I.P
de-
This Week’s Spotlight
By Angeline Sharp
large
Said Early, "No country can
afford too many $173-million
mistakes. We especially can’t
afford them today, with the
world population increasing by
an estimated 70-million people
each year. The United States,
after all, is one of the very few
countries on earth that grows
more food than its people need
for themselves. This is possible
only because of our advanced
farm technology, including care-
fully tested agricultural chemi-
cals.”
Let’s hope our understanding
of the Medfly fiasco prevents a
similar event from ever taking
place. A lot of people around the
world are depending on us.
Church. Joe Shaw was his bro-
ther’s best man; Kris’ sister
Marci was her maid of honor.
Kris’ sisters, Karen and Deb-
bie, plus her roommate Barbara
Grinnell and Blake's sister Tarn-
may Shaw were bridesmaids.
Kevin and Mark Ham, Blake's
cousins. Markell Landers, and
new brother-in-law Dave Wray
and James Thrall served as
groomsmen. The bride's color
was baby blue. The whole effect
was lovely.
Kris’ parents were Bob and
Betty (Elliott) Johnson of Ala-
mo, Bob is in real estate and, in
season, is the number one ship-
per (carrots are his thing) to
Gerber Baby Food in Fort
Smith, Arkansas. Betty is Bob's
part-time secretary and is a
volunteer worker. Just one of
her jobs is Volunteer Tour Guide
(Docent) at the McAllen Inter-
national Museum.
Kris sister Kaien ano lmvc
Wray live in Carrollton with
their daughters Jennifer and
Karla. Her sister Debbie and
James Thrall live in Houston
with son Matthew and daughter
Maari. Her sister Marci and
Michael Sears live in Plano.
Blake’s folks are J.O. and Pat
(Conley) Shaw, J.O.’s parents
were the late O. J. and Edith
(Hayes) Shaw. Pat's parents are
Noe) and Willie (Gill) Conley.
Blake’s brother Joe and wife
Kim (McGuyer) live and run
their dairy on the Charleston
Road. Son Jeromy and daugh-
ters Jennifer and JonP'help'^
Blake's sister Tammy is a Junior
at NTSU, majoring in Fashion
Design. (Flash: Tammy’s en-
gagement to Gordon Marchbank
of Commerce is the latest news.)
Returning from their wedding
trip (the Honeymoon Suite at
the Tiki Hotel on South Padre)
Though the event went virtu-
ally unnoticed in most parts of
the country, America closed the
book on the “medfly” story a
few weeks ago, when the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
clarcc! the emergen™ over.
From beginning to end,
bizarre medfly saga was
example of
loony-tunes.
The end came quietly: no
television cameras, no TIME
and NEWSWEEK cover stories,
just a simple announcement by
Assistant Secretary of Agricul-
ture C. W. “Bill” McMillan
saying that the infestation had
been eradicated, and thanking
everyone for their cooperation.
The trouble is, not everyone
cooperated. And because of
that, we have learned, the cost
of eradicating the voracious ag-
ricultural pest increased in less
than two years from an original
estimate of less than $1 million
to more than $173 million-about
$228,000 per head for each of
the 757 little bugs that were
zapped during the eradication
program.
When the first tiny bugs were
discovered in California's Santa
Clara Valley in December 1980,
pest-control experts recom-
mended spraying the area with
tens of millions of amused Am-
ericans on TV's nightly news.
“Unfortunately," notes Dr.
Early, president of the National
Agricultural Chemicals Associ-
ation, “the delays took a price.
Instead of the $748,000 U.S.
D.A. had estimated in Decem-
ber 1980 to control the very
limited infestation in Santa Cla-
ra County, the program cost
more than 200-times that, and
covered much of the state, from
Los Angeles County in the South
to the outskirts of Sacramento in
the north.”
Kris Ann (Johnson) Shaw
hails from Alamo, down in the
Valley, eight miles north of the
Rio Grande and sixty-five in
from the coast. South Padre
Island was her growing-up play-
ground. Kris, Captain of the
Drill Team- the Bearettes -•
played flute in the band at
Pharr-San Juan-Alamo High,
where she graduated with the
Class of '76. She enrolled in
Texas Tech that fall to major in
Business.
Her sister Marci and beau
(now husband) Michael Sears
took Kris to a night spot in
Lubbock. Michael spotted a
friend. John Blake Shaw of
Delta County -• a PE major -
and introduced Blake to Kris.
The rest is history - and roman-
tic history at that.
The wedding was April 14,
1979, at the Alamo Community
A pleasure dome in Xanadu
...Nor Kublai Khan's vast boun-
ty...Did not, does not, will not,
cannot...Compare to Delta
County.
the young Shaws rented the
Morgan place until they bought
their own. the old Carl Ewing
home on Country Club Road.
Blake and his dad run the Shaw
Dairy on Country Club Road and
raise beef cattle as well.
John Brandon Shaw joined
them on March 8 in '81. He’s
John for his dad, John Blake
Shaw, and for his great grand-
father Ode John Shaw (his
granddad J.O.’s name is initials
only). The Brandon is because
they like it. But John Brandon
needn’t be lonely. He got
himself a brother on October 16
•• Adam Blake Shaw weighed in
at 8 pounds, 8 ounces, and
measured a big 21 inches.
The Blake Shaw family is part
of Cooper First United Metho-
dist. They move with the young
crowd of the County, and are
warmly included in the
Conley Clan.
On Saturday evening, Delta
County Republican Party Vice
President J. B. Burden's great
grandson, Ricky Belcher of
Commerce, came to go with his
great grandpop to the Ben
Franklin Baptist Halloween
Eve. Just to tease, J.B. announ-
ced he wasn’t going. Threaten-
ed Ricky. "If you don’t, you're a
Democrat.”
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Teenager of the Week: Trey
Belew, thirteen and in eighth at
Cooper Junior High, helps care
for the Kopper Penny registered
Herefords. Step-pop John
Pierce says Trey is his good left
arm. Trey helps his mom, Joy-
ce. minds small sister Jamie,
rides his horse Toots when he
works as a cowboy and -■ in the
house •• might pet Termite, the
family cat.
At school, Trey is in Mrs.
Wilson's homeroom and in her
Science and Social Studies class-
es, in Mrs. Moses’ Language
Arts, in Mrs. McFadden’s
Math, has Mrs. Preas for Busi-
ness Ed, and Coach Silman and
Coach Trapp for PE. Trey plays
Noseguard for the Puppies. In
Four H. he’s showing his polled
Hereford heifer. Freckles.
The Pierces were here in '78
to look over their spread and
came here permanently in Aug-
ust of '81. They’re members of
Cooper First United Methodist,
where Trey is active in the
Youth Group.
the
an
environmental
Perhaps our county's popula-
tion stays small because only
the chosen may enter Paradise.
Take Buddy and Nancy Dieter-
ich. who immigrated to Ben
Franklin from Wylie some six
years back. I read with mount-
ing interest the full page spread
in the Paris News of 10-6 •• all
about their partnership farming
operation and Nancy’s famous
cooking.
With true Northeast Texas
ingenuity, Nancy used a black
bean soup recipe to make pinto
bean soup that sounds mouth-
watering. Her coconut pound
cake and custard sauce would
top off any Sunday dinner with a
flourish.
Did you know Nancy's
Shrimp-Chicken Casserole won
the grand prize in the Paris
News recipe contest? Buddy
shows he’s no slouch for brains
- he gives Nancy gourmet cook-
books for occasions like Christ-
mas.
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er Library/Museum Board is/
ate putting on an all day coffee.
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