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Serving Delta County For
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Published at Cooper, Texas, Thursday, January 4, 1973
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of Texarkana headed the list of
dignitaries here for the cere-
monies and preceding luncheon.
In an address to the some
fifty people attending the lunch-
eon at the Cooper School lunch-
room and ground breaking cere •
monies at the construction site
in the 200 block ofEastBonham
While actual construction of
the $200,000 Delta County Civic-
Serving Good Food Daily
FRIDAY IS FISH DAY
CLUSED SUNDAYS
A retired oil field employee
and vetoran of World Wars One
and Two, Mr. Norris started
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Cooper as closing attorney; and
Bill Lewis of Shreveport, La.
assumed duties as realty spec-
ialist with the COE.
In the Cooper School Trustee
Election, Don Abernathy and
Boyd Moody were elected to the
board over 0. E. Walker, Jr.,
Henry Fields, Jerry Holcomb
and Al Johnson, Jr. Cooper City
Council incumbents Mayor Odis
Watkins; Aidermen Larry Skin-
ner, Cloyce Adams and Ralph
Hocutt were returned to their
respective positions by voters
in Cooper. Other candidates in
this election were James Earl
Roseman, Theoleous Wilson and
Willie Kimbrell, all seeking ai-
derman posts.
Sworth Discount Center open-
ed for business in Cooper with
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Chamber of Commerce build-
ing. Gordon Ford resigned as
County Agent and Mrs. Leo Mil-
lard submitted her resignation
to the Texas Department of
Public Welfare.
Delta County’s first traffic
fatality of the year was record-
ed on February 20 when Bert
Morris of Cooper was killed in
a car-pickup mishap two miles
northeast of Cooper on SH24.
| A group of county residents
filed a petition with the Com-
missioners’ Court requesting
an Optional County Road elect-
ion. The Hoyt Kennemer family
was nominated for Farm Family
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RESTAURANT
TAKING OATH OF OFFICE - Delta County officials elected in the primary
and general elections took their oath of offices Monday morning in ceremonies
at the Courthouse in Cooper. Receiving the oath from Judge Troy Kern, are left
to right, Cecil Basham, tax collector; Carl Adams, Justice of the Peace; Johnny
Routt, Commissioner Precinct 3; Mrs. Alice Wheat, clerk; James Allison, attor-
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FreDammges Officials Installed, New Auditor
Monday Noon Named To Serve Delta County
The home of Mrs. J. D.
CIVIC CENTER SITE - Congressman Wright Patman stands at the Civic Cen-
ter site, 200 East Bonham Ave. where the $200,000 facility is scheduled to be
constructed. This is the only 100 percent EDA financed project in the State of
Texas. The project got underway last year according to Marvin Hagemeir,
EDA director of Northeast Texas District, when Mr. Patman called him and
stated, "Hagey, I would like to see something done for Delta County”.
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Mrs. R. W. Hunt, Jr. as mana-
ger; and Amos Walker was em-
ployed as a deputy sheriff. The
Delta County annual farm tour
was termed a success by the
sponsoring committees.
Lone Star Gas Company asked
the city of Cooper for approval
of a rate increase; and West
Delta was named winner of the
Community Improvement pro-
gram in Delta County.
Fourteen-year-old Dianne
Marie Robinson of Cooper be-
came the second traffic victim
of the year on April 21 in a one
car accident near the city park.
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Reflecting 1972 Area News As
Published In The Cooper Review
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during the spring and summer,
the production of vine ripened
tomatoes is not a rarity, but
the treat of having the succu-
lent red fruit in the winter is
something not many know.
If you are B. O. Norris of
Klondike or a customer of his,
vine ripe, homegrown tomatoes
are available the year-around.
Mr. Norris, a relatively new
comer to Delta County, is a
gardener deluxe and an expert
in the growing of tomatoes in
both hot and cold weather. Af-
ter producing a bumper crop of
tomatoes in his garden the past
couple of years, Mr. Norris
has now constructed a hot house
at his home in Klondike, the_
former Harry Ward place, and
is growing phenomenal tomato
vines.
The hot house, measuring 50
by 34 feet, is constructed of
polyethelene re-enforced with
one inch mesh wire walls and
fiberglass roof. In the plant,
which Mr. Norris keeps at a
temperature between 65 and 75
degrees with humidity around
70 per cent with the aid of
butane heaters, fans and evap-
orative coolers, row after row
of tomato vines stand with an
abundance of fruit from small
green to quarter-pound reds.
Actually there are eighteen
rows containing 600 vines each
spaced one foot apart.
The vines, now four months
old, measure eight feet long
and are growing at a rate of
three inches each day. The
vines, which spiral toward the
ceiling of the hot house on in-
dividual cords, will eventually
measure fifty feet.
Mr. Norris has planted three
varieties oftomatoes from Bur-
pee’s improved Marigold stock,
and expected to pick three ripe
tomatoes per week from each
plant. His goal is to produce
100 pounds of fresh tomatoes
each day for six months of the
year.
The use of the hot house will
be discontinued during the sum-
mer months when Mr. Norris
expects to have tomatoes from
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Cecil Basham and incumbent
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he found the soil more adaptable
to growing tomatoes.
As has happened many times,
what was once a hobby has turn-
ed into a business...and to Mr.
Norris this is a good and re-
Miller at 301 South West First
Street in Cooper was damaged
by fire early Monday afternoon.
The Cooper Volunteer Fire De-
partment personnel answered
the call at 12:15 and left the
scene about an hour and a half
later.
According to Fire Chief Paul
Cates, the apartment of Mrs.
Miller was extensively damag-
ed by the fire which originated
in the living room at the front
of the duplex. Mrs. Miller re-
portedly told the firemen that
she had lighted a heater in the
room earlier in the day, then
retired to a bedroom at the rear
of the home. While watching
television, Mrs. Miller report-
edly stated she heard an explo-
sion and upon going to the front
of the house found the living
room in flames.
The adjoining apartment of
Miss Ethel Pratt sustained
smoke and water damage.
Of the Year award; and Delta
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for disaster assistance.
I Representatives of the United
Telephone System were in
Cooper February 10 presenting
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It was made official in early
March that Southern Pacific
Transportation Company in-
tended to file application to
abandon the railroad through
Delta County; and Garth Yeager
of Pecan Gap was named Far-
mer of the Year by the Soil and
Water Conservation District.
The Kiwanis Club of Cooper
was officially organized on
March 3; Seth Martin of New
Boston assumed duties as
County Agent here; and Terry
Shields was named associate
pastor of the First Baptist
Church.
District Judge Joe N. Chap-
man died in Sulphur Springs
following a brief illness. The
Transportation Division of the
Lamar County Chamber of
Commerce joined Delta County
in an effort to retain the rail-
the tomato growing venture as a warding venture. It is also good
hobby in 1945 in the Houston for local residents who prefer
area. vine ripe tomatoes to storage
He and his wife moved from fruits as has been available in
Houston to Pecan Gap in 1969 most areas at this time of the
then to Klondike last year where year. - Review Staff Feature.
adopted a resolution holding in
effect that Hopkins County
should not be expected to pay
a county auditor for time spent
working in another county. Ac-
cording to a report from the
neighboring county, the reso-
lution provided that Hopkins
County would pay the new aud-
itor for time worked there and
would expect reimbursement
from other counties for time
used by them. Under existing
arrangements counties, such as
Delta, make payment directly
to the auditor who also draws
his local Glopkins) salary for
the same time.
I The year 1972 in Delta County
will go down in the records as
one of controversy, accom-
plishment, tragedy and little
else.
F The first of the year, the
taxing agencies in the County
were given permission by Dis-
trict Judge Frank Wear of Paris
to mail tax statements to re—
I sidents when he ruled in favor of
the defendants, in this case
Delta County, Cooper Independ-
ent School District and City of
tCooper, dissolving temporary
injunction suits.
F Fred S. Newman, owner and
operator of Delta Funeral Home
in Cooper, died unexpectedly at
his home early January 3. Win-
eton Williams, Administrator of
Birchwood Manor in Cooper
since its construction, resigned
his position; and Delta National
Bank directors elected H. B.
Good vice-president at the
game time stockholders of the
bant named Sam Falls a dir-
ector.
f Colonel Richard L. Hunt, U.
S. Army Corps of Engineers,
New Orleans District, speaking
to area residents, projected
that construction of the Cooper
dam on South Sulphur River
would begin in mid-1974; and
the City of Cooper approved
Texas Power and Light Com-
pony’s request for a rate in-
crease.
K Deposits in the three banks
Operating in Delta County went
over the $10 million mark for
the first time. The Delta County
Chamber of Commerce direct-
ors approved the purchase of
the Stevens building on the west
•ide of the square in Cooper
for future chamber offices and
rental offices; and application
for an Economic Development
Administration funded Civic
Center in Delta County was
kemporarily shelved due to local
opposition.
a Charles Green was promoted
to the position of executive vice-
president of the Enloe State
Bank.
the company’s “Project Proud”
■I outline for downtown revita-
lization and community im-
provement. An organization of
Young Democrats was perfected
4 Enloe.
? A large number of candidates
filed for the various county of-
flees, including James Allison
for attorney; Mrs. Alice Wheat,
county-district clerk; Wayne
Templeton, Cecil Basham and
Raymond Hagood for Tax As-
sessor-Collector; Sam Morgan
and Benny Fisher for sheriff;
Hugh Nabors, Charles (Mickey)
Goforth, L. T. Phipps and Hoyt
Kennemer for Commissioner of
Precinct 1; Horace A. Durham,
Johnny Routt and Ardell Allison
for Commissioner of Precinct
2; Dale Stockton and Elmer
Thompson for chairman of the
Delta County Democratic Exe-
Wutive Committee.
| Also filing to have their
ames on the ballot in Delta
County were Wright Patman,
Ered Hudson, Jr. and Douglas
Logan for Representative, 1st
Fongressional District; Neal
Eolomon and George Preston,
Pate Representative; Joe N.
yiPman and J. Kearney Brim,
Fighth Judicial District Judge.
Properties within Delta
Founty were listed at $9,433,020
In the Tax Roll Statement com-
fed tollowing the completion of
Ehe property re-evaluation pro-
■ram.
The Horchem Funeral Home
EAs officially established in
Fobper; and work began on the
TOMATOES RIGHT OFF THE VINE can be obtain-
ed in the coldest weather from Mr. and Mrs. B. O.
Norris at Klondike, shown in the photo flanking
a row of mammoth plants loaded with the succulent
vegetable. There are 600 such vines in the Norris'
hot house forming a virtual forest. At present the
plants are eight feet tall, but will grow to some
fifty feet before summer. Review Photo
in farming country such as his garden. He stated that it is
this where numerous residents impractical to keep a hot house
grow their own fresh vegetables cool in hot weather.
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Bud Skinner
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Delta County officials, elect- are assuming public office for
ed to office in the November the first time having won their
General Election were officially primary elections. Adams was
sworn in Monday morning. Tak- appointed to his office in Oct-
ing the oath of office were Tax- ober and elected in November,
Assessor-Collector C. T. Bas- while Routt, Fisher and Mrs.
ham, County Attorney James Wheat are incumbents.
Allison, Commissioner of Pre- Also taking office on January
cinct 1 Charles (Mickey) Go- 1 was Harold W. Knight of Bra-
forth; Commissioner of Pre- shear as Delta and Hopkins
cinct 3 Johnny Routt; County County Auditor. Knight was ap-
Clerk Mrs. Alice Wheat; and pointed to the two year term by
Justice of the Peace Carl Ad- District Judges J. Kearney
ams. Brim and Frank Wear Sr.
Sheriff Benny Fisher was The appointment of the audi-
sworn into office in special tor came in the midst of con-
ceremonies Tuesday morning, troversy from Hopkins county
Basham, Allison and Goforth Commissioners’ Court who
Avenue, Congressman Patman
said:
The Economic Development
Administration has given “this
grant as a part of a $50 million
Public Works Impact Program
funded by the Congress to create
new and useful jobs in areas of
high unemployment.
“The 10,000 square foot brick
community center will have fa-
cilities for health services, so-
cial, education, cultural and
recreational facilities for the
residents of Delta County and
their guests.
“The aim of this program as
a part of the EDA is to create
immediate jobs in areas of
high unemployment and under-
employment in the construction
of useful public facilities. This
project is expected to furnish a
total of 81 jobs during construct-
ion.
“The unusual circumstances
of Delta County, due to loss of
over 50% of its population in the
past two decades along with
high unemployment rates and
low median family income, has
made possible 100 percent fed-
eral financing of this project.
Under other circumstances,
this project would have been
funded under an 80 percent
grant from the federal govern-
ment and 20 percent participat-
ion by the local government.
This project is the only 100
percent financed project in the
state of Texas.
“Another unique part of the
application for this project was
the almost unanimous endorse-
ment by the Delta County Com-
missioners Court, the Cooper
City Council, the Cooper In-
dependent School District and
the Delta County Economic De-
velopment Administration
Board of Directors as well as
the Delta County Chamber of
Commerce.”
Congressman Patman also
spoke briefly on problems ex-
pected in the 93rd Congress.
He cited inflation, price and
wage control, job opportunities,
housing and education, along
with the question of ending the
Vietnam War.
He also said “The people
should have charge of the purse
strings of our nation, and two
year terms for congressmen
assures this.”
Construction of the civic cen-
ter by Audley Moore and Sons
of Sulphur Springs is expected
to begin this week and be com-
pleted in six months. The site
had been cleared by City of
Cooper employees and signs
erected prior to the ceremony.
Other officials attending the
two affairs included Marvin
Hagemeir, Director of the
Northeast Texas District of
EDA; Maurice Wooley of Clark-
sville, Northeast Texas EDA
District chairman.
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LUNCHEON GUESTS - The above photo shows part of the more than fifty
backers of the Delta County Civic Cente r who attended the luncheon December
21. The occasion honored Congressman Wright Patman, and EDA officials
through whose efforts the Civic Center was initiated. Review Photo
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road from Commerce through Center in Cooper has not yet
Cooper and Enloe to Paris, begun, official ground breaking
The Optional Road Law issue for the facility Thursday/after-
was defeated March 25 by a4to noon, December 21, paved the
1 margin. W. E. Wiggins of Tex- way for building the somewhat
arkana joined me corps of En- controversial structure.
gineers Real Estate office in Congressman Wright Patman
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