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Thursday, October 28, 2010
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In Years Gone By
From the files of The Cooper Review
Ten Years Ago
The following letter and
certificate were sent to the
Delta County Sheriff Benny
Fisher and County Judge
Hugh C. Whitney:
“Dear Sheriff Fisher:
IhavejustsignedaCertificate
of Compliance attesting
to your jail’s compliance
with Texas Minimum Jail
Standards. Congratulations!
This accomplishment
demonstrates superior day to
day management and interest
on your part.”
Alford R. Echols III,
Cooper, Texas, has been
elected as a delegate to the
117^ annual meeting of the
American Angus Association,
November 13, in Louisville,
Kentucky, reports Richard
Spader, executive vice
president of the American
Angus Association.
A vote has been scheduled
for November 8, 2000, on
removal petition signed by
1000 Lamar Coop members
calling for the removal from
office of board members,
Darrell Goats, Glen Gambill,
and Richard Weems.
Controversy has swirled at
LEC since last December
when a vote of the membership
approved the sale of all coop
assets to Cap Rock Electric
Coop, Midland.
Twenty Years Ago
At a called meeting
of the Delta County
Commissioner’s Court Friday
morning, Sheriff Bill Allen
announced he was closing
the maximum-security jail
on top of the courthouse. It
was also announced that Bob
Deering of the Jail Standards
Commission would be in
Cooper November 7^ for an
inspection of the facilities.
The Cooper Bulldogs
downed the Honey Grove
Warriors 24-17 during Friday
nights football game.
Thirty Years Ago
Tornado-like winds Friday
morning destroyed two barns
east of Cooper in addition
to heavy damage to another
barn and to the Delta County
Country Club. Trees in the
path of the twister were
knocked down near the
Blackie Calvin home on the
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Country Club Road and trees
on the Joe Shaw farm on the
Charleston road were twisted
and broken.
After making the trek to
Winnsboro last Wednesday,
Delta County’s two-wagon
train returned to Cooper
Monday stopping briefly on
East Dallas Ave. Joe Hooten
was in the lead wagon and
Jimmy McGaha in the back
one.
Mr. and Mrs. Phillips P
Facarra of Gasport, New York,
announce the engagement
and approaching marriage of
their daughter, Carol Ann, to
Timothy Conway Lowery,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Lowery
of Cooper.
Forty Years Ago
Homecoming 1970 at
CHS will get underway
Fri., October 30. Nominees
for Homecoming Queen
are: senior class nominee,
Merrily nda Jeeter, Debra
Hunt, junior class nominee
Janice Sweat, sophomore
class nominee and freshman
class nominee, Jana Gillean.
William Anthony Stanley,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley
D. Stanley, has been accepted
for admission to the 1970-
71 freshman class of the
University of Texas Medical
Branch at Galveston.
Marin Corporal Kenneth
Adams, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Cloyce Adams of
Cooper, is serving with the
Second Marine Aircraft
Wing, now deployed to the
Mediterranean.
Fifty Years Ago
A Halloween Carnival on
Monday evening, October 31,
at Cooper school gymnasium
will climax a week of
activities by the student body
and faculty in cooperation
with the Parent Teachers
Association, sponsoring the
event.
Rainfall to date in Delta
County now totals 37.10.
Thus far in October, the total
is 2.65.
Loyd smith has announced
the opening of a skating rink
in the Stevens building on the
west side of the square.
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On The River
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Morgan Baker, twenty six, drove toward
Kensing recently to check on his deer feeder
just off the Hefley Loop. As he got out of his
pickup he could hear several hogs squealing
in the distance. Grabbing his bow he walked
slowly through the brush. Two big boars
were fighting while thirty or more hogs of all
sizes stood watching. The two fighting would
weigh about three hundred each. Sometimes a
smaller boar would run in and try to fight but
would be turn back with a squeal when one of
the larger boars cut him. While the hogs were
busy Morgan was able to slip within fifteen
yards unnoticed but with only two arrows he
would have to be careful.
While the main group of hogs was
concentrating on the fight Morgan shot a
hundred fifty pounder. The arrow passed all
the way through and Morgan retrieved it as
the hog made its final run. His second shot
was at one of the contestants which quickly
ran away with his arrow. By then the other
big boar had become aware of Morgan and
came at him. Thinking the big boar was only
bluffing as they often do, Morgan held his
ground until the boar was within five yards. In
desperation Morgan threw down his bow and
barely got up a bois d’ arc tree in time. The big
boar was making a growling noise like most
hog hunters have heard.
For a few minutes the entire group of
hogs was under and around the tree. Morgan
said if he had his bow or a gun up in the tree
he could have killed several of them. After the
hogs left, Morgan made his way to the pickup,
drove home, and got his dogs. Back at the
pasture he was able to catch a small hog and a
hundred fifty pounder. He was very lucky he
got to the tree before the boar caught him.
In many counties there are Wildlife
Management Areas owned by the Parks and
Wildlife Department. Most of these have an
archery season for deer and you are allowed to
shoot a hog if you get a chance. Several times
I have bow hunted on the Cooper Wildlife
Management Area and ran across hogs. If
the wind carries human scent to a big boar he
wifi make the growling noise. You are in his
territory and he wants you to leave. With tall
weeds and brush in abundance you must slip
close to get a shot. Sometimes you wonder
about going within shooting range. Sooner or
later a big boar wifi come at a bow hunter and
there wifi be no tree to climb. Three times on
private land I have been put up trees by big
boars.
The wildlife management areas continue
to be a sanctuary for hogs which often come
out on private land at night to root up nearby
pastures. Several hunters are suggesting an
additional season on the management areas.
Keep the archery season and shotgun season
that is annually allowed then after those
seasons close allow hunters to go in with dogs
to help thin out more of the rooters. Bows,
shotguns, and commercial trapping are not
thinning the animals out enough. Drawings
could be held to determine which hunter and
his dogs could go on which days. A limit could
be placed on the number of dogs allowed on
the hunts. Some of the areas already allow
dogs so maybe it is time for the one near
Cooper.
Someone emailed me recently asking
about the phrase “baited breath.” Would that
be like if you ate worms and birds would fly
up to you thinking they could find a meal?
Maybe eat some acorns and deer would smell
the bait on your breath. Nah, that ain’t it. One
of the first recorded uses of the phrase comes
from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice in
1596 when he wrote “With bated breath and
whispring humblenesse.” Did you notice it is
spelled bated? Originally the word was abated
which means to slow down or stop. Maybe you
have heard of someone watching something
dreadful and they “held their breath.” Now,
abated has been shortened to bated. So bated
breath is like being scared or amazed and you
stop breathing for a few seconds. Don’t feel
bad if you have been thinking baited instead
of bated because baited is reported used in
one of the Harry Potter books.
How about another puzzling word? In
all my years of coaching and being around
football I have always heard the word “oski.”
Pronounced os kee. When a pass is intercepted
everyone is supposed to holler oski to
announce it so they wifi get to blocking. I
haven’t been able to find out why they holler
oski but I did find oski was used all the way
back to 1911. That’s when the University of
California Berkeley cheerleaders started using
a yell that went, “Oski wow wow, Whiskey
wee wee, Olee muckie eye, Olee Berkeley
eye. California wow.” Did the players just
have that word in their mind and decide to
use it when an interception was made? Is it
an Native American word that means “Hey
y’all, our team just intercepted a pass so get
to blocking?”
Question for the week: Why do most
meteorologists talk at a normal speed then
the traffic reporter comes on and talks ninety
miles an hour?
Riddles just in time for Halloween: What
do you get when you divide the circumference
of a jack o lantern by its diameter? Pumpkin
pi. How do ghosts begin their letters? Tomb it
may concern. What happened to the guy that
couldn’t keep up payments to his exorcist? He
was repossessed. How do you know if a ghost
is lying? You can see right through him. Why
didn’t the skeleton dance with anyone at the
Halloween party? He didn’t have any body to
dance with. What do ghosts ask each other?
Do you believe in people?
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According to the Thursday, October 28,
1965 issue of the Cooper Review:
Qualified electors in Delta County and the
State of Texas wifi be faced with a larger than
usual ballot next Tuesday, November 2, when
they wifi have an opportunity to voice their
conviction on the proposed amendments to
the State Constitution.
An automobile accident on Hwy 154 in
Hopkins county at the South Sulphur bridge
last Sunday about 3 a.m. claimed the life of
John Earl Sloan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sloan.
Mrs. J. J. Williams, Delta County’s oldest
resident, observed her 103r<^ birthday last
Monday, October 25, at the home of her son-
in-law, Frank C. Crawford, with whom she
resides at Pecan Gap. Mrs. Crawford, her
daughter, died two years ago after surgery,
and Mr. Crawford continues to take care of
Mrs. Williams with the help of a colored
woman who looks after her physical needs.
As Sarah Ann Berry she was born October 25,
1862 during the Civil War, and was the oldest
of eleven children of Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette
Berry of Grove Oak, DeKalb County,
Alabama.
Virgil (Olie) Olson of Pecan Gap wifi make
a guest appearance on the television series
“To Tell Me The Truth” Thursday afternoon,
November 4, on channel 4 at two o’clock,
central standard time.
Negotiations between Cooper Development
Company and D. H. Bookout of Boston,
Texas, on the tract of land in east Cooper as
a possible site for a convalescent home, are
expected to be completed within the next few
weeks. Last Thursday Bookout took a thirty-
day option on 2 V2 acres in the section known
as East Ward school property in the Clark
Addition.
The Circus is coming to town. Monday and
Tuesday, Nov. 1 and 2, four free circus shows
with clowns, jugglers, animal acts, and other
circus thrills wifi entertain area residents. The
circus wifi be set up on the public square in
Cooper, around the bandstand.
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