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Thursday, April 1, 2010
Voices
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,
Coming up real soon will
be our annual clean-up week.
This will start April 3rd and
continue through April 10th.
I encourage everyone in the
city to take advantage of this
week. As I drive over our
town I see things have gotten
out of hand, the trash and junk
piled up. It is my hope that we
will get a lot of places cleaned
up while you can dump at a
reduce rate. The city will
start after this week issuing a
warning and a time frame to
property owners to get their
places in shape or there will
be fines issued and a court
date set. So please take the
time to do your part, clean-up
and let’s put pride back in our
city.
Thanks,
Scotty Stegall
Mayor
Bob Bowman's East Texas
By Bob Bowman
Roaming Around East Texas
Some things we’ve learned by roaming
around East Texas.
The log gym:
In the 1940s, Newton had a gymnasium
made of logs-probably the last such structure
of its kind in East Texas. Those who remember
the gym say it was cold during the winters and
hot as blazes during the summers.
The building was torn down and replaced
in the mid-fifties, but the gym’s floor, which
had a beautiful Eagle painted in the center of
the court, was installed in the new gym.
Bullard’s well:
A Bullard landmark, the town’s old well,
has been awarded a state historical marker.
Inside a building at the corner of Houston
and Main, is the old well, which once stood
in the middle of the street. Local folks believe
the well tapped into an underground water
source.
Ghost riders:
Ghost riders started haunting Texas in
the 1870s when a cattleman driving his cattle
to market came across a new homestead
blocking his route near the Neches River. He
was so angry that he stampeded his cattle right
through the farmhouse, crushing everyone
inside. The screams are still heard whenever
the phantom longhorns are sighted on the
plains. The legend inspired the song, “Ghost
Riders in the Sky.”
Crybaby Creek:
In Bowie County, they say if you drive
to a bridge outside DeKalb, you can hear the
cries of an infant. The story goes that a mother
driving a car plunged into the creek and the
baby drowned in the near-freezing waters.
Vandalized markers:
Why in the world do people deliberately
tear down or steal Texas State Historical
markers? Some recent examples are a marker
marking a river crossing on the Angelina
River between Lufkin and Nacogdoches and
a marker that tells the story of the Fodice
community school in Houston County.
Bonnie and Clyde:
When Bonnie and Clyde were tearing
across East Texas in the 1930s, they hid out
near Redland in Angelina County. As a child,
Pauline Haney remembered that the outlaws
hid in the woods behind her house. Her mother
cooked and did laundry for the outlaws. When
they left, they stowed a shotgun in a hollow
tree. Pauline’s father retrieved the weapon and
sold it to a man in Nacogdoches.
The Bonnie and Clyde Festival:
Each May, the town of Gibsland,
Louisiana, holds a celebration known as the
Bonnie and Clyde Festival. The events include
a reenactment of the ambush that killed the
outlaws near Gibsland. The town also has a
Bonnie and Clyde Museum.
(Bob Bowman of Lufkin is the author of
more than 40 books about East Texas. He can
be reached at bob-bowman.com)
In Years Gone By
From the files of The Cooper Review
Ten Years Ago
The Awesome Auction
is going whole hog, or rather
wild hog that is, thanks to a
generous Wild Hog Hunt for
10, donated by local guide
known far and wide as E.T.
But wait, there is more. After
this Awesome Safari, Rick
Murray is furnishing his
delicious barbecue for 25.
The annual clean-up
week for Cooper will be April
24th through April 28th. Each
customer will be entitled to
one free load. Additional loads
will be $20.00 each.
Twenty Years Ago
Members of the Retail
Merchants Association were
busy last Thursday morning
demolishing a barn on Jo Ann
Haynes property, the lumber
from which will eventually
be turned into booths for
the County Fair May 19 in
Cooper.
Thirty Years Ago
Two eleven year-old
youths from Mesquite will
probably think twice before
they attempt to vandalize
the Cooper High School
after tangling with four local
students Tuesday, March 18.
It was spring break at the
school, and the Mesquite
youths and four others under
ten years of age thought it
would be fun to break into
the school. How wrong they
were... there happened to
be Nadine Slough, Melanie
Slough, Tressie Gwin, and
Rene St. Clair in front of the
high school practicing routines
for the upcoming Cheerleader
competition. They saw the
youths run past the glass
front door of the school and
went in pursuit around the
building apprehending them.
The girls held the youths
until help arrived... one called
John Silman, DPS Patrolman
Jerry Hagan and the Sheriff’s
Department, Chief Deputy
Marlon Greet responded.
Forty Years Ago
The Bay View Reading
Club and the Tom A. Lambeth
Dramatic Clubs of Cooper
were represented at the Key
District of Texas Federation
of Women’s Clubs in Paris
March 20-21 by Mrs. John
Shaw, Mrs. G.H. Horchem,
Mrs. W.O. Wallace, Mrs.
Troy Stockton, and Mrs. J.H.
Landers.
Fifty Years Ago
Lone Star Gas Company
filed with the City of Cooper
Council an increase of 5.4
cents per MCF in each stop
of its rates for residents and
commercial gas service.
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TU
TEXAS PRESS
ASSOCIATION
On The River
With ET
HOG SOLUTIONS
Ronnie Beeler called from Pecan Gap
recently asking what’s going to happen about
the hog problem. Holes rooted up in many
pastures make it almost impossible to drive
across. Corn farmers can plant one day and
that night hogs uncover and eat thousands
of dollars worth of seed. I’ve given it much
thought over the years. Hog cholera once kept
the critters in check but I hear “they” have
eradicated hog cholera. Now, some other ways
must be tried. Shooting from helicopters can’t
be successful as long as some land owners
don’t allow it. Helicopters can’t find hogs in
cedar thickets very well either. Even if you kill
five hundred, in a few months the population
will bounce back because of short gestation
periods and large litters.
Some ideas I told Ronnie about include
the following: When a fence needs replacing
or repairing use three foot tall hog wire
topped with three or four strands of barbed
wire. That may be cheaper than regular height
hog wire. Put an electric fence around your
property. Sure, hogs are going to run through
it sometimes but sooner or later they will
learn to respect it. Burn or bulldoze thickets
and weeds patches where they stay. Push for
legislation to offer a bounty for each pig tail
turned in. Since the hogs are costing farmers
and ranchers thousands of dollars, maybe they
would be willing to unite to donate to a bounty
system. At least it would beat the helicopter
plan.
I wonder how much money was spent on
the helicopter in the area counties? Maybe
somebody could figure the cost per pig killed
by the chopper. Would it be enough to finance
a bounty system instead?
Wild boar is a very pricey item in
restaurants in Japan, New York City and many
more places. Maybe some counties could set
up packing plants and pay hunters to bring
in live or freshly killed hogs. Then ship the
processed meat to restaurants. How about get
the meat inspected and feed it to those in jail
or at homeless shelters. I guarantee it tastes
great. Maybe even serve it in public schools.
It couldn’t be worse than that patty made from
ground up chicken.
Large traps catch many hogs at one time.
Put in a lot of feed and leave the gate tied open
until they get used to going inside. Then set
the trap door to close after several enter. If you
commit to a trap, make sure you build a good
one. Poorly built traps have educated many
hogs who escape and never go in another.
Wild hog buyers have dropped the prices
now to where you lose money trying to deliver
live hogs to them. Hogs under a hundred
pounds bring around six cents a pound. Figure
in dog food, vet bills, gasoline, and such
and you can’t win by hunting, catching, and
driving to a buyer with a hundred pound hog
for six dollars. Then again, somebody said just
put a three day season on them and a one hog
bag limit. That way, them “good ole boys” in
East Texas would slip around, hunt them night
and day, and all hogs would be eradicated in
three weeks.
Could maybe the Farm Bureau or a
private business build processing plants and
turn them in to money makers? Could we
have government trappers or private hunters
like for beavers and coyotes? Could we have
a few weeks each year to take dogs on the
“government land” and thin them out so it
won’t be such a breeding ground sanctuary for
them to slip in and out of?
Some have suggested poison or sterility
pills. That will never fly since other species
would be poisoned or sterilized. If you are
considering poisoning them yourself we can
use the hot phrase, “Don’t even go there.”
You would be in a lot of trouble from several
government agencies. My dogs and I would
be glad to give chase on your place if it isn’t
too far. 903 439 8110. Hopefully some of
these methods will work for you. We all agree;
something needs doing about the troublesome
rooters.
Birthright’s Buddy Smith and Harold
Hawkins caught a fifty five pound blue catfish
a week or so ago. Buddy said the next morning
there were two guys from Oklahoma waiting
at the store when he got there. They wanted
him to guide them in and catch a big catfish.
He said he was just too busy. Joe Jenkins
was listening and said he couldn’t go fishing
because years ago he caught so many it sunk
the boat and drowned all the fish he had caught.
Three times it happened. The game wardens
barred him from fishing for killing all those
fish. Sit around a country store sometimes and
hear some good stories.
A guy and his sister wanted to buy their
mama a new mattress so when the woman
went to visit she was supposed to measure
the bed. She did not have a measuring tape so
he brother told her to use a dollar bill which
was six inches long. She told him she couldn’t
because she only had a five.
A man was running for representative
and went to the Indian reservation to make a
speech. Trying to get some votes. Every few
minutes he would have to stop talking while
the Indians hollered “Hoya, hoya.” After his
speech he toured the reservation and went to
see the cattle. The chief told him to be careful
and not step in any hoya.
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That Wonderful Year 1965
According to the Thursday,
April 1, 1965 issue of the
Cooper Review:
Less than two weeks remains for vehicle
owners to secure 1965 safety inspection
stickers. The period set by law for securing
the 1965 stickers ends at midnight, April 15.
North Hopkins County Water
Development Corporation is the name of an
organization, which has been formed in an
effort to provide water for approximately 300
families in the Northern section of Hopkins
County, according to information given The
Review by W.S. Long, superintendent of
North Hopkins School.
Thirty-four students from Booker T.
Washington School in Cooper wifi enter
literary and track events in the annual
Interscholastic League meet in Commerce,
Saturday, April 3, competing against other
schools in the district.
A full week of activities has been planned
by the Cooper FHA Chapter to observe
National Future Homemakers Week beginning
April 4 and continuing through April 10. The
seventy-five members of the local chapter are
joining approximately one-half million girls
throughout the nation in the observance.
The 1965 Exposition of Scouting wifi open
at the National Guard Armory, Cooper, at 6:00
p.m., April 3. Cub Scout Packs, Boy Scout
Troops, and Explorer Posts from Delta and
Hopkins Counties and the city of Commerce
wifi display Scouting in Action in 22 booths
with action ranging from handicrafts to camp
craft, making birdhouses to making rope,
playing games to respects due the American
Flag.
Billy Parkhill, recipient of Alpha Chi
national scholarship group Awards, wifi
be among the sixty-four East Texas State
University scholarship winners to be honored
for their academic achievement at an annual
Honors Day program and reception on the
ETSU campus Friday, April 2.
Cooper wifi lose its National Guard unit
under the proposed Army Reserve-National
Guard merger plan ordered by the Defense
Department late last year.
Next week the Easter Seal Campaign in
Cooper wifi be accelerated with a “Parade”
and Coffee Sale Days.
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