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Thursday, August 5, 2010
Dear Editor
The gathering at the Cooper Park to aid
the Veteran’s Memorial at Love Civic Center
was such a learning experience. A bushel of
THANKS goes to ALL of the volunteers who
worked so hard to let our veterans know that
we do thank them.
The entertainment was over the top. From
the flag being carried on horseback, music
from our own Baptist choir, our Roxton friend
singing “Boogey, Woogy Bugle Boy From
Company C”, Pitty Pat, guest from all over
singing and/or playing patriotic music, ending
with taps.
As Congressman Hall said, “It is such a
pleasure to go to a gathering where smiles
show our appreciation to our veterans-and not
hear one political statement.”
Again wow! And again, thanks.
Mary Dee Mitchell
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In Years Gone By
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From the files of The Cooper Review
Ten Years Ago
The First Baptist Church
of Cooper will celebrate
their 125th anniversary of
the charter of the church on
August 13th, 2000.
The day’s activities will
begin at 8:30 a.m. with coffee,
juice and doughnuts. This will
be followed at 9 a.m. with a
time of singing, testimonies
and special music which
will include The Lighthouse
Gospel Quartet.
Texas Comptroller Carole
Keeton Rylander recently
delivered a total of 208.9
million in monthly sales tax
rebate payments to 1,106
Texas cities andll9 counties.
July payments were up 16.9
per cent compared to July of
1999.
Stress reduction expert
Richard Carlson PhD is the
best selling author of “Don’t
Sweat the Small Stuff’ and
“It’s All Small Stuff’. Irene
Bryant will review this book
at the August 14, meeting of
the Bereaved Parent Support
Group. Dr. Carlson says “that
stress is a signal to stop ad
take a deep breath, this is the
key.” He states that worry
happens in our head and that
your life is your message to
your child.
This past Sunday
morning we drove into town
and noticed that a small
band of workers were busily
chipping, digging and huddled
over the southeast corner of
the square. This hardy little
band of dedicated souls was
busy trying to determine the
best way to clean, replace
and reglue the bricks on the
square. Don't envy one bit the
task that lies before them.
Twenty Years Ago
Tonya Michelle Jones and
Donald Edward Sills, both of
Commerce, were united in
marriage June 16 in a semi-
formal ceremony at the home
of the bride’s parents, Don
and Jane Jones, 511 South
East 10th Street in Cooper.
Territorial jurisdiction
in the area east and south
of Cooper to Doctor's creek
Park on the Cooper Lake
was a question discussed by
the Cooper City Council on
Monday night and passed on
to City Attorney Jay Garrett,
who is expected to look into
this issue as it applies to future
development and growth of
the city.
Thirty Years Ago
A two ton pumper has
been delivered to Klondike
Volunteer Fire Department
providing the western sector of
the county with much needed
fire fighting equipment. With
Klondike, five volunteer
fire departments are now
in operation in the county-
Cooper, Pecan Gap, Enloe
and Charleston.
Leasing of land in Delta
County for possible oil
exploration has stepped up
considerably within the past
month or so, and sites of
seismograph equipment has
become familiar throughout
the county. The renewed
interest has been prompted
partly by a new field around
Bogata in Red River County
and drilling across South
Sulphur River in Hopkins
County.
Delta County is one of
forty nine Texas counties
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TEXAS PRESS
ASSOCIATION
listed as disaster areas by
Governor Bill Clements
Monday as a result of an
estimated $500 million in
actual agricultural losses
because of the prolonged
drought in this state. Many
of the counties are along and
west of 1-35, but there are two
east (Delta and Red River),
five northeast and two north
central counties.
Forty Years Ago
Eight young people and
five adults from First Baptist
Church here have joined
similar groups from Red River
Valley Baptist Association
on a missionary excursion
to Mexico. Included in the
group are Martha Shaffer,
Martha Chandler, Denise
Wood, Delores Toon, Debbie
Sanders, Mark Choate, John
Scott, Oscar Janes, Rev. and
Mrs. Richard Tatum, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Nimmo and
Mrs. Johnny Shaw.
MRs. Nell Brice was
hostess to a dinner party at
Caperton’s Friday evening.
Guest were Mrs. J. C. Smith,
Mrs. Neva Robinson, and
MRs. Joe Avery.
Fifty Years Ago
Paul Skinner of Carrollton
has been named by the Delta
Farm Bureau as Service
Agent to fill the vacancy
created by the resignation
Tom Woodson.
Local residents, attending
a public hearing on the
proposed SH-24 By-pass
north of Cooper expressed
objections to the project, one
stated that it would be the
“death of Cooper.” A group is
getting together to oppose the
By-pass.
On The River
With FT
WOW! WOW!
The ten foot surf rod was baited with cut
mullet and ready as I drew back to swing.
One last look at the line and bait to make sure
nothing was tangled then swing it as hard as I
can. As I turned toward the water to follow the
bait with my eyes, what a surprise! A Caspian
tern was on the same flight plan as my bait.
Somehow the bait bounced off the gull-like
bird and it kept flying. Never before have I hit
a bird while casting a line. Excited about the
unusual experience but aggravated at the short
and interrupted cast I began to reel in the line
for another throw. As soon as I started reeling
I felt a tug. My disappointment turned into
anticipation as I reeled in a seventeen inch,
beautiful red drum. What
are the odds of hitting a bird
that interferes with a cast and
the bait falling right in a red
drum’s mouth? Over the last
couple of years I’ve notice a
new “buzz word.” More and
more often I hear people say,
“Wow.” Sometimes to be in
style I use it myself. Well,
those two events on one
cast are gonna get a “Wow!
Wow!” from me.
Immediately I thought
of a joke received in an
email. God and Jesus were
playing golf. God’s drive headed straight for
the lake. Just before it hit the water a big bass
jumped up and swallowed the ball. Before the
bass could drop back into the lake an eagle
scooped him up. The eagle flew off with the
bass and just as they passed over the green the
bass spit out the ball which fell right into the
cup. Jesus said, “All right Daddy. If you don’t
quit showing out I’m not gonna play with you
anymore.” Now for the rest of the story.
Not often do we have a chance to stay in
a beach house but the last week of July, Jean,
Zack, and I were invited to one by the Dan
Pickering family. They wanted us to show
them how to catch bait, where and how to fish,
and such. They could also use my fishing gear
and not have to buy any. Welton Pickering was
the instigator of the trip when he found out the
agriculture teachers’ week-long conference
was in Galveston this summer. He teaches ag
at Alba Golden and thought two birds could
be killed with one rock. Attend class most of
the day then fish and visit the rest. Sunday
afternoon, Dan, Jennie, Jennie’s mom, Betty
Wiggins, rat terrier Dally, and Welton arrived
at the house. Welton’s fiance, Jeri Goodale,
would arrive later. Zack didn’t know about
climbing those tall stairs and peeping between
the rails down to the ground.
But let’s go back to our trip to the coast
and mention a couple of items. As Jean and I
are liable to do we jumped the gun and went
to the coast on Saturday, a full day ahead of
the rest. We would probably have been some
of those Sooners back in the land rush days.
The first unusual happening was related to our
having a new house built. You know how you
give the contractor a check every few weeks.
Just before we left for Galveston, we gave
a check to one of contractor Mark Baird’s
Somehow the
bait bounced off
the gull-like bird
and it kept flying.
Never before have
I hit a bird while
casting a line.
employees, my nephew, Rodney Hocutt. Mark
was off somewhere on business. After we left
on our trip Rodney noticed Jean had filled out
the check wrong. For example, she had written
thirty eight and no one hundredths instead of
thirty eight hundred and no one hundredths.
Rodney called Mark and Mark called us.
Hmmmm. Trying to skip out after leaving a
bad check, huh? He didn’t say that though and
we had a big laugh. Jean was definitely not
used to writing that big of a check.
An hour or so later Mark called again.
Since we were heading for the coast we might
pass near him. We could meet up and write
him another check. What’s the odds that we
were on Interstate 45, fourteen miles north of
Corsicana and on a collision course with Mark
coming in from the west,
seven miles from Corsicana.
Wow! He headed us off!
You can’t get away if you
give him a bad check. We
met at the Corsicana DQ
just off the interstate and
had a big laugh. When I
first talked to Mark on the
phone, Jean thought he was
in his plane and had chased
us down. Said she had never
been chased by a plane for
giving a bad check.
After leaving Mark we
drove on south and stopped
near Madisonville at the best tourist trap I
ever saw. You know how you are many times
disappointed as you visit tourist traps. Well,
this store is almost worth the trip all by itself.
It is called Buk-ee’s like in Bucky Beaver. (We
did not sample the highly advertised Beaver
Nuggets.) Twenty pounds of ice for ninety
nine cents and unlike the store in Quitman,
they really had it. Thirty two gas pump islands
with two nozzles per island. Twenty one kinds
of jerky. A regular stop for tour buses. Twice
as big as a Love’s Truck Stop. More cars in the
parking lot than Wal-Mart. More and cleaner
bathrooms than Cowboy Stadium. Well, maybe
not quite as many. You’ll just have to go see
what all. Don’t need to fill up all my space
here with that but it was one of the highlights
of the trip. As we pulled back on the interstate,
I called back home to tell Dan to be sure and
stop when they came by. He shocked me by
saying the Charleston Methodist preacher,
Gary Regan, was visiting, and they had just
been talking about the great Buc-ee’s near
Madisonville. They both stop there when
passing through. Now what’s the odds of them
talking about that store while I was in there?
Wow! I may have to start playing the lottery
again. More next week.
The email hoax about Mars appearing as
big as the Full Moon is alive and well as I have
received six notices this week. That hoax has
been going around for about three years now
I think. No way can any planet ever appear as
big as the Full Moon.
Two guys met on the sidewalk. Both were
dragging a foot. As they met, one guy said,
“Vietnam, 1969.” The other said, “Dog poop.
Twenty yards back.”
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That Wonderful Year 1965
According to the
Thursday, August 5, 1965
issue of the Cooper Review:
The state draft quota
for August calls for 891
men, compared to 908 for
the month of July, Colonel
Morris. S. Schwartz, state
Selective Service director,
has announced.
Eddy Willmon has
accepted the position of Work
Unit Conservationist for the
Soil Conservation Service in
Friona, Texas. Willmon is a
1957 graduate of Pecan Gap
High School and attended
Paris Junior College before
graduating from Texas
Technological College,
Lubbock, Texas in January
1962.
Enrollment for the second
six weeks of summer school
at East Texas State University
is 2,582 an increase of 23.9
percent over a year ago,
according to Registrar John
Winded.
An open-air revival
sponsored by the Cooper
Assembly of God and the
Calvary Assembly of God
in Paris, opened last Sunday
evening in the Gadston
Community 12 miles south
of Paris on State Highway 24.
Services wifi be held daily at
7:30 through August 15, it
is announced by the Rev. J.
E. Wilkinson, pastor of the
Cooper Church. Evangelists
participating in the revival
include the Rev. Leo Miller;
lay preacher of the local
church, the Rev. Charles
Cox, Calvary pastor and his
assistant, the Rev. Ray S.
Preston.
The 47th annual East Delta
Area Reunion, which was held
last Sunday at the Holiness
Tabernacle in Charleston,
drew 800 people from nine
states, including residents and
former residents.
One week from next
Monday members of the
Cooper High School 1965
football team wifi meet
Head Coach A. J. Brazil
Newsom for the first workout
allowed under rules of the
Interscholastic League.
Mrs. C. E. Whitlock has
accepted a position to teach
third grade in the Weaver
Elementary School at Garland
the coming season.
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