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Cooper Review - Page 2 Thursday, November 18, 2010
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,
I read with interest the letter to the editor
in the Nov. 11 issue of the Cooper Review by
Ms. Carol B. King.
Like Ms. King I too was born in Delta
County and have lived my entire adult life
in Delta County except for two years in The
Navy during World War Two and five or six
months working in Dallas.
I have lived in the same house for forty six
years. I have no problem with people moving
into the County we need all the tax payers we
can get.
That ad she mentioned was no more
offensive than the Republican ones saying
how honest and conservative they were
implying that the present office holders were
not, or the one on the wagon on west Dallas
Avenue stating if you vote Democratic this
might be your mode of transportation, or the
one of the Cooper Square on Sunday morning
before the election stating it is time for a clean
sweep of the Court House.
I too served on The Chamber of Commerce
Board of Directors for about five years.
It was my understanding that the Chamber
was a non partison organization but in the
last few years it has become anything but
nonpartison. How sad.
Thomas Peters
Cooper, TX
In Years Gone By
From the files of The Cooper Review
Ten Years Ago
The 2000 Cross Country
Season began September
9, at the North Hopkins
Invitational Meet. At that
time, Cooper had eight High
School girl runners 2 High
School boy runners and three
Junior High Girl runners.
A Veteran’s Day program
was held in Cooper
Elementary’s Gym Tuesday,
November 7, 2000. Mrs.
Cindy Slakey served as
emcee of the program. A
Brownie Troop, lead by miss
Veola Booker, served as the
Color Guard while Aaron
Rushing lead the Pledge of
Allegiance.
Eighth grader Samuel Knox
and Junior Jennifer Smith
were awarded the Band Beau
and Sweetheart for the 2000-
2001 year. The Band Beau
and Sweetheart were voted on
by the Cooper High School
Band. Congratulations to
these two.
Meeting with the captains
and officials at the middle
of the field to start the game
were Drew Conley, Chase
Chadwick, Justin Bacy and
Adam Saw. Caddo Mills won
the toss, chose to take the ball
and Cooper too the south
end. Matt Byrd kicked off
with the ball going to about
the twenty-yard line. Caddo
was able to return it to their
40 before being stopped by
Matt Taylor and J.R. Early.
Nash Helms, age 9 killed
his first deer. It was a 4 point
buck. Grandparents, Billy
and Wanda Helms said he
was one excited boy.
Twenty Years Ago
Six bids to provide
ambulance service in Delta
County in 1991 were opened
Tuesday afternoon during the
Delta County Commissioners
Court meeting. The Court
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TEXAS PRESS
ASSOCIATION
took the bids for study and
will make a decision Friday
morning at ten o’clock.
Cooper Bulldogs will enter
playoff competition this
Friday, November 16 against
New Diana, District 18AA
Champions. The Bi-district
Playoff Game will be at
Edgewood at 7:30 pm.
Ms. Wendy Wolfe,
elementary counselor from
Sulphur Springs, presented
a program to Cooper fourth
grade students on November
7,1990. Mrs. Murray, Cooper
School nurse arranged for
Ms. Wolfe to tell the children
about friendship.
Thirty Years Ago
At 12:10 p.m. Monday,
local attorney B. Truman
Ratliff administered the oath
of office ot newly elected
county officials C. Michael
Ederer, County Attorney;
Pauline George St. Clair,
Tax Assessor-Collector;
Judge Troy E. Kern; and
Gadson Dodd, Precinct Two
Commissioners.
The Cooper Bulldogs
rightfully claimed the District
16AA championship last
Friday night after taking a 36-
0 win over the Honey Grove
Warriors. The victory puts
the Bulldogs into Bi-District
play with 15AA Champions
Pilot Point Friday night at
McKinney.
Forty Years Ago
After a ten-month tour
in Vietnam, John Bartley
Silman returned home. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Silman and is married to the
former Miss Judy Butler who
has been teaching in Cooper
Junior High School here until
he could return and assume
his teaching duties.
Miss Helen Crawford of
Tyler, formerly of Cooper, was
presented a special 35-year
service award plaque from
the U.S. Justice Department
in ceremonies November
5. Miss Crawford recently
retired as administrative
assistant with the MarshalFs
Service in Tyler.
Fifty Years Ago
Sherria Choate, was elected
by members of the 1960
Cooper High School Grid
Team as Football Sweetheart
Tuesday afternoon.
Total ginnings in Delta
County as on November 6
were listed at 11,251 bales.
fesa
On The River
With FT
Where the heck is Nashoba
Tuesday, November 9, no carpenters were
scheduled to work on our new house so we
drove to Oklahoma to check out the fall
colors. Where will the price of ice stop? At a
convenience store in Paris ten pounds of ice
was $2.19. Thank goodness I learned to make
mine in the freezer at home. A young lady was
filling up her pickup with gasoline. Hooked to
the pickup was a small trailer with two wild
hogs inside. Said she lived at Birthright and
her fourteen year old son, Jordan, trapped
them, his first ever. She was taking them to be
processed at Detroit, I think it was.
As we drove and looked at the bright colors
sumac made its bid for prettiest red. I remember
growing up when sumac was called shumate
bushes by the older folks. Our “every year or
two” stop at the old time Busy Bee Cafe in
Hugo was a little disappointing. Preformed
patties are now being used for hamburgers.
It once fit the mold of the old time greasy
and irresistible hamburger places like every
town once had. East of Hugo we turned north
and visited the actual site of the old fort two
miles northwest of the present town of Fort
Towson. Lots of ruins that have deteriorated
since being built in 1824. This originally was a
frontier outpost under Col. Matthew Arbuckle.
Reckon he’s the one the Arbuckle Mountains
are named after? Moles and gophers seemed
very numerous as we saw piles of sand and
ridges. During the Civil War the fort was
used by Confederates under the command of
General Samuel B. Maxey. Another general,
Native American Stand Watie, was in charge
at the end of the war and surrendered at Fort
Towson on June 23, 1865. He was the last
Confederate general to surrender.
Back at the entrance we turned north on a
county road instead of going back to the
highway. Surely this heavily traveled gravel
road will come out west of Broken Bow. Many
hickories campaigned for prettiest yellows
and got my vote. We sure hate to back track
but after a few miles the road got smaller and
dead ended at a home just across a railroad
track. Back south to the highway and east
toward Idabel. Yonder is that paper mill. The
unusual smell lets you know if the wind is
from the south. I have always wondered how
to describe that smell and Jean came through
with an answer. It smells a lot like turnips
cooking. In front of the mill was a historical
marker for the nearby Clear Creek Water Mill
that was already being used to grind corn by
1819. Later, two artesian wells were dug to
provide water for Valliant.
From Idabel we moved on north through
Broken Bow to Beavers Bend State Park. Just
off Highway 259 you are greeted by a new
visitor center. Lots of information, a giant
stuffed rattlesnake, and Indian artifacts. Zack
was glad to see there were no hateful signs
about No Dogs, Pets Not Allowed, and Pets on
a Leash Only. He was free to roam the lawn,
cautioned by only the cute warning sign, “No
Poop Zone.” Circling through the park we saw
the customary zillion gray squirrels before
exiting at the north entrance. North on 259
toward Smithville. Red maples challenged the
sumac for best reds.
Realizing we didn’t have time to make the
Talimena Drive we turned west near Octavia
on narrow and winding Highway 144 lined
with colorful trees. At one place we had to
back up and take a picture of a sign with a
Bigfoot silhouette and proclaiming “Bigfoot
Crossing.” A nearby store sold Bigfoot tee
shirts and other souvenirs. Looks like there
will have to be a return trip some day with
the grandkids. Soon a sign pointed north and
promised we could find Joslin Valley off down
a tiny road. Maybe check that next time. A
few miles more and we came to the thriving
community of Nashoba, complete with
school, community center, and volunteer fire
department. On west through Snow, Finley,
Antlers, and finally Hugo on our way home.
Try this route for a nice and colorful drive
before the leaves fall off.
Phil Thompson from the St. Cloud, Minnesota
area wrote concerning the old pickup with
sideboards. He remembers the 1965 movie,
The Rounders, starring Glen Ford and Henry
Fonda. A horse trader, played by Chill Wills,
sold two cowboys, Ford and Fonda, an
unbreakable horse. They figured since they
couldn’t stop it from bucking they would
just take it to rodeos and bet cowboys they
couldn’t ride it. They hauled the horse in an
old pickup sporting sideboards. Along the
way they picked up two good looking female
hitch hikers which led to skinny dipping and
all kinds of carrying on. Thanks. Phil. Reckon
a guy could rent that movie somewhere?
On November 21, the star Aldebaron, bright
orange “eye” of Taurus the Bull, is below the
Moon and to its right on the 22n^ Taurus can
be recognized by its V shape. Aldebaron is at
the end of one of the legs on the V. On the
21st notice the small, blurry group of stars, the
Pleiades or Seven Sisters, near the Moon.
How ‘bout a few puns to end the article this
week. The fattest knight at King Arthur’s
round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired
his large size from too much pi. I thought I
was going to see an eye doctor on an Alaskan
island but it was an optical Aleutian. She was a
whiskey maker but he loved her still. A rubber
band pistol was confiscated in algebra class
because it was a weapon of math disruption. A
dog gave birth to some puppies near a highway
and was given a ticket for littering.
Two silkworms had a race and ended up in a
tie. A hole has been found in the nudist colony
fence. Police are looking in to it. Atheism is
a non prophet organization. Two hats were
on a rack. One said, “You stay here. I’ll go
on a head.” I wondered why the baseball was
getting bigger and bigger. Then it hit me.
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That Wonderful Year 1965
According to the Thursday, November 18,
1965 issue of the Cooper Review:
Cooper High School teachers and student
body, selected as Student of the Month for
October, Student Council president Tony
Stanley. The seventeen-year-old senior is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Stanley ofRoute3,
Cooper.
Several Cooper churches will unite for the
annual Thanksgiving religious service, which
this year will be held at the First Methodist
Church on Wednesday, Nov. 24, at 7:30 p.m.
Charles Janes Bailey of Cooper was one
of thirty-three East Texas State University
students recently selected for honors in the
Who’s Who Among Students in American
Universities and Colleges.
The Cooper Bulldogs basketball schedule
for the 1965-66 season was released this week
by the CHS coaching staff and includes three
tournaments, nine non-conference games and
ten conference.
Linda Echols and Allen Beeler, Delta
County 4-H Club Gold Star winners, will be
honored along with thirty-five other 4-H Club
boys and girls in District 5 at the annual Gold
Star banquet on December 4 at Carlton Hotel
in Tyler.
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