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Cooper Review - Page 2
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Dear Editor:
You published the regulations for placing
political signs a few weeks ago. I would
appreciate it if you would inform the public
that it is illegal to pull up and or remove these
signs from public and private property. I am
a candidate for County Treasurer of Delta
County and have had several signs pulled up
and or removed. I get permission before I put
up a sign and it disturbs me to think someone
is so unthoughtful of others property. These
signs are not free and it costs money to drive
and put them out.
Thank you in advance
Glynana Herin
Candidate for Delta County Treasurer
In Years Gone By
From the files of The Cooper Review
Ten Years Ago
Bulldogs. David Stapp, the
new band director, also made
his debut with the band. The
new squad of cheerleaders
was in good form with their
cheers.
Twenty Years Ago
Mr. and Mrs. Benny
Brown of Paris announce the
engagement and approaching
marriage of their daughter,
Lisa Ann, to Paul Gene
Manager Ruth Mahoney, “and Abston, son of Mr. and Mrs.
we want to make the process of Billy Abston of Cooper,
obtaining help easier for them The Cooper Bulldogs won
by having a dedicated person their first game of the season
on the telephone to help them by defeating the Royse City
Making food stamps
more accessible for low-
income citizen age 60 and
over in Delta, Lamar and
Red River counties is the
goal of the EZ Access for
Seniors pilot project at the
Texas Department for Human
Services. “We know there are
many of our senior citizens
with need help with their
grocery bills,” states Program
through the process.”
A “pre-poll” rally for
Delta County youth will be
held at the New life Baptist
Church, Sunday evening at
7:30 p.m. There will be food,
a band, and a special guest
speaker. Miller’s Pharmacy
and the Methodist Church are
sponsoring the event, along
with other area churches.
It will be a time of fun,
fellowship and frivolity.
See You at the Pole, the
nationally noted student-
lead prayer time, has
been scheduled for 7 a.m,
Wednesday, September 20,
2000. Students are invited to
Bulldogs.
After numerous days
of 100 degree temperature
(101-110 day after day), the
rains finally came in earnest
Monday and by Tuesday
morning the precipitation
measured from a little over
2 V2 inches in Cooper to 4 V2
inches at Mills Hill in the east
end of the county.
Thirty Years Ago
Only tow taxpayers
showed up at the City of
Cooper’s public meeting on
the proposed 15.7% property
tax increase Thursday night
meet at the flagpole in front of and one of the two wanted
their school to pray for friends, to discuss the valuation
teachers, administration,
elected officials and nation.
Effective August 31 st,
E. J. Cates, bobby Kennedy,
and Burle White retired from
the Texas Department of
assessment on some lots he
owned.
Troy Ken, county judge
of Delta County, was re-
elected president of the Ark-
Tex Council of Government
Transportation with a total of Thursday in Mt. Pleasant.
105 years experience.
It’s a new millennium,
a new school year, a new
coaching staff and a new team.
The stands were full of fans as
people came out to support the
Joe and Kim Shaw are
this year’s Young Cooperator
Couple for the Southern
Division of Mid-American
Dairymen, Inc.
Cooper* iRntmu
Owners - Jim and Sally Butler
JimB@Cooperreview.com
Publisher/Editor - Roger Palmer
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Office Manager/Staff Writer - Kimberly Palmer
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Forty Years Ago
The Health Careers Club
of Cooper High School will
open its first meeting with the
installationofofficers. Officers
to be installed are Debra
Bulin, president; Marion
Holdren, vice-president;
Denise Wood, secretary;
Cheryl Young, treasurer;
Oscar Janes, parliamentarian;
Dolores Toon, reporter; and
John Scott, chaplain.
Danny M. Poe, son of
MR. and Mrs. R. N. Poe
of Cooper, has accepted a
fellowship at Rice University
in Houston, and is working
toward a Master’s degree in
English while there.
Fifty Years Ago
Enrollement figures
released this week for the
Cooper schools indicate
there is a small drop in the
numbers form last year. The
total Monday was 719, which
is some 31 less than last
year, when the total was 750.
Majorettes for the Cooper HS
Band this year are Kerry St.
Jones, Karen Adams, Betty
Carolyn Templeton, andKaren
Williamson. Cheerleaders
this year are: Mickey
Newman, Kay Toney, Sherri
Choate, Martha Moss, Bennie
Gibbson, and Ann Simpson. A
new business establishment is
ready for business at Enloe -
the Enloe Bonded Warehouse
Company located between
the bank and cooperative
gin. Jondell Grizzle member
of Cooper FFA Chapter
received an expense paid trip
to the National Convention in
Kansas City, Mo., from Santa
Fe Railroad Company, also
a check from Texas Electric
Utility Companies for winning
the area electrification
contest.
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Two seventeen
Remember when your folks told you
about the good ole days? When they had to
walk fifteen miles to school through the snow
and it was uphill both ways, going to and
coming from. When they would leave at 3:00
on cold mornings to start the fire in the wood
stove for the teacher and receive one penny
for pay. When they would carry their gun to
school with them hoping they could kill a
rabbit for supper. Well, for those of you that
haven’t heard, times have changed. We’ll get
back to that in a minute but first we got to take
a side trail.
If you are a grandparent you probably
know about going to ballgames and other
things your grandkids are involved with. (I
don’t care if I did end that sentence with a
preposition. It just didn’t sound right any other
way.) Thursday, September 9,1 was able to see
three of our eight grandkids perform. Jean was
gone to Sonora on one of her part time jobs and
I drove to Mt. Vernon. First I saw seven year
old Archer at his football practice. Then to the
gym for eighth grader Cameryn’s volleyball
game. Next to Don Meredith Stadium to see
eighth grader Casey in a football game.
At the volleyball game I sat by daughter
Sheila and she asked if I noticed the new
elementary school. I wondered about her next
comment when she asked Archer to tell me his
number. He answered, “Two seventeen” and I
was puzzled. Now we’re getting back to the
part about schools a changing. Every few days
you hear about some little boy or girl getting
kidnapped on the way to or from school or
maybe leaving school with the wrong person.
You may have also heard about bad traffic
jams at schools, especially after school when
parents are waiting to locate their kid.
Here’s what Mt. Vernon is doing to try
to solve both problems for those students
that don’t ride a bus: First off, elementary
students are not allowed to walk to or from
school. Second, each elementary student
has a number written in big numbers on his/
her backpack. Each parent has a card with
their child’s number on their car mirror or
windshield. Fifty yards or so from the loading
zone a school employee stands with a two
way radio and announces the number on the
incoming cars. Other school employees are at
the loading zone with radios and find the kid
with the matching number. There are probably
a lot of schools that use that method but Mt.
Vernon just happened to be the one I heard of
first.
That method works a lot more efficiently
than just turning the kids loose and hoping
everything turns out properly. Seems like
when I was young there was a naughty little
poem that started with, “Schools out, schools
out. Teacher let the mules out. One went
east, one went west...... I have seen kids
running everywhere after school looking for
their folks. Reminds me of working at the
old Leonard Ranch at Sulphur Bluff back in
the Sixties. Ronny Glossup, Buddy Smith,
Bill Hampton, Robert Joslin and I would pen
a herd of cattle then separate the cows and
calves. After working the calves we would let
them all back with the cows. You never saw
at the like of bellowing, bawling, and running
around as they all got paired back up.
While at the Mt. Vernon football game I
noticed a sign of approaching fall. Each year
after raising their young, birds begin gathering
in flocks and getting ready to migrate.
Thursday, hundreds of western kingbirds flew
around and over the field. These birds had
been scattered all over town but somehow
knew when and where to meet. Can’t you
just imagine back in the spring just before
each pair went off on their separate ways they
said something like, “OK y’all, have a good
summer and don’t forget, be at the Mt. Vernon
football field September 9.”
An awkward moment: This has happened
to me a lot of times and I’ve always wondered
why it gives such a funny feeling. Say you’re
at a large store and see someone you know.
After discussing the weather or something
for a few seconds you go on shopping. A few
minutes later you turn the corner, start down
the aisle and there is that same person. You
almost want to turn around and go down
another aisle. You think to yourself, “I already
met and talked to you today. I’m not supposed
to talk to you again. What should I say to you
this time?” I think most of the time I just say,
“Hello again. See you on the next aisle.” Or
maybe I ask, “Are you following me?”
Are you old enough to remember the
Light Crust Dough Boys? Some of my earliest
memories are hearing the phrase, “The light
crust doughboys are on the air.” Then right
after that they sang, “Listen, everybody from
near and far if you want to know who we are.
We’re the light crust doughboys from Burris
Mills.” Many members have passed away
but others have joined to form the longest
running country music band in the world.
They’ve been going strong since 1931. Bob
Wills was one of the organizers and played for
several years before starting his own Texas
Playboys. If you would like to see and hear
the Light Crust Dough Boys and lots of other
great entertainment, attend the Second Annual
Wild West Cowboy Roundup in Garland this
Saturday starting at 10:00 a.m. Many of the
shows will be at State and Sixth Streets but the
Doughboys will perform at the Plaza Theater
at noon and again at 2:00. Look what a lineup:
stage coach rides, chuck wagons, James Drury
(the star of The Virginian), fiddle contest,
various bands all afternoon, David Hartwig
and Skidboot, gunfighter shoot outs, and
square dancing. For more information search
garlandcowboyroundup. com
A four year old girl was saying the Lord’s
Prayer. “And lead us not into temptation but
deliver us some email.”
A man was reading Bible stories to his
young son and got to the part where God
told Lot to take his wife and flee the city. She
looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt.
The little boy asked his dad, “What happened
to the flea?”
A woman and her little boy came home
from shopping and were putting up the
groceries when the little boy poured all the
animal crackers out on the bar. His mom asked
what in the world he was doing and he said,
“It says on the box to not eat these if the seal
is broken and I’m looking for the seal.”
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According to the
Thursday, September 16,
1965 issue of the Cooper
Review:
A Delta County farmer
harvested better than two tons
of milo per acre recently in a
long-range demonstration to
show how the grain crop can
serve as a major soil builder. It
was Vernon Thompson’s first
experience with grain sorghum
grown in a demonstration
of Renner Farming System
in cooperation with Texas
Research Foundation.
September 19-25 has
been designated as National
Highway week in Texas.
“Building Highways For
Tomorrow” will be the theme
of the week-long observance,
sponsored by the Texas Good
Roads Association.
The week was designated
by the Governor John
Connally who said the 66,000-
mile Texas Highway System
is vitally related to the State’s
economy and welfare and
pleasure of all Texans.
Gilbert Burrow, local FHA
County Supervisor, announced
last weekend that Delta County
has been designated eligible for
Farmers Home Administration
Emergency Loans through the
end of the fiscal year, June 30,
1966 due to adverse weather
conditions.
For the past five years,
“jinks” has plagued the
Cooper Bulldogs as far as
games with Clarksville are
concerned. The “jinks” held
again last Friday night as the
Tigers took a decisive 27-0
win. Clarksville crossed the
goal line once in each of the
first three periods, and twice
in the fourth, but had one
called back on penalty.
A letter to the editor of
The Cooper Review written by
Dr. Oscar G. Janes concerning
the current stalemate of the
proposed Cooper Dam and
Reservoir, seems to express
the feelings of the majority.
Dr. Janes, prominent civic
leader, has long been active in
projects promoting the welfare
and economical growth of
Delta County. He is a past
president of the Delta County
Chamber of Commerce and is
presently serving as president
of Cooper Independent School
District board of trustees.
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