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Cooper Review - Page 2
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Letter to the Editor
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To the Editor:
When I was a little girl growing up in
Delta County many years ago, I would walk
with my brother down a muddy country road
called “Blackwell Lane,” we would walk
through Doctor’s Creek Bottom, walking into
the “Granny’s Neck” community, to the big
white house on the hill. Each time we passed
the pink house, called the “Pink Palace,” the
Blackwell’s family home,
I would dream, someday I will live in a
pink house. I will meet governors, senators,
and serve on a state board. I have served
on many boards and programs, Special
Olympics, senior citizens, and many others. I
would dream I would have cattle grazing on
the hills.
The years have passed and every dream
has come true. I tell people watch what you
dream, it may come true.
I’m old now, there is one special dream
left, a cure for cancer in my lifetime. I tell
everyone, dare to dream.
Truly Yours,
Dorothy Poole
Lone Oak, Texas
In Years Gone By
From the files of The Cooper Review
Ten Years Ago
Perfect fishing weather
greeted the seventy-eight
teams that checked in at
the Pro Tour Tackle &
Fisherman’s Landing Motel
for the Chamber-sponsored
6th annual Cooper Lake
Bass Classic. This year’s
Tournament was the largest
Chamber Classic adding eight
more teams over last year’s
entries. Terry Garner, son
of Mike and Kathy Garner,
owners of Pro Tour Tackle &
Fisherman’s Landing Motel,
probably played some part
in the increased interest due
to his catch of a 15.17 pound
bass that gave him the new
Lake Record for Cooper
which he caught the Sunday
before the Tournament.
Over 100 of Cooper
Elementary’s brightest stars
performed on the high school
stage in the 1999 PTO Variety
Show. Five hundred family
and friends were entertained
by piano playing, singing,
and dancing. Principal Gary
McCain emceed the show
in his high school letterman
jacket and rolled up blue
jeans. He opened the show by
singing “Can’t Help Falling
in Love”.
Twenty Years Ago
Tory Humphries, 1987
Cooper High School graduate,
was recently named president
of Sigma Chi Fraternity at
East Texas State University,
which has a membership of
fifty-five.
A sophomore student
majoring in business and
journalism, Humphries will
attend a training session in
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Wyoming in August. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Danny
Humphries.
Thirty Years Ago
Bobby Irvin as Mayor
and Mrs. JoAnn Preas,
alderman—the first woman
to serve on the City Council,
took the oath of office for their
respective positions on the
Cooper City Council Monday
night. Attorney James Allison
administeredthe oaths. Elected
Alderman Wade Bledsoe and
Owen Box will be sworn in at
a later date.
Electors in the Cooper
Independent School District
elected Mrs. Ann Ray Miller
and Robert Wright to the two
positions vacant on the Board
of Trustees from a field of
four.
Harvey Hohenberger,
former coach and teacher
at Cooper, was named high
school principal by the Cooper
School Board of Trustees
Wednesday night, April 4.
Forty Years Ago
The Forty-Fourth Annual
Convention of the Red River
Valley Association meeting
Monday and Tuesday in
Shreveport, La., adopted two
resolutions concerning the
Cooper Dam and Reservoir.
The first resolution proposed
changing the name of the
multimillion-dollar project
on South Sulphur River from
Cooper Dam and Reservoir
to Wright Patman Dam
and Reservoir. The second
resolution requested the
association’s endorsement
of the local entities bid
for an increase in federal
appropriations from $500,000
to $2,300,000 in construction
money.
Voters in the Cooper
Independent School District
went to the polls last Saturday
in slightly larger numbers than
in prior years and returned
Troy Stockton of Enloe and
Finnell Johnson of Cooper to
their positions on the Board of
Trustees.
B.F. McGuyer and W.O.
Wallace, candidates for re-
election to their positions
on the county school board
received no opposition in the
election held in conjunction
with the Cooper balloting.
In the largest voter
turnout since formation
of the aldermanic form of
government for the City of
Cooper, Joe A. Chancellor was
returned to the mayoralty post
in last Saturday’s election.
In the alderman’s race,
incumbent Gene Leslie and
Fred DePoyster were elected
to serve two-year terms.
Holy Highway
Recently I got a call from the Holy
Highway Girls Home in Pickton. They wanted
afield trip, or nature hike.The day arrived and I
met the group at the Charleston Square. There
were four staff members and twenty two young
ladies from thirteen years old up to seventeen.
These girls have had problems at home and
parents pay tuition to the school with the
usual stay being nine to twelve months. About
half are from Texas with others from places
like Nevada, California, Colorado, Tennessee
and more. The girls receive regular school
subjects and even take the TAKS test in this
Christian theme school. Phone calls home are
not allowed for several weeks and with proper
progress, a visit home can be made in six to
eight months.
While at the Charleston Square we talked
about the history of the community, tasted
some spicy bark from the tickle tongue tree,
examined a colorful mud snake, and learned
the difference in poisonous and non poisonous
snakes. Recent rains had the black land road
to the cabin too muddy for cars so I hauled a
third of the group at a time on a small trailer
pulled with my four wheeler.
As we walked along trails through the
woods, Zack, a favorite of the group, ran and
looked for critters to chase. Along the way we
found and learned about a five lined skink (a
shiny, striped lizard), Texas lined snake, moss
on the north side of trees, hearts a bustin’ trees,
three toed box turtles, poison oak, lichens,
and much more. Wind had blown over Jean’s
large plastic deer stand and Zack smelled a rat
under it. He stood beside the stand and looked
at me like, “Come raise this up, please.” When
I raised it up an Eastern wood rat and several
mice ran out, some right through the middle
of the girls. You never heard at the like of
squealing.
The group brought sandwiches for
lunch and we traveled a different trail in the
afternoon. Teachers with the group were Brian
Burton, Charlotte Ham, Sandra Morgan, and
Amy Phillips. As they left about 3:00 pm they
were excited about the trip and I wished them
the best in the future.
From the past: Dr. C. T. Clark this
morning exhibited a water snake almost seven
inches long which had been pumped from
the stomach of a fifteen year old boy living
near Madres, east of town. The boy became
violently ill Friday afternoon. A physician, Dr.
Terry, was summoned and found the patient
suffering greatly from a deranged stomach.
Medicine failed to relieve the pain, and as a
last hope, a pump was applied to the stomach
and the contents removed. Along with the
food the boy had eaten was the little snake.
Upon being questioned by the doctor the boy
stated he had eaten two or three leaves from
the top of a turnip and then drank heartily from
a nearby spring in which small water snakes
were often noticed. (Clarksville - November
25, 1906)
April 12 find Antares, the brightest star
in Scorpio the Scorpion, close to the Moon
as it rises about midnight and even closer as
daylight approaches. April 18 Jupiter is a little
to the lower left of the Moon at first light low
in the southeast. Mark your calendar for the
Lyrid meteor shower for April 21.
Did you know section: Chubby Checker’s
real name is Ernest Evans. Born in 1941 in South
Carolina and was a high school classmate of
Fabian. Ernest was doing street corner music
at age eight in Philadelphia. Later worked at
a produce store where the boss gave him the
Chubby name. As his music improved he was
doing an audition for the Dick Clark show and
after he did a Fats Domino song Dick’s wife
asked his name. He said his friends called him
Chubby. With the “Domino” fresh in her mind
from the song, she asked, “Do you mean like
in “Chubby Checker?” (Chubby is like Fats
and a checker is like a domino.) The name
was born. According to the internet, Chubby
Checker is the only person to ever have five
albums in the top twelve. Take that, Elvis,
Mariah Carey, and Beatles.
A young man got so tired of going to
weddings and all the grandmotherly types
elbowing him in the ribs and saying, “You’re
next.” Told his friend he finally broke them
from doing that. His friend asked him how he
stopped them and he said, “I started doing the
same thing at funerals.”
A social worker from Massachusetts
recently transferred to the hills of North
Carolina and was making visits the first week.
She came upon the tiniest cabin she ever saw
and just had to go ask about it. While knocking
on the door she hollered and asked if anybody
was home. A kid’s voice came back through
the door that there was. She asked if his Pa
was there and the kid said he left before his
mother came in. Well is your mother there?
No, she left before I came in. But are you ever
together as a family? Sure we are but not here.
This is the outhouse.
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That Wonderful Year 1964
According to the Thursday, April 2, 1964 issue of the Cooper Review
Mrs. L.F. Hooten Sr. will be guest speaker when the Cooper Lions Club meets in luncheon
session tomorrow (Friday) noon. She is expected to give many pertinent facts about the history
of Delta County where she has spent her entire life. Through the years Mrs. Hooten has kept
files dealing with all sections of Delta County, noting progress as well as decline in the various
communities of the county.
The eighty-five members of the Cooper Chapter are joining approximately one-half million
Future Homemakers of America throughout the nation in observing National FHA Week, April
6-11.
Post offices throughout the nation, including Cooper, are flying the American Flag at half-
mast this week in tribute to General of the Army Douglas McArthur. They will continue to
fly until the generaFs funeral next Saturday in Norfolk, Va. The flags are also at half-mast on
the high seas at all American installations throughout the world. President Lyndon B. Johnson
ordered that the American flag be lowered in tribute to the famous general immediately after
hearing of his death.
G.C. Adrain, Educational Officer of the Texas Forest Service, spoke to the East Delta 4-
H Club Monday evening, April 6, in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tomas Peters. Introduced by
County Agent James Risinger, the guest speaker, following his lecture, showed a film entitled
“The Everglades of Florida.”
Waterway management is an important part of the conservation work being carried out by
cooperators of the Delta Soil Conservation District. The importance of the grassed waterway
is realized only when it is considered that the entire terrace system must depend on it for
stabilization. Once a waterway is shaped and sodded, the maintenance and management is a
yearly job. Waterways should be watched for washouts after each rain. These washouts are
usually small, caused from soil cracking or thin soil. They are usually repaired with a little sod
and fertilizer.
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