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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Voices
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor:
It seems to me that this county is falling
apart. I want to invite everyone possible to be
at the next Commissioners Court meeting at
9:00 a.m. on August 23r^ on the third floor
of the courthouse. They are working on a
budget and the proposed budget that they
talked about last meeting is not at all what
the county needs. They are wanting to cut the
Sheriffs Department by two deputies and two
dispatchers plus but their budget. They are
wanting to cut the JP’s secretary’s salary in half
and add a bookkeeper to the salary. They are
also wanting to keep a $20,000 fund in there
for a maintenance position when the sheriff’s
department from what I see is supplying
them three trustees to do maintenance at the
courthouse for no cost.
Now tell me this, if they are short budgeted
that they do have to cut things then why are
they adding a new position? Is it because
they are friends with the person of this new
position? Why are they keeping funds for
something they don’t need when it could be
used for something else? Why are the only
offices they are cutting ran by people they
don’t like? If they need to cut things why
are they not cutting things straight across the
board?
It doesn’t matter if you’re a democrat or
republican you need to be at this meeting. Not
only are they going to be hurting the families
who have someone working in the positions
they are wanting to cut but they are going to
be hurting the WHOLE COUNTY. This is
just going to be a win for the drug dealers and
thefts in this county. This is exactly what they
want. What will happen when you, them or I
need someone to help us and we call and they
can’t get there right then or they are too busy
to do it because there isn’t enough people
working?
The commissioners and judge are not
thinking of things like this. They are not
thinking of how it will affect the whole county
or themselves for that matter. I hope to see
each and every one of you that are able to
attend no matter what your political views are
at this meeting on August 23r^ at 9:00 a.m.
Stephanie Donaldson
In Years Gone By
From the files of The Cooper Review
Ten Years Ago
In the regular meeting of
the City Council Monday,
August 14, will all members
present except Councilman
Danny Toon present, a
presentation was made to
Mr. Morris Partain for his
many years of service to the
community. Mr. Partain spoke
to the council and thanked
them for the plaque and then
spoke about some of the
projects that he helped with
and mentioned the names of
some who also helped with
the projects.
Mayor Richard Huie is
asking the citizens of Cooper
to voluntarily ration their
outside water usage. Mayor
Huie reported that the new
treatment plant is under
construction and should be
ready by next summer.
Congressman Max
Sandlin will be in Cooper for
a Town Hall Meeting to be
held Wednesday, August 30,
from 8:15 a.m. to 9:15 a.m.
at the Cooper City Council
Chambers located at 91 North
Side Square.
According to a letter sent
out by Congressman Sandlin,
he will visit with the citizens
of Delta County and discuss
“issues that are critical to
East Texas.”
Cooper High School’s
annual “Meet the Bulldog
Night” will be held on
Friday, August 18, 2000,
behind the Cooper Jr/Sr High
School. The night will get
underway with a Jr. Varsity
Inner Squad scrimmage on
the practice field at 6:00 p.m.
Approximately 95 Bulldog
players from the J. V. White,
J. V. Maroon, and Varsity
teams will be introduced
after the scrimmage, around
7:00 p.m. Ice cream will be
provided for the players, their
families and guests.
Twenty Years Ago
Rachel Lynn Watkins and
Thomas Austin Darden were
married in a formal, double
ring ceremony at 7:00 p.m.
on Saturday, August 4, at
the First Untied Methodist
Church in Cooper. The Rev.
Henry Suche officiated.
The bride is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Johnny G.
Watkins of Cooper. She is the
granddaughter of Mr. & Mrs.
Sherwood Toon of Enloe
and Mrs. Wilma Watkins
and the late H. N. Watkins of
Cooper.
The bridegroom is the son
of the late Colonel James W.
Darden and the late Virginia
Young Darden of Cooper.
He is the grandson of the late
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Young of
Frisco and the late Rev. &
Mrs. William A. Darden of
Alabama.
Thirty Years Ago
West Delta Alumni held
their third reunion at the Civic
Center in Cooper Sunday,
August 3. Student from 1947
to 1969 were present. 232
persons registered.
As of Monday morning,
resident of the Pecan Gap
and Ben Franklin areas have
a local justice of the Peace to
call when needed. The Delta
County Commissioner’s
Court appointed Jerry Stevens
of Pecan Gap to reactivate the
office.
Forty Years Ago
One week from today, the
long awaited Delta County
Centennial Celebration will
get underway. The eleven-
day event will officially
commence with a parade
through downtown Cooper at
4 p.m.
Fifty Years Ago
The Rev. Thomas A.
Tunstall accepted the call as
minister of First Christian
Church in Cooper.
Delta County’s first bale
of cotton as reported to the
Cooper Review was grown
by George Burrow and was
brought to the Cooper Co-Op
Gin Monday morning.
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BOIS D’ ARC AND BLUE
Bois d’ arc Creek begins two miles northwest
of Whitewright, winding across Fannin
County before running in to the Red River
west of Direct. This historic creek is sixty
miles long and was praised by Davy Crockett
in a letter back to his family in Tennessee.
Crockett crossed the “Bodark Bayou” as he
called it on his way to the Alamo and planned
to settle there with his family after things
calmed down. Wednesday, August 11, at 8:00
a.m. Junior Larkin and I launched his boat
on Bois d’ arc Creek under the Highway 79
Bridge northwest of Paris.
Junior’s boat is equipped with a twenty three
horsepower Go Devil motor that is built for
shallow water. The propeller sticks straight
out the back instead of going down into the
water a foot or more. You never know when
they will be letting water out at the Lake
Texhoma Dam. If no water is coming out a
regular motor will drag on the bottom. From
the bridge to Red River is about two miles and
on the way we passed a hundred yard strip
where several small springs were running into
Bois d’ arc Creek. Seemed strange to be so
dry but water running into the creek. I had
my Garmin Navigator with me and I call it
Margaret. You can set it so she will talk to
you. The navigator showed us to be traveling
four miles per hour. The coordinates for the
springs are 33 49.363 and 95 51.342.
As we passed through a wider and deeper
part of the creek Junior wanted to see how
fast his boat would go. Margaret told us we
got up to fifteen miles per hour. After slowing
down we arrived at the mouth of Bois d’ arc
at 8:30 and turned west, upriver on Red River.
Coordinates for the mouth are 33 50. 340 and
95 50.714. A long straight stretch on a river
is unusual and is called a reach. As you pull
out into Red River there is a six mile reach
toward the west. Far in the distance you can
see the tall trees that escort the Blue River into
the Red. At 8:45 we came to a large sandbar
attended by thirty or forty Canadian geese. By
9:15 we were nearing the mouth of the Blue
and saw many large pipes driven vertically
into the shallow water on the Oklahoma side.
A lot of floating logs had become lodged on
the pilings and served as a barricade to prevent
further erosion and “caving off’ of the bank.
When we launched at the 79 bridge we noticed
about a two foot mud line on the banks, proof
that water had recently fallen and would be
low in the Red. At 9:20 we reached the mouth
of the Blue River and could not have made the
trip with my 30 hp Evinrude and its regular
propeller. Margaret told us it was six miles
back to the mouth of Bois d’ arc. Coordinates
for the mouth of the Blue are 33 53.127 and
95 55.829. After fishing up in the Blue a while
with no luck we moved out into the current
of the Red and started catching small channel
catfish. There was no wind and the temperature
was already in the high nineties so we had to
pull over to the edge and get in the water. That
was a lifesaver. Man that water felt nice.
On the way back to our pickup we stopped
several times along the Texas bank in the
shade of overhanging trees and continued to
catch channel catfish. Probably threw back
thirty or forty pounds. Raw, peeled shrimp
was used for bait and worked very well. One
of the highlights of the trip was seeing two
mature bald eagles that flew directly over
us at short range. Junior and I both caught a
softshell turtle and mine was a little contrary.
After I took him off the hook it twisted out of
my hand and got under the plywood flooring.
If it had been left there for a few days Junior’s
boat would really have been stinking. Sure
was a chore digging him out. For a good time
take a trip on Red River some time but be
careful and wear a lifejacket.
A few years ago the Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department had a surprise. You could get on
the internet and find a place where you could
remotely control a deer rifle at a deer feeder. A
person could sit at their computer in Chicago
or wherever and kill a deer. By the next year
there were rules in the handbook preventing
such activity. This hot summer may be
leading to another first that causes TP&WD
to make some additions to the hunting and
fishing guide. As the temperature has passed
a hundred for several days this summer more
and more cows are wading out into pools with
water coming almost up to their backs. Catfish
have started nursing the cows. Some friends of
mine have noticed if they sneak up and scare
the cows they wifi quickly run out on the bank,
dragging some of the catfish out as they go
before the fish can turn loose. You may want
to check with your local game warden before
trying this new high tech technique.
Little Johnny was making ugly faces at the
other students. The teacher told him when she
was little that she was told if she made ugly
faces she might freeze that way. Little Johnny
told her, “Well, you can’t say you weren’t
warned.”
Let’s finish up with some corny riddles.
Hopefully you wifi grin at one or two. Maybe
get your kid to ask one to their teacher. What
did one eye say to the other? Between you and
me, something smells. What is one sickness
martial artists have? Kung flu. What do you
call a fast moving storm? A hurry cane. Why
did the man with only one hand cross the road?
To get to the second hand store. Why did the
little boy tiptoe past the medicine cabinet? He
didn’t want to wake the sleeping pills. What
is a cannibal’s favorite game? Swallow the
leader. Why did the teddy bear not eat his
dessert? He was already stuffed. How does a
farmer count his cattle? With a cow-culator.
Why can a skeleton not dance? It has no body
to dance with. Why couldn’t the pirates play
cards? The captain was sitting on the deck.
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According to the Thursday, August 19,1965
issue of the Cooper Review:
Officer and directors of Delta County Roping
Club, Inc., have completed arrangements for
the annual Cooper Junior Rodeo Friday and
Saturday nights, August 20-21, at the rodeo
arena in east Cooper.
Red River County authorities alerted area
law enforcement officials Tuesday morning
that an armed robbery had been committed
near Avery about 7:35. The alert indicated that
a group of people at a roadside park had been
robbed at gunpoint, and that the suspect was
head west toward Delta County. Sheriff H.
E. (Pete) Bledsoe and his deputies threw up
a road block and nabbed the suspect about 9
a.m. three miles of Cooper.
Attendance plaque to the 31st Annual
Stockholders’ meeting of Sulphur Springs
Production Credit Association in Sulphur
Springs last Saturday was won by members
from Delta and Lamar counties.
The Delta County Historical Foundation
met in the Ben Franklin Community Center
Saturday afternoon, August 14, with chairman
G. D. Albright presiding.
After winning their first series of games last
weekend, the Delta All-Stars were eliminated
Tuesday night from further competition in the
Northeast Texas Junior League playoffs.
Two sheds on the Garrod farm in the
Doctor’s Creek Community west of Cooper
were completely destroyed by fire shortly after
noon last Thursday. Cooper Volunteer Firemen
answered the call at 12:25 p.m., but found the
sheds burned to the ground on their arrival.
Cooper School Superintendent Wade T.
Bledsoe has released teacher assignments for
the 1965-66 term, which begins August 30.
Faculty members for the school plant on South
West 22nc* Street.
A deep plowing demonstration to control
cotton root rot has been set for Friday, August
20, at 9 a.m. at Morris White farm east of the
Pecan Gap Gin.
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