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Cooper Review - Page 2
Thursday, November 4,2010
Community
Bob Bowman's East Texas
On The River
By Bob Bowman
J-With FT
Texans honored at Shiloh
Texas troops who fought in the Battle of
Corinth, Mississippi, in 1862 were honored
with a monument at Corinth Unit of Shiloh
National Military Park last month.
The monument is the third of a series of
three memorials as the U.S. approaches the
Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War
in 2011-2015.
The initial goal of the Texas Historical
Commission’s Texas Civil War Monuments
Fund was to honor Texas soldiers at Corinth,
Miss, and two Kentucky battlefields,
Rowlett’s Station and Richmond, with
distinctive granite memorials.
Texas forces, including men from East
Texas, fought with distinction during the
Civil War, and the THC has long been
committed to preserving and interpreting
their stories.
Continuing the tradition begun in the
1960s by the Texas Civil War Centennial
Commission and the Texas State Historical
Survey Committee, Texas is commemorating
the contributions of Texas’ military units
during the war.
“The Texas Historical Commission remains
dedicated to saving these real stories of our
state’s past,” said THC Executive Director
Mark Wolfe.
“By commemorating the impact that Texas
troops made during one of our nation’s
greatest struggles, we ensure that the
mystique of the Lone Star State is preserved
for future generations,” said Wolfe.
To date, the THC has provided monuments
at key Civil War sites including Vicksburg,
Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg, Chickamauga,
The Wilderness, Bentonville, and Mansfield.
Most recently, the agency has placed
monuments in Galveston, Texas and at
Raymond, Mississippi.
(Bob Bowman is the author of almost 50
books about East Texas history and folklore.
He can be reached at bob-bowman.com.)
According to the Thursday, November 4,
1965 issue of the Cooper Review:
A total of eleven students from Cooper
are enrolled this fall in the Honors Studies
Program at East Texas State University.
The four-year National Farm Program
passed by Congress mid-October is still a
mystery to many U. S. Farmers. The Program
itself is not too long complicated or confusing,
but how it will be operated is not know at this
time.
The 60 member Cooper High School
Marching Band will participate in the Texas
University Interscholastic League Marching
Contest to be held at the Richardson High
School stadium next Saturday, November 6.
State draft boards will be authorized in
December to draft any young married man
without children, regardless of the date he was
married, to fill the biggest Texas draft call in
more than twelve years.
A week’s of Missions sponsored by the
Rehoboth Baptist Association will be open
next Sunday at the First Baptist Church in
Cooper, with several prominent speakers
appearing on the program.
Formal dedication of Ladonia’s new post
office building is scheduled for next Saturday
at 3 p.m. Appearing on the program will
be Congressman Ray Roberts and J. Allen
Dupree, assistant of the regional PO director,
and others.
In Years Gone By
From the files of The Cooper Review
Ten Years Ago
After months-long search,
the organization sponsoring
the proposed Cultural
Center at Cooper Lake today
announced the hiring of
Johnny Johnson, a Roswell,
New Mexico, tourism and
civic development official, as
its first general manager.
Early voting for general
elections started October 23
and will continue through
November 3 during regular
business hours at the Delta
County Clerk’s office.
A group of Chamber
directors and friends met with
Sheriff Benny Fisher at 11:30
a.m. on October 27^, to
present him with a Certificate
of Appreciation for his
support of Chiggarfest 2000.
Sheriff Fisher and his crew
is appreciated very much for
their help and cooperation
during this big event.
In honor of Veteran’s Day,
Cooper Elementary will be
having a program, Tuesday,
November 7 at 1:00 p.m. in
the elementary guy. Local
scout troops will present the
flag, students and local choirs
will sing, a short skit over the
importance of voting, andmost
importantly a presentation
honoring veterans.
For those of who haven’t
heard; your library has been
broken into a couple of times
now. They have not done any
physical damage to the inside
of the building, but they have
taken money.
The annual hayride and
hot dog cookout was held
Saturday night, October 27,
with a large group attending.
It was held at the Enloe
Community Center with Ann
Green in charge of the event.
Twenty Years Ago
Jerry Hagan received a
certificate acknowledging,
“Completion of twenty years
of devoted service” with the
DPS. The certificate was
presented by DPS Captain
Rickey Smith, during the Bi-
Area meeting in Paris October
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ASSOCIATION
Lisa Anne Brown of Paris
and Paul Gene Abston of
Cooper exchanged double
ring wedding vows in a semi-
formal ceremony at 3 p.m.
Saturday, September 22 in
United Pentecostal Church of
PAris. After a wedding trip to
San Antonio the couple will
reside in Paris.
Thirty Years Ago
A Halloween carnival
atmosphere will prevail
Saturday night at the Civic
Center, Cooper, culminating
a week of activities leading
up to the primary fundraising
event sponsored by the Cooper
High School Student Council.
Proceeds from the Halloween
festivities will be used to air-
condition the high school
classrooms.
Mozelle Klein recently
crowed Delta County Stew-
Cooking Champion. She gave
stew-cooking tips to male
high school faculty members.
Supt Fred Wilkerson, Sam
Bettes, Bobby Wigley and
David Floyd, who will be
preparing the Halloween Stew
for Saturday night’s Carnival
at the Civic Center.
Lynda Choate, a junior from
Cooper, majoring in English,
health and physical education,
was a member of the ETSU
Homecoming Court Saturday,
October 18.
Forty Years Ago
Combined deposits in the
three banks in Delta County
on October 28, again reached
a record high not only for
this time of year, when the
economy is expected to
increase, but for all time.
Fifty Years Ago
Sheriff T.L. Hopkins
announced Tuesday the
resignation of DS Charles B.
Hancock and the appointment
to the position of Gibson L.
Hadaway of Paris, former
resident of Delta County.
Mrs. Betty Carolyn
Templeton represented Delta
County at Gilmer’s Yamboree
last week as Duchess. She is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Goebel Templeton of Cooper.
The Jr High School football
team coached by T.E. Skinner
defeated Honey Grove there
Tuesday night by the score
of 14-0, retaining their
undefeated season record.
Mosheim And Side Boards
Dan Pickering recently bought a 1947 Army
jeep from a friend at Gatesville and asked me
to go get it with my trailer. Late one afternoon
I hooked up the trailer and set the alarm clock
for 5:00 a.m. As usual when I set an alarm I
woke early and was on the road at 4:30. My
pickup thermometer showed fifty one degrees.
Interstate 35 runs mainly south from Hillsboro
to Waco. At Waco I needed to turn west to
Gatesville. Why make two legs of a triangle
when I can take the hypotenuse? A few miles
south of Hillsboro I turned west on FM 1304
and came to the Menlow Community where
now there is only farm land and cattle. The
highest spot for miles and the view goes on
and on.
Menlow was typical of several communities
I would pass through in the next hour. Once
thriving with cotton gins, stores, schools,
churches and post offices only to be now
withered down to just a highway sign.
Hundreds of small towns all over our nation
have dried up like the one in “The Last Picture
Show.”
West of Menlow the terrain drops off into
the Brazos River bottom as you get south of
Lake Whitney. Lots of pecan orchards and
more wooded. Latham Springs. Coon Creek.
Cayote. Yep, that’s Cayote instead of Coyote.
When the application was sent in for a post
office back in the 1800’s it was spelled Cayote
on the paper and the mistake stuck. White
rock houses like in the Hill Country. Bosque
River. Finally a town with a store or two,
Valley Mills.
Next came Mosheim where I caught up with
an old Dodge pickup sporting side boards.
Now you younguns, side boards were popular
before everybody had trailers. You just build
a pen that sticks up higher than the cab on the
back of your pickup. Has a gate that opens at
the back. I haven’t seen one in years and it was
in Oklahoma. What year did they start making
Dodge pickups? This baby blue one with
black sideboards looked to be from the Forties
or Fifties. While following the pickup for
miles I thought back to the late Forties when
I was riding with grandparents Ma and Pa
McFadden south of Paris. One of my earliest
and scariest memories. We were hauling a big
bull in the back of Pa’s pickup. Taking it from
the home pasture to another one southeast of
Glory along Hickory Creek. The bull must not
have liked the idea because when we got south
of Glory a little ways it reared up, got its front
feet over the sideboards and on the top of the
cab. I was only about four and sitting in Ma’s
lap. The buff’s feet were banging on the top
of the pickup. Pa was out with a stick trying
to knock some sense into the buff. The small
pickup was about to turn over with the high
center of gravity. Funny how some things just
stick with you.
After following the Dodge pickup with
sideboards for miles along Highway 215
I dropped off a high hill into the edge of
Gatesville. Great view from the top. What
kind of driver would the old Dodge have?
Would he be going to the cattle sale? Maybe
the grocery store? I had big plans to follow and
interview the person when he/she stopped and
find out about the pickup. As luck would have
it I got hung up on a red light in Gatesville
just as the old Dodge went on through. By
the time the light changed the pickup was
out of sight. I haven’t given up. May caff the
Dodge dealership in Gatesville. A lot of folks
around Mosheim and Gatesville probably
know of that baby blue, very old Dodge with
black sideboards. Do you have a pickup with
sideboards in your neighborhood?
Our personal navigator that we caff
Margaret carried me right to the address
where I loaded the jeep. While loading
the jeep I could hear a lot of gunfire, some
sounding like cannons. I knew I was near
Fort Hood but isn’t that at Killeen? At noon I
even heard a bugle doing whatever they do at
noon. After looking on a map I was surprised
to see Fort Hood was smack between Killeen
and Gatesville. If Killeen is the heart of Fort
Hood then Gatesville must be the gaff bladder
or something similar.
Having seen the hypotenuse of the triangle
and not wanting to fight the narrow winding
roads back to Hillsboro I turned east toward
Waco and the interstate. Just outside of
Waco I saw an interesting sign. One of those
TxDot signs announcing what person or
group has volunteered to pick up trash. The
two miles in question was kept trash free by
the Oglesby ISD science and health classes.
Now that’s a great idea. Students could learn
about not littering while taking a break from
the everyday classroom. Maybe even learn
to identify the trees and birds seen along the
way. Take a drive sometime and find some
interesting small towns. By the way, have you
ever been to Cayote, Texas?
Jupiter continues to dominate the night sky
during November. It is by far the brightest
object in the night sky except for the Moon. By
8:00 pm each night it should be at its highest
in the southern sky. Mark your calendar for the
Leonid meteor shower that will be best after
midnight on November 16 and the morning of
the 17th.
How ‘bout them Cowboys? I’m beginning
to hear a lot of grumbling and even some jokes
like the following: DPS troopers are giving
Cowboy tickets to speeders as a warning. If you
are stopped again you must attend the game.
What do you caff forty seven millionaires
watching the Superbowl on television? The
Dallas Cowboys. How do you keep a Dallas
Cowboy out of your yard? Put a goal post in
it. What do you caff a Dallas Cowboy with a
Superbowl ring? Old. What is the difference
in the Dallas Cowboys and a dollar biff? You
can stiff get four quarters out of a dollar.
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