Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, April 14, 1939 Page: 1 of 8
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Be Loyal to Your
Home Town
By
Buying and Selling
At Home
Serving Delta County For
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The Past Sixty Years
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COOPER, DELTA COUNTY, TEXAS FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1939
VOLUME 60, NO. 15
HOUSE VOTES
VARIETY OF
LEGISLATION
Little Time Being Spent On
Social Security Pro-
gram, Kern Says.
Annual Sales Here
Yield $193,752 In
Hidden Taxes
BY TROY E. KERN
AUSTIN, April 13.—The Gov-
ernor signed House Bill No. 11
this past Thursday, and it has
now become a reality. This bill
makes an appropriation of approx-
imately $1,500,000 to pay the
salaries of rural school teachers.
All rural teachers receiving salary
aid were to take at least a 40 per
cent cut in salary aid grant". This
bill will take care of most of this
reduction and
our teachers can
now look for-
ward to getting
their money.
Teachers of last
year were forced
to take a 31 per
cent reduotios.
This bill will also
help refund the
teachers for this
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&M
loss.
Most of the past week was spent
by the house in consideration of
several bills with little time being
spent on the bills which propose
to solve the social security prob-
lems. A bill was passed on Mon-
day which makes it a felony for
one to give what is commonly
known as a hot check. This bill
was of special interest to the
merchants of Texas who are the
victims of the hot check racket.
House Joint Resolution No. 2,
by Hull of Fort Worth, passed
the House on Tuesday of this
past week. This resolution places
furniture under the same rule
that Texas homesteads are and
provides that it can not be sold
except for taxes, original pur-
chase price, or for money spent
in repairing it. If this resolution
becomes a law, one cannot bor-
row money on and mortgage his
furniture and have it taken away
from him if he does not pay the
bill unless the money borrowed
for one of the three just men-
tioned purposes.
Another effort was made by
those interested in the increase
of the truck load limit, but their
efforts were met with defeat.
This, no doubt, means that the
load limit oil trucks will Hot one
increased during this session of
this legislature, because it is now
too late for a bill of that nature
to hope to pass.
Representative Joe White, of
New Boston, made a motion this
past week to take up his bill
which places a $2 a ton tax on
sulphur and allocates the money
to old age assistance. Those who
are protecting the sulphur inter-
ests were Successful in securing
enough votes to defeat this bill.
House Bill No. 74, the State
Bar Bill, which is of special in-
terest to lawyers of Texas finally
passed both houses on Thursday
of this pasrt week.
The ’jpuae has spent most of
the past week working on Senate
Bill No. 135, which seeks to reg-
ulate mutual life insurance com-
panies. The operation of mutual
life insurance companies has be-
come quite a racket in many
counties in Texas; however, thi3
has not affected the three coun-
ties in our district to any extent.
The burial associations in our
district are operated on a honor-
able basis and those who are in-
sured being paid promptly upon
the death of their loved ones.
Such Is not the case, however, in
many counties in Texas. Many
people have paid all their claims
for several years and then when
the time came that they needed
them, they did not receive over
half of what they were supposed
to receive. It is believed by the
sponsors of this bill that this
racket should be stopped.
Families of Delta County pay
$193,752 in hidden taxes annual-
ly on their retail purchases alone,
a survey by the National Con-
sumers Tax Commission showed
today.
This burden, the report stated,
is paid as a concealed part of the
price of food, clothing, fuel,
medicine and other daily pur-
chases.
The commission is a non-poli-
tical organization of women com-
batting through local study
groups “unnecessary taxes that
penalize consumers by increasing
the cost of living.” Groups are
active in more than 400 commun-
ities in the Texas drive, led by
Mrs. Kenneth C. Frazier, of Dal-
las, NCTC president, and Mrs.
Volney W. Taylor, of Browns-
ville, national committee mem-
ber.
“Every-day shoppers, whether
they know it or not, carry a major
share of the local, state and na-
tional tax burden,” Mrs. Frazier
said in the report. “Hidden taxes,
increasiinsr the cost of even t-h«
necessities of life, produce 63 per
cent of all tax revenues. The tax-
es are levied first against pro-
ducer, manufacturer, shipper and
distributor and then passed on to
consumers.”
The analysis, directed" from the
NCTC headquarters in Chicago,
was based on total retail sales in
the county of $1,242,000 as re-
ported by the U. S. Bureau of the
Census.
J. B. Wylie, Native
Of Cooper, Die* at
Pari* On Tuesday
J. B. Wylie died at his home in
Paris Wednesday morning follow-
ing an illness since Dec. 18. Fun-
eral services were held Thursday
morning at 10 o’clock, at a Pans
funeral home, with the Rev. E. C.
Beckman, minister of the First
Presbyterian Church, conducting
the services. Interment was in
Evergreen cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, four
sisters, Mrs. J. A. Snell, of Paris,
Mrs. C. F. Collins, of Greenville,
Mrs. Fred Conrad, of Fort Worth,
Mrs. Hattie Stallings, of Allen,
and a brother, Ross R. Wylie, of
Tulsa, Okla.
The deceased was born at
Cooper January 14, 1877, but had
lived for many years in Paris. He
was a nephew of Mrs. W. N.
Rogers, and was a cousin to Mrs.
R. S. Stevenson, Mrs. W. C. Walls,
W. R. Rogers and Mrs. W. D.
Hart of Cooper.
Plant Exchange To
Be Held Saturday
At City Tabernacle
The Delta County plant ex-
change, sponsored annually by
the County Home Demonstration
Council and women’s clubs of
Cooper will be held Saturday,
April 16, at the city tabernacle,
north of the square. The ex-
change will open at 8:30 o’clock
and continue until 3 o’clock in
the afternoon. Women of the
county have been urged by Miss
Gene rieve Feagin, home demon-
stration agent, to bring their sur-
plus plants to exchange for oth-
ers that they need.
Plants transplantable at this
time such shrubs, small trees,
hedge, iris, bulbs,
mums, fruit trees, vines, annual
flowering plants such as lark*
sour. petunias, pansies and vege-
tables such as peppers, tomatoes,
cabbage and cauliflowers should
be brought.
Committees have been named
by both the women’s dubs of
Cooper and the home demonstra-
tion council to have charge of the
exchange.
Officials to Take
Over City Office*
Wednesday, Apr. 19
Tom Rountree, mayor-elect,
and Guy Ray and W. A. Wilson,
commissioners-elect, will take the
oath of office probably on next
Wednesday, April 19th, “Mr.
Rountree said Thursday. Mayor
J. H. McKinney’s two-year term
will expire on that date, he said.
Mr. Rountree’s first plans in-
clude co-operation of every civic
organization in town in the an-
nual spring clcan-up and the
needed extension of water lines.
Projects asking WPA funds for
rocking streets will be rushed in
order that work may be started
as soon as possible, he said.
REV. GUY W. GREEN
Announcement that Evangelist
Guy W. Green, of Kansas City,
Mo., will come to Cooper this
summer to conduct a ten day re-
vival meeting for the First Pres-
byterian Church was made Thurs-
day by Rev. W. A. Casseday. The
meeting will be held from June
28 to July 9, inclusive.
Of the evangelist, Rev. Casse-
day said “Mr. Green is distinctly
different from any other evangel-
ist you have ever heard. His
messages are a very deluge of
Biblical literature and truth in
all their beauty and power and
passion. Mr. Green has given
everywhere he goes, a new con-
ception of what a series of meet-
ing can and should be. He is an
evangelist with a national reputa-
tion of great success wherever he
goes. His messages are inspiring
and challenge all who hear him.”
Commercial Course
Enrolls New Pupil*
For Evening Class
The commercial course which
is being taught in the Cooper
High School in the evening by
Minnie Clyde Crawford is begin-
ning a new class this’ week and
this is notice to all who wish to
enroll. The hours are from 4 in
the afternoon until 7 o’clock dur-
ing which time shorthand and
typing are taught. The students
may take both the subjects oi
only one if he chooses, and the
fee is only $1 per month for the
use of the typewriters. Those who
wish to take typing alone may do
so and come at 5:30 o’clock.
When students have completed
the course they are given a certi-
ficate dh owing that he has had
the work. All those interested may
attend. This is a class for those
over the school age, those who
have had the work and now want
to brush up, those who work in
town and have never had the
work, and all others who would
like to have the courses.
This work has been going on a
year and a half and many girls
have secured positions after hav-
ing gone to the classes. The class
now beginning will continue
through the summer until every-
one has completed the work.
Cooper Schools Gain
One Scholastic Over
650 Counted In ’38
Enloe Senior Play
Slated For Tuesday
The annual play presentation
by the senior class of Enloe High
School has been definitely set for
Tuesday, April 18, following a
four day postponement. The
three act play “A Bird in a Cage’’
has the following cast: Lane Pat-
terson, Doris Carrell, Estelle
Rutherford, Wanda Cregg, Elton
Bridges, Ophelia Garrett, Estelle
Humphreys, Geraldine Carring-
chrysantihe- [ ton, Clarice Pendergrass, Edna
Earl Rasberry, Lee Arthur Mul-
lins, Kenneth Prater, Cletus
Bridges, and Frances Bledsoe. The
Cooper High School orchestra
under the direction of Luther
Brown will play between acts.
George Taylor and daughter,
Miss Bernice, visited Mrs. G. G.
Taylor, surgical patient at Janos
Clinic and Hospital Wednesday.
GRAND THEATRE
SATURDAY, APRIL 15
“GIRLS ON PROBATION”
See the startling truth revealed in hundreds of hushed up cases. Are
these girls really bad. Also Dick Tracy.
OWL SHOW SATURDAY NIGHT
“KING OF THE UNDERWORLD”
With Humphrey Bogart and Kay Francis. Gangland’s last stand.
SUNDAY and MONDAY, APRIL 16 - 17
“THERE GOES MY HEART”
Frederic March, Virginia Bruce, Patsy Kelly and Allan Mowbray.
It will have you rolling in the aisle. Also special added attraction1
“Lincoln in the White House.
TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18 - 19
“SONGS OF THE PLAINS”
With Nelson Eddy, Victor McLaglen, and Edward Arnold. You never
saw Nelson Eddy in a role like this. It’s a story of the early railroad
building in the ’60s and Nelson’s songs are the rough and rugged
railroad camp kind. Also news and comedy.
THURSDAY and FRIDAY, APRIL 20 - 21
“ICE FOLLIES OF 1939”
Joan Crawford, James Stewart and the world’s greatest ice ballet—
not only a good one but the most beautiful picture yet made. Also
comedy “Jitterbug Jellies.”
DELTA THEATRE
FRIDAY and SATURDAY, APRIL 14 - 15
“CALL OF THE ROCKIES”
Chas. Starrett, Donald Grayson and Sons of the Pioneers. Also
“Hawk of the Wilderness.”
SUNDAY and MONDAY, APRIL 16 - 17
( “LITTLE TOUGH GUYS IN SOCIETY”
/ With Misha Auer and Dead End Kids. It’s a knockout.
HUGH CARVER
WES TUESDAY
IN CAR CRASH
Yowell Man Suffers Fatal In-
juries When Car Is
Overturned.
Hugh Carver, 51, a resident of
the Yowell community, suffered
fatal injuries Tuesday afternoon
shortly before 6 o’clock when the
car he was driving overturned on
the county-line dirt road south of
Yowell. Mr. Craver was return-
ing to his home in. Yowell from
Commerce when he apparently
lost control of the vehicle with
the fatal accident resulting.
Funeral services were conduct-
ed Thursday afternoon at 3
o’clock at the First Methodist
Church in Commerce with the
Rev. C. P. Combs, of Bailey, con-
ducting the rites. Burial was
made in the Commerce cemetery.
Pallbearers were W. A. San-
sing, Jim Branom, L. J. Conery,
Luther Hill, W. E. Binion, Loo
Gilbert, Homer Presley, Pierce
Johnson and Dr. Fry, of Ladon-
ia.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Vergie Craver, two daughters,
Mrs. Melba Smith, of Yowell, and
Miss Billie Hugh Craver of La-
donia, one son, Oliver Craver of
Ladonia, two sisters, Mrs. Cora
Tucker, of Durant, Okla., and
Mrs. .T. C. Allen, of Commerce,
and two grandchildren.
Mr. Craver was born in Miss-
ouri, Sept. 28, 1887, and came to
Texas with his parents when three
years of age. He was a promin-
ent farmer and well known in the
west part of the county. He had
been a member of the Methodist
Church since early childhood.
Cooper schools with a total of
651 schola&tice counted in the
enumeration of children of school
age this year gained* only one
over the total counted last year,
Superintendent R. L. Stephenosn,
who conducted the census, re-
ports. There were 529 white
scholastics and 122 negroes,
counted. White pupils decreased
by five while six more negroes
were enumerated. Mr. Stephenson
said nine youths of school age
listed themselves as married.
That Cooper’s housing shortage
is still acute was confirmed by
Mr. Stephenson’s coverage of the
town. He stated that only one
vacant dwelling was found and
that it had since be?n occupied.
On the other hand he found a
large number of houses occupied
by two and three families.
Picture* Compare
Proposed New And
Old Court Houses
1 he startling difference in what
Delta County used as a seat of
government 40 years ago and
what is proposed for the near fu-
ture is shown in two pictures on
display at the court house.
In Judge John T. Taylor’s of-
fice an artist’s conception of the
proposed 4-story structure is
hanging. Modern exterior design
emphasizes the fact that every
inch of the building will be used
and no space will be wasted. Con
crete blocks cast locally will be
used for a pleasing exterior ap-
pearance.
In stark contrast a picture of
Delta’s court house that was de-
stroyed by fire in March 1898 is
in County Superintendent Alvin
O. Welch’s office after being re-
surrected by “Hub” Hancock,
court house custodian, from an
upper storeroom. The building is
a two-rtory frame structure,
square in shape, with shuttered
windows and a cupola adorning
the top. A three rail fence
circled the building while outside
the fence a chain stretched be-
tween posts provided a hitching
place for saddle horses and teams.
In Che background through trees
that evidently lined the square
part of a row of frame business
houses can be seen each with the
inevitable hitching rail in front.
CROWD OF 130
AT BANQUET
FOR TEACHERS
Principal Address Thursday
Night Made By Rev.
Travis White.
Service* On Sunday
For B. E. LaPrade
Lions Club Meeting
I* Scheduled Friday
The regular semi-monthly
meeting of the Cooper Lions
Club will be held on Friday at
Hotel Cooper beginning at 12:15
o’clock. J. T. Rountree, mayor-
elect, will have charge of the pro-
gram arrangements.
Funeral services were conduct-
ed Sunday afternoon for B. E.
LaPrade, 56, at the Bridge-
Chapel Church near Mt. Pleasant.
Mr. LaPrade passed away Friday
night in a Waxahachie hospital
where he had been a patient for
several weeks.
Surviving are his wife, two
children, two sisters, Mrs. Fan-
nie Phillips of Cooper, and Mrs.
E. P. Lowe, of Paris, and three
brothers. Mrs. Phillips was called
to Waxahachie last week by hi3
serious illness.
Display Room For
New Furniture 1*
Arranged By Smith
One of the most attractive dis-
plays of new furniture ever shown
by a local store has been arrang-
ed by Smith Bros, the past week.
An entirely redecorated* show
room was arranged in the rear
where second hand furnishings j
were formerly stored. Repainting,
papering and new light fixtures
combine to give a pleasing set-
ting to the latest styles in bed-
room, living room and dining
room suites, rugs and occasional
chairs that are displayed there.
Hubert Smith, manager of the
store, is adding to his already
large stock as he and Earl Hen-
dricks were in Benton, Arkansas,
on Wednesday purchasing more
luxurious furnishings for Delta
County homes.
With the largest attendance
ever enjoyed at the affair, ap-
proximately 130 teachers, trus-
tees and guests were present for
the annual banquet of the Delta
T oacbers Association Thursday
night at Hotel Cooper.
The program was in charge of
l3. T. Craver, president of the
association, Mrs. Chas. Wright
and Mrs. Lorena Sanders. Menu
arrangements were made by Mi’s.
Sanders, T. J. Scott and Ira
Hethcock.
Two songs opened the program
and the invocation was said by
the Rev. R. E. Streetman. The
address of welcome and presen-
tation of the toastmaster, H. E.
Robinson, deputy state superin-
tendent, were made by Mr. Craver.
The evening’s inspiring addresa
was made by the Rev. Travis L.
White, pastor of the First Christ-
ian Church, of Paris. Included on
the program were songs by the
Cooper quartet composed of Ray-
mond Hicks, Odie Bridges, How-
ard Russell and Monroe Ander-
son, accompanied by Mrs. Lee
Cregg, a reading by Miss Mary
Stevens, and a piano selection by
Miss Elizabeth Burkhalter.
Lancaster Released
On Bond Of $500
Slight Decrease In
Co. Scholastic* Is
Forecast By Welch
Only a very small variation
from last year is expected in the
number of scholastics in com-
mon school districts and a slight
decrease is possible from last
year’s total, Alvin O. Welch,
county superintendent, said Thurs-
day. Most of the census enumer-
ators have made their final re-
ports but some are still out and
they are urged to turn them in
as soon as possible, Mr. Welch
added. While the variation of the
entire county’s total is small, that
of individual schools varies wide-
ly, be said, with some district*
gaining by 33 per cent while
others are losing the same number.
Carleton Lancaster charged
with accessory after the fact in
aiding and abetting the escape of
a criminal was released from the
county jail Monday night after
making bond of $500, County
Attorney E. G. Pharr said Thurs-
day. Myrle‘Sullivan, charged with
burglary of the Union Produce
Co. at Pecan Gap last Friday
night, is still being held in the
county jail and has not asked for
bond to be set.
BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL------
REPORT FOR APRIL »TH
Ben Franklin
Enrl.
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Klondike .............
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New Hope ..........
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Pecan Gap .......
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Post Oak .....—
Rattan ....................
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TOM INGLIS,
Zone Superintendent.
Cooper Got Little Mail Service Fifty Years
Ago When Rattan Named Postmaster
Star routes with mail pouches
carried horsehack were the only
means Cooper had of obtaining
mail from nearby town 50 years
ago and as a result mail service
was poor and irregular, C- V- Rat-
tan recalled Wednesday in exhib-
iting his first postmaster’s* com-
mission issued to him fifty years
ago Thursday on April 13, 1889
by John Wanamaker, famed Phil-
adelphia merchant wiho was then
postmaster general.
The commission itself, only
slightly yellowed by age, was not
signed by the president, because
of Oooper being a fourth class of-
fice, a4 were Mr. Rattan’s other
commissions, the last of which
bore the signature of President
Herbert Hoover and Postmaster
Genera! Walter F. Brown.
Mr. Rattan received the com-
mission a little more than a month
after Benjamin Harrison was in-
augurated president on March 4,
1889 and succeeded Dr. J. N. Boyd.
Mr. Ration who says he was "a
tittle over 21” was then one of
the youngest postmasters in the
ration while now hie is the only
(surviving postmaster of the state
who served during the administra-
tion of Harrison. Since that time
he, has served during the McKin-
ley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft,
Wilson, Harding, Ooolidge and
Hoover administration,
i. When Mr. Rattan was ftrrfi n-
pointed, the Oooper office was
housed In a. small frame building
where the First National iBank
now stands, sharing the structure
with a drug store- Where* mail
had been received a|t> infrequent
(Intervals from Paris and Sulphur
Springs, in 1886 the con-
struction of the Santa Pe railroad
through the northwest part of the
county brought daily mail service
with the route running from Ber
Franklin to Ooopeir. No* rural
routes existed and patrons called
at the offices for their mail. Mr.1
Rattan recalls that his month’s
receipts, mostly from stamp sales,
as parcel post rates were consid-
ered too high for general use, ran
about $40 a month. PrSor to the
mpletion of the railroad, mal
«■#< brought from Parts with stop*
at the offices of Mt. Joy and TJn-
Itla- A star route was later start-
ed to Gough and Needmone* t*>
serve those communitSe*. ,
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