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National Weeks
Christmas Seal Sale Campaign,
Nov. 19-Dec. 25
National Hotel Week, Nov. 25-
Dec. 1
Prosperity Week, Nov 26-Dec. 1
Serving Delta County For
fhe Past Seventy-two Years
County.....
correspondents perform a real ser-
vice to their community in fa Li-
fully reporting the news and : p-
penings of their friends and r • igh-
bors each week. Give the n an
assist by getting your news t- them
early.
W. D. Hart & Sons, Publishers
Volume 72. No. 47
The Cooper Review, Cooper, Texas
Friday, Nov. 23, 1951
Here
and
Abroad
We notice that a lot of the grass
along the highways is being burn-
ed off during the past few clays.
While the grass is fairly dry there
is some prospect of rain and it is ,
not likely that we will have any
of the terrible firse that swept the
whole of North and Central Texas j
last year. Most farmers arc plow-
ing firebreaks along the highway .
to prevent as much as possible
carelessly started fires.
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Deer hunters have been fairly
plentiful during the nine day deer
season in Delta, Hopkins and
Franklin counties. The season
will end Nov. 25. The limit is ,
one buck in an area but hunters
arc allowed to take two il they
take one each in each of the two
three county areas. Lamar, Ked
River and Fannin had a live day
season that started Nov. lb and
ended Nov. 21.
We understand that game ward-
ens are patrolling the areas fairly
heavy with Wardens Reb Burks
and Oma Puckett in Red River
county and Wardens John Jack-
son and Bill Pratt covering in
Delta county from White Oak
Creek. If you haven’t had a
chance to go hunting be sure to
pick up your $2.15 hunting license
even to hunt in your own county.
Harry Ward, Jr.
Reports for Air
Force Flying Duty
Harry Ward, Jr„ teacher in the
Klondike public school, left last
Wednesday for FJlington Field,
Houston. In the U. S. Reserve,
Mr. Ward was recently called back
into service and was to report to-
day at Ellington Field for a two
months refresher course in navi-
gation. Completing that course,
Mr. Ward will go to Langley Field,
Va., for combat crew training be-
fore leaving for the Fifth Air
Force in Japan.
Mr. Ward served for three
years on a troop carrier during
World War 11 and states that he
will now serve on a bomber.
After his Houston training, Mr.
Ward will return to Klondike for
Mrs. Ward and their two children,
Mark and Vikki, who will accom-
pany him to Virginia and on to
Japan. He has been advised that
family living quarters will be
furnished in Japan and that he
may also take his automobile.
Murray Cox to
Present Cotton,
Corn Cash Awards
Murray Cox, farm editor of Ra-
dio Station WFAA in Dallas, will
present awards to the winners of
the Delta County Chamber of
Commerce corn and cotton pro-
duction contests at a barbecue
here Dec. 11.
Presentation of the awards will
be made in the Methodist educa-
tional building to the winners in
the two contests which were spon-
sored by the DCCC as an incentive
for corn and cotton production. A
barbecue supper will be served to
150 farmers and merchants by
Harry Patterson.
Following the presentation of
the awards and the cash prizes
which amounts to $525 in both con-
tests. Mr. Cox will show a film
about 45 minutes in length cover-
ing his tour of the Southern states
and Cuba which he made last year.
Sponsors of the supper and
award presentation are the mem-
bers of the Agriculture Committee
of the DCCC. D. R. Black, Jr. is
chairman of the group and his
committee is composed of Guy
Ray, Wesley Wallace, Troy Kern,
Ed Coney and Dale Stockton.
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Smith and
daughter, Miss Laverne Smith, of
Dallas spent last Sunday with their
daughter and sister, Miss Juanita
Smith, nurse at Janes Clinic and
Hospital. Miss Laverne Smith un-
derwent treatment at the' hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Bartley had
as Thanksgiving guests theis sons-
in-law and daughters, Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Bartley of Nocona and
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bartley of Dal-
las, and their families.
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Allard spent
the past weekend at Minden. La.,
visiting their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. E. D.
Brown, and daughters.
Mr. and Mra. W. 8. Slough spent
Thanksgiving at Waxahachie with
Mr. Slough’s sister, Mrs. Harris
McIntosh.
FHA Office Now Ready
To Make Disaster Loans
S. T. Garrison, Delta county
representative of the Farmers
Home Administration, has an-
nounced that Disaster Loans can
now be made from his office to
farmers who suffered a crop dis-
aster in 1951.
This is the second time in two
years that Delta county has been
declared a disaster loan area and
government money is being made
available at three per cent to those
farmers who have the land rc-
! sources and the equipment to make
another crop. Mr. Garrison point-
ed out, however, that there would
be no refinancing of previous
loans.
The FHA disaster loans are crop
loans and constitute a lien on the
crop first. A previous lien by
' other lending agencies on equip-
ment and livestock are not cover-
ed by the new loan in most eases.
Money can be secured from the
disaster loan source to purchase
seed, fertilizer insecticides, labor,
machinery repairs, fuel and many
; other items necessary to plant,
cultivate and harvest a crop.
In 1950 a total of $58,275 was
loaned out in disaster loans and
Mr. Garrison stated that for the
j most part the loans are proving
! most successful. He cited the case
of one farmer who made a dis-
I aster loan who was in danger of
losing all he had.
The farmer had borrowed his
limit and normal lending agencies
were unable to make any more
J loans. The disaster loan tided the
farmer over and aided him in
making a fair crop. Because of
the loan, he was able to pay off
his disaster loan and clear the
largest portion of the former debt
ough money left to make another
j that he had made and have en-
crop.
Mr. Garrison stated that his of-
fice was now ready to make the
loans and is able to discuss loan
problems at any time.
Military Rites
Held at Roxton
For Korean Vet
Eighteen members of Company
C, 147th A1B, local National
j Guard unit, and Paul D. Miller,
j high school band cornetist, con-
i ducted military service at Roxton
| cemetery Sunday afternoon for
Pfc. Clyde R. McDowell, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Boon McDowell of
the Giles community, who lost his
i life in the Korean war.
A blanket of flowers covered
the grave as the American flag
was handed to his mother and the
cornetist played “Taps.” Preced-
ing the military rites, funeral ser-
vice was conducted at Roxton
Baptist Church by the Rev. Will-
iam Bowman, Baptist pastor of
Ben Franklin. Delta Funeral
Home directed interment in Rest-
land Cemetery at Roxton. The
services were attended by a large
group of Cooper and other Delta
i county friends and relatives.
Born in the Giles community
i March 18. 1930, Pfc. McDowell
! was killed in action in Korea last
! April 21.
Survivors in addition to his par-
I ents are two brothers and six sis-
ters, Harold McDowell, Kansas
| City, Mo.; Norman McDowell and
| Miss Loretta McDowell, Dallas;
Miss Iretta McDowell, Giles; Mrs.
j Christine Holley, Lubbock; Mrs.
Inez Thomas, Anton; Mrs. Opal
i Smith, oolidge, Ariz., and Mrs.
Lois Armstrong, Ft. Worth.
Cooper Baptist women attend-
ing the 42nd annual convention of
District 13 WMU at Paris Monday
were Mms. Grover Pickering, L.
L. Allard, Clyde Waters, W. E.
Chancellor, Sammy Jeter, Wal-
lace Robinson, Ethel Robertson,
Henry Smith, Ben Wilson, Quentin
Miller, Orville Harris, Fronzo
Culp, C. C. Calvin, W. W. Gibson
and James Watkins, and Miss Nida
Bobo.
ARRIVES FROM JAPAN
Seaman 1/c Clarence D. Hol-
comb arrived Thanksgiving Day
on a 15-day furlough from the U.
S. Navy, to visit his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Hulbert Holcomb of Rt.
2, Cooper. Meeting him in Coop-
er were his wife and five-month
old daughter, Patricia Yvonne,
whom he saw for the first time.
; The baby girl and her mother
have been residing with Mrs. Hol-
comb’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Buck
Harris of Davis, Okla. Seaman
Holromb, in the Naval Reserve,
was called to service last January
and has been in Japan since that
! time. His ship, The Hector, dock-
j ed at Long Beach, Calif. His year
of service will end next January.
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Thomas had
as guests the past weekend Mrs.
Thomas’ son-in-law and daugh-
ter. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Rankin of
Tyler, and her son, Bill Wiggins
of Little Rock. Ark.
Wreck Sends Two
To Hospital; Eight
For Treatment
An automobile wreck at the En-
loc cutoff on Highway 24 north
of Cooper last Saturday night
about 11 o’clock sent two men to
hospitals and eight others had first
aid treatment at Janes Clinic and
Hospital. Pfc. Herman Walls of
Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, vis-
iting his mother, Mrs. Earl Parks
of the Antioch community, on a
weekend pass, the most severely
injured, was taken in McDonald
Funeral Home ambulance to Per-
rin AFB, Sherman, for hospitali-
zation. C. E. Clinton, also suffer-
ing severe injuries, was taken to
Lcbcrman Hospital, Commerce.
A 1935 Ford driven by Earl
Perkins of Antioch started to make
a left hand turn at the cutoff to
Enloe when another car from the
north was sighted and he stopped
suddenly until the car could pass.
The Ford car was not seen by C. E.
Clinton of Ft. Worth, driving a
1940 Chevrolet coupe, in time to
prevent a rear-end collision and
both cars were badly damaged.
In the Ford with Pfc. Wall were
seven members of the Perkins
family and Miss Beckham, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Beck-
ham, all of Antioch, all of whom
were treated for minor injuries
and returned to their homes.
Deputy Sheriff Pat Banks investi-
gated the wreck.
Escapes Serious
Injury When Dump
Truck Bed Falls
Dave Jones, co-owner of Jones
Brothers Garage, narrowly es-
caped serious injury Monday when
a dump truck he was repairing ac-
cidentally lowered, pinning him
underneath the truck. The acci-
dent happened when an employee
struck the lever of a jack, catch-
ing Mr. Jones’ right arm and
knee. Blacking out for a moment,
the victim rallied and directed
Carl Wheat and Bill Cross in re-
leasing him.
Fainting from shock and pain,
Mr. Jones was taken to nearby
Janes Clinic and Hospital where
an examination showed no broken
bones, but severe bruises. Suffer-
ing from shock, Mr. Jones was
taken to his home where he is re-
maining in bed for a few days.
Former Resident of
Cooper Succumbs
In Greenville Home
Graveside rites for Mrs. Lillie
Viola Rowland, 78, former Cooper
resident who died suddenly early
Monday morning at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Ernest Haney
of Greenville, were held Tuesday
afternoon at Oak Lawn Cemetery.
She was a sister of Mrs. J. Will
White of Cooper, and A. M. Howse
of Commerce.
Funeral services were conducted
in Greenville by Dr. W. Harrison
Baker of Dallas, superintendent of
the Dallas Methodist district, as-
sisted by the Rev. T. Lee Miller,
pastor of Kavanaugh Methodist
Church of which Mrs. Rowland
was a member, and the Rev. Rich-
ard Poss, pastor of the First Bap-
tist Church of Greenville.
Mrs. Rowland was born on May
2, 1873, in Cornersville, Miss., the
daughter of Martin Van Buren
Howse and Mary Elizabeth Moore
Howse. She came to Texas in
1903, locating at Cooper where she
lived until 1925 when she went to
Greenville to live with her daugh-
ter. She was married to Ben L.
Rowland in Cornersville in 1893
and he died Feb. 28, 1906.
Survivors include two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Haney of Greenville and
Mrs. Guy Massey of Bay City; a
grandson, Ben Marion Davis of
Greenville; a brother, A. M.
Howse, Commerce; and a sister,
Mrs. J. Will White, Cooper.
Pallbearers were Hyatt Cheek,
Benton Wolfe, Tom Bailey, W. E.
Stinson Marvin Love and Judge
Olin McWhirter, all of Greenville.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy G. Cain and
children, Brenda and Cathey,
spent Thanksgiving at Winnsboro
with Mrs. Cain's mother, Mrs. B.
A. Dodgen.
A group of dancers from Klon-
dike and West Delta held their
weekly round dance at Delta
Country Club Wednesday night.
Raymond C. Mills, superintendent
of West Delta school, heads the
organization.
Farmersville Still
14-A Champ After
Whitewright Loss
Farmersville is still the winner
of the 14-A District crown al-
though a couple of upsets last Fri-
day came near changing the win-
ner for 1951.
Biggest upset of the day was the
Farmersville loss at the hands of
a surprising Whitewright eleven.
The Whitewright team completely
outplayed the Farmersville Farm-
ers to take a 26-13 victory.
A milder sort of upset was the
victory of Leonard over Honey
Grove. Honey Grove, an early
season favorite to win the league
championship, took a 20-13 drub-
bing at Honey Grove from Leon-
ard. Leonard came from behind
, to go into second place in the loop
I standings.
Farmersville will still represent
the district although Leonard has
also lost but one game and that
being to Farmersville. Honey
Grove and Whitewright are tied
for third place with two lysses
each with Cooper in fifth place
with four losses and Wolfe City in
| last position with five defeats,
i The Farmers will probably meet
Plano in the bi-district playoffs
and it they win will play the win-
ner of the District 15 and 16 play-
off.
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Plan Meeting of
Methodist Church
Conference Here
Cooper Methodist Church is to
be host to the Sulphur Springs
Methodist district conference on
Dec. 11, it is announced by the
pastor, the Rev. James E, Jones.
Harry Patterson, active member
of the local church and head of
Patterson’s Cannery, will provide
the food for a dinner in the church
dining room, and proceeds from
the sale of tickets will go into the
church building fund. A goal of
1,000 tickets has been set and
Red and Blue teams are compet-
ing in sales. The same groups
continue collection of dimes for
the building fund, the contest to
end the last of the month. To date
$141 has been collected.
Next Sunday the church will
take its annual offering for the
Methodist Hospital at Dallas, Dave
Hendricks serving as chairman.
Delegates to the district conference
will also be elected.
The church is sponsoring the sale
of memorial windows and pews in
the proposed new edifice, as well
as pulpit and choir furnishings and
baptismal font. H. R. Hooks heads
a committee taking subscriptions
for the Christian Advocate, church
magazine.
LEGION POST MEETS
The Red Henderson Post 483,
American Legion, will meet in
regular business session Monday
at 7:30 p.m. in the Legion Hall,
with L. B. Klein, commander, pre-
siding. Plans for a Christmas
party are expected to be made.
The commander and Legionnaires
have invitation to attend a special
meeting at Sulphur Springs next
Thursday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Guinn and
daughter, Mabel Lou, of Grand
Prairie have returned home after
visiting Mrs. Guinn's parents, Dr.
and Mrs. C; S. Ellington. They ac-
companied home Mrs. C. S. Elling-
ton, who had spent a few days
with them at Grand Prairie.
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MISS RUTH FREEMAN
Missionary to
Speak at Shiloh
Namene Church
A missionary for the Church of
the Nazarene, which has interna-
tional headquarters in Kansas
City, Mo., Miss Ruth Freeman of
Bcrar, India, who has recently
returned to the United States, will
be guest speaker at the Shiloh
Nazarene Church next Sunday at
10:45 a.m. and will also attend
Sunday school there at 9:45 a.m.
The Shiloh church is located one-
half mile south of Camp Lake
Store, midway between Commerce
and Cooper. The pastor, the Rev.
C. E. Grant, is inviting the public
to hear the missionary.
Miss Freeman was the first
missionary to live at Pusad, India,
where for 18 months she worked
alone in the village some 40 miles
from the nearest missionary. Her
work was principally among the
village women and doing evange-
lictis work in connection with a
dispensary operated by the church.
Previous to her second, assign-
ment in India, which began in
1945, Miss Freeman worked in the
general office of the Department
of Foreign Missions, Kansas City,
for two years, acquainting herself
with the work of the department
and the type of work to which
she was later assigned.
Bids to Be Opened
Bids for construction of a new
Methodist church building are to
be opened Dec. 3, Quentin Miller,
chairman of the building com-
mittee, said Tuesday. Brown and
Chapman, Sherman firm of archi-
tects, has released completed plans
which have been turned over to
contractors for bidding.
Plans for removal or demolition
of the Methodist parsonage are not
complete, states Harry Patterson,
chairman of the church site.
MINISTERIAL MEETING
Two ministerial meetings will be
held at Cooper Methodist Church
next Tuesday. At 2 p.m. the Rev.
Jum<* E. Jones, pastor, will pre-
side at a meeting of the Delta
County Ministerial Alliance, and
at 2:30 p.m. the Rev. Earl Jones,
Sulphur Springs district Metho-
dist superintendent, will lead a
meeting of ministers of that dis-
trict. Wives of the ministers, both
in county and district, will meet
in the educational building while
the ministers are in session.
Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Cunningham
of Wichita Falls will arrive today
for a visit with Mi s. Cunningham’s
parents. Judge and Mrs. Newman
Phillips.
Thanksgiving Services
Held Wednesday Night
“God never closes a door in a
man’s life but that He opens a
window," said the Rev. James E.
Jones, Coopei Methodist Church
pastor, when he delivered a ser-
mon Wednesday evening at a un-
ion Thanksgiving service held at
the First Baptist Church, "and we
! should give thanks to God for the
i opportunities wrapped up in phy-
sical handicaps.
Members of the Presbyterian,
' Christian, Methodist and Baptist
churches attended the service,
completely filling the auditorium.
Mrs. Kermit Carrington was or-
i ganist and accompanied the Coop-
I er High School choir in two num-
bers, “Beautiful Saviour" and
| "The Lord’s Prayer.” The Rev.
Jim Cole, host pastor, presided,
i and the Rev. Charles W. Reader
read scripture.
The Rev. Mr. Jones read as a
text Judges 20:16, “There were
700 men left-handed; everyone
could sling stones at a hair’s
breadth, and not miss." “These
men,” said the speaker, "were
handicapped by the loss of their
right arms in battle, but their mis-
fortune turned out to be a bless-
ing in disguise. Before their loss
they were men unknown, but be-
ing amputees, they trained them-
selves to be of great and useful
service to their country and to
their fellowman and they accept-
ed themselves with determination
and courage and thus overcame
their problem.”
The speaker cited General
Booth, Louis Pasteur and Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt as examples of
men who accepted their physical
limitations with determination
and courage. “The secret of suc-
cess is shifting from one's weak-
ness to one’s strength—from one’s
limitations to one's capacity.”
Here he quoted the old Chinese
proverb: “God never closes a door
in a man’s life but that he opens
a window."
In closing the Rev. Mr. ‘Jones
said, “Let us give God thanks for
the opportunities wrapped up in
physical handicaps. If we arc
handicapped by fear, illness or
some physical limitations, we
should seek out their purpose with
courage and determination. Thank
God for such, for they come our
way to help strengthen our own
lives and the lives of others. They
are, without doubt, blessings in
disguise.
Annual Christmas Parade
Slated for Cooper Dec. 6
Korean Vet to
Speak to Lions
Captain Curtis L. Anders, in- ,
I fantry veteran of the Korean war,
i will be guest speaker at the reg-
ular meeting of the Cooper Lions
j Club today at Hotel Cooper.
Captain Anders, who has been
engaged in the Korean conflict al-
most from its beginning, arrived
in Commerce, his home, Nov. 7,
for his first leave in over 18
months. He is a graduate of West
Point Military Acadamy.
j The program committee for the '
day is Clovis Hooten and Fred !
Newman. i
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Funeral Services
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neia Sunday ror
Sam D. flower, 71
Funeral services for Sam D.
j Clower, 71, former Delta county
; farmer and real estate man who
died last Saturday in Garland,
where he moved two years ago,
i were held last Sunday at 2 p.m.
i at Pecan Gap Methodist Church.
The Rev. J. P. Flepning, Sher-
man Methodist district superin- i
tendent, conducted the rites, as-
sisted by the Rev. G. H. Mood and
the Rev. L. B. Johnson of Gar-
land. Delta Funeral Home made
interment in Pecan Gup cemetery. I
Mr. Clower was born at Pecan
Gap May 9, 1880, son of the lute
Dave M. and Martha Amanda
Simmons Clower. After retiring
from the farm he was associated
with J. A. Harrison in real estate
business at Cooper. He had been
in failing health the past few
years.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Hattie Davis Clower; two daugh-
ters, Miss Doris Clower, Dallas,
and Mrs. W. C. McKnight, Gar-
land; a brother, Ben Clower, Dal-
las; and four sisters, Mrs. C. W.
Bledsoe and Mrs. O. L. Sullivan
of Pecan Gap, Mrs. Clyde Middle-
brooks of Matador and Mrs. E. L.
I Gist of Cleburne. He also leaves
one grandchild.
Active pallbearers were Jack
Lay, Holly Shepherd, Carl P. Har-
rison, Cal T. Scott, Frank Craw-
j ford and Dave Hendricks.
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Korean Veteran
Interred in Paris
In Military Rites
Funeral service for Cpl. Billy R.
Poole, son of Mrs. B. D. Margraves
of near Pecan Gap, and Grady A.
Poole of Hugo, Okla., were held
Wednesday afternoon at the Gene
Rowden and Sons Funeral Home
in Paris, of which city he was a
native, conducted by the Rev.
James S. Riley, pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Paris. The
Brown-Guest Post 30, American
Legion of Paris, held military
rites in Meadowbrook Memorial
Park east of Paris, where the body
was interred.
Surviving Cpl. Poole, who was
born in Paris Feb. 1, 1931, are his
parents; his grandfather, Ed Jor-
dan of Powderly, and five broth-
ers, Cpl. Grady A. Poole, Jr., Ft.
Hood; Don Poole, Pecan Gap; and
Wayne Poole, Bobby Poole and
| Jack Poole, all of Powderly.
Cpl. Poole attended public
| school at Powderly and lacked
only one year finishing high school
when he volunteered for army
service. He was in the infantry’s
First Cavalry Division. He work-
ed a short time in Paris before go-
ing to the army on the day he was
18 years old.
Cpl. Poole was a step-brother of
Sonny Margraves of Cooper and
J. R. Margraves of Honey Grove.
Mrs. J. D. Morgan had as guests
last Friday night her son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W. P.
Perry of near Oakridge, Term.,
and her grandson and his wife, Mr.
and Mrs. Berney Morgan, and chil-
dren, Joan and John, of Houston.
The Perrys flew to Galveston to
attend funeral services for Mr.
Perry’s mother, Mrs. Jessie C.
Perry, at Galveston, and continu-
ed their return by air after visit-
ing in Cooper.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Dawson
and daughter, Marilyn, spent last
Sunday at Mt. Pleasant visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Dawson,
formerly of Cooper. They at-
tended a music recital in which
Sandra Dawson appeared.
The Cooper Band Mothers Club
will meet next Wednesday at 2:30
p.m. at the high school, the reg-
ular meeting this week having
been changed because of the
Thanksgiving season.
James Smith to
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Commerce Office
will be held in Cooper Dec. 6 be-
ginning at 7 p.m., Ray Banks,
chairman of the Christmas Parade
Committee of the Delta County
Chamber of Commerce, has an-
nounced.
An outstanding program for the
parade has been arranged this
year and will include numerous
bands, drill teams, floats, deco-
rated bicycles, climaxed with the
float of Santa Claus.
Differing from the usual cus-
tom, Santa will not throw out the
j candy to the children from his
float but will meet the children
personally on the band stand after
the parade and pass out candy
there and talk to the children who
tvtrc to talk to him. A fireworks
J display is also being planned for
the occasion.
in the parade will be approxi-
mately eight bands from sur-
rounding high schools and the
[ ROTC band from East Texas State
I Teachers College. Among the
| bands expected to march in the
parade will bo those from Sulphur
Springs, Paris High School, Cib-
| bons High School, Commerce
High School, Paris Junior College,
j Honey Grove and Greenville.
James B. (Jimmie) Smith, a | A drill team from the college
Lone Star Gas Company employee J known as the Mitchell Grenadiers
since 1941, has been appointed | will march in the parade and put
manager of the company’s Com- | on an exhibition of their precision
merce district of distribution, ac- | drilling. The Delmar High School
Delmarchers will also march in
the parade.
A number of floats have already
been pledged for the parade in-
cluding those sponsored by the
American Legion, the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, the 4-H Club Boys,
the Delta Vocational Schools, and
East Delta school. Prizes of $10
will he awarded to the best float
with a $5 second prize. A prize
of $2 will be presented to the boy
or girl who has the best decorated
bicycle ridden in the parade.
Christmas lights will be put up
on the square during the next two
weeks and recognition will be giv-
en the store with the best decorat-
ed windows or store front while
recognition will also be given the
best decorated home in Cooper.
Members of the Retail Trade
Committee who are working with
Mr. Banks on the program include
L. F. Hooten, Jr., chairman of the
Retail Trades Committee of the
DCCC, of which the Christmas
Parade Committee is a sub di-
vision, and Wren H. Hart. Russell
Tucker, Fi nest Hardy, Gene Moss,
Jack Silman, Travis Toney and
Thomas Robinson,
cording to an announcement by
L. M. Scholl of Greenville, di-
vision superintendent. He suc-
ceeeds W. W. Cagle, who is being
transferred, Mr. Scholl said.
As district manager, Mr. Smith
will be in charge of gas service
and maintenance operations in
Commerce, his headquarters, and
Cooper, Fairlie, Enloe, Wolfe
City, Ladonia and Pecan Gap. The
district serves approximately 3,400
gas customers.
Mr. Smith comes to this terri-
tory from Waxahachie where he
was born and reared and in 1941
he joined the gas company there.
He served in various capacities in
the gas distribution department
. until 1947 when he was appointed
Waxahachie district storekeeper,
the post held when he received the
Commerce district managerial as-
1 signment.
During World War II, Mr.
Smith served thirty-six months
with a Seabee Construction Bat-
talion, thirty of which were in
the South and Central Pacific. Fie
is a Mason, a member of the
Knights of Pythias and attended
the First Baptist Church in Waxa-
hachie. Mrs. Smith is the former
Miss Daisy Lee Williams of Italy,
Texas. The Smith youngster is
Randy Smith, age three years.
Nine Communities
Present for First
Polio Meeting
Beekeepers Meet
! Here Friday Night
More than 30 beekeepers, mem-
bers of the North Texas Bee-
' keepers Association,, held their
! regular meeting in the offices of
j the County Agent last Friday
night.
Nine communities were repre-
sented Wednesday afternoon, Nov.
14, at an initial meeting of the
Mothers section of the 1952 March
of Dimes campaign for poliomey-
litis benefit.
The meeting was held at the
home of Mrs. W. O. Wallace of
Klondike, chairman of the moth-
ers division of the Delta county
campaign which will open next
Jan. 2, 1952. The mothers' drive
is better known as “The Porch
Light Campaign," the light on the
porch signaling volunteer giving
by the household to be visited by
a contact mother.
Plans were made for organizing
women in communities and towns
of Delta county. These com-
munity chairmen will appoint
others to help make the march,
and when the organization is com-
pleted it will have a large number
of contact mothers for a one-hour
drive on Jan. 31, 1952.
Chairmen named at the Wed-
nesday meeting include Mrs. Jack
Silman, Cooper; Mrs. Morris
White, Pecan Gap; Mrs. Bill Ber-
ry, Enloe; Mrs. Glee Taylor, Lake
Creek; Mrs. G. R. Price, Charles-
ton; Mrs. Gene Hunt, Klondike;
Mrs. Dudley Robnett, Gough; Mrs.
Bud Moore, Needmore; Mis. Dovie
Deweese, Vasco; Mrs. Curtis Par-
due, Ben Franklin.
Mrs. Alvin Humphries, Yowcll;
Mrs. Raymond Mills, Camp Lake;
Mrs. Curtis Cantrell, Antioch;
Mrs. Mancel Mosley, Price; Miss
Thelma Neal, Rattan; Mrs. Preston
West, Cross Roads; Mrs. Mary
Iglehart, Pacio; Mrs. Buddy Gil-
more, Kensing; Mrs. Dave Oyler,
Liberty Grove, and Mrs. Dave
Thomas, Cedar Creek. A chair-
man is yet to be selected for Hor-
ton community.
John Ed Adair, freshman stu-
dent at Baylor University, Waco,
and Blaine Adair who travels out
of Dallas, arrived Wednesday to
spend Thanksgiving and the week-
end with their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Adair.
Lyman Coe, entomologist for the
Noble Foundation, Ardmore. Okla,,
was the principal speaker and
spoke on the value of the use of
bees in pollination of winter le-
gume's and the resulting increase
in seed yields. According to Mr.
toe. Held tests in Oklahoma by
the Noble Foundation show that
the proper use of the bees in vetch
and alfalfa resulted in a substan-
tial increase in seed harvest.
A large number of beekeepers
from Hunt and Lamar counties as
well as one beekeeper from Ar-
kansas were present at the meet-
ing.
Joe Ribble of Klondike gave a
report on field work in the apairy
for this time of the year. An in-
teresting question box on bee-
keeping problems was led by the
chairman of the meeting. Mr. May
of Lamar county.
Mrs. Ed Turbeville and Mrs. A.
L. Carrington were visiting in
Grapevine and Dallas Armistice
weekend.
Mrs. F. C. Pettit spent Thanks-
giving with relatives at Sulphur
Bluff.
County G innings
Bales Ginned
Cooper Custom Gin 1,116
Wylie France Gin 635
Stubblefield-Miller Gin 1,580
Farmers Co-op, Cooper 2,900
Farmers Co-op, Lake Creek 1,306
Farmers Co-op, Enloe 1,980
H. C. Hurley Gin 838
Charleston Gin 250
Vasco Gin 400
Jot ‘Em Down Gin 1,149
Pecan Gap Gin 1,180
Farmers Co-op. Pecan Gap 1,111
Ben Franklin Gin 875
TOTAL 15,320
Receipts at the Cotton Yard
Wednesday afternoon totaled ap
proxlmately 7,150 bales. Cotton
seed stiling for $80 per ton. Cot-
ton selling from 38'2 to 401^ cents.
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