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a. Cooper in March 1961. Af-
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training at Fort Ord, California,
he reported to the 49th Armor-
ed Division at Fort Polk,
Louisiana, during the 1961 en-
campment of the Lone Star
di\ is ion.
A freshman Industrial Educ-
ation major at East Texas
State College, Commerce, Jam-
es resides at 1001 West Bon-
ham in Cooper with his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. James.
-SH I P WELL TONIGHT
PEC ROBERT L. NELSON
\\iio enlisted in the National
Guard in February 1963, com-
pleted six months of basic and
individual training with the
r* gular Army a. Fort Polk,
La., before returning to Coop-
er as a guardsman.
Nelson, his wife Betty Sue
and their son, Marvin Louis,
who was born in February, re-
side at 221 North West Sixth
Street in Cooper. He is the son
of Mrs. Loucy Mae Thomas
also of Cooper.
YOUR NATIONAL GUARD IS AWAKE!”
ENLISTMENTS ARE BEING ACCEPTED IN THE COOPER NATIONAL GUARD
FOR MEN BETWEEN AGES OF 181 ■» TO 35
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ostmasters Launch Drive
o Push Use Of Zip Code
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The dreams of another state
championship were shattered
Saturday night at Denton when
the Mineral Well's Rammettes
upset favored Cooper 53-51 In
Region 2 finals.
Leading only in the early
minutes of the game, the Bull-
dogettes were down five points,
26-31, at the end of the first
half. At one point during the
second half, Cooper trailed nine
points but managed to chisel the
margin down to two us the final
buzzer sounded.
Forwards Sherry Mendenhall
and Karen Sparks, playing their
last game for Cooper High
School, scored 29 and 14 points
respectively. Junior Jane Sloan
contributed the remaining points.
Also playing their final game
were guards, Katie Nabors and
Carol Simpson. Junior Cathy
Cain completed the Cooper start-
ing unit.
Early Saturday afternoon, the
Bull'dogcttes toppled Carthage
67-43 to gain a place in the finals
behind the 28 point scoring
spree of Mendenhall.
After getting off to a slow
start, Cooper began to pull
ahead in the second period, and
methodically increased their lead
hroughout the final half of the
game.
The Cooper girl's finished the
season with a 32-2 record, one
of the best in the state.
delta weather
Twenty-Three On
Honor Roll At
Junior High
Delta County had a wide
variety of weather last Sun-
day and Monday. After a
wcl|m, partly cloudy Sunday
with intermittent showers, a
sterm with high gusts of
wind, thunder and lightning
blew in about 9:30 p.m. A
steady rain most of the night
left more than two inches of
rain in Cooper. In some sec-
tions of the county it is esti-
mated that three inches or
more fell.
Early Monday morning the
temperature stood at 31 de-
grees. Rain again began to
fall. About 1 p.m. some snow,
sleet, and small hail came
with stiff gusts of wind,
which melted as it struck the
wet ground. Tuesday and
Wednesday there was a bright
sun again.
Warm weather followed by
the moisture has resulted in
blooming shrubs and plants
throughout Cooper, attesting
to the fact that spring is not
far off.
Monday morning, after check-
ing the water level in the city
lakes following the weekend
lains, Mayor L. M. Anderson
lifted water usage restrictions
imposed on Cooper residents
since last September. Residents
are now allowed to wash cars,
water lawns and flowers.
In announcing the action of
city officials, Mayor Anderson
said “Due to the amount of rain
water caught in the city lakes,
we can now lift restrictions on
water usage and hope we won’t
have to ration it (the water) any
time in the future.”
“I would like to express my
appreciation," continued Ander-
son, “for the cooperation we
have had in trying to conserve _ __
water during the drought. If the | raised the level of the wes
people hadn’t responded so to within one foot of the
been out of water two
ago.”
“Approximately five
supply was caught in the
but they are not yet full,
fore we need to use nec<
caution in water usage,”
eluded Anderson.
The run-off from the
whole hardily, we would have
Six Fils For City
Alderman Pos
Three more local men filed for
places on the City Alderman
election ballot prior to the dead-
line last Saturday. These candi-
dates bring the total to six men
running for the three two-year
terms.
The city election will be held
April 7th. All people living in
Cooper who have a paid poll tax
receipt, an exemption certificate
or are over sixty-years of age,
'uiir n! !hr s ven postmasters r postmasters. Lee urged them to
Uc>ta County attended an all- 1 ..j
\y meetim: h-t Thursday in j an>thin* y°“ Gan tG P™mote
wnvilie. wh.ch is the Section- the Z,p Code system without
Center ej : , postoffices in I cost the Postoffice Depart-
mection with use of the Zip I nK'nt "
Fe- Tt ' -'•■'“ional center Zip
P "umber i 754. Attending
Pm Dc.la County were Post-
hsters Dave Hendricks ofCoop-
) Mrs. No: v lie Stockton of
f*- Mr Y n , F Patterson of
fke Creek, and T. C Wilhite of
run GaP 1 1 ii Franklin, Char-
ron an,i Klondike were not
presented at the meeting.
"*« hav< to be sold
With the use of slides Garret-
son explained the advantages of
the Zip Code system, including
earlier dispatch of mail, accurate
distribution, faster transporta-
tion, less breakage because of
fewer handlings of parcel post,
better local service, and less
“float” or money for bank de-
1 posit or payment of bills which
on the
. , ours,'lv' '• eil it to postal
L,P °*'L‘SXI and ''H it to the pub-
!• w Garretson, public re-
lion, offic r of the Dallas
i ° lct’ ,()1d '4 area postmast-
attending the Greenville
sting.
Pjarrutson was in charge of the
rt"°0n session. J. H. Lee,
J th Servict offlcer of Dallas,
e morning discussion. The
described as the
L® P“ih at t,le local level” to
tl T US' °f the ZiP Code
|f " Pos,al patrons.
lpo!tamOUgi1 Peop!e know how
Cf ?na.nt„and urk'ont it is to use
_dl • Carretson told the
I is “floating” in the mails.
Garretson declared that use of
the Zip Code will cut as much
as 24 hours off t h c letter de-
livery time in many areas. He
also said it will cut out the hu-
man error element and reduce
mail damage. “Another objective
of the program is to contain
costs”, he said, “and if we can
do this, then somewhere down
the line we are going to offset
postal rate increases.”
During the morning session
Lee explained that the Postoffice
Department designed the Zip
Code system because of the fast
increase in the nation’s popula
tion and the resultant surge in
mail loads. He said that the
Bureau of Census and the Bur-
eau of Standards have estimated
a United States population jf
212 million by 1970.
Lee said the Postoffice Depart-
ment is approaching t h e point
“where we can’t get enough
trained people, buildings and
facilities, so we had to go to the
numerical code system. The De-
partment had to take the lead
and establish a uniform system
that will work for all of the peo-
ple.”
T. J. Scott, principal of the
Cooper Junior High School, has
released the names of students
making the honor roll for the
fourth six weeks of work. Thir-
teen students from the seventh
grade and 10 from the eighth
grade are listed.
Seventh graders include Kathy
Ainsworth, Allen Beeler, Gary
Chandler, Vickie Conley, Marg-
aret Fox, Robert Henson, Judy
Hornsby, Melinda Millard, Jonet-
te McCombs, Don Robnett, Judy
Sullens. Larry Trapp, and Har-
old Whitlock.
The following eighth grade
students made the roll; Teresa
Day, Lundy Gammon, Jana
Hocutt, Judy Holmes, Wanda
Jackson, Bobbie Skinner, Bar-
bara Stovall, Brenda Vandy-
griff, Linda Vandygriff and
Judy Wright.
17 Delta County Voters
Obtain Free Poll Tax
The issuance of special poll
taxes in Delta County which en-
ables persons without a paid poll
tax to vote in national elections
totaled 17 by the deadline Fri-
day night.
After Congress approved ac-
tion making it unnecessary to
pay a poll’ tax to vote in nation-
al elections, and after having
been made a portion of the Con-
stitution, eligible voters were
given 30 days during which to
obtain this special free poll tax.
Those who had purchased a
poll tax prior to the Jan. 31
deadline were eligible to vote in
any election, and those due ex-
emptions who obtained them be-
fore the deadline also are eligi-
ble to vote in all elections.
But ’.hose who did not pur-
chase a poll tax were given the
opportunity to secure the special
poll tax for national elections
only. On the other hand, those
due exemptions who did not ob-
tain them before the deadline
Jan. 31, could not obtain the
special receipts.
Prior to the January 31st
deadline, 1384 Delta residents
had paid poll taxes to vote in all
elections, according to records at
!he Tux Assessors-Collectors of-
fice. A total of forty 21-year-old
exemptions were also issued.
Residents over 60 years of age
were not required to obtain ex-
emption certificates to be eligi-
ble to vote in all elections, since
Delta county is below 10,000
population.
are eligible to vote in the elec-
tion.
1 wo of the three places on the
council are being vacated by S.
T. Garrison and George A. Bol-
ger, whom did not choose to
run for re-election.
Harry Bartley, the only in-
cumbent in the race, was one of
the original aldermen elected in
October 1962, following the
change in the city’s form of gov-
ernment. He was re-elected to an
alderman position in April 1963,
serving a one year term. Bartley
is co-owner of Cooper Feed &
Supply Company and is a di-
rector in the First National
Bank. He is a former director of
(he Delta County Chamber of
Commerce and the Cooper Hous-
ing Authority.
The other five candidates are:
L. D. Vandiver, Texaco, Inc.,
consignee, and owner of Cooper
Texaco Station, is currently
serving as president of the
Delta County Chamber of Com-
merce.
Bussell Ham. landowner and
farmer, is a former director of
the Chamber of Commerce.
M. H. (Doc) Millard, former
City of Cooper night watchman.
Paul Miller, owner of Miller’s
Barber Shop.
Lonnie Cavanaugh, cattle and
| poultryman.
the spillway. The other |
lakes within the system re
low. These lakes are fed
from the drainage over
spillway of the west lake.
Prior to the rains, the
situation had become the
concern of city officials
water level dropped to the
est point since 1956 when
water supply in all three
was exhausted.
Grants Franchise
Tuesday morning in a cl
meeting, City Aldermen pass
resolution granting T.V.
Company of Commerce, In^
franchise to install and op«
a TV cable system in Coopi
The Cable company now]
thirty days in which to ac
or reject the franchise.
Charles Reynolds, presider
the company, and Bobby W|
ard, an employee, presented
proposition to the City Al^
man last week and asked fa
franchise after conducting
preliminary survey in Coc.
Reynolds told the city offic
that in the event'both pa
agree on a franchise, a tx
land will be secured and a
foot TV tower constructed,
non-exclusive franchise calls
payment of two percent of
firm’s gross income to the
of Cooper annually.
Paul J. Shields Transferred To
Lone Star Gas Commerce Office
Cooper Places
Livestock Slur
Paul J. Shields, manager for
wee Trustee
fosts Open On
fainindel Board
; Trustc
hdel V*,eIection f°r the Fan-
Pc; will tP?dent Sch0Gl Dis
L ^ JL' held in Ladonia at
C!!y.Hal1 and in the Cock-
g in Pecan Gap,
Lb4“u?”« *«*
Do Prri '"'m a m. through
‘ ^ ar‘‘ three vacancies
filled on ‘“;TC vacancies t0
e ^l0m Pecan Gap
II
id tuv , 1 u'°m Pec
ICaii fr°m ^donia.
Ip) art* Hen°r PIace 1 (Pecan
fc»lT"^«e.Jrand
i c. orr- f Raney-
are r ' H. Wilson
from I ,he ,wo vacan-
atri Ladonia.
|Joe aaor|ia.
C. M ,°.n from Pecan Gap
h ehoos- .Wens- Ladonia, did
° run for another
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W W. Brad-
1* the*r tern„year.t° 9erVe be*
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CHS Choir To
Stage Hootenanny
The Cooper High School Choir
will sponsor a “Hometown Hoot-
enanny” on March 24 in the high
school gymnasium.
Carie Williams and Mary Jane
Moseley are in charge of ar-
rangements for the forthcoming
production and have appointed
the following chairmen of com-
mittees: Vikki Ward, advertising;
Sharon Huie, tickets; Janila
Cherry, music; Mark Ward and
Richard Garrison, props.
“Each committee is hard at
work preparing to make this
event a great success”, stated
Miss Williams.
C. of C. Sponsored Circus
Here Friday and Saturday
The Circus is coming to town Parkhili’Q ^ *
Lions Club Will
Tear Male Quartet
Meeting in luncheon session
■Judge, V 8erve-
Yea»--thc erection will be
Bger at Pecar
Friday noon at the Delta Coun-
try Club, the Cooper Lions Club
will hear a male quartet from
v vmihiX. • % < .
The program is being arrang-
ed by J. C. McKinney and Goe-
bel Templeton, and all members
its are invited to
The Circus is coming to town
Friday and Saturday five
free circus shows with clowns,
jugglers, animal acts and other
circus thrills will entertain area
residents. The circus will be set
up on the public square in
Cooper, around the bandstand.
The Retail Trade Committee of
the Delta County Chamber of
Commerce is arranger of the
event, and has scheduled the
free circus show for 2:30 and
6:30 p.m. Friday, March 13; and
three performances on Saturday,
March 14, at 10:30 a.m„ 2:30 and
6:30 p.m.
Featured in the five perform-
ances will be dog acts, one which
has appeared on the Ed Sullivan
Show; Mem the Elephant; Prince
the Wonder Horse, Bozo and
Buster, the Clowns; jugglers,
and monkey acis.
There will be mechanical
rides, Shetland Pony and ele-
phant rides for the children all
day long on both days.
Free Discount Tickets for rides
are available at all sponsoring
merchants. The tickets reduce
(he price of the mechanical rides
to 10 cents, and the animal rides
to 25 cents.
Merchants sponsoring the cir-
cus includes Stubblefield-John-
son Farm Supply, Miller's Phar-
macy, Emerson’s Dry Goods,
Dutch’s Gas Service, Ray Banks
Furnifu”* Hoc*ten Drug Com-
pany, Hunt’s, Cantrell' Chev-
rolet Company, Delta National
Bank, First National Bank, The
Fashion Sho
c:^fkdiMsSyQsirherla'sTWa,ch Shop'Zu,a,s
pany, Bob Singer, Inc., Foster’s F hlons’ Texas Power & Light
Enco Station, Paul Cates Service ComPany-
Station, O. L. Shepherd Machine Als0, Wilsor» Food Company,
Shop, Jesse Paul Allen, Mc-
Clanahan Grocery.
Cooper Co-op Gin Company,
DePoyster Lumber Company,
Leslie s Store, Box’s Auto Parts
and Garage, L. D. Vandiver,
Piggly Wiggly, Automatic Gas
and Electric, Lawrence Barrett,
Ransom s Cafe, McKinney Insur-
ance Agency, Miller Barber
Shop, Cooper Mercantile Com-
pany, Silman’s, McDonald Insur-
ance Agency, Caperton’s Earley’s
Garage & Wrecking, Adair’s
Grocery & Market, and Simp-
son’s Cleaners.
Seniors To Present Play
Monday-Tuesday Nights
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“Arsenic and Old Lace” is the
title of the comedy by Joseph
Kesselring which will be pre-
sented by the Senior Class of
Cooper High School next Mon-
day and Tuesday nights in the
high school auditorium at 7:30.
Directing the comedy are the
three class sponsors, Mr. and
Mrs. Hollis Williams and Mrs.
W. J. Sparks. Stage manager
chairman is Terry Kessler and
business manager is Margaret
Scott. Serving as prompters will
be Margaret Sims, Sue Bridges,
Linda Irving, Francine Penning-
ton.
The* U'pll-l/nntim r*t~\m>wJ .* J.— i_
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with two kind, benevolent, old
ladies, who have a dozen bodies
buried in their cellar, and with
their crazy n
night’s productions include Sue
Holmes as Abby Brewster; Bar-
bara Gunter as Mrs. Harper;
David Jeter as Freddy Brewster;
Tommy Coker as Officer Trophy;
Bill Parkhill as Officer Klein;
Frances Whitlock as Martha
Brewster; Suzanne Click as
Elaine Harper; Ronnie Cassady
as Mortimer Brewster; David
Nabors as Mr. Gibbs; Ray Banks
Jr. as Jonathon Brewster; Wood-
son Schmitter as Dr. Einstein;
Kenny McFarling as Officer
O Hara; Tom Ray as Lieutenant
Rooney; and Don Whitaker as
Mr. Witherspoon.
The Cooper High School or-
chestra will perform between
acts.
Th« senior class and their
Lone Star Gas Company in
Cooper since last February 1, has
been named manager at Com-
merce, according to S. Harry
King, East Texas regional man-
ager. His appointment is effec-
tive April 1. His successor in
Cooper has not been announced.
A native of Fairlie in Hunt
County, Mr. Shields began work
for the company on August 19 . ■ OCWJ
1947, as a laborer in Commerce’ 5®*? ^ hlS lamb and plac
He was promoted to skilled lab-' Son “ ^ ^ She
oner in September, 1948; to utili- I Rm° All
ty man in January. 1950; to B A” W°n a four
Four members of the Cooj
Future Farmers of Amer|
chapter won ribbons and
trophy at the Honey Grove Lit
stock Show last Saturday.
Danny Moore was awarde
blue ribbon and trophy for
Champion fat steer.
Junior Larkin showed the
serve Chamipon Angus bull
the beef division.
Don Whitaker won secoi
L. D. Robbins
Dies Wednesday,
Funeral Today
won a
serviceman in January P*aCe ribbon with his fourteer
January, 1957, month-old Hereford.
On March 20-21, thsse foi
Lorenzo Dow Robbins, 81, a
resident of Delta County for 54
years, died in a Paris hospital
Wednesday at 4:20 a.m. after
being in failing health for some
time. He had lived at the High-
way Village in Cooper for the
past several months.
Funeral service will be held
today at 2 p.m. at the First Bap-
tist Church of Cooper, with the
pastor, the Rev. Bob I. Johnson,
and the Rev. Rube Bennington
of Commerce officiating Mc-
Donald Funeral Home will make
interment in the Camp Shed
Cemetery near Mount Joy.
Son of the late Robert R. and
Frances (Crump) Robbins, he
was born in Union County, Miss,
on January 26, 1883. He came to
Delta County in 1910, settling in
the Mount Joy Community. Mrs.
Robbins, the former Miss Mary
Arizona Gillean, preceded him in
death on May 19, 1936.
Surviving are three sons and
three daughters, Melburn Rob-
bins of Fowlerton, Texas, Wil-
burn Robbins of Dallas, Weyman
Robbins of Beuna Park, Calif.,
Mrs. Dee Jackson of Lake Creek,
Mrs. Janice Lehman of Arling-
ton, and Mrs. Doris Sims of Dal-
las. He also leaves two sisters,
Mrs. Mattie Gillean of Mount
Joy and Mrs. Jettie White of
Oronville, Calif., nine grandchil-
and to foreman on April' 1, 1957.
He was named manager at Coop-
er, succeeding George Hall, who
retired after serving in Cooper
for seven years.
He and his wife, the former
Miss Marie Cameron of Com-
merce, have two children, Mrs
Jerry (Barbara) Hendrix and
Johnson Shields.
\ ouths and twelve others wil
compete in the North East Texi
Livestock Show at Sulphi
Springs.
The other FFA students plan!
ing to have entries in the Sul|
phur Springs show includes
Mickey Oats, Eugene Rogers
Bill Cattanach, Kenny Bakerl
Sch„ofrMrUashieM ^
Mr. Shields is a member in the beef division; Swine
^Lo^^d thC! Visi0n: Gary Bulin! Sheep^Gary
% —r He av,rr ass
Lion's a„r’bW -
Dr. L. R. Rohr To Address TOA
Convention In Cooper, March 18
LOREN R. ROHR, D.O.
Loren R. Rohr. n.O.. President
of the Texas Association of
Osteophtic Physicians and Sur-
geons, will address the associa-
tion’s District 13 annua
Dean E. Wintermute are to
hosts to the convention.
Practitioner of Osteophatic
Medicine and Surgery in Hous-
ton, Dr. Rohr is one of the
founders of Community Hospital
there.
Professional positions in the
state association held by Dr.
Rohr include president of Dis-
trict 6 Society; chairman of De-
partment of Professional Affaire;
chairman of Ethics Committee,
president of Texas Society of
General’ Practitioners in Osteo-
phathic Medicine and Surgery
for two years; and member of
House of Delegates. Along with
his duties as president of the
state association, the doctor la •
member of the Board of Trus-
tees.
On the national level, Pf,
Ruhr is a member of the i
House of DefcgnlM;
Trustees, Bureau of f *iS™
Uonal Attain, mi dm
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