Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, August 3, 1951 Page: 3 of 8
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Mr. and Mrs. Morris Vaughn and
family are on a three weeks trip
through North and South Dakota
and Canada.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Henson and
baby of Jacksonville, formerly of
Cooper, have been visiting Cooper
friends and relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Hershell Clements
have moved back to their home
in Pecan Gap after living in Com-
merce for the past three years.
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Methodist Revival in Progress
The Methodist revival meeting
started Wednesday night and will
continue through Sunday night,
Aug. 12. Rev. J. B. Hibbert, local
pastor, is delivering some able and
effective sermons at all of the
services. A cordial invitation is
extended to all to come and take
part in the meeting.
The first quarterly conference
was held here last Sunday night
with Dist. Supt. Earl Jones of
Sulphur Springs officiating.
The opening of the Methodist
Sunday school has been changed
from 10 a.m. to 9,45 a.m., effective
August 5.
Rev. Owens Whittenburg Preaches
At First Baptist Church
Rev. Owens Whittenburg of Du-
rant, Okla., delivered an inspiring
sermon at the First Baptist Church
of Pecan Gap last Sunday. His
maternal grandfather was a Bap-
tist minister and served as post-
mster of Pecan Gap for five years,
1897-1902
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Garrison
Entertain Sunday School Class
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Garrison en-
tertained class No. Five of the
Methodist Sunday school here last
Thursday evening at their home.
Games were played and ice cold
watermelons were served to the
following guests: Tharon Briscoe,
Martha Sue Reno, Celia Blevins,
Dora Beth Cummings, David Scott,
Pecan Gap, and Carla Joy Lyon
of El Paso.
Services Held for W. C. Wooten
Services were held Wednesday
evening at Ladonia for William C.
Wooten. 84, a retired farmer, who
died Tuesday morning at his home
in Ladonia.
Rites were held at the family
home with the Rev. J. M. Webb,
pastor of the First Methodist
Church, officiating. Burial was in
Pecan Gap cemetery under the
direction of Delta Funeral Home.
Born Feb. 17, 1866, in Murfrees-
boro, Tenn., Mr. Wooten was mar-
ried in 1893 to Miss Maggie Bow-
man.
Survivors include, besides the
widow, one son, Albert Wooten of
Ladonia; two daughters, Mrs. L.
M. Martin, Washington, D. C., and
Mrs. Henry Lamb, Ladonia; and
two grandchildren.
J. Arthur Smith Rites Held
The funeral of J. Arthur Smith,
53, who died Friday, was held Sat-
urday afternoon at Pecan Gap.
Mr. Smith, an electrician, died at
his home in Ladonia at 4:10 a.m.
Friday.
The Rev. John Rasberry, Bap-
tist pastor at Ladonia, assisted by
Rev. S. R. Quattlcbaum and Rev.
J. B. Hibbert, Pecan Gap, of-
ficiated at the Methodist Church
in Ladonia. Delta Funeral Home
of Ladonia made interment in Pe-
can Gap cemetery. Pallbearers
were F. W. Pike, C. M. Owens, Ben
Houchin, Roy Houchin, V. L.
Scarborough and Roy Rushing.
Surviving are Mrs. Smith and
these brothers and sisters: Tom
Smith and Mrs. Floyd Thorp. Fort
Worth; James V. Smith, San Diego,
Calif.; Mrs. Alf Humphrey, Mrs.
J. E. Combs and Mrs. Bob Rod-
erick, all of Pecan Gap, and Mrs.
Jake Sapaw, Idabel, Okla.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lyon and
children, Carla Joy and Kenneth,
have returned to their home in El
Paco after a week’s visit here with
relatives.
Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Williams and
son, Tim, of Sulphur Springs have
been here visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Sam Morgan.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy D. Garrison
have returned home from an ex-
tensive trip in Oklahoma, Kansas,
Missouri and Arkansas.
Pecan Gap extends a hearty
welcome to two Ben Franklin
families who are moving here.
Rev. William Bowman and family
are moving to the J. O. Muncy
dwelling while Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Marsh will occupy rooms from
Mrs. Peral Loftin.
Mrs. Allie Price is in Dallas
visiting in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. E. L. McWhirter.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Grumbles
and Karol Kay of Celina were
here last week visiting in the A.
J. Reid home.
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Muncy of
Ft. Worth spent the weekend here
with friends and relatives.
D. O. Armstrong is a medical
patient at the Santa Fe Hospital
in Temple.
Alvin Moody and family have
moved to Greenville.
Mr. and Mrs. D. C. James cele-
brated their silver wedding an-
niversary last Monday.
Misses Wanda Jean Canup and
Jerry McWhirter were in Dallas
the first part of the week.
Mrs. C. S. Morgan and Mr. and
Mrs. James Reid and son, James
Morgan, all of Dallas, have been
here during the past few days
seeing relatives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Merrill who
reside in Louisiana and Louis
Merrill and family of Dallas were
here of recent date visiting rela-
tives. The Merrill men were
reared on the county line road a
few miles south of Pecan Gap.
Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Gideon of
Ft. Worth spent the weekend here
with Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Gideon.
Mrs. J. Embry Bryan and chil-
dren, Donna and Jimmie, of Sher-
man attended three services at the
Methodist Church here last Sun-
day. Mrs. Bryan stated that her
husband, who served as pastor of
the Methodist Church at Pecan
Gap from June, 1949, to January,
1951, has gone to Alaska in con-
nection with his air service for
the government. She and the chil-
dren will join him there if he can
secure suitable housing facilities
for the family.
James Wadford of Dallas was
here Sunday to visit his grand-
mother, Mrs. A. W. Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Garner and
children of Harlingen visited rel-
atives here Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Johnson
and daughter, Joan, have been
visiting relatives in Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Milligan and
daughter, Annell, and Mr. and
Mrs. A. R. Shannon were in
Floydada a short time ago.
Mrs. J. A. Miller has returned
from Dallas after spending a brief
visit with her daughter, Mrs. Ran-
dolph Railey, and son, Randy, and
her son and daughter-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Miller, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. V. B. Whittenburg
spent the weekend in Pauls Val-
ley, Okla., with their son, V. B.
Whittenburg, and family. Before
returning home they visited Turn-
er Falls.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Walker of
Dallas were here over the week-
end with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Reid and
Ernest Campbell were Sunday
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Grumbles and daughter, Karol
Kay, of Celina.
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Lowery of
Giles will celebrate their ruby
wedding anniversary on Aug. 3.
Jack Greenwood and family
have moved to Snyder.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Pierce of
Omaha, Neb., were in Pecan Gap
Sunday. He was born here and
moved away with his widowed
mother in 1905, following the
passing of his father, Frank
Pierce. This is his first visit in
46 years.
W. B. Lyon is a medical patient
at Leberman Hospital in Com-
merce this week.
Mrs. H. B. Beeler, Jr. has been
entertaining two nieces in her
home. They are Miss Elinor King
of Wellington and Miss Jimmie
Lee McGaha of Cooper.
Mrs. J. T. Sockwell and Mrs.
Ruby Smith have returned home
after spending a few days in Ard-
more, Okla., with Mr. and Mrs.
E. L. Massad.
Mr. and Mrs. S. I. Compton of
Durant, Okla have been here vis-
iting her sister, Mrs. W. E. Reid,
and family and her brother, W.
A. Morgan, and family. They
were accompanied home by Mrs.
Clemie Morgan. Mrs. Morgan is
scheduled to return to Pecan Gap
over the weekend.
Pvt. James A. Cockrell, who
completed the first phase of artil-
lery leadership school last week
at Camp Chaffee. Ark., visited his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Cock-
rell, over the weekend. He has
been retained as an instructor in
the school for his assignment dur-
ing the advanced phase-.
The ladies of the Wesley class,
who have been sponsoring a plan
for collecting dollar bills to reach
from the church to town are
planning to measure their col-
lection Saturday afternoon follow-
ing the drawing a 4:00 p.m. They
will begin at the telephone office
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Production
AAarketing
Association
BY DUDLEY R. 8COTT
Secretary, Delta County PMA
It may be of interest to you to
know that Delta county is in a new
PMA district. We have been a
part of District No. 6 until July 17.
The district was comprised of 15
counties in Northeast Texas. We
are now in District No. 4 which is
comprised of 19 counties in North-
central Texas.
HAIRY VETCH
This crop is very much in the
minds of most farmers in Delta
county. We noticed an article in
the Dallas News regarding the
vetch crop in Kaufman county.
The report was that the value of
the crop was $350,000—a nice in-
come for this season of the year
for the farmers of that county
or any other county.
By comparison I would like to
estimate the value of the Delta
county crop. My estimate is based
on the reports of seed cleaned by
the two cleaning establishments in
Cooper, a very conservative esti-
mate based on this information
would be $250,000. When you
think of the size of Delta county
as compared to Kaufman, I be-
lieve you will agi'ce that we have
exceeded their production.
Our acreage is 2,000 acres while
their acreage is 4,000 acres.
There will be a loan support
price for vetch in 1952 unless the
law is changed; however, it will
not be released before June, 1952.
The fair price will not be released
until the Texas ACP Handbook is
released, which will probably be
the latter part of August.
COTTON
The cotton acreage for Delta
county was estimated in June by
representatives of the ' various
agencies, some of the ginners and
some farmers. The average of all
these estimates was 71,000 acres.
Six men have estimated the pro-
duction from this acreage will be
29,830 bales—this is the average.
The 1950 measured cotton acreage
for Delta county was 49,539.6
acres. The production from that
acreage was approximately 13,000
bales.
SOIL TESTING SERVICE
The above service has been ap-
proved for Delta county and we
will be ready to start taking
samples of soil from farmers who
want the service just as soon as
the county agent can train our
field men for this job.
The county agent has been and
now is on his annual vacation and
will not be in the county until
after August 6.
For your information it is not
the intention of any of the agencies
to furnish this soil testing service
to farmers who are not interested
in carrying out soil building prac
tices. If you intend to just plant
cotton and corn then don’t ask for
this service.
INSPECTION TOUR
Last Thursday morning, we had
the privilege of joining with other
agencies and farmers in an in
spection tour of some four farmer’s
corn patches. The farmers whose
corn patches we inspected were
all participants in a corn contest
sponsored by the Chamber of
Commerce, We saw some fine
corn and we wish to commend the
Chamber of Commerce and these
contestants for this very worthy
effort. May we have more corn
in Delta county.
I will say, however, I prefer
our old native strains of corn over
any hybrid strains I have seen
here or elsewhere.
COTTON LOAN SUPPORT
PROGRAM
Clerks for the execution of cot-
ton loan papers in Delta county
have been approved as follows: W.
I. Bartley, Cooper; L. L. Allard,
Cooper; Hugh C. Tomlinson, Coop-
er; Jean K. Phillips, Cooper; H. R.
Chesnut, Cooper; J. M. Smiley,
Cooper. C. E. Cregg and Ralph
Moore, Enloe; John A. Harrison,
Cooper; Lorene Aiken, Cooper;
Clyde Crawford, Pecan Gap; and
Helen Hall, Pecan Gap.
WITNESS TO TRANSFER
OF EQUITY
Only employees of the County
PMA office will be approved to
witness transfer of equity. No
lending agency employees or
clerks will be authorized to wit-
ness transfer of equities.
Witnesses for Delta county are
to see how far their dollars will
reach towards the church.
W. H. Ross of Dallas, a former
resident of Giles community, is
here seeing relatives and friends.
Mrs. Florence Scoggins has been
in Weatherford as the guest of
her son, Jack Scoggins, and fam-
ily.
Virginia Ann Whittenburg re-
turned to Pauls Valley, Okla., after
spending three weeks with her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. V. B.
Whittenburg.
Mrs. Mamie Bartlett has re-
turned home after a brief visit in
Ft. Worth with her son, J. E.
Bartlett, and family.
Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Underwood
of Sherman were in Pecan Gap
over the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Blair had as
their Sunday dinner guests Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Whittenburg, Rev.
and Mrs. Owens Whittenburg, Mr.
and Marshall and daughter, all of
Durant, Okla. Those visiting in
the Blair home in the afternoon
were Mr. and Mrs. *V. B. Whitten-
burg, Mrs. Alice Newman. Mrs.
B. H. Crawford, Mrs. W. M. Mer-
rill, Sr., Mrs. Corine Langston,
Mrs. R. F. Shaw, all of Pecan Gap.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Rhodes had
23 guests on July 21 and on the
following weekend had 25 visitors.
Letters to
the Editor
Amarillo, Tex.
Cooper Review
Cooper, Texas
Just a few lines to say hello
from the great big west. I sup-
pose you heard how the drouth
here killed nearly all the wheat
earlier this year and the farmers
here were pretty dismal. Just
about the time that the wheat
was too far gone for rain to help
it, it started coming little floods
and at one time there were only
two possible routes out of Amarillo
and they were under water in
places. What causes it is that the
highways go across large lakes and
are raised only about four feet,
which is about all that was neces-
sary heretofore.
When these large rains came
the lakes filled up and consequent-
ly the highways were covered
from three to seven feet deep.
The Highway Department is now
making large permanent detours
around them in case of future
heavy rains. Well, when this hap-
pened the farmers began to plow
up the wheat, what was left of
it, and began planting row crops.
Now they are two and three feet
high and green and pretty. We
have several good rains since the
floods and the crop outlook here
is excellent to date on the row
crops. I was talking to one farm-
er and he said that the row crops
were worth as much and some-
times more than the wheat.
You probably have heard of the
re-activation of the Amarillo Air
Base. It is well underway. Off
the record sources say that the
full complement of men will be
here about October. It is to be
a Jet Trainer Base only. I haven’t
noticed any around yet but it
won’t be long until the sky will
be screaming with them.
Also they are establishing an
Atomic Energy Plant here in what
was during the last war, the Pan- I
tex Ordinance Plant. It certainly '
is a huge affair and I understand
is going to be permanent.
When I first got here they told
me I would like it better here be-
cause it wouldn’t rain all the time
like it did in Cooper. However,
after the floods we had, I wonder-
ed, but all anyone would say was
that it was an unusual year. Later
I was told that I would like the
summers much better because it
wasn’t nearly so hot hi re as there.
A little latter it was 103 degrees
here and I was told that it was
just an unusual year.
All in all I like the country and
the people fine. However, I balk
at the thought of accepting any
area as being better than that of
home.
R. D. BLANKENSHIP
State Tax Supervisor
Miss Mattie Re*
visited relatives he
John Wayne Sr
weekend in Greem
Mr. and Mrs. Bill]
have returned after
to New Mexico ant
in the state.
Needmore
MRS. J. S. LAKE
as follows: D. R. Scott, Adminis-
trative Officer, Delta County PMA;
H. D. Stephenson, Principal Clerk,
Delta County PMA; Wilma C.
Dennis, Chief Clerk, Delta County
PMA; and Dora F. Hocutt, Prin-
cipal Clerk, Delta County PMA.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Lake of
Linden visited friends and rela-
tives here and at Klondike over
the weekend.
Mrs. Ruby Lee Quade and baby
of Dallas and Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Humphries and family of Shiloh
visited Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Roark
Sunday. Mrs. Quade and baby
spent several days with them.
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