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The Delta Courier
Established 1881 by Custer Bros. Purchased Jan. 1, 1925, by Hurt Bros. Published by W. D. Hart and Sons.
Vote For
Farm-to-Market
Roads
TUESDAY, JULY 12, 194'J.
COOPER, DELTA COUNTY, TEXAS
VOLUME 61. NO. 28.
Filters, Pipes Added To
The City Water System
Anderson Rites
Said Monday
At Ben Franklin
A project to expand and im-
prove the Cooper city water sys-
tem is fast nearing completion
this week, Mayor Tdfl> Rountree
has announced.
Immediate benefits of the work
will be a larger supply of water
coming from the city reservoir
to be filtered through three new
filters to be located in town. An-
other possible benefit would be
a 'reduction in fire insurance
rates.
Larger Pipe Laid
kr Laying of more than 3,000 feet
ftf eight-inch pipe is virtually
Complete. The line would con-
nect the city reservoir to the new
filters in town. At present cer-
tain parts of the line are of six-
inch pipe. The larger supply
line will accommodate more than
33 per cent more water.
Still to be laid on the line are
connecting units at a few places
and the pipe to be put under the
highway near the park.
Mayor Rountree said that a
slight drop in insurance rates
should be given for tin
line. State insurance laws per-
mit reduced premiums where
such extra fire-controls were
available.
Reservoir Cleaned
Meanwhile, work is nearly com-
plete on cleaning out the reser-
voir. It will be piped so that raw
water may be pumped directly
into it. Connections are schedul-
ed to be made this week.
The mayor said also that plans
are now being considered on
cleaning out the tower tank and
repainting it cn the inside and
outside.
Collard Rites Held
In Dallas Friday
Funeral services were held Fri-
day for James H. (Dock) Collard,
who formerly lived in Cooper,
at Weiland - Merritt Funeral
Church, Dallas.
Rev. J. C. McCUiin of Cooper
officiated. Interment was made
in Crown Hill Memorial Park also
in Dallas.
Collard had been in ill health
for some time before his death.
He was staying at the home of
a son, Charlie, at Buna Vista,
Ark., when he died.
He is survived by his son,
Charlie, a daughter, Mrs. Cecil
Moore, Dallas; a brother, J. C.
Collard, Honey Grove; two sis-
ters, Mrs. Ella Paulk, Vernon, and
Mrs. S. K. McGaughey, Honey
Grove, and four grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at three o’clock
for George E. Anderson, 53, who
died here Saturday night at the
home of his father, W. C. Ander-
son. •
Bro. D. Yokam officiated at the
services which were held at the
Methodist Church at Ben Frank-
lin. Burial was made in the Sim-
mons cemetery under the direc-
tion of Delta Funeral Home. His
home was in Dallas.
Anderson is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Ora Anderson, Dallas;
his lather, W. C. Anderson, Coop-
er; a son, James Anderson, New
York; a daughter, Mrs. C. A.
Green, New York, and a brother,
H. G. Anderson, Tyler.
School Transfer
Applications
Available Now
Parents or guardians of chil-
dren who desire to make appli-
cation for attendance at a district
other than the one in which they
live should apply immediately.
Goebel Templeton, county sup-
erintendent, said that application
blanks are now available at his
office. Final deadline for filing
| has been set August 1.
According to provisions of re-
cent legislation passed by the last
legislature, transfer applications
must be approved by both the
county board of school trustees
and the director of the minimum
foundation school program in
Austin before the transfer is ac-
ceptable for the coming year.
Fight Or VD Set
By Health Office
AUSTIN:—A statewide educat-
ional campaign for the control of
venerea] diseases, which will be
carried out throughout the sum-
mer and possibly into the fall,
has been announced by Dr. Geo.
W. Cox, State Health Officer, who
states that the public will be
reached by means of radio, news-
papers, movies, and lectures by
health authorities.
“While it is true that great
^Mrances have been made recent-
the
^B*rtheless a lack of full infor-
mation on the part of the public
has hindered the complete suc-
cess of the program,” Dr. Cox
said.
Fewer Coses Reported
“There has been a steady de-
cline in the incidence of new
cases reported, in infant and
adult mortality rates, and in ad-
missions to mental institutions
due to syphilis, since 1938 when
intensive measures for the con-
trol of venereal diseases were
initiated. But this decline has
not been great enough,” Dr. Cox
added, “and this is partly attribu-
table to a lack of accurate infor-
mation and the general apathy
concerning venereal diseases
which the termination of the war.
“The spread of many com-
pletely false ideas about these
diseases and their treatment has
also led to a feeling of complacen-
cy, and the belief that a patient
can diagnose his own case, and
treat it with self medication.
This is a particularly dangerous
untruth; only a competent doctor
can diagnose and treat venereal
diseases, and it is the purpose of
this educational campaign to fully
inform the public of the actual
dangers of venereal diseases, and
what measures must be taken to
control them.”
Dr. Cox said that this cam-
paign of the Texas Slate Depart-
ment of Health will coincide with
other similar educational cam-
paigns, which will be conducted
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Assistance Sought
In Cotton Selling
AUSTIN;—Texas cotton mer-
chants may get help in improving
merchandising methods from a
cotton research laboratory sche-
duled for completion at the Uui-
versity of Texas this fall.
The laboratory, to be equipped
with the latest scientific instru-
ments, is part of a broad program
of the Cotton Research committee
for Texas, composed of presidents
ol Texas A&M College, Texas
Technological College and the
University of Texas. The mer-
chandising portion of the research
program is carried on at the Uni-
versity.
Research under way is designed
to help merchants make economi-
cal use of instruments now avail-
able for determining qualities of
the cotton fiber, important to mer-
chandising such as length, uni-
formity of length, finess and ma-
turity.
Rejections Would Be Cut
By using instruments as aids
in classing cotton researchers be-
lieve, it should be possible to re-
duce rejections and arbitrations,
both costly to merchants and
mills. Scientifically-selected lists
of cotton are more uniform, re-
sulting in better yarn strength
and fewer "breaks” on the spin-
ning frame.
Temperature and humity affect
cotton fibers, so the laboratory
will be air-conditioned for con-
trol of both 70 degrees Fahrenhite
and 65 per cent relative humitidy.
Danny Ray Cravens of Mineola
visited his grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. O. D. Day, Sr., and other
relatives from Saturday through
Thursday.
Delta Census Shows
Fewer Fall Students
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—^Review Staff Thoto
BRIDGE COLLAPSES—The Board Flat Bridge, between Pickens’ Store and Charleston,
lies broken in the 15-foot deep creek after collapsing sometime Wednesday night. No
vehicle was on it at the time. Service was resumed within 54 hours. The local office
of the highway department erected a temporary structure in 12 hours after materials were
received. A permanent bridge to replace it will be constructed later by the county.
Lion Club Members Given Appointments
For Group Work Friday For New Year
Fifty members of the Cooper
Lions Club were named Friday
at the noon luncheon to commit-
tee posts for the new year, Presi-
dent Manton Miller has accounc-
ed.
C. A. Hooten was named chair-
man of the administrative com-
mittee. Others on the panel are:
D. Todd and Curtis Smith.
Ray Wilson, first vice-president,
has filled these committee posts
with the following members:
Finance: R. N. Poe, H. R. Ches-
nut, and D. H. Bonner; Member-
ship, Roy Cain, F. P. Salmon and
Fred Newman; Program, Henry
Farm Prices Fall
To Two-Year Mark
AUSTIN:—Prices received by
Texas farmers in mid-June were
on an average the lowest in more
than two years.
This is reported in Austin by
the United States Department of
Agriculture. The USDA also re-
ports that the mid-May to mid-
June period showed the sharpest
decline in recent months. Low-
est prices for practically all farm
commodities contributed to the
decline.
Hog Prices Advance
The one major exception was
hogs, up about 11 per cent for
mid-May to mid-June period.
Hog prices advanced two dollars
for the month, beef cattle were
off two dollars, calves dropped
$1.50, lambs were down $1.60* and
sheep were off 20 cents.
Price drops of 10 per cent or
more, from mid-May to mid-June,
were registered for most grains,
hay, truck crops, sweet potatoes,
cottonseed and turkeys. Wheat
was down 30 cents per bushel
from the previous report a month
ago. Oats were off 21 cents. Cot-
ton dropped one-tenth of one cent
in Texas from mid-May to mid-
June.
Sparks, Dennis Hicks, Cal T.
Scott, and all other members;
Constitution and by-laws: W. I.
Bartley, J. E. McBride and Tru-
man Ratliff; Greeter: Carl Mc-
Donald, Earl Hooks and Melvin
Bullington; Agriculture; Thel
Garrison, Gene Leslie and Guy
Ray.
Convention Group Members
Second vice president Sam Rat-
liff filled these committees with
the following: Convention: Rich-
ard Stringfellow, Lundy Hooten,
Jr., and C. D. Thomas; Sight Con-
servation and Blind: D. O, Lowry
and L. F. Hooten; Boys and Girls:
Quentin Miller, E. H. Hickman
and Hugh Tomlinson: Citizenship
and Patriotism: W. C. Hazlewood,
Dave Hendricks and R. S. Wells;
and Military Affairs: Bob Dale
| and Opai Pi eas.
Oil Testing Set
In Sulphur Area
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DEPORT:—Dan Lester of Jeff-
| erson has a derrick under con-
struction and is digging slush
pits for a test three-fourths of a
mile southwest of Old Hagans-
port. The location is about two
miles east of the Byars & Peveto
No. 1 Tully, which was just com-
pleted for a good well. The new
test is not too far from Talco’s
west outpost.
It is announced that Magnolia
Petroleum Co. has let a contract
to W. B. Hinton to drill Belcher
No. 7, an offset to Hinton’s Har-
grove-McClain, three miles east
of Talco.
W. B. Hinton is moving in
equipment for a test to be known
as Hooten No. 1. It is located
about 12 miles north of Sulphur
Springs and not too far from
South Sulphur. The location is
about 12 miles northwest of the
Sulphur Bluff field. Years ago
a small pumper was drilled in
that vicinity and later abandoned.
"GIRLSTOWN USA” HAS
NEW WEST TEXAS HOME
LUBBOCK:—There’s to be a
new “Girlstown USA” near here.
T. B. Duggan, retired oilman and
rancher, has made it possible. He
donated 1,336 acres of his ranee
and $20,000 in cash. The project
started near Abilene a few
months ago was handicapped by
lack of a water supply. The new
site eight miles west of here has
plenty of water, and a 28-bed
dormitory has been started. Miss
Amelia Anthony who started the
town for homeless girls says: “So
much has been for neglected
boys; girls have been cast aside.
Now we can have a real Girls-
town.”
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CONTINENTAL BUS—One of the new Continental “Silver-
liners” was exhibited Monday at the local depot. Air-con-
ditioned and featuring foam-rubber seats, the bus will
begin operating through Cooper Friday on a new through-
run from Dallas to Memphis. The service is being done
jointly by Continental and Arkansas Motor Coaches.
Blue Shield Plan
Grows In Interest
More than 200,000 Texans are
prepaying their medical-surgical
care through the Blue Shield
Plan at the end of June, reports
W. R. McBee, executive director.
“Membership reached 208,972 with
new members in June.”
Texans led the nation in pro-
viding for hospital-medical-sur-
gical care through their own
initiative. They started the idea
of prepayment almost 20 years
ago, with the first hospital care
plan, Blue Cross, which plan now
protects 469,232 Texans and over
34 million Americans. The Blue
Shield Plan, corporately named
Group Medical and Surgical Serv-
ice, is only four years old.
380 Hospitals Reported
For the 1,521 Texans who re-
ceived medical-surgical care and
the 5,337 who received hospital
care, Texas hospitals and doctors
received $404,043.24 last month.
Cases were reported not only
from the 380 Texas member hos-
pitals, but from far-away Egypt,
Mexico.
With the June tabulation of
members, Mr. McBee reports: The
average Blue Cross family is 2.63
people, and there are twice as
many man-and-wife memberships
and seven times as many full-
family memberships as there are
single-person members.
Jack Dunlap, third vice-presi-
dent, made the following appoint-
ments: Publicity and Bulletin:
Harold and Lyndol Hart; Civic
Improvement: R. H. Good and
J. R. Watkins; Community Bet-
terment: Nick Craig, T. B. Cum-
ming and Fred Adams; Educa-
lion: R. L. Stephenson, Wade
Bledsoe and George A. Bolger;
Health and Welfare: J. C. Mc-
Kinney, Barton Good and L. M.
Andersen, and Safety: Travis
Toney, R. N. Stovall and Charles
Earley.
It was revealed at the meeting
that District Governor Bryan
Sparks had appointed Rev. Fred
Adams as chaplain of his district
cabinet.
Third Test
For Delta Oil
Slated Soon
A third oil test has been sche-
duled for Delta county for the
year after a second attempt near
Ben Franklin proved unsuccess-
ful.
The test will be located in the j
southwest corner of the county
near the first test which was
made in February and March.
A. L. Kirkwood’s test on the
Mrs. J. D. Foster tract of 54 acres
two miles southeast of Ben Frank-
lin was shut-down Saturday. A
thin vein oi Woodbine sand was
reached. However, it yielded no
trace of oil. A final depth of
3,250 feet, several feet below the
Woodbine, was finally reached.
This test was in the center of
a nine-thousand-acre tract Kirk-
wood had under lease. A pro-
posed second test on the same
tract probably will not be made.
This was the first attempt to find
oil in the northern part of the
county.
New Test
The third test will mark a re-
turn to an area in which a great
deal of interest was shown earlier
in the year east of Commerce and
just a few hundred feet inside
the Delta county line. The Pa-
luxy formation was reached in
this first test. No other reports
were made, however.
The next test, it has been re-
ported, would be an off-shoot on
this earlier test. It would be lo-
cated possibly within a quarter
of a mile of it.
Cotton Acreage Up
From 1948 Figure
New Total Gives 2,133;
Down 60 From Last Year
Attendance this fall when coun-
ty schools re-open will be down
slightly from the 1948-49 figure,
according to census reports in the
office of County Superintendent
Goebei Templeton.
The 1949-50 report shows 2,133
scholastics. This is down 60 from
"the mark of a year ago that show-
ed 2,193.
Fifteen of the 36 districts, how-
ever, showed slight to moderate
increases. This census, compiled
during the spring, used the old
system of districts which was
eliminated last week through
consolidation.
Common school districts show-
J ed a collective decrease of 30.
There were 1,553 scholastics in
them in 1948-49. The new figure
is 1,588.
Twelve units showed increases.
Largest gains were reported from
Pecan Gap with 30; Cooper, 24;
Ben Franklin, 15; West Delta, 13,
and Underwood 11.
Figures on Old Districts
These figures are for the actual
districts and do include any ad-
ditions by last week’s consolida-
tions.
Here is a list of the 36 districts.
The death came as a surprise (Figures for 1949-50 are first, fol-
as his health had been good. He lawed W the marks of a Vear a8°;
GOV. BEAUFORD H. JESTER
Gov. Jester Dies
In Sleep Monday
Gov. Beauford H. Jester, 56,
died in his sleep early Monday
aboard a pullman car enroute to
Houston from Austin.
Misses Anna and Vernell Field-
ing of Dallas are visiting their
brother r.nd sinter, Bruce Field
ing and Mrs. D. R. Scott.
WASHINGTON, D. C.:—The
Agriculture Department reported
this week the nation was culti-
vating 26,380,000 acres of cotton
July 1—10,400,000 of them in Tex-
as.
The big acreage foreshadowed
a new cotton surplus—a surplus
which will mean a return in 1950
to acreage allotments and market-
ing quotas to hold down produc-
tion. There hasn’t been any since
before the war.
18 Per Cent In Texas
Nationally the figure was an
increase of 14.2 per rent over a
year ago. The Texas increase
was 18 per cent.
By law the department can-
not forecast production until Aug.
1. But the acreage—slightly larg-
er than expected by traders—
would mean about 14,770,000 bales
if the yield per acre equals the
average for the last five years.
That was 269 pounds an acre.
Based on last year’s 311-pound-
an-acre yield the crop would be
16,490,000 bales.
Those figures are based on
bales of 500 pounds gross weight.
There were 14,868,000 of them
last year. The 10-year average
has 12,014,000.
Texas’ 1948 crop—says the crop
reporting service—was 3,150,000
bales off 8,793,000 acres. It av-'
eraged 173 pounds an acre.
Most Crops Are Early
The department had set a
planting goal of 21,984,000 acres
for this year’s crop. It said the
crop was generally earlier than
average in all states except Okla-
homa, Louisiana and Mississippi.
In Texas it has made good pro-
gress, though considerable re-
planting was necessary in the
Deadline Given
On Cotton Aid
Farmers have only two more
weeks to file their applications
for benefits due them under the
Smith-Doxey Act, according to D.
E. Earle, who is in charge of the
local cotton classing office, Pro-
duction and Marketing Adminis-
tration, U. S. Department of Ag-
riculture.
Filing Deadline Set
August 1 is the deadline for fil-
ing applications for free cotton
classing and market news services
available to farmers in organized
cotton improvement groups. They
should be sent immediately to
1104 South Ervay St., Dallas.
Last year, 26.7 per cent of the
total ginnings in this area were
classed by the Dallas office for
t< im/Iao lli<i CmilL TYnyoti
Act, Mr. Earle said.
high and low plains because of
heavy rains.
New York traders saw July
crop weather as important in de-
termining yields and crop size.
Excessive rains in parts of the
eastern and central belts in June
led to belief yields would not
approach last year’s record per
acre.
Futures Reported Started
The trade had looked for an
estimate of 26,150,000 acres, or
about 13 per cent increase. Light
selling developed on the New
York and New Orleans futures
markets on confirmation of the
increased acreage, but the effect
was small.
This year’s crop will be sup-
plemented by a carryover of
about 5,600,000 bales from pre-
vious crops.
This year’s acreage was the
largest since 1937. In Texas it
was the first time since 1937 that
acreage exceeded the ten-million
mark.
had suffered a light attack of
food poisoning last week, how-
ever he had been pronounced well
from it.
Jester, the tall, distinguished
Corsicana oilman who campaign-
ed for “The People's Path,” was
the only Texan to follow his
father into the state’s chief office.
A graduate of University of
Texas, he was later a member of
the school’s governing board. It
was later against a former presi-
dent of the school that he be-
came Texas’ governor. He cam-
paigned against Homer Price
Rainey, ousted Texas president,
in 1946.* He won by a sweeping
majority.
Jester’s career had also been
closely connected with Texas oil.
He was a well-to-do oilman at
Corsicana before entering politics.
His first elective position was a
member of the state railroad
commission, which regulates Tex-
as oil.
Haskell Burnett of Houston is
visiting his uncle, Charlie Burn-
ett, of Cooper and other relatives
here this week.
Quick Leap Saves
Man From Train
SULPHUR SPRINGS:—Charl-
ton Tapp, prominent Sulphur
Springs businessman, narrowly
escaped serious injury last week
by quickly abandoning his stall-
ed pickup truck and jumping to
safety before a train ripped it to
pieces.
Tapp was returning from his
farm when his truck stalled on
the Louisiana-Arkansas railroad
tracks in the east part of town.
Looking up, he saw the train
bearing down on him. He leaped
from the vehicle in a matter of
moments before the train plough-
ed into it.
Gains and increases are the third
figures.
The independent districts show-
ed these figures: Cooper, 472, 448,
plus 21; Enloe, 157, minus 29.
Common Schools Scholastics
These are the statistics on com-
mon districts: Hickory Grove, 33,
27, plus 6; Clark, 49, 45, plus 4;
East Delta, 138, 190, minus 2;
Giles, 41, 53, minus 12; Pecan
Gap, 171, 141, plus 30.
Doctor's Creek, 19, 20, minus 1;
Antioch, 30, 46, minus 16; West
Delta, 161, 143, plus 13; Horton,
53, 44, plus 9: Long Taw, 47, 48,
minus 1; Cedar Creek, 20, 25,
minus 5.
Craig-Tranquil, 19, 25, minus
6; Perkins, 33, 38, minus 5; Post
Oak, 49, 47, plus 2; Rattan, 26, 25,
plus 1; Brushy Mound, 22, 36;
minus 14.
Yowell, 51, 62, plus 11; Lone
Star, 25, 44, minus 19; Eureka,
32, 29, plus 3; Bagley, 14, 16,
minus 2: Race Track, 31, 27, plus
4; Gough, 45, 50, minus 5.
Kensing, 48, 49, minus 1; Lib-
erty Grove, 44. 40, plus 4; Milam,
14, 17, minus 3; Simmons, 50, 53,
minus 3; Price, 20, 25, minus 5;
Cross Roads, 42, 59, minus 17.
Pecan Grove, 7, 10, minus 3;
Underwood, 28, 17, plus 11; Ben
Franklin, 107, 89, plus 18; and
Mt. Joy, 35, 38, minus 3.
ATOM BOMBER “RETIRES"- The famed B-29 “Enola Gay,”
from which the first atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, is
now scheduled to take its place in the Smithsonian Institution.
Above. Carl MUm n of the Institution aceepts the records of the
;bei from Mai.-Gen. R O’D- >noli. r;"ht. in ceremonies at the
Chicago Air Fair.
Meeting Set
For Road Bond
Discussions
Seven meetings will be held in
the county Friday advertising the
road bond election set for July
23.
These seven meetings were set
up in an information meeting
held Thursday night in the dis-
trict court room when chairmen
of the meetings and other mem-
bers ol the transportation com-
mittee met.
Originally set at nine, meetings
at Horton and Yowell were can-
celled with the citizens of Horton
scheduled to go to the West Del-
ta meeting and the Yowell voters
due to go to Pecan Gap for the
meeting there.
Bridges Conducts Session
At the Thursday gathering the
road bond issue was discussed in
detail with County Judge O. L.
Bridges conducting the discus-
sion. Letters of information,
which were placed in the mail
last week were studied, as well
as other questions which have
been topics of discussion with re-
gard to the election and bonds,
if voted.
A. SMITH PURCHASES
PAINT STORE
The Delta Paint and Supply
Store has been purchased by A.
Smith from John Gillespie. Miss
Opal Webb will continue to op-
erate the store.
Mrs. II. R. Lain is reported im-
proving at Paris Sanitarium after
she was taken seriously ill Fri-
day. She is being attended by
her sons, Claude, San Antonio;
Ralnh snd wife Muskogee Okla
and Floyd, Cooper.
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