Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, August 24, 1934 Page: 1 of 8
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HART BROS., Publishers.
COOPER, DELTA COUNTY, TEXAS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1934.
VOLUME 55, NO. 34.
Lighter Vote
Expected For
2nd Primary
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Heated Campaigns in State and County Races
Create Much Interest; Returns Will Be Bul-
letined On Square Saturday Night.
Although a number of heated campaigns are focusing
the attention of the voter*', the widespread interest mani-
fested in (the initial primary is lacking and political observ-
rs forecast a total vote slightly below that cast in July.
Balloting' then reached a total
of above 3,200, a remarkably
strong vote considering that only
2,685 poll taxes were paid in the
county. Forecasters say that
3,000 will be the maximum cast
in the run-off while some predict
that the vote will not go above
2,500.
Chief interest in the primary
is centering on the fight of Tom
Hunter and James V. Allred for
the nomination for Governor, but
the candidates of other state of-
fices are coming in for a minor
share of the limelight.
The race between R. H. Good
and M. C. McClain is drawing a
large amount of interest but Del-
ta County is conceded to its own
candidate by a wide majority.
Only three county races were
left to be settled in the second
primary, those for District Clerk.
Tax Assessor-Collector and Coun-
ty Superintendent. Intensive
campaigns free of personalities
were waged in the pleas for votes.
In addition hard fought races for
precinct offices will draw many
citizens to the polls.
As in the first primary, returns
will be bulletined on the board on
the southeast side of the court
house ’awn, but will include only
county returns. State returns
which will not be available ove^
the radio or from the bulletin
hoard because of restrictions set
up by the Texas Election Bureau
will be issued in extra papers by
The Review.
The Short ballot, about one-
quarter as long as in the first pri-
mary, will facilitate the posting
of returns much easier than be-
fore. It is thought that accurate,
indications cf the results of races
will be available as early as 11
o’clock.
LARGEST RALLY
OF YEAR IS PLAN
OF HUNTER MEN
Crate Dalton, Prominent Dal-
las Attorney, Speaks
Friday Evening.
A gigantic rally, designed to be
the largest attended of any polit-
ical gathering of the year in Delta,
County, will take place Friday
evening beginning at 8 o'clock on
the north side of the court house
when Crate Dalton, prominent
Dallas attorney will speak in be-
half of Tom Hunter’s program.
A. B. Carrington will preside and
S. P. Sansing will introduce the
speaker. ,
^tfjhe meeting has been highly
^Hnicized through the distribu-
tion of circulars over the county
and large delegations from every
community have promised their
attendance.
The rally was planned to fur-
ther solidify Hunter support in
order to give him an even larger
majority in the run-off than in
the first primary when he carried
the county and had safe plurali-
ties in eight of the eleven boxes.
His supporters are looking for an
even greater number of Hunter
ballots Saturday as they point out
that he will hold his vote gained
during July and will practically
poll all of the McDonald and
Hughes support.
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FINAL RITES
TUESDAY FOR
G. W. DIXON
^bgenarian Passes Away
Monday Afternoon After
Lengthy Illness.
GREAT CROWD
EXPECTED FOR
ALLRED RALLY
Campaign Leaders Predict
Delta Safely In Attorney
General’s Hands.
Attorney General James V. All-
red will come to Cooper Friday
morning from San Antonio to
make his second campaign visit
here and will speak at 10:30 o’-
clock at the union tabernacle at
a county-wide rally. His cam-
paign leaders of thi9 county are
looking for a crowd of between
1,500 and 2,000 to be present.
According to arrangements
made Mr. Allred will arrive in
Cooper about 10 o’clock. G. Fred
Turner will preside at the rally
and J. M. Yeargp^i of Enloe will j
introduce Mr. Allred to the au-
dience.
IP. & L. AIDS
CITY IN WATER
DIFFICULTIES
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J. W. Stockham,Chemist,Says
| Cooper Water Makes Best
Ice In State.
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J. W. Stockham, chemical and
refrigeration engineer with the
Texas Power and Light Co., has
been assisting Mayor J. H. Mc-
Kinney and Water Commissioner
W. H. Bell to clear up their diffi-
culty with the Cooper water sup-
ply.
Mr. Stockham stated that the
long drouth which pervades the
Southwest and Middlewest which
has done so much damage to
crops has also reduced many
municipal supplies as there has
been no rain to replenish the
reservoirs.
He said that this had resulted
in a concentration of mineral
Cotton Picking In Full
Swing Over Entire Co.
Thirteen Pleas Of Guilty
In Dist. Court Thursday;
Five Sentences Suspended
PUMPING ALL
CITY WATER
IN ONE LAKE
Concentrate Water In One
Lake To Reduce Sur-
face Evaporation.
Mr. Turner, who has been an- ; raj(.s ve.gCtablc matter and a fine
tive in Allred’s behalf during j
both campaigns, declared that
Delta County is safely in the
Allred column by a good major-
ity. Analyzing the first primary
vote, Allred supporters believe
that quite a few Hunter propon-
| clay suspension in the water
which is rather difficult to re-
move by ordinary or present
methods of treatment. He de-
clared the only remedy was a
more severe treatment to remove
the accumulation of matter to
ents have about faced and that i maj{e the water potabl? and that
• he Attorney General will garner I ;n addition the water must be
the majority of the Hughes and J properly filtered and sterilized.
Witt ballots, sufficient to give j Mr. stockham by reason of his I
him a comfortable lead in the ; position has had close observation I
county. J <»f the Cooper water supply since
Following the speaking here 1025 and he says that this water
Mr. Allred will go to Sulphur -rakes clearer and better ice than
Springs for a speech in the aft-
Funeral rites were h. id Tues-
day afternoon for G. W. Dixon,
89, a resident of Delta County
for many years. The services
were conducted at the First Bap-
tist Church by the Rev. J. C. '
McClain, assisted by the Rev. J.
D. Bar-pin. Interment was made
at p.ak Lawn Cemetery.
ft '■ Dixon passed away Mon-
day afternoon after an illness of
several weeks. All his children
were here several days before the
end came. They are: Mrs. Arch
Buck, of Brazoria, Mrs. Merton
Baker, of Kilgore, Mrs. Hardy i hearty invitation is extended to
Unemployed Teachers
May Get Employment
By Federal Program
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It may be possible for unem-
ployed teachers, or other persons
competent to teach, to obtain em-
ployment through plans announc-
ed by George H. Fern, Director
of Emergency Education Pro-
gram. I have received the detail-
ed instructions concerning this
plan. I shall be in the office on
Saturday, August 25t.h and Mon-
day, August 27th, and frtiall be
glad to talk over the plan with any
interested party.
W. B. WHEELER,
County Superintendent.
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Rev. Dudley Will
Preach At Pacio
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Rev. H. G. Dudley will preach
at the Pacio Christian Church
Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. A
“moon and to Greenville the same
evening to close his campaign.
"’’fi? Greenville campaign will he
broadcast in a state-wide radio
hook-up.
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Lone County Race
In Second Primary
In Red River Co.
CLARKSVILLE, Aug. 23—Red
River county voters Saturday,
will have to choose between only
two candidates for county office
as the result of the decisive vote
cast in the July 28 primary.
These are Roger Swann and John
T. Felts, who remained in tho
race out of a field of five for the
county superintendent’s office. In
other races where there was op-
position, first place candidates
received a majority in the pri-
mary.
In precinct offices, however,
several contests will be settled.
C. R. Mahan and Marshall Phil-
lips are both running for com-
missioner in precinct 2 and Hom-
er Sargent and Lee Bailrjf, in pre-
cinct 3. For cotton weigher at
Clarksville, A. B. Fowler and
Stanley Holland are the aspir-^
ants.
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West Delta Singers
Meet At Long Taw Misses Woodruff
The West Delta Singing Con- ; Back From Tour
vention will meet Sunday after-
noon at 2:30 o’clock at Long Taw. |
any water his company uses at
its various plants over the entire
state. Cooper ice, he says, is
perfect.
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ABSENTEE VOTE
TOTAL FOR RUN
OFF IS LIGHT
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Seventy-Four Received Up
To Thursday With One
Day Remaining.
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Chr-dc of the absentee vote by
the County Clerk Thursday morn-
ing revealed that the total will
be. far less than the first primary.
Seventy-four had b?en recorded
with or.e more day open in which
ballots could be received by mail.
The votes were being prepared
for distribution to the judges of
the voting boxes in order that
they could be included in thg
count. Vote by boxes was: East
Cooper 29, West Cooper 18, Klon-
• dike 5, Yowell 2. Ben Franklin
6, Enloe 9, Lake Creek 4, Pecan
| Gap 3, and Vasco 2. Two boxes,
| Charleston and Horton, had no
j absentee ballots recorded.
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The city is using one of the fire
trucks this week to pump water
from the upper lake into thq
lower one. It was estimated that
about one million gallons remain-
ed in this lake and that it could
be pumped into the lower lake
which has a depth of from four
to twelve feet in about forty
hours. By Thursday evening;
forty-eight hours had already
been consumed in pumping.
Upon completion of the pump-
ing job the game fish will be
i transferred to the lower lake or
some other place for safe-keep-
ing It was stated that the lake
water is being concentrated in
one lake to reduce the amount of
surface evaporation that existed
with the two lakes.
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Uncle Bennie Clark
Thirteen pleas of guilty were
heard in Eighth District Court
Thursday. Defendants in thirteen
cases were found guilty. Senten-
ces aggregating thirteen years in
the penitentiary were passed in
seven cases and suspended senten-
ces totaling thirteen years were
assessed in five other cases.
Millas Slianklir. drew the long-
est term in the penitentiary on a
liquor charge. He plead guilty
and was given one year. A sus-
pended sentence for five years
given on the same charge the last
term of court was invoked run-
ning the total of time he will
have to serve up to six years.
Charged with chicken theft, W.
P. and Bert Lockridge plead guilty
1n two cases each and received
sentences of one year each.
Terry Thomas plead guilty in
two cases for possession of liquor
and was given a one year senten-
ce in each case,
Leonard Thompr-'n pleading
guilty to transporting was sen-
tenced to on? year.
The five suspesded sentences as-
sessed were: Herschel Fox, theft,
! two years; Theadous Tice, chick-
I en theft, two years; Bert Hensley,
j chicken theft,
■ Hart, burglary, five years; Claude
j Minis, chicken theft, two years.
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MOST FARMERS
HOLDING BALES
FOR TAX TAGS
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Cotton Seed Selling At $40
A Ton, Highest Price
Since 1919.
s.,,R,inNoww™H:M0RE RENTAL
PAYMENTS ARE
RECEIVED HERE
Hocutt. John W. Dixon, Charlie
Dixon and J. C. Dixon, all of
Cooper, and a step-daughter, Mrs.
Carl Ward, of Commerce.
Mr. Dixon was tho father of
thirteen children. He leaves also
sixteen grandchildren and five
M t-grandchtldren His wife
led him in death about a
rear ago. Mr. Dixon had been a
member of the First Baptist
lurch for a
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Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McBride and
Mrs. L. E. McBride spent last
aturday and Sunday in Dallas
vlth Mr. and Mrs. IT. P. McBride.
all to attend.
Miss Edna Barnes of New
York City and unfit of Kentuckj
who have been vLsiting in the
home of Rev. and Mrs. D. E.
Cox for seven weeks, left for
their respective homes Thursday
morning. Miss Barnes’ mother,
who accompanied them to Coop-
er, will remain here and spend
thfi, .YUl-tet-Jiiik' her d""ghter
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Mrs. D. O. Lowry and daugh-
ters, Misses Mildred and N"ll
>wry, were Paris visitors Thurs-
day.
Visiting singers will be welcomed
md the public is invited to at-
tend.
S. W. Pratt transacted busness
n Sherman Thursday.
Misses Anna and Eugenia Wood-
ruff have returned from a two
months trip through the Western
and Southern States. They went
by bus and traveled over 10,000
miles in their tours made during
that time.
P. F. Clark reports that pick-
ers have gathered four hales off
twenty-three acres of cotton on
Willie Stephenson’s place north
' of town and will likely get one
more bale. He says the cotton is
I light and bolls small but the fleece
1 is very fine and white.
Mr. Clark says rain at this time
1 would damage 'the grade but
would result in growing some
bolls to pull before Christmas
that would yield a low grade of
cotton.
He says picking will be over
in about ten days and that if
rain falls then it would , assure
fall grass an hay.
Dr. W. W. Barnes to
Speak At Baptist
Services On Sunday
Dr. W. W. Barnes, a professor
;n the Southwest Baptist Theolo-
gical Seminary at Fort Worth,
will speak at the Baptist Church
next Sunday. Dr. Barnes s a very
splendid speaker and a very con-
secrat'd man. Every Baptist is
urged to be in these services Sun-
day. Any one not connected with
any other church is also cordially
invited,
Sunday School wll be held at
‘V30 o'clock with preaching at 10:
50. Evening services wll be as us-
ual with B. T. S. at 7:30 and
nreaching at 8:00.
Nearly $8,000 Of First In
stallment Arrives Dur-
ing Past Week.
With bolls opened by the day
after day of continued searing
heat, cotton picking is general
over the county and County Agent
W. H. Jones estimates that only
two or three more weeks of pick-
ing remains before the 1934 crop
is gathered.
The Delta crop through the
combined efforts of the cotton
reduction program and the ex-
tended drouth is the shortest in
many years but even so, the ma-
jority of the farmers are holding
their cotton awaiting the arrival
of the Bankhead allotments.
However, 261 producers have
obtained interim certificates en-
abling them to sell up to forty
per cent of their cotton without
waiting for the tax tags.
At the Cooper cotton yard only
228 bales had been received by
mid-afternoon Thursday. Em-
ployees there state that the ma-
jority of farmers are holding their
cotton at the gins. The price
two years; Earl ^ range Thursday was from 14 to,
14% cents a pound.
One bright ray in the situation
| was the advance in the price of
octton seed. The Cooper Cotton
Oil Mill was paying $40 a ton
Thursday, the highest price paid
locally since 1919.
The loan advance of twelve
cents a pound for low middling
seven-eights staple has not had
the stimulating effect on Delta
County good cotton that it should
as it is easily worth four cents
above this low grade and staple
on which twelve cents is advanc-
ed. This should warrant an
eighteen cent price.
Some good cotton men say
that under the circumstances
they will borrow twelve cents and
hold their cotton for better prices.
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Delta First County In Northeast Texas To
Get Cattle Buying Program Underway
Delta County, first in the state district veterinarian,
to scud off the corn -hog contracts ( The buying and condemnation
'curth in Northeast Texas to turn .f cattle has been proceeding rap-
in applications for allotments j ;dly during the past week. 865
under the Bankhead Act over to j head ft >m twenty-five different
‘.he state board, has been inform- j farms have been inspected and of
•d that it VII the first county | ’1Ht number 418 have been con-
in Northeast Texas district of i lemned and shot and 452 have
twenty-two counties to get its 1 >iecn bought by the government.
’attle program, under the provis-
ions of the emergency drouth re-
lief rating, under way. This in-
formation was given W. H. Jones,
| county agent, Wednesday by
program the work was slightly
disorganized at the outset but a
meeting of committeemen has
been called for Friday afternoon
to outline a definite plan of pro-
cedure. Government instructions
were to relieve suffering qattle
first and the officials in charge
of the program have endeavored
to follow these instructions.
appncauO'ifi?" 'fittVJfarmei s who have “rnfiu?’ "kppll-
7o date 22o
’>oen made to Cecil Toon bv farm-
rs and include about 2,900 head.
Because of the rapidity with,
got into the
the which Delta County
cation have been asked not to
oen their cattle until they are
notified that the inspector and
ppraiser will come to their f&nni. j Mrs.
Additional installment of checks
in payment of the first half of
the rental of retired cotton acres
have arrived at the county agent s
office the past few days ahd are
being distributed to contract
signers.
Two hundred and fourteen
checks were received and amount-
ed to $7,987.62. Receipt of this
amount leaves only about 146
checks covering about eighty con-
tracts still due.
The measurement of the re-
tired and producing acreage ne-
cessary before the second install-
ment of the rental payment is
sent out is practically completed
and the remaining half of the
payment is expected about the
middle of September. Another
form relative to the measurement
is to be filled out and sent to
Washington before payment can
be made.
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Enloe Teacher Sell*
Poems to Dallas Co.
ftTiss Lula Mullim, teacher in
i the Enloe school system, has re-
I cently gained recogr.'t'on as a
poet having sold a colloorion of
| poems which she composed to a
| Dallas publishing company.
ftfiss Mullins is a graduate of
I Fart Texas State Teachers Col
lege where she majored in Eng-
lish. Since receiving her degref
she has spent two years doinf
post graduate work in the Uni
versity of Texas.
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Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Berry will
move to Paris the first of Sept-
i emuer where he aaST&en trans-
ferred as postal employee in the
posloffice there. They have rented
their residence here to Mr. and
Gob el Templeton.
Klondike HD Club
Gives Picnic For
Families, Guests
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Members of the Klondike Home
Demonstration Club, their fami-
lies and guests, numbering about,
forty-five in all gathered Thurs-
day, August 16tli, in the pastur^
of ftTr. and Mrs. Charles Trevill-
ian for the annual picnic. Tables
and benches were provided in a
shady portion of the pasture.
Miss Dorris Regester, demon-
stration agent, and Miss Mary
Virginia Allen were present and
iirected a number of interesting
games. At. 6 o’clock a supper of
Tied c' !ck?n, pickles, sandU'iches,
'evded oges -’ookies, cake, ice tea
Tid polv pop was served.
Tac next rreetng of the club will
h Id with Mrs. Guy Davis. Each
member is requested to be prepar-
'd to tell all they know of the his-
tory of the club.
REPORTER.
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Vancil Jones Gets
Advanced Rating
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Vancil Jones, youngert son of
•Ii. and ftljfa. XV. 3. Joucj, fire-
man on the’ U. S. S. Northamp-
ton, has been advanced from third
o second class and given a raise
n pay, J. S. Coye, ensign, in-
forms his parents. Mr. Coye
stated that this progress was re-
markable considering that. Van-
cil had been hi the navy only one
year and three months. His pay
was raired from $36 to $50 a
ronth tn addition to all ex-
penses. i
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