Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1977 Page: 3 of 10
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orrections-
Apologies
Maybe " wUN ,he hot wea,ht‘r or because it has already
, „ a Ion# dry summer, hut the errors in the Review last
r1,^ topped all previous records. For this we apologize. We
luin i intend to cause so much trouble for the ASCS office
,itl here in Cooper, or get the farmers upset, nor did we
" ... that the oeoolc named in u. ••
Accidents Take Toll
I ct^II liv* * ■ ■ ’ .....
J ‘can to imply that the people named in •‘Years Qonc IK
YULe ei«ht year* older the* they ere. or happening* occured
\Z many year, before they did.
| armors Report Acreage to Cooper ASCS Office
Delta County farmers should report acreages of all crops
planted for harvest in 1977 to the ASCS Office in Cooper, not
In Paris as stated last week. In trying to be helpful, we really
v„u j on thi* one.
* * || Was Two, Twelve. Twenty-Two Years Ago
l„ 'Years Gone By”, the “Ten Years Ago” items actually
. HVUred two years ago, in 197S to he exact, therefore, going
L,Vsn the line. “Twenty Years Ago" would be just 12 years
"Thirty Years Ago" wuld be 22 years prior, etc.
phis happened because the wrong newspaper file was in
,he wrong place at the wrong time, (things do get hectic at
,in Review on Mondays and Tuesdays).
* I, j to the Review subscribers in Dallas, we extend our
sincere apologies for the late deliver of the June 2nd issue.
yye promise we will try not to let that happen again.
I phen too. there were some misspelled names (as usual) and
v,me words left out of articles, but it was not the Review’s
I fault that we did not receive Mrs. E. L. Cummings' newsletter
] ,ron, pecan Gap, nor was it her’s (Mrs. Cummings mailed it
ylondav afternoon as she has each Monday for the past
t almost ten years). It sometimes takes the Pony Express three
days to get from Pecan Gap to Cooper, even with Zip Codes.
Rumors True!
Leonard Ranch Sells
,10rs of the sale of the
vc Leonard Brother Ranch
lelta, Hopkins. Lamar,
lin, and Red River coun-
i the reigning rulers of the
palit\ of Liechtenstein was
med last Wednesday by
| W. Mathews of Texar-
general manager of N.V.
lational Farms, Inc.
different times, both the
of Liechenstein, Prince
franz Josef II. and the
Vapparent, Prince Hans
.dam and his wife Marie Algae,
tountess Kinsky, visited in this
Yea and were guests at the
inch home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Cron of near Sulphur Bluff prior
1) the completion of the
transaction for the huge layout
if about F.000 acres. (The
tiling price- was rumored to be
JSmillion). • t • ivi i •<
With the acquisition of the
Leonard ranch and other
operations in Miller County,
Arkansas, and in Red River
bounty, the N.V. International
arms, Inc., owns about as
jiuch land in this area as is
ontained in Liechtenstein.
Liechtenstein is a sovereign
iation on the Upper Rhine River
setween Austria and Switzer-
land. A population of some
1800 reside within the 61
Ware miles of mountainous
terrain.
According to the Hopkins
i~ounty Echo. Mathews said that
Jim Hickman will be moving to
fekins County to become
general manager of N.V.
International Farms, Inc., Sul-
hur Bluff Division, and that
Joe Crow will be assisting him
(■(i the operations.
Mathews, who formerly was
jeonnected with United Fruit at
fUAIIen. accepted the position
pitli the new operations April I
pod moved to Texarkana in
May. He attended Texas A&M
University and the University of
Arizona before entering the
Agriculture business full-time.
he said that current plans call
/or many long-range develop-
ments. He said that Crow's
e*penise will he utilized in
Roland Reunion
The Roland Family reunion
*as held the weekend of June
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
'jy Sansing near Pecan Gap.
Those present were Mr. and
rs- Morris Kerbow and Jamie.
Mr- and Mrs. Bob
1 J Cc ar|d Mickie, Mesquite;
rr and Mrs. Joe Little,
l*’F»er; Mr. and Mrs. David
| **e- Klondike; Mr. and Mrs.
! °°ert Sansing, Pecan Gap; Mr.
! , Mrs. Jerry Matlock.
k,, hell. Robert and Ronald.
Etaw Hooten. Com-
filer . riuoien, uim-
p CC Judy Wilcox son, Irving; Don
nus Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Ladonia.
Poland, Phoenix, Ariz.
j.r and Mrs. Jimmy James,
u J*son, ami Kimberly,
I St,uite; Mr at)(j Mrs. David
rJSka' Brad and David.
I lol»TT1«erCe; ^r' and Mrs. Burl
Mrs Rodney, Mr. and
'^e Jackson, Mieheal
hasc, Grand Prairie; K4~
Classifieds
Work
Call 395-2513
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Seven Day Period Fatal To Two;Several Injured
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I IRST COTTON BLOOM W. B. Burns brought in the first
cotton bloom of the season to the Review office last Wednesday.
Burns planted the cotton on April 5 with the first bloom showing
on June 6. I he field, located in Lake Creek adjacent to SH24, has
been poisoned six times, three early and three times within the
past fifteen days.
Within the past seven days,
two Delta County residents lost
their lives in separate vehicle
mishaps, six others injured in
accidents (of unconfirmed re-
port ot another injury would
make it seven) and another
person was shot (there was also
another unconfirmed shooting
rumored).
The rash of mishaps began
weekend before last when
Harold Askew of Ben Franklin
sustained multiple injuries in a
motorcycle accident near the
Ben Franklin Cemetery. He
suttered a broken collar bone,
broken arm, in addition to both
legs being broken.
On Monday morning of last
week, Gilbert Sansing of
Help For Water Problems?
expanding the registered Bran-
gus cattle operation.
Plans call for an enlarged
farming operation, with some-
thing like 4,000 to 5,(MM) acres
being used in this manner.
Soybeans, grain sorghum and
alfalfa hay acreage will be
increased for the good market
offered bv the dairy industry.
Mathews said that with more
land moved into cultivations, a
stepped up pasture improve-
ment program will be pushed to
supplement the cattle operation.
Currently about 2.200 head of
cattle are being run on the
Sulphur Bluff ranch, but more
are anticipated.
Considerable drainage work
along Sulphur River areas are in
the planning stage to recover
more usable land.
"The ranch is in excellent
shape now," Mathews said,
"but we hope to upgrade it. We
plan to develop the whole
area."
Mathews stressed the long-
time agricultural interests of the
royal family of Liechtenstein.
Their company is basically an
agricultural company.
"We are in the business of
producing crops and raising
livestock,” Mathews noted.
"We want to obtain the highest
level of production feasible."
Mathews added that the
Sulphur Bluff ranch and the
other acreage owned by N.V.
International Farms, Inc., pre-
sents a lot of opportunities.
He said that although cur-
rently the ranch was in a
drought situation and the cattle
market depressed, he believed
better years are ahead.
He said that drainage work
will add new areas to cultivation
and that some land naturally
will be left to w ildlife because of
its location.
Mathews said that although
he will maintain his head-
quarters in Texarkana to
oversee the three operations---
the other two are of about
10,000 acres each—he will be in
Hopkins County frequently,
perhaps as often as once a week.
A hurriedly assembled meet-
ing Friday morning, June 10, at
the Civic Center in Cooper
brought some encouragement to
thirsty Delta County.
Sam Spearman, Executive
Director c the Northeast Texas
District of the Economic Devel-
opment Administration, Jim
Goerke. Executive Director of
Ark-Tex Council of Govern-
ments (COG), Doug Collins,
Assistant Executive Director for
Regional Development of COG,
and Bob Havter, Consulting
Engineer of Paris, were present
to explain the possibilities of a
bit of help for the water
problems of Cooper (and Delta
County).
The first hurdle seems to be
having the county declared a
disaster area. If Governor
Briscoe does this (the governor
of Arkansas has managed to
have his entire state declared a
disaster area), the next problem
is to establish an area with a
population of ten thousand
(which will include Delta
County) and some "Sponsoring
group" which apparently must
be a tax collecting entity.
To qualify for any of various
grant loans through Farmers
Home Administration, Econo-
mic Development Administra-
tion, and other agencies, it must
be established that the area
(group) which applies is (1)
threatened by drouth, (2) needs
LL Leaders
Fall
At Sansing Home
and Mrs. Gary Kerbow and
Bryan, Irving; Mr. and Mrs.
Billie Jackson, Amarillo.
And, Mr. and Mrs. Shelby
Hooten and children. Mr. and
Mrs. James Hooten and Gina.
Garland; Mrs. Kenneth Allen.
Thresa and Dcnneth. Mrs.
Charles Russell. Stacy and
Charlie, Barbara. Tommy and
Tracy Russell. Mesquite; Mr.
and Mrs. Ronnie Stringer and
Lynn, Farmersvillc; Danny
Stringer. Debbie Johnson of
Grand Prairie; Mr. and Mrs.
Sansing and Wade.
to augment its water supply, (3)
there .s serious potential for
water rights, (4) water conserva-
tion is a factor, and (5) there are
project proposals.
The cut off daies are part of
the problem. A smaller grant-
loan might be requested
through FHA, but the funds
must be obligated by September
30 next and (whatever) project
must be completed by Novem-
ber 30 of this year.
The cut off date for funds
which might be obtained
through EDA would be Septem-
ber 30 for the obligation of funds
and a completion date of April
30. 1978.
There arc many problems: if
the "sponsoring group" were
already obligated for a large
amount, that would nullify this
proposed request, if the per-
centage of "grant" were very
small and the percentage of
"loan" were very large, the
"group" would not be gaining
very much, if the proposed
project were too time consuming
it would overrun the time limit.
A number of ideas were dis-
cussed, a number of goyd ideas
were brought out; the final de-
cision was that the Commiss-
ioners Court (meeting Monday
morning, 6-13) and the City
Council (meeting Monday night)
and any other official body
would dr; ft resolutions. Judge
Bolger contacted Senator A M.
Aikin who stated that he would
take the resolutions to Governor
Briscoe.
The first priority in consider-
ing the applications will be the
health and safety of the people
in the area. The proposed
project would be either perma-
nent or temporary.
The citizens who heard about
the meeting and attended were
serious in their efforts to find-a
way they could qualify for this
possible help. GAS
Klondike, was critically injured
when hit in the head by the
fly-wheel of a combine as he
worked under the machine.
Transferred from Paris to St.
Paul's Hospital in Dallas later
Monday, he was reported still in
a coma Tuesday of this week,
although the doctors were
optimistic about his recovery.
And Tuesday afternoon, Paul
Cates, owner of Cates Service
Station on West Dallas Avenue
in Cooper, sustained severe
facial and head injuries when
the flanges of a tire on a
front-end loader he had been
repairing blew up. He remains
in a critical condition at
Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas,
where tests were reportedly to
have been made Tuesday.
Lester Ray sustained a broken
foot when a shredder fell on his
foot in another farm accident.
Then Thursday morning Sam
Falls sustained a broken left leg
when the transmission of a
combine he was working on fell,
breaking the bone just above the
ankle. He will remain in a cast
for several months.
Friday night about 11 o’clock,
Thurman Crowder, Jr., of
Cooper, was killed in a one car
accident near the intersection of
FM64 and FM1532 muth of
Pe..ir Gap.
Highway Patrolman James
Barnard, who investigated the
accident, said Crowder ap-
parently lost control of his
vehicle as he turned off FM64
on to FM1532. The car left the
road about 300 feet from the
intersection, overturning sev-
eral times in an adjoining field,
coming to rest on its top 300 feet
from the road. Crowder was
thrown from the vehicle. Don D.
Roseman, passenger in the car,
was trapped inside the upside
down vehicle about 30 minutes.
He sustained a broken right arm
and lacerations.
Crowder, still alive when help
arrived, was pronounced dead-
on arrival at the hospital.
About 10:30 Saturday morn-
ing, Walter Wilkins was fatally
injured in a mishap on SH19
near Harris Garage in Hopkins
County. According to reports
Wilkins was returning from
Sulphur Springs when the
pickup he was driving hit a
parked semi trailor-truek and
spun into a tree. He was taken
to Hopkins County Memorial
Hospital where he died later in
the day.
Sunday night Deputy Sheriffs
Joe Maynard and Leland Allen
arrested Toby Pollard for a
shooting affray. Pollard report-
edly shot Frank Woodson, Jr. in
the right leg with a 4-10 gauge
shot gun. Woodson was taken to
the VA Hospital in Bonham for
treatment, while Pollard was
placed in the Delta County jail.
Deputy Maynard also stated
that a 20 year old male was
picked up for theft over $200
and under $10,000. He remains
in the Delta County jail.
CtoptrfjijlBrkim
Thursday, June 16, 1977
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In Little League action
pitching dominated the first four
games of the season. Last week
the bats began to pop, as
indicative of the scores.
Tuesday. June 7
The Giants slipped pass the
Indians 15 to 10 with Rodney
Morris getting the win in relief
of Kevin Crumblcy. Scott
Deathridge pitched the Yankees
past the Dodgers 11-4, gaining
their third victory of the season.
Friday, June 10
The Indians bats came alive
as they over powered the
Yankees 27-7. Kyle Thompson
picked up the win. The Giants
won their second game of the
week, with an 18-8 win over the
Dodgers. John Phipps was
credited with his second win of
the season.
As the season reached the
half-way point team records are
as follows: Dodgers 4-2; Yan-
kees 4-2; Giants 3-3; and
Indians 1-5.
Friday night June 17 will have
the Yankees vs. Dodgers, and
in the second game we will see
the Indians and the Giants
battling it out. Game time of the
first game will be 7:00 p.m. The
second game will start im-
mediately afterwards.
Bond Sales
May sales of Series E and II
United States Savings Bonds in
Delta county were reported
today by County Bond Chairman
Opal T. Preas. Sales for the
five-month period totaled $14.
691 for 24 percent of the 1977
sales goal of $60,000.
Texas sales during the month
amounted to $21,965,508, while
sales for the first five months of
1977 totaled >116,891.825 with
42 percent of the yearly sales
goal of $27h,9 million achieved.
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