The Delta Courier (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 51, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 17, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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Committeemen
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itemed Saturday
0. L. Bridges was re-elected
chnirmnn of t.hp Delta county AC.\
'at a meeting of the electors Sat-
urday in the Federal* building. Mr.
Bridges has been chairman of the
association for the past several
years. Also elected to served with
him on the committee were Wayne
Templeton of Charleston who takes
the place of D. W. Russell who
recently resigned, and D. R. Scott,
an alternate last year who has
been serving for a short time in
the place of Mr. Russell. Alter-
nates named by the electors were
Sam Morgan of Pecan Gap and
H. R. Buckman of Lake Creek.
The electors were delegates from
five areas in the county composed
of alii of the principal communi-
ties. They were named in a meet-
ing held in the central points in
the areas Friday.
Elected Friday were 15 com-
munity committeemen, three for
each area. These three men will
serve during the next year as an
aid to the cotton producers of the
county with their AAA forms.
The community committeemen
elected are:
Cooper: S. P. Sansing, D. O.
Hudson, and A. A. Brice.
Pecan Gap and Ben Franklin
T. W. Lowery, Roy Hall, ahd
Oscar Shaffer.
Vasco and Charleston: L. L.
Hemby, T. H. Brown, and W. P.
Hood.
Klondike, Horton, and Yowell:
.‘My, W. C. Jones and1 Otis
LUUPEK, DELTA COUNTY, TEXAS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1940
VOLUME 59, NO. 51
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MEW YORK, N. Y. . . . Wrapped
in blankets, Virginia Burgess,
smallest baby ever to survive at
Bellevue Hospital, is shown being
carried out of the world-famed
Institution by her mother, Mrs.
Charles Burgess, 18. The baby
was born July 23rd and weighed
only one pound, ten ounces
birth. Now she is a big girl
six pounds, ten ounces.
Juveniles Receive
Suspended Sentence
For Burglary
Club Holds
Annual Christmas
Party Friday
Members of Cooper Lions Che
observed their annual Christmas
wee .lollowiiig luncheon at Hotel
Cooper Friday at noon. Members
had drawn member names ior
gifts and had been placed on
the tree and were distributed by
F. P. Salmon. Mr. Salmon and
•Hiss Jean Harper, c.ub pianist,
were >» charge of the jnogiam and.
Lion Salmon presided. An effort
hail been made to secure one
hundred per cent attendance and
all but three members were pre-
sent.
Christmas carols were sung by a
quartet composed by Mesdamcs
II. J. Harper, Lawrence Allard,
John Anderson and \V. D. llart.
Miss Olinda Ray Hooten rendered
at two accordiun numbers. The road
of j committie reported some progress
j being made by the County Com-
i missioner in repairing the road
: north of Cooper. Charles ii. Brown
of Paris was a guest of me Club.
On account of the holidays the
Community Chest
Drive For Funds
Opens Today
| John Hart, Commerce
Journalism Teacher,
I Succumbsi Sunday
Succumbs Sunday
aare,r> ■
and Lake Creek: U. I,.
P. Donaldson, and Jack
id.
Christmas Cantata
To Be Presented At
Presbyterian Church
Two Cooper juveniles, 12 and 14
years of age, were given a sus-
pended sentence by Ju ig Join". T
Taylor Monday morning after they
confessed to pilfering a largo
.ii 'jo:* of car.' Thai.-day night.,
;>ov: V r r.clj in the radiator of
one of the cars, and -burglary.
About ten cars were ransacked
by tli.v youths Thv.r.-duy night a-
iong West First street but little of
any value was tak *n. The youth?-
poured acid into the radiator of a,
car belonging* to Woodrow W:'~on
because, they stated, they were
angry at him.
The youths were released in the
custody of their parents and will
remain out of the state reforma-
tory as long as they are on good
behavior.
Every effort by workers will be
exerted today to raise.$ 1 ,®T)0 for
the annual Community -Chest fund
for the relief of Delta county peo-
4>le who cannot obtain aid any
1 other way. The drive is sponsored
by Delta county peopHt for the
funds that wild be spent, for the
i benefit of the county’s own citi-
j zens.
; Headed by Rev. R. E.Streetman,
chairman of the drive for several
years, the Community Ghest funds
are for the u.:e of widows, or-
phans, unemployables and old per-
j sons. No part of the funds collect-
ed are used by the administration
! of the Chest but are used wholly
for the benefit of the needy living
I in the county.
Every person who is able is urg-
Club will not meet until the sec- ed to give all that he can so that
ond of January. ' the Chest may function properly.
Uncle Bennie Clark, honorary j Last year about $500 or one-half
; member of the Ciub, was present j of the $1,000 goal set was eollect-
j and after passing around Mahan ej ancj the money was all used in)
: pecans for members to plant gave the winter with no money left over
I an interesting history of the Mu- ; for emergencies during the spring,
j han pecan. I summer and fall. Many cases of
These pecans are large, have a i sickness that could have been
! very thin shell and are very meaty ; handled by the Community Chest
where moisture is plentiful, but j had to be referred to other places
I coming from cast of tile Missis- ^
sippi do not fill out well in this i
dry summer weather and Mr. !
! Clark cautioned that they be ;
planted in bottom land or well 1
watered places.
The Mahan tree came from a !
pecan J. M. Chesnut secured of ;
j an unknown person at a Jackson, ]
Cotton Yield In
County 3,000 Bales
Below Last Season
I
A Chrismas Cantata at the Pres-
byterian Church will be conducted
at 7:00 p.m. Sunday, December
22. Under the leadership of Miss
Kathryn Woodard, teacher of
public school music, in the high
school ia very beautiful and wor-
shipful program has been rvorked
out. The entire service will last
one hour.
“The Wondrous Story,” a
Christmas Cantata of the birth of
Christ has been told and retold in
prose verse.
The public is invited to attend
the Presbyterian Church to hear a
this cantata.
25,929 bales of cotton were
ginned in Delta county,this sea-
son compared with 28,983 up to
December 1 last year.
This is a reduction in yield of
more than three thousand hales
this year from the yield of last
year. There may be mere hollies
t,i pick this year, out the top crop
in the bottoms has been lost by
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Miss, fair securing five for one
dollar, and planted at his Koscius-
ko, Miss- home in 1911. This par-
ticular plant outgrew all the rest
1 and produced such fine nuts that
they attracted much attention. The
I proprietor of the Monticello,
I Florida, Nursery went to see it
and bought the tree and the land dence and pick up
it stood on for $5,000. After dis- ; that is donated,
posing of its limbs for commercial
; grafting he had it moved six hun-
\ dred miles to his nursery,where
it stands today. Mr. Clark secured
a graft and produces the Mahan
nuts .successfully.
as there was no mon&y available.
In connection with the Com-
munity Chest Drive is the Welfare
Program which takes in the col-
lection for donations of used cloth-
ing, shoes, anil warm wraps. This
phase of (the Community Chest
program is under the supervision'
of Mrs. Tom Boyd, Mrs. R. J.
Harper, Mrs. J. A. Haddock and
Mrs. G. L. Miller. Individuals who
wish to donate to this cause can
donate the clothing by calling the
Welfare Office. A day will be set
soon for mass donations to be
made by the people of Cooper and
Boy Scouts will go to any resi-
ithe clothing
, COMMERCE. Dee. 15—John
John Francis Hart, 38, widely j
known newspaper man and direc-
tor of publicity at East Texas j
State Teachers College, succumbed
to a long illness here Sunday af-
ternoon. He passed away at a hos-
pital here after a sudden illness
at the home oi' his sister, Mrs. Y.
C. Myers.
Funeral services will be held to
iloy at 2 o’clock at the First Bap-
tist Church with the Rev. J. R.
Hiekcrson, pastor, conducting the
services. Mr.. Hart was a son of
Sterling Hart, publisher of The
Commerce Journal, and a nephew,
of W. D. Hart of Cooper. He liv-
ed in Cooper for five years when
a youth, moving to Commerce with
his parents.
He had been publicity director
and journalism instructor at the
teachers college for many years
and was well known in Masonic
circles. Previous to his position
with the college he has been con-
nected in an editorial capacity |
-with his father on The Commerce
Journal before going to Kaufman
where he published the Kaufman,
* Herald. Following the sale of the j
! Herald, lie moved to Pcrsido where j
he published the only English- ]
language newspaper there.
Born in Jacksonville in 1902, he
obtained his early education in
Cooper and Commerce public j
schools find later attended East
Texas Normal College, and North-,
western University where he >e-
ceived hi? A. B. degree in journa-
lism. He later took his M S. in
journalism from Texas University.
Beside teaching and publicity
work, Mr. Hart conducted a
column in The Journal that had a
wide following. He was a Blue
Lndge and Chapter Mason.
He is survived by his wife, his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Hart
and his sister, Mrs. Y. C. Myers,,
all of Commerce.
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JOHN FRANCIS HART
Former Resident
Dies A t El Paso
Home Frday
l ffPA Projects
To Be Onened In
County This Week
Work is scheduled to begin this
week on two WPA projects in
Delta county as workmen are be-
ii. signed up for the project ' The
two projects avo the bandstand
structure for the center of the
square ;n Cooper and the rocking
of a road north from Enloe
through to North Sulphur and
back to Watson’s corner.
1 The bandstand project will em-
I ploy about 25 men and will take
| approximately four months to
complete. The structure will oc-
cupy about half of the space form-
erly occupied by the courthouse,
including the .landscaping around
the bandstand proper.
With sidewalks and steps lead-
ing up to it on four sides, the
bandstand will be raised about
three feet above the level of the
Mrs. Georgia Thornton, a former
resident of Cooper,- passed away
at her home in El Paso Friday af- square ami plans call for a flag-
ternoon following a short illness, pole to he placed in the center.
Funeral services were held Mon- Attractive flowerbeds and grassy
day afternoon. plots are called for in the specifi-
ers. Thornton was well-known cations for the project. Original
to older Cooper residents, having plans drawn by the architect in-
with her husband, the late Cap- J eluded columns on the foui eor-
tain J. J. Thornton, operated th - ” -’rs of the bandstand hut were
Thorton Hotel, one of the most j deleted from the plans as they
famous hotels in this section of | look up too much space that will
Northeast Texas. The hotel v. s j bf
needed for parking.
located on the lot were the new I Approximate cost of the band-
stand, landscaping and other
parts of the project will be
Much of the coun-
courthouse is being built.
She is survived by her two son?, .
of Phoenix, I ahoir. $o,000.
made in El ty’8 Part of the cost wil1 be pa,<1
Reben and Morris,
,-i.riz. Interment was
Paso.
May Extendi Working
Hours On WPA For
Semi-monthly Checks
For a number of years, persons
living outside of Cooper have not ■
donated to the Community Chest1 |
because they believed that it was j PAN ANTONIO Dei- 1 1 —
si Cooper project only. The Cheat ! Working hours on WPA rr- ;eots
will he extended in order to allow
Tq Present Piano
Pupils In Recital
Friday Night
The piano pupils of Mrs. Cla-
rence Walls will be presented in
a recital at the Baptist Church Fri-
day night at 7:15. Friends of the
students are cordially invited to at
tend.
Students who will be presented
on the program are: Ann Mc-
for in material obtained from the
demolition of the old courthouse.
The county road project in and
near Enloe will employ almost
150 men for several months and
included in the specification is
the topping of the road through
the main business section of En-
loe. This will give a much needed
hard surfaced street in the center
of the town.
From Enloe, the road turns
north and goes up to North Sul-
phur River where it turns west
and opens up an entirely isolated
section of the county. The length
Donald, Beaufer Nell Cates, Betty of the road will be approximately
wide in itsl
program is county
scope and any person in the coun- | porkers to earn’their semi’-month-
EIGHT DAY REVIVAL
ty that wants aid and ha? a legiti-
mate claim will not be refused.
SUFFERS INJURY
There will be an eight day re
. viva I at the Liberty Grove church r' O’ ICSt’Cnnaire
starting Sunday, Dec. 22, conduct- r>j j » nr«
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Chora Club To
* Present Cantata
Sunday Afternoon
A cantata, “The Prince cf
Peace,” by A. L. Ashford, will be
presented by the Cooper High
School Choral Club under the di-
rection of Miss Cathryn Woodard
at the Presbyterian Church Sun-
day night, Dec. 22, at 4 p. m.
Harry McClain is in bed with
painfully wrenched back which
he injured Sunday while digging
out a meter box. He suffered
considerable Sunday but was rest-
ing weld Monday.
cd by Bro. Ncllo Gillmore. Every-
one is cordially invited to attend.
i H
*rl Registrants
Mrs. Kirby True who has been
a medical patient at a hospital in
Paris returned home Sunday much
improved.
Dairymen Should Provide
Small Fall Drain Quantities
COLLEGE STATION, Dec. 1G.
Dairymen should provide small
grain pasture for their cows dur-
ing- the fall, winter and early
The cantata is divided into two spring whenever possible. But,
parts, The Promise and The Ful-
fillment. Besides the chorus,
solos and duets wiljl be given by
the students.
W, M CWre Dies
t Home Of Sister
^Sulphur Springs
W. M. Chance, GO, Holiness
.preacher, died Tuesday at the
says E. It. Eudaly, Extension Ser-
vice Dairyman for Texas A. and
titled to, under the provisions of
law. Said sale to be made by me
of pasturage tends to lower the
cows’ production and, therefore,
correct amounts, he says this or-
dinarily will vary from five to
iten pounds of hay and 50 to 80
pound's of small grain pasture
ii: ily, depending up on how “wa-
tery’’ the pasture growth is.
Small grain pasture being high
j in proteins and low in carbohy-
drates, Eudaly recommends sor-
ghum cane hay, Johnson grass,
Sudan, Bermuda and prairie grass
they should have an accompanying ! Lay as suitable sources of carbo-
The third group of 50 question-
naire blanks have been placed .n
the mails to go to registrants with
order numbers from 100 to 150
] in Selective Service in order that
they might be classified in prep-
I aration to being called up for ser-
] vice within the next two months.
H. R. Chesnut, secretary of the
Local Board for Delta county,
stated that the fourth group of 50
questionnaires for men holding
order numbers from 150 to 200
are being prepared.
Delta county will be called up-
on to furnish about four times
the number of men in the Jan-
uary quota than were called up
luring December. Only white
men \ i'l be accepted and there
ire a sufficient number of volun-
teers in the county to make up
feed1 cf hoy.
A Jersey cove producing two
gallons of milk daily has to have
at least 20 pounds of dry matter.
Small grain pasture in late nutum
home of his sister, Mrs. C. A. ' usually analyze about 85 per cent
Dickson, in Sulphur Springs. Fu- j water, ami in order for the avev-
neral services were held Wedno- I age Jersey to get the nec< sary 20
day afternoon at Sulphur Springs pounds he would have to eat 1-1
by the Rev. Hugh Thompson and i pounds of this pasturage, which
the Rev. Litt'c*. Burial was would be more than she could
made in Sulphur Springs. hold. Moreover, small grain pas-
Survivors include three sisters i tu"e alone causes cows to scour,
and three brothers. Smith Funor- a condition lhat prevent- ihe ani-
al Home had charge of funeral ar- mal from getting full benefit
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rangements.
from what she eats.
- Eudaly suggests keeping hay in
Mrs. John Wallace, who has a rack where cows can have f»v>e
been ill with influenza, is improv- access to both bar and pastime.
Assuring that they will eat the
hydrates to provide the balance of
the two substances. Good dairy
cows also will need some grain
mixture low in protein in addition
to hay and pasture. A combina-
tion of 500 pound1? of ground ear
corn and 100 pounds of cotton-
seed meal would analyze 14 per
cent crude protein.
1 As a second choice, the dairy-
, man might replace 100 pounds of
the ground ear corn with 100
1 pound? of ground oats or barley,
f ediiig three oun-1? of the grain
mixture daily for each gallon -
milk a cow produces.
MnnUo-i of this feeding sched-
ule, Furitelv says, will get the max-
imum amount of milk at the least
TO'- ibl: cost.
i lv nay checks in advance of
j Christmas and New Year’s Day,
[according to plans announced Sat-
| uroay av State Work Project Ad
! minis!<ator IT. '. Drought.
I Wherever possible, project
working hours will be scheduled
so as to permit delivery bv Dc-
; comber 23 of nl1 cheeks normally
i i'i livered through Deccmbec t'G,
: nd to permit do-ivory by Decem-
ber 30 of all checks normally de-
i livered by January 2. Workers
will be given a chance also to
I make up allowable lost working
, time in order that pre-holiday pay-
ment of checks may he made.
The stepped-up payroll schedule
i? possible through the coopera-
tion of the Treasury Accounts and
Disbursing offices, Drought said.
Ruth Anderson, Maudie Maie Hef-
ley, Martha Ellen Johnson, Mary
Jo Boyd, Pntsey Krausfopf, Bob-
by Joyce Choate, Mary Lou Wells,
Joan Jeter, Lou Ann Adams,
Jame Smith, Martha Jo Kern,
Dale Crogg, .John Leland Jack,
Pamela Van Scoy, Sue Dawson,
Wanda Fae Johnson, Mary Ellen
Riley, Park McKinney, Betty Zoe
four miles.
Burglars Loot
Ben Franklin
Store Friday
Burglars entered the Ben Frank-
lin drugstore at Ben Franklin
sometime Thursday night or Fri-
( i egg, I ommy T.ee Boyd, Treva | day morning and escaped with
Nell McDonald, and Ella Mae | near]y $70 worth of cigarettes, to-
Jack.
Richard, the son of Mr. and1
Mrs. Oilis White of Dallas, is ill
with influenza at the home of
baecos, and small items. An arrest
has been made in the case.
The loot taken from the store,
owned by A. D. Moss, was so bulk-
ey that it would have almost fill-
Mrs. V hite’s brother, Mr. and cd an automobile. Teethprints in a
Mrs. Carter Anderson, of Paris, partly eaten ham are being used
Mrs. White has been here with by officers in their investigation
her father, C. E. Anderson, who 0f the case.
A plaster cast has been taken of
:1! at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Cora Combs. Monday, the
condition of Mr. Anderson re-
mained the same.
Philosophy Of Hot Lunch
Program Greatly Changed
the teeth prints in the ham and
will be used to identify the burg-
lar as a cast will be made of his
teeth and the two easts matched.
(This is the second in a scri-is
of articles dealing with the Hot
the January quota. As three men Lunch Project in Delta county
men were called in December, that has recently been inaugurat-
were
about 12 will be called in Janu-
ary.
Unless more volunteers are
ed in many of the schools over
the county. Other articles on this
ye_ | project will follow.—Ed.)
ceived in the Local Board office
within the next month, persons The philosophy of the school
holding the first order numbers | lunch program lifts greatly chang-
\v 111 ho called up and sent in Fob- 1 ed within the past year. The
ruary. The men that are selected j lunches have become not merely
for the January quota will leave | “hot” lunches which in many in-
Cooper on Jan. 13 for Dallas stances meant only a bowl, of
where they will he given an ex- j soup and a piece of bread served
animation and then sent to an j at noon, hut school lunches which
nrmy training ramp.
Mrs. Quentin Miller is improv-
ing satisfactorily from a recent op-
eration in a Paris hospital anil
will be able to return home next
week.
m o well balanced', well cooked and
well served.
If the school lunch project is to
operate in schools where both free
and paid- lunches, as in school caf-
eterias where WPA labor is pro-
i vided to make possible the serv-
ing of free lunches, special con-
sideration should be given to the
provision which states:
“There shall be no discrimina-
tion or segregation of children
who are receiving free lunches
from other children. Every child
in the school will be served the
same menu. Under no condition
will WPA labor be provided for
school lunch rooms which do nji
meet the standard's of WPA op-
erated school lunch units.”
Mrs. G. L. Miller, the newly
named supervisor of the Hot
Lunch Project in Delta county, is
taking her preliminary training in
Sulphur Springs and will soon be
in this county. Mrs. Miller will
be in her office, the county su-
perintendent’s office, Saturday
afternoon. Those persons wanting
to see her may do so at that time.
R-alno Postpone
Annual Council
Christmas Party
, Due to the excessive rains over
the county, the annual Christmas
party for the Home Demonstra-
tion Council that was to be held
Saturday afternoon fit 2 o’clock
was postponed. The party will be
.held this Saturday at 2 o’clock in
the Council rooms in the base-
ment of the postoffice building.
The Christmas party has been
designated as “Cotton Christmas,”
the idea was carried out in many
of the clubs last year and merits
sontinued support this year. Each
member of the Council is request-
ed to bring a cotton Christina.;
gift not to exceed 25 cents in
value.
Mrs. Handel II. Pratt and Mis.
01>?n G. Janes were Paris visitors
Monday.
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