The Delta Courier (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 13, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 1, 1941 Page: 1 of 4
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SAVE MONEY
WITH
LARK’S
BETTER
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Ea«t aide square—Cooper, Texas
delta Courier
Smith Funeral Horn*
Phone 109
Lady Attendant
Ambulance Service
W. D. HART & SON
Economists To
Organize In
Co. Tonight
COOPER, DELTA COUNTY, TEXAS TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1941
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All Home Economist graduates
are requested to meet in the
Farr.i Security Administration of-
fice tonight at 7:30 for the pur-
pose of organizing a unit to aid
in national defense, according to
a statement made Monday by
Miss Louise Engel, FSA Rural
Home Supervisor.
Miss Engel stated, “This Na-
tional Defense should begin in
the county by alleviating the ill
fed, ill clothed and the ill housed.
This can be brought about by
the organization of the \Home
Economists in the county.”
“The Home Economists of the
nation have as important a part
in National Defense as the ones
who carry arms. It is their duty to
guard the home and the nation;
and to see to both production and
distribution of wealth. It is
their special business to under-
stand the situation, to cooperate
in maintaining national unity and
to initiate professional advance-
ment, and to start a spiritual and
patriotic regeneration of our
citizenship.”
Cotton Producers
May Apply For Free
Cotton Classing
Cotton producers who have
formed groups to promote im-
provement in the quality of cot-
ton may apply for the free class-
ing and market news services
provided under the Smith-Doxey
act on their 1941 cotton as soon
as planting is completed, accord-
ing to announcement today by J.
R. Kennedy, in charge Agricul-
tural marketing Service, at Dal-
las. The closing dates for ap-
plications in Texas are August 1
for counties wholly or for the
most part east of the 100th me-
ridian, and August 15 for the
following counties and those ly-
ing farther to the west: Hemp-
hill, Wheeler, Collingsworth, Cot-
tle, King, Stonewall, Fisher, No-
lan, Coke, Tom Green, Schlei-
cher, Sutton, Edwards, Kinney,
and Maverick.
To allow for somewhat later
planting, applications will be
received for these services from
groups in Oklahoma through
August 15 . x
Last year, with the assistance
of extension specialists, county
agents, experiment station work-
ers, vocational agricultural teach-
ers, ginners, and others, 583] or-
ganized cotton improvement
groups in Texas, and 142 groups
in Oklahoma, made application
for the free classing and market
news service. A total of about
568,000 samples were classed for
Texas groups, and 135,000 sam-
ples were classed for Oklahoma
groups. Indications point to a
larger number of applicants this
year, according to Mr. Kennedy.
Groups should apply early so
they will receive instructions and
supplies in time to obtain clas-
sification of their early^ginned
cotton. Instructions and forms
for making applications may be
obtained through the county agent
or by writing direct to the Agri-
cultural Marketing Service at
Box 1369, Dallas; Box 1140,
Austin; Texas Tech., T. E. Bldg.,
Lubbock, Texas; and Box 249,
Atlas, Oklahoma.
Signs Confession
To Pecan Gap
Postoffice Buiglary
A confession to the postoffice
burglary at Pecan Gap a short
while before Christmas in 1940
was obtained from a man in
West Texas at an undisclosed
town, by O. E Smith, postoffice
inspector, it was learred here
Saturday.
Lar^e l\u«Ilber Cooper Tracksters
Sign Up For !Plact Four,h ln
Stamp Flan
Flier's ‘Mascot’
A large number of farmers in
Delta county have signed the in-
tention sheet in the local AAA
office, showing their intention to
divert an extra acre or two for
Invitation Meet
Cooper High School thinly-
clads took 29 points in an invi-
tation track meet at Commerce
at East Texas State Saturday to
capture fourth place at a prac-
tice session before the district
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BARDIA, Libya . . . Thousands of
Ethiopians, motivated by a hatred
of their Italian conquerors, have
Joined the British forces ln Libya
and Eritrea. This 14-year-old Ethiop-
ian boy has been waging war
against the Italians for live years.
He is wearing the cap of an Italian
officer sniped during one of his en-
counters with the enemy.
i meet Saturday. Paris High
--------- , the purpose of receiving the Cot- School was first with 46 points,
Acting on a tip from Deputy I ton Ort*er Stamps that will be dis- j Leonard, second with 35 1-2
Sheriff Wayne Blackburn, Mr. tril)uted soon. In a series of points and Deport third with 31
Smith arrested the man in the meetmgs over the pounty, men points.
from the AAA office explained
West Texas town and obtained
the confession. Deputy Sheriff I ^r w Cotton-Stamp Plan would
Mrs. Herbert Emery
Gives Book Review
Thursday Night
Mrs. Herbert Emory of Dal-
las gave a review of the book,
“Ramdom Harvest” Thursday
evening at the Methodist Church.
A largo audience was present.
Her appearance here was spon-
sored by the Tom A. Lambeth
Dramatic Club. Mrs. Emery was
introduced by Miss Chrystelle
Paul. Mrs. Emery has appeared
ir< book reviews here on numer-
ous occasions and has made many
friends here in Cooper.
For the occasion Thursday,
Mrs. Emery was dressed in Mex-
ican costume. Her dress was of
simple calico, starched, and crush-
ed and pressed while still damp.
A hand made belt, artistically
designed. Her bracelets, necklace,
and ear screws completed ; her
unique costoume. This event
closed the reviews for the cui’-
rent season.
Blackburn had arrested the other
man named in the confession soon
after the burglary and he is be-
ing held in a jail in Paris.
The man now in West Texas
left Delta county soon after the
man now in the Paris jail was ar-
rested. As soon as a court or-
der can be obtained, the man
will he brought to Paris where
he will be put in the Paris jail
until time for his trial.
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ooper Student In
Speech Meeting
COMMERCE, March 31.—Miss
Louise Byrns, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. R. Byrns of Cooper,
and a member of the speech
class of East Texas State Teach-
ers College, has been a repre-
senative of the scihool at the Pi
Kappa Delta meeting, that was
held in Abilene, March 27, 28,
and 29.
Lions Club Urges
Citizens To Bring
Old Scrap Iron
All persons in Delta county
are being urged by the Cooper
Lions Club to bring their old
scrap iron and license tags to the
Cooper Lumber Company yard
where it will be shipped in an ef-
fort to aid Britain. Quentin Mil-
ler, Wylie France and George
Bolger were appointed as a com-
mittee to act for the Lions Club.
The local Lions Club is joining
in a state wide movement to
gather scrap iron to send to Bri-
tain in an effort to do their bit.
All persons who have wished that
they could do something to help
can do so by bringing in their
scrap iron and license plates.
It has been estimated that 100
pounds of scrap iron will make a
machine gun that will shoot 300
rounds per minute.
Free Fish For
Stocking Pools
Now Available*
AUSTIN, March 31.—If you
have a pond on your ranch, farm,
or estate, and wish to stock it
with free fish, write the Texas
Game, Fish and Oyster Commis-
sion at Austin and ask for a, re-
quest blank.
When the blank is received,
fill it out and return it to the
commission. Then, when hatch-
eries are delivering this summer,
your request will be filled, if it
is possible for the commission to
fill it.
Officials of the Department of
Fish and Game at Texas A. & M.
College, College Station, advise
that young fish be planted now,
if pond owners wish to reap a
harvest of bluegills or bream this
work,
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Only a small portion of the
number of producers in * Delta
county were reached by these
meetings and many farmers have
come into the AAA office to
have the plan explained. Robert
L. Williams, AAA assistant in
Delta county, extends a cordial
invitation to all the producers in
the county to come in and go
over the plan.
Compliance will begin in Delta
county about May 15 and about
60 per cent of the farm plan
sheets for the some 2,000 pro-
ducers in the county have been
completed.
Begin Construction
On Warehouse For
Highway Deoartment
Construction was begun last
week on a fence for the Texas
Highway Department warehouse
that is to be built west of Cooper
on Highway 24 on land given the
department by Delta county and
the City of Cooper some two
years ago.
The fence now being construct-
ed will confine some articles now
used by the Highway Department
until the warehouse is built. Al-
though no appropriation has
been made for building the ware-
house, it is understood here that
it will be made in the near fu-
The Cooper tracksters have
been handicapped irom working
out very much this year duei to
the inclement weather and poor
track facilities. After every
rain, the Cooper youths were
forced to resoit to inside drills
until the ground was hard
enough for a firm footing.
Cooper placements in the
track meet were as follows:
200 yard low hurdles: Robert-
son, third. Time: 24.1.
Sprint relay: Cooper third.
Time- 47.8.
880 yard run Duncan, Enloe,
third: Carrington, Cooper, fourth.
Time: 2.303.
120 yard high huddles: Rob-
ertson, first. Time: 15.7.
440 yard dash: Sc tt, second.
Time- 55.5.
Discus throw: Wheeler, third.
Distance: 107 feet, 7 inches.
Broad jump: McVay, third.
Distance: 18 feet, 3 inches.
Shot put: Wheeler, first. Dis-
tance: 42 feet, 7 inches.
High jump: Carrington, first;
Moore, Cooper; Ashmore, Paris,
tied for second. Height: 5 feet,
3 inches.
Carl Henson
Killed Sunday;
Services Today
CarJ Henson, 41, son of Mr.
and, Mrs. C. H. Henson of Coop-
er, was killed Sunday when he
was thrown from his horse in a
rodeo arena at Brady. Compan-
ions said Henson’s horse failed
to clear a high wire fence and
fell on the rider. Funeral ser-
vices are being held today at 4
o’clock at Brady with interment
'.here.
Mr. Henson had been an im-
plement dealer at Brady for the
past six years being in business
with his brother-in-law, Ben
White.
Carl Henson was bom at Amy
and moved with his parents to
tion squadron. Shown here wRh her Cooper when a youth. He was
sponsors, her job is to bring then married to Miss Margaret Vogle-
song of Brady and a daughter,
Marjorie Burge, 18, pretty daugh.
ter of a Boston army officer, hai
been chosen official mascot of the
fliers in the U. S. 101st Observa-
good weather for their flying.'
One Third Of First
Draftees Rejected
From Army Service
fall. Immediate deliveries of |
stocking fish are not always pos-1 ture.
sible, but orders are filled as ( The warehouse is located about
rapidly as the hatcheries are able j one quarter of a mile west of the
to fill them.
Those wishing to obtain fish
from Federal hatcheries should
write to the superintendent, Unit-
ed States Fisheries Station, Fish
and Wildlife Service, Uvalde.
I city limits of Cooper on
AUSTIN, March 31.—Data re-
leased by the Texas State Head-
quarters for Selective Service re-
veal that out of the first 9,506
Texas draftees, 28.79 per cent,
nearly one out of every three,
land were temporarily or permanent-
that Delta county and the City of ly rejected for active service be-
Cooper purchased for this pur- cause of health defects. These
pose. The building of the fence ! figures show a slightly lower
is being d°ne by the Mainten-
ance Division of the Texas High-
way Department.
Former Cooper Man
Named Cashier Of
Bank In Hugo, Okla.
Vernon Pratt of| Hugo, Okla.,
grocer and stockman, succeeds T.
M. Glass as cashier of the Na-
tional Bank of Commerce of
Hugo Monday, following Mr.
GLuV resignation last week. ,Mr.
Pratt has announced that Has-
kell Watson in charge of the
Pratt’s store’s meat department
for 11 years, will have active
management of the store. Mr.
Pratt, actively engaged in opera-
tion of a store in Oklahoma for
16 years, has been a stockholder
and director of the hank ever
since a group of local business 5prllr;iv
men bought interest from West- j &l ~fCUmy
hunier-Danhe of Ardmore. WagCS Statement
Vernon Pratt, son of Mr. ,and Now Available
Mrs. Felix Pratt of Hugo, form-
erly lived in Cooper and is a
cousin to dohn and Jack Silman
of this city.
Mary Helen, was born to this un-
ion. He is also survived by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H.
Henson, a sister, Miss Ethel Hen-
son; his grandmother, Mrs. Cal-
lie Henson; all of Cooper. Two
sisters, Mrs. Ben White of Brady,
Mrs. .7. D. Moyers, of Dallas,
and one brother, Carter Henson
of Houston. Mr. Henson was a
member of the Christian Church
in Brady.
Mr. Henson and ' Miss Ethel
Henson left Sunday for Dallas
where Mrs. Henson and Mrs.
Moyers joined them. Attending
the services from Cooper are
Adam Harris, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Wicikersham, Mr. and Mrs. R. N.
Stovall, Carl Harrison, Curtis
Dawson, and Carl Ewing.
C. W. Biedsoe of Pecan Gap,
who has been ill at the home of
his son, Mr and Mrs. W. T. Bled-
soe, following medical treatment
at Reed Memorial Hospital, has
asturned to his home.
Brushy Mound
Christian Service
Has Program
The Woman’s Division of
Christian Service of the Method-
ist Church met Monday, March
23, at the home of Mrs. Bailey
Gill, with 12 members present.
The study of the afternoon was
“Why Migrants Labor,” taken
from the uprooted Americans.
Mrs. A. G. Petitfils was the de-
votional leader, scripture reading,
John 10. Mrs O. Jeter assisted in
the devotional and led in prayer.
Those assisting on the pro-
gram were: Mcsdames Everette
Cain, Clayton Johnson, Marion
Edwards, Joe Harris and Gladys
Goolsby.
At) the close of the program,
the hostess, assisted by Mrs. Con-
ley and Miss Gill served a re-
freshment plate to 12 members.
The next meeting will be on
April 1 with Mrs. Joe Harris and
Mrs. W. L. Jeter as leaders.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L, Bell of
Goodland, Okla., were guests df
Mrs R. P. Hamilton and Mr. and
Mrs. L. W. Riggs Sunday.
Marriage Licenses
Show Sharp Drop
During March
Marriage licenses took a sharp
drop during the month of March
as only three couples were issued
licenses by County Clerk C. V.
Stephenson. The number i^ far
below the monthly average for
Delta county of 14 licenses.
The licenses were issued to
Wilson Wakefield and Muriel 1
Flanary; Hurbert Blackwell and
Kittie McGelberry; Edwin Me- !
Fatridge and Gracie Mae Cantrell. [
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ENLIST IN ARMY
James and Cullen Smith, sons
of Mr. and Mrs. John Smth of
Oenaville, former residents of
Cooper, have enlisted in the U. S.
rrmy. James has enlisted for the
f cond time and is stn'ioned at
I ort Sam Houston while Cullen
i ilisting for the first time is on
his way to Hawaii.
Truck Operators
Granted 15-Day
License Extension
A telegram was received by
Tax Assessor-Collector G. W.
Morgan from Austin Monday
morning stating that a time ex-
tension of 15 days was to be
granted to operators of trucks.
This extension was granted to
truck operators pending the out-
come of proposed legislation re-
adjusting truck registration fees.
Truck owners have delayed reg-
istration of their vehicles pend-
ing legislative action on the pro-
posal to lower the fee 10 cents to
40 cents per 100 pounds on
trucks carrying loads of more
than 17,000 pounds under the
new 38,000 pound limit.
The legislature Friday adopted
a resolution urging highway offi- \
cials to refrain from penalizing
drivers for failure to register j
pending a final decision on the
registration fee.
percentage of rejectees than
during the draft period of World
War I, when 31.2 per cent of the
men examined by local draft
boards were rejected.
“On the basis of these figures,
we find evidence of the tremen-
dous task that lies ahead of us if
the degree of physical fitness re-
quired for an all-out national de-
fense program is to be attained.
The professions of medical science
and public health are utilizing
every weapon at their command
to improve the state of thd na-
tion’s health, but they alone can-
not win the battle. The support
of each individual citizen and his
cooperation are invaluable in rais- j
ing the health levels of the na-
tion and the state,” Dr. Geo. W.
Cox, State Health Officer, stated.
Further examination of the
medical reports on the first nine j
thousand Texas draftees pro- j
vides statistical information on
the most prevalent health defects
and indicates where the greatest
health hazards lie among the
younger population.
Gas Company Taxes
Take $378 An Hour
No Mystery Connected With
Proper Pruning Of Plants
COLLEGE STATION, March
31.—There is no mystery about
the proper method of pruning
plants.
Pruning, says Sadie Hatfield,
extension specialist in landscape
gardening for A and M. College,
is chiefly cutting away undesir-
able wood. Many of the shrubs
which bloom early grow from
several shoots and sprouts. This
makes pruning them a fairly
simple task.
“If pruning is carefully and
thoughtfully done, it may de-
velop into an art from which
much pleasure is derived,” the
specialist says. “Ordinarily too
much time is put on the promo-
tion of growth in plants at the
expense of their good grooming
through pruning.”
A few of the oldest shoots
should be cut off at the ground
each year. This relieves the
plant of old and rough branches.
They soon are replaced by a new
growth of sprouts. Also it often
is desirable to shorten long and
awkward looking branches.
One of the fortunate things
about shrubs is that they will
grow and soon cover up mistakes.
Thus the gnrdencr is given a
chance t(^( observe and do better
next time.
Infant Son Succumbs
To Illness Sunday
Funeral services were held at
10 o’clock Monday morning at |
the Simmons cemetery for the I
infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Har-1
mon Smith of Ben Franklin1 The
infant succumbed to a short ill-
ness about 12 o’clock Sunday
night at thei family home. Smith
Funeral Home was in charge of
the funeral arrangements.
Tax collectors throughout this
territory have received checks
from, the gas company in payment
cf city, county, state and district
taxes. The 55 different kinds of
taxes paid by the Lone Star Gas
System make a total of $3,268,-
995 fot 1940, according to com-
pany officials
This sum is $378 for every hour
of thq day and night, or more
than $8,871 for every day of the
year including Sundays. This
means, company officials stated,
that an amount equal to the entire
net revenue of the company for
183 days of the year went back
to the public in taxes for school,
county, city, state and Federal
purposes. The sum does not in-
clude state and Federal gasoline
taxes and other hidden taxes in
the cost of all supplies purchased.
The tax bill of this company
now amounts to 91 cents for
every customer’s gas bill rendered
every month, the officials state.
This is pointed out as (Significant
in view of the fact that many gas
service hills during six months of
warm weather amount to little
more than a dollar each month.
The figures reveal that 15 cents
out of every dollar collected from
all gas customers goes to pay
taxes. For 1939 the taxes of the
company are increasing a very
substantial per cent eacih year.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Stahmer,
Mmes. John Stahmer, J. A.
Moseley, C. J. Kinard, Jr., C. A.
Larson, George Ellington, Ben A.
Wilson, John Harrison, E. E.
Woodruff, and Miss Margaret
Woodruff were in Haris Friday
to attend the funeral of Mrs.
James A. Gibson, who died at the
home *>f her sisters, Mrs. Rube S.
Wells and Miss Nida Bobo, in
Given Recognition
In Piano Contest
PARIS, March 24.—Every So-
cial Security Board field office
has been provided a supply of
self-addressed post cards for the
use of any wage earner desiring
to secure statement of wages
credited to his old-age and sur-
vivors insurance account, accord-
ing to Glenn T. Dunn, manager
of the Paris, Texas, office.
“These cards may be secured
by interested persons calling at
the field office or by requesting
them by mail,” he explained.
“When one of these ' cards is
properly filled out with a one-
cent stamp attached and placed
in a mail box, the sender will re-
ceive from the Social Security
Board a statement of all wages
credited to his account."
It was pointed out by Mr.
Dunn that if the wage state-
ment does not agree with the
worker’s own records, he may call
this fact to the attention of the
Social Security Board and efforts
will be made to adjust any dis-
crepancy which may exist.
“This service is extended to
wage earners in order that they
may keep a check on their wage
credits as maintained by the So-
cial Security Board for the pur-
pose of determining the amount
of old-age and survivors insur-
ance which eventually will be
paid to qualified workers or to
their survivors,’ Dunn said.
It was further explained that
wage statements may be secured
under the above plan by all work-
ers in employment covered by
the Social Security act; however,
emphasis was placed on the fact
that no wage statements will be
furnished wage earners unless
they make written request for
such information on the post
card provided for that purpose.
Miss Jean Harper visited over
the week end in Dallas and play-
ed in the annual piano contest
sponsored by Mu Phi Epsion, na-
tional music honor society.
Miss Harper received honorable
mention along with a number of
students. She also played in a
Mu Phi recital in the McFarlin
organ room. She was accompan-
ied by her mother, who visited
her sister, Mrs. Emily B. Haston,
and niece, Miss Gloria Haston,
formerly of Cooper.
Two Men Break
Jail Friday;
One Re-captured
Two men being held in the
holdover jail in the basement of
the City Hall escaped Friday
night by forcing a steel door
open the door wide enough to let
them out. One of the men has
been captured and returned ta
the jail while the other la aaid
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