The Paris News from Paris, Texas • Page 30

DELTA WATER SOURCE Cooper Dam Aims Toward Above Ground Storage COOPER A vast new source of above ground water storage moves nearer completion during 1056 with final planning funds expected on the Cooper Dam and Reservoir on Sulphur River. The long-sought-after 15 million dollar project won Congressional authorization in 1955. The reservoir south of Cooper promises to become a major outdoors entertainment center when it is completed. Neighboring cities last year took steps to tie in municipal water systems with the reservoir. A water district was formed to include Cooper, Commerce and Sulphur Springs.

Cooper and Commerce plan immediate conhec- Home-Owned Boot Plant New Clarksville Industry Special to The News CLARKSVILLE Home-owned and home-operated is Clarksville's newest industry, the Red Fish Boat Company, which manufactures everything from fishing skiffs to cabin cruisers, in two dozen different models. Added to the number of previously established small industries, the boat company helps swell the payroll here. But there's always room for more: in the area served by Texas Power Light Company's Rivercrest plant in the south part of Red River County, Clarksville offers many inducements to prospective plants. Lone Star Gas Company has made several extensions here in the past year, as has the city's water system, while General Telephone Company completed a general rebuilding of its lines and also made extensions. Without resorting to any new taxes or a bond issue, a new swimming pool in Legion Park, comparable to those in other cit.

ies costing up to $35,000, was opened here last year. A special annual event here is the Andrews Ranch Rodeo, though its dates for 1956 had not been Plans for dedication of the Albion bridge across Red River, opened last year, depend on completion of the Oklahoma's highway approach to the structure. A major industry in Red River County is one dependent on locally-produced raw material: lumber from its pine forests. Re-seeding of forest land is promoted by the International Paper Company and others, and as a result of this and other conservation measures, turkeys and other smaller game are on the increase. Crops of all kinds were the best in several years in 1955, some places producing more than two bales of cotton to the acre.

Sale of beef cattle has more than doubled in the past four years to an annual and poultry raising is on'the increase, with more interest in sheep raising, arid consideration being given to irrigation. Red River County constitutes a Soil Conservation District, the program last year having been mapped for 131 farms aggregating 29,550 acres, the 15-year operation totals involving 1,434 farms of 324,480 acres. Road building looms large in the general improvement picture, the greatest annual total of farm highway mileage having been begun in 1955, an aggregate of 34.27 miles. Two of these, from Avery to Henrietta community, and a connection between Avery and the Anncna-Boxelder road, were completed; three others lack only topping, two more are under construction and two important bridging projects are scheduled. Rights-of-way are being obtained for re-location of U.

S. Highway 82, west from Clarksville to Detroit, via. Batesville and Bagwell, an estimated 15-mile $750,000 project. Completion, expected in the spring; will eliminate one of the last sub-standard sections of this highway in Texas. Clarksville schools added a vocational agriculture building at a cost of $25,000, the larger portion of the amount being a federal grant.

This followed addition of a new gymnasium and extra classrooms for Negro students at Cheatham High School. Contracts are expected to be let in February for building a new Negro elementary school and a junior high school for white scholastics. This was made possible by passage of a $290,000 bond issue and increase in the tax to $1.75. Two very modern business buildings have completed and a third is under construction, replacing those burned in the fire of last September 4, and several new residences were erected during the year. Much of the improvement seen Clarksville is due to the.

efforts of the of Commerce, of which Sunkel is Carl' Zehetner and P. D. Vlarable, vice-presidents; F. M. VIorehead, treasurer, and A.

N. Quarles, manager tion. Sulphur Springs officials with adequate present supply water, point out the reservoi furnishes a guaranteed water sup ply for future expansion. Other cities have indicated they will purchase water from the dis trict. The bill authorizing the dan and reservoir was by Congressman Wright Patman Texarkana and Speaker Sam Ray burn of Bonham.

The reservoir ex tends into Rayburn's district. Th two Congressmen persona 11 guided the measure through Con gress assisted by local delegation headed by Grover Pickering anc Quentin Miller of Cooper, and Rep Amos Martin of Paris. The Rec River Valley Association a credited largely sponsor ing the Sulphur River improvem bill. The RRVA also obtained some five million dollars in down stream improvements to Sulphur. With additional planning funds due in 1956, officials believe actua construction will be completed bj 1958.

Civic and government leader, in Northeast Texas cities have hailed the proposed reservoir as an outstanding contribution to in dustrial development of the area Yolaine Frank Is Graduate A Paris girl, Miss Yolaine Frank was among the. class of 38 which participated in capping exercises Friday night at Parkland Memor ial Hospital in Dallas. Mr. and Mrs. F.

and son, Dennis, and Mrs. Mart a Reinke, who is visiting in Paris from Minnesota, attended the exercises. The class.was the first at Park land to receive their caps through the new Texas State College for Women program. Capping was held at the University Park Meth pdist Church. A reception was held in the Oslan Memorial Room at the staff residence.

Miss Frank returned home with her parents to spend the weekend. Candy Barr's First Hubby Jailed Here One inmate of Lamar County Jail here watched with interest the case of Candy Barr, the Dallas night club entertainer who shot her husband Thursday The prisoner, William James Dabbs, is Miss Barr's first husband. Dabbs was last March 20 along with three other Dallas men in connection with the burglary of Bill's Tire Battery in Paris TUESDAY IS DOUBLE STAMP DAY AT HARLAN'S CREAM OTHECROP BUXS PRICES EFFECTIVE 3 BIG TUES. WED. QUAUTy MEATS WILSON'S CERTIFIED FAMILY STYLE BACON 2 85 DRY SALT JOWLS GROUND GOOD Grain Fed Beef Pkg.

Lb. ROAST for Broiling STEAK 12 29 39 Idaho U.S No. 1 10 Cftc Tomatoes Carton 23 Strawberries POLAR CUT GREEN BEANS 4 JESSE JEWELS CHICKEN BACKS 2 POLAR ENGLISH PEAS 4 9-or. -jrrv Pkgs. 39' SHURFINE FROZEN Cans JUICE RICH'S WHIP TOPPING 49' PATIO Ranch Style Sauce BARBECUE 0 89' POLAR CUT 0 4 JESSE JEWELS CUT UP FRYERS 2E TRAPPEY'S CUT OKRA Pkgs.

Tr 99 10-Oz. Pkg. 235 NORTH MAIN HARLAN'S Double Brownies Thurs. RR Valley Exposition Lures 30,000 A county fair never fails to attract young and old alike. And Paris' annual Red River Valley tops in agricultural and industrial products in a 13-county all local records for luring 20,000 and 30,000 "fairgoers" to the city.

The Exposition dates its history to the post-Civil War period when southern farmers first began to clear away the ruins of reconstruction. Men of the Confederacy wouldn't recognize the show on the Exposition fair (vvounds. There's a midway as an added attraction. But the home exhibits, livestock and poultry continue to attract the crowds. Last year, electrical appliance dealers in Paris counted a highly successful electric show co-sponsored by Texas Power Light Co, Talent shows packed the Coliseum every night with 1,000 to 1,500 persons.

Plans were underway before the 1955 show closed to enlarge junior livestock and poultry divisions in 1956. Both won record participa- Salvation Army Story Told by Lt. Keeton In the following paragraphs, Lt. Neal Keeton, Commanding officer of the local Salvation Army explains the organization, purposes and activities of the organization. "What is it? How did it start? What does it do?" "In peace times and during two World Wars, thousands of people have seen The Salvation Army in action, taken its good work for granted, supported it, trusted it implicitly.

Yet not one in hundreds could answer factual questions about it." "Do you, for example, know that it is an international organization operating places of worship and social rehabilitation centers in 97 countries and colonies of the globe? trained men and women who have further applied five years of re- tion last year. Exposition President 'Harry Wilson points out the fair grounds offer ample room for expansion and declares there are unlimited possibilities to produce a major show in Paris every year. ligious sociology in action before qualifying as fully commissioned officers? But let's start at the beginning," "The Salvation army is an evangelical movement with the single aim of converting people to Christian living. Because of the practical application of its belief in alleviating the tangible as well as the spiritual needs of men, its social services became well known; 'a man may he down but he's never out' was termed its theory sometime ago. Recently the spiritual aim.behind its social services was more accurately described when The Salvation Army was called 'the first internal i nal Army, with its heart to God and its hand "The Salvation Army was founded in 1865 by William Booth, an English minister, who withdrew from the Methodist church to preach the message of Christ from the street corners of London's worst slums.

"When his converts were refused membership in the established THE PARIS NEWS, SUNDAY, JAN. 29, churches, Booth banded them together as a group outside the church, which thirteen years later (1878) he called The Salvation Army. Organized along semi-military lines, uniforms, ranks; strict training and discipline have continued to be an integral part of The Army's setup. "In 1860, hungry, illiterate masses crowded the scorned by the 'respectable," living in vice and squalor. To pay.attention to such persons was unheard of, radical.

For General Booth to recognize their plight and set up soap kitchens as a preface to religion was still more revolutionary. Yet most successful. "Here in our city of Paris, The Salvation Army does not draw its members from Hie soup lines, neither does it necessarily draw from its welfare cases. The membership of the local unit is made up of average working people, seeking to serve God and their fellow man. Some of these even own their own business.

They have come to the place that they feel in their heart that God has a place for them in the Army, and that He had led them to serve in this capacity. "Basically, The Salvation Army is a religious organization with an evangelism of song and prayer arid deed. It seeks to minister to the whole need of moral and physical. Its hallmark religious service, are the familiar open-air on town and city street corners. One hundred and twenty-nine such street services were conducted by the local Saivation Army in 1955.

"In addition to these, hundreds of other meetings are held each year for the purpose of worship. On Sunday a Sunday School and a morn-' ing and evening worship service is conducted. On Wednesday evening a prayer meeting for those 1 who wish to attend. In addition to these, various youth services are held. Bible courses are teen-age boys and girls and to the leaders of the Youth Activities." "The year 1955 was a year as far as religious at The Salvation Army was con-, cerned.

A sharp rise in ance was noted, and all in all God has showered His richest blessings upon us." National League batting pion Richie Ashburn of the Phil-, lies, with a .338 mark, hit .336, at night and ,339 in 1955 daylight games. You'll Like to Live, Work and Play in Paris, Texas The Texas Highway Department Leads the Nation In the Planning, Building and Maintaining Modern State and Farm-to-Market Highways. Picture Your New Plant In Pans, Texas, Where There Is Plenty Oi Modern Transportation SAM M. WEISS DISTRIBUTOR GULF OIL CORP II2J N. MAIN.