Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 268, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 12, 1985 Page: 1 of 12
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NOVEMBER 12, 19B5.
VOL. 107—NO. 26B.
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Court delays bid awards
lake suits
missioners canvassed the Nov. 5
the Dow Jones average of 30 in-
Panel considers
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bond approval
Royals
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Wasps singing: Just looking for a home
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hung later this week, Jones said, to promote
the start of the Texas Wagon Train in
Sulphur Springs on Jan. 2, 1986. The four
color banners will have the Hopkins County
logo on one end, and the Sesquicentennial
logo on the other.
Jones submitted to the court that its
selection of Truman Renshaw to the
Tax Appraisal District Board of
Directors for Hopkins County was
wrongly made because of violations
of residency requirements.
Jones said Renshaw had not lived
in the county long enough to be
eligible for the Tax Appraisal Board
and that he did not adequately
represent the interests of Hopkins
County residents.
their nest and family building ac-
tivities.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Prince
Charles and Princess Diana, the
toast of the nation’s capital for
three days, left for Florida
Tuesday with memories Charles
said would be “ringing in our
ears” for a long time.
The couple boarded a Royal Air
Force VC-10, a jetliner of the
Queen’s Flight, and left nearby
Andrews Air Force Base, Md., at
mid-morning.
See Pape 11 4or story and
picture detailing the royal visit.
In a light mist beneath a dull
gray sky, they offered a final
wave to about 500 well-wishers
who lined the tarmac fence 150
yards from the four-engine
aircraft. In return, the crowd
waved Union Jack and American
flags and banners reading “We
love you.”
certify the votes with some correc-
tions in the tallies due to arithmetic
errors. The errors did not alter the
outcome of the Hopkins County vote.
Under the item for other business,
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senting the
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During the winter, wasps prefer
congregating in large numbers for
slumber parties where they opt for
dark, warm corners — hence their
affinity for attics and other places
that fit the bill. "We’re seeing them
more now. Usually, cool weather is
here by now,” Klaus said of the
current influx.
The professor estimates that wasps
produce 1-3 generations per year in
this part of the country and earn their
keep protecting vegetation by
feasting on other insects and worms.
Three types of wasps are usually seen
in this area: red, brown and striped.
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icquainted
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lar meeting
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Philips Equipment Bus—ta Tyler,
Farm Country Inc. in Sulphur
Springs, Bailey’s Tractor Co. in
Sulphur Springs, Dairyland Ford
Tractor in Sulphur Springs and two
bids from Goggans Trailer & Im-
plement in Sulphur Springs.
The commissioners also decided to
advertise for bids for steel culverts.
Although the county is under no legal
obligation to advertise for bids, ac-
brings the total for this year's take in
sales taxes up to $967,620.66, com-
pared to last year's total of $912,933.39
for the comparable period.
Cumby’s check was for $1,532.74,
and Como’s check was for $929.12,
making the county total $143,154.96.
Checks for $115.2 million in local
sales tax collections were sent Friday
to 1,010 cities that levy the one cent
local sales tax.
Comptroller Bob Bullock said the
checks represented taxes collected in
September and the third quarter of
the year.
Houston got a check for $17.7
million, bringing the 1985 total to
$141.1 million, up 4 percent over the
last year— *
Other checks included:
Dallas, $13.4 million making $104.7
million for the year, up 13 percent.
San Antonio, $7.4 million, for a yearly
total of $52.7 million, up 14 percent.
Austin, $5.5 million, for a yearly total
of $42.3 million, up 20 percent. Fort
Worth, $4.3 million, a yearly total of
$31.8 up 11 percent. El Paso, $2.6
million, for a yearly total of $19.6
million, up 16 percent.
Bullock also sent checks totaling
$50.2 million to the state’s five
Metropolitan Transit Authorities.
Houston got $20.9 million, Dallas $19.2
million, Austin $5 million, San An-
tonio $3.9 million and Fort Worth $1
million.
administration
from accidents in Arkansas and
Louisiana in which two people died.
the commissioners heard complaints of Appeals reinstated a $1 million
t ™ »» i j t».u v awar(j for Kathy Butler of Tatum,
tibility of those who suffer the allergy either
and warned them to beware of the
Gordon Ford, county Extension
S^udce agent, said, “I don’t know if
On the other hand, when spring
arrives, wasps take a different at-
discount store work just fine. Of titude toward humans if the wasps
A check for $140,693.10 showed up in
the City of Sulphur Springs’the city’s
mailbox recently, as a reim-
bursement from the State Comp-
troller’s office for the local one cent
sales tax
. . The check, almost $20,000 more
It contains some 370 projects, in- thhn for the same time last year,
eluding flood control
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which Merrell and Almon have said
may be around the middle of
December.
Merrell expects word of the bond
rating companies’ decisions will
arrive in time for the board meeting.
In other business, the board will
consider approval of the 1985-86
District Textbook Committee, early
dismissal of school, the 1985 school
district audit and the 1984-85 Annual
Performance Report.
It will also consider approval of
directors for the Hopkins County Tax
Appraisal District, additional teacher
appraisers for 1985-86 and resolutions
to employ a delinquent tax collection
firm.
Also on the agenda will be con-
sideration of Tax Credits and Sup-
plements for October, delinquent tax
collections for October, financial
statments and bills and employing an
audit firm for the 1986-87 school year.
Prior to discussion of action items,
the board will hear adminstrative
reports, and following the action
items the board will break for an
executive session to discuss per-
sonnel matters.
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It all begins here
from D.M. Jones and Bill Kern, who
Jones said were representing a
cording to Precinct 3 Commissioner Hopkins County citizens association.
Delbert Tully, the court decided the
people of the county would best be
served if bids were entertained for
the purchase of new culverts.
In other business, the
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By MICHAEL PELRINE
N»w« SUH
Decisions to award bids for a
telephone system in the Hopkins
County District Attorney’s office and
a tractor and shredder for Precinct 4
were tabled Tuesday by the county
Commissioners Court until Thursday,
pending study of the bids.
The telephone system currently in
use by the district attorney’s office is
too big and inefficient for its needs,
District Attorney Frank Long told
The News-Telegram before the
meeting.
Long said the current system is
better suited to a larger operation,
but more importantly he thinks the
switching mechanism is faulty.
“Four or five times a week I’ve lost
a long distance connection,” he said.
“It just switched off.”
In addition, the company that had
supplied the system, Texas
Telephone, is no longer in business,
making service difficult, Long said
during the court session.
Long said the system he wants
would be smaller, five to six units,
including a key service switching
mechanism, three office units and
one for the library where the district
attorney’s office maintains a
telephone.
The Commissioners Court accepted
bids from OS Commco in Lone Star;
Lanier Business Systems in Atlanta,
Georgia; Data-Tel in Greenville;
Digitec Information Systems in ,
Sulphur Springs which submitted o ’
bids; Telephone Control Corporation
in Greenville; and AT&T in Dallas
Long requested time to review the
bids and to make a recommendation
to the Court by 10 a.m. Thursday
when the court will hold a special
meeting to award bids.
The Commissioners also decided to
table until Thursday a decision to
award a bid for a tractor and
shredder for Precinct 4.
Bids on a tractor and shredder
came in from Holman-Bennett-
Judge Wayne Scott, the
missioners Court cannot retract its
votes, and any challenge to Ren-
shaw’s appointment must come from
one of the taxing entities within the
county or from Renshaw himself. In
any case, Scott said, it will be up to
the remaining four appraisal board
members to select someone to fill a
vacancy.
When asked by The News-
Telegram if the Hopkins County
Citizens Association would organize a
challenge to Renshaw’s appointment,
neither Jones nor Kern would commit
to that action, although Jones said
some action would be taken by
citizens of the county.
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enthusiasm.
Bobby Meeks, who operat.
control business, said he has
about 15-20 calls in the last <
weeks from peo|
flying insects ta
their homes and
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Local artist Sybil Jones finishes the a
drawing of the Hopkins County Courthouse
on the first of two banners she is doing for the
local Sesquicentennial Committee, the
banners, featuring the courthouse and
proclaiming "It all begins here," will be
is just for the winter.
At the same time, Irene Flowers
said that her pest control business
has received complaints, but noted
spend the winter - and they would that many people take matters into
prefer a spot in local attics. ' --*—*--”-----'
Invading attics, however, provj^es
the wasps to gather in large maatars
under eaves and porch ceilings wMt
they fly around causing havoc. Some
By MARY ORANT
NewB-Tulefrum SUH
Flapping wings and humming,
Hopkins County wasps are busy these
days looking for a nice, warm place to
seen bussing around as winter grows
near are looking for a place to
have set up house in garages in their wasp’s sting' bear a vulnerability that presence. hibernate.
’ could, in its severe form, land them in He recommends an aerosol-type “Usually at this time of year, if you
the emergency room of a hospital, spray of the chemical diazinon or don’t bother them, I don’t think they
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress,
returning Tuesday from a long
Veterans Day holiday, is staring into
the twin-barreled dangers of a
government shutdown and a default
by the Treasury.
Lawmakers have created the
problems themselves, mainly
because they’ve been unable to agree
on a compromise between competing
plans to balance the budget.
Both chambers favor setting
statutory limits on annual deficits,
which would gradually get smaller
until the budget is balanced in 1991.
However, the House Democrats’
version would protect poverty
programs and limit President
Reagan’s role in choosing spending House-passed bill to
cuts needed to meet lhe deficit J
targets — elements that leaders in
the Republican-led Senate say would
make the measure unconstitutional
treated at the facility in recent discount store work just fine. Of titude toward humans if the wasps
weeks, she emphasized the suscep- course, a fly swatter isn’t too bad, think the humans plan to interrup
While a spokesman at Hopkins pyruthum. “Moot of these household- are out there to sting,” he said.
, County Memorial Hospital reported type sprayers that you find on the k“~’ •
who object to the one bee sting and no wasp stings shelves at the grocery store or
g up residence in
rineeses, even If it
He noted that by mid-November the
first killing frost should arrive to send
the wasps off to their long winter nap.
As for the wasps' side of the story,
; any worse than they have according to Dr. Fred Klaus,
fore. It just may be that they professor of entomology at East
their own hands, generally a can of
^tHictotftl^L^hUman’>- ®re’noticing thenTmore.” He said he Tfexas State University, toe wingers
received two calls Monday from
Those people who are allergic to the People complaining of the insects’
The Sulphur Springs Independent
Commissioner Tully countered that School District Board of Trustees will
Jones and his organization had never decide Wednesday at 6 p.m. if it
met Renshaw, a point Jones conceded wants to nod approval to reselling
to, and that the fact Renshaw did not some of its outstanding bonds.
meet the residency requirement of The trustees have been grappling
two years as set down in Section 6.03 with the notion of a refunding issue
of the Texas Property Tax Code for several weeks. They returned
pertaining to eligibility of appraisal Thursday from a trip to New York
board members was an unfortunate City in which they met with
oversight. representatives of the nation’s two
However, according to County top bond rating companies in hopes of
Com- getting an upgraded bond rating.
The board’s financial consultant,
Dan Almon of Schneider, Bernet &
Hickman, began the paperwork two
weeks ago, in preparation for a vote
from the boards .
The bond refunding may net the
SSISD up to $300,000 in new money,
according to Superintendent I^onard
Merrell, and will help to finance
improvements to the high school.
The board is keeping its eye on the
bond market in anticipation of lower
interest rates. However, it has until
the closing date to change its mind,
and it will be under no obligation to go
through with the issue up to that date.
and unworkable.
The dispute has been blocking an
urgently-needed hike in the govern-
ment’s borrowing authority, with has
reached its limit of $1.824 trillion The
Reagan administration has asked for
a $2,078 trillion limit — double the red
ink of when Reagan took office in •
1981.
.Without more credit, Treasury
Secretary James A. Baker III said
government coffers would be empty
Friday and he would be forced to
notify the Federal Reserve Board and
the nation’s banks that federal checks
can no longer be honored.
The Senate, after weeks of delay, is
expected to vote this week on the
» limit textile
imports. President Reagan has
threatened to veto the protectionist
measure.
The House was expected to giv<
final congressional approval Tuesdc.y
to a bill, already approved by the
Senate, blocking President Reagan's
proposed arms sale to Jordan until
March 1. The sale could take place
before then if King Hussein begins
“direct and meaningful” peace
negotiations with Israel.
Reagan, bowing to pressure from
GOP leaders, has agreed to sign the
bill.
The House will spend much of the
rest of the week working on a $20
WASHINGTON (AP) — The billion authorization for the U.S.
Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to Army Corps of Engineers, the biggest
decide whether the govemment may water projects Mil in 15 years.
constitutional amenMwM election be sued for recreational accidents at
returns and voted unanimously to federal dams and flood control sites. eluding flood control and
The court said it will hear a Reagan hydroelectric dams, river widenings.
appeal stemming harbor deepenings, drinking water
systems, shoreline protections and
other items, such as $61 million for a
Last May, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court pair of bridges between Kentucky
i and southern Ohio.
Despite congressional action, the
Texas. Her husband, Eddy, drowned stock market on Monday displayed
trying to rescue her after she fell the most strength in 10 months, with
while water skiing June 8, 1979.
dustrials extending its record by
climbing 27.52 points to close at
1,431.88
The Dow’s gain was the best since
Jan. 21 when thd bhie-chip index
surged 34 01 points. It was the sixth
time in the last nine sessions that the
Dow set a record high
Meanwhile, in the currency
markets the dollar turned in a mixed
showing against major foreign
currencies.
The bond market was quiet Monday
as government securities were not
traded because of Veterans' Day
Corporate and municipal bond prices
were virtually unchanged in light
dealings.
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 268, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 12, 1985, newspaper, November 12, 1985; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1292362/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.