The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, December 21, 1984 Page: 1 of 4
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SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21,1984.
4 PAGES - 25 CENTS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Superintendent announces resignation
_ Edwin C. Stevens, superintendent
of the Sulphur Springs Independent
School District since Auguk 1979,
announced at a meeting of the
district’s board of trustees Monday
afternoon that he will leave the
district.
Stevens said he plans to return to
the Duncanville Independent School
District and assume duties as
superintendent by March 1.
Stevens told the board, “It is with
regret that I resign my position as
superintendent of schools in the
Sulphur Springs Independent School
District.’’
“I have enjoyed the challenges of
the position, but my concern for my
career growth and for my family
make it necessary to accept the
superintendent’s position with the
Duncanville Independent School
District,” he added. . .
“I shall always be grateful for the
cooperation of the board and of the
staff. I am particularly indebted to
my secretary, Mrs. Esther Palmer,
for outstanding devotion to her work,
and to the wisdom and untiring ef-
forts of Mr. (Dan) Durham and Mr.
(Kenneth) Brem, my assistants, in
their service to the staff and students
of our district,” he said.
Board President Judy Gilreath
expressed the regret of the board and
praised Stevens for the role he has
played in the success and growth in
the school district during the past
five years. The announcement was
made during an executive session
Monday at noon during the board
meeting.
Prior to coming to Sulphur Springs
as superintendent, Stevens served as
assistant superintendent-instruction
in the Duncanville ISD for about four
years.
He also had served an equal
amount of time as director of
curriculum at Duncanville, a suburb
of Dallas.
Sulphur Springs ISD trustees must
now begin die process of selecting a
new superintendent.
A native of Alexandria, La.,
Stevens moved to South Texas at age
12. He was graduated from Port
Neches High School. He earned a
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Rain floods many roads
With nearly six inches of rainfall in the past 24 hours, employees of the
Texas Highway Department have been on the fob since 3 a.m. Tuesday on
FM Road 22S5 keeping an eye on the emergency spillway of Lake Sulphur
Springs which overflowed for the first time since its construction. Junior
Gregg of the Texas Highway Department adjusts the reflector he has been
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using to measure the water crossing the highway. Gregg said at 9:30 a.m.
Tuesday that the water had dropped some 30 feet across the road during
the past hour and was continuing to drop. However, weather forecasts
indicate that more rain could possibly be heading this way.
—Staff Photo by Ann McAdams
SSISD will add honors courses
By DAVE HILLSAMER ‘
News-Telegram Staff
The Sulphur Springs Independent
School District will implement
honors courses into the high school
curriculum beginning with the 1985-
86 school year.
The district’s board of trustees
voted unanimously Monday af-
ternoon to set up honors courses in
English, biology, physical sciences,
American history, world history,
algebra and chemistry.
The proposal wqp submitted by
Dan Durham, assistant superien-
tendent-curriculum, who said, “I
have discussed these courses with
the administrative staff and the
department chairperson.”
Durham added, “Local
requirements for enrolling in an
honors course shall be a grade of 85
or higher in a specified or
prerequisite course, reading skills at
grade level or higher as determined
on a recent applicable test, and
counselor approval.”
During earlier discussion, Durham
suggested to the board that it include
an item on the board’s January
agenda to consider implementation
of a weighted grade point system for
determining academic rankings and
honors.
The weighted grade point system,
used in almost all Texas school
districts as large or larger than
Sulphur Springs ISD, would take into
^pnsideration the degree of difficulty
of various courses. This would mean
that a student could not obtain high
honors by taking easier courses of
study. This is possible under the
present system, according to
Durham.
As Trustee Tommy Allison put it,
“We are now comparing apples and
oranges, while the proposed system
would compare oranges to orangfesJ’
Durham said that the new system,
if adopted, would be applicable to the
198W5 freshman class and
thereafter. ,
The board will study Durham’s
proposal during the next month and
place it pn the agenda either in
January or February for discussion
and possible board action.
One item on the December agenda
— the sale of a district-owned house
on Garrison street — was tabled on a
motion oy Allison that the property
be offered for rent “as is” and that
the board give further consideration
to the sale of the house in the spring
or summer.
The district has. received an
inquiry from one of the contractors""
involved in the school construction'
program about the possibility of
renting the house.
Board members noted that the
house, when sold, must be moved and
it would be much easier to move it in
the spring or summer.
A bid from Avinger-McCorkle-
White Agency, Sulphur Springs, was
approved unanimously for insurance
on vehicles operated by the school
district.
The insurance package and its cost
include: liability coverage with no
deductible, $3,117; collision, as
specified, (all vehicles except school
buses) $500 deductible, $1,164;
comprehensive, $1,352; and fire,
theft, CAC and collision on buses,
$1,000 deductible, $2,093, for a total
annual cost of $7,726.
Another bid was received from
Maeker-Horn-Whitworth in the
amount of $7,371 for liability
coverage; $1,500 for collision, as
specified; comprehensive, $1,451;
Miss Sulphur Springs
entry deadline nears
The deadline for entering the 1985
Miss Sulphur Springs Scholarship
Pageant is drawing near, according
to Jim Thompson, executive director,
who reminds interested girls the last
day to sign up is Wednesday, Dec. 19.
“We would like to encourage girls,
ages 17 to 24, who would like to
compete in this pageant to call me as
soon as possible to sign up,”
Thompson said. “They can reach me
at 885-1546 or 885-1615. ” n
The Miss Sulphur Springs Pageant
is scheduled for Friday, Jan. 18, in
the Civic Center auditorium. This
year’s winner will receive a
scholarship and additional prizes
from local merchants. There will also
be prizes for the runner-ups, ac-
cording to Thompson.
“This is an excellent opportunity
for girls to gain confidence, poise and
to grow individually as well as a way
to win scholarships and other special
gifts,” Thompson said. “They will
also win a chance to compete in one of
the largest state pageants in the Miss
America Pageant system.”
“We cannot have a pageant if we
don’t have contestants, it’s as simple
as that,” Thompson said, “We have
some very talented girls in Hopkins
County if they would only sign up. It’s
a shame when we get so many calls
from the Dallas area to enter our
pageant and we turn them down
knowing we can’t even get girls in our
area to participate.”
The contestants are judged in
talent, evening gown, personal in-
terview and swimsuit competitions
and have the opportunity to represent
Sulphur Springs in the Miss Texas
Pageant held in July in Fort Worth.
Thompson would like to remind
parents of girls ages 3 to 16 that Dec.
19 is also the deadline for entries in
the Little Miss Sulphur Springs
competition. 1
Entries for the younger beauty
competition are available at Mc-
Daniel-Lawrence Jewelers and the
entry fee is $7.50 per contestant. This
year the contestants will be pre-
judged on Saturday, Jan. 12, from 2
until 5 p.m. at the Woman’s Building
on College Street.
fire, theft and CAC, $1,915; collision
on buses, $1,000 deductible, $1,673.
The annual cost of the insurance
package will be about 5 percent more
when all adjustments are made.
This will be the first year that the
district has carried the collision
insurance package on the district’s 36
buses.
City man
arrested
in burglary
A Sulphur Springs man was under
bond for $50,000 Monday, charged
with breaking into H and S Farm.
Store for the second time in as many
days, police said. \
Christopher Kelly, 29, of Sulphur
Springs was arrested outside the
store on Shannon Road Sunday
morning. A female companion was
also arrested, although she is not
being charged at this time, according
to Police Chief Donnie Lewis.
Lewis said police also discovered a
white powdery substance and drug
paraphenalia when they arrested
Kelly.
He was arraigned Monday on
burglary and possession of a con-
trolled substance charges. Bond was
set at $25,000 on each charge by
Municipal Judge Roy Johnson.
Kelly is also wanted on a felony
parole violation warrant in Hopkins
County and a felony auto theft
warrant in Dallas County, Lewis said.
He eluded local police on foot when
they attempted to arrest him several
months ago.
According to police reports, the H
and S Farm Store was first
burglarized between 4 p.m. Friday
and 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Several
electronic items and some audio-
visual equipment were taken during
the burglary.
bachelor’s degree at Lamar State
University, Beaumont, and the
master of education degree from
Stephen F. Austin State University,
Nacogdoches. His doctoral work was
done at North Texas State Univer-
sity, Denton.
Stevens began his teaching career
at Port Arthur, where he taught six
years. He also taught at
Nacogdoches for one year before
going to Duncanville in 1971.
On Aug. 20,1979, he was hired by
the district to replace Scott
Ferguson, former superintendent,
who left the system to become
executive director of the Region Vm
Education Service Center at Mount
Pleasant. At that time Stevens had 15^
years experience in educational!
was selected by school trustees from
a field of 50 applicants.
At that time Stevens said it had
been a “tough decision” to leave
Duncanville. Fond memories of his
family’s years there reportedly
played a part in his decision to return
to Duncanville.
Near record
rainfall
swamps area
By MARY GRANT
News-Telegram Staff
Local weather watchers were
searching their records Tuesday
morning, trying to discover if die 5.94
inches of rain that fell in Sulphur
Springs Monday night and Tuesday
morning set a new record.
Finally, down among the dusty
files, The News-Telegram discovered
that the record rainfall was 6.40
inches of rain during a 24-hour period
on April 21-22, 1974.y
Monday night’s ram was not a new
record — but what a rain.
The city’s record keeper could find
no date with such a large amount,
either. Those records go back to 1975,
one year short of the record period.
As a result of the deluge, secondary
roads in low-lying areas of Hopkins
County were threatened with
flooding water Tuesday morning
with more rainfall forecast for the
area later Tuesday.
A thunderstorm that passed
through the area Monday night and
Tuesday morning brought the
drenching, quickly bringing the
annual rainfall up from below nor-
mal to 44.97 inches.
Normal rainfall is 44.18 inches.
After months of drought, the area
will finish 1984 with higher than
normal* rainfall — enough to make
Mr. Ripley scratch his head,
“Believe it or Not.”
The thunderstorm flooded streets
in Sulphur Springs, stranding some
motorists, and pushed the .water in
Lake Sulphur Springs over its
emergency spillway for the first
time, officials said.
State Highway 11 between Com-
merce and Sulphur Springs was
closed for part of the time, but
reopened Tuesday morning, a high-
way department official said.
The FM Highway 2285leading from
Sulphur Springs to the lake was
closed from flooding.
Other highways that had to be , , . - .
closed included FM 69 between ve^ successful year aU^Chamber
Mahoney and Interstate 30, FM 2653 of Commerce,
near the Sulphur River west of Worsham men presented service
Emblem, and also FM 2653 north of ®wa”is to Rowing retiring
Brashear. directors: Buck Booker, Weldon
Motorists were passing throughn ^°"ty Barry’ Sterling
flooding water on the Hatchetville Beckham, Bob Mangum, Ken Roach
railroad tracks on Sunset Street.
A flash flood warning was in effect
overnight in Hunt, Hopkins,
Franklin, Delta, Titus and Rains
counties of North Texas. Heaviest
rains were falling along the Sulphur
River from Clarksville and Paris t3
Sulphur Springs, and on to Tyler,
Corsicana and Teague.
In the Union Valley community,
about 12 miles southwest of Green-
ville on Farm Road 1565, members of
the Union Valley Fire Department
rescued a man who drove his car into
high water and was hanging onto a
tree to keep from being swept away.
Chamber
OKs budget
for 1985
During its final meeting of 1984
Thursday morning, the Chamber of
Commerce Board of Directors ap-
proved the 1985 budget, presented
service awards to retiring directors,
“outstanding” officers and com-
mittee chairmen and approved 21
new members,
Ronnie Wyatt, treasurer-elect,
presented the 1985 budget saying that
“it is very much like the 1984
(budget) and we expect this to be a
year of stabilization.”
Next year’s budget includes an
income of $105,000 and expenditures
totaling $102,700. Wyatt then moved
that the budget be accepted and
members approved the motion.
Chamber President Don Worsham
expressed his ^appreciation to the
committee chairman and members
for their “hard work in making this a
Road northeast of Sulphur Springs
early Tuesday morning.
Power outages occurred at the
sheriff’s office where emergency
generators were used from 10:30
p.m. Monday until 9 a.m. Tuesday. A
spokesman at Texas Power & light
Co. said the power was interrupted
because lightning struck a tran-
sformer.
and Gilbert McGrede.
Awards for “outstanding” service
were given to the following com-
mittee directors, officers and
members: Margin Latham, Steve
Gerber, Charles Dawson, Mel Price,
Monty Harry, Jim Holland, Larry
Bockhorn, David Baucom, Paul
Herschler, Tommy Long, James
Hulen, Billy Penn, Ike Harper, Betty
Liehtnine also blew a fuse in a Apri1’ Larry CamPbe,11. Tommy
transformer on Gilmer Street that Johnson and Ken Burch-
caused residents on South Davis TaUey Bel1’ memberehiP liason
caused residents on south L>avis, (jjrect()r rea{j a list of 21 members to
minutes, beginning at about 7:20 SR
p.m.
Other residents across tjie county
David M. Kennedy, Country Bill’s,
Powers & Sons Local Moving,
reported brief outages and flickering Challenge Door Co., Super Handy No.
lights during the storm.
One death has been attributed to
heavy rains that'-hit Central and
North Texas last night and early
today, sending rivers over their
banks, making many roads im-
passable and
residents in ttW homes.
Police in Sulphur Springs helped
several motorists who abecame Farms (Larry Hurley), Mrs. Baird
stranded in high water Monday Bakery, Ken’s Heating anR A
night, including one young/woman
whose auto became stuck in/mud on
7, Dairyman Ken Wallace, Circle S
Custom Boat Trailers, Wilkinson
Signs, All-State Insurance (Sandy
Leach), Crystal Feed Mill Inc.,
Castleberry Cleaners, Jim Chapman
Law Office, Water Oak School,
stranding some ' Sulphjir Springs Pool Supply, Far-
mer’s Insurance Co., Phil Morgan
Insurance Agency, New Promise
Air
Conditioning and Sulphur Springs
Properties.
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Keys, Clarke & Hillsamer, Dave. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, December 21, 1984, newspaper, December 21, 1984; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth779884/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.