The Clarksville Times (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 58, Ed. 1 Monday, August 13, 1979 Page: 1 of 10
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LAST RUN?—Loyd’s Ambulance Service may make
its last run under the name, as Elvin and Margaret Loyd,
owners and operators, have said they plan to take
bankruptcy and discontinue service in Red River County.
counties, saying the Service would
file at 5 p.m. Friday unless relief in
the form of a subsidy or loan was
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School Accepts
Lunchroom Bids
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Tuesday night meeting in Clarksville
after reports reached it concerning
Loyd’s difficulties.
Although the Committee has no
official standing, it was this group
that recommended Loyd’s Service
last year and assisted with the
See LOYDS Page^EVEN
he and his family are very pleased to
located here and become a contribut-
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The Gamble children consisted
of Forrest, George, Zona, AJva,and
Tommy, all still living. Forrest,
George, and Zona are in Clarksville,
of course, Alva is in Los Angeles,
and Tommy is in Naples. 4
Forrest taught school at Hope
well for several years and also has
conducted singing schools all over
this county and the surrounding
areas. He is a well-known leader of
religious singing. He still goes out to
the Hopewell Church. v along with
Mrs. Gamble to help the Rev. A.B.
Kellam with things; the Gambles
are quite active there.
Request Denied
Loyd’s request in both Wood and
Upshufr counties bombed out, accord
ing to reports in the local newspapers
there. Upshur County Judge Everett
Dean said in effect: “don’t call us,
we’ll call you." The Wood County
Commissioners Court immediately
began taking bids on a country-spon
sored service and Loyd declined to
join in the bidding.
He had not appeared before the
Red .River County Commissioners
Court this week but County Judge
Connie Sullivan held out dim pro-
spects for any relief here, and, in fact,
asked County Attorney’s investigator
Billy Mitchell to look into the whole
mattet’ for any possible violations.
. Bandruptcy Possible
The Loyds held out a threat of
• bandruptcy proceedings to the sub-
Loyd Changes Mind
In a late development early
Friday evening, Harold Griffin, local
I a) yd Ambulance Service manager,
said Elvin Loyd had phoned him to
announce that the Service will con-
tinue in Red River County for the
remainder of the contract year (next
July] as specified in the membership
agreements.
Advised of this, an Ambulance
Committee member familiar with the
legal action already filed, said it is
likely the suit will remain pending
••ndl performance assurances are
presented by the Loyds. The member
said, however, that it is unlikely the
suit will be pressed so long as the
Service is operating as agreed.
Rhodes sajd he is not unaware of
the responsibility of acquiring a store
of such tradition.
"We realize we-have a great deal
to live up to in order to maintain the
high quality both in merchandise, and
service established and maintained
Detroit Principal Resigns
member of the Detroit Athletic
Booster Club: and a member of the
Red River General Hospita] Board.
He has an exceptional record as
coach in Detroit. His girls’ basketball
team lost only six District games in*
the past two years and two of those
losses were to the team that ended a/
State runner-up.
— Hopper, his wife Bobbie, and son
Charley II, plan to move to Mt.
Vernon soon.
In a statement to the public,
Hopper said that he appreciated his
ports that officers of the Department
made 39 arrests during the month.
The Chief Deputy also said that
In a largely routine meeting
Thursday evening in the School
Library, the ClarksviUeSchool Board
accepted bids on bakery and dairy
items for the lunchrooms, raised the
prices of meals, and approved student
handbook revisions along with other
actions.
Two bids were received on dairy
products for the forthcoming year,
from Borden and Cabell, with Fore-
most declining to bid. The Board
accepted theBorden bid of: .1275c for
homogenized half-pints of milk; .1375c
for chocolate milk half-pints; and
.1275c for low fat half pints. Borden's
also had the contract last year.
Ideal, the supplier larft year, and
Mrs. Baird's bid .on the bakery
products, with the Mrs. Baird bid
being taken. The bakery agreed to
charge 46 Vic for each one and ;
one-half pound sandwich loaf, each •—
package of eight-count hamburger
buns, eight-count hot dog buns, and
12-count brown and serve rolls.
Price Change ,
The Board Also voted to amend
the lunch room prices to allow for
inflation costs. The new scale will be: .
paid lifnches, elementary, And inter
mediate, from 45c to 60c; junior high,
50c to 60c; high school, 50c to 60c;
and, adults, 80c to 90c; paid breakfast,
elementary and junior high, 25c, and
junior and high school, 35c.
Yearbood Revisions
- High School Principal George
Jackson obtained approval for some
what extensive revisions in the high
school student yearbook, • largely
brought about by the change next
year back to the two-semester system
rather than the quarter plan in effect
in recent years.
James Smith also presented and
had approved minor changes in the
Junior High Student handbook.
The Board heard discussion from
a Dallas attorney seeking a contract
to collect delinquent taxes but the
Trustees declined
proposal at this time. •
Personnel Changes
Following a brief closed execu-
tive session, the following personnel
changes were announced: resignation
were accepted from Linda Poteet as
an aide; from Russell Jones, a
teacher-coach in Junior High, who -
plans to join the Avery school
system; and from Mrs. Lucille Brad-
dock Coats, a first grade teacher who
is retiring.
Personnel added to the school
staff included: Dale Parker, high
school physical science teacher; Kay
Clark, first grade teacher; Joyce
Barker,' high school Plan A; and
Jacquelige Robinson, intermediate .
school Plan A. _
The annual Red River County
Ambulance Service crisis exploded on
several fronts again this week, pre-
cipitating fears and misgivings simi-
lar to those which shook the area last
summer before Loyd's Ambulance
Service was recommended to serve
the County on a private subscription
basis.
This time it is Loyd’s Ambulance
Service itself which is the center of
the hurricane, with charges, counter-
charges, recriminations, law suitsf
and threats of bandruptcy all sche
duled to climax over the weekend.
Elvin Loyd and his wife. Mar
garet, in statements over the past .
week or so have indicated they would
not be-able to continue service in the
three counties, Wood, Upshur, and
Red River, in which they are located
unless subsidies were provided by the
Commissioners Courts of-theareas..
The Clarksville Times
(USPS 116-080)
Undelivered copies of the
. paper and change f (.address
notices should be mailed to
P.O. Box 1021, Clarksville,
Texas 75426.
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Pre-Register
George W. Jackson, principal of
the Clarksville High School, has
asked that all new students who will
be entering grades 9-12 in Clarksville
for the first time and have not • h
pre-registered come to the counse-
lor's office on the third floor of the
high school building to plan schedules.
The counselor will be available each
v/eek day from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and
fjom 1 to 3:30 p.m. to pre-register
new students. «
Registration for al^high school
students will be held on Friday, Aug.
24th. Juniors and Seniors should
report>to auditorium at 8:30 a.m., and
Freshmen and Sophomores should
report at 1, p.m. w
It is-very important that all new
students planning to-attend Clarks-
ville High pre-register in the counse-
lor's office prior to the regular
to accept the registration day on Aug. 24th if at all
possible.
For Ambulance
.A lengthy agenda will face the
City Council meeting regular monthly
session at the City Hall at 7:30
Monday night.'
Topping the list in difficulty will
be the discussion centering^ around
help for the beleaguered ambulance
service which is scheduled ;as the
next-to last item.
Other matters which may prove
knotty for the City fathers are an
appearance by a group of citizens,
including James Smith, Donald Gall-
ander, and V.A. Dillard, from the
Dimple area wishing to talk regard-
ing any sanitary landfill in that
vicinity.
Following the routine reports by
committees, officers, and employees,
the aidermen will talk about award-
ing of a contract for the collection of
delinquent taxes, plan to award a bid
for a nfcw patrol car, and will discuss
adoption of the Lone Star Gas
Ordinance/ ,
An old bugaboo comes back to ,
haunt the Council as the matter of
parking around the square again
surfaces. At the last meeting a
change in parking against the curbs
on the east and west sides was _ ______
adopted but, following several jner-.....scribers to the services in the three
chant protests, the regulation was not
put into effect until further consider-
ation could be given to the proposal.
Two matters regarding sale of
land right-of-way are scheduled to be
brought up involving land between
West Washington and West Taylor '
and also on Cheatham Street.
A request to allow a fence to be
erected qnCity right-of-way for Ben
Black will'Be considered.
The council also plans to discuss
a proposed raise in the travel allow-
ance for the City Manager, and to
debate the purchase of a sign making
machine for the City.
The final item of the Agenda will
be the appointment of a member of
the Substandard Building Committee
of the City. —
There will also be' the usual
closed executive session
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1 Weather |
Variable clouds,
chance of showers, 95-72; : I
Sunday—Variable clouds, chkncte
of showers, 95-72;
’ Monday-Partly Sunny, 95-72;
Charley Hopper, High School
principal at Detroit and long-time
civic worker there, has resigned to
accept the position of girls athletic
coach in Mt. Vernon High School. ,
-He has been a teacher, principal, i
and girls athletic coach at Detroit for i
more than 20 years, coming there |
from Garland. Ark., whese he taught ;
three years. . •
Hopper has been very active in i
all community activities, serving as a 1
City Council a member of the Lions »
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years in Detroit but that MU Vernon ' * goods of the value of approximately
had offered him an opportunity toJo »850 were reported as stolen and that
the two things he enjoyed the most: about 9250 of this had been recovered
to coach and teach. -A— bjr the Department.
We decided this week to go by
and visit with Ashley and Zona
Goodson in their home in the
Meadowbrook Addition and her
brother, Geroge Gamble, also came
over for a while.
Zona and George’s father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Gamble
lived at- Mulberry (Hopewell) for
many, many years. In fact, the
Gambles gave the land for the first
school there.
. , For those who may not be
familiar with this area, this com-
munity'is About two or so miles east
of the lookout tower on North State
Highway 37. What is now the center
of the little community, lies on a
loop which comes on back to State
Highway 37 a bit nearer Clarksville.
Another county road goes on east
and comes out on FM 1159 over
around Vandalia.
We haven’t ever run into
anybody that has explained to us
the difference in Mulberry and
Hopewell. We have heard that
Mulberry was a little further north,
but now they are considered as one.
Mr. Gamble had the first, and
only, store that has ever been in
that community, and it is one of the.;
older areas of the county.
He also had a sawmill, along
with his general store, which open-
ed in 1907. He also had a grist mill,
which was pretty much of a re
quirement for those days.
Mr. Gamble must have been a
busy man, because he also carried
the mail from Clarksville to Whee-
lock, Okla., west of Idabel, which
then had a girls' school for Indian
females. He carried this mail for
several years beginning in 1890,
crossing over on the ferry qn j>is
regular runs. This was Oklahoma
territory at the time, of course, and
this was a relatively rambunctious
section up and down Red River on
both sides so Mr. Gamble must have
been A man who could pretty well
take care of hijnself and his busi-
ness.
And, additionally] he
farmer, too! ■
The Gamble place, home, store,
grist mill, and so on, was located
just east of where the Hopewell
Missionary Baptist Church and the
Community Center is now located,
very near where Byron Duren and
his family live.
The Gambles also usually
boarded a^school teacher, fed the
preacher and travelling salesmen,
and pretty much looked after the
community in general during thses
years.
George, who of course grew up
out there, said he fed the horses
when he was a small boy and was
paid a dime for his chores.
Cliff Adams, who operated one
of the biggest livery stables in
Clarksville, up across from where
the Masonic Lodge building is now,
would provided the salesmen and
others who needed to move around
with hacks, buggies, and saddle
horses. These drummers and sales
men would rent a rig or horse from
Cliff, yvho was not far from the
Norris House where many of the
~ travellers stayed, afTtklhey would'
make their bounds of the stores in
the county in that manner.
George took care of these rigs
when thpy came to Mulberry-Hope-
well for the night.
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The local ad hoc Red River
County Ambulance Committee, nam
ed last summer to investigate the
ambulance service situation and make
recommendations meanwhile held a
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Local attendants, above from left, James W. Vaughan, Jr.,
Harold Griffin, and Mark Mallory, will probably be asked
to continu^.under the reorganized ambulance plans should
the Loyds leave.
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cAntile business which later moved to
Clarksville. He is not certain exactly
how old the store is but has an
advertisement dated 1874 and it
indicates the business js. not a new
one. Others of the Silberberg connec- ,
tions who worked in the store in past .
years included Saul Rosenfield, whose
* wife was a Silberberg, and Melvin
Marx, Sr., whose wife was a sister to
Jay Silberberg, owner of the store
many years. Marx acquired ownfer-
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CLARKSVILLE,TEXAS, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1979
by the Silberberg-Marx family," he
said, "and we will make every effort
to meet this challenge to keep faith
with our customers and the shoppers s
of this area." ’
Rhodes comes to Clarksville fol-
lowing employment in Pratt's De-
partment Store in Sulphur Springs
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A century-old local tradition was
shattered July.^1 as Jerrold Marx,
owner and operator of Marx’s cloth-
ing store in Clarksville, announced
that the business had been sold to
Bobby Rhodes of Sulphur Springs.
It was the first time in more than
105 years that ,the store has been
directed by anyone not descended
from the Silberberg brothers who
first originated” the business at old
Hamburgh on Red River in the ,
northwestern part of the county.,
Marx said that three Silberbjprg
brothers originally founded the mer- '•
Saturday
Club many years and president for
two; Chairman of the Board of the
Martin Memorial* United Methodist
Church; member of the Detroit Eire *
Department, serving as Secretary;
Tuesday—Partly Sunny, chance
of showers, 9^-72.
Sheriff Gives
July Report
In reporting the activities of
Century-Old Tradition
and, prior to tha,t, with the Zale
Corporation. He also is the owner of
a manufacturers’ sample outlet in
Sulphur Springs.
' The new ownef, 35, was born in
Paris and attended Paris Schools' and
Paris Junior College there. He is "
veteran of U.S. military service with
the U.S. Air Force, having the
■unusualservice assignment of Special
Security Attachment to I.
Johnson. . ,
...He was married in Paris to A___
Cheiry Furlow on June 29, 1944; the
couple has a daughter, Mandy, who is
nine years old. The; are members of
’thfe United Methodist Church. The
family will establish a permanent
residence in Clarksville as soon as
they can sell their home there and
acquire a new one here. v
Rhodes has been very active in
Rotary International, being a member
and director of the Sulphur Springs
Rotary Club. He was also a member .
of the Board of the Community Chest
there Co-Chairman of the United
Fund, and a member of the Mer-
chant Special Activity Committee of
the Chamber of Commerce.'
Rhodes said, being a native of
Paris, he was not" unfamiliar with
Clarksville over th<» years, and that
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Watson, Gavin, Jr. The Clarksville Times (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 58, Ed. 1 Monday, August 13, 1979, newspaper, August 13, 1979; Mt. Pleasant, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1295674/m1/1/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Red River County Public Library.