The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, May 23, 1986 Page: 4 of 4
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4—THE HOPKINS COUNTY ECHO. Sulphur Springs, Texas? Friday, May 23. 1986.
Wendy's opens
Participating in grand opening ceremonies
at the new Wendy's on Shannon Road in
Sulphur Springs were, from left, Ike Harper,
Chamber of Commerce; Jerry Rand,
chamber; Tom Wright, Wendy's In-
ternational representative from Dallas;
Shirley Sandoval, Wendy's employee;
Richard Benefiel, Wendy's manager; and
G.V. Hughes, chamber.
—Staff Photo by Richard Hail
Grocery winner
Gideon named to Round Table
Hoyt Gideon
■Tira n.
Carl Johnson has been, visiting
Mildred Chapman this week and did
several odd jobs around the place.
Betty Sue came Friday and spent the
weekend.
Annie and Ernest Shaw, Maxene
and Wyman had lunch in Sulphur
Springs Sunday, then drove to Yantis,
Alba, Emory and Rockport. They
enjoyed all the pretty flowers, green
bushes, meadows and trees.
Everything is so pretty this time of
year.
Wyman and Maxene were in Dallas
Thursday for his eye checkup
following his surgery. He received a
good report.
George Horn of Fort Worth, brother
of Annie,. Lucille, Mildred and Noble,
has undergone two surgeries in the
past two weeks. He is doing well.
Our community sick list includes
Claude Brice, Leslie Wester, Red and
Mary Coker and Homer Minty. We
hope they will all be back to good
health soon. '
Beulah and Oral Griffin of Sulphur
Springs visited Dennis and Lois
Callaway Sunday afternoon.
The annuaFLawrence reunion will
be held this weekend at the Tira
community center.
The monthly Meet Your Neighbor
luncheon which is held on the fourth
Sunday will not be held Sunday, May
25.
Hoyt W. Gideon, local
businessman, has been accepted into
the Texas Leaders Round Table, an
honor organization affiliated with
Texas Association of Life Un-
derwriters.
A graduate of Sulphur Springs High
\ School, Gideon is owner of Gideon
Insurance Agency. Born in Grand
Saline, he has been a longtime
resident of Sulphur Springs and
graduated from East Texas State
University with a BBA degree in
accounting in 1956.
Gideon was also named to the 1986
Million Dollar Round Table, affiliated
with the National Association of Life
Underwriters and has qualified for
the National Sales Achievement
Award for the 19th year.
He has also been made a member
of the National Quality Award
Association.
He was formerly a Rockwell •In-
ternational employee, leaving that
company to form his own company
1957.
Qualifiers for TLRT must have
been in the life insurance business at
least two years with a record af
successful sales and support of the
characteristic high standards and
ideals of the organization with regard
to professional marketing of life
insurance, according to TLRT in*
formation.
Through the years, TLRT ha's given
recognition to its members, en-
couraged them to remain current
with changes in life insurance
programs and the industry/ as a
whole, and worked to promote ex-
cellence in service to the consumer.
According to the organization’s
information, membership in the
organization is a career milestone for
life underwriters and represents the
top 10 percent of Texas life insurance
agents.
The organization is a group of
successful life insurance agents in
Texas who qualify by meeting high
production requirements and who
maintain the highest ethical stan-
dards of character and service in the
life insurance profession, according
to TLRT information.
Barbara Ballard, right, receives a $200 gift
certificate for groceries at Quicky Foods
from the Hopkins County player who sold her
the winning ticket, Jeremey Jenkins, 6.
Looking on at left is Quicky Foods co-owner
Mark McClendon. Ballard won the groceries
as part of a promotion that benefited the
Hopkins County Baseball Association.
-Staff Photo by Richard Hail
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Honor
graduate
Chad Bolton of Sulphur
Bluff was graduated
summa cum laude (with
highest honors) from Paris
Junior College in com-
mencement exercises
Friday, May 9. Bolton, who
posted a 4.0 grade point
average at PJC, is* a
graduate of Sulphur Bluff
High School.
orth Hopkins dgs*
Jairus Wright Withrow weighed in
at 8 lbs. and 8*^ oz. to Marilee and
David Withrow. He is the grandson of
Sue and E.W. Withrow of Dallas and
the great-grandson of Merl Withrow,
a former resident, Verdis and T.B.
Logsdon of Sulphur Springs.
Brad Martin spent the weekend at
home here with his mother and sister,
Nita, and Leah Lair and brother Greg
but will return to A&M for the
summer semester.
Oleta Lancaster of Sulphur Springs
visited her sister Myrtis Posey
Sunday afternoon.
Due to rain Saturday the old
Tarrant Cemetery Association met
with a covered dish luncheon and
business meeting in the North
Hopkins School Cafeterium with a
fair crowd for such rainy skies.
Marvin, Cathy, Amy and Adam
Weir of Rowlett ate lunch with Thresa
and Arville Weir on Mother’s Day.
Janet Gibby had a few days bet-
ween flights on American Airlines
.where she is a stewardess so she
visited her family Peggy and Jerry
Don Gibby and others.
Andy Crouch left DFW Sunday
afternoon for St. Louis, Missouri, on
business for Purina’s Producers Feed
& Supply where he is employed.
Greg Martin has been transferred
from Nelson Wholesale Service in
Shawnee, Oklahoma, to their
business on West Loop 301 in Sulphur
Springs.
Robby and Margie Drummond of
.Rockwall spent Friday and Saturday
with his mother Mrs. Lydia Gregg.
Jerry Jeter of Dallas visited his
grandmother Mrs. Lillian Wood
Saturday.
Donna Gibby was honored Sunday
with a dinner for her birthday at
Peggy and Jerry Gibby’s home.
Those present were Jerry McGraw,
Janet Gibby, Mike, Sandra and
Savana Gibby, Nita and Leah Lair,
Greg and Brad Martin, Terri Brice,
Sharon Barnes, Jimmy and Joyce
Goldsmith, Debbie Edmonson and
Amanda, Terry and Dachiel Gold-
smith.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Bedford, Mr.
and Mrs. Warren Brewer Sr., Brian
Brewer of Sulphur Springs, Mr. and
Mrs. W.S. ‘’Pete" |Long of North
Hopkins, Mr. and^Mrs. Warren
Brewer Jr., C.J., Sarah, Whitney and
Jeannie Newcomb of Arlington were
in Sherman to attend graduation
exercise at Austin College where
Shawn Brewer, son, grandson and
brother of those attending.
Verda and Francis Withrow ac-
companied Frances and Morris
Edwards to Maybank Monday for a
visit with relatives.
Laurence and Bessie Goldsmith
returned Monday after spending ^
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Summers of
Harleton spent Saturday with Mrs.
Jack Ivey.
Voting will be at the Saltillo School
instead of the Community Center
during the runoff election Saturday,
June 7.
A Mother's Day gathering of the
Tinsley family was attended by
Quintin and Karen Gaither and Tom
and Peggy Tinsley of Cape Gerar-
deau, Mo.; Virginia Brewer, Gayle
and Audrey Tinsley, Tom and Elouise
Mitchell Chapman of Dallas; John
and Elouise Tinsley, Taylor, Jo Ann
and Ashley Brown of Austin; George
Tinsley of Houston; Jack, Nancy,
Megan and Joe Tinsley of Waco;
John, Beatrice, Paul, John and Becky
Chambles of Grand Saline; Larry,
Sue and Jennifer luttlefield of Hot
Springs, Ark.; Sherald, Gaye, Chris
and Jenny Bell of Sulphur Springs;
Mrs. Bea Tinsley of Allen; Nadine
Jennings, Shane, Julia and Ben
Vincent of Mount Vernon; Jay and
Mattie Bell, Cynthia and Emerson
Kratz, Randy and Tracy Johnson.
Betty and Casey Robertson, Deraid,
Jerry, Jay, Melissa, Elizabeth and
Natalie Bell of Saltillo.
Mrs. Kathleen Brown died in
Diddridge, Ark., on May 3 and was
buried in Diddridge. Mrs. Brown is
the former Kathleen McDuffy and
lived in Saltillo. Her parents were Mr.
and Mrs. John McDuffy. She married
lewis Jennings in Saltillo, who was
killed in World War II. She later
married lewis Brown and lived in
Doddridge.
Mr. and Mrs. Troy Fite of Sulphur
Saltillo news
since Thursday with the Wagon
Train. They rode in a wagon from
Hereford to Canyon through some
rain and cold weather — middle 40s at
Amarillo — visited with our Garry
and Jan France, along with friends
the Goldsmiths have met during
other times with the Wagon Train,
Business
Briefs
Springs and Mrs. Audrey Fite of
Weaver visited Mrs Thelma Hatched
Sunday.
J.W. Bell, C.T. Byrd and Slick Byrd
are fishing this week at I>ake
Tawakom.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stretcher and
son Kelly were in Mineral Wells this
weekend to attend a ballet recital of
their granddaughter, Miss Jennifer
Stretcher. Jennifer, 6, is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Stretcher.
Attending Senior Citizens Day at
Walleye park Friday were Mr. and
Mrs. George Swain, Mrs. Iillian
Broughton, Mrs. I.avee Wilhite, Mrs.
Velva Morris, Mrs. Mary Jo Hite,
Mrs. lexie Williamson, Mrs. I-ouise
Neal, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Floyd. Boyd
Wardrup and Mrs. Jerry Eddy.
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Briley and
leeAnn, Erin and Carla Beth of
Sulphur Springs were luncheon
guests of Mrs Ruth Briley Sunday.
Stephen Cox left Sunday morning
for San Diego, where he is stationed
with the U.S. "Navy, after visiting his
mother, Mrs. Mary Cox, and his
sister, Miss Hope Cox.
Mr. and Mrs. Buck Ward of Sulphur
Springs visited Mr. and Mrs. R.B
McAfee Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Jodie Smith and children Tim,
Jerroid and Denise of Fort Worth ’
spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs
Clark Smith.
Bascom Sustaire of Longview
visited Mr and Mrs. Charlie Adams
Monday. Karon Patrick was here
frqm Baylor University for a
weekend visit with her parents, Mr
and Mrs Kenneth Patrick, and her
uncle and aunt, Mr and Mrs Charlie
Adams .
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Mrs Carl Roberts spent the *
Mother's Day weekend visiting her
children, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jordan,
and their children in Taylor On
Friday, she went to College Station to
graduation exercises at Texas A&M
University where she saw her
granddaughter. Laura Gentry
Williams, receive her bachelor's
degree in physical education
Mrs. Carl Roberts, with other
family members, went to Dallas
Wednesday to welcome a new great-
great-granddaughter, Saphana lea
Hollingsworth, who was bom at
Medical City Hospital on May 14. She
weighed 8 pounds, 7 ounces. Parents
are Mr. and Mrs. Troy Hollingsworth
They have another daughter, Myra/
Telessia.
The legionnaire was getting the
short end of an argument with his
own member of the auxiliary Finally,
he told her there were no women in
heaven and he could prove it by the
Bible. When she demanded the proof,
he pointed to Revelations 8.2
"There was silence in heaven about
the space of half an hour."
Five Generations
Five generations of a local family posed for a
family portrait at a recent family gathering.
From left are Peggy Gibby, Gladys DeBord,
Bessie Goldsmith, Sauana Gibby, one-
month-old, and her father, Mike Gibby, all of
Sulphur Springs.
Tourism week
Ron Henderson, public relations
and sales director for Trail Dust Inn,
notes that May 18-24 has been
designated “National Tourism
Week.”
The industry is the nation’s third
largest retail or service industry and
the second largest employer, ac-
cording to Best Wester chief
executive officer, Ron Evans.
More than 6.9 million jobs, or about
one of every 15 working Americans, is
inplved directly or indirectly in the
travel and tourism industry.
In 1984, $224 Billion was spent on
travel and tourism — about 6 percent
of the total U.S. gross national
product.
"With the 15Qtb anniversary
celebration in Texas and the cen-
tenniaiPxif the Statue of Liberty, we
should see an increase in travel by
Americans,”’ Donna Tuttle, under
secretary of commerce for travel and
tourism, said.
Lanes assistant
Frank Bettencourt of San Benito is
joining the staff of the Sulphur
Springs Bowling Ijines.
He is expected to assume duties
June 1, according to Betty Green,
owner.
Other staff members include
Johnny Green, owner, and Wes
Campbell, formerly of Mount
Pleasant,
Bettencourt will serve as assistant
manager and will be coordinating
summer and fall league organization
Grand jury indictments
are officially released
The Hopkins County Grand Jury
has returned recent criminal in1
dictments.
They include Diane Busby, 116
Beckham St., Sulphur Springs,
possession of controlled substance;
John Ellis Trumble, Route 1, Como,
arson; Billy Ray Edwards, 802
Alabama, Sulphur Springs, burglary
of a building and burglary of a
habitation; Darnell Kelly, 837 Fuller,
Sulphur Springs, indecency with a
child; Prentis lee Winkle, Route 5,
Box 176, Winnsboro, theft of property
and service.
Also Cynthia Tolly Heiser, Route 4,
Box 6, Sulphur Springs, theft of
property; James Gregory Marshall,
Route 1, Box 73, Sulphur Springs,
theft of property; James Leon
Chester, Route 1, Dike, aggravated
assault; Bill Ogle, Star Route, Box 30,
Sulphur Springs, injury to a child;
Joe Whipper, address? unknown,
burglary of a building; John Blan-
chard Jr., Texarkana, possession of a
prohibited weapon; Tracy Joe Jones,
Route 5, Box 247, Sulphur Springs,
two charges of sexual assault.
Also Billy Jeff Foster, Betty Ruth
Sullins and Michael George 3unch,
all of Dallas, all for theft of property;
Jackie Mills, Box 252, Como,
burglary of a habitatiorl; Johnny Ray
Lowery, Route 4, Greenville,
unauthorized use of a motor vehicle;
C.W. Grayson, 206 McCann Ave ,
Sulphur Springs, official oppression;
John Wayne Hollingsworth, Route 1,
Box 568 B, Mount Vernon, two
charges of burglary of a habitation.
Also Dopny W. Tinsley, Box 361,
Mount Vernon, Paul Peter Netecke,
Route 1, Box 456, Mount Vernon and
Michael T. West of Route 1, Box 438-
B, Mount Vernon, all for two charges
each of burglary of a habitation;
Michael Gregg Morris, 430 S. Locust,
Sulphur Springs, five charges of.
burglary of a habitation and two
charges of theft of property; Jackie
Lavonne Gilbreath, 116 Beckham,
Sulphur Springs, possession' of a
controlled substance.
Also Russell Askew, 309 Carter,
Sulphur Springs, burglary of a
building; Anthony Ross, 806
Alabama, Sulphur Springs, burglary
of a building; Terry Alap Pace, Route
7, Sulphur Springs, burglary of a
habitation; Robert Kent Schepp, Star
Route, Box 86, Sulphur Springs, three
charges of burglary of a habitation,
one charge of burglary of a building
and two charges of theft of property
THE HOPKINS County Dairy F ood
Contest entries have been compiled
and are available for $1 at the County
Extension Service Office, 147 Jef-,
ferson St
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Keys, Clarke & Hillsamer, Dave. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, May 23, 1986, newspaper, May 23, 1986; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth775176/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.