The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, May 2, 1986 Page: 1 of 4
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(ABSORBED THE GAZETTE CIRCULATION BY PURCHASE MAY 12, 1928)
-NO. 18.
—wal man
charged
with arson
A three-hour manhunt in Franklin
County led to the arrest of an area
man who has been charged with two
counts of arson in connection with the
burning of a barn, tractor and house.
Jerry Ross, 46, was arraigned by
Franklin Cbunty Justice of the Peace
Paul Ixivier with bond set1 at $20,000
on each of the two arson charges,
according to Franklin County Deputy
John Hill. Ross remains in custody at
the Franklin County Jail.
Ross was arrested after tem-
porary eluding law enforcement
>w»officers who had obtained a warrant
for his arrest in connection with a fire
at Ross' father’s barn and house on
County Line Road, south of Interstate
30, Hill said
Franklin County deputies had
received information that the barn
had been set ablaze Deputies then
went to that location and Jerry Ross'
car was located nearby. Deputies
began searching for the suspect and
located him H mile from the house,
Hill said. „
"He was on the other side of a
barbed wire fence and we were
talking to him about the bam fire
when he ran. It was dark and by the
tune deputies could cross the fence,
he was gone into the woods," Hill
said.
The deputies at the scene again
began searching for Ross when he
apparently doubled back to the house
where officers discovered a window
broken out and a fire set. Hill said.
Franklin and Hopkins counties were
dispatched, along with Department of
Public Safety troopers. Mount
Vernon police and Texas Rangers
The area was secured, two felony
warrants obtained and the manhunt
lx*gan. Hill said.
After several hours of combing the
area, Franklin County deputies heard
what they said was Ross' voice in a
wooded area Deputies then
surrounded the spot and captured
Ross without a struggle. Hill said
Ross was taken to Franklin County
Jail where he is being held pending
the posting of a bond
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1,986.
4 PAGES-25 CENTS PUBLISHED EVERY, FRIDAY
Local resident arrested
Mount Vernon Chief of Police Jim David
Perritt, left, and Franklin County Sheriff's
Deputy Stacy Sears, right, apprehend Jerry
Ross in a wooded area in Franklin County
following a three hour manhunt Monday
\
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night. Ross was arrested on two counts of
arson in connection with the burning of his
father's barn and house on County Line
Road
— Staff Photo t Ann McAdams
New Zealand traffic
makes Texas-sized stop
#* MARY grant
While New Zealand may be best
known for Us dairy products and
wool, it's the fuzz that counts in
Sulphur Springs
■ Km a traffic cop," Wayne Christie
of Upper Hutt. N.Z , said recently
while visiting local residents
Christie and his wife. Nicki, spent a
weekend with Kearney and June
Brim of Sulphur Springs while on a
month-long visit to the Ixine Star
State as guests of the Rnm's son. Cal
Brim of Dallas.
"We're actually employed by the
government." Christie said, adding.
' Our areas, you might say. cquU) lx
anywhere in New Zealand
"We have two different police
agencies — one is a national
policeman...a uniform branch They
deal with the criminal side mur-
ders, rapes, domestics i domestic
arguments, etc. 1 and so on where
we traffic officers deal only with
traffic, traffic law enforcement
A motorcyle officer, Christie
speaks with an accent similar to that
heard on the streets of Boston with a
slight Scottish burr detected upon
close listening
Unlike his fellow police officers in
Texas, the New Zealander patrols the
highways of his. native
without armament We don't carry
although we have a lot of cun in-
Arrests made
in burglary
investigations
The Hopkins County Sheriff's
Department has had a busy week so
far with arrests, extraditions and
recovery of thousands of dollars
worth of stolen merchandise.
Two men were arrested in Wood
County in connection with a dairy
barn burglary in August last year,
Chief Deputy Mark Bassham said
Tuesday
Bill W Ogle. 31, of Quitman and
Terry Arvil Mann, 45, of Yantis were
arraigned before Justice of the Peace ,
William Bauman Saturday and were
charged with felony burglary of
a building, a dairy bam owned by
Bassham and Sonny Moore in the* any guns1 M all in New Zealand,
Hatchetville Community-- Ogle and
Mann are free on $4,000 bond apiece
Bassham said about $5,000 worth of
stolen dairy equipment was
recovered.
Bassham said more equipment was
recovered April 27 on a dairy farm in
southeast Hopkins County near the
Sandfield Community after a consent
to search was signed by the owner of
the farm.
Sheriff's deputies Monday ex-
tradited three Mexican nationals
from custody in Oklahoma and
charged them with armed robbery
and auto thyft in connection-with an
incident that occurred in Hopkins
County last week, according to
Deputy R.J. Shackelford.
Oscar Perez, 19; Rafael Contreras,
17; and Everado Orozco, 17, all of
Chihuahua, Mexico, were brought to*
the local jail from Woodward, Okla.,
Monday and are currently being held
in lieu of $5,000 bond each for
aggravated robbery and $3,000
for unauthorized use of a motor
vehicle, according to the deputy.
The incident for which the three
were sought occurred April 21 in
Pickton, according to officials
1 xirenzo Ramirez of Pickton filed a
complaint that he had been robbed
and his carjystqlen by tRm. males
about midnight April 21
Perez, Contreras and Orozco were
arrested in Oklahoma later that day
stances,' he said.
■ You learn to back off and use your
discretion." he added.
The South Pacific island govern-
ment sponsors tough gun laws. As a
result, he noted, no officers have been
shot in traffic incidents.
However, Christie said problems
with local gangs may force a change
in the law I think it's coming,
eventually," he added, speaking of
arming traffic officers i some police
officers are allowed to c^rry guns i
On the other hand, his respon-
sibilities are similar to those of his
counterparts in Texas enforcing
seatbelt laws, child restraint laws,
driving while intoxicated laws and
speeding laws. Like his fellow
Department of Public Safety officers
Tie oaid a visit to the local office),
Christie also testifies in court in
behalf of the prosecuting court at-
torneys.
We have a lot of accidents," he
said, adding with a laugh, "We don't
call them w recks like you do here."
In New Zealand, highway traffic is
limited to 60 miles per hour on the
open road and 30 miles per hour in
city areas.
Those highways pass through a
country about the size of Colorado
that is populated by about 34 million
people. We were told that that would
country" Tit :ntr- Arlington. Fort Worth and
.Dallas," he said, laughing.
bush,.,and it can be very cold. It can
be very humid," he said, adding,
"The whole country is basically
mountains.
The island lies southeast of
Australia about a couple of hours by
air. The country is populated by 90
percent Europeans imostly British)
and 9 percent Polynesian (mostly
Maori), according to the World
Almanac.
"We are a member of the British
Common wealth." Christie noted.
The Christies became friends with
Cal Brim when his church in Dallas,
Forest Meadow Baptist Church,
began an exchange program with the
Rimutaka Baptist Church in New
Zealand. Cal first made a visit to New
Zealand, visiting with the Christies,
who in turn made a visit April 1 to
Dallas.
By the first of May, the Christies
will be returning to New Zealand and
their three children, who are being
watched over in their parents' ab-
sence by their grandparents.
Asked if another trip to Texas is in
their future, the couple agreed they
would enjoy an encore, but the
distance and the expense may
prevent that wish
It's pretty tropical in that sense
lot of ferns, bush, meadow
Cooper man sentenced
A Cooper man was assessed a 13-
year term in the Texas Department
of Corrections in a jury trial m
Hopkins County and a Sulphur
Springs resident was assessed a
seven-year term in TDC, according to
information from District Attorney
Frank Long .
Lyndea Joe Gibbs of Route 1.
Cooper, was charged with possession
of a controlled substance and also
received a'fine of $5,000
Abraham Palacios of 511 Church
St., Sulphur Springs, charged in
connection with probati n violations
was sentenced to seven years.
Other pleas included Don Adams of
422 Oak Ave., Sulphui Springs,
charged with possession a con-
assessed a 10-year probation in each
cjise, ordered to make $105 institution
and pay a $1,500 fine. He was also
ordered to serve 300 hours of com-
munity service.
William Duncan Sirtain II of
Rockwall pleaded true on a motion to
revoke his probation fot\dnving while
intoxicated and w as assessed a three-
year term in TDC.
Michael M. Allen of 201 W Spence,
Sulphur Springs, pleaded true in a
motion to revoke his two probations
for burglary of a building. He was
assessed a five-year term in TDC in
each case.
Russell Dewayne Stewart of Route
2, Sulphur Springs, pleaded guilty to a
charge of burglary of a habitation
trolled substance He was sentemvdjfcnd was assessed a 10-year term in
to seven years of probation, ordered TDC
to pay a fine of $1,500 and to serve 300
hours of community service. ~
Jerry Wayne Partin pleaded guilty
and was assessed a four-year term in.
TDC. He was ordered to pay a fine of
$1,000 and restitution of $104 43 He
was charged with escaping from the
local jail
Don Michael White of 116.Beckham.
Sulphur Springs, pleaded guilts to
two charges of forgery He was
Stewart alsp pleaded true on
motions to revoke probation in two
burglary of a building cases as well
as four forgeries and was assessed a
l(F>ear term in TDC in each case
Hubert Wayne Mosley of 808
Sunset, Sulphur Springs, pleaded
gilty to charges of robbery and injury
to an elderly person. He was assessed
a five-year term in TDC in each case
ami ordered to make restitution
It's just too big!
Local hospital
must seek new
administrator
Glenn Kenley, administrator of
Hopkins County Memorial Hospital
since Oct. 1,1963, will retire from that
position Sept. 30 of this year.
Kenley revealed his decision to the
hospital’s board of trustees in a
special executive^ session called
Thursday night.
"This has been a very difficult
decision," Kenley told The News-
Telegram Friday. But in this
position a person knows when it is
time to retire.
"I will have been administrator 23
years: this fall and I will be ap-
proaching 66 years of age. It is time to
step down."
Kenley said he has no specific plans
for after he leaves the position, but
intends to remain in Sulphur Springs.
I will probably take two or three
months to relax arid then find a little
-something to keep me interested," he
said. "I may get back to a little
farming."
Charles Gilreath. president of the
hospital board, said that group
"reluctantly" accepted Kenley’s
decision.
"We are indebted to Mr. Kenley,”
Gilreath told The News-Telegram.
He has done a fantastic job. Two
bond issues have been passed during
his tenure and the new hospital was
built. There is harmony on the staff.
We just can't sav enough about his
work.
"This announcement caught us by
surprise," Gilreath added. "We had
absolutely no idea that it was coming.
So as far as finding a replacement, at
this time we have no plans. But we
will be forrffulating how we will go
about picking a new administrator.”
Kenley assumed management
direction of the county's only hospital
when it was located on North Davis
Street near downtown and when only
preliminary talks concerning the
need to build a new hospital had
Glenn Kenley
begun.
"We .began a five-year program of
design and passing a bond issue and
moved into the new hospital in
November, 1968," he recalled Friday.
Subsequently, an. additional bond
issue was passed and an expansion
program was adopted which was
completed just at.the end of 1985.
Kenley said hii decision to retire
was based upon the personal reasons
that it was time to leave the field. But
he added that the task has become
increasingly frustrating over the
years and that he is “very
pessimistic’’ over the future of
medical care in this nation.
"Government interference in the
running of the hospital and the
practice of medicine is increasing
monthly," Kenley said.
"In my opinion, the ultimate result
will be a downgrade of the quality of
care available anywhere.”
TP&L spokesman says
it can t happen here
While people around the world
await further news concerning the
Chernobyl nuclear plant tragedy in
the Soviet Union, Ike Harper,
president of the local Texas Power &
Light Co., continues to have con-
fidence in the U.S. atomic energy
program
As for what effect the Chernobyl
incident will have on the progress of
Comanche Peak plant, which began
construction in 1972, Harper says he
really doesn't know. "Anti-nuclear
and environment groups may use the
Chernobyl accident as ammunition.
It doesn't matter if we tell them this
type of accident will not happen in the
United States," Harper said.
Mandy Yarbrouqh, 6, right, takes off a
baseball cap that she has decided is just too
big for her while her friend Maci Madison, 5,
doesn't seem to mind that it scrunches her
ears just a bit The two girls were trying on
the hats at the opening ceremonies of a new
baseball field at Como Pickton School
Saturday. Mandy is the daughter of Buddy
and Penny" Yarbrough and Maci is the
daughter of Glenn and Leeta Madison
it»" Photo b, R i, No.* Mon
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Keys, Clarke & Hillsamer, Dave. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, May 2, 1986, newspaper, May 2, 1986; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth775187/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.