The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, March 28, 1986 Page: 1 of 12
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L. 111-NO. 13.
(ABSORBED THE GAZETTE CIRCULATION BY PURCHASE MAY 12, 1928)
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1986.
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New Crime Stoppers
►Crime Stoppers President Coy Vicars, far
left, welcomes the newest additions to the
Crime Stoppers Board of Directors, from left
to right, Diane Newport, Brenda Bell and
Cynthia Goff, with some paperwork. The
three women attended their first Crime
Stoppers meeting Tuesday.
Staff Photo by Richard Hail
Crilrie Stoppers pay reward,
add three women directors
By BOBBY BURNEV
Hopkins County Crime Stoppers
approved payment ol one reward
Tuesday at the board* of directors
meeting and announced intentions to
seek a $10,000 balance for further
payments for confidential in-
formation leading to the arrest and |§
conviction offelons
A payment of $20^1 was OKed for a
confidential tip that lead to the arrest
and indictment of a person charged
with burglary of North Liberty
Baptist Church
More than $2,000 worth of stolen
property was uncovered during the
arrest. Sulphur Springs Police Sgt.
Rex Morgan said. That one arrest led
to another search, which uncovered
an additional $2,000 worth of stolen
property, he added.
According to Crime Stoppers
President Coy Vicars, such arrests
1 are why Crime Stoppers is a success.
That's why we have Crime,
Stoppers," Vicars told the board of
directors. It's there to encourage
information that will help the police
to make arrests."
Vicars also announced that Crime
Stoppers will be on a fund-raising
campaign soon to secure at least a
$10,000 balance so that the program
can continue to pay for crime-solving
information.
The Crime Stoppers reward fund
now stands at $8,067.96, according to
I'icars. which means the program is
■king approximately $2,000 m
(nations
Outreach Clinic undergoes
changes to meet gHdelines
b, karen turpen The/ftrict guidelines have prompS^and wlrkjs together with comm
Services at the -^iopkins County
Outreach Clinic have undergone
changes due to recently revised state
guidelines, clinic director Barbara
Groene told representatives of area
social services Tuesday at a monthly
luncheon meeting of the group
"Recent budget cuts have resulted
ip new state guidelines that have
mandated where state money for the
mentally ill will be spent," Groene
said "As a result, we are primarily
serving the severely mentally ill
clients now and directing others to
private services/'
When the clinic first opened its
doors four and one-half years ago,-the
clinic "took anyone who
through the door," she said
came
A\l the clinic to create a client
'priority list. First priority on that list
re the chronic patients those who
lave repeated in-patient records,
mostly schizophrenia and manic
depression cases, Groene said.
Those patients deemed in crisis
situations are considered for treat-
ment as second priority — patients
who are suicidal or need immediate
help.
The priority list scales down from
there, Groene said, decreasing in
severity of mental illness
"I'm certainly glad to see that
more and more alternatives seem to
be surfacing to refer our clients to,"
she added, referring to the social
service representatives present at
the luncheon.
This community pulls together
common
clients, \she said, "and for this I am
glad, too.
Representatives from the Texas
eRXbilitation Commission attended
the informal meeting as well as
persons from Hopkins County ’s Adult
Education Department, Northeast
Texas Opportunity Center, Hopkins
County Memorial Hospital, Sulphur
Springs Independent School District,
Community Chest, and theSTexas
Employment Commission.
By BOBBY BURNEY
A new working cooperation bet-
ween banks, farmers, and the Far-
mers Home Administration to lower
interest rates for agricultural loans
might make borderline loans more
feasible in the future, according to art
FmHA official.
Gordon Anderson, FmHA regional
director in Sherman who oversees the
locfil office, said' the FmHA and
banks can now split payments on
interest rates up to 4 percentage
points to lower the rates farmers
would be paying.
The program is part of 1985 s farm
legislation, but the details of the pact
recently became known, Anderson
said,
Under the plan, a participating
bank cart make or refinance loans to
eligible farmers at interest rates
reduced up to 4 percentage points.
The FmHA would pay the bank for
half of its losses.
For example, a farmer who might
otherwise have to pay 10 percent for a
loan, could get it for 6 percent, with
the bank and the FmHA splitting the
- difference.
"The bank would make the farmer
a loan of 6 percent, then we would
reimburse the bank," Anderson said
. The Fans have to be acceptable to
Farmers Home, but the farmer deals
only with the bank.
"This is one more step in helping
Bank's Josses
not expected
to affect sale
The sale of the local BancTexas to
private investors continues to be-
proceeding as expected, John
English, bank president., said Mon-
day.
"We’re still on target," English
told The News-Telegram after being
questioned about news reports which
have discussed the bank's owner
BancTexas Group Inc . and its banks'
recent performances m which six of
the 13 reported a profit in 1985.
The Sulphur Springs bank reported
a loss of net income at $632,000,
English said, a factor the purchasing
investors were aw are of.
"We've known about this for at
least six months." English said of
BancTexas Group Inc.'s financial
difficulties.
Asked if the BancTexas Group
situation would influence the sale of
those who are close to cash flow but
the bank hasn’t been able to give a
loan to," he added.
Anderson said that no applications
for the buydown program have been
filed yet in the district, because the
plan is so new. "I doubt any of the
banks have been able to digest the
information yet,” he said, adding that
the FmHA considers the program
optional.
“This is in conjunction with
guaranteed loans with banks,” he
explained. "If a bank has a loan that
will not cash flow with normal in-
terest, then this may be an option for
them.”
However, for the FmHA to pay the
percentage rate, the person applying
for the loan would have to meet their
requirements, Anderson said.
That means that prospective.
borrowers must be unable to get
loans elsewhere at, reasonable rates
and terrrSCw^tey also must be unable
to make ha! a payments unles^ the
interest raAe is reduced, and must
show enough projected income to
make reduced-rate loan payments.
County eyes problem
with buried cables
B» MARY GRANT
The problem of unearthing buried
telephone cable was addressed
Monday by Hopkins County Com-
missioners Court.
"We re still having trouble with
that," Commissioner H.W, Halcomb
said during discussion of cable
burial by General Telphone Co. in
Precinct 2.
Workers on county roads find, the
cable at shallow depths every week,
he said, w hich, if the situation eiids in
the cable being cut, irritates
telephone customers whose service is
interrupted
At the iast court meeting, com-
missioners also complained of
similar situations in other areas of
the county served by Continental
Telephone Co.
Halcomb noted Monday that the
cable is required to be 6 feet from the
road bed and buried to the proper
depth." Commissioners at earlier
meetings have stated 3 feet as the
depth required
County Judge Wayne Scott
suggested a letter be prepared to
express the requirements and sent to
GTE. A similar letter was mailed to
CONTE1. after the last court
meeting, he said.
The court approved the GTE
request and the letter suggestion.
In other business Scott explained to
Perry Connally, county resident
seeking a county road closure, that to
close the road a request by eight
lanuowners must be presented to the
court.
County buys
two vehicles
for sheriff
A bid uf $9,253.34 each was accepted
Wednesday by the Hopkins County
Commissioners Court for two
vehicles for the Sheriff’s Depart-
ment.
Offering the low bid was Gober &
Merrell Inc., auto dealers for
Chevrolet, Buiek and GMC.
Other bids offered included $9,997
from Price Ford Co. and $10,893 from
Barker Ford Co. of Commerce.
In other business in the court
session continuing from a regular
meeting conducted Monday, the
commissioners named Sulphur
Springs resident Mignon Greer to
serve as alternate election judge in
voting Precinct 1 (LutheranChurch).
Greer replaces Truman Ther-
whanger who resigned.
Penn appointed to
tax review board
By MICHAEL PELRINE
yd he bank, he said. If anything would
ontnwT happen,, it probably won'
The purpose of the montHW^-happen, it probably wouk^ expedite
meeting is to provide a com- the sale."
mumcation network for the various The bank's final sale awaits the
agencies, according , to the group's discretion of the Federal ResePv
president, Eldora Tedford.
We meet to enlarge our referral
services so that we are aware of the
services we can offer to people who
need thefflU’ she said.
Sy stem, which oversees bank sales.
English said that after all the
paperwork .is completed, the sale
could be expected to be finalized in
90- 120 days.
'A/lissj^ladys' remembered
By ANN McADAMS
vocational counselor from Sulphur history lessons, you would find"'
Springs High School, said,, "School yourself there during the battle or her colleagues also remember her
teaching was her life and she always during the signing of a document She and her 43 years as an educator w ith
Known by many as "Miss Gladys," had'hej student's best interest at seldom used notes, but spoke enspou^ great fondness.
?r kindness and love for education heart ’ a HkcmlinaH rywnnor onrj c r .
her kindness and love for education
has sparked memories of Gladys
Alexander as friepds, former
students and colleagues remember
the life of the local teacher who died
last week.
teart ' a disciplined rrmnner and always wfth "I taught with her and she was
Equipped with .her own special ^rf§ct^lish. v marvelous person," Mrs Allarea
technique. Miss Gladys was known ^Palnitr adde^that.her pieser.ee Black, a retired SSHS homen.aking
for her style of teaching which often e&ffld bC"felt ttmJuMouf the room."
nleaiit extra research into the topic,/ -“She. w’a^ajs^fs fair^ntTByhewed in
he always made the claves diseiplmed^laSs/ Palmer Laid,
that’ in
The Hopkins County Tax Appraisal
District Board of Directors Tuesday
appointed Linda, Egnn to the Tax
Appraisal Review- Board, filling a
vacancy left when /udy Jones was
appointed to the HCTAD Board of
Directors. .
Penn, 46, owner of Cedar Creek
Farms, a rnaij order fruit cake
business, told The News-Telegram,
"Someone asked me about 2-3 months
ago if I would consider an ap-
pointment.! was contacted yesterday
(March 25) and asked if I would
consider allowing my name being put
up for nomination. I said I would.”
Not onlv resDected bv her students "When they called’ they said they'
,? y P^ , \ ner stuaems. needed someone who would be fair
and objective and who knows
something about/ Hopkins County
property,” Penn said.
She added that she knew very little
about tax appraisals, but she is
willing to put in the necessary time.
u., yuurui Tuesday of the month to
noon‘on the fourth Wednesday of the
month.
In his executive report, district tax
appraiser Tom Witt noted that work
was continuing to put new bricks on
the east wall of the HCTAD building
facing the Square. He said the work
was being paid for by the landlord
and that no HCTAD dollars were
needed to complete the work. The
wall had sustained some damage
when an adjoining building was torn
down to make way for the city’s
extension of Oak Avenue.
discip
The first two years of Jier teaching‘ interesting," Grace Jane Teetes.'a “Sddiugtl
career were spent in classrooms of -fernljer student and retired historv mode
■Vc
n iodfl-tea'cher
rural schools in Hopkins County, .teachth ,~suid. -"She was niy teacher ’4Vou van take/ll Jhe J
according to Assistant Superin-
tendent Danny Durham. .
"Miss Gladys began teaching in
Sulphur Springs during the' 1919-20
school year im/ taught until.her
retirement ii/Jjai!." I)urhaiii\said.
‘After she/rFtired, she did teach on
iurthg the next few-years.,/!
Friends of the ^ustory teacher
describe her as an "amazing lady",
and a teacher who had her student's
best inifirest at heart t~
"SherelBi
teacher, said. "She was loved by
everyone and one of the best teachers
at SSHS. She made the students like
Whatever she taught by making it
interesting I just couldn’t says
enough good things about her "
Beca
teaching profession, the National
onor Society Chapter at SSHS.
i opinion she was a
uhi ip
and I become so interested in history’ the world, but that Ml npl, make a
through her classes that I became a, ’Tiffptpg,--& forife
history teacher myself." ’^-^dentfad&^fer^ '
Retiring in 1977, Mrs Teet6s SSHS.jnd.-. ’’Vaifehing- is’ the an’Df .
described Miss Gladys as a sw'eet beingLmuniprrtand sOonuiiunicafing^ received its charter March 20.
woman and dedicated teayher who thatdKVRirg to others Miss GladjU.' ,!?#.•• bayes her •“**“* as does the
was good to her studentsT-^- • was a master aAmjj* this tool " ’ ' - ^ h
'Mv*. Gladys ?as one of/fhe best According pitying. Miss Gladys .WSSr*1
teachers I ever had.’VKiij^buer; av never had to deiiand respect, it just ':lfn
former student, said, 'wit; was one of Aianie, "When altudent peace! ves a
thefthree teachers I .remember most tebcher tt> be knowledgeable and be a
We learned history in her class caring person, theNstudent’learns I
ted well to the students," that’s not to say that she was an easy felt that in Miss Glady s classroom
“I was told it wouldn’t be ex-
tremely tune consuming," she said.
Penn was appointed following an
executive session • dealing with
naming Jones’ successor to the
review board. The other current
BecJi^se of her dedication to the members of the review board include
'is adjacent to the new
Geral Kennedy, who is retired as teacher, because she wasn’t In her and I learned." Tipping’said
i»s one of those teachers who
stands out in y our mn>d," Mary Lou
Durham, a former; student and
current SSHS counselor, said "She
was one;of my favorites and I’m
going to miss her . "
Bill Watts, Marvin Gregory, Sam
Malaney and Shirley Kight.
The Tax Appraisal Review Board is
a group of five county residents who
hear appeals from property owners,
concerning appraisals of their land
and other property 1
In other business, the board of
directors approved 'the appraisal
district's bills totaling $33,242 59
The board also approved a change
in its regular meeting time from noon
Linda Penn
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Keys, Clarke & Hillsamer, Dave. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, March 28, 1986, newspaper, March 28, 1986; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth775694/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.