The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, September 12, 1986 Page: 1 of 4
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Local political roundup
By MICHAEL PELRINE
Campaigning for Anderson »
Support from the Democrats in power continues to How in for District
1 State Senate candidate Richard Anderson, as State Sens. Oscar Mauzy
and John Montford appeared here Tuesday to solicit votes for the
Harrison County Jydge in his race with Republican Edd Hargett
“It’s vitally important that the good people of Northeast Texas con-
tinue their proud tradition ‘of electing someone to the Senate who will
represent all of the people.” Mauzy said, "someone who will come down
with a firm understanding of state government and how it operates.
Certainly, Richard Anderson has that understanding, based on his ex-
perience as county judge in Harrison County . ” *
Mauzy, the Senate Dean, and his collegue, Montford, are part of the 24-
member Senate Democratic Campaign Committee. The SDCC selects
who they feel are qualified candidates to the 31-seat chamber, then set
out to support his or her candidacy.
"This district, District 1, has a great legacy in the state Senate with
Sen i A M > Aikin and Sen. >Edi Howard, and it needs to continue that
strong voice in Texas government,” Montford said
< Both senators said they regretted that Edd Hargett had refused to
debate the issues with Anderson, and felt the people should have had the
opportunity to hear both candidates' viewpoints.
“It is hardly the spirit of campaigning or the impression we would like
for the Senate to have when a candidate chooses a mud-slinging cam-
paign with personal attacks on a man's family,” Montford said "I hope
the voters of the 1st Senate District will remember the candidate who
has run his campaign based on the issues facing the Texas Senate and
will vote for Richard Anderson”
Phillips lists campaign priorities
As the runners in the District 1 State Senate race approach the finish
line on Saturday, the candidates in the District 2 State Representative
race haven't even begun their kick yet; but one candidate, Republican
Steve Phillips of Pans, rounded the Sulphur Springs marker Tuesday
with a statement about governmental pnorities.
Phillips, whose Democratic opponent, incumbent Rep L.P. "Pete"
Patterson of Brookston, was bumped out of the State Senate race in the
first heat of the special election, told a small, yet partisan group at a
local restaurant that the most important job of government is to protect
citizens against violent criminals. He added that the powers in Austin
have fallen far short of this responsibility.
"The budget crisis, although critical, is not, however, my main con-
cern," Phillips said "Only 3.9 percent of our state budget is given to
dealing with crime In 1985 the crime rate rose by 9 percent. In the first
six months of 1986 it is up 15.8 percent Violent criminals continue to be
turned loose on our streets.”
Phillips said he would, if elected, work to clean up the criminal justice
system and to fund programs to assure citizens’ safety.
On the budget crisis, Phillips said he recognizes that the problems
being dealt with in Austin in the special session will most likely worsen
by next ygar, and he promised to pay close attention to programs and
agencies funded by the state and make cuts wherever possible
“This situation gives us an excellent opportunity to redefine the
purpose of government and reduce state government to essential ser-
vices that we cannot do for ourselves," he said.
Hargett wants observers
In response to the discovery of forged absentee ballot applications in
Marshall last week, Edd Hargett, Republican candidate for State Senate
in District 1, said Tuesday he has requested federal and state officials to
send observers into East Texas on electron day, Saturday, Sept. 16, to
insure a fair election.
“I have written to Secretary of State Myra McDaniel and to U.S. At-
torney Bob Wortham in Beaumont asking each offical to send
representatives into East Texas” Hargett said at the Sulphur Springs
Municipal Airport Tuesday morning.
“Someone, or some group, in East Texas is trying to manipulate the
vote in this election to serve their own purposes," Hargett said. "The
absentee ballotrasriieSt forgeries-we have seen in Harrison and possibly
Bowie countie*aoctujwnt that fact.”
The forgeriesf were -discovered Tuesday, Sept. 2 in Marshall when
more than 100Applications appeared in the Harrison County Clerk's
office in alphabeticaforder, and many were to be sent to the same ad-
dress. After authorities contacted some of the people listed on the ap-
plications it was determined many names had been forged.
I The voters whose names were on the phoney applications were from a
nredominately black, overwhelmingly Democratic precinct in down-
town Marshall. .
/The Anderson campaign headquarters in Marshall called the Attorney
^General’s office and requested Department of Public Safety and Texas
Rangers investigators to look into the incident.
At a celebration in the Hopkins County Civic Center Saturday honoring
U.S. Rep. Jim Chapman, Anderson told The News-Telegram he did not
know who to point the finger at.
“I don’t level charges of a felony status without sound evidence, and I
don’t accuse my opponent of doing so,” Anderson said
Tuesday Hargett read from a document he claimed was a campaign
plan from Anderson's campaign manager, Bill Brannon, to the can-
didate in which it was stated that the "absentee plan" in several
counties was "in good shape,” and that the "absentee program is in
affect "
However, Hargett did not say how he got ahold of the alleged cam-
paign plan, nor did he openly accuse the Anderson campaign of
manipulating the absentee vote
(ABSORBED THE GAZETTE CIRCULATION BY PURCHASE MAY 12, 1928)
Festival to mark
burial of capsule
By KAREN TURPEN
Communicating with the future IS
possible.
Many citizens of Sulphur Springs
are’ in the process of achieving this
feat at this very moment.
They are doing so by means of a
time capsule, or rather by way of
their 'Contributions to a time capsule
that is scheduled to be buried during
the final day's activities of the 1986
Hopkins CouQty Fall Festival.
The time capsule is to contain what
will be messages from the past for the
citizens of 2036, who wrill be requested
to open the capsule during a
celebration of the state’s bicen-
tennial.
The time capsule project is a joint
venture by the Hopkins County
Sesquicentennial Committee and the
Sulphur Springs Optimist Club.
These two organizations have
requested that any and all items or
ideas for items to be included in the
capsule be brought to the Chamber of
Commerce by Sept. 13.
Many items have already been
pledged or submitted, including, a
1985-86 high school annual, a letter
from high school principal Jack
Chubb, special edituTnS~oM^ie News-
Telegram i including a homeowned
business edition, the Sesquicen-
tennial Wagon Train edition, and the
front page of every issue published to
date in 1986 >, a Sesquicentennial flag
and other Sesquicentennial
memorabilia donated by the Hopkins
County Historical Society and the
1986 Hopluns County budget.
Other items collected include:
tickets to a Merchant’s Sesquicen-
tennial Banquet, tickets to the
Sesquicentennial Wagon Train. Stew
and Chili Supper held Jan. 1 < the
night before the Wagon Train left
Sulphur Springs), a phone book, a
calendar of Texas events published
by the State Department of Highways
and Public Transportation, JC-
Penney and Sears catalogs, a 1985
Central Rodeo Association Cham-
pionship program, many business
cards and a copy of "Hopkins County
Heritage" by June Tuck.
Also included are: a '‘Don’t Mess
With Texas" bumper sticker, a map
of Texas, an East Texas vacation
guide, several "gimme" caps and a
Wagon Train scrapbook of newspaper
clippings and photographs covered
with Sesquicentennial material
donated by Sheila Funderburk, a
Young Homemaker who served stew
and breakfast to wagoneers on Jan. 2. ,
Funderburk included a hand-writen
letter pinned to the inside cover of the
scrapbook. An excerpt from that
letter reads, “I hope the people
looking through this book will
remember the people who came
before them and will realize the.
heritage they have been given to take
care of. I believe each generation has
left the next a better world to live in.
Please guard it wisely."
Anyone wishing to donate items to
the time capsule — there is still
ample room in the 50 gallon drum —
can do so by calling or going by the
Chamber of Commerce. The phone
number is 885-6515.
Rescue efforts
Rescue unit members worked more than an hour Tuesday
afternoon to free the driver of a tractor-trailer milk rig
after the truck left the road and crashed into trees on Jef-
ferson Street. The driver, Alan Christie, 18, of Sulphur
Springs was rushed to Memorial Hospital and then taken by
helicopter to Tyler Medical Center, wife**he died several
hours later. At left, ambulance attendant Suzy Weddle
checks his pulse while Fireman Lynn Mills, upper right,
assists other rescue team members as they try to pry the
crushed vehicle apart to free Christie.
—Staff Photo by Richard Hail
Truck crash injuries
claim city man's life
A T8-year-old Sulphur Springs man
died at 10:20 p.m. Tuesday in Tyler
Medical Center as a result of injuries
he received here Tuesday afternoon
when the truck he was driving
slammed into a tree on Jefferson
Street.
Alan Spain Christie was in serious
condition when he was transported
from Hopkins County Memorial
Hospital via helicopter to the Medical
Center at 6:10 p.m.
Christie was driving a 1974
Chevrolet semi-truck tractor pulling
a Certified tanker trailer westbound
on Jefferson Street when the vehicle
left the roadway, hit a couple of
telephone poles and highway signs
and slammed into a large tree on the
600 block of Jefferson Street.
Fire Marshall Charles Bolding
arrived at the scene with rescue and
emergency medical personnel
shortly after the accident was'
reported.
"The driver was pinned inside the
cab and the tank had apparently
come loose and crushed the cab
against the tree," Bolding said.
When we got there, there was a
person holding the driver’s hand
talking to him, and the firemen were
also talking to him. " Bolding said.
The w reckage was wrapped around
the tree and the driver was bent
forward in a jackknife position with
his head trapped between the tree
and the windshield frame, according
to Bolding.
We used everything we had to get
him out:" Bolding said. "We used the
jaws of life, a hydraulic machine
used to separate pieces of wreckage)
and some big cutters, all of our heavy
equipment."
Who# to say?
Misty Richardson, 7, a student of Deana Goggans' Douglas
Elementary School second grade class, ponders what to say
to the citizens of 2036. The class was writing a letter to be
included in the time capsule that is to be buried Sept. 20
during Fall Festival. With a little luck, Misty will be around
when the capsule is re-opened. She will be 57 years old then.
*-ltaW Photo by Karen Twrpen
-NO. 37.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 1986.
ustees table pay hike
--.OURNEY
The Sulphur Springs Independent
School District Board of Trustees
voted unanimously Tuesday to keep
the 1986 tax rate the same as the last
two years, but held off on giving an
across the board pay raise to district
employees.
In approving the tax rate, the board
indicated that it could no longer wait
for the IyegislatijfeJo finish balancing although one special session is over,
the state bqdgm aiiainust get on with action on the state budget has not
concluded.“‘I don’t feel like we can
consider transferring these con-
tingency funds,” she said, until “we
can follow the original spirit of the
motion.” • . -
%
contingency funds provided for in the
1986-87 budget for salary increases
until the special session is over.
Money for the pay hikes consists of
$1,140 for every teacher and 4 percent
for othenemployees.
The money for the salary increases
was put into a contingency fund at the
previous meeting, with a stipulation
that, the money would remain in tfie
contingency fund until adjournment
of the special sessiSti.
Trustee Judy Gilreath said that
the district's financial business
However, since the Legislature
may still cut state funding in its*
second. special session, the board
decided not to transfer $384,932 in
* ^
A motion to delay the fund transfer
was approved on a unanimous vote.
The 1986 tax rate will remain at
71.07 cents per. $100 property
evaluation, the same rate as the past
two years.
Of that amount, 57.57 cents goes to
Maintenance i including salaries l and
upkeep of the district. The remaining
13.50 cents pays bond indebtedness,
according to Paul Glover, assistant
superintendent of business.
Though the base tax rate ■ will
remain the same, the effective tax
rate will increase 6.34 percent, due to
increased property values' within the
district." • ’ .
. In other action, the board approved
^list of 19 teacher appraisers and an
appraisal.calendar for the upcoming
school year. Classroom observations
w ill last from Sept. 15 to Dec. 18, and
from Jan 26 to May 1,1987
The board also OKed a $400 limit in
the cafeteria-style plan of payroll
deductions the district recently made
available to its employees.
An amended 1985-86 SSISD budget
was approved to send to the Texas
Education Agency.
Superintendent Leonard Merrell
said the budget was an audited
statement that TEA uses for
statistical purposes only. ^
"It’s our best estimate of ex-
penditures and revenues,” he said.
"Basically, it’s a mirror of the
financial statements shown and
updated each month in the board
agenda."
The board also approved localized
Policy Update 27 from the Texas
Association of School Boards. The
update keeps the board abreast of
current law, Merrell explained.
New minister of music
joins First Methodist
A new minister of music has been
named at First United Methodist
Church, according to information
from Patsy Johnson, music com-
mittee chairman, and Millard
Bennett, pastor parish committee
chairman.
Charles Staples, a graduate of State
University of New York at Stony
Brook and Cincinnati College Con-
servatory of Music, will assume
duties Wednesday at the local church,
according to the Rev. Gaither Day,
church pastor.
Dr. Staples replaces Sherri Smith
who has returned to Athens, Ga„ to
complete post graduate work
He is a winner of the Van Cliburn
National Scholarship to the
University of Cincinnati and holds
awards from College-Conservatory
Concerto Competition, Music-
Teachers National Association
Southern Division Competition.
Bryan Young Artist Competition,
Five Towns Music and Art Com-
petition, The Sunwood Competition.
Alabama Music Teachers
Association Competition and is a
member of the national honor society
for music, Pi Kappa Lambda
He performed an opening recital,
1984 Select Debut Series, at Town
Hall, New York, and was soloist with
North Carolina Symphony, CCM
Concert Orchestra and Congress of
Strings orchestra under Milton
Katims.
Charles Staples
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Keys, Clarke & Hillsamer, Dave. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, September 12, 1986, newspaper, September 12, 1986; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth775741/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.