The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, July 25, 1986 Page: 4 of 4
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4—THE HOPKINS COUNTY ECHO. Sulphur Spring*. Texas. Friday. July 25, 1986.
August Wedding
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Parker of Sulphur Springs and Mr.
and Mrs. John Simmons of Plano announce the engagement
and approaching marriage of their daughter, Wendi Ann, to
John Wade McDaniel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Larocye Mc-
Daniel, also of Sulphur Springs. The couple plan to be united
in marriage at 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, in the First Baptist
Church of Sulphur Springs. Friends and relatives are in-
vited to attend.
Drug raid ends
with 6 arrests
By MICHAEL PELRINE
News-Telegram Staff
Two early morning raids over the
weekend resulted in six arrests and
confiscation of undetermined
amounts of drugs, as well as cash,
firearms and electronic devices,
according to spokesmen from the
police department and sheriff’s office
Monday.
Kenny Ray Hass, 17, Chester David
Mayhugh, 34, and Jerry Debenport
Lee, 29, all of Sulphur Springs were
arrested at a residence on the 300
block of Weaver Drive at 2:30 a.m.
Sunday and charged with aggravated
possession of a controlled substance.
Bond was set by Municipal Court
Judge Roy Johnson at $25,000 each.
Lee posted bond and was released.
Earlier, around midnight, sheriff’s
deputies and the police tactical unit
arrested William R. Johnson, 25, for
possession of a controlled substance
and two juveniles for possession of
drug paraphernalia at a residence on
the 500 block of Church Street. Justice
of the Peace William Bauman set
North
Hopkins
news
Some of our number who has been
in the hospital recently were Brent
-> Johnson, Francis Withrow, Lydia
Gregg, “Red” Coker, Jenell Smiddy
and possibly others.
Blanche Milligan spent last week
visiting relative in the Abilene-
Colorado City area.
Glyn E. and Kathy Withrow of
Irving were here a few days last week
* visiting Verda and Francis Withrow
while Francis was in the hospital.
Amy Weir of Rowlett spent
Tuesday night and Wednesday with
her grandparents, Thresa and Arville
Weir.
Merl Withrow, E.W., Sue and
Karye Withrow of Dallas are here for
the week at the Withrow home. E.W.
returned home Sunday afternoon.
Miss Nell Long, Mr. and Mrs. W.S.
Long returned home Monday from an
eight-day trip to Hawaii where they
toured three of the islands. A
delightful time was enjoyed and
words cannot describe the scenery.
Ronald, Mary, Kristi, Karen and
Kelly Denny spent last week in Hot
Springs, Ark. They went to Tiny
Town, I.Q. Zoo, Educated Animals,
Wax Museum, Mid-America
Museum, Magic Springs, The
Mountain Tower, Bath House Row
and took a cruise on the Belle of Hot
Springs. On their way home they
stopped in Texarkana to visit Mary’s
sister, Patsy Lukes and Gale Vaughn.
A very enjoyable time and beautiful
scenery was great.
A nice shower was enjoyed by some
Monday afternoon and some people
did not get a drop
Floyd Parish of Greenville, Robert,
Shirley, Perry and Paul Evans and a
friend, Freeman and Ruth Parish,
Roger and Sharon Autrey of
'Evergreen, Colo., were supper guests
of Pauline Evans Monday night.
Eldridge "Walt’’ Parish of Dallas
visited Tuesday with Freeman and
" Kuth Parish
bond for Johnson at $3,000. The two
juveniles paid a fine and were
released, according to Sheriff Mark
Bassham.
Search warrants were used for both
raids, officials said.
Bassham said the two raids were
coordinated as a joint operation with
the Hopkins County Sheriff's Office,
the Sulphur Springs Police Depart-
ment’s Tactical Unit and the District
Attorney’s office.
Bassham said more than 28 grams
of what is believed to be metham-
phetamine, or “crank,” was con-
fiscated in the raid at Weaver Drive.
Officials also confiscated $1,300 in
cash, a car, a motorcycle, two
firearms, an electronic listening
device and other electronic devices.
The police tactical unit gained
entry at both residences, according to
police, and were able to subdue the
suspects before deputies entered the
buildings.
“The tactical unit handled it real
well,” Bassham said. “They were
able to enter both buildings and
stabilize the situation and make the
arrests. Then we went in.”
Tactical unit member SSPD Sgt.
Ron Plaxco said the team worked
very efficiently, especially during the
Weaver Drive raid where they had
matters under control within 23
seconds.
“I would also like to commend
deputies (James) Jackson and
(Frank) Hedrick,” Bassham said.
“They worked on these cases for a
long time and were able to gather
enough information to obtain search
warrants.”
Plaxco said the tactical unit
discovered several sensors in the
yard at the Weaver Drive residence
that were hooked up to an electronic
listening device inside the house.
“We had to be real careful,” he
said. “But when Lt. (Mike) Pehl and
me were at the front door getting
ready to enter, were heard footsteps
at the door. -Suddenly, the door
opened up and there was a man
standing there like he was getting
ready to leave. His eyes opened up
wide and he looked like he had just
seen the devil.”
“We took him down right there,
then went in and secured the rest of
the house,” Plaxco said.
Hass, Mayhugh and Johnson
remained in custody in the Hopkins
County Jail Monday morning.
DA report
District Attorney Frank Long has
released information about recent
court action.
Willard Anson Friddle of Star
Route, Sulphur Springs, pleaded
guilty in Rains County’s 8th Judicial
District Court to driving while in-
toxicated-felony and was asessed a
three-year term in the Texas
Department of Corrections and or-
dered to pay a $500 fine.
Kataris Ross of Dallas pleaded
guilty to a charge of burglary of a
vehicle in Hopkins County's 8th
Judicial District Court. State District
Judge Lanny Ramsay assessed
punishment at five years probation, a
fine' of $1,500, restitution of $519.55
and 240 hours of community service.
Hospital to begin
crackdown on bills
By BOBBY BURNEY
News-Telegram Staff
Hopkins County Memorial Hospital
will start actively seeking payment of
delinquent bills, going as far as legal
action, members of the hospital’s
Board of/Directors were informed
Thursday night at their regular
meeting.
Assistant Administrator Dan
Noteware told board members the
believes can be collected.
who cannot pay, but
collect on those debts that can
paid,” he said.
The hospital administration is also
looking into staffing the emergency
room with business office personnel
from 4 p.m. to midnight on weekdays
and from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. on
weekends.
A review of emergency room use
during a three-month period showed
that 82 percent of the visits are by
hospital, will pursue payment of
overdue debts from people who they . Hopkins County residents, and an
consider have the ability to pay. additional 13 percent are from Delta,
The delinquent bills may even- Hunt, Wood and Rains counties.
tually be funneled through the
hospital's attorney, Frank Bauer.
'‘For those people who can pay, but
haven’t, the hospital will pursue legal
action,” Bauer said.
“We’re not trying to beat a dead
horse. We tried to establish a criteria
— that people have to owe a certain
amount and that we have some in-
dication that they have the ability to
pay.”
Currently, the hospital tries to
collect bills on its own and then turns
the collection over to one of two
agencies that follow up. However,
Noteware said there are still some
very large outstanding debts that he
By having business office em-
ployees on ‘hand during the busiest
times, Noteware hopes the hospital
will be able to keep track of those
using the emergency room and have
a higher percentage of collection.
In b<wd/ action, Dr. James
LonginofpWiatrician, was approved
for pracWe in the hospital. Two
Quitman doctors, George Cathey and
Norman Hicks, were approved to
assist in surgery.
The board did not discuss a possible
replacement for Administrator Glenn
Kenley, who will retire in September,
but they are expected to meet with
applicants soon.
Attending Memorial Day at Old
Saltillo Sunday were: Mrs. Maye
Smith; Byron and Florine Griffith;
Anita Nitsche; Loyd and Sue
Stevenson; Jessie Orr; Christine
Corn; I.arry, Lou and Michelle
Daniels; Ilia Faye McNeill; Dee Dee
Todd; Etoile Martin; Ina Barnett and
Randy Agee all of Dallas.
Also attending were: Elsie Lou
France; Myrtle Bullard; Thelma
Mills; Bob and Velma Spearman;
R.A. and Sue Lawrence; Mary Zona
Case; Gerta White; Mary Pipkin;
■Wilbur and Marian Jo Leslie;
Patricia Davis; Minnie Rose White;
Mary Moore; and Michael, LaManda
and Amy Griffith from Irving.
From Payne Springs were: Janet
Mincks and daughter and Orville
Frank.
Sulphur Springs residents at-
tending included: Vernon and
Maurind Armstrong, Oneita Inman,
Grace and Hermand Lewis, Paul and
Wanda Carr, Allison and Obera
McAfee, Maurine Stephenson, An-
drew Glover, Buck and Ann Ward,
Mr. and Mrs. M.L. Southerland,
Richard Hays. Carla Briley, Annie
Lee Meadows, Linda Gammil,
Darlece and Kelly Campbell, Betty
Moon, Dudley Moon, Sara and
Michael Briley and children and
Babe Roberts.
Also attending were Orval Miller
and Marian Miller from Henderson,
Marie Rushing from Mount Pleasant,
Mr. and Mrs. G.D. West of Mabank
and Flora Bowie of Splendora.
From Celina were Don and Brenda
Storey and Lucille Smith atid from
Paris were Edna Brooks and
Charlotte Cotten. Velma Locke and
Dessa and Dwight Grump from
Grand Prairie were there and from
Rockwall was Vivian Dennis. R.K.
and Frances Gardner and Mpry L.
Inman attended from Garland.
Also attending, listed with their
respective towns, were: Neta Pat-
terson and family and John T. Young,
Mesquite; Virginia Oglesby, Sher-
man; Lucille Johnson and Margorie
Young Johnson, Fort Worth; Buster
and Frances Crump, Como; Robert
and Juanita Crump, Waco; Atwell
and June Whitten, Ore City; Kathy
Patterson, Gilmer; Aubrey and Jo
Hamilton and Charles and Sanqlra
Harper, Tyler; Archie Johnson, Fort ,
Worth; Arlon, Carolyn and I,eAnn
Cobb, Georgetown; and Arlene
(Cobb i Burkhart, San Marcos.
Also, Lucky Rawlings and Kelly,
Hobbs, N.M.; Becky Majors and Jeff,
Midland; Vida Lewis, Hughes
Springs; Faye Homer, Mount
Pleasant; Murrell Allred, Lone Star;
Donald and Mary Frances Endsley,
Texarkana f Hazel Dodd and Betty
Garrison, Grand Prairie; W.D.
Stevenson, Garland; Rex and Bar-
bara Norris, Daingerfield; I^on
Dennis, Irving; Judy, John and David
Shaddox and Kim and Cassie
Thompson, Greenville; Wayne
Sexton and Michelle Sexton,
Mesquite; Dan andi Julie Tremble,
Houston; June Curry, Elsie Fuller
and Linda and Janice Milford, Fort
Worth; David and Beth Peters and
Doug Pejers, Carthage; and Lewis
and JoAnn Agee, Garland.
And, Paul Cobb, Lubbock; Clayton
and Paulette Sams, Argyle; Glen
Armstron, Sherman; Vickie Hendrix,
Irving; Jewel and R.B. McAfee, Boyd
Wardrup, Charles and Sandy War-
drup, Ardys Dennis, Y.C. and Mozelle
McGill, Marvis and Mary Southward,
Ruth Briley, Bob and Ava Goswick,
Trudy and Orvil Click, Raymond
Conley, Lelia Jordan Roberts, Floy
Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pierce,
James Sexton, Jim and Megan
Skelly, Alice King and Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie Adams, Saltillo.
Mrs. Dixie Cobb Clifton of Cumby,
Mrs. Florene Swartz of iffalco, and
Michelle Woodard of Mesquite also
attended
Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Beck spent
Wednesday night with their grand-
parents, Mr and Mrs George Swain.
Mr Beck is in the U.S. Navy and they •'
Saltillo news-
were en route from Puerto Rico to
Norfolk, Va.
James Fletcher of Houston spent
Sunday and Monday with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. RichardKnapik.
Mrs. Judy Shaddoxmnd children
John and David of Greenville spent
this weekend with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Pierce. John and
David remained to spend this week
with their grandparents.
Mrs. Maye Smith of Dallas visited
several days this week with friends
here and in Mount Vernon and
Sulphur Springs. She also attended
Memorial Day at Old Saltillo.
Mrs. Carl Roberts joined her
children and grandchildren for a
campout at I^ake Cypress Springs
last week. Mrs. Roberts accompanied
the Golden Agers of the Mount
Vernon Baptist church Tuesday to
Dallas. They toured the Mary Trew
Home, The Ryan Rest Home and
Buckner Orphan Home.
Ben Loving of Manhatten Beach,
Calif., and Mike Loving of Fort
Collins, Colo., visited Saturday
through Monday with their mother
and grandmother, Mrs Velera
Loving.
Saltillo Chapter 173 OES will have a
called meeting Saturday, July 26, for
the purpose of initiation. A salad
supper will follow.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Worsham
of Dubberly, La., visited Mr. and
Mrs. Bug King Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold (Cotton)
Miller celebrated their 50th wedding
anniversary with a reception at the
Saltillo Community Center Sunday
afternoon. The reception was hosted
by their children, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Bethea of Arlington. Cotton and Clara
grew up together being childhood
sweethearts all through grade and
high school. It's remarkable that jx
couple can be together through school
days, marry and live together 50
years and still keep that love glowing.
One-hundred-two guests registered at
the reception.
Betty Joyce Arthur had a nice
birthday Monday, July 21. She en-
joyed the visiters and received lots of
gifts and cards.
Mr. and Mrs. Y.C. McGill were in
Dallas last weekend and attended the
50th wedding anniversary of Mr. and
Mrs. A.E. Simpson.
Mrs. Elba Wilder of DeSota and
Mrs. Florene Swartz of Talco visited
friends and relatives in Saltillo
Tuesday.
Visiting in the home of Mrs. Ruth
Briley Sunday were Mr. and Mrs.
larry Daniels and son Michael of
Dallas, Max Wardrup of Greenville,
Mrs. Edna Brooks and Miss Charlotte
Cotten of Paris, Mr. and Mrs. Mike
Briley and daughters of Sulphur
Springs, Neil Nitsche, Keith Pierce
and Romany Cathey. Miss Carla Beth
Briley of Sulphur Springs spent last
week with her grandmother.
Mrs. Etoile Martin and Mrs. Ina
Barnett of Dallas visited Mr. and
Mrs. Clovis Adair Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Tarbet of
Denison visited Mrs. Floy Bennett
Saturday.
Mrs. Christine Corn and Mrs.
Jessie Orr of Dallas and Mrs. Annie
Lee Meadows of Sulphur Springs
visited Raymond Conley Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Conley and son
Steve of Linden, Mr. and Mrs. Rex
Norris of Daingerfield and Miss
Tammy Norris and Randy Norris of
Richardson visited Mr. Conley
Sunday.
Mrs. Mary Jo Hite spent Wed-
nesday night with her brother and
sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Wylie
Roberts of Kaufman, and attended
the funeral of Thomas Harper in Fort
Worth Thursday.
Billy Campbell, Bob and Kevin
Owens of Mount Vernon and Mr. and
Mrs. Aubrey Morris Dennis have
returned from a trip to Minnesota
Mrs Dennis visited her daughter and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Tim Templeton
in I<e Sueur, while the men went
fishing in lake Michigan.
Ceremony Planned
Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Walls of Winnsboro announce the
engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter,
Karen Elaine, to Donald J. McComb. The prospective
bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. McComb,
also of Sulphur Springs. The couple plan to be married at 7
p.m. Saturday, July 26, in Church on the Rock, Sulphur
Springs. Friends and relatives are invited to attend.
Tira news
Vallee, Sandra Glen, Oleta Bearden
and Melba McKinney attended the
I-ogsdon family reunion in Fittstown,
Okla., Saturday.
Lucille Spencer was in I-one Star
Thursday on business and pleasure
She, Lucy Vaden and Janet Price
were in I-ongview Saturday visiting
David and Vickey Nugent.
Mary Dee Brice visited Ruth
Chapman Monday. Cina Belz and
twins also were there.
Mary Dee visited her sistiir, Stella
Hawkins, last Sunday. She was also
at the Tapp Funeral Home to be with
the family of a friend, Maurme
(Garretti Riley.
Dorriece Shuptrine visited Modena
and Noble Horn Saturday.
Rheudy Charles Rushin, a former
Oak Grove student, attended the
Rushin family reunion Sunday in
Sulphur Springs. He visited Mrs. Edd
Sullivan Sunday.afternoon
Peggy and Charles Deaton, Susan
Rogers and children visited I-eslie
and Beulah Wester Friday.
The monthly 42 party at the Tira
Community center Saturday night
was enjoyed by those attending; they
had three tables playing.
We have had several on the sick list
the past week: Red Coker was
hospitalized but is some better at his
home. Janell Smiddy suffered a
snake bite but is better at her home
Lydia Drummond suffered a broken
shoulder. She is improving. Francis
Withrow suffered a heart attack We
are happy he too is improved. Bill
Weir has been sick over the weekend
at his home, and Dorothy Fitzgerald,
who has had a real bout withwsthma
is much better, Seelena Melton is ill
at home
Wyman, Maxene and her brother
Mutt Horn were in Shawnee Monday
and Tuesday visiting their mother.
Mrs Vesta Horn, who is very ill She
is slightly improved
Joe Dan and Gwen Karney visited
his mother, Thelma Clifton, Sunday
Jan, Chip, Tiffany and Delaine
Vaughn have returned from their trip
to Pennsylvania and New York
Grace Vaughn, Chip's mom, ac-
companied them She remained in
Pennsylvania for a few days to visit
with her parents
Wyman, Maxene ar.d Randy were
in Dallas Monday for his eye check
up. He received a good report While
there they visited his sisters, Norma
Goggans and Faye Creacy
Anne and Ernest Shaw were in
Dallas Monday for her medical check
up
Local man charged
in felony theft case
A local convenience store employee
has been charged with felony theft
after he allegedly confessed to police
that he used a story about an armed
robbery Saturday to coveraip a theft
he committed.
Charles Wakefield, 25, of Route 1,
Pickton, an employee of Family Mart
on South Broadway Street, was being
held in lieu of bond in Hopkins County
Jail Thursday after Municipal Court
Judge Roy Johnson set bail at $1,000
Crime Stoppers
offer reward
A residential burglary on Route 2 in
Sulphur Springs in May involving the
theft of $8,000 worth of guns and
jewelry was designated Crime of the
Week by the Hopkins County-Sulphur
Springs Crime Stoppers organization
Tuesday.
Crime Stoppers board members
approved an award of up to $1,000 to
anyone who supplies information
leading to the arrest and indictment
of the person or persons responsible
for the burglary committed May 26.
The board members turned down a
request for an award to an individual
who supplied false information on a
jail break that never happened.
Sheriff Mark Bassham reported
getting a call from an individual who
claimed to have information on a
potential jail break, but he indicated
that the information he received was
not of a pertinent nature. Since no
crime was conuriitted, no reward was
approved
on a felony theft charge
Detective Sgt. Ron Plaxco of the
Sulphur Springs Police Department
said he interviewed Wakefield
Monday morning about the robbery
report.
"A lot of the things he said just
didn’t sound right," Plaxco said. "He
was real vague about the description
of the suspect and the type of weapon
used. I had a gut feeling it was a
staged robbery."
Plaxco said Wakefield volunteered
to take a polygraph test on his
statement.
“After the polygraph, we talked to
him again,” Plaxco said. “That's
when he admitted to taking the
money.”
According to the police report
about the alleged armed robbery
Saturday, about $879 was taken.
FAMILY MEMBERS have an-
nounced that Amy Murray, a former
Sulphur Springs resident, is im-
proved in Childrens Hospital. Dallas.
Sixty units of blood were donated.by
local residents July 19 to help Iter
combat aplastic anemia.
LOCAL YOUNGSTERS who have
been contacted to attend the
Salvation Army’s Camp Hoblitzelle in
Midlothian should call Jo Neal at 885-
9521 or Toni Witt at 885-2173 for rhore
information about ramping plans.
Witt said. Five children between the
age of 8 and 12 have been selected to
attend the camp. The group will leave
July 28 and return Aug 2, Witt said
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Keys, Clarke & Hillsamer, Dave. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, July 25, 1986, newspaper, July 25, 1986; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth776017/m1/4/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.