The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, October 31, 1986 Page: 1 of 4
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SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1986.
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Many line up to
seek jobs at HON
By KARENTURPEN
Food for the needy
Robin Palmer, secretary for the Red Cross,
looks over the shipment of commodities
which will be given to needy families in
Hopkins County. Red Cross volunteers help
some 2,500 families by distributing the food.
Volunteers also deliver food items to some
250 persons who cannot travel to the
distribution sites.
—Staff Photo by Richard Hail
United Way donations help
Red Cross combat disasters
By BOBBY BURNEY
The American Ked Cross, best
known for its life-saving help when
natural disasters temporarily turn an
area into a disaster zone, also does its
work every day in Hopkins County
Besides being ready to provide
food, shelter and welfare needs in
case of a disaster, the local Red Cross
affiliate enlists volunteers to
distribute government commodities,
teach safety programs and conduct
public information classes, according
to Lucy Vaden, Red Cross director.
Food commodities provided by the
U S Department of Agriculture are
distributed to qualified Hopkins
County families every month
Seventy-five active volunteers
distribute the food products at three
distribution sites in Sulphur Springs
and one each in Cumby and Como,
Vaden said.
At the last issue date.^nore than
2.5d0 local families accepted the
conun odities.
We've really seen an increase in
those people who have taken part in
the commodity program," Vaden
said.
Red Cross volunteers also deliver
the USDA products to homebound
people and to those who have no way
of getting to the distribution site.
They make about 250 home
deliveries, she added.
Red Cross also keeps all books and
supplies needed to teach safety
classes in hospitals, industries and to
individuals. They conduct classes in
CPR, first aid and swimming.
If a family has a personal disiffter,
such as a major fire, the local chapter
will help them, V ader. said.
Military personel, their families
and veterans are also given
assistance by Red Cross.
And of course, in case a disaster
should strike Hopkins County, Red
Cross would be ready to do what was
needed.
"We have a disaster program that
is coordinated with the city of Sulphur
Springs,” Vaden said. We have the
responsibility of providing shelter,
food and welfare inquiries."
The local affiliate also leases out
infant car seats at a very small fee
for families that cannot afford one of
the seats. The leases run for six
months, Vaden said.
Every Friday morning in recent
weeks a line almost two blocks long
has been connected to the front of the
Texas Employment Commission
office on College Street unem-
ployed workers hoping to get a job.
Aptitude test scheduling for
potential HON Company employees
is the cause for the line, according to
Will Dean of TEC. Approximately 50
A.P. Green
firm may
change hands
A proposed sale of A.P. Green
Refractories Co., which operates a
plant in Hopkins County near Como,
is expected to be determined by the
end of the week, according to com-
pany information.
Local plant manager, David
Carpenter, said no information has
been made available locally.
However, he added that he expects to
have more information from the
company after Friday.
A.P Green's parent company. USG
Corporation of Chicago, signed a
contract with Adience Equitites Inc.
of Pittsburgh for the refractory
business sale.
According to USG information,
Adience Equitites controls BMI,
which develops, manufactureswand
installs specialty refractory products
and acid proof and corrosion
resistant linings and coatings.
"The acquisition of Green will
enable Adience to expand its
customer base significantly, com-
bining brick and specialty product
lines and providing services to ad-
ditional industries," the information
states.
The 1954 local plant purchase was
the second firebrick plant acquired
by Green and led to modernization of
the facility. Currently, 53 people are
employed at the plant.
Texas dairy farm provides hands-on
experience for student from France
B, MICHAEL PELRINE
How can you get them back to
Paree, after they've seen the farm0
That could be a problem for
Christian Davy, a 20-year-old ex-
change student from Anjouleme,
France, who has been living with
Thomas and Shirley Right for the
past two months on their dairy farm
in Como.
Davy, a student at Ecole Superieur
d’Agriculture de Purpan Toulouse in
Southern France, is in his second
year of study in a five-year
agricultural business curriculum.
Part of that curriculum includes
some time to experience techniques
abroad.
"The first year, we are to get some
practical experience in agricultural
business,” Davy said. "In the second
year, the school wants us to go
Exchange student
Christian Davy, an agriculture student from Anjouleme,
France, pauses from the daily chores at Thomas and
Shirley Kight's dairy in Correa. Davy has been in the states
for about two months and will be leaving for home Oct. 31.
—MrH PhRt* fey RictwrR Hall
abroad. I wanted to come to a dairy
farm in the U S."
He said he wrote about 120 letters to
dairy farmers across the U S. -Some
other people answered the letters, but
Thomas and Shirley were first to
answer. So I decided to come here,"
he said.
Northeast Texas dairymen run
their dairies differently from what
Davy is accustomed to. "I think our
system is nearer to the Wisconsin
system," he said. "People here have
larger herds and feed with con-
centrates as well as allowing the
cattle to graze.”
In Southern France, he said, the
herds are much smaller and they are
fed mostly corn and silage. He
learned of the similarity with the
Wisconsin system by reading
American dairy trade magazines.
Davy’s ambition is to work in un-
derdeveloped tropical nations to help
them establish productive dairy-
herds. However, his ambition has
been temporarily thwarted by a
timing mixup.
“I was to take a test that I thought
was in December," he said (he is
scheduled to return home Oct. 31),
“but I got a call from my father and
he said the exam is the Thursday
before I leave.”
He now has to wait two years before
he can take the exam that will put
him, in a school to train for an
agriculture development program. -
Davy said France experienced the
problem of surplus dairy production,
that the US. is currently ex-
periencing, back in 1981.
Since France, a nation about one-
third the land area of Texas, conducts
much of iLs trade in the European
Common Market, government plays
a much more prominent role in
agriculture there than in the U S. To
solve the surplus problem, the
government set a system of quotas.
Davy said
"The government here seems more
willing to help the dairy farmers than
in France," he said "The French
farmers are still free to grow as they
want, but they can only sell so much
in the European market. "
Davy also talked about the cultural
differences between the U S. and
France.
About the problem of terrorism,
and particularly about the current
rash of terrorist bombings in Paris,
he said, "France has always been a
country where people feel they can go
to be free or to hide from their own
country, probably since the days of
the Revolution. But the problem of
terrorism has existed for a long time,
maybe 15 or 20 years.
"Paris is the perfect place for
terrorists to hide because the people
there don't seem to pay attention to
what the other people do. They seem
very cold, probably like they say in
New York City. On the buses or in the
Metro (subway), people look straight
ahead and don’t seem to talk to each
other. It is too big.”
Davy’s home town is •ffbout 600
miles from Paris, but he has been
there often. "It is where you go to see
shows and other entertainment,” he
said.
Students are different in the U.S.,
also. "Students here seem to have
-more time to do other things,” he
said. "In France, we have eight hours
of study a day, and then a lot of
homework "
When he returns home next week,
he will pick up his studies where he
left off. Although he admits he might
have a little,more time to play around
now that he missed his important
exam, he said he still must continue
in school tor two more years until tin-
test comes up again
people were there this Friday mor-
ning. Twenty-four walked out with an
appointment for a testing session
next week.
"They take the first 24 here every
Friday morning,” one of the ap-
plicants told The News-Telegram.
Those 24 are assigned a testing
time for the following week, usually
12 per session, according to Dean.
The test takes about three hours,
and, Dean told those selected Friday,
there is no way you can study up for
this test. It simply measures basic
skills and your ability to learn a job."
HON uses it because their attitude
is such that if they don’t think they’ll
be able to promote you, they won’t
start you," he added:
After the scheduling session ended,
Dean told The News-Telegram that
TEC has always administered ap-
titude tests for employment, but
there hasn't always been such a big
crowd until HON needed testing.”
The HON Company opened its
distribution center earlier this week,
and it will employ approximately 90
people when a production line is
operational next year, according to
plant manager Dennis Boyle. HON
officials estimate the future em-
ployment of approximately 300 local
residents.
A sharp rise in unemployment in
Hopkins County has occurred this
year with the closing of two plants
and layoffs at another. Fleetwood
Homes' 93 employees were1 out of a
job when that plant closed in early
September. A layoff of 230 employees
at the H D. Lee Co. in August and the
closing of the plant in late September
left a total of 510 unemployed. Layoffs
at Rockwell International have'added
88 to the unemployment roster.
Most of the people lining up outside
the TEC office on Fridays are former
Lee Company employees, according
to Linda Reppond, who has been a
regular visitor to the office since
losing her job at Lee.
‘‘We’re trying to get on at HON,”
she said, indicating three other
former Lee employees standing
beside her outside the office, "but
we’re about to the point that we’ll
take anything."
‘‘If you know somebody, you can
net a job," she added, "like so-and-
so’s brother or somebody. ’’
Reppond and her friends said they
have been applying for jobs
everywhere, but there just aren’t
any out there,” Gayle Walker said.
"There’s a lot of people hateful to you
though. I guess that's because there’s
so many looking for work.”
‘‘But we gotta do it to get our
unemployment," Reppond said,
referring to applying for jobs, “and
it's (unemployment benefits) about
to run out and here it is nearly
Christmas.”
Reppond said she and other former
Lee employees had heard that HON is
hiring former Lee Company em-
ployees on a priority basis. However,
Don Adams, HON personnel
manager, said he has "heard that
bandied about." but it is not true.
"We're taking each one as they come
and evaluating each individual,” he
said.
Two local brothers
held in knife attack
Two Sulphur Springs brothers were
transferred to Wood County Jail,
Quitman. Friday after being arrested
in Sulphur Springs for questioning in
connection with a knife assault on
another man Wednesday night.
The victim, John Lindsey, 38, of the
l^ake Fork area, is hospitalized in
stable condition at Tyler Medical
'Center with a knife woiihd 'fo fils
throat, according to police.
Hospital officials declined to
release information concerning his
condition.
He was attacked in his home
Wednesdsay night.
A auto believed driven by the
brothers was spotted en route to
Hopkins County at 9:14 p.m. Thur-
sday. The abandoned vehicle was
later located in Saltillo.
The two local men, ages 35 and 32.
were arrested by Sulphur Springs
Police’officers, assisted by Hopkins
County sheriff’s deputies, early
Friday morning at Country Inn motel
in Sulphur Springs. They were
arrested on Wood County warrants
charging them with attempted
murder.
A woman accompanying them was
also taken into custody for hindering
apprehension, according to police
reports. ____________ ________________
According to police, a domestic
quarrel between the three men
became heated at Lindsey’s
residence on Lake Fork in Wood
County Wednesday evening.
Police believe one brother slashed
Lindsey’s throat with a knife and the
second brother (jeat Lindsey after he
had been cut.
Authorities are continuing their
investigation into the incident.
The unidentified brothers were
scheduled to be arraigned in Wood
County on the attempted murder
charges later Friday, according to
police.
OUR GOAL
Sign raising
Three rrtembers of Boy Scout Troop No. 69, the Panter
Patrol, met near the courthouse recently where they
erected the United Way sign to help the public follow the
progress of the annual fund drive. Raising the sign were
Brandon Alford, left, and Jeffrey Pattberg and Bryan
Lockhart, right. tuiiptioick,ruiu»«h«ii
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Keys, Clarke & Hillsamer, Dave. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, October 31, 1986, newspaper, October 31, 1986; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth776366/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.