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VOL 204 — NO. 15
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS — FRIDAY, MARCH 12,1999
4 PAGES — 25 CENTS — PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Singer, actor
Eddie Dean
dies at 91
Hopkins native one of
tqp singing cowboys
films of ’30s, ’40s
By BRUCE ALSOBROOK__
Eddie Dean, a Hopkins County native who grew
up to be one of the top singing cowboys of the '30s
and '40s, died Thursday from heart and lung disease
in Los Robles Medical Center in Thousand Oaks,
Calif. He was 91.
Dean, dubbed the “Golden Cowboy” because of
his singing voice, appeared in 46 movies between
1934 and 1952.
He was bom Edgar Dean Glosup on July 9, 1907,
outside of Posey in Northern Hopkins County. He
was told to change his name when he moved to Hol-
lywood in 1936 after performing on radio.
He appeared in his first film, “Manhattan Love
Song,” in 1934, and in the early years he played bit
parts with the likes of William Boyd (better known
as Hopalong Cassidy), George “Gabby” Hayes,
Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette.
He first got top billing in “Romance of the West"
(1946) but held leading roles in a series of more
than 30 top-grossing Western films in the 1930s and
1940s and was the number one box office attraction
for PRC Pictures at one point. His best known film
was probably “Song of Old Wyoming” in which he
starred with Lash LaRue.
He also appeared in the television series, “The
Marshal of Gunsight Pass,” which ran on ABC for
six months in 1950. His last film role was in 1952 in
“Varieties on Parade,” with Jackie Coogan, but he
continued to perform in clubs and concerts until
1994 at the age of 87.
Dean also had great success as a songwriter, col-
laborating with his wife, Lorene, who he called
“Dearest.” He and lyricist Hal Blair wrote a multi-
million seller, “One Has My Name, The Other Has
My Heart” which has been recorded by 57 artists
over the years. Dean and Hal Southern co-wrote
“Hillbilly Heaven,” which a number of artists have
recorded, including Tex Ritter, who is said to have
sold 10 million records with the song.
In 1978 Dean received the Academy of Country
Music’s Pioneer Award, presented annually to a per-
son who has enhanced country music and contribut-
ed to its growth from the Academy of Country
Music.
He earned a similar honor from the Golden Boot
Awards, which honor the individuals who have
made outstanding contributions over the years to
Western tradition and heritage in film and television.
In 1995, Hopkins County commissioners pro-
claimed Sept. 25 “Eddie Dean Day” in his honor,
calling Dean “a gentleman dedicated to the promo-
tion of virtue, morality, Christianity, family values.”
Dean was said to have never kissed the leading
lady in his films because he didn’t want to offend
his wife. They were married for 68 years.
Graveside services will be Monday at Valley Oaks
Memorial Park in Westlake Village, Calif. Ecker-
man-Heisman Funeral Service of Burbank, Calif., is
in charge of arrangements.
He is survived by his wife, Lorene Glosup, of
Westlake Village, Calif.; one daughter, Donna Knorr
of Costa Mesa, Calif.; one son, Edgar Dean Glosup
of Shingle Springs, Calif.; one sister, Lorene Lacau-
ta or Phoenix, Ariz.; eight grandchildren; nine great-
grandchildren; and one great-great-granchild.
Monday rainfall
collides with city
work on ditches
ly BRUCE ALSOBKOOK
The heaviest rainfall of the year hit Sulphur
Springs Monday, dumping almost two inches of pre-
cipitation in about two hours.
The storm cell passing over the city between 11
am and 1 pm doused the town with 1.97 inches of
rate, filling ditches and waterways to the brim, b
was the most rain in one day since Dec. 3, when
2.12 inches felL
i living oo the south end of Mockingbird
i the city's Capital Construction Crew is
■ter and sewer lines, wen especially hit
hard by Monday’s rainfall. The deluge filled ditch-
es aligning the road to overflowing and eroded die
ground around culverts. About two feet of dirt erod-
ed around one driveway where a culvert was not
inataBed. —** a woman's vehicle got «twk after she
tried to back out of the driveway and ended up in
Spring: The season of mean weather
By BRUCE ALSOBROOK____
Spring may be that special season that
sees the warm caress of sunshine and dew-
kissed buds on the vine, but let’s face it:
the meanest, nastiest weather of the year
also comes in the transition from winter to
summer.
As sweet as spring sounds, it can also
bring nasty thunderstorms and straight-line
winds that could take the bloomers off
your grandmother.
Rex Morgan, director of emergency ser-
vices for the city of Sulphur Springs, opens
up the local emergency operation center an
average of 28 times a year when dangerous
weather threatens the town, and most of
those activations come in the springtime.
“We’ve already started. Since January,
I've already gone into activation four
times,” Morgan said. “Anytime we get
under a watch or warning, we open up the
EOC and contact our RACES [Radio
Amateur Civil Emergency Services], who
are our primary weather spotters.”
RACES is a coalition of amateur radio
operators who can quickly set up a high-
speed weather warning network across a
wide area, not only in Hopkins County but
across county lines.
Most Texans are used to the occasional
flash and boom of a severe thunderstorm,
but that doesn't make the weather phe-
nomena — which pack winds upward of
50 mph and can spawn anything from
lightning strikes to tornadoes — any less
dangerous.
The best thing to do in the event of a bad
storm is to get inside, the reason the city
employs an outdoor early warning system
when severe weather descends.
Last year, Morgan set off the 11 outdoor
sirens twice, and with good reason — both
times, winds hit at speeds high enough to
tear off the roof of the city’s service center.
The sirens are activated when a weather
spotter sights a tornado, or if straight-line
winds of 50 mph or greater hit, or if the
National Weather Service puts the area
under a tornado warning.
“Maybe they’ll see all the right condi-
tions for a tornado, and they’ll contact the
city, and we’ll set off the sirens,” Morgan
said. “We like to see as much time as pos-
sible to warn the citizens — 10 minutes
preferably, but we’ll feel pretty good with
five to 10 minutes’ warning.
“If you hear the sirens, take cover, and if
you can, listen to a local radio station — it
doesn’t do any good to listen to a radio sta-
tion 50 miles away. If you have a scanner,
you can also get good information from
that.”
Just practicing
Stiff Photo By Brad Ottonn
Students from more than 40 area schools assembled jects in which they compete, they earn ribbons and
in Sulphur Springs High School’s cafeteria Saturday gain practice for the district UIL competition March
morning for a practice UIL academic meet Although 27 at North Lamar High School,
the students will not gain credit for any of the sub-
Benchmark
dairy price
drops 37%
From Staff Reports
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Fri-
day the largest single-month drop in milk prices in the
history of the federal dairy program, effectively low-
ering prices to the dairy farmer 37 percent.
The Basic Formula Price — the monthly benchmark
that establishes minimum prices processors must pay
dairy farmers for milk — plummeted $6 per hundred-
weight Fnday, or 37 percent in today’s announcement.
Within the last two months the BFP has dropped 41
percent, falling to the lowest level since the spring of
1991.
“Let’s put this in perspective,” said Danny Evans, a
Sulphur Springs dairy farmer and chairman of the
Texas Dairy Coalition. “An individual earning
$30,000 a year is paid $2,500 a month, before taxes.
If his company implemented a 41 percent percent
salary reduction, his monthly pay would drop to
$1,475. That wouldn’t be tolerated in any other indus-
try, but the dairy fanner doesn't have a choice.”
The radical drop underscores the importance of milk
pricing legislation filed in Austin by State Sen. Ken
Armbrister (D-Victoria) and State Rep. Bob Turner
(D-Voss). The bills, SB 737 and HB 2000, would
allow Texas to join eleven other southern states,
including Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, in the
formation of the Southern Dairy Compact, allowing
interstate cooperation to stabilize milk prices on a
regional basis.
Since January 1, 1995, Texas has lost 34.4 percent
of its dairy farmers and 10 percent of its milk produc-
tion at the same time Texas' population is growing
faster than any other state. With that growth has come
greater demand for milk, but the increased demand is
not reflected in farm level milk prices.
“Our bills would allow us to partially decouple
Texas milk prices from the volatile federal formula,"
Turner said earlier this week.
OM team heading back to state
By DARON BECKHAM
✓"V ne Sulphur Springs school has
■ 1 built a reputation throughout the
state of Texas as a dynasty — not
in football or any other sport involving ath-
letic ability, but for excellence in brain-
power.
For 13 years in a row. Sulphur Springs
Middle School has sent at least one team to
the Odyssey of the Mind stale competition.
This year the Environmental Challenge
team has qualified and will be in El Paso
for the state meet April 17. If they do well
in El Paso, the team could be headed for
World Competition in Knoxville, Tenn., in
May.
Members of the team include seventh-
and eighth-graders Sara Barrett, Josh
Sanders, Katy Gibson, Jessica Oler, Rebec-
ca Ball. Zach Kelty and Janet Reed. The
coaches are Chip Vaughn, Mike Kelty and
Josh Payne.
“OM (Odyssey of the Mind) is a very
good program,” OM Coordinator Johnny
Weils said. “It allows students to solve
problems without adults and be responsi-
ble enough to see it through. They leant to
be a team and find out who has certain
strengths and weaknesses in the group.”
The team was judged on three criteria:
“Longterm," the overall skit; “Style,” the
appearance of the presentation; and “Spon-
taneous,” which is the ability to answer
questions or solve hands-on problems pre-
sented on the spot from judges.
"This team's strong point is in the spon-
taneous section." Wells said. “They abso-
lutely blew their opponents away in that
aspect."
According to OM rules all ideas and
solutions must come directly from the stu-
dents within the team No assistance to the
students is allowed, not even from the
coaches.
“Pretty much all coaches can do is ask
questions, provide resources, manage time,
manage materials, those sorts of things,”
Wells explained.
Judges even question the students out-
side the presence of the coaches to make
sure the team received no extra assistance
This year's theme for the Environmental
Challenge team is a problem sponsored by
National Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
tration. Each team presents a performance
about an Earth species that requires atmo-
sphere, water and land for survival, and
whose home habitat suffered disruption
and is now uninhabitable. Four potential
new habitats are available but whether the
Earth species can live in any of them is
unknown.
During the performance, the team col-
lects samples representing atmosphere,
water and land from the habitats and ana-
lyzes them to determine if each habitat is
suitable for the species. The.result of these
evaluations must be communicated by a
non-verbal method and displayed at each
habitat. There is a time limit of eight min-
utes and a budget of $100.
The Sulphur Springs team used athlete's
foot fungus as their Earth species and a
light system as an answering technique.
Officer commended
for burglary arrest
By BRUCE ALSOBROOK
A Sulphur Springs police officer
was commended this week for catch-
ing a burglar that helped police clear
up a rash of crimes.
Kim Simpson received a commen-
dation from Sulphur Springs City
Council for her work the morning of
Feb. 17 when she stopped a burglary
in progress at BBI Sales.
“Simpson investigated at BBI Sales
after seeing a truck parked at the
scene that morning and finding a door
open at the business,” Mayor Mike
Miesse sahl. reading from a procla-
mation commending Simpson. “Offi-
cer Simpson suspected a burglary in
progress. [She] advised dispatch of
the situation and then pulled her
patrol unit behind the truck, which
was loaded with boxes. Officer Simp-
son then apprehended the suspect.
“Her quick response allowed other
officers to be dispatched to the scene,
resulting in the apprehension of the
second suspect which ran from the
building.”
Miesse. who sometimes tides with
officers oo their patrols, commended
all the members of the department, as
well
’The officers in this town do a
super job," he said.
SI
Patterson will be
honored March 12
From Staff Reports
KIM SIMPSON:
Rural News: 4
Club News: 2
Rep. L.P. “Pete" Patterson, who represented Hopkins
County for more than 20 years in the Texas Legislature,
will be honored with an appreciation banquet on Friday.
March 12, at Hopkins County Regional Civic Center.
The Hopkins-Rains County Farm Bureau is hosting the
banquet for Patterson, who represented Hopkins. Delta.
Lamar, Fannin, and Rains counties in the Legislature.
Patterson, a 21-year veteran of the Texas House of Rep-
resentatives, served for seven years as chairman of the
House agricultural and livestock committee.
In 1998, he chose not to seek re-election, choosing
instead to seek the state agriculture commissioner's job.
He won the Democratic Pity nomination for the post but
ukunaaely loot to Republican Susan Combs in the general
election.
The Tete Patterson Appreciation Banquet” begins at 7
p.m. at the Civic Center
Reunions: 3
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