The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 1981 Page: 4 of 4
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Mr. Rowfa was also at the Heart
Cmterto Dallas Monday for a
pacemaker check. Another
daughter of the Roaches, Gwen
BrummiU and family were
vidtan In the Roach family
Monday of last week.
Mrs. Sue Sttverson of Denver,
Colo, is here to spend a month
with her mother, Mrs. Lydia
Gregg, who is recuperating
nicely from a serious illness.
Mrs. Margie Goines of
Beaumont has returned home
after a visit with her mother,
Mrs. Lillian Wood.
F.M and Bonnie Bunch of
Dallas have purchased the
Francis Searls land, a portion of
the late John and Virgie Searls
estate, but the Bunch family
will not move here permanently
for a few years.
Mytle (Acton) Hooten of
Dallas is seriously ill in a Dallas
hospital. Mrs. Hooten lived for
many years in the Macedonia
community.
Mary Sue and Eddie Clayton,
Becky and Brian have moved
into the Neva Pogue house on
Highway 19, the former late
Harvey Leewright home.
Gregg Martin, Janet Gibby
and Terry Goldsmith joined a
group of 21 youths and 4 adults
from the First Methodist
Church in Sulphur Springs on a
skiing party at Cloudcroft, N.M.
on Christmas Day and returned
on New Year’s eve.
The Young Homemakers
meeting will be at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 8, in the school
cafeteria where Mrs. Poulos of
The Sweet Shoppe in Sulphur
Springs will do a demonstration
on cake decoration.
New Year’s eve for Truitt and
Dicken, Jerry and
Shirley Glossup. Pud, Peggy
and Shafl Brice, Mrs. Eddie
, Brice and Shaunda, T H and
Vanda Burks, Doug and Glenn
Martin, Andy, Mary Lou,
Mandy and Wendy Wright,
Sherri, Larry and Stacy
Spradlin.
Kenny Groves and a friend,
Rand? of Dallas, spent New
Year’s day with Carl and Ida
Bell Groves, and Tammy.
Mrs. Myrtis Posey has
returned after spending two
weeks with her daughter, Billie
Sue and Garvin Cross in Dallas.
Myrtis took the virus on
Christmas Day but came
through with flying colors to
celebrate her 83rd birthday on
Jan. 2 and says she is still going
strong.
Visitors in the Freeman
Parish home on New Year’s day
were Ann Willis of Garland,
Jimmy, Betty, Robby and
Emily of Savoy, Paula,
Charley, Lisa, Amy and Dawn
Dickey of Martin Springs,
Robert, Shirley, Perry and Paul
of Floyd, Pam Evans of Dallas,
Effie (Parish) Wilson of
Sulphur Springs, "Floyd and
Helen Parish of Dallas.
Guests of Weldon and Vera
Mae Glossup on New Year’s
day were Mr. and Mrs. Louie
Beadles, Donnie, Anita and
Melanie Glossup, Andy, Mary
Lou, Mandy Wright, Larry,
Sherri and Stacy Spradlin,
Joyce and David Scott.
David and Dorothy Coke
returned home Monday from
Baylor Hospital in Dallas,
where David had a bout with
pneumonia. He is improved and
doing nicely now.
Dec. 1—Local officers join in
search after three men escape
from Wood County jail at
Quitman.
Dec. 2 — About 90 local
residents voice protest of
proposed zoning change. Sing-
song kicks off holiday season in
Sulphur Springs.
Dec. 3 — Ci^r issues $196,300
in building permits in
November, boosting total of
calendar year to date to
$5,248,500. Public airs pros,
cons of major mall project.
Dec. 4 — Dr. Virginia Adams
resigns as principal of Middle
School, effective Dec. 31, to
accept position with Region IV
Education Service Center at
Houston.
Dec. 5 — A life sentence was
handed to Timothy James
Holloman, 32, of Mount
Pleasant in Eighth District
Court. He was found guilty in
connection with a local
burglary.
Dec. 6 — Mrs. Carroll A.
(Blanche McMullan) Green
donates $100,000 to St. James
Catholic Church in Sulphur
Springs for building purposes.
Dec. 7 — Officers hunt for
Gloria Sue Shaddix Gilmore, 36,
convenience store operator
abducted at Mount Vernon.
Dec. 8 — City National Bank
announces purchase of Odd
Fellows Building and plans to
raze the structure to expand
drive-in facilities. Front brings
2.4 inches of rain to area and
drives temperature to mh$30’s.
Annual Kiwanis Club stew and
auction grosses about $8,000 in
Sulphur Springs.
Dec. 9- Dr. JackW. Robbins
resigns as pastor of First
Baptist Church after 4% years
here to return to North
Carolina. Preliminary census
fibres show Hopkins County
with population of 25,239 and
Sulphur Springs with 12,809.
Federal judge dismisses
lawsuit by D.M. Jones against
Hopkins County officials.
Dec. 10 — Court of Criminal
Appeals upsets life sentence of
Billy Ray Wallace of Sulphur
Springs in connection with
death of his wife, Janyth Kay
Wallace. District Attorney Jim
Chapman says he will seek
indictment and plans to try
Wallace. Hopkins County'
United Way reports raising
$53,100 toward goal of $55,000.
Dec. 11 — Hopkins County
Chamber of Commerce officials
make transisition into 1981 with
40 members in attendance.
• Dec. 12 — Marion Teel, 43,
former highly successful
Sulphur Springs High School
tennte coach hnd teacher,
fatal^lnjured in farm accident
in Paint Rock community.
Clift* Alexander, Charles
Dawson, Billy Jack Allen and
Alyne Poe cited for outstanding
accomplishments at annual
DHIA awards banquet.
Dec. 13 — Body of Gloria Sue
Shaddix Gilmore, 36, found in
weeds near pond in north part of
Hopkins County. The drive-in
grocery clerk at Mount Vernon
had been missing for a week
and apparently was shot to
death.
Dec. 14 — City proposes to
change property values to 100
percent of market value ef-
fective in 1981.
Dec. 15 — A Hopkins County
man was subdued Sunday after
holding several family mem-
bers as hostages. He was placed
in projective custody. Mild
weather continues in area.
Bright Star Lodge.71,s I.O.O.F.,
breaks ground for new building
on Jefferson Street.
Dec. 16 — Sulphur Springs
Boy Scout troops given lease by
city for wilderness area near
Century Lake.
Dec. 17 - District Atttteiey
Jim Chapman says preliminary
autopsy report on body of Mrs.
Gloria Sue Shaddix Gilmore, 36,
of Mount Vernon reveals she
■Sulphur Bluff news
Delbert and Dorothy Hays
were in Wolfe City on Christmas
Day with their son, Garland,
Claudia, Jay Don and Carrie
Hays. On New Year’s Day,
Garland and family were here
for lunch with his parents. They
talked by phone to their
daughter and sister, Dorothy
Nell Hopkins, Hoppy and Vickie
of Colorado. They were fine.
Georgia and Denny Ransone
and little Jessica of Topeka,
Kas., spent the holidays here
with her parents, J.R. and Majy
George Nugent and Carol, and
her grandmother, Pauline
Stone.
The Que Sullivans hosted a
New Year’s Eve sing-song at
their home. Present were
Mervin and Marie Chester,
Karen Dorner, Barney and
Alma Skeen, Mervie Bassham
and Edna Pettit. They sang the
old year out and the New Year
in, and also enjoyed refresh-
ments.
Martha Jo and William ford
of Wichita Falls were here for
New Year’s with her mother,
Madie Dawson.
Funeral services were held
Sunday fer-^Rpy flicks of
Sulphur Springs, a former
resident and uncle of Sybil
Deaton. Burial was in the local
cemetery. Refreshments were
served for the family and
friends at Community Center
following the services,
Sue and Don Hatley, Lisa and
John of Natchitoches, La.
returned her mother, Aleen
Skeen to her home following
holidays with them there. On
Monday, they moved Aleen to
an apartment on Rosemont
Avenue in Sulphur Springs.
The First Monday lunch was
held with an abundance of food.
Several visitors were present,
, some for the first time.
Donations were very good.
Thanks for all participation.
The second Wednesday night,
Jan. 14,7 o’clock will be regular
meeting of Rural Progress.
Chili and stew supper with
dessert will be enjoyed. Each
family is to bring either chili,
stew, pie or cake and a couple of
gifts to be used for bingo games.
Everyone is welcome and urged
to attend.
The Extension Homemakers
Club will meet at 2 p.m. Mon-
day, Jan. 12, at Community
Center, when qew officers will
be installed. Several new ideas
will be discussed for the new
year.
The Flower Land of Mount
Vernon delivered a bouquet of a
dozen red roses Monday to Billy
and Hilga Chester as they were
celebrating their 37th wedding
anniversary. It was a gift from
their daughter, Kay Frazier.
She came at noon and enjoyed
First Monday lunch with her
mother.
Como-Pickton FFA leaders
Leaders of the award-winning Como-Pickton FFA chapter for 1980-81 are shown presiding over a
recent meeting. From left are Dachiel Turner, sweetheart; Edward Green, sentinel, Laura
Bradford, secretary; Carl Teer, president; Penny Nichols, vice president; Tom Massey,
treasurer; and Beverly Coker, reporter, with advisor Gerald Walters.
Carolyn uraaay
Pastel artist's
work exhibited
Carolyn Braddy’s pastels will be on exhibit in the Sulphur
prings Library during the month of January, according to
Irs. C.H. Crouch, exhibits chairman.
Members of the Art League of Hopkins County exhibit work
n a monthly schedule at the library.
Mrs. Braddy is a new member of the Art League after
loving to Sulphur Springs from Irving. She paints under the
ameCB Everett.
While residing in Irving, she studied with Dmitri Vail of
Dallas in his school of art. Shirley Been of Northlake, Calif,
was another teacher who taught Mrs. Braddy portraiture. *
Some of her teachers of art workships are Barbara
Turrentine and Nancy Ware.
Newest business
Lois Harrison cuts the banner signifying the opening of Body Perfection Studio at 117 West In-
dustrial as her daughter, Mrs. Diana Cross assists and members of .the Hopkins County Chamber
of Commerce's Special Activities Committee look on. The new studio offers weight reduction and
body shaping for women. Dairy Festival Queen Lydia Wallace and Mrs. Jill Helm held the banner
for the ceremonies. *
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Accident chain results
in uprooted mail box
It started off as a busy day
Tuesday for John W. Ver-
million, a former fireman and
public safety worker, who lives
about two miles south of
Sulphur Springs on SH-154.
Tuesday morning, Vermillion
found himself a witness to two
accidents and lost his mail box
— again.
About 9:45 a.m. a 1976 pickup
driven by William Floyd
Nichols, 40, of Route 1, Yantis
overturned after he attempted
to avoid jpttier vehicle just
south of Vermillion’s residence.
Nichols told DPS Trooper
Wayne Scott that a-vehicle
suddenly stopped inijse road-
way, apparently to calk to the
\f
driver of a milk truck.
He said that he decided to go
into the ditch instead of hitting
the other vehicle and when he
did, the truck overturned.
The other vehicle and the
milk truck were gone when
Scott arrived.
Shortly thereafter, a nor-
thbound 1978 two-door compact
driven by William Donald
Moses, 23, of Clover Drive in
Quitman, pulled off the road-
way in front of Vermillion’s
house after seeing the over-
turned pickup and a 1980
compact pickup driven by
Cletys Columbus Sadler, 63, of
Route 2, Alba colllided with the
Moses vehicle - hitting Ver-
million’s mailbox and sliding
was shot several times.
Dec. 18 - Eighteen can-
didates file for three open
positions on City Council. They
are Deborah Matthews, Lon
Plaxco, Jim Wells, Bobby
Gregg Price, Joy Matlock Bull,
Henry H. Oppenheim, Jack
Godfrey, W. Don Walker, Mary
Flowers, Homer Blevins, Larry
Blount, Vie Brittain, Mike
Hodge, Dee Mabe, Loyd Fields,
Vernon L. Castle, Billy Bob
McCool and Jim Dobson.
Dec. 19 — Business booms at
Hopkins County Memorial
Hospital. Dr. Soqjia Tris, ob-
stetric and gynecology special
specialist, welcomed to hospital
medical staff.
Dec. 20 — I^rry Dale iAt-
taway, 30, of the Black (Oak
community sent to Rusk State
Hospital for psychologicaL-
evaluation.
Dec. 21 — Below-freezing -
weather grips Hopkins County
as final Christmas shopping
rush begins in Sulphur Springs.
Dec. 22 — Warming trend
forecast after mercury dips to
record 16 degrees. John Hat-
chett, 88, veteran* retired
Sulphur Springs groceryman,
dies.
Dec. 23 — Governmental
forces gear down for extended
Christmas observance.
Dec. 24 — Jack L. Courson,
37, of Sulphur Springs arrested
and charged with aggravated
rape and listed as suspect in so-
called “screwdriver rapist’’
cases in several nearby
counties.
Dec. 25 — East Texas Banc-
shares of Tyler revealed as
prospective purchaser of
Peoples National Bank of
Sulphur Springs, pending
formal approval of federal
agencies.
Dec. 26 — Temperatures
climb after dropping to 18
degrees on Christmas Day.
Harold Morris of Denver, Cok>.,
former mayor of Sulphur
Springs, suffers heart attack
while on Caribbean cruise and
is hospitalized in Dominican
Republic.
Dec. 27 — Traffic accident at
intersection of FM 21 and FR
115 near Mount Vernon claims
six lives. Joe Attlesey, former
radio singer, dies here.
Dec. 28 — A house owned by
David Gibson at 1505 Live Oak
destroyed by early Sunday
morning blaze with loss
estimated at $85,000.
Dec. 29 — Newell Cambron,
76, former Hopkins County
auditor, dies in sleep.
_ Dec. 30 — Portable bleachers
arrive from Hawaii for in-
stallation in Civic Center.
Dec. 31 — Rainfall amounts to
36.75 inches here for year, about
10 inches below average.
Speeding
tops fclty
violations
Lions Club Honoree
Miss Cheryl Filak, daughter oI Mr. and Mrs. L.V. Filak, Is the
Lions Club honoree representing Sulphur Springs High School
for the month of January. Cheryl has been active during her
senior year as a varsity cheerleader, FTA secretary, FFA
sweetheart, National Honor Society, and Hi King Klub. *
Sulphur Springs police tamed
166 . traffic citations in
December, took 188 offense
reports, cleared 39 cases and
made 90 arrests.
Twenty funeral escorts were
made as officers drove a total
of 31,471 miles during the
month.
There were 70 persons cited
for speeding with 19 of those
being for speeding in a school
zone.
Officers issued citations to 20
people for expired motor
vehicle inspection stickers, 15
for running stop signs, 13 for
defective equipment (usually
loud mufflers) and eight for
expired registrations.
Drivers license problems
accounted for 13 citations with
seven of those for operating a
motor vehicle with no driven
license, three for violating
drivers license restrictions, two
for expired driven license and
one for allowing a minor to
operate a motor vehicle.
The most frequent offense
reported during December was
theft.
Officen took reports on 43
thefts and three for
unauthorized use of a motor
vehicle (auto theft).
There were 28 burglaries
reported with 13 of those being
burglaries of motor vehicles,
eight of residences, six of
businesses and one of a coin
operated machine.
Criminal or malicious
mischief accounted for 20
reports and there were six
assaults reported during the
month.
Detectives cleared 23 cases
by arrests, three without
arrests and 13 were unfounded.
Of the 90 persons arrested, 15
were for public intoxication and
12 for driving while intoxicated.
There were 20 persons held
for other agencies, nine
arrested on warrants, eight for
theft, four for burglary, three
for possession and consumption
of alcoholic beverages in a dry
area and one for rape.
The animal warden picked up
56 animals during the month,
released 13 and destroyed 38
Police Department dispat-
chers took 2,953 incoming
phone calls and made 766,
received 1,345 complaints and
handled 30,837 radio tran-
smissions and 4,819 teletype
messages.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Green of
Garland are visiting Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Passons.
Bull sale tops $183,000
THE THIRD Armored
(Spearhead) Division
Association is seeking to
contact its World War II
combat veterans. The national
association is holding its 34th
annual reunion at the Arlington
Hotel, Hot Springs National
Park, Ark., July 23-25. Former
members may write to Harley
Swenson, national president,
P.O. Box 3153A, Fairfield Bay,
AR. 72088.
Sales totaling $183,825 were
recorded Saturday in a
Brangus bull production sale at
the Hopkins County Civic
Center. The sale was a private
sale from the herd of B, W.
Harry, with a few subsidiary
consignments.
The top price paid was $35,000
'by Henry Myrick of McKinney
far a two4hirds interest in a
Hariy^mill. Gene Adair of
Weatherford paid $13,000 for a
two-third interest in another
bull and $10,000 for a third bull,
while Lively Farms of
Covington, Ga., paid $6,000 for
another bull among the top
sellers.
In all, bulls were sold to
buyers from six states,
although Harry said that many
more states were ^presented.
And, he added, the Civic Center
facilities drew high praise from
the visitors from throughout
the nation. There were 71 and
one-third lots sold at the event.
across his driveway.
Sadler was pulling a welding
machine and said the additional
weight did not allow him to stop
in timeto avoid the collision.
There were no injuries in
either of the accidents.
Vermillion said his mail box
has been knocked down by
vandals and car wrecks, his
fences have been damaged at
least three times and that the
gate across the driveway has
been damaged several times.
“At least nobody got hurt this
time,” he said.
He called the State Depart-
ment of Highways Public
Transportation to come put his
mail box back up - one more
time. ' i
First arrival of'81
Janna Lynn Mallicote received the honor of being the first baby bom in Hopkins
County in 1981. The seven pound, 11 ounce daughter of Charles and Laurie Mallicote
of Honey Grove was born at 5:5* a.m. Jan. 2 in the Hopkins County Memorial
Hospital. Although Mrs. Mallicote was exicted about the honor, baty Janna |)ept
through the photo session. The Mallicotes have two other children.
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Keys, Clarke & Woosley, Joe. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 1981, newspaper, January 9, 1981; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth780090/m1/4/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.