The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 202, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, October 10, 1997 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL 202 —NO. 41
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS — FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1997
4 PAGES — 25 CENTS — PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
One hurt in machete attack
Bv BRUCEAISOBROOK
An apparent dispute over a woman has
landed one man ill fail and another in the
operating room, according to a Hopkins
County Sheriff \Office investigator
Chief Investigator Toney Hurley said a 36-
year-old Sulphur Springs man faces surgery
to re attach tendons in his right thumb altei
he was attacked with a machete hv his girl
11 lend s former suitor.
"It's a pretty serious situation.“ said Hur-
ley. The assault occulted about 9:30 p in.
Tuesdav west ol Sulphur Springs. According
to reports, the victim. I lorenco Aguilera, and
his gii Hi lend, a Sulphui Spnngs woman,
slopped at the Crossroads Restaurant to eat
when the woman spotted her ex-boyfriend.
Jose Ibarra. 45,
"She knew there might be trouble and told
|Aguilera| to |uxt leave." Hurley said
I he couple traveled west on the south ser-
vice road lor about two miles, but another
vehicle driven by the suspect in the case was
following them. "The suspect was driving
very erratically behind them, and the female
asked the victim to pull over, thinking they
were about to have an accident." Hurley said.
The suspect, carry ing a rusty machete, ran
up to the car and pulled the victim out ol the
vehicle, according to the investigator, and the
injuries were sustained when a struggle
ensued "The victim said the actor had the
machete over his throat, and he grabbed it
with his hands to try and push it away and
protect himself "
Anti-drug
message
Eonny Watson, a Drug Enforce-
ment Administration agent
from Tyler, talks about ways to
prevent drug and alcohol abuse
among teen-agers Tuesday
night in the Sulphur Springs
High School cafeteria. The pro-
gram was sponsored by the
SSHS Parent-Teacher-Student
Association.
Staff Photo By Marco Antonio Medina Sr
Ready For The Future
Sulphur Springs High School senior Brian Logan welding class. The trailer will be entered in a contest
welds on a trailer he is building in his agricultural in Houston and can later be used on his home farm.
Tech-Prep
gets students
ready for
college or
that first job
By LAURIE I). HAYNES
Sulphur Springs High School
students m the Tech-Prep program
earn college credit while at the
same time learning vocational
skills that could land them jobs
straight out of high school.
The high school has agreements
w ith several colleges to award col-
lege credit for technology prepara-
tory classes, providing those stu-
dents go on to those colleges with-
in three to five years. The amount
of time they have after high school
to get the credit depends on the
college.
"Tech-Prep gives students an
incentive to go on to college." said
Annie Perry, director of vocational
education at SSHS. “And I try to
use different colleges so the stu-
dents have a choice."
Not every student in vocational
education classes is in the Tech-
Prep program, and not all voca-
tional education classes them-
selves are part of the program.
The Tech-Prep option was first
offered to business and office
technology students about six
years ago and lias grown to
include several courses in the agri-
culture department, marketing and
drafting.
Perrv said the high school has
an agreement w ith Pans Junior
College and Northeast Texas
Community College to award col
lege credit for business and oil ice
technology.
NTCC.PJC. Central Texas Col
lege in Killeen and Weatherford
College award credit lor agricul-
ture classes Navarro College
oilers credit lot SSHS students
taking marketing and drafting, and
CTC also gives college credit to
lech Prep students m dialling.
Vocational education ilscll is well
respected m this area, said Perry,
unlike other areas vv here some par-
ents have the idea that a vocational
track and a college track arc mutu-
ally exclusive .
"Most patents in this area realize
the value ol v ocational education.’
she said.
"There used to be a vocational
track and a college track that were
separate, but now thev complement
each other"
< )l course, not evet v vocational
student has the desire to go to col-
lege or even be college material,
although he muv be very good m
vocational education. But the skills
he learns in vocational education
arc often sufficient to land him an
entrv level |ob as a skilled crafts-
man.
The agriculture department is the
largest in the vocational education
program, offering such classes as
horticulture, agricultural mechanics,
dairy science and wildlife educa-
tion.
The industrial trade department
has its own machine shop and oilers
classes m precision machining,
small engine repair, manufacturing
graphics and technological systems
(drawing blueprints and building
plans on a computer).
Business and office technology
classes include accounting, business
information process, business com-
puter programming, microcomputer
applications anil of lice systems.
Homemaking is offered in the
vocational education department,
-xviih classes such as advanced child
development, sewing, interior
design and individual family living.
"Vocational education integrates
skill learned in the classrooms with
work skills." said IVrry.
We show them how academic
skills relate to the working world."
Burglars manage to crack
two safes in
By BRICK AI SOBROOK
Burglars broke into the Cumby
City Hall and C umby 'Telephone Co-
operative offices Wednesday morn-
ing. tearing into two safes and making
off w ith more than $1,500 in cash.
Hopkins County Sheriff's Investi-
gator Jim Wright said he believes
whoever was responsible tor one
break-m also committed the other.
Both burglaries likely occurred
after midnight Tuesday, the last time
Cumby area
the telephone office had been
checked
/
file crimes were discovered at 7:55
a in Wednesday when workers pre-
pared to open the oltices lor the day
At Cumby City Hall, someone had
pried open the back door with a crow
bar. then used an ax to break into a
lire sale.
"They used a lire ax and knocked
holes in the front ol the sale." Wright
said
4-H fun
Stars of Texas
4-H Club mem-
bers, from the
left, Mallory
Hoy book, Can-
dace YanWin-
kle and Chance
VanWinkle
dress a man-
nequin in 4-H
attire 'Uiesday
afternoon for a
display at the
Northeast Texas
Farmers Co-op.
Staff Photo By Marco
Antonio Medina Sr.
City smoking
ordinance may
get stubbed out
By LAURIE D. HAYNES__
The Sulphur Springs City Council
tabled action Tuesday night on
amending a smoking ordinance
passed in 1994 that would have regu-
lated smoking in certain establish-
ments beginning in 1998.
And from sentiments expressed by
council members Tuesday, the panel
may be leaning toward doing away
w ith the regulations completely.
In May 1994. the council adopted
an ordinance regulating smoking in
restaurants, bars, nightclubs, pool
halls or bingo parlors. The affected
businesses had the option of being a
smoking or non-smoking establish
me nt
According to the 1994 ordinance, if
the businesses intend to provide both
smoking and non-smoking areas, the
areas must have separate ventilation
systems that exchange the air every
15 minutes and exhaust it outside.
The types of businesses listed above
were given until Jan. 1, 1998, to put
the measures into effect
City Manager Marc Maxwell said
in background information provided
with the agenda that, with the dead-
line approaching, some of the estab-
lishments that want to allow smoking
have expressed concern about the
installation of ventilation systems.
Johnny Vance, chief building official
for the city, researched the cost.
Maxwell said.
"He found that it would cost
approximately $2,000 per 250 square
feet of dedicated smoking area to
comply vx ith the regulation." said
Maxwell, "for example, an estimated
cost for an establishment such as the
Red Barn Cafe to provide a 50 per-
cent smoking area would be
$15,000."
Council member Billy Burney said
he does not think the eitv should tell
business owners if they can or cannot
allow smoking on then property and
moved to do away with the require-
ment completely.
"Live years ago. I had hall a lung
removed — probably from smoking
-— and a few months ago. I had
bypass surgery, probably as a result of
smoking." said Burney. “But I don't
want the council to he able to say
who can smoke and who can't "
Council member Selma Byron
agreed.
“This is a property issue, not so
much a smoking issue." she said
"The government should not tell them
what they can do with their property."
Steve Smith, a citizen, spoke in
favor of the ordinance.
"I cun understand where you're
coming from, hut the ordinance was
passed four years ago." Smith said.
"This is a time when the tobacco
industry has declared themselves
$300 billion guilty. That’s $300 bil-
lion of lungs removed and heart
bypasses and the like
"The LDA has declared it addictive.
Second-hand smoke does the same
thing to you as if you smoke. City
after city has passed smoking ordi-
nances and they continue to pass
them. I have waited four years to go
to these restaurants and not have to
smoke. I don't believe it's the coun-
cil's job to save businesses that had
four years to do this."
The council tabled Burney's
motion after Maxwell advised the
panel that a new ordinance was need-
ed to amend the 1994 law.
In other business, the council
reduced the si/e of the Board ol
Tourism and Promotion, removing the
position formerly held by a member
of the Southwest Dairy Center and an
at-large position.
The council also appointed mem-
bers for the tourism board: John Sell
ers Iron) the Hopkins County Histor-
ical Society. Bruce hidden ol the
Hopkins County Regional Civic Cen-
ter. .laquelvn McHlroy of the arts
community. Runny Glossup ol the
Hopkins County Chamber ot Com-
merce. ami Mike Holloway of the
Hotel and Motel Association.
J-B Weld Co. sponsoring
NASCAR team for 2 races
Bv LAI RIE D. HAYNES
Although J-B Weld Co. owner
Mary Bonham is known for her love
ol racehorses, she's also getting into
another type of racing — stock cars.
J-B Weld, as part of an ad cam
paign. will sponsor a NASCAR rac-
ing team for at least two races. It is a
brand new' ear owned by Francy Fell-
man and driven by Joel White.
The first race will be Oct. 11 in Tal-
ladega. Ala., and will be televised on
The Nashville Network.
The number to look lor is 49.
"Another race we're sponsoring for
them will be in Daytona Beach." said
J-B Weld Co. President Rhonda
Shtng. "It's the first race of Speed
Week, leadine up to the Davtona
500"
The car has been specially painted
in J-B Weld's colors for the two races.
Siting said part of the reason the
company decided on sponsoring a
race car is that the company's product
is frequently used in auto-racing.
Basic price of dairy products up, but behind last year
By BRUCE AI SOBROOK
The basic price paid to dairies for the milk
they produce has gone up again, but. as has
been the case for five months, the dollars still
lag far behind last year's payoff.
The U S. Department ol Agriculture Friday
announced the Basic Formula Price for
September of $1 2.79 per hundred pounds of
milk. That's up 72 cents from the August
price, an increase of 6.4 percent. Buttertat dif
ferential was 10.6 cents.
Yet the BFP. which has slowly climbed
alter hitting its lowest mark of $10.70 in June,
is still well below the $15.37 paid one year
ago.
The latest BFP. the foundation for calculat-
ing class prices under the federal milk mar-
keting order system, was aided bv an increase
m cheese prices in September
The per pound price tor 40-pound blocks,
as calculated by the National Agricultural
Statistics Service, was $1.3782. up about 7.5
cents from August. Grade AA butter on the
C hicago Mercantile Exchange rose from
$1.0932 in August to $1.1103 in September.
Grade A butter, also traded on the CME, w as
up about 2 cents, as well.
Butter and cheese prices, along w ith nonfat
dry milk and dry buttermilk prices, are used
to calculate the BFP. w hich reflects the value
that milk manufacturing plants in Minnesota
and Wisconsin pay for Grade B milk.
An actual pay-price average for the two
states is updated by a weighted average price
for cheese, butter and nonfat dry milk to for-
mulate the BFP. The BFP is the Class 111 price
in federal order markets and is the foundation
for calculating other class prices under feder-
al milk marketing orders.
The rise in the BFP is good news for dairy
farmers already being told they should receive
a 4 to 5 percent premium for the milk they
produce in October.
Cooperatives and processors had made an
agreement to pay the premium for October
milk for dairy farmers in Texas and New
Mexico.vv will receive 4 to 5 percent more for
the milk. Four milk co-operatives are
involved — Associated Milk Producers Inc.,
Mid-z\merica Dairymen Inc.. Select Milk
Producers of New Mexico, and a new coop-
erative in Stephens die. Elite Milk Producers.
Burke Bullock, a local dairy man and mem-
ber of Mid-Ant s corporate board, said the
cooperative has been in favor of implement
ing similar premiums for several years.
The cooperatives agreed to the hike in an
effort to stem the loss of Texas dairy farms.
Rural News: 4 Club News: 2 Reunions: 3
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