The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, September 19, 1980 Page: 1 of 4
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EBALMX 1 12-31-99 00
MICROFILM CENTER, INC.
p'.O. BOX 45435
DALLAS TX 75235
I
(ABSORBED THF. GAZETTE CIRCULATION BY PURCHASE MAY 12. 1928)
VOL. 105—NO. 38.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,19B0.
4 PACES -10 CENTS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Aw, come on...
City turns off taps
Outside watering under total ban
By JIM MOORE
News-Telegram Staff
The City of Sulphur Springs and those
using water from the city’s Water
Treatment Plant are under an outside
watering ban as of early Wednesday
morning.
City Manager Marshall Shelton said that
Option Three of the water rationing or-
dinance was put into effect during the pre-
dawn hours due to heavy consumption of
water that is taxing the plant’s capacity
for production.
He said that the normal five-hour
retention time to allow for settling of the
water’s contents is down to two hours
because of heavy consumption.
“We pumped in 5.5 million gallons of raw
water Tuesday and pumped out 4.7 million
gallons of treated water," Shelton said.
He explained that lightning had hit a
power transformer and damaged a pump
during the short thunderstorm Wednesday
morning, but that the pump was only down
about an hour.
“It had nothing to do with our going to
Option Three,” he said, “the curtailment
is due to consumption.”
The users of the city water system have
been under some form of rationing since
July 17.
Under Option Three, no outside watering
is allowed at any time of day.
Since the first of September, the Water
Treatment Plant has pumped in 80,533,000
gallons of raw water and pumped out
69,013,000 gallons of treated water.
Quality Control Supervisor Maxie
Chester said that approximately a million
gallons of water has been used this month
cleaning the filters. The rest of the dif-
ference in the amount of raw water
pumped in and the treated water pumped
out is due to evaporation and the normal
loss in water treatment.
On Monday, the city manager and City
Commission Chairman Lewis Helm said
that the situation was “critical” and asked
that all consumers follow the guidelines
set out in the ordinance under Option Two
(night-time watering only) which was in
effect at that time.
Sulphur Springs Police Chief Delbert
Harrell said that citations would be issued
for anyone found violating the ordinance.
“It’s got to be enforced,” said Chief
Harrell Wednesday morning, “I just hope
we can get some rain before too long.”
Monday’s effort was an attempt to
reduce the consumption and most of the
area water supply corporations reported
that they were enforcing the restrictions
on the users of their water systems.
The worst periods of consumption have
been from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. this week,
according to Shelton.
He said that allowing watering only
during the non-daylight hours had not
produced the desired effect and that the
consumption had to be reduced allow the
water to clear.
Under the ordinance, persons who have
wells or want to use lake water on their
lawns are allowed to do so, if they have
notified the chief Of police of the location of
that well and posted a sign indicating that
the water being used is from that source.
Anyone found violating the ordinance
can be fined from $25 to $200 per violation
and if continued disregard of the ordinance
is found, the water service to that
residence or business can be terminated.
Shelton and Helm agreed that Option
Three will stay in effect “until further
notice.”
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Record entry list
Radonna Wright had just a little trouble with her hefier Monday to go to the judges and claim her prize. Other contestants in the
afternoon during the Dress-up Heifer Contest in the Civic Center event were Amy Rabun, Cherrie George, Ann Rabun and
livestock arena. Although Miss Wright and her calf won third Tammy Teel.
place in the senior division of the contest, the calf was reluctant -sun Photo by john gore
for festival stew contest
Area farmer killed in
crop stripper accident
COOPER - A 53-year-old Enloe farmer
died here Tuesday afternoon when he was
drawn into a cotton stripper.
According to DPS Trooper Jerry Hagan,
Garland Kent Cregg, 53, of Route 1, Cooper
was stripping cotton near Enloe in the
northern part of Delta County when he
apparently attempted to clean the strip-
per.
Cregg was reportedly pulled into the
stripper by the hand.
A cotton stripper is pulled behind a
tractor and contains sharp knives that
strip the cotton from the plant stalks.
Cregg was found by a son about 3 p.m.
Hagan reported that those at the scene
first planned to use a cutting torch to
remove the body from the cotton stripper
but feared that the heat might set the body
on fire.
The unit was then disassembled as far as
possible and Cregg's body was taken to
L.P. McQuistion Regional Medical Center
in Paris where the body was surgically
removed from the unit.
The time of death was estimated to have
been about 1:30 p.m.
Services for Mr. Cregg were conducted
Thursday at 2 p.m. in the McClanahan and
Sons Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Johnny
Johnson officiating. Burial was in Cooper’s
Oaklawn Cemetery.
Mr. Cregg was born Oct. 19,1926 in Delta
County to J.W. and Jimmie Burchess
Cregg.
He married Ruby Gunter in Paris on
Dec. 20,1947.
Mr. Cregg was a member of the Cooper
First Methodist Church and had served in
World War II as a member of the U.S.
Marine Corps.
Survivors include his wife; three sons,
Terry Cregg and Tracy Cregg, both of
Enloe, and Jim Cregg of Cooper; three
sisters, Mrs. Maurine Wall of Bonham, Sue
Eda Cregg of Enloe and Mrs. Mildred
Dukes of LaFeria; three brothers, Charlie
Cregg of McKinney, Glyndol Cregg of
Dallas and Drew Cregg of California, and
four grandchildren.
Gadget gives local man
fresh chance at old job
By KAYEBENEKE
Texas Rehabilitation Commission
A contraption that literally sweeps cattle
off their feet is about to put David Wilkins
of Sulphur Springs back in business again.
Wilkins, 45, suffers from a lower back
injury, yet he is about to embark on a
career that normally requires a good deal
of physical strength — hoof trimming.
Wilkins’ eagerness to work, an in-
novative machine from California and
help from the Texas Rehabilitation
Commission have made it all possible.
Wilkins injured his back in a fall from an
hay producers turned out some decent
hay, according to the results of the Annual
Hopkins Coutny Hay Show held this week.
Hay show judge Dr. Ken Smith, an
agronomist with the Extension Service in
Overton, joked with area producers at the
Ag Workers breakfast Thursday morning
at the Ag Center in City Park, before
announcing the winners saying, “It looks
like you folks didn’t water your pastures
enough this summer. Some of this hay
looks pretty dry.”
Dry or not, The Martin Springs Dairy
oil rig. The extent of his injury made it
impossible for Wilkins to return to the oil
field. He visited the Texas Rehabilitation
Commission as a referral from the In-
dustrial Accident Board. After he was
determined eligible for TRC services,
Wilkins worked with Counselor Lan
Rainey. Together they developed a plan to
get Wilkins back to work.
With 20 years of experience shoeing
horses and hoof trimming, Wilkins already
had the necessary training for such a
business. But the physical demands of the
job threatened to keep him out of this line
of work.
operation owned by Bill Tate and Doyle
Woods produced the winning bale of
coastal hay.
The Grand Champion bale tested out
with 15.8 percent protein and received a
physical score of 89 points.
Another bale of hay from the Martin
Springs Dairy took second place in the
contest and a bale from Jim Russell
captured the third place honor.
The top bale brought $250 on the auction
block during the annual Ag Workers
auction. The bale was bought by Sulphur
Springs State Bank.
In discussing the situation with Rainey,
Wilkins mentioned a mechanical device he
had seen in California that might solve the
problem. It is a hydraulic cattle chute. The
chute works with a hydraulic lift and belt
and allows the cow to be turned on its side
for hoof trimming. When the trimming is
over, the cow is set back on its feet and
sent on its way, and the trimmer has
exerted a minimum of physical effort.
Wilkins is optimistic about his business.
Normally, hoof trimming is a time con-
suming and fairly expensive job. By using
the hydraulic contraption purchased for
him by TRC, Wilkins says he will be able to
do the job for a reasonable rate and in a
reasonable .amount of time. Several local
veterinarians have indicated they will
refer their hoof trimming business to
Wilkins.
Wilkins’ success will be a success for
TRC as well. Helping a client find or return
to gainful employment, thus back on the
tax rolls, is one of the commission’s most
important goals.
Wilkins is one of several thousand clients
served statewide by the Texas
Rehabilitation Commission. The com-
mission’s goal is to help handicapped
people, with a ride range of physical or
mental disabilities, get and keep jobs.
Clients are referred to the commission
through a variety of sources, ranging from
family and friends to doctors and
hospitals. To be eligible for TRC services,
a person must have a physical or mental
disability Which hinders him or her in
getting or keeping a job. And, TRC ser-
vices must reasonably be expected to help
that person in terms of employability.
Martin Springs dairy
wraps up hay honors
Even with the hot, dry summer, area
The air Saturday morning will be filled
with douds of gently rolling smoke and the
smell of slowing cooking food as 42 con-
testants stirring black caldrons brimming
with Hopkins County Stew vie for the title
of World Champion Hopkins County Stew
Cook.
"Last year was a big year with 38 pots of
stew,” said 1980 chairman of the event,
Chad Cable. “This year we have 42 pots
entered in the contest, and we just might
have a few more late entries before we
close registration, making this the biggest
stew cook-off yet.”
A few changes have been made this
year, according to Cable, which should
help aleviate some of the problems that
surfaced last year.
“The biggest change is that we won’t be
selling any quarts of stew until the crowd
has been fed,” Cable said.
“Last year we sold quarts of stew at the
same time we were selling the individual
bowls and we ran out of stew in a hurry.
This year we will just sell 16-ounce bowls,
complete with cheese and crackers, until
the crowd has been fed, then if there is any
stew left over we will sell quarts,” he
explained.
Bowls will be selling for $2 this year,
Cable said. “All the money we raise from
the sale of stew will go to the Chamber of
Commerce.”
Prior opening the chow line for stew, the
annual stew auction will be held.
“Last year we didn’t get to auction off
the winning pots of stew,” Cable said. “But
we will this year. Hopefully we can raise
as much as $4,000 for the Chamber of
Commerce on the auction and sale of in-
dividual bowls. Sometimes, the winning
quart of stew will bring as much as $250 at
auction.”
Contestants in the 1980 Fall Festival
Stew Cook-Off and their sponsors, as of
Wednesday morning, are:
Mae Dell Greenwood, Herschels;
Murray Stephens and Deborah Roberts,
Sulphur Springs Farm Store and Nelson’s
Corner Drug; Herman and Marie
Burkham, Town and Country Real Estate;
Jean Froneberger, Mary F. Powell and
Karen Fronberger, Bell Concrete
Products; Sterling Beckham and Wayne
Melton, Sulphur Springs Parts Company;
Harold Bryant and Laurine Anderson,
Associated Milk Producers, Inc.; Mr. and
Mrs. Ronnie Blount and Mr. and Mrs. Jeff
Massey, Jackie Blount Oil Company and
Massey’s Gulf Station; VFW Post No. 8560
and VFW Post No. 8560 Ladies Auxiliary,
sponsoring themselves; Jean Flora and
Floyd Easley, Flora Dairy;
Neal Anderson and Rick Willingham,
Sulphur Springs Young Farmers and
Hopkins County Veterinary Clinic; Buck
Booker and Biff Chapman, Jess Orr’s
Store and Super Handy; Darrell Seale,
Dick Pogue Oil Company; Emma Owens,
Jerry Petty Trucking; Faron Young and
Keith Tuck, Tuck’s Jewelers;
Bert Whorton and Tony Stubbs, Coca
Cola Bottling Company and Audley Moore
and Sons Construction Company; Jerry
Flemming and Gerald Gamer, Rockwell
International; Sybil Jones, Peoples
National Bank; Reed and Pat Gammill
and Don and Patti Bell, P&G Nursery and
Gammill Dairy; Mr. and Mrs. James A.
Griffin, Grocery Supply and The Kennedy
Company;
Ola Beckham and Carol Price, Price and
Thomason Land Investments; Rick
Palmer and Astor McKeever, First
National Bank; Darrell Dodd and Don
Kerbow, Century 21; Ewell and Danny
Smith, Texas Power & Light Company;
Poss Baxter, Marvin Bartley and H.W.
Holcomb, Hopkins County Food Locker
and Bartley’s Barbecue;
Morris and Mary Logan, Southern Auto
Supply and LouNells Fashions; Clarence
and Edwina Jones, Pizzini Price and Sons
Land and Cattle Company; Ruby Cates,
Grandma’s Fried Chicken and Murray-
Orwosky Funeral Home; Gerald Moore
and Girl Scout Troop 145, Paul and
Company and Dairy Queen; Jeff Gideon
and Keith Brice, Gideon Insurance and
Brice Real Estate;
John Icenhower and Edwin Bigon,
Walker-Harry Warehouse; Jimmy and
Carolyn Rogers, Pepsi-Cola Bottling;
Margaret Coker, Douglas Adams and
Dalton Adams; Dale Watts and Jim Me-
Caffery, Dale Watts Used Cars and Village
Used Cars; Miller Grove Cheerleaders,
Kentucky Fried Chicken;
Oscar White, Jess Orr’s Store and
General Telephone; Ken and Diane Rawls,
Specialty Foods of Southland Corporation;
David Johnson, Deanna Landers,
Charlotte Johnson and Sheila Moore, S&F
Trucking; Michael Hadaway, Yellow Rose
of Texas Ballroom; Mr. and Mrs. B.J.
Thomas and daughters, Stewart Auction
Service and Howard's True Pharmacy;
Roy and Sandra McCasland, R.C. Cates
Texaco; Woodrow Kirtley, Kirtley
Electric and Southern Machine Shop; and
Dan and Sammy Edge, Dan Edge Motors.
Out-of-town judges for the contest in-
clude Lou Murley of Lou’s Country Inn in
Winnsboro, James Cleveland of Cleveland
Farms in Tulsa, Okla., Texas history radio
personality Tumbleweed Smith of Orange
House Productions in Big Spring, Sammy
Attlesey of the Dallas Morning News,
entertainer Jacky Ward (who will be
performing at the Civic Center Auditorium
that night), Dick Owens and Fred Tarpley
of Backroads Publishing Company, and Ila
Naron of Country Time and Down Home
magazines.
Local judges will include Precinct 4
Commissioner L.T. (Son) Martin, Chester
Eddins, Jack DuPriest, Buel Berry, Jeff
Campbell, Floviece Craig and Abe Dial.
Stubborn blazes raze
600 acres in county
A Cumby fireman suffered minor in-
juries Wednesday night and an estimated
600 acres were burned as firemen from
North Hopkins, Cumby, Campbell,
Commerce and Sulphur Springs spent
most of the day and a good part of the night
fighting the re-occurring blazes.
The first fire report came to the Sulphur
Springs Fire Department about 11:15 a.m.
where a tractor had reportedly started a
grass fire on the A.K. Gillis property
located north of SH-11 near the Gafford
Chapel area. I
Approximately 20 acres burned in that
blaze as firemen fought the fire for 1W
hours.
At 2:33 p.m., firemen returned after the
blaze rekindled.
Over 2^-hours later, 300 acres had been
burned along with two hay bams and a
small shed.
No loss estimates for the buildings were
available.
Firemen speculate that wind picked up
sparks from the blaze and took the embers
to a location south of SH-11 between
Ridgeway and Gafford Chapel where a fire
was reported at 5:05 p.m., even before the
firemen could get back to their stations.
Over an hour later, another 50 acres of
grass had burned before the flames were
extinguished.
Then at8:36 p.m., the call came in again
where the fire south of SH-11 had reignited.
Firemen responded and another 200
acres were burned off there before the
firemen got the blaze out after more than
2V4 hours of fire fighting.
It was during that latter fire that David
W. Box, 20, of 202 Main in Cumby was
injured when the pumper truck he was
driving ran off the road into a culvert.
Box reportedly was complaining of chest
pains and was taken to Memorial Hospital
by private vehicle.
Hospital officials said that Box was
treated and released.
Mitchel said the truck was not damaged
in the accident.
Area firemen say that conditions are
extremely dangerous for grass fires.
A fire department spokesman said that
the grass is extremely dry and that with
even a small wind, a fire will spread
quickly. '
They are asking that everyone be ex-
tremely careful when in grassy areas with
cigarettes, fires and with vehicles
equipped with catalytic converters which
can quickly set a grass Are if parted in
high grass due to the high temperatures
attained by the converters.
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Keys, Clarke & Woosley, Joe. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, September 19, 1980, newspaper, September 19, 1980; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth780367/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.