The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, September 5, 1980 Page: 1 of 4
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The icing didn't drip.
Sulphur Springs City Commission Chairman Lewis Helm was honored with a
homemade birthday cake symbolizing the problems that may have added a few
years to his chronological age following the commission meeting Tuesday night.
Although not shown in a black and white photograph, the large water drop was
colored brown by cake artist Kelly Bradford. The inscription on the cake and Helm's
expression tells the rest of the story. _st<H Photo
Building permits top
$1 million mark again
Sulphur Springs’ building permits were
propelled by three apartment complexes
providing for 96 units during August.
Joe Cerretani, city building inspector,
said August permits amounted to
81,156,290. It was the second straight
month for city permits to top the $1 million
mark.
In addition to the apartment complexes,
permits were issued for five new houses
during the month.
Construction permits have now climbed
to 84,263,400 for the first eight months of
1980.
The permits, with names, location and
estimated values, included:
TimKo Construction Co., 409 Rosemont,
8100,000 for 12-unit apartment.
Walter Helm, 310 Helm Lane, 8600,000
for 60-unit apartment.
Local man
in lake mishap
LAKE TAWAKONI - A Sulphur Springs
resident died in a diving accident here
Sunday evening.
According to Hunt County Justice of the
Peace Merrick (Mickey) Money, Kenneth
Wayne Herd, 27, of 639% Cranford St. dove
off of a bridge about 15 feet above the
water about 7:30 p.m. Sunday.
Money said that Lake Tawakoni is down
about six or seven feet from its normal
level due to the drought and that the water
was “only two or maybe three feet deep”
where Herd landed head first.
“He was dead right after he hit the
water,” Money said, “the impact drove his
neck back into his body.”
Money said the bridge is located at
Whisker’s Retreat.
The justice of the peace said that a
woman — identified only as a Miss Pollard
of Mesquite — was with Herd when he dove
from the bridge and that she and several
young men in the area got Herd out of the
water within about five minutes and tried
resuscitation to no avail.
Money said he pronounced Herd dead at
the scene about 9:30 p.m.
Herd’s body was taken to Coker-
Mathews-Peters Funeral Home in
Greenville.
Services were conducted Wednesday at 2
p.m. in the Coker-Matthews-Peters
Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Terry
Shoaff officiating. Burial was in the East
Mound Cemetery.
He was bom Dec. 27, 1952 in Greenville
to Clarence and Millie Rozell Herd.
The victim was employed by the Audley
Moore and Sons Construction Company.
Survivors include his mother, of Kemp;
two brothers, Jerry Herd and C.W. Herd,
both of Dallas; and a sister, Mrs. Joyce
AbohoshofCrandell.
He was preceded in death by his father
and a sister.
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City budget passes checkpoint
By JIM MOORE
News-Telegram Staff
The City of Sulphur Springs passed its
appropriation ordinance Tuesday night
calling for a record 84,530,110 budget - an
increase of 8 percent over the 84,163,857 for
the 1979-80 budget.
The budget includes 8483,000 in federal
funds for the Community Development
Block Grant Program and 8140,000 in
revenue sharing funds.
The good news was delivered by Com-
mission Chairman Lewis Helm when he
told those present that there was no tax
increase included in the budget.
Commissioner Dee Mabe said after the
meeting that to his belief the last city tax
increase had occurred in 1976.
That gives the city four years without a
tax hike — although the cost of services
have increased.
Those service costs will increase once
again if the budget is approved in its
current form on second reading.
The commissioners passed three or-
dinances on first reading that would in-
crease the cost of sewer services from 83 to
Fund drive
kickoff set
The Hopkins County Industrial Fund has
scheduled the kickoff of a major fund drive
on Tuesday, Sept. 23, following a breakfast
of volunteer workers.
B. F. Ashcroft, president of the In-
dustrial Fund, told the board members
Friday that a goal of 8135,000 has been set
to retire current debts and to replenish
operating funds for further industrial
development.
The Industrial Fund owes about 860,000
on the new site of slightly more than 100
acres across from the Municipal Airport.
The Hopkins County Industrial Fund,
Inc. was formed in 1953. It was first suc-
cessful in attracting the Ike Clark dress
factory to Sulphur Springs. Next, the H.D.
Lee Company was encouraged to locate a
plant here. Later, the Industrial Fund
purchased and developed the industrial
park on 1-30.
News briefs
Bill McCool, 1309 League, 8240,000 for 24-
unit apartment.
Lowell Cable, 842 Gilmer, 81,500.
Terry Stepp, 468 Shannon Road, 820,000.
Frank Wright, 1608 Myrtle Drive,
840.000.
Larry Moore, 1240 Shannon Road, 88,000.
Charles Richardson, 105 Como, 825,000.
Eddie Clinton, 111 Foscue, 822,000.
Capps & Roberts, 724 Fuller, 823,000.
Davis Wilson, 117 Kimberly Drive,
830.000.
Joe Glover, 213 Jonas St., 811,000.
Robert Forte, 502 College, 8400.
Joy Bull, 407 Hinnant, 81,000.
Joyce Mobley, 2121 Main, 83,000.
Kenneth Jenkins, 116 Hodge, 81,000.
Edna Mabe, 1605 Mockingbird, 8290.
James Shelton, 149 W. Industrial,
830.000.
Rehabilitation
office to open
Residents of Sulphur Springs and
the surrounding three-county area
will soon have easier access to the
services provided by the Texas
Rehabilitation Commission.
On Sept. 18, TRC will officially open
its Sulphur Springs Field Office at 207
Jefferson St.
The grand opening will be
celebrated with a ribbon cutting
ceremony, slated for 10 a.m. Thur-
sday, Sept. 18. TRC Commissoner
W.K. Harvey Jr. will deliver the
dedication address. A number of state
and local officials have been invited to
the ceremony. Refreshments and a
tour of the facility will follow the
ceremony.
The Sulphur Springs Field Office
will be staffed by Lan Rainey, TRC
counselor, and Brenda Duke,
secretary. The office will serve
residents of Hopkins, Franklin and
Titus counties.
The Texas Rehabilitation Com-
mission is in the business of helping
people with a wide range of physical
and emotional handicaps get, and
keep, jobs. To better serve the people
of Texas, the commission has divided
the state into seven regions.
Sulphur Springs is located in TRC’s
Region VI, headquartered in Dallas.
Regional director for this area is
Robert M. Marx of Dallas.
Community tour
dates announced
Tours have been scheduled on Sept.
11 and 12 to the participants in the 1980
Hopkins County Community
Development program.
Nada Crouch, president of the
Community Council, reports that
Sulphur Bluff will be visited at 9:30
a.m and Peerless at 10:30 a.m. on the
first day, Sept. 11.
Tour stops at Arbala at 3 p.m. and
Reilly Springs at 4 p.m. are set on
Sept. 12.
84 per month for residential users, along
with an increase of 50-cents per month for
trash collection.
The third increase in the budget package
is in the cost of each 1,000 gallons of water
after the first 1,000 gallons.
The increase is 10-cents per thousand,
but will not affect the present 83.25 rate for
the first 1,000 gallons of water.
The new rates are expected to go into
effect Oct. 1,1980.
Business and industrial rates are also
higher for sanitation and sewer service,
but are based on a separate scale.
Using a single person as an example, a
recent billing shows that 4,500 gallons of
water was consumed during the month.
The total bill from the city indicated a
total of 814.70 due to the city with a 83
sewer charge, 84.25 sanitation charge and
87.45 for water.
As of October 1, the same amount of
water will cost 87.80; the sewer charge, 84;
and 84.75 for trash collection for a total bill
of816.55.
The only variable in the fees would be
the amount of water used during the
month.
According to the schedule of fees for
water usage, the first 1,000 gallons of
water costs 83.25, with each additional
thousand costing 8130 up to 30,000 gallons.
Helm said that the city is trying to hold
the line on taxes and that by going up on
the services, those that utilize the services
are paying more of the costs instead of
raising the taxes which would affect
persons who do not utilize all of the city
services.
“We tried to cut this budget down to
where only what was necessary was in-
cluded,” he told The News-Telegram, “but
at the same time we’n» trying to upgrade
our city employees and provide as many
services as possible to the citizens.”
Commissioner Vaden Richey noted that
another source of revenue for the city is to
reappraise the current rent paid on
hangers at the Municipal Airport and that
he feels that the rates need to be upgraded
considerably.
An actual breakdown of the budget will
not be available until its final reading,
public hearing and anticipated passage at
the first meeting in October.
Officer among three honored
Sulphur Springs Police Cpl. Ricky
Roberts, Inventory Control Clerk Archie
W. Coursey and City Financial Director
Travis Owens were honored by the Sulphur
Springs City Commission at their meeting
Tuesday night.
Roberts was cited for saving of the life of
an 11-month-old baby in early August by
administering cardiopulmonary
resuscitation.
The three-year veteran of the Sulphur
Springs Police Department is credited
with saving the life of Lacy Petty,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Petty, on
Aug. 4.
According to police reports, Roberts
received the call about 2 p.m. that day and
arrived at the family residence at 207
Radio Road to find the infant had stopped
breathing.
He administered CPR and the child
responded and began breathing on its on.
Lacy was taken to Memorial Hospital
where she was examined and released.
For his action, a resolution was passed
by the City Commission recognizing his
efforts and dedication as a peace officer.
Roberts was presented a copy of the
resolution by Sulphur Springs Police Chief
Delbert Harrell.
Parks and Recreation Director Hugh
Sprague was tabbed to handle the
presentation of a resolution honoring
Coursey on his retirement from the city.
Coursey, 65, of 217 Jefferson St. has
worked for the city for 10 years.
During that time he worked in the Water
Department, Sanitation Department and
at the Service Center where he retired
from his position as inventory control
clerk.
Owens was presented with a plaque for
his service to the city as interim city
manager from April to August — a time
filled with problems both at the Water
Treatment Plant and the Waste ’Water1
Treatment Plant.
Owens returned to his position as city
financial director effective Monday when
Marshall L. Shelton became the fifth city
manager in the past two years.
Shelton was formally sworn in Tuesday
night.
In other action before the com-
missioners, bids were received for the
tertiary treatment facility at the Waste
Water Treatment Plant.
Mike Morrison of the engineering firm of
Freese and Nichols told the com-
missioners that a base bid and an alternate
bid were taken and that Coe and Smithen
Construction Company of Denison was the
low bidder on the alternative plan with a
bid of 8446,825 while Jack Cooper Con-
Death claims
civic leader
Larry Gee
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Larry Gee of Sulphur Springs, a former
city councilman and and former executive
vice president of the Hopkins County
Chamber of Commerce, died shortly after
noon Wednesday in Memorial Hospital.
Earlier in the week he had been a patient
at the hospital, was dismissed, and then
returned for treatment.
Mr. Gee’s father was an early-day
mayor of Sulphur Springs and the family
has been identified with the city for many
years.
His brother, the late Wayne Gee, was a
former county judge here.
Funeral services, under the direction of
Tapp Funeral Home, were held at 11 a.m.
Friday at First United Methodist Church.
struction Company of Temple was low on
the base bid at 8623,960.
Morrison said that the alternate bid
would be the route his firm would
recommend the facility be built, as it was
cheaper and would save in both energy and
building costs.
The commissioners tabled the ac-
ceptance of the bids until the new city
manager and Maxie Chester, quality
control supervisor, can visit a similar
project at the Trinity River Authority.
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Certified in writing hero
Sulphur Spring* Police Chief Delbert Harrell presents a copy of a resolution
passed by the City Commission to Police Cpl. Ricky Roberts Tuesday night honoring
him for saving the life of 11-month-old Lacy Petty on Aug. 4. The infant was not
breathing when the policeman arrived at the family residence on Radio Road.
Roberts administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation to the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Steve Petty, restoring breathing. The infant was taken to Memorial Hospital
following the incident but was treated and released. _stlH
Daylight watering
schedule reinstated
Sulphur Springs water users won’t be having to set the alarm
clocks to irrigate lawns and gardens — at least for the time being -
as the city council Tuesday night rolled back a restriction on all
outside watering during the daylight hours.
The taps must remain off for two periods of four hours each
during peak demand periods during the day, however.
The Sulphur Springs City Commission passed Ordinance No. 832
Tuesday night, revising the procedure to enact future water
rationing ordinances - and at the same time City Manager Mar-
shall Shelton enacted Option One of the new ordinance moving the
current rationing back to no outside watering between 6 a.m. and 10
a.m. and from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m.
Although the consumption of water is down from the earlier h
due to the recent slight rains, there is still a probability of
water consumption as longas it remains hot and dry.
passed in July.
The provisions of the new water rationing ordinance are
basically the same as the old one with those using well or pool water
still required to notify the chief of police of the location of the well
and to post a sign indicating that the water being used is from a well
or pool.
The violation of the ordinance is the same. It provides for a fine of
$25 to $200 per offense and on continued violation, discontinuance of
water service.
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Keys, Clarke & Woosley, Joe. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, September 5, 1980, newspaper, September 5, 1980; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth780644/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.