The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, June 6, 1980 Page: 3 of 6
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Looking back at May...
...Area people and events in the news
May 1 — U.S. Ambassador
Robot Krueger visits Sulphur
Springs to boost President
Jimmy Carter for reelection.
Jack Wilden, Republican
candidate for state
representative, speaks to
Kiwanis Club members.
May 2 — Storms rumble
through area, dumping heavy
hail in Reilly Springs area.
May 3 — J.E. Tittle wins
renomination, tantamount to
election, as sheriff of Hopkins
County, while Smith Gilley and
Lowell Cable head toward
runoff as Democrats in state
representative’s race. Mervin
Chester and Lex Fite to face
run-off for County Com-
missioner, Precinct 3.
May 4 — Local students Tina
Phillips, Gregg Tinsley and
April Lynch take high honors at
state UIL meet in Austin.
May 5 — Architects estimate
new jail will cost $1 million.
May 6 — Piazza Shopping
Center on College Street ex-
pected to stfcrt preliminary
work soon, R.B. Thomason
reports, after 27 European
investors visit Sulphur Springs.
May 7 — Top students
recognized at Honors Day
assembly at Sulphur Springs
High School. Prestlgous
Dekalb award presented to
Monty Teel at annual FFA
parent-member banquet
May 8 — David Baucom
accepts bid to become chamber
president in 1961. City plans
three separate park projects.
Stephanie Tyler, Lari Luce and
Craig Morris ranked top three
Middle School graduates.
May 10 — Texas Power k
Light Company begins
negotiations to sell 4.35 percent
interest in Comanche Peak
Nuclear Plant at Glen Rose to
Tex-La Electric Prower
Cooperative of Texas.
May 11 — Foster parents in
Hopkins County honored.
May 12 — Commissioners
Court tables Civic Center bids.
Hopkins County grand jury
returns 10 indictments.
May 13 — City of Sulphur
Springs receives sales tax
Cuff Notes
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— AMembUd by —
JOE WOOSLEY
Brief notes: Hopkins County
added three names to the list of
new attorneys last week,
although the trio of young
barristers will not be practicing
here...Chief Justice Joe R.
Greenhill administered the
oaths to the new at-
torneys...Larry Grayson, who
will practice in Dallas, is the
son of C.W. and Wanda Grayson
of Sulphur Springs...Tom
Stribling, son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Stribling of Sulphur
Springs, is planning to practice
in Austin...Glen King, son of
Mr. and Mrs. O.B. King of
Brashear, is joining a law firm
in Midland...Incidentally,
VaLinda Hathcox, who has been
practicing with a law firm in
Dallas, is planning to return to
Austin to hang out her own
shingle...lra Black of Sulphur
Springs says his work as area
vocational agriculture
supervisor has slowed a little
now with school out. Not so for
his son, David, who is involved
in the accelerated program to
become a veterinarian at Texas
A&M...At last count, Hopkins
County had 11 veterinarians.
More notes: Bill Taylor had
an experience the other day as
he drove his pick-up truck in the
boon docks and encountered a
water-covered road in the
bottoms...He attempted to drive
ahead and wound up bogged in
the middle of the artificial pond.
Bill pulled off his shoes, waded
out, and walked about a mile to
summon a tow truck...But when
the wrecker arrived, the driver
had second thoughts about
attaching a chain. He saw
snakes at a menacingly close
position to the truck...Taylor
Improvised. He mounted the
truck bumper and had the
Learning to model
Donna Hints, right, ontofttw contestants in ttio County 4-H Club
Fashion rtview, gets a tow modeling tips from former Miss
Sulphur Springs Robin Rogers. All of the 35 contestants Hi the
review got some help from either Miss Rogers or Dobra Neal,
who has previously competed in 4-H Club contests at the state
rebate of $35,943.37 covering
period to May 1.
May 14 - School trustees
honor top honor students of
Sulphur Springs High School
and handle other business.
May 15 — Storms soak area,
with 39-minute power outage
slowing production at News-
Telegram office and other
areas of town. Debra Neal
recognized as Sophomore of
Year by Kiwanis Gub. Federal
grand jvy subpoenaes bank,
school and county records.
May 16 — Civic Center im-
provement project delayed.
Hospital to consider expansion
step. General Telephone
Company employees go on
strike, but local service not
disrupted.
May 17 - H.G. Smith of
Sulphur Springs elected
chairman of board of directors
of Region VIII Education
Service Center.
May 18 — Officials announce
that about 213 will graduate
from Sulphur Springs High
School this spring.
May 19 - Hubert Hicks, 82,
and Mrs. Hilga Chester, 80,
dted as top senior citizens in
Hopkins County.
May 20 - New format
developed for Hopkins County
Community Improvement
Contest, which will coincide
with Hopkins County Fall
Festival.
May 21 - Engineers give
qidate on Cooper Lake Project Buchanan, 26, and David
but indicate completion will not Wayne Hall, 25,-injured when
be before 1990 under normal their motorcycles were in-
procedures. Hopkins County’s volved in a headon crash on
crude oil production showed a Broadway Street
slight increase in 1979, with May 26 — Murder trial of
1,821,070 barrels recovered
May 22 — John Barron, a
former student and now a
senior editor with The Reader’s
Digest gives commencement
address at Sulphur Springs
High School commencement
program.
May 23 — Contests set in
Democratic run-off in Hopkins
County scheduled on June 7.
Jesse Cox, 71, of Peerless
fatally injured in two-car crash
Zone board clears
way for expansion
of local business
driver move forward until he
could hook the tow chain...Oh,
the chain broke once, but
Taylor and the wrecker driver
did not sustain snake
bites...John M. Cline of Dallas,
writing to add a subscription to
the hometown newspaper, says
he is Sulphur Springs vintage
1915-24. He recalls that Miss
Thula Blythe taught him to read
“real good” back in 1921 at the
old North End School.
Last notes: Tragic stories are
coming from area lakes...Two
young high school athletes, one
from Mount Pleasant and the
other from Gilmer, have
drowned in separate ac-
cidents...Records probably
would indicate that the first few
days after school dismisses is a
critical time to practice water
safety — and traffic safety as
well...Remember Philip
Cockran? He’s now employed
by the Kentucky Heritage
Commission and also pursuing
a Ph.D. degree in his “off
time.”...When the family lived
in Sulphur Springs and where
Philip graduated from high
school, his father, Sam
Cockran, was district manager
of Texas Power k Light
Company...Scott Ferguson of
Sulphur Springs is executive
director of the Region VIII
Education Service Center in
Mount Pleasant and is rounding
but his “rookie” year at the
post...A real veteran in a
similar position is Mack Mullins
of Waco, who has been
executive director of Region
XH since 1967...Mack, son of tile
late Austin School principal
Grady Mullins, went through
the local school system and
once was employed as a teacher
here.
Conditional approval for
closing and vacating an
easement for a portion of
Longino Street was approved
Monday night by members of
the Sulphur Springs Planning
and Zoning Commission after a
short presentation by Cannon
Craft’s Ed Rosamond.
The commission also called
for a public hearing on a
request by Albert J. Burris to
rezone property at 715 Houston
St. from Residential n to Local
Business and approved a
request from Memorial
Hospital to widen Memorial
Drive to provide additional
parking.
Rosamond told the com-
mission during the public
hearing on his request that the
closure was due to a two-year
expansion program that the
company was undertaking and
that the part of the planned
building improvments would
cover what is commonly
thought to be part of Longino
Street.
Fire Marshal Jerry Bolding
said that as long as proper fire
lanes were left as planned, he
had no objectioa
The commisson approved the
request with the provision that
sufficient fire lanes be
provided.
There was no opposition
present at the public bearing.
David Jackson, representing
the hospital board, told the
commission that the hospital
planned to remove about 272
feet of curbing and create 11
additional parking places on
Memorial Drive.
He said that another plan was
to also include a one-way street
southeast of the emergency
room drive and creation of 14
additional parking spaces
there.
AD of the work will be at the
hospital’s expense and will be
supervised by city employees.
The plat change was ap-
proved.
Burris appeared before the
commission to request that a
building that had once been a
store be rezoned to local
business.
The store and his body shop
on League Street were covered
by the “grandfather clause”
which would allow the store to
reopen only as a grocery store-
gas station as it was previously.
Burris said that a woman had
wanted to open a ceramic shop
at the location of the store and
wanted to commence business
by June 15.
Ed I. Palmer II expressed
opposition to the zone change to
local business.
He said that Houston Street
was once a dirt street and that
now the intersection of League
and Houston is a major in-
tersection with no control
devices for speed.
“It would be a possible traffic
hazard,” he said, adding there
was also a concern about what
future businesses might be
allowed to move into the
facQlty.
Palmer requested that an
exemption be made instead of a
zoning change. He said that he
would not address the body
shop issue as he had not known
about that issue prior to the
meeting.
Commissioners then called
for a public hearing to be held
in July on the zoning request to
change the store location to
Local Business and added the
provision of having the body
shop being included in a
request for a change to General
Business.
Unmarked patrol
car proves worth
Travelers over the three-
day weekend holiday, at
least, found out that the
Department of Public Safety
troopers’ new procedure of
using an unmarked car is
effective—to say the least.
Sgt. Ricky Smith reported
final statistics this week
showing that within a 24-
hour period Monday
evening, 30 violators were
stopped and a total of 32
citations were issued.
He said the average speed
during the holiday period
was 59.68 mph and that about
80 percent of the drivers
were driving in excess of the
posted 55 mph speed limit.
“We’re using the un-
marked car seeking
voluntary compliance,”
Smith said, “they don’t have
to see a black and white to be
cited for speeding.”
The highest speed
recorded during the effort
was 86 mph with several
vehicles being clocked at
that speed.
Smith said, “And that’s
only a sampling of what we
could have gotten.”
The unmarked DPS car
stayed in one location during
the 24-hour period and
Smith said, “They had me
spotted. In fact, two people
stopped to teU me about
accidents.”
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Jessie Lee Shaw, 31, of Sulphur
Springs, indicted in connection
with the death of Janyth Kay
Wallace, is scheduled for July 7
in Mount Vernon.
May 27 — Gvic Center im-
provements tabled gain. TPfcL
increases power rates. Tem-
perature soars to 91 degrees.
May 28 — Work begins on
expansion of water treatment
facility for City of Sulphur
Springs at cost of about
$460,000.
May 29 — Sulphur Springs
police recover two stolen cars,
one of which had been burned.
May 30 — Judge C. L. Ray of
Texarkana, nominee of the
Democrat Party for Place 4 on
Texas Supreme Court, visits
Sulphur Springs in the interest
of his campaign.
May 31 — Fire heavily
damages old Boyd Building at
southwest comer of square
housing B.J.’s dress shop. The
building is owned by Mooney
Enlow.
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hard to find
Editor:
Thank you for the “Our Daily
Bread” articles published in
the News-Telegram. With so
much news on the negative side
now days, it is most refreshing
to see something positive for a
change.
Frankly, our newspapers are
so replete with the greed,
twisted ethics, and worldly
poUution, I have about decided
to stop reading them at aH.
Now, there has been a change
in my thinking, as I find my
daily reading highlighted by
this new wholesome material. I
am confident that hundreds of
your other readers feel the
same. — Sincerely, R. E.
Phillips, Route 1, Brashear.
Crowd packs
church for
installation
The small St. Philip’s
Episcopal Church, 400 Houston
St., was full to overflowing
Thursday evening when the
-'ongregation gathered along
with ministers from other faiths
to take part in the installion of
Rev. Canon David W. Holland
as the Vicar of St. Philip’s.
The Right Rev. A. Donald
Davies, the Dallas area Bishop,
led the services installing Rev.
Holland as the Vicar and Rector
of the church.
Following the ninety-minute
installation service, a reception
was held in the church to honor
Bishop Davies and Rev.
Holland.
Mrs. Jerry Tittle and new
son, Sloane, were released from
Franklin County Hospital
Saturday morning to their home
in Sulphur Springs.
THE HOPKINS COUNTY ECHO, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Friday, Jwnai, IMP—S.
at intersection of Airport Road
and Loop 301.
May 24 - Jury in first County
Court trial in years hands down
year’s jail sentence and $500
fine in DWI case. Report cards
passed out as school year of-
ficially ends in Sulphur
Springs.
May 25 — Two Rockwell
employees — Louis Eddie
THE YANTIS Baptist church
will have its annual memorial
and homecoming program
Sunday starting at 11 ajn. Dr.
Boyd McCreigJit will be the
speaker and Michiel Brown the
song leader. A basket lunch will
be served at noon in the Yantis
School cafeteria. The public is
invited.
A NEW flagpole and
American flag have been
presented to Woodhaven
Nursing Home by Post No. 8560,
Veterans of Foreign Wars. The
presentation was made during
recent ceremonies conducted
by Commander Clifton Hooker.
The flag was raised by Richard
Haire as members of the Ladies
Auxiliary and the nursing home
staff and residents looked on.
HOMECOMING WILL be
held at Pine Forest Sunday.
Foy Richey of Tyler wiU be the
speaker at the 11 a.m. service.
Dinner will follow on the
ground. Everyone is invited to
attend.
MR. AND Mrs. Ricky Smith
of Winnsboro announce the
birth of a son bom Sunday,
June 1, at 5:30 p.m. in Hopkins
County Memorial Hospital.
CRYSTAL OIL Company's
No. 2 Thelma Rogers, a
Smackover test northwest of
Peerless, was reported drilling
below 3,600 feet late in the week.
MR. AND Mrs. Jimmy
Freeman of Sulphur Springs
announce the birth of a son at
8:07 p.m. Wednesday, May 28,
in Memorial Hospital.
SHOOKS CHAPEL United
Methodist Church will have its
48th Homecoming Memorial on
Sunday, June 8. The program
will begin at 10:30 a.m.,
followed by lunch. On the
program will be B.N. Anderson,
S.J. Armstrong, Jeannette
Connally, Audrey Hill, Diane
Lummus, Luther B. Mc-
Cracken, Henry Suche, B.K.
Temples and Pate Winfrey.
FINAL RITES were held in
Paris Wednesday for Stanley T.
Dicken Jr., 21, who was fatally
injured in a one-car traffic
accident Monday night in Paris.
His father is a frequent visitor
in Sulphur Springs in con-
nection with his duties in the
district engineer’s office of the
Texas Department of Highways
and Public Transportation in
Paris.
HENRY HUNTER, principal
of Miller Grove ISD, has an-
nounced that six students have
been inducted into The Society
of Distinguished American
High School Students. They are
Donna Gail White, Lori Ann
Hall, Lisa Kay Gorman,
Frances Michelle Prater,
Stephen Ray Sparks and Jarrell
Delane Malone.
DENNIS ALAN Ballard,
George I. Alexander and Dayne
Scott Woodall of Sulphur
Springs are among 957 high
school boys from ova- Texas
who are participating in the
40th annual American Legion
Boys State program in Austin.
The week-long event opened
Saturday on the campus of the
University of Texas.
JOHN R. RAMEY, chairman
of the Hopkins County
Democratic Executive Com-
mittee, predicted Tuesday that
2,500 people will vote Saturday
in Hopkins County. “But I may
be a Utile high,” he added. He
noted about 4,100 voted in the
first primary. He is looking for
a higher percentage of rural
voters in Precinct 3 to vote than
in the other boxes because of
the contested commissioner’s
race.
"THANKS"
I want to thank you again for your
vote of confidence May 3rd.
i have done my best to do what I
thought was best for my precinct
and county.
I have tried to be fairand honest to
all concerned.
Again I ask you for your vote Satur-
day, June 7th,
T.M. (Mervin) Chester, Precinct 3
Pel Mi. POd Far IpTJL Cheater, 111, DfeerTuu*
WHEN THE 1930 graduates
of Sulphur Springs High School
gather at the Woman’s Building
Saturday for their golden an-
niversary reunion two of their
former teachers wfll be on
hand. They are Virgil Ballard
of Harlingen and Charlie
Brown of Mount Vernon. Both
have written that they and their
wives wfll be in attendance.
Ballard was the Wildcat
football coach in that era.
MR. AND Mrs. Troy Tanton,
Route 2, announce the birth of a
son at 5 pm. Monday, June 2, in
Memorial Hospital. He has
been named Kevin Wade. He
weighed seven pounds, 13
ounces. Grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. N.W. Tanton of
Sulphur Springs. Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas C. King of Big Lake
are great-grandparents.
DR.MYRNAR. Pickard, 8301
Anglin, Fort Worth, has been
nominated to "Who’s Who in
Health Care” and will be listed
in the second volume to be
published in the spring of 1981.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Wallace Swindell of Reilly
Springs. A graduate of Sulphur
Springs High School, she is now
the dean of the School of Nur-
sing at the University of Texas
at Arlington.
MR. AND Mrs. Marvin
Wayne Joom and Kyte an-
nounce the birth of a daughter
and sister, Marla Kaye, at 5:27
a.m. Wednesday, May 21, in
Citizens General Hospital,
Greenville. She weighed seven
pounds and one-half ounce.
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Marvin Jones and Mr. and Mrs.
Wayne Hinton. Great-
grandparents are Mrs. Ruth
Hinton, Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Jones and Mr. and Mrs. H.J.
Price, aU of Sulphur Springs.
A SPELLING bee held the
attention of the second grade
students at Bowie School on the
final day of the term. Using a
list of the entire year’s words,
Nicole Haney, 2A; Kerry
Galyean, 2B; and Michelle
Thorpe, 2C, spelled down the
other students. Then, Kerry
Galyean emerged as the
spelling bee champion. Second
grade teachers at Bowie are
Mrs. Mary Dicken, Mrs. Mary
Jane Bradshaw and Mrs. Pat
Poe.
A WEDDING shower
honoring Larry and Helen Moss
will be held from 2 to 4 p.m.
Saturday, June 7, in the hone
of Dorothy Petty on Highway 69
in Como. Friends are invited to
attend.
MR. AND Mrs. Carlton
Stringer of Winnsboro an-
nounce the birth of a girl, born
Saturday, May 31 at 11:25 a.m.
in Hopkins County Memorial
Hospital.
CHECKS TOTALING more
than $2.9 million are being
mailed in early June to
members of Mid-America
Dairymen, Inc. The payments
represent the revolvement of
equities and retained capital to
Mid-Am members. Plans call
for additional payments later
this year.
MR. AND Mrs. Paul Evans,
Route 5, announce the birth of a
son at 7:48 a.m. Friday, April
25, in Memorial Hospital.
MR. AND Mrs. John T. Tipps
of 732 Jefferson, announce the
birth of a girl born Saturday,
May 31 at 4 a.m. in Hopkins
County Memorial Hospital.
LOCAL LIBRARIAN Carolyn
Tuley has extended the ap-
preciation of the Sulphur
Springs Public Library staff to
puppeteer Suzanne Hamil for
helping make the first summer
story hour a “big success."
More than 200 children turned
out for Wednesday’s puppet
show, the first of a series of
weekly reading club programs.
TWO STUDENTS who placed
high in UIL scholastic com-
petitions for Sulphur Springs
schools this spring presented
readings to the Lions Gub
Tuesday noon. Carol Kelty, a
middle school student,
presented her oral reading that
was a District 7-AAA winner.
Mona Barnett, representing the
high school, offered two prose
interpretations she used to
finish fourth in the state Gass 3-
A competition. Lion Tim Kelty
was program chairman.
RICKY DON Deaton, 208
Jonas St., has received an
Achievement Honor Award of
$250 from Austin College in
Sherman. The awards are
available to outstanding
:nts who have maintained
lent records of service in
school, church or community
activities. Deaton is the son erf
Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Deaton.
THE MEDICAL auxiliary’s
“Taste-Tea” will be held in the
Woman’s Building Friday, June
6. Die $2 luncheon fare will
consist of all the recipes
featured in the group’s cook-
book, which sells for $6. The
money raised from the ap-
petizers, soups, entrees and
desserts goes toward the $400
medical field scholarship given
to a graduating senior each
year. The public is invited to
attend. Hours are 11:30 a.m.
until 1:30 p.m.
MR. AND Mrs. Otto Ashley
Jr. recently purchased a home
at 331 Como St. and have
returned to Sulphur Springs to
live. He worked for Carnation
Company is the mid-’30s and
then moved to the Dallas area
where he was chief engineer for
Pepsi Cola at Arlington for 15
years. He was honored at a
retirement party Friday night.
TELEPHONE CALLS to the
Hopkins County Chamber of
Commerce have increased in
recent days, with callers
seeking leads to houses for
rent. “Our list has gone down
and we need new listings,” a
spokeman said Tuesday. She
said anyone with a house to rent
is invited to call the chamber
office, 885-6515, and list it.
There is no charge.
TOMMY KELLEY, son of
Mrs. Joyce Kelley, was an
honor graduate from Kimbell
High School in Dallas. He is the
grandson of Mrs. Birdie
Stansbury of Little Rock, Ark.
and nephew of Mrs. Jessie
Horten and Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Fedrick of Sulphur Springs.
BONNIE HUFFSTETTLER
will be the guest speaker at the
homecoming service at Em-
blem Sunday. The services will
begin at 10:30 a.m. Lunch will
be spread at noon, with
everyone welcome to attend.
PHIL SARTIN JR. of Sulphur
Springs is currently involved in
work as a petroleum landman.
He said that he has been
working close enough to
Sulphur Springs that he has
been able to commute in recent
weeks.
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