The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 201, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, June 14, 1996 Page: 4 of 4
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4 — THE HOPKINS COUNTY ECHO, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Friday, Juns 14,1996
COMMUNITYNews
Reports From Our Area Correspondents
ARBALA
By Cmtky HaUburton-HaiUr
Once again, Arbala is humming
with plans for upcoming events for
the community. To start with, this
coming Sunday, June 16, will be the
annual Arbala Memorial Day Ser-
vices at Arbala United Methodist
Church. This year, the Rev. Clyde
Moody will give the memorial ser-
vice. Rev. Jerry Hollowell of Paris
will provide the special singing. Garth
Looney will be the pianist and Mil-
ford Ragan will be the guest speaker.
Milford will share with us his memo-
ries of livihg in the Arbala communi-
ty. Mr. Richard Horton Sr. and Mr.
Robert Spinks will also be a part of
the service. Ted Gammill will give a
business update. A covered dish din-
ner will follow at the community cen-
ter.
The Arbala Community Family
Fun Day was the main topic of dis-
cussion at this Monday night’s com-
munity center meeting. The Fun Day
activities will begin at 5 p.m. on July
4, at the community center. Games
will include sack races, egg toss,
horseshoes, mini-42 tournament,
dunking booth, water balloons and
many more. Make plans to bring your
family out to celebrate the 4th of July.
Prizes will be awarded in all game
categories. Face painting, finger print-
ing for identification purposes for
children ages 4 and older, safety liter-
ature, coloring books and other good-
ies will be available. We hope this
will be the first of many Family Fun
Days to come.
Thanks to Ted and Mack Gammill,
Mike Smith, Marlon and Glenna
Webb and Bob Halter for cleaning up
the church and community center
grounds for the upcoming Memorial
Day Service. The grounds are really
looking good.
Did any of you attend the Dairy
Festival Parade? If you missed it, you
missed Wyman and the Arbala Volun-
teer Fire Department fire truck. Kayle
Burkham was also in the parade with
Medical Explorer Post 911. Exploring
is a career interested branch of the
Boy Scouts of America. Kayle plans
for a future in the health care field.
Good luck, Kayle.
Each year, five churches from each
district in the North Texas Conference
of the United Methodist Church are
nominated by the district superinten-
dents to compete for the Marvin T.
Judy Award for Excellence in Town
and Country Ministry. Arbala UMC
was nominated in the category of
churches with memberships ranging
from 0-49 members. Not only was
Arbala UMC nominated for this out-
standing award but was the recipient
of the Marvin T. Judy Award for
Excellence. This would not have been
possible without the drive and dedi-
cation, the strong faith and commit-
ment of the members of Arbala UMC.
Those attending the noon luncheon
and awards ceremony at the Plano
UMC were Rev. Charles Moore, Mrs.
George Durch, Mrs. Mildred Hinton,
Donna Smith, the Rev. Ken Hollow-
ell and myself.
Although die awards ceremony was
the highlight of our day, Donna and I
hit the roads for a shopping spree in
Dallas that made our husbands (and
billfolds) scream. “Thelma and
Louise” have nothing on us!
In closing, I would like to dedicate
this week’s article to someone that
meant a lot to me, but I failed to ever
take the time to tell him so. During
Memorial Day Services, we all reflect
on the memories of our loved ones
that have passed away. It is sad to
think that we wait so long to honor
and recognize them for the special
times in our fives. This special person
took me into his family as one of his
own when I moved to Texas several
years ago. He listened to my prob-
lems and usually made me find a way
to solve them on my own. He offered
good, sound advice without being
judgmental and always had a smirk
on his face when I told him some-
thing funny. He always harassed me
about the fact that 1 should have at
least 10 kids. I now only have two, (a
little short of his jest) and I wish he
could have seen them. He was the big
brother I always wanted, but I never
told him that. He would have just
smirked and replied with some witty
remark that he was so capable of
doing, even up until the very last days
of his life. There is so much more I
could say about this person, but if you
knew him as I did, you already know
what I could write, anyhow. Gerald
Ragan, I salute you this Memorial
Day.
God Bless all who have lost loved
ones. We honor them all.
REILLY SPRINGS
By Ann Minyard_
Joe and Judy Dalzell were in the
metroplex for a few days last week,
where they visited their daughter,
Diane High and family in Garland
and their son Johnny Dalzell in Grand
Prairie.
Judy also spent one night with a
couple of her old friends in Dallas.
Juanita Hudson and her sister, Eliz-
abeth Young of Sulphur Springs,
attended Homecoming services at
Shooks Chapel Sunday.
Chad and Tony Swindell of
Charleston have been spending sever-
al days with their grandparents, Cyril
and Ruby Swindell. Also visiting
them was their son, Bill Swindell of
Dallas.
Ann and George Minyard were
business visitors in Louisiana the past
weekend.
The descendants of Mr. and Mrs.
John Clark will hold their family
reunion at the Reilly Springs Com-
munity Center cm Saturday, June 22.
Relatives and friends are invited. Mr.
Clark served as Justice of the Peace in
this area for many years in the 1920s
and 1930s.
The covered dish supper for the
United Methodist Women and
Methodist Men of the Hopkins Coun-
ty Co-operative Parish has been post-
poned until Thursday night, June 13.
This is for the purpose of welcoming
the new Senior Pastor Rev. Bradley
Bennett of El Paso. The associate pas-
tor will be Rev. Charles Moore, who
has been with us for two years.
Rev. Ken Hollowell has moved to
Florida to work with the youth at a
church in Fort Myers.
Myra Burns was in Tyler Saturday
where she met her sister, Wanna Lee
and they spent the day shopping.
Ellie Swindell returned east Tues-
day from a trip to the East Coast.
She accompanied her daughter and
son-in-law Myma and Bob Pickard to
Savannah, Ga., for a few days.
While there, they visited the histor-
ical places in Savannah, Ga., and
Beaufort, S.C. The highlight of the
trip was going to St. Simmons Island
to visit “Christ Church” and to learn
about the history of the island.
Miranda and Sarah Jackson of
Joshua are spending a month with
their grandparents, Margie and Ron-
nie Peek and their aunt and uncle,
Suzette and Charley Thornton and
Charlesa.
Bob and Lois Comstock of Penn-
sylvania were guests of Ellie Swindell
Monday afternoon. Bob was pastor pf
Reilly Springs, Shooks Chapel and
Arbala United Methodist churches
when he was a student at Southern
Methodist University.
Courtney Wallace has gone to
Bryan for a visit with relatives.
Don and Billie Robinson are in
Oklahoma to be with her father, who
is seriously ill.
Guest speaker at the Reilly Springs
United Methodist Church Sunday was
Jacquelyn Brice and we enjoyed it
very much.
James and Delores Miller were in
Yantis Sunday to attend Memorial
Day services. Also attending was
Artie Mae Bailey.
David and Debbie May and daugh-
ters Amanda, Allie, Abbie and Anna
were in Garland Sunday to visit her
parents, DeWayne and Beverly
Regale. Their daughter, Anna,
remained for a longer visit with her
grandparents.
News has been received here of the
death of Rose Williams, age 91. She
was the wife of the late Alton
Williams. The family, which consist-
ed of a son. Rod, and a daughter, Peg-
gy, lived in this community in the ear-
ly 1940s and Mr. Williams was super-
intendent of the Reilly Springs
School.
That was about the time that the
school lunchroom was begun and the
mothers took turns cooking for the
shuWitK and Rose was one of the vol-
unteers.
SULPHUR BLUFF
By Jimmy Bassham__
Summer activities are well under
way in the community. The Assembly
of God Church is holding a revival
this week with services beginning
nightly at 7 p.m. Evangelist Shane
Cox is presenting the message each
evening. The public is invited to
attend.
Charles Rawlinson is home and
doing quite well after having balloon
surgery at Baylor Hospital in Dallas
last week. Charles and Peggy recent-
ly moved back to Sulphur Bluff. They
built a home just south of the Bluff on
Highway 69, which was the late John
and Letha Hamrick place. The Rawl-
insons are certainly a wonderful addi-
tion to our community and we indeed
welcome them.
Tony and Brenda Maynard are new
residents in our community. The
Maynards purchased the late Gordon
and Winnie Barker place, which is
directly across the street from Archie
and Hazel Huie. Tony and Brenda
have an attractive place and are quite
welcomed at the Bluff.
O.E. “Goldie” Mills, local fire ant
expert, reports that the pest is becom-
ing more prevalent in our area. Goldie
also stated that the small ant has a ter-
rific sting which results in the form-
ing of a blister. Perhaps, in time, we
can eradicate this pest.
Perry Evans and Misty Borden,
who were recently married, will be
honored with a reception/shower on
Saturday, June 15, at 7 p.m. in the
community center. Selections are list-
ed at Lee’s Hallmark and Wal-Mart.
Everyone is invited to the event.
The installation of officers of the
Sulphur Bluff Order of Eastern Star,
which was held last Saturday was
attended by 80 people, including
members from 13 chapters. George
and Patricia Domer were installed as
Worthy Patron and Worthy Matron.
Oren Singleton and R.B. McAfee
reported that they enjoyed the abun-
dance of delicious food provided after
the program.
Oren and Wanda Singleton will be
attending the Nichols reunion in Fort
Worth on Saturday. Mrs. Myrtle
Nichols Singleton, Oren’s mother,
was a very special lady. As a young
boy, I shall never forget Mrs. Myrtle
always providing ice cream, cookies,
cold drinks and other refreshments as
I mowed her lawn.
Nick, Vicky and Nicholas Landi of
Dallas came by to visit on Monday.
They were on their way over to the
homeplace to go fishing.
This time of year when I observe
people working in their lawns and
gardens, it brings back childhood
memories of the late Mrs. Hubert
“Cop” Allen, who whistled a tune
everywhere he went. Mr. Cop carried
a hoe over his shoulder as he walked
to work each day. He was also quite a
baseball player during his day, along
with the Skeen boys — Barney, Bear
and Slant. They played on the Mag-
Pet Co. team of the Bluff.
Leo Cooper of Mahoney, also a for-
mer baseball standout, reports that his
garden is looking great and producing
quite well despite very little rainfall.
The old Sulphur Bluff Cotton Gin
was located on the lot next to the
Brinton place on which I reported last
week. Some of the earlier operators of
the gin which was owned by Mr.
Wingo, included Frank Long, Red
Simpson, Jack Dawson and Charlie
Dawson. Many people lived in the
huge old home which was built adja-
cent to the gin. Margie Munden
Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Munden, recalls the time in which
they lived here in part of the home
with the Bob Lanier family occupy-
ing the other side of the house.
Mary Ruth Dawson Moore has
informed me that Jim and Hattie
Young built the home now owned by
John Ashberry. Charlene Kerby, along
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Buck
Stevens and sisters Arlene and Linda
once lived there. Charlene recalls the
time in which her relatives, James and
Bertha Moore, resided there taking
care of Mrs. Brinton until her death.
As you can see, the home has an
interesting history.
Keep in mind and don’t forget
upcoming events. The Sulphur Bluff
School Reunion will be held on Sat-
urday, June 29 and homecoming on
Sunday, June 30. Both will be in the
community center.
I’m making plans to provide spe-
cial entertainment by singing an old
hit, “Yellow Polka Dot Bikini.”
TIRA
By Patsy Shaw_
Georgia and Troy Smith had dinner
at Ryan’s Steakhouse with Bobbie
and Jarrel Wilhite in celebration of
the Wilhite’s 50th wedding anniver-
sary.
Mary Rawson and Georgia Smith
spent time in Tyler to shop and eat
out.
Pat Dickens spent Wednesday and
Thursday in Dallas with her father,
who is in Presbyterian Hospital.
Ruth and Gay Chapman’s visitors
this week were Betty Lawson, Ida
Mae Chapman, Mary Ruth Spark-
man, Allie Glossup, Gladys Glossup
and L.V. and Melba Lawson.
Blake Adams spent Saturday with
his grandparents, Janie and Jimmy
Lewis. That’s getting to be a habit.
Blake is the son of RaDona and
Bryan Adams.
Leslie Wester’s daughter Peggy and
her husband, Charles Deaton, visited
him on Tuesday. Leslie is fortunate to
have his children drop in often.
Carl Johnson has been down at the
family farm all week. He is really get-
ting back in the swing of things after
his five bypasses not too long ago.
Betty Sue, his wife, joined him later
in the week and they attended the
Horn reunion.
First United Methodist Church in
Sulphur Springs hosted a reception
for Bill Weir on Sunday afternoon in
the parlor. It was attended by many
friends and family. Attending family
members were Lou and Leroy
Reaves, Hazel and Johnny Johnson
and Jim and Lynda Garner. Bill is
retiring after 42 years in the ministry.
He and his late wife, Joan, served
churches in both the North Texas aid
West Texas conferences. Their min-
istry in the youth and education field
will never by forgotten.
Melba and L.V. Lawson took time
out from delivering home grown veg-
etables to neighbors and went to
Weaver to visit L.V.’s brother, Billy
Lawson and his wife, Betty. (
Debra, wife of Danny Evans, is in
McCuistion Medical Center in Paris
following surgery. Danny is Oleta and
Richard Bearden’s nephew.
Dorothy and Larry Fitzgerald have
been keeping Austin and Megan
Fitzgerald while their parents Gregg
and Christie are on a trip to Xtapa,
Mexico.
Melba McKinney’s niece, Debbie
Hargrave from Dallas, spent Friday
with Melba.
The Tira Community Center was
the site of the 19% Horn Reunion last
weekend. Those attending were Floyd
and Shirley Rogers of Cooper, Leq
Horn and Christine Horn of Spring,
Loyd and Pauline Bridges of Here-
ford, Mutt and Rosemary Horn,
Glenn and Doris Moon, Kelly Blount
and children, all of Sulphur Springs,
Lucille Spencer of Paris, Jerry and
Ute Horn and children of Shreveport.
Also attending were Dorreice and
Pete Shuptrine of Plano, George and
Christina Horn of Fort Worth, Maxine
Patterson and George Harvey of Tira,
Randy Patterson of Sulphur Springs,
John and Pamela Brown and Paul
Wilcher, Gerald and Dianne Wilcher
and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wilcher of
Palestine, Paul and Sonny Chapman
of Denton, Howard, Heather and
James Burkham of Commerce, June
Vessel of Campbell, Malcolm, Tiffany
and Landon Joslin, Lucille Horn of
Tira and Carl and Betty Johnson of
Dallas. Some'of the highlights of the
event included an auction pn Saturday
night and Sunday morning worship.
Don Shaw is doing nicely in Baylor
rehab after knee replacement surgery.
He asked me to thank everyone for
their prayers and thoughtfulness dur-
ing his hospital stay. Needless to say h
even with Mary Sue and Gene (my
sister and her husband) here to help
me with the chores things are really
quiet.
Professionals to lend expertise to Summer Strings
By STEVE BR1GMAN
Two violinists from European symphonies
will pass along some of their skills to Sulphur
Springs grade-schoolers next summer, thanks
to a project approved Tuesday by the Sulphur
Springs ISD board of trustees.
SSISD will join with East Texas State Uni-
versity, The Northeast Texas Symphony and
the Commerce Independent School District to
form a consortium to offer instruction in
stringed instruments to students in the region.
Mark and Ute Miller, members of the sym-
phony orchestras in Bonn and Cologne, Ger-
many, will become artists-in-residence at
ETSU later this summer and will begin
instruction for area students in the summer of
1997. The are currently on a grant at Ambas-
sador College in Big Sandy.
“They are both accomplished string musi-
cians,” said Paul Glover, SSISD superinten-
dent. “We are very pleased to have somebody
of that quality working with our students.”
The Millers will teach a course or give pri-
vate lessons at ETSU and assist the Northeast
Texas Symphony at least 20 times a year,
along with working for the Sulphur Springs
and Commerce school districts.
SSISD will contribute a maximum of
$15,000 to the Millers’ salary, including a pro
rata share of their fringe benefits to be paid to
ETSU.
Glover said the local summer strings pro-
gram will be expanded to all of the district’s
elementary school campuses eventually.
“It is our intent to grow this program on to
middle school and hopefully at some point
have an orchestra at the high school level,”
Glover said.
In other action Tuesday night, the board
approved the transfer of $250,000 dollars
from the district’s workers compensation fund
to the building-construction fund. James
Bassham told the board the workers compen-
sation fund was at its highest level ever, about
$500,000.
Bassham told the board the district’s self-
insurance programs had done well and the
district had made similar transfers of funds in
the past.
The board did not rule on a tax abatement
request for Nordstrom Valve. Glover said the
local manufacturer of valves for the
petroleum industry asked that the item be
tabled. Nordstrom told Glover on Tuesday
they were not ready for a presentation and
would ask that the item be placed on the
agenda at next month’s meeting.
Last week, the City Council granted an
abatement to Nordstrom for five years for
$21.3 million worth of personal property and
10 years for real property.
Glover said it is difficult for SSISD to grant
abatements because the district gets hit twice.
“We would loose local funding and we
would also loose an equal amount from the
state for abatements we give tax credits,” he
said.
“State money and local money both, that’s
a pretty hard lick.
City goes worldwide with Web site
By BRUCE ALSOBROOK
Take great pride, citizens of Sul-
phur Springs. This humble town has
joined the ranks of such legendary,
bustling metropolises as Dallas, New
York, Los Angeles, and yes, even
Holler Junction, Saskatchewan.
The Sulphur Springs Homepage is
up and running on the World Wide
Web.
Well, not totally running, but it’s
there.
Sulphur Springs City Manager
Marc Maxwell announced in January
the city, along with the Hopkins
County Chamber of Commerce and
Sulphur Springs-Hopkins County
Economic Development Corp., would
be designing a homepage on the
Internet for all the world to see. (Even
Holler Junction, which really does
have a page on the web at
http://www.nits.net/--gwilliam/holler).
Visitors to the Sulphur Springs
page are greeted with a vision of the
Hopkins County Courthouse in the
center of an “image map" with 10
burtons or “links" to click to go to
other pages for subjects such as city
government, community development
and tourism.
Other links are still under construc-
tion, such as the chamber of com-
merce. utilities and airport. Also, a
couple of the links aren’t perfect yet,
but Maxwell said the developer.
iMAGiMAX, is still working on the
page.
“We re not only going to complete
a couple of things, but we’ve got
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I’ve got to send them some economic
development files and get them to
straighten a couple of things out,”
Maxwell said.
After that, all that remains is to tell
the rest of the world.
The final step, really, is register on
all the search engines out there,”
Maxwell said.
Most of the contents of the Sulphur
Springs Homepage are simple,
straightforward information packets.
Visitors to the Municipal Court page,
for example, are greeted with an elec-
tronic version of a form letter from
the judge explaining bow to go about
paying a fine. The Community Devel-
opment page has a simple synopsis of
what the functions of die department
are
More lengthy pages, such as Fire
Net, Library and Education, describe
in great detail the operations of the
fire department, municipal library and
Sulphur Springs Independent School
District. The SSISD section, for
example, includes graphs outlining
the number of employees, beginning
teacher salaries (bachelor's degree:
$19,500; doctorate degree: $21,500),
and cost of educating a child —
$25.10 per day. the vast majority of it
for instruction, by the way
The Tourism page (an extremely
slow page, compared to the others)
has a list of “Things to Do and Places
to Go in Sulphur Springs,” from
Cooper Lake to the Hopkins County
Folk, Dairy and Fall Festivals.
The link to the Hopkins County
Regional Civic Center not only con-
tains a description of the facility and
an admonition to “call us — we’re
good!”, but a nifty floor plan, as well.
There is also a page for a calendar,
still under construction, that Maxwell
said the city and Chamber of Com-
merce have not yet determined what
to do with.
“I envision that as really a commu-
nity calendar for the events that are
going on around town,” he said.
“Everybody knows when the Hopkins
County Stew Contest is and the Dairy
Festival, but there are a lot of other
things that go on around town. And it
is helpful, especially for those who
five here, to have a single place where
you can put something on a calendar.
“If you're going to plan an event, it
would be nice to know what else is
going on around town.”
Perhaps more important is what is
not on the homepage, the links to real’
estate and demographic figures that
may not mean much to current resi-
dents, but could be the difference
between winning and losing a new
business prospect.
“Certainly, that is one of the big
benefits, to be able to advertise the
positive aspects of our community to
people who might want to locate
here, who might want to move here
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