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4—THE HOPKINS COUNTY ECHO, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Friday, February 10,1989.^
North Hopkins News
By RUTH PARISH
North Hopkins Correspondent
Mrs. DeWayne (Cindy)
Stevens is recuperating nicely at
home after a few days last week at
Hopkins County Memorial Hospi-
tal for a blood clot in her leg.
Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Long were in
Austin Monday through Wednesday
where Mr. Long attended a State
Legislative meeting at the Madison
Hotel. Mrs. Long, a Health Ad-
vacacy Coordinator, attended a
Health Advacacy meeting at the
Marriott Hotel. The Long’s visited
several of the Representatives and
Senators while in Austin. Thomas
and Ruby Nelle Walters visited
with the Long’s at the Marriott
Hotel Monday night.
Services for Mrs. Lillian
(Hooten) Wood, 91, were held at 2
p.m. Sunday in the Murray-Or-
wosky Funeral Home Chapel.
Burial was in the Aiguier Cemetery.
Survivors include a son, Frank
Wood of Houston; a daughter, Mar-
gie Joines of Beaumont; two sis-
ters, Mrs. T.F. Glosup and Mrs.
Evelyn Reeves; and other relatives.
Sunday for lunch with Mr. and
Mrs. W.S. Long were Brian and
Jennie Brewer of Arlington; Sam-
mie and Norman Bedford, Frank,
Julie and Amy Long, all of Sulphur
Springs; Tommy, Carol, John and
Reid Long.
Mrs. Dessie Woodard flew out of
Dallas-Fort Worth International
Airport Sunday afternoon for her
home in California. She spent two
weeks visiting in North Hopkins
with relatives, Jo and Donald Spen-
cer; Judy and Jimmy Daughtry of
Sulphur Springs; and Aubrey and
Margaret Potts of Liberty.
The Big Red Bam on F.M. 71
east of Orr’s Store was destroyed
by a fire of unknown origin early
Monday morning. It was owned by
Dorothy and David Coke of
Birthright.
After all meetings in Austin last
week, the W.S. Long’s drove to
Victoria Wednesday and visited
with Dr. William H. Long and wife,
Georgie, before the trip home
Thursday ahead of the icy storm.
50th Anniversary
Wal-Mart offering
$1,000 scholarship
Morris and Edith Collins will be honored with a 50th Wedlding An-
niversary reception from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, in the First Na-
tional Bank Community Room. The come and go event will be hosted
by their children, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Wayne Collins and Sue Gil-
bert, both of Arlington. Friends and relatives of the couple are invited
to attend. The couple requests no gifts.
Retiree honored
Dan Paterra, left, manufacturing engineer manager, presents
Thomas W. Skelton, maintenance, with a gold watch for 20 years of
service at Rockwell International in Sulphur Springs. Looking on is
Dean Fudy, maintenance superintendent.
—Staff pholo by Tina Bradshaw
Jietden honored
A reception honoring Ben
Fielden on his retirement after 32
years with the U.S. Postal Service
will be conducted Sunday, Feb.
12, at 2 p.m. in the Sulphur Bluff
Community Center. He began his
career as a rural mail carrier at
Sulphur Bluff and completed the
last 17 years at Pickton post
office. He was recently recognized
by the National Safety Council
for 1 million miles without a
preventable accident The
honoree requests no gifts.
I_
Officials of the Sulphur Springs
Wal-Mart store have announced an
area high school senior will be
selected this spring as the recipient
of a Si,000 Wal-Mart Foundation
Community Scholarship. The
scholarship payable over a one-year
period and awarded to a college or
university bound student, will be
based on the student’s scholastic
and academic achievements, extra
curricular and work activities and
financial need.
Store manager Tom VanVrankcn
said, “We are very pleased to offer
this annual scholarship to a deserv-
Birtchfield
named in
competition
Howard Birtchfield of the Sul-
phur Springs Chapter of Young
Farmers of Texas received third
place honors in the organization’s
statewide 1988 Farm and Ranch
Manager competition.
The announcement was made
during the Young Fanners State
Convention in Corpus Christi.
Birtchfield also won top honors
in the area-level competition, a pre-
requisite to being considered for
the state award. The Sulphur
Springs resident received a plaque
and a check for $200 in recognition
of his achievement.
The Farm and Ranch Manager
competition is sponsored by the
Production Credit Associations of
Texas, the primary lender of short
and intermediate term funds to
Texas farmers and ranchers. In
1988, Texas PCA’s provided $750
million to more than 11,000 Texas
fanners and ranchers.
Sulphur Bluff News
By MARY VANCE
Sulphur Bluff Correspondent
Sunday, Feb. 29, Bud Young was
rushed to the emergency room at
Hopkins County Memorial Hospi-
tal and placed in the intensive care
unit until Thursday for a bleeding
ulcer. He was released Friday after-
noon and is glad to be home.
Mr. Young’s great-
granddaughter, Jana* Cummings,
was in the hospital at the same time
he was with pneumonia. She is
home and doing fine.
Bud's sister, Sissie Caffey of
Grand Prairie, was visiting Bud and
his wife when he was rushed to
hospital
Mary Frances Nymeyer and
Mary Vance visited Bud’s wife at
hospital Wednesday.
District I, Section 3, OES school
of instruction was held in
Greenville Feb. 2, with 10 Sulphur
Bluff members present.
Seven of the members received
A certificates. Attending the salad
supper Wednesday night before the
school were: Doris Williams, Edith
Burkhart, Maurice Weir and Era
Bartlett. They spent the night in
Greenville.
Others attending were. Oren and
Wanda Singleton, Carol and Nada
Crouch, Ralph and Mary Vance.
They returned home that night and
attended the school the following
day.
Ice, sleet or snow and cold
weather doesn't curtail the travel of
some people and they can safely
reach their destination. Drop in
guests at the Vance’s Sunday were
Bill and Eveyln Ault.
Dan Dawson was a guest Sunday
for lunch at the Vance’s. Af-
terwhich they all visited Hilga
Chester at home.
Frankie Jo stayed with Mrs.
Chester Saturday and Sunday.
Checking records I came across
a weather report dated Jan. 16,
1988. Church services and schools
were canceled due to cold and icy
conditions.
So I guess history has almost
made a repition with in a year.
A reception, honoring Ben
Fielden on his retirement from the
U.S. Postal Service, will be held at
2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, in the Sul-
phur Bluff Community Center.
Fielden was employed at the post
office in Sulphur Bluff and Pickton
for 32 years. The honoree requests
no gifts.
Local dairyman on federal board
Robert G. “Rip’’ Vanwinkle, a
Sulphur Springs dairy farmer, has
been elected to the Federal Agricul-
tural Mortage Corporation board of
directors.
He will represent Region 3,
which includes the Spokane, Wash.,
Texas, Western and Wichita, Kan.,
Farm Credit Districts and the Na-
tional Bank for Cooperatives.
A native of Wichita Falls, he is a
graduate of Kilgore High School
and Tfcxas A AM University. He is a
member of Associated Milt
Producers Inc.. Hopkins Cotmty
Farm Bureau, Northeast Texas
Farmers Co-Op wd the Federal
Land Bank Association of Sulphur
He is a former vice president of
the Federal Land Bank of Texas.
The Federal Agricultural
Mortgage Corp., established by the
Agricultural Credit Act of 1987,
enables lenders to sell their agricui-
tural real estate and rural housing
loans on the secondary market.
The board consists of IS mem-
bers, five elected from the Farm
Credit System, five from insurance-
commercial lenders and five ap-
pointed by the president of die
United States. —
Vanwinkle is odf’Ofthe five
directors elected to represent the
Farm Credit System. *
He currently serves as chairman
of the Farm Credit Bank of Texas
Board of Dnecaors.
ing area student on behalf of our
store and the company. Through
WaF Mart’s Scholarship Program,
we can contribute to the quality of
life in the Sulphur Springs com-
munity and to the opportunities of
our area youth.”
VanVranken explained that a
team of judges, consisting of area
business and community leaders,
would be formed to evaluate the
applications and make a final selec-
tion during student interviews. In-
terested students may obtain ap-
plications from their school
counselor or administrative office.
Applications must be returned to
the school by the third week of
February.
The Sulphur Springs Wal-Mart
scholarship is one of over 1,200
scholarships totaling over $1.2 mil-
lion being given by the Bentonville,
Ark.-bascd retail chain throughout
it’s 26-state, 1,237 store trade terri-
tory.
90th birthday
Mrs. Ella Swindel Sturgeon was honored with a surprise party Jan. 22
celebrating her 90th birthday. Mrs. Sturgeon is a long time resident of
Reilly Springs. She taught school several years and worked as a prac-
tical nurse. Cake and punch Were served. Mrs. Sturgeon was present-
ed with a money tree, a basket of silk roses and various gifts.
Saltillo News-
By MRS. R.M. ARTHUR
Saltillo Correspondent
Mr. and Mrs. Clovis Adair atten-
ded the funeral of Mrs. Jeanne
Pruitt in Dallas Monday. Mrs.
Pruitt was the mother of Mrs.
Sandy Pierson and Larry Jenkins of
Saltillo.
Mrs. Dollie Pearl Armstrong is in
the Mount Vernon hospital. She
was knocked down by a cow and
suffered back injury and the cow’s
horn pierced her arm and several
stitches were required for her arm.
Mrs. Mutt Adair is in the Mount
Vernon hospital with a heart prob-
lem.
Richard Knapok is still in ICU in
Sulphur Springs. He suffered a\
major heart attack last week.
Bob King of Pearland is here
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bug
King, this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Happy Mitchell
visited Wednesday and Wednesday
night with Troyce Mitchell in Tyler.
They brought their little
granddaughter, Mandy Mitchell of
Tyler, home with them for a visit.
Mandy is the daughter of Travis
Mitchell.
Mrs. Bob Goswick and Mrs.
R.M. Arthur visited Mrs. John Gar-
ner in Sulphur Springs Tuesday.
Mrs. Jack Ivey spent from Satur-
day until Wednesday with her
daughter, Mrs. Weldon Clay, in
Princeton.
Sulphur Bluff students
I~i have eyes on Orlando
By MARY GRANT
News-Telegram Staff
Retiring
Charles H. “Chuck” Drum-
mond has retired from Rock-
well International after 37
years. He began work with the
company in Pittsburgh, Pa.
“During his career Chuck has
becoifie an expert on our valve
products, markets and cus-
tomers,” Dan Kowalczyk, vice
president, said. Drummond was
transferred to Sulphur Springs
in 1986. i
—SUfT phoAnry Richard Hall
Sixteen students at Sulphur Bluff
High School are making plans for a
trip to Orlando, Ha., where they
will participate in national Beta
Club competition.
The group took its scrapbook to
San Antonio in January when the
book won a 1st runner-up award,
qualifying them for the national
meet.
“I looked at the other schools
that had been entered, but being the
first time entered, I didn’t expect
our students to win ... I never seen
the kids so excited ... This is our
second year to participate in the or-
ganization,” Superintendent Bruce
Fielden said.
To raise the approximate
$10,000 required for the Horida
trip, the students are planning vari-
ous events, including a domino
tournament, outsider basketball
tournament and a stew.
Donations will also be accepted
from individuals.
“They’ll make the trip ... The
kids are going to have to do most of
the fundraising,” Fielden said.
A member of the Beta Club must
maintain a 90-plus grade average
by semester, Maria Reyes, club
president said.
Students in grades 10-12 arc
eligible and are also judged on cer-
tain test scores.
The winning scrapbook, entitled
“Up Where We Belong,” includes
a list of the activities in which the
group participated from January
1988 until January of 1989.
The winning book faced compe-
tition from all-size schools at the
San Antonio event and will follow
suit again in Horida.
Judges praised sections of the
book that included the cover style
and the presentation of officers in
photographs and descriptions.
As part of the membership in the
club, the students conduct
volunteer activities at nursing
homes and donate money acquired
in fundraisers for needy families.
The club’s sponsor is English
teacher, Sandra Watkins.
Members include Sonya
Caldwell, Sally Hippin, Maria
Reyes, Eda Reyes, Delann Wallace,
Stacey Wilhelm, Melanie Glossup,
Mandy Wright, Amy Harvey, Stacy
Ogren, Kerry Cox, Karen Domer,
Michael Cleaver, Sharron
Lunsford, Coco Cox and Jason
Tubb.
On to Florida
Robert Vanwinkle
Maria Reyn, front carter, president of Sulphur
High School Beta CM leads a pack of
a place ia Beta CM as- tkm.
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Keys, Clarke & Hillsamer, Dave. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, February 10, 1989, newspaper, February 10, 1989; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth780980/m1/4/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.