The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, December 27, 1985 Page: 1 of 4
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IRS forms have arrived
As local businesses breath easier now that Thursday morning that must be delivered to
Christmas is over and begin to prepare for area residents. Once sorted, local residents
the coming new year, U.S. Postal Service should be receiving their IRS forms within
employees realize that their work is actually the next few days, accordinq to Postmaster
beginning. Postal Clerk Ann Boyd looks over Ray Dunn.
the stack of IRS forms at the post office sum Photo by Ann M.Ad.im
Land dispute may close
present Dike Post Office
By BOBBY BURNEY
A dispute over the ownership of the
Dike Post Office building will
probably cause the post office to be
temporarily relocated in another
building, a spokesman for the U.S.
Postal Service said Thursday mor-
ning.
According to John Billimak of the
Postal Service’s Public Information
department in Dallas, the real estate
department is currently working on
setting up new quarters for the Dike
branch because it appears the lease
for the existing building will not be
renewed because of the dispute.
“We’ve got several real good
possibilities in the works," Billimak
said of relocating in the Dike com-
munity. He said renewing the
existing lease was originally one of
the alternatives, but unless the
question regarding ownership is
resolved before the first of the year,
staying in the same building will be
impossible.
The Dike Post Office, once thought
to be in danger of being terminated
because of the squabble, will
definately remain active, he added.
The post office serves approximately
275 families and employs two full-
time office workers and two carriers,
according to Dike postal clerk Jan
Bartley.
The dispute over the ownership of
the building apparently came about
because of a misunderstanding when
the postmaster’s job changed hands
approximately 20 years ago. The
incoming postmaster apparently
thought the building was deeded to
him when he took over the job of the
outgoing postmaster and disputed
former landowner Ed Bennett, now
deceased, according to Bennett’s
daughter Jean Hazelwood, who said
she has a deed, abstracts, and a will
that proves the land and the building
that sits on it belong to her family.
Hazelwood added that she would be
willing to lease the building to the
Postal Service, but they insisted she
share the lease, she said. She also
explained that her family has con-
tinued to pay taxes on the land since
they purchased it 40 years ago.
The other family involved in the
dispute could not be reached for
comment.
The end result of the squabble will
probably be construction of a new
building to house the post office in two
or three years, Billimak said. “We’ve
had a new building in the plans for a
long time,” he explained. “Now, with
this happening, we’ve set a tentative
start date for March or April. In two
or three -years, they should be
operating out of a newly constructed
post office.”
Until then, however, the post office
will be working out of some type of
temporary quarters, Billimak said.
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Along with bills and late Christmas
cards, Americans can look forward in
the next few days to receiving their’
annual greeting from the Internal
Revenue Service.
About 87 million 1985 income tax
farms and instruction packets were to
begin flowing into the mails today
With the IKS hoping that all tax-
payers will have received their forms
b|<Jan 10.
The Sulphur Springs office of the
postal service received a large"
number of 1985 income tax forms and
instruction packets Thursday mor-
ning, according to Postmaster Ray
Dunn.
Many people think that Christmas
is the worse time foi the post office,"
Dunn said. 'Actually November and
January are worse. In November we
‘have various catalogs to deliver and
January we have the IKS packets,
more catalogs, sweepstakes contests
and other various inserts."
Dunn said that they have received
many IKS packets for delivery and
that the sorting process has begun
with area residents scheduled to
begin receiving their IKS forms
within the next couple of days.
Despite all the talk this year about
a total overhaul of the income tax
code, the 1985 forms will look very
much like versions in past years.
While the House earlier this month
passed a proposal making the most
Guns taken
at Dike home
Burglars Christmas afternoon
made off with about $1,400 worth of
firearms from a home in Dike, the
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Department
reported Thursday.
Sheriff C.W Grayson said that
between 3:15 p in. and 6:30 p.m
Wednesday a house in Dike was
broken into. Reported stolen were a
.30-30 rifle, valued at $400; a
Browning automatic shotgun, valued
at $700; a Mossberg shotgun, valued
at $150; a .22-caliber automatic rifle,
valued at $100; and a .25-caliber
automatic pistol, valued at $50.
Grayson said, a suspicious vehicle
was seen in the area, but as yet he has
no rea} suspects.
1-30 project to take 1 Vi years
Travelers along Interstate 30 in
Hopkins County are beginning to see
the makings of a $41 million, 1 Mi-year
highway improvement program that
stretches from just east of Cumby to
the eastern county line, according to
John Yant, resident highway
department engineer.
Within the Sulphur Springs city
limits, major construction is slated
that will detour traffic into two-lane,
two-way sections along the north side
of the Interstate and then again on the
south side in two separate phases, one
phase east of Broadway and another
west of Broadway.
Concrete barriers are under con-
struction in Sulphur Springs that will
be placed between the two lanes of
traffic in a span first between the
South Broadway Street overpass and
east to the College Street-Loop 301
area.
“That’s the first major thing that
will happen and will probably take
about six months,” Yant said.
That phase of the construction is
expected to begin between March and
June, depending on the weather and
progress of the contractor, Yant
added.
When that phase is completed, a
similar phase will begin west of
Broadway and continue west just
past the State Highway 19 overpass.
The concrete barriers will be applied
in that section for the two-lane, two-
way traffic as in the former phase.
Improvements to that section of the
highway include installation of 13
inches of new concrete.
Extension of access roads beneath
the College Street overpass are also
on the schedule. “When we do that,
the College Street bridge will have to
be closed between the two frontage
roads,” Yant said.
Traffic moving east and west on
College Street will have to travel an
access road to either the Loop 301
overpass or the Broadway Street
overpass to cross the Interstate
during the approximately four-six
months bridge project.
“We anticipate Sulphur Springs to
keep on growing out past Loop 301,”
Yant said about the decision to ex-
pedite traffic by construction of the
additional frontage roads un-
derpasses.
I-ess complicated improvements
will be applied to a section of the
Interstate leading east from the
College Street-Loop 301 area to just
past Rock Creek and from Rock
Creek to the county line, mostly
asphalt overlay.
On the western edge of Hopkins
County, repairs will be made to the
pavement, including a new concrete
overlay on the existing concrete.
From just west of State Highway 19 to
near Cumby, traffic will be detoured
to the north frontage road.
“We’re looking at finishing up in
County getting new extension agent
By MARYORANT
A December graduate of Texas
A4tM University has been named an
assistant Hopkins County Extension
Service agent and received the en-
dorsement of the county Com-
missioners Court Thursday.
Randy Harms, 22, a native of
Springtown in Parker County, is a
third generation dairyman.
He holds a bachelor of science
degree in dairy science.
Expected to assume duties Jan. 2 in
the local Extension office, h? will be
active in the 4-H Club programs and
Extension services.
He was introduced to the com-
missioners court by Tony Douglas,
district Extension Service director, of
Overton, who said Harms was one of
35 applicants for the job.
“I had no idea I’d get to start out
here in the No. 1 dairy county in the
state,” Harms told the court at his
pleasure in obtaining the local post.
Commissioner Elton Stewart said,
"It looks like he’s well qualified. This
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will be a good place for him to start
, right here In Hopkins County."
Commissioner Delbert Tully also
expressed satisfaction with the new
county agent and his experience in 4-
H Club and Future Farmers of
America. "We’re looking for an
outgoing leader," he said of the
court's ambition to encourage 4-H
Club activities.
Two men left the local Extension
office this year — Eric Lum to
assume the agent’s post in Delta
County and B(U Rasher, who ac-
cepted a public school teaching job.
County Agent Gordon Ford said
earlier that the second slot may
remain unfilled indefinitely because
of budget requirements.
In other business Thursday, the
court agreed to advertise for bids for
purchase of a ‘i ton truck for
Precinct-1.
Stewart. Precinct 1 commissioner,
said he plans to replace a truck with
160,000 miles. "It's about on its last
go," he added of the vehicle’s con-
dition.
extensive changes in the tax code in
40 years, the measure faces an me
certain future next year in Die
Senate Regardless of vxfiaf happens,
the changes mil not affect the 1985
returns
The IKS always mails the forms
right after the Christmas mailing
rush in order to give earlybird filers
a chance to complete the returns and
get their refunds long before the April
15 deadline
That is the hope anyway i a.st year
was a disaster fur the IKS Foulups
with a new computer system resulted
in millions of taxpayers waiting for
months to get their refunds
IKS Commissioner Rostov L.
Egger Jr , in a letter on this year's
form, apologizes for the difficulties
and inconvenience" caused by the
delays and promises tluit Ins agency
will do better this year
The forms taxpayers receive will
depend on what they filed last year
Injured man
improving'
A 23-year-old Dike man remains
stable at Citizens General Hospital.
Greenville, recuperating from in-
juries received m u one-vehicle ac-
cident Friday, Dec 13, on an icy
Hopkins County road Another man
died in the crash.
Crisipme Riguez is reportedly
doing well and his condition has been
upgraded fiwii serious to stable at
the Greenville hospital, hospital
officials said. A passenger in
Riguez's 1978 Chevrolet pickup,
Santiago Campos 1-opez, 24, of Dike,
has been dismissed from Hopkins
County Memorial Hospital, a hospital
spokesman reported
A second passenger, Marcos
Salazar, 26, of Dike, was killed in the
accident His funeral arrangements
are still pending at the Tapp Funeral
Home.
The accident in curred when Riguez
lost control of the pickup on the slick
surface of FM 1536 and crashed into a
tree 10 miles north of Sulphur Springs
and seven miles east of State High-
way 19, according to Department of
Public Safety Trooper Darrell Estes,
investigating officer
the summer of 1987," Yant said.
Three contracts have been let in the
construction project-, including one to
Easier Construction Co. of Dallas and
California for 6.5 miles from State
Highway 19 to east of Rook Creek at a
cost of $16.4 million (the major
Si f hur Springs project).
The western section project goes to
Denton Highway Paving Co. of
Michigan for a 9.5-mile stretch at a t
cost of $18.6 million.
The eastern sector will be worked
by Herzog Co. of Missouri for 14 miles
at a cost of about $6 million.
In the original project plans, State
Department of Highways and Public
Transportation officials considered
adding an overpass at the
Mockingbird I -ane intersection. Costs
for the project, which requires in-
tricate engineering processes,
deleted the overpass project at this
time, Yant said.
The IRS u> mailing oui 47.6 million
1040 long forms" which are used by
people who itemize deductions or who ■
make more than $50,000
Another 39 4 million packets will
include the short 1040A form and the
11-Une 1040EZfonn
And in an expansion of a two-year
pilot program, some 9 8 million
taxpayers will gel postcards instead
of tax forms in an effort by the
government to save $1 million on
postage and printing costs
'Hr- postcards are being sent to a
various persons who used
professional tax preparers last year
Those receiving the postcard can
malt it back to the IRS if they want
tux forms mailed to them or they can
take the postcard to their tax
preparer who will attach Ur- label to
the forms he uses In filling out the tax
returns
And, for tin- first tune this year, the
IRS has instructed the Postal Service
to forward tax packages for the
estimated 5 million people who move
each year
Santa brings
cold with him
While Santa was dropping down
chimneys Christmas morning,
temperatures were dropping into the
teens, and as Santa lowered himself
into an easy chair after hts trek
around the world Thursday morning,
temperatures were lowering to tie a
record mark
Hut. now that Kris Knngte Is
finished with his work, the mercury
should rise daily to the mid-50s
through and Saturday, according to
the National Weather Service
Christmas Day was dear but cold,
with the high reaching 30 and the low
dropping to 18 degrees Thursday
morning, the* weather instruments at
The News-Telegram registered 17
degrees for the overnight low, tieing a
record set in 1977
Thursday morning was the coldest
day recorded since Feb 4, when the
low was 8 degrees
The weather service predicts a
gradual warming trend for the rest of
the week, with days warming to the
60s by Saturday and lows in the 30s
After Christmas work
Whilt area housewives attempt to once more find ttioir
living room floors under the boxes and wrapping papar left
from Christmas, local sanitation tnginoars omploytd by
TIDI found thoy had thoir hands full the day after Christ-
mas as dumpsters were filled to capacity.
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Keys, Clarke & Hillsamer, Dave. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, December 27, 1985, newspaper, December 27, 1985; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth780998/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.