Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 38, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 14, 1989 Page: 8 of 14
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A-8—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs Tmm, TUeoday, February 14,1909.
Cupid does his number on Las Vegas romantics
By ROBERT MACY
Auoctaied Prea Writer
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Lone lines
farmed at the courthouse and busi-
ness boomed at the city’s 2$ wed-
dins chapels today as an expected
1,500 couples began tying Valen-
tine's Day knots in this marriage
mecca.
Beverly Swinn, who has seen
hundreds of thousands of couples
line up at the Marriage License
Bureau, said workers were hoping
they might gel a breather this year,
with Valentine's Day falling near
the middle of the week.
Last year, when Valentine’s Day
fell on Sunday, 1365 couples pur-
chased licenses Feb. 13 and 14.
The bureau issued 841 licenses
this weekend, said Ms. Swinn.
More than 400 were issued Mon-
day and at least that many were ex-
pected today, she said.
“We thought it was going to ease
off, but we’re swamped today,’’ she
said Monday. “Most of those
people will be saving them for
Tuesday.”
In 1988, the Marriage License
Bureau issued a record 72,500 li-
£
censes, or about 200 a day. Last
/ear's total was up nearly 5,000
rom 1987.
Lovebirds have flocked to Las,
Vegas to get married because no
blood tests are required and there is
no waiting period.
During peak periods such as
Valentine's and New Year's days,
the city’s wedding chapels will
marry several couples an hour.
There’s piped music, artificial
flowers, and ministers who make a
living off the wedding trade.
Couples pay for the services with
cash, credit cards, and, in some
cases, casino chips.
Valentines for vets
Students at Bowie Elementary School crowd
around teacher Sherry Finneyin dropping Valen-
tine notes in a box ea route
veterans. Students wrote the cards
read an Ana Landers column that inspi
uruppmg fBirn-
to hospitalized
ds afterfFinney
t inspired her to
coordinate the clan project. Landers was seeking
valentine messages for the vets in conjunction with
National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans Week.
From the left are Holly Stovall, Landoa Logan,
Finney and Haley Hannon.
—Staff photo hy Ttaa Inhbaw
For the record
Police blotter
Sulphur
lice officers
Springs polk
responded to 26 calls, issued 26
traffic citations and made one arrest
from 7 a.m. Monday to 7 am.
Tuesday.
Arrests
A runaway juvenile was taken
into custody. The girl had run away
from Tyler.
Incidents
A report of telephone harassment
was received from a woman who
said another woman called her
names and threatened her over the
phone.
Accidents
A two-vehicle minor accident oc-
curred at 2:40 p.m. Monday in a
parking lot in the 100 block of
Radio Road.
Sheriff's report
Hopkins County sheriff's
deputies arrested one person on out-
standing Department of Public
Safety warrants.
A theft was reported in
Birthright Stolen were two
Kawasaki four-wheelers, a
Tratlblazer sickle, a hydraulic jack
and a child-sized Rupp motorcyie
The items have a total value of
$16,000.
Deputies served pine civil papers.
Hopkins County Jail held 53 in-
mates at 8 a m Tuesday.
DPS
Department of Public Safety
troopers investigated a minor acci-
dent at 6:57 pm. Monday in
Brashear.
Ambulance calls
Hopkins County Emergency
Medical Service crews made two
patient transfers from 8 am. Mon-
day to 8 am. Tuesday.
Memorial Hospital
Admitted
Mrs. Domer Pride of Sulphur
Springs.
Mrs. Eleaae Bradshaw of Sulphur
Springs.
Mrs. Ola Crump of Sulphur
Springs
Kaaey Lee Musgravcs of
Mias Phlhcia Smith of Win-
Dismissed
Mrs. Ricky Patman and baby girl
of Sulphur Springs.
Mrs. William Johnson and baby
girl of Sulphur Springs.
Births
Mr. and Mrs. Danny Speight of
Commerce announce the birth of a
daughter at 1:59 am. Monday. Feb.
13, in Hopkins County Memorial
Hospital.
Mr.
lr. and Mrs. Chanan Sirichareon
of Fort Worth announce the birth of
a son at 12:25 am. Monday, Feb.
13. in Hopkins County Memorial
Hospital.
Angie, Misty and Chance Eppars
announce the arrival of a brother,
Caleb Reese, Jan. 21 at Hopkins
County Memorial Hospital. He
weighed 7 pounds, 8V5 ounces and
measured 20 inches in length.
Parents are Steve and Pam Eppars.
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Wilson of El Paso, Mr. «td Mrs
Gerald Carter of Pasadena. Phyllis
Eppars of Sulphur Springs, and Mr.
and Mrs. Johnny Eppars of Over-
ton. Great-grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Hoyt Gideon of Sulphur
Springs, Mrs. C.W. Carter of Sul-
Spnngs, Mrs. Raymond
of Sulphur Springs and
Mrs. E.A. Eppars of Como.
Mr. and Mrs. BiOy Gene Lawson
of Sulphur Springs announce the
arrival of a daughter. Charity
Catherine, at 10:57 son. Tuesday.
Jan. 31, in Hopkins County
Memorial Hospital. She weighed 7
pounds, 8 ounces. Grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs Freddy Ledbetter of
Sulphur Springs, the tale Rae Gene
Adams and Ms. Gkena Bamkhn,
also of Sulphur Springs Great-
grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Coleman (WoIf) Tuner of Sulphur
Springs, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rae
Adams of Mount Vernon and Mr.
Willaim Stumhom
Ashley Gamer announce the ar-
rival of a brother, Christopher
Scan, at 3:51 pun. Jan. 30. He
weighed 10 pounds, 3 Vi ounces.
Parents are Maudie and Scon Gar
are Jackie and
Emmett Prickett of Corsicana. Ann
and Haney Gamer of Sulphur
Springs. Great-grandparents are
Ruby Fcathcslon of Dallas and
Tony and Ruth Long of Dallas.
H.D. and Maudie Kinsel of Odessa,
Bill and Edith Gamer of Brashear
and Oscar and Lome Galloway.
Deaths
Evelyn A. Massey
Services for Evelyn A. Massey.
74, of Route 1, Sulphur Springs,
are set for 10 a m Wednesday, Feb.
15, at Tapp Funeral Home Chapel
with the Rev. George Thomas and
the Rev. Woodrow Kirby official-
Buna! will be in Mahoney
Cemetery with Larry Hatch, Mike
Hatch, Jimmy Horton, James Ed-
wards. Jerry Scott, Jackie Scott,
Bobby Hatch and Jerry Horton
serving as pallbearers.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8
p.m. Tuesday.
Mrs. Masaey died at 8:25 am.
Monday at her home.
She was bora Jan. 16. 1915, in
Hopkins County, a daughter of Al-
vie and Essie Harrison Hankins
She married Leonard Masaey May
12. 1936, in Hugo. Okla. He sur
VIVCS.
She was a homemaker and a
member of tee Mahoney United
Method—Church.
Other survivors include one son.
Darrell Masaey of Sulphur Springs;
two daughters. Nancy Whitten of
Sulphur Springs and Denise Mas-
sey of Sulphur Springs; one
brother. Garland Hankins of Sul-
phur Springs; two slaters. Hand
Mclntirc of Sulphur Sp
Lola Mae BiggentdT
five grand, hi Idrea; and
grandchildren.
is preceded in
Biuy Mack h
One of those conducting services
is Charlotte Richards, who dropped
by the the Clark County Court-
house to deliver heart-shaped boxes
of chocolates to workers at the
bureau.
Richards said she had scores of
services scheduled today at her four
weddinir chaoels
•T ve been i this business 30
years,’’ she said. “They call me the
grandmother of the wedding busi-
ness. ... I’m gonna die with a bride
and poom in my aims.**
Abo at the courthouse were Clif-
ford Welch and Rhonda Horn of
Schofield, Wit., who have been
planning a Las Vegas wedding for a
year.
“We’re debating whether to get
married tonight or tomorrow,” said
Welch, 35. ,rShe wants to get mar-
ried on Valentine's Day and I want
to get married tonight."
One thing they (fid decide on was
where to get hitched. Horn's finger
ran down a list of wedding chapels
posted on a hallway wall and stop-
ped at one named Hitching Post
Wedding Chapel
•*5i bit!" the 22-year-old
woman aid.
Out on the Las Vegas Strip, Gor-
don Gust wa making final
preparations for a busy day at his
Candlelight Wedding Chapel, a tiny
church surrounded V g»ant hotel
He said one of the 250 marriages
he had scheduled today wa to be
conducted an national television —
NBC’s “Today Show.”
Gust, who has owned four
chapels for 16 years, said his most
memorable experience came in
1987 when a man appronched him
and said, "’What do I have to do to
get married?"
"It wa Clayton Moore, the Lone
Ranger, my childhood hero.” Gust
mid. “Moore wa 73 and his bride
wa 45. When I asked him about
playing the wedding march, he
said, ‘No, I'd rather have the Wil-
liam Tfell Overture.’
“Hu bride-to-be told him,
‘Clayton, will you grow up?”’
Employees caught in insurance
crunch may get answers tonight
By KARLA S. WARE
News-Telegram Staff
The city’s school employees may
get some concrete answers about
unpaid insurance claims and money
school board meeting
during the school
Tuesday at 7 pm.
The bankruptcy
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Corporate Risk Counselors, the
Sulphur Springs Independent
School District’s former insurance
carrier, has left some $100,000 in
local claims unpaid.
But during the January meeting
of the school board. President
Tommy Allison said he believed it
was time to do something for the
employees who have been waiting
patiently for some answers to their
dilemma.
The board's agenda includes a
report on the status of the
bankruptcy filing and possible
‘.‘authorization to school adminis-
Nearly 200
turn out for
blood drive
Since about 20 people were tur-
ned away from tee blood drive held
at the high school Monday her—ar
of a shortage of bags, tee mobile
unit will be at Sulphur Springs
High School —am Thursday, an or-
ganizer of the benefit said.
The mobile unit will be set up in
the high school faculty parking lot
from 1 to 7 p.m. Thursday.
Counselor Mary Lou Durham said
Tuesday morning.
Although some were turned
away, 174 donors had a chance to
give blood to replace what Holly
Dougan, a Sulphur Springs High
School graduate, received while in
the hospital for a hver transplant.
About 90 high school students
gave to help the* former classmate,
who used 230 putts of Mood,
plasma and platelets while in
Baylor Medical Center.
But more would have given had
Stewart Blood Center not run out of
bags to hold what b termed the gift
ofufe. Durham said.
Durham, who helped organize
the event with the sponsoring Stu-
dent Council, said she b booing the
Thursday continuation will meet
the 230-pint goal.
"We re tSTwanting people to
^ive We re ryiag to get teat
nation to initiate (a) process to set-
tle employee claims resulting from
the Educators Group Health Trust
bankruptcy.”
The group health trust b
affiliated with Corporate Risk
Counselors.
The district has been under a
self-insurance program since Sept.
1.
Other monetary matters under
consideration at the meeting in-
clude the district’s possible partici-
pation in the Tkx Reinvestment
Program, recently approved by the
Sulphur Springs City Council and
the Hopkins County Commis-
sioners Court.
If the district's trustees decide to
join in the effort which reportedly
is designed to attract industry to the
area, they will also appoint two
members to an advisory board for
the program.
Tax abatements^ through the
plan, would be allowed for capital
Sulphur
graphs
JOE MINTER, superintendent
for Como-Pick ton schools, ap-
proved a school board agenda for
7:30 p.m. Tuesday to consider ac-
tion on a senior trip, spring carnival
and the principal's contract, the
agenda states The board meets m
the film room.
PINK LADIES volunteering last
week at Hopkins County Memorial
Hospital included Fay Dawson, Sue
Floyd. Kay Hagin, Vivian Jacob-
sen, Johnnie Masters. Peggy Mc-
Clendon. Thelma McClendon, Jo
Mae Moore, Jackie Semple and
Juanita Woos ley
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$200,000.
The board will also consider im-
plementation of a new qurt for
Sulphur Springs High School.
Following Mike Mahand’s
presentation to the board at the
January meeting, the trustees
agreed to discuss and possibly act
on implementing Girls' Fast Pilch
Softball in the spring
In other spans matters, die board
is considering bids for the lighting
improvements to Wildcat Stadium.
The six bids range in price from
$33,160 to $35,950. Administrator
Paul Glover has recommended ac-
cepting the low bid from Watson
Electric far the project, according
to the agenda.
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 38, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 14, 1989, newspaper, February 14, 1989; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth816083/m1/8/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.