Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 36, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 12, 1989 Page: 1 of 40
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FEBRUARY 12,11
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VOL 111-NO. 36.
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Ice leaves scars on many city, county roads
By DANA L DURHAM
and KARLA 8. WARE
N«wtTelegram Staff
rate, with officials saying they ex-
pect additional damage to surface
throughout the (hawing process.
rough in spots.” The
said, ii
There's no mare ice sad snow,
but traces of last weekend's winter
storm linger as city, county and
state officials continue (heir as-
sessments of what is being describ-
ed as “extensive’' road damagr.
Streets and highways throughout
Hopkins County apparently took
the brunt of Mother Nature's icy
Mousetrap
provides
momentum
By KARLAS. WARS
Naws-Tclegram Staff
Propelled by only the speed of a
mousetrap, fighting friction and
weight, students at Sulphur Springs
High School vied to make viable
transportation aa pan of a physical
project.
Ibacher Gordon Bench built a
model car for the approximately
120 ftrahsuan and Rowed how the
mousetrap provided the power for
his to move 43 tot
He ashed lw students to make
their can go at lean 29 feet
Not only did April Brown's
mouse trap-driven vehicle fO
beyond me minimum, k mrpaasnd
Beach's, gong 90 feet
Out of fee sen of fee Madame in-
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voivea tii me noincww»
Merodkh Minty came hi secood
whh a leLBtdhig of 71 feat sad
Wrnmi
Tla_
leys, speed, momea
sad mariu-to-power
arid. "IWt like it «a
Brown's success <8
S^r^^ofbJuLg^dwMa? few
ems before it”
The ssudtuss were riven i
weeks to coumruct the veUdee i
of i
streets
the most
In Sulphur Springs. 24
have been labeled as th
heavily marred.
"We’re not through with our as-
sessment but on those 24 streets,
there's pretty extensive damage,”
Public Worts Director Bill Farler
mid.
On the surface, most city streets
don't appear damaged and, at pres-
ent, sre only
damage. Farter said, is in the base.
“They're coming apart and
there’ll be potholes before long, if
they’re not already there. Right
now, the asphalt pavement is just
kinds unraveling.” he said.
A cost estimate of the damage
has not yet been figured, but Farter
anticipated the city’s street survey
will be completed in the next week.
On county roads, commissioners
described the
buckling.”
"When they freeze like that, they
come unbuckled,” Precinct 2
Commissioner H.W. Halcomb said.
“The moisture gets under them and
then raises up and crumbles.”
Pans of the rural areas of the
county have potholes 100 feet in
length, the commissioners said.
But, all of them are
pretty
Elton
problems as “un-
much the same shape,”
Stewart of Precinct 1 said of the
county roads as compared with city
streets and farm-to-market roads.
Delbert Tully of Precinct 3 said
a
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Science project winners
Gordon Beach, left, over- April Br
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traveled ap to 96 feet
Blood drive for Holly is rescheduled
Urn benefit fer Holy Doupn to dne to rie icy conritions in the ndeaf the hig^schooL schootere who can donate must be
__ benefit for Holy Dongan to due to the icy
rapfeoe 230 prits of Mood she re- area.
Monday from 8 am. to *
Safari* Springs Hirii Schoc
the Mgb achoolStadent i
the high
The blood Dougsn
com of fcTl, a
of -,T - mmA The S rodent Council has been
w 1^— . frying 10 drum ud suDoort for the
arid, so rim those people V****: m th? drive, and 84 modems had
to donate will ^ ^ SwS signed up by Smurday morning,
__- ^ _ Baylor Medical Center. If the 230- Durt“™ “*d
#■ wtri Stewart Mood ftom I a.m to 9 p a rie drive pint goal is not amt. the family will "But some of them are seal
WWW of lytar in an effort to win be in the library, and rie have to pay for the difference. nervous about it.''die raid,
reolace die mris Dramro aaed. mobile aril will be am up between Durham stressed rie importance Giving blood is safe and fairly
TV benefit tot been achedried a 5 rod 7 pm. The mobile anil will of the community’s nqipoft in the punkas, according to information
it war canceled be in rie parting lot on the asm blood dive became the only high from the blood <
Goodwill has new workshop, new director
a
2 As of IViday, 17 people had beea ta *** frmndfaeas
ril riserviewed for rie Extended people and their rauepdro
rif It ifrali iksminn Services fmcslicy. areU0Bightod as feemn for
of the often.
He is hoping that (hi
receptiveness he has
will
SXLZSSStZ
me afrna of
la rie next week.
or early
tlfcxasdty.
Choosing to came ant of renre-
ment and tarring down a job in
Chicago, where he has ties from hu
days m coOane. seeared to be ida-
• We've got a
The wot and rie qurirtv wifi be
•arty 1900a, b
do yon have an
SSHrar.
"IBank we cm baa i
to rie conmnmny," rka (
I cant Boh
the roads are still thawing out rod the
all the damage should be prevalent
if the sunny skies hold on for about
a week.
"I feel like there’ll be more
problems Blowing up (when the
rest of the roads thaw)," Tally said.
“The worst thing dim could happen
to us now is to have a good slow
rain," which would wash the roads
sway.
The com of the damage for the
commissioners is measured in the
oiling work they had outlined for
They said the
roads originally planned for oiling
may have to be patched and the
ones damaged by the freeze may
have to take precedence.
“We’D work it out as we can.”
Tally srid.
An official of the State Depar-
I Public
mem of
Highways
non said fa
Church postpones
request on street
By DANA L DURHAM
News-Telegram Staff
A deluge of outspoken opposi-
tion has led officials at First United
Methodist Church to at least
postpone their request to close a
portion of Fleming Street
‘‘We got so much opposition that
we thought we might just hold off
on it" Gregg Price, chairman of
the church’s board of directors,
said.
"telephone inquiries flooded the
Municipal Building this past week
after public notice was given in
regard to the Sulphir Springs City
Council's consideration of the re-
quest (o abandon part of the one-
way road that links Church and
Davis rireets.
1 was
i’s meet-
council primarily on behalf of the
apartment dwellers, mid, "I can't
see how we can afford to doae a
city street where apartments are.
We shouldn’t dose s street lust be-
cause someone warns to build a
building.”
McKinney echoed Williams, ad-
ding that the apartment residents
are “upset” about the street closing
proposal.
Mayor Margin Latham reiterated
that before pasted, the issue would
be considered two different times,
once during a public hearing
“But, I dunk it needs to be stoo-
ped before ever going to a public
hearing, because it doesn’t deserve
a public hearing.” Williams arid.
And even though (he request'
withdrawn from the council’s m
ini aaenda Tuesday right. two
ciLS^JperiMto vdc* the*
BiH Williams
Dan Mc-
Kinney pledged that if the request
comes before the council again,
they will return to argue against
passage of the measure.
"I am opposed to dosing Flem-
ing Street, and any time that is con-
sidered, I would like the oppor-
tunity to be here.” Williams said.
Community Development Direc-
tor Roger Powell said church
officials had requested the aban-
donment to accommodate the con-
struction of a planned addition lo
their facility.
The item was withdrawn from
the council’s scheduled review "at
the last minute,” Powell said. He
did not know the specific reasons
for the withdrawal, but said at least
eriht people bad telephoned city
officials with oom planus about the
possibility of closing the ssreet
When contacted Friday, Price did
not eliminate the chance of seeking
the closing, saying only that the is-
sue win not be pursued “at this
time.”
According to information from
City Manager Jack Dickerson, the
church had requeued the closing of
a half-block of the nreet, or the
portion that lies adjacent to their
a closing would limit ac-
cess to the residents of the six
apartments cm the street and the
customers of a mortgage company
in that area.
Williams, appearing before the
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Cooper Lake
funds are in
Bush’s budget
AS31 million reqnest for Cooper
budKMniraiil^fa"So. US.
FY90 taring for Cooper Lake.
This is a great day for Ea* Tfexas.”
I — month,
too toed for *r $31 million ri-
rie Ainopristtons
U*.. rU
806 uIh ntSloffM
Murder trial
begins Monday
A nine-woman, riree-man janr
has been selected in the murder tri-
al of Johnny Ray Wilkenon of Sul-
phTliePtrud^ conducted in Mount
Vernon because of a change of
venue, will continue Monday wiri
testimony getting under way *
*30 ajn.
Robert Newsom, aaistant dis-
trict attorney. said the trial is expec-
ted to la* about a week. The
prosecution has asked about 50
people to appear as witnesses, he
Wilkenon is ctoged m the
mooting death of Rena Lyaa
While, who was abducted from a
Sulphur Springs motel Sept 20,
1987, according to reports at the
time.
The defendant, if convicted,
faces punishment of from five yean
to life in prison and a $10,000 fine.
District Attorney Frank Lang
lends the prosecution. The defen-
dant is represented by court-ap-
pointed attorney Charles Mac Cobb
of Mourn Pleasant
State District Judge Lan
say is the preriding judge.
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 36, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 12, 1989, newspaper, February 12, 1989; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth817444/m1/1/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.