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VOL. 89.—NO. 26.
SULPHUR SPRINGS. TEXAS. FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1964.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Grocery Supply
Purchases Site
For Warehouse
Grocery Supply Company of Sulphur Springs is
expected to start construction within a few months
of a modern 43,200 square foot warehouse. Com-
pany officials have announced the purchase of a
building site in west Sulphur Springs fronting on
Highway 19 and adjacent to the L. and A. Railroad.
The site contains about five
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acres of land.
Grocery Supply Company,
which was organized Feb. 1,
1947, in Mount Vernon as a
partnership between Kenneth
McKenzie, J. C. McKenzie and
the late W. W. Brittain, has
experienced a steady growth
over the years.
Grocery Supply opened for
business in a 6,000 square foot
warehouse at Mount Vernon
and during the second year of
operation added 3,000 square
feet of Door space to ita ware-
house.
In May, 1953, Grocery Sup-
ply Company purchased Jack-
son Brothers Company in Sul-
phur Springs and consolidated
the two operations in a 12,000
square foot building in Sul-
phur Springs.
Two years later, the firm’s
growth dictated the addition
of 6,000 square feet to handle
warehousing needs.
The new warehouse will be
designed so that it may be con-
verted to a mechanical mate-
rial handling system.
Officials report that the
warehouse will be sufficiently
large enough to enable them to
broaden the lines of merchan-
dise they handle. Plans also
call for the firm to carry a
complete line of frosen foods.
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Smackover
Plugs Back
For Test
Lemon Selected
New President
Of Dairy Show
W. D. Lemon was elected
president of the Northeast Tex-
as Dairy Show Thursday night
at a meeting of the show’s di-
rector*.
He succeeds Billie Anderson
of Gafford Chapel, who had
held the position for two years.
Other new officers of the
show are Beul Berry, vice pres-
ident, and Roger Arnold, sec-
retary-treasurer.
In other business, the direc-
tors discussed the dec rearing
number of entries in the sen-
ior division of the show and
improvements which could be
made on the livestock bam.
“The senior division i* get-
ting fewer and fewer entries.'’’ SHERIFF EXONERATES YOUTH
said Berry. “Either we're go-
ing to have to get people inter-
ested in it, or drop it entirely.
Wr plan to make an all-out ef-
fort, some way, to increase par-
ticipation next year.”
Berry said no specific plans
concerning the senior division
were agreed upon.
A committee of Anderson,
Berry, Cecil Tucker and Sterl-
ing Beckham was named
meet with representatives of
the Northeast Texas livestock
Show to dWetrss improvements
far the livestock bam.
Among the Idee* brought up
Thursday night were construct-
ing new door* at the front, re-j
building stalls a n d laying a
walkway from the street to the
barn’s door.
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Gas Processing Plant
For Como Field Looms
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TAKES PART—Miss American, Donna Axuro of El Dorado,
Ark., is fitted with a Texas style hat by Misa Texas, Jeanne
Amacker, as she arrived in Dallas to attend the National
Jaycee Convention. Misa Axum will ride in the Jaycee’s pa-
rade and take part in other functions of the convention.
(NEA Telephoto).
No One Injured
As Sewer Ditch
Caves in Here
A five-and-a-half foot sewer
ditch under construction on
Plano Street in the Lee-Hi adn-
dition collapsed Tuesday morn-
ing.
Workmen were not in the
ditch, and there were no inju-
ries.
City Manager Carl Riehn
said the ditch is designed to
extend 400 feet at a depth of
nine feet. Swatscll Construc-
tion Company of Mt. Pleasant
is contractor for the job.
‘They are getting into soil
that perhaps won’t take a bank
that deep,” Riehn said. He
said one solution may be to dig
the remainder of the ditch at
the five-and-a-half foot level,
and let drainage fall to the
nine foot section at a manhole
opening under the ground.
Election Contest
Fails to Develop
County Commissioner I.exifor his fifth term in office,
Fite has decided not to contest | could not he reached for oom-
the election which he lost by 15 ment Saturday, hut his attor-
votes. | ne.v, Ralph Rash, s a i d Fite
The deadline for contesting; wouldn’t file a contest suit in
the Democratic primary runoff 1 district court,
results was Friday night. i “We reached this decision
Mervin Chester won the Pre- ( Thursday night.” Rash said.
cinet 3 race June 2 by a vote
of 528 to 513.
Fite, who was campaigning
Worsl Traffic
History Looms
For East Texas
Father’s Day Shooting
Reported at Saltillo
A Como field Smackover gas
teat was reported being plug-
ged back for an effort to de-
velop production in the Ro-
deasa series Tuesday following
an apparently unsuccessful try
in the deeper formation.
Delta’s No. 2 Coker Gas Unit
was described as going bark to
around 8,500 feet to test the
lljll and Gloyd sands in the
Itodesaa series.
Plagued by deep - situated
formations at the lower levels,
the No. 2 Coker Unit waa said
to have yielded salt water in
a drills tern test in the Smack-
over lime at approximately 13,-
*T0 faet
This is far below the level
of tne lour producing Smack-1
over wells in the Como field , dnink
mad some 1,100 feet lower
than Delta's No. 5 W. H. Coker
a short distance north.
Another exceptionally deep
teat in the old Yantis shallow
field a few miles southwest was
reported core testing in the
Smackover with prospects un-
favorable.
It is Humble Oil A Refin-
ing Company's No. 1 Ottalie
Allen, which was listed as be-
low 14,791 feet.
Local oil men said some
doubt prevails as to exactly
where the long - sought Smack-
over formation waa picked up.
Estimates favored around 14,-
724 feet, they added.
The structure was said to
consist of dense, hard lime
without the porosity and per-
meability necessary for a
cum tent.
The Allen originally was
scheduled as a 15,000 - foot
maximum test Authority to
continue It to 10,000 feet if
desired was recently received.
Drunk Driving
Charge Brings
$85.30 Fine
A Dallas man on his way to
a job in Mississippi was arrest-
ed by the highway patrol dur-
ing the week-end on a charge
of driving while intoxicated.
He pleaded guilty in County
Court Monday morning and
was fined $85.30.
The highway patrol also is-
sued four tickets for speeding.
City police Saturday night
and Sunday made only two ar-
rests, for speeding and being
in public.
A 10-year-old Saltillo boy
to admitted to sheriff’s officers
he shot his father at close
range Sunday when the man
allegedly threatened has wife.
John Leslie Harris, 56, Was
hit in the right shoulder by a
full load of buckahot and is in
fair condition in a Mt. Vernon
hospital.
Sheriff Raul Jones said!
charges will not be filed j
against the boy, Leslie David
Harris.
“Nothing is going to happen
to this boy as far as I’m con-
cerned,” Jones said. “He was
protecting his mother and a
boy is as entitled to protect
his mother as his father is.”
Jones said Mrs. Harris and
her *on were at the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mike
Hunt, when Harris drove up
and got out of his car.
“The man waa cursing and
threatening his wife when the
boy walked up holding the
shotgun and told his father not
to bother her,’’ Jones said.
The sheriff said that when
Harris refused to leave, his
son fired the shot.
Harris did leave then. He
drove about three miles toward
Mt. Vernon before pulling off
of the road under a tree and
passing out as he emerged
from his car.
Mrs. Harris nad railed the
sheriff's department about 15
minutes before the 11:15 a. m.
shooting and complained of her
husband’s conduct Deputy
Sheriff E. E. Byrd arrived in
Saltillo just after Harris left
He followed the injured man
and took him to Mt Vernon
Sunday afternoon for removal
of the buckshot.
Harris was arrested on April
20 for disturbing the peace.
Loan Approved
To Extend Phone
Lines in Area
whatsoever.
race and Lex wanted to be sure
about it.”
The question over the valid-
ity of the results concerns re-
ports that some voters living in
other precincts cast votes in
the Precinct 3 race. To chal-
lenge an election result under
such lire u instances, the con-
testant would have to contest
T r a f f i c accidents in May ; votes on an individual basis,
cost 27 persons their lives in | Hash could not say how many
the 18 - county Northeast Tex- | votes he suspected were cast
as area, Captain Glen Warner illegally in the race, but said
of the Texas Highway Patrol the results of a contest -uit
The first tangible indi-
cations of plans for early
construction of a gas pro-
cessing plant in the Como
field were continuing to
take shape Saturday.
Such a facility would permit
the marketing of gas, distillate
and sulphur from four huge
Smackover producers that have
been completed in the field and
from any others that might be
developed.
The wells h a v e remained
shut-in since their completion
awaiting construction of pro-
cessing facilities to remove the
liquid content and sulphur
, , , , , , . from the gas and thus convert
has no hard feelings about this ,hp vaHous products
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‘Let me emphasize that Lex I
and on J u n e 10, 1963, fourths Peoples Telephone
drunkenness, records
sheriff's office show.
Change of Venue
Request Heard
By Judge Myers
Judge Elisha Myers of Paris
heard a request for a change
of venue in the debt suit of
Bevis Pontiac-Oldsmohile,Cadil-
lac against James R. Pearce ••{
Tyler in 62nd District Court
T uesduy.
Judge Myers did not make a
judgment on the plea while in
Sulphur Springs.
In other court business, Judge
Myers granted a divorce and
two adoptions and dismissed -i
tax delinquency suit filed by
the county in 1959.
Senator Ralph W. Yar- j
In a telegram from Washington
reports that the Department of |
Agriculture has advised him of |
a REA loan of *1,078,000 to I
in Tyler reports.
In addition, 156 persons
were injured in the 321 acci-
dents, and property damage to-
taled $169,597.
"Unless d r i v e r s show a
marked improvement, this year
could very easily become the
would have been "a tnssup.”
"To get as close a- a tossup
is not good enough though if
you're contesting an election,"
Rash said. “The court action
to mark-
form.
Meeting in Houston
Source of the new informa-
tion was a letter to owners of
working interests in the Cmno
S in a e k o v e r wells which
emerged from a meeting of
major oil company represents*
lives concerned June 4 in Hous-
ton.
The letter reported the group
was in agreement that gas sales
agreements for Como produc-
tion should be made so that de-
lleries ro iId be started as soon
as possible.
A representative of the War-
icn Petroleum Corporation of
Tulsa, a wholly owned subsid-
iary of Cull Oil Corporation,
would be very expensive and presented t.ie results of prclim-
the burden would rest entirely 'na!-' studies which indicated
on the plaintiff.”
fic history," Capt. Warner said, i
He noted that the district shows i
a 13 per cent increase in fatal-:
, ■ ities over the same period last
y | year, and a 39 per cent increase
in deaths over the last three
in the dative, Quitman.
The cooperative is scheduled Jr
to expand facilities to serve jn Hopkins County, the only
1,297 new subscribers, to con-, death wus that of L(>u Walk. r
istruct 221 miles of new line from illjuries received in a two-
and expand dial facilities as, car accident in April. Harrison
necessary to provqie service j County headed th(. |iilt with fivr
[without toll charge between dt,alhs. (;1Vkor> jjusk and Titus
! borrowers Untis exchange | ,.ounties W(TP s,.cond with three
[and Sulphur Springs.
Hopkins Couniy
Students Named
To Dean's List
Eleven Hopkins County stu-
I each. M orris, Smith, Van
[ Zandt and Wood counties each
had two deaths and Howie, Ma- j was county tax ussessor-collee-
rion, Hopkins, Red River and ! (or
The U. S. Senate must ap-
prove the nomination.
' Other nominations announc-
ed with Sev ell's were for post-
master at Crosbyton and Rich-
mond.
j the feasibility of installing pro-
cessing and sulphur recovery
I equipment.
| It was emphasized that much
j additional information is need-
led on gas analysis, delivery
| rates, potential reserves and
[possible future cycling opera-
tions before progress run be
made on the big prnjn t.
, | Gulf, as the largest single
O (. Sewell Jr has been ! illt,.rt.st ln the fipld px.
nominated by President John- j d a dt,sil, to op,.rate thl.
son as Sulphur Springs post- • ,m),)ost.(i m.w |dant through
11 "o *' i, . , , i the Warren company which
Sewell was appointed acting iaIU(,s thU flllu.fion.
P,,stmaster several years ago „wns int,.reats ia
when Hyron Williams retired !(
from the post. At the time, he j
Johnson Sends
Sewell's Name
To Senators
four Como Smackover
Blaze Brought
To Firemen
Firemen usually have to ro
to • firs, but Friday afternoon
a fire came to them.
Q. O. Young, 385 Roeemont
Avenue, drove up to the door
of the fire station at 2:35 p.
m. with the hack seat of his
automobile on fire. The seat
waa taken out by firemen and
the blase extinguished.
Young said passengers rid-
ing in bis car earlier in Hie day
n$»t have dropped a lighted
cigaret on the seat
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Barricade Hit
By Small Car
A Columbus, O., driver es-
caped injury Monday at 9:15
a. m. when his small foreign car
rammed a barricade at the east
end of Interstate Highway 30
near Weaver.
Highway Patrolman Don King
mid damage to the car driven
by David Minulilli was approxi-jfor treatment after finding his
mately $200.
Sulphur Springs
State Bank
Sets Dividend
Directors of the S u 1 p h u r
Springs State Bank announced
Wednesday the declaration of
a quarterly dividend of 60
cents a share on the bank s
common stock.
The dividend checks will be
sent to stockholders by mail
June 30. The payment on the
bank’s 20,000 shares of stock
car. Harris underwent surgery1 will total $12,000.
Underground Lines Cause
Havoc With City Crews
dents at East Texas State Col-
lege have been named to the
dean’s list for high grades dur-
ing the spring semester.
Sulphur Springs students in-
volved are John HomerCochran,
Charles W. Cromer, Janet Hig-
gins, Geraldine L. Hodges and
William J. Poison. Others are
Malconi Gregg, Alice Kay Kim-
mons, Danny Lynn Rawson,
Upshur counties one.
Child Struck
By Car Sunday
Boat And Motor
Stolen at Lake
Three-year-old Jerry Kizer
was struck by a car on Putman
Street Sunday.
Police said he is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. George Kizer.
The hoy was taken to Memo- 1 A new boat and motor bo-
rial Hospital, but was released longing to P. K. Pilcher were
with only minor injuries. i stolen at Century Lake Friday
Driver of the car which hit night, sheriff's officers were
the youngster had left when told during the week-end.
Judy Milane Stewart, Betty police arrived, and his name is Pilcher valued the missing
Weir and Sue Symonds Wright. | not known. equipment at $406.
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names of 337 students who av-
eraged "B” or better in at least
15 hours of work.
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Cars Damaged
In Accidents
Underground line »—of
•ewer, water and natural gas
variety—are causing havoc this
week for city officials and
workmen and private contrac-
tors. v*
Items:
• A water main break on
the west end of Main Street
Tuesday shut off service for
several hours in that area.
crews ruptured a
trying to fix the Main
break.
_ A cavein Tuesday hat
forced a Mt. Pleasant contrac-
tor to revise plane for e sewer
line in the Leo-Hi addition.
• Street crews are still being
kept off of Fisher Street be-
cause s six inch, high pressure
gss line there has not been
lowered.
The water break oecurred at
11 a. m. east of the J. D. Rorie
Tractor Company and repairs
were not completed until about
1:30 p. m. During that inter-
val, water service was suspend-
ed west of the break on Main
Street, in the Highland Hills
area and at several businesses
on Interstate Highway 30.
City Manager Carl Riehn said
Lone Star Gas Company work-
men prevented service from be-
natural gas line there while ing curtailed when the gaa line
ruptured.
The sewer line under con-
struction which collapsed at one
end Tuesday caused no injuries,
but prompted its contractor to
raise the depth from nine to
five-and-a-half feet for the
remainder of the 400-foot dis-
tance. A manhole will be built
to allow the sewerage to fall
to the lower level.
The Fisher Street gas Use
wms discovered several weeks
ago to be too near the pound
for the city crews to work near
while rebuilding the street The
gas company promised that a
contractor would begin Monday
to lower the line, which ex-
tends from Kyle Street to south
of Spence Street
Gas company officials told
Riehn Tuesday, however, that
the Greenville construction
TAPES FOR GERMANY
Columbus, Ohio CPI—Dr. Ilse-
dore Edse of Ohio State Uni-
company which does sueh work Versity’s German Department
for Lone Star is working on
another project out of town
and must finish that before
moving to Sulphur Springs.
In the meantime, the
workmen are installing curl
and gutters on Middle Street
city
•urbs
property.
to protect nearby
Two rear - end accidents oc-
curred on Sulphur Springs
streets Friday night.
The first collision occurred
on the southwest corner of the
square at 8 o’clock and involv-
ed automobiles driven by Mari-
lulle M. Daniel, 301 Glover
Street, and Pamela Sue Pet-
ers, 619 Houston Street. To-
tal damage was $50.
In the other mishap, cars
driven by Michael H. Harrel-
son of Dallas and Larry Bob
Ponder of Yantis were involv-
ed in a collision at 10 o’clock
at South Broadway and Gil-
mer streets. Police estimated
damage to the Ponder car at
$275 and to the Harrelson auto
at $75.
sends two six-minute tape re-
cordings to Germany twice each
month for use on a radio pro-
gram heard by many Germans.
She chooses sounds which she
thinks will tell Germans some-
thing about the United States—
and lining a drainage ditch * J*** festival, a schoolboy de-
off of Park Circle Drive witk 'i’?rinK newspaper, a fellow
driver helping a stranded mo-
torist with a flat, parades, any-
thing but political topics.
Crop Prospects
Appear Brighter
Lust week’s rain in Hopkins'gun their second cutting and
County have assured farmers
of a second hay cutting and
have brightened their outlook
on crops in general, County
Agent Paul Herschler said
Wednesday.
“They feel the response of
the crops to the rain was as
great as any they’ve seen,”
Herschler said. “The farmers
are enthusiastic about every-
thing, cotton as well as pas-
tures,"
Cutting of the first hay crop
is well under way, he said, and
some farmers have already be-
look forward to perhaps a
third one.
He said the usual insect
damage to cotton has begun,
but has come mainly from flea-
hoppers, tiny insects which at-
tack the cotton square just as
it is forming.
“Since the squares are just
now forming, it will be awhile
before there is too much insect
damage from the worms and
weevils,” Herschler said.
‘‘Right now the pests are the
fleahoppers, and also thrips
and aphids.”
Como Granted
Planning Funds
Como has been granted a
$4,606 public works planning
advance for planning exten-
sions and improvements to its
municipal water supply by the
Housing and Home Finance
Agency, Community Facilities
Administration.
Senator Ralph W. Yarbor-
ough in a telegram and Con-
W right Patman in a
telephone call announced the
grant Thursday.
The proposed improvement
program at Como is expected
to cost, about $92,000, with con-
struction to begin in 1965.
Congressman Patman credit-
ed numerous Como citizens
with emphasizing the need for
the project and pointed out to
their role in obtaining the fed- night
•ral funds for th* program.
f the
wells.
Other owners were asked to
signify on forms provided their
a p p r oval or disapproval of
Gulf as tile operator of the
plant.
The letter stated that a lat-
( r eonrtruetion and operating
agreement would curry final
approval of Gulf's designation.
Under the plan being consid-
ered, the \\ a r r e n company
would represent. Gulf in both
I the construction and operation
of the proposed plant.
Three Sulphur Springs resi-
dents have small working inter-
ests in one of the Como Smack-
over wells, Mobil Oil Com-
I pany’s No. 1 Robbie Lord. They
I are Mrs. Her.ry 1>. Sartin, Hen-
ly D. Sartin, ,lr., and Phil A
Sartin.
.4 considerably larger group
of Hopkins County residents
own royalty interests in the
production that will start flow-
ing to market after the pro-
cessing plant is completed.
The proposed Como refining
facility would be comparable
in nature to that erected by
Pan American Petroleum Cor-
poration northwest of Yantis
to handle Smackover produc-
tion fro m the West Yantis
lield.
Two Charged
Wilh Felony
Cases Here
Felony complaints of theft
and passing a worthless check
were filed in Justice Court
Monday afternoon.
Both were entered on the
examining trial docket of Jus-
tice of the Peace Dewitt Loyd
and await grand jury motion.
A Sulphur Springs man ac-
cused another local resident of
driving away in his truck and
trailer early this month and
never returning. Judge Loyd
said the man’s whereabouts its
not known. 1
The other case involves a
$1,878.46 check written by a
Wood County man to a motor
company here for a new truck.
In the only other law en-
forcement action, city police
ticketed a rural youth at mid-
for disturbance with a
motor vehicle.
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