Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 121, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 21, 1980 Page: 10 of 16
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10—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Tnxos, Wtrlnnsdoy, May 21,1930.
Council okoyS toxi From the rap sheet
franchise for city
Sulphur Springs City Com-
missioners not only got the
Front Street Project into the
go-ahead stage, but also gave
approval to a new taxi fran-
chise Tuesday night at their
meeting, named nine men to
the Sulphur Springs Industrial
Development Corporation and
denied an exception to the First
Presbyterian Church while
approving one for the Hopkins
County Hospital Addition.
Dan McLarry of Sweeney (a
native of Sulphur Springs)
appeared before the com-
missioners during their work
session held before the regular
meeting and said that he was
interested in obtaining the
* franchise to operate a taxi .
service.
Interim City Mangager
Travis Owens told the com-
missioners that five or six
persons had indicated an in-
terest in the franchise but that
McLarry was the only one-
present at the meeting. He said
that all interested persons had
been invited to speak at the
work session.
Me Larry said he had a good-
paying job in Houston but
wanted to return to Sulphur
Springs.
“I feel that 1 can make a good
living for my wife and family,”
lie told the commission and said
that he had already checked
into insurance requirements,
located two 1978 vehicles and
was ready to apply for his radio
license.
He said it would be a family
operation and to begin, he and
his father, Bruce Mclarry,
would be doing the driving.
McLarry said that he would
operate the service from about
5:30 a.m. until about midnight
and at proposed rates about 50
cents higher than those in effect
at the time that the previous
operation folded.
He said the increased costs
would be necessary due to the
increasing cost of gasoline and
upkeep of vehicles.
City Attorney Tommy Allison
told the commission that the
franchise had been given to
Dewitt Loyd until 1984 and that
he had turned it over to James
Wilburn with the approval of
former City Manager Lee
Vickers.
He suggested that Mclarry
contact Wilburn and simply
transfer the franchise to the
McLarrys and that it would be
valid until 1984 if the com-
mission approved.
Allison said that the rates
were set by ordinance and
would take about 30 days to be
changed if the the franchise
could be transferred.
McLarry came back to the
meeting just as the regular
session was about to start and
informed the commissioners
that he had obtained the
franchise.
Taxi service in Sulphur
Springs will resume on June 2 if
Mclarry pasts the required
bond and provides insurance
coverage.
Commissioners, sitting as a
Board of Exception, quickly
approved the use of a tem-
porary building for a period not
to exceed 18 months on the
Hopkins County Memorial
Hospital grounds.
The building will house Dr.
Phil White, an ophthalmologist
who is moving to town.
Glenn Kenley, Memorial
Hospital administrator, told
members of the Planning and
Zoning Commission earlier that
the plans call for Dr. White to
fuup his clinic built within that
18-mo nth period.
Commissioners disapproved
a request for an exception for
work at the First Presbyterian
Church at 129 College.
Enos L. Ashcroft III told the
commissioners that the church
was planning a new education
building and that due to in-
flation, its cost had not allowed
for the inclusion of a Fellowship
Hall.
He said that members of his
Sunday school class had
volunteered their services and
built a Fellowship Hall into the
basement of the existing
building.
Ascroft said that the
volunteer workers had built two
partition walls and replaced old
wiring including a breaker box
and grounded outlets.
City Inspector Joe Cerratani
said that the construction
meets the National Electrical
Code with the exception that
the wiring is not inside conduit.
Billy Wayne Orr, chairman of
the Sulphur Springs Electrical
Board which considered the
item prior to the meeting of the
City Commission, said, “If we
make an exception, everybody
will want one.”
He said that conduit is
necessary to keep an electrical
short from spreading. “It’s a
perfect fire hazard without
conduit,” he said.
Cerratani said that the
church had not used licensed
electricians as required, they
had not obtained a building
permit and needed to replace
the wiring used at the base of
the electric meter.
Orr commented, “If you’re
not going to follow ’em (elec-
trical codes), there’s no use to
have them."
Commissioner Dee Mabe
made a motion to deny the
exception with a second from
Vaden Richey and the motion
was unanimously passed.
After a discussion to allow a
length of time to bring the
building into conformance, it
was agreed that the church
should take out a permit im-
mediately and correct the
problems by using a licensed
electrician within the six-
month life of a building permit.
The commissioners ap-
pointed a nine-member board
for the Industrial Development
Corporation on the recom-
mendations of the Hopkins
County Chamber of Commerce
industrial Development
Committee.
While the commissioners
were in executive session, City
Secretary Kathea Whittle drew
names to determine the terms
of the members.of the board as
instructed by the commission.
Mickey McKenzie, president
of Grocery Supply ; Joe Mack
Gober of Gober-Merrell
Chevrolet, Inc.; and B.F. Ash-
croft, president of Sulphur
•Springs Coca Cola Bottling
Company, were named to serve
one-year terms.
Rick Palmer, president of
First National Bank; Bill
Williams, vice-president of
Sulphur Springs State Bank;
and Ike Stevens of Edward D.
Jones & Company were named
to serve two-year terms on the
board.
Gene Watson, a land
developer; Larry Maroney of
Maroney Real Estate; and Joel
Sheffield of the firm of Ramey,
Allison and Sheffield, At-
torneys, were named to serve
three-year terms.
The Chamber of Commerce
recommendation that their
executive vice-president and
chairman of the Industrial
Development Committee be
appointed as ex-offico mem-
bers of the board was not in-
cluded in the motion as ap-
proved by the commission.
Commissioners awarded bids
for chemicals to be used by the
city's Water Treatment Plant
to Austin White Lime Company
of Austin for quicklime at a cost
of $95 per ton, to Bowie
Chemical and Supply Com-
pany, Inc. of Texarkana for
liquid alum at a cost of $114 per
ton; to TEI Petro-Chem, Inc. of
Ixjngview for liquid chlorine at
a cost of $238 per ton; and to
Thompson-Hayward Chemical
Company of Dallas for
hydrofluosilic acid at a cost of
11.28 cents per pound as all
were the low bidders for the
various chemicals Indicated.
The average American
today eats 14 pounds of cheese
a year, 2ti times what he ate
35 years ago, though still only
about half of what a French-
man or Italian eats.
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SULPHUR SPRINGS P.D.
Arrests
Officers arrested three
persons for suspicion of theft,
one for public intoxication and
no drivers license and one for
no drivers license and expired
motor vehicle inspection.
Traffic citations were issued
to seven persons for speeding,
two for no drivers license, one
for defective equipment (no tail
lights) and one for expired
motor vehicle inspection.
The It
A resident of the 300 block of
Highland Drive reported that a
fern in a white flower pot
valued at $75 and a hanging
basket valued at $75 had been
taken.
A 10-foot aluminum boat
valued at $125 was reported
taken from a resident of the 100
block of Russell Drive. The '
boat was recovered and three
persons were arrested in that
incident.
WINNSBORO P.D.
Arrests
Officers arrested four per-
sons for criminal mischief and
possession and consumption of
alcoholic beverages in a dry
area and one person for theft by
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Traffic citations were issued
to four persons for speeding,
one for expired registration,
one for exhibition of ac-
celeration, .one for unsafe speed
and one for running a stop sign.
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A Cumby resident reported
that two 50-pound sacks of
onions valued at $10 had been
taken from a car parked at the
Duvall Motel on 1-30.
A Route 5 resident reported
the theft of a 1979 lOOcc Suzuki
motorcycle.
RAINS COUNTY S O.
Arrests
Deputies arrested one person
on a warrant for theft by check
and one op a Dallas County
warrant.
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 121, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 21, 1980, newspaper, May 21, 1980; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth823566/m1/10/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.