Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 158, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1980 Page: 11 of 32
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DEATHS
Officers probe policeman's death
THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Spring*, Taxae, Thursday. July 3,1980—11.
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J.E. Pruitt
Graveside services for J.E.
(Ed) Pruitt, 58, of 1618 Kirby in
Carrollton were held at 10 a.m.
Thursday at Restlawn
Memorial Park with the Rev.
Henry Suche Jr. officiating.
Mr. Pruitt died Tuesday
evening at the Lisbon Veterans
Administration Hospital in
Dallas.
He was born Dec. 19, 1921 in
Lafayette County, Miss, to
James D. (Pal) and Ida
Clearice Qualls Pruitt.
Mr Pruitt was a disabled
• veteran, having served in the
U.S. Navy during World War II.
Survivors include his mother,
of Sulphur Springs; three
daughters," Mrs. Ruby
Schumacher, Mrs. Margarett
Henderson and Mrs. Linda
Hinton, all of Dallas; three
sons, James K. Pruitt, Nathan
Pruitt and Dewayne Pruitt, all
of Dallas; two brothers,
Richard Pruitt of Fort Worth
and David Pruitt of Sulphur
Springs; and eight grand-
children.
Serving as pallbearers were
Bob Wesson, Tom Hendricks,
Sanford Gammill, D.P.
Mclntire, Dee Mabe and Roy
Koger.
Murray-Orwosky Funeral
Home was in charge of
arrangements,'
Husband jailed
in wife murder
BRECKENRIDGE, Texas
(AP) — The estranged husband
of a woman found beaten to
death here Sunday was jailed
Wednesday on murder charges,
Stephens County authorities
said.
Peace Justice Sid Rhodes set
bond of $50,000 for Ronnie
Harber, 35, in the slaying of
Darlene “Sissy” Harber, 29.
Medical examiners in Dallas
ruled she had died from
massive head injuries.
“She looked like she was
beaten up,” Rhodes said.
The body of a 26-year-old
Massachusetts policeman was
found here early Thursday
morning.
SSPD Sgt. Gordon Fulcher
and Hopkins County Deputy
Bennie Matthews werer riding
together about 1:55 a.m. on
Industrial Drive when they
spotted a 1977 two-door coupe
with a rental trailer behind it
sitting on the north side of the
service road.
^Upon checking the vehicle,
parked almost beneath the SH-
19 overpass, they found the
body of William Craig
Barowsky, 26, of Longmeadow,
Mass, sprawled across the
from seat of the car facing up.
Assistant Police Chief Donnie
G. Lewis, District Attorney Jim
Chapman and Justice of the
Peace Bill Bauman were called
to the scene and after an in-
vestigation, Bauman ordered,
an autopsy. ,
Only a cursory search was
made of the vehicle after the
body was removed but in-
vestigators quickly determined
that Barowsky was a police
officer from the tell-tale
handcuff key on his key ring.
Lewis reported that he had
found an identity card in-
dicating that Barowsky was a
member of the Amherst, Mass.
Police Department.
Chapman said he had con-
tacted that department' and
was told that Barowsky had
recently resigned and was
enroute to San Jose, Calif,
where he had accepted a
position as a peace officer.
Lewis said that he had spoken
with family members and
found that Barowsky had been
ill while in Memphis, Tenn. and
again near Hope, Ark. but did
not have any adverse type of
known medical history.
A document found at the
scene indicated that Barowsky
had been taken by ambulance
to the Hempstead Memorial
Hospital in Hope, Ark. on
Tuesday. Lewis said hospital
officials indicated that the
young officer had been treated
and released when Lewis
talked with them in the pre-
dawn' hours of Thursday.
Lawmen said Barowsky had
checked into .a motel in
Texarkana on Tuesday and
checked out of his room at 5:02
p.m. Wednesday.
The engine of the car was still
running when officers located
it. However, the lights were not
on and the air conditioner belt
find broken, leading officers to
belive that he had pulled off the
roadway where he died —
sometime before darkness fell
Wednesday.,
Lewis said that it is possible
that Barowsky had eaten or
purchased gasoline somewhere
near Sulphur Springs or
possibly * Mount Vernon
sometime early Wednesday
evening. . .
At least one witness has said
that the car was sitting on the
side of the road at 7 p.m.
Judge Bauman ordered an
autopsy to determine the cause
of Barowsky’s death as there
was nothing at the scene to
indicate why the young
policeman died.
Barowsky turned 26 just 13
days ago and had graduated
from the University of
Massachusetts in 1976.
Chief Delbert HSrrell said
that there is a possibility that
Barowsky was a victim of
carbon monoxide poisoning.
Lewis said that the in-»
vestigation is continuing and
that the results of the autopsy
will give them something better
to go on.
sulphur
graphs.
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MRS. PHILIP Raup of St.
Paul, Minn., is spending two
weeks here visiting her sister,
Mrs. F.W. Frailey, jpd other
relatives. Her husband, who is
a professor of agricultural
economics at the University of
Minnesota, will be attending a
meeting next week in
Alexandria, Egypt. * '
L.E. STEWART of Brashear,
pointing to the sky, said "our
trouble is up there,” during a
visit in Sulphur Springs.
“We’ve still got enough
moisture, but the heat is hur-
ting, especially dairymen.”
Stewart was aHong-time cotton
farmer before turning to
dairying.
Searching for evidence
District Attorney Jim Chapman and Assistant Police Chief Donnie Lewis search the inside of of a
1977 two-door coupe where Sgt. Gordon Fulcher and Hopkins County Deputy Sheriff Bennie
Matthews found the body of a Massachusetts police officer early Thursday morning. William
Craig Barowsky, 26, of Longmeadow, Mass, was pronounced dead at the scene. Justice of the
Peace Bill Bauman ordered an autopsy to determine the cause of death. Barowsky had been a
police officer with the Amherst Police Department and was enroute to San Jose, Calif to begin
work there as a peace officer. ' ' ' •
Jack Price
Top gospel
soloist to
I sing here
Jack Price, one of America’s
most sought-after gospel
soloists, will appear in concert
at First Baptist Church in
Sulphur Springs at 10:45 a.m.
Sunday.
His ministry is world wide.
His musical message has been
presented to millions through
television, radio, recordings
and personal appearances. He
has appeared with Rex
Humbard on the “Cathedral of
Tomorrow” program. He has
been a guest of Jerry Falwell
on the “Old Time Gospel Hour”
on several occasions.
“Music With Meaning”
concerts take Price from coast
to coast each year. He has sung
in Carnegie Hall, New York;
People’s Church, Toronto,
Canada; Moody Memorial.
Church, Chicago; First Baptist
Church, Van Nuys, Calif, and
other churches.
The music industry has
honored Price with Grammy
nominations on two of his
albums. His choral com-
pilations have sold over 500,000
copies.
The public is invited to hear
Jack. Price at First Baptist
Churcn Sunday morning.
You'll Find
A Warm Welcome
Shannon Oaks Church
1113 Shannon Rd.885-6543
COME AND SEE!
Holiday's
light side
LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) -
What is the Fourth of July? Ask
a child.
“I think it’s ahout the time
when, a long time ago, they
found some stuff they could
light off and blow up. It was the
Pilgrims, I think,” said Jamie
Waltarri, 13, of Clarkston,
Wash., who was among those
questioned by the Lewiston
Morning Tribune.
“It was when they made the
Declaration of Independence. It
was in .1776,” said Mary Kay
Patton, 10, a young woman in
the know.
“We learned that in school
last year,” she added. “We
usually go to Grangeville every
year and watch the fireworks.”
Anne Gage, 10, Genesee,
nodded, “That’s right. I knew it
was something like that.”
“I’m not sure what it’s about,
but we might be going on a raft
trip down the river," was the
response from Terry O’Keefe,
10, of Asotin, Wash.
To Thomas Schrattenholzer,
11, Clarkston, the Fourth of
July means “playing with
firecrackers—just going out at
night, making a fire, having a
picnic and throwing
firecrackers."
What started the fireworks
tradition?
“I think it was when we won
World War II — or maybe it
was the Civil War or the first
World War,” Schrattenholzer
said.
Fugitive nabbed
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A
former General Foods Corp.
official charged with em-
bezzling $3.7 million in Winter
Haven, Fla., has been arrested
by the FBI in California.
FBI Special Agent Philip
McNiff said in Tampa that
Herbert A. DeGreve, also
known as Michael K. O’Shea,
had been sought as a fugitive
from justice since his disap-
pearance from Winter Haven
on Feb. 18.
O’Shea, 56, was chief ac-
countant for General' Foods’
citrus processing division in
Winter Haven at the time the
firm said an audit had disclosed
the embezzlement.
According to testimony
before Polk County Circuit
Judge Randolph Bentley,-
General |>ods’ .^officials
claimed O’Shea'" wrote more
than 100 checks ranging from
$27,000 to $30,000 to himself, and
then destroyed the returned
checks.
The testimony was used to
obtain a court order im-
pounding O’Shea’s hefty
savings accounts in three
banks. He was also a part
owner of an investment firm in
Winter Haven.
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O’Shea, a burly, redfaced
man about 6 feet, 1 inch tall,
disappeared after returning
from a trip and being informed
by company officials they
wanted to meet with him, Polk
County authorities said.
An attorney for his wife,
Marily, who remained in
Winter Haven, said little was
known about O’Shea beyond
eight years ago, when he met
her in Houston, Texas. The
couple has two young boys.
Ron Young, a spokesman for
the FBI in Tampa, said that
during the course of an in-
vestigation, O’Shea was
identified as Herbert A.
DeGreve, a native of Belgium.
He was to be arraigned before a
U.S. Magistrate in Riverside,
Calif., Young said.
SULPHUR SPRINGS P.D.
Arrests
Officers arrested one person
on a warrant for revocation of
probation.
Theft
City Marina on Loop 301
reported the theft of a 1979
Johnson 70-hp outboard motor
valued at $2,400.
A resident of the 100 block of
Gilmer reported that two
Carrier air conditioners had
been taken. The units were
valued at $200.
WINNSBORO P.D.
Arrests
Officers arrested one person
on a Titus County warrant for
contempt of court for non-
support and one person for
public intoxication.
Traffic citations were issued
to one person for disturbance
with a motor vehicle and one
for violation of drivers license
restriction.
HOPKINS COUNTY S.O.
' Arrests
Deputies arrested one person
for public intoxication during
the past 24 hours.
° Cattle Thefts *
A Route 1, Mount Vernon
resident‘reported that 18 cows
and six calves valued at over
$9,000 had been taken from his
property located north of
Saltillo.
RAINS COUNTY S.O.
Arrests
Deputies arrested one person
for criminal mischief.
FIREMEN
Grass Fire
Firemen were called at 11:55
a.m. Wednesday to State
Department of Highways and
Public Transportation right-of-
way about two miles from
Sulphur Springs on the Crush
Road.
A small area of grass was
reported burned in the fire that
was believed to have started
from an short in an electric
fence.
CLOVIS PINION of Sulphur
^Springs came back from
Oklahoma City with a reserve
champion trophy for his
pigeons. He said it was just as
hot in Oklahoma as it is in
Texas.
FIVE TEACHERS in the
Sulphur Springs system, Nina
Williams, Bettyj-Allain, Jean
Bell, Laura Stephens and
Karen Bailey, are enrolled in
the East Texas Writing Project
at the Region VIII Educational
Center in Mount Pleasant. The
course will run for five weeks,
four days per week, to assist ^
teachers in improving in-
structional writing techniques
which they will pass on to their
students. The teachers will
earn six hours of college credit
for the course and also are
receiving $250 grants to help
with the expenses. The local
language arts teachers later
will relate their experiences to
other faculty members to
bolster the writing discipline in
Sulphur Springs schools.
THE SULPHUR Springs
group of Alcohol Anonymous
will hold an open meetirig at 8
o’clock tonight at 641 N. Davis
St. Visitors are welcome.
ACTIVITY AT the Sulphur
Springs banks appeared
’Dooming early Thursday with
many of the depositors
carrying their social security
checks. The checks were raised
14.3 percent automatically this
month.
Jo/e Pickett
Princess picks
up another title
Joie Pickett, the reigning 1980
Miss Tri-County Lake Country
Princess, was crowned “Miss
Congeniality” at the recent
Texas state finals staged in
Huntsville.
Joie is the six-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Pickett of Quitman, formerly of
Sulphur Springs, and grand-
daughter of Mrs. Alvis Pickett
of Sulphur Springs.
Following the competition in
party dress, sportswear and
personal interviews, she was
also named a top ten beauty
finalist. The competition was
Joie’s first state pageant and
and only the second in which
she has competed.
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MR. AND Mrs. Robert
Stegall of Cooper announce the
birth of a son on Wednesday,
July 2 at 1:56 a.m. in Hopkins
County Memorial Hospital.
MR. AND Mrs. Billy Joe
Embrey of Winnsboro an-
nounce the birth of a daughter
on Tuesday, July 1 at 11:13 a.m.
in Hopkins County Memorial
Hospital. ->
MR. AND Mrs. Bob G.
Folmar of Winnsboro announce
the birth of a son on Wed-
nesday, July 2 at 3:32 a.m. in
Hopkins County Memorial
Hospital.
MR. AND Mrs. Bryan L
Mason of 1207 North Jackson
announce ’the birth of a
daughter on Wednesday, July 2
at 7:38 p.m. in Hopkins County
Memorial Hospital.
BUEL BERRY had a
welcome visitor at his office
Wednesday from Kerrville. The
visitor is his younger son,
Randy Berry, who also is
employed in a similar line of
work as his father.
' Wall Street
NEW YORK (AP) - The
stock market posted a broad
gain today in the closing
session of a holiday-shortened
week.
The Dow Jones average of 30
industrials rose 3.84 to 879.86 by
noontime.
Gainers outpaced losers by
more than a 2-1 margin in the
over-all tally of New York
Stock Exchange-listed issues.
Oil stocks were among the
leaders of the advance. Gulf Oil
gained % to 42%; Mobil 1% to
76%, and Exxon % to 68.
Airline stocks were strong for
the second straight session.
UAL rose % to 18%; Pan
American % to 5Y4; Eastern
Air Lines Vb to 9%, and U.S. Air
% to 12%.
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BEATRICE BATES, a long-
time favorite around the
courthouse, was in high spirits
Thursday morning After an
earlier sinking spell. She had
lost a bank sack with some of
her own money in it while in the
downtown area early in the
day. Fortunately, Haskell
Medders found the container
near'his place of business and
with the help of William
Strother and Charlton Tapp
traced it back to its owner.
WHAT DOES the high
temperature cost dairymen?
Charles Dawson and Herb
Flora Jr. were asked that
question by a Dallas News
reporter earlier in the week.
They estimated the cost ran
from $100 to $150 per day in lost
milk production. Extended
drought conditions also can add
to losses with curtailed
meadow growth and reduced
forage.
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 158, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1980, newspaper, July 3, 1980; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth823593/m1/11/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.