Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 79, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 2, 1980 Page: 1 of 42
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Sapaugh resigns
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After the Sulphur Springs
mission formally closed its'
Tuesday night, City Manager Wendell
Sapaugh announced his resignation. *■
“I’m resigning my-position’effective
April 11 which will be my last day in of-
fice,” he said, “we have a new City
. Commission and they need to have a £ity
' manager that goes ,along with their
thinking a little bit more. ”
* Sapaugh said that the city was in “gre^
shape” financially and has ^excellent
depaftmentheads. -,'1* ’ '
He cited personal business interests and
a desire to spend more tune, with his
family as his reasons for leaving, the
position which he has held on a permanent
basis since Nov. 20,1979. • -
“April Uth will be my last, day on the
job,” he said. “I presented a letter at^tbe
beginning of the meeting at the executive
session to the commissioners. ’ % __
Sapaugh’s letter of resignation simply
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ir Springs city manager
“Thank yoa for letting me serve aS-City“
Manager of Sulphur Springs. It^ks^een aa ‘
mast interesting experience.
“However, I must resign
effective April 11, 1900 due
business matters that need m/qnmgdiate ' »r«. Sapa
attention."
Sapaugh was the third city
bold the office in the past 18 fionths. Jp ■ that V:
-Olen i»etty left the jo^on «t- 6, i9Wjte $ named to
become city manager ^t Deer Parti?, nr- 1'*7n ^
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IcKinney was hired to
? feigned on Oct. 4,
applied for a similar
. posi^ofi wjthjhe City of Greenville.
nam#J interim ‘ city
temporary basis without
action the same night
and was formally
interim position on Oct. 16,
Sulphur
The City Commisson formally named
Sapaugh as the Sulphur Springs city
manageron Nov. 20.
Visitors present for the meeting were
totally unaware of the resignation until
after the meeting had been adjourned.
Commissoher Vaden Riehey commented
after,Sapaugh’s announcement that the
letter of resignation was to have been read
after the comffiSsioners returned from the
executive session. ^ «
New Commission Chairman Lewis Helm
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said that he had left the subject open for,
someone else.totfWitg“ap andex-Chairman
Millard Glover echoed that sentiment.
Resolution No. 472
named Sapaugh to be the t
that would have
he Signatory agent
xaS Department of
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in nutters with the Texas !
Water Resources w«v5tl the agenda for
the meeting and when the commission got
to that item, Sapaugh had’ asked the
commissioners to pass it which they did
without a motion, second or voting on the
item being passed.
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APRIL 2,1980.
15 Cants
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TWO SECTIONS
Heltri named council cft/ef
Related;cr1§]€^Jnission meeting story, page 18
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men
Indep
ve on the Sulphur
(nt School District’s
The Sulphur Springs <^ity
has two new leaders today.„,
Following an ’ hour-long exeeijttV^ 'Boai^df Equalization,
session Tuesday night, outgoing (Xty s- Ordinance 826 which sets standards for
Commission Chairman Millard Gtoyer, water main sizes in new developments as
said, T want to exercise the privitegfeof $ well 'as standard \ placement of’ fire
commissioner of the city of,--Sulphur »TSjiydraotswaspassed bnfirttreading.
Springs and nominate" Le#js -Helhi-as.' The ordinance haa beat rejected on
mavnr (chairmsuTof tba* city pom- ’ sgcOnd and fing} re#Bhg at the last session
).” ' ■ ' , *ja of thacommisson when Glover objected ttr
mayor
mission).
there were no other nominations Hd wording ip the ordinance that allowed for
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Commissioner Dee*Mabe seconded
nomination ..which, was
unanimously by the
had served as chairman
to'fcw'made by either the city
Helm
City manager,
and final1 rei
at set fishing
added at a later date. hoses had a higher pressure rating and’
WJI. Lumpkin Associates of Dallas was thtae two reasons were why he recom-
the second low bidder on fife hose for the mended the bid. «
Fi^DePfrtn}®nt , , , Commissioners approved the Lumpkin
City Fire Marshal Jerry Bolding said company’s bid for 1,000 ,'eet of lH-inch
that although another bid was lower, the hose at a cost of $L04 per foot and 1,900 feet
Lumpkin company’s hoses were of 2W-inch hose at a cost of $1.54 per foot
guaranteed for 10 years while the low fora total cost of $3,968
bidder (Texas Rubber Supply, Inc. of Texas Rubber Supply, Inc. had bid 90
Dallas) had no warranty on its hose. cents per foot for the smaller hose and
He said that the Lumpkin company $1.48 per foot for the 2VL-inch hose. ,
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A mere trldcJg
Sanford GammilDsuperintepdent of postal operations, sorts census forms refunded
the ^presiding officer’s
position and commented, *‘1 appreciate tl^
support of everybody. “
He then opened
chairman pro tempore, by
Mabe with a second from (iteVe
Again the vote
Thusly
pro
Commission.
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during th^nast year. c‘ty lakes, the ordinance
1 took the ^presiding 'Officer’s" “< did an ordix
agreemeiA
Highways and
’s ’• did an ordinance approving ai
v - * ^th the State ~
of the
itjons at all
ly passed as
.iWlU^rentof
^ Helm quickly got the^nefeting for the first^«ar.
by Hopkins County residents “as th$ flood of large brown envelopes earlier in the « and commissi------j. Js- .• - •
> Js. Cottunissioners approved /a lease
/ agreement, wfth, Trans-Western En-
i, Inc. -fw the rental of the old
Plant on Main!
the lease agreement, tbe\l
welding and
rent of $106 per month to be paid
week had slowed to a trickle by Wednesday morning.
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rmssioners
Jr., Joe Kennedy, ai
pity ’s Board of
orors named'G.y . Hi^^s
nty and Glenn Ifep to ttie
Census dehjge slows ta:Mckle%*S
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welings as Well"-...-*
The agreement also provides for two
one-year lease renewal options with rent tp
$150 per month during the second year
’and $200 per month during thdthird year.
Oppenheim, representing the
corporation, said that the firm would begin
with two or .three employees at
possjbly two or three would be
ByTAN BLAKE •
News-Telegram Staff . _
The deluge of fat brown envelopes that
flooded the Sulphur Springs Post Office
and weighted dowif carriers the past two
days was down to a mere trickle Wed-
nesday morning. **:' V ..
Sanford Gammill, superiraendent of
postal operations, estimated that 75
percent of the census forms delivered
March 28 have been returned. .The census
form process has not, however* been.'
without its difficulties. ,
The Post Offipe had received all the
original white pieces of mail by March 5
when local workers began attempting to
discover who was missed and to f ofiow the
complex rules sent in by the census
bureau. “We got it cold with a bunch of
hard- to-read instructions,” said Gammill,
tapping the thick set v of government
written, single-spaced pages.
more expedient to
require apost mark,
how the postal department will
Rate jumps
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ines. “Wg ipst found jt
ha^d-sort ItThey don’l
k," Ganitnill said- As tc
delivered to unoccupied dweli
as those occupied- * . \
Contrary to some reports, the census
envelopes will fit the postal
machines. The difficulty arises fe„____
open window that can be tom whilelgoiiig> 0 - YORK (AP) — The soaring prime
through the machines. “We jatt foimd jt \ lendm« rate another noteh to a
’ lerdon’t A'fedtt* 20 percent today as banks con-
tinued to adjust for the rising cost of their
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/funds
Chemical Bang, *the nation’s sixth
bwMSdosted the rate to 20 per-
largest
New City Commission bosses
Rural-urbcfn.
meeting set
1 The 37th Rural-Urban meeting will
be held at Yantis rfigh School on
Thursday, April ft), according to
Weber Fout&* chairman of the
Hopkins Count]UChamber of, Com- ’
merce committee. *
Guest speaker at the meeting will
lHill of Fgrt Worth, a public
representative of Ag
Workers Auto Insurance Company.
Hill, who formerly
is a 1966 graduate,^!
High School. He was elected president
of the Texas association of Futyre
Farmers of America while in school
here. He later was graduated from
Texas A&MTJniyersity.
UUCJH opt
beMardUsH
relations)
Workers/Ai
Nei»ly elected Commission Chairman Lewis Helm, left,andC
pee Mabe discuss city business Tuesday night after the com
Municipal Building. Beth will Serve in their respective p
meeting in April, 1M1.
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Post office workers began sorting the the pieces of mail, the local
envelopes into.cases containing slots for were not sure “It .will bd handled in , , . ^
each address. Slots not filled with the Washington^ some .way," surmised -% <=en*’ fepfr°88lng P**t the 19 44 percent
original, white envelopes were to be filled Gammill. - . „ V r®te set Tuesday by Chase Manhattan
• with a blue card, wluch was to be returned Television news film t*k»o durfflft thd ®an*c" <^ien^ca^ *wse<* ^ New Y0I*>
tp Tyler by the recipient, who was then hand-sorting showed two white stamped * «*argii« 19 % percent, a rate it
mailed a census form. envelopes mingled/with t^e Mmuen-* adopifd only FruMy. _
The rule stating the forms cannot be velopes and being Tossed into the census
forwarded is one Gammill believes should fortn&ins. That mail will belittle late but
have been omitted. “The system would
have worked better If the forms could have
been forwarded, ” he said.
Some holders of postal boxes did not hours each of the two days to deliver their
receive the foAn. Dee Mabe, assistant heavy burdens. Normal coverage-of jnail ; Construction m Sulphur Springs, which «* The permits/ with owner, location and
postmaster, gets his mail via a post office is 65 percent of the route- but Pie census ^ has been sluggish, took a sharp upward value,follow:
>1; be did nof receive Ms census form forms increased this to 10i) percent plas, fen in March. Joe Cerretani, city building
and has been through some “interesting said Gammill. He also s&d the carriers inspector; reported that he issued building
conversations” with Dallas ind Tyler in and inside personnel had maintained their . permits in March which more than
his attempt to be counted. sense d humor with incoming questions doubled those for the first twd months of
Bswaaaae
This is the first time the census bureau
has uded the postal system. Pridr census
taking has been done on a personal door-to-
door basis. Local postal employees said
they felt this method-qdU be far less ex-
pensive, but the censusTould have been
handled better by addressing the pieces to
“ocriipant”. rams are now being
iunii;Dins. inai man wui oewmue laie oui * - . • -
1 ty construction permits
K~—- •“»*• "* ‘”0 days to deliver their < ' '
mal coverage^ jnail ; Construction ip Sulphur Springs, which » The permits/ with owner, location and * <
route, but the census has been sluomah tnnlr a aham unvarH vain* fnllnn,' ' A "b
s to IO0 percent plas, fen in Marc
ilso said the carriers inspector, re
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sense of numor with in
and iMid done a ggod job.
/ Permits issued in March totaled $383,498
as c<mpar6d to $269,851 for both January
* '-and February. Thus, permits for the
calendar year now stand at $853,149.
In the 24 permits issued were six jtor new
hopes, another for a church, and a third
for an office building.
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Westgate Baptist Church, Loop 301 and
Highway 19, $40,000.
A. G. Romack, 529 Plano, $330.
B. A. Harmon, 815 College, $1,700.
Billy J. Williams, f *
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5CoUege,IU,7C
Perry Cotton, FuWstrit, $10,000.1
Mike Blount, 945 Moore, $33,000.
L. L. Cooper, 617 Putman, $25,000.
Jerry Miller, 1300 Carter, $1,000.
Earine Hoskinson, 1114S. Davis,$7
Capps and Roberts, 718 Fuller, $32
Thelma Voss, 423 Van Sickle, $300
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Chute gates open on p|ofessional rodeo
In professiopal rodeo circles - as in .
many athletic events - there’s altays
a question: Is it best to make your movd
early and let everybody else take a shot
at you, or to compete later and see what
you have to beat? ^
But that question won’t be as im-
portant In Sulphur Springs as the
Professional Rodeo Cowboys
IBpjn. today in the Civic
i means some wild per-
because none of the
cdwbeys ffnd cowgirls will be playing it
coxy and hoping for average money.
Rodeo fans at tonight’s opener will
have a chance* to, 9ee several c
petitors in the race for 1
V-C*
Nine from the stoek linetii
for the
fekW By Tommy Steiner
Sutehur^ Springs rodeok am
Young of Fi
Royce City and Paul Mayo of Fanners
Branch In saddle broncs, and a list of
Mid in fie X perennial champions or National Finals
drawn an animal Xw^ers in the bull riding - Don Gay
4 * - ■
at the show. Due out tonight are
Steiner’s top
formidable n
Come Apart
uc uui Luiu^m are some or
animals, bearing such 4ati
lOWHs **
Sandy Kirby of Greenville,
several others who coo-
ings to earn a shot at the
rroiessiunat noaeo c-owdo]
Association-approved everit opens
fourday run |t 8 pmi. today In the Cfv
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 79, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 2, 1980, newspaper, April 2, 1980; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth823766/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.