Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 123, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 24, 1989 Page: 18 of 26
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18—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Wednesday, May 24,
1989.
Volunteers
needed to
help aged
Volunteers to help Aged and Dis-
abled Adults are needed by the
Aged and Disabled Services staff of
the Texas Department of Human
Services, according to a TDHS
spokesperson.
“We are looking for individuals
who have a special interest in help-
ing the elderly,” said Elaine
Tits worth, eligibility specialist III,
for Hopkins County. “The
volunteers who work in this pro-
gram not only help the elderly, but
also have the opportunity to make
the “golden years” happier and
more meaningful,”’ she added.
Opportunities for volunteers are
varied, Titsworth said, ranging
from office clerical assistants to
working as caseworker aides to
provide transportation for doctor’s
appointments.
Area volunteers may choose to
work in areas appearing below:
Caseworker Aides will be trained
to assist Adult Social Services staff
in providing services to Aged and
Disabled who have experienced
abuse andor neglect.
Resource Specialists will assist
caseworkers in developing need for
community resources.
Transportation Aides will pro-
vide transportation for Aged and
Disabled clients to a variety of ap-
pointments.
Ofice Assistants will assist Adult
Servies staff with specific office
clerical workers tasks.
Free training will be provided by
T.D.H.S., Titsworth said, and
volunteer time commitments will
vary depending on the task. Indi-
viduals, organizations and
businsses interested in volunteering
may do so by calling the Aged and
Disabled Services office in Sulphur
Springs at 885-9561. <
TIP honors
coming to
SSMS student
Jackie Bash cars, a student at
Sulphur Springs Middle School,
will be honored for her academic
achievement at a statewide
ceremony on Saturday, June 17, at
Baylor University in Waco.
The recognition ceremony is
sponsored by the Duke University
Talent Identification Program to
salute the seventh-graders from
Texas who qualified in TIP’s ninth
annual Talent search. All students
invited to the ceremony have
earned scores on the Scholastic Ap-
titude Test on the American College
Testing Assessment comparable to
college-bound high school seniors.
The students will receive certifi-
cates of distinction at the ceremony.
The highest scorers will also
receive scholarships and books.
TIP conducts recognition
ceremonies in each of the 16 states
it serves in the Southeast, Midwest
and Southwest. Over 50,000 math-
ematically and verbally gifted
seventh graders are identified by
this program each year. TIP offers
additional educational opportunities
for gifted students in the seventh
through tenth grades.
TIP is a non-profit educational
organization established in 1980
with a five-year grant from The
Duke Endowment. The program
receives continuing support from
student fees, individuals and foun-
dations.
Sulphur
graphs
CORRECTION — Emily and
Stephanie House of Paris and
Michael and Teresa Mathews of
Sulphur Springs were at the Grubbs
family get-together on Mother’s
Day. They are grandchildren of
Mrs. Billie Grubbs.
NAVY SEAMAN Tina Harrison,
daughter of Fronia Williams of
Sulphur Springs, recently reported
for duty at Naval Communication
Area Master Station, Norfolk, Va. A
1980 graduate of Sulphur Springs
School, she joined the Navy
High S<
in Marcl
h 1980.
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DONNA BURTON, daughter of
Don and Patsy Burton and
granddaughter of Velma Burton of
Sulphur Springs, was named to the
deans list far the spring 1989
semester at Stephen F. Austin
University where she is majoring in
English.
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Kearney Brim ____
Services for Jefferson Kearney
Brim Jr. of 1606 Jason Drive will
be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Thurs-
day, May 25, in the First United
Methodist Church with the Rev.
Michael House officiating.
Burial will be in Sulphur Springs
City Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Dr. Steve
Longino, Jim Wright, Jerry Bert
Davis, Lloyd (Buck) Wright, Bruce
Matthews, Dean Walker, Gus Wolfe
and BJ\ Ashcroft
Honorary pallbearers will be
Billy Murray, Roger Plummer Jr.,
Gerald Prim, Earl Payne, Bill
Payne, Thomas Payne, R.E. Pratt,
Huell Bridges, W.W. Jones Jr. and
Dr. Joseph Longino.
Mr. Brim died at 3:55 p.m.
Tuesday at Hopkins County
Memorial Hospital. „
He was bom Sept. 6, 1922, in
Sulphur Springs, a son of Jefferson
Kearney Brim Sr. and Carrie James
Brim. He was a lifelong resident of
Sulphur Springs. He married June
Marie Wester who survives.
Mr. Brim was an attorney, enter-
ing a joint practice with his father
in 1940. He joined Mobil Oil Co.
as a landman in 1952. He returned
to private law practice in Sulphur
Springs in 1963. He was elected
judge of the 8th Judicial District,
returning to private practice in
1976 where he specialized in ener-
gy law until his retirement in 1986.
He was a member of the local
and state bar association, past
member of Kiwanas International
and served as president of the Hop-
kins County Chamber of Com-
merce in 1964. He was a member
of the First United Methodist
Church.
Survivors include his wife, three
sons, Jefferson Kearney Brim III
(Jay), Austin; Charles Frank Brim,
Dallas and Cal Brim, Arlington,
one daughter, Connie Brim Gulley,
Tyler, two sisters, Sarah Brim Den
hardt, Arbuckle, Calif., and Marion
Brim Dildv, Sulphur Springs; and
seven grandchildren.
Family will receive friends 7-8
p.m. Wednesday at Tapp Funeral
Home, which is in charge of arran-
gements.
Family requests that memorials
be made to the American Cancer
Society or the First United
Methodist Church Memorial Fund.
Charles Houston
Service for Charles D. Houston,
72, of Sealy and formerly of Hop-
kins County, will be conducted at 9
a.m. Thursday, May 25, in Etlinger
Funeral Home in Sealy with the
Rev. Robert Kelley officiating.
Graveside services and burial
wiO be conducted at 5:30 pan.
Thursday in Sulphur Springs City
Cemetery.
Fkllbearers will be Judge Mike
McCormick, Judge Oliver
Kitzman, Charles Oakley, Sidney
Levine, Tom Krampitz and Warren
Conner. Honorary pallbearers will
be other members of the Austin
County Bar Association.
Houston died at 4:30 am.
Tuesday. May 23, in the home of
Mrs. Warren Corner in Sealy.
He was bom Jan. 8, 1917, in
Hopkins County, a son of Norman
Marion Houston and Alice Herring
Kennedy (Houston.
He graduated from Sulphur
Springs High School in 1935, at-
tended the YMCA Schools in Dal-
las and George Washington Univer-
sity, then graduated from Baylor
University. He was a U.S. Navy
veteran of Wold War II.
Houston practiced law in a pri-
vate firm in Sealy fo several years
before becoming Austin County at-
torney in 1973 and district attorney
in 1979. He acted as attorney for
the City of Brookshire fo 12 years,
the City of Praine View fo about
eight years and the City of Bellville
for about three years.
Survivors include one sister,
Kate Sides of Dallas; and one
brother. Smith Houston of El Paso.
Inmate executed for abduction,
rape, slaying of stranded woman
By MICHAEL GRACZYK
Associated Press Writer
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A
Houston electrician was executed
early today fo participating in the
rape and strangulation of a woman
who was abducted after her car
broke down on a freeway on New
Year’s Day 1981.
Stephen McCoy, 40, was
pronounced dead at 12:25 a.m.,
seven minutes after a lethal mixture
of drugs was inserted into his arms.
He had no final statement, al-
though he smiled briefly to four
friends he invited to the execution.
He coughed and his chest heaved
five times as the drugs began to
take effect, then uttered two low
and long groans before he stopped
breathing.
McCoy lost a final appeal late
Tuesday when the U.S. Supreme
Court voted 5-4 to reject a request
for a stay. The court’s action was
unusual since the appeal was Mc-
Coy’s first to reach the high court
and it has been routine for initial
appeals to merit at least one
reprieve.
“The significance of this is the
courts very clearly are indicating
impatience With dilatory tactics
within the process and they intend
to expedite the process.” said Ai-
tomey General Jim Mattox, who
witnessed the execution.
McCoy was convicted in the
slaying of Cynthia Johnson, 18, of
Conroe, who was abducted by Mc-
Coy and two other men from her
car which had broke down on a
Houston freeway as she was return-
ing home from a New Year’s Eve
party.
Police will
partrol more
in lake area
City police officers are making
special rounds in the Lake Sulphur
Springs area as a result of com-
plaints about unlawful behavoir at
surrounding recreational sites.
Police Chief Donnie Lewis said
reports of drag racing, drinking and
popping fireworks should cease
when the officers increase patrols
in the area.
“We want everybody to enjoy
themselves out there arid have fun
because that’s one of the purposes
the lake serves. But, the alcohol
abuse, the hot redding and other
things are going to have to come to
a halt,” Lewis said.
The lake has been placed on the
officers’ routine patrol routes, the
chief said.
He referred to Memorial Day
and the Fourth of July holiday and
asked citizens to cooperate with the
police department by abiding state
laws and city ordinances.
Specifically cited by Lewis was
the city ordinance banning the
firing of fireworks.
“Our ordinance says there’ll be
no popping of fireworks in the city
limits, and it will be enforced, even
at Lake Sulphur Springs,” he said.
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According to trial testimony,
McCoy raped the woman and then
held her legs down while two other
men, James Paster and Gary Le-
Blanc, strangled her with an
electrical cord. Testimony also
showed Paster hammered a nail up
the woman’s nostril to make certain
she was dead.
Miss Johnson would have turned
27 on Monday.
Paster, awaiting death for anoth-
er slaying, received a life sentence
for the Johnson killing. Last month
he was caught with another death
row inmate in an unsuccessful es-
cape attempL LeBlanc, who tes-
tified for the state, received a 35-
year term.
“The death penalty was made for
people like Stephen Albert McCoy
to protect society from people like
him and from people like James
Paster,” George Lambright, who
prosecuted the case, said. “The fact
that Paster went that extra effort to
go ahead to drive a nail up her nose
— although McCoy didn’t do that,
in my opinion, it typifies the defen-
dants we’re involved with. It was
the coldbloodedness of the acts.”
“If executed, justice will have
been served,” Miss Johnson’s
parents, who declined to be inter-
viewed, said through Lambright.
“There was no remorse, no
drugs, no alcohol, no real explana-
tion for the violence except they
were just mean,” Mattox said.
McCoy insisted he was in anoth-
er room when the woman was
slain.
“I knew what was going on,” he
said in an earlier death row inter-
view, “I just couldn’t do anything
about it”
McCoy was in prison serving
five years for burg laity when he was
charged with the Johnson slaying.
For the record
Police blotter
Sulphur Springs police officers
responded to 30 calls, issued three
traffic citations and made five ar-
rests from 7 a m. Tuesday to 7 a.ir..
Wednesday.
Arrests
One person was arrested for pub-
lic intoxication.
One person was arrested for
criminal trespass.
One person was arrested on a
Travis County warrant for theft by
check.
One person was arrested for no
liability insurance and unlawful
carrying a weapon. The weapons
charge stems from officers’ finding
of a club in the person’s vehicle.
One person was arrested for pub-
lic intoxication and for violation of
a city ordinance requiring
headlights on bicycles.
Offenses
Someone drove away without
paying a $20.18 gasoline bill at E-Z
Mart, 1313 League St
A vehicle in the parking lot at
Brookshires Food Store, 809 Gil-
mer St., was burglarized. Stolen
was a canvass pouch, valued at
$15, and 50 assorted tools, valued
at $300.
Vandalism was reported at 211
Magnolia Sl Someone used an un-
known object to break six window
panes in a building. Damage totaled
$50.
A former Sulphur Springs High
School student returned to the
campus after being told by the
security officer to stay away. The
man was arrested for criminal
trespass.
Accidents
A two-vehicle minor accident
occurred at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Main
Street and Azalea Lane.
Sheriff’s report
Hopkins County sheriff’s
deputies served seven civil papers.
Hopkins County Jail held 46 in-
mates at 8 a.m. Wednesday.
Fire calls
Firemen from Station No. 2
responded to an alarm at Furr’s
Cafeteria, 1300 Mockingbird Lane.
The alarm had malfunctioned. The
call was received at 12:55 p.m.
Tuesday, and firemen were on duty
15 minutes.
Ambulance calls
Hopkins County Emergency
Medical Service crews made one
city patient transfer, one city emer-
gency run and one no transport call
from 8 a.m. Tuesday to 8 a.m.
Wednesday.
Memorial Hospital
Hopkins County Memorial Hos-
pital held 40 patients at 8 a.m.
Wednesday.'
Admitted
Billy Wilks of Sulphur Springs.
Vera Orr of Sulphur Springs.
Darrell Pendleton of Dike.
Dismissed
Mrs. Patrick Thompson and baby
girl of Sulphur Springs.
Births
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Thompson
of Sulphur Springs announce the
birth of a daughter at 3:42 a.m.
Tuesday, May 23, in Hopkins
County Memorial Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Flanary of
Cooper announce the birth of a
daughter at 3:25 p.m. Tuesday, May
23, in Hopkins County Memorial
Hospital.
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H.A.(Toby) Huie
Funeral services for H.A. (Toby)
Huie, 64, formerly of Hopkins
County, were held at 2 pm. Mon-
day, May 22, at the Sulphur Bluff
Methodist Church, with die Revs.
Gene Cham ness and Wilson
Canafax of Hurst officiating.
Burial was in the Sulphur Bluff
Cemetery, with Michael and Shelby
Chawley, Wayne Bullard, Robert
Petenka, Butch Huie, Henry Davis,
and Jerry and Jimmy D. Bassham
serving as pallbearers.
Mr. Huie died at 5 p.m., Friday,
May 19, in Harris HEB Hospital m
Euless, after a lengthy illness. He
was a resident of Bedford.
He was bom in Sulphur Bluff on
Dec. 10, 1924, the son of Ernie
Clifford Huie and Dome Bassham
Huie.
He married Ruth Wes lead of
Minot, N.D., in 1945.
He was a member of First United
Methodist Church of Hurst, and
was employed by an oil company
in Glade water before moving to the
mid-cities area in 1963, where he
was employed as an automobile
salesman.
He is survived by his wife, Ruth,
of Bedford; mother, Donie Huie of
Sulphur Bluff; one daughter,
Shan an Price of Hurst; two
brothers, Archie and Wilford Huie
of Sulphur Bluff; four sisters, Anita
Crawley of Cumby, Edna Bullard
and Dorothy McCreight of
Daingerfield and Janie Foster of
Mesquite; and two granddaughters.
He was preceded in death by his
father, two brothers and an infant
daughter.
Lucas Funeral Home of Hurst
was in charge of arrangements, and
Tapp Funeral Home assisted with
burial.
Ross Miller
Services for William Ross
Miller, 20, of Cedar Lane, Sulphur
Springs, will be conducted 10 am.
Thursday, May 25, in First Baptist
Church with Pastor Don Kennedy,
Pastor P.K. Hogencamp, Pastor
Cloward Bennett of Honduras and
Pastor Keith Lamb of Kerrville
officiating.
Burial will be in the Richland
Cemetery in Blinker Community.
Pallbearers will be Bill Watts,
James Molberg, Alex Lee, A1 Ed-
wards, Jeff Smith, Tim Clemmons,
Jim Crate and Ben Eckert.
Mr. Miller died from injuries sus-
tained in a vehicle accident in
Trujillo, Honduras, on Friday, May
19.
He was bom in Devils Lake,
N.D., on Oct. 19, 1968, the son of
Dr. Mark Miller and Carol Foster
Miller.
He lived in Sulphur Springs
since 1970. He was a 1987 honor
graduate of Sulphur Springs High
School, was a member of the var-
sity tennis team, the Gladys
Alexander National Honor Society,
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
and served as president of Texas
Youth in Action.
He was a junior student at the
University of Texas at Austin,
where he was engaged in Plan II
honors program and the Englsh
Honor Program.
He was a member of Church On
the Rock and Grace Covenant
Chiach in Austin. ....
Survivors include his parents;
one sister. Kate Miller, Sulphur
Springs; grandparents, Mrs. Fay
Miller, Sulphur Springs and Mr.
and Mrs. Cecil Griffith, Wildwood.
The family will receive friends at
their residence on Cedar Lane.
The family requests that
memorials be made to the Cloward
Bennett Ministries, Church on the
Rock, P.O. Box 311, Sulphur
Springs, 75482.
lapp Funeral Home is in charge
of arrangements.
Scholarships
Continued from Page 1A
fund; Sherri Tipton, $500, Lads to,
Leaderettes; Natalie Thomas, $500,
Watson, Crook, Grays Memorial;
Darla Washington, $250, Watson,
Crook, Grays Memorial; Jason
Sickles, $500, Texas Gridiron Club;
Penny Thesing, $500, Kiwanis;
Susan Lindley, $200, Cecil Tucker
Memorial; Tricia Ford, $500,
Marion Teel Memorial; Rebecca
Beck, Brooke McKee and TV Rus-
sell, $750 each, U.T. Ex-Student
Association; Tiffani Artt, $500,
Sulphur Springs Classroom
Teachers Association; Pirkle, $500,
Academic Scholarship in Memory
of Wade Smithers.
A $250 scholarship was awarded
to Dana Payne from the Coca-Cola
scholarship fund in the memory pf
Ross Miller. Cleveland Seals, man-
ager of the Sulphur Springs Coca-
Cola bottling company said that
this fund will be changed to carty
the name of Ross in his memory for
future recipients.
The Governor’s Recognition
Awards went to Renee Bunch and
Brooke McKee.
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