Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 163, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 11, 1990 Page: 1 of 14
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VOL 112-NO. 163.
New area code
is coming in fall
•7 TIM PAJtETI
News-Telegram
Changes come in large numbers.
Not only will Sulphur Springs
have a new area code November 4,
but sometime in the near future,
city addresses will use a nine digit
zip code.
The ana code for Sahkor
Springs will change this year Grom
214 to 903 beginning at midnight,
Nov. 4. The purpose for the change
is to alleviate the congested phone
numbers in the Dallas metroplex
area, according to Bob Alexander,
GTE switching sendees manager.
“Dallas is running out of three
digit code numbers because the city
is growing so rapidly,” Alexander
said. “If we don’t make the area
code change, Dallas will run out of
phone numbers by July 1991.”
Other cities outside the Dallas
area that currently have the 214
area code number, will also change
to the 903 number, Alexander said
Cities such as Greenville, Mount
Pleasant, Ml Vernon, Commerce,
Sherman, Tyler, Ibxarkana,
Longview, Paris, Henderson
Daingerfieid, Palestine and Cor-
sicana will change their area code
to 903. McKinney. Terrell and
Waxahachie will remain 214 along
with Dallas and its surrounding
“It’s called permissive dialing,”
Alexander said. “If a customer for-
gets to use the 903 area code num-
ber, they can still get through. It
will give everyone time to get used
to the new area code. But after
April 1991, customers will get a
recording.”
Although the area code will
change, the 885 and 439 prefects in
Sulphur Springs will remain the
same, Alexander said.
More than seven million phone
numbers will be created for the
Dallas area with the new area code
change.
“People need to dunk about the
new area code when they are
reordering things like personal
checks or business cards. ”
When local residents get use to
using the new area code, they
might think about an expanded zip
code. —
It took between 8-10 years back
in the early 60’s for the U.S. Post
Office to change over to a zip code
number. Ray Dunn, Sulphur
Springs postmaster, said. Now, it
may take that long for the post
office to complete the conversion
of an additional four-digit code to
the area zip code number.
With the diminishing cost effec-
tiveness of the current mailing sys-
tem. postal service management
decided to expand the zip code by
an additional four digits. The move
was designed to enhance the mail
out manual sort-
system by phasing out manual so*
ing operations and implementing
new generation of suiting equip-
ment
“The mail order system is
moving towards automation,’’
Dunn said. “We re beginning to
use optic readers and bar code
readers that pickup on the extra
four digit code. ”
As the mailing sysem gradually
becomes automated, business’ may
be required to use the zip+4 coding
system sometime in the near future,
according to Dunn. “The reason
why it will be mandatory for busi-
ness’ to use the zip+4 number is
because they use 70 percent of the
mail service.”
However, Dunn said local
residences probably won't be re-
quired to use the zip+4 number, but
they would be at an advantage if
they did.
“The John Q. Public won’t have
to use the zip+4 number, but their
mail will be delivered faster if they
do," Dunn said.
With the advent of technology,
the U.S. Prist Office is moving
toward more advanced systems,
Dunn said. Optic readers, which are
currently in use. speed up mail sort-
ing by reading die last four num-
bers of the zip code. Also, die U.S.
Prist Office has machines that can
read typewriting and even
handwriting.
Several hundred zip+4 numbers
are in use right now in Sulphur
Springs, but Dunn said die system
is totally voluntary, which is desig-
ned for the business mailer.
*zs%z Contel working to bring private
at WM Rogers 4 C7 O A
phone lines to Como customers
Rogers
in Fort Worth.
- Staff photo by CfcrirtfaKN«e By JASON SICKLES
News-Telegram Skiff
Local teen contestants edged out
By CHRIS NOE
News-Telegram Skiff
continued
Tkiesday in Will
day
Two local young ladies were un-
successful in their attempts to snare
the first Miss Then Texas crown.
Yolanda Thomas, Then Miss
Sulphur Springs, and Maody Mar-
ta of Sulphur Springs, Then Mbs
Greenville, competed in talent,
evening gown, swimsuit and inter-
view. Thomas performed a
dramatic interpretation of “The
Creadon.” Martin portrayed Anne
Sullivan from “The Miracle
Worker” as her entry in the talent
competition.
Competition began at 9 am. and
throughout the
Will Rogers Round-Up
in Fort Worth. The top-10
finalists were announced at$p.m.
Mistress of ctemooiesjor the
competition was Natalie Evens,
who also entertained with ;
uon of songs. Evens
several Miss Tfcxas
entertain-
1 Leslie Lund.
Miss North Dakota 1990.
The top-10 finalist were Then
Miss Lubbock, Becky Cooper
(fourth runnerup); Then Miss Ar-
lington Talent, Kannyn Tyler; Teen
Miss Lake Conroe Area, Desiree’
Coder; Then Miss West Texas,
Item Hubbard (third runnerup);
and Then Miss Comal County, Be-
cky Miller. Other top-10 finalists
were Then Miss South Tfexas 1990,
Natalie Lund; Then Miss Bowie
County, Amanda Thlbot (second
runnerup); Teen Miss Red River
Area, Mary-Lindscy Poole (first
runnerup); Senior Miss Garland,
Kathy Gilbert; and Then Miss
Greater East Texas, Brooke
Bigelow.
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Brooke Bigelow of Kilgore, Then
Miss Greater East Texas, was
chorea as the first Miss Then Texas.
Along with the official Miss Then
Texas crown, Bigelow will receive
a $1,000 cash scholarship and an
assortment of prizes.
Contel telephone company is
currently installing 15 miles of
fiber optic cable in the Como area
in anticipation of upgrading all
Como telephone service to single
party later this year.
Cornel’s Dana Ben too said the
work is the “first phase” toward
being able to provide private lines
to Como customers who wish to
have the service. Out of 574 Contel
customers in Como, 144 still have a
party fine system.
“The one-party upgrade will
give residents the choice of having
a single-party line,” Benton said.
“Or, if the; already have two-,
four- or multi-party services, they
may choose to continue that ser-
vice. With single-party service,
residents will have me opportunity
to add extra features such as call
waiting and speed calling.”
Contel service people began
work 00 cable installation mis
summer and should complete the
protect by the end of the year.
Many exhanges in Northeast
Texas have already been converted
to one-party service and. by mid-
1991, Contel should complete con-
struction that will provide this ser-
vice to all telephone customers in
the area.” Benton said.
The Como work is part of Con-
iei’s project to upgrade telephone
service to one-party throughput
Texas. ConteL, Benton said, ser-
vices a majority of the rural areas
statewide.
“These equipment and facility
upgr des will help us provide ex-
cellent service to Contel cus-
tomers,” Paula Locke, engineer -
Outside Plant for Contel said.
While customer’s do not have to
choose die one-party system, Ben-
ton said that information concern-
ing tue switch and what customers
would need to do to switch will be
sent sometime this faff
“It will be the customer’s deci-
sion,” Benton said. “When they do
decided, we have to get an approval
through the Public Utility Com mis-
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Sion.
The new service will also bring a
change in rates.
“Cornel’s one-party upgrade
eliminates mileage fees and es-
tablishes a uniform rural fiat rale, ”
Benton said. “The one-party
project also allows Conrel to reduce
phone rates in most cases.”
Hubble trouble began
while still on ground
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New pressures on to cut farm subsidies
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By JIM DRINK ARD
: WASHINGTON (AP) — As it
begins its periodic review of the
nation’s agriculture programs this
month. Congress wfil confront a
nagging issue that h*t rarely been
brought into the light of public
debate, whether subsidies amount
to a kind of welfare for farmers.
: As early as Friday, the Senate
wifi take up a new five-year farm
bill that largely continues current
programs and sum to stabilize
federal spending on farm aid —
which hSbeen declining from a
1986 high of $26 billion - at
about $10 billion a year.
The real fight, however, is expec-
ted to iaire place teen the bill
comes before the House, probably
the week of July 23. An vmsunl al-
liance of urban lawmakers and
economic conservatives has teamed
up to take on die old-fine farm
coalition.
“You've got some people at the
watering hole that I’ve never seen
holding hands before,” said Rep.
Pat Roberts, R-Kan., a defender of
the government’s grain subsidy
programs. “It's going to be tough
to keep the programs unscathed, he
a “means test” — basing them on
need, as is done for welfare
programs in the nation’s social
safety net
House Speaker Thomas Foley,
D-Waeh., among the chief congres
:hitects of past agriculture
expec-
means-testing
proposal to be offered during floor
consideration.
Hum bill defenders are worried
because the idea has great political
appeal in this election year. Urban
rural food producers, tel it is hard
for many of them to see why their
taxes should subsidize farmers
mcomes are greater than
1 are percent of the
, is a small price
to pay to ensure a steady, reliable
supply of food for Americans and
for overseas customers.
The last form bill, passed in
1985, has helped restore stability to
an agriculture sector that had been
victimized by low prices, credit
problems and depressed export
markets. But a Senate Agriculture
Committee report released Tuesday
painted a fragile picture of for-
ming's health.
Spending of $10 billion a year
will be required to prevent net farm
income from dropping, the panel
said.
The bill as written provides “a
reasonable degree of income
protection” for producers, someth-
ing that urbanites should also real-
ize is in d**«r interests, dm Sente
WASHINGTON (AP) — A year
mid a half before the Hubble Space
Telescope was launched, NASA’s
inspector general found that the
company mat produced its faulty
mirrors was overpaying some sub-
contractors and bad given one
reversed engineering drawings to
work from.
The faulty engineering drawings
by prime contractor Perkin-Elmer
Corp., now known as Hughes Dan-
bury Optical Systems Corp., forced
it to issue a new subcontract to redo
a piece of flight hardware, accord-
ing to a government audit
The inspector general concluded
that mistakes by Perkin-Etaner
provided the subcontractor, Com-
posite Optics, tac., with a profit of
more than 63 percent on the second
subcontract That compares with
normal profits of 10 to 15 percent
on contracts with die National
Aeronautics and Space Administra-
tion.
Hughes Danbury spokesman
Thomas Aiconti did not im-
meditety return a call left on his
answering machine, seeking the
companys response.
The $1.5 btUion Hubble Space
Ihfoscope, launched on April 25,
has a focusing flaw that has sharply
reduced its usefulness. Hubble ex-
perts said Tuesday they had moved
closer to determining which of two
minors on the spacecraft had been
cut to the wrong prescription at
of Information Act on Tuesday in
response to requests from The As-
sociated Press.
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