Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 216, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 11, 1980 Page: 1 of 28
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Illusions of a fire
Heat waves give an out-of-focus view of a burning hay barn
behind a fence post — between two that weren't even scorched
— Wednesday afternoon. The hay barn in the background blazes
and smokes away while the windmill continues to turn. Another
hay barn and a shed burned in this blaze. Firemen fought the
fires almost 12 hours Wednesday. Firefighter David W. Box, 20,
of Cumby was slightly injured as his fire truck ran off a culvert
on an unfamiliar road. Box was treated and released from
Memorial Hospital. Approximately 400 acres of grass burned in
the fires.
Chamber okays officer slate
Selection of a nominated slate for the
annual election of directors was approved
Thursday by the Hopkins County Chamber
of Commerce.
A panel of 16 names was submitted by a
nominating committee and a period now is
open for additional nominations by petition
before the October elections.
Eight directors will be elected to serve 3-
year terms on the chamber board
beginning in 1981. The election will be held
early in October, David DuPriest, current
chamber president, said Thursday.
Nominees selected by a special com-
mittee for inclusion on the ballot were:
Ed Stevens, Doug Moore, Joe Kennedy,
Gerald Prim, Rick Palmer, James
Diamond, Gene Neal, Janie Crump, Ron
Lummus, Dwight Alexander, W. T. Allison
II, “Tex” Nowlin, Bill Burney, Herb Flora,
J. W. “Dub” Murphy and Mark Mc-
Clendon.
To permit chamber membership in-
volvement, DuPriest noted, additional
nominations may be made through
petitions signed by 25 members. Such
submissions must be made within the next
10 days.
Members serving on the nominating
committee were Bill Williams, chairman,
Gene Orwosky, W. W. Jones Jr., George
Poulos and Frankie Price.
Action of the committee was approved
unanimously by chamber directors at
their monthly meeting Thursday morning.
Chamber directors also voted en-
dorsement of current efforts to obtain
additional arena seating for the Hopkins
Temperature hits new record mark
The newly-installed thermometer at
the official observation station in
Sulphur Springs got a rough in-
troduction to Sulphur Springs'
lingerii " summer during its second
day onthe,ob.
The mercury climbed to 100 degrees
Wednesday under partly cloudy skies,
breaking the old record of 97 degrees
posted in 1963 and equaled in 1971, and
the National Weather Service forecast
is calling for more hot weather
through Friday.
The maximum daytime readings
for Thursday and Friday are expected
to be near the century mark with
overnight lows in the upper 60s to
lower 70s.
The temperature may cool a little
during the first full days of the Fall
Festival, according to the extended
forecast which calls for daytime highs
in the upper 80s to lower 90s. Over-
night lows during the weekend should
be in the middle 60s.
The mercury dropped to 66 degrees
early Thursday f6r ah overnight low
and stood at 71 degrees at 8 a.m.
* Thursday. By noon the temperature
had climbed to a warm 91.
Stubborn blazes raze
600 acres in county
A Cumby fireman suffered minor in-
juries Wednesday night and an estimated
600 acres were burned as firemen from
North Hopkins, Cumby, Campbell,
Commerce and Sulphur Springs spent
most of the day and a good part of the night
fighting the re-occurring blazes.
The first fire report came to the Sulphur
Springs Fire Department about 11:15 a.m.
where a tractor had reportedly started a
grass fire on the A.K. Gillis property
located north of SH-11 near the Gafford
Chapel area;
Approximately 20 acres burned in that
blaze as firemen fought the fire for lMz
hours.
At 2:33 p.m., firemen returned after the
blaze rekindled.
Over 2‘2-hours later, 300 acres had been
burned along with two hay barns and a
small shed.
No loss estimates for the buildings were
available.
Firemen speculate that wind picked up
sparks from the blaze and took the embers
to a location south of SH-11 between
Ridgeway and Gafford Chapel where a fire
was reported at 5:05 p.m., even before the
firemen could get back to their stations.
Over an hour later, another 50 acres of
grass had burned before the flames were
extinguished.
Then at 8:36 p.m., the call came in again
where the fire south of SH-11 had reignited.
Firemen responded and another 200
acres were burned off there before the
firemen got the blaze out after more than
Vk hours of fire fighting.
It was during that latter fire that David
W. Box, 20, of 202 Main in Cumby was
injured when the pumper truck he was
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driving ran off the road into a culvert.
Cumby Police Chief Charles Mitchel
reported that Box was enroute to Cumby to
get more water and was unfamiliar with
the road.
Mitchel said that the truck ran off the
road in a curve and hit a chlvert.
Box reportedly was complaining of chest
pains and was taken to Memorial Hospital
by private vehicle.
Hospital officials said that Box was
treated and released.
Mitchel said the truck was not damaged
in the accident.
Area firemen say that conditions are
extremely dangerous for grass fires.
A fire department spokesman said that
the grass is extremely dry and that with
even a small wind, a fire will spread
quickly.
They are asking that everyone be ex-
tremely careful when in grassy areas with
cigarettes, fires and with vehicles
equipped with catalytic converters which
can quickly set a grass fire if parked in
high grass due to the high temperatures
attained by the converters.
Reagan campaigner
rips Garter record
By JIM MOORE
News-Telegram Stall
“America was built without the urban
renewal program, and we can do it again,"
says Mike Reagan, 34-year-old son of
Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan.
The younger Reagan was in Sulphur
Springs at noon Wednesday at the Civic
Center to campaign for his father, who is
running for the highest office in the land
against incumbent President Jimmy
Carter.
The candidate’s son promoted his
father’s accomplishments as governor of
California while rapping Carter’s per-
formance in the White House.
Martin Springs dairy
wraps up hay honors
Even with the hot, dry summer, area
hay producers turned out some decent
hay, according to the results of the Annual
Hopkins Coutny Hay Show held this week.
Hay show judge Dr. Ken Smith, an
agronomist with the Extension Service in
Overton, joked with area producers at the
Ag Workers breakfast Thursday morning
at the Ag Center in City Park, before
announcing the winners saying, “It looks
like you folks didn’t water your pastures
enough this summer. Some of this hay
looks pretty dry.”
Dry or not, The Martin Springs Dairy
operation owned by Bill Tate and Doyle
Woods produced the winning bale of
coastal hay.
The Grand Champion bale tested out
with 15.8 percent protein and received a
physical score of 89 points.
Another bale of hay from the Martin
Springs Dairy took second place in the
contest and a bale from Jim Russell
captured the third place honor.
The top bale brought $250 on the auction
block during the annual Ag Workers
auction. The bale was bought by Sulphur
Springs State Bank.
The reserve champion bale was pur-
chased by Production Credit for $210, and
the third place bale was bought by City
National Bank for an even $200.
In all, 12 lots of hay were sold at auction,
bringing in $2,310 for the Ag Workers
Association.
“This is the most money we’ve ever
raised during the hay auction,” said
Richard Benson, a member of the
organization. “We really appreciate the
support the local businessmen have given
us in this project," he added.
“Considering the kind of weather we
have had this year we really got some
pretty good hay,” said county extension
agent Ron Woolley.
“Who knows,” Woolley continued, “last
year Hopkins County won the state hay
show, and we just might do it again this
year with these three bales of hay."
The state level hay show is scheduled
Nov. 8 in Lufkin.
Reagan told the almost 250 Hopkins
County residents present that when his
father ran for governor of California in
1966, he promised to “cut, squeeze and
trim the size of government” and to reduce
the costs.
He said that California was $194 million
in debt and spending $1 million per day
more than was being brought in when
Reagan was elected.
“Eight years later it was changed,"
Reagan said, “he got people involved in
government. At the end of eight years,
there was a $520 billion surplus budget, he
gave the teachers back their retirement
fund and a balanced budget.
“He gave the surplus back to the people
with almost $5.7 billion in tax credits and
he wants to take the same ideas to
Washington.
“Ronald Reagan wants to make
America great again; he’s a leader this
country needs.”
He said that Jimmy Carter had
promised that he would not use jobs to
control inflation. Then he used jobs to
control it and “now he’s giving jobs back to
get votes."
“President Carter spoke at the
American Legion convention and
promised to give more benefits to
veterans. Less than 24 hours later, he
vetoed the bill that would have done that.”
“For the past 3W-years, President
Carter has been the highest taxing
president in history," Reagan said, “the
taxes next year will amount to $98 billion.
“Two months ago, Carter said that he
wouldn’t give tax credits in an election
year. Two weeks ago he did it,” Reagan
said.
The son of the candidate said that
Ronald Reagan wants to give tax credits to
the people and business, to create real jobs
to benefit both the workers and business.
He told how California had a welfare
problem prior to Reagan's election but the
governor wanted those able to do so to
work.
He said that welfare receipients were
increasing at a rate of 40,000 per month
when Reagan took office. “By 1974, it was
going down at a rate of 8,000 per month,”
he said.
—Continued on Page 15-
County Regional Civic Center.
The board discussed a number of
committee activities, with DuPriest noting
that the new chamber executive officer,
Ed Phelps, is scheduled to take that post
Monday. Phelps is winding up his duties as
assistant director of the South Texas
Chamber of Commerce this week.
Final planning for the chamber
responsibilities in the upcoming Hopkins
County Fall Festival was undertaken.
Mrs. B. F. Chapman, chairman of the
Hopkins County Stew Contest, reported a
final tally of 41 stew cookers or teams, with
all but one already sponsored.
DuPriest reported on two problems
facing chamber operations at present.
He noted that delinquent dues have risen
to near $6,300, representing late payments
from more than 150 chamber members.
“We would be on a financially sound
basis now if we had these dues paid,"
DuPriest said.
Concern over storage facilities for
Christmas decorations also was expressed
by the president. He said that money is
being lost needlessly through deterioration
and breakage of the decorations used in
commercial areas because of inadequate
storage.
Two guests were introduced at the
directors’ meeting, representing a new
program of the education committee.
Students from Miller Grove High School -
Jerri Seiber and Eric Mabe — were
present to observe a portion of the meeting
as part of a plan to explain chamber
workings to area youth. They were in-
troduced by Jimmy Bassham of the Miller
Grove system.
Top hay producers
Winners of the I960 Hopkins County Hay Show were announced Thursday morning
during the Ag Workers breakfast. Bill Tate (left) produced the championship bale of
hay while partner Doyle Woods (center) took the reserve championship honors.
Tate and Woods own Martin Springs Dairy. Jim Russell, head basketball coach at
Sulphur Springs High School, took third place honors with his bale of coastal hay.
Fall Festival
event calendar
(First week)
Saturday
8-10 a.m. : American Quarter Horse
Show, barn.
10 a.m.-Noon: Pet Show judging,
stew area, adjacent to the Chamber of
Commerce Building.
4-6 p.m.: Pee Wee Games, Chamber
of Commerce backyard. There will be
five age groups with a different
contest for each group.
1-3 p.m.: Bicycle Contest, ballfield
north of rodeo arena.
7-9 p.m.: Johnny Duncan & Janie
Fricke, auditorium.
Sunday
8:30 a.m.4 p.m.: Donkey and Mule
Show, Civic Center arena, sanctioned
by Southwestern Donkey and Mule
Society.
1-6 p.m.: Commercial Exhibits,
Exhibit Hall.
Schaefer Carnival will also be in
progress Sept. 13-14 and 18-20 in the
Civic Center parking lot.
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