Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 88, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 13, 1980 Page: 1 of 42
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VOL. 102—NO. 88.
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FIVE SECTIONS
APRIL 13, 1980.
Retired dairymen featured
in Festival opener Monday
The 21st Hopkins County Dairy Festival
gets underway Monday with a full
calendar events scheduled throughout the
week-long salute to the local multi-million
dollar dairy industry.
The week begins with a reception for
retired dairymen and their families and
ends with the crowning of the new Dairy
Festival Queen Saturday night in the Civic
Center.
At 10 a.m. Monday, retired dairymen
will be honored at the reception in the
fellowship hall of the the First United
Methodist Church.
Open to the public, the reception will
give young dairymen and those who have
retired from the business the opportunity
to compare notes on the dairy industry in
Hopkins County. The Joe Bain family,
which consists of three generations of
dairymen, will be on hand for the reception
as will other retired dairy owners and
operators.
Judge Grover Sellefs and his grand-
daughter, Bonni Booker, the current Dairy
Festival Queen, will officially open the
week’s observation Monday during the
reception with the cutting of a cake.
For the second consecutive year, a
carnival will be set up on the City Square
for entertainment throughout the week.
One of the major events of the week,
which usually draws a standing-room-only
crowd, is the Dairy Festival Queen talent
and beauty contest.
The competition is set for 7 p.m.
Thursday in the Civic Center auditorium.
Tickets, which are available from the
queen candidates, are priced at $3 each.
The theme of the Dairy Festival this
year is Rhythym in Dairyland, and the 11
contestants have chosen various Broad-
way musicals as the theme of their floats.
Vying for the Dairy Festival Queen
crown will be Connie Baucom,
representing the Waverly Club; Lori
Brem, the Kiwanis Club; Suzy Burney,
Tanti Club; Janet Gibby, Hopkins County
Farm Bureau; Kim Hazlewood, Sulphur
Bluff and Dike Communities; Karen
McCool, Junior Waverly Club; Terry
Moore, Standard Club; Gail Penn, Dial
Study Club; Mary Pilcher, Business and
Professional Womens Club; Lydia
Wallace, Mother’s Culture Club; and
Laura Wilemon, Beta Sigma Phi.
Dale Smith will be the master of
ceremonies for the talent and beauty
competition Thursday night, with Steve
Whitworth to be at the mike for the
coronation event Saturday.
The judges will select the new Dairy
Festival Queen on the basis of poise,
beauty, and talent. The name of the winner
and the runners-up will be sealed in an
envelope and locked away until Saturday
night when the queen will be crowned.
A square dance in the Civic Center
exhibition hall is scheduled for Friday
night. The hoedown gets underway at 8
p.m. and admission is free.
The Dairy Festival gets off to an early
start Saturday with an Ice Cream Freeze-
Off at 10:30 a.m. at the Civic Center.
The Dairy Festival parade is scheduled
for 1 p.m. Saturday. The parade route, as
Local man slain;
woman in custody
A Sulphur Springs man died of a bullet
wound to the chest early Saturday mor-
ning following an apparent argument at
722 Calvert Street, Apt. 5.
Robert Morris, 34, was pronounced dead
at the scene by Justice of the Peace W.H.
(Bill) Bauman at 2:15 a.m. Saturday.
Morris died of a single gunshot wound*
from a small-caliber weapon, officers
said.
Melvina Goodson, 29, of the same ad-
dress, was taken into custody by city
police in connection with the incident. She
was charged with murder and is presently
being held in the City Jail in lieu of $20,000
bond set by Municipal Judge Roy F.
Johnson.
Investigating officers said the shooting
occurred after Morris, who had left the
apartment earlier, returned and an
argument ensued. Morris was then shot in
the chest with a .22-caliber pistol, officers
said.
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Miss Goodson was to be held in City Jail
until arrangements could be made to
transfer her to County Jail or until bond is
posted, law enforcement officers said
Saturday morning.
Morris' body was taken to Dallas by
White Funeral Home. Funeral
arrangements are pending.
Old times
Retiring Hopkins County school teachers Freeman Parish, left, and Eva Ruth Long,
right, both of North Hopkins, share a moment of reflection over an aging yearbook
with Carroll Nichols of Como-Picktoa during a special recognition luncheon Friday
at the Woman's Building. The teachers, along with Billy Joe Chapman of Sulphur
Springs, are completing long tenures in the classroom this year and were honored
guests of the Retired Teachers Association at the event attended by about to per-
sons.
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in years past, will begin at City Park,
move down Connally Street to Water Oak
and from there down Main Street to the
square. From the square the procession
will go up Connally to North Davis, across
to Houston Street, and return to the park.
At 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Civic Center
auditorium the coronation ceremony will
begin, concluding when reigning queen
Miss Booker will transfer the crown and
the title to one of the 11 contests as the
Dairy Festival draws to a close for 1980.
As a new highlight in this year’s
festivities, numerous downtown mer-
chants will be featuring window displays
depicting some of Hopkins County’s most
prominent dairies. The displays are ex-
pected to be installed Monday and will
remain on public view throughout the
week.
David DuPriest is serving as president
of the board of directors of the Hopkins\
County Dairy Festival this year.
Other board members are Dwight
Alexander, Mrs. B.F. Ashcroft, Mrs, F.G.
Rogers, Mrs. Joe Longino, Mrs. M.Z.
Bailey, Mrs. Ricky Berry, Mrs. Jim
Chapman, Charles Dawson, Mrs Weldon
DeWitt, Mrs. H. E. Enlow, Mr: Richard
Fnlow, Bruce Fielden, Mrs. Murry
Froneburger, Mrs. Bill Hager, Julie
Hager, Virgina Henderson, Richard
Herschler, Mrs. Mike Holloway, Mrs. W.S.
Long and Mrs. William O’Brien.
First timers...
For two Sulphur Springs residents — each from opposite ends of
the age scale — participating in Saturday's benefit bikf-a-thon
at City Park was a first time experience. Sam Bachelor, left,
age 70, took his first experimental ride on a borrowed bike three
days ago, Joby Scott, left, a veteran biker at age 12 but riding in
his first benefit, promised to give Bachelor some pointers on
biking and doing "wheelies" as they prepared for the Sulphur
Springs Police Department-sponsored benefit for St. Jude's
Children's Hospital. Bachelor collected $400 in pledges and said
he still was collecting scrapes during the learning process.
Young Joby is the son of Joe Scott. The bike-a thon started at 10
a.m. in blustery, cold weather with less than 20 entries, ac-
cording to Sulphur Springs Police Officer Helen Boles.
-Stiff Photos by JAN BLAKE
Trustees to pick new
officers in meeting
Following the canvass of the April 5
election, oaths to the newly selected
trustees will be administered and the
Sulphur Springs school board will launch
into an agenda of considerable importance
Monday night. The meeting has been set
for 7:30 p.m. in the Administrative
Building.
Immediately after the oaths are ad-
ministered, the seven-member board will
organize for the year, selecting a
president, vice president and secretary.
Tim Kelty is the current president, with
Dr. Alfred Glaess as vice president and
Patsy Johnson as secretary. Kelty and
Johnson are holdover members, but Dr.
Glaess was defeated in his re-election bid.
Tax matters to be considered include
appointment of a board of equalization, tax
credits and supplements, and a pro rata
budget for the newly created Hopkins
County Tax Appraisal Board.
The board also will participate in the
new State Board of Education procedures
for conducting the Region VIII Board of
Director’s May election. This year, each
board member will be allowed to vote for
two places on the regional board.
The trustees are expected to consider a
course of action to eliminate controversy
concerning a softball field on the Middle
School campus, study vocational
agriculture travel budgets, and confirm
employment of maintenance, custodial
and cafeteria workers and bus drivers.
They also will be asked to accept
resignations of 12 employees, including 11
teachers, and the employment of two
teachers, one a replacement to the
coaching staff.
Other routine matters such as approval
of previous minutes and operational ex-
penditures are included on the agenda.
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Fund set
for student
Lisa Smith, 18, a graduating senior at
Sulphur Springs High School, is reported
to be slightly improved at St. Joseph's
Hospital in Paris, where she was ad
mitted alter becoming partially
paralyzed on Good Friday. A student in
the vocational office program, she has
been working at the County Extension
Service office. The family does not have
medical insurance and a fund to help
defray expenses has been set up at
Sulphur Springs State Bank for anyone
desiring to make contributions. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tilman Joe
Smith of 233 Rosemont SI.
Storm system
drenches area
Thunderstorms pushed along by a cold
northern air mass rumbled across Hopkins
County Friday night, dropping tem-
peratures and generally making the
weekend a mess.
The National Weather Service forecast
called for mostly cloudy skies with
possible rain through Sunday.
As the storm center moved over Sulphur
Springs, the official weather observation
station had recorded .86 of an inch of rain
by 8 a.m. Saturday.
Skies should be mostly clear Monday.
Churches grow more
skeptical of conflict
By GEORGE W. CORNELL
AP Religion Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - In a time of
political pressure for more U.S. arms
buildup, Christianity has become in-
creasingly skeptical about whether
modern warfare can ever be morally
justified, especially if it involves use of
nuclear weapons. ,
The shift in religious thought about it has
been registered in various in-
terdenominational Protestant-Eastern
Orthodox statements, and was spelled out
recently by a representative of U.S.
Roman Catholicism.
That church’s chief expert on the issue,
the Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, says the ‘‘change
in Catholic teaching’’ about it has come
about because of the “emergence of
nuclear weapons on the world scene.”
This “has provoked an increasing moral
skepticism about the legitimacy of the use
of force to resolve political problems,” he
testified before the U.S. House Committee
on Armed Services.
Also, he says, “Catholic pacifism” has
become a newly recognized option in the
church, a “position resembling that of the
historic peace churches” among
Protestants, such as that held by Quakers,
the Brethren and Mennonites and by some
in other denominations.
In the wake of Vietnam, Catholicism
also recognizes “selective conscientious
objection” to serving in particular wars as
morally justifiable, says Hehir, the U.S.
Catholic Conference secretary for in-
ternational justice and peace.
These new Catholic options do not
replace the church’s long-time “just war
doctrine,” but have assumed a recognized
place beside it, he adds. However, the
“just war” theory itself has come under
greater questioning because of the nuclear
possibilities.
“In the moral doctrine of the church
today, the use of force receives only
marginal justification — as a last resort,
for a narrowly defined set of reasons and
within stringent limits on the kinds of
means to be employed," he says.
Historically, mainline Christianity —
both Catholicism and Protestantism — has
condemned war as intrinsically wrong, but
because of the fallibility of secular
societies, developed a theory of “just war’
under certain specific conditions.
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News briefs
City pockets
$22,000 rebate
Sulphur Springs’ city sales tax
rebate for the period ending March 27
amounted to $22,101.26, sending the
total for the current calendar year to
$170,313.65. This represents a 14
percent increase for the first quarter
of the year as compared to 1979.
While the total for the quarter was
higher than the $148,358.10 for the
same period last year, the net
payment for the month was more than
$10,000 lower than the $33,704.08
received in April, 1979.
State Comptroller Bob Bullock said
Friday that city sales tax rebates for
April totaled $24.1 million, about $10
million less than Texas cities received
in April last year.
He said 1980 rebate payments of the
optional one-percent city sales tax
from the first of the year now total
$162.8 million, compared to rebates of
$135.2 million over the same period in
1979.
Because year-to-date payments are
up over last year, it’s too early to say
whether the decreased monthly
payments reflect a downward trend in
taxable sables or pimply seasonal
adjustments, Bullock said.
Improvements To
center on agenda
Members of the Hopkins County
Commissioners Court tyill meet
Monday to consider advertising for
bids for long-awaited improvements
to the Regional Civic Center.
Dan Almon of a Dallas bonding
company is scheduled to be at the 10
a.m. meeting in the County Judge’s
office to discuss the certificates of
obligation that were approved several
months ago.
The money will be spent on
livestock arena improvements and
the lighting and curtains for the
auditorium.
Three persons will be appointed to
the Child Welfare Board due to ex-
piring terms and a safety coordinator
will be appointed for the county.
The court will canvass the recent
elections and will be asked to approve
a bond for a county employee.
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