The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1962 Page: 1 of 16
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VOL. 87.—NO. 43.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 19B2.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
AnnualHay Show
Slated Saturday
Th(‘ annual Hopkins County pearance with all hay rated
Hay Show — recognizing what either blue, red or white with-
is by far the county’s largest in its class.
crop — will be held on the
square in Sulphur Springs Sat-
urday morning.
As a sidelight to the show,
any person is invited to enter
the judging contest at the
The show is open to anyone show. These persons — rural
with hay grown within the and townspeople alike — are
county. Hay will be classified invited to match their judging
into three divisions—grasses, of the hay against the decis-
lcgumes and grains. Within ions of the official show
each class the hay will be judges.
judged as to quality and ap-j Those judges will be Shan-
-------------, non Carpenter of the Texas
A&M extension branch at Lin-
dale and Ben Browning, coun-
ty agent at Tyler.
The show is under the spon-
sohship of the Hopkins County
Chamber of Commerce. Carroll
Nichols, agricultural instructor
at the Pickton t-chools, is chaii-
I man of the hay show conimit-
Three other Democrats of tee. J. I). Rorie and Paul
state - wide prominence will llerschler are superintendents
tuke part in a breakfast rally ; of the show,
here Oct. 30 honoring Preston | Farmers may deliver the
Smith of Lubbock, candidate hay bales in advance if they
lor lieutenant governor. I desire. They may be stored
They are Representative1 overnight Friday at the John
Wright Patman, Waggoner Deere Implement Company, in
Can-, candidate for attorney Sulphur Springs or left at any
More Democrats
To Join Rally
Here Oct. 30
nee
able to participate due to ore-1 judging
general, and State Senator A.
M. Aikin, Jr., of Paris.
John Connally, party nomi-
for governor, will be un-
pre
vious commitments.
The breakfast will be held
in Sellers Cafeteria starting at
7:30 a. m. The program is ex-
pected to last about an hour.
Judge Grover Sellers, who is
handling arrangements, said
of the agriculture departments
of county schools.
The deadline for hay entries
will be 9 a. m. Saturday and
will begin at about
9:30.
Farmers may take the enter-
ed bales back, but all bales
left will be sold at a public
auction following the. show.
“We want to urge farmers
to bring a sample of each type
Hospital Committee
Postpones Decisions
kins County and this is a fine j
.opportunity to show other j
i I°Wj folks what is being done in this !
, ... . of hav they have,” Herscnler
a large attendance .s expect- p8jd Tucsd b a very
cd, including party leaders } rUnt commodity in Hop-
from nearby counties. If theiUina r_ftlinfw unA tHs is a fine
seating capacity of the cafe-
teria is exceeded,
guests will meet in the Sulphur j
Springs State Hank Commu-
nity it o o m across Church
Street, he added. •
Sellers asked local Demo-
crats desiring to participate to
contact either him or Bob
Thomas Lilly, who originated
the plan for a rally here hon-
oring Smith.
Marvin Watson of Dainger-
HAY SHOWN SATURDAY — With the Hopkins County Hay Show scheduled for Sat-
urday morning on the Sulphur Springs square, directors of the program have been busy-
making final preparations for the judging. Here Carroll Nichols! center), chairman of
the hay show committee of the Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce, and show superin-
tendents Paul llerschler (left) and J. I). Rorie put a bundle on the square to call atten-
tion to the program. (Staff Photo by Clarke Keys).
The Chamber of Commerce
Special Hospital Committee de-
layed action on decisions for a
j specific hospital district pro-
! gram for Hopkins County Mon-
day night to await more defi- !
nite information on various al-
ternatives being considered. |
I A delegation from the com-
i mittee will go to Austin with-
in the next week or so to con-
fer with administrators ot the
j federal Hill - Burton hospital
construction aid plan.
The group will seek the
agency’s recommendations on
the solution of the Hopkins
County hospital problem and
other information on coordina-
tion of the local .program with
required federal standards.
Jim M a s t e r s, committee
chairman, opened the meeting
with a summary of alternative
juoposals being studied. They
are:
1-Construction of a new
hospital and possible con-
version of present facilities
into a nursing home.
2— Expansion and renova-
tion of liopkins County Me-
morial Hospital.
3— Creation of a hospital
district without a specific
building plan as part of the
initial ptoposal.
J. R. Ramey, chairman of
the present board of managers
of Memorial Hospital, told the.
group a special county election j
will be necessary to approve
creation of a hospital district
if the constitutional amend-1
ment governing the action is i
adopted on a state-wide basis i
Nov. 0.
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RETIRING PRESIDENT PRAISED
Dallas Citizen
Hurt in Crash
East of Town
Permit Issued
For Building
Dr* Joseph B. Longino
Heads Hopkins Chamber 0nffisbway
field, a member of the Demo-
cratic State Executive Com- €s<aPed 8«nouB lnJury Satl'r-
T. ,, , t> . 1 n Dr. Joseph B. Longino, Sul-i
« immy on, ,oa e om ’ | phur Springs physician and sur- on
ounaH cAfiniia in im*ir Ntit iir. 1 r o i • ^
mittee, will bring a group
from his county. Mrs
Bell of Paris, another commit-
tee member, also will attend.
Car Damaged
In Collision
With School Bus
A 1900 Ford driven by Otis
Lee Chamblee, 327 Kosemont
Street, was heavily damaged
about 11:30 p. m. Friday when car when
it collided w i t h a Hawkins unit driven
school bus on South Broadway
north of Interstate Highway
30. s,
Patrolman Paul Dillard, who
investigated, quoted Chamblee
as saying he was driving north
and did not see the bus in time
to stop. < A
Dillard said the bus, which
was carrying N e g r o football
players, was stopped in the left
lane of the street waiting for
traffic to clear after leaving u
nearby service station.
He estimated damage to the
car at $450 and that to the
bus at $35.
Ellis Greer of rural Hawkins,
the bus driver, paid a $5 fine
on a ticket charging stopping
on the wrong side of the street-
day morning when his car over-
Sara turned on the Green Pond
Road.
| Coker said he slammed on
1 his brakes to avoid hitting a
! dog and the brakes apparently
! locked, flipping the auto. He
was thrown out cf the car, but
suffered only a scratched
' shoulder.
j The car was demolished.
A Dallas man, F. O. Brown,
I suffered a broken leg, cuts
and bruises in an accident sev-
en miles east of Sulphur
Springs on U. S. 67 Saturday.
He was driving alone in a
a tractor - trailer
by J. O. Colo of
Dallas skidded on wet pave-
ment and hit the car. Cole was
not injured.
$35,000
. e i vice station-restaurant- j
‘I feel Sulphur Springs is i fidence the agency should make ; trucker’s lodge complex on In- 1 PRESENTED AT GAME
the upgrade,” he said. “It J real progress under its new terstate 30 in Sulphur Springs
geon, was elected president of | has been on the upgrade for a I leadership. |js expected to begin this week !
the Hopkins County Chamber | long time, but it is really roll-1 To Emphasize Banquet j following the issuance of a i
of Commerce Thursday by di-j ing now. With this group push- The directors agreed to make | building permit Monday,
rectors of the organization. j ing, there is no reason why we a special effort to attend the | >phe 'multi-purpose "building j
He will take over the office ican * (*° a Lit of things. j annual banquet to avoid repeat- j js |,ejnir constructed by J. W.
at the chamber’s annual ban- j The board extended the re-M^P P a s t emb.irra.-sing situa- Murphy for the Swatsell Broth-j
[uet the night of Oct. 30, sue-1 tiring president a rising vote of I turns resulting from widespread ers Service Station,
ceding Harold Arnold. thanks for his work. The action absences w hen mti oductions | It will be located on the south
Other officers chosen by the was taken at the suggestion of!are mage. (service road of Interstate 30 j Sally Mayes,
new board are W. W. Jones,! H. C. McGrede, who praised Ar-1 Each director w as asked to | just east of the new GMC truck : of Mr. and Mrs
Jr., first vice president; Sam Hold’s contribution to the or-1 purchase two tickets for him-(service center. Radio Road, was named 1962
Bonham, second vice pesident,! ganization during a difficult j self and to sell two others. | The building wiil be of ma-; Sulphur Springs Homecoming
and E. A. Junell, Jr., treasurer. I year* No tickets will be sold at the j s o n r y construction and will queen at halftime of the Sal-
By Acclamation i Judson I’erkins, chamber' door this year under the agree-1 c o n t a i n approximately 3,200 phur Spl ines - Bonham game
of a | manager, also expressed con- (Continued on Back Page) i square feet. | Friday night
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HAPPY BEAUTY — Sally Mayes smiles happily as she was
announced as the Sulphui Springs High School Homecoming
Queen at the Wildcat-Bonham game here Friday night. She
is the daughter of Mr. ami Mrs. Clyde Mayes and a senior
in high school. Her escort was" Bobby Meador. (Staff Photo
bv Cody Greer).
Sally Mayes Named
Homecoming Queen
the daughter held at the Homecoming dance
Clyde Mayes, in the junior high gym follow-
ing the game.
Accepting the report ot a
nominating committee, the di-l
rectors carried out the election,
by acclamation. The report was;
presented by Charles Gilreath, 1
committee chairman.
Arnold expressed gratifica-l
tion over both the membership
Brown was given emergency | 0f the new board and the offl-
treatment at Memorial lios~jcel> chosen. He described Dr.'
pital, then transferred to Dal-
las.
Highway Patrolman D o n
United
Enters
Fund Campaign
Critical Stage
Breakfast Set
To Honor
Preston Smith
Preston Smith of Lubbock,
Democratic candidate for lieu-
Selection of the queen was|ltnant wil, ,,e a visi-
Miss Mayes, a cheerleader
\ and associate editor of t;,o|
school paper, was elected by;
the vote of the varsity foot-!
ball team. A 10 - candidate,
(court was elected earlier by j
ithe student body.
kept seci<‘t until halftime. The
S u 1 p h u r Springs the
Longino as one of the corn-1 Hopkins County United Fund I delayed because the school has | The Industrial Division report ' I 1),ol'nl,1« uJ 0t,t- :!0 on th_e -s^art
in unity’s most outstanding cit-; leaders took their weekly dose" been closed. ‘ ■ • • • • ■ ' " 1 •'*' "
King estimated damage to the I
Brown car at $900, and at i
$200 to the trailer.
ONE OF FOUR TfeXANS
Business Gains
Reflected Here
Sulphur Springs business
measurements scored moderate
to good gains in most areas
d u r i n g August, according to
figures in the Texas Business
Review.
Automotive store retail sales
(the retail field measured in
August) showed an increase of
14 per cent over July of this
year and 38 per cent over
August, 1961.
Postal receipts for the four-
week period ending Aug. 17
were up seven per cent over
the previous four-week report-
ing period and 27 per cent
over the similar 1961 period.
Bank debits of $11,074,000
represented increases of 4 and
b per cent respectively over
July and 1961. Of all measure-
ments recorded by Texas Bus-
iness Review, only end of
month bank
decreases —
4-H Alumni Award
Voted Mrs. Irvin
cently revived program. j to get down to work in earnest j be much better if their Work is j nai total of $6,811.53 in 1961.1 . i",.....\ ..... ... i Bob Thomas Lilly, a friend of
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’ big endeavor.
A survey of division leaders
f - - ... - - . . )••• ^ > ... . i . ■ , ;i i mill v I in u I M I \/ Mum in »i e\ 111 _ iiiiiiimin m i mwiirc >
lor the i cceptivin.
showed a total of $19,293 com-
.will" J . .
| mi tied and $17,754.05 in sub- an< a:'s,tnii '
j scriptions actually turned in to
I UF headquarters at the time.
Carl Riehn, campaign chair-
man, pointed out that even the
larger figure leaves the drive
some $13,000 short of its ob-
jective.
“This will be the h a r d
in Wildcat
the announce-1
do.
Miss Mayes was eseoi ted by i, ..... .
made a part of the general | K. 1. Henning and Ira Moody,: co-captain Bobby Meador, lie-1 Jluj ‘ Sellers who
campaign instead of being j (] j vision co-chairmen, estimated j presented the queen with a| j ;n ^.:a, ,,, 0f arrana e'ments
separate illusion j approxi m a tel y $600 in adiii- bouquet of flowers. j 101. Uu,‘ Jepu.m.' said'efforts
placed
College Station, Oct. 25—| former members to continue
Mrs. Ilurwayne Irvin, a former their interest and support <0
Hopkins County 4-H girl, was Extension programs and pio- money,” he declared. “The easy
one of four Texans named to-I vide youth with a living exam-1 money b in.”
day to receive 1962 4-H Alumni
Recognition Awards. Others
were E. R. Wagoner, Lufkin;
Mrs. Teddy Whitmire, Mona-
hans, Ward County and Colbert
E. Gregory, Groesbeck, Lime-
stone County.
pie of dependable, purposeful I The same theme was sound-
leadership. | ed earlier by Jack F. Gibson, |
Mrs. Irvin has continued hen UK general chairman.
, ,, j : ......, ! “We are getting into the
interest m 4-H and is an out-1 . . . , * , . ,, ,
{critical part of the drive, he
standing example of what de-; saj(j "The rest of the money is
pendable leadership can mean j out there, and if we get out
According to the state 4-H ja community. In her chosen and solicit our cards we can get
Club office announcement, Mrs. j career, a homemaker, she ba- money.
set a fine example for her “ I f w e ever stop, we are a
community and county. She is dead duck.
active in church, school and | “The key to success is a lot
community improvement work|0f hard \voi k. If you will work
as well a.-, home demonstration j an<) see jt through, we can
tion, Agricultural Chemicals | club activities. She is always, reach our goal."
Division, Little Rock, Ark. j ready to lend a helping hand.j Gibson declared spot checks
The new’ state winner is the -'“Y the members of the Dike had shown workers were not
former Willa Dean Neal and Community 4-H Club who nom-: f0nuwing up many of their
was for four years u mernbei mated her for the high honor, i prospect card assignments.
Irvin will receive a burnished
copper plaque mounted on wal-
nut. Donor for the 4-H Alumni
Recognition Awards is the Olin
Mathieson Chemical Corpora-
of the Dike 4-H Club which she
and her husband now serve in
many capacities. Her 4-H dem-
onstrations included clothing,
gardening, canning and home
improvement.
Objectives of the program
deposits showed! are to honor former 4-H mem-
down one per bers for achievements in their
cent from August and 3 per I chosen careers which exemplify
cent from 1961. their 4-H training; encourage
The information she gained j Riehn announced what is in-
from being a 4-H member has tended as a “final” report
proved invaluable, she says, | met.tjnK for next Tuesday aft-
not only to her own family but | ,.rnoon at w h i c h the future
to those who are members of | cou, se „f the campaign will be
organizations or groups she decided.
works with. Sewing is more
than hobby with the former 4-H
Gibson said the Colored Di-i
vision will hold its kickoff din-
member and many of her skills I ner oct. 30 at 7:30 p. m. at
were learned while she was Douglas High School. He ex-:
conducting clothing projects, j plained this section had been j
VETERAN COTTON FARMER J. Aud Stewart, whose farm is about nine miles 'outhxvest
on the Greenview road, poses beside bale No. 123 harvested from his farm. The bale was
ginned in Sulphur Springs this week. He has been raising cotton on the same faint for the
last 37 years. (Staff Photo by Cody Greer).
The clowning ceremony vas|wil] lu, to bring Repre-
sentative Wright Patman and
I Waggoner Car r. Democratic
j candidate for attorney general,
I here at the same time.
Nine Speeders
Charged Here
By Patrolmen
Nine speeders bit the dust on
Hopkins County highways late
Saturday and during the day
Sunday as area highway pa-
trolmen filed 14 cases in Jus-
tice Court here.
Other charges filed included
driving on the wrong side of
tne road, failure to pass with
safety, driving without a li-
ce n s e , loud mufflers and a
d r u n k pedestrian count. The
pedestrian was placed in the
Hopkins County jail.
Two tiaffic accidents in the
county Saturday morning spoil-
ed an otherwise safe wegk-end
on county highways and roads.
City police reported a clean ac-
cident slate for the week-end.
Poiice did make two drunk-
enness charges, and issued two
tickets for improper and im-
prudent speeding and one tick-
et for disturbance with a motor
vehicle^.
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1962, newspaper, October 26, 1962; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth826608/m1/1/: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.