The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, June 24, 1960 Page: 1 of 18
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(ABSORBED THE GAZETTE CIRCULATION BY PURCHASE MAY 12, 1928)
VOL. 85.—NO. 25.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1960.
PUBLISHED EVSEY FRIDAY
INITIAL RESULTS PLEASING
TEMPORARY LAKE — This 45-acre lake was created on
Jack Kennemur’s farm four miles west of Shirley recently
following a heavy rain. Floodwater retarding structure No.
17 on Garrett Creek checked the flow of water and prevent-
ed flooding downstream. The dam is one of a series of small
structures being built in the southwest portion of Hopkins
County.
PRIMARIES COST $2,411.69
Candidates
$4,000 in
Receive
Refunds
Cost of conducting the two
Democratic primary elections
in Hopkins County was
$2,411.69, the financial report
compiled by County Chairman
J. R. Ramey showed.
Refunds to candidates total-
ed $4,032.77 out of the origi-
nal assessments amounting to
$6,434.76.
The county committee start-
ed the year with a balance of
$168.72 and closed its books
with a balance of $159.02.
Individual refunds included:
H. Tracy Knight, $246.36; H.
A. Gaines, $14.48; Paul R.
Jones, $249.48; Arils Herman,
$246.36Henderson Amox,
$246,361 J. D. Hammond,
$249.48; Johnny Davis;
$246.88; Elisha Myers, $136.08;
Lex Fite. $246.36; Wright Pat-
man, $116.98; L. L. Bowman,
Jr., $170.10; O. C. Sewell, Jr
$248.48; Dale Sewell, $246.36;
H. Dean Martin, $9.45; G. D.
Grant, $9.45; Jim Bryce,
$246.86; D. H. Harrison, $9.45;
Travis Glenn, $246.36; Wayne
Baxter, $246.86; Artie Ste-
phens $249.48; Cameron Mc-
Kinney, $106.31; T. M. Ches
ter, $246.36.
The assessments were based
on the salaries of the offices
being sought by the various
candidates.
Board Selected
For Dairy
Festival Group
A board of directors for the
Hopkins County Dairy Festival
was elected Monday night at
a meeting of the steering com-
mittee in the Chamber of
Commerce office.
The board was nominated by
a nominating committee of the
steering committee composed
of Weldon Branscome, Billy
Conner and Jess Orr. The
board will elect its own offi-
cers at a future meeting.
Members of the elected
board are Cecil Tucker, Ster-
ling Beckham, Roy Bellville,
John Willis, Mrs. Pete Wright,
Mrs. Wayne Melton and Mrs.
F. G. Rogers.
Cox to Speak
Al Dike Awards
Program Friday
Murray Cox, Dallas farm re-
porter, will be the speaker for
the Dike Rural Progress Club’i
awards program Friday night
in the Dike community center.
The meeting will start with
a dinner at 8 p. m.
Awards won by Dike in its
first year in organised rural
neighborhood competition will
be presented as a high spot of
the program.
Dike placed second in the
county neighborhood progress
contest and fourth in the im-
proved pastures competition.
It also ranked fourth in the
district Rural Neighborhood
Progress Contest.
Cash prises won by the com-
munity total $170.
Burglars Enter
Field House
At Grid Stadium
The high school field house
at Wildcat Stadium was brok-
en into last week-end, with
some damage done but noth-
ing apparently stolen.
Jack F. Gibson, superintend-
ent of schools, said the lock
hasp on the front door had
been broken, but efforts to
open the main supply room
had proved unsuccessful.
Metal mesh protecting the
building’s windows was dam-
aged in an apparent initial at-
tempt to gain entry by that
method.
Gibeon and Coach Harry
Lander checked the building
but were unable to find any-
thing missing.
The break-in was discover-
ed Monday and apparently oc-
curred sometime between Fri-
day and Monday morning.
Flood Prevention
System Given Test
Soil Conservation Service
representatives here are well
pleased with the outcome of
the first token test of the flood
prevention system being de-
veloped on the upper I.ake Fork
Creek watershed southwest of
Sulphur Springs.
The demonstration came as
Rodeo Caravan
Sets Excursion
On Saturday
The annual Sulphur Springs
rodeo tour will leave Sulphur
Springs at 8 a. m. Saturday
and return shortly before 5 p.
m. after visiting nine sur-
rounding cities in a promotion-
al caravan.
According to the schedule,
the caravan will arrive in
Greenville from Sulphur
Springs at 8:45 a. m. and leave
at 9 a. m., arrive in Commerce
at 9:25 a. m. and leave at
9:40 a. m., arrive in Cooper at
10:05 a. m. and leave at 10:25
a. m., arrive in Bogata at
11:15 a. m. and leave at 11:30
a. m., arrive in Talco at 11:45
a. m. and leave at noon.
Arrive in Mt. Pleasant for
lunch at 12:15 p. m. and leave
at 2 p. m., arrive in Mt Ver-
non at 2:15 p. m. and leave at
2:35 p. m., arrive in Winnsboro
at 2:56 p. m. and leave at
3:20 p. m. and arrive in Quit-
man at 3:46 p. m. and leave
for Sulphur Springs at 4 p. m.
The rodeo will Bhow June
30, Jtily 1, 2 and 4 at 8 p. m.
FORGETTING IS LUCKY
Stillwater, Okla. UR — A
moment of absent-mindedness
by Mrs. Clara Purdy was cred-
ited with saving a building on
the Oklahoma State Universi-
ty Campus.
At the end of the day, she
left to go home—the last one
out of the building. Once
outside she remembered she
had forgotten her purse. When
she re-entered the biulding
she smelled smoke and called
the fire department which
found a blase in a partition.
Train Strikes
Trador; Driver
Escapes Injury
Charles Brewer of Saltillo
narrowly escaped injury at 3
p. m. Saturday when the trac-
tor he was driving was struck
by a Cotton Belt train two
miles northwest of Weaver on
the old Weaver-Sulphur Bluff
road.
Brewer told Highway Pa-
trolman Jim Beggs that he
had crossed the railroad tracks
many times in the past with-
out seeing a train and was not
looking for one at the time of
the accident. He said he look-
ed up when he got to the
tracks and saw the train not
more than 10 feet away.
Beggs said Brewer told him
that he applied his brakes and
the train hit only the right
rear wheel of the tractor,
turning it over on its side.
John Hawkins of Commerce
was at t h e controls of the
train.
runoff from heavy min* piled
up against one almost finished
dam across Garrett Greek and
another under construction
downstream.
A temporary reservoir of ap-
proximately 45 acres accumu-
lated behind floodwater retard-
ing structure No. 17, situated
on the Jack Kennemur farm
about four miles west of Shir-
ley.
The dam and spillway for
the project had been completed,
at the time, with only sodding
fencing and similar finishing
work left to be done.
Second Structure Damaged
Water also accumulated be-
hind and overflowed the dam
for Structure No. 18, about a
mile downstream. The barrier,
which was four to five feet
high, was damaged in the en-
counter.
The storage structures, which
release accumulated water
slowly, were credited with pre-
venting an overflow down-
stream.
Penny Black, SCS office
manager here, said he was well
pleased with the way the near-
ly finished structure function-
ed.
“If both had been done, they
would really have made a big
difference,” he added. "There
is no question in our mind but
what they will work.”
23 Are Planned
The two structures arc the
first of 23 planned on Lake
Fork Creek and its tributaries
in Hopkins, Hunt and Rains
counties.
Contracts for three more
probably wil) be awarded late
this summer.
They are No. 7, on Lake
Fork Creek in Hunt County;
No. 14, on Turkey Creek, and
No. 21, on Garrett Creek, both
in Hopkins County.
Others will be added as fed-
eral funds become available
and necessary easements are
obtained.
The watershed control sys-
ORDERLY FLOW — Flood waters temporarily retained in
structure No. 17 on Garrett Creek are shown being releas-
ed in an orderly manner. The small dam created a lake of
about 45 acres before the water was released in a manner
to prevent flooding and damage to croplands down stream.
NEW INDUSTRY SOUGHT
Clark Dress Firm
Suspends Operations
Suspension of operations at
the Clark Manufacturing Com-
pany’s dress plant here was
announced Tuesday following
a final confirmation of the
firm’s plans.
The factory has been shut
down for several weeks, sup-
posedly for vacations.
No direct reason for the
closing was given by I. F.
Clark of Dallas, president of
the company, in a letter to
the Hopkins County Industrial
Fund announcing the action.
Clark said “arrangements
elsewhere” for the company’s
fall production had been com-
pleted.
' To Hoaer Lum
The letter declared the firm
will continue meeting its lease
obligations on the local plant
building on Main Street, al-
. . . , . , though it is prepared to re-
tem is designed to end a peren- ^ ^ structure on 30.day
nial severe flood hazard on the
three creeks.
Tax Equalization
Board Appointed
Appointment of John Payne,
Durmont Morgan and Maurice
Kclty as the tax board of
equalization for the city of
Sulphur Springs was made
Tuesday night at a regular
meeting of the city council.
The three are scheduled to
nerve in July. Morgan and
Payne served on the tax re-
viewing body last year, and
Kelty, a former city commis-
sioner, has assisted in previous
years.
Business was comparatively
light at the meeting, with no
delegations present.
Two City Park items were
dispatched during the meeting.
The council authorised limited
expenditures to repair Eagle
Stadium and also approved
plans for another lighted soft-
ball field in City Park, west
of the swimming pool.
John R. Ramey, the city’s
attorney who also is on the
board of directors for the Hop-
kins County Farmers Market,
reported that construction
work on the new facilities for
the market are scheduled to
start soon. He said the Farm-
ers Market would like to have
the water line extended to its
facilities as soon as possible.
The Farmers Market has
paid for the line, which haa
been installed to a point near
Ben Thomas’ residence on High-
way 19. Ramey estimated that
between 600 and 700 feet of
pipe remained to be installed.
The council approved an
agreement with Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Gee for a strip of land
for a section of Bell Street,
which adjoins the new high
school campus on the north.
The strip of land, which tapers
from about 25 feet to 16 feet
and runs for about 245 feet,
has been exchanged for curb
and gutter and pavement.
City Manager Jack Hender-
son reviewed the status of sev-
eral current projects. He re-
ported that Bellview, South
Fisher, Tate, Radio Road and
Hinnant street were being pre-
pared for seal coat jobs.
He reported that the clear-
well project was moving along
well, with expenditures to date
running about $8,200.
Curb and gutter have been
laid on the north side of Lee
Street, the east side of Leaguo,
and will next be laid on the
south side of Bell Street
around the new high school
campus, Henderson reported.
The city manager also re-
ported on the progress of cable
installation at the airport for
the lights.
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Deposits
Decline
In Banks
For the first time in
several years. Sulphur
Springs’ bank deposits
showed a decline from
the previous year’s level
in bank statements of
condition on June 15 released
in response to quarterly fed-
eral and state calls.
Deposits in the city’s two
banks totaled $12,700,115.43,
a drop of $291,728.40 from
the $12,991,843.83 reported
on June 10, 1959.
The current deposits also re-
flect a normal seasonal de-
cline from the $13,657,091.89
reported last March 15.
Loans Show Incroaks
Bank reports of total re-
sources also followed the de-
clining trend, while loans and
discounts showed a small in-
crease in the last year.
Combined resources of the
two banks amounted to $14,-
131,497.29, as compered to
$14,300,149.01 on the com-
parable date last year.
Loans and discounts total-
ed $4,161,520.43 as compared
to $4,006,033.63 in June,
1959.
The Sulphur Springs State
Bank reported deposits of
$8,278,794.17, as compared
with $8,368,289.38 on June
10, 1959.
The bank’s total resources
were $9,008,597.31, as com-
pared to $9,025,263.32 a year
ago.
Loans and discounts total-
ed $2,644,127.52, as compar-
ed to $2,602,493.88 on June
10 of last year.
City National Report
Deposits in the City Na-
tional Bank totaled $4,421,-
321.26, as compared to $4,-
623,554.46 a year ago.
The bank’s total resources
were $6,122,898.98, as com-
pared to $5,274,885.79 at the
comparable time last year.
Loans and diacounta amount-
ed to $1,517,392.91, as com-
pared to $1,403,539.75 on
June lib 1959.
notice.
The brick, air - conditioned
building is owned by the In-
dustrial Fund. The Clark lease
extends to Dec. 81, 1961.
Efforts to find another in-
dustry to take over the facili-
ties already have been started.
J. W. Pratt, Industrial Fund
president, said he feels the
ready facilities and trained
workers available should be
an attraction to other firms
in the garment manufacturing
line.
Confidant of Success
“We are making a concen-
trated effort to find another
manufacturer interested in lo-
cating here,” he added. “We
are confident we will have a
suitable one within the near
future
were working at the Clark
plant when production was
suspended. Pratt said the
firm had maintained an aver-
age payroll of 125 persons for
the last year or so.
Opened in 1956
The Clark plant was open-
ed in January, 1956, follow-
ing completion of the building
by the Industrial Fund. Most
of the money for the $54,000
structure was raised by public
subscription, with the final
$25,000 being borrowed.
The balance owed en the
loan is now $13,688.62. The
indebtedness is secured by the
signatures of 25 local business
men.
The Clark Manufacturing
Company is a subsidiary of Ike
Clark of Dallas. Another af-
filiated plant in Commerce
was closed several years ago.
As far as is known here, the
company’s production now is
confined to Dallas.
$56,566 Listed
As Lowest Bid
For New Building
The Denson Construction Company of Tyler
posted the low base bid for construction of a vocation-
al agriculture building for the new Sulphur Springs
High School campus Wednesday afternoon. The price
was $56,566. The Tyler firm was in close competition
with C. B. Couch of Kilgore and the Neal Hurt Con-
struction Company of Sulphur
Springs, both of which bid
$66,867.
Only other bidder was Har-
lan West of Sulphur Springs.
School trustees went into ex-
ecutive session to consider the
bids and the nine alternates in-
F. M. Holder
Seriously Hurl
In Accident
F. M. Holder, 218 Beasley
Street, was partially paralyzed
Friday afternoon from electri-
cal shock and a 12-foot fall
from a television cable pole.
He is reported to be in ser-
ious condition in BayldF Hos-
pital in Dallas where he was
taken immediately after the
accident.
The third vertebra from the
top was fractured, and his spi-
nal cord severely bruised. He
also sustained three fractured
ribs. He is paralyzed from just
above the waist downward.
Holder, a TV cableman, was
installing a meter loop for an
amplifier box in the 1200 Mock
on Main Street at the time of
the accident. According to Don
McFadden of the TV Cable
System, a short in an electrical
wire falling over the television
cable had apparently shot elec-
trically through a normally
cool cable.
Bolder apparently grabbed
hold of the cable, was severely
shocked, and was forced to
fall to the ground to avoid
eiectricution, his father said.
He was seriously injured
a year ago after a similar fall.
He is now in room 402 in
Baylor Hospital.
eluded. All the alternates call
for elimination of building fea-
tures.
The classroom unit, which re-
cently wss completed at a cost
of approximately $400,000, was
the first of the three buildings
constructed on the new 35-
acre campus at the southwest
edge of Sulphur Springs.
It was formally accepted
about three weeks ago and
then sustained minor damage
in a windstorm a few days lat-
er. School officials plan to
place this building in use for
the first time this fall.
The activities building—the
second unit — is now under
construction. Spruill Construc-
tion Company of Crockett holds
the contract for the structure,
which will include a cafeteria,
band hall and gymnasium. The
cost of the building is expected
to run slightly above $300,000,
including equipment.
Contract Signed
For 2 Buildings
A contract for construction
of two buildings for the Hop-
kins County Farmers Market
was signed Tuesday afternoon,
and work on the new struc-
tures will start in the next
few days.
H. E. Wright & Co., of Tex-
arkana is the contractor. The
buildings will cost $16,942.
C. W. Horne, market asso-
Earl j
First Aid School
Discussed Here
In Mid-July
A first aid school will be
w« «. cm. 1 TWcgfr
K" *"•' ^ if sufficient interest in shown.
not to be too disturbed over
the situation and not to be
overly hasty in moving away
on the basis that there is no
further possibility of wrork at
the plant.
**We already have been in
touch with one prospect that
has shown a definite interest.
It is an industry that would
provide steady, year - around
employment”
Approximately 100 persons
meet with the contracting
firm's building superintendent
Wednesday or Thursday to es-
tablish the locations.
Ditching for a 660-foot wa-
ter line extension to the site
owned by the association at
the northwest coiner of the
intersection of Inter state
Highway 30 and State High-
way 19 was started
day by the city.
according to Miss Laura Cum-
ming, chapter secretary.
The school will offer both
standard and advanced cours-
es.
Anyone 18 years of age or
above may attend the school,
which is free of charge.
Miss Gumming has invited
Wednes- j interested people to call the
Red Cross.
Beef And Dairy Cattlemen
Invited to Friday Meeting
The growing grasshopper
control problem in Hopkins
County through the question-
able use of herbicides will be
one of the main topics discuss-
ed Friday afternoon by George
G. McBee, pasture specialist of
the Texas A & M College Sys-
tem, at a meeting at 1:30 in the
district court room, according
to information released
Wednesday by A. B. Emmons,
county agent.
Emmons urged all beef and
dairy cattlemen interested to
be present as McBee discusses
the use of herbicides and the
conflicting troubles that the
cattle industry has been having
with the Federal Food and
Drug Administration.
Toieranre ratings will be
particularly emphasized as Mc-
Bea endeavors to assist the lo-
cal group in choosing the prop-
er herbicides to use to pass
FDA inspections.
A report released by McBee's
office has emphasized that
“Residue tolerances have not
been set for any herbicides re-
commended for use on pastures
or meadow plants to be con-
sumed by livestock since their
use is registered •n » no resi-
due basis. This would automa-
tically give herbicides to be
used in this manner a zero tol-
erance on the harvested or
grazed crop.
“Recommendation should not
be made at present for use of
herbicides on pastures to be
grated by dairy cattle where
there is evidence that residues
appesr in milk, unless toler-
ances have been established and
the residues may be expected
to be within such tolerances.
Residue data from herbicides
used on pasture plants are lack-
ing and tolerances have not
been established to date for
the use of herbicides on pas-
ture plants. Therefore, it is
not safe at this time to recom-
ment herbicides on pastures to
be grazed by dairy cattle.”
McBee will also discuss sev-
en different herbicides, Araino
triazole, 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T,
MCP, Dalapon, Sodium TCA,
Selective Dinitros, and Ani-
mate, aad their uses.
McBee closed his report to
Emmons by saying, “Herbici-
des used on forage which is to
be consumed by livestock art
registered on a no residue baaia for signs of an expected stab
by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture. A no resi-
due registration is considered
to be a aero toieranre by the
Food and Drug Administra-
tion”
-Emmons emphasised that the
Friday meeting would be of
extreme importance since grass-
hoppers are again getting bod
aad area farmers are in dirt
need of instructions on the use
of herbicides.
Brick Solicited
For New Wall
Al dub Building
A drive to collect used brick
wss planned Wednesday morn-
ing at t h e regular monthly
meeting of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Woman's Building.
The brick is to be used for
the construction of a lattice-
work wall around the back of
the grounds as part of the
landscaping p r o j e ct. Mrs.
Wayne Melton is in charge of
the brick donations.
Mrs. Henry McCorkle,
grounds committee chairman,
reported that the sidewalk in
front of the building has been
completed and the grounds
have been leveled and
grass sodded. Flower beds have
also been dug around the build-
ing.
E. E. Matheson of the Rock-
well Manufacturing Company
spoke to the group about the
company’s committee to as-
sume the indebtedness for the
building. The actual presenta-
tion of the check will be made
at the August meeting of the
board.
Mrs. Gerald Prim, treasurer,
reported a profit of $93.84 for
the month of May in the opera-
tion of the building.
Tira Wildcat
Reported Below
3,800 Feet
John R. Yarborough’s No.
1 J. D. Calloway oil test 1H
miles east of Tira was report-
ed drilling below 3,800 feet
Wednesday.
The Calloway, a rank wild-
cat, is seeking production in
the Paluxy around 4,800 feet.
No definite information was
available here Wednesday on
developments at Coulston
Drilling Com pany’s No. 1
Raines estate 31a miles south-
west of Sulphur Bluff.
The Raines was reported to
have picked up a show of oil
in the Paluxy early this week.
Subsequent reports have dif-
fered on whether the findings
wen sufficient to justify com-
Passersby said activity con-
tinued at tiie lean Wednesday
morning.
Reports of additional devel-
opments continued lacking on
Pan American Petroleum Cor-
partion’s No. 1 J. B. McKee
Smackover discovery four
miles northwest of Yantis.
Local oil men are looking
a second test in the
ing of
area.
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NO ERASER NEEDED
Lincoln, 111., UR—Pencils bo-
ing passed out to advertise the
candidacy ef a man seeking the
office ef Logan County coro-
ner are inscribed:
‘This pencil has no eraser
because you make no mistake
when you vote for Amin E.
Frieke.”
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