The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, September 13, 1963 Page: 1 of 32
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New Snackover Effort
Planned in Como Reid
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a ou-xoot company emblem
soon will be painted on the roof
of the Rockwell Manufacturing
Company plant in Sulphur
Springs, identifying both the
, company and the city to air-
craft pilots.
The sign will stretch for 310
feet on the local plant roof and
will be facing pilots traveling
from the east.
The words Sulphur Springs
•—to be painted in yellow—will
be separated by the Rockwell
company emblem in yellow,
black and red. The emblem, to
be 60-f e e t in diameter, will
feature an outer black ring
with a red “r” on a yellow
background.
Both the words Sulphur
and Springs will be 125 feet
long.
Overall the sign will cover
more length than a football
field.
Six Sentenced
After Admitting
Felony Crimes
Six persons entered guilty
pleas in District Court criminal
action Wednesday morning in
Sulphur Springs.
William Lee Burton, Tex-
arkana, received three 7-year
sentences for forgery. The sent-
ences are to run concurrently.
Janies Walter Hargrave, of
Sulphur Springs, received a
two-year probated sentence for
burglary. Benny Alvin Rudolph
of Oklahoma City received a
probated sentence of from two
to five years for forgery.
Eddie Don Corder of Dallas,
charged with the theft of an
auto from Mrs. Ruth Y. Pear-
son in Sulphur Springs June
30, was sentenced to not less
than two nor more than five
years in the state penitentiary
on the charge of theft over
$50.
Walter Alexander of Sulphur
Springs received a 2-to-5 year
probated sentence for burning
insured personal property.
Henry Logan Craft, Jr., of! hung in the balance for the
Sulphur Springs was fined $250 (greater portion of that time,
and court costs after entering a | The state had sought the
plea of guilt to a charge of I death penalty and a juror indi-
Strategy Discussion
Slated by Democrats
Democratic political leaders j ciary will include the. three
from over Northeast Texas will j judges of the newly activated
meet in Sulphur Springs Sept. 12th Court of Civil Appeals in
18 for a down-to-earth discus-j Tyler, Chief Justice Otis Dupa-
8ion of party strategy. ' gan, Associate Justice James M.
With top state, district and Moore and Associate Justice
;|ocal political figures here that Grover Sellers.
flay for the Rockwell Manu-
facturing Company’s tenth an-
BUS DRIVER INJURED—Loyd Quary, Route 2, Cumby, the driver of the Sulphur Springs
Independent School District bus, was injured Tuesday morning in an accident involving
the bus and a car driven by Mac Miller of Athens. None of the children on board the bua
at the time was injured and all were taken to classes on another bus. (Staff Photo).
Life Sentence Assessed
Negro in Murder Trial
Sammy D. Norman was; diet was reached 2Va
found guilty of murder here later.
Friday and a sentence of life
imprisonment was set by a
Hopkins County jury.
Norman was charged with
the Oct. 14, 1962, slaying of
Mrs. Ellen Lane, 80, at her
farm home in the Liberty
Grove community south of
Cooper. The trial of Norman,
a Negro, was moved to Hopkins
County on a change of venue.
The verdict against Norman
was reached after approximate-
ly 14'/2 hours of deliberation
by the all-white jury. Accord-
ing to reports, Norman’s life
hours
theft under $50.
Youth Detained
After Threats
Made on Family
A 19-,vear-old Hopkins Coun-
ty resident was fined $31 in
Justice Court Monday morn-1 Qct. 16, 1962, by a daughter,
rated Friday that early ballots
favored imposing death in the
electric chair by a 7-5 margin.
At one time late Thursday
night the jury considered re-
porting to District Judge L. L.
Bowman, Jr., as hopelessly
deadlocked over the issue of
life or death.
Apparently the jury spent
Deliberations Thursday were
conducted in the jury room in
the Hopkins County court-
house. It was at this point that
the jury considered calling in
Judge Bowman.
But a decision was reached
to attempt final agreement j
Friday morning. By the time
of adjournment Thursday, re-
ports indicate, the majority of
jurors favored life imprison-
ment to the death penalty.
Early Friday morning the
jury asked Judge Bowman if
were staying. Judge Bowman
granted his permission.
Formal sentencing will be
held later, but under Texas law
the jury does establish the
punishment.
The murder trial and prelim*
inaries took nearly two weeks.
Jury selection feggan MoqBa^.
Aug. 26, and was not complet-
ed until Monday, Sept. 2. Tes-
timony was concluded Wednes-
day afternoon and attorneys
delivered closing arguments
Thursday morning.
Representing the state in the
case were District Attorney
Cameron McKinney, Delta
Another major effort to extend Smackover pro-
duction in the Como field in southeastern Hopkins
County will start in about two weeks. It is Texaco’s
No. 1 John J. Morris, a north-northwest offset of
the field’s Smackover discovery well, Delta Drilling
Company’s No. 5 W. H. Coker.
The Morris is the second in ________
an apparently large scale series
Some of the visiting officials
at least will be accompanied by
niversary celebration, the party i their wives,
gathering comes as a natural | Governor Connally will speak
if totally unconnected—de- in the Paris area the night of
velopment. Sept. 17 and will come to Sul-
Each county in the Texas Phur Springs the following
morning in time to participate I
first Congressional District has
been invited to send a delega-
tion of from eight to ten per-
sons to participate in the con-
ference and to attend the Rock-
well program later in the day.
No Reporter*
The Democratic session will
be held at 2 p. m. in the Sul-
phur Springs State Bank Com-
munity Room. It is planned as
an “off-the-record” affair in
which participants can speuk
their minds without fear of Describing the operation as
being quoted. benefiting all of the North-
Most of the top office hold- east Texas community, David
ers in state government will be Estes of Greneville Tuesday
in Sulphur Springs for the oc- gave a run down on current
casion, as will Representative I operations at the Temo Aero-
W right Patman. I Systems Division plant at
in a community luncheon hon-
oring distinguished guests in
the Woman’s Club Building.
Temco Official
Describes Work
In Talk Here
of tests aimed at defining the
extent of deep production in
the old shallow field. Drilling
w as started last week on Gulf
Oil Corporation’s No. 1 Garri-
son, a northeast offset to the
Coker.
Unit Reduction Help*
Stimulating the renewals of
interest in the area is an order
issued by the Texas Railroad
Commission last spring reduc-
ing the size of production units
from a 640-acre basis to 320
acres.
This is expected to result in
division of the units set up for
the field's big producing wells,
the Coker and Mobil Oil Com-
pany's No. 1 Robbie Ford to
the southwest, and drilling of
additional tests on the separat-
ed sections of the two units.
Legal papers on the 352-
acre J. J. Morris unit were
filed witli County Clerk Haze!
Minter by Texaco, Inc.
deliberations could be conduct- j County Attorney Truman Rat-
ed at the local motel where the
nine men and three women
Mrs. Lane’s body was found 1
ing on a drunkenness charge.
The youth was picked up at
2 a. m. Sunday by county of-
ficers and highway patrolmen
after he allegedly threatened
the lives of his mother and
sister.
Officers flushed the suspect
out of his rural home early
Sunday after receiving a com-
plaint from his mother. He
had a 30-30 rifle in his posses-
sion at the time of the arrest.
He gave no resistance.
The youth admitted shoot-
ing his dog with the rifle aft-
er officers found a blood stain-
ed towel in the house. Offi-
cers also found evidence of
three bullets firgd into the
house earlier.
The youth was being held in
the Hopkins County jail Mon-
Child Narrowly
Escapes Death
In Slock Pool
Mark Christopher Davis,
little time in determining the : three-year-old son of Mr. and
guilt or innocence of Norman, j Mrs. J. B. Davis, Jr., 832 Fish-
er Street, was playing around
home Monday after experienc-
ing a narrow brush with death
Sunday afternoon.
He fell into a stock pool at
the home of his grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Baxter, in
the Ridgeway community. His
young uncle—-four-year-old Tim
Baxter—s p r e a d the alarm.
Young Davis’ father rushed to
the pool and pulled Mark from
the waters.
The father applied artificial
respiration while others called
Governor John Connally, who Greenville
will be making his first appear-
ance in this immediate area
jMnfce his election last fall, will
be the principal speaker for
the Rockwell program.
He will be introduced by Rep-
resentative Patman.
Other state officials expect-
ed to participate are Lieuten-
ant Governor Preston Smith,
Attorney General Waggoner
Carr, State Senator A. M.
Aikin, Jr., and State Represen-
tative Joe N. Chapman.
Judge* to Be Here
Representatives of the judi-
Four Business
liff, and special prosecutor Joe
Chapman. Lee Clark of Green-
ville and Jack Neal of Sulphur
Springs were the court-appoint-
ed defense attorneys.
Members of the jury were
Harold Akins, foreman, W. C.
Martin, Mrs. Dan W. Williams, | y* ■
Civde Bassham, Mrs. Durwood j Ml9fPC F-lliPrPn
Vititow, Mrs. Billy Ashby, P\ 1 **“«*»» ElIIlCl Cli
B. Bell, Raymond McLarry,
Lynn Chapman, Durwayne I.ee-
wright, Dan Cahalan, and H. J.
McClendon.
Mrs. D. D. Oyler. Mrs. Oyler
testified during the trial that
she found the body on the
floor, with a pillow placed over
the face, a pillowcase around
Mrs. Lane’s neck and another
piece of cloth tied to her wrist.
Testimony revealed that Nor-
man had been a part-time em-
ploye for the Oylers, who also
operated the homestead occu-
pied by Mrs, Lane, for two
weeks prior to the murder.
Robbery is believed to have I an ambulance. Mark was rush-
been thi“ motive. | ed to Memorial Hospital where
The jury entered deliberation he was examined and held over-
at 11:30 a.m. Thursday after
the close of two days of testi-
mony. It remained in closed
night for observation.
The two youngsters had left
the Baxter house unnoticed and
session until 11:30 p.m. then j ventured near the pool. Mark
retired for the night. J fell in and Tim ran to the
Sessions resumed again be-1 house some distance away to
for 9 a.m. Friday and the ver- spread the alarm.
day for further examination.
Other complaints filed in I WACO FARM BUREAU LEADER
Justice Court Monday morn-
ing by county officers and
highway pat rolmen included
f o u r speeding charges, two
passing in no passing zones
and four other complaints.
New Smackover
Test Drills
In Como Field
Drilling was reported pro-
gressing at 915 feet early Fri-
,day morning on Gulf Oil Cor-
Chamber Banquet
Speaker Selected
Millard Shivers of Waco, di-
rector of organization for the
Texas Farm Bureau, will be
the guest speaker for the an-
nual banquet of the Hopkins
County Chamber of Commerce
Oct. 22 in the high school
cafeteria.
Plans for the event were syn-
pearing before a regional meet-
ing in Dallas last spring.
W. E. Bradford will be toast-
master for the banquet. Other
features will include the pre-
sentation of the annual Hop-
kins County Citizen of the
Year Award given by the Echo
Publishing Company and the
first presentation of Red Star
Two Motorists
Charged With
Traffic Cases
Week-day traffic continues
to pose more problems for Sul-
phur Springs police than that
of week-ends, with school zoneidrin k machine at the West I
By Burglars
Four Sulphur Springs busi-
ness establishments were broken
into over the week-end, but
losses ranged from nothing to
only a few dollars.
Thieves, believed to be young-
sters, hit the West Building
Supply Co., 151 Texas; the
Moody Lumber Company on
Jefferson; Mark’s Sporting
Goods, 214 Jefferson; and the
Lewis Drive-In Grocery, 847
Main.
The thieves attacked a soft
Hopkins Schools
Help Sponsor
Essay Contest
Schools in Sulphur Springs
and Hopkins County a r e co-
operating in sponsoring an- es-
say contest as part of the com-
munity aspect of the Rockwell
Manufacturing Company's tenth
anniversary program here Sept.
18.
The topic is “What Industry
dustrial relations division at Means to H o p k i n s County.
to the Sulphur
Springs Lions Club.
“We have 2,400 employes
at the Greenville plant,” Es-
tes said. “I don t have the ex-
act figures, but the number of
those living in Hopkins Coun-
ty is in excess of 600.”
Estes, manager of the in
the Greenville plant, described
the aero-systems division’s role
within the sprawling Ling-
Temeo-Vought industrial or-
ganization.
He said while much of the
work at Greenville is classified
by military authorities, gener-
ally the work involves air-
borne electrical systems and
reconnaissance and detection
systems for aircraft and mis-
siles.
"When the operation began
at Greenville in 1951, nobody
had any idea how much it
would grow,” Estes said. “Last
year our annual payroll was
in excess of $14 million.
“W h i 1 e approximately 58
per cent of our employes live
in Hunt County, we have 60
towns in the area represented
on the payroll.”
Weldon Branscome was pro-
gram ehaiiman for the meet-
iContinued on Back Rage)
The deadline for the papers is
Sept. 16. The length limit is
500 words.
Three U. S. Savings Bonds
will be awarded as prizes for
winners at the high school, jun-
ior high and elementary school
level. They will be provided
by the Echo Publishing Com-
pany, Station KSST and the
Chamber of Commerce.
Jack F. Gibson and Homer
Hennen are co-chairmen of the
project.
chronized Wednesday after-
poration’s No. 1 G a r r is o n noon at a meeting of the eham- j Fertilizer Division's new Brooks
Smackover test in the Como ber’s Banquet Committee, Emmons Award for the coun-
field. 1 which is headed by Sam j ty’s outstanding farmer of the
Surface casing was set Thurs-(Cochran. [year,
day night
The Garrison is a northeast
offset of Delta Drilling Com-
pany’s No. 5 W. H. Coker,
Smackover discovery well for j most effective and entertain-
the field. I ing of a panel of speakers ap-
Shivers was selected for the ■ SarH*1 is chairman of
the ticket sales committee, Jack
F. Gibson of arrangements,
Joe Pearson of decorations and
speaking role after being
judged by a local group as the
Jack Hamilton of welcoming.
Tickets will be priced at $3.
violations keeping patrolmen
busy.
Monday morning officers ar-
rested two motorists for run-
ning stop signs and charged
one of them additionally for
speeding near a school. An-
other arrest was made for a
motorist driving without a li-
cense.
Week-end arrests included
one each for speeding, distur-
bance with a motor vehicle,
running a stop sign and im-
prrptr and imprudent speed.
One accident was investi-
gated over the week-end. A
car driven by Ruth Jackson
Hull, 1018 North Davis, receiv-
ed about $125 damage. The
other vehicle involved, driven
by Luther J. Perkins, 300 Mul-
berry, was not damaged. There
were no injuries.
Building Supply, but went away
empty handed. Canceled checks
were taken from an unlocked
safe at the M o ody Lumber
Company.
Abont $2.25 in pennies was
taken at the sporting goods
store and another small amount
of change was stolen from the
grocery.
Entry was gained by break-
ing in through back windows in
all cases.
Driver Escapes
Crash Injuries
Jerry Don Hatcher, 817
North Jackson Street, escaped
injury late Friday night when
a car he was driving struck a
utility pole in the 500 block
of Houston Street und turned
over.
Police estimated damage to
the Hatcher auto at $350.
MORE THAN 1,400 ACRES
Sulphur Bluff
Home Destroyed
Former Ira Cundiff
Land Offered Public
■ One of the largest blocks of i being received until Sept. 20
I Hopkins County land to be of-1 by Dertha Barton, route 4,
fered for public sale ,n several I Shawnee, Okla. One half of the
Cancer Society
Gels Charter;
Names Officers
The Hopkins County unit of
the American Cancer Society
received its 1964 charter Tues-! nounced Saturday
The test will he located OB
an 86.4-acre tract owned by
Morris, a Sulphur Springe ab-
stract company owner, immedi-
ately north of the Coker unit.
Location Not Yet Staked
The locution has not yet been
staked, blit is expected to bn
near the northwest comer of
the tract, about 2,600 feet
north by northwest of the Cok-
er well. This would place it
approximately 3,000 feet north
and slightly east of Mobil’s
Robbie Ford producer. It would
bo some 3,000 feet southwest
of Gulf’s Garrison test.
Other property listed in the
unit are tracts owned by L. D.
Coker, the Bell estate, Call
Ilenricks, the H. R. Grimes
f a ni i 1 .v, the Sheiton estate,
Otto Gross and the Como In-
dependent School Distr ict (2
acres).
Most of the property is in
Nacogdoches University Sur-
veys A-702 and A-703.
Leases in the unit are held
by Texaco, Delta Drilling Com-
pany, Monsanto Chemical Com-
pany, Humble Oil Refining
Company, and Harry Phillips,
Tommy Walker und Phillip
Berry, all of Tyler.
The prospective location is
about 6,500 feet southwest of
a dry hole drilled by Phillips
and Walker, the No. 1 W. H.
Coker.
Oth*r Move* Expected
Local oil men report thnt
Mobil officials have indicated
that long-range plans include
a probable division of the 637-
ucre Robbie Ford unit and a
new test south to southeust of
the F’ord.
It is assumed that Delta
probably will divide its Coker
unit and put down another test
in that area.
Murphy Corporation of El
Dorado, Ark., is reported to be
awaiting the results of the
prospective new developments
in the Ford and Coker units
before proceeding with its No.
1 Janies B. Morris test south-
west of the Ford. The Morris,
which is about 2,500 feet above
the Wood County line, is south
of a dry hole drilled on the
Rutherford tract last year.
One drilling permit in the
Como field recently was can-
celled. If was a location on the
Hattie Starr Spellings tract
south of the Ford well filed by
Ginther and Warren of Hous-
ton.
Te»t Near Winnaboro
Gulf and T e x a c o also an-
plans for
day night in a meeting of local . another Smackover test 2'a
officers. I miles south and west of Winns-
Gene Orwosky was elected! boro and just south of the
president of the unit, during tb
meeting.
Dr. Van Kaden of Greenville,
Winnsboro Rodessa and Bacon
field.
The 15,000-foot hole will be
president of the Hunt County No. 1 Ona Jacobs, 1,000 feet
unit of American Cancer So-; from the south and 467 from
eiety, presented the charter to 1 the east lines of the W. Caison
the local unit. He represented , Survey, A-125.
the Texas Division of the | It will be the second Smack-
society. over attempt for the Winns-
Dr. Kaden explained the im-. ),oro field area. An earlier ef-
portanee of the charter of the f„,t by Gulf about a mile north-
bylaws to the group. east inside the field went di-
Other new officers include (rectly from the Cotton Valley
O. C. Sewell, Jr., vice presi- j into salt and had no Buckner
dent; Mrs. A. D. Jacobsen, sec-jor Smackover formations.
retary; and E. A Junell, treas-j _ . _
urer.
Committee chairmen appoint-
ed Tuesday night included
Paul Herschler, education r Da-
vid Stinson, publicity; Phil A.
S a i t l n, campaign committee,
and Sewell, co-chairman of the j
campaign committee.
McKee Gas Unit
Earnings Told
By Pan Am
Fire destroyed a home oc-
cupied by Grady Night in the
Sulphur Bluff area at 4:10 a.
m. Monday. Contents of the
port.
Jimmy Davis was listed as
the owner of the house. There
was no cause for the lire de-
termined.
years is being put on the mar-
ket this month.
mineral lights are included.
Friends describe Mr. Cundiff
It is property once belonging j as a colorful figure who was u
to the late Ira Cundiff, Peer- native of the Peerless area.
“He made his money the
hard way and saved it,” one re-
mai bed.
The B a 1 c o n e g Fault runs
across the land and Mr. Cundiff
is reported to have refuse)!
less cattleman who died Jan.
27, 1945.
The property, which is ih
numerous tracts, is described
as consisting of more than
home also were listed as a j 1,400 acres. It is in the area
total loss on the Sulphur! from Peerless north across the; what was then regarded as a
Springs fire department re- South Sulphur River into Delta huge sum for oil leases on the
County. (property in 1936 following the
Sealed bids on the land, which opening of the Talco field,
is described as including the j The property later was leas-
estate of Mr. Cundiff, Turiejed for a considerably smaller
Wilson and Janie Collins, are i amount.
Pan Amercan Petroleum Cor-
poration reports net earnings
from its No. 1 McKee gas unit
in the West Yantis field during
July totaled $92,313.
Of this amount, $79,394 was
attributed to the sale of con-
densate and $12,919 to residue
gas. No sulphur was sold dur-
ing. the month.
The figures are reported in
a statement to royalty owners
in the unit and represent net
returns after deduction of ex-
The studies are required by . penses. The statement was pro-
n e w sew age disposal lieens- ' vided for use in determining
ing laws in Texas. Sulphur the basis of royalty settle.
City Sewage
Plants Checked
An official of the state Wat-
er Pollution Board was in Sul-
phur Springs Wednesday t o
conduct efficiency studies of
the city’s sewage facilities.
Calvin Riegel of Austin
made the inspection
Springs recently received per-
mits under the new law to
operate two sewage disposal
plants.
meats for the month.
One local royalty owner in
the unit said his payment fog
July averaged 316.66 an acre.
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, September 13, 1963, newspaper, September 13, 1963; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth827038/m1/1/: accessed July 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.