The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 30, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 5, 1956 Page: 1 of 14
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VOL 58.—NO. 30.
SULPHUR SPRINGS. TEXAS, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1»56.
Sulphur Springs
Streets Sustain
Heavy Damages
Heavy damatfe to Sulphur Springs streets is emerging
as melting of a three-day coating of ice progresses. Some
gravel and dirt streets are impassable in plactes due to ex-
ceptionally deep mud resulting from more than two weeks
of almost steady moisture in some form. Holes are appear-
ing in large numbers in macadam streets, especially those
which have been heavily traveled
during the storm period.____
New Auto Tags
‘Moving Slowly
At Tax Office
City Manager Roy Himes said
Saturday city street crews are at-
tempting to make such emergency
repairs as are possible but that
more permanent solution of the
difficulties must await dry wrath
Joe Chapman Sees
Polities in Move
Soma Streets Blocked
Efforts also'are being made to j motol. vehicle license ug*.
keep dirt streets open where pos-L^h wertt on sale Feb.- 1, are
■ I moving at a very slow clip. 0. C.
reports indicate §ewei|i jr-( tax assessor-collector,
urged that car owneis purchase
sible
Haines said . ,r--- ---------
Airport Road is impassable to au-
tomobile*, Seventh Street in ex
their plates early so as to avoid
tremely had shape and Calvert a ,ust minUU. rugh
and Nicholson streets blocked in
places.
Temporary gravel patches are
being made in some pavement, be registered in Hopkins County.
Can must be wearing their
I960 tags by April 1, and there
aie more than 7,000 vehicles to
holes to ease the situation until
regular patching can be done.
The city manager said most of
the holes he has seen so far have
hcen in streets used as state high-
ways, These will be repaired by
the stale highway department.
Freeaiag Water Hurt*
The breaks are caused by wat-
er from melting ice seeping be-
neath the surface of the street
am) freezing. Traffic helps ex-
pand the damaged areas.
Haines said street department
workers would be out in full force
Monday morning making all re-
pairs possible under prevailing
conditions, with work continuing
as streets finally dry.
If the majority of these 7,000
vehicle owners postpone the buy-
ing of their tags until the last
three or four weeks in March, a
tedipus log jam will be created at
the tax office, it was pointed out.
For the convenience of the citi-
zens, Sewell has established three
substations in the county where
the tags may be purchased:
From Dorothy Via In Cumhy, at
the Mack Orr Grocery in Pickton,
and at the Sulphur Bluff school.
The sale in Sulphur Bluff is in
charge of Jim Burns and the Fu-
ture Farmers of America.
A brief rush was felt at the
county tax office when the tags
were first placed on sale on Feb. I
But persons buying their plates
on opening day were mostly those
who sought some particular num-
^ bet, and the rush subsided in
'jilioft order. !'
Livestock Show
Expects Record
Entries in March
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Thaw Starts Removing
Ice Coating in Town
. ......~*=— A slow but steady thaw
■ removed most of Sulphur
' Springs' two-day. ice coating
j Saturday as an easing of
! temperatures s pared this
I area from a potentially ex-
i tremely serious threat.
With temperatures easing bare-
ly below the freezing line Friday
State'"’ Representative Joe - N. ' «tght, the continued miat-drtlile _
Chapman said Saturday he prob- bad been plaguMg th*
ably would ignore the prociama- countryside failed to build up
tint! distributed to members of further the local ice sheath,
tije legislature .by two Grayson Instead a definite thawing pro-
County representatives calling ces* beK»n during the night, and
for a special session of the house 7the '«« b«*an receding steadily- as
to investigate whether any state ’ daylight brought slightly warmer
official should he impeached. ' temperatures.
Chapman declared he regarded 1 ***** th* gradual turn of the
the move by Representatives tule du""/ the night troub.es «c-
, Charles Hughes of Sherman and i c™“lated “ tree J‘"Vb* began
9:30 in the district courtroom for D. B. Hardeman of Denison as . yelding te> t he weight of the ice.
j possible jury service in three premature, impractical and moti-! . Ul,l,ty L™* Hit
i cidl actions set for that day. vated by political purposes. i ®«ct ™ Powe*' se/v‘ee was dl3:
A fourth civil suit is set for; • „We ^ ^ , hou,e ^ ruP*d much, °f th* C1 £ and
next Thursday and the iuros will . ?. "a e * no.*e : surrounding rural areas early Sat-
, in us laj, anu mi juios tee mvestigatuig the situation and „ .. dav mo,.n;n„ when a fallimr limb
! be on duty for that one, also. I it ghoul(J be „iven an opportunity \ 7 "? j.1*? j *'“7 ,
I Set for tomorrow ace the fol- . , „ V an opportunity <,h0rt c|rcmte<l and burned out a
to win a- th,*r roJT ° funCti°n’ he Warned. 17,500 volt highline on the old
g » - • “It is..not practical or eeonoml- Como highway,
j Hopkins County residents will j Sewell said most of these have Johnny Brad berry versus E. W. ta| to ca|| 150 men together for! Telephone lines were down in
: march to the polls in near-record j been counted, but some are still Carr. a purpose such as this. A commit- profusion over the area and tele-
numbers this year. Figures' out. I Herbert A. (Buck) Wright ver- tee should be able to do a much ' prap|, service was halted,
released by O. C. Sewell, Jr., tax When the final count is com- sus Johnny Folmar, et al, dam- - better job. , ; j Conditions improved steadily on
assessor-collector, show that more plcted. the county is expected to ages. “ “I am afraid a special session streets and highways, however,
ithan 7 000 citizens have qualified j show a polling strength in excess) w A Hargrave, et al, versus" would turn into a political ses- with driving lanes on more heavi-
3NOW HUDDLE—Know-covered cattle near Amt 'llo, Tex., huddle together for protection against
drouth-breaking snow fall and icy blast of air in the Texas Panhandle. Temperatures have drop-
ped to near zero with winds reaching 43 miles per hour. r (NEA Telephoto).
District Court
Summons Jurors
Tor Duly Monday
Fifty petit jurors are to ap-
pear here Monday morning at I
Polling Strength of County
Soars to Near Record Mark
1 themselves
! this year.
to vote in election*;of 7,000. Oidtime political ob-
servers say the county has seldom!
sion instead of a fact-finding ses- ly traveled routes being clear of
_ iday revealed that ,4,622 persons
Directors of the Northeast Tex-jpaid thd,. „ taxe8
as Livestock Show, set here
March 6 through March 9, are
anticipating one of the biggest
C. I). Allen, personal injuries.
An incomplete count made Fn- in had such'a high pgill-j : « busr^kiS*^”*.^^ j *“ Eight)
tho tbat would be hard to get down,
to business and investigate any-;
Charles Berry
County Clerk Hazel Minter said
overs and under normally run
about half of the paid poll taxes.
called for service later in
ing strength.
Add this follows one of the.
slowest starts ever recorded in an j cour‘ term,
election year. j District Judge
March oi Dimes
and best shows in the seven-year. ,, . . , , »bout 30 d*v* nrior to the 1 et but customarily
history of the event. ™18 wo.u d the total -n.u,nbcr Ir i third or fourth wo
Poll tax sales lagged miserably b- not yet set his criminal dock- a .“l i T0tal
til .hoot 30 a*v* nrior to the et but Customarily does so in the the rumpus resulting f.om a ape , | OWI UllUlUd
eial session would create need-;
Hopkins:dan- deadline. At this time Ki-Jthiid 01 fourth week of the term, ,a barmfui psychology for
Past $2,450
Phone lines^^^H
KnOCked0.lt Auto Race Tiack
Permit Expected
y City Pa rs
history of the event. , of qualified Wg______
Considerable optimism for the; Coynty to 6,933. , wanians,. in cooperation with Sew- Eight indictments, were return- tbe state
|approaching event was express- ■ j ‘ ^ { , d d , the ell, launched an all-out campaign ed by the grand jury which con-! He added> however, that he
;ed Saturday by Brooka Emmons, , ^„re „ lax recei u encouraging citizens to qualify vened Jan. 23 and 24. In addi- plang to keep an open mind on j GrtI)d total in the 1956 March
------ ---------------- themselves for the polls Hon, there are a few carry-otrew the subject pending possible fur- of Dimes for Hopkins Countv
Kivvamanf established five sub- flom tl.e rrcvioUs court term. , ther developments. , [Saturday reached the total of
stations in Sulphur Springs, and; -. -- “If the committee should come‘ i2,458.59. And Weber Fouts,
Sewell placed poll tax receipt ni **t I
books in every community of the PjjJlg WfCCKS^G
Sulphur Springs maintained a
tenuous direct contact w'ith the
outside world Saturday as ice
bore down hard on Northeast
Texas communications wires.
Both telephone and telegraph
lines were knocked out in whole-
sale fashion.
Only6 five of the 23
Southwestern Bell trunk lines
linking the city with Greenville
and the outside world were in op-
eration Saturday noon
I An application for a permit
1 for the construction of an auto-
. | mobile race track in Sulphur
! Springs will be submitted to the
city planning commission at its
meeting Monday night,
i The proposed track would be
I located on tbe Perkins estate pro-
'Telephone service east was re- _______ . .. . u. .
I'orted still entirely blocked, as it kay" 67 near the Morris Drive
had been since Friday. intersection
Damage to the Greenville lines | cu Man R Hamcs said
was reporetd scattered over a he a ,icantg gre out.of.town
wide area. Repair crews were| ., ’1.
m.kipg repairs Saturday, but no^ ?he p!annj fommission scv
estimate could be obtained on, ^ wi,{ be hpld jn the cit ha„r
when full service would be re-, , '
sumed. . starting at 7 p.m.
Some Local Trouble
The General Telephone Com-!
pany of the Southwest maintenti
ance division here said consider-:
able local Double was being en-[
countered from tree limbs fall-1
ing across lines but that the sit- ^
uation was not especially serious. 1
Associated Press news service)
(Continued on Page Eight)
.general superintendent.
1 “Last year-, show was the be.l|S0H in ct,Uijl-,ural tomnun,itM*-
ever from the standpoint of qual-i— -—m—- —-—————■
I ity animals,” he said, “and we
believe the forthcoming show will
be just as good in this respect,
if not better.”
A record number of entries is
expected. Emmons said that some
160 animals were entered in the
event last year. ,
All exhibits for the 1-956 show
must be in place by 8 a.m. on
Tuesday March 6, and must con-
tinue in place until ,10 a.m. on
Thursday, March 8. The show
will be climaxed with an Angus
sale on Friday, March 9, at 1
p.m.
The entire show and Angus
Israel Expected
To Seek More
American Arms
entire county.
In 1952, one of the
years locally, five tnousand peo-
ple paid poll taxes.
sale will be staged under the su- j-ajrs
Washington, Feb. 4 t#>—Israeli
Ambassador Abba Eben is expect-
ed to ask the State Department
again next week for approval of
a request to buy 50 million dol-
lars worth of defensive weapons.
Eben has an appointment Mon-
day with George Allen, assistant
| secretary for Middle East Af-
Negro Charged
With Bootlegging
Freed on Bond
irS Found on Peak
In California
up with something that would chapter chairman, said there were
- justify a special session, that a few mail contributions a®, head-
would be a different situation,"; quarters which hadn’t been open*
; he explained.
Bed China Asks
For Conference
On Indo-China
(Continued on Page Eight)
Cupid’s Aide
Local Power
Service Hit
Electric power service was dis-
rupted foi a large section of Sul-
phur Sprngs and Hopkins County 1
early Saturday morning when an
"ice-coated tree limb fell across a
highline on the old Como road
near the John Minter home.
The limb short-circuited the
7,600 volt line, which then burn-
ed down in a brilliant display of
electrical fireworks.'
The accident opened/ a switch
at the Texas Power &'Light sub-
station controlling power supplies
for the South and southeast parts
of Sulphur Springs, all rural lines
in the county and the Como trans-
mission line.
T. P. & L. repair crews went
to work on the break shortly after
it occurred) about 5 a. m. By re-
arranging the power flow, service
was restored to all areas except
the southeast part of the city at
5:5,0 a. m. Current was returned
to that part of the city at 7:15
a. m. after the burped out line
had been replaced.
The early morning power loss
brought drastic changes to local
households Many families arose
late as electric alarm blocks failed
(Continued on Pago'Eight)
Filing Deadline
For City Posts
Falls Tuesday
Deadline for candidates to file
for city commissioner of Sulphilr
Spiings falls on Tuesday, Feb. 7.
Only two candidates, incumbents
Joe Dan Avinger and G. S. John-
son, have filed to date, and no
others arc expected.
B. F. Ashcroft, Thomas Payne
and Artie Stephens are hold-over
commissioners.
The city election is scheduled
on Tuesday, Fob. 21. New terms
start Apr. 1.
The city commissioner jobs in
Sulphur Springs do not carry a
salary.
Scout Banquet
Scheduled Here
Tuesday Night b
The annual Sulphur District
Scout Banquet will be held next
Tuesday night at the American
Legion building on Church Street,
beginning with a dinner at 7
o’clock. '
Principal speaker will be Ned
Price, county judge of Smith
County and an active Seouter In
the Rose Scout District. Price is
past president of the County
Judges and Commissioners Associ-
ation of Texas.
Neil McKay, chairman of the
Sulphur District, said further de-
tails on the banquet program
should be ready for release Mon-
day or Tuesday. '
Indianapolii, Fab. 4 l.ft—Ma-
rion County Clark H, Dale
Brown tayt he’ll pay the cost
of any marriage licenee issued
on Feb. 29th, if the girl will
swear in writing that she did
the proposing. Brown says con-
fidently:—“I don’t think any
girl would have the nerve to do
that.”
A Sulphur Springs Negro book-
ed on a bootlegging count was re-
leased from the Hopkins County
jaii Saturday after posting bond.
He was arrested late Friday
, . . , , . ... afternoon by sheriffs- officers
drive to buy American arms And -d h p d wjth posscssion of
the ambassador w expected to telL jntoxi(.ati beverages for the
Allen that continuing delivery of 0/ M)e.
( zech arms to ■ '* 1
San Bernardino. Cal., Feb. 4 l.ft
I,—Wreckage of a missing B-25
i bomber has been found in deep
snow on San Gorgond Peak. The
Air Force says there apparently
I were no survivors. The plane dis-i a im r*m u«ut »»a
appear.4 Jan. 27th. It carried munist china'has made a formul
i ed.
The following hank deposits
were mad Friday by chapter of-
ficials:
Sulphur Springs High School,
$260.35; Houston school, $28.58;
Douglas High School, $87.74; La-
mar school, $64.84; and Travis
school, $50.
Total amount raised in the
Mothers March Tuesday night was
four men.
Israel reportedly has set Feb-
ruary as “crash month” in its
Labor Hearing
Postponed Here
Until Feb. 24
I ire”?! “ B,r1."1" *"d Slo'iSfSSL rL'™d! rlAlC
the calling of a full-dress confer-
ence on Indo China. Such a meet-
ing would bring Red China’s Pre-
; mier Chou En-Lai and Secretary
ter will be increased when the un-
opened contributions now on hand
aie tabulated.
The Mothers March officially
Of State Dulles to the same con- cJoml th(? -66 campai(rnf Uut niaii
uence a i e. contributions are expected to con-
SSL,N..taollb,
“ rsiSLr""*4 ic.T I»4* b«nl
President Kishehower and Brit- ti f#|> a wyle yet.
i<h rnnvi* Minister Lien discuss-; — ,,
ed the Chinese proposition during
is;
possible air attack.
Diplomatic sources report that ■
in addition to the 40 bombers, j
Egypt also has received 25 or 30
ed by Sheriff Jim Bryce.
Russian-built MIG 15 jet fighters.; GOOll Nsi^hbOF
Conservationist Says £‘1^
Winter Drouth Snapped
Teague to Push
Home Program
For Veterans
Hopkins County’s record win-1
ter drouth has been drowned by j
rain,/sleet and snow.
Two icy, soggy northers in the j
pastj two weeks brought 4.65 inch-:
es of moisture which . saturated |
the' thirsty. Hopkins County soil
ana brought out the region’s cov- j
er crops.
A spokesman for the Soil Con-
servation Service reported fhat
the moisture was sufficient to
raise the water level in stock
tanks. However, hard rains car-
rying a great amount of runoff
water are needed to fill the tanks,
he pointed out.
!' More subsoil moisture is still
needed, -but the normal rainy sea-
son is just around the corner,
Hopkins County normally re-
ceives heavy rainfall in April and
May, and the area has plenty of
moisture to tide it over uiitil that
time.
Farm leaders generally agree
that for all practical purposes the
county’s three-month drouth U
now broken.
Immediate benefits have ac-
crued to dairymen and stockmen
ns a consequence of the snow and
sleet storms. Some winter pas-
tures are already providing graz-
ing, and mosf of them are expect-
ed to reach the grazing stage
within a short time.
Bulgaria Joins
Protest Against
Balloon Messages
! they statement in a prepared re-
; lease at Austin. He says the great-!
j e*t obstacles to improvement of'
delations between people porth
land south of the Rio Grande are
| prejudice and language.
| Penrose says the Communists
. a j do all they can to hamper good
London, Feb. 4 dB— Sofia radio | nt.j,rhbor relations He added that
>a,vs Bulgaria has joined the Red. jj.® legislature cut the anpropi ia-
p.otest against balloons carrying tion by 10,000.
propaganda messages across the! 1_____■ j
Iron curtain. The broadcast said
the Swiss legation in Bern had de-
livered a protest to the United
States, which has no diplomatic
representative in thfiLi-Bulgarian
capital.
Rockwell Valves, Inc., for
representation election a mong Iry in opposing it.
plant employes has been postponed The Red Chinese proposal was
until Feb. 24 at the icquest of the mad* to Britain and Russia as co-,
International Association of Ma- chairmen of the Geneva * confer-;
chinists, itnee on Korea and Indo China,
The'hearing was tentatively set i held 'n [he s,uing and summer of Washington. Feb. 4 (^-Texas
for Feb 10 j 1954. This was the conference at Congressman Teague of the
_ ' . I which the Indochinese state of House Veterans Affairs Commit-
I hd Goodwin, Rockwell genet-j yjd \am was divided between tee says he will push - legislation
a! manage!. said the company 'S; Communist and anti-Cummunist to make it easier for veterans to
Austin Feb. 1 .P___The retiring °ujcc''on t0 ,tlu! P***P°n?‘! groups after the French Govern- get direct loans to buy homes.
chairman of the Texas Good-nu,U on the-®’ouft-d t,,e _ a>' * merit decided it had to end the Teague says he will introduce a
Neighbor Commission says ob- anTrTrc'Mm*rYi _ j long Indochina war. hill to remove the Veterans Ad-
ftaelea are constantly thrown in JAM local No. 978, which was The agiecment also provided ministration from the Voluntary
the path of the commission. Ne-' certified »sy bargaining agent for foi consultation on elections td be Home Mortgage Credit Program,
ville Penrose of Fort Worth made Rockwell pj/ant employes on Jan. '• Held throughout Viet Nam, both An application by a pi for i di-
the free and Communist areas, in rect loan couid then/ by-pass the
(Continued on Page Eight VHMCP. / , ^ i;: .
19, 1954,/has been on strike at i
the plant since last dune 15.
Beats Rap
Norwalk, Coon., Feb. 4. I.P—
Funeral Services
For J. R. Hill
Set on Sunday
Final rites will be held Sunday
at 2 o’clock in Tapp’s chapel for
jp’7.
Mid
ffrl
-
When Henry di Jkilio told the Joseph Richard Hill, 66, who died
court he couldn’t have been go-
ing 55 in a 35-mile-an hour
speed zone, he was prepared to
prove it, He said hit truck,
parked outside the court, had a
governor, which held its top
speed to 40 miles an hour.
A policeman sent out to make
n test reported back the bpst
he could do was 38. ^
Do Julio wasg acquitted.
mm
Friday morning at his home, 804
Putman.
Rev. E. It. Hendrix will offi-
ciate Interment will be in th<>
Weaver Cemetery.
Mr. Hill, n resident of Hopkins
County for the past 14 years, FASTER—Faster launching of Kegulus guided mis ilcs from aim aft carriers is made possible by a
r^the baptist Church ** mem e* jp new wheeled cart developed by Chinese Vought Aircurit Co. for the Navy to replace combination of
He is stut-vived by his wife and
tti
(CoiitWued un Page Eight) 1
portable launching platform and Jato Ifotfies. Use of cart climinat.s. need for booster rockets
and ■ iinplifies tnissik liainiling and storage. (Navy Photo from NEA 1 elephuto);
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 30, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 5, 1956, newspaper, February 5, 1956; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth827217/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.