The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 307, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 30, 1962 Page: 1 of 10
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VOL. 84.—NO. 307.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, SUNDAY, DEC. 30, 1962.
18 PAGES — 3 SECTIONS 5 CENTS
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
Progressive Tide
Called Top News
Stories of Year
Ordinary type news carrying real impact was
almost non-existent in Sulphur Springs during 19G2,
but one basic story of overriding importance and far-
reaching influence dominated the entire course of
the year. That is the tide of progress and expansion
which has brought a baby boomlet to this area with-
out the benefit of any specific
stimulus,
Disasters, spectacular crimes
end similar developments that
normally make big headlines
were happily conspicious by
their absence this year.
Progre** Theme Dominates
The forward push was so
overwhelming in its e f f e c ts,
however, that it accounted in
one form or.another for seven
of the topics selected by the
editors of The NewsTelepgram
as making up the ten best
stories of 1962.
Ten Top Stories
1— Boomlet Hit* City.
2— Building to All-Time
Peak.
3— Industrial Exp ansion
On.
4— Approved Water Sup-
ply Gained.
5— Weather Offprs Eve-
rything.
6— U n i t e d Fund Top*
Goal.
7— O i I Development A-
head.
8— E i g h t Die in Acci-
dent*.
9— Highway Network
Spread*.
10— Football Come* Back.
First choice, because it sim-
niarized so many other things,
went to the boomlet itself.
The upturn from a compara-
tively draggy 1961 spread into
almost every phase of economic
and civic life.
It was reflected in an all-
time record building year in
Sulphur Springs, a wave of in-
dustrial expansion and various
governmental and civic accom-
plishments.
- The new force was felt psy-
chologically as well as in phy-
sical and economic fields.
Civic Achievement*
After a prolonged lapse in
leadership a n d imagination,
civic forces again began to
demonstrate what can be done
when the. spirit is right.
The Hopkins County Cham-
ber of Commerce was snatched
out of near oblivion and re-
stored to life with new leader-
ship, new financing and new
enthusiasm. A $350,000 indus-
trial bond issue was oversub-
scribed. A record United Fund
budget was raised. New faces
and new ideas brought valuable
contributions to the local scene.
Construction starts in Sul-
phur Springs soared to an all-
time peak with industrial, resi-
dential, commercial and public
building all well represented.
Several major projects were
situated outside the city.
Industrial expansion provid-
ed a key channel for the boom-
let. Work on the big II. D. Lee
Company building spanned the
entire year. Rockwell Manu-
facturing Company started a
major addition to its facilities.
Longhorn Construction Com-
(Continued on Page Six)
MEETS PROXY BRIDE — Julio Aquallas holds up his hand
so his bride, Lucrezia, can place a wedding band on his fin-
ger at Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami, Fla. Julio and
Lucrezia were married by proxy while he was in prison in
Havana. Julio was captured during the Bay of Pigs inva-
sion and jailed by Castro. They will have a church wedding
in Miami. (NEA Telephoto).
BRACE FOR NEW YEAR
Lee Employed
As School
Truant Officer
Jim Lee has been employed
on a trial basis as school at-
tendance officer during the
month of January.
Lee will continue his present
job as a part-time school bus
driver.
Jack F. Gibson, superinten-
dent, said the plan will provide
a test of active enforcement of
state truancy regulations.
School trustees ordered the
legulations enforced at their
December meeting and author-
ized employment of an attend-
ance officer.
Miller Wildcat
Said Finding
Negative Results
Humble Oil & Refining Com-
pany continued to keep a tight
lid on information from its
strategic No. 6 G. W. Miller
Smackover wildcat exploration
in the Pickton field Saturday,
but reports calculating in Sul-
phur Springs indicated the test
apparently is turning out un-
successfully.
The unconfirmed reports , . .
said two tore samples were! year-end, four-day break.
taken and a drillstem test I Cl^ °ff“es a n d de»,arH
made Thursday below 13,334 S ***** wll‘ be °P«“ fuor n°rI»al |
feet with negative results. No b"s™a* Monday Practically;
c . fViax all business — other than for
signs of gas were found, the ,
i » i i* law enforcement officers, the
accounts adoed, and some salt, , , 1 .. .
1 fire department and hospital
staff — will come to a halt
Business-as-Usual
Scheduled Monday
Sulphur Springs was braced , most sports fans will direct
for the arrival of another year I their attention to the eham-
today, with only one business
uay remaining in 1962.
Shops and offices will close
their doors Monday night on
one V the “best” years in the
city’s history.
For some, the N e w Year’s
observance represents another
long week-end holiday. For
most, however, the regular
working day Monday will in-
terrupt any long-term celebra-
tions.
It will be business-jss-usual
in Sulphur Springs Monday
pionship playoff in the Nation-
al Football League between the
Green Ray Packers and the
New York Giants.
The four major bowl games
will be telecast Tuesday, pre-
ceded, as usual, by the tele-
casting of the colorful Rose
Bowl parade from Pasadena,
Cal.
And if the bleary eyes hold
out, the Sulphur Springs High
School basketball team will be
on view in the loeal gym Tues-
day night in A and B games
for all but county employes, with Rockwall.
The courthouse closed Friday Tuesday represents the final
evening for the start of a sec- j day of t h e year-end vacation
water was encountered.
Some sources estimated the
Miller had run around 800
feet low in relation to Delta
Drilling Company’s No. 5 W
H. Coker Smackover discovery
well in th" Como field around
six miles west and south of
the Pickton location.
Drilling was reported pro-
ceeding below 6,500 feet on
another “tight hole” Smack-
(Continued on Page Six")
Colder Weather
In Predictions
A 100 per cent humidity
condition sent a shivering chill
through most Sulphur Springs
residents Saturday despite tem-
perature readings in the 50s.
Weathermen continued to
forecast an invasion of drier,
though colder, into the
state today. No severe cold
wave was being forecast, how-
ever.
Light to moderate showers
in Sulphur Springs Friday aft-
ernoon pushed the city’s 1962
moisture total over the 50-inch
mark — to 50.36 to be exact.
The rainfall Friday totaled .58
of an inch.
The high temperature here
Friday was 46 degrees, with
the mercury dropping only to
43 early Saturday morning.
WEATHER
NORTHEAST TEXAS — Generally
/uir Sunday. High Sunday 42-52.
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS General-
ly lair. Colder.
NORTHWEST TEXAS —• Kair Sun-
day. High Sunday Ss-50.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS Clear
In partly cleudy Sunday. Iliith Sunday
1*2-72
SOUTHEAST TEXAS — Partly
cleudy. High Sunday 55-65.
SOUTHWEST TEXAS — Fair High
Sunday in the 60a.
Rainy Weather
Delays Building
Rainy weather during the
past week has put the city hall
building project slightly be-
hind schedule in Sulphur
Springs.
The W. I. Matthews & Son
Construction C o m p a n y, the
general contractor on the struc-
ture, had planned to have the
concrete roof poured by the
end of the year. About two-
thirds of the forms were install-
ed Friday.
That job will probably come
immediately after the first of
the year now. Once the build-
ing is closed in work can pro-
ceed in most types of weather.
The tentative completion date
for the city hall is March 1.
(Continued on Page Six)
Five-Year Plan
For County
Proposed Here
Tuesday, though.
Other than for private par-
ties and celebrations New j plang for preparation of an
Years Lvf- no .sPcc,al observ- ! Extension Service five-year
ances of iht* arrival of another
Huge Highway Program
Scheduled During Year
Another huge highway:---------------------------------------
construction program ap-
proaching $5,000,000 in
cost is in prospect for Hop-
kins County during 1963.
As has been the case in re- j
cent years, the I>ulk4»# the pro-
jected work is concentrated,
'around the development of In- ’
j terstate Highway 30 across the ,
I (ounty.
The first concrete paving j
contract on the superhighway
east of S u 1 p h u r Springs is
scheduled to be included in the
Texas Highway Department’s
February bidding.
7.75-Mile Section
It will cover the 7.75-mile
section extending from Rock
Creek on the east edge of Sul-
phur Springs to a point 1.7
miles east of Caney Creek at
which Interstate 30 leaves the
present route of U.S. 67. Grad-
ing ami structures on the
stretch are complete.
Another section of Interstate
30 extending from the dividing
point between Caney Creek and
Weaver east to the Franklin
County line is expected to be
under contract for pavement
and o t he r improvements to
meet Interstate standards by
the latter part of 1963. Grad-
ing and structure work in this
area is now approximately 35
percent complete.
A third Interstate 30 project
included in the 1963 projection
is the installation of signs and
paving marking from Cumby
underpass intersection cast to
Rock Creek.
Another major project that
represents an extension of pres-
ent work is the widening and
improvement of State Highway
19 from Birthright north toj
the South Sulphur River.
Fir»t Section Progre**ing |
Work started last fall on a
similar development extending
from the north edge of Sul-
phur Springs north to Birth-j Steady progress is continu- will carry processed gas more little west of Sulphur Springs
light. Specifications call for a jn^>- 0n Pan American Petrol- than 50 miles into the Dallas just south of the Hopkins
26-foot pavement, widening of j eum Corporation’s new gas pro. j area. j County line. It is a short dis-
structures to provide a 44-foot; c e s g j n g plant northwest of | New Power Line | tance north of Pan American’s
roadway, nine-foOt flexible base Yantis despite recurring bouts j In another area, work is pro- j J. B. McKee well, which dis-
IS*
GOING WRONG WAY — A Winnfield, La., truck driver was uninjured but his rig sustain-
ed up to $5,000 in damages Friday afternoon when the Piggly-Wiggly truck en route to
Shreveport, La., overturned just west of Pickton on State Highway 11. (Staff Photo).
New Gas Processing Plant
Construction W ork Pushed
year are scheduled in Sulphur
Springs.
Although the New Year’s
holiday moves toward midweek
this year, national traffic
safety officials still count the i agent.
1962 observance as a “long j Herschler said the report
will include a wide array of sta-
tistical and background infor-
program for Hopkins County j to a
were outlined to a group of
Sulphur Springs men Fridayj
afternoon by Paul Herschler, i
county agent, and Miss Adell
Hale, home demonstration
shoulders and a two-course sur-
face treatment.
Extension of Loop 301 from
its present northern terminal at
the intersection with FM 2283
near the Sulphur Springs air-
to a new junction with
State H i g h w a y 19 in White
(Continued on Page Six)
with bad weather. ceeding on the terminal sec- covered the West Y'antis
The complex of steel towers ! tion of Texas Power & Light Smackover field,
and tank* rising out of the j Company’s new heavy duty j Completely dwarfed by the
week-end.”
No traffic accidents had
been reported in the city or
on Hopkins County roads from
the start of the counting pe-
riod F’riday night through the
early part of the week-end.
But area officers will main-
tain an intense watch on coun-
ty highways today, Monday
and Tuesday, keeping on the
lookout particularly for drunk
drivers, reckless drivers and
speeders.
City police will enforce the
ban on shooting fireworks in
the downtown fire zone.
The New Year’s celebration
offers perhaps the greatest de-
light to the football fan.
One bowl game and two col-
legiate all-star games crowded
their way onto television
Trucks Find
Roads Slippery
mation on the county that will 1 Friday just wasn’t a day for
be useful to other public and trucks in the eastern half of
private agencies. It also will Hopkins County. Two of the
appraise the county’s present
situation and propose long and
short term goals.
In reply to a question, he ex-
plained the information could
be used as the basis' for an Area
Redevelopment Program initial
report if county residents
should decide to enter this con-
troversial government field.
The county agent said volun-
teer committees will be ask to
heli) assemble and prepare in-
formation for sections of the
report.
Others attending the session
were Gerald Prim, H. C. Me-
Grede, Dale Campbell, W. E.
Bradford, O. C. Sewell, Jr.,
screens here Saturday. Today and F. W. Frailey.
Major Problems Face
City Administration
By CLARKE KEYS
If you’re a parent, with a
school-age child, you may be
familiar with some of the prob-
lems facing the Sulphur
Springs city administration in
1963.
The town is outgrowing its
even more extensive improve-j sion. The present commission,
ment and development pro-1 in office until April, will be
gram in 1963 than the one just j asked to give preliminary ap-
completed. j proval to the proposed budget.
Riehn will submit the 1963 Final approval must be given
budget to the eity commission | by the new commission fol-
for preliminary approval j lowing the February election.
Thursday night. It will be his
britches, so to speak, faster third budget since he became
than new apparel can be ob-
tained for it.
This problem does not in-
volve the shortage of money
as much as the time needed to
go shopping. There just aren’t
enough hours in the day to ac-
complish what would be “nice”
to accomplish.
City Manager Carl Riehn
looked both backward and for-, programs."
ward this week in discussing j The coming year is an elec
city manager in Sulphur
Springs a little more than two
years ago.
Seek* Balance
“T h e first budget leaned
heavily toward obtaining cap-
ital equipment,” he said. “The
Riehn said that the proposed
budget contains a 46 per cent
increase in expenditures for
capital equipment in an effort
to attain this balance.
“We still plan extensive
maintenance projects,” he said.
“In fact we are i n c r ea s i n g
rather than decreasing our
aims for repair work on
second stressed maintenance
in all areas. This budget is an j streets.”
attempt to balance the two! Seriou* Problem* Loom
Riehn indicated that the city
commission in 1963 may have
big rigs overturned and at
least one other had to call for
a wrecker to pull it out of the
mud.
A Southern Central Truck
Lines transport headed toward
California from Memphis,
Tenn., blocked U. S. Highway
07 several miles west of Weav-
er from 9:30 a.m. until 5 p.m.,
when it was finally pulled from
its side. Traffic was detour-
ed over a service road in the
interval.
Shortly after 1 o’clock, a
Winnfield, La., driver on his
way to the Piggly Wiggly
warehouse in Shreveport from
Greenville lost control of his
tractor - trailer just west of
Pickton on State Highway 11.
He skidded off of the highway
on the westbound side, the
trailer ending on its side and
the cab pointing to the stars.
The driver, Virgil Thomas, es-
caped without a scratch. The
truck was put back on the
road about 5 p. m.
Highway Patrolman Nolan
Maxie estimated damage to the
truck at between $4,000 and
$5,000. The truck’s cargo was
believed to have sustained only
minor damage.
A headon collision was nar-
rojtvly averted on the two-lane
part of U. S. 67 a half mile
east of the Sulphur Springs
city limits Friday afternoon.
Officer Maxie said a Texar-
kana motorist, Marion Barker,
was passing another westbound
auto and grazed the car of311
eastbound driver, Edwin Rob-
bins, also of Texarkana. Maxie
said Robbins had pulled off of
the road and had almost stop-
ped to avoid a direct hit.
Total damage was estimated at
$150.
muddy site provides a strik-
ing contrast with the rolling
h e a vily timbered countryside
in the northwest corner of
Wood County..
Most of the heavy equipment
i to be used in the plant is now
j in place, and other units are
j being moved into the location.
| Work on the\ pipeline network
I connecting thtkyarioug/sections
is expected to begin late in
January.
Ready in Mid-March
Present indications point to
the big installation's being
completed on schedule in mid-
power line which will bring new equipment is an adjoining
electricity the plant from small separation plant installed
the switching station south of about 18 months ago to con-
Sulphur Springs. j vert gas from the McKee well
Distillate produced in the for use as fuel in other drill-
plant will be carried by anoth- j ing operations in the area,
er pipeline and eventually mov-1 Two huge furnace units for
ed to a refinery at Texas City, I the plant were moved to the
A third product will be sul-1 site Friday and Saturday after-
phur, which will be sold to noons from the Cotton Belt
chemical plants. ; Lacks in Sulphur Springs. Each
Rockwell valves are stored weighed approximately 160,000
in large quantity for use in the'
complicated flow processes in
the plant.
pounds.
The big equipment pieces
were detoured ar ound Sulphur
March.
Flffects of the project are tion in the surrounding West
being felt over a far-flung i Yantis field will be processed
area. > at the new plant, releasing a
More than 100 men are di- flow of new income for royal-
rectly employed in the con- ty owners and others with
struction phase. They include i stakes in the production.
Gas originating at a depth Springs and taken south to Yan-
of approximately 13,000 feet tis and then west and north to
in the Smackover lime forma- the relineiy site.
key supervisors and workers
for Pan American and for
Trend Construction Company,
the contractor, from Oklahoma,
Kansas and West Texas. The
others are hired locally.
From one edge of the plant
site a trail marks the rapid
progress being made on the
construction of a Lone Star
Five Well* A*signed
It is understood that a r-
rangements now call for five
wells to be linked with the
plant. Others may be added lat-
er. The installation is designed
so that it can be expanded
comparatively simply if neces-
sary.
The plant site is approxi-
Gas Company pipeline which mately 11 miles south and a
MEDICAL SCIENCE WRITER
Miss Clapp Accepts
Interesting Challenge
Eagie Trucking Company of
Kilgore used 12 men, four 30-
ton tandems and a 50-ton low-
hoy on the moving jobs.
By FRED FRAILEY
] gram. The fellowships were es-
United Fund
Soars to New
Record Level
Contributions to the Hopkins
County United Fund still are
arriving as the year draws to
a close with the fund \uei4 over
its record budget.
Jack F. Gibson, IF presi-
dent, said most of the new
subscriptions are coming from
Negro residents, who are show-
ing a big increase in their par-
ticipation this year.
Gibson said subscriptions Fri-
day totaled $33,001.63. This
is $611.63 more than the $32,-
400 budget.
Marjorie Clapp, who as an ! tablished to provide writers
Airliner Hiis
Mounlainiop
undergraduate at the Univer- j with an opportunity to add to
sity of Texas took science 1 their knowledge of the fast-1
courses “just as seldom as pos- growing fields of medicine and;
sible,” is now being boned up j science.
on her physics by a Nobel Prize 1 She is on leave from the
winner. | Hear4t-o w n e d San Antonio
And on top of that, her oth-! Light, where she started as rc-
er courses this semester at Co-I porter in 1954 and full-time
lumbia University in New York j medical writer in 1956. Miss
City included anatomy, space j Clapp’s list of honors in the
science, genetics and astron- j last six years is impressive. She j mountains on a short flight over
omy. j is three-t i m e winner of the | the Mediter r a n e a n island.
Recognized as one of the top Anson Jones Award, given by Wreckage of the Stratoliner has
newspaper medical writers in the Texas Medical Association j been sighted by a helicopter,
the United States, Miss Clapp for exceptional lay medical re- but there has been no word on
is currently studying at Colum- porting, and holder of several survivors. The plane was to
have continued on to Nice on
the French Riviera.
(Continued on Page Six)
Ajaccio, Corsica, Dec. 29 (fl
—Police on the island of Cor-
sica report that a French air-
liner carrying 24 persons has
crashed into snow-covered
M
bia on a one-year fellowship
grant by the Sloan-Rockefeller
Advanced Science Writing Pro-
William Randolph Hearst
awards for feature writing. In
(Continued on Page Six)
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 307, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 30, 1962, newspaper, December 30, 1962; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth828685/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.