Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 173, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 22, 1984 Page: 1 of 38
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Charm of older homes
water shortage
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Assistant Postmaster General
Mary Layton said negotiations are
Painter Doug Williams applies a coat of paint to the
front porch of one of several homes being restored in
Sulphur Springs. This house is owned by Jean Miller, a
Dallas contractor who enjoys returning the old
residences to their former Victorian glamour, a project
Jhat appears to be gaining interest in the area.
—Staff Phot* By Richard Hall
Editor’s note: Several people in
Sulphur Springs have became in-
terested in restoring old homes. This
is a three-part article that gives a
view of three homes and their owners
who choose them over modern
residences.
By MARY GRANT
News-Telegram Staff
continued her restorations.
Then, she traveled to Sulphur
Springs where she admired the small
town aspects of the dty. A first
acquisition was another house on
Church Street which she rebuilt as a
rental property. When the other
house appeared on the market, she
quickly made the purchase.
Like most people involved in
remodeling or restoring old houses,
she recommends wise counseling on
choosing the workmen who will be
conducting the repairs.
And, like most people involved in
recreating a bit of history, she takes
pride in her accomplishments not
just for the people who will be living
in the house, but for those who can
appreciate the restoratlori just by
driving by.
(The next segment written about
restoration of old Sulphur Springs
homes presents a couple who have
restored an older home, enjoyed its
advantages, but are now moving into
a new house.)
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Mayor David Baucom made an
impassioned plea earlier this week to
conserve water. Maxie Chester,
superintendent of the water treat-
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verted the residence into a duplex
which Mrs. Miller immediately
returned to its original one-family
structure.
The large rooms, long windows,
and rambling floor plan reveal the
'house’s vintage. A new roof was
required to keep out the weather
along with a coat of white paint to
protect the exterior. New railings
and posts grace the porch.
As the interior nears completion,
Mrs. Miller remains undecided about
future residents for the house. She
may sell the house or she may decide
to lease it “if I can find the right
people for the house,” she said.
Her interest in old homes and their
restoration began several years ago
when she was unable to find a new
home in the city where she was living
at the time. “I got into it gradually,
partly for fun,” she added. *
Moving to Houston, she restored
another property. After a final move
to Dallas 25 years ago, she entered
the construction business and has
Unless the person arrested obtains
the insurance and immediately
notifies Department of Safety of-
ficials in Austin, he risks arrest for
driving while license suspended.
“People should notify Austin im-
mediately," Perry said.
Those cases are beginning to ap-
looking for,”' pear more frequently, the men said.
Further complicating are accidents
involving people who have no liability-
insurance. If the person is found at
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A double problem arises from the
insurance cases when a person is
arrested for driving without the
proper information. If he has no
liability insurance, his driver’s
license is suspended until the in-
surance is acquired.
On dairies, one acre will be
plication to gain agriculture exemp- removed from the exemption status
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taken by the county appraisal average per acre. Farm buildings are
not eligible for exemption, he said.
Hay production will require baling
on at least 10 acres.
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cases while noting various
misdemeanor crimes that fill the
county’s docket. The men anticipate
increased case loads from tran-
sgressors who do not conform to the
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However, he said, “We’ll just have
to wait and see what the market
does.”
Land prices have already begun to
change "dramatically,” be added.
the National Rural Letter Carriers
Association and the Mail Handlers
dafision of Laborers International.
The average union-covered postal
worker earns $27,893 in wages and
benefits.
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Driving while intoxicated cases in
Hopkins County Court were 52 fewer
in the first half of 1984 than for that
same time in 1983, causing some
officials to think that public
awareness of the offense has in-
fluenced the instances.
“It looks like they are getting the
results they were
County Attorney John Perry- said.
He referred to new DWI laws that
went into effect in January of this
year. Those laws brought stiffer
penalties for those convicted of drunk
driving and came about after
pressure from groups who sought to
remove the drunk from the wheel
reached the Legislature.
In 1983, 147 cases were handled in
county court while 95 were processed
in 1984.
Perry and Larry Vandiver, county
ment plant has been asking residents, criminal investigator, discussed DWI
for over three weeks, to voluntarily -«-<»-
curtail the Use of water. But nice talk
and pleas, they say, don’t seem to be
getting through to area water users.
“The situation hasn’t changed,"
Chester said. “We are still operating liability insurance
above the capacity of the (water)
plant, the lake is still dropping and
the situation just cannot continue as it
is. It has got to change,” Chester
stressed.
The water plant, which is rated to
produce 3.7 million gallons of water
per day, pumped in 5.4 million gallons
of raw water Friday and pumped 4.3
million gallons out to customers,
according to figures supplied by
Chester.
“It has been running like that for
several weeks," Chester said,and the
bubble is going to burst sooner than
later.
Baucom also said voluntary cur-
tailment has not been working.
Requirements include land size
minimums: stocker cattle, 25 acres;
Until we get a good rain the 25 dry crop. 10 •cres:
truck farm, 10 acres; horticulture
(including Christmas tree produc-
tion), 10 acres; and timber, 25 acres.
David Tooley.
“We are looking at a mandatory
rationing plan. The details of that
plan are not finalized yet, but I can
assure you there will be some fines
involved for those who do not adhere __
to the mandatory plan once that plan agriculture usage,
is put into effect,” Tooley said. . you can qualify your land if it’s in
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to improve, according to Chester, is
for the area to receive a substantial
rain,
situation is going to get worse, not
better,” Chester said.
So far this month the area has
Ag landowners must
seek new exemption
Agriculture landowners in Hopkins requirements.
County will have to file a new ap-
“Asking people to voluntarily curtail tioni for 1985, according” to action
the use of water just isn’t working," < -; ; •
Baucom said.“People just aren’t district’s appraisal review hoard
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session Friday, voted to adopt new
requirments for landowners. “We
fault, his driver’s licei
suspended until the d
settled.
Texas motorists, Perry said, are
required to purchase liability in-
surance at $15,000-130,000-115.000.
"People don’t realize that then-
driver's license is going to be
suspended," Vandiver said.
The DWI cases, the county in-
vestigator said, are affected by the
county’s proximity to Interstate
traffic because of the volume of
travelers.
He agreed that public awareness
regarding the new DWI laws and the
stiffer penalities have probably in-
fluenced motorists. State, county and
city police are also enforcing the
laws, he noted, probably because of
public pressure
The driving while license
suspended case numbers appeal to be
growing, he added.
cooperating,” he added.
City fathers are studying a man-
datory water rationing plan at
Pre^.n£’_-.CCOn^n^ t0 Manager nee(j (0 cover au possible uses of plication requirements will go out to
land," Tom Witt, chief appraiser for landowners by the end of 1984. Those
the district, told the board. who do not reapply will be dropped
said exceptions to the from the exemption roll.
In other discussion during the
board meeting, Witt noted that the
county will lose $13 million in land
valuations with a new law that allows
bank stock to be taxed as a franchise
rather than through the ad valorum
system.
He also said the proposed Cooper
Reservoir project is expected to
increase valuations in the northern
f f section of the county where the
The cattle-acre ratio for pasture project will be located.^
received .33 of an inch of rain, use is 1-5 on native pasture and 1-2 on
Average rainfall would be 2.73 inches, improved pasture. “What I want to
For the year, the total rainfall, 17.59 stop...is people who put one or two
inches, is nearly nine inches below cows out there,” Witt said of tax-
normal payers who try to bypass the
A drive down the Sulphur Springs
streets in the older sections of town
reveals a relatively new phenomenon
occurring in the neighborhoods.
Almost every street boasts a newly
restored Victorian or post-Victorian
house, the brass door knobs shining
from the front door and the brightly
colored facades winking In the sun.
Several years ago, the homes built
just before or at the turn of the
century were sitting in need of
repairs. Many had been recon-
structed into multi-family homes.
Now, local residents are taking up
hammer, paint brush and saw to
restore the old ladies to their former
grandeur. Three recent ambitions
are typical of the variety expressed
in the projects in both form and
function.
Two Sulphur Springs couples and a
Dallas woman, all with sawdust in
their eyes, have restored three
homes, respectively. Ode couple is
moving out, one couple has just
moved in and the third home is under
construction in anticipation of new
residento-
Dallas contractor Jean Miller, who
became acquainted with Sulphur
Springs while visiting a relative,
discovered an old house on Church
Street. “I do want someone to ap-
preciate it,” she said while
discussing the project which began
about two months ago.
She purchased the oneetory home
that offers a front porch facing the
street—perfect for a porch swing or
two. The former owners had con-
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are iUegalTand Moe Biller. president They just kept us here for 90 days
of the American Postal Workers without ever once making a
& Union, urged members to “keep your legitimate offer. Talks are off.
cool.” Negotiations are over.”
“The National Executive Board of
the American Postal Workers Union
has determined that no job actions
I will take place if we do not reach an
agreement,” Biller said.
He and Vinvent Sombrotto,
president of the National Association
of Letter Carriers, said their unions
would consider whether to stage
nationwide strikes when they hold
their conventions the week of Aug. 19.
Negotiators resumed talks after 11
p.m. following a break of several
hours. But the talks lasted less than a
half-hour — just long enough for
management to make its “final
proposals” on salaries.
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The final offer proposed a cut in
starting salaries for newly hired
clerks and letter carriers from the
current $21,511 to$17,352. Earlier, the offer a “reasonable proposal” and
v- m®!! service sought to drop salaries added, "I deeply regret that the
pired at midnight. Together, they for the new workers to $14,400. bargaining process has not been able
Biller told reporters after the to work because the presidents of the
Under federal taw the breakdown breakup, “They didn’t fool us and APWU and NALC never seriously
triggers a period nf fact-finding and they didn’t fool 600,000 postal bargained.”
binding arbitration that could last workers. They cannot look at their Assistant . ----- :
faces in the mirror. Shame on them.” Mary Layton said negotiations are
Sombrotto added, “They do not continuing with two smaller unions,
want a negotiated contract. They
Strikes against the Postal Service4 never wanted a negotiated contract.
making a
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H WASHINGTON (AP) — The two The plan called for a three-year The unions asked for an economic
major postal unions, after storming salary freeze for the 600,000 existing pabkage that Bolger said would have
out of contract talks, say union-covered postal workers, but cost the Postal Service >14.6 billion
“neeottations are over” with the U S modified an economic proposal on over three years. He contended the
t Postal Service because management neWhirer . .. 7 demands would have driven the price
bargainers insist on a three-year The final offer proposed a cut in of a first-class stainp from the
wage freeze. starting salaries for newly hired current 20 cents to 28 cents.
Negotiators for the two unions left clerks and letter carriers from the Bolger called the Postal Service
the bargaining table Friday night just current $21,511 to $17,352. Earlier, the offer a
minutes before their contracts ex-
represent 500,000 postal workers.
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 173, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 22, 1984, newspaper, July 22, 1984; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1285533/m1/1/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.