Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 232, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 30, 1984 Page: 1 of 73
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DALLAS.
TX 75235
Sulphur Springs
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peaceful surroundings.
Today, one earns his living as a
Starrett, who will be the music
director, said.
Starrett and Massingill are the
Democratic state Sen. Lloyd
Doggett and Republican U.S. Rep.
Phil Gramm, who are vying for the
Friday at the concluding luncheon of Industrial Allies
Day in Sulphur Springs. The annual even drew 2*
businessmen, mostly from the Metroplex, to Sulphur
Springs.
Four Hopkins County men await employment at an
informal "employment agency" located on Sulphur
Springs' "Hay Lot." Those willing to work can find jobs
performing in touring companies
and lecturing in a college music
Each morning at about 6 a.m.,
several Hopkins County men gather
in Sulphur Springs at what is known
as the ‘‘Hay Lot*’ and wait for the 18-
wheeler, flatbed trucks to roll into
town with their cargos of hay.
The Hay Lot, coupled with the
arriving trucks, acts as an unofficial
employment agency for the men who
are seeking loading jobs.
‘‘It’s mostly black guys that work
here,” Barry Pryor, a longtime hay
worker, said. The truck drivers, he
added, usually know the men who are
the most experienced.
For the most part, the truckers are
over the road from other states —
Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, the
Dakotas.
“A guy came in here this week
from Georgia. He had peanut hay,”
Pryor said. “That was the first time I
ever saw peanut hay.”
By MARY GRANT
News-Telegram Staff
wares for county housewives. When
large grocery stores entered the
town, the market ended. Gradually,
the space became known as the hay-
market. Now, it’s the main stopover
for the out-of-state hay truckers.
L.C. Hawkins, a man who is retired
after owning a business in the area,
said he had often observed that the
tall loads sometimes prove too much
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Forecast
A chance of drizzle or rain
mainly east and extreme west
Cloudy and cool with a slight
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Senate, facing delays that threaten
plans by Congress to adjourn next
week, was trying Saturday to break a
filibuster by conservative lawmakers
who oppose a controversial civil
rights bill.
Supporters of the civil rights
measure want to attach it to an
emergency money bill designed to
keep the government solvent.
Without the spending bill, a number
of agencies will go broke at midnight
Sunday.
Senate Majority Leader Howard
Baker Jr. says he hasn’t the “foggiest
idea” when Congress may adjourn
this year.
Sixty votes would be needed to limit
debate by conservatives opposing the
so-called Civil Rights Act of 1984, and
there was some doubt whether
supporters could muster that many
backers during the unusual weekend
session.
If the move fails, another attempt
to get 60 votes would be made Mon-
day — when chances would improve,
given the legislation’s 63 co-sponsors.
But even a successful “cloture”
vote would allow several days of
debate on the civil rights measure
and leave the Senate in a crisis.
That’s because the civil rights
measure is holding hostage an
emergency money bill and legislation
to increase the debt ceiling.
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) — Six in public education and raises taxes
by nearly $3 billion to pay for the
improvements.
Also on the agenda are ap-
pearances by Rep. Bill Haley and
Sen. Carl Parker, respective
chairmen of the House and Senate
education committees. They are
expected to present a legislative
appear to have a fresh energy that
music studio owner-former will be appropriate for the size of the
Christmas production they plan.
____ “To lend to the theme and the type
ferences, their experience in the arts of production that this is, a prodilc- •
brought the trio together in a roun- tion company in Dallas is installing
Auditions for the all-volunteer
production are scheduled Saturday,
Oct. 6, in the Civic Center. Children
should arrive at 1 p.m. and everyone
else" at 3 p.m.. Massingill said.
Performances are scheduled for 8
p.m. Dec. 21, 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Dec. 22 and 2:30 p.m. Dec. 23.
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luncheon.
Participants are to attend
workshop sessions on such topics as
curriculum, school finance, board
leadership, school law, teacher pay,
public relations and personnel
evaluation.
Each organization will hold a
delegate assembly, where the
education changes will be discussed
and policy statements will be
adopted.
The groups will honor the state’s
outstanding school board Sunday
night. The winner will be selected
from among finalists Fort Worth,
Irving, La Marque and Tuloso-
Midway.
Also to be recognized is the
superintendent of the year. Nominees
are Ed West of the North East School
District in San Antonio, Johnny Clark
of Goose Creek, Mark Culwell of
Corsicana and Tony Rico of Weslaco.
thousand administrators and school
board members are gathering for
three days of discussions on the
state’s new education reforms.
The occasion is the joint con-
ventions of the Texas Association of
School Administrators and the Texas
Association of School Boards.
On tap Sunday is the first gathering viewpoint of the reforms,
of the newly appointed State Board of
Education. As many as 10 of the 15
board members are expected to
attend a special reception Sunday U.S. Senate, are to speak at a Monday
night.
Gov. Mark White appointed the 15
last week, implementing a new facet
of the education reform package
calling for an appointed board. The
previous 27-member panel was
elected.
Also expected to appear is State
Education Commissioner Raymon
Bynum, who is scheduled to make a
presentation Sunday on the education
reform bill passed in a special session
of the legislature this summer.
The bill calls for massive reforms
Designation of a helicopter landing area for the Oct. 27 “Cooper Reservoir
Celebration” at the site of the renewed lake project was one of the purposes
of a field tour in northern Hopkins County this week.
Representatives of the North Texas Municipal Water District and the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers met with Walter Helm, president of the Sulphur
River Municipal Water District, to continue planning for the kick-off event.
Items discussed included the helicopter area, public viewing areas,
location for a speaker’s platform, parking and feeding of the 2,000 or more
people expected for the event.
“The Corps people wanted to designate a landing area for the Army
helicopters they will be bringing,” Helm said. “They said they have
requisitioned two helicopters and are working to get more authorized. They
want to fly the press over the lake and dam site that day.”
Helm added that the Corps officials, from the Southwestern offices in both
Fort Worth and Dallas, are planning on metroplex media coverage of the
event and want to plan the best aerial approach to show off the lake site.
The celebration of resumed planning on the project will be held near the
proposed location of the south end of the dam near the South Sulphur River,
weather permitting.
As the date draws nearer, the groups involved — including the two water
districts, the Corps and the City of Irving — are finalizing guest lists, Helm
said. The SRMWD president said firm acceptances have been received from
U.S. Representatives Sam B. Hall and Ralph Hall. It is also expected that
about 25 top officers from the Corps of Engineers will attend and invitations
are being sent to many state and federal office holders and bureau officials.
Four survey crews are presently working in the lake area. Helm said he
has been assured that starting early in 1985 the Corps will begin making a
progress report to the three water users every 90 days.
“The Engineers expect to start building the access roads into the lake area
as early as next spring,” Helm said.
Initial plans were to prepare for feeding barbecue and Hopkins County
stew to about 2,000 persons at the event, Helm said.
“With the enthusiasm and preparations being made by the Corps of
Engineers, and the three water districts, we’re getting the feeling there
might be more than we predicted.”
The planners originally invited the top three winners in this year’s
Hopkins County Stew Contest to prepare pots of stew, but Helm said he is
now asking for two or three more volunteers to cook in the event the crowd
estimate turns out low. All ingredients will be furnished, he noted.
“We need to prepare lots of food/’ Helm added. "Of course, we can only
estimate how many will be there, but we hope to have enough stew left to
send some back to Washington and Austin with the distinguished visitors.”
of directors, scheduled for Dec. 21-23. / \ ~ ‘ “
And, the three bring with them Paris Junior Colleg'e he was also the
histories that includes studying for best junior collegiate speaker in
degrees in the arts, spending time on Texas and third place winner in the
Local businessmen L.F. Bridges III and Talley Bell,
standing, wished Kansas City Southern Railway
managers (from the left) Don Caldwell, Jerry Baum
bach and Jim Roberts, a safe return to their homes
Local trio joining forces
for Christmas musical revue
with hay truckers delivering their loads to local far-
mers. From left are Rickey Wigenton, Yae Young, Tim
Richardson and Dalvis Johnson.
-Staff Photo By RicharU Hall
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Waiting for employment
brought the trio together in a roun- tion company in Dallas is installing
dabout way, culminating in plans for an organ in the theater for the show,”
a Christmas musical revue that they
say will show off the latest im-
provements to the Hopkins County
Regional Civic Center and at the show's producers and have arranged
for $100,000 worth of lighting and
scenery for the show that is entitled,
“Holiday Pizzazz, a Christmas
Revue."
“It'll be very magical and color- •
Inexperienced loaders at the
the lot, trucks line up with their 700- beginning of the line are usually the
or-more-bale-load stacked high above cause, Hawkins said.
the cab. “One time,” he added, “they
In years past, the area was used as parked right over there, the dolly
a fresh fruit and vegetable market punched through the asphalt and it
where local growers displayed their poured right into the town branch.”
Pryor said that about 12-15 black
workers come to the Hay Lot each
day seeking loading jobs. Dalvis
Johnson, another loader, said,
“Sometimes they call us at home.
About half the time it’s by ap-
pointment and the other time.we just
sit and wait.”
Occasionally, the waiting
for the truckers, ending up spattered produce other odd jobs, he said,
across the road. Another worker, Kerry Roland of
“One time, they dumped a load Sulphur Springs, said he has loaded
right into my shop,” he said, pointing hay for a couple of years. Pryor’s
to the spot of the accident. brother, Larry, also comes to the lot
When the hay bounces from Kansas awaiting a chance for a job.
Several years ago three young
Sulphur Springs men left home to
seek their fortunes in the world of the department.
theater, earned the gray hairs that Although the three grew up in the
come with performing and com- same town and graduated from the
petition in that sphere and .finally local high school, their differences in
returned to their hometown for some ages prevented them from becoming
acquaintances during those years.
It may be just as well that the three
" dairyman-automobile salesman, one joined forces recently because they
as an interior decorator and the third
as a
mortician. . ’ - —
Despite their employment dif-
Hanging around the Hay Lot offers to Texas, it sometimes shifts until the
little in the way of accommodations, bales became tilted and fall like a
A pile of trash and a couple of broken- tower made from dominoes,
down sofas rest under a tree. Across Inexperienced loaders
same time offer an attraction that
will please young and old.
"Basically, it’s going to be a
muscial comedy, Christmas musical,
a burlesque, Vaudville show — and
it’s going to be for everyone,” Lynn fui,” Starrett'adding, "We ll be
Massingill, the most talkative doubling the lighting and more than
member of the trio and the interior doubling the sound."
decorator said. Massingill will head up the
He, along with Arvin Starrett, the directing process and Thomas will
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musical director, and John Thomas, provide the speaking role training
the dairyman, have combined their along with performing in the show.'
talents to arrange the show, in con- Thomas' background includes a
junction with the Civic Center board European tour with the Young
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•—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Friday, Sept. 28, 1984
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