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SI LPHUR SPRINGS. TEXAS. FRIDAY JUNE 7. 1968
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holic beverages for off-premise consumption will be permitted
The picture was taken at the northern city limits, looking to the
south (Photo courtesy of T A Wright)
How They Voted
In Hopkins County
The following is a box-by-box
rundown of voting Saturday in
the runoff election for nomina-
tion on the Democratic party
ticket for the office of county
sheriff. The results are unofficial
but complete from all 31 voting
nances is such that no increase
in taxes will be jequired to pay
for the bonds, if approved
The election will be held on
Saturday, June 22, in the Cumby
City Hall, with David Bays the
presiding judge, Nita Edmonds
a judge and Stella Manning a
clerk Bays also was charged
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COMO IN SPOTLIGHT — The small Hopkins County town of
Como will hold the attention of many people beyond its city
limits Saturday when a local option election is staged The sign
proclaims the population of 300 and as many as 180 may vote
dent occurred about 3 p m. as
Stone and Young were locating
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Another small oil well has
been completed in the 32-year
old Sulphur Bluff field in north
eastern Hopkins County
It is Atlantic Richfield Com-
pany's No. 4-X A. A Bassham,
in the William Cole Survey three
miles> south and east of Sul-
phur Bluff
The Bassham made 27 barrels
of oil and 199 barrels of water
daily on pump from 4,537-41 feet
in the Paluxy
A Smackover test in Rains
County was listed as a failure
Tuesday
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474
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with the conduct of absentee
voting at the city hall in Cumby
during the prescribed period for
such voting
Only those resident qualified
electors, who own taxable prop-
erty in the Cumby Rural High
School District and who have
rendered that property for tax
ation purposes will be eligible to
vote in the bond election
The Cumby district encom
passes portions of both Hopkins
and Hunt counties
Voting for the election call
Monday night were Hollis Wil-
liams. Denver Fisher, Jerry
Callan, Loyd Thomas, Harley
Moore, Delevin Ross and R S
Yarbrough, the seven trustees
of the district
Two men were taken to Me-
morial Hospital for emergency
treatment and admitted aft-
er a car in which they were rid-
ing left Highway 19 and over-
turned two miles south of Sul-
phur Springs Thursday after-
noon
Receiving a variety of cuts and
bruises in the accident were
Fred A Brice of Dallas and
Jerry Lucky, 208 West Park
Brice, whose parents live at
437 Woodlawn, was lusted as the
driver of the auto The acci
dent was reported at 4 30 p m.
Earlier Thursday a pickup
truck driven by Carl W Gray-
son and a tractor driven by
Bennie C. Walker, both of Route
One. Brashear, collided on an
oiled road just west of Highway
19, 10 miles south of Sulphur
Springs
Walker complained of a shoul
der injury, but was not hospi
talized.
Plumbing Code
Changes Voted
Sulphur Springs
Woman Injured
Branom School
Brings $6,300
Glen Williamson of Cumby
placed the high bid of 16,300 for
the old Branom school building
situated on five acres of land
on Highway 11 Saturday.
The auction attracted a num-
ber of bidders Cumby Superin-
tendent Leroy Click said the
bidding was spirited
Click said that Branom was
annexed to Cumby a number of
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primary. At that time, Jones
led a 3-man ticket with 2,283
votes (39.6 per cent) while the
incumbent was second with 1,880
(32.6 per cant). Erxakie Mot*,
who received 1,591 votes, was
eliminated for the runoff. Thus
Leewright picked up 397 votes
and Jones gained 208.
On a percentage basis, Jones
collected 51.9 per cent of the
votes cast Saturday.
While officially Jones was but
winning his party’s nomination
for the general election in No-
vember, victory Saturday was
tantamont to a final triumph,
since no Republican candidate
filed for the sheriffs race.
In the election for the party’s
nominee tor governor, Smith was
in command all the way Saturday
in Hopkins County. He took a
115-40 lead in the absentee box
and gradually increased the mar-
gin until he picked up 63.9 per
cent of the county’s vote to 37.1
tor Yarborough.
Yarborough carried only two
of the 31 boxes in the county,
while the two candidates spiff
in two other boxes.
Smith had led a 10-<nan race
in the first party primary May
4 in the county with 25.6 percent
of the votes cast (1,415). Yar-
borough ran third in that vote
with 16.4 per cent on 886 votes.
Northern Hopkins County's
Brantley Jackson field appar-
ently had been extended one
step to the east Wednesday with
the completion of its sixth well
It is Mobil Oii Corporation’s
No 1 Viola Aiguier Unit, an off-
set to the Jackson field dis
covery strike, the No 1 A Hen
derson Unit at the northeast end
of the established production
row
Grant Thomas, supervisor of
the Dan Lester Drilling Com
pany's ng No 7, said the
Aiguier had come in and was a
good well on natural flow
Statistics on the find were not
immediately available here
The Aiguier is credited with
having approximately 45 feet of
Smackover pay
Leewright
1-Travis school 249
1- A-Austin school ... 297
2- Houston school .... 478
3- Peoples Bank
4- State Bank
5- Saltillo
6- Pine Forest
7- Greenwood
8- Reilly Springs
10- South Cumby
11- North Cumby
12- Sulphur Bluff
13>Como
14-Pickton
4 15-Greenview
16-Miller Grove
17J>Iorth Hopkins
18- Peerless
19- Nelta
20- Ridgeway
23- Weaver
24- Dike
25- Brashear
26- Ruff
27- Tira
28- Bnnker
2945ornersville
34- Union
35- Greenpond
36- Arbala
Absentee
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Injures Local Man
Archie Stone of 215 Califor-
nia Street in Sulphur Springs,
who was injured Tuesday after
noon in an industrial accident
at the Sulphur Springs Coca
Cola Bottling Company plant
on Main Street, was transferred
to Dallas Baylor Hospital about
V a m. Wednesday in critical
condition, with a concussion and
fractured ribs,
Also injured in the accidertt
was Paul Young of Tyler, who
was treated for a head lacera-
tion and released from Memo-
rial Hospital.
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The ballots from last Satur-
day’s Democratic primary run
off were canvassed and certi-
fied by the Hopkins County
Democratic Executive Commit
tee Tuesday afternoon in the
Eighth District Courtroom of
the courthouse John R Ramey,
county chairman, presided at
the canvass
The final results, which re-
vealed no differences with the
Unofficial total i eleased Satur-
day night, showed Preston
Smith of Lubbock the winner
over Don Yarborough of Hous-
ton in the governor’s race by
3065 votes to 1695
In the race for sheriff Paul
Ray (Popeye) Jones was certi-
fied as the winner over incum
bent Delphia Leewright The
certified vote was 2491 for Jones
and 2277 for Ixtewright
In all 4793 Hopkins County
citizens voted in the runoff
In the state-wide totals Smith
defeated Yarborough by approx-
imately 136 000 votes
Paul Ray (Popeye) Jones, de-
feat ad in a bid for a third term
as sheriff of Hopkins County
four years ago by Delphia Lee-
wright, turned the tables on the
same opponent Saturday in the
Democratic party runoff election.
Jones carried 19 of 31 voting
precincts in the county and split
two others with Leewright In
taking a hair-splitting margin
over the incumbent law officer.
The unofficial but complete
county-wide totals gave Jones
2,491 votes to 2,277 for Lee-
wright.
Also Saturday, Hopkins County
voters went solidly for the bid
by Preston Smith to capture the
Democratic nomination for the
governor’s chair. Smith polled
3,065 votes to 1,695 for his oppo-
nent Don Yarborough.
A second^irimary turnout of
4,793 voters went to the polls in
the county Saturday. The figure
was about 1,000 less than the
vote total in the May 4 first
primary, but some 300 votes
more than the figure in the last
similar election here.
Thunderstorms began dancing
about the countv late in the after-
noon, but by then most rural area
voters had gone to the polls and
the rain was spotty enough not to
interfere significantly with the
late rush to vote at the five Sul-
phur Springs boxes.
In the sheriffs race, early
returns quickly put Jones into
the lead and he maintained that
position throughout the75-minute
period it took to compile the
county results. He had a 142-
vote lead after only five boxes
had reported (including 155 ab-
sentee ballots) and at one time
midway through the tabulations
had a lead of better than 250.
Some Leewright strength be-
gan developing at that point, how-
ever and the lead at one time
was sliced to 174 votes before
Jones rallied slightly for the
final 214-vote margin.
Balloting generally was close
In all boxes and there was no
definite pattern of significance
that developed for either candi-
date.
Jones, for instance, carried
the city boxes voting at the Sul-
phur Springs State Bank (4), the
Peoples National Bank (3) and
Travis School (1), while Lee-
wright carried the boxes at both
Houston School (2) and Austin
School (IM).
Ironically, Jones picked up his
victory exactly on an equal basis
in the city and rural areas. In
the five city boxes he led 1,445-
1,338 (a margin of 107) and in
the rural boxes he led 1,046-
939 (again a margin of 107).
Of the 4,793 votes cast in the
election, 58.4 per cent were
counted in the five city boxes,
41.6 per cent in the Zb rural
boxes, plus absentees. .
Leewright gamee xr***o>i
the former sheriff from “"
the two finished in the (first
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Paul Ray Jones Stages
Comeback for Sheriff
Local Option Election
Set Saturday at Como
Voters in the Hopkins County
city of Como will go to the polls
Saturday to cast ballots in a
local option liquor sale election,
with five absentee ballots al-
ready in the hopper
That was the number of ad-
vanced votes cast when the ab-
sentee voting period ahead of
The Saturday election ended at
5 ji m Tuesday Absentee vot-
ing was conducted at the county
clerk's office
A school for election offiicals
will be held at 7 30 Wednesday
night in the District Courtroom
of the Hopkins County court-
house
Paul Gamblin is the presiding
judge for the election
At stake in Saturday’s vot-
ing will be the issue whether or
not it will be legal to sell alco-
holic beverages in the City of
Como for ''f<-nremises consump-
tion The action if approved by
Como voters would allow for
only ’ package stores” to op-
erate in that city
The election was called last
month when the county Com-
missioners Court determined
that a series of petitions re-
questing the vote were valid
The election call thus became
mandatory
Only qualified, registered
voters living within the city
limits of Como are eligible to
.vote on the question
Balloting will be conducted in
the Como City Hall from 8
a m until 7 p m
There have been no estimates
made of how many might vote
on the issue It has been esti-
mated, however, that there are
about 200 registered voters liv-
ing in Como
More than 300 persons voted
May 4 at the Como box in the
first Democratic party primary
election and 196 persons cast
ballots in that box last Satur-
day in the Democratic runoff
The Como precinct for such elec-
tions, however, includes more
territory than the City of Como
itself
Interested persons will be
waiting to see if the liquor sale
issue Saturday follows a trend
in the Como voting box May 4
on a statewide referendum
question that tested the senti-
ments of Texans on the legal-
ization of liquor by-the-drink
At that time, voters in the
Como box cast a decision
against I i q u o r by-the-drink,
which admittedly is a different
question than the one to be test-
ed Saturday, by nearly a 2-1
margin
Passage of four ordinances
topped a lengthy, but swift,
agenda for the Sulphur Springs
City Council Tuesday night
Routine action was, for the
most part, the order of the
session
The council passed on first
reading an amendment docu
ment to the city plumbing code
Dropped from the list by the
administration prior to consid-
eration, however, was a stipula
tion that all installations of ap-
pliances involving plumbing be
done by licensed plumbers
Warren Brewer of the public
Vforks department explained
that present city and state laws
are sufficient in that they re
quire a city permit and inspec-
tion for work involving altera-
tions to a plumbing system
The amendment, as passed,
will allow plastic yard lines and
substitutions for sewer cleanouts
under certain circumstances
Two rezoning actions were
passed on final reading One is
for a lot on Loop 301 near Air
port Road, the other for a tract
between Industrial Drive and
Jefferson Street east of the
Rockwell overpass Both in-
volved changing of designations
from first residential to local
business
The loop lot change was ap
proved on a split vote, with
councilman Gerald Thomas.
Shem Ray. Jr . and J D Ben
nett in favor and councilman
Clarke Keys repeating his op-
position on the basis of spot
zoning.
Council chairman John Wag-
goner missed the meeting and
B*nnett president in his place
Three times during the evening
he voted in order to arrive at
the three-vote requirement for
council action
The other ordinance action,
passed unanimously was for the
paving of Freeman Street from
Simms.
A $40,(MM) bond election has
been called for June 22 by the
Cumby Rural High School Dis
trict for purposes of general
repairs to existing facilities o(
the school plant in the western
Hopkins County community
The board of trustees of the
district unanimously passed the
order calling the election Mon-
day night
The action was taken follow-
ing the receipt of a petition car-
rying 67 names and requesting
the bond election The petition
was filed in accordance with
legal procedure
While the legal terminology
of the bond election order lists
a numtier of purposes to which
the funds could be put to use,
Leroy Click, superintendent of
the Cumby schools, noted Tues-
day that the program is solely
for repairs and modernization
‘ The order must mention such
things as land purchase and
construction," Click said, "but
there is no additional land in-
volved nor is there any
construction planned ”
He added, loo. that while the
election question, by law, au
thorizes the levying of taxes
sufficient to retire the bonds,
A written examination will be« the status of the district's fl-
conducted at Mt Pleasant
The job carries a salary of
$6,044 a year
Applications must be filed
with the U.S. Civil Service Com-
mission, Washington, D C,
20415, and must be received or
postmarked not later than June
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Earl Black Due
Doctor's Degree
K Earl Black will receive a
Ph D in Political Science from
Harvard University. Cambridge.
Mass on June 13
After a summer course in data
processing at the University of
Michigan Black will lie on the
teaching stall at the University
of Southern Florida, Tampa,
this next year
Graduating from the Sulphur
Springs High School in 1960,
Black did his undergraduate
work at Texas University, Aus-
tin, where he was a Phi Beta
Kappa receiving an A B degree
and was a recipient of a Wood-
row Wilson Scholarship He had
been a teaching fellow in gov-
ernment at Harvard this year
Black’s parents. Mr and Mrs
Penn} Black, will be in Boston
for his graduation
WYLIE, Tex. (AP) - A Grey-
hound Bus, struck broadside by
an automobile police said ran a
stop sign, spun and skidded 100
feet Tuesday before overturning
in a grassy ditch to Injure 23 of
the 41 persons aboard, five ser-
iously.
Black tire marks traced the
path of the wildly careening bus
which driver Everett Lee Irons
of Pine Bluff, Ark., fought to
control.
Despite broken windows and
leaking gas, Irons said "There
was no panic and people waited
quietly for help.”
Help was quick to arrive. Five
ambulances sped the injured to
three different hospitals.
Solomon Pollack, 63, of Danas
was in fair condition at Baylor
Medical Center in Dallas.
Listed in serious condition at
Garland Medical Center in Gar-
land werer Ear) Moore, 56, of
Mount Pleasant, Tex.; Lillian
Newmann, 55, of San Bernardi-
no, Calif.; and, Martha Cham-
ber, 69, of Sulphur Springs, Ter.
Mrs. Chambers, who is called
Jewel by friends, resides at 540
Texas Street She received
Hospital for preliminary treat- U**il4er Hh injurm
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consider taking fewer provi-
sional actions on plats submitted
by developers Two plats ap-
proved both Monday and Tues-
day nights contained provisions
to be met
The council approved the ap-
pointments by Waggoner to the
city tax equalization board for
1968 Named to the board are
Hoyt Gideon. Carl Brice and
Perry Bradley
Competitive bids for the city's
bank depository for the two-y^ar
period beginning Oct 1 were
called for a 130 p. m. opening
June 18.
The Rev James Edge,
of the Davis Street '
Church, offered the invocation.
Tax rendition notices
mailed to approximately
rural landowners in Hopkins
County Tuesday notifying them
of new assessment values
County Tax Assessor-Collector
Joe R Pogue said that the new
renditions would add about $5
million to. the Hopkins County
rolls The new overall county
gested that the planning board ’ renditions will run
mately 130 million
Pogue said that it was not
immediately known how much
new tax revenue would be add
ed overall, although h • estimat-
ed about $100,000 would be avail-
able for the county. i
The county tax office also col-
lects for several rural school
districts, the Hopkins Countv
Hospital District, and other tax-
ing agencies, such as levee
districts
Pogue said in general new tax
renditions will average about
$20 per acre based on the 25
per cent of the assessed values
„ Renditions, of course, will vary
wiffnfiip?bvemehts, Pogue point
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The council approved all
seven recommendations for-
warded from Monday night's
planning and zoning commission
session, though not without dis-
cussion in some instances
Councilmen formulated a re-
quest to the planning board to
initiate a study of the entire
question of locating beauty
shops in residential areas of
Sulphur Springs That request
came after the council approved
by a 3-1 vote the application by
Dermont Morgan for a one
operator shop at 704 Connally
Ray said he felt beauty shops
belong in commercial areas,
Keys said he believed the plan-
ning was poor in allowing the
request because of the proximity
to the junior high school and
Travis elementary school and
Thomas said he agreed with
both views but thought it unfair
to arbitrarily cut off such re-
- quests without first indicating
such steps were being consid
ered and having a study to back
up the action Ray cast the dis-
senting vote on the approval ac
tion
Other planning and zoning ac-
tions were approved by unani-
mous vote, but the council sug-
ed out. s'
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Applications for the position
of postmaster at Saltillo will be*
received by the Civil Service
txjx?s. Final canvassiqg of the 4;
totals will be held at 2 p.m.
Tuesday.
part of an evaporative conden-
ser unit on the outside of the
plant He said the men were
removing a jadt from under the
unit when it pollapsed
Young was injured, said Ash-
croft. as he and another man
at the plant attempted to catch
the condenser unit.
Stone was trapped under the
unit for about a minute, until
it was lifted by the use of
plant machinery. \
The unit is approximately 15
feet in length by 10 feet In width
and weighs over 1,000 pounds
Stone was taken to Memorial
lieing moved to
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