The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 1978 Page: 4 of 8
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4—THi HOPKINS COUNTY ECHO, Sulphur Springs, Imps, Friday, Oct. 6 1979.-
DEATHS
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Luther Dennis
Luther Martin Dennis, 17, of
Saltillo died Friday morning
at tile Franklin County Hos-
pital. -
Services were at 3 p.m.
Sunday at the Old Saltillo
Church with the Rev. James
Westbrook officiating. Burial
was in the Old Saltillo Ceme-
etery.
Mr. Dennis was bora Nov.
S3, 1910 in Mississippi to Zeb-
idee and Zona Nicholson Den-
nis.
Survivors include his wife,
Leona Linker Dennis of Sal-
tillo; a daughter, Vivian Den-
nis of Garland; a son, Luther
Leon Demis of Irving; a sis-
ter, Mrs. Carie Moore of Dal-
las and four grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by
a son in IMS.
Nephews served as pall-
bearer*.
Services were under the di-
rection of Sam B. Harvey Fu-
neral Home in Mount Ver-
non.
Paul Adley
* Paul Adley, 62, 2205 Pleasant
Drive, Dallas, died at 2 a.m.
Monday in the Granville Mor-
ton Hospital, Dallas.
The retired truck driver,
veteran of World War II
of Christ member
in Dallas Jan. 12,
1916,, son of Ely and Betty
Gammons Adley.
He was married to Evelyn,
Corine Noble in Denton Jan.
16, 1943.
Survivors include his wife;
four sons, Paul D. and Greg-
ory E. Adley of Dallas and
Ronald G. and Rickey R. Ad-
ley of Mesquite; two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Lola Perkey and
Mrs. Patricia Graham, both
of Dallas; two brothers,
George Adley of Dallas and
Julius Adley of Arlington; two
sisters, Mrs. Josephine Land-
ers and Mrs. Addle Hogard,
both of Dallas, and 14 grand-
children.
Funeral services were held/
at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Murrayf
Orwosky Funeral Home^
Joe Burton officiating,
was in the Brasbear Ceme-
tery.
W.C. Smith
W. Carmack Smith, 59, of
Arlington, Va. died Thursday
in the Bethesda Naval Hospi-
tal in Maryland.
Mr. Smith was retired from
the U. S. Navy, where he at-
tained the rank of command-
er. He was born July 17, 1919
in Hopkins County to Mr. and
Mrs. Roger W. Smith.
Sendees for Mr. Smith were
held Monday in Fort Myer,
Va. Interment was in Arling-
ton National Cemetery.
Survivors include Ms par-
ade of Sulphur Springs; his
wife Dorothy; and three
daughters.
He is also survived by a
brother Callie W. Smith of
Austin, executive secretary
of the Texas State Teachers
Aug. 19, 1919. Mr. Ramey, a
leading attorney in Hopkins
County for many years, died
in 1964. Mrs. Ramey also was
preceded in death by a son,
Robert Pat Ramey, in 1977.
Survivors include four sons,
John R. Ramey, Bitty Ramey
and Dr. Jack Ramey, all of
Sulphur Springs, and Tun
Ramey Jr. of Baytown; a sis-
ter, Mrs. A. B. Ardis of Sul-
phur Springs; a brother, Louis
C. Harris of Dallas; and six
grandchildren.
Mrs. Ramey was a member
of First United Methodist
Church.
Funeral services were held
at 3 p.m. Thursday at First
United Methodist Church, with
burial to follow In City Ceme-
tery.
Tapp Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
Ethel Stewart
Mrs. Ethel L. Stewart, 79, of
401 Airport Road, Sulphur
Springs, died at 1:15 a.m.
Tuesday in Hopkins County
Memorial Hospital.
Funeral services for Mrs.
Stewart were conducted at
2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Tapp
Funeral Chapel, with the Rev.
George Topper officiating. Bur-
ial was in Brashear Ceme-
tery.
Mrs. Stewart was bora Nov.
14, 1896, in Hopkins County,
was a retired employee of
st Texas Freight lines. She
was a member of the First
Methodist Church.
She was married to ^Walter
Stewart in Hopkins County ip
1920. He preceded her in death
in 1966. Two infants also pre-
ceded Mrs. Stewart in death.
She is survived by several
nieces and nephews.
Deposits near record
By F.W. FRAILEY
Naws-Talegrem Staff
Deposits in Sulphur Springs’ three banks
showed a year’s gain of a spectacular 15.4
per cent at the end of the third quarter but
missed a new all-time quarterly record by
a tiny margin.
The banks’ money trove totaled
(92,698,366 at the close of business Sept. 29.
This represents an increase of
(12,345,988 over the (80,352,378 on the
books on the same date last year.
It falls (6,675 short of the existing all-
time record of (92,706,041 last June 30.
Two years ago local bank deposits
amounted to (77,490,069.
Combined bank assets topped (100
million for the first reporting date with a
Sept. 29 figure of (103,068,583. This com-
pares to assets ot (89,976,284 at the end of
the third quarter last year.
Loans of the three banks totaled
(51,439,587, as compared to (46,519,661 a
year earlier.
Statistics for the individual banks
follow:
Sulphur Springs State
The Sulphur Springs State Bank
reported deposits of (43,319,939, as com-
pared to (37,772,351 on Sept. 30, 1977.
Sulphur Springs State assets totaled
(48,404,227, as compared to (42,294,152 a
year earlier.
Loans amounted to (23,085,126, as
compared to (21,310,262.
City National
The City National Bank showed deposits
of (28,025,416, as compared to (25,171,451
on the same date last year.
City National assets were (31,474,058, as
compared to (28,259,621 a year earlier.
Loans amounted to (17,060,419, as
compared to (15,3^3,560.
Peoples National
Peoples National Bank had deposits of
(21,353,011, as compared to (17,406,576 a
year earlier.
Peoples National assets amounted to
(23,180,298, as compared to (19,422,511 on
Sept. 30, 1977.
Loans totaled (11,294,042, as compared
to (10,237,803 on the same date last year.
Local school buses damaged;
teenager jailed after joyride
ike Horn
Odie Williams
Funeral services for Odie
Williams were held at 2:30
Saturday in Tapp Funeral
Home chapel, with Dr. Jack
Robbins officiating.
Ur. Williams, who lived at
403 Connally Street, died Fri-
day morning in Citizens Gen-
eral Hospital in Greenville. He
was 72.
Born Nov. 22,1965 in Hopkins
County be was the son of
George E. and Birdi^ McLeod
Williams.
He is survived by two sis-
ters, Miss Mayme Williams, of
Sulphur Springs and Mrs.
Maurice Horchem of Cooper,
and a brother, Sidney Wil-
liams of Dallas.
Interment was in the City
Cemetery with Skillman Gid-
eon, BUI Taylor, Harvey Har-
rington, CoDum Ballard, Lewis
Clifton and J. C. Tajfo serving
Ike Horn, 81, of 113 Russell
Drive, died at 6:15 a.m. Fri-
day in the Hopkins County
Nursing Home.
Services for Mr. Horn were
at 2 p.m. Sunday at the First
Baptist Church with Dr. Jack
W. Robbins and the Rev. L. B.
Morgan, officiating. Burial was
in the Old Saltillo Cemetery.
\ Horn was bon Mar. 26,
1897 in Red Bay, Ala. to J. W.
and Allie Best Horn. He mar-
ried Flora Fox in Sulphur
.Springs on May 18, 1921. He
a member of the First
it Church. He had been
an engineer with an Ml com-
pany, a cattleman and a Sul-
phur Springs businessman.
Survivors include his wife,
a son, Dr. J. Kenneth Hon of
Springfield, Mo.; two brothers,
Samp Horn of Springhill, Lai
and Simon Horn of Holden-
ville, Okla.; one sister, Mrs.
Cora Perkins of Sulphur
Springs, three grandchildren
and several half-brothers and
sisters.
M u r r a y-Orwosky Funeral
Home was in charge of ar-
rangement.
WA Chambers
William Andrew Chambers
of Stephenville, father of Billy
Frank Chambers of Sulphur
Springs and Wayne Bruce
Chambers of Dallas, died in a
Temple hospital Monday.
Other survivors include his
wife and a number of grand-
children.
Funeral services were held
in Stephenville Wednesday.
A 17-year-old Sulphur Springs man is in
Hopkins County Jail Monday morning,
following joy rides in two school buses.
About 5:20 a.m. Sunday, a school bus
was spotted in the Mahoney area driving
in what was described as an “erratic”
manner. Someone reported the incident to
the Department of Public Safety who
notified the local sheriff’s deputies.
Deputies Benny Matthews and Doug
Stutts were enroute to the Mahoney area
when they met the bus and tried to stop it
near Stati^ Highway 19 and Loop 301. The
Police log
busy month
Sulphur Springs police of-
ficers drove 23,878 miles, wrote
70 traffic citations, received
reports on 91 offenses, cleared
31 offenses and arrested 82
persons during September.
They provided 18 escorts for
local funeral homes and
dispatchers answered the phone
2,256 times, transmitted 5,814
radio messages and had 2,605
teletype messages cone in at
the local gendarmes office.
Defective equipment, usually
mufflers, accounted for the
biggest violation of traffic
ordinances wife 11 persons
receiving citations. Seven
persons were cited for speeding
in school zones while nine were
caught speeding in other areas
of fee city. There were eight
citations written for contest of
speed, six for running stop signs
or expired motor vehicle in-
spections and five for driving
without drivers licenses.
Theft was fee most common
offense reported wife 36 in-
stances followed by 15 criminal
mischief complaints and eight
each of unauthorized use of a
motor vehicle and burglary of a
business. There were six
vehicles burglarized.
Of the 31 offenses cleared, 15
were by arrest, five without
arrests and nine were un-
founded. Two stolen vehicles
were recovered for other
agencies.
Public intoxication accounted
for 30 arrests during fee month,
eleven persons were arrested
on warrants. There were nine
DWI arrests and nine disor-
derly conduct incidents leading
to arrests. Seven persons were
arrested for theft, and six for
traffic violations.
The department’s eight veh-
ciles traveled an average of
2,964.75 miles each.
bus headed west on the Loop, ran into a
ditch and the driver ran out into a pasture
according to the deputies.
According to Stutts, he,fired three
warning shots and the suspect gave
himself up.
After returning the bus to the Sulphur
Springs Independent School District’s bus
yard at 100 Ponder, it was discovered that
another bus was missing and that at least
two other buses had been damaged.
Deputies said that fee suspect, John
Martin Downing of 802 Sunset, had ap-
parently knocked down the chain link
fence in his attempt to get the bus out of
fee yard.
The second bus was found on fee Cotton
Belt Railroad near Century Lake. The bus
was reported to have extensive damage to
fee drivetrain.
Downing has been charged with two
counts of unauthorized use of a motor
vehicle.
He was arraigned Monday morning
before Justicce of Peace Bill Bauman who
set bond at (7,500 on each count
Reward for good work
Outgoing City Manager Olon Potty rood* tho plaque presented
to him at Tuesday's City Commission mooting by tho commu-
tionors lor his "outstanding" occomplishmonts while city
monogor of Sulphur Springs. Potty assumod that position in Oc
tobor i*7t and loaves Friday Ho will bocomo tho city manager
of Door Park, ntar Houston
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1. Title of Publication: The Hopkins County Echo USPS 260-340
2. Date of Filing: Sept. 26,1978
3. Frequency of Issue: Weekly
A. No. of bsues Published Annually: 62
B. Annual Subecription Price: 96 per yeer in county
4. Location ol Known Ottice ol Publication: 401 Church Street, Sulphur
Springs, Texas, 75482
5. Location of the Headquarters or General Business Offices of the
Publishers: 401 Church Street, Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County,
Texas, 75482
6. Publisher: Clarke Keys, 401 Church St., Sulphur Spgs. Tx., 75482
Editor Clarke Keys, 401 Church St., Sulphur Spgs. Tx., 75482
Managing Editor: Joe Woosley, 401 Church St.. Sul. Spqs. Tx., 75482
7. Owner Echo Publishing Company, Inc., 401 Church Street, Sulphur
Springs, Texas, 75482. Names and addresses of stockholders owning
or holding one HI per cent or more of total amount ol stock are: F.W.
Frailev. Katherine G. Frailey, Charles C. Keys, Carolyn Keys, Katharine
E. Keys, Charles S. Keys, all Sulphur Springs, Tx., Maud H. Kraft
Trust. Kenneth H. Kraft, Trustee, Highland Park, III.; Kenneth H. Kraft,
Jr.. Winter Park, Fla„ Frederick W, Frailey, Margaret Frailey, Barbara
Frailey and William Frailey, all Alexandria, Va.
8. Known Bondholders, Mortgagees and other security holders Owning
or Holding 1 per cent or more ol total (amount of Bonds, Mortgages or
Other Securities: None
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Mrs. Tom Ramey
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Keys, Clarke & Woosley, Joe. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 1978, newspaper, October 6, 1978; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth780300/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.