The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, February 8, 1980 Page: 1 of 8
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VOl. 105—NO. 5.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1.1980.
§ PAGES -10 CENTS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
The honorees
Rod Henderson.
...Citizen of the Year
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Allen...
...With Farmer of Year plaque
Accident aftermath
Bert W. Edgington, 64, of 107 Kyle remained In Memorial
Hospital's intensive care unit Friday morning after his car was
In collision with a Kansas City Southern freight train Thursday
evening. The car was knocked approximately 4S feet west of the
League Street intersection after colliding with the westbound
train. Danny Sanders, 32, of Greenville was the engineer.
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Local man hospitalized
in car-train collision
A Kyle Street resident was hospitalized
Thursday night when his four-door sedan
was in collision with a Kansas City
Southern locomotive on League Street.
According to Sulphur Springs Police
Department Accident InveMigator Mike
Johnson, the accident occurred about 8:06
pii. when the southbound vehicle driven
by Best W. Edgington, 84, of 107 Kyle
collided with the westbound freight train.
Danny Sanders, 32, of Greenville was the
engineer of the KCS locomotive.
The impact knocked the car ap-
proximately 45 feet west of the intersection
Just south of the dty of Sulphur Springs’
maintenance facility. It came to rest with
the front end sticking out of a deep ditch.
The driver’s side of the car had been torn
out and Edgington received a laceration to
the head.
Edgington was taken to Memorial
Hospital by ambulance after railroad
crews separated the engines from the
freight cars with the rails blocked across a
large part of town for almost an hour
before the train was able to contfai
trip to he west.
As the wrecker service removed t
from the ditch, another westbound
was seen approaching on the same t
Police and wrecker crews scramb
clear the tracks, managing to do s
minutes before the second train
through.
A hospital spokesperson said
Edgington was in “stable-fair” con
in Memorial Hospital’s intensive car
Friday morning.
in chamber correspondence
information about large, old homes for copy of the Chamber of Commerce
sale in this area. The interested party said brochure with them.
By JERRY TITTLE
News-Telegram Staff
Hopkins County Seems to hold con-
siderable appeal to potential new
residents, according to the number of
letters coining in to the local chamber of
commerce.
Chamber officials say a surprisingly
large number of “query” letters are being
received from people around the country.
Most of the letter writers indicate a
desire to relocate in the Hopkins County
area and request information on topics
ranging from bousing and Job availability
to county tax structures.
“Correspondence of this nature usually
slows down around Christmas, but since
Jan. 1 we’ve been getting two and three
letters a day,” said David Jackson,
executive director of the chamber. “And
the majority of the people writing to our
office has already made the decision to
move before writing the query letter.”
January letters arrived from as far
away as Morcerville, N. J,, to the East, and
Santa Barbara, Calif., to the West, with
one bearing a Fleet Post Office number
from Seattle, Wash.
Jackson’s office also received numerous
letters from the Midwest section of the
United States as well as from Colorado,
and three letters were received bearing
Kansas postmarks.
“We have a basic data package that we
send to anyone requesting information
about Hopkins County,” Jackson said,
"and it includes maps, a community
profile sheet, an industrial survey of
Sulphur Springs and a brochure which
briefly Highlights annual events,
recreation and other attractions of the
county.”
Jackson’s office also received a letter
from a Nebraska woman who requested
she had "read about certain old Hopkins
County homes” and that is what she
wanted.
Meanwhile, the unemployment rate for
Hopkins County remained among the
lowest in the nation during the latter part
of the year Just ended.
Preliminary December figures released
this week by the Texas Employment
Commission show unemployment in
Hopkins County down to three percent.
Coy Vicars of the Sulphur Springs office
of the Texas Employment Commission,
said most of the people who come into his
office from out of state seeking Job
Postmaster Jim Collins said that he
obtained a supply of Susan B. Anthony
dollar coins from the bank Thursday so
that clerks may comply with orders to
utilize them.
Orders to use the coins came through
channels from the postmaster general's
office and the secretary of the treasurey.
Generally, it has been reported that the
new quarter-size dollar coins have met
with limited succeae and demand in Hie
United States. However, federal officials
in orders to Postmaster Collins suggested
“The Sulphur Springs Chamber has
spent lots and lots of money on a com-
mercial advertising package to be
distributed in rest stops and welcome
stations across the United States,” Vicars
said, “and it really works because many
out-of-state people as well as Texas
residents come Into our office with a
specific question about a specific industry
or agricultural interest which they have
read about.”
Vicars also said, “the TEC preliminary
report I got Friday for December shows
unemployment in Hopkins County to be at
its lowest since July of 1978 - three per-
cent.
and pays with a $5 bQl, change will be a
“Susan dollar” and 40 cents in other coins.
Patrons who do not want the dollar coins
will be given paper bills in change, Collins
added.
The postmaster said local bankers had
assured Mm he would have no trouble
obtaining new supplies of die small dollar
coins, if needed.
The new dollar change edict became
operative Friday and little reaction from
customers had been heard early in the
day.
availability information usually have a
Postal patron pockets
jangle with 'Suzies'
The “dollars of the fpture” were being that the coins will be “dollars of the
offered In all change- making transactions future.”
at the Sulphur Spriigs Post Office Friday. ' Collins said that an a typical transaction
where a patron buys a $3.60 book of stamps
activities committee of the chamber, the
Hopkins County Dairy Festival, the
Hopkins County Stew Contest and as a
frequent master of ceremonies for public
events.
Earlier in the evening he had narrated a
pictorial review of events in the county
during 1979, which was the feature
presentation of the banquet.'
In making the presentation, Clarke Keys
cited Henderson for the type of dedication
to his county that had been mentioned as
the mark of outstanding citizens in the
program.
Mrs. Johnson received the Beta Sigma
Phi honor as Lady of the Year, with a list
of community involvements cited by Mrs.
Virginia Henderson in support of the
award.
Mrs. Johnson is the founder of the
Hopkins County Care Corps, the Empty
Stocking program to aid the less fortunate
at Christmas and the telephone
reassurance program for shutins. She was
also instrumental in founding the Hand-
made Market and the Gothes Closet
programs and helped start the Senior
Citizens Center in Sulphur Springs.
She was the recipient of the Texas State
Volunteer Award in 1978.
"The one comment we heard most in
support of the award (for Mrs. Johnson)
was that she always gives so much praise
and recognition to others,” Mrs. Hen-
derson said in making the presentation.
Allen, who operates a dairy farm in the
Brinker community, was presented the
Brooks Emmons award by Bruce Fielden,
who cited the recipient’s long history of
awards for management of his Holstein
herd.
“His children have been active in FFA,
FHA and 4-H programs, he has won top
butterfat production awards and top
awards for his cattle,” Fielden said.
Fielden cited such outstanding
producers as Allen as having made a
major contribution to the nearly $170
million of agricultural income reported for
Hopkins County last year.
Ronnie Stewart represented .the
chamber’s agriculture committee in
making the beautification award, Just
named for the late Shannon Carpenter.
He cited the Tittles as leading examples
of the new trend of Hopkins County far-
mers and ranchers who have brought
recognition to the county both for
agricultural achievements and a pride in
those achievements exemplified by efforts
to make the county attractive.
In other features of the annual banquet,
David DuPriest, the chamber of com-
merce president for 1980, accepted that
position from the outgoing president, Gene
Watson.
DuPriest proposed that time ia the most
precious and limited resource that
Americans have in the 1980s, but
suggested it is one of the most wasted
resources. That waste has an impact upon
agencies such as a chamber of commerce,
DuPriest said, and it will be one of his
goals in the year to study how to make the
chamber more effective within the time
frame of available volunteer work.
The president said his other major goal
will be to develop a more fervent com-
munity pride. He urged the some 400 in
attendance to “get excited about your
community. We’ve got a lot to be proud
of.”
The theme of the 1980 banquest was a
"Love Affair with Hopkins County” and
DuPriest urged that the “love affair” be
carried into the remainder of the year and
not be allowed to die at one evening’s
banquet.
DuPriest also presented Watson with a
plaque for his contributions to chamber
activities in 1979. And he welcomed the
etgh: Sitw directors to the chamber board.
Watson presented the 1979 board to the
audience, expressing his thanks for
members’ contributions.
The pictorial review of county events
was filmed by Billy Sam Elliott and James
Jones and featured scenes of rural and
urban progress and of the people who
contributed to that progress.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Tittle...
...Rural beautification winners
Mrs. Pat Johnson...
...Lady of the Year
Two frequent volunteer workers on
community projects and an award-
winning dairyman received the top honors
for 1979 contributions awarded by the
Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce
Thursday night.
Rod Henderson was named "Gtizen of
the Year," Mrs. Pat Johnson “Lady of the
Year” and Billy Jack Allen “Fanner of
the Year” in presentations made at the
annual chamber banquet held at the
Regional Gvic Center.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Tittle were named
the first recipients of the Shannon Car-
penter award for rural beautification.
Henderson, air personality and
salesman with radio KSST, was selected
as the 26th recipient of the Gtizen of the
Year-sward, presented since 1955 by The
Echo Publishing Company.
He was chosen by a special committee
for Ms continuing contributions to com-
munity activities, including the Gvic
Center board of directors, the special
Tippler tab
tops $640,000
Private clubs in Hopkins County
had gross receipts of $642,000 from the
sale of hard liquor in 1979.
These figures are based on com-
pilations of State Comptroller Bob
Bullock’s office, wMch shows that the
private clubs in Hopkins County
collected $64,200.19 for the 10 percent
gross receipts tax on mixed drinks.
Hopkins County and the cities which
have private clubs are rebated 15
percent of the gross receipts on mixed
drinks.
For the last quarter of 1979, Hopkins
County was rebated $2,187.63, the Gty
of Sulphur Springs $1,968.58, and the
City of Como $94.31.
Chamber salutes five
for area achievements
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County's appeal reflected
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Keys, Clarke & Woosley, Joe. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, February 8, 1980, newspaper, February 8, 1980; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth781011/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.