The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, June 12, 1964 Page: 1 of 16
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(ABSORBED THE GAZETTE CIRCULATION BY PURCHASE MAY 12. 1928)
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Leewright Nominated
For Hopkins Sheriff
MINOR DISCREPANCY FOUND
Winners Certified
In Official Canvass
DESIGN FOR NEW BANK BUILDING HERE — This is
Architect Louts Gohmert’i sketch of the new Peoples Na-
tional Bank building, which win be started toon and it sched-
uled for completion In about six months. The structure will
face on Jeferson Street with one-way drives extending south
to College Street The small wing on the right of the sketch
will house the motor bank facilities. The extension on the
rear will be the bank’s community room.
GLOWING FORECASTS HEARD
Sketches of New Building
Shown Bank Stockholders
Stockholders of the Peoples
National Bank and their guests
Viewed sketches of the bank's
new building Monday night and
board glowing forecasts for
the growth of the institution
as part of the tide of develop-
ment flowing in Texes.
Aa estimated 260 persons
look part in the special stock-
holders’ meeting, crowding the
Woman’s Club Building to ca-
pacity and necessitating bor-
rowing of extra tobies and
•hairs from the Rockwell Man-
ufacturing Company. ^-4-M
The madera * design banking
• t r u c tore will front cm the
south sMe of Jefferson Street
Two Quads
Of Beer Cos!
$235.30 Here
A Sunset Street resident
made another one of his nu-
merous trips to County Court
Friday morning to plead guilty
to bootlegging.
County judge W. B. Kitto
fined the man $2*5.30.
An out-of-town agent of the
State Liquor Control Board «*•
footed th« man after buying
two quarto «f beer from hi*
10-year-old eon.
“We’ve arrested him and sr-
reatod him, and now he’s got
hie son selling ft too.” said
Sheriff Paul Jones, who did nut,
bring charges against the boy
in juvenile court P •
In other police action, dl
patrolmen ticketed two motoi
hits for running step signs, th
highway patrol charged four’
Others with speeding and sher-
iff’s officers filed on a Dellas
man in Justice Court for ob-
taining lodging by fraud, lie
is charged with leaving a tour-
hit court owing s hill of f20.
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61 Students
Enroll Here
Ai High School
Sixtywne students have en-
rolled fee the cummer session
at SulphurSprings High School,
Principal Truman Drake said
Tuesday.
The eight-week session be-
gun Monday. In addition, about
90 students ate enrolled in
mtimM ^
of the sta-
in one a#
English end
and 17 in
courses,
is teach*
English teach-
Alexander,
with one - way drives extend-
ing through the block to Col-
iege Street and flanking a
motor bank unit on both aides.
Early Profits Hailed
The phuis call for a com-
munity room at the rear of
the main build i n g, modern
banking fscitities inside and
considerable parking space.
8. T. Garrison, bank presi-
dent, said the Peoples Na-
tional had been operating at a
profit since the end of its first
month — on achievement hail-
«■ sitff By Doiw uuurivntn
Joe N. Chapman m “ulmoot
unheard of,’’
Garrison said the bank’s do-
poeita now exceed 11,400,000
and Ite total reaossreee are more
than 81.900,000.
He predicted resource* of
more than |2 million by the
although the bank has been in
operation less than five
months, stockholders already
are benefitting indirectly
through a standing offer to
purchase any bank stock avail-
sble at s price above that at
which it was originally sold.
Dallas Banker Impressed
Jack Lawrence, president of
the National Bank of Com-
merca in Dad las, told the group
he had been astounded by the
growth shown by the Peoples
National, ite organisation and
•tmsetWV developed since the
bank*b opening last Jaa. 28.
The People* National is link-
ed to the National Bank of
Commerce aa a corresponding
bank. Lawrence worked with
the organizers of the local in-
stitution in obtaining the
time of the next federal - state'bank’s charter and in setting
bank statement call at the end! up its organisstion.
of June. By the end of the The Dsuas bsnker was high-
den**
more of 1
literature
^Mrs. Di
year, he added, projections call
for deposits of 82 million and
resources of $2,500,000.
Activity Aaaasiag
“The activity In Sulphur
Springs ia enuring to me,’’ he
added.
Garrison urged stockholder
support in attaining the bank’s
goal of solid, steady growth
and cited banking services of-
fered.
He said the Peoples National
was the first approved federal
depository here for business
withholding and social security
tar payments and was the first
bank to offer 4‘A, interest on
saving* He also mentioned
handling of Series E bonds and
traveler* checks.
The new building will in-
clude night depository and
drive - in provision* and “the
best facilities yarn will find hi
any paurt ef this area,’’ be add-
ed.
Chapman, who presided at
the meeting, pointed out that
ly optimistic on the future for
this area and all of Texaa
“This city and this teritory
have a great potential,” he
said. “I look for the day when
you have a 8$ million bank and
then a $10 million bank.
"Texas is growing. Forecast-
ers declare that by 1975 Texas
is destined to become the fast-
est growing state in the coun-
try. It now ranks third, behind
California and Florida.
“The other banka here also
will grow.”
Lawrence wss accompanied
to the meeting by Chester
Brewer, vice president in
charge of correspondent bank-
ing.
Louis Gohmert of Mount
Pleasant, a r c h i t e ct for the
building, spoke briefly.
Chapman e o n c 1 u d ed the
program by announcing a pub-
lic barbecue or stew will be
held in about fix months to
eelebrate the opening of the
new building.
Davis Elected
New Master
Of Masons
Frat Davis was elected new
worshipful master of Sulphur
Springs lodge No. 221,
AF RAM, at a meeting Thurs-
day night. He will succeed John
Baker Irons in the post July 1.
Other officers sleeted include
M. A. Flemmens, senior war-
den; L. D. Holder, junior war- Mere.
Democratic piecinct chair-
inen brought the vote from Sal-
tillo down to size, but other-
wise approved the unofficial
figures in canvassing of ballots
Tuesday afternoon.
Meeting in the district court-
room, the chairmen found that
160 ballots were listed aa cast
from the Saltillo box. In the
vote for commissioner of Pre-
ginct 3, however, Lex Fite was
tallied with 112 votes and Mer
vin Chester with 46—or 158 in
•11-
In n show of equity, the chair-
men decided to substract one
vote from each candidate to
make their total match the
number of ballots cast.
Chester won office by defeat-
ing the incumbent Fite by 15
votes.
John R. Ramey, county Dem-
ocratic chairman, said he had
never before seen a voting dis-
'“•etiancy such as this arise
den; Joe R. Pogue, secretary;
W. B. Onley, treasurer; and
Hall Gaddy, tiler.
New appointive officer* are
N. D. Gafford, senior deacon; 5l"
Leeman Teetes, junior deacon;
Bob Lancaster, senior steward; *>au* J°ncs>->1')--
r. o __<__,__’ t ( o*inresaimin-at-larire—
D. 8. McCauley, Junior stew-
art; and Earl Allen, chaplain.
The new officers will be in-
stalled at an open meeting on
June 27, with past Texas Most
Worshipful Grand Master Wil-
liam G. Procter of McKinney
as the installing officer.
Jury Deadlocks
In Finch Trial
A County Court jury report-
ed iteelf deadlocked Tuesday
»ne official vote in the run-
off primary follows:
Commissioner Precinct 3—
Mrrvin Chester 527; Lex Fite
Sheriff—Delphia Leewright,
Coagreawum-at-large—J o e
Fool, 3,402; Robert Baker, 870.
Assistant Chief
Plans lo Assume
Police Duties
Delphia L e e w r i g ht, who
has been officially certified as
the Democrat Party nominee
for sheriff of Hopkins County,
will return to the city police
State Board of Education—
E. C. Brice, 3,805; Doyle Cor-
ley, 498.
Constable Cumb y—H. A.
Gaines, 326; William E. Cross,
160.
Sulphur Springs
Man Assessed
$157.30 Fines
A 26-y e a r-old Sulphur
Springs man paid fines total-
ing $157.30 Thursday morning
for transporting liquor and
driving without an operator’s
license.
He was apprehended Wednes-
day night by Constable Gird
Grant and Wayne Wood, State
Liquor Control Board agent.
After paying these fines, he
was presented with $20 in bad
checks he had written, and
promised sheriff’s officers to
make them pood immediately.
City police Wednesday
charged one motorist with
negligent collision.
Winner! Chester
Unseats
Lex Fite
Sheriff Paul Jones and
County Commissioner Lex
Fite were defeated in their
bids for new terms Satur-
day as voters turned out
in larjre numbers to give
challengers narrow majorities.
Delphia Leewright, assistant
chief of police in Sulphur
Springs, defeated Jones by 218
votes in the Democratic pri-
mary runoff.
Fite, Precinct 3 commission-
er since 1952, was unseated by
only 15 votes by Mervin Ches-
ter.
Both of the incumbauts had
led their races by healthy mar-
gins in the first primary May
2.
In other races, Rep. Joe Pool
of Dallas led former State Sen.
Robert W. Baker of Houston
Police reportde a 1962 Ford by a four-to-one majority in
pickup was stolen Sunday i Hopkins County boxes, and E.
shortly after midnight from a U. Brice of Mt. Pleasant led
parking lot in the 100 block of Doyle Corley of Bowie Coun-
Pickup Track
Stolen Sunday
Main Street.
Owner of the pickup was list-
ed as Jerry Bradish, Jefferson
Street. The truck was described
as black with mud flaps on the
rear.
STRATEGIC TERRITORY
morning in the trial of David; force as a s s i stunt chief on
Herman Finch of Grand
Prairie.
Finch is accused of driving
while
1963.
Testimony in the trial began
Monday afternoon. The jury
began deliberation at 10:30 a., offi« until Jan. 1, was grant-
June 16.
Nomination by the Demo-
crats in Hopkins County is
intoxicated May 31,! tantamount to election, which
1 will be held in N o v e m ber.
There are no other candidates.
Leewright, who will not take
Two Smackover Gas
Tests Drilling Ahead
Two Smackover gas tests in tor on the drilling platform was
the Sulphur Springs area were
reported drilling ahead in stra-
tegic territory Monday with re-
liable information on both dif-
ficult to obtain.
A “tight hole” policy was
reported Monday on Delta’s
No. 2 Coker Gas Unit in the
Como field. The deapth indica-
nt. Tuesday and told Judge
W. B. Kitts an hour later it
was unable to reach a deci-
sion.
Judge Kitts dismisaed the
jury.
Four additional cases were
scheduled for trial, Judge Kitts
said, but guilty pleas were ac-
cepted for two of them and the
other two were dismissed.
County Attorney Artie
Stephens said he will ask that
the ease be retried at a later
term of court
Hurt Construction Firm
Given School Contract
Hurt Construction Company mentary schools and complete because a primer coat of paint
ed a leave of absence during
the campaign. He defeated in-
cumbent Sheriff Paul Jones by
218 votes in Saturday’s Dem-
ocratic primary runoff.
Leewright told Police Chief
Deaton he will stay with the
city police until he attends
a law enforcement school lute
this fall.
was awarded the contract
Thursday night to build addi-
tions onto throe Sulphur
Springs schools.
The local Una's bid of
$86,885 was the lowest of three
presented to trustees of the
Sulphur Springs School Dis-
trict at a special meeting.
Latham White, the Dallas
architect who designed the ad-
ditions, earlier estimated a cost
of $90,000.
Other bids were $99,8*8 by
Charles H. Berry of Arlington
and $115,797.14 by James R.
, School
>ola. The '
fOOfflA gt £
schools,
ion will con-
wing, since it
to the
ft «»« present wings, and
connected by a covered
lain building.
them earlier. But the grade
school additions cannot be fin-
ished before the fall term
Marta, he said
The additions will be financ-
ed without a bond iasue. A 15
cent per f 100 valuation tax in-
crease to $1.50 was approved
in February.
Other action by the board
consisted of approving new
contracts for Negro teachers
and discussing the condition of
two buses put into service last
3
The contracts of throe teach-
era were not renewed. They
are Berman P. Ellison, Mrs.
Is and Charles F.
Tave. Dm
resignation of Robert Faison.
Five positions must be fill
since increased a
allow an additional teacher to
be hired for the Negro *
Contracts of other Douglas.
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was not applied. The board in-
structed Butler to arrange with
an Austin body company which
painted the buses to have the
work redone through a warran-
ty clause.
Adull Clothing
Construction
Workshop Set
An adult clothing construc-
tion workshop will be conduct-
ed by the Sulphur Springs High
School homemaking depart.
mt June 16-19. .
Instructors Mrs. Richard
Caldwell and Mrs. Ira Black
'... JfraaB
no experience m
struction.
will
Two Accidents
Cause Damages
To Vehicles
Two accidents were investi-
gated in Hopkins County Sat-
urday and Sunday, but both
involved only property dam-
age.
Cecil Lannie Benton, 131 Lo-
cust Street, wa»' driver of a
pickup truck which struck a
utiltiy pole at 3:45 p. m. Sun-
day on Kyle Street. Benton told
Patrolman E. C. Withers he
blacked out just prior to the
accident. Withers estimated
damage to the pickup at $300.
Late Saturday afternoon, an
automobile driven by Lee Sands
of Commerce attempted to pass
another car on U. S. 87 one
mile west of Weaver, but struck
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Three Motor
Vehicle Fires
Reported Here
Firemen confined their work
Sunday to fighting three motor
vehicle blaze*.
The cab of a 1960 Ford pickup
was destroyed by a fire at 1:15
a. m. Sunday seven miles south
of Sulphur Springs on State
Highway 154. The pickup’s mo-
tor and tires were not dam-
aged, but firemen have been
unable to locate its owner.
Also Sunday, a fire in a car
driven by Charles Eastman, 111
Seventh Street, was extinguish-
ed on Jefferson Stret.
A car driven by K. E. Ross.
1011 North Davis Street, back-
fired and caught fire briefly on
Davis Street Sunday night.
said to be covered and thus in-
accessible to visitors.
The Coker was described as
drilling at 12,573 feet late Sat-
urday afternoon and approach-
ing the level at which the pro-
ductive Smackover lime forma-
ty almost eight-to-one.
Pool received 3,401 votes to
870 for Baker, and Brice took
Hopkins County. 3,805 to 498.
Both Pool and Brice carried
every box in Hopkins County.
In the race for constable at
Oumhy, H. A. Gaines won over
William E. Cross, 326 to 160.
Leewright Takes City
Leewright did equally as
well in city and county boxes.
He carried the five Sulphur
Spring's boxes by a majority of
118 and the county boxes by
100. Leewright won 17 of the
voting boxes, Jones took 12
and the two tied, 16-16, at Tir;»
on the northern edge of the
county.
Approximately 4,522 persons
voted Saturday. This figure is
not far below the 5,300 turn-
ouyt May 2.
Jones suffered most at the
Austin and Travis elementary
school boxes. Jones carried
tion might be encountered.
The test is south and west of | austin 308‘to 27s“ in"Mav‘but
Deltas No. o W. H. Coker, |lost it Saturday to Leewright,
224 to 303, Saturday. At
Smackover diseovrey well for
the field, and is being drilled
on a division of the original
Coker production unit. It is on
land owned by the estate of the
late Dermont Foster.
Humble Oil A Refining Oom-
Travis, Leewright got 222 votes
to 181 for Jones. Jones had
carried the Travis box in May
256 to 213.
The incumbent, who won all
the city boxes in May, carried
Smackover tertm the Yant.s , (:hurch ^olls gaturffy
_WV rP°^d dn u"s “ Fite won in four of the seven
13,535 feet with no other m-lPrecinct 3 bo„s> but Che|ter.g
formation given. | large majority at the court -
The Allen is situated in the j house poll, 227 to 167, gave
old Yantis shallow field south- him his winning votes. Chester
also won in Weaver and Nelta,
and Fite won the absentee box
and in Sulphur Bluff, Saltillo
and Dike.
west of the Como production
area.
Gulf Oil Corporation was re-
ported testing its No. 1 Ruth
Starr Blake Rodessa test in the
Jones was running for his
northern part of the Como I third term in office. He was
field. The Blake was said to
be bottomed around 8,200 feet.
Field reports indicated some-
thing of a toss-up situation
might exist as to whether the
Blake can be completed a3 a
commerical producer.
first elected in 1956 in a heavy
field of candidates, and ran
unopposed in 1960.
Fite served two two-year
terms beginning in 1952, and
was running for his third foul-
year term as commissioner. *
Industrial Fund Directors
Adopt Development Plan
17 Arrested
For Speeding
Week-End
:r
forceement officers in
County combined to
26 arrests over the week-
17 of them for speeding,
i biggest loser in court
Creek man appro
l d a y morning by
*a Back Fail)
H £ #s?v
D i r e c t ors of the Hopkins
County Industrial Fund ap-
proved Friday a preliminary
plan for the development of its
104-acre industrial park area
at the southeast edge of the
city.
The plan was prepared by
the engineering firm of Hen-
ningson, Durham A Richard-
son in Dallas.
All except a few of the 50
copies of the report were re-
turned to Dallas for revision of
two pages. They will be avail-
able later to industrial locat-
ing departments, prospects and
others directly interested.
Cost t* Bo High
The plan divides the tragi
into 27 lots, each with street
highway access and outlines
The total cost of providing
all the facilities envisioned over
the entire tract is estimated at
$224,361.50.
This includes $53,146.81 for
sewer lines, $35,8 0 3.81 for
water mains, $86,401.88 for
paving and drainage and $50,-
000 for railroad trackage.
Dick Stewart, chief engineer
for the firm’s Dallas office,
pointed out that the entire lay-
out is flexible in nature. Lot
areas designated can be re-
arranged to meet the needs of
proepacts and u t il i t i e s and
streets can be provided as vari-
ous sections are placed in use.
Priority Urgod
Stewart and Bob Hogan,
Dallas office manager, recom-
mended construction of a ten -
-ive extension ef utility inch sewer line southwest
around the curve in Interstate
railroad sanrice.
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Highway 30 as probably the key
first factor in preparing the
property for use.
This would assure proper
service for the entire area,
they pointed out.
Stewart recommended that
property along Radio Road and
Elm Street be considered for
initial development because ef
economic factors.
He t e r m e d the southatet
corner of the tract, along In-
terstate 80, as the most valu-
able part of the area.
Improvements recommended
include eight - inch water lines
to provide sufficient pressure
for automatic sprinkler systems
in buildings and concrete
streets.
Foundation directors
paring in the m
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, June 12, 1964, newspaper, June 12, 1964; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth823266/m1/1/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Hopkins+County%22: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.