Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 123, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 24, 1989 Page: 8 of 26
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8—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Wednesday, May 24,1989
Weather
Temperatures at
The News Teiegram
High........
Low.........
.......88
.......72
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Rainfall......
......0.00
10 am.
84
12 noon
90
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lesterdav
lodat T’mornM
4 pm.
90
“
6 am.
89
Normal High
85
84
84
6 p m.
85
Normal Low
63
62
62
10 pm
Mtinigh!
80
78
Last Year High
81
81
85
2 am
76
Last Year Low
57
62
55
4 am.
75
6 am.
73
Record High
90
91
- 93
8 am
73
Set In 1956
1955
197?
Record Low
47
51
oO
Set In 196 j
1983
1979
Rainfall to date;
Month 7.99
Year
22.26
Normal rainfall;
Month 4.90
Year
19.35
Local May History
Average mean temperature, 70.8 degrees; warmest May (mean),
64,8 in 1956; coldest May (mean), 65.5 in 1954; average daily high,
82; average overnight low, 60; extremes recorded, 96 in 1988 and 36
in 1954; highest rainfall, 14.59 inches in 1957; lowest rainfall, .11 of
an inch in 1988; average number of rainy days, 9.
Hail hits Midwest.
Thunderstorms that splattered the Midwest with hail continued
today and up to a foot of snow was expeejed in Oregon and Washing-
ton.
Hail the size of golf balls fell Tuesday across Wisconsin, Min-
nesota, Iowa and the Dakotas, and thunderstorms whipped winds up
to 70 mph, downing large tree limbs at Glen Ullin, N'.D.
Thunderstorms extended this morning from northeastern Nebraska
across Iowa to Wisconsin, and in western North Dakota.
Showers and thunderstorms drenched New England and western
Pennsylvania this morning, with sionrs developing in the central
Gulf ahead of the same cold front.
Scattered showers fell in the Northwest, with snow in the higher
elevations of the Cascade mountains. Weather service advisories said
up to a foot of snow was possible.
Today’s forecast called for scattered showers and thunderstorms
from the upper Great Lakes to the central Plains; severe thun-
derstorms from Kansas to Michigan; scattered showers from the
northern Pacific to the Rockies; showers and thunderstorms from
New England into the middle Atlantic region; and strong and gusty
winds over the Rockies.
Temperatures around the nation at 3 a.m. EDT ranged from 30 de-
grees at Yellowstone Park, Wyo., to 88 degrees at Phoenix, Ariz.
Texas getting hot
It will be sunny, hot, humid and windy across most of Texas
through Thursday.
Lake wind advisories are in effect across most of the state except
in extreme East Texas and in far West Texas.
Forecasts called for fair skies tonight.
Lows tonight will be mostly in the 70s except in extreme North-
west Texas where readings will be in the 50s and 60s.
Highs Thursday will be in the 90s, ranging upward to near 100 in
poilions oi exueme North Texas and in Southwest Texas.
Low level clouds were reported along the coastal plains before
dawn today and some fog was reported along the coast.
Southerly winds brought moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, in-
creasing the humidity, but westerly winds were expected to keep
skies mostly clear.
Early morning temperatures were mostly in the 70s, ranging from
the 50s and 60s in West'Texas to around 80 in extreme South Texas.
Extremes ranged from 56 at Marfa in the Davis Mountains of
Southwest Texas to 80 at Corpus Christi.
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North Hopkins News
For the Record
Sulphur Springs for May 24,1989
By RLTH PARISH
North Hopkins Correspondent
Ollie Tomlinson, 80, died Mon-
day, May 15, in Garland. Funeral
services were held in Tapps Funeral
Chapel at 2 pm Wednesday, with
burial in—the North Hopkins
Cemetery. He is survived by his
wife, Juanita McCormack Tomlin-
son.
He was a retired teacher. He
taught m several schools in Hop-
kins County before moving to Lub-
bock where he was employed for
30 years. He moved back to Hop-
kins County for several years and
then moved to Garland where he
resided since 1977. ■
The Old Tarrant Cemetery Asso-
ciation met Saturday, May 20, in
the North Hopkins school
cafctonum due to the weather.
Bert and Ida Mae in Dallas were
visited by Ruth and Gay Chapman
and Kenny Chapman with his fam-
ily. They celebrated Ruth and Gay’s
60th wedding anniversary and a
belated Mother’s Day.
J. Ken and RoseMary Orr visited
Jesse. Harold, and Jack Orr and
families here last week while on
their way back home to Baton
Rouge, La. They had been to Har-
rison, Ark., to visit their new
grandson, Jess Orr. He was bom
last month to Elton and Karen Orr.
They named the baby Jess after his
great-grandfather, the late Jess Orr
of Birthright
Marvin and Adam Weir ate lunch
with Thresa and Arville Weir the
last few Saturday's and are keeping
the lawn manicured for their
parents,
Jimmy Anderson and family of
Houston spent the weekend at their
summer home in the Oak Grove
Community.
Mary and Don Win term ute of St.
Louis, Mo., ate lunch and visited
with Freeman and Ruth Parish
Thursday. Mary and Pauline Evans
ate lunch and visited with the
Parish’s Fnday.
Donna Weir has moved to Gar-
land where she will attend summer
school at Eastficld College.
Jimmy Clyde Jackson of Plano
spent the weekend here at his coun-
try home.
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AT&T Communications of the Southwest, Inc., (AT&T) announces
its intent to introduce within Texas on July 14, 1989, AT&T Multi-
Quest Service, a new interactive 900-type telephone service.
Since February 19, 1989. this innovative service has been
available to Texas businesses only on an interstate basis. With
AT&T MultiQuest Service. Texas business customers (otherwise
known as sponsors) may offer value-added information services
to callers originating long distance calls from Texas or
elsewhere in the United States over AT&T's public switched net-
work A Texas caller, accessing the service by dialing the spon-
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live information by communicating with attendants, voice
messaging equipment and computer data bases. Flat-rate, time
sensitive usage charges will be billed to the caller for the spon-
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AT&T is offering AT&T MultiQuest Service within Texas in
response to requests by its business customers for a service
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data transport capability Potential sponsors include entrepre-
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statewide as well as national coverage coupled with interactive
capability and other information service providers
The Texas intrastate AT&T MultiQuest Service will be tariffed as
an add-on" offering to a sponsor's existing interstate AT&T
MultiQuest Service. The intrastate AT&T MultiQuest Service
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