Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 119, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 20, 1990 Page: 1 of 60
sixty pages : ill. ; page 23 x 14 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
Sulphur Springs
*****************************
GREENWTJ ! c TX
MIXED 7C>7 M17>4 444
NEWSt Rf II ITHW*- ST MlERf'lPl iBt. TRHTN
,**•*♦•* c’R,--7 E VPnDeI L D*
EL PASO, TX 799i*3
i&feuia-Gfclpjjram
unday
MAY 20,1900
50 CENTS
FIVE SECTIONS
VOL 112—NO. 119
O Th* Echo Publishing Co., Inc. 1990
Final major contract awarded for lake work
By CLARKE KEYS
News-Telegram Stuff__
The final major contract on ac-
tual construction of the Cooper
Reservoir project has been awarded
by the U.S. Army Corps of En-
gineers. The Corps has designated
Anderson Reclamation Construc-
tion Co. of Mesa, Ariz., for sodding
work on the dam face.
The bid award was for $600,000.
Completion of the contract
Council
runoff
under way
Voters wore going to the polls
Saturday until 7 p.m. to decide
who wins place 6 on the City
Council.
Candidates David Baucom
and Mike Vaughan were compet-
ing in a run-on election to gam a
seat on the City Council. Neither
Baucom or Vaughan won the
majority vote during the general
election two weeks ago.
The polls opened Saturday at
7 a.m. at City Hall and were to
close at 7 p.m.
A graduate of Clarksville High
School, Vaughan worked seven
years at Piggly Wiggly as a store
manager and nine years at Mc-
Donald’s as a regional manager.
He currently serves as a co-
chairman on the Chamber of
Commerce’ Small Business
Committee and is a baseball
commissioner for the Hopkins
County Boys Baseball League.
A former Sulphur Springs
mayor, Baucom is a graduate of
Sulphur Springs High School
and received a bachelor degree
in marketing from Baylor
University. He owns an in-
surance agency.
Elected twice to the City
Council, Baucom was selected
by fellow council members once
as mayor and once as mayor pro-
tern. He is currently serving as a
director on the Sulphur River
Basin Committee and is on the
Advisory Board of the Sulphur
Springs Independent School Dis-
trict
Both Baucom and Vaughan
have stressed the importance of
economic development of Sul-
phur Springs in their campaign
speeches.
Place 6 on the City Council
was left vacant after former
councilman Jim Dobson relin-
quished his seat.-Both Baucom
and Vaughan announced their
candidacy for place 6 earlier this
year.
Ministerial
nominees
are sought
Nominations are being sought for
the most outstanding rural minister
of Texas for 1990. "The rural minis-
ter might be considered an unsung
hero, and where that's the case, his
associates can bring some special
recognition to him," said Dr. David
Ruesink, a sociologist with the Texas
Agricultural Extension Service.
Ruesink said the award is given
annually by the Progressive Farmer
magazine during the annual Town
and Country Church Conference,
scheduled for October 1-2, at Texas
A&M University. The conference is
an Extension Service educational
program for rural and small town
; ministers and lay leaders. To be
leigible for the award, Ruesink said,
a minister must have served for at
least two years a congregation in a
> rural community or town of less than
• 10,000 population.
- Ruesink said nominations should
; focus on how the minister has made a
■ difference to his church and commu-
; nity. "Show how the minister's lead-
ership has helped bring the people
.‘together to fulfill their community
: and religious needs," he said.
• For more information contact
• Ruesink at 409-845-0859. County
• Extension agents also have details on
: how to submit nominations.
re-
process means that all construction
on the huge Corps project on the
South Sulphur River has now either
been completed, is in process or
has been placed under contract.
In addition, the Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department has an-
nounced that the first of two con-
struction contracts for work on
state parks along the reservoir will
be awarded in August. That con-
tract phase will cover construction
of facilities that will eventually be
partially below the conservation
pool level of the lake — the five
areas of boat ramps and associated
facilities.
Contracts for the remainder of
the park facilities outside the water
line are scheduled for award in
May, 1991.
“This is really a great time for
Cooper Lake,” Walter Helm, presi-
dent" of the Sulphur River
Municipal Water District observed.
“The entire project is now under
way. All we have to do now is wait
for the work to be finished. There’s
really nothing left to be done ex-
cept hope for some help from the
weather.
“Before we know it, the dam is
going to be finished and water is
going to be in that lake.”
Representatives of Luhr Bros.
Construction Co., the general con-
tractor, still believe they will be
ready to begin closing the final
wedge in the dam structure this fall,
although heavy rains in the past
several weeks have slowed work to
a degree. 'The last wedge will close
off the channel of the South Sul-
phur River and will leave only a
12-foot outlet structure to release
water downstream until actual
“closure” of the reservoir
scheduled in late summer, 1991.
Helm explained Friday that
while the highway crossing the
dam is eventually expected to be
designated as part of the state
highway system, either as a farm-
to-market road or a park road, con-
struction of the highway is part of
the general contract awarded to
Luhr by the Corps of Engineers. It
is included in the work under
progress.
Actual clearing work in the
eastern half of the reservoir basin,
on a contract awarded in April, is
now expected to begin or or about
June 1. The Corps is scheduled to
issue the work order on that con-
tract this Thursday.
Flood-weary Texans
receive some relief
H.P. (Henry) and Gertrude Donaldson Green Thumb, a program the places older workers
serve up meals attne Meal-A-Day Center on Col- in jobs.
lege Street. Hill and Donaldson are enrolled Ml v-&taV$h<*kt>y ctiri«ttne N*
Greeij Thumb program helps
senior citizens use their skills
By CHRISTINE NOE
News-Telegram Staff
Hopkins County has a Green
Thumb — actually it has a lot of
them.
Green Thumb, Inc., a Senior
Community Service Employment
Program, funded by the United
States Department of Labor and
sponsored by Texas Farmer’s
Union, assists older workers with
training and part-time employment
through assignments to local non-
profit organizations.
Green Thumb workers in Hop-
kins County are employed by the
Meal-A-Day Center, American Red
Cross, Texas Employment Com-
mission, City of Cumby and county
schools.
Two local Green Thumb workers
are H.P. (Henry) Hill and Gertrude
Donaldson, employees of the Meal-
A-Day Center on College Street.
Hill started out on the route deliver-
ing meals, but due to health reasons
became a kitchen aid. She began in
the Green Thumb program as a
home health caregiver for the el-
derly, then switched to a cook. She
said she enjoys her job in the
kitchen. “I like to see people eat,”
she added.
Donaldson says she loves to
meet the people that come into the
center. “I’d rather go around and
aggravate them, than meet them,”
Hill said, “I call the women my
girlfriends.”
Green Thumb operates in 117
rural Texas counties and enrolls
more than 1,000 senior citizens to
provide needed manpower services
in areas such as senior centers, day
care and headstart programs,
schools, public works, weatheriza-
tion, libraries and municipalities.
“The program started in 1965 with
only 280 participants in four states.
It's now grown to 18,000 enroll-
ment and 10,000 host agencies in
44 states and Puerto Rico,” Lois
Kelley, program aid, said. Kelley
travels a six-county area including
Hunt, Lamar, Hopkins, Delta, Col-
lin and Rockwall counties.
Workers are placed in jobs ac-
cording to their skills, Kelley said.
“They are using skills learned
throughout the years,” she added.
“Most workers have 20 to 30 years
of work experience.”
According to Kelley, the Green
Thumb workers make good
workers. “They’re so responsible
— they’re from the old school,”
she said, “They take such pride in
their work.”
Workers in the Green Thumb
program must be at least 55 years
of age and be under a certain inc-
ome level. They work a maximum
of 22 hours per week at minimum
wage, so as not to exceed 1,300
hours and interfere with Social
Security benefits.
For more information on the
Green Thumb program write Green
Thumb, P.O. Box 7898, Waco, TX
76714, or call (817)776-4081. Kel-
ley emphasized that although ap-
plication for the program is made
through Waco, placement in a job
would be made near the worker’s
home address.
By The Associated Press
The swollen Red River pushed
southward Saturday in Louisiana,
where it has swamped 80,000 acres
of rich farmland, and flood victims
in Texas got relief checks to help
make it through the high-water
days.
The Army Corps of Engineers
predicted 700,000 acres will be
flooded in Louisiana before the
river and backwaters recede.
The Red River, swollen with
draining floodwaters from states
upstream, was expected to crest
Sunday in Alexandria, in central
Louisiana, at 40 feet, eight feet
over flood stage.
“In Louisiana we have one
commodity ready to harvest, winter
wheat That’s gone* in the flooded
areas,” said Larry Michaud of the
state Agriculture Department.
“There will be extensive damage to
the cotton in the area.
“Alongdhe Redxlbare are levees
for the most part The farms inside
the levees are the ones that are
hurt” he said.
In Texas, 38 counties have been
declared federal disaster areas.
Brad Harris, regional head of the
Federal Emergency Management
Agency, was distributing relief
checks Friiday. He said at least
3,000 people already have reques-
ted aid, and that his agency “bent
the rules” to get it to them.
“Now I can go find a place on
dry land,” said Laura Baird, whose
family has refused to leave their
floodwater-surrounded home near
Kenefick because they had no
money. She received a $415 check.
“They’re saying we should have
water in the house by tonight and 4
to 5 feet in a few days,” she said.
Flooding that plagued Texas,
Arkansas and Oklahoma during the
past three weeks has also forced
dozens of people out of their homes
in southern Indiana, Missouri, and
southern Illinois.
Thirteen people have perished in
Texas and one in Oklahoma from
the flooding, which has caused
hundreds of millions of dollars in
damage.
In Missouri, floods have covered
800,000 acres of com fields, but not
all will have to be replanted,
officials said.
Several activities scheduled
Lea Ann Harris
Steven Hague
for week-long Dairy Festival Hasue is valedictorian
for North Hopkins class
By CHRIS NOE
News-Telegram Staff_
A host of activities are slated
for the Hopkins County Dairy Fes-
tival, June 7-16.
The Texas Black and White
Holstein Show herd builder sale at
11 a.m. Thursday, June 7, kicks off
the week in dairy style. Other
Black and White festivities include
the heifer and dry cow show begin-
ning at 3 p.m. Friday and the
Futurity and Milk Cow Class Show
beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday.
The Father’s Day Face Feedin’
and Eatin’ Meetin’ Cook-Off and
Arts and Crafts Fair is scheduled
for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June
9, at Heritage Square. The
Southwest Homemade Ice Cream
Contest, including youth and adult
divisions, is slated to begin at 10:30
a.m. Saturday at the Hopkins
County Regional Civic Center.
The Dairy Festival Parade, in-
cluding floats made by each can-
didate for Dairy Festival Queen,
begins at noon. The Southwest
Homemade Ice Cream Testing and
Awards program will begin im-
mediately following the parade at
the Civic Center.
Activities scheduled for Sunday
include the Dairy Festival Queen
Candidate Milking Contest begin-
ning at 2 p.m. at Heritage Square.
The Classic Dairy and Heifer
Show will begin at 1 p.m. Friday,
June 15, at the Civic Center, with
the Dairy Classic Sale, featuring 11
bred heifers, will begin at 7 p.m.
Judging in the Northeast Texas
Junior Dairy Show, open to ages 9
to 19, will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday,
June 16, at the Civic Center.
Fashion will be the focus of the
2nd Annual Ladies’ Brunch and
Fashion Show, beginning' at 11:30
a.m. Saturday at the Civic Center.
Fashions from more than 14 local
merchants will be featured. Tickets,
costing $15, are available from any
Dairy Festival Board member or
any participating merchant.
The crowning event of the day
will be the 1990 Dairy Festival
Pageant, beginning at 7 p.m. in the
Civic Center Auditorium. Tickets
are available from any pageant par-
ticipant.
North Hopkins’ valedictorian and
salutatorian, in the popular ver-
nacular of football aficionados, are
“going long” and “going short” —
geographically speaking. Goals can
be reached either way.
After graduation. Valedictorian
Steven Hague plans to enroll for
the fall semester at Trinity Univer-
sity in San Antonio. Salutatorian
Lea Ann Harris plans to begin col-
lege in the summer at Paris Junior
College.
week-old puppies belonging to staff Hague, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
member Kim Reynolds. Second Claude Hague, attained a grade
Pets make debut
A pet show was held at Sulphur
Springs Nursing Home Friday.
First place winner were two, 5-
Ogles. Third place went to Alice to major in agricultural economics
with a minor in political science.
Hague will graduate from high
school having served as president
of the student council, BETA Club
Ogles. Third place
McGrady, who owns Lindsey,
West Highland Terrier.
Honorable mentions include
Amy McGrady and her Dalmatian,
Lucy. Most unusual went to Bugs
"Bunny, owned by Kimberly
Alexander. Ribbons were presented
to the winners.
of the student council,
and the FFA. He was also g Univer-
sity Interscholastic League com-
petitor, qualifing in district and
regional competitions. And he was
named “all-district” in basketball
during his senior year.
Harris, the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Randy Harris, attained a grade
point average of 96.59 during her
four years of high school. She has
not yet decided upon a college
major.
She was a member of both the
student council and the FHA. Har-
ris was also named “all district” in
basketball. She was a volleyball
player as well.
North Hopkins Independent
School District has scheduled State
Representative Bill Arnold, D-
Grand Prarie, as the commence-
ment speaker for their 8 p.m., June
1, ceremony. The graduation will
be held at the school.
Arnold serves on the House
Public Education Committee and is
a retired assistant superintendent of
Grand Prairie Independent School
District.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 119, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 20, 1990, newspaper, May 20, 1990; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth823969/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.