Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 37, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 13, 1991 Page: 1 of 14
fourteen 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:
t
) ■
'Sulphur Springs
Wednesday
^.Vurs-Sflrnrant
FEBRUARY 13,1W1
25 CENTS
VOL. 113—NO. 37.
C The Echo Publishing Co . Inc 1W1
Two shot
to death
Tuesday
morning
By BOB MERRIMAN
News-Telegram Staff
By CHRISTINE NOE
News-Telegram Staff
Forecast
North Texas - Partly cloudy
and cooler tonight. Sunny and
not as warm Thursday. Lows
tonight 41 to 48. Highs Thursday
62 to 67.
Index
Ann Landers .........
.....3
Astrograph ...........
.....4
Bridge ...............
Classified .........
. 10-13
Comics...............
.....9
Community Calendar...
.....3
Crossword...........
Editorial /■............
.....2
Obituaries ...........
Sports..............
TV Log .............
Weather.............
;
H
m mm
f
j
-
mm
m
m
iwv-
m
Two Hopkins County men were
shot to death in the Pine Forest
community Tuesday night, and
sheriff’s investigators are awaiting
autopsy results from the Dallas
County medical examiner’s office
before making a final determination
in the deaths.
Stanley Paul Bain, 33, was
pronounced dead at 9:30 p.m. at
Hopkins County Memorial
Hospital by Justice of the Peace
Clctis Millsap. Bain had been
taken to the hospital by Hopkins
County EMS personnel.
James Robert Bain, 51, an uncle
of Stanley Paul Bain, was dead at
the scene of the shootings.
The shootings ocurred “at the
Bain family place” in Pine Forest,
Sheriff Bill Dirks said Wednesday
morning. Sheriff’s deputies, the
Pine Forest Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment and the Pickton Volunteer
Fire Department went to the scene
at 8:05 p.m., Dirks said, after a
nearby resident called and said the
Bain house was on fire.
Shortly after arriving at the
scene, firemen discovered Stanley
Paul Bain in a pasture near the
house, Dirks said. The man had
been shot twice, but was still alive,
the sheriff said. EMS personnel
School board
filing dates
are approved
/
m
:1 "mi
'
ifz- v‘ ■;.
£ - V:::;
\\ '
■ K ""
*. tdsflb „ US
Where shootings occurred
were called, and Bain was carried
to the hospital.
The body of James Robert Bain
was later found near a bam, about
50 yards from the burning house.
“There are other houses near the.
scene,” Dirks said, “but most of
the people were at the Como-Pick-
ton basketball game.”
Dirks said deputies Ricky Mor-
gan and Mike Swindell found a
.38-caliber pistol in James Bain's
hand and a .22-caliber rifle leaning
against the bam near the body.
Firemen found a third fircamV
near the burning house following a
“small explosion,” Dirks said.
“There were three explosions,”
he said, “possibly from small
propane tanks or cans of gasoline
stored in the house.”
Stanley Bain “was a popular,
well liked man in his community,”
Dirks said. He was a member of the
Como-Pickton School Board, the
sheriff said.
Two members of the Sulphur
Springs Independent School Dis-
trict will be up for re-election this
year, and trustees Tuesday set the
filing dates for the school board
election for Feb. 18 through March
20.
According to Superintendent
Danny Durham, the seats held by
Dr. William Dietze and Mark Mc-
Clendon will be up for election.
The board is expected to call for
the May 4 election during the
March school board meeting.
Board members also on Tuesday
discussed changing the school
calendar so that the first semester
would end at the Christmas break. .
In order to achieve this, school
would start a- “week or 10 days
earlier,” Durham said.
Trustees voted on a resolution
making March 4-8 “Texas Public
Schools Week.” It is designed to
“draw attention to public schools,”
Durham said. “The main activities
will be open houses at all the cam-
puses,” Randy Reed, assistant su-
perintendent-curriculum, said.
Repairs and renovations were
also on Tuesday night’s agenda.
According to Paul Glover, assis-
tant superintendent-business,
renovation on Wildcat Stadium will
continue, and the replacement of
another section of wooden
bleachers with aluminum bleachers
is slated.
“Maybe we can get out of the
Please see FILING, Pagel4
m
Historically speaking
By CHRISTINE NOE
News-Telegram Steffi
Herbert Hoover said: “Older
men declare war. But it is ihe youth
that must fight and die.”
Operation Desert Storm has
brought war to the minds of many
young people at Sulphur Springs
High School.
, Randy Sherman, SSHS senior,
said that when the war began, he
watched the news more than usual.
“That first night I sat up until
midnight watching CNN,” he said.
Merrie Shawn Lewis, another
SSHS senior, said she sometimes
feels the media shows too much.
She added that she fears some of
what is portrayed could help the
Iraqis.
,fI think they should censor some
of it,” she said.
Most young people know at least
one person who is serving in
Operation Desert Storm. A bulletin
board in the cafeteria of SSHS lists
former students who are serving in
Desert Storm.
Clifton Cleveland, another local
high school senior, said he has five
cousins serving in the Persian Gulf.
One of those cousins recently
made a telephone call home.
“She sounded like she was wor-
ried about what will happen next,”
he said. “She just wished she could
come home.”
Cleveland said his cousin also
reported that the troops were not
sleeping.
“The slightest sound sets them
off,” he said.
The military is a way of life in
Cleveland’s family. He joined the
Marine Corps in November under
the delayed entry program. He will
report for duty in September.
. “My mom was (worried) at first.
Then she thought, ’Well that’s what
he wants,’ ” he said.
Supporting the troops is a topic
that students sometimes discuss.
“It’s good to show support for
the troops, " Lewis said.
“It wasn’t their choice to be
there,” Jennifer Hudnall, a SSHS
senior said. ' .
"Probably the most important
thing we can do for the troops is
pray — pray that they will have the
strength to overcome fear,” Lewis
added.
Students also show concern
about how long the war will last.
“Seems to me like they’re trying
to draw it out,” Sherman said.
“It seems like they’re teasing
each other,” Hudnall said.
"1 hope they win it when it’s still
air raids — before it gets to a
ground war. That’s when people die
in masses,” Sherman added.
“I think they should drop a
bomb and get the troops out,”
Cleveland said. “Just blow that
whole side up.”
Students have differing opinions
on whether American troops should
be fighting.
Lewis compared Saddam Hus-
sein’s taking over Kuwait to
Adolph Hitler’s war in Europe.
“That’s what happened with
Adolph Hitler.” She added that if
America had intervehed at that
time, “there never would have been
a World War II — maybe.”
“It’s obvious that Hussein is a
troublemaker,” Sherman said.
“I’ve talked to a lot of students
who think it (Operation Desert
Storm) is pointless, Hudnall said.
On the subject of Iraqi civilian
casualties, John Holloway said,
“The people are supporting Sad-
dam Hussein.”
Iraq claiming
500 killed in
bomb shelter
Hopkins County Sheriff Bill Dirks shows on a map the location of shootings in which two county men were
killed. Stanley Paul Bain and James Robert Bain were shot Tuesday night at the Bain family place in the
Pine Forest Community, Dirks said. —Staff photo by Larry Barr
People in the community, Dirks
said, “described James Robert Bain
as a loner.” He had never married,
Dirks said, adding that the man
lived at the family place by him-
self.
The bodies of both men were
taken to the Dallas County medical
examiner’s office, the sheriff said.
“We won’t have a determination
in the deaths until we get autopsy
and lab reports,” he said.
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (AP)
— Missiles slammed into a Bagh-
dad bomb shelter today, Iraq said,
claiming 500 civilians died. The
United States said the site was a
military command center.
The U.S. military command said
the site was a military command
and control bunker that was “an ac-
tive target” for some time.
“We have no explanation at this
time, really, why there were
civilians in this bunker,” Marine
Brig. Gen. Richard I. Neal told
reporters in Riyadh today.
“We don’t feel we attacked the
wrong bunker or made a mistake.”
The deaths occurred during a 12-
hour bombardment of Baghdad.
One of the buildings hit — the
Palace of Conferences — is across
the street from the al-Rashid Hotel,
where a Soviet envoy on a peace
mission is staying. The diplomat
met Tuesday with Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein.
As the Persian Gulf War turned 4
weeks old, the Soviet diplomatic
efforts to end it picked up with the
announcement today of plans for
Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz to
meet in Moscow with President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Sunday’s
trip would be a followup to envoy
Yevgeny Primakov’s trip, the
Kremlin said.
After meeting with Primakov,
Saddam announced Iraq might be
willing to talk* However, the White
House noted he said nothing about
the central issue in the conflict —
ending the occupation of Kuwait.
U.S. military officials,
meanwhile, said Iraq has managed
to rig makeshift military com-
munications and supply links
despite allied bombing aimed at
smashing them. They said Iraqi was
drawing on baulefield experience in
its 1980-88 war with Iran.
The bomb shelter hit today also
was a legacy of the Iran-Iraq war: It
was one of five big shelters built in
the capital during that conflict.
Witnesses said the shelter in the
middle-class residential al-Amerieh
district took direct hits from at least
two missiles ~ fired by allied
warplanes. The missiles pierced 9
feet of concrete.
TnBBHBS
★★★
GULF
DAY 28
Rescuers clawing through the
debris found eight survivors im-
mediately after the bombing, AP
correspondent Salah Nasrawi repor-
ted from the scene. The rescuers
later said they retrieved more than
200 bodies, most of them charred
and mutilated beyond recognition,
Nasrawi reported.
Iraqi civil defense officials said
lists compiled from residents in-
dicated there were more than 500
people inside the shelter when the
warplanes struck before dawn. A
senior civil defense official said
scores of people remained buried in
the rubble but there was no hope of
finding anyone alive.
Residents crowded around the
wrecked shelter, looking for
relatives and friends. Men beat on
their chests and yelled “Allahu Ak-
bar,” Arabic for “God is Great,”
and women cried hysterically, Nas-
rawi said.
At a Baghdad hospital where the
injured were taken, 17-year-old
Omar Adrian, badly burned, said he
was the only survivor of his family
of six.
“I was sleeping and suddenly I
felt heat and the blanket was burn-
ing,” Adnan said. “I turned to try
arid touch my mother who was next
to me but grabbed nothing but a
piece of flesh.”
U.S. says it will be up
to Iraq to stop the war
Students at Austin Elementary School gave a presentation Tuesday evening for Black History Month
during a Parent Teacher’s Association meeting.
—Start photo by Carl Millegan
High school students show
strong support for troops
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
White House said today it’s up- to
Saddam Hussein to stop the bomb-
ing of Iraq by getting out of
Kuwait.
White House spokesman Marlin
Fitzwater said he had no immediate
reaction to reports that hundreds of
people were killed when a Baghdad
shelter was bombed, but repeated
that civilians arc not targets of al-
lied air raids.
“We only target military
facilities and Saddam can stop the
bombing at any time. All he has to
do is pull out of Kuwait,” Fitzwater
said.
In Riyadh, Marine Brig. Gen.
Richard Neal said the shelter was a
military command and control
bunker. ' *
“We don’t feel like we attacked
the wrong bunker or we made a
mistake,” Neal told reporters. “We
have no explanation at this lime,
really, why there were civilians in
this bunker.”
He said the structure would not
have been targeted for bombing if
allied officials knew there were
civilians inside.
Reporters taken to the shelter in
the residential al-Amerieh district
several hours after the bombing
counted more than 40 charred
bodies laid out on the ground.
pjtjitfi
'll
(V
m
Special recognition
Wildcat Co-Captains Mark Taylor, left, and JelT Jones, far right,
present a carnation to Ann Johnson and a plaque of appreciation to
her husband Lew Johnson for their dedication to the Wildcat athletic
program over the past years. Johnson, sports editor for the News-
Telegram, was covering his last regular-season basketball game. He
plans to retire from the paper later this year.
—Staff photo by Larry Barr
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. 113, No. 37, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 13, 1991, newspaper, February 13, 1991; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth824438/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.