Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 148, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 22, 1980 Page: 1 of 32
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Amber waves of grain
...And where you'd least expect them
Staff Special
-Photos by Jim Moore and John Gore
It the midst of dairy country', beef cattle
and vegetable gardens, it comes as
something of a shock - a waving sea of
golden gram.
Over a wide stretch of fertile land near
Sulphur Bluff, the scene unfolding is more
like the landscape of the Kansas plains or
the Texas Panhandle than that of Nor-
theast Texas.
Adding to the unpact of the sudden
contrast is a big combine, chewing its way
through the ripened grain and emptying its
harvest into waiting trucks — one more
contribution to the world’s food supply.
The site is N.V. International Farms
lac., where the grain field is but one part of
a diversified fanning operation.
Drvtam Manger Jim Scharlach over-
sees the harvesting of the 4,000 acres of
wheat painting out that the farm was in
the process of not only baling alfalfa at the
same time in a field not far away.
Ralph Calhoun of Sulphur Bluff was the
driver cf one of the giant machines, and he
and his co-workers got an unsolicited
compliment from Scharlach: “We’ve got.
some of the best combine operators in this
Against an impressive sky, a combine...
Scharlach says that the farm, owned by
Prince Hans of Lietchtenstein, will
average 40 bushels per acre of wheat.
Each at the wheat storage tanks will
haM about aO^OO bushels.
Scharlach says a bushel of wheat will
..Wheat flows Into a truck for transport
More rain possible
After all was said and done Friday,
the back of old man drought was bent,
with 1.70 inches of rain, but not
broken.
Although the rain was a welcome
relief from the hot and dry spell, mote
rain is needed to keep lay and crop
production going and more may be on
the way, say forecasters.
The sun broke through the clouds
Friday afternoon sending the mer-
cury to 83 degrees, but Satomdsy
morning the overcast was bntkjssd
National Weather Service forecasters
were calling for more scat ’
thunderstorms through Sunday.
Court plans center study
Members of the Hopkins County Com-
missioners Court are expected to employ a
theatrical consultant and an engineer to
get the Civic Center Auditorium and
livestock Arena project back on the road
when they meet Monday at 10 a.m. in the
chambers of County Judge Joe R. Pogue.
Also at that meeting, District Attorney
Jim Chapman will be present to request
payment of rent for the DA’s office, and
County Auditor Marvin Stubbs will be
present to discuss several county flnnnrini
matters including Chapman’s request and
a recent decision to
tomey’s Investigator Larry Va
another six-month period.
Former Precinct 3 <
Tanton’s unpaid workman's c
claim will be before the court, Trwiiag Is
a spokesperson far Judge Pogue, aud the
court will consider advertiaug fur lute far
a loader for Precinct 3 CouuaimimerTJL
(Mervin) Chester.
Burial of a telephone cable wfl aim he
considered. /
watches a loading auger
weigh about 60 pounds, giving a capacity
of 1.2-milbon pounds in each grain storage
tank.
Sue Scharlach, wife of the manager, was
always on hand as another truck drove up
to drop its load of harvested wheat into the
depression.
After being dumped, an auger moves it
into the grain storage area.
Although the work is hot, dusty and dirty
for most of the workers, the drivers
operate the farm's four 840,000 combines
in air-conditoned comfort.
The farm contains 17,000 acres with
12,000 currently under active cultivation.
It takes five counties (Hopkins, Delta,
Franklin, Red River and Lamar) to
contain the large farm that is about half of
the size of Lietchtenstein — which contains
61 square miles.
In addition to wheat, the farm produces
soy’ beans, alfalfa hay, and an ex-
perimental 10-acre crop of rice and a herd
of beef cattle.
After the wheat is harvested, the chaff is
burned off and soy beans are planted to
obtain a double crop from the same land
each year.
To run the huge farm, 16 employees join
Scharlach and his wife, who also teaches
at North Hopkins.
Scharlach said that bye families live on
the farm year-round.
Most of the vehicles are radio equipped
so that personnel can be contacted when
needed and the farm 1ms its own main-
tenance shop.
Local man suffers
burns in accident
“We’re calling in Fire Marshal Jerry
Bolding to take a look at this accident,’’
said Hopkins County Sheriff John E.
(Junior) Tittle Saturday morning after
questions arose in a Friday afternoon fire
that resulted in minor injuries to one
person and extensive injuries to a second.
About 6:23 p.m. Friday, firemen
received a call reporting a vehicle fire
with a person trapped inside the car on 1-30
West.
The Rescue Squad, fire trucks and
lawmen were dispatched and upon arrival,
found a 1976 twodoor sedan on fire about
1.5 miles west of Sulphur Springs on the
north service road. No one was trapped
inside the vehicle, however.
Deputies Bill Dirks and Mike Swindell
reported that they were told that Todd
Williams, 18, of 600 League Street was
priming the carburetor of another car with
a five gallon can of gasoline when the car
backfired through the carburetor, setting
the can of gas on fire.
Williams was burned on his hands and
arms as he reportedly put the can of gas
down and then Robert (Bobby) Hernendez,
29, of 108 Jefferson reportedly tried to
move the can of gas away from the car
when it exploded or flashed. Hernendez
had reportedly gotten his clothes sainted
earlier with gasoline.
Hernendez, in a reflex action, ap-
parently threw the can which came to rest
against the car, setting the vehicle afire.
He received extensive burns on his legs,
arms and the upper cheat area and back
Firemen said that Hernendez had finf
and second degree bums over at least 4!
percent of his body.
Rescue Squad personnel and ambdance
attendants from both Tapp and Murray
Orwosky Funeral Homes worked
feverishly to treat Hernendez, pouring
sterile water on his injuries and taking
other bum treatment action ao that he
could be transported to Memorial
Hospital. ‘. "
Williams was treated and released from
the hospital and Hernendez, according to i
sheriff’s deputy, underwent an emergency
appendectomy before being transferred to
the Parkland Bum Coder in Dallas.
Parkland officials reported that Her-
nendez was in fair condition there
Saturday morning.
Tittle said the accident was still under
investigation.
Centenarian's dream
becomes reality: at
age 107, citizenship
By BARRY RENFREW
Associated Press Writer
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - For
decades, Mary Marvich was turned down
for U.S. citizenship because she couldn’t
remember the name of the sailing slap
that carried her from eastern Europe to
New York in 1JM. But Saturday, the
sprightly 187-year-old woman was
scheduled to raise her hand and swear
allegiance to the land she has loved for
nearly a century
“This has been my home, my country all
these years,” Mrs. Marvich said. “It’s the
happiest moment of my life.
“It’ll be the first time IT1 be able to vote
Mrs. Marvich was to be naturalized
Saturday at a special ceremony in UJS.
District Court in Fairmont After a
barrage of telephone calls and letters by
friends and neighbors, President Carter
Intervened in her case, and in an unusual
gesture, the Immigration and
Naturalization Service waz sending a
judge and a senior official from
Philadelphia for the ceremony.
Mrs. Marvich came to America from
what is now Belgrade, Yagoaiavia, when
she was 18 years old, barely able to speak a
word of English. After working in a New
York factory for two years, she married
lives in Farmington, a coal-
__ . jmiuaity of MB people outside
Fairmont, with her only surviving child,
Betty NieoleCtL
“We tried again and again,” mid Mrs.
Nicoletti, recalling efforts over the put 48
years to get citizenship for hermather.
“We sent the papers in and every time
they came back because she couldn’t
remember the name of the ship she came
in,” she said.
But they finally gave up. “She was jast
so embarrassed, she had been here so long
and it was no good,” Mrs. Nicoletti said.
Since she turned 188, Mrs. Marvich’s
neighbors have celebrated her birthdays,
and this year they asked what she wanted
moot Surprised when Mk replied,
“citizenship,” they set to work contacting
immigration rffiHah, local, state and
federal authorities. Soon, the news media
began tolling btr story.
“We’ve had letters from every stale in
the country,” Mrs. Nicoletti said. “And the
phone hasn’t stopped ringing. People have
really been plugging for her. They’ve been
wonderful."
Robert A. Jacobson, an INS i
said the immigration service
battled with ao many letters and caBs that
officials composed a form letter to answer
them.
It turns out that although the
ship needed to
entered the
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 148, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 22, 1980, newspaper, June 22, 1980; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth824457/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.