The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, July 27, 1962 Page: 1 of 20
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VOL. 87—NO. 30.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1962.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Coastal Bermuda
Pays Off Quickly
A new method of pasture 1 early to tell for certain, Miller
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management as practiced thi3
year by a Cumby dairyman
should idean more good news
for the Hopkins County dairy
industry.
The breakthrough concerns
the production of coastal ber-
muda grass ready for cutting in
slightly more than three months
—and on prairie land as well.
J, R. Miller, who works a
160-acre farm ltfc- miles north-
east of Cumby, sprigged a 22-
acre area with coastal bermuda
On April 6 of this year. He cut
seven acres oh July 12, getting
an average of 69 bales of hay
per acre, with a 60-pound-per
bale average. *
For the last two months
prior to the cutting Miller had
grazed the land with an aver-
‘age of one 700-pound heifer
per acre. The remaining 15
acres of the plot were more
heavily grazed and were not
cut.
Although it remains too
Stew Set
To Honor
Guardsmen
expects to be able to get an-
other cutting off the seven
acres this fall. .j
Bryan Douglas, of the Soil
Conservation Service, was high
in the praise of Miller’s pro-
ject as he discussed- it Monday.
“Many folks believe you
can’t grow coastal bermuda on
prairie land,” Douglas said.
“Others don’t expect to get a
cutting at least before the end
of the first year.”
There was a “secret” of
course.
Miller first broke the land
last October. He then rebroke
it in February, going two to
three inches deeper. After the
preparation of the land was
completed Tie sprigged with
15 bushels of coastal bermuda
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per acre.
That was April 6. On May
5 Miller fertilized with 250
pounds of 10-20-10 per acre
and followed quickly on May
12 with spray for weed con-
trol.
He fertilized again on June
6 with 150-pounds of 33-0-0
per acre and cut the hay on
July 12.
Another application of 33-
0-0 was made following the
cutting.
The hay, which averaged
from 18 to 22 inches high, was
cut down to a height of six
inches.
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HOPKINS COUNTY dairymen milked early in order to board the chartered Greyhound
buses Wednesday morning en route to a meetjng of the North Texas Producers Associa-
tion at Arlington. A portion of the group which filled the two buses and several pri-
vate cars lined up for this picture before departing, (Staff Photo by Cody Greer).
. • was that extra breaking in the
Tentative plans for an fall,” Douglas said. “It gave
area-wide Hopkins C oun- him an excellent seed bed.
Dormant Cooper Reservoir Masonic Bodies
Project Being Reactivated inslalINew
Officers Here
$172,000 Bid
For FM Link
Is Reported
McKnight Construction Com-
pany of Commerce and J. B.
Griffin of Waxahachie have
submitted the apparent low
bid for a segment of FM 71
from Emblem to Horton, link-
ing Hopkins and Delta coun-
ties, according to the Texas
Highway Department.
Kids opened in Austin Tues-
day totaled $9,827,902.
The 3.5 miles farm-to-mar-
ket project from Emblem to
Horton will cost $172,714,
The work includes grading,
structures and surface.
ty stew feed in conjunc-
tion with the arrival of
the Sulphur Springs Na-
tional Guard unit Aug 9
were made Thursday morning
at a meeting of club and or-
ganizational leaders.
The program will be held in
City Park starting at 6:30. The
exact site will be selected later.
The Sulphur Springs unit,
Company D of the 3rd Armor-
ed Battalion, will hold muster-
ing out ceremonies at 6:30 sym-
bolizing. thg return to state con-
trol of the local unit. There
will be no other official pro-
gram.
The main body of troops will
return Aug. 7, but will remain
under federal control until
midnight of the 9th.
Favorite Food
Show Slated
Here Friday
Between 15 and 25 persons
are expected to enter the Fav-
orite Food Show that begins
at 1:30 p. m. Friday in the
Women's Club Building.
Two Paris home economists,
Mrs. Myrtle Walters of Texas
Power and Light Company and
Mrs. Treva Mahan of Lone
Star Gas, will judge the entries
in the two divisions, junior and
senior.
The top two entrants in each
class will advance to the dis-
trict show in Texarkana Aug.
2.
Although only judges may
sample the food during the
show, home demonstration
agents here say that what re-
mains will probably be serv-
ed to guests when judging is
concluded about 3 o’clock.
“Then he used good weed
control practice, following the
first fertilizer application with
weed spray so the grass was
getting all the benefits of the
fertilizer, not the weeds.”
Miller has cooperated with
the Hopkins Rains Soil Conser-
vation District since 1958. He
has now turned 104 acres into
coastal bermuda pasture.
Orr Reports
Interest Grows
In Association
Jess Orr, chairman of the
membership and finance com-
mittee of the State 19 High-
way Association, has returned
from a tour to the cities along
the Paris-Huntsville route with
a report of growing interest in
the association.
The association was formed
this spring to develop travel
along the route. Efforts will be
made to appeal" especially to
motorists driving north from
Houston to Oklahoma and be-
yond and to those going to the
Houston area from the midwest-
ern states.
The organization of the as-
sociation is still in progress.
Eventually it is hoped that
Trinity, Elkhart, Crockett, Pal-
The long dormant Cooper
Reservoir project is being re-
activated under the stimulus
of a new directive by President
Kennedy providing a more fa-
vorable cost basis for local par-
and in having jurisdiction over
water stored for local use.
Will Cut Local Cost
Renewed interest in the proj-
ect started last week when Col.
Edward B. Jennings, district
ticipation in such water de- j engineer at New Orleans, con-
velopment programs.
Progress on the b i g South
Sulphur River program had
been stalled for about two
years after a new cost alloca-
tion formula increased the local
share to a level deemed by di-
rectors of the Sulphur River
Municipal Water District as be-
yond the resources of the three
participating cities — Sulphur
Springs, Commerce and Cooper.
In the last major move on
the project about a year agp,
the district directors filed an
application for state participa-
tion in the reservoir develop-
ment as the only remaining
possibility for its materializa-
tion.
New Figures Sought
Action was resumed on a
local basis early this week when
Joe Carter, chairman of the
Texas Water Commission, in-
structed Quentin Miller of
CooRer, president of the Sul-
phur River Municipal Water
District, to seek new cost fig-
ures from the U. S. Army
Corps of Engineers.
The Corps of Engineers will
firmed in a telephone conver-
sation with Cooper Mayor
George A. Bolger and Miller
the fact that President Ken-
nedy had issued the memoran-
dum directing that cost allo-
cations to local interests in res-
ervoir projects “be reduced to
par.”
The directive contained other
features which will reduce fur-
ther the local participation cost
in Cooper Reservoir. They in-
Benefits; (4) Time considera-
tion of cost-sharing benefits
extended up to 100 years; (5)
Irrigation Benefits; (6) Drain-
age Benefits.
Up until this time only two
features—Flood Control and
Water Supply—have been con-
sidered as bene .fits to the
Cooper Reservoir. The life of
the project also was limited £o
50 years. *
Channel Work Done
, Considerable channel straight-
ening and relocation work was
done by the government on
the South Sulphur both above
and below the proposed dam
site a short distance west of
State Highway 19 and funds
be asked to quote to the district |
terms and conditions for maxi-!mercf anf* Cooper approved a
., . plan last year under which Sul-
water storage capacity of! phur Springs woultl pay 52 per
elude recognition of fish and for starting reservoir construc-
wildlife benefits in determin-i tion, had been appropriated
ing the cost formula. j when the project bogged down
Enos L. Ashcroft, a Sulphur on the cost question.
Springs representative on the | The new approach approved
water district board, predicted '
the next major move in the
complicated chain will be up to
the city of Sulphur Springs.
The city commissioners, he
pointed out, will be called on
to say how much water storage
the municipality c a n use and
how much the city would be
willing to pay for the resource.
Share Formula Advanced
No commitment ever has
been made on the issue by the
cities:
Governing boards of Com-
The Royal Arch Masons,
Chapter 63, and Council No. 44
have -installed new officers in
Sulphur Springs.
New Royal Arch Mason of-
ficers 'include Walter Halrnon-
taller, high priest; N. B. Gaf-
ford, king;. John Baker Irons,
scribe; W. B. Onley, treasurer;
Joe R. Pogue, treasurer; L. D.
Holder, captain of the host;
R. C. Burgin, principal sojourn-
er; Fiat Davis, Royal Arch cap-
tain; Dewitt Loyd, master of
3rd vale; E. L. Wright, master
of a 2nd vale; Leeman Teetes,
master of 1st vale; and H. O.
Day, guard.
Hugh Frazier was the install-
ing officer, with P. H. Corbet
serving as installing marshal.
Council officers installed in-
Blue Blazes
Selected
A' squad of 40 girls, includ-
ing officers, was named Satur-
day as the first girls d>ill
team at Sulphur Springs High
School.
The group will be known as
the Blue Blazes and will per-
_ ________elude Halmontaller, three illus-1 form at football games this
last summer called for the j jr'ous. master; (, afford, right fall. The first practice session
three cities obligating them- illustrious deputy master; will be held this Thursday,
selves for 10,000 acre feet of Irons« P™c'PM conductor of
FOR MARTHA MARY
A program of polio im-
munization aimed at cov-
ering’all residents of Hop-
kins County will be pre-
sented this summer and
fall by Hopkins County
physicians.
The program will use the
new Sabin oral vaccine in liquid
form. ' '
Protection against Type I
polio, the variety now preval-
ent in parts of Te‘xas, will be
Sulphur Springs people who
have followed with keen inter-
est 11-year-old Martha Mary j offered'Aug. 5 and Aug. 12 in
Pearce’s successful battle for the Sulphur Springs Lanes
health' are raising a community j howling center.
fund to help defray the heavy
medical expenses necessary for
attaining that goal.
Following the prescribed six
weeks’ intervals, vaccine for
Type III polio’ will be admini%
R. W. Currin, who is steer- tered Sept. 16 and Sept. 23 and
ing the project, reported a fine
initial response from individ-
uals* Sunday School classes and
other groups.
“It is Just a little love gift,”
he declared.
Currin said expenses incur-
red by the family to date in
the open heart surgery case
totaled more than $7,000.
There will be other costs to fol-
low, he added.
that for Type II on Oct. 28
and Nov. 4.,
All on Sunday
All of the immunization clin-
ics will be conducted on Sun-
days. Officers of the Sulphur
Springs Lanes have agreed to
suspend bowling activities on
the six days and to turn their
facilities over to the health
project. Accessibility, air con-
ditioning and parking space
Currin reported the idea for j were factors in the selection of
the collection origi n a 11 y was the location,
suggested during a discussion The liquid vaccine will be ad-
of the case by a local bridge
club.
Contributions may be left
with Lonnie Campbell at the
City National Bank or Irl St.
Clair at the Sulphur Springs
State Bank.
water and the state reserving
the remaining 105,000 feet
available for future general
use.
Under the cost formula then
offered by the Corps of En-
gineers, the city of Sulphur
Springs would have paid
$12,220 annually for the stor
work; Onley, treasurer; Pogue,
record; Holder, captain of
guards; Burgin, conductor of
council; Davis, steward; and
Day, sentinel.
mum
115,000 acre feet in the Cooper
Reservoir under the new presi-
estine, Athens, Canton, Emory j dential directive,
and Sulphur Springs—in ad-; Miller quoted Carter as hav-
dition to terminal cities Paris
and Huntsville—will be in this
group.
The goal, of course, is to
obtain more tourist business
for the cities along the route.
Orr, in his report to the Hop-
kins County Chamber of Com-
merce, urged citizens to take
part in the planning for asso-
ciation activities.
ing said that in his opihion the
Texas Water Commission would
purchase any water storage in
Coopei Reservoir which local
interests coulcl not finance.
The Sulphur River Munici-
pal Water District was creat-
ed by the Texas legislature in
1955 to represent the thiee
cities in dealing with the Corps
of Engineers on the project
Survey Shows Water
Supply in Good Shape
A continuation of the hot,
dry summer has sei’Ved to move
water consumption to the dan-
ger point in several Texas cities
—and the list seebis likely to
grow.
But a check in Sulphur
Springs Tuesday indicated that
the water supply situation is
holding up well.
Although there has been but
one measurable rain in the city
thus far in July, Century Lake
*—the main water supply facil-
ity—is within a few inches of
lapping over the spillway. A
combination of an unusually
-wet June plus scattered show-
ers this month in outlying por-
tions of Hopkins County is be-
lieved to ^he the reasqn.
I.ake Coleman, which is lo-
cated at the city's water-treat-
ment plant and is the most im-
portant link in th^ water sup-
'-"ki
inches below the spillway. That
represents only a seven inch
drop in the level of the lake
since June 15.
The level in Lake Coleman
must drop to about six or seven
feet below the spillway before
it becomes difficult to draw
water into the treatment plant.
The water level in Lake
Coleman always drops during
the summer because the city
cannot pump as much water
through the 8-inch line leading
the three miles from White Oak
Reservoir — the storage pond
between Century.and Coleman
—as is used each day,
Drops Slowly
However, 24-hour pumping
from the reservoir continues
(as it has since April) and
Lake C o 1 Cjn a n has averaged
only slightly mor$ than an inch
drop cacti week during the sum-
mer thil* far. *
The ether aspect of water
... .ys.
plant capacity
within limits.
remains well
The water treatment plant
pumped 1,300,000 gallons Mon-
day, the biggest day in more
than a week, but well below
the 1,638,000 pumped just be-
fore the rains of July 16.
Rated capacity at the Sul-
phur Springs plant is 2 million
gallons a day, based omthe fact
that each of the four filtering
tanks can filter 500,000 gal-
lons a day without trouble.
They can be pushed to 750,000
gallons.
It is in this department .that
Eagle Pass has begun to exper-
ience difficulty. Officials in
that south Texas city have or-
dered water shut off between
2 and 5 p.m. each day.
Recent heavy rains upstream
on the Rio Grande knocked
loose a deposit of extra heavy
clay into the river. The clay
cannot he filtered out of the
the demand of the'10,000 resi-
dents at peak hours.
water as easily silt apd the
Eagle Pass Flood Control and Fre^ntforv
cent of the three-city sha^e,
Commerce 34 per cent and
Cooper 14 per cent.
The allocation formula drew
some criticism here, although
no opinion on the mattei was
expressed by the city commis-
sioners.
Ashcroft also pointed out that
the entitre plan hinges on Tex-
as voter approval in the No-
vember general election of a
proposed constitutional amend-
ment which would authorize
the state to purchase for future
use water storage space in res-
ervoirs built -by the federal
government.
Thursday’s announcement
traced the beginning of the
new federal policy to October,
1961, when President Kennedy
asked the secretaries of the in-
terior, agriculture, army and
health, education and welfare
departments to review the ex-
isting standards of evaluation
of water resources projects and
to recommend any necessary
changes.
Proposal*. Approved
The four cabinet members
comprised a Water Resources
Council. The group made rec-
ommendations tp the President.
On last May 15, Mr. Kennedy
sent a memorandum to the four
secretaries declaring the group’s
statement of policies approved
for application by each of the
departments concerned and by
the Bureau of the Budgdt in its
review of proposed programs
and projects.
The recommendations of the
secretaries, as approved by the
President, were designated as
Senate Document No. 97.
Features in the plan describ-
ed as significant to the Cooper
Reservoir project include:1 (1.)
Post Office
age rights to 5,200 acre feet|J^0jj| Jjgj*
Opening Hour
of water.
In addition, the cost of the
14-mile pipeline, and pumping
facilities necessary to bring the
water from the reservoir to
Sulphur Springs was estimated
at approximately $2,800,000.
Balancing issue's in the ques-
tion are the long-range future
value of the water supply and
the recreational facilities on
one side and the fact that Sul-
phur Springs now has enough
water available from White
Oak Creek to serve double its
present population on the other
side.
Window hours at the Sulphur
Springs post office will be
change by popular demand be-
ginning Monday, Aug. 27.
Postmaster O. C. Sewell, Jr.,
announced Wednesday that the
new hours effective late next
month will be from 8 a. m. to
4:30 p. m.
The current window hours of
from 8:30 a. m. to 5 p. m. on
week days will continue until
the change becomes effective
Aug. 27.
Daria Morgan, a senior, and
Jonell Anderson, a junior, were
named as co-captains. These
and all selections were made
by a board of out-of-town
judges.
Lieutenants will be Betty Al-
berts, senior; Sue Ann Green,
junior, and Judy Jackson, soph-
omore.
Others chosen for the unit
are Linda Moore, Grace Ma-
haffey, Judy Fuller, Rhonda
Potts, Nancy Winans, Linda
White, Janet Bailey, Ann Kin-
ministered in doses of approxi-
mately one half teaspoonful di-
luted with a little water to
make swallowing easier.
The vaccine was sampled by
reporters attending an an-
nouncement meeting for the
program Tuesday morning in
Memorial Hospital. It had a
sweet but not unpleasant taste.
Local members of the Hop-
kins-Franklin Medical Society
met Monday night with repre-
sentatives of Lederle Labora-
tories, manufacturer of the vac-
cine, to plan the program along
lines carried out successfully in
many other cities.
Franklin County doctors are
planning a similar immuniza-
tion project in that county.
No Adverse Reaction
Doctors and the Lederle rep-
resentatives agreed that there
is no known adverse reaction
from the vaccine.
The length of the protection
offered is not known, although
booster doses now are recom-
mended at intervals of from
two to four years.
All residents of the- county
over six months of age are urg-
ed to participate in the protec-
tive program. Elderly people
who do not ordinarily contract
polio are being asked to join
in the project to avoid the pos-
sibilities of their becoming car-
riers of the disease.
Physicians said even persons
who have had the Salk vaccine
del, Kay Finley, LaVada Ad-
ams, Lou Ellen Berry, Mar-1 offering protection against all
garet Green, Jeannine Ramey. ^h,;ee rtrwns of the disease are
Sue Clark, Kay Gene Craver,
Joyce Kennimer, Lela Carol
Humphrey, Judy Gray, Cynthia
Young, Carol Ann Morgan,
Linda Sewell, Sarah Penson,
Jan Orwig, Jackie DpPriest,
Gena Pennington, Dell Alford,
Pat McCollum, Linda Booker.
Diane Cox, D’Ann Jenkins,
Judy Burch, Dianna Jacobs,
Peggy Long, Karen Swindell,
and Hilda Holder.
Three Teachers Added
By Local School Board
benefits; (2) Recreation Bene-
fits; (3) Fish and Wildlife
Farm Bureau
Plans Annual
Queen's Contest
The Hopkins County Farm
Bureau will hold a party Sat-
uday* for girls interested in en-
tering the Farm Bureau Queen's
contest. The party will be held
in the Farm Bureau office at
110 Gilmer Street at 2:30 p. m.
Mrs. Estes Hargrave, Mrs.
Harlan Craig, Mrs. Jeff Smith,
and Mrs. T. M. Chester will be
the hostesses.
Eligibility for the queen’s
contest, require that she be a
daughter or sister of a Farm
Bureau member, actively en-
gaged in 'agricultural produce
tion; single; and between the
«g« o£» LS odd’’21 inclusive.
Each girl entered in the con-
(Continued on Back Page) .
Three women were elected to
teach in Sulphur Springs
schools this term by school
trustees in a special meeting
Friday night.
Mrs. Jack F. Gibson* who
holds master of education de-
grees in math and English, was
chosen to instruct these two
subjects at the high school. She
was elected to fill the vacancy
of Charles Moore, who recently
resigned.
Mrs. C. O. Moody was named
as a teacher at Travis Elemen-
tary School. Mrs. Moody has a
master of education degree in
English, social studies and ele-
mentary education.
Also elected was Mrs. Eva L.
Harness to teach Spanish... and
English at the high school. Mrs.
Harness lacks two courses from
earning her master’s degree.
Superintendent Jack F. Gib-
son announced Saturday morn-
ing that Richard Shanks has. re-
signed, fts assistant bapd ;$V
rector to become band director
at Clarksville.
Dogs for Blind
Set Obedience
, V
Demonstration
-Quitman will be host to the
second annual national conven-
tion of the Companion Collie
Auxiliary July 26-28, inclusive,
with Dr. Lee Ford of Tacoma,
Wash., founder and director of
the program that aids blind
youngsters, in attendance.
Mrs. Burr Lacey of Quitman
is national president. Others
planning to attend the meeting
are Mrs. EReen Dekker, vice
president of Tacoma, and Mrs.
R. J. Madligan, chairman of
the board of directors, South
Holland, 111.
had advanced
(Continued
being advised to take the Sabin
doses to gain an additional
measure of immunity.
Be*t Result* With Both
Neither vaccine takes the
place of the other, doctors at-
tending Tuesday’s meeting
agreed, and a greater total im-
munity is gained when both
are taken.
No charge will be made for
the Sabin vaccine doses, al-
though there will be a contain-
er at the end of the clinic lines
for suggested 25-cent contribu-
tions to help defray the cost,
which is being underwritten by
the doctors.
If any surplus should mater-
ialize, the money will be given
to the Community Chest
No one will be refused the
vaccine because of inability to
pay the 26 cents, it was empha-
sized.
(Continued on Bade Page)
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