The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, July 27, 1962 Page: 13 of 20
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PATTERNS OF LIVING PROBED
Sulphur Springs Families
Relocate in New Homes
Dog t)
THE HOPKINS COUNTY ECHO, Sulphur Springs, Texas. Friday, July 27,1962.
ays
MUCH ABOVE Normal temperatures and liurht precipitation
may be expected in Sulphur Springs through Aug, 1-5, ac-
cording to the U. S. Weather 'Bureau’s long-range forecast.
By CLARKE KEYS ious to that survey, 149 homes
In the past five and a half j were started—-j u's t 20 fewer
y e a l s' the city ol Sulphur j homes built in three years than
Springs has issued 344 building the number of people the town
, Kerm.its.foy pew hvysexunstmc-,
tion. Other new homes have
been built outside' the city on
the highway approaches.
While the new-home con-
tt’nic i ii c iiwv-iiuiiie con- -----*
blast last year when 84 per-
mits were issued (and seems
to be continuing this year with
43 permits issued through the
first six months) a real" build
grew by - in 10 years.
Relocation, Period
That pattern would suggest
that the city was merely go-
cation, rather t h a n growth
Some families were seeking to
improve their living standard,
others who had been renting
decided on a ^purchase. Still
ing increase has been m/ted “tf t ^rcnase-
since 1957 others, perhaps, had been liv-
’nS with parents or other rel-
Forty-five new homes were|atives and found it possible to
started that year-followed by j spread out.
43 in 1958, 61 in 1959 and 68 ! ,.Th?, ciuesti°n arises, then does
in 196u.
As was noted in the first of
the News-Telegram’s series on
the pattern of Sulphur Springs
last week, the U. S. census of
1960 marked an increase in
population for 10 years of only
169.
Yet in the three years prev-
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Furniture Upholstery
Refinishinf
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the figure of 195 new homes in
the past 2 M> > ears represent
an increase in the city’s popu-
lation or a continuance of the
relocation pattern?
The answer appears to be
about 50-50—except there is a
stumbling block. If the city’s
population is relocating (main-
ly to the east and south) that
would mean that there would
be an increase in vacancies in
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gories*.
Not so, say local real estate
men.
Most men interviewed this
week, who are involved in the
construction or sale of homes
agreed that about half of the
transactions involve new' peo-
ple totne city, while the other
half involves t h use relocating
within the city. '
Rental Shortage <
But alnv st all agreed that
there is a shortage of older
vacant homes and rental prop-
erty.
“I would think that the sale
of new homes involves a com-
bination of both new people
and those relocating,” one said.
‘‘Many people have been able
to impiove their present posi-
tion. But 1 would say there are
very "few vacant older homes
just the same.”
Another real estate man said
(that the demand for rental
property greatly exceeds the
supply, but noted that most
people desiring rental property
here are of .the transient na-
ture in that they work for oil
drilling or scooting crews and
do not plan on an extended stay
in Sulphur Springs.
Still another said that the
majority 6f sales made through
his office are to new people
right now*. “There’s been a
trend for people to improve
their living areas in the past,”
he said, “but right now the
people we are selling to are
new people.”
Into First Homes
Another salesman, however,
said that at least 75 per cent
of his dealings involve pepple
seeking relocation within the
city. “Many are young couples
who have been renting and are
now making their first home of
their own,” he noted.
Only one of six men inter-
viewed said that he felt there
was a supply of cheaper houses
now vacant.
Hie 50-50 break idea was
the prevalent response from
several of the major home
builders in town, too.
A check of 16 homes built
and sold by one builder since
the last census (an admittedly
small sample) showed that half
had been sold to people who
were not residents in 1960, the
other half to people who were.
There can be little doubt
that much of the visible growth
of Sulphur Springs, particular-
ly in the last five years, has
highway patrolmen busy over
the week-iina;; r :'r~
Three of the accidents occur*
red Saturday evening, two of
them within a minute of each
fcXPECTED
PRFCIPITATION
Rainfall fis,w*xp«?Ct|d
cept , California, &ui
| | MODERATE
£3L,GHT
AVERAGES;
JULY 15-AUG. 15
to be normal- or above everywhere ex-
ulf states and a part of the Northeast.
EXPECTED
TEMPERATURES
Below normal temperatures will prevail in northern half of
nation and far Southwest, but above normal in Gulf States.
been due to a relocation of the
families in the^city.
But no one seems able to
answer where these people used
to live.
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in
S. Sivaswamy
Tells Brinker
About India
Brinker residents Tuesday
night heard, S. Sivaswamy, In-
ternational Farm Youth Ex-
change student from India,
speak about his homeland.
He is currently in this coum
try for ^a six-month visit of
homes and farms as part of a
goodwill program.
Sivaswamy lives with his
family on a 125-acre farm,
growing rice, sugar cane, ba-
nanas and peanuts. No man is
allowed over 30 acres of land
and each acre costs between
$600 and $6,000. Oxen, costing
from $100 to $1,000, work the
land.
“Taxes in India are high,”
said the visitor. “For example,
if one’s net income is $10,000,
he must give 30 per cent of
this to the government.”
The profit from sugar cane
is about $250 per acre.
Sivaswamy, nicknamed Joe in
this county, said his family
hires 15 regular hands and in
the harvest season works 25
met and 50 women. The men
are paid about 50 cents a day
and the women 5 to 25 cents.
A major disease in India is
malaria. The death rate, espec-
ially among children, is very
high and the average life span
only about 35 years.
cation and each student nmst
study his national language,
English and Hindu,” he re-
marked.
Sivaswamy, when he returns
to India late this year, vwill
marry a girl whom he has never
seen. In accordance with a
long-standing custom, his par-
ents picked his bride many
years ago.
He said that telephone serv-
ice ' is available only in the
cities. Rural mail delivery, how-
ever, is provided by mailmen
whose five-mile routes are
ridden on bicybles.
About 60 per cent of the
438,000,000 Indians are Hin-
dus, 30 per cent Moslem or
Buddhist and the other 10 per
cent Christians, said Sivasw-
amy.
Lee A. Sloui
Dies Monday
Final lites for Lee A. Stout,
who died Monday, were held
at the Como Baptist Church at
2:30 p. m. Wednesday, with the
Rev. Lester McKinney offi-
ciating.
He was a member of the
Christian Church and a retired
carpenter. He was, born July
28, 1889, at Pine Forest, the
son of the late Mr. and Mrs,
Sealon Stout. He married Miss
Donnie Byrd April 22, 1917,
at Morris Hill.
Survivors include the wife,
of the home; two daughters,
Mrs. Frank Tinsley of Pueblo,
Colo., and Mrs. L. C. Sweat pf
Arlington; two sons, Gilbert
Stout of Victoria and Johnny
INJURIES BELIEVED MINOR
5 Traffic Accidents
Keep Patrolmen Busy
Five traffic accidents on ‘ Dr. B u c y told Patrolman
Hopkins County highways kept John Odom that He had to slow
cat..pulling a boat
that was entering the super
lugh vv a y on the west-bound
lanes. The Brown auto hit the
rear-of the Bucy car, then shot
other- at oppot^ .e.iiyls-of the*) across t)w nwdiat strip, both
way 19 at 11:15 pJn. Sunda/. j
Mercer, who^suftered mint?
cuts and bruises/ told Odflffh
that he dozed off while travejf
ing south on the highway.
county on State Highway 19.
Property damage was high in
several of the accidents, but
only two persons suffered min-
or injuries.
Slight damage was reported
to cars driven by Oscar Ban-
huss of Greenville and Charles!
Du/fey of Sulphur Springs at
5:15 p.m. Saturday. The acci-
dent occurred three miles west
of Winnsboro on Highway 11.
The Du ffey car was passing
the Ba'nhuss auto at the time
of the collision.
Two pickup trucks Were in-
volved jn a collision at about
7:30 p.m. Saturday 10 miles
north of Sulphur Springs oni
Highway 19. A truck driven by [
Barney Smith, Route 3 Sulphur!
Springs, was slowing to make
a left turn when hit from, the I
rear by a truck driven by L. C.
Burrow of ^ake Crepk. Dam-
age estimates included '$50 to i
the Smith truck and $200 to
the Burrow truck. There were
no injuries.
A nearly simultaneous ac-
cident was reported one mile
north of Shirley on Highway
19 south of Sulphur Springs. A
Highway patrolman from Mt.
Vernon had to answer the call
and details were not available.:
A Greenville woman was tak- J
en to Memorial Hospital fori
treatment Sunday night after!
a two-car collision at 8:30 on
Interstate 30 just west of the
South Broadway overpass.
Mrs. Carl Brown was a pas-
senger in a car driven by her
husband that was involved in
the accident with a car driven
by Dr. Ray Bucy of Linden.
Mrs. Brown Suffered ankle and
cheek injuries, hut w'as releas-
ed after treatment.
tones of the east-bound road-
way afid came to a halt on the
exit road south the highway.
-Damage was listed at $350
"to the Bucy cai.....afid* $5&0 to
the Brown car.
A pickup truck driven by
RoberGDon Mercer of Sulphur
Springs was demolished when
it bit a bridge five miles north
of Sulphur Springs on High-
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Plans lo Attend
Convention -
Nina Kellum and her pat-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kellum,
will leave her.e Saturday, tp at-
tend flie 'American Institute of
Co - Operatives convention at
Ohio State University in Co-
lumbus.
Miss Kellum was third place
state winner recently in the
Town and Country Business
Program’s agri - business con-
test.
Accompanying the Kellun^s
will he Barbara W.oJle of Nefr
Braunfels, first place finish®-
in the Texas contest.
children; a sister, Mrs. C. B.
Flowers rtf Union, and a broth-
er, Leonard Stout -ef Fort
Worth,
Interment was in the Como
cemetery.
Day and Day Funeral Home
was in charge of arrangements.
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, July 27, 1962, newspaper, July 27, 1962; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth826642/m1/13/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.