The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, July 27, 1962 Page: 16 of 20
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ih Bevis* Advance In
utomobile Trade Steady
Perth Known
As City of Light
< WashingtomjpAustralia’s city
of Perth, which turned on its
Ralph C. Bevis, who will
open the doors of his pew
Pontiac • Olds - Caddillac
agency to friends and custom-
ers Friday, is a “horse trader”
of wide reknown' whose busi-
ness experience dates back to
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The 45-year-old new car
dealer has been sole owner of
the local auto company since
1959, when he bought the half
Helm.
Before that time. Bevis had
advanced from salesman at the
Pontiac - Cadillac establish-
ment to minority owner and
then to half-owner.
Cited for Sales Record
His success in selling new
cars won he and his wife tVilina
a trip to Mexico City in 1965
from General Motors for being
tops in sales in his district.
And Bevis has received plaques
from the Pontiac - Oldsmobile
Division of General Motors for |
meeting annual sales quotas
since the awards started three
years ago.
Bevis was bom in Blinker,
the son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. T. W. Bevis. He graduated1
from Sulphur Springs High
School, attended East Texas
State Teachers College and was
a member of Lambda Chi fra-
ternity at East Texas.
From ETSTC, Bevis became
a salesman for a period of
years with three companies —
Jackson Brothers Wholesale
Grocery, United States Tobac-
co and International Milling.
Then, in 1945, he went into
business, for himself, opening a
grocery store in Winnaboro.
Five years later, Bevis decided
to move back to Sulphur
Springs and started a grocery
Where the Sears - Roebuck
gtore stands now.
Business in Winnslboro
But even to this day, Bevis’
name is still known in Winns-
boro, where he now has a used
car business in parinerhip with
W. T. Daniels.
In 1952, Bevis had his first
experience in automobiles. He
went to a number of Midwest-
ern points — Chicago, Indian-
apolis, Omaha and St. Louis—
and towed back new and used
cars to sell.
Following this, Bevis be-
eeme Salesman at the business
he now owns. Helm was owner
of the agency when Bevis start-
ed there in 1952. The next
year, Helm sold the company to
Ivan Frizzell.
lamps for astronaut John
Glenn, has long been known as
a city of light.
On the night of February 20,
Perth was glowing from streets,
•Ralph
moved to Houston in 1955,
Bevis bought 50 per cent of his
interest and Helm the other
half. This arrangement contin-
ued until 1959.
Bevis is proud of the fact
that his old customers, many of
whom now live as far as away
as Dallas and Houston, still
come back here to trade cars.
Two Years of Planning
It was partly because of this
that Bevis began planning for
modern, new facilities two
years ago.
“I had long wanted a new
building, a building that would
be convenient to my customers
and would make it easier for
me to have their cars serviced,”
he says.
The Bevir.es, of 1335 West
Avenue, have one daughter, 12-
year-old Jan.
Cadillacs
Usually Draw
Cash Buyers
I
The Eisteddfed, a music and
literary festival held in Wales,
When Frizzell dates back to the Sixth Century.
Congratulations
and
Best Wishes
To
RALPH BEVIS
and
The Entire Staff
Of The
• Bevis Pontiac-Olds-Cadillac
On the Formal Opening
of Their New Building
Ward Gober
Cadillac*, perhaps the
moie luxurious make of car
on the road today, are almost
always bought for cash.
That’s the observation of
George Payne and Jack Stin-
son, salesmen for Bevis Pon-
tiac-Olds-Cad iliac.
“At least 90 pdr ceht of
the Cadillacs we sell are for
cash, without any financ-
ing,” says Stinson.
Payne add* that tho com-
parable figure decline* to
about 40 per cent for Pon-
tiac* and Oldsmobile*.
HOW DO MOSQUITOES
AGE?
Louisville, Ky. (M — Dr. Cal-
vin A. Lang of the University
of Louisville hopes to use mos-
quitoes to find out why men
grow old.
Lang is doing basic research
into the biochemistry o f
growth and aging, with one
goal being to determine why
one person is burned out at 35
and another is spry and active
at 80. - w
Why mosquitoes? Although
they live only about 30 days,
they have precise and sharply
divided periods of develop-
ment. They grow rapidly, age
rapidly and have nutritional re-
quirements similar to humans.
WITH A QUACK, QUACK
HERE
Tucson, Ariz., W) — Four
water-filled plastic swimming
youngsters stopped at large,
pool on display in a Tucson
store.
They whispered a moment,
then two of the lads took ducks
from under their jackets and
tossed them into the pool. After
watching the ducks swim
around the pool once, the
youngsters fled.
houses, and neon signs. Some
residents rigged up sheets to
reflect light upward. The bea-
con proved a welcome, landmark
to America's favorite airman.
But the city’s more enduring
reputation is based on sunlight
rather than electricity. Perth
WPS
sunshine daily to claim the title,
“Sunniest City in Australia,”
says the National Geographic
Society,
River Has Black Swans
Bathing beaches fringe the
Swan River within the city
limits, and ocean beaches rim a
surf-slapped coast near by. Sea
breezes from the Indian Ocean
12 miles away give Perth a
Mediterranean climate.
At the foot of the city’s front
lawn, a graceful bend of the
Swan form s g quiet bay. An
early Dutch explorer named the
river after its black swans,
which until then had been con-
sidered mythical birds.
Perth boasts'some 50 parks
and gardens. Rustic bridges
lead to gardens banked in ear-
ly summer with blue Lesche-
nualtia and red-and-green kan-
garoo paws, the state flower of
Western Australia.
Thousand acre King’s Park,
a virgin woodland on the sum-
mit of Mount Eliza, overlooks
the city’s modern buildings.
Heights of the Darling Range,
a year-round playground, mark
the eastern horizon.
As capital of Western Au-
stralia, Perth administers an
area of 975,920 square miles,
more than three and a half
times the size of Texas. The
Australian, state, like much of
Texas, is wide open country.
Perth and its suburbs are the
home of some 395,000 people,
or half the state’s entire pop-
ulation.
Founded in a Hurry
Perth’s founder, British Cap-
tain James Stirling, was in a
hurry to perform the deed in
1829. It was a time of great in-
ternational rivalry, and he had
heard rumors that both French
and American ships in the vi-
city were planning to land at
the pleasant site and stake out
a claim.
Early settlers from England
had -to bring money or its
equivalent in goods to obtain
land. One pioneer found he
could not exchange his grand
piano for a piece of land, so he
left it to rot on the beaeh:
The discovery of gold in the
1880’s created a boom in West-
ern Australia. By 1903, gold
mining had passed its zenith,
and the settlers turned to ag-
riculture and ranching.
Today Perth serves not only
as political and administrative
capital, but as a trade and dis-
tribution center for the wheat,
sheep, and minerals of the
western region. Manufactures
include automobiles, cement,
clothing, furniture, and pro-
cessed foods.
The Lord Mayor of Perth
came to New York to attend
the city’s ticker-tape welcome
to Lt. Col. Glenn. In thanking
the mayor for turning on all
the lights, the astronaut said
he was “a little worried.”
“I was afraid,” Glenn quip-
ped, “he had brought the light
bill with him.”
HONEST JOHN — This honest John M-50 missile, fired by units of the 49th Armored
Division at Fort Polk, Lja., roars toward the artillery impact area 11 miles away where
it was exploded in an ai? burst. The Honest John can be adapted for conventional or nu-
clear warheads. (NEA Telephoto)
SOUVENIR ‘GOLD'
DOLLARS
Victoria, B. C. (£) — The
clink of golden “trading dol-
lars” can be heard as Victoria
celebrates its centennial.
club, the gold pieces cost $1'
each. They can be spent at
local stores.
Made of jewelers’ bronze,
the coins are the size of the
Canadian silver dollar. The
front shows the bastion of old
Fort Victoria and the words
“City of Victoria Centennial,
1862 - 1962.” The reverse
shows the dogwood, the service
club’s emblem and the state-
ment that this is a souvenir
coin.
FARMER WITH* TEAM -
SPIRIT
Yoder, Wvo. I/P) — Douglas
Essert is a Yoder farmer and
versa:
He inserted the following ad
in the Scottsbluff, Neb., Star-
Herald:
“Wanted, man with high
school age son 6 feet or over,
interested in basketball. Man
must know cattle, irrigation*
general farm work.”
Essert didn’t land either his
basketball player or farm help,
so he inserted a new ad:
“Wanted, farm man with
beautiful high school daughter
who will attract basketball
player to Yoder High. Man
must know cattle, irrigation,
general farm work.”
The Katmai National Monu-
ment in Alaska is twice the
Produced by Victoria service size of the state of Delaware.
GOOD FOR PRETTY — Three Pennsylvania Dutch Girl
Scouts sample soup at the third Girl Scout Senjpr Round-
up, Button Bay State Park, Vt. From left, all from Penn-
sylvania): Dale Thly, Holly Springs; Anna Kent, Harris-
burg; Marie Cyr, Enola. (NEA Telephoto).
Infrared Rays
Used to Heal
The Roman emperor Diocie-
tian gave Jfarish parties at
which a thousand persons took
steam baths at one time.
Freeport, l/W—When protect-
ed from the wind and enjoying
tjie warmth of sunshine you
may not have realized— and
probably could have cared less
—that you were using a spe-
cial principle of heating.
That principle is heating by
infrared rays.
It has been in Dow Chemi-
cal Co.’s Texas Division. The
infrared rays heat only objects
they strike.
A good feature is that the
air within a building does not
have to be heated in order for
workers to be comfortable.
The infrared heating units
are placed so that their rays
overlap. They easily reach all
working places in the 75 by
200-foot boiler shop annex
where they are installed here.
Infrared rays are waves of
energy produced, for instance,
by the s u n, a bonfire or by
some heated object.
The rays travel in straight
lines at 186,000 miles per sec-
ond and do not warm the air
through which they pass—only
the bodies which absorb them.
They can be reflected or fo-
cused.
In■t’h e trial project at the |
shop annex there are '26 in- i
frared units. They burn natural j
gas which is fed through a ce-'
ramie plate, perforated . with !
200 holes per s q u a r e inch, j
creating a temperature of
1,600 degrees F. This heat is
then sent o u t as electroma- j
gnetic energy by chorme-plat-;
ecj-weflectors.
The maintenance cost endhe!
infrared units is slight and they !
produce no draft or noise.
Heartiest
Congratulations
RALPH BEVIS
And the Entire Staff of
BEVIS
Pontiac-Olds-Cadillac
Your New Automotive Center
Is A Distinct Asset to This
Community and Entire Area.
A. B. ARDIS
MOTOR CO,
Spring Street
OUR
Congratulations
TO
Bevis Pontiac-Olds-Cadillac
OUR
Congratulations
BP
AND SINCERE BEST WISHES
TO OUR NEW NEIGHBOR
Bevis Pontiac-Olds-Cadillac
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The Entire Community Is Proud .
for You
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Village Hardware
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VILLAGE SHOPPING CENTER
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Best Wishes
GOTO
BEVIS
Pontiac-Olds-Cadillac
As They Observe The
Formal Opening of Their
Fine New Automotive
Center
Yosir Goodyear Dealer for S3 Year*
THE BANKS COMPANY
GOODYEAR DISTRIBUTOR
FOR HOPKINS COUNTY •
Oak Avenue Phone 8-3175
'N
AS THEY MARK THE FORMAL
OPENING OF THEIR NEW HOME
ON SHANNON ROAD.
We Are Proud to Have Been
Selected to Do the Asphalting
and Grading of the Large
Lot At This New Location.
ROY WILLIAMSON
CONSTRUCTION
P. O. Box 77 Paris, Texas
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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/m1/16/?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.