The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, July 27, 1962 Page: 17 of 20
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V
Be vis Agency to Open Its
New Building on Week-End
THE-HOPKINS COUNTY ECHO, Sulphur Springs, ftfldBL WtZ
—
Ralph C. Bevis will celebrate
his tenth year with*the Pontiac-
Olds-Cadillac agency here Fri-
day and Saturday during open-
4ng of his modern newr building
at 110 Shannon Road.
Guests during these two days
given away each hour from 1 to
6 p. m. on Friday and from 10
a. m. until 6 Saturday. A grand
prize will be drawn at 6 o’clock
Saturday evening.
The facilities, newest bf three
automobile centers in that area,
are Of masonary construction
with central air conditioning
and terrazzo floors.
6,500 Square Feet
Total floor space is 6,500
square feet and the building,
excluding the servicing area,
measuixs. 30 by 50 feetj
Another- feature not avail-
able at Bevis’ old headquarters
on Main Street is FM music
piped'through the entire build-
—ir* -f -•'■-Hill*--
Included in the floor space
is a.large auto showroom, three
sales rooms, a bookkeeping of-
fice, a large parts room and
three rest rooms.
Bevis, a Hopkins County
native who first became asso-
ciated with this same company
in 1952, has invited his friends,
custumers and residents of this
area to visit him during these
two days.
Others at Bevis Pontiac-
Olds-Cadillac are Bookkeeper
Marvirr Pearce,' Salesmen Jack
Stinson and George Payne,
Mechanics Floyd Underwood
and David Franklin, Lubrica-
Washboy Scott Pannell. W. T.
Daniels represents the Bevis
firm in Winnsboro.
Gourmets Glum
As Truffles
Prices Soar
Best W ishes
Bevis Pontiac-Olds-Cadillac
On The
*
Formal Opening
of Your Modern
New Home.
Virion
rlCLYKlC
RESTAURANT
South Broadway
We’re Happy to Add Our
Congratulations
AND BEST WISHES
TO
Bevis Pontiac-Olds-Cadillac
IN THEIR NEW LOCATION
BILLY ORR
.- TEXACO STATION L
308 Church Street Phone 5-2812
u
We Are Happy To
Welcome Our New Neighbor-
BEVIS
Pontiac - Olds - Cadillac
>*-4
You Can Be Justly Proud
Of Your Fine New Home
X
PAYNE
Butane Service Co.
1220 S. Broadway
Ph.: 885-3165
Washington — These are
dark days helas, for French
gourmets. Truffles are selling
for gastronomic prices. . The
“black diamonds of the kitch-
en” recently brought a record
$21 a pound in Paris.
Truffles are a vit'al ingre-
dient of the -highest of the
high cuisine. They impart a
distinctive pungent flavor to
sauces, garnishes, and stuff-
ings. A sauce Madere without
truffles is unthinkable.
Gourmets also relish truf-
fles baked whole in hot coals,
steeped in cream or wine,
grated in omelets, chopped in
fondues, sliced over eggs Ben-
edict, and tossed in salads.
Truffle It Fungut
This paragon of the palate
is a small, black fungus, the
National Geographic Society
says. A member of the genus
Tuber, the truffle is related
both to mushrooms and to
j less appetizing fungi such as
I yeasts, molds, and mildews. It
| occasionally is found in the
United States but is not of-
ten hunted here.
Truffles grow in clusters un-
derground. Microscopic fila-
ments attached to the roots of
trees, usually oaks, are believ-
ed to supply nourishment.
The fungus is capricious in
choosing a host tree. A recent
French study of truffle cul-
ture indicated that some trees
j have “a special truffle voca-
■ tion.” The problem for truf-
fle farmers is that no one
can predict with certainty
which tree will be hospitable.
It often is the scrawniest oak
in a grove.
A truffle growsr needs, be-
sides trees with vocations, a
dog, a pig, or a goat. The hu-
man sense of smell rarely can
detect the piquant perfume of
buried fungus. French people
usually hunt with trained pigs.
In Italy dogs lead the search.
Sardinians use goats.
Not every pig is a potential
truffle hunter. The female’s
sense of smell seems to be
more acute than the male’s.
•) French farmers test the fe-
males in a litter by offering
thiem truffle tidbits. The ani-
mals that display the most in-
terest receive basic training
around the age of two.
During^autumn tlje pigs are
taken into the field for trial
runs and given occasional
tastes of truffles to whet their
appetites. The fungi are gath-
ered in earnest in winter. An
apt truffle snuffer can smell
a bed of the delectable tubers
20 feet away. The pigs are de-
nied the pleasure of eating
truffles they discover but are
rewarded with acorns, beans,
oy corn.
Truffle. Hound*
Dogs are not as perceptive
as pigs in snifing out truffles,
but they are more obedient
and tire less quickly. There
is a school for truffle hounds
in Alba, Italy.
Truffles have been man’s
favorite fungus for centuries.
The Roman poet Juvenal
wrote that Libya might keep
its wheat if only it would send
its truffles.
The ancient Greeks and Ro-
Newspapers
Become Staples
Of Modern Life
Washington — Newspapers
are regarded as an essential of
modern daily life—as much a
staple as milk and bread.
A recent survey showed, in
fact, that rtiam copies .of .jdjplly.
newspapers are sold in the
United States e a c h , day than
bottles of milk or loaves of
bread.
newsp.a p e r s, including 8,000
dailies, with a total circulation
of more than 250 million
copies, the National Geographic’
Society says.
Romans Posted Notices
At one time, however, only
three “newspapers” existed, and
they were merely handwritten
daily notices posted in public
places in ancient' Rome. The
Acta Diurna, Acta Senatus, and
Acta Publica gave official news
of the late Roman Republic and
early Empire.
I The first Chinese newspaper
was a court gazette founded in
the T’ang Dynasty (A. D. GIB-
SOT), It .survived until the
1930’s, spanning the ages from
handwriting to printing from
j blocks and then movable metal
J type. Vti*m.hhi.i.n.iv,,,,w -
The intioduction of printing
from movable type in, the mkl-
15th century spurred the de-
velopment of newspapers in
Eupope. News sheets were is-
sued irregularly in Nurnberg,
Augsburg, and Cologne early
the! 16th century.
A monthly printed newspa-
per, N.otiizie Scritte, appeared
in Venice in 1562 as an expan-
sion of the old daily notices.
The Venetian paper sold for
one small coin, a gazzetta, a
last year damaged Texas for- Word that s 0 0 n became a
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BEHIND THE WALL — Tall new apartment buildings line East Berlin’s showcase thor-
oughfare, Karl Marx Avenue, where these kindergaiten tots are strolling with teachers.
WORTHAM DANIELS is
manager of the Bevis Pon-
tiac-Gadillae used car lot at
402 Main Street in Winns-
boro. (Staff Photo).
Beetles Damage j f„
Texas Forests
College Station, (if)—An epi-
demic of Southern pine beetle
ests more than all forest fires,
says Dr. A. I). Folweiler.
Folweiler, director of the
Texas Forest Service, said the
epidemic is in its fifth year.
He estimates the beetle caus-
ed $660,000 loss in 1961 to
timber owners in Jefferson,
Liberty, Hardin, Polk and Ty-
ler counties.
Don Young, head of the for-
est management department,
said the tiny beetles killed
enough trees to build 1,200
two-bedroom homes.
In addition to “saw timber,”
the beetles killed 24,000 cords
of pine pulpwood trees and
did an: estimated amount of
damage by killing the source
of future pine reproduction.
Only about one-third of thl
damaged lqmber could be sal-
vaged, and that is of lower
grade. _
Lud King, chairman of the
Texas forest pest committees,
says indications are that dam-
age equal to 1961 will be done
this year.
Only remedy for the epi-
demic is to cut the trees and
saturate the bark with benzine
hexacloride.
BEST WISHES
TO THE
Bevis Pontiac-Olds-Cadillac
AS THEY CELEBRATE THE
. FORMAL OPENING OFYHEIR
BEAUTIFUL NEW ESTABLISHMENT
SULPHUR SPRINGS
Piggly Wiggly Store
RECKLESS MOUNTAIN
BOYS
P i k e s v il I e, Ky. (JV- The
families involved in the fam-
ous Hatfield - McCoy feud car-
ried on .their battle during the
last part of the 19th Century.
The Hatfields lived in West Vir-
ginia and the McCoys- just
across a narrow stream in Pike
County Kentucky.
> Members of the two clans
started taking pot shots at
each other with muzzle loading
rifles after the McCoys claim-
ed one of the Hatfield boys
had played free and easy with
the affections of a McCoy
girl.
mans prized them as delicacies
and love stimulants. They
dedicated the fruit to Venus
and warned that “those who
wish to lead virtuous lives
should abstain from truffles.”
synonym for newspaper.
Historic events casually pop
from the columns of early
newspapers. The Strasbourg
Relation of September 4, 1609,
reported that Signor Galileo,
professor of mathematics at
Padua, w a s building a news
telescope.
The first English newspapers
were restricted to foreign hews.
James I, forbidding publica-
tion of national news, called it
“lavish and licentious talking
in matters of state. . . which
the common people know not
how to understand.”
Seventeenth-century author-
ities did not look kindly upon
newspapers. The Allgemeine
Zcitung appeared consecutive-
ly in Leipzig, Tubingen, Stutt-
gart, Ulm, and Augsburg in its
efforts to keep one jump ahead
of the censor.
Banned in Boston
The first newspaper publish-
ed in Colonial America also ran
into censorship problems. Or,
Sept. 25, 1690, Benjamin Har
WALD DIES — Producer
Jerry Wald, shown above,
who was a key figure in
Hollywood for a span of 30
youngster is a lefty first
years, died of his third
heart attack in two days
in Hollywood, Calif. (NEA)
WE ARE PROUD
TO HAVE BEEN SELECTED
To
INSTALL THE NEW SIGNS
" For
Bevis Pontiac-Olds-Cadillac
At Their
NEW HOME AT
110 Shannon Road •
r
THOMAS SIGN CO.
317 Jeffereon
& i tatwsSiO5*52'
Ph. 5-9408
a . , k jk-
—
ris issued in Boston his Pub
lick Occurences Both Forreign
and Demestick to be “furnished
once a moneth (or if any Glut
of Occurrences happen, often-
er).” Four days later the gov-
ernor banned the first and only
number because it contained
“reflections of a very high na-
ture” an,d “Sundry doubtful
and uncertain reports.”
The first continously publish-
ed American newspaper was
the Boston News-Letter, start-
ed by John Campbell in 1704.
In that day of personal jour-
nalism, Campbell could write
of a rival: “I pity the readers
of the new paper; its sheets
smell stronger of beer than
midnight oil. It is not reading
fit for people.” The Tory News-
Letter expired in 1776.
Colonial taverns kept news-
papers on hand as amenities.
They also served as aids to lit-
eracy. One innkeeper was
obliged to post this sign: “Gent-
lemen learning to spell are re-
quested to use last week’s news-
letter.”
For more than three cen-
turies newspapers were labor-
iously turned out in small num-
bers on hand presses. In 1814
the London Times installed the
first s t e a m-powered printing
press. It ushered in a mechani-
cal revolution that made pos-
sible the mass circulation of
present dailies.
SHOCKING SITUATION
Glasgow, Scotland <#) — A
veterinary surgeon took a
drink from a cow trough —
and let out a yell of pain.
And that settled the mys-
terious strike of farmer Jim
Gibbs’,16 Ayshire cows.
The cows, pride of Gibbs’
small farm, near Glasgow, sud-
denly stopped drinking and
their eating fell off.
milk. ..
The vet tried a mugful of
their drinking Water and it
set his tongue tingling. Then
he tried a drink direct from the
trough and . nearly jumped
through the cowshed roof.
Electricians , found a short
icirchjt which connected the
cow troughs to the farm’s elec-
tricity supply. They fixed it
and 16 contended cows are
Then they stopped giving yielding milk again.
At its peak of activity, about
40,000 men were at work on
the Panama Canal at one time.
BEST WISHES
To
BEVIS
Pontiac - Olds- Cadallic
FOR YOUR CONTINUED
SUCCESS
Standard Parts Co.
400 Main Street
Phone: 5-2242
Our Compliments
TO
RALPH BEVIS
AND HIS
ENTIRE PERSONEL
ON THE OPENING OF
THEIR NEW BUILDING
THIS IS ANOTHER
MARK OF PROGRESS
FOR OUR CITY-
CONGRATULATIONS and
best Wishes
fr£e parking
is
TAPP
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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/m1/17/?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.