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(ABSORBED THE GAZETTE CIRCUBLATION BY PURCHASE MAY 12, 1928)
VOL. 84.—NO. 24.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1959.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Rental Housing Shortage
Pointed Out at Meeting
An acute shortage of desir-
able rental housing has clamp-
ed an effective lid on Sulphur
Springs’ growth. Chamber of
Commerce Manager Jim An-
derson told the Greater Hop-
kins County Development Com-
mittee Friday afternoon.
Housing was the principal
topic discussed by the com-
mittee in an open review of
community problems and proj-
ects. It was the first session in
several months for the group.
After a discussion lasting al-
Bill Hamrick
Given Grant
For Institute
Bill Hamrick, student coun-
selor for the Sulphur Springs
school system, will leave Fri-
day to attend' a graduate in-
stitute at the University of
Missouri at Columbia. He will
be accompanied by his wife
and two sons, who will remain
with him through the summer
in Columbia.
Hamrick was notified of his
selection for a federal study
grant Monday, and immediate-
ly made plans to leave for Mis-
souri.
Hamrick holds bachelor and
master degrees from East Tex-
as State College, Commerce.
Local Church
Buys Property
ForFutureUse
The First Methodist Church,
with an eye for the future,
recently completed negotia-
tions for the purchase of the
house and lot at 327 Church
Street.
The Rev. Stone Risinger,
pastor of the church, said that
the lot was purchased as an
investment for future use and
protection.
“We have not entirely de-
cided just what we will do
with it,” he said. “It will
probably be used for addition-
al parking space and as a
playground and picnic area.”
The lot, which was purchas-
ed for $10,500 from the es-
tate of Mrs. M. A. Oliver,
runs 327 feet deep from
Church Street to the alley. It
is 111 feet wide on the Church
Street front and 97 Vt feet
wide at the alley.
Rev. Risinger said that the
trustees of the church have
been authorized to move the
house and that the action
should be completed in the
near future.
The lot is the second one
north of the church manse.
most an hour, the committee
recommended the appointment
of a special Chamber of Com-
merce panel to study the hous-
ing problem and attempt to
find a. solution.
Among the highlights of its
session, the committee: -
Heard a report from An-
derson terming the industrial
prospect, situation as the
best in tome time.
Agreed that an early »et-
tlament of the ,chool build-
ing controversy i( essential
to community progress.
Gave it, informal endorse-
ment to the new Woman’*
Building project.
U rged a revival of the
downtown improvement pro-
gram.
Considered methods of en-
liiting a greater degree of
coop-eration from Sulphur
Spring, people in the com-
munity devel o p m en t pro-
gram .
Anderson told the group lack
of housing facilities is keeping
a substantial number of pros-
pective new residents out of
Sulphur Springs. He said office
records indicate an average of
19 inquiries a day during re-
cent weeks.
“We have one seismograph
crew here and another reported
due ir* a week or ten days,’’ he
said. “We have been getting iii-
quiries from Cooper Dam en-
gineer's, from salesmen and
from another prospective new
residents. We have no place to
put them ”
Committee members agreed
that-construction of houses for
rental purposes is uneconomic
under present building costs.
Apartments Urged
J. 'W. Pratt said he felt con-
fident. an apartment building
containing ten or 15 units could
be built and kept rented on a
satisfactory bajjs.
In the discussion of the in-
dustriaal development outlook,
F. W. Frailey, committee chair-
man, raised the question of
why so few live prospects had
bee-rt available for Sulphur
Springes in the last year or so.
Members agreed the recent
“recession” had resulted in a
slowdown of industrial expan-
sion land a consequent shrink-
age of inquiries.
Anderson said larger indus-
tries espe c i a 1 1 y investigate
towns secretly and cited instan-
ces ir» which inquiries made
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Sellers Sees
Bright Future
For Jerseys
Confidence in a bright fu-
ture for the Jersey cattle
breed was expressed by direct-
ors of the American Jersey
Cattle Club at their recent an-
nual meeting in Hagerstown,
Md., Grover Sellers said Tues-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Sellers and Mr.
and Mrs. C. W. Drechsel of
Fort Worth returned Sunday
from the meeting. Sellers is a
director of the organization.
An increasing, demand for
Jerseys was reported at the
board session. At the annual
heifer sale held in connection
with the meeting, 47 animals
were sold at an average price
of $550.
The Sellers also attended
the annual sale conducted by
Marlu Farms at Red Bank, N.
J., in which 50 young Jerseys
were sold at an average of
$1,137. They purchased one
heifer.
Lee Marsh, Connecticut law-
yer and 'breeder was elected
president of the club to suc-
ceed J. S. Kelley of Chicago,
who will become director of
the national All-Jersey organ-
ization.
Judge Sellers and Henry
Knolle of Corpus Christi suc-
ceeded in having the South
Texas city selected as the site
for the 1961 board meeting.
Next year’s session will be in
California.
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Mrs. Rippy, 83,
Dies Friday;
Riles Sunday
Mrs. J. H. Rippy, 83-year-old
native of Hopkins County, died
at 5:00 p.m. Friday.
Funeral services were held
at the First Presbyterian
Church at 2:00 p.m. Sunday
with Dr. Edwin Mays, assisted
by the Rev. David Pittenger,
officiating.
Interment was at the
Cumby cemetery under the di-
rection of Murray’s Funeral
Home.
Born Nov. 18, 1875 in
Cumby, Mrs. Rippy was the
former Miss Nora Cross. She
was the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Beauregarde Cross.
She married J.H. Rippy in
1900. He preceded her in death
in 1925.
M” Ripnv was a member of
the First Baptist Church.
She is survived by one son,
Ben Rippy of Dallas; four
daughters, Miss Ruby Rippy
and Mrs. H.E. Enlow, both of
Dallas, Mrs. Mack Clark of
Mineral Wells and Mrs. Lee-
man Teetes of Sulphur Springs;
one sister Mrs. U.H. Brown of
Cumby; three brothers, Flem
Cross, Cot Cross and Bob
Cross, all of Cumby ; ten grand-
children and six great-grand-
children. Four children pre-
ceded Mrs. Rippy in death.
Pallbearers were Neff
Moss, Lawrence France, Harold
Hines, Wade Scott, Ralph
B#vis, Elton Kuykendall, Dale
Cross sod Buster Cross,
Joe R. Pogue
Named to Head
Local Masons
Joe R. Pogue has been elect-
ed Worshipful Master of Sul-
phur Springs lodge No. 221,
AF & AM. He will succeed
James H. Gilbert to the post
during: the latter part of June.
Other officers elected by the
101-year-old lodge are W. S.
Elliott, senior warden; W. W.
Halmontaller, junior warden;
W. B. Onley, treasurer; D. B.
Hutch i nson, secretary; and
Hall Oaddy, tiler.
9 4-H Members
Plan to Attend
LeadershipCamp
Nine 4-H Club members
from Hopkins County will at-
tend the annual leadership
camp at Lake Trinidad near
Athens from June 15 through
June 18.
Hopkins County, member of
extension district five, will
send four girls and five boys
to the camp.
Those attending will be
Nancy France, North Hopkins;
Sheri Jo Horne, Brinker; Caro-
lyn Bearden, Divide; and
Gayle Harrelson, Pine Forest.
Boys attending from Hop-
kins County will be Pat Potts,
Dike; Charles Stubbs, Arbala;
Larry Humphrey, Brinker;
Larry Mabe, Divide; and Mike
Tyler, Gafford Chapel.
Camp facilities at Trinidad
are furnished to youth groups
through the courtesy of Texas
Power & Light Company.
These facilities, located by a
700-acre lake, include modern
cabins, a dining hall, an all-
weather game and assembly
building and supervised recre-
ation areas.
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SWEETNESS AND SUNLIGHT — Chet Locke, left, and
Ralph Lambdin check the work of a sugar beet thinning ma-
chine (background) in Lockeford, Calif. The mechanical
thinner gets rid of excess plants, such as in the rows at
right. Sugar beets are one of the major U. S. crops, sup-
plying one-quarter of the country’s sugar requirements.
(NEA). „ ................
WESTBROOK TO WESLEY
Methodist Pastors
Assigned by Bishop
Several changes in Metho-
dist pastorates in S u 1 p h*u r
Springs and vicinity were an-
nounced following the conclu-
sion of the North Texas An-
nual Conference Friday in Dal-
las.
The Rev. Linley V o w e 11,
pastor of Wesley Methodist
I Church here for the last two
years, will take over the pulpit
of the First Methodist Church
in Archer City.
He will be succeeded by the
Rev. James Westbrook, now
pastor at Archer City. Mr.
Westbrook spent four years as
pastor of the First Methodist
Church at Mt. Vernon before
going to Archer City three
years ago. A new educational
building was constructed at
Mt. Vernon during his pastor-
ate.
Lare to Annona
Another local minister who
is leaving is the Rev. Marvin
Lare, who has been pastor at
Shooks Chapel and Arbala for
the last year. He will become
pastor of the First Methodist
Church at Annona.
Succeeding Mr. Lare in the
two churches composing the
Sulphur Springs circuit, will
be the Rev. Wr. Francis Sale,
now pastor at Brashear. Mr.
Sale received one of the con-
ference’s three Town and
Country Awards last week in
recognition of his work at
Brashear.
Sulphur Springs Girl
Sets European Tour
Miss Ruth Berry Ashcroft
will leave next week on a
grand tour of Europe which
will'take her from the quiet
atm o sphere of the Sisline
Chapel in Rome, Italy, to the
excitement of a bullfight in
Madrid, Spain.
Miss Ashcroft, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. E. L Ashcroft,
Jr., will leave New York City
June 17 on the Queen Mary
and arrive in Paris, France,
June 22.
Sightseeing in Paris will be
highlig-hted by dinner and a
world famous floorshow at the
Club Lido and lunch at the
Restaurant "en Plein Ciel” on
the Eiffel Tower.
“I am most excited about
our visit to Madrid,” MiSs Ash-
croft s aid. “We will arrive
there J une 27 and stay until
June 3 0. On our first after-
noon in the city we will see a
bullfight which is something
that I have always wanted to
do.”
The next stop on the agenda
is Nice on the French Riviera.
This will include a trip over
the Grand Comiche to Monte
Carlo for dinner.
Three days, July 3-5, will be
spent in Lucerne, Switzerland
with motor excursions through
the Alps.
Miss Ashcroft will spend
July 6 through July 18 in Italy
with visits to Milan, Rome,
Florence, and Venice.
In Milan she will see Leon-
the Danish Riviera; Stockholm,
Sweden; and Oslo, Norway.
The last country Miss Ash-
croft will visit is England. She
will spend five days in London
and one day in Stratford-Up-
on-Avon, where she will visit
ardo de Vinci’s famous paint-1 Oxford University and see a
ing, "The Last Supper.” Sight-! Shakespearian play performed
seeing in Rome will include the
Borghese Gardens, St. Peter’s
Basilica, the Vatican Museum,
the Pantheon, the Coliseum,
and Mussolini’s Stadium. She
will also attend the opera,
“Baths of Caracalla.”
in Memorial Theatre.
In London, she will visit
Windsor Castle, Eton, Hamp-
ton Court Gardens, Shake-
speare Shrines and Warwick
Castle.
She will leave Southampton,
In Florence Miss Ashcroft EnKland> August 13 and arrive
in Florence, Miss Ashcioft Jn New York City, via the
will visit the Medici Chapel,
Basilica of San Lorenzo, and
the famous art galleries of that
city. In Venice she will be
Queen Mary, August 18.
During her tour in Europe
Miss Ashcroft will travel by
treated to a gondola ride on!tp‘anV° sav<!’time' except in
6 I the places where the scenery
is unusual when she will travel
the canals.
From Italy Miss Ashcroft
will go to Vienna, Austria, for
three days and from there she
will travel through Germany,
spending three days in Mun-
ich.
The next leg of the Euro-
pean tour will take her up
through the Scandinavian coun-
tries with stops in Frankfurt
Am Main and Amsterdam, Hol-
The Rev. John W. Wallace
of Dallas will become pastor
at Brashear.
No changes were made at
the First Methodist Church of
8% 1 p h u r Springs. The Rev.
Stone Risinger, pastor for the
last four years, was returned
to the position, and the Rev.
J. Frank Blackburn remains as
associate pastor.
DeVore Returned
The Rev. Boyd I. DeVore
was reassigned for his fourth
year as superintendent of the
church’s Sulphur Springs Dis-
trict.
The Rev. Bayless Evans of
Sulphur Springs was assigned
to the Clarksville Circuit.
The Rev. B. L. Smith will
become pastor of the Tira Cir-
cuit, coming from the Charles
Circuit. The Rev. Gary Van
Boening will change from Wil-
liams Chapel to Becker. The
Rev. John Wesley Polk, pastor
at Annona, will go to Bellevue.
The new pastor at Winns-
boro will be the Rev. Luther
Hill, who comes from Henriet-
ta. The Rev. Kirk Beard, now
at Winnsboro will go to Hen-
rietta in an exchange of pul-
pits.
The Rev. Bill Stinson, pas-
tor at Mt. Vernon, was assign-
ed to Whitesboro. New pastor
at Mt. Vernon will be the Rev.
Harold Taylor, who conies
from Kaufman.
The pastorate at Kaufman
will be assumed by the Rev.
Dale Smtih, former associate
pastor of the First Methodist
Church here, who is now at
Talco. He will be succeeded at
Talco by the Rev. W. L. Zim-
merman, now at Becker.
Other assignments for the
Sulphur Springs District in-
clude:
Avery, Sam J. Smith, Jr.;
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Efforts Made to Obtain
Release of School Bonds
School to Open
September 8th
Sulphur Springs’ vacation-
ing school students were re-
minded Tuesday that their hol-
idays won’t last forever.
The trustees, meeting in a
regular session Monday night,
adopted the new 1959-1960
calendar which calls for the
resumption of classes on Tues-
day, Sept. 8. Registration for
the new school year will be
held on Friday, Sept. 4.
Not a single holiday is plan-
ned during the first six weeks
of school, which ends on Oct.
16. During the second six
weeks, from Oct. 19 to Nov.
27, two holidays are listed. The
two holidays are for Thanks-
giving, Nov. 26 and 27. Vet-
erans Day has been dropped as
a holiday as the school will
follow the town’s non-closing
schedule.
The Christmas holidays will
break up the third six weeks
term of the first - semester;
Clas9es will be dismissed at
4 p. m. Dec. 18: Classes will
resume after the Y u 1 e t i d e
break on Jan. 4.
The two-day Easter period
will be observed as the only
holidays during the second se-
mester. These holidays are on
Friday, April 15 and Monday,
April 18.
Vesper services for the
graduating seniors will be held
on May 22, with commence-
ment to follow on Friday, May
27.
School for the year will be
terminated on Monday, May
30, as students return to pick
up their report cards.
The year will, consist of 175
teaching days.
Mrs. McLarry
Dies Monday
Mrs. R. W. McLarry, 88-
year-old resident of Sulphur
Springs, died at the home of
her son, Guy McLarry, at
Route Two, Sulphur Springs,
Monday afternoon.
Funeral services were held
at the chapel of Tapp Funeral
Home at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday
with the Rev. Stone Risinger
officiating.
Interment was at Weaver
cemetery.
Mrs. McLarry was born
May 8, 1871 in Grayson Coun-
ty. She married R. W. Mc-
Larry July 17, 1887. He pre-
ceded her in death in 1918.
She is survived by six sons,
Bert McLarry, Rupe McLarry,
Guy McLarry, Finley McLar-
ry and Bruce McLarry, all of
Sulphur Springs, and Ray-
mond McLarry of Como; five
daughters, Mrs. Lois Davison
and Mrs. Ray Peugh, both of
Sulphur Springs, Mrs. Hazel
Crabb and Mrs. Robbie Hat-
zenbuehler, both of Dallas,
and Mrs. Sybil Martin of La-
mesa; two brothers, one sister,
26 grandchildren, 35 great-
grandchildren and two great-
great-grandchildren.
Local Students
Attend School
On Government
Loretta Hooks, Sulphur
Springs, and Linda Kellum,
Dike, left Sulphur Springs
Wednesday morning to attend
the ten day “Girls’ State’ cit-
izenship training school in Aus-
tin.
The girls, sponsored as Hop-
kins County’s representatives
to ‘‘Girls’ State” by the Amer-
ican Legion Women’s Auxili-
ary, were chosen for their good
citizenship.
Hopkins County’s boy repre-
sentatives, Curtis Waters of
Dike and Max Ray Alford of
Sulphur Springs, left for
“Boys’ State” in Austin Sun-
day.
The boys, algo selected on a
citizenship basis, are sponsor-
ed by the American Legion.
In order to qualify as a rep-
resentative .to either “Boys’
State” or "Girls’ State” the
students must be a junior in
high school and an outstand- trict.
ing student.
Progress of negotiations
with the 30 plaintiffs in the
litigation which has tied up
$400,000 in voter-approved
but unissued school building
bonds was related during a
meeting of the board of trus-
tees Monday night.
Jeston Williams, one of the
plaintiffs who later was elect-
ed a member of the school
board, told of efforts to ar-
range an agreement to release
the bonds.
He said that his efforts had
not been 100 per cent success-
ful but that negotiations were
continuing.
Meanwhile, the trustees re-
vealed minutes of a special
meeting on May 26. Two para-
graphs of the minutes relating
to the negotiations which have
been in progress several weeks
are as follows:
Deadline Loom*
“The board of trustees here-
with gives its assurance that
the total tax rate for the
school years 1959-60 and
1960-61 will not exceed $1.20
on the $100 valuation provid-
ed the total valuation of the
district does not drop below
$15,000,000 for the years in-
volved and provided that the
litigation relating to the bond
funds authorized and unissued
be fully and finally terminated
not later than June 15.
“The board further declares
its intention of using build-
ing and operating funds as
conservatively as is consistent
with the basic needs of the dis-
Mrs. Tyler
Solos Plane
Ai Airport
Mrs. W. S. Tyler made her
first solo airplane flight Sat-
urday at the municipal airport.
Mrs. Tyler, who is a grand-
mother, is believed to be the
first woman to clear this tricky
pilot training barrier here in
some time..
Observers reported she
handled the assignment nicely
in the Aeronca plane in which
she has been taking flying les-
sons the last three weeks from
Henry Oppenheim. She hopes
to obtain her private pilot li-
cense in about 45 days.
The plaintiffs lost a decision
in district court in Sulphur
Springs and then appealed to
the Texarkana court of ap-
peals, where the litigation cur-
rently is awaiting a hearing.
Purchase Furniture
The trustees approved the
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Mrs. Hensley
Dies Sunday
Mrs. O. B. Hensley, 75-year-
old resident of Sulphur
Springs, died at 9:00 p.m. Sun-
day.
Funeral services were held
at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the
chapel of McDonald Funeral
Home of Cooper.
Interment was at Liberty
Grove cemetery.
Mrs. Hensley is survived by
her husband; four sons, Wil-
bern Hensley and Morris Hen-
sley, both of Houston, Nick H.
Hensley of Sulphur Springs
and Willis Hensley of Dallas;
one daughter, Mrs. Ruby Jen-
kins of Sulphur Springs; nine
grandchildren and two great-
grandchildren.
land; Copenhagen, Denmark;, croft sails.
by train or private limousine.
The tour is being arranged
by the W. Arthur Strain Travel
Service in Dallas. Miss Ash-
croft will be in the party of
Mrs. Dorothy Walker.
The Ashcroft family will
leave Sulphur Springs Friday
for a trip through Washington,
D. C., and the eastern part of
the country before Miss Ash-
Jury Ponders
Damage Suit
In Court Here
Jurors deliberated the 20-
section charge in the civil case
styled R. E. Johnson, et al, vs.
W. S. Koon, et al, in 62nd Dis-
trict Cohrt Wednesday.
Final arguments were heard
in the damage case resulting
from a fatal truck-car colli-
sion Tuesday afternoon. They
began their deliberations Wed-
nesday morning and were con-
tinuing to study the questions
during the early afternoon.
Highlights of the action
Tuesday were final arguments
of Hardy Moore, attorney for
the defense, and Howard
Smith, attorney for the plain-
tiff.
Final arguments presented
Tuesday morning were by
Woodrow Edwards, plaintiff
attorney, and John Ramey and
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Negro Teachers
Elected Here;
Session Set
Nineteen teachers for the
Douglas Negro schools in Sul-
phur Springs were re-elected
and another employed by the
board of trustees Monday
night. Earlier, Principal W. B.
Jones had been re-employed
for the 21-teacher Negro sys-
tem.
Re-employed were Ophelia
C. Chism, Mrs. Juanita Clay-
ton, Mrs. Elizabeth Cotton,
John E. Crook, Mrs. Virgie A.
Curry, Bishop Curry, Mrs. Sal-
lie L. Faison, Robert Faison,
Mrs. Iantha Garrett, Mrs. Vel-
ma L. Grays, Mrs. Nellie
Jones, Dorothy N. Hendricks,
Paul Lewis, Mrs. Florida M.
McMillan, Mrs. Undine Pogue,
Elmer L. Ricks, Mrs. Rosie V.
Rutherford, Mrs. Rubye Smith
and W. 0. Wright.
Mrs. Jimmie L. Harrison
was added as a replacement.
Mrs. Valerie Williams was ap-
proved as a substitute teacher.
Supt. Jack F. Gibson said
that another teacher probably
would be added as soon as the
Average Daily Attendance fig-
ures are certified.
The Douglas schools will op-
en for a summer term on July
20. Classes will be dismissed
during cotton harvesting season
after about a six weeks term.
The date for the recess will
hinge on the growing season of
the cotton.
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MISSING CREW-A-What happened to these men is a ques-
tion mark. Their plane, a B-24 bomber, was found where
it crashed in the Libyan Desert in Africa—16 years after
it disappeared on a bombing run. No trace of the crew
was discovered. The ship’s pilot, LL William J. Hatton,
of New Yoik, stands at left. (NEA).
Three Charges
Filed in Court
Two Hopkins County men
were filed on in Justice Court
on charges of passing worth-
less checks and an out of coun-
ty man was filed on for fail-
ure to have a commercial ope-
rator’s license Tuesday after-
noon.
One Hopkins County man
was filed on for passing a $10
worthless check and the second
was filed on for passing a $16
worthless check.
Both were filed on by a Sul-
phur Springs business man.
Justice of the Peace DeWitt
Loyd issued warrants for their
arrests.
The out of county man
pleaded guilty to a charge of
failure to have a commercial
operator’s license and was as-
sessed a $20.50 fine by Loyd.
The man was filed on by B.
F. Johnson, state license and
weight examiner.
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