The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, June 23, 1961 Page: 1 of 16
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rOL. 86—NO. 25.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1961.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
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ATTRACTIVE PATIO — This is the restful and attractive patio at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Iiyron Dickerson, 217 Morris Drive, which visitors may inspect during the I’atio Tour
Sunday. The tour is sponsored by the Beautification Committee of the Hopkins County
Chamber of Commerce. (Staff Photo by Cody Greer).
Teacher Staff Increase
Approved for New Year
The teacher staff increase State financing is authoriz- we should be graduating 150.
approved for the Sulphur pd ®t the rate of one teacher, The high school cosmetology
department, wnich was reduc-
Springs schools during the next
year by the Texas Education
Agency ranks as the biggest
for each student reflected in
average daily attendance fig-
ures.
Gibson said one of the new
gain for which the system has I teachers wiI1 be assi>rned to
qualified, Jack F. Gibson, su-1 Houston and Travis schooljli «.
perintendent of schools, 8 a 1 d I leasing Mrs. Dan Cahalan for! reviewed at their Monday night
Rockdale
Controversy
Flares Up |
The Rockdale incorpor-,
ation controversy moved ‘
briefly into the open again .
Wednesday after several!
weeks of silence.
Attorneys representing both
sides conferred here during the
morning, but retreated to stu-
dy opposing legal positions
without any definite action
taking place.
Sponsors of the Rockdale in-
corporation plan are reported
considering filing a mandamus
■i action in district court seeking
II to require County Judge W. B.
^ Kitts to call an election on the
issue.
High Court Ruling Cited
Judge Kitts ruled May 25
that the petition for incor-
poration of approximately 7.5
square miles of land into Rock-
dale Village did not meet the
require m e n t s established by
Texas' law and that he conse-
quently had no authority to
call an election.
The petition originally was
signed by 45 persons. The area
covered has an estimated pop-
ulation of 210.
G. C. Harris and Allen Clark
of Greenville, attorneys for the
Rockdale group, are reported
to have cited a recent Texas
Supreme Court decision affect-
ing the Abilene area as the
principal grounds for their de-
mand for reversal of the Rock-
dale order.
Reversing district and civil
appeals court rulings, the su-
preme court, in effect, ordered
School Trustees
Set Tax Rate
$135 Figure
The 1961 tax rate for the Sulphur Springs Inde-
1 pendent School District will remain at $1.35 for the
I third consecutive year. The levy was set Monday
night by district trustees at Their monthly meeting.
Board members also decided to employ a new assist-
a°t band director and were informed that state au-
'mBm: thority had been received for I
the addition of five new teach-
ers to the Sulphur Springs sys-1
k tem during the next school]
myear-
Division Changed
The new tax rate applies to
each $100 assessed valuation
of property in the school dis-
trict. Valuations are based on
m estimated 40 per cent of Miss Martha Brumley wafl
ua wo! • announced as Hopkins County
In setting the 1961 figure Farm fiureau ^ Frjd
the board lowered the interest;^ jn a ceremony >t tbe
Woman’s Building.
Miss Brumley, daughter of
Miss Brumley
Picked Queen
Of Farm Bureau
and sinking fund levy from 40
cents to 30 cents and increased
the maintenance fund share
from 95 cents to $1.06.
Sam Bonham, president, ex-
plained that the decrease in in-
terest and sinking fund re-
tirements was made possible
through the recent sale of
144.000 in school bonds owned
by the district. Proceeds of the
transaction were credited to
the bond fund.
The revision brings the rate
differential back to the 1959
basis. The district levied $1.06
for maintenance and 30 cents
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Brumley
of Sulphur Springs, was pre-
sented with a $25 U. S. Sav-
ings Bond by Roy Custer, mas-
ter of ceremonies. All eleven
were given cos-
tume jewelry for participating.
The Hopkins County queen
is now eligible to enter the dis-
trict queen contest to be held
at Mt. Pleasant early in Sep-
tember.
Runnerup in the contest was
Miss Nina Kellum, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kellum of
ed to a half-time basis last
year, will be restored to full-
time function.
Gibson reported the trustees ] Taylor County Judge Reed In-
galsbe to clear an incorpora-
QUEEN—Pretty Miss Martha Brumley, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. L. C. Brumley of Sulphur Springs, was chosen as queen
of the Hopkins County Bureau at a contest held Friday night
at the Woman’s Building.
Wednesday. | f„H time
Average daily attendance fig- i school
ures for the last school year1 ‘
expanded sufficiently to per-
mit the addition of 5% teach-
ers to the school staff.
. Gibson explained the per-
formance reflected an increase
of approximately 175 students
in the Ideal schools last year.
“During the last few years,
we have just about held our
own,” he added.
d-u t y at the high
Sheriff Asks
Faster Action
On Bad Checks
Another place will be filled
by the new assistant band di-
rector authorized by sehool
trustees Monday night.
A third new teacher will be
assigned to work with slow
students in mathematics and
English in the high school, mak-
ing 2 V4 teachers handling this
function.
“ I feel more students will be
able to pass with this increas-
ed attention,” Gibson said. “We
meeting a 1957-58 policy re-
quiring retirement of teach-
ers who reach the age of 65
by Aug. 31 preceding the start
of a school term.
CITY COUNCIL ACTS
tion "petition for an area near
Abilene.
Discretion Limited
The decision declared that
when a county judge has the
proper number of petitioners
The b o a r d decided against! and proof that the territory has
making changes in the policy, the required number of eleo-
One teacher in the system is
affected by the ruling this year.
Only one bid was received on
a new roof for the Houston
School building. It was from the
American Roofing Company of
Dallas.
The board delayed action on
the project and asked the su-
have been graduating a little perintendent to request addi-
over 100 student a year. I feel tional bids.
Milk Production
Hits Record High
Sheriff Paul Jones asked
Monday for people receiving
worthless checks to send them
to his office as soon as possi-
ble.
“Most of these worthless North Texas’ steadily grow-! This was an average of
checks go to local business- ing tide of milk production 1,842,290 pounds a day, which
men, and some are sent to this established another all-time rec- was .16 per cent greater than
office promptly,’ he said, ord during May with total de-i daily utilization during April
“But sometimes a month pass- liveries of 88,232,821 pounds and 1.72 per cent above that
es before we get the check, | by producers participating in for May, 1960. May was the
and that makes it harder on j the government-regulated area first month in 1961 in which
us, especially when a bunch i market. I daily Class I utilization exceed-
of these checks come in at one] This compares to 84,520,5621ed that for the same month in
pounds in April and 81,479,345 I960.
pounds in May of last year., Byford W. Bain, federal mar-
The 1960 month’s production! ket administrator, announced
represented an.all-time record; the producer price for May as
at that date. $4.89 per hundredweight for 4
Daily producer deliveries av- per cent base milk and $3.36
eraged 2,846,220 pounds 1 a s t j per hundredweight for 4 per
month, as compared to
2,817,351 pounds in April and
2,628,366 pounds in May, 1960.
1,129 Per Producer
The daily average per pro-
ducer was 1,129 pounds, as
compared to 1,009* pounds in
May of last year.
Handlers regulated by the
North Texas order utilized aj . ..
total of 57,110,990 pounds of I relationship of 153.2 per emt
milk for Class I sales last] for April an<1 145-1 Pcr cent
month. [for May, 1960.
tors, the judge has no discre-
tion on the matter but. must
call an election.
Judge Ingalsbe had revoked
an election call on the ground
that the petition did not repre-
sent a bona fide attempt to in-
corporate a town.
Judge Kitts has not disclos-
ed specific the ground on which
he rejected the Rockdale peti-
tion, but it is understood the
qualification of the proposed
viilage on density of population
requirements was challenged.
Those connected with the
Reservoir Project
Given New Backing
for interest and sinking fundjPi^g other contestants were
in that year also. I Rbonda p0tts, Joyce Kennimer,
Valuation Gain Seen pat Marts, Linda Harrelson,
Trustees were told a small Patsy Mabe, Janie Weir, Nit*
increase is expected in the G0id8mith, Patricia Chester
1961 district valuation, which Virginia Craigs,
will run in excess of jud!res in the contest were
$15,000,000. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Kissinger
Equalization hearings will be of Sherman and Jack Anderson
held next month and state- 0f Dallas,
rnents for the new tax bills j .
mailed in October.
Jack F. Gibson, superinten-
dent of schools, told the board
that improvement in the sys-
tem’s average daily attendance
record last year had resulted in
Sulphur Springs’ city com- work diligently in an effort to its qualifying for the five ad-
missioners Tuesday night pass- join the state in a contract, ditional teachers under the
ed a formal resolution instruct- .whereby the maximum lake! state support program,
ing their appointees to the Sul- could be constructed with the] Four teaching position were 4 ,vc
phur River Municipal Water district procuring 10,000 acre added in the white schools and jj. b School graduates agreed
District to proceed with Cooper feet of storage, and the state one 'n *be Douglas schools. i Tuesday that colleges are rais-
and Commerce authorities in financing the remaining stor-! Separation of the High[._ iL_._ _j_,___*___■___i.
seeking to reactivate the tem- age from the federal govern- School and Junior High build
Five Graduates
Claim Colleges
Hike Standards
Five recent Sulphur Springs
time.”
Fifty five worthless check
charges have been made by
the sheriff’s office so far this
year. This does not include
twelve warrants in other coun-
ties at this time on the same
charge.
“Many people don’t realize
how busy we can be some-
times” said Jones. “There are
362 criminal and , 285 civil
cases entered on our dockets
for 1961. Since 15 per cent of
the criminal cases concern
worthless checks, I think we
should receive more co-opera-
tion."
The sheriff noted that of-
ten, late complaints allow the
check writer to successfully
cover up his trail.
cent excess milk.
Excess Margin Rises
These figures compare to
$4.90 and $3.33 in April and
$4.83 and $3.08 in May, 1960.
Producer receipts last month
were 154.5 per cent of Class
I utilization, as compared to a
porarily stalled Cooper Reser- ment;
voir project. “Now it N believed that the
The carefully phrased reso- three cities which make up the
lution follows: Sulphur River Municipal Dis-
“Be it resolved by the ( itv trict can come to agreement
Commission of Sulphur Springs. on an equitable basis for dis-
that there is a dire need fo- t, il.utingr the water, therefore
case refuse to comment for j additional water storage in the | makln*r use of and paying for
publication, but it was indicat- three-county area of Delta, this 10,000 acre feet of capa-
ed the issue may come to a Hunt and Hopkins, and city.”
head within the next few days.! “Whereas there has been! jho commissioners observed
J. R. Ramey is serving as formed by an election of the lbat are several check points tion taken,
legal adviser to Judge Kitts on people, a Sulphur River Muni- ^jdi may be used as an exit
the question. cipal Water District, who for if proposed contracts prove
Wide Are* Affected [several years has worked toj undesirable.
The proposed northern have a dam built on Sulphur In addition, any contract that
boundary of Rockdale village. River to impound water fo: mgy k. g„bm,tted by the W3.
would extend along the south; federal flood control, and also, (t,r district must be approved ,
side of Interstate JO from » additional water for municipal j by a vote of the people in the]
point near the old Rockdale [three cities before it becomes.
Road junction on the east to; ’ -binding
another point about midway; “Therefore, the City Com-, _v
between State Highway 19 an,! mission of Sulphur Spring;- IV Cab « Ih.cux.ed | ------- —, -
the U.S. 67 city route junction would like for it to be known) Don McKulden, manager or judge patios on arrangement, i Arlington
on the west 'that they have instructed their the 1 '■ Cable System in Sul- setting, furnishings and attrac-1 dared that
" The village limits would ex- appointees to the Sulphur Riv- 1" Springs, appeared 'by in-
19 jer Municipal Water District to i viation before the council to
, discuss the firm’s policy eon-
in their admission standards
in order for students to take
ings and steady expansion of ......
the music program were the;a more senoua v.ew of their
principal factors influencing c0,Ie*e 1,fe*
the decision to employ an as-1 The group took part in a
sistant band director. The board ‘ P “ n e I discussion concern.ng
considered such a move at this | c°llt?jre life at the noon meet-
time last year but did not au- *be Lions Club. Panel
tend south along Highway
almost to the Shirley commun-
ity. _ ,
Sulphur Springs city limits]
now extend to the Rockdale
Road junction on the north! • ■ n *
side of Interstate 30. Total [ A nOlhPr HfiCOrQ
area of Sulphur Springs is es-' *1*»VIUGI ■ U
timated as slightly more than
9 square miles.
members were Marilucy Ken-
T, . . m i nimer, David Flowers, Sandra
1 he sehool athletic program . ,, , ,
r™. Hi«„ J Jerrv Polson and
Marilyn Mullins, moderator.
Miss DuPriest, explaining
the goals a college should have,
said they should present to
students the highest possible
educational benefits. She will
be an education major at East
Texas State College this fall
because “it is primarily a
teaching college and the one
1 know of best.”
Poison, a prospective aero-
Visitors will compare and space engineering student at
State College, de-
higher education
tiveness at the Patio Tour Sun-! is necessary to today's young
thorize the step.
The school ath
came in for onl>vd»rief discus-
sion at the meeting with no ac-
Plans for Patio
Tour on Sunday
Taking Shape
Co-Op Reports
Business Year
day sponsored by the Civic Im- j person.
provement and Beautification | “God gave us our minds
[coining fees (barged for mul- j Committee of the Chamber of and bodies and He expects us
t ole outlets. He explained that Commerce. to develop them to the high-
-on.c changes had been made. { Patios to be judged are those est degree,” he said. “It is
The council suggested that any i of Bill Jack Hatheox, Dr. Les- our duty t„ take advantage of
changes should first have ap- ter Hodges, Ben Dickerson, Al- this opportunity and later help
] proval of the commissioners Jen Sanders, Byron Dickerson, 0thers to do the same.’'
; and-asked that he prepare pro- j Claude Milligan. Dr. Byrd Lon-j Flowers emphasized that a
J posed rates and submit them gino and their wives.
(Continued on Back Page) (Continued on Back Page)
Car Damaged
As Cow Hit
East of Como
An automobile met a cow on
Highway 11 early Sunday morn-
/ ing and the result was a tie.
A 4956 Mercury driven by/
Robert Day of Sulphur Springs
sustained an estimated $500
damage after colliding with a
group of cows four mijes east
FOR HAULING PURPOSES
Show Directors
Make Expansion
Plans at Meet
The board of directors of
the Dairy Show and the Junior
Livestock Show decided Tues-
day in a joint meeting to ex-
tend the east side of the city
f . ] barn southward for 100 feet.
Superintendent of Schools Gibson Raid ownership of the] Repairs to the front of the
Jack F. Gibson made a tri- new vehicle w ill be passed on • ^gilding vv jll be included also
umphal entry into Sulphur, to (he school Hand Booster jn the $3,500 cost of the exten-
Springs Tuesday after piloting {'Club. It will he used as a van ] Hjon. The job awaits onlj^the
a 1951 Cadillac ambulance lib- for hauling band instruments. jssu-;ntr 0f a cjty building"per-
erally splashed with eamou-i Principal conversion planned mjt, said Jjm Anderson, mana-
flage paint. is removal of the camouflage, the Chamber of Corn-
Escorting the unusual ve-i paint used when the Cadillac literce.
Surplus Ambulance
Purchased for Band
hide was Sterling Beckham
high school vocational agricui-
of Como at 12:30 a. m. Sunday.
Day was returning home from ture instructor, who was driv-
ing his familiar pick-up truck
Plans have been made to use
orrugated metal and sliding
performed its turn of service]
for the Air Force.
The disguise is supposed to doora on the front,
work when the accident oc- ing his familiar pick-up truck, come off easily, and a little a county-wide fund raising
corred. The cows apparently The ambulance was purchas- spot rubbing by the two school campaign is being planned for
had broken through the fence ]ed for $137.50 from the fed-tmen revealed a respectable project,
and wandered onto the road, era! Texas Surplus Property; black finish" undernearth. Anderson quoted one boa> 1
Day was unhurt but one cow re-!Agency at Longview; • j Beckham acquired a few new! member a*.saying* “The -people
was"reported°to 'membe,fof CATTLE THEFT DISCOVERED
the Farmers Co-Operative .Gin
Association at their annual
meeting Tuesday afternoon in
the Amercan Legion building.
Gross sales for the organiza-
tion's fiscal year ending March
SI totaled $1,779,799, as com-
pared to $1,530,725 for /the
previous year.
The association’s net savings
for 1960-61 amounted to.5.71
per cent of total sales.
The operations review was
Watt Morris Loses
9 Head of Cattle
j student should study a profes-
] sion in which he is interested.
] He said that parents should
j help a young person choose
his college, but that the stu-
dent’s field of advanaced study
should be his own choice.
(Continued on Back Page)
: Officers Find
presented by Robert Skinner XJlJft pinion , - - ,
Of Dallas, auditor for the a- XlillC Ui OlUlCII ably took place sometime Wed- were announced Wednesday by
eociation. _ __ nesday night. He went to his the American Jersey Cattle
Estes Hargrave, secretary.; xfppi- Hpro farm \5 ednesday to cheek on ; Club,
spoke briefly on the co-opera 1 ‘the cattle, was unable to go The Grover Sellers herd rc-
tive's expansion program which j i Thursday ^nd found them mis- /p o r t included seven animals
produced an addition of Th?" hid»' a steering Friday. | listed as excellent, .58 as very
$40,009.21 in fixed assets dur-D'*s dis c o v *» r e d Wednesday j Morrit, believes a truck was good and 16 as good plusg giv-
ing the 12-month period. morning in S ilpbur Springs by backed up to the loading chute ing the herd an average score
Hargrave and Leonard Ma -heiifid offi< ers from Hop- on the farm and the cattle put of 86.72 per cent,
sey were reelected as directors k:s>s and Uob*’rtson counties. inside. , The W. D. Lemon herd has
hs the association. The -t,cr was one of nine A chain that locks the gate four cattle rated as excellent,
All officers were reelected taken from a, Robertson Coun- to Morris’ farm was found cut. 52 as very good and 20 as good
by the hoard at a subsequent ty'farm last month and sold at Gone are two Shorthorns.'plus for an average score of
meeting. a livestock auction here May two Black Angus and five 86.45 percent.
y are Ellis Clayton, presi * 29. Whiteface cattle. The ratings are based on an
j Nine steers valued at about
$1,400 were reported stolen
Friday by Watt Morris from
his farm in Hopkins County.
Morris said the theft prob-
Sellers, Lemoii
Herds Classified
Official reports on the classi-
fication of two Hopkins Coun-
ty dairy herds for breed typo
ce
They are Ellis Clayton, presi-
ceived serious injuries from the) A new battery also wgs nec-[surplus eq'uipmeut ;;»tems for j of Hopkins *Copnty will support j dent; E. V. McLatigbim.' vige T* • -«V of ihi> R..bertson| No trace of the missing
4 i i ! i 1 C14I n C C . _ H ... i- 4.. i,, . . t i t i lb,, 4 ■ • I A ; 1 U i . ,.....,..1 . . .... I : .1 * . .
collision, investigating officer j essary to permit the trip
John Odom reported. I Sulphur Springs.
to]thic vocational agriciiltuie shop!any project for the
Ion the Longview trip. I Hopkins County.”
greater j president; Estes Hargrave, sec- County cattle i> believed
I (Continued on Back Page) | (Continued on Back Pago)
by j propert y
has been found
investigating officers.
official score card which al-
lots 100 points for the ideal
Jersey animal.
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, June 23, 1961, newspaper, June 23, 1961; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth826693/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.