The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 53, Ed. 1 Friday, March 4, 1955 Page: 1 of 18
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VOL. 80.—NO. 9.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS,
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(ABSORBED THE GAZETTE CIRCULATION BY PURCHASE, MAY 12,1928)
Y, MARCH 4, 1955.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Bill Introduced
On Cooper Dam
3 Escape
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Legislation has been introduced
in Washington to authorize con-
struction of the Cooper Dam and
Reservoir.
Also authorized by the bill, in-
troduced Thursday by Rep.
Wright Patman of Texas and
Rep. Harris of Arkansas, are two
other darns along the Red River
basin in Texas, Oklahoma, Ar^
kansas and Louisiana.
Total cost of the three flood
control projects is to be 20 mil-
lion dollars, of which 10 million is
earmarked for the! Cooper dam.
Rep. Clifford Davis,, Tennessee,,
chairman of the House Flood Con-
trol Subcommittee, has assured
Patman and Harris that their bill
will be given a hearing before his
committee.
.ConfideWe has been expressed
by Texas Congressmen and Sena-
tors in Washington that the mea-
sure will be enacted into law,
probably 'during this session of
Congress.
If and when this transpires'phur Springs,
work on the CoopeV"dam is ex- Driver of
peeted to begin soon thereafter.
In accordance with specifica-
tions of the bill, the Cooper Dam
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auburn
Serious
Injuries
Two small children were injur-
ed "Saturday morning, neither,
seriously,^ when a 1954 Mercury!
in which they were riding collid-1
ed with another vehicle about j
three miles south of Sulphur
Springs and overturned.
Their mother and driver of the
car, Mrs. Patsy Caldwell Burns,
of Marshall, also received minor
injuries in the accident. Mrs.
Burns is the daughter-in-law of
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Burns, Sul-
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Northeast Texas Livestock
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Show to Open Next Tuesday
Elevated Parking Lot
Is Proposed on Square
March of Dimes
Drive Grosses
$4,822 Here
A final total in the March of
Dimes drive has been announced
by Weber Fouts, chapter chair-
man. It is $4,822.92.
Leaders in the fund raising cam-
paign had hoped to collect $5,000.
Last year the drive netted
$5,453.30.
Final collections in the drive
were brought to headquarters Fri-
dayv-They included $202.16 from
the Jaycee’s benefit dance, $90
from coin collectors, and an addi-
tional $10 1 from the Mothers
March.
Church Meet
Slated Here
A district meeting of Baptist
church representatives will bring
gh estimated 1,000 persons to
Sulphur Springs next Feb. 20-
21.
The city was selected as the
site of the 1956 convention at the
recent annual meeting of District
13 of the Baptists of Texas at
the East Grand Baptist Church
in Dallas.
The district consists of about
485 Baptist churches with 275,-
000 members in an area extend-
ing generally from Denison to
Ennis, Sulphur Springs and Pa-
Jris#
(Continued on page five)
Funeral Services
Conducted Here
For Tom Bell
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Funeral service^ were held Sun-
day afternoon at First Baptist
church for T. N. (Tom) Bell, who
. died at his home on College street
Saturday evening after a linger-
ing illness. Dr. Darold H. Mor-
gan, pastor of the church, was the
officiating minister. Burial was in
the Liberty cemetery.
Mr. Bell was a member of First
Baptist church. He had lived imost
of his life 1n Hopkins County. For
the last fourteen months he had
been bedfast from his illness, al-
though this fact failed to dim his
interest in his many friends and
in his church.
He is survived by hi* wife, one
son, Clovis Bell of Longview; a
________ilauiehter, Mrs.'Lester Peek of Lin-
den; three step-children, h(rs. O.
L. Walls of Cumby, Clyde and
Jack Young of Oklahoma City;
one -sister, MrS. Dollie McLeroy
of Cumby. 1 •
Driver of the other vehicle,
Willie P. Greer, Sulphur Springs
Rt. 5, was not injured.
Highway Patrolman Joe Pruett
said the accident occurred on
State Highway 154 as Greer was
crossing the road from the west
to his home. Mrs. Burns, proceed-
ing north, attempted to avoid a
collision and almost succeeded;
hut her Mercury hit the edge of
the front bumper of Greer's pick-
up.
This contact provided enough
impetus to whip the Mercury side-
ways and cause it to overturn
into a ditch, Pruett said.
Mrs. Burns’ car was a total
loss, the patrolman said. The
Greer pickup, a 1963 Ford, was
damaged to the extent of some
$100, according to Pruett's es-
timate.
Mrs. Burns and her two child-
ren were admitted to Memorial
Hospital for examination and
treatment and later released.
Clovis H. Ross
Rites Conducted
Sunday Afternoon
Final rites for Clovis H. Ross,
59, local contractor who died ’Fri-
day, were conducted at 2:00
o’clock Sunday afternoon at the
Tapp Funeral Home chapel.
Burial followed in City Ceme-
tery.
I)r. Darold Morgan, pastor of
First Baptist Church, officiated
at the services.
Mr. Ross, who lived at 124
North Moore and had been a resi-
dent of Sulphur Springs for 33
years, was a native of Hopkins
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PRETTY GRACE Evelyn Moncrief is shown with her registered
Hereford, Advance Lady Domino VI, which she will exhibit at the
Northeast Texas Livestock Show in Sulphur Springs on March 8-11.
Grace has been named Queen of the Show. She bought "Lady" at
the FFA-4-H Club sale at last year’s show. The animal is 14 months
old and weighs about 770 pounds. She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Moncrief, who live southwest of„Sulphur Springs. Miss
Moncrief’s herd consists of Lady, five grade cows, two heifers and
two calves. (Staff Photo by T. A. Wright).
PUBLIC SCHOOL WEEK
New Travis School
Building to Open
Bus Stations
Sulphur Springs’ two bus sta-
tions will be consolidated Mon-
day, with both Southwestern
Greyhound and Mooney buses op-
erating out of the Greyhound sta-
tion at Jefferson and Jackson
streets.
Full present schedules will be
maintained, with 22 departures
daily from the Greyhound station.
The Mooney station on South
Davis street will be vacated in the ®hd Stocker steer
consolidation move. from $16 to'$20.
It may be a touch-and-go pro-
position, but Sulphur Springs’
new Travis School building is ex-
pected to be fully equipped and
ready for visitors during Public
School Week beginning Monday.
Supt. Jack F. Gibson reported
Wednesday that the new furni-
ture for the school had arrived
and would be placed in the build-
ing over the week-end. Classes
will shift from the old to the
new building without a bobble
in operations.
The Travis School and the new
addition at Austin will be spot-
lighted along with the other ele-
mentary schools on Tuesday night
during open house ceremonies.
The elementary schools — Aus-
tin, Houston, Lamar and Tra-
vis — will have open house fit
6:30 p.m., with Student-sponsor-
ed programs following.
Cattle Market
Slightly Lower
There was a heavy run of cat-
tle at the Sulphur Springs Live-
stock Commission Company Mon-
day, with prices running" front
steady ,to weak on the 1,110
head.
Good and eh lire fat calves
so’d from $17 to $21. with a few
fancy kinds hittl.rf 322.50. Pi.-in
and mediums moved at $12 to
$17, with culls going at $9 to
$12. \
Fat cows aold from $11 to
$13.50, with1 heiferetts higher.
Canners and cutters demanded
$7.50 to $11.
Bulls moved at $11 to $14
On Thursday, the Junior and
Senior high schools will com-
bine open house'at 6:30, with a
program to follow in the gym-
nasium. ■ : -*. „j,i.
Speaker for the program on
Thursday night, March 10, will
be Galloway Cafhoun, widely-
known Texas civic leader. The
Tyler attorney will be presented
at about 7:45 p.m. following the
open house programs in the Jun-
ior and Senior high schools. *
The school superintendent said
that next Friday had been set
aside as visitation day. Parents
will be welcome to visit class-
rooms throughout the day and
they may eat at the cafeterias
if they desire.
FOR HIGH BUTTERFAT CONTENT
G. W. Record, 35,
Oi Cumby Dies;
Rites Wednesday
A 35-year-old Cumby native,
G. W. Record, died Tuesday morn-
ing at 8:30 in a Commerce, hos-
pital. He had lived in Cumby
throughout his lifetime.
Funeral rites were conducted
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock
in the Gumby Methodist Church,
with burial following at Pleasant
Grove,
Officiating minister is Rev.
Hugh Tomlinson. He was as-
sisted by Rev/ P. G. Hightower
and Rev. Caldwell.
Mr. Record was the only rhild
of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Record of
Cumby, who are the only surviv-
ors.
charge of arrangements.
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City Commission members
were confronted with a ser-
ies of problems related to an
expanding municipality in
their meeting Tuesday
night. Out of the session
came one concrete suggestion for
solving the downtown parking
congestion, while other growth
problems were shelved temporar-
ily pending the receipt of Consult-
ing Engineer Joe Ward’s recom-
mendations in'a master plan.
City Manage! Roy Hames sub-
mitted for consideration the pos-
sibility of building an elevated
parking lot on the public square.
“It’s the only solution,” Com-
missioner Graydon S. Johnson de-
clared. ’‘You haven’t any more
land.’’
Mayor John R. Ilamcy opined
that “It probably is the most sen-
sible solution to o-ur parking prob-
lem.”
Hames said that he believed an
elevatjd parking lot could he built
with revenue bonds, thereby not
costing taxpayers anything for
the building.
While the commission members
discussed the idea, they did not
go on record with any type of sug-
gestions.
Mayor Ramey said he thought
the idea should be submitted to
the consulting engineer for his re-
“We'ft just’think about it for
the present,” Rainey added.
Delay Action
The commissioners passed for
further study a request for the
opening of) a new addition in Sul-
phur Springs by John B. Stringer.
The addition is partially , inside
the city limits.
It was the second addition tab-
led by the commissioners within a
month.
They explained to Louis Ardis,
who represented Stringer at the
meeting, that they were hoping to
receive definite recommendations
from the consulting engineer be-
fore setting up codes for new ad-
ditions.
_ Mayor Ramey said that the
commissioners wanted to set up
the code in order that all prospec-
tive developers will know the city
requirements in regard to water,
sewer, street and other facilities.
“We’ve been needing n code for
a long time,” Ramey said,
The commissioners believe that
developments adjacent to the US
67 Freeway route and in the south
section of Sulphur Springs .will
offer’ big municipal problems if
definite sub-division codes are not
adopted soon.
Hands Tied
The city manager read a- peti-
tion signed by 36 people in the
west part of Sulphur Springs pro-
testing the operation of a wreck-
ing yard near their homes.
Sulphur Springs has no zoning
ordinances, Mayor Ramey ex-
plained, and the city has no way
Reiorm School
Escapees Nabbed
By Local Officers
Two youths who escaped four
davs ago from a Winconsin re-
formatory were captured Tuesday
night in Saltillo by Sheriff Jim
Bryce and Deputy Arlis Herman.
A 1947 Pontiac stolen in Wis-
consin by the boys and used In
their flight was also recovered.
When taken tnto custody, the
youths told Bryce they were glad
to become his prisoners, thnt they
were “tired of running.” They
were captured about three hours
after Sheriff Bryce i^ad alerted
peuee officers of thin area to be
on the lookout t\>r them.
It was ! the car 'that instigated
the Hearth for the reformatory
escapees: Sheriff Bryce and Her-
man found it parked near Weav-
er, apparently abandoned.
Three pair.t of new blue jeans
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Chapman Says Big Dairy
Processors Fight Bill
D. W. Henley
Oi Saltillo Dies
In Local Hospital
I). W. Henley, 76, lifelong res-
ident of Saltiiio, died late Mon-
day afternoon in a local hospital.
Final rites were held Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock in the
Weaver Baptist Church, with bur-
ial following in the Weaver Ceme-
tery.
Mr. Henley was the son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Marion Henley.
In 1909 he married Miss Alta
who surviY£a, Hc was a !
member of the Methodist Church.
Besides his wife, he is survived
by two daughters, Mrs, *M. V. Kik-
er* Balias, and Mrs. A. C. Dunn,
Washington, D. C.; two sons Don
Henley, Talco, and Lynn Henley,
Mineral Wells; two brothers, Har-
vey Henley, Saltillo, and Jim Hen-
ley, Dallas; also eight grandchild-
ren and one great-grandchild.
Day and Day, Funeral Home was
ip charge of arrangements.
Public School
Week Programs
Set at Pickton
Public School Week, to be ob-
served in Pickton March 7
through 10, will be climaxed on
the final night with a commu-
nity-wide program honoring the
faculty and school board mem-
bers. * 1
Speaker for the occasion will
be Clay Cheek, county superin-
tendent of schools. The program
is scheduled at 7:30 p. m., March
10, In the school's cafetorium.
Jack Smith, superintendent of
Pickton schools, invites all pa-
trons and friends of the school
to be present.
(Continued on Back Page)
of regulating businesses in resi-
dential areas.
Ramey has been backing plans
for a zoning ordinance in Sulphur
Springs, and the council is await-
ing recommendations from the
consulting engineer.
In other business matters, the
council accepted u low bid of $145
from Payne Butane Company fpr
installation of conversion equip-
ment on the police oar so that it
can use butane instead of gaso-
line.
Current bills totaling $1,584.60
were approved for payment.
A resolution was passed urging
the legislature to provide more ex-
pense funds for the Railroad Com-
mission to fight court cases in-
volving gas rates.
City Manager Hames gave a
progress report on the curbing of
College Street as a part of the
Faim Market road project. He
said he believed everything would
work out satisfactorily.
The commission gave final ap-
proval to the proposal of moving
the city-county radio station, with
both governments sharing equally
in the operation costs. The sta-
tion will be placed in a building
under the water tower on Main
Street.
Commissioner Joe Dan Avin-
ger proposed that the city revise
ordinances governing speed on lo-
cal Streets. City Manager Hames
was authorized to submit propos-
als to'a later session,
An easement was granted t,he
Texas Power & Light Company
to ru* a power lfrte to the con-
cession stand at Century Lake.
The annual report of the Texas
Power & Light Company and a
quarterly report of the Lone Star
Gas Company were presented to
the council.
Evans Grocery
Store Entered
A burglar entered the Buy loss
Livestock men from all
over the Northeast Texas
area are expected to con-
verge on Sulphur Springs
Tuesday for the first day of
the annual liveatock snow
sponsored by the Northeast Texas
Livestock Association.
All senior judging events will
be held Tuesday, with prizes and
trophies to he awarded Tuesday
night at the show banquet slated
in the high school cafeteria, be-
ginning at 7:36.
Miss Grace Moncrief, selected'
queen of the show, will he crown-
ed at the banquet by Watt Mor-
ris, president of the livestock as-
sociation.
Principal speaker for the occa-
sion is Sterling C. Evans, Houston
banker and former Extension
Service worker. Music will be pro-
vided by the Sulphur Springs high
school orchestra.
All show exhibits must be in
place by! 8 a. m. Tuesday, and
must continue in place until noon
of next Thursday.
Site of the show will be City
Park. It will he concluded Friday
with an Angus sale beginning at 1
p. ni. Auctioneer for the event
will be Col. Ray Simms of Belton,
Mo.
Directors of the various divi-
sions arc:
Hereforil—Jim Ablowich, Mur-
ray Dawson, Fred Gregg, and Pat
Groom.
Aberdeen-Angus—Gene Chamb-
erlain, Harold Arnold, and C. A.
McKeever.
Shorthorn—Watt Morris, H. D.
Moore, and Jackie Huddleston.
Junior breeding cattle — Billy
Conner, John Henry, and Neal
Solomon.
Commercial cattle—J. J. Spen-
cer and Carl Smith.
Close to 136 entries have al-
ready been received for the show,
and mote are expected.
(Continued on Back Page)
Fire Credit
Rating Lost
Sulphur Springs has lost its five
per cent credit lating on fire in-
surance for the year beginnihg
April 1.
A dispatch from Austin from
,,v.™ the Stale Insurance Xommrsion
Evuns grocery Store on Van J says that Sulphur Swings will re-
Siekle street Sunday night,. reive a “zero” or neutral rating
ing 12 cartons of cigarette* and tor tile new year,
a few cans of sardines and pot-j Official notification of the rat-
ted meat. It was the second time
in recent weeks that the Evans
store had been burglarized.
The thief gained entrance in
both instances by twisting off
the hasp on the front door of the
building. It was thought that he
used pliers and a wrecking bar
for this operation,-
Policeman Arthur Snow ex-
pressed an opinion that both jobs
were probably pulled by the same
culprit.
Cigarettes taken in Sunday
night's burglary included three
cartons each of. the following
brands: Puli Mall, Cavalier, Cam-
els, and Lucky Strikes.
Student Council
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Leaders Selected
Ollie Odom, 69,
Claimed by Death
Final ritep for Ollie Odom, 69,
former Oumby citizen, Were held
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock
in a Greenville funeral home.
Mr. Odom, ytho lived at Com-
, merefe, died unexpectedly while
visiting a daughter, Mrs. Helen
Church, in Bonham. Another
daughter, Ruth, who j*
Proposed legislation requiring
4 per cent minimum butterfat
content in milk sold foi; public
consumption in Texas faces rough
going in the state legislature,
Representative Joe N. Chapman
said Saturday.
“U look* a» though the big
dairy processors will fight the bill
all the way,” Chapman said. 1
The« Hopkins - Delta- Franklin
county legislator is supporting the that field
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Naples, Itkly, has flown home to
attend thd rites,
butterfat requirement.
“It couldn’t help but be good
for this area,” he declared.
The bill has been switched
from the house agriculture com-
mittee to the public health com-
mittee, Nfcnd hearings scheduled
for Feb. 28 have been postponed
because of the illness of,the com-
mute said.
.Another farm bill of consider-
able'bite-rest in this area is the.
senate measure to establish &
brucellosis control program for
eradication of the disease in the
state.
,. Chapman expressed belief this
measure had “a "fair chance” of
passing if k proposed amendment
try is addpted. He said the bill
is now being opposed by some
cattle groups as unnesessary in
Services Held
For Mrs. Bussell
Here on Monday
The local, legislator said he ex-
pects td support legislation to es-
tablish a Tripity River Valley
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expected
to confine the Trinity authority’s
tax levying powers to property
within the it
(Continued on BackPage)
Ed Scruggs Dies
In Oklahoma ~
Final rites were held here Mon-
day at 3:36 p.m. in TappV chapel
for Mrs. Lillie Bussell, 75, who
died early Sunday morning in a
Holdenville, Okla., hospital. Burial
followed at Rockdale Cemetery
near Sulphur Springs.' > t
Officiating minister was
J. P. Fleming. . ^ ' ^ j
Pallbearers were- John Enix,
Lacy Glejfin, George
John Cauthon, and Elmer Flem- children*
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(Continued on Back Page) tera.
A former resident of Hopkins
county, Ed Scruggs, died Wed-
nesday morning at his home in
Blanchard, ORIa., after « long ill-
ness.
A native of the Greenwood
Community, Mr. Scruggs moved
to Oklahoma about 40 years ago.
Hje was the son of C. C. Scruggs
and a brother of Charley Scruggs
of Pickton.
Hjs .)vife,i» the daughter of J.
MofHe Richmond, and a
niece if the late Jack Turner.
Besides his wife, he is survived
Bowman, by four daughters, three grand-
three great-grandchil*
jjren. two brothers, and two
Johnny Elliott, the hard-run-1
ning'Wildcat fullback, and Lew-1
is Campbell, an Eagle Scout,|
have been elected to the two top
positions on the Student Coun-
cil at Sulphur Springs high
school for the 1956-56 term.
Elliott was elected president
of the council to succeed Lonnie
Sinclair. Johnny is the son of Mr.
and Mrs, Everett Elliott- An
honor student, he also has been
an outstanding football player
through elementary,'junior high
and senior high.
' Campbelt, named vice presi-
dent for next year, is the son of
Mr. ahd Mrs., Bert vCampbell,
who live west of Sulpha i Springs
on Highway 67.
fHi^r'Yrdman E 'Draka al-
so announced Friday that several
Sulphur ’Springs students will at-
tend the state convention of Stu-
dent Councils in Dentbn on March
24-26. Elliott, Campbell, Sinclair
and Carol Carothers, representa-
tive of the Junior Class, will at-
tend the convention along with
Miss McDonald,
Widely-Known
Citizen, Passes
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Miss Mary McDonald, a native
of Sulphur Springs and one of its
most, widely-known citizens, died
aV'fhe family residence on Oak
Avenue at 6:15 Sunday night. She
had J>een ,in ill health several
years.
Possessed of a keen and ready
-wit, she was a'valued member of
the editorial staff of the Daily
News-TeteKinmaudlltLpkittiCftuir?.
ty Echo for about 15 yfcats before
retiringi .,
In-her job as society editor, she
handled a vast volume of local
n»w* about the people she loved
and those who in turn loved and
respected her.
! She chronicle^ the births of
hundreds of babies, carried local j
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ing had not arrived in Sulphur
Springs Saturday, but local in-
surance men said that they had no
reason to doubt the accuracy of
the Austin dispatci). t
Fire insurance rates are figured
on a five-year average, with prem-
iums and fire losses used in the
compilations.
Joe Dan Avinger, who is a City
Commissioner as well a* an in-
surance agent, said that the drop
to a “neutral” rating came as a
surprise to him.
”1 had hoped we would get a
10 per cent credit,” he said. “We
had a good fire record last year.'’-"
He. surmised that 1949 showed
less insured fire losses in Sulphur
Springs. Thus with 1949 dropped
from the five-year average and 1
1954 added, the overall losses.....
climbed slightly.
Mrs. Verda Hays
01 Saliillo Dies
Early Wednesday
Mrt. Verda Lee Hays, 73, died
early Wednesday morning in a
ML Vernon hospital after a short
illness. She was a resident of Sal-
tillo, Kt. T. She was'horn at Sal-
tillo on Dec. 23, 1891. '
Funeral services were held
Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock
in the Old Saltillo Methodist
Church. Burial followed in the
Old Saltillo cemetery.
Officiating minister was Rev.
t.- R. Hawkins. ,
* Mis. Hays is survived by two ‘
ions, Fred Hays, Mt. Vernon, and
Harwy-tlays; Saltillo; three mb**
ters, Mr*. Rhoda Adams, Grand
Prairie; Mrs. Ada McGill, Dallas;
and Mis. Jess Adair, Saltillo; two
brothers, Grover Crump, Saltillo,
and Johfl Cmimp, Waco; and1 three
grandchildren.
Several nieces and nephews also
survive.
Tapp Funeral Home was in
charge-of arrange incuts.
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